Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - The B Team: Toronto Mike'd #732

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

Mike chats with 102.1 the Edge morning show trio The B Team, a.k.a Shawna, Jay and Chris Z. We learn how they made the move from Y108, how they continued to broadcast during the pandemic, their hopes and dreams for the future and more.

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and Palma Pasta. Enjoy the taste of fresh homemade Italian pasta and entrees from Palma Pasta in Mississauga and Oakville. I'm Mike from torontomike.com and making their triumphant return to Toronto Mike is Jay, Shauna, and Chris, the B team from 102.1 The Edge.

Welcome back. Mike, thank you for having us. It's exciting. Nice to be here. Yeah. I have so much I want to say here. Firstly, right off the bat, if people want to hear the first time you guys were on the show

when you were jammed into my little basement with the low ceilings, that was episode 546. So I'm just going to read the description because people can pause right now. They can go back, listen to 546, and then they can find out how the story ends, which is amazing. Mike chats with shauna chris i just learned it's chris z did i call you chris zed last time you were on do you remember

i think we had the same conversation everyone chirps me they call me the most canadian person they know and then my last name is american so tell me why because it's just an initial like tell me why it's well when you sang the alphabet back in the day, you didn't end on a hard Z. Yeah, it's true. It was a Z. Oh, that's because you were watching American Sesame Street. We were doing Z. I learned to read from C. Sames Street.

That's a good line. So it's Chris Z. Yes. And Jay Brody. Yes. And you guys were knowing at that time, you were the morning grind on Y108. And we had a tremendous conversation.

And I mean, I left that episode telling everyone who would listen that these guys got something. Like, I don't know what it is. We don't know either. We're not sure about that. There's no cure. No, they're working on a vaccine for it.

Yes. That's priority one. And then COVID-19 is priority two. But, uh, I, I, there was a great chemistry between you three and you compliment each other

really nice. Like it was just fun to hear you guys shoot the breeze. Thank you so much. Thank you. And, uh, I'm not going to take too much credit here. Okay.

Uh, maybe partial credit, but, uh, since you appeared on Toronto Mike as the, uh, morning grind on Y108 since then, I mean, this is amazing. Like when I say it out loud, I'm like, I have to pinch myself.

Like, is this true? Like you guys right now, as I speak to you and I have the list of people who, you know, who had the role before you, but you guys are the morning show on 102.1 The Edge, the B team. Yeah. That is crazy when you say it. There has not been a lot of contemplation over the last seven months for us. It's just been go and show and that's it. So you haven't had an opportunity

to step, because you had some shitty timing here. No fault of your own. Big time. Or is it? Anyone responsible here? Shauna has a lot of diseases. I'm not sure what they all are. Okay, when exactly did... The last stunt we did on 108

was eating a bat together as a trio. I don't know if that did anything, but it wasn't a great idea. Remind me, timeline. When was your first appearance as the morning show on 102.1 The Edge? Feb 24th. Yes.

Feb 24th. And it all shuts down like March 13th or something. Yes. That is like the world's worst. Like this is amazing. It happened and so glad you're there. And hopefully, you know, you get an opportunity like to do your thing because you guys are really, really strong.

But that's the, that's the, like, how did it feel when the pandemic struck? Like literally a couple of weeks after you got your dream gig, I'm guessing. You know, listen, first of all, really feel for everyone that's lost their job, that have been put out of work. We're blessed that we were able to keep working. 100%. However, starting February 23rd,

getting told we had to go home March 13th was just terrifying. It was terrifying because now they're like, all right, you're on the edge. It's a huge CFNY, historic station. There's a lot of pressure. They're running ads talking about how we're probably going to get fired, and now we're doing the edge. It's a huge CFNY, historic station. There's a lot of pressure. They're running ads talking about how we're probably going to get fired, and now we're doing this show. That was our sweet intro to the game. In a makeshift studio that we've created,

and with the help of the good people, of course, as well, to make a studio in each of our basements and go on air now as a new show, dealing with a lot of the issues that happen when you're doing remotes between three people. There's delays. There's technical glitches. We're not on the air. We're all trying to learn Zoom meetings and do that live on the radio so we can have some sort of chemistry in our contact.

You can see, you know, Shauna's got something to say. Maybe she's got her finger up or something or she's winking at you. Shauna's cat's taking a crap on the ground. Yeah, I have a cat that kept crapping all the time during the middle of a break. I had a mouse at one point crawl across the floor. That's my wife's worst nightmare is what you just said there. Right in the middle of talking. I literally just did one of these and continued on.

I had a windstorm that knocked my service out. Because we're about middle of nowhere. I'm out in Greensville. I don't even know. And I had a windstorm that knocked me out, knocked my service out. Oh, because whereabouts? Middle of nowhere. I'm out in Greensville. I don't even know. Fictional town, only found in books. Greensville, yeah. Okay, it's right near Watertown. Books and fantasy baseball movies.

Are you near like Kincardine or something? No. Where are we? I have no idea. Do you know Watertown? Watertown, Burlington. I'm so ignorant. Okay, yeah.

Hamilton, Dundas, that area. Okay, and you got like Brantford somewhere nearby maybe? I'm so stupid. There's anundas, that area. Okay, and you got like Branford somewhere nearby maybe? I'm so stupid. There's an old tragically hip song about the town she's from that never made it to the CD, but it's a good one. It's about 45 minutes. So the internet's not as reliable maybe as the big smoke here? No, it's not.

If it would rain, he'd be like, hurry up, we got to get this show done. We're going to bang all of the bits. Okay, but at some point you were allowed back into the Chorus Key studio? Yes. August 9th. Is that the date? I believe so. We were so happy.

Yeah. From March to August in our basements. We found our groove eventually in the basement. Yes. But still getting the energy from the big lights in the studio, being in Toronto, doing this show, it's just so different. Like, doing a show in your basement that goes out to so many people, it's a terrifying, and I think we handle it well,

but it's a terrifying proposition. Honestly, it must have felt okay knowing that you're not alone. Like, everyone's in the same shitty boat. Yeah, the problem is you could be having the best show ever, but there's still that thought in the back of your mind that what if it cuts out? What if Jay drops? What if Shauna drops?

And then, yeah. And there's also that other part, which is that at least at the beginning of this pandemic, there was a few months there where nobody was commuting anywhere. Like, you know what I mean? Like nobody was in a traffic jam with their terrestrial radio dial to,

to listen in. One of the creepiest things that happened to me is because I was the only person going back to the studio. Because we still had to have a person in the studio to run the board. Oh, to press buttons and shit. That's you because you're the smart one. Well, not the smart one. They're the one that, they're like, yeah, he can die. But I just remember having them come back in the studio and it being the most refreshing thing ever

because even that half second delay sucks. I'll never forget the traffic reports during lockdown. We had a great traffic guy, Daryl Frazier, who came with us to 102.1 The Edge. He was our guy at one. Oh, you got to bring him? You were allowed to bring him? We couldn't believe when we heard his voice.

We're like, Daryl! We showed up there and he was there, so it was wonderful. That's good. But hearing him do traffic reports initially where he's like, all right, traffic is light and... And sponsor tag. Yeah, he just had nothing to say and it's no fault of him. It was just there's no traffic at all.

I remember driving in, being beside the CN Tower, and being the only car on the road at 5 in the morning. I had a bike crash in late March on rural York, and it was like 4 p.m. on a weekday. It broke my wrist and everything. It was a real bad crash. It split my helmet in two. It was a bad crash.

But I remember when I felt nauseous. I'm coming. What's going on here? And I look around, and there wasn't a car. I'm spilled on the road but there's no cars anywhere and i remember thinking it was like a movie like like this is a very this street should not be completely empty at 4 p.m in a weekday but so i guess where i'm going with that is that uh i'm i'm of the firm belief that radio benefits from uh commuting. Yeah. Absolutely. Oh, definitely not.

And I don't, I just, for example, let's say April. Like in April, I'm guessing that a large percent of your normal listenership is not in their car listening to you on their way to the office. No, they're at home. They're at home. And, you know, a lot of- Maybe sleeping in. Hopefully sleeping in, yeah. Like, you know, they're out of work a lot of maybe sleeping in hopefully sleeping in yeah on like

you know they're out of work a lot of times especially the beginning um so you know a lot of young professionals and and people from all demographics just not there at all and uh you know it's it was tough it was tough to deal with now okay so i i want to uh hammer this home that uh you're now the morning show on like literally the station I listened to throughout the 1990s. These are the years I'm in high school, I'm in university, I'm a little older than most of you. Not so much older than Sean. But a little bit older than Sean. I was born in the 90s.

