Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Spring Jams: Toronto Mike'd #828

Episode Date: April 1, 2021

This 55th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out spring jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone.

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He's ripping up the Mimico real estate scene, like Stu says. Ripping it up. Learn more at realestatelove.ca. I'm Mike from torontomike.com. And joining me for this 55th Pandemic Friday is Stu Stone. Huss. And Cam Gordon. Michael, how are you?

How are you, Stuart? I'm well. How are you, Stuart? I'm well. How are you, Cameron? Good. You're a shadowy, shadowy, shadowy stew on a shadowy planet. Well, actually, it's actually me, Matt Layton. I'm here. I was promised I could be on the program as long as you mask my face and voice.

But I just wanted to say I have one big question. Mike, what's going on tomorrow, Toronto Mike? I was just corresponding with the great Matt Layden. What's going on next week, starting Monday? You know, I don't even mind. I kind of like it. He'll say what's going on tomorrow and I can promote it.

What gets me is he'll say what's going on tomorrow and I'll do it, but he'll do it three more times. Like it's these. And I'm like, I always want to reply like, Matt, just in case you change your mind. How do you not know? I've told you twice already what's going on tomorrow. But shout out to... Just seeing if anything changes just once a day. Yeah, sometimes

schedules change. You know, you're dealing with Carol Pope types. You never know. Yeah, she might have a little nap, a little snooze. That's right. And I did have, this week, I had an 89-year-old man on my program. Wow. Is that just the context?

Is there something more to that story? No, I just, remember, I've only twice ever had octogenarians on the program. That's not intentional either. That's not ageism or anything. That's the whole other demo that you're sleeping on right so i mean bojana is saying like where are my contemporaries so yeah exactly so the first was barry whitkin from the purple onion uh son of uh sorry father of uh of uh andrew whitkin from stickeru.com that's where you go to get your stickers and decals we love you at sticker you.com but barry whitkin was only in early march and then i blew away his record he's 82 and blew it away because i had brian mcfarland on this week and brian's 89 turning 90

in august and that dude kicked ass and took names like for a almost 90 year old this guy was awesome took names like for a almost 90 year old this guy was awesome i feel like would you say he was quote-unquote sharp as a whip he was sharp as a wait sharp as a attack or what i think you're sure who is he was he affiliated with hebsey or how did he oh no okay banjo dunk so banjo dunk right banjo dunk basically said hey would you have brian mcfarland on and i went like isn't he dead and then dunk's like no he's like in stouffville and he still got his mind and the plan was pre-pandemic that dunk and i were going to go on a road trip to stouffville and do it in uh do it in brian's like living room and then the pandemic struck and then this plan fell apart so i didn't know i don know what the 89 year olds can zoom.

Like does aunt Sandy zoom? Like, is this something she does? Actually. Yeah. She zooms all the time. She also has like an only fans. She's got a tick tock.

She's got a tick tock and Instagram. Yeah. Discord. She's all over the place. She's got a Twitter. She's got a Twitter for sure. She's got a few burner accounts. Yeah.

I've seen her name in the mix with that Pornhub controversy a few times. Just kidding. That's crossing the line. That's crossing the line. Cam, Cam, Cam, Cam. Too far. April Fools. Yeah.

Just kidding. It's April Fools. So we'll move on from the great Brian McFarlane convo just to say that if you are sleeping on that EP, listen to that thing, man. This guy spills the tea. He comes out of the gate with a Bobby Hull story. He's just out of fucks to give, man.

Go for the gold. And I look now in the chat, and Moose Grumpy agrees that McFarlane was great, she says, would not have guessed him to be that old because he looked younger. He almost looked, I think he might have looked younger than me, but he definitely looked younger than Banjo Dunk.

With all due respect. Brian McFarlane was a classic Fan 590 guest back in the day, was he not? Am I imagining? I feel like Kim and who was the guy guy the boxing guy bert sugar yeah bert sugar randolph yeah it's sort of the same niche from what i recall in terms of getting get those real deep stories dude i love the yesteryear hook sugar go ahead uh stew yeah

i'm trying to steer the ship like to a different direction for a second here sorry to interrupt and derail your guys's conversation it was dick bettel's on 1430 stick a stick a pin in that uh cam i'm wondering it being april fool's day and all is there uh some like uh better than other sort of twitter april fool's announcements that happened today i saw saw Tom Brady did one. Is there any other kind of ones that we should be looking at? Yeah, I actually saw they were getting a lot of praise from trade outlets. 7-Eleven changed their Twitter profile to the band 3-Eleven today.

So that was kind of playful. I don't know. We always see brands this time of year, they'll do April Fool's Day jokes that kind of backfire and then they get cancelled. Did that happen? I don't know. Honestly, I was too distracted by the

Jays game and work this afternoon to keep up on the April Fool's stuff. I would think that with the pandemic still raging, especially in this neck of the woods and all the anxiety around that and the vaccines, we need this, that. I don't know if it's a good time for an April Fool's Day joke. Like, I think it's probably wait till next year. Like, I feel like maybe it's not an appropriate time to be like all silly like that.

But so ironically, and this is not an April Fool's joke. Pandemic Fridays has been picked up for a second season, you're saying. Well, remember, this this goes until the last of us gets our last shot. I mean, says you. We'll see. Now, let me ask you a question, Mike. Yeah. May I ask you a question, if you don't mind?

I would love it. What is going on in Toronto? You just alluded to some doom and gloom that I'm not aware of. Oh, let's fill in. So, okay. Now, part of this has to do with the fact that I've got a few kids actually going to school. But Doug Ford today, and I actually have great anxiety and frustration around all this and what's happening in this province, particularly in Toronto, because our premier talks of these emergency breaks and lockdowns because our ICUs are to capacity. Like this is the great concern.

The ICU is to capacity. And that sounds really scary to me. Like we're going to be telling somebody like, sorry, the ICU is closed. Go off in that field and die. We'll give you some morphine or something like that's the kind of horrific thoughts I'm having. or something like that's the kind of horrific thoughts i'm having and uh this lockdown slash emergency break or gray whatever name he's calling it today i can't quite figure out what's different except that they close patios again like everything else like my kids are still going to school next week they haven't closed that i could still go walk around winters or go to the dentist like

everything it's just like the gatherings that is what they're trying to slow down maybe. I don't know. Yeah, so you still can't gather which I don't think anybody has been doing that indoors at least that I know of. But they did the one thing I noticed is the only change I can kind of see is that the patios are once again closed

and I don't know about you guys but I doubt there was great spread of COVID-19 on these patios I'm not an expert in it so I won't comment on that but I will say that uh it's pretty confusing what's happening right now over there for me to think that like you guys so you're locking down again yeah I yeah my my prediction I I think to be blunt, like April and May are going to be like a fucking, like fucking brutal. And I do think they'll just be more harsh measures that come in. And aside, you know, Dr. Michael Warner?

Yeah, I follow him. I see him on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know who Stephen Merritt is? He's the singer for the band The Magnetic Fields. No, no. Every time I see Dr. Michael Warner, I think of Stephen Merritt. he's the singer for the band The Magnetic Fields every time I see Dr. Michael

Warner I think of Stephen Merritt let's see if anyone in the chat room might know who that is but yeah I mean these to my opinion these seem like half measures it's a mockdown right yeah and like not

you know as much as I think it is important to kids in school like this is fucking like they're building like fucking field hospitals. Like just just like let's take a step back. If you said, hey, I'm you from three years ago, just as up, there's gonna be a global pandemic. And like Sunnybrook to be building a fucking field hospital. Right. It's so bad. Like you'd be like, what the fuck? And Cam, since we were over a year.

By the way, great commercials. Those were great commercials back in the day. Hey, I'm you. You're me. Like a man's life or something. Yeah, they were good. They were good. I actually enjoyed those. We're 55 weeks into this thing.

Ask me how I know that we're 55 weeks into this thing. Because it's Pandemic Friday. Yeah, it's the 55th Pandemic Friday. There you go. Freedom 55. It sounds like our ICU capacity has not increased at all in this last year. Like one year ago, didn't we think, oh, maybe we should, you know, prepare for this because, you know, our models show that we might need more ICU capacity with this pandemic. You know what's hotter than this take, Mike?

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Julian Merriweather, the Josh Donaldson trade haul, showed us that he's got some stuff. He was in that trade, like the Donaldson to Atlanta swap? Is that where Donaldson, oh no, to Cleveland, I guess, right? Yeah, for for merryweather

wow i i gotta say i i you know it's a classic it's only one game i i i was keeping an eye on it all afternoon i i was like really impressed like they do seem like they have a bit of grit in there and the part that really stuck out as me is like Garrett Cole looking frustrated when he came out of the game. Yep. Um, I mean, I'm, I'm vaguely optimistic because I just think all the teams in the AL are so

shitty this year. I just feel like there's like 10 teams you could tell me would make sure playoffs. I would not be surprised, including the, your Toronto blue Jays, Mike, not Stu's your Toronto.

We had, we had our ace on the hill today on the mound and uh that is that is the game I feel like those that's the game we got to win the game we got Ryu in the on the mound it's just the the next four guys in the rotation we'll have to see what they what they have yeah we'll see how that goes but yeah uh Cam could you want to tell us about the uh very cool Twitter spaces thing uh I popped in so twitter now we're not going to talk we're going to talk about twitter spaces as like an equivalent or a similar product to the one i can never get into clubhouse right so well i i would i would argue clubhouse is a similar

product even though it came first um okay so but this, and also if I, if I got the name right, there's a locker room from Spotify that's going to be similar to, I guess. Yeah. I saw that you still need to have Ivan Payhart on from who you've met at the Twitter office to talk about all things Spotify. Yeah. So the, the star did, I, I don't even know how long it went. It seemed like it was going on the entire game.

Whereas Wilner holding court with everyone from uh fotm's laura armstrong and gregor chisholm to uh former blue jay ricky romero to paul from uh aka a bitter asian dude from uh kim's convenience who was just like listening to part of it yeah and, you know who actually asked a question about Blue Jays backup outfielder Jonathan Davis? And it was right after Tyler, head of sales, right? VP of sales. VP of sales. Can I guess?

Yeah, you'll never get it. Oh, I won't? No. Okay, so go ahead. No amends. None other than Mark Fulldog Fuller. Wow. Yeah.

Mike, I don't know if you're on at that point. A guy asked a question about Jonathan Davis. That was actually one of my oldest friends, Mark Fuller. Wow. I've known him since kindergarten. Wow, what a get. That's huge. With his egg profile and his Twitter followers.

How do you follow VP of Sales, though? And he's got those pipes, because I definitely was on. I was on the Spaces chat. So Mike Wilner, and I just thought it was very interesting. And I thought it's my first experience with Spaces, and I thought it was pretty slick. I spoke to Wilner the other day, by the way. Tell us, because Wilner might be on tomorrow,

might be on Toronto Mike tomorrow. Oh, OK. Well, I mean, against his better judgment, Willner the other day, by the way. Tell us because Willner might be on tomorrow. Might be on Toronto Mike tomorrow. Against his better judgment, it sounds like he's invited me to play in his Dynasty Baseball League, which I feel like Cam would be really suited for more than me even because Cam is a real numbers cruncher.

I'm not kidding at all. Can I get in on that? Because I just discovered the league I was in for 20 years. It's not happening with all these old CWC guys that I said. Let's talk offline about it. I have no problem including you as a co-manager of some kind. Okay. Maybe we could team up.

My team name is Demolition. Can I be Smash? You can. Okay. You can. Anyway, we'll offline that. Okay, perfect. That's awesome.

So Tyler Campbell did ask a question of Wilner about if he's looking forward to his Toronto Mike appearance. So thank you, Tyler. Wilner was very complimentary to Toronto Mike. Well, he probably thought I might be listening. Yeah. And he at least he knew Cam Gordon was listening and he might be aware of our special relationship. Our special bond.

Our fluid bond. Well, it's funny now that we've done this 55 weeks, I'll have people who kind of talk to you like you live with me. Like, they'll be like,

oh, you know your Cam, like I'll have like kind of famous people be like, oh, you're Cam Gordon and they're talking about you like, like you and I are like partners in some respect. Like we're like pretty inert gimmick. Well, you're Cam Gordon and they're talking about you like you and I are like partners in some respect.

Like we're really like pretty inert gimmick. You guys do meet up during pandemics in a park to drink beer. Only twice though. You guys also get together behind your real partners back and record deep dives into Canadian fundraising philanthropic songs. As a shadowy faceless entity, not even in our country. I mean, the writing is on the wall here. The writing is on the wall. Should we tease?

Can we tease that there will, and you're invited to this, Stu, of course, but can we tease that we might do a deep dive into WrestleMania 3? The fact that you just, like, said it like that is just so insulting, and I think Cam can even back me up here. Like you're like in studio, you're invited if you want to, but we're going to talk about WrestleMania three. I mean,

Stu, you're probably busy. I mean, just, just, just you do. I know you're doing it because we didn't invite you to the, we didn't invite you to the tears are not enough.

