Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Songs That Reference Other Musicians in the Title: Toronto Mike'd #687

Episode Date: July 17, 2020

This Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out songs that reference another musician in the title with Stu Stone and Cam Gordon.

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And Pumpkins After Dark. Save 10% with the promo code Toronto Mike. I'm Mike from Toronto, Mike.com and joining me this pandemic Friday, which is really a Thursday is Stu stone. Yes. And cam Gordon. We are back,

back in, in, I was gonna say North Toronto, in New Toronto. This is incredible, Mike. I'm so glad we could do this. I know it's not Friday, but Thursday night's the next best thing. I was keen on the days we could be back. I say that with all sincerity.

It's awesome to be here. A little damp, but it's all good. Cam with the hyper-optimism. The glass is half full. But I would have to say that the term rain or shine definitely applies to this particular recording. I think Mike's early announcement that the rain had stopped was done with the veracity of an 8-year-old kid

who wants his softball game to happen and is telling his parents it's not going to rain and it's not raining. I was going to say kind of like an Ernie Banks, like let's play two without really like, you know, taking into consideration. Yeah, like mom, it's not raining, I swear. Baseball is not canceled. Yeah. And here we are.

I really want it. I've got three umbrellas covering me. And this is just like, this has got to be a historic first. And this is just like, this has got to be a historic first. I feel like this is when Bam Bam Bigelow debuted in the WWF. It's like, oh, who's under there? Oh, my God, everyone. Did he debut under a hood?

I don't think so. Am I imagining? No, I guess that was a more managerial search. I think you're thinking of the gobbledygooker. Okay. But, yeah, I think that this is not ideal, but we sound great. We sound fantastic. We sound fantastic. We sound fantastic. I need to paint a picture because most people will hear the podcast

and they won't see the periscope. Not that you could see Stu in the periscope anyways. I'm buried under a sea of umbrellas. Yeah, like I'm going to turn the camera over just a bit. With a room temperature palm of pasta staring at me. So under that sea of umbrellas, three umbrellas, is Stu Stone. camera over just a bit with a uh with a room temperature palm of pasta staring at me so under that uh sea of umbrellas three umbrellas his stew stone you have to take my word for it oh wait no almost lost one it's it's really your four-year-old under there like stews like lounging with like a

martini he's on zoom i wish are you serving here stew is. And no, Stu is here under those umbrellas. Cam, you're a trooper though, Cam. You're game. Under the umbrella tree. Are you saying I'm not game? You're not giving me credit? I'm here. I'm still trying to read you.

I can't quite read you. But thank you for doing this. And I'm sorry about the rain. Yeah. I didn't think it was going to rain. Here it comes again. Is it coming? That's not a sound effect you hear, folks.

That is to rain. Oh, here it comes again. Is it coming? That's not a sound effect you hear, folks. That is legit rain. I don't know if I could do this episode because I'm... It's going to be big laughs. Honestly, I only know Stu... I feel I know Stu pretty well, but I don't know if he's pissed or not. There's no way to know. I mean, he's covered in... I can't see if he's smiling. I don't know if I'm pissed or not. There's no way to know. I mean, he's covered in three colors.

I can't see if he's smiling. I don't know if I'm more upset about the weather or the terrible topic that we have to choose from this week. So much about this is no good. It's not even Friday. Okay, so let's get to it. Firstly, there's some... Here, I got some music

as I share the sad news I just read. Uh-oh. there's some, uh, here, I got some music as I share the sad news I just read. Uh-oh.

Someone from Boyz II Men? No, uh, don't panic. Everyone from Boyz II Men is okay. I just thought

End of the Road would be a song I could play because somebody did pass away. I'm gonna crack one open and pour one out

Okay, crack open a Great Lakes. Do you, away. I'm going to crack one open and pour one out. Okay, crack open a Great Lakes. And you know that is right. What a set of pipes. Thank you. Stu, do you know the name Joanna Cole?

I do, yeah. Who is that? That's the creator of the Magic School Bus. She died today. She did? 75 years young. Oh, Lord. I actually saw this. It was trending on Twitter. It was a pretty big deal, and she has quite the resume.

It's one of those names the average person might not have heard of. Wow. Definitely did some things. That's sad. I actually, wow. That's a little bit shocking. Yeah. This episode just got even better.

Wow, now I'm triggered. No, I actually saw her not that long ago. That's sad, very sad. And I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you. Yeah, what a legacy she has left behind. With the scholastic collaboration and the Magic School Bus. Not only just the series of books that she was responsible for, but obviously the television program that I got to be a part of. As Ralphie Tinelli, the tenacious little fifth grader. That's sad news, though.

Boy, I'm sorry to hear that. Wow, that sucks. How'd she die? I didn't drill beyond the headline, actually. Oh, wow, what a prick. What a prick. But Joanna Cole, author of children's favorite, The Magic School Bus,

which, of course, starts Tuesday. Remember a moment ago, Cam, when we announced the rain had stopped? Yeah, you guys are... We spoke too soon. Where's Sunil Joshi when you need him? No, Howard Hussain. Harold Hussain.

Sunil Joshi? He's a sports guy. Whatever. Maybe he knows more about weather than you two idiots. He lives in Canada, too. This is insane. That's very sad, though. Rest in peace. Wow. That's sad. Very sad.

And you're going to get sadder because you do not like... Is it fair to say Stu Stone that you don't like this week's jam kicking topic? No. It was pretty slim pickings. I disagree but we'll talk as we unveil the jams. I think for somebody,

and I'm not naming anyone who's not piled under umbrellas, someone who's so obsessed with competition. I have no doubt in my ability to win. I'm just saying that the pool of songs for the three of us to choose from is quite small and limited based on this. Actually, there's many fantastic choices, actually. Stu, I mean, you and I are. Well, it's going to be a good episode for Cam fans

because you're going to get a bunch of songs you've never heard before. Well, Stu, you and myself and our good pal Rich Chang were hanging out Saturday night. And remember, I don't know if we're going to hear this song. We were talking about a song that had about a musician that was actually like a number one hit. Remember that one? Now, like, the umbrellas are getting too heavy

and the water just did a massive dump. Something on the mic. Something's got to give. All he's worried about is his mic, not my crutch. Cam's got to figure it out. I think Cam, you've got to figure it out. Yeah, I think I'm just holding like one umbrella. I'll just like alternate. I'll shift my weight. It's fine. I got GLB

here with a couple of pals. The rain had stopped according to Mike's text message at 5.30. I'm going to say, like... This is heavy rain now. Yeah, you should put this out on CD and, like, sell it, like, in, like, bird stores. Or, like, nature's, like, solitudes.

It's very relaxing. Yeah. Let's just not... Let's just lay out for a second. Yeah. Let it breathe. The Calm Act. Available now on iTunes.

I do often comment on the bird song They hear in the Toronto Mic episodes outdoors Do you remember the CHFI show Lovers and Other Strangers? Like this would be like The ambient noise in the background He just passed away yesterday Who?

What? Don Jackson Is his name Don John? Yeah Don Jackson He passed away yesterday I'm absolutely drenched So you're randomly Name checking that

CHFI show Yeah Okay Wow Are you serious? Yeah I don't know What I lie about I don't know why you joke about Don Jackson

He might be watching us on Periscope Yeah He died yesterday Wow And you're gonna hear about it On the 1236 episode of Okay Yeah so on this note

You're sad Stu is sad we're both so stew's also mad he also doesn't like the topic which i really like and i can't wait to uh maybe i'll tell everybody right now uh cam is it your topic um yeah i think it was kind of jointly decided so do you want me to do the honor if i remember correctly you did pitch this topic and i loved it right away yeah so that okay so. So I'm going to go right into it. So this is songs about musicians. Now, I wish that you would have stopped right there. Songs about musicians.

Now, there's a great topic. There's been lots of classic songs written about musicians over the years. Tons of great songs. Too many songs. Why do you want a sea of options? What's the fun if you have a universe of options? Yeah. a sea of options. What's the fun if you have a universe of options? Yeah, so we decided

to drill down with this topic and to clarify, to be clear, songs about musicians mean a musician or a band or a musical artist

has to be in the name of the song. Right. So none of this like American Pie bullshit or

Sweet Home Alabama with Neil Young. You know, none of that stuff. Boo, boo, boo. Yeah, good examples of songs that are ineligible. Because I was originally going to do Nas, Ether, like kind of the whole fuck Jay-Z thing. Oh, sorry, your kids are having a bath.

I'm working blue in the back here. You can swear. You can swear. Fucking Cam. You can swear. Anyway, so. Fucking Cam. You can swear. Anyway, so anyway, we, I mean, this is, I think this could be a real test of our metal, our song picking ability.

And frankly, like, I'm not surprised that Stu just, you know, kind of lost it right away. Couldn't deal with it. I think that you're going to be pleasantly surprised with the amount of victory that I'm going to get. We'll see. And one other stipulation, it cannot be a self

referential song. Right. So again, no Nas is like, no Big Country by Big Country. Right. Exactly. I even think something like the Who Who Are You. Who Who Who Who? Right. Yeah. Ineligible. Right. Yeah. So I think

it'll be fun to hear these choices and you know, we're gonna, I think we're gonna fun to hear these choices and you know we're gonna I think we're gonna cut to the jam so that this can't be we cannot do a

two and a half hour episode oh do you want to watch how long does it take to cook a palma pasta 45 minutes if it's thawed but yours is frozen it's a

oh so let's just do that right now thank you Great Lakes. I've cracked one open. Cam cracked one open. Stewstone, I have a delicious meat lasagna for you from Palma Pasta. It's in the freezer.

Thank you. Appreciate it. This is come back, if you will. Is it waterproof? Oh, yeah. It's got the saran wraps. It's plastic wrap over the tin foil. Medically sealed. Yeah.

So thank you, Great Lakes. Thank you, Palma Pasta. Peter Gross was ecstatic, although it was a sunny, warm, he didn't have any rain to deal with. But he was here yesterday, and he rollerbladed home with a frozen lasagna in his backpack. Wow. And he was ecstatic. Very cool. Love it.

Good workout. You guys met Peter at TMLX5 at Palmer's Kitchen, right? Yeah, I think briefly. I feel like he came in right as we were leaving. Good man. He's a good man. I like that guy a lot. Thank you, CDN Technologies.

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I met up with Barb yesterday, and there's a big operation there. And they're at the border of Mississauga and Oakville, but they're servicing the whole GTA. And you guys contact CDN Technologies if you have a network issue or a computer issue or whatnot. I'll do that. Or if you're like, for example, Mike shorts out because it's soaking wet. Well, let's just hope it doesn't electrocute you. So try to

keep it dry. I don't want any accidents here today. I do want to let you know, if you guys like this neighborhood, if you two visiting me here in New Toronto, I feel like if you want to move, I feel Stu would be right at home here by the lake. The weather is not that great.

I prefer the weather over mainland. Midtown. Well, Austin Keitner can take care of you. Text Toronto Mike to 59559. Here, I just want to make sure you both know, I have a promo code now for Pumpkins After Dark. This is a drive-through event now. What do we do if it thunders?

Do we have a lightning plan? Do we call it? Let's cross that bridge. Let's get Rogan here. Tell everybody the promo code. Did neither of you check the weather before we started this? Was it only me? Hold on a minute, pumpkins. Did either of you check it?

Did you both just... Honestly, Cam, you didn't look? I saw a bit of sun, a bit of rain, a chance, just a small chance of thunder. All day today it said it was going to thunder. I got no rain down, very little rain. So I didn't believe it.

I lost my trust. I didn't trust the forecast. Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen. Is it too late? Thunder and Lightning Jams. Next time we record in the backyard. Thunderstruck by Easy to Knock. Oh, say no more.

So many spoilers going on here. Great Lakes just going right to Cam's head. The promo code, if you go to pumpkinsafterdark.com, you've got to get your tickets this year early. It's a drive-thru event, and it's going to sell out. If you want to save 10%,

the promo code Toronto Mike. That's the promo codethru event, and it's going to sell out. If you want to save 10%, the promo code Toronto Mike. That's the promo code. All one word. Toronto Mike. Go to pumpkinsafterdark.com. Buy the tickets now. Save Halloween for the kids. Drive-thru event. Very safe. Okay. GarbageDay.com slash Toronto Mike. Couldn't we do this indoors?

Like, you couldn't... It's a pandemic. Yeah, but aren't you allowed in phase three or something? Like, Jesus, man. Cam, you know the rules. Yeah think you could. Yeah, but aren't you allowed in phase three or something? Like, Jesus, man. Cam, you know the rules. Yeah, you're in phase three. This is barely Toronto, dude. Just kidding. I don't know if we're allowed to all collect indoors yet.

I actually don't know. It's a garage. Yeah. I don't have a garage. That shed. I could have brought. You got a nice shed back here? Okay, let's get to some champs. Gazebo.

Didn't someone mention a gazebo? I heard gazebo. That shed? I could have brought... You got a nice shed back here? Okay, let's get to some jams. Gazebo. Didn't someone mention a gazebo? I heard gazebo. That was on... False advertising. FOTMs were going to chip in and buy a gazebo. Well, fucking do it, guys. What the hell? Is there anything, Stu, you want to say?

Before we move on to the jams, do you want to say anything to Linda? She's listening right now. Hi, Linda. How are you? Hey, babe. You doing good? Don't forget to book now with the Pumpkinheads after dark because that shit's going to sell out, according to Mike.

It's a drive-thru event this year. Promo code Pumpkinheads. No, promo code Toronto Mike. Toronto Mike. It's the same thing. Stu, did we play Roland with Saget last time you were here? I don't know. I don't know.

Is he going to be like this the whole time? No, no, no. I'm not. He's like a disembodied voice though. This is good though. I can't see him. I just hear him in the headphones. You should let me take this mic home. Do you have an extra USB mic I could take home? I don't do USB mics. I'm an XLR man.

Leave the lasagna. You take the mic home. It's sort of like when you order a beer. It's like, oh, you keep the glass. You know, one of those promotional items. Where do they do that? Oh, it's like with the... I don't know, like a Kelsey's thing. Slashing lights on the bottom of the team scores.

Sure. Speaking of XLR, Stu, before I play the first jam, who did you play on X-Men? A variety of voices throughout the run of the series. Whenever they needed a young male character, they called their buddy Stu to come on down and voice whatever kid was in that week's episode. But notably, I played young Xavier in all of his flashback scenes.

Oh, Charles Xavier. The leader of the pack from Vroom. Yeah, I played young Charles Xavier. So if we'd like to lean on that credit, fuck the Edison twins, we could just be Stu from X-Men for the next couple of weeks if you want. This guy's got range.