Hey, shut up. Put him somewhere else. He's too close. This sweater is older than Chris. That's what I'd say there. Okay, so I'm going to run down. sweater is older than Chris. That's what I'd say there. Okay, so I'm going to run down.

This is an exciting part of the program where Mike reads out everybody who had this esteemed morning show before you guys. Okay, so and then I want to find out about like the name the B team and that whole like ad campaign where it was basically like how long will they last and what that like still go. It's still going.

We still play those ads. Okay, so take this opportunity to enjoy some of this Great Lakes brewery. So thank you, Great Lakes beer. Yeah, they should all have just come from my fridge, so they should all be cold. And no pressure. I know it's morning, but these guys are going to drink one anyway. So what do you got there, Chris? You got a Canuck Pale Ale.

Yeah, it's delicious, by the way. Your camera's there, too. You can play to it. You can wink to it. Look at that. He's like Vanna White, eat your heart out. That's pretty good. I like how he's got a big rip in his pants right in the groin area.

I didn't think anyone was going to see that, Mike. I think everybody can see it. Did everyone see this right now? I saw it all morning. He's not going commando, is he? Because I've got to put an explicit warning on this periscope here. All right. You can black it out if you want.

It's up to you. It's too late. This is live. Jay, what are you drinking, buddy? I have the Blonde Lager. Very handcrafted beer. Very tasty. Yeah, the Blonde Lager.

Big, big popular beer in this house. My wife loves it. And that pumpkin ale is seasonal. So that is the best pumpkin ale, Shana, in the world. Let's face it here. It's excellent. So enjoy it while you can. We're in October,

so it's a big deal. So thank you, Great Lakes Beer. And by the way, five minutes before you guys arrived, the Palma Pasta truck pulled up, literally, to deliver your lasagnas. I put in an emergency order.

I'm like, I need three lasagnas. You guys, did you each get a lasagna last time? Yes. Wow. Yeah. That's why you guys wanted to come back.

A hundred percent. Yeah, we're not gonna lie. I may have said, I'm only going if there's lasagna. I want Yes. Wow. Yeah. That's why you guys wanted to come back. A hundred percent. Yeah, we're not gonna lie. I may have said I'm only going if there's lasagna. I want you to know, Mike, that I've done a lot of radio

for less payment than this lasagna. So this is kind of like one of, this isn't my, like, as far as radio appearances go, not my lowest payday at all.

Our entire time at Y108 was less than that. Tom Wilson, Hamilton guy from Junkhouse and a bunch of stuff. He keeps telling me about how he

gets called to do a lot of CBC stuff. He's got a great voice and he's got interesting perspective. But he says they never give him squat. It's amazing for him that he went and did a show and he left with lasagna. This was a big deal and he's never forgot it. So shout out to Palma Pasta. They're like, we get to eat tonight

mama? Real food? So thank you Palma Pasta for that. I don't know if you guys got a Toronto Mike sticker last time. We have one now. StickerU.com man. They're in Liberty Village. Great local business and you can upload your image. You can upload your B-Team logo and you can order like

you guys need stickers. I want to see B-Team stickers everywhere. All over stop signs. I mean not stop signs. Yes. Ixnay on the ombre. That's what I'm thinking here. Okay. So here it is. The people. This first name was news to me. I learned something

and I am like a historian. I'm a CFNY historian. Okay. Does anyone here know the name of the first morning show host in CFNY historian, okay? Does anyone here know the name of the first morning show host in CFNY history? Oh, God. Because I know the popular answer is the duo you're all thinking, or at least Jay is thinking of.

No, before that. Pete and Gates. Pete and Gates. Yeah, so most people say Pete and Gates. They came on our show once. Pete's been dead for a while. Geats might have come on your show. Geats might have came on.

Oh, wow. Hey, Sean. Great job, Sophie. In Hamilton, I'm pretty sure. Well, he's also an engineer, right? So I think he still works as an engineer in the business. Geats came over here. Geats Romo.

Wonderful job. It was actually a guy named Gary who was a mechanic. Pete, his real name is Pete Griffin, which is aged interestingly, considering there's another Pete Griffin out there now. But that is not it. So everybody says, oh, the first CFNY morning show is Pete and Geeds. That's not true.

Was it John Oakley? No. Stafford? He's a good guess. No, Stafford did news on Pete and Geeds. Okay. So that's a good guess. That's at least a good guess.

And we know him, right? He's okay. Well, he got a broken neck. He's got a broken neck. He's at home. No joke. Unlike Sean. And we know him, right? He's okay. Well, he got a broken neck. He's got a broken neck. He's at home. No joke. I'm just going to not talk. You do your history.

He's not okay. Okay. But it looks like he's going to live, which. I'd like to give a shout out to him. All the best, man. I haven't seen him in a while. We'd hang out and smoke darts together. Oh, I bet.

Yeah, he's been over here twice. And we have interesting, tumultuous history, but we had a good experience twice. And he tells me, well, he tells his Facebook friends. He didn't tell me directly. He fell off a ladder a few months ago and broke his neck, and it was really serious. He's in the hospital. Now he's recovering at home.

So he hasn't been on the air because he's on a chorus station, but he's not on the air right now because he's at home with a broken neck. Powerful radio voice, a great guy in the halls as well. But that's not the answer to your trivia question. No, that's not the answer. Now, I only learned this today. Okay. My friend and client, Fred Patterson,

whose name will come up in a moment, when he started at CFNY, he was working with this morning show host. The first morning show host in CFNY history was a gentleman named Al Spring. Okay, and he wasn't your plumber, Shauna. No, no. Did he ever appear on your show, Al Spring? I don't think so. Is he dead too?

He died. Good girl! Rest in peace, Al Spring. I don't know a lot about Al Spring, but David Marston says great things about him, and apparently Al Spring died rather young, in the early 80s. So he's been gone a long time, and I just learned he was the morning show host before Peter Gates. Okay, so Al Spring died rather young in the early 80s. So he's been gone a long time.

And I just learned he was the morning show host before Pete and Geats. Wow. Okay, so Al Spring. The rest will go faster. Then Pete and Geats, which was a big deal in the 80s. Yep. Then Steve Anthony. Oh, I know him.

You ever heard of him? Of course. Has he been on your show? No. He'd be game. He'd be game. So Steve Anthony, who's at fotm by the way then steve leaves and he's replaced by a guy named hal harbour which of course is a fake name because he's a halifax right they have great fish and chips there no i'm not okay now we're modernizing

a little here because after and that was a short period for Hal, Humble comes over from, he was in Montreal, and he and Fred form Humble and Fred in 1989. But Howard quits because he gets a gig at CKFM, being the first morning show host for what they were going to call

Mix 99.9. He leaves for one and a half years, and Scott Turner takes over. So after Humble and Fred, then there's Scott Turner, but then Howard comes back and we have Humble and Fred until like 2001 maybe. And then, uh, Dean Blundell comes over from Windsor and he's got Jason Barr and Todd Shapiro. As you know, uh, Barr leaves and Shapiro, and then Billie Holiday is there for a bit, but then they cancel the Dean Blundell show, which ran for a very long time.

And then, ready, I'll go quickly. There's Dominic Diamond, Josie Dye, and Greg Beharrell. Greg leaves. So then they go with Fearless Fred and Melanie Miriani, and then they add Rick the Temp, Rick Campanella. Yep. Campanelli. Campanelli.

You're right. Campanella is somebody else. Oh, boy. You're right. No, thank you. Now that we're in Monterey Park. We are back on track, Jake. We're being productive now, Mike.

We're almost there now. Rick leaves. Rick C. leaves. And then, of course, it's Fearless Fred and Melanie. And then it's Melanie Mariani, who I think is at your rival station there, Indie 88. And Adam Ricard, who's at Hits in St. Catharines. So you got Mel and Adam. And then you have the brother-sister duo

from Vancouver, Ruby and Alex Carr. And then you have you guys, the B team. Here we go. Wow, that's crazy. And in six months, Toronto Mike in his backyard. That's whoever he is back here. So I'll play a little clip from yesterday's Toronto Mike. I had Mark Weisblot here in the backyard,

and I asked him about your show because you guys were coming on the next day. So this is our little conversation. I've got about 90 seconds. Our morning show. Have you been listening to the B team on 102.1? Well, yeah, because they started putting their stuff on a podcast and it helped me catch up in the usual double, maybe even triple speed. They went for a few months, I guess, because they weren't in the studio. They weren't able to do the show that they set out to originally create.

