Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Personally Profound Jams #TOAST46: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1772

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

In this 1772nd episode of Toronto Mike'd, and 46th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss, Bob Willette as they kick out personally profound jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Nick Ainis, Blue Sky Agency and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail].

I'm going to think about it so. F-O-T-M's, do you know what time it is? It's toast time. Toast, featuring Stu Stone, Dan Gordon, and Toronto, Mike. Yeah, that's toast. Yeah, yeah, just toast. Is that offensive that I kept their names in? Not anymore.

It's a bit now. It's a little late. You've probably done more toast than they did. I think so now. I think we established that. Yeah. But they did pandemic Friday for 76 weeks. Yes.

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create sanctuary within your workspace. Recyclemyelectronics.c.a.comitting to our planet's future means properly recycling her electronics of the past. And Ridley Funeral Home, pillars of the community since 1921. Today, returning for the 46th episode of toast, it's Bob Willett. 46 slices of deliciousness. and Rob Peru Okay, I have a song I've been waiting to play this.

Let's listen to this. Ready? Go. Come on Bimbo, please. Well done, and out comes Bimbo, and here's Bimbo with... Introducing Bimbo, the birthday clown, and a son of happy.

Here we go. Bimbo, Bimbo, and the Bucon. Bimbo, Bimbo, thank you. It's been a week. It's been, Yit's been. It's been. It's been. It's been. It's been. How does it feel being on the birthday? How does it feel being on the north side of 60? Not very far north Just barely Just past that mark She doesn't say it was far north I know it's true

It's fine now It was a little weird You were not happy with it You were talking We talked a little bit Just briefly off the air last time And the week leading up to it Actually got a little

I was thinking about I don't know It started to feel like a weird pressure thing And I'm not sure why And then I realized Oh it's fine What are you gonna do And I think I felt that at every decade

Like it's when you The decade ones get you The decades get And I got that when I was 20 When I was 19 I was like oh my God I'm turning 20. I'm still in this band. What am I going to do?

So that was a long time ago. Is that true? Yes, it's true. That's, that was my midlife crisis, which is why I left the band like three months later. Yeah. So crazy. So what, where do you think that pressure was coming from? Just internalized. Is it your German parents? No. Just the idea of like, like reassessing where you are in your life and what you're doing. But at 20 and you're in a successful band, you're getting all your clothes from stitches. Well, no, but, but honestly, I think it was thrifties. Sorry. I made the same mistake. Right?

Yes, you did. I always think his stitches too. But at 20, I think that I had started, I was playing in a different, in another band, I was playing in a band called Perfect World, along with the Spoons. Okay.

I had just done a recording session with Nile Rogers in New York. I played on the Sheen-Easton record. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Well, yeah. He might know what I'm knowing that. Maybe you gave that gem to Toronto Legends. No, I did not.

But I, but, and then with the Spoons, there was like, we were having management troubles and record companies. we weren't releasing records and I was like what's going on like and I just started sort of reassessing it all and it just I thought well I'm 20 god and now that's followed you like do you have like similar memories around 30

and 40 and like did you get divorces around those years and stuff too every decade gets a divorce don't tell you be careful I believe your wife is on the line chatcha might be on the line no but but I think that there is a certain acknowledgement of life moving on as you get older but 60 feels fucking heavy You know what I mean?

Yeah, I'm coming up on 50 in January, so I feel you. Yeah, I felt it a little bit turning 50. I felt it a little bit turning 40. 30, sure. But at the same time, you realize, oh, yeah, but this is like when people are coming into their prime of their lives as well. 60, you're like, you're tipping over. Right.

You're not really, but seriously, 60's closer to 80 than it is 20, which is weird. Yeah. So. No, I get it. I think it's a lot, like, I think 50's a lot, like 40. Like, it's just sort of a bleeds in. It is now, yeah. You tell yourself that.

I live in the present. But 60, I think you know the next one. Oh, my God. And I think 70 is like, oh, my, my back and what is, what's the Moberg line from an adult now? My sight and hearing is fading. Well, actually, I'm at that point now where my, like the next generation above me, like if my dad was around or, you know, some like aunts and uncles and stuff. Yeah.

It's, it's, I'm calling it hip and knee replacement era. Everybody's getting their hips and their knees done. And it seems like, and they seem to kind of, they have the people, like, Uncle Phil, who you know, and Uncle Phil's a big listener. I love Uncle Phil. Uncle Phil had a bunch of stuff done. And it's like, he's an athletic guy.

He played hockey five days a week. So what's up with that? Like, I saw Brian Gerstein, Property and the Sixth.com. He got like both hips replaced. Wow. But he's, isn't he like a tennis playing fit guy? But that's my point.

Yeah, it's the people who you don't even think. Yeah. Like wear and tear over. Yeah. And he's not in his, he's not in his 16. There's no guarantees for any. anybody. No, no matter how fit you are, no matter how old you are, right? That's the weird thing when something's going to come out of the blue. So every year you get is a gift. Well, speaking of a

gift, I have a small gift for you for your birthday. Um, wow. Speaking of 50s, it's German favorites of the early 50s. Come on. Yes. Oh my God. I love this. It's, uh, I love that. It's a, I was, uh, you know, I was diving. I was, you know, I was doing, you know, I was doing some diving. And I, and I saw that and I thought, you know what, I got to get that for Mr. Pruse. It's got Imhafen van Landano. Yeah, which of course is so famous for, no, I don't have David Hasselhoff on there? It does not. It does not.

It does not. It's pre-dates, but it's, uh, it's, uh, I had a, I had a good bunny mine. He's got one of those really good ultrasonic cleaners and stuff. And no way. I had to clean and everything. It still is, it's a little rough run the edges. Ah, that's the way I like it. It's got some crackle and pop to it.

Thank you. I love a snap crackling part. Amazing. Thank you. And Bob, I have a gift for you as well. What? No, you. It is a new German beer.

So what is that beer from Great Lakes I put in front of you? Oh, yeah. It's Fest beer. What? Fest beer. I want a Fest beer, too. Do you want a Fest beer? I only got one.

You only got one. You should have it. No, no, you can have it. Okay. I think of you, Bob, is the beer officianto. Well, I'm the, but I don't like a hoppy beer. I like loggers and Pilsners, and this is a logger. I like a hoppy beer.

Now, see, that's why you have the sunny side, which is a... Well, it's not sunny side. It's a summer. The summer ale. Oh, it's the summer ale. I wanted to hear, I just wanted Bob's review of it because Monica's a big fan. It's got like a lemon ginger thing going there.

This thing does? No, the summer ale. Well, which one am I drinking? Well, this summer ale was for Rob. Oh, okay. These two, the logger. Yeah, you know what? I wasn't even sure what the German one was.

By the way, yeah, this is Fest beer. It's a logger. By the way, I had a last time you gave me some parting gifts and I had a little barbecue with the in-laws and stuff and my brother-in-laws were going on about how much they liked the logger. They'd had had great lakes before, but I don't think they had the sunny side and the Canuck Pale Ale, but they were big fans of the Great Lakes Lager. I was at a barbecue

last weekend, and they had the premium lager from Great Lakes there, and I was having like this sausage and this and this leg and this logger, and it actually paired so perfectly. Absolutely. This is amazing. Yeah. You know, my local food basics by my sister's place in Burlington because they're all selling beers now, they've got

a couple of Great Lakes. They only care, so far every time I've been, they only carry the logger and Octopus wants to fight. That's a big one too. Which is cool. Yeah, that's another one, another poppy one. I'll try this right now. Is it, are you guys going to Are you going to have a breakfast? I'm still finishing my coffee. All right.

Well, cheers. Happy birthday. Cheers. Cheers. That's a good one. So did you have a good happy 60th birthday. I did have a happy birthday.

I played one, one Mamma Mia matinee, which was great, because we only have one on Wednesdays. Oh, I need to thank you on here too. So what do you think of the summer ale? Not that people can buy it anymore.

It's lemony. Yeah, it's lemony and ginger. Some citrus shit going on. Well, ginger and lemon for sure. Wheat ale with lemon. It's totally.

Oh, it's a wheat. I can taste the lemon and ginger. Nice. It's nice, actually. See, Monica's a big fan. I like it too. Summer ale. He'll be back for next summer.

Is it German beer? Excellent. Fesbia. It's very nice. It's really nice. This Fesbier, I would buy this for sure. Because you know what? It's got more body than the premium lager, which I like.

This is a good fall beer. This is like, this is a good October beer. I love October fest beers. That's exactly why they have it right now. This is perfect for that. And it would go well with a nice big pretzel and a schnitzel. Yeah. Absolutely.

Rob, so you had a happy 60. Yeah. Then we went and saw a Broadway musical on Wednesday night. It was called Operation. Mintz Meat. It's a new British musical that's sort of taken the world by Stormer. It was a big hit in London. Came to New York in the spring and it

one of the actors won a Tony Award. Wow. Like, Best Supporting Actor or featured actor? And it was really good. It was really fun based on an old Do you pay full price for those tickets or do you have some kind of a discount? Leah got the tickets for my birthday and I'm not sure, but they were really good seats. Laya, put the price in the live chat, live. She's got some people. Let me know what you pay for those.

She's got a connection. Can you tell Rob Proust, your connection too and then tell the story of palm of pasta and kathleen robertson yes she got her lasagna um my best friend jim is her brother-in-law and we were both in jim's wedding party together 35 years ago kathleen and i and a bunch of other friends marry kathleen's sister yeah her older sister her older sister tracking this yeah and so i first met kathleen you know who her best friend growing up was and still is very close to her is tom wilson's wife oh that's That's how they're so close as well. That's so funny.

Because when I told her that I was going to get the lasagna for her, she's like, she texted me and said, yeah, Tom Wilson told me it's really good too. And Tom Wilson's brother-in-law, Andrew, a big palm of pasta fan too. So a lot of connections to Kathleen Robertson. So I saw Jim yesterday and I happened to have a lasagna in the freezer in a citrus freezer from one of our last visits. So I gave it to Jim to pass along to Kathleen. Okay, so Kathleen Robertson, because she left here to go do some reacher stuff,

like a fitting and some stuff. So she didn't want to take her lasagna. Um, you gave her your lasagna and I have in my freezer at lasagna for both of you. Amazingly. Bob, is your freezer full of lasagna? No, no, not at all. No, no, no. So you got to remember we, uh, we, we, we depend very much on the extended family on the, uh, on my wife's side.

Her, her dad helps a lot and he loves the lasagna. So my God, okay. We throw it, we throw it in, uh, quite, quite often. And that's big enough we, I mean, Laura's one of four and they all have, uh, most of them have kids and, uh, and wives and stuff and husbands. So when, if we. it down to a Sunday dinner with everybody. I believe it's 13 of us right now. Yeah.

So when it's only half, we can use the full lasagna and it gets eaten up. That's amazing. All right. I got another one for you. And I also want you two to put on your calendars November 29. It is the last Saturday of November. Noon to 3 p.m.

We're going to take over the second floor at Palma's Kitchen. I remember that last year. Mississauga. And I know, Rob, you've got a whole schedule and everything. That's already bad for me. What is, Bob, we did not see you at TMLX20 at GLB Brew Pub. What is your excuse this time? Well, right now is technically those are one of the only two days of work day a week.

I work. So there's that. And then also it is the police. You're still working. Well, two days a week. And the Polito family Christmas, which is the Italian side of Laura's family is having theirs on Saturday, November 29th. Sure. Yeah, they'll love that.

Italian. It is Italian. I'm sure they might love it, but I don't know if they'll love it. but I don't know if they'll love the, you know, sharing the space with the TMU universe. So anyhow, maybe. We'll see. But right now, yeah, I'm only on the weekends.

$200 a ticket for your birthday gift. Lock it in now before prices go up. So $200. Oh, you're talking about that. So that's $400 for your wife to take. Yeah, well, that's all they know down there. That's true love. But $400 to take you to this show on Broadway.

I wonder if my wife would spend $400 on a gift for me. And it is your 60th, so I actually do kind of, you know, get it on. Yeah, nine years to figure that out. I got a kayak for my 50th. That's right. That's more than 400 bucks. But just, yeah, that's a lot of money, but she loves you so much. Yeah, and it was a nice surprise.

It is a milestone birthday, so it's worth it. Yeah, because, yeah, we don't go to a lot of shows. We sort of pick and choose because it is an expenditure. And honestly, it's sort of like when you have to decide whether you're going to go see a movie in the movie theater or not. And there's things that are worth waiting for and things that are worth paying for. And when it comes to Broadway,

it's a lot, it's, we're a lot choosier. Well, I went to, uh, see, I was lucky enough to go to something at Soul Pepper here in Toronto,

uh, King Gelgamesh, it's called. Oh yeah, I heard of that. Oh my God. It's so good. And I was,

I was lucky enough that I, when I was, uh, introducing Chantelle Carveezeik and stars, actually, yeah, the stage manager there is a production person at Soul Pepper. And so she invited me to come to the premiere.

which was very lucky because, you know, times are tough in the Willette household. So we got to go to, but there's something so special, and I'm not just saying this because you do it about live theater. Live theater is just amazing. I love seeing concerts. I really do, and I see, I'm lucky enough to see a lot of concerts, but seeing a play, I got chills when I think about this play. Yeah, really?

Oh, my God, it was so good. It's, it's a tough sell because you're like, okay, it is this telling of the world's oldest story. Yeah, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, which not everybody knows. Oh, and. And then there's a bunch of Arabic jazz music as well. And they're like, what? But when you see it, you're like, holy shit, this was good. It was really good.

That's so cool. So, Soul Pepper, go see it. Yeah, so Pemper. That's amazing. But I was very lucky that, like, and again, it's more affordable. I think you can get, I think it's like 60 bucks right now to see that. And that's like, it's got a full band, two leads. It's big.

Live theater is a great thing. It really is. Okay. Before we have Bob, let us know the, because he chose this topic. It's a very personal topic. And we're going to get to the jams. But I do have a couple of quick things. here. One is, Bob, can you give us your thoughts on the CFL rule changes that are coming to the Canadian Football League?

So my initial reaction was, ah, this sucks. And I still, to this day, here's what I want to know. What research did they do to prove that this is going to get more eyes on the game? What research did they do that, like, where has the complaining about the uprights being at the focus group? Was there some, yeah, exactly. Or is this just this guy coming in and, and what's the rule change? So there's a couple that they're slowly moving in. The first one is they're making the field down. They're making it more like an American field. However, not width-wise. 100 yards, not 110.