I didn't even know he was in X-Men. I swear to God, I did not know that. I went to his IMDb the other day, and it's unbelievable how long that page is. It's a pretty long page. A very long and depressing page. It's a pretty long page. A very long and depressing page. It's mind-blowing. He's so much more than just Donnie Darko

and the Magic School Bus. Thank you. Shout out, Stuth. Good to see you. I think you're under those umbrellas. I'm here, yeah. Let's kick it a jam. So, again, another musician or band

must be cited in the title of the song to be eligible this week. We're going to kick out Cam Gordon's first jam. Oh yeah, I knew it. This crowd is for Stu. Thank you. We'll be right back. I'm sick. Turnabout's fair play. Always knew that you were suffering a fool. You go ahead, as good as dead. You go ahead, as good as dead.

You go ahead, as good as dead. As good as dead You go ahead As good as dead As good as dead You go ahead Okay Okay, so this is the band Local H. Those of you listeners to 102.1 The Edge in the 90s might remember that band. And this was their single Eddie Vedder.

I thought this would be a good choice because obviously of our collective fondness for Eddie Vedder. Of course, a Pearl Jam. Yeah. So Local H, best known for their track Bound to the Floor. You remember that? I don't remember

Local H at all. Yeah. Don't get it. No, no, no. You're gonna wait. Don't get it. You just forget it. Now, that would have been a good jam. Yeah, exactly.

Well, this was the follow-up single. Oh, wow. Again, Eddie Vedder. So here's a few fun facts about Local H. Yes. Two-man band. So there you go. Just a drummer and a guitarist.

Very white stripes of them. Yeah yeah kind of ahead of the curve showed up several years before the white stripes their name actually comes from two REM songs so that's Oddfellow Local 151 which I think is from Document and then Swan Swan H

from whatever the album Life's First Project before that this was a decent hit on the Billboard chart Swan Swan H from whatever the album, Lifestress Project, before that. This was a decent hit on the Billboard chart. Went to number 38 on the Modern Rock charts. I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of these CFNY bands, especially the

ones that came around the late 90s, kind of post grunge. This band's had seven albums since this album, which is really their only one that charted. It's just kind of been kicking, hanging around. I guess it's a two-person band, so low overhead. I actually

remember seeing the video for this directed by a guy named Phil Harder who went on to direct a series of videos for the Barenaked Ladies. Interesting. Including Pinch Me. The song, my favorite B Naked Ladies. Huh. Interesting. Including Pinch Me. And the song... No, my favorite Bare Naked Ladies song, Another Postcard from Chimpanzees.

Do you remember that one? No. And this gentleman also directed a video for a song we talked about recently, which was on the Sellout episode. Liz Phair, Why Can't I? So anyway, Local Age singing Eddie Vedder, all about the singer from Pearl Jam. Guys, remember this song?

I don't know. Not really? Not really. 14 more jams to go. But that qualifies. Good choice there, Cam. Good start. Wait, Stu, what was the...

You said that guy who directed the videos, he directed videos for Baronega Ladies, right? Yeah, yeah. So I'm just going to win this round. Easy. Oh, there you go. In the rain, Stu. Just check out the late night record shop.

Call it impulsive, Call it composing Call it insane When I'm surrounded I just can't stop It's a matter of instinct It's a matter of conditioning It's a matter of fact You can call me Pablo

Don Ring a bell and I'll salivate This is an FOTM singing. You can call me Pavlov, dog. Ring a bell and I'll salivate. How'd you like that? Dr. Landy, tell me you're not just a pedagogue. Because right now I'm lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did. Well, I'm lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson, babe. Well, I'm lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson, babe. Hey!

And Stu Stone's first pick, Brian Wilson by the Barenaked Ladies. Obviously, Brian Wilson, name in the song, qualifies for the category. Known song,ifies for the category known song good for a win song was written by Stephen Page friend of Toronto Mike's is a tribute to

Brian Wilson released from the Barenaked Ladies this was a single from their debut studio album Gordon not to be confused

with Cam Gordon lots of singles from that album, surprisingly. Big major Canadian hit album. Underrated, maybe. Underappreciated. I don't know. Do you want to name the singles? The song... Go ahead. You could try.

If I had a million dollars. Be My Yoko Ono. This Is Me in Grade 9. Enid. Enid. Lots of hits. Song peaked at number 18 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Slightly higher than the Cameron Gordon offering. Not relevant, but go on. Interestingly enough, Brian Wilson loved the song and he even recorded his own version of it, which is pretty awesome. And back in 2000,

as legend would have it, Brian Wilson visited the Barenaked Ladies while they were recording their album Maroon, which is a favorite of Cam and Megan's. And he played them the track and sort of asked for their approval on it, which, of course, they gave him the approval.

And after he asked them, is it cool? Apparently, according to what I've researched, he said to the band, don't eat too much and left. Brian Wilson famously, after having a breakdown of sorts, famously was in bed for a long time, metaphorically and literally. And Stephen Page himself went through a rough childhood, I guess, struggling.

Maybe, I would speculate, possibly with bullying and other stuff, but for whatever reason, this song was really about mental health and mental health awareness, something that's very prevalent in 2020. And this is a song that opened up a lot of us to just who Brian Wilson even is. I mean, this is not your Kokomo Beach Boys, Brian Wilson. He's not a part of that. Right.

This is Pet Sounds Guy. That's more John Stamos territory. Right. So kudos to the Barenaked Ladies for this song. Brian Wilson. Okay, I'm on Twitter because it's a great service. You're going to donate any Bitcoin to Brian Wilson. Send him one, he'll send you two.

Because I'm not verified on Twitter, I'm actually able to tweet here. So let me just read a couple of tweets that came in. People are live tweeting? Ian Service took a screen cap and said, Tim, and says, today I learned that stew stone is made of mostly sugar, so he must

hide from the rain. I am under the umbrella tree. It's metaphorical. And Monica, my wife, must have taken a picture from one of the upstairs bedrooms, and she writes, It's a beautiful day for a Toronto podcast backyard session. Excellent. I can actually see her doing dishes.

So your wife, you were... Shout out to Monica. Monica doing my dishes. Love it. So your wife is a liar. Which part? The beautiful day. Oh, yeah, she's funny.

To quote the Rollins. But she says also, she says, there are two guests at the table I think, because all she sees of course is Brian Wilson, Bare Naked Ladies on the Toronto Mike Show, show 687. By the way, I now can disclose that was on my

original list of five songs, and I happily, because I love Stu Stone so much, I happily gave him the jam and picked a different jam, because that's great. Okay, my jam. Let's see how I do. Head on the wall And my piss hardly makes the stall

And this time it's not enough This time I swear it's fact Now I'm alone About that girl who's gone And I tried teaching her guitar Now she's standing at the bar She tells me her favorite song And I say, yeah, that's a good one

She says it follows her around No shit, it's fine, it feels I'm so lost And I live just around the corner But here's a thought Yeah, Frank, we're closer at the border This is the Arkells from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. And this is their big hit,

John Lennon. Stu, I have to say, at least on Zoom I can see Stu's face. Here he is in my backyard. I'm sorry, what? Did you say something? Stu, are you familiar with the Arkells? No, I'm not.

I mean, I've heard of the band, the Arkells. I'm not familiar with this song. Not to say that it's not good. It's a rock radio hit from the last 10 years, and I like it quite a bit. And it's got a great musician in that title. Yeah, it's a real feel-good jam. I must say, between Eddie Vedder, Brian Wilson, and John Lennon, I mean, just the title material of our first three jams is...

I don't know, it's going to be hard to beat. I know there's some other big names coming up in the song titles. Are those his local age, a Canadian band? No. They're from Illinois. I was going to say, we almost had three Canadian bands in the first round. That would have been fun. Yeah, and none of the musicians cited are Canadian. They're a Brit.

Can-Con hits about musicians. If we do an episode called Cam-Con, it'll just be songs you've never heard. Each of us picked five songs. I feel like we did talk about doing Gord's Gold. Can I imagine? You could have a little Gord Downie, stuff from B Naked Ladies,

the Gordon album, Gordon Lightfoot. The spoken word. Which I listen to every night before bed. There was actually a New Zealand band called the Gordons. They evolved into a belter space.

Stu, you might know the answer. Did Elf ever release a song? Gordon Shumway? Melmac Girls. I wish they all could answer. Is there a... Did Elf ever release a song? Gordon Shumway? Melmac Girls. I wish they all could be. Yeah. It's like, it's a parody. Oh, it's a new pussycat, right?

Because he eats cats. Because he eats cats. Yeah. I bet you if I go back to Stu Stone's IMDB page, I'll find Elf. You'll find an Elf credit. Yeah. Is that true? That is true.

Yeah. That's fucking crazy. Did you ever meet Max Wright, the guy who played Willie? I didn't meet him. Never met Willie. Oh, the kid? No. No, the dad.

Oh, that's not Willie. Is that Willie? Yeah, Willie. Willie was the dad, yeah. Ah, come here, Alf. Alf, he was married to Mrs. Alkmonik. Before you get back for that final snap. Yeah, who was also George Costanza's mom.

No, Jerry's mom. Jerry's mom. Yes. And ready for this? Are you guys sitting down? Here's your mind fuck of the day. Once dated James Dean. Whoa.

Really? Mrs. Alkmanek. Who didn't? Mrs. Alkmanek from Al. Who didn't? He was dead at 20... What was he, like 23 or something when he died?

Oh, yeah, like his 20s. He couldn't have dated that many chicks. He's no Stu Stone, but yes, Arkells. Before you get up for that final snack, I want you to know I'll be right back. Ha, Willie. Oh, wow. That's probably the worst Alf impression that I've ever done. But, yeah, Alf, if there was a song

about Alf, it would not qualify. So this, luckily, ooh, is this Cam's next pick? Yeah. Cam Gordon,

second selection. Hey-oh. It's a big one, folks. Enjoy. Oh, I can't wait to hear Stu's reaction when Cam lets him know

that he needs to drive home. Terrific. Yeah. I might crack another GLB here that he needs to drive home. Terrific. I might crack another GLB here. Yeah, go nuts. NF bailed because of the rain.

She had better things to do. Does a song qualify when the artist is in the song? Yes. Well, but... Let's get kind of like the sample. Great jam. It's like the sun has come out. Presidential candidate.

No, he's not doing that anymore that was quick alright talk to me Cam Gordon about Otis where I'm about to go dumb again. They ain't see me cause I pulled up in my other bins. Last week I was in my other, other bins. All right, talk to me, Cam Gordon, about Otis. This is Otis by the dynamic duo of, of course, it's Jay-Z and Kanye West from Watch the Throne. Came out like 10 years ago. What a project.

Yeah, like I feel like this is almost aged better than it was at the time. I remember being a little underwhelmed by some of the songs on it. Okay, because that's the album that had N-word from Paris. Yeah, N's in Paris. N's in Paris. Yeah, and the lead-off track that Franco showed on it, No Something in the Wild, No Truth in the Wild.

No, why do I, is that right? Because I get confused because I was listening to Dark Twisted Fantasy from Kanye at the same time and I get confused if that song was on that Are you going to get

a cannabis sponsor? Do you know one? I would not. I mean, can we get on that? Would you blaze right now? well, only for Linda,

I would do it. Peter Gross, who was here yesterday, tells me he has four plants producing wonderful cannabis. He doesn't smoke, so he wants to give it to someone like yourself. Why does he have it if he doesn't smoke?

Because he was busted for growing plants in the 70s. And now that he can do it, he's doing it on principle. Wow. First of all, Peter fucking Gross. He's like a fascinating a fascinating he's like a folk hero yes i have so much love and respect for peter fucking gross and this song too which is just killer yeah anyway of course we haven't even mentioned otis redding so far this obviously

samples uh try a little tenderness and uh i don't know like what what a fucking jam yeah like it just it's just great like the first time you heard it's just great. And the first time you heard it, you loved it, right? Like, the first time you hear this song. Like, infectious. Like, an infectious song. And we haven't said the name of the song, which is just Otis. Yeah, the rain has, like, stopped because it's like we, you know, the heavens can't compete with us.

Can we get a Percocet sponsor? Do you want Percs? I broke my wrist. Yeah, send one over this way. Ready? Okay, I got a prescription of Percocets. Yeah, I'll take one. And I broke my wrist.

I need it. I took half of one. It one over this way. Ready? Okay. I got a prescription of Percocets. Yeah, I'll take one. And I broke my wrist. I need it. I took half of one. It'll dry me off. The first night. And... Brought to you by High and Zells. Come say hi to Sal in the back. Oh, High and Zells.

My brother used, for a brief period of time, my brother worked at High and Zells. Did he? Yeah. I just wanted to... They're gone now. Yeah, they are gone. You used to be able to... Monica's still doing dishes?

I keep on seeing shadows in there. It's either Monica or Michelle. Oh, yeah. She's pretty tall, too. Yeah. They're the same height, actually. Anyway, Mike, before you go to the next jam, speaking of high and zells, it seemed like we're in another mini-buyway news cycle.

Corby Fine, who's another marketing type person, tweeted about... I don't even know where that store was he was looking at. Pickering, maybe. Yeah, possibly. More East End. But, yeah, I saw another... Oh, the guy, like the buy cash for gold guy moved to Pickering. I saw that. Did he run Russell Oliver?

Yeah, Oliver Jewelers. Dad, can I run the Oakville store? Sorry, go ahead, Cam. You were talking about Otis Redding? If it stops raining... I was talking about Bioware. Can we see... Could Stu make a cameo appearance on the...

Hold on. I have to go to the... I can see you, but I want to see if I can see you. No, I can't see you on the periscope. Don't worry. It's coming soon. Okay. Okay.

Wait. I'll, like, slip my camera under there. Maybe I'll, like, DM it. You have your own private... Would you? You have your own private camera? Well,'ll like slip my camera under there. Maybe I'll like DM it. You have your own private camera? Like on my phone. Oh. I should have told the F... Anyway, I was going to say I should see.

Okay, so I'm looking now. Okay. Maybe I should go on Periscope from my account under his. Wait, is there like live feedback coming in? I got the in-service notice, and I got the Monica one. Wow. Your wife, your employee. Your wife and your employee.

Jeez. You're a gang. We're a hit, guys. Wait, did you guys call Ian my employee? Is that what you called him? Wow. Friend of the program. You know.

He enables us. He enables us. Okay, I'm really digging this theme. Stu, have you warmed up to this topic? Well, so far the music has been... Well, except for Eddie Vedder over there. It's been pretty good stuff, right? Wow.

