Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Summer Jamz: Toronto Mike'd #691
Episode Date: July 24, 2020This Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out songs for a hot summer with Stu Stone and Cam Gordon....
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Toronto Mike.
I'm Mike from
torontomike.com
and joining me
for this week's Pandemic Friday
episode on a Thursday night
in the TMDS Backyard Studio
with Stu Stones and Cam
Gordon.
USA!
How are you, man?
I couldn't
Yeah,
huss huss.
You can't top that.
No.
Welcome back. Last week
at approximately the same time
we recorded in the pouring rain. Devastating. Welcome back. Last week, at approximately the same time,
we recorded in the pouring rain.
Devastating.
Yeah.
Torrential downpour, a Noah's Ark type torrential rain.
A lot of umbrellas.
Oh, yeah.
Many umbrellas. Now, if it makes you feel any better,
I've done an episode since then that had more rain.
But that's kind of on you,
the show's producer who picks those rainy days to do outdoor podcasts.
Yeah, and who was that?
That was like some PR guy named Cam.
Oh, so you have multiple, yeah, nice.
Yeah, multiple Cams.
A&R guy.
Yeah, troll A&R, okay.
Did you, in fact, Cam,
I'm looking at you, squarely at you,
did you enjoy that Cam episode?
I thought it was fantastic.
Yeah, like one of those names I sort of have known over the years.
And I feel like I might have even dealt with him a bit when I wrote for a chart.
Definite Cam upgrade for the program.
Yeah.
He wrote, I was, you know, you don't know.
You're meeting someone for the first time.
It's pouring rain.
I was, you know, it was awful conditions. He comes back here, but he was like, he goes, this is rock and roll, man. Like I knew I was going you know, you don't know. You're meeting someone for the first time. It's pouring rain. I was, you know, it was awful conditions.
He comes back here, but he was like, he goes, this is rock and roll, man.
Like I knew I was going to be okay.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah.
Because he had the right spirit.
Gotta love those rock and roll mans.
Absolutely.
Well, he had a little story about everything.
I like that.
I like hearing about all the old venues.
Pursuit of Happiness playing at like, what do you say?
Like Maine and Girard or somewhere?
Like just naming all these places
like nobody's ever heard of. Like it's great. A real snapshot
of a certain time and place
in Toronto. And there'll be a part two because
he wants to talk about, he worked with
the Motown guys. Like he's got a whole, like we
didn't even get to touch that. We were too busy
talking about Sloan. How old is he?
He actually, his Twitter
handle has the number, has
1959 in it.
Okay.
So I feel like that's a giveaway.
So he worked for Motown when he was like 10?
Well, stay tuned for part two.
Wow.
I'm looking forward to that.
Definite legend, though.
We talked quite a bit about the Watchmen in that episode.
Of course.
So I want to say happy birthday to FOTM Sammy Cohn.
Happy birthday, Sammy.
It's a lovely lady.
The drummer.
It's the drummer in that band.
A drummer for that?
He almost seems sheepish when he talks.
But you were like, yeah, you're in a great rock band.
He's like, well, you know, I did a little drumming for a Winnipeg band.
I feel him on that.
I mean, it's like I'm like, yeah, you know, like I went down to the pond with the Edison Twins.
And it's like you don't really.
It's like, okay.
But I don't think anybody thinks Sammy Cone is resting on his laurels.
No, he's the man.
He's out there selling houses on the weekend.
He's pounding the skins.
What does he do that? What's not to like?
Sure.
So that's a birthday for Sammy.
But Sammy shares a birthday with my brother Steve.
It's my brother Steve's birthday. So happy birthday, Steve. Happy birthday for Sammy, but Sammy shares a birthday with my brother, Steve. It's my brother Steve's birthday.
So happy birthday, Steve.
Happy birthday, Sammy.
And Steve.
Steve suggests, he loves Pandemic Friday episodes.
But getting back to Sammy.
Wait, Steve from TO?
Yeah, sure.
I don't know if that's his handle.
Toronto Steve?
He doesn't tweet.
Steve Toronto? Stevie T? Yeah. Is he your older brother uh you know younger how much younger four years
oh he's only four years old no he's four years anything so did you guys grow up like kind of
close to each other or yeah well he's four years younger and we uh hung out yeah i mean yeah we
went to concerts you guys hug uh yeah I haven't seen him since COVID.
I saw him, but I haven't hugged him since COVID.
But when you were growing up, you guys got along?
Yeah.
No fighting?
Well, you just like normal sibling fighting.
Did he ever get the best of you?
Because sometimes like the younger brother eventually gets big enough and then it's game over.
Yeah, like with the Urquhart. He's a lover, not a fighter.
No, no, no.
But he did.
He loves Pandemic Friday episodes.
We love him. He suggested a lover, not a fighter. No, no, no. But he did, he loves Pandemic Friday episodes. We love him.
He suggested a topic for this week.
And I didn't, at the time, I didn't realize,
oh, like his birthday would be the same day we record.
But like, I was all excited.
Like he sold me on this topic
and then I pitched it to you guys.
And then, I don't know,
I guess it morphed into something else that I hated.
Like I hated.
Cam, I don't know.
Should we tell?
Which one of my suggestions?
I'm okay, by the way,
with Steve's suggestion.
I thought it was fine.
Well, we'll do it eventually.
Let's do the origin story.
What was the whole transgression?
I know.
You had a topic you wanted to do
about mistaken identities.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, i like that
it's a it's a little uh it's great i like it it's just a topic let me explain mistaken identity
is a topic that i want to do also it's songs that you thought were by other artists and you were
wrong but like like like the leonard cohen like the leonard like the leonard cohen sopranos theme Like the Leonard Cohen Sopranos theme kind of spinoff.
For example.
Or also just like bands that you mistook for each other.
I don't know why growing up I always thought the Leslie Spit Trio was Jane's Addiction for some reason.
Which is weird because those bands have nothing to do with it.
I don't find it interesting.
To me that's very inside Cam's head.
Like that's really like that's to me
like what the topic should we like unveil the topic yeah why not okay so i thought that since
uh we're in this heat wave uh although cam said he was cold you're both wearing sweaters a little
chilly it's not chilly uh because we were in this heat wave and it's middle of summer, dog days of summer.
We're in July here.
Late July, I guess.
But I thought we should do like summer jams.
Summer jams.
With a Z.
But not like summer jams,
like songs you listen to in the summer.
They have to be sort of like in the spirit of summer
or heat or hot.
Like not hits of the summer.
Not hits of summer. And this is not, at first it sounds like it's another hot. Not hits of the summer. Not hits of summer.
At first, it sounds like it's another song.
This is Summer Breeze.
Is this an entry?
You're playing bonus songs?
Nobody chose this song.
I was never going to choose this song,
but I was surprised that neither of you chose this song.
This is a great song.
Very melancholy.
This is yacht rock. This is right up my alley.
I was surprised it wasn't on your list. This is a great song. Very melancholy. This is yacht rock. This is right up my alley. Yeah.
Like I was surprised it wasn't on your list.
But here, this kind of song would be appropriate for tonight.
This is Seals and Croft, correct?
Summer breeze makes me feel fine.
Going through the jasmine in my mind. Yeah, so now we just like, that's our show for tonight.
Anyway, gotta go.
But none of us chose that one, so.
For some reason.
I'm expecting to hear some pavement this evening.
I guess we'll find out.
Yeah, well, there's a summer, babe.
Yeah, that would be a good jam.
Stu, I was on your IMDB page.
Oh, boy.
I like to go to bed after reading it.
It's a real sleeper.
It's the first bookmark.
There's a rumored movie on your IMDb page called Bandits.
Yeah.
That's a hot rumor.
So can I get an exclusive here?
Sorry, Bandits or Bandits?
No, with a V, like V for Vendetta.
Yeah, like Big Van Vader.
Bandits.
It's a script that my partner Adam and I from 5-7 Films,
we're both 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Is Adam your brother-in-law?
He's my brother-in-law, so we also write together.
And a script that we have written and pitched
and was really well received is called Vendits.
I don't know, hopefully I'll get to make that movie soon,
but it is a heist
movie about these guys.
It's basically like
if Ocean's Eleven took place
in Fargo. Like these idiots
in a van are going to try to... I mean, you sold me. That's your
elevator pitch. It's a heist movie.
It's really funny. Sounds like a caper.
It is a caper. These guys are trying to rob
a bingo hall on Christmas Eve.
And what could go wrong?
Exactly.
Everything goes wrong.
Okay, so do you need financing?
Like, what is the...
It's not that we need financing.
We're now...
It's like the COVID thing happened,
so it's like people aren't really, you know,
everything's sort of in a standstill,
but we have interest,
so, you know, once we find a broadcaster,
we're off to the races.
Okay.
I like you're doing your elevator pitch
with, like like summer breeze.
And the song will be...
It works.
But I do have a new movie
that we're putting
the finishing touches on.
Okay, because the other thing
I wanted to ask you about
was your untitled true crime.
Yeah, that's the one.
I did finish.
When does it get a title?
It has a title.
But it's not ready
to be unveiled yet.
Wow.
I don't even get the exclusive
on the...
No, you will.
I said I would tell you first.
But I can tell you that it is a
really, really, the wildest project
that I've done to date.
Wow. Sorry, this is a documentary.
I think I showed you a trailer, didn't I?
No, I don't think so.
It's not a documentary.
It is exactly a true crime.
Oh, yeah, it gets a good point.
It could be a documentary.
It could be.
Let's put it this way.
The film is about like if myself and Adam
were on the hunt for a killer
and that's the movie.
That's the most I can give you right now.
That's not a documentary.
It could be.
It's definitely a lot of fun.
It's amazing how secretive we are about the...
I don't mean to be.
It's like I have deals with the company.
Yeah, this is like IP, original IP.
You know, it's like the thousands of people listening right now,
it's like all it takes is for one of them to open their mouth,
and then I'm in trouble.
What did you say?
Oh, you weren't supposed to say.
Exactly, like Cambrio, you know, that big mouth.
There's a lot of Cams around.
Cambrio, Cameron Carpenter was here the other day.
Yeah, a few to make, Cam Neely.
However, if you did want to scroll down,
if you can just pick out another random credit,
I'd be happy to tell you.
These are the upcoming.
No, I'd rather talk about the glorious past.
Okay.
I will share a little anecdote,
which I already shared with Stu,
but the producer of Scarecrows
was sitting on that bench about three days ago.
That's wild.
Whoa.
Who?
His name's Pete, Peter Williamson.
He's like this industry giant in the Canadian film industry,
and he sort of mentored us for our first couple of movies,
and Scarecrows was a lot better of an experience working with him.
Big Scarecrows fan.
Yeah.
And, yeah, so Pete was here.
Yeah.
With whom?
Was that W5 reporter still sitting there?
Oh, yeah.
Mary.
Mary Dartis.
Yeah.
No, she wasn't there.
Why are you bugging, Mary?
I dropped that one on her, yes.
So Peter was here because he's interested in producing a Canadian history podcast.
So he paid a visit to TMDS Studios.
With a guy from the Fifth Estate.
And then like the guy from Street Sense will be here.
Like Ken Pompadour will be here next.
Oh yeah, I liked Ken Pompadour.
So yeah, he was here and he...
Where's Benita Ha when you need her?
I had a major crush on Benita Ha.
Like major.
All the greats.
And there is an FOTM from that universe, of course,
because Jonathan Torrance is a FOTM. Definitely not fit for the pit. Oh, a that's right yeah so definitely not fit for the pit oh I love the fit that was that was the show I learned a lot
yeah that was the show I learned a lot from street sense yeah what's street sense maybe this is your
LA ears I don't know no this was like grade school wait is that like a guy on like a man on the street
type of is it a game show no no no it, sorry, I thought I saw the baby raccoon.
Did you?
It was like,
almost like a Pat Foran
consumer alert show
but for children.
Right.
So sort of like
overtime sports talk,
sports talk for children.
Like if you took Pat Foran
and he had a baby
with Peter Silverman
or something.
Like there was like,
yeah,
it was about
young Canadians
teaching them
how to be savvy consumers.
Yeah.
Like don't believe
the marketing hype.
Interesting.
Yeah, yeah.
It was sort of like AdBusters Junior.
And it was really good.
I thought it was that game show where they ask the questions,
then they cut to a clip of like a man on the street interview.
You have to guess, like, is this person going to say, get it right?
Because that was a show called Street Sense or Street Smarts maybe.
Street Smarts maybe.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, but not Street Sense.
It's like, you know, skin-a-merinky Dink, Skinny Marinky Do, I blank.
Yeah, will he get it?
And then you have to say, will they get it right?
And then you look at the guy and you're like, no.
And then the guy's like, I don't know.
And you win like $50 or something.
Just like a $50 bill.
Do you guys want some FOTM news before we get rolling here tonight?
Hell yes.
Is it good news or is it bad news?
None of it's good, actually.
It's very on brand for Mike to deliver bad news.
It's all bad.
Okay, so where do I begin on the bad news?
Maybe from the worst news.
Okay, the worst news is that FOTM Mike Stafford broke his neck.
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God.
I saw your tweet.
Like your sort of cold, callous tweets.
Like what am I supposed to do? Put a sad face at the end? I was sad. How did he break his neck? I saw your tweet. Like, your sort of cold, callous tweets. Like, what am I supposed to do?
Put a sad face at the end?
I was sad.
How did he break his neck?
I wasn't happy.
I was told that he fell off a ladder.
Oh, my God.
And he had surgery.
Like, he had some back surgery or something.
And now he's resting in hospital.
Well, that's good.
As far as I know, he's not paralyzed.
I don't know quite, like...
That's good.
I guess you can break your neck and not get paralyzed.
Sure.
Okay.
Wow.
But that's the worst news.
It only gets better from there.
So now he's got like battle scars like Stone Cold Steve Austin or...
Right.
Kurt Angle had a broken...
And remember...
Kurt Angle won a gold medal with a broken freaking neck.
I heard.
Stafford and I have a complicated history because we...
You know, he came on twice and then he called me a turd and.
Oh yeah,
I was going to say like a dirty little punk or something.
No,
turd in his basement on his,
uh,
AM 640 radio show.
What,
what was it in reference to?
I had Lou Skeezes on the program and I,
I asked,
you know,
this is in the basement obviously.
And I looked at Lou and I said,
all I asked was when he was given his pink slip from chorus,
which by the way, this will segue nicely into my next bad news. When he was given his pink slip from Chorus, which by the way, this will segue nicely into my next bad news.
When he was given his pink slip from Chorus,
I said, did he hear from Stafford afterwards?
Like did Stafford reach out and say, sorry to hear the news or whatever?
And Lou Skiza said no.
And then we moved on.
Like that was the extent of my,
and Stafford seemed upset that I brought him into that conversation,
but that was the full extent of my.
And thus you're a turd in your basement.
Right.
So he was very mad at me.
So when he broke his neck, were you like rooting for that?
I have no...
I hope not.
Please, Stuart.
Oh, it just sounds like you had some...
Like a voodoo type thing?
No, no, no.
Called in the services of Papa Shango?
I actually wish him a speedy recovery.
That's a scary fucking thing, man. You're acting like I don't wish him a speedy recovery. That's a scary fucking thing, man.
You're acting like I don't wish him a speedy recovery.
You're being a turd in your backyard now.
Turd on your day.
I wish him a speedy...
For the record, I wish him a speedy recovery.
Yeah, like Toronto...
Terrible news.
He's great.
Great broadcaster.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yes, the CFNY pedigree.
And he was on Reach for the Top.
Boy, you are really backpedaling here.
And Jeopardy.
I know.
He was on Jeopardy?
I buried the lead.
I guess Reach for the Top.
He was on an episode of Jeopardy.
Like as a contestant?
Correct.
Did he win?
We guest hosted one week.
He did not win, but he was on Jeopardy.
Yeah.
Not easy to get on Jeopardy, and he was on it.
That must mean he's smart. He's smart.
He's a sharp guy. I think he's smart.
Clearly. And he kicked out some great jams
with me and I hope he does well.
Get well, Mike. Get well, Mike Stafford.
Also, I just
want to give my best to Dave Perkins.
We had an exchange
this week. It was the anniversary of
his first visit and he's having a
rough summer. So I just want to give some love to Dave. He's of his first visit and he's having a rough summer so I just want to
give some love to Dave. He's had some health
struggles and it's been a very
difficult summer in and out of hospitals
and I just want to give my best to Dave
because he's the way he came back
with Bob Elliott. That might
be my favorite episode ever.