Right, that was bad timing for them. Once they got their footing towards the end of the summer, started to do the podcast version, and there you go. So how are they doing? Well, when they first got hired, I was very excited because I'd followed the evolution of Jay Brody by listening to him on Toronto Mic'd, how he set his sights on getting this job, the CFNY morning show.

He was focused with his eyes on the prize that he calculated that the day would come that the job would be given to him. He visualized every step that he had to do along the way, which included the idea that seven morning shows would get fired from the radio station in seven years. And that after that happened, they got around to him and offered him the job because he was already fronting this show over at Y108 in Hamilton, already working for this company, Chorus Entertainment. We'll talk about Chorus a little more later in a different light.

And as a result, you've got these three people, right, on The Edge, morning show, the B-team. Well, and the only reason you focus on Jay, I realize you guys are a trio and you all work. I like that, fron, the B team. Well, and the only reason you focus on Jay, I realize you guys are a trio and you all work. I like that, fronting the show

on Y108. So that's not, obviously, that's Mark Wise, but I know, I know. Really, it was that because

Jay appeared on the show before the Y108 and Wise Blood's a big fan of Toronto Mike and he loved the story because you were working construction. Yeah,

I was here with Roddy Comer before I met these guys. Are you sure you were here only twice? I feel like this might be your fourth visit. No. Is it? It might be.

Do I get a special place? How many lasagnas have you had? He's probably just coming for to find. Listen, Mike, if there's more lasagnas, I'll be here next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday as well if you'll have me. Yeah, this might be the fourth time. I don't know. But Wiseplot loved the storyline because if you do listen to Toronto Mike,

you hear this guy come in and he's doing some work with Todd Shapiro and then he's not doing work with Todd Shapiro and he comes in with Roddy and he's doing these bits that do get played on Howard Stern and stuff, like a little show called Howard Stern. And then he comes in with the Y108.

This is a big deal. He's a morning show host now and he's then he comes in with the Y108. This is a big deal. He's a morning show host now, and he's got this great chemistry with Shauna and Chris. Like, I think, I don't, it's not the Jay Brody show. I don't know why Mark just spins it that way because of that history on Toronto Mic. It really is the three of you guys making each other sound better.

But then it really did appear, I actually, here, I was supposed to play some, it's a little bit of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, because it's kind of having a resurgence now due to TikTok. I don't know if you guys are aware of this. This guy just cruising drinking cranberry juice. Right, yeah.

This guy does, because he's young. The old people are like, what's TikTok or whatever. So it's sort of a dream come true. Like maybe you could speak to that for a moment Mr. Brody I remember, listen it started Years ago when I was in construction I was in the family business

And that was not a great idea As a contractor later told me You make pictures with family not business That's good advice In the family business doing construction Driving to work and I remember listening Just hated job, and I was terrible at it. If you have a house in Guelph, I apologize to you, and please move. If it's a town.

Yes. But I was, you know, building houses out there, listening to the radio, doing a horrible drive every morning, covered in dirt, and thinking to myself, listening to The Edge and going, this is really what I should be doing. I should be doing this job. And I messed up my entire life by getting into construction. So I sat, I just, I felt sad for myself and would drive to work every day,

listening to The Edge going, this is where I should be, but I messed up. And it took for me to lose pretty much everything, you know, like realizing that my, the job, the family business wasn't going to provide for me to lose pretty much everything. You know, like realizing that the job, the family business, wasn't going to provide for me. I was engaged to someone at the time. That fell apart. I had nothing. Three times.

Yeah, I had nothing. Real talk. Hey, listen. You keep making the same mistake over and over again until you get it right. You've been on plenty of morning shows as well. Three times the charm or you strike out. So, yeah, I had nothing, and I just decided to go for it. At that point, a man with nothing can create his own destiny,

and so I've been trying to do for probably seven years now. It's been a long road, and I'm very grateful for all the support I got along the way and, uh, making a lot of great friends and meeting people as well that helped me make that happen. It's like a movie, man.

I feel like it's like a movie. Like this guy's doing construction. Next thing you know, he's got the, he's a one third of the morning show on, uh, edge one. I always called it edge one Oh two.

Cause it was a period of time where that's like a very short period of time and it's stuck. And I've always corrected. It's actually 102.1, the Edge, not Edge 102. That's what they like to call it. So Shauna, how the hell did the Y108 morning show end up as the, like, tell me how this happened.

For that station? No, no. How did you end up as the CFNY morning show? Like, how did this decision get made that, hey, we need a new morning show. These guys in Hamilton are doing a good job.

Let's move them to the big smoke here. Like, how did that come to be? There must be a story here. I think that's, I don't know. That is pretty much the story.

Do you know Chris? Because I'm going to have to mute her mic. She has no idea how she got this job. It's probably because of how mouthy Shauna is that we actually

did get this job. We were told because of how mouthy Shauna is that we actually did get this job. We were told that we were an extremely edgy show at the time, and that's what they needed for the edge. They wanted to bring the edge back to the edge, and they came to us, which was insane. I'm not going to lie. The drive home was a teary-eyed drive home. This was everyone's dream on the show.

Was there a meeting? Like did they call you, all three of you in a meeting? We've been telling them for years, anytime we'll do a performance review, that we want to go to Toronto. And that was one of the things that we made very apparent to anyone we worked with. With all due respect to Y108, we built a great show there. I love Y108. I cut my teeth there. It's absolutely amazing.

Like literally because you were chewing on the beer bottles. Well, that was one time. It was called The Drunk Show. Sorry. And when we saw an opening appear, we really hammered them for it. So did you apply? It's not really an application. Or did they tap you on the shoulder and say, let's talk?

We started talking about it on air. So did you start talking about it before anyone had shown interest? Because there were rumors. I get these rumors fed to me because who else is going to give a shit about radio in this market? It's just me. You're in the only place that gives a shit. So I was getting like little tips like the morning grind is going to be the new morning show on 102. And I never knew if it was coming from like, I was trying to check my sources,

but it seemed like you guys started that rumor. This might have been a genius move that you started the rumor that you were going to get it and then it somehow became de facto. Make it till you make it. That's what they say. And bullshit baffles brains. We were dealing with a lot of interesting stuff in Hamilton.

The show was very successful. We wanted more. We saw the opening happen and just started talking a lot of shit on air about taking that job, getting it as well. Thankfully, we have managers that understand

that ultimately what we were doing managers uh that understand you know that ultimately what we were doing say that again thank them just one more time it was a risk i was gonna ask about that like does your pro who's the program director at y108 is it the same person it was tammy cole so it's the same human being tammy cole yes that that that does okay i always wondered like how does it even if it is a a brother or sister station every time i think of the siblings at 102.1 i think of that the poor morning show duo that came over from vancouver for for a good year run are they okay now do we know ruby and alex yeah he just landed at sonic yeah and that's in edmonton i believe is that in edmonton i feel like yeah yeah yeah yeah everyone still seems quite close. Like, they still hang out.

Like, they were very, I think they had a lot of friendships there, too. So it's not like they just said. Okay, because they're Vancouver people. I think they're not from Edmonton, are they? They're Vancouver. Vancouver wants Calgary, I think. Yeah, I think you might be right. You know, the way in Toronto here we think, like,

Vancouver and Edmonton are right, like, they know each other. They're right. They're not here, so there must be one. Okay okay so they're doing okay and it's just unfortunate what happened to them but the the they're they're they're that created an opening and you guys clearly wanted it and you weren't shy about talking about that so you would talk openly on the Hamilton Airwaves about wanting to be the Edge 102 Morning Show am I getting that right this was a goal of ours yeah and once it's out there like like, the thing is, we've learned on, you know, we've learned doing radio.

This is a little radio trick. Your boss is sometimes, God bless him, still asleep when the show starts. Yeah. For at least a half hour of the show. That's true. Really can take advantage of that opening bit. And they're busy, right? So they're not going to go back and listen to what they missed.