You know, I think that that last jam is going to be really hard to top. Thank you. I struggle, though, with it because although it is called Otis, is it really about Otis? Of course it's about Otis. Do they even say his name? They sample him on it. Well, again.

It doesn't matter, by the way. Letter of the law. Again, let's get Lorne Honickman back here. FOTM. FOTM, Lorne Honickman. Songs. I guess it was songs about musicians. Maybe there might be holes in there.

Anyway, next track. My understanding is you have to name check another musician in the title. Fine. So in the last round, you had a song, Mike, that was about... What was yours about again? John Lennon. John Lennon. It was by who?

The Arkells. Okay. So I'm going to see your John Lennon. Big time Canadian band. I'm going to see your Arkells song about John Lennon. It was by who? The Arkells. Okay, so I'm going to see your John Lennon. Big time Canadian band. I'm going to see your Arkells song about John Lennon. I'm going to raise you in this round with a song that I actually was really unfamiliar with until this topic forced me to sort of seek out songs for this program. So here you go.

This is a Queen song that I hadn't heard before this. Was that an actual bird we heard? Yes. That's how nice the weather has turned here. And the jam is called Life is Real, Song for Lennon by Queen on the Trotter Mike Show. That sounds like fun. from my past life is real life is real life is real so real

incredible so we can talk about this one this is Life is Real a song for Lennon by the band Queen and

this really speaks to the brilliance of queen and specifically uh it's frontman freddie mercury uh who just is so talented at whatever he does uh but he set out to write a song for his fallen brother john lennon in the style of John Lennon. He basically listened to John's work. I could actually find you the exact songs that Strawberry Fields Forever was one of the songs. The Plastic Ono Band was another song. Anyway,

this is sort of like his interpretation of what a new John Lennon song would have been. You can even hear how he records the vocals and the delays and the layering and the structure. It's Freddie's attempt to write a song that he feels John would have sung. Probably without those harmonies there. John Lennon, tragically, was shot. You know about that, Cam, right?

Yeah, I heard. And Freddie Mercury no longer with us either, so you have a subcategory here. Wait, what? John was shot? What? Subcategory, songs about musicians by musicians who are also no longer with us.

We could do songs by musicians who were murdered. That'd be nice. That's a bit tragic. We could do it. I like dark. Beautiful song, though, that I had not been really that familiar with before. Do you like it, though?

I think it's pretty cool. It's not like my favorite Queen song, but I appreciate what it is. I think it's brilliant in the sense that if you listen to it, it sounds like a John Lennon solo song. It sounds a bit like Watching the Wheels or something. Yeah, it's just really in the vein.

What year? It's obviously post-1980s. Well, it's from their album Hot Space. If you can figure out when that came out, that's when this came out. Oh, 1982. Gotcha. Their 10th studio album, Hot Space. Is that with Radio Gaga on that?

I believe so. Don't quote me on that. That sounds about right. The namesake for the great Lady Gaga. Is that true? Yeah, that's true. She for the great Lady Gaga. Is that true? Yeah, that's true. She named herself after Radio Gaga. That's true.

So yeah, I mean, this is not the Arkells, but it is Queen. It's not local age. I actually, somebody was talking about Queen on Twitter, great little social media service. And somebody I respect retweeted that they fucking hate Queen because Queen played South Africa during apartheid. And I took,

I stepped back and I thought, because I've been watching, well, no, I didn't just watch. I just watched the, there's a Pistorius documentary,

Oscar Pistorius documentary on Prime. That's the guy with the razor legs? Correct, Blade, Blade Runner. Blade Runner. Blade Runner, yeah.

When I say razor legs, it was in the right ballpark. Close enough, but he had, yeah, Blade Runner. He killed his girlfriend Runner, yeah. What did I say? Razor Legs? Yeah. It was in the right ballpark. Close enough. But he had Blade Runner. He killed his girlfriend or his wife? His girlfriend, Rina. Yes. And he's in jail right now.

Spoiler. Jeez. Because I don't need to watch that episode. But I was so, you know, you kind of get a little context for, you know, the country and how they are with guns and violence and where they came from and stuff. And then to kind of, I will say, like, even though we're now in 2020, I'm disappointed, like, I'm retroactively disappointed in Queen that they would play South Africa during apartheid.

Well, remember there's the song Sun City, you know, the big... That's where they played Sun City. I will not play Sun City. They played Sun City. I'm going to play Sun City. Yeah. Like, I'm thinking of Peter Gabriel's songs. Well, listen. I'm not going to defend Queen's actions for going and playing in there,

but maybe, and just playing devil's advocate, like in a the weather is pretty good type of optimism kind of way, if that made any sense. But if you go and play in there, maybe you can sort of sneak a positive message in there by going there. So kind of a Trojan horse approach. Sort of like the Beatles back in the USSR type of thing.

But different. Yes, agreed. But maybe sort of like how you still showed up and you're sitting in the rain right now. One of Peter Gross' jams, he just kicked out the jams, is Singing in the Rain and he tells a great story.

Can You Stand the Rain by New Edition. Yeah. Here comes the rain again. Rain jams. Or No Rain. Oh, yeah. B-Girl.

B-Girl, by the way, is a great Christmas single from Pearl Jam to bring it back to Eddie Vedder. That's right, about the late Shannon Hood. Yes, who was in the video for Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses.

Yeah, who we're supposed to play in Toronto this week with the Smashing Pumpkins. Let's just keep it going. Oh, and pumpkins, let's not forget about the pumpkin heads. It's got a wrestling connection. You guys can do your wrestling thing. Why don't you say fucking pumpkins after dark or whatever. Yeah, pumpkins after dark forward slash Mike. And garbage seconds.

Toronto Mike is the promo code to save 10% on your car load. Get it in now before it sells out. You know, the episode with Sammy Cohen. So, of course, Stu had to sit one out. He lost his father. We spoke about that on the last pandemic. You made it sound like I lost him at a Walmart. Like, no.

No, you know where he is. You know where he is. Yeah. Jeez. Am I allowed to laugh at that? Okay. But Sammy Cohen and Ken Gordon. Did you ever get locked as a kid, like at a Toys R Us or a Walmart or a mall?

Okay, I'll tell you what happened to me. I was convinced my parents were going to leave me at a marketplace or something. You go, you find an adult in some sort of uniform, hope you don't get tickled or something. You know, it's like, you don't know who to trust in the 80s because like, Stranger Danger was around every corner. And there's no cell, you know know there's like is yeah the world at their mercy and then they have

to like make a an announcement in the store to come pick you up right and then your mother comes and then like you get grounded get a big but you

get a big hug and then you get ground yeah you get yelled at as soon as the security like you're hugged and kissed I can tell you security guard turns

around do your clock due to a miscommunication between my mother and my cousin, I was once not picked up from school. You see, Mike's doing big air quotes. Although I guess we're on Periscopes.

Come on, they're not air quotes. But St. Cecilia's Catholic School on a net near like Renamed. And funnily enough, is that a word, funnily? I think it is. Yeah. My friend Joe, just this morning, as he was going through boxes

and he found his junior kindergarten photo, like the photo of his junior kindergarten class, and Joe and I are sitting up front and center. We're sitting front center and I shared that on Twitter just today. Oh shit, that's what that was.

Okay, I saw the photo. I didn't get a chance to read the tweet copy. As a fellow front row picture day guy, I can appreciate that. Right, because we're short. I was always in the front row.

But that's a, did you guys ever have, I feel like in the 80s there was this huge. It was the 70s actually. Well, in the 70s or 80s there was like this huge as a kid,

this would have been like the late 70s, early 80s. There was a huge sort of like your child is going to get kidnapped type of scare. Yes, stranger danger. There's a lot of like PSAs. Did you guys used to have a secret code word? Yes, this was a big deal. And it was like if someone comes to pick you up,

they don't know the code word, you kick them in the balls and run. I think maybe in the 80s there was like a thing where somebody would just say, I'm his uncle and take him. Yeah. I was always hoping that like someone who's saying they'm his uncle and take him yeah I was always hoping that like someone who's saying they were my uncle I mean I have kids I could kick them in the nuts and run

do you remember when by the way quick side tangent do you remember when the guy who played Arthur Carlson who was the most likable guy ever on WKRP played the pervert on WKRP no no on different strokes Gordon Jump.

Yes. Who became the Maytag repairman. That's right, yeah. Sam's bike shop. Right. Like he made... That bothered me. Or Dudley's.

Mr. Dudley's bike shop. I knew that, yes. And he gave the alcohol to Willis. Yeah, they watched Fritz the Cat. Right. And Arnold jerked off in front of him or something. It was really, to me, that was a very special episode of Different Strokes.

But I didn't like how they used the actor who I loved. At the time, even at that time, I was watching WKRP. Yeah. I feel like that was definitely like a trope. Like, yeah, it was always a very special edition. Very special episode of Alf with two stones. I will say, though, there was a PSA called Stay Alert, Stay Safe. Are you guys familiar with that one with the two rabbits, Bird and Gert?

Who? No. Oh, is this Don't Put It In Your Mouth? That was one of them, but it was like, Stay Alert, Stay Safe. And they were like, you know, don't get kidnapped. Don't do drugs. Like, don't. Do you remember the.

I remembered because I was in it, Mike. So fucking look it up. I was going to say, who was in that one? Do you remember Astra, whose arm can come off, but yours can't, so play safe. I was going to say, who was in that one? Do you remember Astra whose arm can come off but yours can't, so play safe. I know Astro Boy. Astra.

He was like flying through like a gear, like a motor or something? Yes, yes, yes. And then the arm gets cut off. He goes, I am Astar, a robot. My arm can come off

but yours can't, so play safe. I don't know. I remember like, this is like a side of eggs. This is your brain on drugs. Yeah. There's one about like farm machinery, like it can hurt you and it was like a combine

or something. You remember like it was on like the Peterborough channel. I can't let this discussion about PSAs, we should kick out the PSAs one day. I can't let it go by without telling you. I was the same age as the kid who had the General Lee and went to his dad and said he had a broken General Lee. the wheel came off and he went to his dad who had had one too many great lakes that evening okay and the dad struggles to put the wheels back on the car

and then he says he gets kind of frustrated and he goes go to bed now and it i was the same age and i had the same car a drunk dad honestly i mean now we need to move on it's getting too close for comfort which is by the way was your dad a bit of a drinker we gotta we gotta move on i'm not prepared i was gonna say that this sounds like a very special edition with uh ed conroy of retron retronteria but he's so difficult to book i only get him once a year at christmas time like a. I only get him once a year at Christmas time. He's like a busy man. I get him once a year for Christmas crackers. He's hanging out with Moses.

He hangs out with Moses all day. And Joel Goldberg, who created Electric Circus, which inspired the Great Lakes beer, Electric Circus, with the cowboy on the cover, who is, of course, the father of Dalton Pompey, Toronto Blue Jay, Dalton Pompey, who is no longer a Blue Jay. Okay, let's kick out my second jam. The Dave Roberts of the Toronto Blue Jays, Dalton Pompey, who is no longer a Blue Jay. Okay, let's kick out my second jam.

The Dave Roberts of the Toronto Blue Jays. Right. That's correct. Here we go. My second jam. Oh. Big Adam Seidenberg face. Shout out to Adam Seidenberg.

Did you guys see him the other day? No. No, we... It got rained out. But this didn't get rained out. Before the end of the episode, Stu's going to say hello to the camera. This is Dire Straits?

Correct. Is this Dire Straits? Correct It's the war on drugs Don't be cruel So this one would qualify No matter how you Describe this topic because Elvis is in the cover, the title. It's called Calling Elvis.

Good choice. And I always like the video. Yeah. And this band is, to me, this band, I mean, just yesterday. Yeah, they're really good. Mark Knopfler was in my backyard. No, Peter Gross was in my backyard yesterday, and he's picking out these jams,

and his favorite song of all time is Sultan of Swing. That's a great one. Yeah. Mark Knopfler, a very famous Jewish guitar player and singer. Probably the Sandy Koufax of guitar players. Of headband wearing Jewish guitar players. I love it. I have to say I love that.

Sultan of Swing, Walk of Life. I love it. I have to say I love that. Salt and Swing, Walk of Life. Oh, yeah. That's on the big Brothers in Arms album. Have you guys seen the video for Walk of Life? Yeah, it's like loaded with sports hives. Yeah, it's just sports bloopers. It's basically like a free sports illustrated VHS. It's like Larry Bird whiffing on a three.

Yeah, like falling over a table. That album, of course, that's the I over a table. That's that album. That's, of course, that's the I Want My MTV. What's that song called again? Money for Nothing. Which we played like last week, maybe? It was like uncredited cameos.

Sting. Stink. Stink. Also Gordon. Gordon Sumner. Gordon Sumner and Sting. Yes, that's correct. And he's one of,

I would love to kick out, not kick out, but our favorite Simpsons cameos or appearances guest appearances because Sting when he's digging to the well to get Timmy out of the well and he Sting's guest appearance on the Simpsons and I know you guys

aren't Simpsons guys but we're not? Cam looks like he's not I'm definitely not I don't know who's here. Timmy fell in the well. He was not really in the well. They dropped the radio down, and Bart pretended Timmy was in the well, and they had to get him out. And Sting was the big digger.

Okay. Right? And he sang that song, that tribute song to... And this has nothing to do with Elvis Costello, this song. No. Or Elvis Stoico. That's it. The big three.

Elvis Durant. Is that a real guy? Yeah, who are the other Elvises? Who's Elvis Durant? He might be like a LA car dealership guy or something. Wayne Ferris. Ah, Honky Tonk 1. The Honky Tonk 1?

Yeah. Elvis Stoichko. Oh, by the way. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, this is- Elvis Anders. Oh, yeah. The Elvis Stoichko.

Now we have to hear fucking Cam Gordon fucking tell us about Elvis Stoico returning to VCR this is fresh material Stu and again myself Stu our friend Richard Chang were sitting on a patio in the annex it was a modified patio I won't say the establishment and this guy came over

playing guitar to serenade the crowd and you know he's looking for a few bucks, you know, tough times. The server actually came over and they had kind of words. And the server ended up saying, what if I break that guitar over your head? Said this to him. And if, like, we had our phones out, like, this would be a blog. TO, this would be problematic.

World star, world star, world star. Well, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, like, we immediately, I think we all said, oh, you know, Honky Tonk Man and Jeff Jarrett, you know, famous guitar swinging villains of the day. But yeah, it was it all happened so quickly. But I was actually drinking GLB. It happens. There's photos of it on Twitter.