Cause honestly, I'm aware I'm aware, but I just want to make it clear that It must have gone to my junk folder. I want to make it clear that you're absolutely invited to join us for the WrestleMania 3 Deep Dive. And Mike, I know we also have table day. And actually, Mike, we should do this on the last day of school at Degrassi's School's Out Deep Dive. Done. Cam, you should hook him up with the Canadian

Bulldog for that episode. Hey, serious question. So wait. So Gregoski's saying, you know, he's on behalf of the FOTMs, he's suggesting that we should do WrestleMania 2. But it's my fucking show. The one that I really got into to the highest degree, like the

apex of my wrestling love, was number three. but if you took away my bias in that regard which one would you guys do the deep dive well i mean listen wrestlemania two the build-up to hogan versus bundy everybody remembers saturday night's main event was the biggest show uh and you know bundy broke hogan's ribs they had his ribs still haven't healed i've heard yeah they had the the matches in several different arenas around the country. Very ambitious. Mr. T, Box, Rowdy Roddy Piper.

In real life, they hated each other. Some stories there. But Hogan and Andre, I understand, happens to be the most iconic match probably of all time. And Steamboat Savage is no slouch. So WrestleMania 3 is probably the one you lean to if you really want it. And I like the idea that it was all at the Silverdome, right? The Pontiac Silverdome.

Whereas number two, you mentioned multiple locations. Like, it just feels a little less, I don't know. One of them was Long Island, I believe, which is, you know, like if you had WrestleMania, like, you know, Mississauga or York region with all due respect. Not really. That's no respect given. Long Island is a hotbed. Nassau Coliseum had a lot of great uh going on there

new york islanders won four championships in a row at that yeah that's true billy smith you know not to check you there but uh okay so wrestlemania six however mike call me call me when you want to do that episode because i actually have an interesting perspective that is so unique because my perspective would have been from the front row at WrestleMania. That's where I sat at WrestleMania six. So if you had front row seats to WrestleMania six, maybe you can come to my side chat with brother Bill on WrestleMania six. Just moose grumpy.

You're right in the chat. We kind of referenced that it would be about two. And then I changed my mind and took it. I have no problem with three. I will say two probably had the best array of celebrity guests. Everyone from Cab Calloway to Joan Rivers to Clara. Where's the Beef? Was Mary Hart two?

I think so. And the recently deceased G. Gordon Liddy. Right, which basically prompted this whole thing. Because Wise Blot let us know that G. Gordon Liddy had passed away. Plus all the NFL players, the NFL WWF Battle Royale. You guys are just burying the lead. What's the point of the episode? You just spoiled the whole thing.

We're going to do three. Yeah, we're going to do three. The deep dive's in three. because I'm the boss here. But welcome, everybody. And I do appreciate those listening from Toronto. Who haven't turned off the show yet because it's the opening. That anxieties are sky high right now, I think, with the variant because it's variant versus vaccine. The variant's winning right now.

What does that mean? So you L.A. people don't now. What does that mean? So, you LA people don't understand. No, I mean, what are you talking about? Like, the variant beats the vaccine? Well, this is sort of the language surrounding this period. Is this hyperbole? No, no, no, no, no. I don't think it's hyperbole.

So, obviously, the variant is far more contagious, and it seems to put younger people in hospitals, okay? So obviously the variant is far more contagious and it seems to put younger people in hospitals. Okay, so the original COVID, the classic COVID-19, if you will, like the classic Coke, it really, you know, healthy 20-somethings and 30-somethings

usually didn't end up in a hospital. But this fucking variant seems to not only be transfer easier, like be more contagious, but it seems to affect younger people more. And because this vaccine is rolling out, you know, top down, like I think my mom might get it tomorrow, actually. I think she's on a list for tomorrow.

So hopefully she gets it tomorrow. Very good. But, and she's in her seventies, but there's this like literally, like it's kind of like a race, like the variant versus the vaccine and the variant is winning. So are, like I variant versus the vaccine, and the variant is winning. So like I mentioned off the top, the ICUs are at capacity.

Scary times. There's a lot of anxiety in the city. And it was pointed out to me in the chat by YYZGord that this lockdown emergency break is like a province-wide thing. And I speak with a Toronto perspective here. So we've already been kind of locked down. That's why I don't see any changes. The only change I see is patios closing up again.

But yeah, so Stu, I don't know if you're talking to friends and family here, but it's a bit, I'll be honest, you can feel it, especially with the school age kids. Like you could, it's palpable, this anxiety. So is there any chance in hell that like the two week quarantine thing is going to be over soon?

Or is that something that's going to be going on for a long time? It's not any... No, man. We're heading into a 28-day lockdown or mockdown, whatever we call it. I don't think that's going away anytime soon. When do you plan to return to the country, Stu Stone? I mean, this news is definitely putting some stress on stay there uh we'll see okay yeah i i feel like today on on twitter just taking a pulse i mean

mike i think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the palpable uh fear rage anxiety anger like all the emotions. And we'll see how this goes. I mean, this is a race. And I also feel like a lot of people subconsciously, you know, they're friends in the US. They see getting vaccinated. Like I had a call today.

But that's good news for Canadians because, you know, there'll be some more vaccines coming. I said it before, I'll say it again. It's not how you start the race, it's how you finish it. Let's see where we're at and see where we're at. I mean, right now it sucks. We're stumbling out of the gate, but I think we're going to win the race.

Yeah, I do wish that there would just be more transparency at the provincial level about why they're making the decisions they are it seems like a lot are with small businesses and doug ford said today like and he needs to choose his words better like he said it kills me to see what's happening in small business i'm like well kill this is all killing a lot of people in the literal sense um but yeah it's it's it's a fucked up situation all around again i don't envy anyone making these decisions but holy fuck like it's it's gonna be a grim few months all the more reason I'm more appreciative of

doing this once a week as a nice distraction from the grim realities plus the J's are like clearly going 962 and 0 so there's that so yes that's why this exists this exists to offer some kind of an escape. So we do some real talk off the top and share how we're all feeling here. But, of course, we're going to spend the next couple of hours kicking out our favorite spring jams.

Spring jams. We're still doing a show? What time is it? Are you new to Pandemic Friday? I thought this was the Michael Corran. The George Springer edition. Oh, we didn't see him today. Here.

So for the second week in a row, I'm going to... There you go. ...introduce this topic with Chalk Circle, a jam, again, we talked about this last week, produced by Chris Wardman from Blue Peter,

who's coming on Toronto Mike shortly. It's nice to be able to use the same song two weeks in a row to kick out our subject. So it is April Fool's Day. This is Chalk Circle, April Fool. I wanted to hit the post, but I'm way early on that, so I'll fucking, fucking, I'm going to break it down. Okay.

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Mike sent me and that was really really cool so just a couple of words before we kick out the first jam I want to say Mimico Mike, he is ripping up the Mimico. He's ripping up the Mimico real estate scene, realestatelove.ca. And if you reach out to Mimico Mike for any reason,

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Yes. Here you have the CEO of the company just saying like, hey, you can talk to me directly. You don't even have to talk to seven different layers of lackeys to get to the top. Toronto Mike listeners, you can go right to the CEO. You've got my ear. And Cambrio,

I know he's an FOSS, but he's in the chat. So we're live at live.torontomike.com if you're listening to the podcast. Next week you should join us there. It's a lot of fun with the chat. But he says, it's all good, Mike. Your balls are empty. So, Cam, it's still juiced.

There's just no seed. I think that's what Canada Kev told me I can say. Cambrio, also known as the better Cam. I didn't say that, Cam. Come on, don't be mad, Cam. Okay, where do I begin? This is awesome. So these are Spring Jams. Songs about spring.

Sure. Or spring jams. Sort of. Spring it. You have to explain why you chose the song for the Spring Jams episode of Toronto Mike. If you can justify it, it's all good. These songs are specifically songs about springtime. Does Bruce Springsteen count? I would be disappointed

if you did that. Can you play the Jerry Springer theme song? You can, and then I'll boo you off the stage, but you can try anything you like. Can you do the Slinky commercial jingle? There's a spring there. Slinky, what a wonderful toy. It's Slinky do like the Slinky commercial jingle. There's like a spring there.

Slinky, what a wonderful toy. It's Slinky, it's Slinky. Yeah, so if I play that, does that qualify? Well, you know, we'll have to debate. These are actually better options than like half my picks. So as usual, come on, that's easy.

That's like me beating you in a limbo contest, Kim. cam yeah stop it oh stop stop it so let's start with the when you stop and then while we kick out the jams uh we'll find time between songs etc to just check in with how la stew is doing and how uh last toronto cam is is doing so because you know i didn't give you guys much of a chance off the top. No, you were too busy talking about octogenarians, which is fine. Two of them in March. Yeah. One of them is 89.

Yep, and he'll be 90 in August. We'll get the sequel done shortly after he turns 90. Sorry. I don't know why it was on his Wikipedia page, probably because of opening day. Do you know how old Cito Gaston is? Can I guess?

78. 78. 77. 77 years young this year, Cito. I think he just turned 77 in early March. Love Cito. So do I. Yeah.

Brings back some good memories. Okay. Cam, do you want to say anything before your first jam, or do you want me to just kick it? Just kick it. Self-righteous Martial Purse Come on, I don't buy the names

Please Bait Fate I will live it I will erase it March of the pigs. Yeah. So this song, uh, again,

March, we just, it's April now is wow. Holy shit. This is worse than that police thing that Stu did. Just let me go. Is this for real? Is this for real?

Okay, Stu, what? Okay, we're in April. It's your name right there. April Wine. What's the month before April? March? Cam, please tell me there's more than that. That's

That's the reason you chose this 9 inch nails Well to quote Roxy Music There's more than this So yeah March of the Pigs One of the more interesting It's obviously early spring Let me talk You'll get your chance

You'll get your chance Now this song was actually There you go Cambrio good pick talk. You'll get your chance. Let him finish. You'll get your chance. Now, this song was actually... There you go, Cambrio. Good pick. Thank you. Let me hear this justification. It better be fucking good, Cam. Yeah. So, you know what? This was actually the first single off the Downward Spiral.

Okay? Okay. Gotcha. Many say that was nine inch nails breakthrough album um it's quite a short song this video was directed by someone named peters christophson who also directed videos for ministry body can't rage against the machine so a lot of heavy bands there right you know who else this guy directed a video for no hansen uh that's what we're getting that that's what and that makes it a spring

jam okay the cred double D is saying oh who cares of it the spring song it's a good song double that's not the way this works like this isn't about playing great songs the fact that it's got the word March in it which which is different context, just like when Stu fucked things up with that police song.

That wasn't a fuck things up. It's who are you to tell me that KRS one is not a fan of stink. And who are you to say March is not the third. What's the first day of spring. Oh, every year I'm going to play the fucking gun. However, however,

however, however, however, however, the word March in the title of the song you chose is not the month of march right they're talking they're talking about march as in marcher took us out of here with this bullshit yeah i had any of the fucking pigs like they're oh it's the march you know oh the spring the spring of the pigs you know i love pigs they're going outside. The pigs are happy.

No, they're not. There's a lockdown. How do you know? Well, this came out in 1994. Yeah, March, month of the pig. Yeah, that's part of it. I'm so disappointed right now because this is a brutal pig. You're bombing so hard right now.

You're like JP, Aaron, Seabia. Well, why are you guys hogging the spotlight so we get pigs? Anyway, Mike, do you want to play out of our shells? How do you want to work this? Anyway, March. Anyway, do you want to know one more fun fact? I do want to know one more fun

fact, and it better be fun or else, oh my god, you don't want to know. Yeah, Cam opening with a gimmick. VP of Sales is right. This is a fucking gimmick, Cam. You're better than this. We're working kayfabe here, for one thing. Anyway, this song was on Beavis and Butthead,

and they said they watched a video for March at Pig's. They enjoyed it very much, except for the little piano part, which they said sucked. Oh, I like that part. Yeah, I kind of like it too. It gets better, that whole part. Yeah, I like it.

Me too. Anyway, March of the Pigs, spring songs, next. Well, this looks like it's a layup for Stu Stone this week, folks. Cash your tickets now. Not so fast, Stu Stone, because I go second, and I think I'm winning this round. You your tickets now. Not so fast, Stu Stone, because I go second and I think I'm winning this round. You ready? Sure. One,

two, one, two, three, four. guitar solo They met in a hurricane Standing in the shelter Out of the rain She tucked a note into his hand Later on they took his car No one down where the beaches are

He wrote her name in the sand Never even let go of her hand Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Blue Rodeo. Yeah. Five days in May. Wow. Wow, powerful, man. Hard hittings.