Have you listened? You would love it.
It's like classic gay stories.
It's fucking amazing amazing i know these guys
i think that people like pagan and uh steve simmons they write me these notes to say that's
like the greatest piece of audio they've ever consumed well i think we like 90 new material
stuff like just oh you know tom hanky was you know in the back with this girl and like just
all this stuff you like jesse barfield and his gold-plated Rolls Royce. It's just amazing.
It's wild stuff about these people we thought we knew.
Right.
I've got to check that out.
Honestly, it's a lot of fun.
How long is your drive home?
It's 49 minutes.
Started.
Send me a link.
I would say that that sounds really great.
I'm sorry to hear that he's going through that.
He's having a rough summer, but we're aiming to, when things get better,
we're aiming for, as his health continues to improve, to get him back because he is, that's his target,
to get back here with Bob Elliott to do a part two.
Oh, my God. Fantastic.
Hopefully, in time for the Jays,
maybe they'll actually have like a home venue.
Every team makes the playoff this year.
The Baltimore Blue Jays?
Yeah.
That's what I hear.
Is that official?
No.
Doesn't Maryland have to sign off on it?
I thought they're playing in Washington.
Like they're guaranteed like Washington's like a destination.
My last thing I heard was Baltimore.
Okay.
Yeah, I think Maryland has to sign off.
For those that don't know what we're talking about,
we're talking about the Toronto Blue Jays.
And they're not going to be playing home games this summer.
Although, if COVID slows down, which probably at some point,
according to Trump,
it's going to disappear.
Yeah.
So if that happens,
is that your source?
Then they will be back.
I'm going to tell the world right now,
although you cannot see her on the periscope,
she's out of frame.
I just want to acknowledge she's here.
There is an embedded journalist.
It's not Mary Dartis.
Okay.
So is that fake news?
Is it going to disappear?
Can you verify?
Fact check?
Oh.
You don't know? Whose voice is that?
I'll just use her initials.
She's very secretive.
MF. Not MD.
Not Mary Deltis. Noreen Virgin.
Also from Today's Special.
She was also a broadcast journalist.
Yeah, at CTV, I think.
Absolutely. You know that Jodi from Today's
Special was also a shoot journalist?
Maybe CBC, too. She was really a shoot journalist? Maybe CBC too.
She was really a big deal.
And Muffy Mouse is an FOTM.
We've covered her.
Sam Crenshaw, we know about him.
Now here's one for you.
Jeff Hislop, that's Jeff.
He's the guy that's the fucking mannequin.
And when his hat comes off, he comes to life, right?
The hat was the gimmick.
He was like a prima ballerina.
He was a world class dancer.
Now, on an episode
of the Wayne and Schuster show.
Wayne and Schuster.
On an episode of the Wayne and Schuster show.
Canadian show, the Canadian Smothers Brothers.
Take off your sweater.
Baby, it's getting hot now.
You been working out, buddy?
Holy smokes. Hub off your sweater. Baby, it's getting hot now. You been working out, buddy? A little bit.
Holy smokes.
Hubba hubba.
Calm down, Stu.
An episode of Wayne and Schuster. It was like a medieval episode, I'm sure. It might be on
YouTube or whatever.
I was on it,
obviously. Of course. And Jeff Hislop
was on the episode as well.
So he was also like the dance
instructor because we had to do these musical numbers with dances because wayne and schuster
was like a variety comedy sometimes there was singing and dancing and comedy like he was an
acting on it he was acting on it but he was also like you know collecting two paychecks because he
was also a choreographer doing the choreography for whatever the dance was. So it was really cool.
But I was so starstruck because it was Jeff.
And I was still so young that I was like, how the fuck is he alive?
He's wearing the hats on.
And, you know, I think I learned very quickly.
You know, Christmas was ruined to me when he was like, someone brought him a coffee.
And he was like, I asked for a fucking coffee. Oh, really?
That's the real talk I'm looking for, Stuart.
Is that a true story?
I might be paraphrasing that part,
but I just remember he wasn't like this ray of sunshine
that he was on television.
That's funny because I can't remember which FOTM it was,
but somebody keeps telling me a story about how he was outside
Maple Leaf Gardens and he saw Mark Hebbshire during the sports line days
and Hebbsie told him to fuck off.
That sounds like Hebsey.
I know.
On brand.
But that was one,
I think,
I don't know how old the guy was.
He was like 10 years old or something,
but that's one of those moments when you realize like,
Oh,
like,
well,
you know,
he had an earring and stuff.
I'll tell you what though,
you,
if,
if,
if Hebsey likes you,
you're doing something right.
Oh,
thank you.
Cause I think he likes me.
I think he does too.
And I feel the same way.
He likes you.
I feel like in my few times hanging with him, we've hit it off famously.
Yeah.
And, you know, I had this dream, this childhood dream that we're just, me and him are buddies,
which I think we are.
It's like a big deal.
Yeah.
Like, I still get like a little like tingle when I hear that opening and he says.
Where's that tingle?
Kind of an all over thing. I think he a bfd big fucking deal but uh i think we just cracked the code like the
untitled true crime is searching for jim tatty you're probably yeah well he's around well he's
a tsn but he's what happened they did have a little reconciliation on a golf course or something. With FOTM, Mitch Azaria.
A lot of great duos.
And I'm going to say this.
I know, Siskel and Ebert.
Stu Stone and Cam Gordon.
Sure.
But without knowing the full story between Hebsey and Jim Taddy,
and I'm sure he's probably had to tell the story like 7 billion times
because that's like, hey, where's Jim Teddy?
Like,
yes,
guy.
Yeah.
So,
so I'm just saying from somebody who has experienced this and,
and,
and speaking from experience,
a lot of these duos and bands that we talk about every week,
like it,
at some point there's something that goes on that like changes everything,
you know,
like great duos break up.
And then sometimes if we're really lucky,
they reconcile and they get back together.
Hey,
Croft,
we're seals.
Exactly.
No,
but really though,
right.
You know,
Simon and Garfunkel,
you know,
they hated each other for a long time.
Well,
the,
the Eagles,
I mean,
famously.
Sure.
Uh,
the,
the,
uh,
Gallagher brothers have,
are they going to reconcile maybe one day?
Like that'll happen. there's too much money
like on the table I feel like
yeah okay but there's already been big money on the table
so we'll see
you cracked open a GLB did you
MF had one here let me open up my
yeah she's enjoying one over there
the longer Oasis waits
the worse it's going to be for them
because like people's interest
it's like they should have done it already five years ago.
Well, they should have done it pre-COVID.
Yeah.
I guess next year.
I wonder what is the 20, maybe some anniversary coming up for Wonderwall or something like that.
Maybe that would be something.
Yeah.
But, like, if Peter Cetera doesn't show up for the Chicago Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then, you know, he's sort of setting the bar pretty high.
Even Stephen Page showed up for the B& and Roll Hall of Fame, then he's sort of setting the bar pretty high. Even Stephen Page showed up for the B&L Canadian Hall of Fame.
Well, even, what's his name?
Steve Perry was at the Journey Hall of Fame.
You know, I heard from a few doors over when I was waiting for you guys to arrive.
Like that four-year-old.
Yeah, I guess that backyard.
I heard Don't Stop Believing.
Like somebody was blasting Don't Stop Believing.
Now, the guy who's the lead singer of Journey Now
has been the lead singer longer than Steve Perry was the lead singer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like way longer.
Yeah.
So when they performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and then Steve Perry was in the audience watching this guy sing the song,
but he looked pretty,
I think he just has like this permanent grin on his face now, Steve Perry.
He might be, you know, one of these. Oh, from plastic surgery. Or I don't know what from, but you see him now, Steve Perry. He might be one of these.
Oh, from plastic surgery.
Or I don't know what from, but you see him at Giants games.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a big Giants fan, and he's just always kind of smiling.
I told you that.
He's got that Eddie Van Halen, or not, sorry, the David Lee Roth kind of like.
Like kind of the Cheshire Cats type perma smile.
Yes.
I haven't finished my FOTM news.
Oh, no.
So I just want to give love to Robbie J.
Who else is in the hospital?
He's not in the hospital.
He's not in the hospital.
But there were big cuts at Chorus today.
And an FOTM got caught up in one.
But there were like Jennifer Valentine got it.
So they did some cost cutting.
She's a radio personality.
Jennifer Valentine?
Yeah.
Well, she was on Q107 for a while,
but she's most famous for being on Breakfast Television.
Oh, of course.
She was the prize gal.
Sure, sure, sure.
And now she's on the Global.
That's a very famous name, Jennifer Valentine,
in the Toronto world.
Yeah, she used to be Jennifer...
How quickly do we get this?
Peel?
Pack.
No, Chris Pack
Jennifer
Jennifer Pack
I believe
but I think
didn't they shake up
the whole breakfast
television thing
oh yeah
Roger Peterson
but now
Jennifer Valentine
is until today
I guess
was on the global
morning show
absolutely
the competition
which sometimes
featured guest
appearances from
yours truly
really
so you've been on with Jen Valentine?
Geez, wow.
But there's many photos of me on the internet.
You and Jen.
Yeah, so that sucks.
Kind of get him an IMDb.
Seriously.
All these appearances.
Does Periscope count as a television show?
Sure.
I think so.
But yeah, that sucks.
Did we ever unveil the topic?
Oh, so yes.
It sucks.
I wanted to say Robbie J guy all these people got fired we talked a lot about him in the cameron carpenter uh episode
uh yeah robbie jay got it chorus shit can a ton of people are they just furloughed or is it like
a permit permacan no man this is like uh cost cutting because of difficult well mike i don't
know if you noticed too they they, they cut their big news podcast.
Is it What Happens Next?
Yeah, it's a title like that.
Yeah, which hopefully you and 1236 discussed,
because I know the state of the podcasting game,
I'd love to hear you guys kind of break that down,
because that was a big deal with Chorus. We will. Next week, he's back here.
I think that the Canadian industry as a whole,
whether it be films and television,
which I'm a part of that,
I'm not going to include music in here. Edison Twin. Fil it be films and television. Which I'm a part of that.
I'm not going to include music in here.
Edison Twin.
Films.
As a test.
Films and television.
And news programs.
And entertainment programs.
It's really like.
How big of a following do these things have.
And how much money do they generate. To be able to afford to pay all these people.
So it's like COVID came
and exposed
that there's a hole in the bucket.
And it happened to everybody. It's not
just them. It's like course isn't the only one
making cuts. There's cuts everywhere across the
board. It's like everybody. Like Roger Peterson
is a good example. Well, I was going to say
there's all that. And then meanwhile, like Mike
and you know. Lean mean
operation here. I was going to say, look at all the guests you've had during this time.
Like it's been like a murderer's row of like incredible guests.
You've introduced Pandemic Fridays, which has been a big hit.
Yeah, I think that COVID was good for Toronto Mike.
But I think it was bad for everybody else.
The award winning Ben Rayner episode was fantastic.
He's back on the 30th.
This is like primo stuff.
Queen Street, which used to be a hotbed.
It might still be, but I'm saying when we were kids,
we'd go down to Queen Street or when you're a teenager,
that was a whole day.
To buy your docs.
Or it was just like, you're on Queen Street, that's your day.
Right.
And there was much music and all this shit down there.
Right.
Well, think about all those businesses on King and Queen Street
paying $15,000, $20,000 a month,
and they can't open up their business
it's going to be a ghost town down there
I don't know what's going to happen
in fact this will be a nice segue
I was chatting with Anthony Petrucci from Palma
and they were still waiting for permission
to open up the
in-house dining
they can't do a patio there
they don't have a patio but they have, they have, no, they don't have a patio, but they have
four, I saw there was four
picnic tables outside
where I sat and enjoyed some delicious
stuff.
I will say this, to his
credit, and the great Palma, I've
never left here with a Palma Pasta
that I didn't use, but the last
time, specifically, which was last week,
the last week I got a Palma Pasta.
The beef variation, which is available at all their locations.
All two of them?
Four, actually.
Three in Mississauga, one in Oakville.
It's palmapasta.com.
They're fucking growing.
God bless.
I took the Palma Pasta home.
I don't know what Cam did with his.
He ate his on the way home.
He couldn't wait.
He was just gnawing at it.
Just started eating it on the drive. Yeah, he was like a hamster. Left for the first time. And the crickety couldn't wait. He was just like gnawing at it. Just started eating it on the drive.
Yeah, he was like a hamster.
Left for the first time,
and this is a little tip,
I left it out overnight.
Wait, out or in the fridge?
Well, I left it out first
and then I moved it to the fridge
when I woke up.
Okay.
But I left it out.
So it was completely thawed
when you put it in the oven.
Took it out.
Because I actually,
I'm with you so far,
please continue,
but I have learned as well to put it in the oven. Took it out. Because I actually, I'm with you so far, please continue, but I have learned as well to put
it in the fridge for a couple of days so it completely thaws.
Like, I'll leave it in the fridge for two days and then I put it in the oven.
Yeah, so I had about 12 hours out of the fridge and then into the fridge for like six hours
and then preheat the old oven, stick it in.
Now, I'm by myself, you know, so I can't take down a whole palm of pasta to the face.
No.
If I had Wilner with me, maybe we could do it.
But I took down a third of it by myself, and then I gave the rest of it to my nephews to enjoy the next day.
So did you enjoy?
Of course.
So I was wondering if they want to give any other dishes.
I've tried the lasagna several times.
They have a fucking manicotti.
I just had a meeting about this.
Let's go.
Marcella or, you know.
It's funny.
Throw me a frigging bone here.
I feel like-
That's awesome powers.
So I feel like here I am, you know, I did all these Zoom episodes and I'm starting to do
all my episodes out here because I got bored of Zoom.
Although I know at some point you guys will be doing Pandemic Fridays on Zoom, but usually
I'm bored of it.
But I had a good meeting with Anthony.
He still wants to give out these large, and he wants it to be a large lasagna.
Well, I know.
I like a large lasagna.
I'll eat it.
Go big or go home.
By the way, I'll continue eating the lasagna.
I'm just saying if you could throw in a chicken marsala.
I don't actually have one for you today, but Cam, did you eat your...
Bocconcini.
Did you eat your...
It's just still sitting in this one's freezer.
This one.
And we actually talked about we might enjoy it on... We're going to the island on Saturday. Did you eat your... It's still sitting in this one's freezer. This one, and then?
We actually talked about we might enjoy it.
We're going to the island on Saturday.
We're going to get home.
Well, can you invite Stu over so we can... Yeah, that's romantic.
You guys save me a third.
The whole neighborhood's invited.
Okay, can I come too?
I'd like to throw this out there.
Yeah, her dress is...
I'm just kidding.
Unlike the Palma Pasta, which I would never throw out,
I'd like to throw this idea out to the folks of Palma Pasta,
possibly, or Great Lakes, but really Palma Pasta for now.
Yes.
I would like to direct a television commercial for them.
You know, they need a commercial for YouTube or for whatever,
for social media, and it can star.
You know, we can shoot like a really cool Palma Pasta commercial.
We got a link.
Let's get that budget together.
Let's do it.
If Monica appears at the door
and is like,
dinner time,
and we're like,
oh, we're rubbing our hands
in anticipation.
If the price is right,
I'm available to even be a spokesperson.
Get Tom Wilson.
Remember the video?
He loved his lasagna.
Okay, here's the concept.
Okay.
Remember the video,
Odds Eat My Brain?
Of course.
What is that?
It's like Junkhouse and the presuppositions chasing around the odds.
I haven't even kicked a jam yet.
Yeah, it's something like Tom Wilson.
Because Tom Wilson loved the palm of pastas.
Like he was blown away by this.
Yeah, like he loves the pasta.
Like he's discovering his indigenous roots.
He's eating pasta.
Like his life's cheese clean.
Good life.
I'm lost my train of thought.
Bottom line is, we need
to get Stu to direct a
Palma pasta. Starring potentially Kim.
Maybe they merge their funds, like Great Lakes
and Palma. It's a good pairing.
We're all drinking Great Lakes. I just
went to Great Lakes for the
first time in a while.
Earlier this week, and I loaded up on some more Great Lakes for the first time in a while, like earlier this week,
and I loaded up on some more Great Lakes.
I'm enjoying a pale ale.
So thank you, Great Lakes, for fueling the real talk,
and thank you, Palma Pasta.
I mentioned CDN Technologies.
If you want to outsource your IT department.
You're already going back to your ads.
We haven't kicked a jam yet.
Yeah.
Well, it's better to do the ads.
Yeah, get it out of the way.