Wow. Me and Stu doing a cheers. I thought I was getting happier times. I wasn't covered in umbrellas. Cam paid full retail for that Great Lakes brew. I did. I did. Do you remember what you got?

Was it Canuck Cereal? It was the Octopus. Octopus, yeah. You know, the new one that I had with you and MF by the lake

in Trillium Park on my birthday, Hayes Mama? Yes. Delicious. Hayes Mama. They're just great. Yeah.

You know, yeah. TMLX6, as soon as it's allowed, is going to be at Great Lakes. Absolutely. That's going to be like a real... Stu, you'll be there, right? Even rain or shine? It depends on the date. I'm not committing to anything yet.

But will Linda be there? If you're there, she's there for sure. Are you kidding me? Is she leaving her husband at home? Oh, yeah. Do you remember Linda disclosed to us privately that her husband didn't love Jack of All Trades? Did you hear that? Oh, I didn't hear this.

Am I breaking this to you? You're just full of good news for me. But Linda loved it. Well, that's good. Her husband didn't love it. That's all that matters. So can we get an update for the FOTMs? Is Jack of All Trades still on Netflix or is it gone?

No, it is not on Netflix. Wow. You can still watch it, though. The Pirate Bay? No, it was picked up in Canada by a channel called Hollywood Suite, which some of you may have, Hollywood Suite. So it's there. It's on iTunes, Amazon, those type places,

but it's no longer on Netflix. Will you ever get, I guess I'm going to guess not, but tell us, will you ever hear from... My dad? No. Too soon. Me too, brother. Me too. Will you ever hear from Netflix and say, hey, you know, I'm going to make it up, but 20,000 unique views of your wonderful documentary. It was definitely a lot more than that.

I made up a number. Yeah, you were surprisingly low. Usually when you're trying to make someone feel good, you go higher. I think Jeff Garlin alone watched it. No, it did very, very well. You know he's the voice in WALL-E? Yes.

Jeff Garlin? Yeah. Really? The main captain of that ship in WALL-E. Never saw it. The film did very, very well. It did very well. And my kids, my young ones just discovered it

and they like it quite a bit. It was like a Best Picture nominee. Oh, I was talking about Jack of all trades, not Wall-E. Jesus, man. Man, that was a good flick. Your kids thought it was... I thought you were telling us Wall-E did really well. No, fuck Wall-E.

We're talking about Jack of all trades. Hey, when Lonnie Schwartz threw the cards into the fire, Mike's kids just loved it. They like the Wilner part because they go, oh, there's daddy's friend. Is that the only FOTM who was in that? Well, besides Stu. Of course. Of course. Two FOTMs

only because, yeah, Jose Canseco's not an FOTM. Do you hear the birds? The rain has stopped. I just want to let everybody listening at home know we just had to go long enough. I'm digging the vibe. I'm really enjoying this. There he is. Look at this. Yeah, but I still don't see him.

He's out of his hollow. If you're a periscope now, you see the... This is the first time I'm really seeing you. When did you shave last, Stu? Today. Did you shave your head, too? I did. Today. Yes. Look at him.

It's like Moses. Is your sticker okay? Is your sticker you Toronto Mike sticker okay? By the way, don't put him too far away. It could rain any second. That's a good point. I forgot he had his computer. He tracked

changes. This guy's legit here. How do you point oh yeah i forgot he had his computer look he he like tracked like he tracked changes like this guy's legit here okay there you go how do you uh one of them's kind of broken that might okay yeah my daughter put that there was quite the when i so i'm set up outside thinking it was gonna be a clear night and i get a phone call from cam and he's like do you want us to turn he's here he's on he's making his way with mf and he's like do you want us to turn back it's starting to rain at the time it was still nice out here and as i'm talking to cam the drops start coming and i had this like oh my god i have four thousand dollars plus worth of gear out here stew i would have been asking you for a loan a lot of droplets wow you better uh call in the kaitner group you have had to move

you know it would have been to move, you know? It would have been that serious. But anyway, I frantically found some umbrellas and stuck them over the microphones, and here we are. Now I hear birds singing. This is a beautiful night. This is great. I'm so glad to be here with you two.

There's nowhere I'd rather be. Cheers to you both. Cheers. Cheers. L'chaim. Say that again? L'chaim. I don't know if I can say that without hawking a luby.

L'chaim. Yeah. Try it. L'chaim. I don't know if I can say that without hawk and a luby. L'chaim. Yeah. Try it. L'chaim. Say L'chaim. L'chaim. Yeah, but without being offensive. Try it. Say it again. L'chaim. You do it, Cam.

I'm way too Gentile for that word, I think. L'chaim. L'chaim. L'chaim. To life, to life, L'chaim. L'chaim. L'chaim. L'chaim. To life. To life. L'chaim. Baruch atah.

There you go. I've been to some barman shows in my time. Shout out to Nick Cannon. And my former sponsor, Brian Master. Yeah, throw some candy at us. Is Brian Master in Jack of All Trades? No. Actually, he might be.

That's what I'm asking. He might be he might be he is yeah i think he actually is he uh so that's interesting that's another fotm yes three fotms in jack of all chains do what was the you know it's not in on the park park uh uh park something yeah like on love park yes oh on uh highway seven yes Not to be mistaken, La Parca. Yeah, Le Parc. Okay, we've got to kick it another jam before it rains again. The chairman of the board. This is a Cam Gordon special, so enjoy.

These birds are something else. They wake me up at like 5 in the morning, these birds. The surfers are going home. Hey, Weezer. Yeah, it sounds like Jonas. My name is Jonas. If you were there If you were there I was out of time Okay, so this is Toronto's own broken social scene. I actually have a Joe DeC moment here.

Joe DeCai. Yeah. It's a running joke. Running joke. The song is called EB Dreams of Pavement. One of your favorite bands of all time. One of my favorite bands. And we have a long history.

I feel like it comes up a lot. And yeah, probably my favorite band of all time. Yes. Even Farbsie. Even I know this. Even Farbsie. Farbsie too. Yeah, we saw them at Lollapalooza 95.

Jamming out there. And maybe there'll be another band from that show coming up later. There's a tease for you. So this song is obviously a reference to the band Pavement, the indie rock band of the 90s that we've talked a lot about. And the EB in mention is someone named EB. EB White. EB Smith in the Saturday Night Live band

him too EB was a author or is an author still with us is a Canadian novelist freelance journalist and teacher of creative writing at U of T and also a classmate of Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene

I feel like we've talked about the Utopical School of the Arts a few times which is not not very far from here. Not very far from here in Toronto. And this is from Broken Social Scene's third album, the self-titled one. Yeah, sounds very Weezer-y. Also sounds very Pavement-y. Especially

the contributions of Pavement had two singers, Scott Canberg, their second singer. It seems like this is sort of a Scott Canberg homage. And also I saw Scott Canberg in Toronto. Is Kevin Drew the chap who worked with Gore Downey on his final material? Yeah, with the beard and the whole thing. Yeah, he's good.

Yeah, he seems like he might come to – you didn't have Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene down here. No, we talk about him a lot, but I got some... You can help me fill some of these obvious voids. Yeah, I feel like you need to ease into the Toronto early 2000s in Iraq, because I feel like a lot of these guys are around, or guys and girls, because there's a lot of girls in the scene, too. Right, like I have one of the Hanes.

Where's the other Hanes? Yeah, or like one of the uh haynes where's the other haynes yeah or like the one of the sadie's guys the good boys or uh damon abraham from fucked up would be a great guess i mean there's all sorts and i'm still here i am working on lee erin like i'm focused in all the wrong you're going backwards i mean you have to work through the eric alper uh cp first does eric work with uh eric no you don't know i because lee erin would be great eric did help me get kim mitchell she would be she would be great. Eric did help me get Kim Mitchell. She would be amazing, the metal queen of Canada.

Or even like the Anvil guys. Yeah, they're around, right? Yeah. I think so. They work at catering. Yeah. Anyway, Stu, what do you think of this track? I've never heard it before, so it's par for the course.

Okay. But it's nice. It sounds like a nice song, and it's a for the course. Okay. But it's nice. It sounds like a nice song, and it's a nice tribute to Pavement. Or to Weezer. It does sound like the first cut off the Blue album, which is... My name is Jonas. Yes, but we're going home. Yay! Which I love.

Yeah, it definitely is those loud, crunchy guitars. Since I'm seeing you for the first time, you've got a Seattle Seahawks... Yes. Yes. Yes. That is every time I see Brian Master, he's wearing Seattle Seahawks. Yeah, this is actually Brian's jacket. I got it. I won it from him in a poker game.

But it's true. He's always wearing Seattle Seahawks. He's a big Seahawks fan. Huge Seahawks fan. Nice. Really? Okay. I feel like they're rare. This is actually really funny because

this is one of those jackets that I don't know if you can see, but when you have a Sports Illustrated subscription. Did you get a football phone? I did not. I got the jacket. Oh, I wanted that football phone so bad. I can see the logo too. I wanted that so bad. Look at that jacket. My co-worker at

Twitter who actually works at our New York office, Brian Polakoff. Shout out to Brian Polakoff. I'm sure he's listening tonight. He's probably watching the commercial. But he used to work at Sports Illustrated, so I think he'd love to see this piece of swag. Yeah.

Do you remember the commercial for the video that they would give you, the video, and it would be like Elton John's Rocket Man. Rocket Man. And you'd see, who was it? It was not Joe Montana. It was Dan Marino. It was Dan Marino. Yeah.

Dan Marino releasing the ball in sync with Rocket Man. That's right. I wanted that VHS so badly. He's actually been to the Twitter can office, if you could believe it. Dan Marino. He did a Q&A. He was probably, he might have been. The Dan Marino.

Yes. Laces out. Laces out, which, yeah. He was in Toronto. He was doing a media junket for DAZN, yeah, he was at a city camp. Yeah, he was in Toronto. He was doing a media junket for DAZN. Of course, I know DAZN. Yeah, so I think it was right before the Super Bowl, so he was going station to station and came into Twitter Canada.

They like Mr. D at DAZN. They give him money. Like Jerry D? Jerry D, yeah. I mean, yeah, because they have NFL Red Zone. And, yeah, Dan Marino came by. He was probably the last Q&A we had before everything shut down. And he was in, of course, he was in Ace Ventura.

Speaking of the Red Zone channel, when all the protests were going on a few weeks ago. And why did they stop? I'm disappointed. They didn't stop. They're still going on. They're just not being covered in the media as much. There's definitely protests going on daily.

But there was like those first couple of days where it was like everybody was out everywhere fighting for the powers of good. I felt like CNN was like the red zone channel for rioting and protesting the way that they had coverage in every city. Not to bring that up. No. I remember it well. Of course. I heard today Eskimos the nickname of the Edmonton CFL

franchise. I know you guys are big CFL fans. Sure. That's changing for the next season. Yeah, Eskimo Pie is no longer called that either. And they're rebranding Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, I think. Well, the Edmonton Canadian Football League team apparently had a trademark on a name.

Empire. The Empire, yeah. The Exchange, the Edmonton Canadian Football League team apparently had a trademark on a name. Empire. The Empire. Yeah, I was going to say the Exchange. The Edmonton Exchange. A lot of... Do you guys ever listen to the podcast, The Press Box? It's one of the ringer. But it was kind of the overdone Twitter joke of the week. This would be like the Canadian edition.

People say, oh, how about the Edmonton Rough Riders? Of course. There's already two teams. It's like, yeah, I've never heard that before. That's great. Are those Percocets coming? Yeah, I can run. You want me to grab you?

No, no. Yeah, but I do, but I'll wait for the head. The thing is, I got a prescription for these codeine things. Oh, yeah, those are good, too. I'll take those. I saw a doctor the next day. It's like Dr. Fauci. But then the doctor the next day gave me a prescription for Percocets, so I filled them

both. I'll take those. But I ended up not using too many because I didn't need to do that. So I'll take them. Okay, I'll get one for you. Here is Stu Stone's third... Hold on, hold on, hold on.

You got an introduction? Stop the music. Stop the music. Stop the rock and roll. This is hot rod talking. Take the goonies. Take the goonies in your nose. That's the only wrestling reference I have.

That's a deep cut, though. This is going to be awesome. But that was all I had. I never even had Piledriver, so it was all about the wrestling. There was a reason why I brought up those protests. Oh. For my next jam. So is that you want me to play it?

Sure. Because I can't see you. You're supposed to look at me and wink. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's the sound of the police. Oh, wow. That's the sound of the police. That's the sound of the police. Oh, wow. That's the sound of the police. That's the sound of the police.

That's the sound of the police. But wait, this will be controversial. Yeah. Very controversial. I feel like we talked about him on the guest appearances. Of course, this is KRS-One, Sound of the Police, the Toronto Mic Show, so 687. Shout out to KRS-One. Lawrence Chris Parker, better known as KRS-One.

KRS-One. Lawrence Chris Parker, better known as KRS-One. Formerly of Boogie Down Productions with DJ Scott LaRock. Right. Of course, Boogie Down Productions never broke up. Scott LaRock was shot and killed. And KRS continued on the Boogie Down legacy, eventually just going, you know, at some point retiring the name and just going by KRS-One as a solo act.

This song is That's the Sound of the Police, of course, referencing the police, an English rock band formed in London in 77. No, no, whoa, whoa, whoa. Back it up, back it up. Andy Summers, Sting, Stuart Copeland on the drums. Cam, will you please drop your catchphrase? The 1978 debut album. Shut the fuck up. The second album. So sorry

to Drum Makes Neighbor. No, this is Stu. Come on. The Police, of course, a very popular band. Have sold over 75 million records. Wow. The first time in Toronto. Making them one of the world's best selling artists of all. 75 million records the police sold.

And Gary Top brought them to Toronto. Both Tops. At the horseshoe. The Garys. How about this? Here is a very interesting... If you really pay attention to the KRS-One, he will be making a reference to this stat.

But did you guys know that the song Every Breath You Take by the police, not only was it their most successful, but that was their first number one song in the U.S. after all those big songs. Oh, Roxanne wasn't first? No But that was their first number one song in the US After all those big songs Oh Roxanne wasn't first No that was not a number one He's distracting us from the issue at hand

Some of the Karis One Karis One He had that R.E.M. song he was on Radio song As referenced in the cameos episode Shout out to Karis One DJ Scott LaRock These guys were instrumental in the Cameos episode. Shout out to KRS-One. DJ's Scott LaRock. These guys were instrumental in the early

Mishy Mee. There's actually footage. There's an interview with Scott LaRock who was on The New Music when they were in Toronto at a show promoted by FOTM DJ Ron Nelson at the concert hall. It might have been

one of his last shows before he's gone down, I feel like. Tragically, which was what, 80, 89? When we do jams by people who are murdered, he could be on that. A couple of fun facts about this one. Did you guys know that the police's

first number one song was Message in a Bottle. Did you know that was their first big hit? I didn't know that. Didn't you just tell us that Every Breath You Take was their first? No, no. Their first US number one song.