The end zones are still bigger but not as big. They're moving the upraids to the back of the end zone where the NFL ones are. They are eventually going, you cannot get a, you can't get a rouge anymore by going through the end zone with a missed field goal. Although that was kind of dumb, right? No, I don't think so. I think it was part of the game. It's rugby-based. It's very much.

But it's like rewarding somebody for a mistake. No, but there's nothing like seeing your punter in the back of the end zone trying to catch the ball and punt it out to end the game. The CFL does that. That's amazing. I remember watching Hank Illisic in the 80s and 90s. I remember it was the end of a game and they're going to try to punt it through to win the game. And Hank Alysick is in your kicker.

Your two kickers are in the end zone trying to catch the ball and kick it out so you don't get the one point. It's very Canadian. We have not lost. you know, I do agree with, look, it's still 12 guys on the field. Everybody can motion. Like, it's still a very Canadian game. I think it's still three downs.

I don't under, yes, it's still three downs. It's still three downs. But they've changed the game clock so that it's going to be a longer and you could kill more time. I don't understand how that's going to make the game more industry. I just want to know the thought process. And I don't understand where, like, so I don't,

and they haven't come out with that. They haven't said that this is, all they've said, this is going to make the game more entertaining. Well, how do you know that? Right. Like, have you run some AI? Like, have you...

That's weird. Yeah, so that's my only thought. At first, I was quite angry at it. And I got into a little flame war with a guy on, like, the Toronto Argonauts Facebook page. He's like, you need to get out more. I'm like, you're having an argument with a guy on a Toronto Argonaut's Facebook page. That's all that's for us. We both need to get out more.

You're fucking idiot. So anyways, it was fine. And also, what is the point of a Toronto Argonaut's Facebook page? if not to discuss rule changes. Like sometimes, oh, like, you know, that's the whole point of this. Otherwise, what's the point of anything? No, exactly.

And he was like, you need to get out more because I was like, I was, I was ranting about it. Because you didn't like the changes. Yeah. I was like, well, okay, dude. Like, let's, I'm like, okay, go troll somebody else.

I literally did. Like, I, yes, maybe I do need to get out more. However, look what you're doing. Like, like, this is, this might be the height of nerdiness. Right.

And these changes don't take effect next season, right? No. No, yeah. Next season, next season, Next season, the Toronto Argonaut fans are mad enough already. They lost, like, four home games, three or four home games, and they couldn't figure out a way to make them in Ontario.

So they're just playing away games. I think if they had have done some work. Well, because of the World Cup. Because the World Cup. So they could have had, and that's why the Mollson, the Honda Indies moved to Markham is because of the World Cup. They can't, it's, they moved that up there as well. Which I, you know what?

Let them have it. Keep it. I don't need the indie downtown. Jesus Christ. What a pain in the ass. I'm not even sure they wanted. I think a lot of people. No, no, no, no, no.

I think Konda, yeah, exactly. Hey, I like the way you hung up the National Slash poster over here. Oh, yeah. I think that was here last time. No, I gave it to him last time. Oh, maybe two times ago. I can't remember anything, but...

You know, that film, and I composed music for that film. I'm going to have a credit whenever it finally... When does that film get a viewing? Apparently, there's a premiere at a film festival in London at the end of October. Wow. It's going to have that, there's like a rock dock festival that's going to have the first screening of it. And then apparently there's going to be a premiere in Toronto. Yeah.

The National Slash Rises again. Sometime in November, apparently there's going to be a screening in Toronto. And I hope I can get to the premier. Maybe you guys can come as well. That'd be funny. I'm going to see the premiere of Biff Nakeds, well, the Toronto premiere of Biff Nakeds documentary.

Cool. She's been filming a documentary for years. She'd always update me on it. I'm like, okay. It's done. That's awesome. So I'm going to be seeing it soon here. That's cool.

Okay, Bob, quick question for Bob. And Rob, you can chime in too. I'm always interested in your input. But I want to know Bob's thoughts on cover bands like would you go see I just saw since our last recording I saw a band called Pearl Jamming Pearl Jamming. What band were they covering? It's

Nirvana ironically. Alice and Chains Oh cool. You know what? Pearl Jamming is probably one of the foremost Pearl Jam cover bands out there they played the I know of them because I play that play they played the like the Rib Fest at Woodbine Park

Yeah I saw him at Rib Fest yeah You know what okay so here Would I go? I have gone so the Linsmore Tavern on Danforth by Greenwood is this one of the oldest pubs in the city and they are pretty much seven days a week live music and six of those days are cover bands

so one year for my birthday just post pandemic I guess there was it was a night it was red hot chili peppers Pearl Jam and Nirvana cover bands it turned out it was the same band just different singer

oh my God that's amazing It was great. Yeah. So I said, you know what for my birthday we'd go there. It's $10 to get in. Look,

I got no problem with cover bag. Yeah, I paid $5 bucks for ProJ. Yeah, here's what I'll say. I was doing a corporate gig. I was DJing a corporate gig, and they had a guy who was like a crooner, like,

um, Sinatra. I wish I, yeah, Sinatra, Dean Martin, that kind of thing. Oh,

I don't have his name in front of me. Here's what I liked about him. He wasn't doing a Vegas act. He wasn't pretending to be those guys. Yes. I find it hard when they're trying to pretend to be those guys. Well, this guy's doing an Eddie. Like, he doesn't...

I don't want them to talk like them, though. And, or if they try to do the look as well and all that stuff, right? There's a fine line, I think, you know? I think there's a fine line where it becomes, uh, it's not mockery, but it loses the authenticity of the fandom, I think. And that might be one of the most, uh, snobby things I've ever said. It's true. But I find it if they're, if they're up there and they look like they're trying to,

they're cosplay. Yeah. If they're doing cosplay, I have less time for it. There's a lot of ABA cover bands that do that. There's a very famous one called Bjorn again, which then sort of like franchised around the world. The Elvis impersonators have been doing this for the day. Exactly. And then I think Abba's the next in line as far as like there's a multitude of them around the world.

There was a couple kiss ones as well. A couple kiss. But I think the thing with the ABA ones, it reflects back on Mamma Mia being such a successful musical. People just want to hear that music in a live context. My son saw a just saw a ACDC cover. Really? Yeah, and quick thought in pearl jamming, which was, I didn't know, you know, I'm not, I think historically I kind of poo-pooed, like, I don't know if I'm too cool for this cover band nonsense, but I fucking loved pro-jambia. It was great, right? Yeah, good. Like, it was great. It was great, and they played a lot of great songs. There's something to be said for being able to hear music in a live environment, even if it's not the band, to get the vibe. Yeah, and to get the vibe of what it was. There's some queen cover bands that are like that. And on Saturday night, I'm at the rec room for this Jamie Dew, F-O-T-M-Jamey has a podcast thing, and he has hired a tragically. cover band.

His band is called... See, I just saw a tragically hip cover band called Practically Hip. The Practically Hip is one of the big ones. I just saw them. But this one's not that. And I can't remember. I'll have to like... Is it Little Bones?

There's one called Little Bones. Somebody find out the name of the tragically hip cover band that is playing the rec room on Saturday night for the Jamie Doe hip thing. Thank you very much. Put it in the live stream. Okay. So I'm going to play something. Are we moving on to the thing?

Like the subject matter? Well, you can tease it, but then I want to do it. Before we do it. wanted to thank Mr. Pruse here. Yeah, for what? For my, my church, Oregon, okay, Blue Jays. I did that in five minutes.

So I saw, I watched this. Yeah, so I came up with this idea. It was, uh, I, I, I did it, right? No, no, no, no, uh, R.P. did it over here. Yeah, there you go. Uh, no, I came up with this idea. I, on, I do this bit on Sundays called the, uh, Indy Sunday service where I get on and I do a foghorn leghorn impression and I'm doing like the Southern, Southern Baptist

preacher and you, yeah, that's right. Yeah, the Lord has, well, and I usually end up, it started with me improvising, like a sermon based on the songs I'm going to play that hour, is what it started as. And then I started to get kind of bored with that. And people love it. Like, they text the station right away. And then I started changing it up. I'm like, okay, well, it's summers. We'll do all summer things and blah, blah, blah.

And I was, I was like at home 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. And it hit me. I'm like, I got to do a Blue J player names. I was like, they're playing today at the 3 o'clock. I need to do this. So I texted. Mr. Proust, forgetting that you had a matinee on Sundays, it was early enough, totally forgot you have matinees. And I said, could you give me, and you're like, Fantam of the opera organ or

church organ or this? I'm like, church organ. I need your, wow. And he turned, turned it around in 90 minutes and had it to me. It was less than that even. It was amazing. Yeah. And so thank you you're welcome. It turned out good, too. It sounds great. Well, I want to thank Rob as well. We're all going to thank Proust. I want to thank Proust. I want to thank Proust because, uh, when I said I had Chris Murphy and Jay Ferguson coming over. I did that for you too. You listen to the new album and you sent in I'm going to play it because the guys loved it like they wanted more of it

and all I had was this 90 seconds but this is Rob okay so I'm listening I just listened to the new album the new Sloan album and I love it so much I mean I I just am really enjoying it and the last song I love because there's a chord that I

freaking love and I had to figure it out and learn the song so I'm going to just play it and I'm going to show you because it's just one of those chords that as soon as it hits me, it's, I don't know what it is. It's magic. Anyways, it's this, it's this song. I already know. Right, so the, first of all, you get that great piano intro. Which is reminiscent of my favorite. It's a little abbot thing, but you got a nice, Chris got that right away.

Okay, so then the chords. Nice. It's beetles. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. Beautiful. Nice.

Here's the chord I love. Nice. It's a D over an E bass. It's a D over an E bass. You guys, I love this album, and what a way to finish it off. Thank you. Wow. They love that.

Did they enjoy hearing that? It was funny. But I like how he said, best review he's heard yet. But I like how he described it. He called that chord, the medical drama chord, which is what it is. I think that's Andrew Scott who calls it back. Really? Yeah, that's right.

Andrew calls it that. But I totally got that when he said that. Because that's why I like these, like 70s. Did you enjoy the Sloan episode? Loved it, but I love the album, too. And those guys are cool. We're playing that on the, we're the only station in Toronto playing that one of the singles off that old.

Joe Middleton was at TMLX20 and he said earlier maybe earlier in the day or the day before the Sloan drop by in the 88. Oh cool. Because remember, they were playing the other station chorus key as we were at TMLX20

like just down the street because we were at Jarvis and Queens Cape. Okay, I'm bringing this up real quick here. This would be really, really quick, this little journey here. I'm playing this because I just talked to Paul Cole. And this song is the theme song to Dawson's Creek. And I thought maybe I would just tell you what I think is a very interesting story about the theme song to Dawson's Creek. Are you guys ready?

Yeah, do it. Let Paula do this party. So the fun fact here, we'll get rid of Paula for a moment. The fun fact is, I think his name's Kevin Williamson, but the guy, was putting together Dawson's Creek Kevin Williamson wanted this

to be the theme song and I think the original demo or pilot or whatever had this is the theme song I'm broke

but I'm happy I'm poor but I'm kind so this is the unaired pilot episode that featured I use this in my pocket

by Alanis Morissette from a jagged little pill but then when it got picked up up to be a series, Alanis Morissette didn't want them to use the theme. I guess she denied it or whatever. So these two people who are in charge of the music, they're apparently a guy named Stupin and a person named McCullough. They were looking for other options. And they

actually commissioned a song by a Canadian singer named Jan Arden. Really? My head is in the clouds My feet have left the ground My life is turning around Every voice inside my head is Telling me to run like metal Bowls and arrows Stars and suns

Hey hey hey hey hey yeah Every heartbeat So Jan receives like a flat C to create Run Like Mad. And this is the Dawson's Creek theme. Okay. So this is a song that Jan Arden made for Dawson's Creek. But the WB had licensed I Don't Want to Wait by Paula Cole. And they used it in like some promo that was running in Blockbuster video stores.

So they would show like Dawson's Creek, it was to I don't want to wait. Yeah. So the WB suggested that they use. I don't want to wait by Paul Cole. And an 11th hour decision, they ended up changing it up. So they didn't use Jan Arden's song. This is like a follow-up to your Paula Cole episode.

Yeah, they couldn't. I know. I wish I had all this info for Paula. But they couldn't use Alanis-Morissette's song. They paid for this Jan Arden song that they were going to use. And then they switched it up at the 11th hour. And the rest is history. But there's a little bit of one more thing.

Okay. So Sony music failed to secure the right. for home video and online streaming services and didn't want to pay for them later. So when they were making DVDs and some video on demand versions of Dawson's Creek, they went back

to the Jane Arden version. So there's a lot of people who don't watch it on the WB, who discover it via certain streaming services who think this was always the theme song to Dawson's Creek. Wow. Do you think there are a lot of people

who started watching on streaming service Dawson Street never watched it before and didn't know that I don't want to wait was the theme 100%. I think there's maybe four people that are like that. No, I think there's more. I think there's more than four. But anyway, they did eventually resolve these licensing issues. I think Paula Cole recorded

a new version because she didn't have the rights to her master. She alluded to this in her episode. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when Netflix brought the show back, they ended up using this new version of I don't want to wait. Paula's version. Yeah, actually. Just like Taylor. Yes. Okay, it's funny. It's funny. It's funny.

mention that. Can I take another minute and share something else? Sure, can I just say one thing about Kevin Williamson? Yeah. Created Scream. Yes, he did. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. And he's directing part seven. He's writing and directing part seven. Oh, wow. It's the Scream franchise. He created that as well. Dawson's not doing well right now.

James Vanderbeek was unable to attend the very recent reunion. I think Michelle Williams put this together. It was a Dawson's Creek reunion and they all saying, I don't want to wait for James Vanderbeek. I wasn't able to make the trip due to health concerns.

Wow. Wow. I know. He's a young man. Yeah. So we're all rooting for James. I wonder if he's getting his hip replaced. Oh, no.