Chat with both the sponsors now and we just kick out jams.
Garbage app, sure.
So garbageday.com slash Toronto Mike.
MF, have you signed up at garbageday.com slash MF?
Yeah, she said yes.
That's a yes.
She did?
Of course she did.
So you get those notifications every week about curbside collection.
When it's jam day to take out the trash.
And CDN Technologies, again, again.
Is that Tim?
These technology and threats.
No, that's not Tim, actually.
Ian's service does other services.
But technology and threats change daily.
You can shift the stress of managing your own technology to cdntechnologies.com.
Give Barb a call.
Ooh, hello, Barb.
Yeah, I do it.
Honestly, Barb's a-
What's the phone number?
The phone number is 905-
Oh.
542-
Wait, hold on.
Can I get a pen?
Sorry.
905-
It's Patrick.
He got life insurance.
905-
That's a deep cut.
542.
I love that.
Hello.
She wrote that.
That was so quick.
It's Patrick.
So let's do it.
No, it's like, hello. Hey, Mom, it's Patrick. I just got life insurance. It's Patrick. He just four, two. I love that. Hello. She wrote that. That was so quick. It's Patrick. So let's do it. No,
it's like,
hello.
Hey mom,
it's Patrick.
I just got live insurance.
It's Patrick.
He just got live insurance.
And then like the dad writes down like medical.
Yeah,
on a whiteboard.
He must have to take a medical.
He's got the magic marker.
Hello.
Hi,
it's Patrick.
I just got live insurance.
I think the first time Stu was on,
it was recently the anniversary.
I tweeted about it.
Your first visit. Did we talk about that? I think we did the same thing. I think the first time Stu was on, it was recently the anniversary. I tweeted about it, your first visit.
Did we talk about that?
I think we did the same thing.
I think we did the same routine.
It's Patrick?
Yeah, I think we did.
Remember there was a band called It's Patrick?
Yeah.
Do you remember that?
They were on the pub scene.
Right.
On the pub scene.
So, 905-542-
736.
9759.
Contact Barb.
The way you said that phone number was so unmemorable.
905-542.
Go to cdntechnologies.com.
Nobody's remembering that number. Where's Alfie's epic hostage?
4-3-9.
Go to, why don't you go to pumpkinsafterdark.com.
The promo code is Toronto Mike if you want to save some money.
Pumpkins After Dark.
Are we going to load up a carload and go to that?
Yeah, we should do this.
Absolutely.
Get the tickets now.
Hotbox the car.
It's great to have them back again.
And Stu, you said it takes 49 minutes to get here?
Because that's unacceptable.
We need to move you closer to TMDS.
You know, I was thinking of calling Austin Keitner of the Keitner Group.
Does he have a phone number?
While we play some jams, why don't you text Toronto Mike to 559-559.
I see MF doing it right now.
I like that one.
She's digging it.
She's digging the vibe.
The Keitner Group.
And sticker you.
I think there's a sticker there.
But sticker you.com.
Toronto Mike stickers.
If anybody DMs me on twitter twitter's
a great little social uh networking service if you dm me toronto mike he'll send you two bitcoins
if i can if i i'll google map your address send me your address i'll google map it if i think i
can bike there i'm gonna put a sticker mean greets in well i don't know if i don't know about that
but maybe if you're around but i was just going to put a sticker in the mailbox.
On the mailbox?
In the mailbox.
You should put it on the mailbox.
Or in the mailbox.
If you're in a condo or something, just meet me outside.
We'll figure it out.
Usually when someone says meet me outside, there's a fight in words.
Are you going to put up your dukes or what?
Meet me outside.
This is... We have not kicked out of jams.
I just want to say
Last week was pouring rain
Yes
And the feedback
I mean I saw Stu was grumpy
At the beginning
And he kind of warmed up
Like can you
Do you want to tell us
Like what you experienced
Well when I heard that
Mike had Percocets
It made me feel better
Do you want me to go get you one
Yes
It was pouring rain
When we first got here
Which was unadvertised
I think I told you it was all clear.
Yes, you said it was all clear. I meant now
it is. Yes, but like last week
you were like, it's all good, come now.
And so we came and
I was under a pile of umbrellas
and Monica took
the creep shot, which somebody
enjoyed that line. Quite sultry
photos from above.
And then, you know, as the rain stopped and the birds started singing
and the jams started kicking.
The baby raccoons started crawling.
I started feeling a lot better about it.
But, you know, listen, my point is rain or shine, I'm a trooper.
I'm here.
I'm putting it in.
Cam's here.
MF in the house.
Absolutely.
We're here to kick out jams, rain or shine.
So this is a hot summer night
and we're kicking out
summer jams.
Summer jams.
You ready to kick out
Jams?
Go ahead.
It's like summer
or like heat
or hot.
Or just things that
make you feel like
in a mood that
it's a summer mood.
Hot summer jams.
Sure.
Are you okay with that?
Okay, well to be discussed
as we proceed.
But you want to kick out
Jams first, Jams?
HSC, yes.
Oh, baby.
Yeah.
It's coming out.
Coming out of the gate strong on Toronto Mic.
Pandemic Friday.
I like that commentary.
He's like channeling Jim Van Horn circa.
I'm ready for the radio, man. Let's go.
It's too bad they're not hiring anymore.
Well, maybe they would now that we're available.
Start a podcast. Yeah.
I think you already have. It's just a music
podcast where we break out the hits.
She's eating her
heart out.
With the sight of Paul LaPonce
I can't believe she
I don't know, get morbid
But she's passed away, though
I feel like
Before her time
The cup is always half empty with you, Mike
This is a jam, though
Yeah, like
I forgot how
Fucking amazing this song is
Apologies to your Foreign and six year old.
No, swear away.
That's not my kid over there.
Anyway.
So this is of course Donna Summer, Hot Stuff from the summer of 1979.
I remember it well.
You know, Stu and I were like in, I was at diapers.
He was still shaking his pants.
Embryos.
From the album Bad Girls.
Wow. And not surprisingly, this was album Bad Girls. Ooh, wow.
And not surprisingly,
this was produced by Giorgio Moroder.
Has that very specific Moroder sound that we all know and love.
How would we know it?
From what else?
From Chase.
Chase, yeah.
And Daft Punk.
He did the stuff with Daft Punk.
And he worked with Boulevard by any chance? Boulevard, The Watchmen. He did the stuff with Daft Punk and he worked with Boulevard by any chance
Boulevard, The Watchmen
he did some stuff with that
like a four on the floor disco kind of guy
yeah exactly and I think he did Donna
Summer's I Feel Love
Donna Summer was a huge star
in this period there was nobody bigger than Donna Summer
for like five years
she had a nice five year run
and also coincide with like Studio 54,
that whole thing.
But this song actually has a guitar solo
from Jeff Skunk Baxter.
You probably know this is the great doc rock artist
from Doobie Brothers.
Oh, is that who that is?
And also in Steely Dan, yeah.
Wow, I love that.
Wow.
So needless to say,
this is a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100,
also number one right here in Canada, Japan, Australia, Switzerland.
Worldwide hit.
Cam coming with a hit.
I'm in a great mood.
It is really mainstream.
You're going to be happy.
Very mainstream.
Cam bringing a hit tonight.
I'll say this.
As much as we love this song, Donna Summer, also probably one of the most...
Sexy?
Besides that, most licensed song for commercials about food.
Ah.
A quick scan of YouTube.
We've got Chef Boyardee,
including a commercial with the young Candice Cameron...
Buray.
Buray.
Buray?
Buray?
Pavel Buray?
Kirk Cameron's little sister.
That's right.
A commercial from 1984.
This was in a commercial for
4 and 20 meat pies. It sounds
like kind of a British thing. I'm not sure what that is.
Duncan Hines brownies,
DiGiorno pizza, and
not Great Lakes breweries, but Corona beer.
And this commercial that I
saw was very, I don't think it's a fly.
It had hot stuff playing,
a martini glass,
a Corona beer, and it's like hot stuff.
And it's been in movies too.
Yeah, like it's been all over the place.
But this had like a pair of like pink.
Oh, here's the solo.
So it's like a Steely Dan solo?
Yeah, this is like the Doobie Brothers guy right here.
Bringing us home.
Yeah, I don't even remember like a guitar on this song at all.
Now we can't mention Cameron...
Cameron...
What's her name?
Candice Cameron.
Candice Cameron.
Without pointing out that, of course, there's a...
Yeah, well, of course.
There's a fantastic song called Rollin' with Saget.
And I still want...
We just had to point out, because Bob Saget was in Full House with Candice Cameron.
You know this, right?
Yes.
And I still want to do
a Toronto Mic'd episode
with Stu Stone and Decisive.
Well, I don't know.
It's going to be tough.
But there's sort of like
a Jim Taddy thing
happening there.
With you and him?
Maybe.
I don't know.
You'll have to ask him.
That's the real talk
I'm looking for.
Candace Cameron.
I know, Cam,
you're a huge Full House fan.
So you know Michelle's catchphrase.
You got it, dude. Or how rude. No, no, no. That's Stephanie. Oh, yeah. You got it, dude. You got it House fan. So you know Michelle's catchphrase. You got it, dude.
Or how rude.
No, no, no.
That's Stephanie.
Oh, yeah.
You got it, dude.
You got it, dude.
So you know Stephanie's.
How rude.
You know Uncle Jesse.
Have mercy.
You know Uncle Joey.
Cut it out.
Right.
You know Danny.
Something about cleaning?
Sure.
And you know, do you know DJ's?
Was it like, oh, man. Oh, my Lentus. Oh, yeah, do you know DJs?
Was it like, oh man. Oh my Lentus.
Oh yeah, yeah. Oh my god. What's
Kimmy Gibbler?
Hola Tangeritos or something.
I've never seen an episode
of Full House. You are fucked. Wow. But I was
older. Doesn't matter.
Okay, but
Rolling in Sagat is great. Okay, can I make three
more points? I, wait, wait.
I have three.
But this is really important.
There's this great movie called Kicking It Old School that I'm in,
and I play a DJ, and my character's name by choice was DJ Tanner.
Now that's pretty smart.
Wow.
DJ Tanner, come on.
I love it when you roll off those credits.
Getting back to the late Donna Summer.
She died? Yeah. Good back to the late Donna Summer. She died?
Yeah.
Good segue.
Died in 2012.
I remember she died of lung cancer.
I never heard this story.
Sucks.
When she got it, she claims or she suspects,
it might have been because she was living, I guess, in New York City at the time.
She claims she inhaled fumes from 9-11 that led to her lung cancer. That's possible. Was this known?
That's possible. I've never heard this. I didn't hear that
before. Okay, so that's
I'll just say fact. It's not a fun fact
because she's dead. That's awful. That's a sad fact.
Second fact, this somehow made her Wikipedia
page. I don't know if you know this is
Eddie Hot Stuff Gilbert. I know Eddie Gilbert.
Eddie Killer Wrestler. He said he got
his nickname. He's passed away as well. Also dead.
But took his nickname from this song.
And I'll just read, like, Donna Summer was such a big fucking deal.
I didn't know that Eddie Gilbert got his nickname from that song.
There you go.
There you go.
It's from the Chef Baradee commercial.
Wow.
But none other than, at the time, U.S. President Barack Obama actually made a comment when she died.
She was such a big deal.
And she said, Michelle and I were sad to hear about the passing of Donna Summer,
a five-time Grammy Award winner.
Probably had some help writing this.
Donna was truly the queen of disco.
Her voice was unforgettable.
And the music industry has lost a legend far too soon.
Our thoughts and prayers go to Donna's family and her dedicated fans.
President of the United States.
Impressions are not Cam Strung's.
That didn't sound like Barack Obama at all
That was like the cold read
That was his best go on
Great song, great artist
And we miss her and she's been gone way too long
Chef Boyardee, never as good as you think it's going to be
Palma Pasta, much better
When was the last time you ate canned pasta?
I actually had a can of Chef Boyardee
In the last year,
and I thought it was going to be okay, but it just wasn't.
I was raised on alfaghetti.
Of course.
Everybody was.
Scarios.
But I haven't had canned pasta, I don't know, since I was a teenager.
It's because you're an adult now.
That's what Moe Berg said.
And actually, quick, quick do, Mike, there's something you're missing,
but this will be a good segue.
Chef Boyardee, also one of the great all-time Blue Jay swag item giveaways,
the Chef Bar-E-D bat.
I thought it was Catelli.
Catelli was the predecessor.
Okay, so I only remember the Catelli bats.
They were the best.
Mike, did you want to talk about this fucking chair?
Okay, well, yeah.
Why don't you tell us what you're sitting on?
Cam working blue tonight.
Blue Jays.
He's got the spirit.
Look at that macrame chair.
Let me just say um boondoggle
speaking of greats who have passed away bridget ferguson was uh she was born in england and she
was brought over as a war bride and she loved her toronto blue jays this was her team and i was
married to her granddaughter okay oh and i. That's your ex-grandwife?
Yes.
My ex-wife's grandmother.
Does your ex-wife know you have this?
Was this part of the settlement?
Yes.
Let me finish my story, Stuart.
This is my story.
Okay.
You've got your own story
with the scarecrows and such.
But I used to go to Thornbury, Ontario
and I would sit with her
and we would talk about
the blue jays of the day,
like whatever,
Carlos Delgado and Roy Halliday, whatever. Cliff Johnson. And I used i used to i think he was gone by then this is mid 90s but we
talked quite a bit about blue jays and i guess i i mean then i divorced her granddaughter and i you
know and then uh at some point sadly bridget ferguson passed away and in her will she willed
you that chair she said give toronto mike that That's crazy. That's a true story.
And to this moment in time.
You can will someone a chair?
It was in the will.
That's so thoughtful.
And I think her son made sure I got it because it was in the will.
Like, this chair's awesome.
Don't break it, Cam.
You broke a chair today already.
You could sell this on eBay for like 300 bucks.
It was willed to him.
I'm just saying hypothetically.
So that, what am I, my mid-40s?
That's the only item ever
willed to me, ever. Have you guys
ever had anything willed to you? I've never got a penny from a will.
No, I've never been willed. But I got that chair.
I wish I got that chair.
I'm sorry that she had to pass away. Yeah, but you would have
put it on eBay. No, that's Cam.
No, I'm just saying, evaluation.
I mean, this is... Right. So yeah,
that's the real motherfucking deal.
It's a great chair. shout out to Bridget Ferguson
who loved her
Blue Jays
let's kick out
Stu's first jammer
we'll be here all night
let's go
we're having a good time
oh a song that was
played at my wedding
to Ferguson's kid
I think she had
passed away
oh this is to
the second wedding
she was
not there
can you hear the song
that's kind of interesting after this Violent Femmes talk She was not there Can you hear the song?
That's kind of interesting After this Violent Femmes talk
We'll talk about that
When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might stop
To check you out
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on Big hands I know you're the one Talk to me, Stu.
I mean, you're listening to Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes
and unmistakably Violent Femmes.
You know exactly when you hear a song that it's a Violent Femmes song.
And this is at the top of their catalog.
And just a really cool band.
It just makes you smile.
Underrated band.
Oh, for sure.
Listen to how good the bass player is.
And it sounds like they're all playing on acoustic instruments.
There's nothing plugged in anywhere.
And they have such a fun energy to them.
Very danceable.
Yep.
It's a great jam.
Great song.
And it's just, yeah.
It's got that whisper part.
Everything about it.
But Blister in the Sun, so sun is in the title.
You decide that makes it a summer song.
Sure.
Because it is a masturbation song, right?
I'm right about this?
Well, I don't know.
That's your interpretation.
Blister in the Sun, what does that mean?
According to Mike, it's like jacking off.
Yeah, because it's big hands.
I know you're the one.
I always was told the song was about...
Oh, yeah, stain the sheets.
I was told it was a song about masturbation.
Now, maybe summertime masturbation, maybe?
The word sun is in the fucking title.
Okay.
I mean, you know, I'm not...
It's like Soulja Boy.
You know what that's about.
Best whispering since Rage Against the Machine.
Now, here's something interesting.
To play off of what Cam was saying earlier,
this song was actually written by the lead singer
and not the rest of the band.
Is it Gordon?
Yes, and Gordon Ganoe, right?
Gary Ganoe. Yeah, the
Great Space Coaster. Anyway,
my point is, is that
Love that song.
Here is the issue that happened.