But Message in a Bottle was their first successful single. No, Roxanne was the first successful. No, I'm telling you right now. Right? Roxanne. Yeah, no, it was Roxanne, dude. It was not. I lived it, man.

Okay, the 1978 debut album reached number six on the UK album chart. Okay. But can I ask you, Stu? Oh, you're right. You're right. It was Roxanne. My bad. It was Roxanne.

Stu, I know it was. Stu, I talked to the Garys and I learned these things because they played the horseshoe just before Roxanne. That's right, yeah. Is the word police in the title of this song? Is the word police in the name of- Songs about musicians. Let me look in your eyes.

Was Otis about Otis Redding? Yeah. Oh, was? Yes. Reference, please give me a reference. Oh my God. He's like, oh, Stu, you're embarrassing yourself. How do you like me now?

You're embarrassing yourself. You're embarrassing yourself. The category was songs about other artists. Were you this desperate for songs? Yes, I was. This is a shit topic. This is a shit topic. This song is called Sound of the Police. You talk about like a Trojan horse.

You let this man into your backyard. He emerges from the umbrellas just to fuck up the podcast. The Police is the name of a successful trio from England, and they are referenced in the title of this song. We're going to move on. Cam, I think you'd agree with me that this song is ineligible. How could it be? How could it be?

You know what I think is the tragedy of this song? This is a great song, too. And it's about the police. It has nothing to do with Stink. It has nothing to do with Stink. It has nothing to do with the scaries, with all due respect. No, nothing to do with Gordon Subner.

I mean, this could have been on protest songs. It should have been. It should have been. And instead, it's here. You're making a mockery of a great topic. I could have chose fuck the police, but I don't feel that way about the police. I think they're great. I'm embarrassed for you. I'm embarrassed

for you guys for not recognizing how genius of a selection this was. Cut the periscope. No. This is a genius Stop the music. Stop the rock and roll. This is how I'm talking. If Leva Famke was here, she would give this a thumbs up. I'm positive. And she's an unbiased judge, too.

Yeah, we've disqualified her for life. She's like those East German judges. The category was songs with another artist in the title of the song. I'm going to move on to mine. The song is called Sound of the Police, and the police are a band. Some more FOTMs is that Rusty? Rusty!

oh very good I fucking love this album one of my favorites me too buddy now I like you again I saw them play a show at like 2 in the morning at like the Bovine Sex Club I fucking love this album, Fluke. One of my favorites. Me too, buddy. Now I like you again. I saw them play a show at like 2 in the morning at like the Bovine Sex Club like three years ago. Oh, I saw them play 2 in the morning too. Oh, no, it was at...

Maybe it wasn't the Bovine Sex Club. It wasn't the Bovine. I was there. Yeah, they started at 2 in the morning. It was like Canadian Music Week. Was it? Was that? I was there.

I was there too. Was Alan Cross there? It was like their first show in like 20 years or something. I was fucking there. It was incredible. They played from like 2 to 3 something. I was fucking there. It was incredible. They played from like 2 to 3.30 in the morning. Because it was, you know why? Because it was a production from The Rock, the radio station The Rock,

and Bob Ouellette, Bingo Bob Ouellette, who's an FOTM, he gave me the tickets because they were producing it. And yeah, they didn't hit the stage till 2 in the morning. I biked there, and it was a big, the bop? Yeah, whatever it was, it was awesome. This is like sliding doors. What's that like? Sliding doors moment.

Did we know each other at the time? We didn't, but if we did, I'm sure we would have been rocking out because I love Rusty. Yeah. Like, who doesn't? Like, Rusty's like, I can't wait. A lot of people don't, and I'm always shocked. Who? Who?

What is Ben Rayner? I'm going to talk to Ben. He's coming back. This song, ironically, called KRS-One. Close. But I mean, this album, which had Groovy Dead. It had... It's so groovy, weather.

It had Misogyny, California. Wake Me. Wake Me was a hit. Misogyny? Yeah. Misogyny. This is a trivia question for Stu Stone. One of those songs was in the boys' club.

The video for Wake Me, if you remember, they're throwing toys into a swimming pool. Yeah. One of the toys was... George the Animal Steel? Close. One of the toys was an LGN action figure. Who was it? Big John Stud?

No, go deep. I'll post. Special Delivery Jones. Think if I had like a green shirt and a beret Corporal Kirshner Corporal Kirshner

the great Jewish serviceman that figure is worth that figure is actually worth top money now well like it's at a fucking bottom of a pool

in a Rusty video that's hilarious that's fucking great so Rusty's been here so the whole band has been here Stu you now

you can finally respect me. I do. I've always respected you. It was so much, I don't know, Ken, who's the lead singer, he's a bricklayer in Sudbury, and they were literally coming in for a gig or whatever, and I somehow managed to get them in my basement,

all of them, and it was amazing. It was fucking amazing. That's pretty cool. Love them. And this song if I haven't said it yet because I haven't

is called Katie Lang ah Katie Lang another great and I noticed finally we're referencing

a Canadian yes it's about time so far if you're keeping track at home we've done nine jams eight are eligible

one is disqualified that's not true by the way yes it is absolutely true no no no no it's not so fuck off that's my line oh my god okay cam what did you like that yeah honestly the we should just one day you guys come in my back here because now the rain is officially gone

yes that yeah that mike that album is like all killer no filler yeah i'm actually watching the video because i want to show can you uh there's a guy in that band scott mccullough and scott mccullough is like my hookup like and he mans their twitter account is he was he the guy someone was in the can rock must yeah that's him that's him scott mccullough and he had like a he had a serious health battle like in the last couple of years where we almost lost him man but he uh he pulled through he's still with us and uh can rockRusty on Twitter. We should tweet at him now and let him know that they're getting some mad love. This film called The Boys Club that I was in, like my first big lead role in a Canadian movie.

And Rusty was on the soundtrack. And so was Tragically Hip and all these other big Canadian bands. But Rusty, I was a huge fan. Yeah. Huge. I mean, we mentioned just those two songs alone. Groovy Dead. There's three.

California 2 is awesome. And Misogyny 2. Misogyny 2, right? But Groovy Dead and Wake Me. Wake Me. That's an anthem. Yeah. I'm watching it right now.

I wonder where this pool is. Did you ask them where they filmed this? I can't remember, man. I got to go revisit the rusty episode of Toronto Mike, but they're a great FOTM. So what? We played Stephen Page. Are people happy they can see us now?

Well, it's dark, right? It's kind of dark now. There he is. There's Corporal Kershaw upside down. Tell Cam to go click my periscope so we can see ourselves. Is it the variant that has the beard on it? Can you tell? Because the variant is worth like $1,000.

I'll come with the frog. I feel like they're, remember the band, the Killjoys? Didn't they have toys in their video also? Yeah, I feel like a lot of toys. Remember Dana? When I had Dana Levinson on, he's a longtime CTV person. I opened with Dana from the Killjoys, and she had never heard it before. And I said, oh, we have a problem.

She was. She brought me bagels, though. Yeah, also been to the Toronto... How are we ever going to turn back? The Twitter Canada office. How are we... Like, this great audio. How are we ever going to turn back from this?

Yeah, we're going to be doing this in, like, February. Like, there's still going to be a pandemic. Well, you know what we learned today? Do you know what we learned today? We learned we could fucking record in a rainstorm. I was so scared of rain because I'm a poor bastard who can't replace this year. Absolutely. We've got photos from the

upper window, like a creep shot from your wife. She's still looking. I can see her right now. Yeah, she's fucking obsessed with you. She's undressing in the window. Why do you think we watch Donnie Darko so often? Bath time's over. By the way, those two are long, long asleep now. It's 9 o'clock.

What time do your kids go to bed? Whenever the Percocets kick in. Pre-COVID, we'd try to get them all ready to go to bed at 7.30 and they'd go down at 8. But I noticed in the COVID era, it's kind of like we'd get them ready at 8 and they're down at 8.30. I feel like everything is pushed back in the COVID era. So my son is not here today.

He's coming tomorrow night because he's an 18-year-old man and he's not here. Who knows where the fuck James is. Michelle's inside. I wonder if she's watching on periscope by the way first time i ever came to your basement um i didn't realize your son was sleeping as we recorded our first episode where like probably the first time i ever mentioned the first ever mention of stew stone on your podcast yeah i did not know he existed and your son was asleep in the room. I'd say, oh shit, this is a kid's bedroom. Stu, are you aware of how awesome you are? I'm not.

I feel appreciative when you say stuff like that. But, you know, Cam and I were talking when we were hanging out the other day about what, well, this is a, is this an official entry? No, I wanted to play a little bit of the song because I want to tell you this is way too good to be like something you put together. It's just too good. No talent. I've been waiting to play this

because I mentioned I shared it on Twitter, but like, it's fucking great. It's totally Stu, too, which I like about it. And that's Bob fucking Saget. When you hear this, do you have pride?

Do you feel the pride? It's a great song. Can you shout out Derek Kristoff? Sure, you just did. Well, his other name. Decisive, decisive. But I also want to shout out DJ Lethal from House of Pain and Limp Bizkit who

does the scratching on this track. Get out of here. I love DJ Lethal. That's one of my best friends. Are you serious? Yeah. Zoom in with him. Okay, serious question. We could. I could get you and him on the show. Can you and Decisive zoom in for an episode? I don't know about... Derek's really hard to get a hold of, but I could probably

get to DJ Lethal. What do you mean, Zoom for fuck's sake? No, no, I mean, he just like doesn't answer his phone. He's just like one of those like recluses, is that the word? Are you guys ready for this?

He was once booked on Toronto Mike. And he probably cancelled. He cancelled. Yeah, that's him. He's very much that, but he's a brilliant guy. I know he's working

on new music and he's also plays, Derek plays a role in my movie Scarecrows. He's in that movie as well. Can you shout out, do you now have a title that you can share with us

for the movie that has the Great Lakes beer in it? No, but I was watching the final mix of that movie two days ago, and Great Lakes beer is in so many scenes. So they're going to be very happy.

But when are you going to fucking give it a title, buddy? I have a title already, but I'll debut it here. When are we going to be seeing happy. But when are you going to fucking give it a title, buddy? I have a title already, but I'll debut it here. When are we going to be seeing it? Hopefully, I don't know. We're trying to get into some film festivals before we sort of commit to a release date. It's a tough time, right? I gotta say, having been

Film festivals aren't really happening. Having been to premiere parties for, I think, three different Stewstone joints here in Toronto, just a great time. I only got in the stew bubble, like, recently. I missed out on all this. Well, if we do some sort of screening,

then you and anyone who's listening, I can hook up with tickets, I'm sure. Even Linda? Sure. So Linda could be on a red carpet for a Stewstone premiere. But she can't bring her husband. And of course, we're talking about... So yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

Cam and I were talking about, you know, how much of a hit Pandemic Fridays has become in the Toronto Mike world. And beyond, you know, we have like random friends of ours in our social circles that are even tuning in. Absolutely. But we are very much looking forward to the day when we are able to have a very special event where we're able to do sort of this format live,

you know, with a live audience. Right. A paywall. Oh, my God. Exactly. Yeah, let's monetize this. Even if only Linda is there. It would be amazing.

Well, she can bring her husband. And leave a fumpa in his husband. They had an anniversary last week, of course. Oh, that's the one thing about we lost Zoom, which means we lost all the, you know. Fancy names? That's okay. I think people would sacrifice those names for this quality audio.

You had to watch Stu covered in like three umbrellas. We should try to do this as much as possible. This is a much better show. But you're in a better mood now. I can tell your tone has changed. Because you were miserable. I was miserable. Right?

Am I right, Cam? I was getting rained on. I was getting soaked. I couldn't tell. I couldn't see him. I can tell. I kept asking you, is he mad?

No, I'm happy. He sounded angry. I'm happy to be here. And that was just me acting angry. I'm an actor. Well, the rain is gone. And I would say the sun is out. But that's not true. The moon is out. I'm an actor. Well, the rain is gone and I would say the sun is out, but that's not true.

You are the sun. You are the rain. You know that song? Of course. You make my life a foolish game. Lionel Richie, Post Commodores. Who doesn't know that song? Come on. Is that Lionel Richie? It is.

Did you know that the Commodores actually made a comeback after Lionel Richie. This is. Oh, my God. Did you know that the Commodores actually made a comeback after Lionel Richie? This would be a good topic. Like, bands that survived when their lead singer left. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember the Commodores had their comeback? That's a tough one. Yeah, sort of.

Gonna be some sweet sounds. But all of us would want to. That's a jam. Yeah, the night shift. Wait, but that's night shift. Isn't that Lionel Richie? No, that's just the scene. No, that's like 80s Commodores. That's the Comm Shift. Isn't that Lionel Richie? No, that's just... No, that's like 80s comics.

That's the Connors sons, Lionel Richie. Because I think we'd all three come up with Van Halen. And who is it like... Well, who's it who's related to the singer from The Guess... The current iteration of The Guess Who? Who is that? It's someone's husband. Is that her husband?

The singer. Sass Jordan's husband is a new singer for the... But they had no hits. Sorry, she's the singer or her husband? No, her husband? The singer Sass Jordan's husband Is a new singer But they had no hits Sorry she's the singer or her husband? And he looks sort of like Robin Zander From Cheap Trick Maybe But they didn't have any hits

With him as lead singer Snake from Degrassi? Yeah Snake from Degrassi Who's Stefan Brogan He's married to a stand Snake from Degrassi, who's Stefan Brogan. He's married to a stand-up comic. Oh, my friend Elizabeth knows who this is. She knows.

Michelle Shaughnessy. Yes, yeah. So shout out to Michelle. Hey, Shaughnessy. Who is Biff Naked's husband? Snake. Snake. Right, a different Snake. She's married to Snake?

A different Snake. Oh, there's two different Snakes? Well, there's also Jake the Snake. And Full House DJ dated Viper for a season. That's right. Yeah. Wow. Holy shit.

And Cipentor. Cobra Kai. Yeah. Cobra Kai is kind of a snake. Cobra Commander was a snake. There was an episode. Do you remember G.I. Joe, the movie?