Holy shit. Wow, Powerful, man. Hard-hitting. Holy shit. Wow. You sure answered, Kim. I like this song. Five days in May. May. All of May is in spring. Okay.

Mike, what's your opinion on Blue Rodeo? I feel like they don't... Strangely, they feel like they don't appear that often on Toronto Mike. Am I wrong? I like them. they don't strangely they feel like they don't appear that often on Toronto Mike. Am I wrong? I liked him. Um, Stu,

I believe he was addressing me. I believe with that question here. Uh, absolutely. I'm a big fan. I've, uh, seen them at Massey hall. I've loved him since outskirts when they played try at my school in my

school dance in the gym. Now they really, yeah, they played try in my school. Holy shit. And I loved it. it candles type of thing it was great do you remember who who acted in the video for try from another band this this would be a good this would actually be a good topic people from other bands who appeared on

oh wow great question um i think she was dating a member of Blue Rodeo at the time or something. I could be wrong. Who? It was Michelle McAdory from Crash Vegas. Right. I feel like she was dating Greg Keeler maybe at that time. I feel like there's a lot of overlap between that band and Blue Rodeo. I think so.

But I did my homework because a couple of weeks ago stu called me out for not doing my homework so i'm doing my homework every week now uh firstly this song five days in may very confusingly is on an album that blue rodeo decided to title five days in july i always found that very confusing okay so five days in may is on five days in july That's a fun fact. It's also Blue Rodeo's most commercially successful album, which went six times platinum. And Stu, I'm wondering, do you know what platinum means in Canada? Platinum, I think, is 500,000?

100,000? 100,000. Nope, it's 80,000 in Canada. 80,000. So I did the math, okay? This took me hours, but I 100,000. Nope, it's 80,000 in Canada. 80,000. So I did the math, okay? This took me hours, but I did the math. That means that their most commercially successful album only sold 480,000 units. 480,000.

I always think Blue Rodeo, much like the Tragically Hip, I don't think was ever popular at all in the united states and i i feel right i feel like people almost don't talk about that enough like in terms of the tragically being the only band that was this popular but like blue rodeo was a big fucking deal like i don't know if they ever did like arena tours but they were like pretty close for a few years like they were huge they can sell out massey hall over and over again no this is a this is a big fucking band and we weren't allowed to play them last week because they're a toronto band but uh you know this is jim cuddy on vocals but this uh this album was recorded on greg keeler's farm so there's a fun fact they recorded this

whole thing on greg keeler's farm and uh they uh were making this album as like a like a sort of a pseudo tribute to neil young's harvest era like the sound that you hear in neil young's harvest okay was this the album with lost together on it i don't think so was that like the next maybe you're right maybe it is i should have i can't remember uh because you know i i did have outskirts but i actually didn't i never owned another one until they put out a greatest hits and then i bought that like i didn't actually buy for some reason i didn't buy blue rodeo like i don't know if they weren't alt rock enough for me they were but i did like them very much so, I always feel like if they got marketed differently,

they could have been like a Wilco type band. Cause they, I saw them, I think once at the amphitheater and they did, you know, they do jam out a bit, especially when like Bob Wiseman was in there, they could get a little experimental.

Andrew Ward with a fact check here, Greg and Michelle McAdory were friends. I don't know if they were lovers. Why can't we be lovers? We can't be friends. Yeah, Colin Cripps. That's okay. Colin Cripps.

That's your, yeah, your connector. It's okay. I also have another fun fact, courtesy of Beck, who's in the chat. Beck says that the current keyboardist for Blue Rodeo went to Michael Power High School, Mike Bogusky. There you go. Okay.

Shout out to Mike B, Mike Bogusky. There you go. Shout out to Mike B. Mike Bogusky. This is a fun fact by Andrew Ward. Maybe he should be the co-host. Red Earth, which was the first cross-dragons recorded with Malcolm Byrne in Daniel Lanois' studio. Malcolm Byrne

was, of course, from Boys Brigade and then became quite a notable producer in one of uh daniel lenoir's henchmen in his stable i feel like might have even kind of dabbled in some of those like peter gabriel or you too stuff got into breaking news mike bogusky from uh who's in blue rodeo now is actually the brother of mark bogus bogusky bog it's Boguski, who I do remember Mark. I can't remember how to say his last name, but he was in my class.

So it's not quite as cool as saying, you know, Hayden and Noah Mintz and Hayden and all the Haydens. I mean, it's no Mark Fuller. Or DJ Farbsy. Mike, can you paint the picture a bit more of Blue Rodeo playing at the high school dance? Like, were you excited?

Like, are kids excited about this at the club? Is that what you heard? Okay, so I need to rewind the tape and hear what I said. I'm very, it's early in my first beer. So this is me. I promise you I'm sober. Their song played at the dance. Yeah, the DJ played.

Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. I need to make sure I didn't mislead anybody. The same way as me saying Bobby Brown played at my eighth birthday party. Oh, that's his need to make sure I didn't mislead anybody. The same way as me saying Bobby Brown played at my eighth birthday party. Oh, that's his prerogative. I mean, I'm sure it is. It's the way they want to live.

Don't you think it's weird that that song was called Don't Be Cruel and there was already a very, very famous and different Don't Be Cruel? Yeah, and by the way, did you watch the player? I think it actually wasn't called the other hit was called don't be cruel

wasn't Bobby Brown's like something something bracket don't be cruel let me look that up look that up because one day we will do parentheses yeah I think that was by the way the introductions today to the Jays Yankees game they actually did a tribute to Bobby Brown

a memorial but not the new edition Bobby Brown Dr. Bobby Brown who I don't know if he's like the commissioner but it's strange it's almost like when Gino Vannelli named a song Wild Horses like does he not know about the Wild Horses

it's definitely called that FYI yeah and the album was Don't Be Cruel, too. Like, there was a song plus an album. Because you think that's a cover, and then you hear it, and you're like, that's not a cover. But okay. All right, so.

You know, also, ironically, I think maybe even that same year or within that same year, Cheap Trick released a cover of Don't Be Cruel. Yes, yes. Because that's the first Cheap Trick I heard, I think, was the cover. Fuck yeah.

Yeah. Okay, so five days in May, do you guys both concur? Do you both agree that that is a great Yes, yes. Because that's the first cheap trick I heard, I think, was the cover. Fuck yeah. Yeah. Okay. So five days in May, do you guys both concur? Do you both agree that that is a great spring jam? Yeah. Well, I mean, first two tracks, you know, that we played today, both were named after months of the year. So yeah, perfect. Like it's between, not that we have winners and losers.

No, we don't because you guys are just not capable of winning. So Stu, introduce your first jam. I want to ask a question because you guys are just not capable of winning so uh stew introduce your first jam i want to ask a question of you guys okay i need my last carrot mike mike i know you're good you're good with math a little bit yeah what year was it 28 years ago and i want everybody to pay attention here because we're going to do a little exercise in how to win uh you win a pandemic Friday episode. 28 years ago, what year was it? 93. 93. Good year.

Let's go back to exactly April of 1993. So can we put ourselves in that embodiment? Can we embody that we're there? Can we imagine? Can you humor me? We're in 1993. It's the spring spring the start of the new baseball season mike the jays just won the world series and they just brought even more

weapons things are looking good am i right indeed yeah we got paul muller now there was a song mike that defined april of 1993 more than any other song in my opinion and it happens to be a spring anthem as far as I'm concerned and I only have and I only have a question I have a question for you

you know they say that May you know there's May flowers or whatever the expression is what is it that brings May flowers? April showers. April showers. Hmm. I'm Alan Cross.

Does that mean I can play it? You broke kayfabe. There you go. All I can say is that my life is pretty plain I like watching the puddles gather rain And all I can do is just pour some tea for two And speak my point of view But it's not the same It's not the same

I just want someone to save me I'll always be there when you wait You know I like to keep my chief I was digging it, but go ahead, my friend. You know what's really interesting about this is one of those songs, you know how we love those songs when like the bass player wrote the song. This is one of those examples of like the bass player wrote the song and it's like the biggest hit from the band. We love when that happens.

And this is an example of that. And, you know, it's someone who's had a depressing winter that can't even get out of bed. And now it's turning into spring and he's watching the puddles gather rain and his life is just so mundane. And you know what? April of 93, we were introduced to the B-Girl that sort of elevated this song

from just like a cool song to a whole other pop culture experience. And I figured I would use my time here to update us on what has happened. Oh, okay. Since the video that this I like, this is a terrible choice,

but I like this game. I'm ready. Wow. It's coming from the guy who did like March of the. Yeah. Which is the worst, worst pick possible. Anyway.

Anyway. Let's talk about the fucking B girl. All right. Stand by. And then do the Killjoys girl. Her name is Heather DeLoach. Okay? She is best known as the top-dancing B-Girl in this music video.

So from there, she went on to have quite an interesting, prolific career. 1993, the same year, she appeared on the television program phenom in the role of kathy do you remember that show i don't 1994 the career is still going she's in the movie i'll do anything 1994 same year she's cast in the incredible camp nowhere you guys must remember that. That I remember. Do you? I do. Yeah, I know that name. Starting Andrew Keegan. Oh, it opened with sperm, I think.

1995, career still going. She was in a film called A Little Princess. Sounds cute. 1996, if I'm not mistaken, this is either a Tracy Allman show or a Tracy Gold show. Tracy takes on. Oh, that's Tracy Allman. Okay, good. That was a big one.

1997. Big show. The Beautician and the Beast. Okay. Yeah. 1999. 1999. One of Cam's favorites.

Anywhere but here. Is that like a Patrick Depp-y gimmick? Could have been. Just a generic title. She took a bit of a sabbatical from acting, but came back with a vengeance in 2003, appearing in two episodes of a very popular show under the role of Helen.

Please say hello to ER. Oh. I watched ER. Okay, that's ER. I watched ER. That's good. After another sabbatical in 2007, she shows up as teenage fan in the hit film Balls of Fury.

Don't know that one. 2008. Not to be typecast, but she's playing the schoolgirl in Reno. 9-1-1. Wow. This IMDb page is way worse than yours, Stu. I just hope you like it.

Like a live read. And, ladies and gentlemen, to wrap it up, the career is still going strong in 2020. Just a few months ago, she appeared as herself, singing the songs Raise Your Glass. And since you've been gone on the hit Raise Your Glass, and Since You've Been Gone on the hit reality competition show I Can See Your Voice.

Oh. I Can See Your Voice. That's a TV show. That's a TV show. Is that from the mask people? That's the same, yeah, same kind of gimmick. Oh, they're just pumping out shit. People are eating it up.

Well, the B-Girl was the celebrity get. get wow that should tell you that stew stone was unavailable so there you go blind melon big victory boom boom shake the room let's go back to my room etc i like this go ahead cam before Blind Melon, are you guys aware that the band Blind Melon has been touring for the last 12 years? I knew they kept going, right? Yeah, they had a situation like

a pinch hitter. They had like a sort of a Lima Zilli type. Well, you know, Alice and Shane still tours. Sure. Do you guys also know they once type. Well, you know, Alice and Chains. Alice and Chains still tours. Like a Juan Benique type. Sure. Sure. That's right. And do you guys also know they once played at

Maple Leaf Gardens? Opening for an act. Lenny Kravitz. Lenny Kravitz. Very good. Wow. Good for you. Were you there? You must have been there. Our entire high school was there. Wow. So pointed out by Canada Kev, but I was about to do it Canada Kev,

if you didn't point it out that, uh, yeah, Shannon Hoon, who, who missed, he missed the 27 club by one year. He was 28 years old when he overdosed.

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need the hookup. I got the CEO. Just before we leave, I don't want to leave uh i don't want to leave blind melon yet because i want but you you do your point there cam and then i'll come yeah no this is still about blind melon um interestingly 66.6666 percent of the bands from round one played at woodstock 1994 wow right because Inch Nails. I don't mean to keep things blind melancholy, but

let's move on. I won the round. I just want to point out the obvious because if we don't point it out, somebody will learn it. But of course, in the Don't Cry video by Guns N' Roses, Shannon Hoon is doing the background. Absolutely. He like peed on some people in Toronto. Yeah,

that's right. Or took his penis out or something. He did something like that. Yeah. Actually there, there, there was a concert Stu and I went to, and this was our lady piece,

tripping Daisy and glue leg. Oh yes. Um, at the warehouse that blind melon, I think was supposed to headline, but this is like right after he died. Can you name the FOTM who was in Glue Leg?

Bob Makowitz. That's correct. Yes, again. Cam would have been my phone-a-friend on that one. And that Tripp and Daisy, they're the ones with I Got a Girl, right? I Got a Girl. I love that song.

Very 90s love that song. Yeah. A very, very 90s-ish one. How come we haven't kicked that one out yet? We got to do that at some point. That would be a good days. I feel like that would be a good spring jam. Okay. DJ Farbsy was a big tripping daisy.