The band broke up and a
point of contention between
the band members was that
they licensed this song that we just
heard for a Wendy's commercial. And the other members of the band members was that uh they licensed this song that we just heard to for a wendy's commercial
and uh the other members of the band thought it was not appropriate one of them is a vegetarian
like they were just against it and this guy was like you and then that was it they the he
the guy left the band uh never came back now i'm sure they had splits and came back together a few
times before them but this actually resulted in lawsuits,
and these guys were supposed to get back together.
The original...
It's like three of them, right?
Yeah, they were supposed to get back together in...
I guess it was for Coachella or something,
and they were going to record a new album together,
and then this lawsuit over Wendy's commercial happened and finished.
So that was recent.
In the last 15 years, recent.
Anyway, Blister in the Sun, underrated band,
Violent Femmes, they got a couple cool jams.
I like American music.
I always thought that was a cool jam.
A lot of cool stuff.
Fun jam, good choice for music.
I don't know really if it's a real summer jam.
Lister in the Sun
is a summer song.
That's summer.
By the way,
who are these Stu followers
that are telling me now
that KRS-One
was talking about police?
He was.
Who the hell was?
There's more than one guy.
Because they know.
They're friends of Stu Stone.
It offends me
as somebody who knows
the true meaning
of that song
how important it was
about police brutality
I was going to say
he makes a mockery
he makes a mockery
of the message
it's like saying
all lives matter
that is gross
that you even make
the comparison
it's as offensive as that
right Cam
I'm still more like
KRS-One
do we know what that stands for
knowledge reigns supreme
right
nearly everyone
the only offensive thing that took
place was you guys picking that awful topic
and that was offensive.
And a lot of people did share their feedback.
It was a great topic. People love that topic.
And people love KRS-One singing about his buddies,
the police.
Or remember, I had my pithy reply. It's like,
oh yeah, Paul Abdua Rush Rush is about
candidates for your power. And that guy's like,
oh yeah, no, you're right. That is true.
You're a bit like Stu Stone.
Fuck you, Stu.
Stu Stone's a bit like Donald Trump.
I don't know your fucking name.
Stop this.
People blindly follow him.
I will fucking sue you.
You could say water is dry.
They'll be like, yeah, fucking right, water is dry.
They know that hashtag Stu is always right.
Absolutely.
I'm not going to steer them the wrong way.
Well, great summer jam. Violent
fans. I mean, they're from like
Milwaukee. Do you guys want
a summer jam? Yes.
He just compared me to Donald Trump.
Call it like I see it, Stu.
Your fervent fan base blindly following you.
Now, did the other cam work with this band? Yeah, Motown, which I'm going to find out in part two.
This is a great choice.
It's the way love's supposed to be.
It's like a heat wave.
Burning in my heart.
Martha and the Vandellas.
This is, yeah, a great, like an early Motown jam. And Heat Wave, which did reach number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Their biggest hit, of course, is Dancing in the Street,
not the David Bowieie mcjagger version
which i'm still embarrassed about i have secondhand embarrassment that's a tough that's a
tough watch that video what was i was what was that about anyways that's a whole separate episode
steaming piece of shit and nowhere to run i mean there's a lot of martha the vandellas
jams but this one's heat wave number one by the way on the u.s r&b charts but yeah i've got to
talk to cameron uh carpenter about his motown history and find out exactly uh you know what
did he have to do with martha reeves and the vandellas have either of you guys been to the
motown like museum or spent any time in Detroit?
I have not
What about you Stu?
No
It's a lot smaller
Hitchfield USA?
Yeah exactly
It's like a small little house
I actually have been there
Yeah like it's wild
and just like a steady stream of people
going up to his house
and basically not quite a subdivision
but residential street
like it's like it's
unbelievable it's so many so much incredible music came out of that one house wow you know
they had 20 uh could this be right here yeah it looks like they had uh 26 hits this uh because
i couldn't name you 26 martha the vandella songs, but 10 of them reached the top 10
of the Billboard R&B singles charts.
Great band.
And again, to me, this song is the kind of jam
you want to blast on a hot July day.
During a heat wave.
Much like Blister in the Sun,
which I actually found on a big summer hits catalog.
Okay, we have these topics.
Do you do that?
Because I actually just confessed to doing it.
No, I didn't.
Cam, didn't you just admit he did it?
It's on tape.
I don't do that.
I try to, at least unless I'm struggling, I usually try to think, can I get five of these songs from my heart?
When I'm doing research for the songs that I'm thinking of, I'll go look to find these tidbits and some stories about the songs.
Yeah, I do homework, if that's what you're asking.
So I think what he's thinking is you do a basic Spotify search under a keyword.
I don't have a Spotify account.
Use your sister's.
You get enough battery power to get you through this marathon?
Yes, sure.
Because I have a plug on the base of that tree that had the baby raccoons last week.
I don't know.
Maybe you want to ask Cam if he needs a plug
for what he's got going on over here.
Don't worry about this.
It's behind the GLB.
Don't read what my song is.
MF, how do we look on the Periscope?
Everybody framed okay?
We look good?
A little contentious this week.
How are the comments?
Yeah, what are...
There are no comments.
Oh, one of the Kielburgers.
Is that good or bad?
One of the weed guys?
A Kiel.
Not great.
At the moment.
Are they like the twins, the Vondelkosk,
whatever, the twins from Facebook?
Less athletic.
Let's name the famous twins.
What are twin powers?
Activate.
Remember this?
Winklevoss.
Of course.
Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
And the twins from Dead Ringers.
Tomax and Zaymont.
It's like Jeremy Irons. The Crimson twins from G.I. Joe. Tomax and Zaymont. It's like Jeremy Irons.
The Crimson twins from G.I. Joe.
Tomax and Zaymont.
Was that the snake guy?
No, one of them had like a scar on their face.
Aerosmith were the toxic twins.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thompson twins.
We're blowing our wad here, as the champ would say.
Let's listen.
Oh, God.
Yeah, what is it with Cam today in the mainstream hits?
The Sedins.
This one, her brother is best friends with one of the Sedins.
Wow. Which one? Henrik or Daniel?
As if we could tell them apart.
We were just talking about it.
The Megan Boys?
It must have been love.
No.
Brian Burke once tried to sue me.
This is Richard Marks.
Yeah.
See, I don't need to look shit up.
You think I don't know my stuff?
No, this is in your wheelhouse, man.
This is a great wheelhouse.
Let the socks come in.
It almost sounds like that Talk to an Angel song.
Have you seen Jamie Walters?
Yes.
But 90210, I think it was on the soundtrack.
Right.
Oh, fuck right.
Richard Marks is underwritten Agreed
It's so fucking breezy man
Do you like this song?
Eh
Do you guys want to make out?
I do.
Kind of.
Which is what?
Hey.
Did you ever hear him on the Gilbert Godfrey podcast?
No.
He's very funny.
Yeah.
He should do Toronto Mike next.
I'll bring her down.
Cam, talk to me.
Sorry, we're having a run in here.
Hold on.
Holy smokes.
Hey, we're talking about Richard Marks here.
Can you just...
All right.
Cam, you talk about this song.
I'll meet myself and take care of it.
Did Richard Marks just get here?
Absolutely, yeah.
Is this his publicist? Who is this? Anyway, so this Did Richard Marks just get here? Absolutely, yeah Is this his publicist?
Who is this?
Anyway, so this is Richard Marks' Endless Summer Nights
This is from his debut album
Are these the people from W5 you were talking about?
I think it's Wendy or who is this?
Anyway, I'm kind of thrown off now
Which is a shame because this is a great jam
Endless Summer Nights
From his eponymous Is that how you say it? Is this like a great jam. Endless Summer Nights from his eponymous
is that how you say it?
Is this like a most
eponymous?
He's still alive.
Yeah.
1987 this album came out.
This album had five songs.
I would agree.
Okay wait
I can tell you the five songs.
Can I try to guess?
Yeah.
What are the five songs?
Okay so Endless Summer Nights
which this one is.
Yes.
Right Here Waiting For You.
That's the second album. Okay well I don't know them the five songs so I is. Yes. Right here waiting for you. That's the second album.
Okay, well, I don't know them, the five songs.
So I just know hits.
Should have known better.
Should have known better is a good one.
Don't.
Don't mean.
Don't mean.
Nothing.
Oh, it don't mean nothing at all?
Just don't mean nothing.
Yeah, okay.
We got there.
Sure.
This is another big ballad.
Hold on to the night.
Hold on to the night is a huge classic.
Love that one.
Love that one.
And then something very, again, very Uncle Jesse.
Something called Have Mercy, which I don't remember that song.
Have Mercy.
Yeah, so this song went to number two in the U.S.
What blocked it, do you know?
Can they hear the songs?
No, I'm going to let Cam finish this point,
and then I'm going to give an update on everything.
Kept out of the number one slot by Man in the Mirror.
By the late, great Michael Jackson.
That'll do it.
That was a great jam.
And went to number four in Canada.
Dick Marks.
Right, right.
Now, the opening of the song,
it seems like there was some discussion of plagiarism
a few years later.
Uh-oh.
It must have been Love by Roxette.
Oh, it kind of does sound like this.
Yeah, yeah.
And that Angel song.
Yeah. So, yeah, of does sound like this. Yeah. And that Angel song by... So yeah,
here's just a few facts about Richard
Marx. I didn't really know much about him.
Otherwise, I knew he's the songwriter. He wrote
such songs as
This I Promise You. That's by NSYNC.
By NSYNC. And also Dance With My Father
from the oft-mentioned Luther Vandross.
Or Vandross, if you prefer.
And he's been married twice.
The first, I didn't know what this person's name was,
Cynthia Rhodes, who is, I guess,
she was like the nemesis in Dirty Dancing.
Ah.
With the blonde hair.
Our guest knows who that is.
I just remember Richard Marks had like a,
just a wonderful mullet of beautiful 80s hair.
Yeah.
Still looks good.
Kind of like Party in the Back type deal.
And now he's married
to Daisy Fuentes.
Oh, I do know
who that is.
She's a BFD.
She's like an MTV.
And they're having
endless summer nights,
I'm sure.
No doubt.
No doubt.
Now, let me,
I'm sorry to interrupt here.
Breaking news.
We have a couple of FOTMs
who have crashed the party.
Who's joined us?
Okay.
Lieve Fumka.
Holy, is that her?
In the flesh. So, Lieve, that's. Holy. Is that her? In the flesh.
So Lieve.
That's Lieve.
Oh my God.
In the blue top.
I am blushing.
Normally we get her on Zoom.
She's in.
Wow.
Lieve Fumka next to Linda.
Is like the biggest stewstone fan.
Holy jeez.
This is crazy.
I am blushing.
Beside Lieve Fumka on my deck, my portrait.
What is this called?
The deck is Moose Grumpy.
I know she'll want to be called Dawn because it's class is this called? The deck is Moose Grumpy. I know she'll want to be called Dawn
because it's classier,
but I know her as Moose Grumpy.
Are you grumpy tonight?
So, Cam, I can...
A couple of unverified Twitter users.
Are you guys...
Well, join the club.
That's a good club to be in
because that lets you tweet.
Are you guys in a bubble together?
Well, we just came from dinner.
Where'd you guys go for dinner?
I guess I put them in a bubble together.
Where'd you go to dinner?
For poma pasta?
No
Oh
Okay
Swung by there
I've only seen
What?
Sure
Yeah you can have mine
Yeah
I can't believe
This is amazing
It's right here waiting for you
To quote Richard Marks
So again
I don't have headphones For you lovely ladies to hear the jams,
but you can periscope like MF over here.
You just missed a fucking Richard Marks song.
Richard Marks.
There's a lot more to come.
I just want to let you know, if Cam gave you,
would one of you want a cold can of Great Lakes beer?
Okay.
Do you want an octopus wants to fight
Or do you want a pompous ass
I'm looking at what I can see
Yeah I think there's a pompous ass over here
Would you like
What would you like
Stop it
What would you like
Okay so here's what we're going to do
MF is going to pass that over here
Thank you so much it takes a village
Why are we not monetized People clearly want to come watch us Here's what we're going to do. MF is going to pass that over here. Thank you so much. It takes a village. Look at the FOTMs.
Mike, again, why are we not monetized?
People clearly want to come watch us in person.
I charged him each $20 to come back here.
Perfect.
Thank you.
You brought cash, right?
$20 each.
Okay.
So, yeah, it's exciting to put a face to the name.
Does her husband know she's here?
Is Juan anywhere?
He does know.
He's giving you permission?
He says hello.
I just finished terminating. Wow. Okay. Is Juan anywhere? He does know. He's giving you permission? He says hello.
I just finished turning.
Wow. Okay.
Very good.
Oh yeah, do a yes.
Lieve Famke has let herself into my home.
What about the children?
I hope Monica is not startled.
We don't own a firearm, thank goodness.
I just watched the Oscar Pistorius documentary.
And I feel like this would be that whole thing where Monica opens fire on her.
Walk through my window.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I was thinking, yeah.
Is that?
Make yourself at home, Leva.
Yeah.
Leva Fumka has let herself in.
Okay.
So we have jams to kick out here.
We can't get distracted by all the FOTMs in my basement.
But this is kind of exciting.
No, this is important.
This is exciting. I love this jam.
I'm going to just preface this by saying this was on my
original list. Okay. Stu submitted
his jams yesterday, maybe,
and two of them were on my list, and I then
gave them both to Stu.
That's how much I love this guy. Appreciate that, man.
Shout out to Lieve Femke.
Here,
but she's not, Lieve cannot judge
because she has a lifetime ban
although I know that
she would have agreed
that Blister in the Sun
is a summertime jam right
yeah of course
what
no
give me a break
she's been banned from judging
we don't accept her ruling here
let's kick out a second jam
for Stu Stone
oh oh
big drums yeah the wet drum sounds like stomp you remember stomp of course
interesting because the producer of the song is quoted as saying they wanted to really put
the drums out front in a way that hadn't been done.
So you just noticed it.
No shit.
They don't listen to Phil Collins? What's going on?
The late great.
I feel like you should have a speaker that they can hear the song.
It's more snarly than air. Hey.
All right.
This is a summer jam, Stu.
Some Like It Hot by... Busta Point Dexter.
The Power Station.
This is a super group if I've ever heard one.
You've got the Taylor Brothers from Duran Duran, John and Andy Taylor.
Right.
And you've got Robert Palmer on vocals.
Now, interestingly enough, initially the power station was supposed to be
a side project for the Taylor Brothers to keep themselves creatively stimulated in between the
hectic Duran Duran touring schedule of the mid to late 80s because there was no other band bigger
than Duran Duran worldwide at that point. And initially the concept was that they were going to
invite guest singers to appear on each song.
So they had reached out to, let me just confer here.
I don't want to get this wrong.
But Mick Jagger is on the list here.
And just a bunch of really star-studded.
Mick Jagger sings a Power Station song?
No, no, he doesn't.
Oh, he doesn't.
I'm saying the idea was that they were going to have all these sort of guest appearances on the record.
Like never-ending white lights.
And Robert Palmer came into the studio to sort of lay down vocals for a song that they were messing with.
And he was so good, they were like, well, let's have you do another one.
And by the time they had the third song, they were like, fuck it, we're a band now.
Can you name the other band that Duran Duran members formed?
Arcadia. Correctamundo.
Yeah, I'm a big Duran Duran guy.
They were the Beatles of the 80s, you know. Sure.
There was also a band in the 90s that had one of the Duran Duran
guys in Steve Jones, like
Beautiful Losers or something. Do you remember this?
No, they were called the Neurotic
Outsiders. Wow, this is...
Do you remember this? I think it was Steve Jones
of the Sex Pistols, and I think a guy from
Ultravox.
Wow. Anyway. I do need to point out
that when Russ Griswold, I know
you guys are fans of European Vacation.
Sure, big fan. When Rusty
Griswold went to...
I don't want to lose you here, Mike. I'm trying to tell you
an important fucking story.
Jesus Christ. I'm listening.
What are we doing here? I'm listening.
Are you listening to me?
I'm hosting FOTM.
I'm talking to you about Russ Griswold.
Do you know who that is?
Of course.
It's the son of Clark Griswold
on the vacation movies.
He's not going to pork her.
The actor changed every movie.
So when they went
on European vacation
and Russ snuck away
to the strip club,
the song that he is getting
his lap dance to
is this song.
I watched that scene. I watched that scene.
I loved that scene.
I think we talked about, when did we, oh, I got into a spoiler alert.
Never mind.
Big Ben Parliament.
We talked about that.
Yeah.
Everybody who heard all that, remember it.
It's going to apply later.
Now, here's the interesting part here.