It's worse than that, I hear. It's tragic. Okay, so you mentioned Taylor's version. I did. It's like you're reading my notes over here, Bob. I don't know what to say. Unbelievable here. I'm going to dedicate this little route before we get to the core here to

Stephanie Wilkinson, who was at TMLX20 at GLB Brew Pub. And is a big Swifty. Like, she's a big time Swifty, much like my nine-year-old daughter. So I'm a Swifty too Her new album comes out on Friday They walk amongst us Did you see Mark Marins Special?

Really good I'll tell you a quick story You can do it now I mean Okay so Mark Maron The last bit in his new Netflix stand-up special He plays a part of a

Taylor Swift song Yeah And he cost him $75,000 I think it was the final thing Like just to play like 30 seconds of a song And that was a that's a lot So that was a friend price. Wow.

Well, I hear Rob Pruse's wife was going to license that song for his 60th Earth. Yeah. That's right. I highly recommend the Mark. I got to watch it, yes. Scorch, Dirk's Mark Merrin is great. Is he still doing the podcast? No, he's, well, he's ending it.

I don't know if it's end. He's wrapping it up. Is he going to have a big finale? Do we know? I don't know. Okay, so why am I playing this? I'll get to cut to the chase here. All too well.

You know this song? Yeah, yeah. I've played the. this song on the piano. This is all too well, Rob. The fun version is this version I'm playing is officially has this name, okay? All Too Well, and then in parentheses, 10-minute version. Yeah.

And then in parentheses, Taylor's version, and then in parentheses from the vault. So this is a super parentheses jam. It's a double parentheses. Three, triple. Oh, triple. Sorry, yeah. 10-minute version, Taylor's version, from the vault. Also, ready for a mind blow?

Always. You guys sitting down? Sitting. Don't look at my notes, Rob. This is the longest song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to hit number one. Oh, wow. The longest song, because this song, what goes on and on? So it's a 10-minute version, right in the title.

All right, so anybody want to guess what song had that record before All Too Well, 10-minute version, Taylor's version From the Vault My immediate guess was going to be Paradise by the dashboard light or the one

where Puff Daddy took that Led Zeflin's song Bohemian Rhapsody These are all good guesses Uh huh Really? This is longer than Bohemian

Rohingi is 555 Wow It's nothing Okay So This for 50 years And I knew if I had my chance This little jam, you might have heard once or twice.

Oh, Madonna's cover is probably your favorite version, right, Rob? I know. So 50 years, this song was the longest song to hit number one on the Billboard Hall 100. And now it's all too well, Taylor's version. That's super cool. Okay, one more thing I want to share, and that's okay. So we're talking about songs that went to number, long songs that went to number one. but the longest song that cracked the top 100.

So it's a hot 100, right? The billboard's hot 100. The longest song to crack the top 100, I think this is wild. Just let us soak in a bit here. Let me drink my coffee. This song cracked the top 100. Sounds like it's from a soundtrack.

Yeah. I don't think it got very high, but it did crack the top 100. I should have taken a note Oh yeah there is some haters on Reddit Oh yeah So just because I see it in the live stream I was going to talk about this on FOTMcast

But just a little teaser is that I think if you just want to celebrate Canada's greatest band Sloan Okay And you just want to hear about the amazing new music and the fact they're still together and they're going on tour and you're looking for like an extended PR like a press release, right?

Yeah. I think you'd be a little upset with my conversation on Friday. You think? Oh yeah, no, they're not fans of a... They're saying that Chris sounded really exhausted. No, drained. They said definitely drained was Chris.

Chris was drained during this interview. Really? Yeah, yeah. During your video here? Yep. Well, that's funny. Well, that's somebody on Reddit. He's a super fan.

Is they're in the Sloan music? Yeah, these are Sloan fans. I mean, Trash Panda 1733 just ends with straight to the point, Toronto Mike sucks. Oh, geez. I fucking love Trash Panda. Yeah, I thought you guys were close. Jesus, okay.

So what did we listen to? I think that's Cam Gordon. This is not on the, was it not on the charts. Yeah, that's where I'm going here. Not this part. There will be more about the Sloan episode in FOTM cast on Friday. I love Sloan and respect Sloan. And I was wearing a Sloan t-shirt during the episode.

But at the same time, I'll discuss this in more detail on Friday. I felt like I can't have Chris and Jay in the basement. If I don't ask for some commentary on things said in this very basement in 2025 from the other half of Sloan. Yeah. I appreciated that. Patrick and Andrew were over here.

Yeah. And they said some things. Like, am I supposed to, oh, I don't want to upset anybody. Right. Like, it was on my mics. Do you know what I thought was really? They said it publicly. Yeah.

You know what I thought was really interesting? It made me reflect on the band. that I've been in, and the fact that it always comes down to, like, camps in a band. Yeah. So you've got Chris and Jay reminded me of when Johnny and Derry from Honeyman Suite came over. And Johnny and Derry have sort of always been the driving force. Even though the band has been relatively unchanged for 40 years, Johnny and Derry are like, like the old married couple that run that shit.

And it's similarly in the spoons, Gordon Sandy. And so bands need, need, like, there's always like two, it was like what John and Paul used to be in the Beatles. Yeah. And then John's gone and Paul lives on with the legacy. and John's history becomes more mythological, right? But Chris and Jay,

I thought it was cool how you interjected those other guys in there as well. I just did my thing. Yeah. I didn't have an agenda to get anybody.

I just wanted a real talk conversation that wasn't, you know, it was interesting because they were... Patrick whispered in my ear, you know, this guy was fucking this secretary or whatever. Well, watch the hip documentary. You saw it there.

Like, Paul Langua wouldn't say shit about shit. Paul was all about Gord. Paul and Gord were the one side and the other guys were the other. That is clear. And in there was Jake in the middle and then Bernie as well. It happens in every band.

The Sloan band dynamic is fascinating. Yeah, it really is. And I have half the band in the basement and I just had the other half. Of course you have to do it. You did well. Yeah, no, it was very cool. That means a lot to me. But it's the, if you were a diehard fan looking for a press release.

You do things I wouldn't be comfortable doing. No, I mean it. You go there. Because then I take hits like this from the Slan fan. Well, no, it's good for, you know what? The Slan Band is you ask the Slan fans. You ask the slam fans. You ask questions as a fan.

Yes. Not as a journalist, not as a media guy. You ask, like, they were like, oh, he only talks about three years of music is what they, one of the complaints that they had about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's okay. If you did, I don't think that's true, first of all. It's not true, but it's not true at all. No, dare you.

But that's their, you know, their reality is their, whatever. So, but my point is, like, even if you did, these guys came on knowing what you bring. to the table. Yes. It's not like, it's not like Gino Valley walking into the basement going, what the fuck is this?

Yeah. Where am I? Right. There was no, yeah, it was they were alone. They all know you. Alper wasn't hiding in the wings.

No, it was good. I thought it was really cool. So this fucking song. Yeah, what is this is this? Right? So this is the longest song

ever to crack the top 100. This is Andre 3,000. I was just going to say I thought maybe it was. It's flute. Oh. Do you want to know the title of this fucking song? Uh-huh. I can't wait to say this.

Yes, it is. I swear I really wanted to make a rap album, but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time. So the full title is, I swear, comma, I really wanted to make a rap album. Rap is in like quotes. But this is literally the way the wind blew me this time.

That's the record for the longest song. Amazing. And it's longer than, you know, obviously than Taylor's version of Paul. Good for him. Well, one last thing, and we're going to get to the fucking jams. But here's the song. Oh, that Sloan Talks got me all punching now. This is the song that had the record for longest song to crack the top 100,

before Andre 3000 took that record away from them. My goodness gracious. Let me hear Bob Willett name that tune here. Hold on. I don't think Rob's going to have a chance. You know, I think Mike's on the live stream. Mike, let's see how long it takes you to name that tune. Sounds Buddhist.

Yeah. That bell. You know who would get this? I think already, Robbie J would have had this by now. So is it late 80s CFNY? No, but when you hear the band, you'll be like that. So you two? Nope.

Why don't you tell us the topic, Bob? Okay. So much to Mike's chagrin, because he thinks it's too interesting. inside and too much about us. Yeah, too subjective. Everything's subjective. If I say songs about the moon. Yeah, maybe I'll do a song with Keith Moon. That's a good idea.

That's still, at least that's a moon song. Yeah, you would do that. Hey, hey, hey. Is this, Mike's got, hey, hey, hey. I don't know this. I don't know this. Yeah, I feel like it's got a long buildup before it gets to something. Okay, so tell us the topic. So the topic is, son of a bitch. songs that have had

a profound impact on you and that's all songs that have had a profound impact on you I don't care how just that songs that have moved you is the best way of putting personally profound jam I need to think of a short way to write it

songs songs that have had a profound impact and they're meaningful to us yeah yeah that's a profound I mean that's profound yeah oh is this tool yeah how did you get what was it? Oh no it's uh I I'm getting it now with the thing. Oh, okay, with the guitar. That does sound. They got into a tool sound there. Mike got it online. It's called, oh, did he? I knew he would. Fear inoculum is the name of this tool song that

cracked the top 100. And it was the longest song in the top 100 until Andre 3000s. I swear, I really wanted to make a rap album, but this is literally the way the wind blew me. As soon as Maynard started, I would have got it. I'm, I realize with bands like Tool, I think I've said this before, Tool and Deftones specifically They're bands that I love Five or six songs And that's it Like five or six songs that I love

You know my favorite tool songs still is Because it's the first song I heard And I used to Sober Sober Yeah That takes me back to the Phoenix Yeah

Okay Yeah there you go We're going Profound songs Sounds that you have had Songs that have had a profound impact on Is Bob going to start today? Do you want them to?

I have you starting Maybe the person who comes up at the topic is to start Oh, that's interesting maybe the person who comes up with the topic should close. Oh, that's true too. Sure. That's a good idea. Oh, pull a good fucking ideas. Okay, pay attention.

That's why you're here. Careful, Trash Panda 17, whatever. He's coming after you. Show me your phone. I want to see how you're logged into Reddit. No. Are you trash panda? I'm not, I assure you I'm not trash panda, but you can't, this, I might be logged into Reddit under an account that I wouldn't be very proud of showing some of the subreddits I go on.

Oh. I don't like, I don't, I've never been on Reddit. Reddit's the best. Reddit is a daily stop for me to see what's in the zeitgeist. Like, it's a good aggregator. But do you follow specific channels? How does it work?

Yeah, of course. Things you're interested in. I do two things. I don't know what Bob does. I do two things. Reddit.com would be, the front page. Well, no, well, no, there's two things.

Reddit.com is my subreddits I'm subscribed to. Okay. Reddit.com slash R-slash-all, A-L, L, gives you the everything. So that's what's big and, for everybody, like, not specific. My Reddit is RQEQ, actually. If you find, if you see RQEQ, that's me.

I'll tell people that way. I learned a little about, like, now that you mentioned Reddit, there was some chat about it yesterday on the line because after Trump gave his, and what's his name, gave their bullshit military, whatever. Oh, you mentioned 51st State again yesterday. I know. Stay diligent.

But apparently there's a military Reddit where people were commenting, like, well, who is this, what's going on? I like the fact that they're still at a place where they're, They don't applaud. Yeah. Like, they're still quiet after. What's that Pete Hegseth?

Yeah, that was like drop a needle quiet. Oh my God. And it was on purpose. For sure. Thank God. I was worried if they start to, I don't know,

clap or something. No, they were like, this is, this might be, I don't want to say it. I was at the beginning of the end, but I don't know. We've been saying that all year.

I know, but I feel like now that they've, you know, did you hear what they said? We're not going to engage, but I don't want to get into it. We're not going to, these laws of engagement,

forget it. law of engagement. You can't be fat. You can't be fat. You know, you were going to... I heard you spit, we hit. Yep. No, like, yeah. It's, uh... It's all ridiculous. It's right out of the page. Come home, Rob.

Yeah, yeah, Rob. No, you know what? Make, you're working. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, I enjoy the challenge of like, like, like, putting up with this bullshit. And I ain't afraid. It's crazy. Introduce your first, uh, was again, uh, profound, like, personally profound just jam. Songs that had a profound impact. on you. I don't understand why you can't do that. I found it difficult for a couple of reasons,

but I'll save it till it's my turn. I'm going to go second. I found it difficult too, actually. So why did you find it difficult? Maybe we have the same feelings on this. So I found it difficult because for me, all music is profound, right? It's profound in a universal sense. But what it all affects me. Like literally, all music gives you an emotional reaction? Almost all music does. Because what I do is I tie so much. Even that Andre 3000 song? I don't really know that. I like it, though. It was really cool.

But when I like music, it's profound because it has a meaning to me where I think I don't remember my world without music in it. And because I started playing piano when I was five, my connection to music was always developing and deepening. So I have this weird, I always call it like a rain man connection because I hold, I hold pockets of information in my head that I can't really describe because it's just there. So it's just part of who I am. So for me, to look at what I would consider profound music, profound music, profound, profound, profound, profound.

It's hard to like produce, this is a great question of our time. It's exactly right. It's pasta or pasta. It's pasta. They all work. But all music to me has a meaning. It's not your mama. It can be meaningful to you.

Foyer or foyer. Foyer. Foyer. Jesus Christ. It's foyer. Album or album? Oh, album. Also.

Oh, yeah. I got up guys. Ladies, and this is especially for Liza Fromer, if you're listening at home. Rob Proust just winked at me. What about liquor or liqueur? Licker or liqueur? I think there's differences. No, Americans, you say liquor for liqueurs. I don't like that. No, I hate it. Oh, it's the worst. That's weird. I follow a bunch of bartenders. Can I confess something when Rob winked at me? Little, it moved? It moved.

I, uh, oh, never mind. All right, let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Okay. Profound music. Yeah. It's profound. I understand. You know what? I understand. Yeah.

Can I tell you? All, but I'll save it for my time. I found this to be, uh, by far the most difficult topic for. Yeah. Wow. I think it's difficult. You're welcome. Because I just had to make choices.

I had to like reduce. But we don't have a veto power, right, Rob Pruse? No. That's a key detail. I like that. You didn't. You didn't. You hated it.

I have to record this and drop it. If I don't like the topic, I have to just, I have to suck it up, suck it up, buttercup. Absolutely. Any words before your first jam, Rob Prud. No, it's going to be profound from the beginning. You know what? It took too long to play, and I thought I didn't press it. So I'm going to do that again. I'll fix it in post. Hello, everyone. This is your action news reporter with all the news.