So we all like No Rain because how do you not like that song? What a fantastic single that was from Blind Man. And I never get sick of that song somehow because it's great i'm not sure why yeah and it's the right time like i don't i mean perfect time for me i'm like 19 years old when that comes out and it was just perfect so uh thank you for kicking that out stew stone thank you yes yes guy yes guy jim tatty needs a nickel from you because you're not supposed to say that. Okay, so Cam, you want to say anything before your second jam? Now, all prefaces.

This song, definitely when it came out, was not a spring song, but in the years since has become very associated with spring. So there's an interesting story, which I'm mainly going to focus my fun talks on that. So Mike, hit the music. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No. And I'm dedicating this. It's an interesting story, which I'm mainly going to focus my fun fucks on that. So Mike, hit the music. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No. And I'm dedicating this.

It's an important question. It's an important question. Okay, okay, okay. What is it? What is it? Then I'm dedicating it. Go ahead. Is it preface or preface?

It's preface. Yeah, so Cam said preface. It's Jodakai. Preface. Anyway. Preface. The head of communications, ladies and gentlemen. Bogusky, Bogusky, who knows?

I want to dedicate this jam to Monica because when I told her you were kicking it out, she was amused by this and she thought it was appropriate. So are you ready? To be fair, Cam, I said hyperbole earlier today and I called it hyperbole up until today. How do you say posthumous? I hear people sometimes say posthumous.

Yeah, it's posthumous? I hear people sometimes say posthumous. Yeah, it's posthumous. Here we go. Oh, wow. Sam is really putting on a show tonight. Sam's got the water. She's on. You might have been hurt, babe. That ain't no lie.

Just send them all come and go Remember you told me That it made you believe in no man, no cry Maybe that's right Every little thing I do Never seem up for you. You don't want to lose it again. But I'm not like them. Baby, when you find the beat, it's about somebody.

Guess what? It's going to be me. Me. You got no choice Okay, so we're hearing in sync with the song It's gonna be me Now, obviously, when this song came out The actual name of the song is It's Gonna Be Me But for anyone who spends any amount of time on twitter.com

or the Instagram app or anywhere on social media every year last day of April you'll just see a lot of memes of Justin Timberlake with it's going to be May now I'll admit

this meme cliche is kind of fucked out. I don't ever need to see it again. The interesting thing about this and partially why I chose it, I didn't realize how long people have been doing this on social media. Now, do you guys know

partially why this got popularized? This meme? Because there's actually an article that's now like six years old about this meme and why people Is this meme because there's actually an article that's now like six years old about this meme and why is this meme selling as an nft it probably is it probably is it's probably not cheap either um in on april 30th 2014 a gentleman named barack obama put a photo of himself with the Justin Timberlake. Looked like they're at the White House with the caption. All I read was it's going to be May.

Right. On the last day of April. Now, President Obama was well known for having a strong digital game. One of the many things which we remember from his presidency. This article I saw said that was a real defining moment for this meme. After that point, everyone you knew or everyone you knew and did like was putting this and thinking they were like the first person to ever use this meme. And then now it's just become almost an annual tradition much like in the fotm universe we all talked about dave gondarva's on the first day of spring right the rest of the civilization

the last day of april they're talking about in sync on that day and specifically the song it's gonna be may stew what's your reaction to this controversial decision by Cam? I think that Cam is a piece of shit he is just like wasting teachers time he is he's over to it what teachers? you're wasting Cam Brio's time buddy he is on water skis

in the lake getting ready with his leather jacket on to jump the shark he's already in the air at this point the only solace we have from this awful pic is how hooky the chorus is. Oh, boy, oh, boy. What a disgrace Cam is. Well, let's unpack this a little bit.

I would actually use the word disgrace to describe how he is hitting it. Steve, in the chat, Steve, I think it's Steve Leggett, I believe it is, in the chat, and not my brother. He says, finally, some real music. So he's very happy with your innocence. I mean, you got to love the, it's very hooky.

Yeah, yeah, but you don't have to love that song. I'm not a big fan of that song, but the meme, and that meme, I liked it better before it became so ubiquitous. It's sort of like the May the 4th one. I used to love the May the 4th one. Leave it to Cam to bring the hackiest shit to the table. No, I don't like it either. I'm just saying this is something

in the culture. YYZ thinks you're over too. What does this have to do with spring, Cam? It's going to be May. This is something people put on internet every spring. It's better than your March to the Pigs. I'll give you that much. Thank you. Do you know who wrote this song?

It better be Sharon Lewis and Bram Harkin. I'm going to guess it's that Swedish guy who writes it. It is. He said he was inspired by two songs. Joe Jackson Stepping Out. And the other song, Stu, you'll like this

was Rupert Holmes, the song Him. Oh. It's Rupert Holmes' yacht rock. That's a great parentheses jam. When we kick out parentheses jams, it's not that song, but the Pina Colada song. Because it's a great example of using parentheses in a song title. It's one of the best.

Anyway, it's going to be May in in sync i don't fucking like that song i don't fucking like people use that meme but i don't like justin timberlake i think it's great i don't like his hair in that song i don't like anything i like that whole era like yeah it's awful i i have no attachment to i just don't care it's not i don't think it's funny. That whole no strings attached, terrible. And by the way, I would say this. I'll be doing a deep dive on the no strings attached album on Sunday. Me and YYZ.

Well, YYZ thinks it's another stretch. He's a bit disappointed. I'm just walking away with fucking championships here, guys. He says when justification takes longer than the fun facts, there's probably an issue. And he's right. That's probably a sign that it's not a great

choice. I was just going to say that NSYNC, in my mind, in my ears, NSYNC makes Backstreet Boys sound like the fucking Beatles. That's all I'm going to say about NSYNC. That's not accurate. I don't share that sentiment. In my mind, in my head. Okay. Are you guys ready for my second jam?

Not really. Here we go. And let it boil here a bit here, so it takes a moment. But it's worth it. Okay. Long we were searching these serpentine streets Okay. In the desperate heat of the clubs Drinking deep from that cup We'll drink it up Drink it up

Drink it up Drink it up Choke it out Choke it out Each step was something The beating, the blood and the heat In our hands Of twelve regular men So when we come down Cathedral Street Hollow and beaten

To the room at our end I'm going back up again I'm going up I'm going up I'm going up I'm going up I'm going up I miss this band. Okay, this is Hey Rosetta. This song is called Your Spring.

And if you have been, I don't know, living under a rock or maybe you don't know, Hey Rosetta, they're a band. They're now defunct, actually, but they are from St. John's, Newfoundland, and Labrador. I feel like this is a signature band of Indie 88 during their first decade or so. Like really in heavy rotation the whole time this band. Am I wrong? No, I don't think that's wrong at all.

They had a moment, I've seen them live a couple of times and this album, so this song is on the album, what album is on? Oh, it's on the album Seeds and it's my favorite Hey Rosetta album and I spent a period of time like spinning seeds over and over again this is the second single from speeds but seeds

but this is a big for a period of time this was a big can con band i was wondering like how familiar you'd be with hey rosetta and stew as well like is did hey rosetta hit stew's radar at any point no no and unfortunately it's not going to hit the scoreboard for you either, Mike. I'm sorry. I feel like this band, it's... I mean, you know, whenever anyone says, oh, like, rock

music is dead, or there's no more rock bands, I mean, I think there always will be. Like, this is a good example. They point to a band like this when they say that. Yeah, like, you know, whether you like it or not, like here's guys from Newfoundland who picked up some guitars and got kind of popular and had a pretty decent run.

It's honestly... Had some stuff on the radio. This album is fantastic, and the single's really cool. This is, again, your spring. That's why we're kicking it out today. But if you haven't listened to any Hey Rosetta, check it out because it all sounds like this, and it's...

I think part of the problem, I think, is that when you're a Canadian band and you're just selling albums in Canada and touring in Canada. And you have like, I don't know how many people were in that band at its peak. But it's like one of those like big bands, like with eight or nine people or whatever. Like there's a lot of people taking a piece of the pie. It's really tough to make a go of it. So at some point, they put this band on hiatus. And the voice you hear, that's Tim Baker. He's kind of a solo guy now.

And you'll hear things and you'll think quickly like I do. You'll hear it and you'll think, oh, that's Hey Rosetta. And then you'll realize, actually, that's Tim Baker. Well, that's what happened with Fred Penner. He got tired of playing the spoons in the back and was like, hey, I'll go it on my own. If anyone out there has yet to hear Steven Brunt kicking out the jams, I played...

Did he kick out a Fred Penner song? No, he kicked out a Hey Rosetta song. So there's a Hey Rosetta... Are we still talking about Hey Rosetta? Yeah, this is my pick. So there's a Hey Rosetta moment in the Steven Brunt jam kicking, which is really kind of magical

because it's the live version from when they played his festival in Newfoundland, Woody's Point, I think it's called. If you're curious, why are they called Hey Rosetta? Well, it's exactly why you think they named it after the Rosetta Stone,

which makes complete sense. No relation. So shout out to Newfoundland and Labrador for giving us Hey Rosetta. I don't think I knew this. Sorry, Stephen Brunt has his own music festival yeah well he's part of he's part of the core team that put it on it's called woody's point because stephen brunt lives like half the year in newfoundland yeah and he remember bodcat would always uh give him the gears about fish murdering well okay so

this is kind of cool it It's a songwriter thing. So you invite certain great songwriters. You might have John K. Sampson invited over. I know he's done it. James B.? Actually, that's a great one. But another better example would be Gore Downey. I know Gore Downey played it one time.

And these very cool acts are invited to Woody's Point in Newfoundland. And it's a really cool scene. If you ever can see video of this like it's just magic like when you see hey rosetta playing this festival in newfoundland it's fucking cool and a million times i told brunt who's a great fotm by the way that i want to go to this thing like i want it one of my goals is when this pandemic's over and we can start doing shit i I'm going to go to the Woody's Point Songwriters Festival. Yeah. What's that festival? I mean, we talked about the city of,

well, the town of Guelph last week. They have that festival there every summer that seems like it has like a similar vibe. The Festival of Corn? Not the Festival of Corn. Is it October Fest? Hillside, yes. Thank you to uh the hillside festival of corn oh my thing stopped updating so i apologize if i have ignored your chats i'm gonna reload that but please continue yeah no i i always like the idea of

like going to one of these small smaller town festivals and just like really having experience i i think it would be wonderful uh to do I don't even know why I said that. You can strike that whole last 10 seconds. I'll fix it in post. Thank you. Now that I'm catching up on the chat here. So, and someone's pointing out, like it's a writer's festival,

but basically a songwriter's festival, like Gore Downie and John K. Sampson and... Sunshine and Broccoli. It's really, it's cool, man. Maybe Splashin' Boots who knows but shout out to Brunt shout out to Hey Rosetta and if you can catch Tim Baker

that fucker knows what's going on man he's really good that was a good pick thank you Cam but it is Stu's turn so Stu you can set the stage for your second jam well let's just not set any stage let's set a Grammy stage

because this song helped this artist clean up Set the stage for your second jam. Well, let's just not set any stage. Let's set a Grammy stage. Because this song helped this artist clean up. Setting Grammy records in achievement for spring jams like this. I'm going to stop doing this for all the kids, the mothers, the fathers, the brothers, the sisters, the mothers. You know, the back of the head. I'm not going to stop. Everything is everything. What is meant to be will be. is I mean, if you can really pay attention, Mike, just, I'm going to ask you to turn it back up, but I want you to pay attention to the actual track.

Listen to the piano. Can you listen to the piano? You can hear that, right? I can hear it. Well, guess what, Mike? We're going to start off with a fun fact. The debut, debut world premiere performance on a track, that piano, a gentleman by the name of 19-year-old John Legend starts his legendary career playing piano on this Grammy Award-winning album,

including this track. John Legend, ladies and gentlemen, John Legend. But please tell us, why is this a spring jam? You didn't hear the lyrics? After winter must come spring. Everything is everything. She sang changes must come spring. Everything is everything. She's saying change is in the air. Winter is over.

Spring is here. You don't hear the lyrics? You don't hear the fucking words in the lyrics? She's talking about the season of spring. My apologies. Lauren Hill is great. Absolutely. And I'm sorry.

You're right. After winter must come spring. Little late. Little late on the spring content this round actually cam it says spring in it unlike any of your songs wait a minute so we have it this round is in sync and lauren hill and hey rosetta do i even want to know an fotm who would choose in sync or lauren hill over hey rosetta wouldn't it be wouldn't it be a wasn't it be spectacular to learn we already know how talented Lauryn Hill is

as a singer and as a rapper. What if I told you that Lauryn Hill actually produced this track as well? So not only is she a singer and a rapper, but she is a producer who is really busting her chops because this is a sick track and Lauryn Hill produced it.