Robert Palmer was already recording his solo album, Riptide,
which spawned all those big
hits. Simply irresistible.
All those big hits.
Addicted to
Love. All those big hits.
Anyway, the same production team
and musicians that played on this record played on
his record. So there are
a lot of people that think that the
Robert Palmer album was actually like a
Power Station record too.
And technically it kind of was because it's all the same sort of personnel
playing on the record.
Like those 20 women all wearing the exact same dress all played on this album
too.
Uh,
but Robert Palmer,
uh,
I like those videos though.
Of its time.
Did Barack Obama have something to say about Robert Palmer's passing?
He should have like,
like maybe John Major,
like someone.
And he did that cover of the
Marvin Gaye song, right?
Like Mercy, Mercy Me.
I thought he was a cool cat.
And I really liked Riptide. The song Riptide I liked.
This band never
released this one album and that was it.
And I don't think they ever even toured with Robert Palmer.
He was already ousted
from the crew. I feel like they
played at Live Aid.
I don't know if that they did.
There was a different singer, I think.
Really?
But I'm sure someone will correct me,
as people always do.
I'm retweeting Levee Fumka's tweets.
That was a fantastic choice.
Thanks, man.
Enjoyed it.
And I get a little credit.
Can you guys hear the song?
Oh, you can.
Yeah.
I don't see you toe-tapping or anything.
They're watching on parents.
I can't tell whether you like the song,
but you did like that one?
Hey, MF, why don't you tweet or subtweet my link to the Periscope?
Now you're really pushing it.
You're asking for a lot.
She has low battery power.
If you don't mind.
She's only got one bar.
Okay, the Blue Jays start tomorrow.
Am I right?
Yes.
So in Tampa Bay.
Today.
Today.
So it is Friday.
Yeah.
Pandemic Friday.
Well, yeah, but you want me to hold on to these things until tomorrow, but I just. You should. Usually I drop them before I go to bed. Today. Today's Friday. Pandemic Friday. Well, yeah, but you want me to hold on to these things
until tomorrow, but I just...
You should.
Usually I drop them before I go to bed.
I don't play those games, Stu.
That's phony baloney stuff to me.
But this song has got a Blue Jay connection
and Levi Fumka already guessed it,
but let's play it and talk about it.
Pirate Radio.
Is this like the cowboy Dalton?
Yeah.
I have no idea what this is.
Give it a moment.
It's a Rob Doocy thing. Let me see your body move.
Summertime, can you feel the heat?
Move your body.
Summertime, can you feel the heat?
Summertime.
Fell out of bed.
Check the headlines.
There's a heat wave starting good times when it's hot
gotta hit the spot where the water's cool and the girls are hot the beach is packed gotta get on
track i can't hold back hit it with a new jack i make a dance in your body sword to be rocking
like never before a rap it's serious it makes a woman delirious. A rock and mic like smooth operator, motivator, fascinated, innovator, creator.
Yikes.
Good rapping.
Okay.
The fuck was that?
Careful.
That was the cowboy, Ken Pompey.
Ah.
Dalton Pompey's dad.
He was a rapper?
He put out a single in the early 90s,
which you're listening to right now.
1992.
This is Summertime, Summertime.
It was his only single as far as I know, but there was a radio mix.
Let's hear him rap more.
Now listen to the backup vocals.
It's Somebody Famous.
And I'm going to blow your fucking mind with this fun fact.
Lollipop legs.
It'll blow your mind.
This man would produce two Major League Baseball players.
Oh.
So Backup Vocals is the co-writer, a woman you might know named Deborah Cox.
Whoa.
And this is before she was a BFD.
Right.
And that information came because I chatted up Dalton Pompei's mother.
That's a single.
Yeah, geez.
Did you guys go home?
Is that between marriages?
No.
You are not the father.
I'm not sure if this got a lot of radio play.
I have never heard this song ever. I think it might have got played on Energy 108.
Mike, here's a question for you.
Are you the one who...
Played this song?
Yes.
But revealed the big reveal that
Dalton Pompeii's dad was on.
Yep. And did that ever get like
written about by BlogTO?
No. So this all
came to be. I documented the story
on TorontoMic.com which is having certificate issues.
Please just ignore those. It's safe
to go to my site. Not according to mine.
It is safe to go there.
So this all started. Dwight Drummond to go to my site. Not according to mine. It is safe to go there. So,
this all started,
Dwight Drummond was on,
uh,
Sounds like,
this sounds like
Kirkland CNC Music Factory.
Maybe that's a good comparison.
So,
CBC Toronto News anchor
Dwight Drummond
came by my place
and during the conversation
on Toronto Mic,
Dwight just mentioned that the cowboy,
he mentioned the cowboy hat-wearing dancer
on Electric Circus, okay?
Right.
So Dwight's on my show talking about the cowboy dancer.
We talk a lot about Electric Circus on this show.
Sure.
Great Lakes made an Electric Circus beer
and put the cowboy on the front.
So I remembered at that moment...
Wait, is that him?
So, yes, that's him.
Oh, Don Pope's dad was like an electric circus dancer.
Correct. So he got such a buzz
that he decided to put out an album. Now, when
Dwight Drummond told me... Well, this all makes sense now.
Dwight Drummond, who was a security guard on electric... So, bear with me.
Dwight Drummond was a security guard on electric
circus. He's telling me about the cowboy
dancer. I immediately remembered
this story Maestro Fresh West told me
about the cowboy hat-wearing dancer
on electric circus back in the day. Maestro referred to him as Soul Train meets Dukes of Hazzard. That's what Maestro Fresh West told me about the cowboy hat wearing dancer in a legit circus back in the day.
Maestro referred to him as Soul Train meets Dukes of Hazzard.
That's what Maestro used to call this guy.
Did he wear the cowboy hat in the rap video?
I'm assuming there was a video.
Yeah, there was a video.
And so, you know, basically.
Erica M in the video?
At this point.
Natalie Richard?
Let me just find the facts here.
Dwight shared that okay
that girl that danced with the slinky i just made that up but it sounded like a real dwight
dwight pointed out the fun fact i didn't know until he was on the show he said you know that
cowboy wearing dancer in electric circus that's dalton pompey's father wow so i learned that from
dwight he was still in the jays at the time, Dalton Pompey, right? Yeah, of course.
You still have a semi-prospect.
He was a prospect.
Absolutely.
He was a Blue Jays prospect.
So now I went to Twitter to talk to Dalton Pompey.
And I'm asking him, I said, your dad used to dance on Electric Circus?
This is on Twitter.
Dalton gets back to me and I'm reading the quote here, that he did, ha ha.
So I confirmed that Dalton Pompey's dad was Ken
Pompey, the regular dancer on
What was his rap moniker?
Kay Pompey. Kay Pompey?
Kay Pompey was his rap moniker.
I have never heard that song in my life.
And that
But now I have. I learned about
that track which was distributed
by Sony in 1992.
It had a radio mix, a club mix,
a smooth mix. Sounds very like K-Tel.
It made the guys that rapped the song Turtle Power
sound like...
What were they called?
Partners in Crime.
Crime with a K.
I kind of like that song.
Finally, the reason I got the
song was because Tristan Pompey,
the younger brother of Dalton, who is a future Major League star, maybe?
He's been drafted by, I don't know which team.
I think he's on Tampa.
Is he not?
Possibly.
He played for Kansas, I think.
And he had a good prospect.
But he shared the music video for Summertime on his YouTube account.
So once he did that, all the pieces matter.
I do feel like,
like Blue Jay blogs
wrote about this.
Do they not?
Like I feel like
you kind of broke this
or you popularized it.
I break stories,
okay?
I break stories.
And just joining us,
Stew Stone is up to nil.
Oh man,
let's kick out
another cam jam.
Finally.
Okay, this is going to be more me and Stu talking about concert memories.
I have a couple points about this, but it's a big anniversary for Stu and I today.
Our first kiss 25 years ago.
He's very tender.
Andrew Ward just tweeted at us and says, Stu's killing it!
Love you, Andrew.
What is it with your followers, man?
They know. They know what's up.
I better retweet that, Andrew.
Yeah.
I'll start talking when the drums come in,
which won't be too long here.
What an opening.
Coming to the stage, Leva Femke.
Okay, so this is Jane's Addiction,
the lead-off track of their... Summer jam.
Yeah.
Called Up the Beach.
People go to the beach in the summer,
much like Chuck and Blister and the Sun people
masturbate in the summer.
I'm not complaining.
But you can go to the beach in the winter as well.
Also, and this is from the album Nothing Shocking,
their second album.
Had another song, Summertime Rolls.
Any Jane's Addiction fans here?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm more of a porno for Pyro's guy.
Of course. uh i'm gonna
segue here's like a fact there's like a video on youtube of weezer covering this song and this is
like one of those like i die a bit inside when i saw this i guess they played this as like a cover
for like an intro for a concert they did and there was like rivers cuomo in a boat as the band played
this and he was kind of
going over this,
like it was,
it was just brutal.
They made a yacht rock.
You know,
people,
I think we've talked about
like guys,
like Dave Grohl
gets credit for being
like a guy that's been
in like two successful bands
and there's few people
that do that.
Well,
Perry Farrell,
he's born for Pyros
and Jane's Addiction,
not to mention
he was the guy that sort of spearheaded Lollapalooza.
Well, good segue.
So this song, the first Lollapalooza.
Great segue.
They actually didn't play it in Barry.
They actually had this old C&E Stadium.
The first Lollapalooza.
Oh, the grandstand?
Yes.
The Jane's Addiction headline.
I think it was like Nine Inch Nails and I believe Suzy and the Banshees.
But they opened with this song.
Right.
The segue is 25 years ago today, Stu and I were in Barrie for Lollapalooza 1995.
Yes.
Stacked card.
Yeah.
So that included such luminaries as Cypress Hill.
I never heard this.
Our friend Ryan allegedly caught B-Rail's joint.
Blunt.
Blunt. His roach.
His roach. And who else was on that pavement we talk about a lot?
Beck was there. Elastica.
Beastie Boys? I think
that was the year prior. Hole was there.
Well, you know, the headliner was supposed
to be Nirvana, but Kurt Cobain
died like two months prior, and
then we got Smashing Pumpkins.
I think that was the year before.
Are you sure?
Yeah, because I was not
at this one.
This was the one
where Sonic Youth had
it was like Sonic Youth
hole, Cypress Hill
pavement back.
Cypress Hill had this
huge like bong on stage
like a
That's right, yeah.
And like a giant
Buddha was there.
I loved Cypress Hill.
So get this for a
concert weekend.
This was the Sunday.
We're up in Barrie.
The previous Saturday,
we were at the Markham Fairgrounds
for a tragically up and over
roadside attraction.
Back-to-back days.
I mean,
have you had like concert promoters
like Yvonne Matzel
or someone here?
Like they would never do this.
Like put these two massive festivals
on back-to-back days.
But us and like
to have our buddies
were at both shows.
I tweet about today
I was moshing to Matthew Sweet
at the first show
I lost $130
it was mainly
Wilshire sells money
but
okay
was Matthew
I have a girlfriend
you know
massive hit
yes
at least radio hit here
that's a cover
is it
no it's
stop it
no
yeah
but there's a
but I would never think of him as a moshing act.
No.
Cam would mosh to anything back then.
But here's a trivia question.
There was one FOTM who was on that, another roadside attraction.
Bill.
Who was it?
Rio Statics.
Maybe.
Yeah.
So it was Dave Bedini.
Dave Bedini, yes.
Dave Bedini.
I didn't know that specific.
Cam moshed to Rioheostatics is for sure.
Would you mosh to like a yacht rock?
Sure.
Like in 95, like you would mosh to anything.
Like it was just like blues traveler played like fucking crazy.
Plus like Cam was like, you know, the same height that he is now back then too.
So he had an advantage in the mosh pit.
I'd be like just lay across the whole thing.
Like it was great.
He'd be lounging.
Yeah.
And are we sure that's a summer song that we just played?
I mean, it's a great jam. Up the beach?
I mean, I don't know. Is beach
always summer?
Do you go to the beach in the middle of winter? What about Normandy?
I'll tell you what.
That's terrible.
Or something else, Toronto, Mike.
I'll say this. What a disgusting piece
of trash. You are a turd.
You are a turd in your basement
go back to your basement
promise to my man Stafford
you need to get flushed
shout out to Andrew Ward
you want to hear a summer jam
by a show of hands
I've got one for you right here
I've got one for you right here
it's like the Brian Linehan show I've got one for you right here. Okay.
It's like the Brian Linehan show.
I think this is the theme song,
was it not?
I don't think so.
It was one of the city TV shows,
or like City Line.
I think this is the theme. No, that was I'm Still Standing
by Elton John.
Not a cover, right?
But Venus was a cover.
So many fun facts,
by the way, I have here.
Okay, start burying me
in these.
You don't want the chorus?
Yes, I do. I want the facts, I have here. Okay, start burying me in these. You don't want the chorus? Yes, I do.
I want the facts.
I want all of the above.
I want it all, Stuart.
I love this song.
Cruel Summer is a song recorded by
English girl group
Bananarama
Bananarama
Of course Bananarama
Everybody knows Bananarama
Cruel Summer
This is the most attendance we've ever had
Three people watching us
This is fantastic
This is a big deal this song is
And they're all female.
Yeah.
This is like the biggest concert in Toronto this summer.
You know what?
This is where the action's happening.
Interestingly enough, this was recorded initially as a one-off single.
And because of the success of the song, they ended up getting to record a whole album.
So then it was released again as the first single for their album.
And they got a lot of legs out of this song, which was, ironically, it is written by, let me get this straight, Steve Jolly and Tony Swain were the writers.
These guys, ironically, they met in 1975 on the set of The Muppet Show, where Swain was working as a cameraman for The Muppet Show
and Jolly was a sound technician.
They got together and started producing,
and notably Bananarama and the other big band that they produced
was Spando Ballet.
Oh, my God.
True, right, of course.
True, so insane production team behind this one.
Set adrift on memory bliss.
Great song right there.
PM Don. the music video
some people might remember
it's like Bananarama
getting like chased around
sort of like
the Beastie Boys
sabotage video
I was
I know I don't mean
to interrupt
I'm very rude
but the old girl groups
I was really big on
I'm like
you had your Bangles
you had your Go-Go's
you had your Bananarama
and at the time
I didn't know
Molly Johnson
I could have kicked out.
Heart.
Did you say Molly Johnson?
Sure.
Yeah, Heart,
which is CanCon bands
that aren't Canadian.
Yeah.
Two?
Oh, yeah,
we already forgot it.
Tattoo.
Tattoo.
Yeah, all the things she said.
Yeah, those girls kissed.
Yeah.
And Sugar Jones.
The Chicks.
Right.
Formerly known as the Dixie Chicks.
Lady A. Yeah, so anyway. Lady A is not an all- Chicks. Right. Formerly known as the Dixie Chicks. Lady A.
Yeah, so anyway.
Lady A is not
an all-girl band.
Anyway.
I could have.
We once had a pandemic.
I got to own that moniker.
We once had a
Pandemic Friday category.
Covers we didn't know
were covers.
We should do a sequel.
That was a good one.
Because I could have put
Venus.
When Venus was big on the radio,
I loved Venus by Banana Ram.
Of course, it is a cover, but I did not
know what it was about. Is it the shocking blue?
I gotta give you guys, I gotta get
these two fun facts out about this song.
Please, dude, the floor is yours. First of all, the music video
was them getting chased around, whatever, whatever.
And it was sort of an excuse
for them to come to New York and experience New York.
Well, it was such a hot day, a hot summer day.
The band was so miserable and their performance was so blech
because it was hot and it was the running around and costumes and all this stuff.
At their lunch break, they met somebody that introduced them for the first time to cocaine.
Oh.
And they apparently, according to the folklore, they did the cocaine,
and the second half of the video was a much better experience.
Now, if you watch the video, they even acknowledge
you can see scenes where they are very animated and great,
and that's when they're on the booger sugar.
When you're on the booger sugar.
Before your next fun fact,
Stu, when you're directing a movie
and you need to get some pep out of your actions,
have you ever...
No, no cocaine on our set.
Just checking.
No.
But I will say this.
What movie is that last song, Cruel Summer, what is it most associated with?
You guys don't know?
The Karate Kid?
The Karate Kid.
Is it in The Karate Kid?
Of course it's in The Karate Kid.
I've seen it a hundred times.
That's how it blew up.
The song blew up because it was on The Karate Kid.
Oh, when he goes to that golf...