It is news across the nation on the scene at the supermarket. This isn't Santa John. Pardon me, sir. Did you see what happened? Yeah, I did. I stand over by the tomatoes, and here he come. Running through the pole beans, through the fruits and vegetables. Naked as a j-burn. I was colored over death, though, I said, don't look at it, though. And it's too late.

She'd already been in the scenes. Here he comes. Boogie dad, boogie day. There he goes. Boogie dad, boogie dad. And he ain't wearing no clothes. Oh, yes, they call him the street. Ah, I thought so.

Boogie-Dade, boogie-a-da. Passed his thing on two feet. I have this on barn. He's just that proud as he can be. His anatomy, he's going to give us a peek. Oh, yes, they call him the street. He likes to show off his physique If there's an audience to be found

You'll be streaking it around Inviting public critique This is your ex-news reporter once again And we're here at the gas station Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened? Yeah, Dave I was just in here getting my cars checked He just appeared out of the traffic

Come streaking around the grease right there Didn't have nothing on but a smile I'm looking at Rob to see if he'll get mad if I, you want it up? For the whole song? You know, did we do that? I don't know, you might get taken down. Where's Santa Jaws? Okay, he's got out of him.

So, this is the streak by Ray Stevens. I believe it was a number one song in 1974. Number three in the country charts here, number one in the U.K. Yeah, yeah. It's a huge song. It's a novelty song. It is a novelty song. How old are you in 1974 when it comes out?

I was eight. And how hilarious is this song to you? This was the very first 45 I ever was purchased. Actually, my grandpa bought it for me. In 74? In 74. Nice. Because Santa Jaws is 75.

I know. I have, so I have this picture of my, remember when you used to have those little 45 cases where you hold all your records? I still have the picture of my index. And I have Santa Jaws and I have Mr. Jaws and I have the streak and I have Elton John. and I have Donnie Marie and I have Queen Bremen Rhapsody. Nice.

But the streak was the very first 45 I ever got. And I was thinking about it thinking I had albums already. I had the Partridge family. I had Sesame Street. I had Liberace. But this was the first time that I heard a song on CCOC and I was like, I want that song. So my grandpa took me to Zellers and they had like all the top 40 slots, all the little slots and you get the record.

And all they wanted was the streak. So I think for me it's profound because it was the beginning of my journey of like thinking what I hear on the radio I can actually have that record and like it's like the magical thing of you realize like oh I can on demand I can play this song I don't have to wait

On demand wasn't even a thing No I can drop the needle whenever I want So like whenever that song starts Yeah whenever that song starts I like get that magic feeling like it's the weirdest thing It's such a dumb song But it says a lot about me and my sense of humor Because I've always loved stupid comedy

And it went to number one you said Yeah number one in the UK Number one in the UK, number three on the country charts here in North America. But did a chart on the Billboard Hot 100? For sure. Yeah, I'm sure it did. Well, find out what it peaked at. Come on, do your job here.

It's not honest. I want to say, and Bob might have the same memory since we're only a couple years difference in age. But I remember, like, 74, it was number eight. Ads on TV with Ray Steven selling, like his greatest hits or something. And that's when I discovered the streak. Yeah. But here's the other thing about the streak in 1974. So when I was eight, I was obsessed with the movie The Exorcist, which had come out.

And I never saw it. I was too young. My mom bought me the paperback. I never really read it, but I wanted it. And I was scared shitless looking at it on my bookshelf. But then she let me stay up late to watch the Academy Awards that year. And there was a streaker on the Academy Awards. So streaking was the thing.

Oh, yeah, the baseball games. Yes, exactly. And I went streaking with my friend Bob down the street tour by the public school and my babysitter caught us. And it was very embarrassing. So streaking has been a part of my life. Number one on the U.S. Hot 100. Number three on the country. 12 on adult contemporary

RPM Canada number one RPM country number one Yeah Adult contemporary number one UK number one Wait but slow down Because the big big chart We've been talking about

For pop hits is that Billboard Hot 100 Imagine a novelty Like I mean I know it happened Back in the day I don't think it happens I don't know I don't think it happens much anymore

But every song is a novelty now Every song's a novelty But number one for a novelty song Is wild The year end chart for Canada This was number two Isn't that crazy Yeah number two

For 1974 before. Yep. That's great. When you were talking to Fred Mullen, he was talking about Mr.

Jaws. It was similar, like I thought, Santa Jaws. But Mr. Jaws had come out as well, which was a song where they took excerpts of all these other pop songs

and strung them together like a... But that wasn't him, right? No, that wasn't him. But Santa Jaws, and he sort of, in passing, mentioned the fact that the side,

side B of the single was all Christmas carols, but like with a shark theme, that was my favorite side. And I never forget all those songs that you wrote. Well, maybe who picks the topic for December? Maybe we can kick out some Christmas theme songs and you can play it.

Yeah. I do. Okay, well, who's picking the topic today? You, Rob? No, I believe it's you. I don't think so.

Because I did one and then Bob did the last one. I did the songs where the titles not mentioned in the lyric. Oh, that's right. I'm sure it's you, Rob. Yeah, you're right. I'll be thinking about it right on the episode. Okay, I think you handle the topic nicely.

Thank you. That song and that age hits you. It has a profound effect on you. So I think that's a good example. And by way, there's no wrong answers today. That's why I said we can even have dupes. In theory, we could have all kicked out the same three songs because it's a subjective thing or whatever.

So Bob closes because he picked the topic, which means, and I hope I haven't, I hope I'm not being redundant. But you only, you know, your life, of course, we've done a lot of episodes. We're going to probably play songs that have a profound effect on you, and I'm sure I've played this,

but I'm going to play it again. Good. Yeah. Go. considered him a coward of the county he'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong his mama named him Tommy folks just called him yellow something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong he was only 10 years old when his daddy died in prison

I looked after Tommy because he was my brother's son I still recall the final words my brother said Tommy son my life is over but yours has just begun promise my son

not to do the things I've done walk away If you can Rob, tell my daughter Morgan I wore the toast earring today I love it. I forgot it last month. Yeah, no, it looks really good on you. Maybe I'll wear it every day.

You should. I want to be as cool as Bob Willett. Okay. So, this song, Don't worry, Y, Y, Y, Z, Gord. You haven't missed anything. We're just starting here. You miss most of the show.

I'm just catching up. I'm seeing here. The streaker's name was Robert O'Pell. Oh, I'm the cat. He died at 39. Oh, wow. I'm sad to hear that Canada Kev doesn't remember

Dr. DeMento playing the street but I don't know what to say I don't remember that necessarily either See Leslie remembers Mr. Jaws on the line because we're the same generation Well cousin Jano who I was spending time with at TMLX20

I believe loved Santa Jaws if I remember correctly So this is a Kenny Rogers song Coward of the County and written by a couple of guys named Roger Bowling That name's going to come up again in a minute.

And Billy Ed Wheeler. And it was released in November, 1979. It was the second and final single from the album titled Creatively Kenny. They called it Kenny. It actually talking, speaking about the Hot 100, the Billboard Hot 100, it went to number three. So this is a crossover hit for Kenny Rogers. This is a pop hit. In what year was that?

79. Seventy-nine. Late 79. Imagine what that chart looked like. I'd love to see that week's chart. I love those charts. That's why, like, we grown up in the 70s, like, I mean, of course, I remember vaguely early 70s, late 60s even. But the variety of music is hilariously cool.

Yeah. I think it's just ridiculous. I know I told the story in Toronto Mike before. I'm going to tell it again real quickly. But in here, of course, this song, which I know Bobolite also a big fan. But I'll tell you why it's profound to me. But there's a reference to the Gatlin Boys. There was three of them.

Okay. It was long, like, believed that that was a reference to the Gatlin brothers, okay? And there was a tension, like a feud. We're talking like Tupac and Biggie Smalls here. There was a feud between the Gatlins and Kenny Rogers. But then Rogers went on the record to say he was unaware of the connection. And if he had no one about that connection, he would have asked for that lyric to be changed because he didn't write those lyrics. But Gatlin himself later claimed in an interview, Larry Gatlin, I'm speaking of.

He said in an interview that Roger Bowling, who wrote this song, held a personal grudge against him for unknown reasons. And Gatlin stated that when Bowling won song of the year for Lucille, in 1977 at the CMA Awards, the country music awards, Gatlin approached Bowling to congratulate him. And Bowling said, fuck you, Gatlin. I love it. So he thinks that's why bowling put in a reference to the,

the Gatlin brothers. Oh, cool. And I think I've told you guys, you need to Google Norm MacDonald talking about the Coward of the County. Really? He was on a podcast talking about it, and it's so hilarious. So do you want to hear a song

previously written by Bowling that might remind you of Coward of the County? But this song is by an artist named Billy Joe Spears. Any of you too familiar with Billy Joe Spears? No. Mm-hmm.

So give it a moment. That big old moon is shining down. Roger Bowling wrote this. And I listened to it a couple of times. It's called Blanket on the Ground. And this song is all about basically this woman is trying to get her husband to fuck her outside in the under the moonlight. Like, let's fuck outdoors. That's what the song is about.

So I guess they're like middle-aged couple and, uh, Blanket on the ground. She wants to make love in the green light, okay? I love this song already. Just the fucking best. That's great. Yeah. Corny milk.

She just like, let's do it outside. He's like, yeah, we're married, but we're not dead. So he wrote this, though. Yeah, so Roger Bowling wrote this. He's the guy who wrote, Howard the County. So growing up, I had no older siblings. I don't remember, like, I actually don't remember a lot of music around. I know I had these great, these golden oldies cassettes,

and I had a big funness for, like, 50s and early 60s. early rock stuff. And then I remember hearing a certain Kenny Rogers album, like a greatest hits. My mom would play it over and over again. Like it was the only, really the only album I remember her playing. It's kind of weird to talk about this.

I talked about this when Kenny Rogers died. I phoned her up and I talked about it. But in a nutshell, I would hear this greatest hits by Kenny Rogers, and I actually started to really like the songs, like Lucille's on there and Gambler and, Lady, the Lion of Ritchie song there.

But Coward of the County was the song I liked the most because I like the story. This is a wild story. It's like his dad says don't fight. Then he has to fight. It's like sometimes you've got to fight to be a man. I just thought it was a rad story and I loved Coward of the County.

So perhaps hearing Coward of the County all the time as a young boy helped me fall in love with music because I've been in love with music ever since. And these kind of storytelling songs, once you like one, then you're open to the possibility of enjoying so many different ones. How come country music never took for me? Like, I never really got into country. I just like, do you ever like the Eagles?

Not like, I don't think I've ever purposefully purchased a piece of media that had Eagles songs. Okay. Because they're, you know, like in the 70s, it was a little more fluid as far as the genres went anyways. Yeah. You would call it country rock, but it was still pop or whatever. And it didn't need to be defined so well. but if there was a good story to it like these kind of songs

then you think well it sounds but they would cross over Eddie Rabbit would be one with like yeah like those are the songs that would yeah

Heartache tonight is a very country sounding Eagle song no things were crossing over all the time and that's my see my grandparents were huge country fans

I have so much classic and Ray Stevens with the street he's a country yeah that whole idea of telling a funny story song is only a country song

because there's some like hicks in it right you know but Ray Stevens is a country artist he did a real country kind of stuff as well know enough about Ray Stevens. I don't think any of us know enough about

he wrote a great... He had a beautiful song called Everything in people. But why do we call him Weird Ray Stevens? That's true. He's not as weird as Al. Who can name this artist? This lady saw? It's his sister Nancy.

Oh, yeah. Give it a moment here. This is cool, why too, why too that the Rocky Road? Right to right to right to do. This is cool, actually. This is really good. And he said, Tom was all the ten.

When his father died in prison, all of his auntie, his mother, bigger sister, old man. His daddy said, promise me son, never to do. The thing said, Daddy. Wow. Walk away from trouble if you can. All of a sudden she's got a southern accent, right? Be on a cheek, someday you've got a girl to be a man.

Yeah. Wow. Past the Dutchie. Exactly what I was thinking to. Sister Nancy, everybody. What years that from? 82. Wow.

It's cool. And it's called Coward of the County. Oh, sorry. She calls it Coward of the Country. But you can hear some Coward of the County in there, absolutely. Okay, Bob Willett. Yep. You chose this topic.

Yep. maybe during my next song I'll explain some of my struggles with this topic but let's hear from you and my friend Oh you were during your next song I was okay so for me when this hit me

it was the idea of songs that had a profound impact on me but the first thing that I thought about what are songs that I've listened to a ton like I have that ADHD thing where I can listen to a song over and over and over again like just hit repeat hit repeat I remember when we got our very first CD player

and it was You put it in upside down, but it had a repeat, all in a repeat one. Wow. And I loved the repeat one. Right, right. He even had an A-B repeat. You got actually make a little... They were the same.

I had the live version of Billy Idol singing Moni-Money. But it was a live version. I had a 45 of it, and I recorded it to a cassette because I would walk to school and back. But I put the same song over and over and over again. So the mix was just Billy Idol's live version of Moni-Money over and over again. I did the same thing once with a tape and I made an Al-Dro's song over and over. I used to run to it and it was the perfect tempo for running up. Yeah. Yeah. So

I, and I purposefully wanted to do songs that I've never kicked out before. Because I know we've said that before because there's lots of songs that I've talked about, but I have to start with the band that everybody's expecting me to play. I love this song. Fucking wonderful song, Bobby.

Also in my wedding. Yeah. The second wedding. Okay, I assumed. Yes, I understand that every life must be end. As we sit alone, I know someday we must go on. Oh, I'm a lucky man to count on both hands, the ones I love. Favorite lyric.

Some folks just have fun, yeah, they got not home. Stay with me, oh, let's just breathe. Summer sin's never going to let me win. Oh. Under everything, just another human in all. Yeah, I don't want to hurt. There's so much in this world to make me breathe up.