There's a lot. Every now and then. Yeah. There's just a lot of stations that are managed. So we really pushed. Listen, we were all in an uncomfortable situation. And, you know, but I think with, thank God we have people that have open minds in our corner

that are willing to listen to the three of us with our crazy ideas and support them. I think they were ready too. They were ready for something dramatic because whatever they'd been doing wasn't working. Well, seven morning shows in seven years. So post-Blundell, who had a long run,

like I don't know, 14 years or something like that. So post-Blundell, yeah, there's been a lot of turnover. And it seems like they leaned in on that, right? With the marketing campaigns for the B team. Oh, they leaned in so help me out here do they like is this coming from them this idea that you'll be the b team and we'll see you know we'll joke about how it's oh yet another morning show i think we're all on board we were all okay so yeah okay we realized um we weren't the biggest name at the time coming into

the edge the names you read at the beginning are massive names they're legends and we had to try to compete with that and we knew we were going to get chirped right off the bat yeah so tell the joke first tell the joke first yeah right and like and let us self deprecation and like listen the whole the whole it's not really a bit like we play like it's seven morning shows in seven years how's this one gonna going to last? That's a real thing. Like, there's nothing, like, we joke about it, but that is the true and honest reality of what we've done. You can't go back and say that, like, seven shows made it long. It's not pro wrestling.

We're in a real situation here that we're just going to own, and we're going to let people in on it because we want to be as open and as real as possible. We want to be the realest as real as possible we want to be a the realest morning show in the country hell yeah real talk you can borrow that hashtag if you need to it's okay we're gonna take that and an extra lasagna maybe three of them all right okay i need to know about uh and i don't any of you three can uh tackle this one hopefully someone who remembers it but uh tell me about the meeting where you're told uh like congratulations you're the new morning

show on 102.1 the edge like is this is tammy cole is she in the meeting this one okay please let me i need to know the details and then and speak slowly i need to soak this in because i consider you guys i honestly because you guys are all FOTMs who I like very much so I try to put like FOTMs in places positions of power like I'm working on putting one as

Premier of Ontario and I've got them in pretty interesting positions here and there it was important to me to get some FOTMs in the morning show slot at 102.1

so this is also my dream coming true I appreciate that give me the details we get like we get this Tammy's an amazing boss and she's been super helpful. And I also respect the fact that all of our bosses are great at radio,

and they bring that energy into real life, and we'll do radio teases in front of your face. Yeah, which kind of sucks. So we get an email, hey, how about we go for nachos somewhere in Hamilton? So, you know, Shauna's from Hamilton. She picks the shittiest dive place you can find. The fucking worst place ever. Is this an unusual request? Because she was out of Toronto,

she would come and take us for breakfast. This was supposed to be a little different than breakfast and I thought we'll go to the Thirsty Cactus. What's wrong with breakfast? Give me brunch. We'll have some nachos or whatever and talk about, like, it's just a normal catch-up meeting. Tammy's, you know, listen, she's doing an extremely great job managing so many stations. So when we get together, we'll have a meal, multitask, you know what I mean?

And Tammy's picking up the, I'm sure she's picking up the bill on this one. For the business expense, you could have gone big on this. Like, this is a free meal. You don't do the Thirsty Cactus. Nachos is good. Yeah. I like nachos. Who on this like this is this is a free meal you don't do the thirsty cactus nachos is good yeah I like nachos who doesn't like

drinking rum out of a fishbowl I'm a fan so let's do that mine was a slushie it was great so we're at this we're at this

we're waiting for a boss and she's like an hour late yeah cause I forgot the street there's two of them oh god so she was on

the wrong one I forgot about the. There's two of them. Oh, God. She was on the wrong one. I forgot about the fact that you gave her the wrong address. And pre-pandemic, there was a lot of traffic to get to Hamilton. I know this. Ralph Ben-Murgy basically said, I can't come back and forth anymore. He's like, Zoom or I'm out because he couldn't handle that traffic. And downtown Dundas

is one lane each way. That's it. Yeah. So we're in the restaurant and this was a day where we had like Morning Grind merch made. A listener, a friend, Lunch Pit Raw

brought us some shirts and everything and mine was like extremely tight. I was like trying to like fit a large on. So I'm at this lunch with this small tiny shirt

that says my name on it. Is the belly hanging out the bottom? A little bit. Yeah. I probably have my crotch ripped out of the pants. They look like shit. We need to pay these guys better.

I look good. Someone asked me to do the dishes there. I don't work here. That's why she's on the team, I think, so you have someone to look at. She's the best. She rolls in. She rolls in with a high-level course executive.

Like the highest. Top of the line. Top of the line. We're not going to say who, but a big course executive shows up. And all I'm thinking about is, God damn it, Tammy. Why didn't you tell me he was coming out with a nicer shirt? So we've no idea. He was mad, though.

He's making it sound like, oh, God damn it, Tammy. No, he was like, God damn it. He's like, god damn it. When you see the surprise executive that you're not expecting. Fired. Fired. And then you must have that notice though, they won't fire you. That guy, that level doesn't come in for the firing. They would have an HR person.

There were a lot of changes at the time. Why would the executive show up at the firing of the Y1? We're a squirrely show, so they're for sure not firing us near microphones. But are you, like, legit nervous and whispering to each other, like, oh, what's he doing there? I'm going to be real with you, Mike. Anytime they're like, hey, let's have a meeting, there's a little shitting of fans. We're the B team, for God's sake.

I actually thought maybe Cornwall. I remember thinking that. I do. What, they're going to move us or we're going to get syndicated? I thought maybe some syndication to like Cornwall or Guelph or something like that

sure okay so you were thinking positive you were thinking positive I will say this is not strictly not only a radio thing in any industry I think because I worked for

B2B software companies my whole life that whole surprise meeting with the boss does give you anxiety even if you're kicking ass yes just because

I don't know, maybe you make too much money and now they need to, uh, we knew that wasn't, that for sure wasn't the problem. It's especially nerve wracking. If you have sour cream on your bare belly in a restaurant, when the executives walk in and say,

well, it was a very, okay. So the unnamed executive and, uh, remind me, uh, what's the name of the program director again?

Tammy, Tammy Cole. Okay. So they're there to meet you guys for nachos at the Thirsty Penguin. What are we talking here? Thirsty something. Sean already said the name. Thirsty Cactus.

That's a good name. I like it. It's a great place. Very popular. It's just not a place to meet high-end executives. We didn't know what was going to go down. I would have picked like the cantina. And you got to be true to yourself.

You guys are not ritzy. You guys are thirsty cactus people. Listen, if you're a fan of an underground fight club that you can only go to on Thursdays, then Thirsty Cactus is for you. But it's not a great idea to meet. All right, so now. Thursdays is dope. So they sit down.

And it's winter and it's cold. And so we're all talking about our Christmases And we're just doing the worst small talk This was really close to when we were going to launch Okay, February It was cold Yeah, we had no time to really get prepared It was like, it's time to go

One more question So there's already an opening at 102.1, right? Like the, the siblings have already been dismissed. Okay. So we're in like February, 2020. Yeah.

Like we have like a million years ago. I know it does. It was a whole world before this world. And, and yeah, so it was, uh, there was just,

I remember horrible small talk because all of us were wondering what the hell's going on. And then the worst is this, you think this is real cheese? This is what was happening. Shitting our pants. Oh, that salad looks amazing. Wow.

Oh, my God. Oh, man. So who becomes. Most terrified I've ever been. Is this a moment like, okay, when you're on a jury, okay, I was on a jury for a murder trial. Okay. And there's 12 of you in there. And at some point during this trial the what do you call

those people the people in charge of you and getting your food and stuff i forget their name but they some they basically say okay you need to choose your foreman of the jury like or four person i guess is what you'd call them now and it's like you just suddenly you have to choose your leader who's your leader during this meeting does one of you three like emerge as the leader of the morning not at all no Not at all. No. Not at all. Chris steps up, and he's the alpha male, and he's taking over. Oh, wait till you hear what Chris did. Okay, so go ahead, Jay.

So the next stage is when- I think they knew they were going to offer us a job, and they also knew we were shitting our pants. So they really just let the whole thing get very strange. Yeah, they let it hang. And I got to listen. This is the best part. Radio, you're supposed to tease a big event, right? And these guys are radio savants.

So the whole time, they're just kind of like on purpose being like, do you think the chicken breast is dry? And it's just like, why are we here? Why are you here? I don't know what's happening. Wow. And just went on. His shirt somehow kept getting smaller as he was breathing so bad.