Cruel Summer is from The Karate Kid, okay? Any fan of The Karate Kid knows that. Did you goes to that golf... Cruel Summer is from the Karate Kid.
Any fan of the Karate Kid knows that.
Did you ladies know that?
I'm looking over at the...
I'm just talking about the people listening,
the smart listeners that know.
They know Karate Kid.
Now, here's the interesting thing.
That Karate, being on that Karate Kid movie,
blew the song up and took it to the top ten or whatever.
And the crazy part that's going to blow my mind
is that the band was against having the song on the
actual soundtrack. So the song blew up from the movie, but it was not on
the soundtrack. Which forced fans of the movie to go, which was
smart, to go and buy the Bananarama album if they wanted to get the song.
They reverse engineered their careers. And it was only two weeks ago we kicked out
Joe Esposito's.
You're the best.
You're the best.
We also kicked out Peter Cetera of Glory of Love.
Karate Kid 2.
Yes.
And we had, again, we won't repeat ourselves.
You guys should go back.
Sweep the leg.
Sweep the leg.
That was intended for a Rocky movie?
Put him in a body bag.
Put him in a body bag.
Sweep the leg.
I love fucking Karate Kid.
Has anyone here seen the remake?
No.
The one with Will Smith's kid?
Right.
Oh, there was a remake?
Yeah, Jaden Smith is the Karate Kid.
I haven't seen it, so I can't comment.
His mom was in an entanglement.
I heard.
I heard.
I believe a fam knows about entanglements.
Well, they were an arrangement, is that not?
Where is Juan, by the way?
Does Juan have an arrangement?
No, come on. Juan's a good guy. Of course he is. He needed the apartment
tonight. Juan, I wear
not in this weather, but
I've been known to wear Juan's pants.
That's weird. And I think to myself,
what a wonderful world.
Can I share
a very random text my dad just sent me?
Of course. Is he watching?
No.
Actually, could you send it?
Like the Periscope.
Charles Gordon Sr.?
Yeah, they like to tune in.
Okay, breaking news.
This is interesting.
This has a few tentacles.
I think Stu will like this.
Watching an interesting doc on CBC
about seniors in Nevada who are forced out of their homes
by court.
Yeah, I was going to say
made by Billy Mintz, a Torontonian
who claims to have been in Degrassi.
He wasn't in Degrassi. Yeah, it's weird. My dad
texted me because Billy Mintz went to
high school. He was the student council
president of our high school. Yeah, and also
his brother is in head. Yeah, Noah Mintz
who's like a great producer and stuff.
And it's just like a great producer and stuff.
And it's just like a very random text.
Could I be happy?
I love them. I think we've had
this conversation a number of times.
We love Head. It's a really crazy movie.
And I told Cameron Carpenter that the H in Head
was taken from Rhymes of Orange.
I didn't know that. Because Rhymes of Orange
has no H, but Head has two H's.
But this movie that Cam's dad is talking about, I believe it's called The Guardians if I'm not mistaken,
but it's about how these con artists are scamming these senior citizens in Las Vegas to make,
they basically are giving power of attorney to these strangers.
Then the strangers are getting these people committed and then they're selling their houses.
That sucks.
And the families don't even know that their parents have been committed to, like, a hospital.
That's a, yeah.
It's some, like, loophole in the law that allows people who have power of attorney to do that.
I hate people who take advantage of the vulnerable.
And, like, Billy had done, like, acting.
Like, he had done acting and directing.
I remember he's done, like, kind of a bunch of different stuff.
I'll tell you, much like President Trump, Billy Mintz was impeached as our student council president.
Is that true?
Except he actually left the office after.
Was it Michael Rubinoff?
I think Rubes may have taken over.
Yeah, his predecessor was the guy who started Come From Away.
Oh, my God.
Like Hand to God, that's true.
Michael Rubinoff.
And your father, Charles Gordon, is that his name?
Yeah, Chuck. It's true. Michael Rubinov. And your father, Charles Gordon. Is that his name? Yeah.
Chuck.
He enjoyed the Weeks episode of Toronto Night.
He enjoyed the Weeks also.
The Bob Weeks.
On the weekend, me and MF, we shared.
We brought...
It was...
We were having a nice day.
And we gave him an Octopus Likes to Fight.
He had never had GLB, but he heard so much about it.
He doesn't like to fight, but wants to fight.
And he thought it was delightful. By the pool. I like this guy. Maybe but he heard so much about it. He doesn't like to fight, but wants to fight. That's that, too. And he thought it was delightful.
By the pool.
I like this guy.
Like, maybe one day he'll come to it.
Cam's dad is just a ball of energy.
Is he as tall as you are?
I think so.
He's like 6.
He was 6'1".
He's as tame as Cam.
I hope he comes out to a TMLX.
A very nice man.
Like, I feel like we could have a TMLX back here.
You know, Cam's parents were just, like, just wonderful, nice folks that you, like, had to behave TMLX. I feel like we could have a TMLX back here. Cam's parents were
just wonderful, nice folks
that you had to behave in front of.
Did you have to call Mr. Gordon?
That type of thing. You just felt like you had to
respect them.
We once went to a baseball game
with Stu, and my mom still brings it up once
in a while, how Stu got in the aisle
and was dancing like a bird.
Coco beware. Yeah, like a bird. Coco beware.
Yeah, like,
sort of a Coco beware thing,
but this is like 92,
like Jay's, you know.
Right, I mean,
that's World Series team.
Wow.
And it worked.
Yeah.
They won the World Series,
so thank you.
You're welcome.
Anyway, the Gordons,
big fans of Stu Stone.
Okay, now I'm going to kick out
my third jam,
and if you think this is a hot summer,
this is the song you've probably been singing to yourself.
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Bend down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city I feel like...
Was this song on Sesame Street ever?
I feel like it was.
Die Hard 3 opens with this song.
Sorry, what?
Die Hard 3?
The first Die Hard took place at Christmas time.
Are these guys Canadian?
I don't think so. I'm a member of them. I'm was going to say, this could have been one of the other discussed topics,
like fake CanCon CanCons.
Now, yeah, so this is Summer in the City by the Lovin' Spoonful.
Is it the same guy from the Guess Who or something?
Do you remember the Welcome Back Cotter song?
I hope I got all this right.
So that's John Sebastian Sebastian who played Woodstock.
Like I recently,
when the anniversary hit,
I watched a bunch
of Woodstock stuff
and he was like
an emergency fill-in.
Like, hey,
he lived like
in Woodstock, New York
and they're like,
hey, we have people
stuck at the airport.
Can you come play?
Anyway, here's where
the fun is.
So a member of
the Lovin' Spoonfuls
is a guy named Steve Boone
and that's my brother's name
and it's his birthday today.
Wow, what a reach that was.
Happy birthday, Steve.
There you go.
Really shoehorned that plug in.
Follow the money.
Did very well, this song, of course.
It's a great jam.
Steve, of course,
who turned four years younger
than you are today.
He plays bass, by the way.
This song went to number one.
It better have.
But the guy that, yeah, the Canadian is Zal Yanofsky.
Yeah.
Yanofsky.
He was like a Toronto guy, I believe.
Possible, yeah.
He lived in a kibbutz.
Kibbutz, yeah.
Kibbutz, like right here.
Possible Jewish guy.
Yeah.
Yanofsky.
He's actually from
Kingston,
Ontario,
much like,
uh,
Hugh Dillon
and Gord Downie.
Okay,
is he?
Because,
yes,
you're right,
he died in Kingston.
He was born in Toronto,
as many Kingstoners were,
but,
uh,
he died at 57,
so he didn't have a,
yeah.
But yeah,
so there is a Canadian
connection to the
Love and Spoonful.
He was in a band
with Denny Doherty,
too. Right, from the Mamas and Papas. Yeah, kind of the connection to the Love and Spoonful. He was in a band with Denny Doherty, too.
Right, from the Mamas and Pompas.
Yeah, kind of the salacious Mamas and the Pompas.
Right.
Pretty cool jam, man.
What does it have to do with summer?
Is it fair to say I win this round?
Is that fair to say, Stu?
No, but good effort.
That was like you hit like a triple there.
Feels like the game is rigged.
Like it doesn't matter what we play.
That's life, babe.
That's life.
Hey, Mike, did you read the Zalianovsky restaurant part of his book?
No, tell me.
He had a place called Shea Piggy.
It was a restaurant in 1979.
And Pancho...
Was that in Thornhill?
No, both in Kingston, Ontario.
Is that a place?
Shea Piggy.
Oh, my God.
Everyone knows Shea Piggy here.
Grumpy Moose has eaten some...
So, Grumpy Moose.
I'm just letting you ladies know.
You'll have to wave at me to take my headphone off to hear you
because I can't actually hear you.
Well, it said he used to perform at stages.
No, I'm just kidding.
That part I just made up.
That's where MF performed.
That I made up.
But he worked as a chef well after the song
at a place called Golden Apple in Gananoque.
Oh, of course, yeah.
Mucho local references.
Is that where Camp Anandaga is?
Remember when you went on Just Like Mom,
you got to go to Camp Anandaga?
And that was the grand prize.
Like after Fergie, I'll first go to that.
It was some fucking summer camp.
But they had like a zip line into the water in the commercial.
Other hits by the Love and Spoonfuls.
Spoonful, if you're curious, is Do You Believe in Magic?
Yeah, Do You Believe in Magic?
In a young girl's heart.
Which became a McDonald's song at some point.
Ronald did a cover.
I remember, I think it was some other beer company had an ad in the 80s
where the song that they played was,
Did you ever have to make up your mind?
Yeah, that's a good one, too.
That's them?
That's them.
These guys had hits.
Oh, I know.
These guys had big time fucking hits. And, of know. These guys had big-time fucking hits.
And, of course, Summer in the City went to number one.
That might be their biggest hit.
So there's a summer jam for you.
The Love and Spoonful.
Wow.
Now, Cam's got a...
He's stealing a page out of the Stew Stone handbook.
Oh.
We're going to play a jam from Cam.
Meaning he's going to play a great song?
He's going to play a song. We're play a jam from Cam. Meaning he's going to play a great song? He's going to play a song.
We're playing a jam from Cam.
And then there'll be like a...
Do you want to save this for last, Cam?
Or do you want to do it now?
He's got a mind blow moment. Is Cam trying to blow our minds?
There will be a mind blow, but let's play his jam first.
Yeah, okay.
Is this the Bar Mitzvah rap version or the...
Wait and see
Where's Brian Master
Yeah
It is
Wow
Good for you bud
K-Pompe was better
I was like so confused
For some of Curtis.
I know how to do the dance.
Can you do it in front of the camera?
There's a whole dance.
Before the Macarena,
this was a dance.
Big bar mitzvah trap.
Okay, so I've never been to a bar mitzvah.
For a reason.
It's your anti-Semitic.
That's been proven, though.
All right, Trumpy.
Okay.
Whatever, turd.
That is not true.
I resent that implication.
You don't know this song?
I know of it, yeah.
But it wasn't as...
The jam!
We didn't play it at my first
comedian.
I mean, this is like
Donald Pompey's dad has nothing
on this song.
Very popular brises, too.
Yes.
No, so this is the holiday ramp.
Holiday rap. Not the holiday ramp. Holiday wrap.
Yeah.
Not the holiday ramp.
By MC, Micah G, and DJ Sven.
I would have not remembered that.
No, of course not.
Wait, so MC, Micah G, did he have any other hits?
These guys are from Czechoslovakia or something.
They're actually from Holland.
Oh, Holland.
There you go.
Micah.
I like Micah.
I wish people called me Micah.
So this is that.
Okay, so a couple of Dutch guys rapping over obviously
Madonna's holiday. Is that what this is?
Lieve Pumka is Dutch.
Really? I knew I liked her. There you go.
She's my Dutch dream. Let me just ask Lieve Pumka
is MC Micah G a big deal?
Of course. In the motherland? Yes.
Sven is more of the heartthrob
of the group. Are there statues and such of
DJ Micah? Okay, so I'm going to
run through a bunch of fun facts
on this.
Okay.
You can clearly hear how European
they are now. Now that we're older
and we can hear these are clearly guys
that English is not their first language.
I just need to reread this.
This is actually kind of amazing.
This is actually technically not a
sample. This is a re- amazing. This is actually technically not a sample.
This is a re-recorded version of Holiday.
For whatever reason, they decided not to use the actual track.
It doesn't sound like a re-record.
It's a cover.
What would Jeremy Taggart think of this song?
It's an homage.
Much Music.
This is voted the worst video of 1987.
Oh, and the fromage?
Is that fromage?
Right, this is 1987. So it's the predecessor to fromage. Oh, and the fromage? Is that fromage? Like this is 1987.
So like the predecessor
to fromage.
Or Christopher Ward.
All FOT.
Yeah, big hit in Canada
did not chart in the US.
Because it's awful.
Oh, this part.
Come on.
Okay, hold on.
Yeah, this part's cool.
This is like those
Sesame Street guys
we were talking about.
Come on.
Come on, that's futuristic stuff.
It's great in the headphones.
So three more fun facts about
this. So after disbanding, which happened
fairly soon after this,
DJ Sven continued to work on music
related projects. Thank God.
MC Micah J suffered
from drug addiction and was homeless and lived on the
street. Oh my God.
That's gotta be Swedish, right? Arnold Sven
Swedish? Yeah, Sven seemed like he
did okay. There was
actually a follow-up of this song that I
actually listened to on YouTube. You can Google
this. So this was
kind of a mash-up of Kool and the Gang
Celebration and
We Are Family
by Sister Sledge.
And again, sort of like an early
mashup pre-Jive Bunny and the
Mixmaster, certainly pre-Girl Talk.
That single went nowhere.
Well, the main thing that you need to talk about this song is that
literally, we joke, but it's true.
If you went to a bar mitzvah between
1987 and 1993, this song
was played.
So Brian Master would play this song.
For sure.
I imagine that this is a niche audience of listeners
that went to a bar mitzvah,
but they know what I'm talking about.
I was going to say,
blister in the sun every night at stages,
this at every bar mitzvah.
Yes.
And one more final fun fact about this,
and this is like,
I don't know what the fuck this is.
So there was a very early, and maybe I'm just saying this as like, a't know what the fuck this is so there was a very early and maybe
i'm just saying this as like guy who works in kind of tech there's a very early viral video
with this song with an indian actor named king kong who was a little person dancing to the song
he was from india this song has like 18 million youtube views and was apparently one of the first
big like viral hits well you think 18 million is a lot was apparently one of the first big like viral hits.
Well,
you think 18 million is a lot.
Then you look at the population of India and you realize it's actually like
12 people watched a video in Canada.
Yeah.
Like I watched it.
It's like about a minute.
I didn't get,
it's just not my cup of tea,
um,
but whatever.
But apparently an early viral hit on YouTube with King Kong dancing to
holiday.
Well,
what's going to blow our mind.
Okay.
Yeah. I'm my apologies. I should going to blow our mind? My apologies.
Are you ready for something
that will blow your mind?
I hope so.
Oh yeah.
This is like
we are going on a summer holiday.
Yeah.
How about that? This is basically the chorus. So this is like, we are going on a summer holiday. Yeah. Yeah.
How about that?
So this is basically the chorus.
This is Cliff Richard.
I feel like we talked about Cliff Richard before.
Yeah.
Like one of those artists who like.
Good call.
That's good.
Almost like second only like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones in the UK.
Here is.
Cliff Richard.
Not really known.
Cliff Richard.
Yeah.
Isn't that like a baseball player?
Cliff Johnson.
Cliff Johnson.
Cliff Johnson.
Clayton Richard.
Cliff is a big red dog, I think.
This is definitely a page out of my book.
I approve.
Yeah, so it's basically a mashup
of this song and the chorus,
Madonna Holiday.
I'd argue like most North Americans
might not be familiar with this song.
Certainly not the generation where it came out. I'd never heard this. Like, is this... Do people know this song? Yeah might not be familiar with this song. Certainly not the generation where it came out.
I'd never heard this.
Like, is this, do people know this song?
Yeah, I think people know this song.
Trailer for sale or rent.
It's like that type of thing.
Yeah, that kind of Roger Miller vibe.
Or you live 15 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Well, the girls are off to bingo and the guys are getting stanko.
Well, that's a stomp and tom.
Have a shandy.
Glenn Miller?
Is that someone that would sing?
That's a movie.
Glenn Campbell.
Okay, because Glenn Miller is Swing the Moose.
The Rhinestone Cowboy.
And now you're going to get me thinking of Jai Jai, Bunny and the Master Mixers.