I don't know how long you want to listen to? All of it. Yes. It's beautiful. Yes, this is Just Breathe. by Pearl Jam really it's Eddie Vedder's song and the guys played around it

I remember hearing this song now obviously I've been moved emotionally by Pearl Jam songs of my entire as long as I've heard Pearl Jam I thought when I heard this I was like in my head I'm like they don't have any right still making music like this after 20 years

like it's 2009 they've been together since 91 90 91 and I'm like bands don't get to don't bands traditionally don't write music this good this far into their career together they don't they're just you know like you could say you know rolling stone steel wheels fine but it's not great right nothing they've done and this to me is a great song i think it's objectively a great song even if you don't like it like pearl jam this is an objectively great song it's the lyrics are emotional the production's amazing um i just and it's and so it started off eddie better

scored, like did some scoring on the End of the Wild soundtrack, the movie. And that movie, I think, is a beautiful movie. I like that movie very much. So I actually, my bonus is a scene. It's a very short scene,

but I think, I don't know if he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but Hal Holbrook is an older, is an actor. And he has a scene in there, and it is the one of the most powerful. He didn't win. He didn't win, you're right. Into the

In The Wild? And Hal Holbrook has a scene in it with the kid who plays the main. And it is one of the most... I'm going to spoil it right now if you've never seen it. But it is one of the most powerful scenes I've ever seen it on film in my life. I beat you on the other side. Ooh, good timing. I had an idea.

You know, my mother was an only child. And so was my father. And I was their only child. So when I'm gone, I'm the end of the line. My family will be finished. What do you say? You let me adopt you. I could be

say your grandfather Can we Could we talk about this When I get back from Alaska No Talk about it now I Oh yeah

That's I wanted to kill the kid when he fucking said that in that movie. I was so, Hal Holbrook, it's, again, it's quiet acting.

It's that, it's that type of in, you don't, it's not theater, it's not, but it's, it's up close. And he just,

you see his eyes well up, but not in a, any bullshit way. It's just, there's, it moved me so much to have that come from this, this song comes from that same, same movie.

And I, just for me, that's one of the best piece of acting. So that acting is very good. It reminds me of acting you would get from somebody like Richard Farnsworth. okay so you'll see that kind of quiet acting I know exactly what you're talking about Bob

you see it in the natural and then he did this he had a rider mower and he had to ride it into I can't remember the name of it you know coming to minute but Richard Farnsworth shout out to Ridley funeral home but Hal I think Hell's passed away too is a shadow to Ridley funeral yeah he was a quiet

I'd see him and I want to say he's a very character actor I was not a I didn't know him until the movie and then you find out oh okay cool like you guys but what is designing women wasn't he a regular and designing woman. Hal Holbrook? Yeah. Like,

I think he married. When you look at him, yeah, he's a comedic actor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was more of a comedic actor. And when you see him, you're like, oh, okay. But it was unbelievable. He was,

he had a one-man stage show. Mark Twain. It was all about, that's where I know him. Samuel, yes. Twain tonight or something. Yeah, yeah, it won the Tony.

Yeah. Anyways, he, for me is just, like, that's some of the best acting I've ever seen in my life. That's cool. He lived in 95. Good on him. Wow. Wow.

Wow. by the way. So that is a song that I will just now in any day put on and listen to it over and over again. You know how I know

that song? I did a gig in 2013 with Kristen Miliotti who was, she just won an Emmy Award for the Penguin. I asked you to get her

on Toronto mic. I guess I'll get her on. Yes, of course. She just won an Emmy Award. How I met your mother. She's the mother. Yeah, she's the mother.

But anyway, I played bass in her band. We did a couple of gigs in New York. We played at Lincoln Center. She was in the Penguin. She was in the Penguin. and yeah. Oh wow. Um, but she did this song. She did just breathe. Oh, wow. And so I didn't know the song. She covered it. She did a beautiful, I'm going to find a recording of it. I'm going to send it to you. Because you weren't at my wedding. Rob, if you were at my wedding, you would have heard this song. By the way, I didn't know, I didn't know how Holbrook. I mean, I've seen stuff. I didn't realize. Like, he was a, he was deep throat and all the president's men. He was on the north. He was on, uh, he was on the north. He was in Wall Street. Yeah, he played the north. Um, he was in Wall Street. He's a character actor. And that, that, that bit, bit of acting. And that bit of acting. He was, he was in. He was a bit of acting. And that bit of acting. And that bit of act. And that

is some of the, yeah, anyways, it's just, I, like I said, for me, I'm one of those people, the hair stands up on your neck and you get chills. I get chills with everything I'm doing. What's profound, like, what's interesting when you describe this topic, I have a friend named Brent Jensen, who is a good friend of Blair Packham. I met him at Blair's house. Did you mean him? So he's got a podcast called No Sleep to Sudbury, and the tagline for his show is music that makes your skin vibrate. There you go. And he gets guests on who pick like five songs that are super meaningful and it's the same kind of thing. But I love that. It's, you get that feeling right. And so for me,

there's so many levels to why I love that song. And that acting is part of it. But again, the song itself is beautiful. The instrumentation, Eddie's lyrics and the production. And then on top of that, like I said, you shouldn't be writing stuff that good that, you know.

I agree 100% with everything Bob Willett just said. I never say that on top. No, it's true. It's that to do. Write it down. Oh, so on the live stream, I want to shout out people who are there really quickly. I want to shout out Moose Grumpy. who's there. It's always good to see Moose. I saw her at TMLX20. I didn't see either of you, but I saw Moose Company, so I was happy.

She tells me the lawnmower Richard Farnsworth movie that really affected me was called The Straight Story. So find your local Stella Plex server and find the straight story. Richard Farnsworth, who I just revisited the natural when Robert Redford died. So he's great in that, too, of course. VPSA tells me because I was going there, but, um... Oh, yeah. where is it here? Hal Holbrook was married to Dixie Carter, yes.

I remember Hall Holbrook from, I used to watch a lot of designing women and yeah, married to Dixie Carter. And he goes, any designing women talk makes me think of looks like it's Splitsville for Delta Burke and Major Dad, which was a very funny Simpsons line. I also loved, but also fun fact,

they're still together. Major Dad and Delta Berg here. Mike says Hal Holbrook was in the classic TVM that certain summer, TV movie, that certain summer. I'm doing the math here. Vetter's Hard Sun. So yeah, that's a great debate to have. I like the original

I feel like, is it Joni Mitchell doing backups on the original Hard Sun? I don't know. Because that's Indio. I'm doing this off the top of the lid here, but this is an artist, a Toronto singer, I believe, who went by the name Indio. Hard Sun was all over, I mean, CanCon and everything, was all over our radio. And I remember

background vocals, and I thought it was Joni Mitchell. Somebody can fact check that for me. Richard Farnsworth will always be Matthew from Anne of Green Gables. I'm just looking that up. I did not know that I just watched that with my daughters. He's got the blue eyes. And that's Richard Farnsworth?

Yeah, that's Richard Farnsworth. I remember this too. Laura and I have been going on about how good Matthew was. I didn't even, and we both love that. I got to blow my, that's a mind blow to me right now. Thank you very much. So hello again to Canada Kev who says better's hard son is better than the original. That's to be debated. They're both

good. Leslieville. Of course, we've talked to Leslie. I am Frank. Frank, good to see out here. Come out to an event. I don't think I've met you. Chacha, is that how she's pronouncing this? We know who she is. I've met her.

She came to a TMLX event. Some guy named, I was going to say, Burlington Rob and Bob's basement. Those guys are her. Andy was great to see you at TMLX20 last week. It was always great to see you. VP of Sales, I'll see you Friday. Y Y, YZ Gord, who showed me a photo.

He was climbing mountains and shit, and he still found a way to join the live stream. It was good to see you. Gord and Tom at TMLX20. Hope to see everybody at TMLX21. Let me get to, is it my turn? Where are we? No, it's your turn, Rob. Set up your second jam.

All right. Second jam, it's a very meaningful song to me and it had a profound influence on my life. Really? That is the topic of the day. That's right. And you can just play it. See how long it takes me to name it. classical piece, no?

No, but he likes piano. Yes. I thought it might have been out of the time like. I thought it would be Ben Folds or something. Is there lyrics in this song? Mm-hmm. Because I don't know this song. Rob's more culture than Bob and I.

Could I ever explain this feeling of love? It just lingers on the fear in my heart that keeps telling me which way to tell. Why a wonder a bit, how close they are wet, you shout from the rain, long in the Places we know it can hide. The width of a road that can hold so much pleasure inside. You are my alone again. A quiet town where life is in. Here am I just wondering.

Night port is gone. Night port is up away. Very good. It's a song called Night Porter. Thanks for saying very good. It means a lot. It's by the band Japan. It's beautiful.

It's beautiful. This was a side two song on their album called Gentleman Take Polaroids, which came out in 1980. And I had this on a mixtape. So for me, what becomes a profound image with this song is like driving in my car. I had a Volkswagen bug and I was 16 turning 17 and my first feeling

of independence and I made a mix tape of like all this music I fucking loved so there was an Elton John Blue Eyes was on the radio at the time

this was by like 81, 82 This would have been a CFNY jam This was totally CFN Y jam Was it on the radio? You said it's a B side No, it was on side

two of the album And it was released as a single later but I just knew it as the song on the record that I loved because there was piano and I was taking piano lessons

at the time and I was learning music by this French composer named Eric Sati, and this music was sort of inspired by him. And Gary Newman had also done a piano song, a cover of an Eric Sati song, actually, on the B side of a single. So all my worlds were, like, colliding at this time.

And I was in the spoons, and we were recording, and we had recorded a song, an album with the producer of this song. So John Punter was our producer, and he produced a couple of albums for Japan. So I would listen to Japan and think, oh, my God, we're going to work with this guy

who's worked with this cool band. So this song always takes me back, to like my cassette tape in my car driving and my first feeling of like independence in my life like doing shit I really love to do. It's amazing. It's a really good song.

So it's interesting. It was originally on gentlemen take Polaroids, but then it was remixed and releases a single in 82. Yeah, they released a weird, they sort of did a weird remix of it that I never really liked as much as this. Yeah. This is much more like, like,

thoughtful with the piano and the oboe and stuff. But then they did it later again. But yeah, it's just for me, it's one of those songs where when I listen to it, I'm there. I'm like somewhere in my life. It immediately brings you back to that moment. Totally.

But especially because of a stupid cassette, like I had it on the beginning of this cassette tape and it was always married to this Elton John song, Blue Eyes. Those two always go together. It's so funny. It's great. I remember stories from David Marston,

for example, where Japan would come to Brampton and they would go to eat with Japan or whatever. A band I really know nothing about except that the CFNY guys from back in the day were big fans. Yeah, they really were. And they never had huge success.

And then they broke up like after they made like their third or fourth album. They came to Toronto once. They played a Ryerson college or whatever in the auditorium there. Wow. It was a polytechnical instance. It was a polytechnical. That's right. But they did like one or two nights there.

And it's like in one of those infamous Toronto stories for people who know Japan. They're like, oh my God. actually came to Toronto and played. Yeah. And it was one of those things where if you were there, it's like the police at the horseshoe, you know? Well, yeah, 100,000s are people who are pleased at the horsesho. Exactly.

Now, okay, so this band's called Japan. Yeah. Okay, and I'm thinking there's a band called Asia. Yep. There's a band called Europe. Yep. There's a band called Toronto. Yep.

We should be kicking out bands named after geographical locations. China Crisis. Yeah, that's right. China Crisis. Wow. Kansas. There was a band called Kansas. There was a band called America.

There was an America. Yes, there was an America. Yeah, that was the Neil Young impersonator. That's right. Been through the desert. Produced by George Martin. Wow, okay, I didn't know that. Yeah.

I just know when I was a kid, it sounded like Neil Young. Yeah. Okay, wow. That's great. Obo. Is that an obo? Obo in there, yeah. Yep.

So for me, like as a teenager, because I was playing piano at the same time, like as loving pop music and being in a band and stuff, I feel so fortunate to have been able to really appreciate this kind of stuff as well. I love music that's more like thoughtful. But I mean, that pro jam song you played, it gives me that same vibe. There's something just about beautiful songs like that, you know? Absolutely.

Okay. Well, see, that's profound. How to profound affect. So this topic, as I hear this unravel here, it's the pro and con is the same thing to me. Like the, what's good about it is we all have to get personal and share stuff from like our own personal lives inside or whatever. But that's also the reason I don't love it is because I feel like, oh, how do you? does that apply to the masses like it's like when you're kicking out i know so exactly why they listen here so the pro and con are the same thing well the secret but the secrets to creating art is that the

personal becomes universal and sometimes you have to think you have to be very selfish in a way and think of yourself well and if i may as somebody who works in you may if i may in uh if somebody who works in an industry that has forgotten that it's the personalities it's the it's the stories that people care about you have every goddamn song in the world in your pocket so people aren't going to listen to us, even when you're giving a song, a topic that we're picking songs, you've told Rob he can't pick songs that he just found out about. So you're, that's right. You already, you already told him. It has to be something. This is totally the opposite. Yeah. So like, so that, like, you did tell him that. So people are listening. So we do

tell those stories. Right. So you're just being a whiny bitch. No, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not being a whiny bitch, Bob Willett. I am now, it's just a challenge. It's a hard challenge. I'm speaking to the reason I didn't love this topic. And, You're not. It's okay. Sometimes I am a whiny bitch. But I'm now going to kick out a song. I feel like it's funny that I'm the one of this three of us

who are going to kick out this song. But I'm kicking out a song that I actually never seek out and I haven't sought out in decades. Suck it out. It's sought out, right? So because it's going to, maybe this will be part of the story. Maybe I'll just start playing the song. Everyone's heard a thousand times, maybe a million.

And then I'll bring it down and tell my story. But this is what I'm kicking out, Rob Pruse. Happy birthday, Rob. Come on. That's why I thought we might all kick out the same song. Really? I could have kicked out that Pearl Jam song. It was in my wedding.

Open your eyes. Look up to the skies and see. I'm going to play one minute. Because I'm easy come, easy go Little high, little low Any way the wind goes Doesn't really matter to me To me

Okay everybody's heard bohemian rhapsody, okay? You probably heard it this week Okay, geez All right, it's funny, I've never purposefully sought it out but I feel I hear it all the time. It's just a song that's like in the zeitgeist. It's always around. Bohemian Rhapsody.

Oh, you played the Muppets version recently. I did last time, actually. I feel like we kick out Bohemian Rhapsody every second episode of Toast or something like here. Okay, so a little bit about Bohemian Rhapsody, and then I'll personalize it and then a little bit of info for everybody. Stuff that you should know, you don't know, because I didn't know. Okay. This is a band called Queen. What?