I was sweating through a black shirt, asking the waitress for water. She's looking at me like, his kidneys are about to fail. This is a third gallon. It was a nightmare. And then like late into the meeting, way past the point of all of us just developing severe anxiety. You know, we got the offers kind of. Here we go. How did they present it? Did they they just say did they say congratulations no we had to sign something first yeah they literally

bring out like this brown envelope and just slide out of a movie like that must be the moment you think you've been canned when the brown envelope shows up that's the sign they even tease the envelope too it's like well first we're gonna talk about something but you have to sign this and it was the best thing it was like, well, first we're going to talk about something, but you have to sign this. And it was the best thing. It was like, you've got to sign it. They're trying to trick you into thinking you're being fired so they can say, surprise. I kind of respect it, to be honest.

I've never had, I've done radio teases. But they never gave you a wink, like, don't worry, it's a good thing. I didn't think with the envelope. The envelope, I knew something good. Nothing bad comes out of an envelope. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? That's when they have that, like, accept our shitty severance sign here in the next 48 hours.

I've been fired many times. You never got an envelope? Never with an envelope. No. I've been escorted out of buildings. But they never gave you that paper that you can take home and chat with your lawyer about, but sign it off to get your severance? Because you've never got severance.

I probably have some back severance along the way. Shauna never made it three months in another job. It's true. She never passed that probation period. And you get this. So who reads? Do you each have your own envelope? Yeah.

Or do you have to share? Do you have to share? Three papers come out of the envelope. Okay. One for each of you. The details got hammered out. The real details got hammered out elsewhere. Was there a raise involved in this at all?

Because you went from a smaller market to a big market. Because Toronto must have different pay grade than Hamilton. Like that has to be how it works. Yeah, we make $5 million each. And Hamilton is about $1.8 million. Kids, get into radio. I'll tell you, because you guys remember, I've never worked in radio, so all I know.

Look at Cruz's jeans. Do we look like we make Toronto money yet? Does this look like Toronto money, guys? Yeah. So it was just, I think we were all shaking. And then, honestly, my memory of it is sort of blurred because there was so much emotion. Then we were all looking at each other trying not to cry.

Because it's really good news. This is really big news. Huge. This is a big fucking station. You never imagine your dreams coming true in a place where they serve cockfighting on the weekend. Like in the basement. Your biggest dream coming true.

Right. And they serve up the losers probably. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Allegedly. I don't want to get any. Great talker.

You never think you're going to reach your dream with a man who's wearing a shirt that's like a pop-up. Covered in sour cream. That's not a thing. Do you guys remember the first person you told? Like, when you get this kind of news... You weren't allowed to tell anybody.

Not even, like, lovers? Sean, are you currently married? I told my lover, but I didn't tell my husband until at least after we started. I had a problem because during sex at the time, I blurted out CFNY, trying to do air sex stuff. The edge. The edge. I was not.

She got real confused. It didn't work out, but whatever. Nice time. Okay, so you weren't allowed to tell anyone. It's the most awkward video I've ever seen. You weren't allowed to tell anyone. Hardest thing ever because I am not good with secrets. That was the hardest part.

On Y108, you'd let the secret out because uh you talk about your lives and stuff we did tell them when we could that we're moving over to the edge and we wanted i remember you teasing it you were teasing it like this sort of like if we changed would you come with us i remember this tease and i mean i connected the dots right away but i also had those like, like little, little clues that you guys were in the running. I actually, at first I was like,

that's wishful thinking. Like, I doubt they'll make such a sensible, interesting decision. So I didn't, I didn't, I didn't even like, you didn't even tweet the rumor or whatever. I didn't touch it.

But honestly, I'm proud of you guys. And it must've been great when you could tell people, like, it must've been great to tell your buds, like, yeah, I'm the new more like, like Chris, when you're at the, you know, back before, like, it must've been great to tell your buds, like, yeah, I'm the new more like,

like Chris, when you're at the, you know, back before the pandemic, when you go to the bar with your buds, like you're like, yeah, I'm going to be the morning show host on a 102.1,

the edge. Like that's kind of surreal, man. I didn't go to the bar until I was allowed to tell people because of that. We became very codependent because we were the only ones who knew our secret. We would have lunch together all the time. Group chats all night long. Oh, really?

It's true. Okay, so when does the name get introduced, the B team? When does that come into the play? We all met together to basically brainstorm with a week or two before we were to come up with the idea. And I want to tell a story here because this is a story about sometimes dreams. Listen, it all worked out, but dreams can also turn into nightmares. Real fast.

So this is a story. I'm going to put a little song in the background here. Which one will I go with here? How about this one? Hold on. Give it a moment here. All right. So we're all ourselves,

some great people at Chorus, our manager. We're spending 12 hours brainstorming everything. Huge meeting. What the show's going to be like and everything. And during this meeting, and we're all working super hard and trying to create a narrative. And this is honestly like the best moment in my entire life. I feel like now, whether we fail or succeed, I've done everything I wanted to do.

And I'm living like bonus. This is all a bonus stage. You're prepared to die or succeed, I've done everything I wanted to do. And I'm living like bonus. This is all a bonus stage. You're prepared to die. Listen, I'm. We live like that. Look at him. We are going to be the top morning show in the entire Toronto area. And then I'm going to just walk into the lake never to be heard from again.

That is the game plan. I just want that email. You guys did it. Number one morning show Toronto. Goodbye. And then gone forever. That is all I want now. Get the bee.

So the bees are here. They're lovely. Come with me, bee. They're not going to sting you at this time of year. They're pathetic. I just got stung yesterday. Look at my arm. Oh, my God.

I've been telling my kids that these weak ass October bees aren't even like able to sting you anymore. These are when you get stung. Is that right? Yeah, because they land on you. I've been lying to my kids. You're a kid. Here's another pet.

It's a white lie. All right. Sorry. I mean, we have a great song in the background. Jay's building something here. I'm so enthralled. So we're in like hour nine of this meeting or so, and it's a 12 hour meeting. And throughout the meeting, we have lawyers walk in and

out, kind of giving updates on something we're not sure of. Right. So, the ninth hour, long day, a lot of thinking, a lot of talking. We get a note. All we hear is the look across. Hey, it's been approved. And then there's a conversation. We have no idea what's happening.

Legal approved it? Legal approved it. I can't believe they approved it. It's significant. All right. And then everything's just, we're like, okay, what's happening? So we're sitting there, and then we get word. We're like, well, now it's time to talk about the show name. So we're thinking, like, maybe we could be the morning grind on the edge.

That's kind of cool. But that would be the betting, like, the odds where you'd just be your morning grind. Yeah. We had a couple ideas before that, too. A few other ideas. Because you already had at least some semblance of a brand being grinder. Yeah. We had a couple ideas before that too. A few other ideas. Because you already had at least some semblance of a brand being built

as your morning grinder. It was nice. It was good times. And then they're like, well, legal just approved this. This is what we want to call the show.

And I'm like, this is the huge, this is a big moment for all of us. You had a good shirt on at that moment. Yeah, I bought a new shirt.

Button up. Yeah, I bought it. All of the money I had in the bank, I bought shirts. And it looked great. We all did. We all spent all of our money on clothes we were so poor.

So, they're like, this is going to be the name of the show. This actually happened. Shauna, Chris, and the dick. And I'm like, hold up. Wait, this is real? This is real. They all gave this look, too. Shauna, Chris, and the dick. And I'm like, hold up. Why? This is real? This is real.

They all gave this look too. Like they were all looking down. Chris and the dick. I swear to God. And I'm like, wait a second. And then literally I felt my entire life flash before my eyes because all I could imagine was me in 20 years with like a little boy,

my son. I don't have a kid yet. A little eight year old me in the park. Yeah. After I've worked so hard and be like little eight-year-old me in the park. Yeah. After I've worked so hard. And people are like, hey, it's the dick. Oh, shit.

Look, it's the dick. Remember when he was on the edge? Can we take a dick pic with you, bro? And then everyone gathered around for the dick pic. Oh, that's a good idea. That would have been a good name. And there's a little boy with me. I'm like, sorry, son. It's just, we have to take a dick pic.

It's time for the dick pic. Initially, I would think maybe, oh, they're joshing with you. Like they're fucking with you. No. Not even a little bit. It's real. And I'm like. I loved it.

You loved dick. I'm sorry. You loved dick. I didn't mean it like that. I loved it. I didn't mean it like that. You loved the dick idea. I thought it was all right.

Okay. But you weren't going to be the dick for 20 years, hopefully. Exactly. So I'm like, I'm the dick? And at this point, I would have done anything to get that job. But I remember just so much sadness. And thank God we had someone in the room with an Australian accent who was just like, hold up a second, we can't call him the dick.