Come on, everybody.
Come on.
One time we'll play that.
One time.
Oh, Levi, normally you listen.
Am I correct that you listen at like
two times the speed or something like that?
No, you listen at one time the speed? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Kim, what year is this song from? I could be
confusing people. This song here?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stephanie
Wilkinson listens to Pandemic Friday episodes
at two times the speed. So if I talk really slow
it'll sound normal like Stephanie Wilkinson listens to Pandemic Friday episodes at two times the speed. So if I talk really slow, it'll sound normal. Like, Stephanie Wilkinson.
Fucking listen to the show at regular speed, please.
And thank you.
Mike's a turd.
1963, this song came out
Cliff Richards
we're going to change the tone here
not Cliff Huxtable
don't start the song just yet
I want to set the mood here
the summer of
59
the next song we're about to hear
closed out the decade of the 50s
and I'm going to set the tone here.
I remember it well.
I'm going to set the tone here into the 80s.
I want you to think about a young...
Just skip 30 years.
Skip 30 years.
It's the 80s.
There's someone hanging their laundry on a laundry line.
There's a guy riding a motorcycle
and a terrible tragedy takes place
in the film La Bamba.
No, no, that is not the right song.
Is that right?
So wait till you stop that.
Wait a minute here.
Oh, boy.
Okay, well, that was a...
Wait, I need to kind of collect my cell phone.
Yeah, holy shit.
One, two, three.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, just touch your nose
when you want me to press fucking play over here, Stu.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
It's just like chilling in the summer in the backyard, you know?
And then Richie Valens dies, and then he yells, Richie!
And this is the song.
Lou Diamond Phillips is Filipino.
Just a beautiful song.
Is this Summer Wings?
What's the song called?
It's called actually Sleepwalk.
So tell me why it's a summer song.
Well, it was listed as one of the top summer anthems of all time.
Number 19, according to Rolling Stone.
I'm this close to cutting your fucking mic, Stu Stone.
Why?
I'm not allowed to, like, quantify?
This is a instrumental jam.
Yeah.
Called what?
You're not allowed to have a song that has to have the word summer in the title?
I was going to say Cliff Richard.
Also, in the summer of 1959, this reached number one as well.
One of the only instrumental songs that you could think of that went to number one on the chart.
How about that?
What about the Axel Foley one?
How about this?
We could do that one day, Instrumental Jam.
Yeah, I think so.
I think put that on the list.
There's a whole bunch.
This song actually inspired.
Summer of 42.
This could have been.
That was on my original list.
Michael LeGround. This song could have qualified for the 42. This could have been... That was on my original list. Michael LeGrand.
This song could have qualified for the CanCon, not CanCon,
as they were signed to Canadian American Records,
a record label that was based out of New York City and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Home of Sandy Cone.
So that's pretty interesting.
And another song this could have qualified for
Would be a family band
You've got two brothers playing the song
And their uncle on drums
So pretty cool stuff man
Santo and Johnny
I really like this piece of music
I do like this song
It is putting me in that place
I'm remembering a child of 50s
I'm remembering the summer of 59
There's a good cover of this
I think it's the Incredible
Bongo Band. I have a quote here that I gotta
rattle off here. Let's hear it.
According to Rolling Stone,
they say,
this steel guitar
melody evoked gorgeous island
summer evenings and blue drinks
with cute little umbrellas in them.
Fittingly, it went to number one the same year. Hawaii
in statehood. How about that? Wow.
How about that?
Also, that song was the inspiration for Stephen King to write his first screenplay.
Now, Stephen King is an author that wrote a lot of books.
Bet you didn't know, Sleepwalkers was the first script he ever wrote,
and he was inspired by this song.
Okay.
Is it as good as Maximum Overdrive?
I doubt it.
Okay, good choice.
Can I just say,
I think we are bearing the lead.
I believe Cliff Richard,
who we just played,
was in the shadows.
Like behind MF?
Like which shadows?
No, like he was in the fucking band
that played Sleepwalk.
Oh, I was thinking shadows.
Like basically you play
two Cliff Richard songs
back to back, I believe.
Well, can you Google that while I play my jam?
Because I'm going to play a jam from one of the first rock artists I ever loved.
So we're going back in the Trotter Mike history here. Stranger Stranger
Stranger
Stranger
It's hot in your life
Lonely black and white
On a hot summer night
Don't be afraid of the world Billy Idol? It's like such a departure from his other stuff.
This is 1982.
So this is coming right off of like Generation X stuff.
Also appeared on the wonderful compilation album Vital Idol.
I don't know if you guys picked that up back in 1987,
but that was a great, great collection.
But am I right that, and I didn't,
I mean, I didn't read this anywhere recently,
but that Billy Idol was supposed to be the Terminator.
Did I dream that?
Like in the first?
Yeah.
Like, did I dream that?
You must have. It's did I dream that? You must have.
It's possible I dreamt that.
Like, it could have been a fever dream at some point here.
I almost want to...
Did he ever act?
Yeah, he was...
It wasn't even Ford Fairlane or imagining that.
You know...
Wait, he had, like, the song on the soundtrack.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Oh, yeah, he was...
He played himself in The Wedding Singer.
That is true.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, he was in The Wedding Singer.
And Ford...
It's funny you mentioned The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,
which of course was an Andrew Dice Clay vehicle,
which had Priscilla Presley in it.
I think Billy Idol was like the bad guy or something.
I think you're right.
And I actually might be the only guy who loved Ford Fairlane.
Rock the cradle of love.
Yeah, that was from the movie.
I really liked that movie.
I know people like to make fun of that movie,
but hold on here.
There's breaking news here.
Okay.
I have to put it way back here.
While you do this, I'm just going to fill in the shadows.
According to Levi Fumka,
she confirms that Billy Idol
was going to play the T-1000
in Terminator 2.
It's not Terminator.
It was the T-1000.
This is the Robert Patrick role.
He was kind of washed up.
How dare you?
He had that motorcycle accident
and I think that's why he didn't get to play the
Robert Patrick role in Terminator 2.
But I have to say
I think he was my gateway from
rockabilly 50s music
to real rock with Billy Idol.
I thought he looked sort of like a punk. He had spike hair
and that snarl. But he also had eyes like a punk. He had like spike hair and you know, that like snarl.
But he also had like
Eyes Without a Face.
Great song.
Love that song.
It is a great song.
I think he's under
a pre-hit Dancing With Myself.
White Wedding.
Oh, the white
and he had the two versions.
Rebel Yell.
Rebel Yell.
That's kind of your go-to
with that snarl.
Moni Moni.
In the Midnight.
Yeah, his cover
but his live
with the
Steven,
Steve Stevens. Is that his live with the Steve Stevens.
Is that his?
Steve Stevens, yeah.
The live version.
Well, you talk about another Bar Mitzvah hit,
like the whole, hey, motherfucker, get laid, get fucked.
They banned it from my school.
I'm working blue.
It's because there's an audience here.
It is in context. Anyway, can I say one more word about the Shadows?
Of course, go ahead.
They were Cliff Richard's backing band.
He was not in the Shadows, but they backed him.
And also the Shadows didn't perform the song that I played.
Well, they did a version.
Oh, okay.
Guys, don't fight.
It is the anniversary of your first kiss.
Stop it.
Don't fight.
But yeah, shout out to Steve Stevens.
And your brother Steve. Yes. Happy birthday, Steve. Happy birthday to Steve. Don't fight. But yeah, shout out to Steve Stevens. And your brother Steve.
Yes.
Happy birthday, Steve.
Happy birthday to Steve.
Steve Sachs.
It's Steve Sachs.
Not Diane Sachs.
I really think you all need to listen to my episode.
Especially you, reporter girl.
Listen to my episode.
Oh, wow.
Reporter girl.
May I call you that?
Boy, the gloves are off tonight.
Listen to the episode of Toronto Mic'd with Dr. Diane Sacks, okay?
It starts off talking about her father, Morty Shulman.
Do you know Morty Shulman?
Sounds like, is there any relation to Dan Shulman?
No, but he had a great city TV show way before your time.
He was an interesting guy, fascinating guy.
Are you sure there's no relation to Dan Shulman?
Well, I don't know.
I think you're just assuming.
I don't think there is because Dan didn't mention it.
Careful.
But I don't know if there's a relation with Dan Schulman.
Dan Schulman's a great, great, great man.
One of the greats.
Thornhill.
Come for the Morty Schulman talk,
but stay for the real talk about this climate emergency.
We're all fucked.
My kids are fucked if we don't do something quick. Thank God you finished that
sentence. Great.
I was really ugly for a second.
Oh my goodness, Stuart.
I believe Evamka
went in the house, but she came out.
Oh, she's here.
She's back out. She was getting a glass.
Are you ready
for Cam Gordon's final jam tonight?
This hot summer night.
And maybe take a moment to say that it didn't rain.
Can we talk about some songs that were left out?
Yeah, actually, yeah.
Well, don't you want to hear?
Do you want to do that now?
I don't want to hear.
Like, how do you know?
Let's do Stew's, because this one, as Mike, you remember,
Change on the Fly.
I originally had a different song.
I'd like to hear Stew's left out song.
Okay, what was left out?
Well, I mean, I'm thinking.
Well, there's a lot.
I played Summer Breeze by Seals and Crop. Yeah, I think. Well, I'm not sure whether it's left out song. Okay, what was left out? Well, I mean, I'm thinking... Well, there's a lot. I played Summer Breeze by Seals and Crop.
Yeah, I think...
Well, I'm not sure whether it's going to be left out,
but I'm...
Should I just wait?
I think you can wait.
Yeah, we'll wait till after my exam.
Wait, and then we'll give it a moment, but...
I'll just say the song.
Honorable Mentions.
Maybe that's a new subcategory.
Oh, maybe.
I want to give a shout out to the weather.
And this is a beautiful night, right, guys?
Absolutely.
So, am I right that we're back to Zoom next week?
Because I don't want to go back to Zoom. I've been ruling that's really cam's call we're gonna
see we might if we i would say if we could push it back anyway let's let's take this offline as
we say at uh twitter.com we don't do that ed don't everything is hot hot mics here hot mic real talk
anyway i'll just say mf won't let you come back. Is that what you're telling me? Well, no. She's
my ride.
We can get him here if that's the problem. Do you have a bicycle?
Come on. I'm trying to ride a chair.
Fantastic. Anyway, I'll just say
this song was originally going to be a song by a band.
Stuart would have like fucking hit me with this
blue jersey chair if I had chosen this.
The band The Sundays.
I was going to pick the song Summertime.
I don't really... I know the Happy Mondays.
I would have hit you with that chair.
Yeah, The Sundays, I was going to surprise you.
Till Tuesday?
Well, The Sundays were the last band on DGC Rarities Volume 1.
Oh.
One of the iconic $3.99 cassettes.
Wow.
And then, Mike, remember I just said, fuck it, play this song instead.
Right.
Okay, so here is something else.
How was this?
Something modern.
There's songs.
Is this like Taylor Swift or something?
T-Swizzle, yes.
Is it Taylor Swift?
Cam, is your daughter a big fan of this song?
It's really Taylor Swift?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, so this is the Taylor Swift song, Cruel Summer,
not to be mistaken with the Bananarama.
I think MF picked this one.
No.
No, no, I think it's your daughter.
No, she was sort of into, she's more into like show tunes right now.
But yeah, Taylor Swift, Cruel Summer, this song came out.
I'll be honest. Oklahoma. I didn't realize this, Taylor Swift, Cruel Summer. This song came out... I'll be honest, I didn't realize
this was Taylor. That was a guess.
Well, did you guys see she has an album
dropping at midnight today.
Oh, thank God.
We might still be recording at midnight.
Yeah, but she recorded with Bonnie there.
She's releasing an album the same day as Kanye?
Yes. Wow.
Yeah, which, I mean, the irony was
not lost on kind of the
nerd aspect of Twitter
aside from us.
So, obviously, I didn't have a lot of time
to prepare for this song. Clearly.
But I was going to say, do your kids
like Taylor Swift? I feel like
she's almost a legacy artist now
because she's a different generation. I think that
Cam
has really disgraced himself.
Oh, stop it.
There are so many classic summer jams and he's playing this.
Stu, don't be afraid of new music.
Yeah.
Like, it's okay to have something from the last 10 years.
I think this is a great song.
Is it not?
It's not as, like, there's more, there's catchier Taylor Swift songs where they get the earworms.
But they're not about summer.
True.
True.
He's got a point.
Yeah.
Well, Stu's going to bury us in all the great summer jams we missed.
That's fine.
Oh, I just thought of a good one.
Hot child in the city.
Hot child in the city.
That would have been good.
Nick Gleiter.
Right.
Dude, we could have done fucking Martha and the Muppets.
Hot fun in the summertime.
We could have done Suddenly Last Summer by the Motels. Yeah. Suddenly Last Summer. You could have done Suddenly Last Summer by the Motels.
Suddenly last summer.
We could have done.
Summer Lovin' had me a blast.
Me and Leva Famke love singing that.
That's a show tune.
That should have been picked.
It should have been picked.
This asshole played Taylor Swift.
Are we going to hear what the summer's killing us by the Tragically Hip?
Oh, yeah.
Summer Lovin' had us a blast.
Tell me more.
Tell me more.
We could have been singing along at Waves
or wherever the hell MF goes to sing songs.
What was it called?
Waves?
Stages.
Stages.
Stages.
Stages.
T-Swizzle.
We could have even heard some M. Griner Summer Long.
Right.
Or Neil Young Summer Long.
Yeah.
The Pixies version of Neil Young Summer Long. I still don't know what Mike's last jam is,
so I'm afraid to say.
Let's play Stu Stone's last jam.
And then sit tight.
Nobody leaves because there will be a mind-blowing
something or other.
How about Buffalo Tom?
This song was already spoiled earlier.
You know what?
I think only the sharpy-doos out there caught what it was because it has that opening that's
different.
Fair, fair.
All right.
Well, here we go.
Now you know what it is.
Good choice.
Entanglements.
This is the second jam Stu and I had on both our lists
You know what
Everyone knows this song maybe
But it's called
Do you guys not know this song
They don't know this
Honestly God it's a massive fucking hit You know this song? they don't know this honest to god
it's a massive fucking hit
you're out of the FOTM's family
honestly
not just a big jam
everybody knows from summertime here
but it's a huge much music hit
did you guys ever watch much music?
I don't know how they missed this song
I'm disappointed in them they missed this song.
I'm disappointed in them.
Summertime is a song by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Will Smith.
Come on, you guys know that.
And shockingly, this was their, I think this was their only number one song.
Is that right?
That's what I'm... Parents don't understand, never hit number one.
Never hit number one.
I think I can beat Mike Tyson.
This song also won a Grammy Award.
Big song for these guys.
It's my favorite DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith's Fresh Prince song.
It really holds up, too.
The funny part is some people claim, like the review that I was able to pull up,
excited that Will Smith does a fantastic Rakim impression.
And now that I'm listening, it's sort of like a Rakim delivery.
Microphone fiend.
So I kind of agree with it now that I'm hearing that assessment.
This song came in what, like 1993?
1991.
And that video was real cool.
They were on the top of the truck or whatever.
It was a very summery video.
No, honestly, I've always dug this jam.
It's a great summertime jam.
This song was number one on the rap chart and on the R&B chart.
It reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100,
which was their highest charting single that they ever had.
It was number four, and that was this.
Interesting.
It was higher than Boom, Shake, Shake, Shake.
Or the Willennium, or like, what about that Wild Wolf?
Oh, that was solo.
Those were solo offerings.
Getting jiggy with it.
That was not what DJ,
even though Jazzy Jeff was still part of the outfit,
they dropped his name from the title of the group.
Oh, he's like DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Isn't that interesting?
It was DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince,
and then he was solo as Will Smith,
but Jazzy Jeff was still his DJ and still Jeff and the Fresh Prince and then he was solo as Will Smith but Jazzy Jeff
was still his DJ
and still working with him
so interesting.
He got paid.
I guess Jeff understood
how to take a back seat.
That's Rakim and Eric B.
Paid in full.
Paid in full.
Love that jam.
See this sounds like
Rakim like the delivery.
Well you know what
as much as like Maestro
sounds like Rakim
or whatever
like it's just it's a laid back cool Big Daddy Kane. Big Daddy As much as Maestro sounds like Rakim or whatever, it's just a laid-back, cool...
Big Daddy Kane.
Big Daddy Kane, though.
But Maestro kind of models on Big Daddy, right?