I don't know too many heavy hitter female producers that get loved, but she deserves some because this is a sick track. And Lauryn Hill produced it. I don't know too many heavy hitter female producers that get loved. But she deserves some. Yeah. Because this is impressive. What a great album. My problem with Lauryn Hill is. I already know what she's become. I'm just talking about what she was then.

There's not a lot of. There's not a. I know it's quality over quantity. And she put. This is a great album. It is. It is. But there's no follow up.

There's no. There's no longevity. She there's no there's no longevity she went away she went away she did she she was done with it and uh by the way you go out when you're on top that's a move that she made some people like the undertaker don't do that amongst others joe joe kuro in the chat is just enjoying that. He says, Stew going scorched earth on Mike is everything. As everything is everything. So another round for Stew, because Cam's song was a disqualification

and Mike's song was nice, but it wasn't a Grammy award winning. So let me ask you, because we, at this point, 55 weeks in, I think listenership has a pretty good vibe on our tastes. I even won the weeks I didn't appear on the show. Like,

we know it by now, kind of, I think we got a good vibe on Cam's tastes. We have a good vibe on your tastes and my tastes and stuff. But Cam,

not Cam, Stu, when you hear that Hey Rosetta jam, like, is that anything you would ever put on? Would you ever put that on?

Yeah, I'm a fan of doc music that you listen to at night while sipping on a brewski. Sure. It's nice cottage music. I'm not against it at all. It's like very Mumford & Sons meets whatever the hell it is. I'm into that type of stuff, sure.

Yes. But Lauryn Hill I like better. Tough to compete with Lauryn Hill. That's for sure. And let's be frank. I prefer the Fugees over the Lauryn Hill solo efforts. I play my enemies like a game of chess. Yeah, no stress because we can't stand smoke cess or whatever it is. I think that's a fantasy.

90 degrees underneath palm trees Right Okay Did we see the Fugees live at Lollapalooza? Is that possible? I remember I was working at Wonderland They played the Smoking Grooves tour

Maybe that's where I saw them Yeah that's probably where I saw them But that was really cool seeing the Fugees live Yeah talk about a band band that burned brightly and briefly, too. But similar to Lauren herself. The score, one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. Monster. Monster album.

We used to be number 10. It's a playthrough. It's fantastic. We all loved it. We all loved it. And that Lauren Hill song that you played, Everything is Everything, that's from an album which again like you mentioned the grammys but commercially and critically acclaimed it's just interesting that in both of those careers there's the one like the comet there we're typically a wyclef had some hits too on his album let's not

forget that like staying alive was a huge hit he He had that song with The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. He was on that early. That's true. Gone to November. He had a song with Santana. Wyclef's done just fine for himself. Yeah, I'm thinking more Lauren Hildel, who my wife saw in concert.

Maybe we're going back four or five years now. Yeah, and she shows up like an hour late and plays all the songs differently. She played with Nas, I feel like. They did like a co-headline that's the one at the amphitheater i think it was yeah i got her her critical uh review was not kind to miss yeah yeah well you know what can you do okay so excellent we're uh we've all each kicked out two jams the third jam jam for Cam Gordon is next. Cam, anything to say? Yeah, this is going to be interesting

because I feel like our little friend in the shadows there, he might be on board with this being the most appropriate song given the theme, but I'm going to sense he's probably never heard a song by this band nor will he care and i think he's gonna go on the attack okay i love it i really do i think his default setting is on the attacks yeah although mike i i will say has has anybody ever played a song by this i feel like we've talked about this band before but i don't think anyone's ever played a song by this band and this is a little can-con, too. No, it's

hyper-local, if you will, and nobody has. So here, let's get to it, my friend. This'll be fun. It's coming. This better be the wallflowers. Is he judging when you're sitting This better be the wallflowers. Ain't no experience bad enough You ever had to quit You might know temptation But no shame

Had to come with it Cry when you're hungry You just cry when you see it. Not hard to figure out the bad guy on TV. Yeah, so we're listening and Kevin Alberta like knows his shit. Let me just say that. He knew who this was within minutes. This is the bourbon.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not Kevin in Alberta. You're giving credit to the wrong... Who is that? Canada Cab is not Kevin in Alberta. Okay, Kevin in Alberta is full of shit. Canada Cab, the Burbs. Yeah, okay.

He's like... This could be a bit of a spoiler. So he seems like he's a big fan of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. One of the... I'd say one of the great Toronto live bands of the 80s and 90s no doubt like i i don't know about you like i feel like this band was one of those bands when i was underage i'd always was like 13 i would pick up now magazine they'd always be playing and then once i got old enough to actually go to shows they were done done. So I never got a chance. And their albums always seem to be out of print.

It was sort of just one of those names I recognized, I feel like, for years more from the listings. Well, let's put it this way. I literally was reading up on them, I think, about 10 days ago. I was kind of diving into Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. But a couple of fun facts from the FOTMs. One is VP of Sales, who says that his dad and Kate Fenner's dad were business partners. Oh, well, what was the business, VP of Sales? Yeah, so let us know.

But Canada Kev, of course, he says this is a Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute band, and he saw them win the Battle of the Bands at the Masonic Temple. Well, I'm not surprised. And why don't we get into it? Because this is going to bring us into the Esri Geo Corner here. And specifically about Lawrence Park. We're going to go into some other famous graduates from that school, other than the Bourbon Tapernacle Choir and all their members. We'll talk more about the band in a second.

Here's a few names for you. A real mixed bag here, as always. So we got Don McKellar, Canadian director. Yeah, last night. What, Twitch City and all that good stuff? The big movie was last night, right? Last night, yeah, with Sandra Oh. Sandra Oh, like an apocalypse movie.

Yeah, big deal. We got Gord Perks. Wow, the councillor. City councillor. We got Amandaord Perks. Wow. The city councillor. City councillor. We got Amanda Marshall. Wow. Birmingham. Yeah.

We've talked about her because we were all surprised at why she didn't have greater success with her career. And then we learned subsequently, I think, from Mark Weisblatt that there were some addiction issues and some mental health issues that kind of slowed her role. We hope she's doing better now. Absolutely. But, yeah, I mean, she was a big deal back there in the late 90s, early 2000s. Someone who's still a big deal, Elaine Liu. Louis? Liu?

Oh, Lainey Gossett. Lainey Gossett. For some reason, I always thought she was from Vancouver. No, you're thinking of Yook Sin Lee. Or Sook-Yin Lee. No, just because they're both Asian. No, but anyway, Lainey Gossip went to the same school. My children are Asian.

I just need to point that out, okay? Yeah. I got a few more names here for you. Someone I haven't thought about in a few years. Beverly Thompson. Oh, yeah, from? Yeah. I got a few more names here for you. Someone I haven't thought about in a few years, Beverly Thompson. Oh, yeah, from CFTO. Sure, yeah.

Oh, no, Global. Was it Global or CFTO? I think she was both. Oh, okay. Yeah, and hosted Can-Am for a while. Yeah, I remember her. Speaking of Lainey Liu. A couple more names.

We got Rob, not Rod, Rob Stewart. Oh, I know Rob Stewart. That's a friend of mine. Oh, yeah? From the television show Sweating Bullets. No, this was the director who sadly has passed away. Oh, the deep diver.

The deep diver. Yeah, exactly. Sharkwater. That's the other Rob Stewart. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah, that was tragic. What about Jeff Hislop?

Oh, yeah, of course. I had Muffy Mouse on the show. Is he a part of this anecdote? Well, he was on Wikipedia. And one final name who went to Lawrence Park Collegiate, you probably heard this guy, Neil Young. Wow. Yeah, so that's a big one.

Yeah, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir put out five albums. Someone, I think it was Kevin from Alberta, that this makes sense that they what's he going to say? They waited too long for the perfect record deal. That probably explains because I remember it was so hard to find the CDs and the albums from these

guys. But did you call him Kevin in Alberta again? What the fuck is this guy's name? Canada Kev. Canada Kev is not Kevin. It's just two Kevins. Can you believe it? Cam, can we preface this by telling you you keep saying the wrong name? Anyway, Canada Kev, Bourbon Type and Aquapire had five albums.

This song we're hearing, which is called Grow, okay? Right. Because it's spring, stuff's growing, rebirth. And I always liked, this was the first track on the album Superior Cackling Hen that came out 1992 when Stu and I were like in grade 9 Shout out to Barenaked Ladies

But yeah like I said These guys broke up in 1995 So really Pretty much they broke up right as Well I think I turned 19 a couple Years later but right before I Could go to shows He broke up the same year as the Infidels well i think i turned 19 a couple years later but right before i could go to shows uh interestingly

broke up the same year as the infidels shout out to molly johnson as well as national velvet for some reason this is on wikipedia like canadian bands broke up in 1995 we almost lost sloan that year that that's right yeah they did their their their first breakup, I guess. Mike, I feel like Chris Brown and Kate Fenner from this band played on New Year's Eve with the Tragically Hip. Am I imagining that? No, you're not. I was there, 1999. You're absolutely right. They were there on that whole tour, I guess. But yeah, they played. I was there, New Year's Eve, 1999, at the Air Canada Centre. There you go. And Canada Kev touched on it or someone touched on

this was like a big band. This had like seven or eight members. Chris Brown and obviously not Rihanna's Chris Brown. Or the painter. Or the painter. And Kate Fenner, they went on to record some music together. The San Diego Padre? Wait, wait, wait. Aren't they?

What was the name of their band though? Crash Vegas? Is that the band? Who's Crash Vegas? Padre? Wait, wait, wait, aren't they, uh, what was the name of their band though? That, uh, crash Vegas. Is that the band? Are they, who's crash Vegas? That, that was Michelle McAdory that we just talked about. Oh yeah.

Did we talk about that? Um, okay. I'll come back with more. I just want to say that, uh, FOTM, Kim Hughes would,

uh, often, uh, mention, uh, bourbon tabernacle choir in, uh, on her show on CFNY.

Shout out to Andrew Ward for that. And we wanted to know, what business was the VP of sales dad and Kate Fenner's dad doing? So it's called Campbell and Fenner, a communication. It sounds like we're in Mad Men here. This is one of those that are going to be amalgamated in Mad Men or something. They're going to absorb Campbell and Fenner. I'll have to see if any of my friends in the comms industry

remember that agency. Anyway, other members of the Bourbon Cabernet Coquard, Jason Mercer went on to play with Annie DeFranco or Ani DeFranco and tours with Ron Sexsmith as his bass player. Andrew Whiteman, perhaps most famously, went on to

join Broken Social scene and then uh later his his uh it wasn't really i don't think it was a solo project his other band the apostles of hustle and then uh dave wall um who was was one of their one of their vocalists they had a few vocalists including kate fenner and chris brown record two albums as a solo artist performed with the mary Maryland learner and performed. This is another band. I remember seeing all the time we played the Rivoli, the flying bulgar Klezmer band.

I never, I don't have any memory of them, but yeah, it's weird. Cam, see what we're doing now where you drop the names and how they're all connected. I don't know what this says about me,

but I could do nine hours of that. I know it's okay. Like just connect all the Dave wall had some dealings with Gordy Johnson too. too i feel like like he played on one of the big sugar albums or vice but gordy johnson might have played on one of these bourbon elk anyway their their final album was shy folk that came out in 1995 all their albums are great but again i never saw them live but i think we're primarily known as oh you got to see them live that type of band right which seems like some folks in the comment section would agree with that based on a lot of buzz there a lot of i could get uh i could get nine hours of sleep listening to this well so good live said canada cat we'll do it we'll save our 2.5 hour

deep dive into the bourbon tavern please do me a favor do me a favor we'll do it sunday night meet me on the zoom link on sunday night, Cam. Don't invite me to that one. Yeah, and final fun part, Kanik have mentioned this. We mentioned the Hillside Festival, you know, completely independently, but the Bourbons reunited, I think it was 2008 at the Hillside Festival.

And then they also had a track that appeared on Highway 61, the album by... Don McKellar's movie, right? Yeah, or was it... Who McKellar's movie, right? Yeah. Or was it... Who's the other guy who did Roadkill and Highway 61? Oh, McDonald. McDonald, right?

Bruce McDonald. Yeah. Was that the same? Yeah. So we talk about like CanCon. Well, that's Hugh Dillon's big acting break. And now he's in like a fucking show with Kevin Costner. Like that guy's like the big league actor now. Yeah. He's almost as big as Stu Stone now. You need to get his publicist back on to rebook his boarded visit.

What could have been? Holy smokes. I know. I don't think you realize how... I think you take for granted the access that you guys have to such a legend. I'm like Barb. She gives access to the people. She's the CEO. I'm the CEO of entertainment around here.