If he's the dick, it's like being the cool kid at the party and saying you're the cool kid at the party. You can't be like that. He's just going to be the cool kid at the party. Can't be the dick. And I'm like, I'll kiss you on your mouth. I will kiss you right now. I can't believe Crocodile Dundee was in this game.

He thinks he does an amazing Australian accent. It's not bad. It's cringy. Better than I could do. Sweet Toronto Mike at Toronto Mike. Let him know. It's an amazing Australian accent It's not bad Better than I could do Sweet Toronto Mike Let him know it's a good Australian accent Mike at TorontoMike.com Email them

Buy the beer and tell them So that's when Who came up with B-Team then? We sat down beforehand And came up with a name called Plan B Oh yeah But that's the morning after pill. You can't do that.

The connotations are not nice. So, you know... That's a terrible idea. Go back to the dick. But at that point, Andy, they could be like, you want to be Jargley Kids? I'm like, we're the Jargley Kids! Let's go! Whatever was after the dick, he's so good with. Why didn't management like your morning

grind? Because there's a coffee thing there with the grind. Like it's got the other, there's a lot of, like it's kind of a clever name. There's so many of the morning grinds though. There's a lot of the morning grinds.

It's like being in the morning zoo or something. Yeah, there's too many of them. Okay. So, you know, listen, we own it. Seven shows in seven years. That's a real thing. We're not the obvious choice.

You know, people wanted a lot of other hosts to be on that station. So we're just going to own it. We shows in seven years, that's a real thing. We're not the obvious choice. People wanted a lot of other hosts to be on that station, so we're just going to own it. We're the B team, and let's work it out and take it from there. And still being called that, which is amazing because they said, and eventually you'll be the A team. Once you start going up, we'll move it.

It won't take me very long to find out who's the Aussie who might be in a meeting like this. That'll be easy. Hold on. My son's calling. Let me ignore that call. That's all I'm going to do.

Dad didn't call me at the school. He's at Laurier. Daddy, can I take a picture with the dick? He's in the backyard. Dad, I hear the dick's in your backyard. I want a dick pic. Yeah, it does have some possibilities there. I mean, it's a great dick pic.

Sounds great. Hey, it's not off the table yet. When we're not the B team, Jay. What about Shauna Jay in the dick? Let Chris be the dick. Why not? That's a better idea. That's wild.

All those years you've spent on branding yourself as Jay Brody, and they're like, screw that. You're the dick. I also felt it would be a huge disappointment in your dating life. There'd be a lot of expectation. You're supposed to be the dick and what? Hey, Shauna.

Hey, Shauna, by the way. That's a real thing. Yeah, that could have hurt him. So who's single here? Chris and myself. Okay, Shauna's not single. What is it like dating during a pandemic Like what kind of a curve ball Is that to a dating life

Show them your left hand has no fingerprints Look how smooth my right hand is There's not really much dating In the pandemic There's nothing you can like Pamela Henderson That's all I got We're trying to be responsible as well,

and it's hard to, like, you know, tell people to start telling people to wear masks, stay home if you're banging randoms. It's not a great look. I've never had more sex myself. Thanks for asking. Lockdown. Trust me, she tells that to us every day to hurt us, just to hurt us. Yeah, that seems unfair to single people, this pandemic here.

I got a note from a gentleman, a listener named Maddie, and Maddie says, this is regarding the B team, I listened to them a lot when I was at home during the quarantine phase. In parentheses, he says, actually had time to listen to the radio. So some people actually listen more

without the commute. They were a fun, I don't know why it's in past tense here, I'm just reading it. They were a fun, I don't know why it's in past tense here. I'm just reading it. Well, he knows we're going to get fired soon. They were a fun and engaging morning show with good rapport and friendly banter. I enjoyed it. So I don't know why it's enjoyed it.

Come back, man. You can still enjoy it, Matty. Yeah, hey, bro. You have a podcast now. But this didn't surprise me at all because if you just listen to that first appearance of you guys back when you were your morning grind, now you're the V team, but on episode 546, you can listen to that first appearance of you guys back when you were your morning grind now you're the v team but on episode 546 you can listen to that because uh a lot of

people said like like i didn't know who these guys were because maybe they don't listen to a hamilton station or whatever but they're like these guys got something there's some just some like it's refreshing like you guys aren't really putting on shtick you're just yourselves and you just uh you're funny and you have good rapport i think this guy nailed it cheers we want to have a good time every morning and invite anyone to listen to toronto mike to check us out on the edge and uh come on we don't have billboards mike we have toronto mike that's our nothing our marketing strategy because of the pandemic or is that is that going to come like here what like have they been uh forthright with you like for example we know the siblings for better or worse they didn't get a lot of time to connect to this new market or whatever like they

had a year i think which to me doesn't feel a lot of time to connect to this new market or whatever. Like they had a year, I think, which to me doesn't feel like a long time for a morning show. Like I feel like you need to give it some time to do its thing, right? Like have you ever been told like we're going to give you at least this much time or is it like you just do keep plowing forward and hope the executives like what they hear? Roll the dice. Hope we're not eight for eight.

Yeah. Roll the bones as Rush once rapped. That's pretty much it. You know, this is a pet list. The whole business could be completely different the next two years with this pandemic. We don't know what anything's going to look like at all. Okay. On that note, on that note, news came out recently that Roz and Mocha, you ever heard of these guys?

Roz and Mocha? They're also FOTMs, but they're at a different station, a Rogers station. But they're now like syndicated in a whole bunch of markets. Like you can now hear Roz and Mocha like Winnipeg, Edmonton. They're even a morning show in Winnipeg, I think. And this might be the direction things are going. So maybe you guys as like the flagship new rock morning show for chorus. Maybe the future is that you guys do your thing in markets coast to coast in

this fine country. Yeah, it'd be great. I, I, I might, you know, we'd be the B team would be the A team EH go across Canada.

But our goal really is to take over Toronto and make, make CFNY and 102.1 the edge, a prompt, like the most prominent radio station yet again in Toronto. That's my number one goal. That is what we're working towards. I love syndication. I love podcasting.

But first and foremost, we want to take The Edge back to a place where it is both culturally relevant and engaging to every listener in every hour and making that entire station, um, something that is truly captivating for everyone here, you know,

it's, it's, you know, I have, I don't have any allegiance to chorus. I gotta be completely blunt and Frank here, but it's, it's sort of like,

uh, the edge blew a, a four, one lead in the third period. This is the way I look at it. Cause his, his, his,

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his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, period. This is the way I look at it. Leach Boston. Well, Indie88 shows up and I get some numbers from Numeris. I get some high level mails. So I don't get to dive in deep into whatever your specific

targeted demo is because I don't have the book or whatever. But they've made up a lot of ground like Indie88. And in some regards, sometimes I'm fed this news in some key demos and some time ground like Indie 88 and in some regards sometimes I'm fed this news like you know in some key demos in some time slots

like Indie 88 is beating Edge 102 I don't know if that you guys can speak to that because I don't get any of this. Numerous literally has Numerous Ninjas we're not allowed

to mention ratings. That will bust out of your own window. So you guys don't break any rules that will get you in trouble that's for sure. I will suggest

taking a look at those just take a look at those. Just take a look at numbers again. Any numbers. New numbers would be great to look at. Not those numbers. Any numbers. Any numbers. Write numbers on the board.

Go to an elementary school and see if there's numbers on the board. Sesame Street. But you only started in February, and then a pandemic came in March. So you really need a longer... If anything, this pandemic should buy you time. It should almost be like we start the clock now. I feel like that's almost like, okay, we can't

you know, that was so fucked up. Let's give them time as things return to normal and people start going back to work and stuff. Give them a longer, some time and then see how they look compared to former Edge 102 person Josie Dye

who left to do the morning show on Indie 88. So I know you can't speak to specifics with regards to Numeris. I don't want to get you in trouble. They might be listening and I don't want to see that you said something. They're ninjas. Ninjas.

They're in the night. Numeris ninjas. So the're in the night but uh so the goal the goal is am i right the goal is to beat the shit out of indie 88 everybody yeah number one number one that's the goal yeah going to the top that is what we want we want everyone with us we want to create a show that truly is a conclusive and engaging to everyone while still being edgy uh and honest so you, everyone, you know, we respect anyone that gets up at 3.30 in the morning to make people's days better,

but we're here to be the best. I think the best right now, because I get these chorus press releases and stuff, is your brother's station, I guess you're calling it, The Mighty Q. They had a kick-ass book, from what I understand. Absolutely, yeah. Phenomen had a kick-ass book, from what I understand. Absolutely, yeah. Right?