For a certain generation, this is the summertime anthem.
Not for these FOTMs to my left.
Does MF know this song?
See, none of the women know this song,
but I don't think of this as a dude jam.
Well, Cam and I had our first kiss to this song.
Is that true?
At Lollapalooza.
Between Pavement and Elastica.
Well, I guess I'm shocked at the people that don't know this song,
but if you don't...
I think I could beat Mike Tyson.
Yeah, Nightmare on My Street.
By the way, did you see he announced he's going to fight Roy Jones Jr.?
Yeah, I did see that, yeah.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Are you surprised by that?
You don't know this song?
No, none of the three guests
in the TMDS Backyard Studio
are familiar with this.
I'm shocked.
Massive fucking hit.
Big time mainstream jam.
Normally, I mean,
this is a stew jam,
but normally Cam Kikso jams
and we're like,
who would know that?
Did you guys know
Jane's Addiction Up the Beach?
No, not a chance.
If they don't know this
there's no fucking chance
they know that one.
Just checking.
Okay.
No, I don't think that.
Okay, so I guess
we're only going to blow
a certain amount of minds here.
The guys.
Which isn't really
a mind blow, but...
I bet you they do know
the Richard Marks jam
that you kicked out, Cam.
I think that's...
Well, that they know, yeah.
Who doesn't?
For sure.
And maybe the Dawn of Summer.
They've been to the dentist. Okay, you ready for think that's... Well, that they know, yeah. Who doesn't? For sure. And maybe the dawn of summer. They've been to the dentist.
Okay, you ready for Stu Stone's weekly mind blow?
Or mind blow of the week, if you will? Yeah, let's let that
roll.
Oh, I like it in the headphones, Stu.
Yeah, we should crank this one right here.
It's already
at 11.
It's already at 11.
Ben Rayner is going to blaze on Toronto Mic'd next week, by the way.
So feel free.
If you have it, if you're holding.
Light it up. If you got it.
Light it up.
Get this man, Park.
Of course, this is Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang.
Oh, shit.
This one will blow some minds because I did not know that this was the song being sampled.
There it is.
It's almost like Rocky.
It's got a bit of that, yeah.
It actually was in the movie Rocky.
Yeah, it's okay because I remember that effect we just heard.
Yes, this song was in the movie Rocky. Yeah, it's okay because I remember that effect we just heard. Yes, this song was in the movie Rocky.
I'm glad you said it.
Wow.
That's why I like you, Stu.
You bring it, man.
Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang.
You know, I played a song that went to number one as an instrumental track,
which was Sleepwalker or Sleepwalk.
This song didn't go to number one,
but this is one of Kool and the Gang's
rare instrumental tracks that also charted.
It also charted.
And this song, folks, are you ready for this?
I'm ready.
Over 145 times, this song has been sampled,
making it one of the most sampled songs of all time.
Notably, You Know How We Do It by Ice Cube.
Doggy Dog World by Snoop Dogg.
Really, really awesome shit right here.
It appears in the film Rocky, and of course,
I don't know if you knew this, but the Bell brothers
who make up the Cool and the Gang,
Robert Cool Bell and his brother Ronald Bell.
Ironically, Ricky Bell from Belle Biv Devoe
in a new edition, no relation.
No relation.
What about George Bell?
I was going to say George Bell.
How does George Bell fit in there?
How about J. Bell?
Yeah, Summer Madness.
So this was obviously sampled for summertime.
What about the George Bell that George Bell Arena
is named after?
That's a different George Bell than me.
Of course, Bell Telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell.
Yes.
Albert Don't Call Me Joey Bell.
Right.
That's with an E at the end.
Right.
Of course,
I love this fucking
rocky part here.
This is like haunting.
Like a haunted.
Beautiful night.
At any moment,
MF could be mauled
by the Mama raccoon.
The man is young.
Definitely like vivid memories of
Sylvester Stallone
working up a sweat.
That whole
dooo
I don't know how to imitate it
but it haunts you.
Is this like a zither?
Yeah, what is that?
It's almost like
what's the Doctor Who sound?
Doctor Who.
Timeline? That's a Rock and Roll Part 2 of Gary Glitter. Who sound. Doctor Who. The Timelapse?
That's Rock and Roll
Part 2 of Gary Glitter.
KLF. Let's go rock you.
This is fucking... I gotta say, I don't have
any cannabis in the house. I wish I did.
Did this blow your mind or what?
Get Rainer over here.
Where the fuck is that Rainer?
Are you holding?
It's legal. It's okay.
When you think about how we love to talk
about 70s acts
that had 80s hits
yes
cool in the gang
you think about how
in the 80s they were
singing Joanna
and Cherish the Love
and all these types of songs
yeah like Celebration
look at how fucking
awesome this is
compared you know
not that that music
isn't good
the 70s versions
of a lot of these bands
are completely different
than when they came out
in the 80s
I feel like
cool in the gang
in Chicago
is almost similar
where...
In Earth, Wind & Fire?
Yeah.
Breaking news.
David Drolet
on Twitter says,
Game over.
Stu Stone wins again.
What the fuck?
He knows.
What's up, Dave?
He's so charismatic.
He's like a cult leader.
He just plays
really great songs.
You're like a cult leader. This is the really great songs. You're like a cult leader.
This is the type of song that...
T.O. Residence says holiday rap. I think he was
guessing in real time and I wasn't looking.
Stephanie Wilkinson, who blew us off.
So, Steph, we... Oh, I love it.
Listen.
They like to roll around
in the sheets to this song.
Is that true? Someday.
I've heard they do a chaser
with Jane's Addiction
up the beach.
I doubt that.
When Dave Navarro...
Wait a minute.
Hold on here.
Oh, what a dick.
What a dick.
I almost lost the poem.
Can we block?
Can you delete
this guy's account?
Hammertown D
who wants to have
a drinking game.
You take a shot
every time I say F-O-T-M.
Oh, stop it.
Can we delete his account? He's not wrong.
I mean, you do that a lot.
On purpose. I'm leaning in.
What's DJ Dream Doctor saying?
I haven't seen something, but he did tweet earlier.
Are these people that are watching the show live?
Yeah. I want to give a shout out
to the people that are watching live.
This is really fantastic.
What is Hades Dweller?
He can't watch live, I don't think.
He's a library Wi-Fi guy.
And it's not open now, the library.
So I don't think he could be watching live.
So he types all his comments from a Toronto public library.
I think so.
Either outside of it or inside of it.
The public library, the place where you used to watch porn.
Oh, stop it.
Stop it.
I was talking to you about that.
But he's using the Wi-Fi from the library, right? That's what I mean. The library. Oh, stop it. Stop it. I was talking to him now. But he's using the Wi-Fi
from the library, right?
That's what I mean,
the library.
We got some credit.
By the way,
according to somebody,
maybe a friend of Toronto Mike,
the Jack of all trades
is available through
the library's streaming service.
Who said this?
Somebody said it.
I think that was on your
Twitter chat or something.
Was it Ian Service or something?
Or Mike Rogowski?
It could have been Tim.
What about Mike Rogowski?
Could have been Rogowski.
I mean, there's so many like FOTs.
I miss you guys being on Zoom to have like the James Edgar or whatever.
Yeah, but this is still much better.
I agree.
People have noticed the difference.
And I have one jam to go and I'm kind of sad the night's going to end.
Well, it doesn't have to.
I mean, we could just keep yapping.
Let's double it up.
I have a large hard drive. You know what
we could do? I could just tell you the songs that I was
going to pick for songs that I thought sounded
like other songs. Okay, before I kick out
my final jam, do the
honorable mentions before I kick it out. Well, the main one that I was thinking
was Brian Adams' Summer of 69.
I mean, how is that not picked?
Yeah, that's a big one. That wasn't picked by you either.
Because there was controversy.
I didn't know. I didn't pick it.
Come on.
He's uncanceled.
He's uncanceled.
The wet markets.
Come on.
Corey Hart, does he have a good summer song?
I don't.
I was going to say like, but Gino Vannelli, Black Cars Look Better in the Shade.
I don't know if that's a summer jam. Can we move on from that song?
Wait.
Can I say like an obvious one?
Like Sly and the Family Stone, Hot Fun in the Summertime.
How about Summertime?
Yeah, I thought of that one though. That was on my short list.
That's a great, that's a classic. Yeah. And there was also
like the Sublime had a version of that as well.
Yeah, Sublime had a version of that too.
Zombies did a version. And again, Pavement,
Summer Babe. Summertime in the LBC.
By the Dove Shack.
Summer by Mogwai.
I'm going to say FOTM more often
to get Hammer Town D wasted early.
Summer of 69 got robbed, and Summer Loved and Had Me a Blast got robbed.
Okay, Summertime Blues.
Ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues.
Eddie Cochran.
But the Rush version, which already did.
Mungo Jerry in the summertime.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Shaggy did a version of that.
But Cam, you're listing all these songs, and you play Taylor Swift,
so you have no legs to stand on.
That's because they ain't a fucking good song.
Jesus Christ.
Are you guys ready for my final summer jam?
You're fucking radio. You fucking assholes. Sorry.
He's working blue tonight.
If you took a shot for every F-bomb that this asshole here dropped tonight, you'd be wasted.
It's been a long week.
No, they only drink when I say FOTM.
So this is not going to be
a tragically hip song of some kind?
No, it's not a hip song.
What was that one, Head by a Century? That was a summer song.
But it's not really. And Summer's Killing Us
is such a solemn, sad song.
Under the Boardwalk? Was that a summer song?
Do you guys want to hear it?
Do you want to hear my jam? Not really.
I was going to do Fun at the Beach by the B- could have done did you ever know that you're my hero which is from
the film beaches yes right the divine miss you know i've been good uh vacation by the gogos yeah
vacation all i wanted vacation all summer and siam by the po We haven't talked about the Pogues. Summer in Siam? Well, they're a great Dublin band.
I know.
Summer in Siam.
Okay.
I'm playing my final jam.
Okay.
Okay.
Rock Lobster?
I don't know.
Jesus.
Yeah.
How are you giving me slack on my choices?
Like you're a hypocrite.
This is a summer jam?
It's totally a summer jam.
You remember that song the B-52s put out like six years later?
Called Summer of Love?
That would have qualified.
Boys of Summer, Don Henley.
Oh my God.
I don't know.
This is Summertime Sadness
By Lana Del Rey
Okay
There ain't no
Any
There could have been
Like one of 70
Beach Boys songs
Sir
That's right
Any Beach Boys song
See you could have
Played Marcella
I know you're gonna
Listen to it
In a couple days
That's next week
Kokomo
Yeah sure You really don't think This is a summer song I mean it is I know you're going to listen to it in a couple of days. That's next week. Kokomo.
You really don't think this is a summer song?
I mean, it is as much as any of the songs I played.
It's totally a fucking summer song.
At least Blitzer in the Sun has the word sun in the title.
Where's the summer?
What does this have to do with summer?
Rock Lobster is a complete summer jam.
Fucking just straight up.
Like summer in Cape Cod or something?
Well, they're from
Hyannisport.
They're from Athens, Georgia.
They're from REM land, right?
Athens, Georgia.
Or it's summer all year long.
Yeah, when I think of this song,
I think of summer,
swimming in the pool.
Summer camp.
Camp Ayawanda.
Camp Onondaga.
Camp Highland. I Onondaga Camp Highland
I have forever
Northland
I feel like you should play
Summer Love and have me a blast
just like to redeem us
or Summer of 69
Jesus man
Rock Lobster
was your number one?
I have always
This is your number one
summer jam?
Since I was a little kid
I've always thought
this was a summer jam
I thought this was always a summer song.
You don't listen to Rock Lobster in the wintertime.
Is that sort of like a don't wear white pants after Labor Day sort of rule?
You know, unlike Zapper's right, this guy is a turd.
Oh, shit.
It's not like I can win anyways.
The game's fucking rigged, Stu.
No, I mean, it's easy to listen. B-52s
have an impressive
they had an impressive
run. And this is their
possibly their best song.
Well, I would say Love Shack is their biggest song.
Okay, no, I didn't say biggest.
And also they sung on Shiny Happy
People, didn't the B-52 said best. And also they sung on Shiny Happy People. I said best song.
Did they sing on that?
Yeah.
Or Iggy Pop Candy.
Candy, candy, candy.
Funky little shag.
Funky little shag.
If you see a little child on the side of the road.
That would have been a good song.
Lining up to get down.
All right.
What was the song
you wanted
before we close out here?
Summer of 69, maybe?
I mean, jeez.
No.
You think so?
Summer of 11
had me a blast.
Nessa said
the Henry Mancini version
of Summer of 42
was...
Rock Lobster!
There you go.
This is Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction.
It's a fun-loving girl.
All right, a little bit of this.
I'm not a big fan of Grease, so let's do a little bit of this.
John Travolta had a tough couple weeks.
We'll give him some love.
Oh, right, he lost his wife to cancer.
That is true.
That is true.
Come on. We're getting down here. Sing along at home if you're
listening. The girls start dancing.
Guys just smoking cigs in
high school like it ain't no thing.
We talked about Welcome Back, Cotter, earlier this episode with Joan Sebastian.
Olivia Newton-John, of course.
Do you know this song?
MF, you sort of know this one?
Say what?
MF Fell Asleep.
Summer Loving?
No, that's not true.
Yes.
All right, I'm going to kill this.
I'm going to kill it if you don't.
Can you play one more song?
One more.
What do you want?
It's really short.
What is it?
I think it's just called Are You Ready for the Summer.
Are you ready for the summer?
That was almost on my list.
I love that song.
Yeah, from the guy from the Leon's ad.
That should have been on your list.
Can you play this?
Harvey Atkins.
Did you ever work with Harvey Atkins?
Of course I did.
Are you kidding me?
I love meatballs.
Okay.
He played the voice of Bowser In the Mario Brothers cartoon
And I played his son
How about that?
Are you serious?
Chew on that
Now my mind is
Yeah the meatballs
It's one of those voices
Yes
I love this movie
Bill Murray
It sounds like the kids
in Another Brick in the Wall.
We don't need no...
Much like the Bananarama
video, once they gave the kids some cocaine,
the performance got a lot
better. Perked right up.
Well, there you go.
Maybe one day
we will get to talk about our mistaken gems.
I have a great topic already picked out for next week.
Now, I'm not going to pull rank or whatever.
We'll talk about it.
And I value your feedback and opinions.
Of course.
But thanks so much for this.
Let's give a shout out to the three attendees.
Ladies night tonight.
Hey.
Moose Grumpy, Lieve F. Hey. Moose Grumpy,
Leavey Fumka,
Moose Grumpy.
Moose Grumpy.
Do you remember that
you can't do that on television?
There was a young lady
named Moose on that show.
Any relation?
That's her.
Is that her?
Wow, she got grumpy.
And that.
Oh, yeah.
I also want to thank you guys.
Oh, thanks, man.
Cam and Stu.
At Stu Stone, that's right.
No pressure.
I know it's a long drive for Stu particularly,
but anytime we can do it in the backyard.
But Austin's going to get you a Mimico home.
There's lots of good properties in Mimico
and Long Branch.
There's a waterfront property too.
Austin Kite and I will take care of you.
We need an FOTM clubhouse.
You can just host your guests.
Well, I think the FOTMs are supposed to be buying me a gazebo.
I was going to say, you have a shed out front that you just bought.
You're going to be building.
Maybe we can stay there.
And that, that brings us to the end of our 891st show.
Holy shit, you're cranking him out, man.
Wait, no, is that right?
600, oh my God.
Yeah, I was going to say.
Skipped about 200.
Because the first ever Pandemic Friday was 600.
I remember that.
So six, sorry.
You know what it is?
My eyes are shit.
Like, I read it as 891.
It's 691, okay.
And that brings us to the end of our 691st show.
You can follow me on Twitter.
I'm at Toronto Mike. Stupid. Because you can't go to his website. You may as well 691st show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike.
Because you can't go to his website.
You may as well follow him on Twitter.
You can.
You just got to enable it.
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It's safe.
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It's going to say malware, but it's cool.
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Don't put your SIN number in there or your credit card number.
I don't ask for it.
Stu is at Stu Stone.
He's a national treasure.
Yes.
Cam.
Not the only Cam I've had in the studio this week.
But the most important.
I didn't say that.
The tallest.
Cam is at Cam underscore Gordon.
Why?
A regular Cam Gordon was taken?
Can't you get it?
You're a Twitter guy.
There's the politician in Minnesota.
Fuck that guy.
Yeah.
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That was delicious.
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