And you guys, I think you're taking me for granted. Remember, David Kines is in the calendar. Okay, well, because Mike, you're going to have to do some redeeming because there's been so many infractions, specifically by you. Just on Twitter, I think yesterday or the day before, you had mentioned that only less than 10%

of the Toronto mic listeners are FOSSs. That's not true. That's slanderous. And once you get a fucking sponsor from some injury lawyer, I will be calling the number to say that I've been mentally injured by these.

No, you know, it's falsehoods. I am beloved. 10% is a high number because remember in that same thread, I said, not even MF was a, uh,

F O C G. Well, I miss that. She's probably more than an F O C G at this point. I would hope. There you go. A special F O C G guys. I'm about to take out the trash. You ready? she's probably more than an FOCG at this point I would hope a special FOCG guys I'm about to take out the trash

you ready? go for it I feel like this song is in the movie The Boys Club can you like double check that Kim? I feel like this song is in the movie The Boys Club. Can you like double check that, Kim? Ew. guitar solo Instructions from the manual guitar solo The blues are still required. The blues are still required again

Past territorial piss-po Past whispers in the closet There's whispers in the closet There's screaming from the rooftops We live to survive our paradoxes We live to survive our paradoxes Springtime in Vienna. Much heard, tragically hip. Yeah, springtime, Vienna.

Have you been to Vienna, Mike? Vienna, have you been to Vienna Mike? No never been coincidentally today is my good buddy Gwyn Clay's birthday and Gwyn Clay lives in Vienna with his wife Alice hopefully he's listening and shout out to Mark Fuller as well

so this of course is from Trouble at the Hen House that's the fifth studio album from the Tragically Hip. And this is the fifth single from that album. Does anybody, like, do either of you two want to take a stab at naming some of the previous singles that came off Trouble at the Hen House before they got to this beauty? Ahead by a Century?

That is correct. So Ahead by a Century is the first single from Trouble at the Hen House. I've got to look at the track listing, so let me guess. Hold on. Yeah, because you can get confused. Take a peek. Gift Shop? Gift Shop's the second single off of Trouble at the Hen House.

But then the rest is a bit hazy. Go ahead. Hartman song? No. So 700 Foot Ceiling is the third, and then Flamenco. How does that go? Remind me of that. Here. i'll play it for you here but but it's uh hazy after gift shop it was all hazy to me like i couldn't remember what single came when like to me this was one of the big singles off

the album but it's the fifth so this is a big live song for them Well another fun fact I've got a couple more but one is that Gord is on the record He stated that this song This song Springtime in Vienna is his favorite Song of the entire Tragically hip catalog

Really? I wouldn't say This was one of their more memorable Singles like it's you know it's a fine song it's a big live song though you're right stew in live this is like a staple of the live shows but it's not one of it's not like courage or whatever it's not one of their monsters not bob cajun i feel like there's there's a few other songs springtime in insert city here i feel like there was a few other

not from the Tragic League. Oh, you're thinking of Springtime for Hitler. Who sang that? That's the Mel Brooks. You're obviously not a Mel Brooks fan. Oh, no. It's comedy, everybody. Don't send your hate mail. Jokes, yeah.

Hate laughing. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like this album, I mean, again, it's a good album, but would it be top five best Tragically Up albums? Like, maybe not. I don't know. It's tough.

That's tough, but it's a big one. But so I'm always interested, because the hip are kind of renowned for like, they peak, I guess, with Fully Completely, and then every subsequent album sells like a little less, a little less, a little less a little less a little less like you know there's a downward trajectory that surprises me I thought that this would be

their biggest selling album no no the one with Courage on it like A Head by a Century was such a big hit no true that but think about the hits that came off that Fully Completely album like young people were listening to A Head by a Century it was like a pop hit

yeah for sure but so yeah it was a big pop hit the other songs were like yeah but i mean like young people were listening to ahead by a century it was like a pop hit yeah for sure but so yeah it was a was a big pop the other songs were like a rock hit but that one crossed over but here is the uh i have in front of me stew the number of units i'm going to not care you can take the goonies but do you want to guess okay do you want to guess i have hold on hold on what did you say there i should have been uh quicker on the draw here You can take the goonies. But do you want to guess? Okay. Do you want to guess? Hold on. Hold on. What did you say there? I should have been quicker on the draw here. You can take the goonies.

Take the goonies in your nose. Stop the music. Stop the rock and roll. Got to be quicker on the draw. Okay. How many units do you think this Trouble at the Hen House sold? I would hope that it sold more than the Stu Jones classic Circle Circle. It did.

It did. It did. I hope so. I'm going to go with $570,000. Okay. I feel like this album was like diamond status like over a million copies

in Canada. Is that wrong? That is wrong. The answer I have from Wikipedia is $6 650,000. So I win the Showcase Showdown. Yet another thing to add to my victories today. Although it is going to be hard to defeat Mike in this round, I will say. It's tough to compete with the Tragically Hip on this program or in general.

Can I move ahead with my pick just to keep things going or you have more fun facts? Well, no, but my next move was going to be to run down the track list. Oh, that's right. Completely. Yeah, go for it. Yeah. Because we don't hear about that enough. So let's run down track. This is important here.

So, sorry, standby. Sorry for the delay here. Okay. So, hits. Okay, so you got Courage. We talked about that, which is a great parentheses jam, of course, because it's called, uh, do you guys know the proper title of that jam? Couldn't Come at a Worse Time? No, good guess.

Do you know the title? Um, for Hugh McLennan. That's it. It's Courage for Hugh McLennan. So, yeah. There you go. So, uh, At the 100th Meridian is on that album. Locked in the Trunk of a Car.

50 Mission Cap. Wheat Kings. I mean, these are some, these are some big fucking jams that came out. These are some iconic Canadian songs.

A lot of those. Absolutely. Now, I turn the mic over to the great, the star of Donnie Darko, the great Stu Stone. Oh, hello. So as I, as I want to say for the FOSS that are on the edge of their seat here,

I knew, I knew that Mike was going to come with some tragically hip bullets somewhere in his four shots. He's got four shots to take me out. And I knew that tragically hip would be one of the bullets in the chamber. So I prepared. I prepared. And I'll tell you what. I can win this game three to one.

It's still a win. People don't remember the score. They just remember the score at the end of the game. So even if I lose this round, I'll still win the episode. So have no fear. But I did want to like come. I wanted to come correct in this round, knowing that Mike would get probably the victory with his Tragically Hip.

So I planned to have, you know, the hip hop community with an offering here from a song and an artist that may be underappreciated around here. Don't you like when the winters gone And all of a sudden it start gettin warm The trees and the grass start looking fresh. And the sun and the sky be looking at best. Birds be singing, flies be blooming. A lot of brand new cars be zooming. Fly girls looking the best they could be. And the guys be dookie dookie dancing.

Besides all that, I like the warm weather. Cause that's when you can get yourself together. But I like Easter time with the grandkids when I was little You used to go to Coney Island We used to eat a lot of stuff Like cotton candy Cause back then It was like fine and dandy You used to get dressed up

In double knits In your plaid suit jackets And they were the shit The good old days was back then And the reason I reminisce Cause We'll spring again Turn it down too quickly

Everybody know We'll spring again To the girls and boys All right. Have you ever met a girl that you want to date? You tried to make love. She wanted you to wait. Have you ever met a girl that you want to date? You tried to make love, she wanted you to wait. The diabolical Biz Markie, who was a product of the early hip-hop explosion in New York, had teamed up previously with Marley Marl. You know him.

He's one of the most infamous names, one of the godfathers of the hip-hop sound. Well, you know, Biz wanted to go after some commercial, quote-unquote, success. And on this album, there was a departure from working with Marley Marle on a few songs that Biz himself would go on to produce with his friends. And this was one of them. The other one was... Just a Friend. Just a Friend. And, of course, that song would land Biz Marquis on the chest

and make him quite the darling for a while there. But I listened to this song, which is clearly about spring, but this is Biz sort of thinking outside the box as a commercial guy. He's like, well, what can I write a song about? I'll write a song about spring because there isn't one. So he was like the first rap song that was like about spring. Now, I will say, I listened to his flow in that first verse and people might want to rewind and do it themselves and listen to the layout of the first verse and the way that the lyrics are in the subject matter and i can't help but think

that will smith and dj jazzy jeff were inspired directly from the lack of the lack of success of this song uh but the success of this song at the same time right big song in the rap world for sure it didn't have the impact of just a friend so it's not as known obviously but you can totally hear the flow of will smith summertime yeah makes me think biz mark he maybe even ghost wrote on summertime i've you know that's how much the flow sounds the same pocket the same thing it's the beat, the vibe. Anyway, Summertime, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Fresh Prince is a much better song. I do think we kicked out Summertime during our Summertime Jam.

Yeah, I think in Summer Jam, it's ironic. Summer Jam. So I would say that this is probably the blueprint for Will Smith's Summertime. If this song had never happened, that song probably never happened. And now I'm just going to look at the Summertime writing credits just to see if there's a chance that Biz did get any kind of credit. He did get credit. He's all over Check Your Head by Beastie Boys

for example. Shout out to the Check Your Head sticker I've got up here. Because at some point, guests will return and they need to check their head. But yeah, the Biz versus the Nuge, for example, there's a bunch of Biz Marquis

on that Beastie Boys stuff. So what have you learned? Have you checked the liner notes as Molly Johnson would say? Can you get me Biz Marquis' government name? If YouTube has it, I can get it.

Okay. No, no, not the song. I'm talking about the fact. Like, what's his government name? I thought it was a song. I was fucking going to play the song Government Name by Biz Marquis. Yeah, what's Biz Marquis' actual birth name? Okay, give me two seconds here, okay?

So his real name is Marcel Theo Hall. Okay, so he did not write on the... Is that what you call a government name? Just birth name. That's a government name? Just birth name. Birth name? We call it in our government name is what we call it. You know, according to that song,

they give credit to Rakim for the lyrics. So maybe Rakim heard Biz Markie. I don't know. I just hear a similarity and that's all I'm saying. Well, remember he did rap alongside Slick Rick on the Millennium album.

Yes. That's true. Here we go. So another win for Stu maybe? Depending on if people love Biz Markie. I'm sure the FOTMs are picking that jam over. I think that was a good, that was a solid round. I think we were all three for three.

It's not a contest. No winners in that round. Also, it's not a fucking contest. Don't fall for the stewstone trap, okay? I will point out, though, we're about to kick out the final jam from Cam Gordon, but I will point out that my first three jams, Blue

Rodeo, Hey Rosetta, and Tragically... The Tragically Hip, sorry, Jake Gold. Those are three first three jams blue rodeo hey rosetta and tragically the tragically hip sorry jay gold those are three great uh canadian bands yeah and they like you and i were dming about this is a sneaky hard category i thought there would be tons of choices but straight up songs about spring oh wow are you about to play some paul abdul no, Arsenio Hall's got a cameo in that video. Canada Kev is basically calling you out, Stu Stone. He says, wow.

Your fucking manners. And you were given cam grief? For what? Oh, Canada Kev has announced this is like election night. Yeah, but for what song is he giving me grief over? Canada Kev, can you be more specific? They have like a seven second delay.

So we have to be a little patient. I'm wondering, like, are they shitting on like that? That Bismarck song called Spring is Here Again? Oh, maybe he just doesn't love rap. I've met people who are like, oh, rap crap. And I'm like, shake your head. Well, what does that say about him? Then am I the problem?

He's out of here. I'm with you. He needs to look in the mirror. Love rap. OK. What are rap okay that i didn't do that's what i'm curious about well we're i'm waiting for canada kev to chime in on that one but when he does i'll bring it up stew since you only have one jam to go uh before we turn the channel and hand it over to cam you're in la still how are things going for you i want to make a big announcement here exclusively on your program. There is a

new television program out in Canada for you guys who are in a lockdown. You're looking for things to watch. It is called The Search for Canada's Game Shows. Have you heard of that show before? Have you guys heard of that show?

It's like an Ed Conroy thing. Yes. I know. I think you're confusing things. I think, uh, Mark was going to be on Tyler's. Tyler Stewart was on it.

No, Steven page was on it. Steven page did bumper stumpers. Sure. Okay. So this season, which is, uh,

yes, yes. Uh, uh yes this season's uh uh debuted uh this week and there's five episodes all new episodes of the program and uh the first episode is about the show just like mom and there are five episodes that you should check out because yours truly is on the panel uh myself and howie mandel and a a host of other Canadian celebrities are the talking heads on this season's Canada's Greatest Game Shows. Where can we stream this? Like, what service is it on? You can watch it wherever televisions are. No, no, you don't know?

You can stream it on their website. All the episodes are up on their website. Canada's Greatest Game Shows? The Search for Canada's Greatest Game Shows or The Search for Canada's Game Shows or something? So it's not like Prime or Netflix or Crave? It is. It's like Hulu or Crave. It's one of those things. Canada's Game Shows.