Phenomenal. Which makes me wonder how, like, how is this system working? Because I heard, like, amongst women, they were number one in their Target demo there. Joanne Wilder's doing some huge things for Midday. She's number one. You know, like, listen, you have, and shout-outs to John Derringer, because, like, when we started there, she was in our pants.

Huge shout-outs. I love him. Yeah, Sha shout-outs. I love him. Shauna is legitimately in love with him. Can you tell your platonic lover there, John Derringer, to do Toronto Mic'd? I feel like that's a missing link. He should definitely have done this show by now. Listen, he'd be great.

He's a great dude in the hallways. We were shitting our pants the first day, and he would show up every morning before his show to say hello to us and like, how are you guys doing? Real nice dude. Really nice dude. Yeah, that's awesome to hear that. Turned off our mics at the main level.

We were off air for an hour, hour four, five, don't remember. He took a fire axe to all our electric cables, absorbed all the electricity, did a great radio show still that day. It was amazing. Listen, Q's doing great, did a great radio show still that day. It was amazing. Listen, listen, Q's doing great, but this isn't a fun answer, but there's a lot of great people

working on that station. The halls are great over there. It really is, yeah. Everyone's welcoming and warm and working hard and honestly. There's no bullshit or drama. That's true. There isn't any. Everyone's helping each other win. That station will be the hardest station to beat.

Everybody's genuinely happy for each other's success. I can honestly say that. It doesn't feel, because we're all in this together. You'd think that you guys would target a younger demo than Q107. They'd be targeting an older demo, I think, with all their Led Zeppelin,

etc. We also have, again, we're competing with another station. We have Indy, which they do the same thing that we do. Sure, of course. They basically built the entire station off of CFNY nostalgia. Well, yeah, they had Alan Cross in there as a consultant in the beginning to make another Edge. Of course, that was clear. Their success is a result of the fact that perhaps CFNY forgot some things along the way. So what did they forget?

I think, listen, and we're doing a great job bringing it back this year and not just us, but the managers and everyone's working there. But bringing up the heritage of the station more being, you know, the fact that we are like, listen, we invited Humble and Fred to before. Anyways, invited Humble and Fred. Yeah, the pandemic hit and blew that. But can we get that back? I know the producer of Humble and Fred. I can do that. Right?

So there's stuff like, we did another Edge Fest, but it was all virtual. We did a virtual Edge Fest, bringing those things back. Yes. Yeah, we want to just bring everything back. Like, the Edge used to be so dope. Yeah. Used to walk down the street or go to school or whatever and talk about the edge and people knew exactly what you were talking about

and that's where we want to get to again we want to be able to turn the radio on listen to the morning show laugh your ass off listen to some good music and then stick with it right i compare it to the toronto maple leafs like listen the toronto maple if you go to a game before the pandemic by the way and there there was, you would acknowledge, they'd acknowledge the history. You would know that this was a cultural significant place, and the place is historic, the team's historic, but the focus is all about the players on the ice, right?

And I feel like we can do the same thing with the edge, really own our history, own our, you know, we are hit makers. We've had broken big bands and also make it about what's happening today on the station as well. Good for you. If you guys don't bring back the EdgeFest, I will. I'll just call them TMLX events.

You can be a part of it if you want. We need everyone in it. I'm in. My dream will be realized. The TMDS 102.1 The Edge partnership begins right here. On the note of reviving the history of Edge 102, 102.1 The Edge, I'll get it right one day.

Patrick on Twitter just asked, can you revive Bookie's new music nights at The Horseshoe? Just need to find another successor host. I think he'd have wanted it to continue. And this is a good point. Now, Bookie's an interesting guy. The late, great Dave Bookman. Because he was

102.1 The Edge. He was awesome. And for whatever reason, and I'm not in these executive boardrooms, but they decided to pink slip Bookie. And I think Alan Cross said basically to the management at Indie88 that

Bookie is like this guy lives and breathes the music. He's the real deal. Like he'd be awesome for you guys to pick him up. And then he was on Indie88 until his sad passing. Right. And he did have the new music nights at the Horseshoe, which was all, you know, and I know it's pandemic time. So we're talking post pandemic, I guess.

But it would be really cool if somebody at the edge could become the new It was all, you know, and I know it's pandemic time, so we're talking post-pandemic, I guess, but it would be really cool if somebody at the edge could become the new host of that and keep it going. Listen, I hope there's still going to be a horseshoe when this is all over. Hell yeah. Like, that's a huge issue, right? The fact that it's hard to do these events. And we're just, listen, we're in a position right now

where we don't know what the future is. We don't know if there's going to be, when we're going to be able to do live events. We are doing something This week though October 9th Phase 1021 At City View Drive-In Center

Where we're bringing out two Amazing acts Canadian bands That have just popped We have the Bluestones JJ Wild It's a drive-in show It's safe

Where is it? City View Drive-In Yeah Where's that? Do I know where that is? Toronto Yeah It's where the docks used to be

You go for the concert there You're there, it's new music These things, again We had a lot of plans, pandemic, put them on ice We would love to be out doing things like that I can't imagine That's the dream How fucking frustrating is this?

You have these plans, this is what we're going to do And this damn pandemic. Fuck. Honestly, I'm frustrated on your behalf. We can't say like what shows and stuff that we lost out on. We had a lot of huge secret shows that were in Canada that we were supposed to go to. So we lost out on going to the States,

going on a vacation with a bunch of listeners. The things we had were amazing and they were dreams and they would have been the best party that the listeners could have been a part of and all of that was thrown away because corona or hopefully just pushed back don't want to don't want to give it away but thailand and the proclaimers that was a big show we're gonna go to thailand i'd walk 500 miles for that one oh man okay quickly can anyone here name a second? Because I can, but I can't name a third. But can you name a second Proclaimers song?

Anybody? I know I'm putting you on the spot here. This is a tough one. There was only one. There was only one on my buddy's boat CD mix, and it was Walk 500 Miles. And it had, like, two lives. I mean, like I said, I'm older than you guys,

but I remember that was, like, getting radio play on 102.1, and then it went away, and then it came back with a movie. I want to say Benny said, I'm older than you guys, but I remember that was like getting radio play on 102.1 and then it went away and then it came back with a movie. I want to say Benny and June or something like that. Something brought it back and it had like a second life a couple years later. But the other one, just to finish the story here, they had a song I definitely remember seeing the music video

Let's Get Married. Let's get married! Okay, and there's Scott and I can't I won't sing it for you because I don't do the Scottish accent as well as Jay does the Australian accent. He can't be the dick. He's going to be Jay Brody. What are you doing? Come on, man.

He's going to be the coo kid at the party. It's totally crocodile dundee, but that's honestly, I feel terrible that this shit happened. But I also do a great British accent. No, you don't. Do you want to hear that? Is it like cock? Go ahead. Is it like cockney or royal?

He can't be the dick. He's going to be Jay Brody. Okay, now do New Zealand. He can't be the dick. Nailed it. It's great. That's why you went to voice school, son. That's from the construction. You had to do that.

Alright, I want to thank real quick a partner here. This is really cool because it's October. This is the last month. And on that note, this is a great recurring partner. They come back. They're a seasonal partner, I guess we'll call them. They're called Pumpkins After Dark. I see that you're drinking the pumpkin ale from Great Lakes there, Chris.

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We are protected by XCopper and so I take that to heart. They do an amazing job for sure. You have license to speed. What I thought, but it turns out not. But don't go over 50. Maybe, I don't think it can help you to go 50 or more.

It can help you when they're 45 over there. Can't you, Sean? I don't think so. Because that's the magic. You know that's the magic number, right? What? 50. If you're 50K over the limit, it stops being ticket.

It's game over. It's street racing at that point. It goes into the courts, and you've got to fight to keep your license. I guess it leaves ticket traffic laws and becomes criminal law. And so it should, my dear God. I just want to mention, if you are caught going over 50, X-Copper can also help you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's worth a shot, right? Okay, so it sounds like you've got a good partnership there and that they're very happy. So if X-Copper wants the opening that Pumpkins After Dark is leaving, they can hit me up too. And we'll truly be in partner. So Chris, I just want to find out how you're doing. I know we found out you're single and it's tough to date during the pandemic. But now, are your buddies and family members, do they have far more respect for you?