It was like Sgt. Slaughter. Don Johnson's in it as well. Wow. I think like, oh, what's his name? Corporal Kirshner? No, no, the guy who played the Joker on the Batman series. Oh, Mark Hamill.

No, no. Adam West? No, the Joker, for crying out loud. Jack Nicholson. In the Batman TV series. Oh, yeah, the old-timer. Oh, Abe Vigoda. No, no, no.

Come on, you guys are ridiculous. That's fish. No, I know who you're talking about. This is old-time, though. He's also in Grumpy Old Man. He plays the... Ozzie Davis. I like Ozzie Davis.

He's going to do the right thing. Ozzie Davis is awesome. He's going to do the right thing. And Cosby Show. Anyway, so in the G.I. Joe,

the movie, Cobra Commander kind of gets ousted from Cobra and Roblox sort of agrees to save him. And when they

pull off his mask, he actually is a snake. Cobra Commander is like a snake. He's literally a snake. Like he's literally a snake. And he turns into a snake. Like a snake face. No, like he's an actual snake.

Oh, just like a snake. Yes. Okay. Spoiler alert. Yes. Jesus Christ. Burgess Meredith. Burgess Meredith is a slip the jab, Rocky.

Yeah, he's also in Rocky. Unbelievable. What a role in Rocky. Holy shit. The great joker. I gotta say, we've covered a lot of ground. Rocky. He's also in Rocky. Unbelievable. What a role in Rocky. Holy shit. The great joker. I gotta say, we've covered a lot of ground. I think it's been raining all evening. Everything that makes podcasting great in one

episode, according to... That's what 1236 gave us a shout out. This could only exist in podcast form, which I thought was a compliment. He's right. He loves this, 1236, and he made a compliment to me the other day. I'm still recovering from it because he was watching or listening to Howard Stern record from his basement

an interview with Jim Jim... Cuddy. Cary. Cary. Jim fucking Cuddy was on Howard Stern. You never know. Jim Crow. Yeah. Jim Cary. Jimmy C. But the way that Mark explained it to me is that Jim Cary's PR people clearly cleared these questions

and it was very safe and he wanted me to know that now that Howard Stern's in his basement like Toronto Mike but he says Toronto Mike

does a better job of delivering the real talk. Wow, he's being very nice to you Mike. That's Mark Weiswalt. Mark Weiswalt is a fucking liar. I think it's all apples to apples.

But Mike, anyway. Where is Mike? No, he's not a liar but he's being nice. Come on. Howard Stern is the goat. I think it's all apples to apples. But Mike, anyway. Where's Mike? No, he's not a liar, but he's being nice. Come on. Howard Stern is the goat. I'm just quoting Mark fucking Wise. He's being very generous. He used to work for iWeekly.

He's a sweetheart. He's flirting. He's a big deal to me. Howard Stern is the great one. I'm just quoting the fucking 1236. Mike, I told you this by DM, but so your listeners can hear too. My dad listened to your Bob Weeks episode. Oh, wow.

Charles Gordon Senior. Weeks Senior. Chuck Senior. Chuck Senior. Such a prestigious name. He loved that episode. And that was here in the backyard. That's right.

The episodes in the backyard are better. Yeah. And by the way, who's his wife? Like works for CTV? Real Smoke Show. It sounds like a secret. They shouldn't let the rat out of the bag. Bob Weeks' wife works for CTV? I thought Show. It sounds like a secret. Bob Weeks? Bob Weeks' wife works for CTV?

I thought you said like his wife. Real Smoke Show according to Cam. I gotta say, I don't remember Bob Weeks mentioning his wife. I had a person on the deck here. I think that's what you're saying. There was a woman on the deck who worked for... Real Smoke Show. She showed up yesterday for Peter Gross too. Her name is Mary Dartis

and she was on W5. I never met her before. She showed up, well, she was emailing and said, do you mind if I sit in on an episode?

I don't want to make it sound like she was randomly here. I said, I have Bob Weeks in my backyard at 10 a.m. Wednesday. If you want to watch the show, come on in my backyard

and be safe 10 feet away and watch she sat over there she she did that and then the very next wednesday she came back to see the same thing with peter gross store no i knew she was coming but uh she she has a million questions about podcasting i've never been field so many questions i feel like i should send her so she currently works for w5 no she quit i think She may be trying to launch her own podcast? I think, I believe, and I don't think Mary's... She should call it the Smoke Show.

I think Mary Dartis is sucking the genius out of my brain so she can do her own thing. That's what I think is going on. But you know, I'm such a nice guy. I don't even care. You can have it. You can have all the genius. Anyone who schleps down to New Toronto.

Right. She didn't leave with the lasagna. Mary Dartis. She's doing it wrong. So shout out to Mary Dartis. Mary, Mary, there's something about Mary. Mary, Mary. Why you bugging?

See, we couldn't do that on Zoom. Right. 917. At what time do we have to not be so loud? I think we're okay. We're okay. We've got another 45 minutes. Let's kick out another fourth cam.

What a great episode this is. This is good, yeah. Now the stew's in a good mood. You're not going to air it until Friday, right? I hope. Well, we'll talk about it. Right now, it's already going live to a couple of people. Sure, sure.

But the official air should be on Friday. Does anybody, can you, cam, while I play this jam, could you click over to Periscope and see what the number is? You see a number, right? Tens of dozens. Do you understand what I'm saying, though? You should still release these on Friday. Okay, because I do have another episode tomorrow, but I could do that. Yeah, should still release these on Friday. Okay, because I do have another episode tomorrow,

but I could do that. Yeah, I can release on Friday. Yes, I can do that. Another episode should be released Saturday. Yeah. Well, that's not only my style. That's a phony baloney Hollywood style. I'm more of an authentic, as it happens kind of guy.

Let's kick out Cam Gordon's fourth jam. Is this Barbra Streisand? Shush. Correct. I can't believe I knew that. There you go. What a great fucking topic. Barbara Streisand is a great topic.

I agree. I've got lots to say about her. I'm not going to repeat my controversial. Former girlfriend of Pierre Trudeau. Justin Trudeau's dad. Take a number. Is it duck sauce? Duck sauce, yeah.

Icon stuff. A lot of CanCon, too. I feel like 60% of these songs are Canadian or Canadian adjacent. Duck sauce or a boot sauce? So basically, Cam has a song that has one lyric, which is Barbra Streisand, which is not about her. It just says her name. I'll say it's high-con.

However, KRS-One says the police in the title, and I'm getting chastised. You deserve it. No, I don't. This is the same thing. Okay, so... Okay, Barbra Streisand. Thank you, Duck Sauce.

Okay, so... Well, back to Duck Sauce in a second. So Bob fucking Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone. Yeah, that would have been a good selection. Yeah, about Mick Jagger. Illegal. Although you could have gone with Moves Like Jagger. I wouldn't play garbage on the show.

I know. My wife said to my wife, what do you think? That was a song she threw out, and I said, I would never, ever play Maroon 5 Junk. Well, Mar maroon 5 their first album is good yeah if you say so yeah no it was good when he probably partied with uh levine there he's way too sexy for me anyway i'm gonna say a few words i'm gonna say a few words about duck sauce okay um i don't know is just like we talked about a topic we still may do this non-CanCon CanCon songs that aren't qualified as CanCon

let's put it this way I picked five songs for this fucking topic and then you changed it well let's circle back to that later but this song might qualify because Duck Sauce of course is DJ Armin Van Helden who's an American and Canadian A-Track, who...

Who plays lots of DJ Farbsy shows. Does he really? Yes, he does. And also played with Kanye West, amongst other people. So all the greats. Burgess Meredith wasn't the Joker. Yes, he was. Right?

Okay, because it wasn't Cesar Romero? Oh, you might be right. Oh, shit, you're right. It was Cesar Romero. So he's the penguin, maybe. The penguin, the penguin. Right, the penguin. Okay, I'm sorry.

My bad. Cesar Romero, you are right. That was a delayed reaction. I'm allowed to be wrong about a few things when it's raining. Somebody's probably already left a comment on Toronto My Favorite. Anyway, tomato, tomato. Anyway, guys, duck sauce. So that's a duo.

Not food sauce. A.B.H. and DJ A-Track, who plays apparently a lot with Stu's cousin, DJ Fartsy. He was the penguin. He was the penguin. Yes, he was. Flip the jab, Rocky. I mean, Armin van Halen is a very interesting EDM artist

who's sort of a legacy artist who I think most of us first knew from when he did the Funk Phenomenon. Yeah, I remember that. Like way back. I remember I was like a Wonderland. Sampling Redman. Was it really? Well, it's Redman who says the funk phenomenon. Like Lebanon, whatever the line is.

Okay. Wow. Okay. That I learned. That's what I learned. He played the penguin. Danny DeVito. Yeah. Anyway, this song. Have you ever been in a movie of Danny DeVito? No, but I have met Rhea Perlman

close enough and Danny DeVito has also been the Twitter can office when he was doing a junket for Dumbo okay cause last week

we kicked out I know we're gonna get back to your fucking boot sauce or whatever but I have some good notes here on Farber Streisand

but my brother Steve loves the Pandemic Friday episodes Toronto Steve? Yeah, and he loved the Teen Wolf talk we had last week. It was great. Steve from T.O., that's your brother? Shoot it, fat boy!

Oh my god. I didn't know that was your... Wait, what do you mean? It's like innocence lost. No, Steve has never tweeted in his life. My brother Steve. I don't know, you're thinking of somebody else. I think I'm thinking of Toronto. Steve Roberts from CHFI.

I can't believe you're that guy. But hey, there's somewhere I'm going here. Oh, yeah. So the theme last week was songs from movies that were written for the movie. And he was shocked that I did not play my favorite. He believes is my favorite. And he might be right, which is the Eddie Vedder song from Big Fish. He sings a song, he wrote a song

for Big Fish, which I love. Long story short, I didn't play it because I forgot about it. But Danny DeVito's in Big Fish. Continue. What an anecdote that was. Good stuff, Mike. Way better than Howard Stern. Local H had a song called Eddie Vedder as well.

Not Howard Stern is prime. This current Howard Stern. Anyway, do you song called Eddie Cutter as well. Not Howard Stern is prime. This current Howard Stern. Anyway, do you guys want to hear a sports tie-in for this song? We're about to have

sports return. Sure. This was a song that the Calgary Flames played during the 2011 season whenever anyone scored a goal.

Wow. Breakout purpose strikes in. That's the goal song. Yeah, when Jerome McGinley kind of potted one or Sean Monaghan. Was Matt Stajan on that team? I think he was, yeah. of potted one. Of course, a few weeks ago.

Was Matt Stajan on that team? I think he was, yeah. I remember this team. Of course, Barbra Streisand under the same banner as Mark Knopfler. Because she's Jewish. Yes. She's also, Barbra Streisand's song was played a few weeks ago on the show Guilty featuring... You might remember I controversially said she was overrated.

Yeah, well, you were wrong about that. Okay. And final comment about the song. Do you know what song this song samples? I...

No. It's a song called Gotta Go Home by Boney M. Wow. Boney M. You know him for their Christmas music.

Yeah, who I think would be a good we've talked about this my wife's favorite christmas song because she likes steel drums okay well i was gonna say songs where are you monica so she's up there yeah she's wearing less she's still doing the dishes so so to speak so to speak um but anyway songs that are generally mistaken for other artists. I think Boney M, Rasputin. The Sopranos theme song. That would be its own episode. Leonard Cohen, right?

Yeah. But anyway, Boney M, Rasputin, who if you're like me, thought was ABBA for many, many years. Oh, that's funny. Okay. I never. Maybe it's just me. It's just you.

Maybe it's just me. Anyway, Barbra Streisand, Bannestuck sauce. But not boot sauce. Not boot sauce. What happened to boot sauce? Well, their can was red hot chili peppers. Right.

Yeah, I don't know. Not quite at the longevity. Mone. Mone. Remember that song? Mone. I remember a bowl. I remember a bowl.

Was there a bowl on the cover? Probably. I have a memory of like boot sauce and bull. Yeah. Are you thinking of Swerve Driver? No. I have no idea what the hell Swerve is talking about. Oh, it's funny how Stu's about to kick out a jam.

I actually kicked out a few weeks ago. Did you kick this out? I kicked this out, yeah. I'll come back to you when I kick it out here. It's okay. You're allowed to kick out a jam I kicked out. Here we go. Ooh, Ruffie Amadeus.

Ruffie Amadeus. Ruffie Amadeus. Amadeus. Amadeus jam I kicked out. Here we go. I can't tell you Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. This is a different version than the version you kicked out. Right. I kicked out the version that goes, whatever, 1654, Austrian rock singer. No, it goes 1984,rian rock singer falco records rock me amadeus our second rap song on uh

german rap the best rap i fucking love this song stew i love this song by the way austrian this is taco right no no oh falco taco did put it on the red put on the reds okay taco falco I love this song. Not German, by the way. Austrian. This is Taco, right? No. Oh, Falco. Taco did Puttin' on the Ritz. Puttin' on the Ritz. Okay, Taco Falco. Lots to say about Rock Me Amodeus by Falco. Toronto Mike Show 687.

Which is a great choice because Amodeus was a musician. Yes, he was. Yes, he was. Now, I bet you thought Falco. He was Australian. He was Australian musician. I bet you thought Falco was the name of the group. Did you think that Falco was the name of the group? Yes.

It's actually the name of the guy, Falco. It's one guy, Falco. You know, I didn't know that, because he died in a motorcycle crash. Well, Falco, rest his soul, Oliver Shulam, he was... Falco was the name of the guy.

Right. This is from his third album, Falco 3. Yes. This came from his third album, Falco 3. This came out in 1985 and quickly crossed over to the charts. Originally recorded in German, the song is about Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart, who I played on the Wayne and Schuster show. I played Mozart. Wow. Wayne and fucking Schuster. I swear to God, I did. I played Mozart. The skit was like the 1785 Grammy Awards, and I won all the awards. Oh, because he did Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. I don't know.

Didn't he do that when he was four years old? No. I'll tell you what's going on. First off, there have been 19 versions of this song released to date, all of them credited to Falco. So not like bands doing covers or anything. Because that's the name of a song. This reminds me of Paul Hurtka.

So there are 19. Who sassed Jordan's Met in Europe once. So having 19. Oh, I like this part, Stu. Can we listen to it? Sounds like Samantha Parks. It really is a cool fucking song. Right?

So, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This song actually could have qualified last week, maybe, but probably not. But after seeing the movie Amadeus, which won, I think, the Oscar for Best Actor. After Murray Abraham won, too, I think, for Best Actor. I think it was Ozzie Davis. Ozzie Davis from Do the Right Thing. My point is Falco loved the movie so much that that's where the inspiration for this song came from. Is that true? It is true. Wow.