We need to find out. Oh, there's Bald Asian Dude. Yeah, he's on the... Bitter Asian Dude. He's a panelist as well. It's myself, it's myself, it's him. Did you know Bitter Asian Dude is in The Mandalorian?

I didn't. So he can now go to Comic-Con and just be in the Star Wars universe. Well, I'll tell you what. He's also on that show with me, which you can watch me spill the tea on all of Canadian game shows. On episode 5, I talk about my time on Canadian game shows.

I want to see this. I'm in every episode. Kevin frank kevin frankish or kevin frank from uh kid street okay that's not kevin frankish okay but this is exciting it's on according to vps sales it's on game tv it's on game tv is it on the pirate all the episodes are here on the uh the link i just dropped in the chat yeah so the first episode it's like the opening shot of the season is me talking so maybe you just want to watch it just for the first second and just see like the opening soundbite of their entire season is me i love it how did this happen stew well you know they contacted me uh and uh they're just you know they got a hold of my people they They called Barb, and she set it up.

Sorry, season one or season two? Season two. Two, okay. Oh, okay, only season one. I'm skipping season one. No, no, no, that's not true. Season two is there, all episodes. Okay.

Yes, I know about the show because we did talk about it with Stephen Page because the bumper-stumpers thing. So good question coming from VP of Sales. Stu Stone, you spoke about Just Like Mom. I did. I talked about Just Like Mom. I spoke about Mark Weisblatt's appearance. Yes.

Okay. I want to clarify. So you discussed. That's amazing. Because the great Mark Weisblatt, who's on the show next week, he'll be my first in-backyard guest since the end of December. Wow, perfect. Bring him in right when they lock down again.

Well, we're going to be 15 feet apart outside. You better be 25. You want to be safe with that guy. We'll make it 20. Wise Blot, we're making it 20. He was on Just Like Mom. He didn't get the nickname The Grim Reaper for nothing. So, yeah, he was on Just Like Mom.

I told the whole story about what happened with Wise Blot, what happened with him and Fergie Oliver in the dressing room. I don't know if they decided to use it in the episode, but I said it. That's slander because we don't know. And he's still with us was Fergie Oliver in the dressing room. I don't know if they decided to use it in the episode, but I said it. That's slander. Cause we don't know. And he's still with us, Fergie Oliver.

He hasn't left this. Where is he? Like, do we know his whereabouts? No, but we know he's alive. Yeah. But you know,

I will say that super cut, whoever put that super cut together of him seeming creepy. That really did that. That his legacy is fucked because of a supercut. That was the same guy that did that video. He was hired to do that Biden video. There's like a niche for those types of videos. The trick is you slow it down and you put

like, oh, like some kind of like... But at the same time, it is pretty weird. Yeah. Alright, moving on. Stu, congratulations. I'm going to watch season two of this game TV is pretty weird. Yeah. All right, moving on. Now, Cam Gordon. As you know, it's the 80s. So, Stu, congratulations.

I'm going to watch season two of this game TV program. Yeah, this is exciting. Thank you. I love that. I love that you're active and I know you're working

on a big project in the States. Is there any other announcements you want to make before Cam kicks out this final jam? Well, I guess on April 9th,

but apparently Faking a Murderer is going to have a wide release in the United States. It's in Australia, in New Zealand, in the United Kingdom.

So I'll have the details of that to share with people. April 9th. Okay, that's my son's seventh birthday. Well, then tell him to make a wish. Tell him not to be selfish with his wish and give it to me.

I love it. I wish you much success with that great movie that you put together. I enjoyed it thoroughly and I know that my neighbor Kareem is also a big fan of that movie. Oh, he watched it? Yeah, you know, shortly thereafter. You haven't seen him in a while because, A, you're not

in my backyard. You're not even in my country. And he stopped smoking. He stopped smoking. He stopped smoking. I guess he would hear us recording when he was having his nightly 420 break. What, he quit? Yeah, apparently he quit. Why did he quit? It was probably interfering with something else.

I don't have too many details. No longer holding. What a quitter. Maybe if things clear up and you guys get back in my backyard at some point, maybe he'll partake again. I suggest you watch the Just Like Mom episode. It's really fun, and it gives you an introduction of just how hilarious I can be when talking about game shows.

I can't wait. Do you shout out Toronto Mike and Pandemic Friday? Do you mention us at all? Again, during the long-form interview, I mentioned all of that. I'm not the editor of the show, though, so let's see what they kept. There's the episode right there. Let's just play it.

Let's just do an episode where we react to it. Why don't you just hit play on the video just so you can hear the opening on the first soundbite. Because I don't have the chat on this computer, I guess I can always go there. Give me a moment and I'll do it here. Did you DM me? Why don't have the chat on this computer. I guess I can always go there. Give me a moment and I'll do it here. Did you DM it to me?

Why don't we play my final pick? Okay, let's do that. So, any intro or can I just press play? Okay, so... I see, like if Cam was on a fucking show about game shows, I would want to watch it and listen to it. If Cam was on

a show about game shows, I would watch. I've got it right it. If Cam was on a show about game shows, I would watch. I've got it right here. Who do you think Lark Ruehres is? First and foremost, that's me. I put the link in the chat window. I'm going to watch it after. You are no Lisa Turtle, my friend. I love you.

Thank you. Yeah, Lisa Turtle. Shout out. Rest in peace, Screech Powers, of course, here. Let me hear this here. The Search for Canada's Game Shows returns with a brand new season. No, that's the trailer. No, no, no, no, no. Not that? No.

Okay. No. You didn't give me much direction. Episode one. Episode one. I know. I'm looking. Episodes. Okay. I see in the top it says episodes. I can navigate this. Sorry, this is a full episode about Just Like Mom. Well, that's half the episode is Just Like Mom, and then they go into some other game. Okay, hold on. Is this season two premiering March 29, 30, 31?

Yes. But there's no season two episodes on this link. Oh, maybe it's only for me and the staff. Only season one episodes that I see. Ah, okay. So you guys will have to search the DVRs. But I do see Alex Trebek, for example, hosting Reach for the Top.

Yeah, there's an Alex Trebek episode. Oh, rest in peace, Alex. This is fantastic. So I will seek these out and watch them. This is wonderful. Okay. Cam, anything to say, or do you want me to press play? Yeah. I mean, I think this is definitely a spring jam. This is something that happens at the end of spring and hopefully for our students who might be moving on to different schools and different journeys in

their life, maybe they'll get to hear this song in some capacity God willing in a couple months time Amen to that Mr. Gordon, amen to that What is happening now? Where are you? What the fuck is this? What is happening? Where are you?

He turned off his camera. Oh my god. Damn, you're having quite the night, man. It was a tough category. I think this is a good choice. He's a hell of a rapper. You better say it right now cause you don't have another day Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down These memories are playing like a game without sound I keep thinking of the night and you I didn't know what you loved but it came too soon

And it was me and you and then we got real blue Stay at home talking on the telephone We would get so excited and we'd get so scared Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair And this is how it feels As we go on, we remember All the times we had together And as our lives change come whatever we will still be friends forever

okay graduation friends forever we're listening to vitamin c the the the comment section in the chat window is lighting up here a lot of uh a lot of vitamin c fans stew had to turn off his camera because he just can't well did you see jokero there uh stew rage up rage up yeah i'm gonna let cam try to justify himself and steve says n sync sounds much better after this absolutely so i mean this is a song that for years millions of students worldwide hear every june you know those those dying days of uh spring and those you know first many their final days of high school this has become an anthem for the last 20 years this song came out in the year 2000 um was a decent size hit went to the top 10 in canada australia and ireland interestingly um only went to number 38 in the u.s so i i feel like this this is a very specific like

niche niche yeah niche or niche it's niche niche yeah cams walkman so 2000 because i kind of i mean i graduated from university in 98 like i think i just i just missed this yeah like this is one of those songs like this this had no resonance with me personally although i did graduate from uh mcmaster in 2000 so perhaps i don't i don't think it's for like the university i feel like this is more high high school song. Zack Attack had a monster hit with Friends Forever. That's not to be... Well, no. Well, their band was called Friends Forever.

No, the song was called Friends Forever. No, the song was called Friends Forever. Friends Forever. The band was called Zack Attack. Right. It's not a Sade thing. Thank you, Kim. No, I feel like there was a band called Friends Forever.

Maybe you and Mark Fuller had a band called Friends Forever? Zack Attack's biggest... Well, we did. Their biggest fucking hit called Friends Forever. Maybe you and Mark Fuller had a band called Friends Forever? Zach attacks their biggest fucking hit with Friends Forever. Okay, I stand corrected. Can I speak for one second? Go right ahead, my friend. The laziest writing and the laziest song ever recorded. and the laziest song ever recorded only thing worse than this song is this is you picking this song and making us listen to it i mean listen to how awful the rap is it does not age well it's not great it's almost problematic oh you get this so shitty it's just so shitty

i mean i i guess the chorus is cool but it's just like such this is such fucking vanilla filth I also think I both like and I loathe songs that were written for very specific like this is just sort of

let's try to write a song that specifically is gonna hit a graduation and hopefully we can sell it to, you know, maybe to monetize it somehow. Semisonic. Didn't Semisonic graduate? The lyrics to this song are less hip hop and more second grade teacher spoken word reading like a book to the class. Stu, let me ask you straight up. Stu, what's better?

Zack Attack's Friends Forever or this? I mean, that's a tough call. I mean, the Zack Attack song is probably gets the nod because it's just Zack. But this is, they're both awful. Yeah, true that. Well, I feel like Vitamin C, I mean, she seemed like she was perhaps after the money the whole time.

When you look at some stuff she did subsequently in 2012. The funeral song. Well, not even her music career. In 2012, she went to work for Nickelodeon as their VP of music. I don't even know what that means at Nickelodeon. And then just this last year, I don't remember this. There was an updated version of this song called graduation 2020 here's a song in like parentheses graduation 2020 brackets

worst year ever ever and this was an ad campaign for something called busy hard seltzer put together by rethink communications I don't know if that's a competitor to Campbell and Fenner here in the Canadian advertising game. It's all just shit, in my opinion. However, songs about spring, it fits. I'd actually

say it's a bullseye in that category. It's a fine choice. You only had one. Funny that the only fucking song that Cam was able to get through the censors was the worst fucking song. What's it do for Bourbon Tabernacle Choir? Canada Kev was very excited about that. If I may, and Cam, you know I love you.

I meet you in the park for beers. We have a great relationship. But of your four jams, only the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, to me, is a quality choice. I'm so disappointed by these others. The March of the Pigs, that's a bullshit pick and you know it, okay? It's going to be May. I'm sorry,

some meme that Obama spread, come on, that's garbage. What are we leaving on the table with this episode? That you are just a lazy piece of... No, names of songs. Oh, there's lots. Name one.

Well, you'll see because my pick is yet to come. Okay. What was sort of the runner-up? It's a fucking hard category. Okay. Mike, you have the receipts. I said this is a hard category. Well, if Mike doesn't play the Gandharvas right now,

then like Hanson's on like... No, I actually figured they were disqualified because it was too obvious. So, of course. Really? Yeah. I thought you even like quantified it not to us, for us not to pick it. Yeah. We're going to open the show with it.

I said don't pick it. Yeah. But didn't I play it at the beginning? Oh, I played April Fool. No, you played April Fool. So, if you don't play the Gandharvas, you've really done a disservice. We heard it last week. Yeah, of course.

Oh, there we go. There we go. Yeah, I'm not really playing it. Okay. Now, I should. It heard it last week. Yeah, of course. There we go. There we go. Yeah, I'm not really playing it. Okay, now, it's a great choice, but I picked something else. I decided to leave

the country of Canada for a big monster jam. Are you guys ready for my fourth pick in this springtime jam kicking? You ready? I guess.

Yellow. Yellow. Yellow. Proud and sight It's a pain Everybody's in the play And don't you know It's a beautiful day Hey Running down the avenue See how the sun shines brightly

In the city On the streets where once was pity Mr. Blue Sky is living in the day. Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why you had to hide away for so long. Why did we go wrong? Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why you had to hide away for so long. When did we go wrong?

Woo! You know, this jam sounds really good in the phones, man, in the headphones. Great jam. This is Mr. Blue Sky. And Stu nailed it. E-L-O. And if you think that it sounds familiar,

like it sounds like a Beatles song, it's because the exact same guy that produces and works with all of the Beatles on a lot of their songs

is Mr. E-L-O himself. Yeah, he's got a taste of... Wait, I woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across your head. It's very Beatles. Yeah, go ahead. But the producer of a lot of McCartney and

a lot of hits involving the Beatles guys is this guy, right? Jeff Lynne? Yeah. So yeah, this is written and produced by Jeff Lynne, of course, from Electric Light Orchestra. Homer told me that they shortened everything in the 70s, BTO, ELO, because they didn't have a minute to spare,

so we call them ELO. This is off their seventh studio album, which is called Out of the Blue. Mr. Blue Sky, to me, is a spring song because it's just sort of like an optimum, it's sort of a song that reminds me a little bit about the song you're about to kick out stew at a moment here, but let me just drop some fun facts on everybody.