This is the lead single from Queen's fourth. studio album, it was called, and Rob's like, we know all this, but I'm telling people, like Levee Fumka, who don't know all this. I actually, Leve Fumka, I was introducing her to somebody who was at that event last week, TMLX20, whose name is Rida. And I said to Live A Fumpka, I said,

this is Rita, lovely Rita meter maid. And Levee Fumka looked at me like I was talking a different language. And I looked at her, and she looked at me like, what words are you saying? I'm like, you know, lovely Rita, meter maid. So that was new to her. Wow. So I'm just no longer making

assumptions. Okay. The album's called A Night at the Opera. It came out in 1975. Did you buy this vinyl raw proofs? You better fucking believe it. So you bought this alongside Santa Chaz? Yeah. And I went to, first I went to buy the 45.

I got the 45 as well as the album. I'll bet. I'll bet. 10 years old. I'll bet. Okay. Freddie Mercury wrote this. It's like five, almost six minutes. It's like five minutes and 55 seconds. How many key changes? Are there

like how many key changes? How many tempo changes? I'll talk about how I discovered what it meant to me, but what I think I liked about it, and Freddie Mercury went on the record to say that it's three songs. He wanted to put out three songs, and he just put them together. Like this is three songs. You've got

this ballad at the beginning. You've got this rock thing, and you've got this like opera. Sort of what the Beatles used to do, right, when they would just mash shit together at the end of like like they just do that. Abby Rhodes. Yes, exactly. He just, yeah. Here comes part two. Yeah, so...

All of a sudden, it's a new song. And I know that Rob proves to share this fun fact on toast, but I'm going to do it again in case somebody didn't hear it. This song was originally titled, Mongolian Rhapsody. Mongolian Rhapsody, I think it's good that they changed it. I don't know. I think Bohemian Rhapsody. But this was called Mongolian Rhapsody, three songs stuck together that Freddie Mercury made.

Roger Taylor, a side note, fun fact, Roger Taylor, the drummer, is actually singing the real high parts in this. And not. And not Freddie. Like, he just did all the high Galileo's. And at the very end of this section, when he goes, for me, for me, for me, the highest for me is Roger Taylor. You'll enjoy how high it is. It's ridiculous.

Rob, what does this mean? I was reading that they had to bounce the tracks across eight generations of 24 track tape. Yeah. Because they had 200 tracks of overdubs to make. This song was quite the effort. Yeah. Because when you're recording the tracks, you've got to mix things together onto new tracks. to leave room.

Okay, here comes the for me's. Wait, listen, here comes. Roger. Here goes. For me. For me.

Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful. May I do, I feel like I wish I had heard a podcast that did this, because we've all heard this song thousands of times. This song is everyone, unless you hate fucking music.

You've heard this thousands of times. Okay. Pre-Wain's world, with Wayne's World. the just it's everywhere but there's references and I just want to like tell people what these mean because we all sing along to it we all know these words I'm not sure we all know what these words mean okay so you're ready to play a little bit of like a little trivia so people can seem smarter yeah time they hear the song they can tell their friend what it means

okay so scaramouche do you guys know what's scaramouche it's a restaurant in yorkville what is what is that restaurant call scaramush yeah scatabush Scada bush is like a jack asterist kind of place Scaramush. There's a Scaramooch in Sherway. Scaramush, okay. Scaramush is on your... Rob, Bob, do you know what's... Who's Scaramooch?

I think it's a dance, isn't it? No, good guess, though. Okay, so Scaramouche is a stock clown character from the 16th century Comedia del Arte. So it's a scaramush. That's a real word, this guy's saying, and it means something, okay? Will you do the Fandango? What is Fandango, Bob?

That's a dance. That is a dance. That is a dance. partner dance that originated in Portugal and Spain. So we got Scaramouche Fandango. This one I think we all learned in school, but I don't want to make any assumptions. Maybe Lieve Fomke is going to learn right now.

Who's Galileo? The philosopher? Astronomer? He, he, absolutely, astronomer is a correct answer, but he's also been called the father of modern era classical physics. He was also called the father of the scientific method, modern science. But his name

is not actually Galileo Figaro. No, it's not. It's Galileo. He's the father of observational astronomy. The Catholic Church, fun fact, condemned Galileo because he asserted that the earth revolves around the sun. They were the original delusional denialists because he's like, look through the telescope. And they're like, we don't want to look through the telescope. We don't want to believe you. I met somebody for the first time, and I like this woman very much, and I enjoy conversations with her.

But she's an actual flat earther. I've never met one in a while before. Seriously. Have you ever met an actual flat earther? No. Maybe, but I don't know. Nobody that would say it out loud. And then when I would bring up some obvious things we know,

there's answers to everything. And now she sends me, like, DMs me on Instagram. Oh, cool. Videos from wackos who are proving that the Earth is flat, which is a wild little thing. Okay. Figuero, who is that guy? Figuero was a cat in Pinocchio.

Yeah, also a character from the Barber of Seville. Oh, yeah. Marriage of Figuero and the guilty mothers. So this is a trilogy of plays that had the character Figuero on it. Interesting. And Bialzab, we probably all know this, but no assumptions. Bialzab is basically Satan. Yeah.

And Bishmila, okay? Bishmila. God willing. What is that? It's an Islamic Arabic. See, you knew this, Rob. I did not know this until I did my research here. Bishmila is an Islamic phrase that means, in the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful.

There's another phrase that they use that's inshallah, which means God willing. It's like, I mean, if you speak English and you say, God willing, it sounds okay, but if you say inshallah, people are afraid. So, okay, so we're going back to like the early 80s here. Let's go back to because I did not have a copy. I've never owned a copy of Night at the Opera.

But there was a 1981 Queen Greatest Hits album. And I was one night, there was a stereo in the living room and I was leafing through my father's record collection. And I found this 1981 Queen's greatest hits and I like the cover. And what I did is

I just started playing all the songs. So I'm actually just going through both sides of, I can't remember if it was a double album or not, but whatever was on this, I think it was a single album. But I found this song, this is way before, way before Wayne's World, okay? So we're in 81 here. And I found this on Bohemian Rhapsody, and I had a record player in my room, too, because at Consumers Distributing, I had the double cassette thing and then a radio thing, and there was a record on the top or whatever.

And I guess I was. What way did that retail for? Thank God it was in stock. It's true. You'd have to wait. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's filling out all that paperwork.

Oh, in this consumer's distributing where I bought this, I think it was Citizen. think it's the person's right. Probably, yeah. I remember distinctly it being on Dundas. Maybe in my mind, I can remember it being like a little bit east of Jane on Dundas. So somewhere between Jane and Roneamy on Dundas Street West is when the consumer street of me was. But anyway, this song Bohemian Rhapsody blew my fucking mind. So it had a profound impact me in terms of my love of music because it felt like it was a bunch of songs put together to make one song. Yeah. And it was so exciting to me. Like I would get my brothers to listen. Listen to this song. I discovered. I didn't know what happened in

1975. That's cool. Four and 74. But there's another song, a couple years, a few years later, several years later maybe. I'm working at the C&E, and there's an album they keep playing, which has a song on it. I'm just going to play some song, because when I heard this song, I liked it in the same way. And I consider these songs are like epics, basically.

These are like epics. Behemian Rhapsody, and I'm not going to play much of it. But this song... Oh, yeah. Sure. I mentioned it. They almost kicked us out. That's right. It just kicked it out. Because we just spun bad out of the hell on a CD player at the

1989 at the C&E. Did you? That's cool. Yeah, like it was on a repeat, I guess, hitting repeat, like Bob said. And this is the song where I was like breaking down the parts like I used to do a Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah. So the 80s start with Bohemian Rhapsody and with Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

And I fucking like loved. And then nowadays, neither song do I ever like seek out. But I loved the epic nature of these larger than life, songs that have multiple songs there's multiple songs in this pair but you know what makes it profound for all of us I think too is the first experience the emotional feeling

it brings you back to that especially because you could picture picture yourself at the C&E you have a very visceral reaction to it and me Bohemian Rhaps see the first time I ever heard it on the radio when I was 10 years old and like I it's one of those things where I can remember being in my bedroom

listening to the clock radio and it was CCOC and hearing the opening of the song and just that opening I was like what is this? I never heard anything like that before. You had that same experience. Same experience. Yeah.

And shout out to Paradise by the Dashboard Light because fucking epic. Yeah. Like, and it just was so much fun as, I think I was like 15 or whatever I was. Yeah. Okay. Classic. Good job. And shout out to the guy calling the Yankees games.

That's right. Classic play-by-play. Yeah, I don't know. He got him to do it. Scoot? I don't know. Shit, I know this name. It'll come to me.

But he did a great job with the surrounding. Oh, my God, he's going to score. Holy cow. Holy cow, I think he's going to make it. He's going to steal a rizzuto. He's going to steal the race. Scoop? Phil Rizzuto.

Didn't you have a nickname? I don't know. Scoop or scoot? No idea. I'll look it up. Stop right there. Boom, boom. Okay, so.

Good job. Hold on. That was a good one for you because I'm surprised you picked out clean. It's your birthday, buddy. No, it was good. Nickname of Phil. Oh, really? That's important?

Yeah, because I think it was, I want to think it's scooter or something. Oh, yeah, it is scooter. I'll make sure I'm not losing my fucking mind My brain health is important to me The scooter was his nickname Phil Rizzuto Shout out to Ridley Funer Home died We're almost daring to pick them off

Amazing song And we'll just listen and dissect it together Maybe that'll be an episode of trying to make Okay Bob I just want to let you know that the sea scallops Ascaramush are only $54 Yeah A couple of reasons I picked this

I've mentioned this band before here On the show I don't think I've ever played them but I want it to include something that's fairly recent that isn't like just from like an epic memory that has had a profound effect on me. Oh, okay. I was woken by a bang.

And I could already taste the pain. The sudden fear that grips and shakes you when you face the truth. Whose sofa was this? Where were my shoes? What did we do last night? I don't remember leaving. in Nathan's house Oh yeah

How could I forget Why my pants Was soaking wet When we've been pissing our souls Laughing at the news Do you see it too? It was incredible They played it on a loop

We couldn't believe it Basically they discovered That there were others Just like us Other beings, other creatures Other planets and other species Who had other gods That they believed in

And they interviewed all of them And every one of them Not one Give any hints of a clue what they were doing here, either. It's so, so pointless. It is. That's beautiful. I find it humbling, sincerely.

When you're gone, it brings me peace of mind to know that this will all all, just carry on with someone else. Something new. No need to be blue. So I want to hear the end of the song, but I'll talk over this point. So this is a band called Yard Act. And they are, this is Yard Act. And they are out of Leeds, UK is from 2022. Wait, you're telling me that band is British.

I know, it's hard to believe. And they, they, they, they, uh, my buddy David Allard, who's a big music, music guy. He had tickets to see them at the concert hall. And I was just, this was last year. It was November. And I hadn't, I'd been unemployed from January or, February to November and this song, there's lyrics in this song. I love, you'll also hear of existentialism kind of themed through all of my profound songs.

Are you okay, Bob? No, I'm not far from it. Thank you. So there's a whole part of this song that just gave me hope. And I listen to it over and over and over again. So I want you to hear the end of the song if it's okay. What's the name of the song again? When it swells?

Can I see I have a bit of a bit. Yeah, yeah, a little bit before that, yeah. Reminder to you, you know this already, but you've got a beautiful family. Yes, of course. You're loved by many. Yes, thank you. Your health is okay? Because you look amazing.

It looks good to me. I don't know. I'll check your records in a moment. Okay, now we hear this. Death is coming for us all, but not today. Today you're living it. Hey, you're really feeling it. Give it everything you've got, knowing that you can't take it with you and all you ever needed to exist.

There's always been within you. Give me some of that good stuff, that human spirit. Cut it with 100% endurance. It's just crazy. It's so cool. Is that a harp? Yeah. And they played it live on stage, too.

They had a harpist. It was a year ago that you sent me the text of this album. You were like, you need to listen to this. So, yeah, and they're so good live. Oh, my God. So what happened was my buddy said, hey, do you want to go to this show? I'm like, sure, why not? It's a Monday night beginning of November.

And it's got this amazing. I started listening to them, and their biggest hit was this at the time as their number one song. So I listened to it, and immediately it had an impact on me. The idea of things carrying on with someone else, the idea of take somebody, we missed that first time, but that line is like, take somebody by the shoulders and shake them and tell them death is coming for us all, but not today. It's okay. That's so.

Are you on to my bonus now? Yeah, you are. No, I'm not. Oh, this is the end of it? because I have to actually physically play the most thing. But Mike, Tobias Vaughn says that he saw these guys live last year, and it was an amazing guy. I was at that show.

Yeah. They only came here. They played twice. They played once over it, like, a little place on, I think, parts and whatever. Scada bush. Yeah, Scada bush. Scatibus at Sherway Gardens. And they played there.

They were amazing live. But that song, to this day, my kids, my kids, I make my kids listen to it. And they're like, Dad, you really love the song. I'm like, I do, I do. I said, and they asked me why. And I said, because it's, I think it's actually a very hopeful song. And I think it, uh, um, and I think a lot about, I actually read and think a lot about extensionalism, extantialism.

Existialism. Existentialism. Now, Bob, I'm curious. Um, is this tied to your industry of choice? Oh, 100%. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, of course. So radio, radio, like there may not be room for.

someone as talented and creative as Bob Willett in the world of radio in 2025. I don't know if that's why there's no room for me, but there might not be room for me. And to dedicate a very large portion of your 50 years on this earth to something

and realize they don't want you was very, very hard for me to deal with. And yeah, and you know, and I... But they suck. Like, I mean, it's not like... I mean, that's fine. They suck, but I still... Well, that's fine. They suck, but I still have bills to pay. right? So I got to figure that shit out, right?

So that's what the existentialism part of it is. Thank God for Mrs. Willett. I know that's not her name. Rob, did you hear the update from Bob on Bob's basement? I did not. He hasn't heard it yet. So you're, you like me better. I was telling Bob. We're going to find out who likes Bob better because I listen to it. I listen to why I'm driving today. It's basically like a monologue from Bob Willett.