Mozart has composed more than 600 works. More than 600. So that's more like, think of your son's favorite porn star. Think two parts. 600 songs, more than the scenes that your son's favorite porn star has been in.

600, starting from the age of five, died at age 32. Yeah. So that is a pretty prolific career. Can we call him a prodigy? For sure, a prodigy.

And he went from age 5 to age 32, meaning that I've actually had a longer career than Mozart. In a better career. Because I'm still going. But yeah, what a jam. Has he been to the basement, Mozart? No, but I can tell you, I once did, this is not my

first nighttime recording, and last time I did a nighttime recording, I'm just can tell you, I once did it. This is not my first nighttime recording, and the last time I did a nighttime recording, I'm just letting you know, I witnessed a skunk come out of the bushes over there. Oh, terrific. Fabulous. I will be watching closely, and I gotta say, I'm watching, I just peeked at the periscope. Very dark on your end.

Like, it's very dark. You can lose the umbrella. This is a wonderful night and I couldn't imagine spending it with anyone else this is good you're okay this is wonderful

honestly this is wonderful why does your table have handles oh because you fold it up and then it's a whole like mobile I'm about to chokeslam Cam through this table

hey you know this whole backyard thing came very suddenly we're going to have a TLC match if you lay on the table I'll jump off the balcony with an elbow. I'll lay prone. By the way, Stu, have you warmed up to the topic yet?

Because I know you didn't like it. Yeah, I mean, I think once we start talking, then the topic gets better. Only one of yours is bullshit. That's not true, but go ahead. Well, that's true, right, Cam? Speaking like a true pro, because nobody has had more songs that don't qualify than you in the history of Pandemic Fridays. Is that don't qualify than you in the history of Pandemic Fridays.

Is that true? I think you're averaging two per episode. I need you to be, to come through here and just point out that only one song so far today

is ineligible. Yeah, but like an egregious violation. Right, I agree. I thought it was quite clever. I'm offended,

but I'm going to kick out my fourth jam, which is, I think like as a DM joke that I've been fine, but actually like waste air time. People are like tuning in. I don't think I wasted air time. I think that, but I'm going to kick out my fourth jam, which is, of course. I think, like, as a DM joke, that would have been fine, but to actually, like, waste air time, people are, like, tuning in. I don't think I wasted air time. I think that, you know, you're going to see Cambrio is going to say how great this was.

Cambrio. Who's going to be on the next FOTM kick out the jam? Well, he's going to say how great this is. Linda's going to say this is great. There's also a Cam Gordon entry on the next FOTM. All of the regulars are going to chime in about how they support Stu. Imagine I did one with 10 Cams. Hashtag I'm with Stu.

Okay. I'm with Stu. Here's Tronamike's fourth jam. Get bent. Ow, ow. I'll show you the ropes, kid, show you the ropes I got a bus and a trailer at my house, my house I'll show you the ropes, kids, show you the ropes I bought 15 cases for my house, my house

All the furniture is in the garage Okay. This is LCD Sound System. Ever heard of them, Cam Gordon? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, like, yeah, one of those bands that, like, is, like, wildly popular, I never quite got the appeal of this band.

I mean, like, like the songs pretty fun. I don't know like but yeah, that's a good this is a good pick and one of the ones that I thought of too. You know, did you like this band Mike? Do you ever get into it? No, no, I'm not a big LCD sound system guy, but I always liked this song. Yeah, this is a great pick, a fun track. And would you believe it's 15 years old now? Yeah, which is kind of, to me,

it's difficult to believe, but it is true. I thought it was interesting when they got back together, they seemed like they were one of the first kind of early 2000s bands that broke up, got back together and then sort of cashed in on the big reunion tour. And all of a sudden seemed a lot more popular. I mean,

they also headlined one of the, like, they like were a headliner at Coachella. That's right, yeah. They went in the festival circuit and really cast they had a very dramatic final show at Mass in Square Gardens and did the whole documentary and

yeah, like it just I don't know. They had this big song called Call the Police that you could have gone with, Stu. I was actually going to go with that, but I decided that, you know, KRS-One, great talent. Well, it could have been, there was a band called The Call, too.

You remember them? Like, they were sort of a new wave band. It could have been about them, too. Right. It's talking about two bands. And I gotta admit, I'm not a big LCD sales system guy, but I think this is the first song

I ever, like, knew from them. Yeah, like, this was sort of their, I feel like this was kind of their breakout. Seems like it's like in a Pantene commercial or something. And is that Cowbell I hear in there? I think so, yeah. I'd say definitely like of the era too. Like this certainly seems like,

I'm trying to think like those other sort of bands that were like the Rapture and like all those sort of dancey New York bands. Scissor Sisters. Yeah, exactly. Scissors. Nice.

So this song, of course, daft punk is playing at my house. Daft punk. Oh, Cam, I feel like you'd be the best to tell us who about daft punk. I know around the world and a bunch of their songs.

Yeah. Like kind of the front. I'd say like, yeah. Yeah. Um, another band that's just like massively popular i never i think they're fine i never quite understood people's obsession with them obviously perhaps most famous for wearing like robot helmets they're sort of like the modern day craft work

yeah right yeah they wear those masks all the time before covid they were ahead of the game ahead of the curve totally yeah. Some original PPE there. Defunct, I mean, Around the World, for example, is a song everybody knows. One More Time was a great jam. Those guys reinvented a lot of the way that music production and the sounds that you hear in popular music now, it came from

Daft Punk. The way that they switched the sounds up on their keys and came with these new sounds that we hadn't heard before. So I give them a lot of credit for sure. I think they're totally fine. I'm not a hater. That vocoder thing that you hear all over the place, that's Daft Punk.

Can I say like Kanye West was stronger? What was the song, the video of the giant dog who was buying the book and kind of walking? Yeah, that was Daft Punk. Dog Police. Which we always bring up here. Also Snoop Dogg, What's My Name? Where like they all turned into dogs.

Where's my daughter at? Yeah, where's my daughter at? Yeah. Snoop Doggy Dog, you gotta get a jobby job. Snoop shows up in everything. I just like your doggy style. My kids are watching some kids cartoon and Snoop Dogg is like a character in this kids cartoon. Turbo! It's like like a character in this kids cartoon.

Turbo. It's like a snail that they allow to run in the Indy 500 and every time I see it I think that's ridiculous. Like the commissioner of the Indy 500 allows a snail

to compete against these cars. That's insane, right? Well, I was going to say who are some musical artists who could both appear like in a pornographic film and a children's cartoon? There's not many.

I remember having this debate with friends before, and someone else we thought of was maybe Gene Simmons. Tommy Lee? Oh! Brett Michaels? Yeah, like a lot of the hair metal. You're thinking of all the girlfriends of Pamela Anderson. They actually had sex tapes, those two guys. How were they in cartoons, though?

Brett Michaels? No. Oh, I guess. I thought you meant like kids' shows, though? Brent Michaels? No. Oh, I guess. Okay, I thought you meant like kids shows. How about Shawn Michaels? I met him at a Perkins once by the airport. T.T. Boy? Peter North?

Was he ever? Yeah, Peter North. Ron Jeremy? He's in trouble now. He should be. He's in trouble. Sorry, Peter North is? No, Ron Jeremy is in some big trouble right now for good reason.

Yes, absolutely. Wow. Okay. So that was my fourth. Good choice. Thank you kindly. So I had John Lennon by Arkells, which, you know. Randy Spears.

Randy Spears, right? I did Dire Straits, Colin Elvis. I did Rusty's Katie Lang and Daft Punk is playing at my house. It was effortless. And I'm going to kick out this great jam from Cam Gordon. Is this my fifth or? Your fifth and final jam. Yes, just not going to like this one. Is this Sonic Youth?

Yeah. Good for you, Stu. You're very good at this. Like, Stu, as much as there'll be a pain in the ass in these episodes, he knows his stuff when you drill down. He knows his shit. He really does. I'm impressed every week. He knows his shit. I'm impressed every week. Stu knows his shit.

And across all genres. He names it right away and I'm always like how did he do that? That's amazing. You probably recognize the unique guitar tones of Sonic Youth. I'm not familiar with the song though.

This song, the artist Yeah, so this song, the artist's name actually appears in brackets at the end. So this is a song called Expressway to Your Skull. Just hold with me. Parentheses. And kind of subtitled is Madonna, Sean, and Me. I think it can. It's a title.

Yeah, also some versions of the... Stu wants a ruling. Yeah, so let me talk a little bit about this. So this is from the album Evil, just love backwards. So there's... Think about that. That's very deep from 1986.

You know, evil backwards is live. It's Elvis. Yeah, it's like Evian water, you know water naive backwards There you go That is true, by the way, naive backwards Evian Wow, yeah, that's from Adbusters magazine, 1996

Anyway, Sonic Youth Yeah, they had a very brief fascination with Madonna As we all did Specifically, which another Gordon artist we've talked about her in the past, York University alumni, Kim Gordon. Their bases seem to have sort of a kind of a love hate thing with Madonna, sort of the pop culture of the 80s. A big moment here.

Cool things. Oh, there's good like the big. This is about the time where Cam passed out at the concert Well yeah I mean it's part of the reason I chose this song because Stu and I saw Sonic Youth a few times back in the day and also right around the time of this album they saw Keith record an album

under the pseudonym Chaconie Youth which is Madonna's last name Chaconie not to be mistaken with the former NHL bruiser Enrico Chaconie but they actually record that album in large part with Mike Watt who was my first ever

concert also of the Minutemen who who's Stu, I think. Were you there? We saw him. Of course, with Foo Fighters and Hovercraft. Eddie Vedder and his wife. Yeah, exactly. The aforementioned of local H fame, Eddie Vedder, playing down at the Opera House

by Mike Watt with an all-star band. And we got his autograph, and he was getting a sandwich next to our before the show, and he signed our ticket stub. Wow. Yeah, so this was my first real concert. This was the opera house in like Price. That was your first concert? Yeah. Holy shit. I wasn't really into like music until like

No judgments, dude. No judgments. I'm just saying like that's incredible like because that was like we were already like 15 or 16 at that point. That's not uncommon. That's not uncommon. Me too, Cam. I feel like... What was your first show?

Cam, are you the oldest child? No, he's not. That was my excuse. He's the baby. I'm the baby. Well, Mike, I feel like I shared this the first time I came on the Tron Mike podcast. For me, I was just like pure sports nerd as stew can very much attest um as was i yeah but i i think what happened when major

league baseball won strike in 1994 all of a sudden i had nothing to do and and that i think is why you got really into music shortly after that explains your musical taste like mike watt was your first concert and like mike from the minute Minutemen. There's a Minutemen, right? That's right, yeah. Remember, the guy who died from the Minutemen was Dee Boone. That's right. And then that's why they were part of it. Boone's Army was like a whole thing.

I grew up with Boone's Army. Like Daniel Boone? No. Dee Boone had this, I guess, I don't know if you're a fan. It was called Dee Boone's Army. Dee Brown? Yeah. From the Celtics, right?

And Raptors. Right. Do you like? And Xavier, the X-Man was on that Celtics team, Xavier McDaniel, as I recall. And, of course, I was young Charles Xavier in the X-Men. Right, right. And then, of course, now you're reminding me Reggie Lewis died on the fucking court. I think he was in, and Xavier McDaniel was also in Singles.

It was discussed in the movie Singles. Yes, think he was in Xavier McDaniel was also in Singles. It was discussed in the movie Singles. Yes, because he was trying not to come. He was trying not to come and then the X-Men The giant door poster

of Xavier McDaniel which we sold And that's the soundtrack that I seem to be people on Twitter seem to think of when they think of the Singles soundtrack

they think of me and vice versa. And of course the Judgment Night soundtrack which I adore. And it turns out Stromombo loves the judgment night song since he was tweeting about it and i was like he's stealing my thing yeah and who did sonic let's let's bring it all the way back sonic youth on the judgment night soundtrack doing a song with cypress hill i love you mary jane right should have come a favorite of peter gross apparently to come

to get and also last week on Toronto Mic, cameo appearance. Is that cameo last week or are we going back a few weeks? Maybe we're going back a few weeks. Chuck D cameoed on Cool Thing. Sonic Youth. We played Sonic Youth. York University alumni. Tell it like it is.

Anyway, Madonna, Sean, and me. A lot of songs, by the way, with Madonna's name in the title. Lady Madonna? Lady Madonna. There was a Drake song, too, called Madonna. Okay, that's three. There was the Garbage Pail Kid, Madonna. Yep, sure was.

Or Madballs. There's a group called The Donnas. Oh, yeah, The Donnas. You know The Donnas? Yeah, Donna Martin graduates. Donna Summer. Donnas? Yeah, Donna Martin graduates. Donna Summer. Prima Donna. Yeah.

Donna Martin graduates. Yeah. That was a good one. Yeah, she kept on to that virginity until she got married. Until David Silver and her boyfriend. And who did Stu and I go to high school with? Brian Austin Green. A guy named David Silver.

Okay, because Brian Austin Green was married to Megan Fox. Okay. Also a white rapper at one point, the Notorious B.A., because Brian Austin Green was married to Megan Fox. Okay. Also a white rapper at one point, the notorious BAG Brian Austin Green. He had a rap career. And so did Bud Bundy also had a rap career. Wow. Bud fucking Bundy. Home Entertainment System.

I remember that episode with... No ma'am. Yeah. Okay, what WWF superstar appeared on Married with Jill? King Kong. King Kong and Bundy. Of course.

That was a gimme. They were the Bundys. I watched that episode. That was no corporate cursor. And that's just my time. Which WWE superstars appeared on Boy Meets World? Oh, slow down. Two of them.

Bret Hart. No. This would be like mid-90s? Yes. Diesel. No. Big Van Vader and Jake the Snake Roberts Jake the Snake still Wow

I guess the bully With Damien there No the bully From I forget the kid's name But his dad is Big Van Vader Is this born again Christian Jake Roberts Yes

Wow I'm going to take a cobra out The inspiration for the fantastic movie The Wrestler Because he inspired that right Was he really Jake the Snake And I'm watching to take a cobra out and buy your arm. The inspiration for the fantastic movie, The Wrestler, because he inspired that, right? Was he really? And my wife and I are watching on HBO. We're late to the party, but we're just starting Westworld on HBO,

which Evan Rachel Wood, who I only know from The Wrestler. That's a great movie, by the way. Yeah, it is really good. And Darren Aronofsky is a fantastic filmmaker. Yeah, and he's the Requiem for a Dream guy amazing also Black Swan a fantastic movie

who was in the wrestler that was actual wrestlers who were some of the guys R-Truth is in there all the ROH guys it was filmed at Ring of Honor Wrestling the guy who played the Sheik was Ernest the Cat Miller.