So I'm going to drop some science of defiance here. Uh, this is, uh, probably the ELO song you've heard the most often because it's kind of everywhere. Like it's been licensed for, for,

uh, everything. Um, this Beatles esque pop symphony can be heard in, I'm going to run down a list of movies where you could hear it. Megamind, Role Models, The Magic Roundabout, Wild Muscles, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Paul Blatt Mall Cop. Paul Blart.

Is it Paul Blart? Oh, my apologies. I've never seen it. The Game Plan, Martian Child, The Invention of Lying. I think that's a Ricky Gervais joint. And Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. What number on the Billboard Hot 100, where do you guys think this jam peaked?

27. I say it didn't chart. Good guess by you, Stu Stone. The answer is 35. I win the showcase showdown. Okay. And who died? It was the Hooked on...

I was going to say Hooked on Phonics. Hooked on Classics guy. It's the Hooked on Classics guy died. Who was somehow affiliated with ELO. Like he was a ranger or something, I feel like. I think... I have to picture my channel my inner wise blood here to figure it out here but i do have a like a little bonus jam because um cam and i throughout the 55 weeks periodically we reference uh girl talk

so oh yeah yeah this is in there yeah like this is this is one of those songs where when i hear mr blue sky i don't hear this jam anymore i hear girl talk like this happens for a number of songs and even a lot of songs that like more from my era like early 90s or whatever it's uh i don't know if there's a name for this phenomenon but it happens to me a lot cam it happens to you too sometimes totally all the time so it happens with mr blue sky. Cam, it happens to you too sometimes? Totally. All the time. So it happens with Mr. Blue Sky. So I'm going to bring down Mr. Blue Sky. And I'm starting this like midstream.

I think I'm... So to speak. Nothing to do with my vasectomy here. But I'm going to start this girl talk jam. It's called Let It Out. And I'm going to start it like 90 seconds in. Here's a taste of it. Up and down, up and down, make that booty real fat Rockin' round, runnin' round, I like the way you move that Ain't no woman's fool, that Knock that cock, they out the park, hit it like a ball

That fall back and squeeze on that peach, goose is workin' You must be a stripper, a new member of the twerk team Bouncin' that thing in them jeans, got it jerky Buzzin' out the scene in them jeans, got it spooky Make that thang clap, G-string goose pincin' Down south, girls, gonna do the frickin' dancin' Country callin' red bed, never scared, open legs Lady in the streets, put a real footy in the bag

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk that arrow Twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk that arrow Twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk that arrow Move that arrow, left to the ride go and work that air and there you go a little taste we've talked about girl talk so often I just thought some people are like what the hell are these guys

talking about girl talk but that's a taste of girl talk this is let it out it's from the about Girl Talk? But that's a taste of Girl Talk. This is Let It Out. It's from the All Day, which, Cam, that's my second favorite Girl Talk album is All Day. You like, what's the other one, Feed the Animals? Yeah, my favorite is Feed the Animals. But they're both amazing. There's others that are good too.

But these are two. You still listen to those, right? You still throw them on? Yeah, I know, I still, because I think I've mentioned this before, but I like my music and Monica likes hers, which is, I still, because I think I've mentioned this before, but like, I like my music, and Monica likes hers, which is a lot of like 90s TLC and stuff. We come together, like this is literally

like we can throw on girl talk, and we both love it. Like it's really like a hybrid. It's good, like, do you listen to it while you're on the bike? Or I forget, you don't listen to stuff when you're on the bike, right? I know, I used to. So, no, I do listen. I have my Bluetooth headset in all the time. But for years, I biked to music

and then I switched to podcasts and now I bike to podcasts. So I don't hear as much music as I used to, but I feel like I'll just listen to Girl Talk and you guys talk about what you like. I think Stu's asleep. Yeah, I am. Wait, okay, well, Stu.

Yes. You would love Girl Talk. Of course I know Girl Talk. One time I had been hired to come and do some party for a San Diego Comic Con. And Taryn Manning was the DJ booked for the evening. And she was about two hours late and there was no DJ there. So they were like, can you DJ? And I went up to the equipment and I put on Girl Talk and stood behind the decks just playing Girl Talk until she showed up.

And people just thought I was killing it. Oh, yeah. They thought I was like Mimico Mike tearing it up. But really, I was just playing Girl Talk. That's a great story. An important question from Ian Service, who we want to thank. We sing his praises. There wouldn't be a pirate stream at live.torontomike.com without him.

Ian service wants to know what temperature is it in your, uh, your yard there, Stu. Say that again. Like in your, in your yard. Are you in front of a yard?

Right now is 87 degrees. Okay. Do you want to translate that? That's 22 or something. What is that? No, that's like, uh,

like 30. Oh, see, I'm so fucked with that. Uh, okay. That's really okay. It's nice. so fucked with that. Okay, that's really okay. It's nice. I thought it was like 25, but okay.

That is very nice. I'm jealous, but Mr. Big Stuff is playing now. This girl talk is fucking amazing. Okay. All right, listen. We've come a long way, guys. And there's obviously an iconic act that has yet to contribute. Can you stop the music and stop the rock and roll?

Done. How was your cue to hit the button? Oh, I... Yeah, okay. I'm not as sharp as I used to be. I mean, I just want to make sure that everybody who's watching live in the chat, they're still with us, right? If you're still with us listening live, please type the number one in the chat so that I know that you're still with us. Oh, yeah. I like this.

Hopefully, there's at least five people there. Yeah, please type the number one. You have to wait, though, and they get 10-second delay. That's fine. That's fine. I can wait. Oh, Lark, Voorhees, VP of Sales, Steve. I just want to make sure because we've been putting on a clinic here tonight of bad choices. Lark, Voorhees, VP of Sales, Steve, Ian Service.

We've been putting on a clinic here tonight of bad choices. There's one of the most iconic groups of all time that has one of the most iconic spring songs of all time, and we've yet to play it, Mike. Are you ready? I'm going to kick it out, okay? You ready? Yes. out okay you ready yes Ladies and gentlemen, Rammstein with their hit song Springtime. Wow.

Rammstein. Stop the music. Stop the rock and roll. All right, ladies and gentlemen, you heard Mike play the Kirkland Beatles. Now it's time to wrap it up for real, April Fools. Stick around for the win I think they prefer the Rammstein Here comes the sun Here comes the sun

I say it's all right. Little darling, it's been a long, cold, lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun Here comes the sun And I say It's alright Alright, I mean, there's so much to unpack here and I want to get to it all, Mike.

You know, I only come with the fun facts, not like you and Cam. I only bring the fun facts. Can you hear me? Of course. We're listening intently here. Okay. This is a band called The Beatles, Mike.

How do you spell Beatles? The quintessential spring song according to every popular list you can search for. Agreed. You know, we love those songs where the main characters aren't the songwriters, and this was one of the bright spots for Mr. George Harrison. This is a George Harrison original. And I've got news for you guys. Some Beatles history with this song.

Not only is this the most popular streaming song of the Beatles on Spotify, which kind of mind blows. That's a mind blow for me. I wouldn't have guessed this would be it, but this is their number one streamer. Wow. This song was only recorded by three Beatles, Harrison, McCartney, and Ringo.

John Lennon does not appear on the song as he had been in a car accident and was unable to attend the recording session. Had John not been in the car accident, maybe George doesn't get a chance to get one of his songs cut. So how about that? John Lennon not on this track. And let's also talk about the fact that when this song was mastered, August the 20th, 1969 When they were mastering this song John Lennon was there And that was the last time, Mike

The last time all four Beatles were together In a studio I'm Alan fucking Cross Okay, those were good fun facts Wait, that was August 20? Because it's the next winter that they do the rooftop They weren't in the recording studio. No, you're right.

No, you're right. You're right. You said studio. I know. I'm just pointing that out. I do want to point out that there are some mind blows. We don't leave here without the mind blows, folks. So this song obviously has been covered many times.

We know it's a popular cover. But I thought I would shine the light on two different takes on this song that really made it their own. And it wasn't just a straight cover. And one of the more popular ones, to me anyway, was a guy who was struggling with his band very similarly to the way that, you know, this song, I should also point out,

George Harrison wrote this song about the miserable winter he was having with the Beatles and all the stress they were having as a group. And at that point, the Beatles were at the end of their rope together. So fittingly, a member of a group, another guy that was having trouble with his group, decided to cover to make it his own. Let's play that one for a second.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop. Is that the wrong one? Yes, that's the wrong one. Little darling, it's been a long, long, lonely winter. Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun.

And I say, it's all right. Little darling. There you go. That's Peter Tosh, who at that point was having many, many frustrating moments with his Wailers bandmate, Bob Marley. You know, of course, they broke up. And ironic that this would be covered by Peter Tosh, who would end up going out on his own. Here comes the son, Peter Tosh. And now for Cam, to make up for Cam's indiscretions earlier, I'd like to play the final cover of Here Comes the Son

that I think that Cam would appreciate more than anybody. Okay. Who's singing this, Cam? That's also true, by the way. Before you play that that i will say that yes uh eric clapton uh there is a eric clapton story behind this that uh canada kev has reminded me of that is in the liner notes here but let's just okay here it is for real i apologize i turned it down earlier here it is. Here comes the sun and I say it's alright Little darling, it's been a long cold winter

Any idea, Cam? Little darling Um, no. No, should I know who this is? Yes, this is not Nina Simone, even though her version is incredible. Oh, her version's incredible. Wait, don't tell Cam yet. Don't tell Cam. Cam, it's somebody you kicked out in the last, I don't know,

six weeks or so you kicked out this guy. Well, that's why I thought Cam would get this. I guess he's not a true fan. He's a fraud. You've exposed him. Yeah, I don't know who. Ladies and gentlemen, Cam with the bad pics doesn't recognize Nick Cave and the bad seeds.

Really? Yes. Oh. Okay, yeah. He's more gentle. He's being very gentle with this. Of course, the worst version of this song ever released. Oh, stop.

No, no, not this one. Okay. I was going to say the one that Jon Bon Jovian built during the Joe Biden inauguration. Why do we think this is the number one most streamed Beatles song? I couldn't tell you. It would be one. I mean, it's kind of a universally loved, hopeful song. Like, there's great hope in this song.

That's why it's a good spring jam. I feel like I kicked it out with elvis in my backyard this past summer when i was kicking out uh songs like to give me hope to get through this fucking pandemic and this was one of the ones i kicked out because i find it to be very hopeful yeah yeah it's probably been in maybe some cartoons or like children it's like it's good for the kids all ages oh that's yellow submarine i think you're thinking of yeah well that that too is a cartoon what beatle song would be more like maybe uh i'm thinking of like like yesterday or like uh hey jude hey jude yeah you know this

is like they're bob cajun you know yeah? Yeah. I can see. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. It's a fact. And that. Any more fun facts? Do you want to share the fun fact that Kevin Canada Kev put in the chat? No. I'll do it then.

Okay. He says, I guess George Harrison, he goes, written in the garden while Clapton was banging his girl. There you go. I think he said, well, I don't want to repeat that. It's kind of rude.

The garden, of course, is a code word. Here's what we're going to do next week. I'm going to put you guys on the spot by basically telling you what you're going to do, and then later you can tell me you don't want to do it. Because it occurred to me too late in the game that we really should be kicking out baseball jams. Like we should kick out. There's so many jams that allude to baseball.

Let's kick out baseball jams next week. Sure. Stu, are you with us next week? I don't know. Maybe. Okay. Well, if you're with us, we'll kick out Baseball Jams. And if it's Brother Bill subbing in for you, a pinch hitting, if you will, we'll kick out.

I think we're going to do New Wave, I think, is the plan, I think. Oh, yeah. That's going to be like a four-hour episode. I think we'll get comfortable. Oh, you don't think that I could do New Wave? No, I don't. Are you fucking kidding me? I'm a huge fucking new wave guy okay stu save your strength for yacht rock part two no no no

don't fucking patronize me i know new wave music okay okay i know my shit yeah yeah so go fuck yourself and happy spring okay thank you guys thanks again for doing this stew i'm glad you're doing well in 86 degrees or whatever you said i'm so happy for you cam uh great to see you in front of that uh packed sky dome make sure make sure we get a picture before we uh log off here and thanks to everyone for listening honestly we do this for you but really you're doing it for us like it's a two-way street i feed off your energy and that's what makes me want to do this every week but really you're doing it for us like it's a two-way street I feed off your energy and that's what makes me want to do this every week until we're all fucking jabbed so thank

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