Oh, wow. And I kind of think that that's a good vibe for you. I feel like a lot of people are listening to you. I don't know how many people want to listen to me for 20 minutes. 20 minutes is a good amount. It really depends what you're saying. I played a little, so what I did in there just to show how much I love what I do is I found these old cassettes of me interviewing like celebrities based on, I had Bill Cosby. I'm 13 years old

me, horny Bob. Still his hero. Yeah. No, yeah, still my hero. Wait, interviewing Bill? Yeah, me interviewing Bill Cosby at third, I'm 13 years old. I'm using his comedy albums. Oh, that's, I'm queuing up his, really? Like Al TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I've been doing this for a long time. Anyways, that song had a, still to this day. it's on my Spotify and I bet you it's going to be in my top 10 this year that band because I listen to them all the time

I also have the vinyl now too Is there a station in Toronto that would play yard act? Indy88 would have back in the day but they don't when they were not doing well in the ratings that's the problem you can't play for the cool kids because there's just not enough money

I don't see if and why I taught us that when they yeah you can't you can't do it so I understand why the radio station sounds the way it does and I'm happy to be a part of it. I just hope they want me to be a part of it. That's all. But yeah, I don't think anybody to play.

It's bad. It's too bad because they're a phenomenal band. To the point where our next, it's not a mind blow, but this is their version of the song that Elton John did with them. Elton John loves these guys from Leeds. So if you hear that, it'll be. I could already taste the shame. The sudden fear, the grips and shakes you in your face.

I love the bass. Who's sofa was this Where were my shoes What did we do last night I don't remember leaving Nathan's House Ah yeah How could I forget

Why my pants were soaking wet When we've been pissing ourselves laughing at the news Do you see it too It was incredible They played it on a loop Basically they'd discovered That there were others

Just like us Other beings and other creatures And other planets There's Elton's piano. That's so cool. And he sings too. He approached them. Really?

Wow. It's so pointless. It is. And I find that humbly sincerely. And when you're gone. Every time we hear a British accent in a song, I think of the streets. I think so, I think it's anything. That's so funny.

Someone else. Draw your eyes, mate. See, it's neat to hear Elton do the boat. Like, he's doing a lower line. Like, he's not, he's doing the harmony. He's not doing the melody. Anyhow. That's how big they, that's how good they are.

Elton, who I think we all have respect for it, say the least. I fucked up the intro to this episode, so I just need to correct something on the public record here during the first episode of October 2025. So I shouted out Waterfront BIA because I love those guys. There's an episode

from last week about Waterfall Festival. Check it out. Love my four months of them. But I completely forgot to shout out the wonder that is Nick Aini's and he was at TMLX20

who is returning. Is Nick back? Nick is back, October 1st. October 1. You want to play my AI jingle? See, I need the PJ team here. I need somebody to come help me here.

I had a chat with Travis Dan Raj, by the way. I think he's behind you, Mike. What's behind me? Toronto Skyline. Oh, yeah, I never took it down. Okay, I knew Nick would be back. So two great podcasts from Nick. One just had a guy named Keith Stein on.

He owns the Toronto Maple Leaf Base Baseball team. And the Keith Stein episode was stellar. And that is called Building Success with Nick Aienis, the Building Success series. Check it out, man. Nick talking to Keith. Keith says some lovely things about yours truly. That's why I have to recommend it. But welcome back, Nick Aieny's.

And a shout out to Doug Mills from Blue Sky Agency. Blue Sky Agency is the official distributor of silence, quiet, comfortable, and customizable office pods. And if you want to have a conversation with Doug about your workplace environment, your office, he's eager to chat with you, especially if you're looking for dynamic and creative work environments. He's dog at blueskyagency.ca.ca. I already know Rob Proust is the biggest fan of Life's Undertaking from Ridley Funeral Home. I love the new episode. I love that you love the new episode.

We record every two weeks in this very basement. Brad Jones and I, so subscribe and enjoy. Why don't you do it in the basement of the funeral home? A lot of dead bodies around. Yeah, that's my point. I know where the bodies are buried. Yeah, well, they're going to be. That's right.

Bob, how bad is this existential crisis? I can get you a deal at Ridley Funeral Home. Oh, yeah. you know what I probably should start thinking about it you know turn of 50 talk to Mrs. Woodland about this again January you said January 18th can you take a note Bruce

actually I have a friend of mine do you go ahead take your note but January 25th my very good friend Sarah and I share our birthday like a week apart she's the biggest lowest of the low fan and I was like I'm wondering if I could reach out to Ron and

and pay him to play her birthday party we've been talking about it because I bet she's got to she's a Ron does that she's a very successful HR person she's the one who's organizing that the the Govan Brown

oh I was gonna give away those tickets right oh yeah okay so okay so there's a company called Goven Brown they're a construction company here in Canada you they would have they would have they built they built this city you guys starshiped Sherway

Sherway Gardens they've done a whole bunch of stuff there Skada bush yeah Scada bush is what they've done do the Fandago? Yes. But on, if, if anybody would like to go,

uh, to see there, they do an annual, is their seventh annual curapalooza. Although, uh, it's for, uh,

make a wish foundation. Um, it's at the Phoenix concert theater on, uh, let me just get the date exactly. October 23rd, Thursday, October 23rd.

I've got a pair of tickets to give away. You can email, you can email me, Bob at. Is the cure plane? Uh, no, all right,

no, it is actually Danny Greaves. Oh, of The Watchman opening for Big Rec. Wow. So that's amazing. And it's $75 a ticket to buy at the Phoenix Concert Theater, which is a really good deal, by the way,

to see a band like Big Rec. I'll wait until this goes out to everybody. You can email me at my Bobulette at gmail.com. I'll put you into a draw, and if you want to go, I'll hook you up with a pair of tickets. But Kirapalooza, it's really cool. Go to the Phoenix website, buy a pair of tickets. It goes to a really good cost.

And it's a fun little party. They had Sloan there. they've had Sam Roberts, they've had Arkells, they've had metric. Yeah, they've had great lineups. And I would like to say, I help my friend Sarah organize it. Yeah, that's cool. I really love that too. And if, and Mike will go.

Mike said he'll go if I go. As it stands right now, I am going. So Danny, I love, you know, he played at TM Elixivins. Yes. So, but I'm serious about my friend Sarah and I may be doing a co-birthday thing and maybe having Mr. Hawkins come and do some stuff. That sounds really cool.

I don't know, but I don't want to go through an agency. I want to go direct. No, I can't, I can, yeah, he, you can totally go,

he'd love you to go direct and book that if he's able to. Because then it's not money out of his pocket. No, he does that. Like he plays people's living rooms. I know,

I know. And it would be, it's something that we've been talking about. So I didn't mean to bring it up on air, but here we are. There you go. I'll take my normal 20%, and we'll make this happen.

So there you go. Yeah. So anybody, be entered for a free pair of tickets to see that show on October 23rd. I'll do the draw probably like, you know, in a week or so. So, uh, thank you for that. Big rec has some great jams too. Oh my gosh, yeah.

Is Thornley in that band again? I can't remember. He is the lead singer of that band. No, he left for, isn't he lead? No, they weren't, they never performed without him. Oh, he went solo. He signed with six and four. So what band replaced, uh, three days grace replaced their lead?

Yeah, then right now, and now they have both. I wonder how many people confuse those bands in my head. Like, they're similar, like, Big Rec and Three Days Grace. Oh, I think, I, I, Big Rec for me. Like they're both Canadian, uh, you know, big wrecks out of Boston or something, but the lead singer's Canadian. Yeah, no, no, no. Three Days Grace is a little heavier and a little later.

Um, I think that song is still that, those guys are associated with me with I'm Mother Earth and Our Lady Peace that era. They're a little bit past it. Like 98, I think is when that song came out, but still. And I'm Mother Earth also replaced their lead singer. And oh, and they've done, it was, I Mother Earth and Sloan. last year, actually, was there was Curapalooza. That's cool.

These are all my bands. Yeah. So, yeah, so it's going to be fun and it's a good cause. And it's the Phoenix. One of the best places to see a show in the city. 410 Sherbourne Street. 410 Sherbourne Street. See it while you can. Who knows what the plan is. All developments are paused. So a lot of these places that were earmarked to be blown up are like, okay, we're going to go

another 10 years because we can't sell these. No, they're building too many. Well, that's why you listen to building Toronto Skyline with Nick Aeis. That's right. He gets all that information. So Bob, before we get the last jams from everybody, we're going to go to Rob in a second here. Since you're only, not to minimize it,

but you're on Indy 88 Saturday and Sunday. That's it right now, yeah. But you're not on Monday through Friday right now. And I'm wondering, does that mean you're going to spend more time on Bob's basement? So, yeah, so here's the thing. They've offered me to do some sales. I mentioned that on the,

and I'm very much thinking about. With Joe Middleton? Joe Middleton and I are meeting tomorrow, actually. Mr. was he Tomico Joe? Mimico Joe. Mimico Joe.

Mimico Joe. That man bikes. But I am all, yes, he does. I, but I'm also meeting with the owner of the company and saying,

okay, um, where are we? What's happening? Yeah, because I absolutely am so passionate about being on air. And I think I, I think I bring a lot to the table.

Um, I don't, yeah, so here I am, what, what now? I don't know. Everybody is a salesperson. I mean,

you're a charming, charismatic guy. So you could do, sales. I've been told I would do well at sales. I don't know if I have the passion for it. That's the problem. But you might have a quota and all that. No, I won't. I'm free. We've already talked about the terms. I'd be freelance. Whatever I sell, I get a certain percentage and that's it. Can you bundle things? Like, okay, you get in 88 and Toronto Mike. Right. Hey, if I get, Bob out there selling Toronto Mike. Well, if we sell that, we sell, we sell

Bob's basement too. What percent do you get from the D.D.? Well, yeah. The MVP of sales. Yeah. I've never made a dime off Bob's basement yet. So. I've never tried to either though You can make money by selling Toronto Mike, take that percentage there this is the future of Bobbillett We've saved your life existential crisis over

There you go Rob Proust Yeah Sorry that was a long time Did you do your Are we all up It's our last one Are we all hitting the last ones now?

Yeah I just did yeah Because I did It was somebody's paying attention I got one more to go You got one more to go He's got one more As Paula Cole said We love the tangents

Because the tangents Are what keep the show Thriving and alive Tangential Mike Tangential mic That's right Nice So this is that your

Intro to your song No this is my last game Maybe you can press play Okay Okay This is the last time But I will say these words I remember the first time

Travis No Good guess Sweep it into the corner It's got to be Brit pop or something You know But they never do Something I was a chore of

But I was in the middle of Something I forget now Yeah Keith You know like Travis and Keene It's also very similar But somewhere only You go ahead Are the Irish?

No, English. Make everything right. You follow me for anything you like. And I know I don't deny. This is the last time. last jam for Rob Prude. That's right. So this is Keene. This is the last time. It's from their album, Hopes

and Fears, which came out in 2004, 2003-2004 era. And I had a hard time picking a song from this album, because for me, it's the whole album is my sort of profound, meaningful. Is this the somewhere only you

go? Yeah. Is it no or go? This is literally side. This is track number two after somewhere only we know. Okay. But the whole album to me is fantastic. Like, I loved this so much at that time. My first wife loved this album. Really? As I recall. That's funny, because I discovered this album and I was newly single at the time. So I was living in New York. I'd already been doing Mama Mia on Broadway for a couple of years. And I had moved to a new, I moved across town and I was living alone. I was newly single for the first time, practically since I was 17.

So this song for me reflects a moment in my life where I was like, what the fuck am I doing with my life? A midlife crisis when I was another midlife crisis. And I was like 38, 39. Actually, I was 39. You don't like those round number birthday. That's right. And I used to like listen to this on my, the iPod was brand new at that time, right? Like, so I would load up my iPod with this album and I would go for a run along the Upper West Side Highway and Riverside Park by the Hudson River.

And it's one of those associated things for me where this music just takes me back to that time in my life. And it was meaningful because I love this album. I love his voice because it reminds me a little bit of Freddie Mercury. Shout out to Bohemian Rhapsody in your jam. and he's just got that high range and I love the piano on this music it's all about the piano

and I saw them play live a couple of times in New York I've seen them one well you know the singer had some addiction issues and they sort of went away for a while and then they came back but I think they never

I think they're still together now they don't quite hit the highs that they hit at this point are they a one hit wonder they were several hit wonders in England especially in America I think they're like the verve

I think they're a one hit wonder yeah lucky man too But only on CFNY. Like there's like lucky man, nobody else. If you listen to Chum FM, you don't know who. No, that's right. But you know what Bittersweet Symphony is. Same with this.

You know. I would say keen for somewhere only we know is really, that's their period. And it's so you could call them on one hit wonder. But they're one of those bands. If you like the band, you know way more than that. Yeah. Yeah.

I think verve is. That's like a ha. The ha has many, many hits in Europe. But on this side of the pond, take on you. People only know, take on somebody. And I mean, I would say, I would say a secondary would be son, Sun only shines on TV. Yeah.

Only CFN. That's right. That's it. Only CF. It's because we had a cool radio station. But good that you referred to Travis as well because I feel like the early, early 2000s. Is it always rain on me?

But it was also that early era cold play sound. Also one hit wonder maybe, Travis? Yeah. Here and I hear for sure. Absolutely. 100%. Yep. Not in England, but yeah.

Yep. For sure. This is, the lyrics are beautiful. They're beautiful. Yeah. I'm still looking at the lyrics. I remember Keenberry well.

I saw them open for Robin of all people. Did you really? Yes. It was a weird, one of those V-Fest that didn't do so well. It was down at the, at the time, the Molson Amphitheater. And they were terrific. And obviously, Robin was amazing. Yeah, I love Robbins so much.

But yeah, very cool. So that was a meaningful, profound. So you did it. The most personal topic in toast history, and you did it. We all did it. Well, I haven't gone yet. You're doing it. So Bob's closing.

So it's funny you mentioned, what did you mention? It's funny you mentioned Bittersweet Symphony. Because here's my final, profound jam. My soul had been the recession across the way in New Haven. My ocean needs from the nation. And her feet are some footless way. Now you can't always give what you want.

You can't always get what you want. You can't always get what you want. And if you try sometime, you'll find out. I love that I love that French horn. Did you know who's going to meet that French horn? No. Al Cooper.