You remember him? Don't know him. Yeah, he was like a James Brown gimmick. Ernest the Cat Miller. Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He had red shoes.

But he was like his nemesis. Yeah, he was the wrestler's nemesis. So, Stu, are you ready? Because this is a trifecta we're going to dive into. This is a trilogy. Yes, this is a really big mind blow. Let's start with the first one. Actually, there's four mind blows in this, if you really think about it.

So everybody at home, brace yourself. This is a big one. He's going on his MacBook. Not only does this song have an artist's name in the title, but it also has a host of Pandemic Fridays in the title. Right. So is the word Mike? Is it Mike or is it Cam?

I'm going to play it. Right. I'm going to play it, but I'm not sure which musical artist is referenced in this title. Let's go. Thank you. Do you know this, Kim? I'd say no. Like, sort of, but no. Do you recognize the band?

Uh, no. The band I recognize right away, because that's Robert Plant. You never heard of Led Zeppelin? A couple times, a couple times. This is Led Zeppelin, Boogie with Stew. The musician they are referencing, Ian Stewart, who is one of the co-founders of the Rolling Stones, keyboard and pianist for the Rolling Stones,

played on all of their records from 1980, sorry, from, let me check this out here, from, I want to make sure I'm telling you the right shit here. Yes, and shit it is. Yeah, so all of the Rolling Stones, basically he played piano, organ, electric piano, and percussion on all Rolling Stones albums

released between 1964 and 1986. One of the founders of the Rolling Stones in 1963, the Stones started to get popular and their manager thought that Ian Stewart didn't have the right look and sort of regulated him to the background. At the risk of being, he kind of played cool, he stuck with the band, still played on stage with them, was not in the press photography, ended up sort of evolving into their road manager. And this song, Boogie With Stu, interestingly enough, named for him, he was the road manager for the Stones at the time when Led Zeppelin recorded this song. at the time when Led Zeppelin recorded this song.

And you've heard Ian Stewart's piano playing on most Rolling Stones songs. Wow. I can give you a couple of the ones that you would probably know. Honky Tonk Woman, you've heard of that? Of course. Let It Bleed, Brown Sugar. Brown Sugar, a classic.

It's only rock and roll, but I like it. Right. You know, so he's got quite the folklore. Like, if you ask any of these 60s rockers, they all loved Ian Stewart. Sort of the prolific... Okay, you're okay, you're safe, but climbing the tree to your left

are baby raccoons. Well, they'll leave us alone. So this is a Led Zeppelin song called Boogie With Stu, and it's a song that I had not really been that familiar with until sort of Twitter was invented and Boogie With Stew was like

constantly coming up when I would initially search stew. And sorry, what album is this from? This is from the 1975 album Physical Graffiti Physical Graffiti because they were numbered for the first four. The 1975 album. Physical Graffiti.

Because they were numbered for the first four. Yes, Physical Graffiti. So, yeah. Number four was my favorite. Sorry, are they right above my head? Like, are they going to shit on my head? They're not going to shit on your head. Raccoons don't do that.

Of course not. The baby raccoons, they went up the other way, but I just watched them climb the trunk of that tree, and they went the other way. They're not above you. I see some movements. Yeah, they're little baby raccoons. They don't ever do this part. They do the other part.

A lot of controversy, guys. I meant in the upper window. I'm not even kidding. It's not a skunk. Sometimes I'm out here cleaning up stuff at night because I think it might rain or whatever, and whenever I see those baby raccoons, I'm thinking, oh, the mama

raccoon is somewhere nearby ready to claw my face off for getting too close to her children. Good movie too, Face Off. Yeah, I don't know. Getting back to this song. A lot of controversy surrounding this song and a lot of controversy

within the group Led Zeppelin, of course. Can you name the three members of Led Zeppelin of course can you name the three members of Led Zeppelin? Jimmy Page Bonham Eric Clapton John Paul Jones thank you I thought you said Eric Clapton

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of course there is so much controversy with this band including this song. This song was the most controversial, maybe, of their catalog due to the fact that they actually ripped off the song. Oh.

And we're going to hear the ripoff right here. Cold, cold, cold. Now, now, baby. Let's just go all night long. Well, no, no, no, darling. I just want you no more. There won't be no tootin', rootin', no lollipop. Come on, baby, just rock, rock, rock. Now, now, now, darling.

So this is Lou Diamond Phillips. No, this is Richie Valens. Richie Valens. Wow. Which obviously, this is what Robert Palmer is singing in the song. So Led Zeppelin credited Mrs. Valens. Stop looking for the raccoons. I was a voice of one of the raccoons.

They're going to leave us alone. Run with us. I love those raccoons. Anyway, Richie Valens, of course, the big bopper and Buddy Holly, Richie Valens. Day the music died. These guys went on a flight.

Famously, the song in the movie La Bamba When the plane goes down Do you know Lou Diamond Phillips is Filipino? I do now Lou Diamond Phillips also From Young Guns 2, great film

But anyway, Mrs. Valens They did credit Mrs. Valens As a writer because they had to They didn't even have the courtesy of finding out her first name. But in an interview, I want to... Jimmy Page was confronted in an interview about this song, right?

Yeah. And the interviewer asked him... By Toronto Mike. The interviewer asked him, what's up with this song? He said, well, yeah, let's put it this way. Surfing USA by the Beach Boys had a credit for Chuck Berry, didn't it?

Right. I think that answers the question. That's a great example. So, yeah. Anyway, despite the fact that Mrs. Valens was credited as a writer, the Valens estate ends up suing Led Zeppelin. As well they should. And they ended up getting a payday for it.

And here is a big mind blow. How about this? Richie Valens actually ripped off someone else No For his song And here's the rip off Rusty Right

The late great The singer of the Magic School Bus theme Totally buddy Double rip off Double rip off The singer of the Magic School Bus theme. Totally, buddy. Double rip-off. A double rip-off. A double mind blow. Led Zeppelin gets sued by the Valens family, who ends up... Do they really have a credit here?

It's Little Richard's family that should be suing everybody. Wow. Because Little Richard was ripped off by Richie Valens, who was ripped off by Led Zeppelin and Boogie with Stu. There you go, a triple mind blow. A quadruple mind blow if you didn't know who Ian Stewart was. The unofficial, well, officially he was a co-founder of the Rolling Stones, but due to his look, the management shuffled him to the back.

My mind is completely blown at this point. I did not know who the stew was i thought it was about stew stone i wish it was but uh i hope your guys's minds you know what toronto band had a similar situation albeit at a far lower level can i guess sure i feel like this has been reported the band a triple a triple screw job before yes yes i have one yes i reported it on toronto mike.com this is not toronto band and I'll get back to you, Cam. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the As It Happens theme

is a Kaufman... That's actually a rip-off of an Edwin Starr song, and if you dig deeper, Edwin Starr was ripping off... I don't know who to credit this to. It might have been Chuck Berry, actually. With War?

Or a different... No, same guy. to, it might have been Chuck Berry actually. With War? Or a different, no, same guy. Yeah, he had a song called 25 Miles. Oh, okay.

I can dig it up on YouTube and you know it right away and it's the same song. It's funny because when, you know, Jimmy Page is referencing Surfing USA, that opening guitar lick

is like clearly like Chuck Berry. Yeah, that one's a well-known, yeah, that's, and they even have like US city names

in those, like, yeah, those two are eerily similar but there's a lot of examples of course we know Elvis ripped off a bunch of people and the Beatles

allegedly and Led Zeppelin of course that whole Stairway to Heaven people will point to that song by Spirit right

that's right this sort of opened the floodgates for some controversy well here okay so you did the triple I'm going to cajuple it right here because

do you know that artist we just heard right there? Yeah, I mentioned it. It was from Full Circle. The Magic School Bus. But actually, I pulled it because Joanna Cole died. Did you hear that, Stu? Joanna Cole died. You broke the news to me earlier on about four hours ago when we started this.

When you were grumpy. He was still under the umbrellas. He was grumpy back then. Rest in peace. Let's pour out some Great Lakes for her. Please. Absolutely. If I drink any more, I'm going to pee my pants. Let's pour some out for the man who inspired Johnny B. Bad and Ric Flair.

For the baby raccoons. Yeah, the baby raccoons. Which is amazing that Stu Stone was in the raccoons. I was. It's unbelievable. I played Bentley Raccoon with the B on his sweater. Unbelievable. And Ralphie from Outer School Bus had an R on his sweater. So a couple of sweater guys.

Cam, are we worthy? Is this real life? Are we allowed to be in the same space as Stu Stone? I feel like you and I, our upbringing is very similar. We're just sort of like media nerds. Here's a guy who's like literally like in the raccoons while we were just like probably watching too much TV and

watching much music. Donnie fucking Darko. Amazing. It's legit. And he's rolling with Saget. I played a bit of it earlier. That's amazing rolling with Saget. Just think, if I had never pitched you in my job as a PR person, you would have never met this person. I always think back, like why did I have Cam Gordon on the show? I think he begged to come on.

I let him come on. Oh, stop it. And then during that episode, he's selling me on the Stu Stone. Much like that smoke show that was sitting in the backyard. Mary Dardis. Mary, Stu, are you single, may I ask? Is that a personal question? Depends who's asking.

Mary. Is she asking? Is that an actual question from her? Well, I'm, you know, I'm just starting my matchmaking services here. Interesting. Oh, hello. I'm sure people need to know. Okay, are you ready for the final jam of the night before we wrap this up?

Yes. And here's one I'm shocked. Until this morning when Stu tried to steal it from me. But I'm shocked it was missed because it came to me right away. Here is my final jam. What's with these homies pissing my girl? Why do they got a front? Here is my final jam. Oh, I'm yours. Woo, woo. And I know you're mine. Woo, woo.

And I know you're mine. Oh, we are just like Buddy Holly. Oh, oh. And you're Mary Tyler Moore. I don't care. So we finally get our song from the Blue Album. This is Buddy Holly. Blue album by Weezer.

Alongside, I would say Nevermind by Nirvana. And Fluke. Maybe I would also include maybe Pearl Jam 10, maybe Siamese Dream, Smash Muppets, but the blue album Start to Finish, one of the best

records. Purple by Stone Temple Pilots. I think that this Weezer album at 32 minutes is an easy, it's easy to do it. Lean, lean. You can go start to finish and it's a fantastic album. No argument, no argument.

Because one of the cuts on this album, the blue album, is Say It Ain't So. I love it. That's right. Unbelievable. It's got that whole Dear Daddy.

Also the sweater song. Undone yeah I'll write you in my only in dreams in the garage oh yeah my name is Jonas my name is Jonas

surf wax USA yes yeah talk about that and Buddy Holly and the great video of course directed by Spike Jones who became

a huge director try the fish with a Z with a Z because there's a Spike Jones with an S well by Spike Jones, who became a huge director. Try the fish. With a Z, with a Z, because there's a Spike Jones with an S. Well, the Spike Jones with a Z, he ended up directing. It's a Z. He ended up, you have Kim. I was going to say he directed Otis. Weren't you a big Jackass fan?

Yeah. Spike Jones did those Jackass movies. But he directed the video, the Otis for Kanye and Jay-Z. But just a very prolific director. And Bjork, he did Bjork's. That's right. And it's sort of like around the time Forrest Gump came out and they were placing Forrest Gump everywhere, remember?

Of course. How they were putting Forrest Gump in all these places. Spike Jonze kind of... But you mean like he was with John Lennon, for example. Right, so I think this video brought that sort of concept here and it was flawlessly done, where they have Weezer playing on the Happy Days set of Big Al's restaurant.

Not so good, Al. Try the fish. And then Mr. Miyagi in this video as well. No, it was Al. So Mr. Miyagi was the original owner of that place, and this was Al. There was a clip of him in the video. He was like freaking out.

And then he went to taxi. Didn't he? Mr. Miyagi was on taxi. Was he really? Last week was the Karate Kid episode. We played... Mr. Miyagi was on taxi. You're the best. Pat Morita was on taxi. I believe you.

I know that you were... I learned this when I was on your IMDB page. Stu Stone was born in the 80s. That's actually not true. That's on your IMDB page. It's wrong. How could I be the same age as Cam and be born in the 80s? It's a falsehood.

We're both... Well, I don't know how old Cam is. Well, Cam's not born in the 80s either. I always think I'm like four years older than you. This is my feeling. Well, how old are you? I just turned 46. Okay, so you're not that, you're like, we're in the same, we would have gone to high school together.

Even though your IMDB page says you were born in 1980, what year is your birth? Okay, our year of birth. I don't know, but I can't confirm my year of birth because IMDB, that's what I go by. That's a public record. According to Mark Levy. Lawyer, shout out to Mark Levy. Lawyer. Shout out to Mark. Cam, what month is your birthday?

I'm October. You're in October and I'm in November. So Cam's a month older than me. I have the same birthday as Mickey Mantle. So you're born in the 70s? Yes. Okay, wow. In the mid to late 70s. Because I was thinking, oh, I thought they were born.

Because I thought your frame of reference was that you guys were in your early 40s. Because I was thinking, oh, I thought they were born because I thought your frame of reference was that you guys were like in your early 40s. Do you remember there was that famous World Series game, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs. Yes. The third one off Charlie Huff. Son of Sam was going down. Yeah. I was born that day. Wow. That's a big day. Right around that day.

Didn't Spike Lee make a movie about that day? He did. Is Odiak a killer? My birthday is shrouded in mystery. My birthday is on the same day that Brett got screwed by Vince McMahon. The Montreal Screwjob. Wow, is that true? I mean, the same calendar day, but I wasn't

born in 97. And you and the big Rybowski have the same birthday. He's a year, a day after me. Day after. Okay. Yeah. There you go. I almost don't want this episode to end. I'm exhausted. This is a lot. Like, I'm soaked. I've had a couple beers. Are we coming back here again next week?

To be discussed, I have to pee so bad you have no idea. Like, I think I could have an accident here. That's okay. Are we taking a picture? Yeah, we are. I have a little, what do you call that when the light... A flash? Something that makes it so you can do a selfie with a bit of light.

We'll be doing a picture. Selfie stick with a flash? And that... I have to end this and go pee. And that brings us to the end of our 687th show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Stu, you're at Stu Stone.

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