That's really. He's also playing the piano and organ on this song. I didn't know we played French horn. George. You can't always get what you want. All right you want. You can't always get what you want by the Rolling Stones. And this is from Let It Bleed.

their 1969 album hearing it now in the headphones what a great fucking song Bob it's a good song right well produced well produced very unique Jimmy Miller by the way on production

it's a great song yeah great song okay I was just sharing Bob when you were taking a leak I was sharing with Rob Proust that's some inside baseball here Al Cooper is the gentleman who plays that French horn

the intro, and he also plays piano and organ on this thing. But you can hear these congas and these maracas and the tambourine, and that's Rocky Dijon. Okay. So a little shout out who's playing on this song here. So I will just read a quote from Mick Jagger, because I think it speaks to how this song

comes together, but Mick Jagger says you can't always get what you want was something I just played on acoustic guitar, one of those bedroom songs. It proved to be quite difficult to record because Charlie, that would be Charlie Watts, couldn't play the groove. So Jimmy Miller had to play the drums. I'd also had this idea of having a choir,

probably a gospel choir, on the track, but there wasn't one around at that point. Jack Nietzsche or somebody said that we could get the London Bach Choir, and we said that will be a laugh. Well, it happened, everybody. We happened. Okay, so I'm just going to remind myself of the extra songs I have here. Oh, yeah. Okay. Some fun facts coming up. similar story to my Queen's Greatest Hits story which is in the same record collection I would leave through looking for something to check out

I found Hot Rocks Hot Rocks Everybody knows this possibly Maybe not is like a double compilation album This is like all the big stone songs From 64 to 71 So it's all on this It's great hits basically up until 71

And I would play through it One song Painted Black was one song I gravitated towards. I could have probably kicked that out. I really liked paint it black. But this song, I just thought it was so, fucking, such a beautiful song. I liked everything about this song and really had a profound effect on me. You're like the big long songs. Yeah. Maybe. I did. Anyways, you notice all my songs are from like when I was younger. Yeah. Yeah. No song has had a profound effect on me in many decades.

It's what we're learning here. So that's again, comes back to why it's, why it's, It's your first impression. When you hear something, as a child, it's more, there's less information coming into your head. Like, I'm not sure this song ever went away, but it absolutely had a resurgence when the Big Chill came out. So this song is used rather effectively in the opening scenes of the movie The Big Chill. Can anyone here name the actor who played The Dead Guy? Because they're all gathering for this funeral. Who played The Dead Guy in The Big Chill?

Wasn't it Kevin Costner? It's Kevin Costner. Points for you here. Excellent. Absolutely. So, not a lot of mind blows here, really, but there is an interesting belief at the time, I suppose, which is, oh, no, I mentioned, okay, I'm going to do a couple of things really quickly here. I just, by the way, I just watched the Gimme Shelter documentary, and they list Keith Richards as Keith Richard, and I swear to you, I'm watching this just the other day. And I had seen this on TVO back in the day, but I didn't pay attention to this.

I thought it was a typo. Like, I'm like, oh, they fucked it up. They called him Keith Richard. His name is Keith Richards. Yeah. And then I found out I had no idea. I know I shared this in the, the, uh, WhatsApp chat, but I had no idea that Keith Richards went by Keith Richard for a long time.

Did you know that, Bob? I did not. No, well, you'd have to know it by seeing something like an old documentary because we weren't around. So Keith Richards went by Keith Richard, but his real name was Keith Richards and he changed it back, I don't know, late 70s or something. He's like, no, I'm fucking Keith Richards. And that's the only way I know him.

Keith Richards. So I mentioned Jimmy Miller. Jimmy Miller had to do the drums on this song because Charlie Watts couldn't So what happened when they played live? I don't know, I guess then Watts does it, I don't know. Well, not now. Here's a fun fact about Jimmy Miller.

A little bit of a fun fact, I think. I'm going to play a song here. So, a couple of fun facts here. You can't always get what you want was originally the B side of this song with the other fun fact I wanted to share with you too Let me guess

Jimmy Miller is playing the cowbell Yeah that's right That's right I knew it This cowbell is Jimmy Miller The producer Fuck Bob you blew my big line there

Amazing Amazing This can't seem to drink it out. It's a great son. Laura's mom loved this song. Laura's mom who passed away. She didn't, like, she was very reserved woman. But if you're out of wedding and this came on, she was up.

Wow. I guess this is a ticket about Laura's mom here. Remember we did problematic jams? And then brown sugar I kicked out because brown sugar, which is heavily featured in this Gimme Shelter I was watching again. And my kids watched it with me. And you see the murder. Like you see the hell's angels.

Oh yeah, that's right. Oh, really? Yeah, it was caught on footage. It's quite a reveal at Elthamont Speedway. They say that's the day the 60s ended, don't you know? But okay, but Brown Sugar is such a great, problematic lyrics, but what a fucking great song, Brown Sugar is. Just shutting it out.

Okay, so I'm going to play a song because a lot of people said, you can't always get what you want was basically the Rolling Stones doing their version of something the Beatles did. And there was like a consensus that, oh, the Beatles will do something like groundbreaking and then six months later the Rolling Stones would kind of copy it or whatever this was like a perception in the 60s

and I just thought it's interesting that this song Hey Jude Don't make it bad Take a side of this song Heavily inspired Mick Jagger When he was writing you can't always get what you want Mick said I liked the way the Beatles did that with Hey Jude

The orchestra was not just to cover everything up It was something extra. We may do something like that on our next album. He said that. And then this was on the next album. And a lot of people compare the spirit of you can't always get what you want to that of Hey Jude by the Beatles. And I just thought that would be a fun little capper.

Something going to sue somebody over the vibe of the song. Well, now I'm thinking of a bittersweet symphony. But it was what's his name, Klein? Alan Klein. Klein. Alan Klein, who had ownership of the song. Yeah. And it was Oldman's

Orchestra, right? What's his name? Oldman. Andrew Lugge Oldham. That's him. Oldham. And that was the version that they looped for Bitter's sweet. That's right. What a story that was. Okay. All right, Bob Willett. The stage is yours to take us home. Oh, we'll just start it, and then

I'll give you a little story about it. That sounds like a fucking plan. Here we go. He knows not a damn damn thing at all And every time I felt the hurt And I felt the giving getting me up off the wall I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze

I'm just gonna take a minute and let it ride I'm just gonna take a minute and let it breathe How did Mandela get the will that surpassed Every day when injustice had him caged And trapped in every way How did Gandhi ever withstand hunger strikes and all didn't do it to gain power or money if I recall it's the gift I guess I'll pass it on mother thinks it'll lift distress of Babylon mother knows my mother

she suffered blows I don't know how we survive such violent episodes I was so worried it hurt to see you bleed but as soon as you came out the hospital you gave me sweets yeah they try to take you for me but you still only gave them some prayers and sympathy dear mama you help me write this by showing me to give it's priceless and any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn damn thing at all and every time i felt a hurt and i felt the given getting me up off the wall i'm just gonna take a minute and let it cry i'm just gonna take a minute and let it breeze i'm just gonna take a minute and let it cry i'm just gonna take a minute and let it cry i'm just gonna take a minute and let it breathe

All I can say is The worst is over now We can serve the hard times Divorce It's over now They try to keep us out But their doors is open now Acorn is getting awards

And covers now That's good All right That's Canaan Trubidor One of my favorite albums of all time I've kicked out some stuff from them before That album Was given to me early

By Chris Garcia Of Universal Music I was the program director at Proud FM, but I was already working out of 5312 Dundas Street West, I guess, out in Atobico, or not Atobico, still 416 proper there, because it's on the... Well, Atobico is 416 proper. You're right. It's on the east side of the 420s.

I know, I'm sitting in Atopico right now, Boblin. Sorry, it's on the east side of the 401, is what I was. Anyway, or the, you know, where the 427 comes down. Anyhow, and the first single was not waving flag. It was something else. I remember taking the album home and listening. to it. I think it was ABC's. It was the first single, which is, I think, the first or second track. Anyhow, I listened to that album in two songs immediately. Well, Fatima, this song,

and obviously, Wave and Flag, and I immediately started playing Wave and Flag on Proud FM before it was a single, before they had plans. So I got in trouble for it from Universal Music. But this song I heard, I heard, and it really resonated with me, mostly just for the line of any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn damn thing at all. And that would be mostly because, again, in my existential crisis that I constantly live through, I'm constantly thinking about

how people see me and how I'm seen. And I always used to joke, I used to say to people, again, when you're a leader of a team, you try to tell stories, I was like, when I was 21, I didn't think I knew everything, I knew I knew everything. I'd come out from hanging out with Humble and Fred,

and I was just like, I was king shit. And I knew everything at 21. And then by the time I reached 40 and it's right around when this song came out or i guess no a little bit younger than that in my mid 30s i realized god damn it i don't know anything and this song any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn damn thing at all just hit me at the right time to go you know what any like you really have to give it all away like you like get your ego the fuck out of the way and just be like you don't know anything and then now as i'm approaching 50 this song still resonates and i

listen to it all a lot still but i i i've come to a conclusion like okay i know a couple things but i don't know everything and i and i and i and i want to learn more and i think canaan's the kind of guy what i've only met him once i've seen him a few times live he's one of my favorite artists he's the kind of guy i think who's always learning and uh yeah to the point where he's blackballed from the industry pretty much you know he he wrote an yeah he wrote an op-ed after this uh third album uh he wrote an op in the New York Times and basically called out Universal Music for forcing him to write lyrics that had more white names and he hasn't released music since. Wow.

You can look it up. It's still out there. There's a term I heard on another podcast. They'd bring up somebody like Bill Cosby and then they'll say the sentence. They'll say scandal noted like because they're going to get all these notes. So there's a canon scandal noted in that he was charged with sexual assault in September 2024. Well, that, okay, so that was, I'm not even talking about the 20, maybe. I know he was working with Mr. Jarvis Church, uh, absolutely. Yeah, we talked about that. He was, he was working

with him. So I actually am not, I'm not, I have to be, uh, I have to be fully open. I'm not, I'm not aware of that skit. No, there's no details even, except that he was charged. Right. So charged is what? He's innocent into approval. Yeah. He's charged with sexual assault in a Quebec City courtroom. Oh, I know nothing of that. I have to admit that's the first time I've heard that. Um, so, um, yeah, we'll see. I, that's, I'm, we'll see. I, that's, that's, that's, I'm, I'm still not going to change whether or not that's a profound song to me. What is the other song?

It's called Take a Minute. It's on Trubidor. Yeah. And yeah, so it's just one of those any man who knows this. I honestly think that's one of my mantras is any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn damn thing at all.

And I want to tell the listeners, there is a Bob Willett kicks out the jam episode before he was a member of the Toadreux? Yeah, well, yeah, I'm toast. But no, it's not a sorry because that's not toast at all. Okay. You're kicking out the jams. You know, you had your 10 songs.

Rob did this as well. Yeah. I kicked out one of my songs on our very first toast that I ever did with you guys as well. Oh, yeah? I used Night Porter for whatever the topic was. Yeah, I was looking back in my notes. Yeah. In December of 2022, I think it was the first toast I ever did with you guys.

Where we are. Listen to that song. When are we getting the new? Because I know I mentioned Leve Fumka a few times because we all love her. She's an FOTM Hall of Famer, but she wants you to deliver on your promise. I know, I'm going to. A new intro. It'll be this month.

Actually, maybe for the next one. Because we're coming up on the one year anniversary. You're now on the record saying that for November's toast, you'll, we'll be hearing the new intro. Yes. Sorry, not intro, outro. I'm not changing my intro. Okay. But.

Yes, I will give it to you because you're saying that. I'm saying that now. Yes. I've now put it on the record. Now, since we're putting things on the record, on the record, I want to say, Bob, I've come around. That was a great topic and I enjoyed it with you guys, even a little personal. You guys did great. Your selections were all amazing.

I love the journey picking. Oh, you should have came out some. journey. Don't stop. When I watch the Sopranos finale, it profoundly affected me. But we need to hear Rob Proust. What is the topic for November's toast? Or do you need time?

I don't need time. No, you don't get time. I don't get time. I've been thinking, and I've decided, now you sort of had two possibilities last time, but you then felt convicted for one. I've got two that if you guys want to have an opinion on, I'm going to say either food jams or sports jams.

Wait, wait, wait. We don't get an input. You don't. This is the rule. You pick the topic. We have no veto power. I'm going to think out loud. So the two that I was thinking of were either jams about food.

Could be whatever that means to you. They could be. How haven't we done that? It doesn't matter. It's time to come around. We don't have veto power. No, you don't. Sports.

Who's this veto guy you speak? I haven't thought this. Vito Corlone. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Literally have a dude. It deserves such a dry martini. Oh, that's really good.

Can you do it the hard way or we can do it the easy way? Stick out your jaw like this. On the day of my daughter's wedding. He's good at that. Can you do more on Brando now? You know he's Superman's dad. Do you guys know this? Do you know Superman's dead?

Jor L. Do you know Superman's song? Well, you mentioned Chantelle. Superman never made any money saving the world for us. So we're taking out of a superhero song? Oh, Cryptonite by Three Doors Down. You save that for your jams.

And there's five for fighting? What's their song about, they have a Superman song, right? There's a lot of... What is it going to be? Food jams. Food jams. Jam, jams.

Okay, have we done food jams? No. On toast? We have not done any... Jams on toast? Well, yeah. Food jams. Oh, I can kick out toast.

Don't talk, don't mention it. Don't give away ideas now. It can be whatever that means to. It could be a title, could be the subject, could be whatever. Food jam. I was thinking of the Talking Heads. They had an album called More Songs about Buildings and the Food. And then I thought, oh, yeah, food jams.

That might be cool. I don't know why, because I have no idea what I'm going to pick. Yeah, I don't know. Don't say anything yet. Shasha likes this. He put food in many exclamation marks. All right. Yeah.

Food and sport jams. Food and sport. So food, glorious food, says Andy. So that's it. Stop. You're going to give them all the way. All right. November.

New outro and food gems. And that. But I do like the length I have for this before it gets to whatever. You'll have that. The mind blows. So new mind blows? Yep. Love it. Okay. I'm excited. And that brings us to the end of our 1,770 second show.

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