Like you still look like you're homeless, but that you're the morning show host on 102.1 The Edge. You think I want to look like this, bro? This is an image. No, I'm just kidding. This is how I am. They cleaned him up. He's like, they did for the photos. If you look at the B-team photos, they made me cut my hair and shave my beard.

But then they stuck a, oh, they did? Yes, yes. They shaved him. I'd refuse. Literally like Cinderella. Midnight Earl went back to normal. It was incredible. This beard is this length.

I shave, it just comes back like this. It's not my fault. Twice I've made him over. Throughout the years, over the last 10 years we've worked together, I've done it twice. Here's the thing. Every time they're like, Chris, you need a makeover. And then I get it done, they're like, oh, I like your long hair and beard. Well, I'm like, okay, well, F me then.

But things are good chris like uh other than the fact that you know you life has got the pandemic rules and applied but everything else is okay you know you're hanging in there yeah it's uh it's weird not being able to see all my buddies um like i used to this year was definitely going to be a party year uh my dreams came true. I have a job in Toronto. Wait, you say, hold on. Can you say that again? I got to put on a, hold on. I loaded up some.

There we go. I want sadder music. I remember hanging out with my buddies just a year ago. Okay, now you may begin. I got my Aerosmith loaded up, yeah. So, yeah, it's just a weird time. You can't do anything. I'm not that guy who wants to talk to my buddies on a Zoom call or anything.

I want to be around a fire in nature, hanging out or at a bar. But you can do that, right? You can go to have a fire and easily be six feet apart from your buddies. You can, but the problem is we talk every day on air. You want to hug each other when you're six feet apart. Exactly. You want to be close. He's a very huggy guy.

He's very physical. Shauna knows that very well. Always consensual. The first day back, we got shit. Because what was the video we did? We took a photo. He shoves a giant ball of what kind of cheese was that? Fresh mozzarella.

It was beautiful. There's a picture of jammed cheese in my mouth. They're like, guys, you're supposed to be sitting in the park. Listen, apparently in 2020, you're not allowed to feed a bowl of cheese. Force feed your friends some cheese. It was aggressive. It was from behind. But what is the difference between this and doing this with buddies in their backyard,

your backyard, or in a public park? For goodness sake. I had an event. their backyard, your backyard, or in a public park, for goodness sake. I had an event. So, you know, September 18th, in a park. And this was like literally the day Doug said you can only have

25 people in public. I think we hit 23 people. But we formed a circle in a public park, six feet apart. And I sneakily would pour Great Lakes beer into these blue cups and we'd all just drink and chat. And it was actually amazing. TMLX 6. You forget

how awesome real life people are when you're doing everything on a stupid Zoom call. I like this. I don't like seeing people. Why don't you guys do your morning show from back here and that may be the fourth wheel here. We're going to have to call you Smash Mouth Mike from now on. It sounds like a bit of a super

spreading event Mike. I'm not sure. It's like a bit of a super spreading event, Mike. I'm not sure. It's hard, right? We go on air and talk every day about how try to be responsible. Let's try to do our things. Let's put it all on the line now so later, like Christmas,

we can have our lives back. And I'm trying to live that through my real life as well because like we said at the beginning, we're the realest morning show here. If we were out doing events or out hanging out with everyone or doing anti-mask whatever's, we'd tell you about it on air.

Yeah. We can't go down either. We need to stay. We were at home for so long. It was so difficult to do. We need to stay together. We're never going back to that basement. Yeah. I will handcuff myself to both of these guys if they say one of them's going home. Getting sick again. You guys should just live together. We're never going back to that basement. Yeah, so like getting sick. I will handcuff myself to both of these guys if they say one of them's going home. Getting sick again.

You guys should just live together. Yeah. We've thought about it. Well, Sean, you got kids, right? So they got to come to you, I think, right? Yeah, you could come to me. That's true. But I think that we're forgetting some people don't mind this less going out with people. Oh, the introverts. I like it. I like not having to make excuses.

I just say, nah, COVID. Nah. Sean also hates babies and puppies, though, so. Wait, so, Sean, are you an introvert? Yeah. I always find it interesting when introverts, like, become, like, a public-facing broadcaster because it just seems so counter to. I know, right?

It's sort of, it is unusual, but I, this is my outlet. I like one-on-one, and you do feel like you're sort of one-on-one in radio. You're in someone's car. Right. We are trying to talk to one person at a time. Yeah. So that's the thing. It actually is pretty. So you never do what Howard Stern does and say, hello, everybody. Like there's none of that.

A little bit of that. Probably every day. This debate came out of somebody, I can't remember who, somebody who teaches radio in college was saying that when they hear a podcast that says, hello, everybody, they turn it off because they are supposed to act like they're talking to one person. Who's actually doing that? Exactly. You know what I mean?

No one's doing that. There's normal people aren't going like, Joe Rogan's not talking to me specifically. Fuck Joe Rogan. And then turns it off. You know, he just signed a hundred million dollar deal. Like, I don't, I think the spirit of it should be that you're having a one-on-one conversation with people. Yeah.

And trying to connect to one person at a time and doing that, connecting with everybody. But, you know, like the small semantics, it's just a weird excuse to sell college courses for radio for way too much money by the way you know i don't know i don't mean did anyone here go to college for radio chris where'd you go almost failed fanshawe fanshawe okay yesterday i spoke to uh a college radio college class at conestoga okay yesterday yeah because carlos benavides was the professor yeah we did it at noon yesterday. Carlos, good guy. And it was really interesting to chat with these guys because, of course, I'm not

talking about radio. I'm talking about podcasting. But, Shauna, did you ever go to a radio college? No, I have a psych degree and a teacher's college certificate. But I did think about it. My brother was in radio. It was funny because I was in my second year in university,

and I thought, I really want to do broadcasting. But my brother had finally sort of figured out what he wanted to do, and I just felt like I didn't want to encroach. But now, look who's here. Where are you at now, bro? And your brother's name is Fearless Fred. And as for me, I was on a construction one time, a construction site once.

I'm like, is that a human skull? And I'm like, let's not tell anyone. We're out. I have a great backup career. I could be a teacher. Okay,

I'm coming back to Shauna because I want to find out about her Thanksgiving plans. But Jay, I want to ask about you and Roddy Comer. Okay, so in fact,

I saw on Twitter that I tweeted the link to the live stream and I saw Jamie Goodfriend. Did the link to the live stream and I saw Jamie Goodfriend. Did I do it right? Yes. How do boy.

I was liking the tweet. I'm thinking Jamie. Cause like, I always think of Roddy Comer. He's got the, the two duos. I always think like, Oh,

there's Roddy and there's Jamie and they've got the great music. I know. Century surfers. Century surfers. Those guys are awesome by the way. Yeah. Nice guys. Right.

Very nice guys. Their music rocks too. Shauna didn't even know they sang. Like she just thought they were handsome men Nice guys, right? Very nice guys. Their music rocks, too. Shawna didn't even know they sang. She just thought they were handsome men. No, I know Roddy sings. He sings to parts of the body that you don't see. All right.

I love his voice. Sings to parts of the body you don't see. I hope they put that on the album cover. Honestly, that should be in the lyrics of their next song. That's pretty awesome. His voice is amazing. Yeah. No argument here. Honestly, that should be in the lyrics of their next song. That's pretty awesome. His voice is amazing. And yeah. Yeah. No argument here.

He has the rebel emergency stuff, but now he's doing the stuff with Jamie. And it is great stuff. And Jamie, of course, you might know him from CP24. So he's wearing both hats and he's a hell of a guitarist. Who knew? Oh, yeah. Who knew Jamie was, you know, able to kick ass with the axe shred? I was going to say.

Yeah, big time. Right. So, but, but back to, uh, to Roddy, uh, are you still, Jay, you still making a parody songs with Roddy Comer? Yes, we are still working together. And a lot of that stuff ends up on the edge as well. We'll put stuff, we'll do a parody song played on the edge. We work, uh stuff a lot and roddy's still a huge part of my life and working together as well and uh you're still getting some of your stuff played by uh some independent radio guy out of new york named howard stern small show it's a tiny tiny show they do play our parody tracks does he ever shut up about that or he's like yeah i was on stern again yes play our parody tracks. Oh, look at me. I'm on Stern.

Does he ever shut up about that? Or he's like, yeah, I was on Stern again yesterday. Every day. Every day. I've never mentioned it. When he gets in every morning, remember, I'm the guy that said stuff on Stern. He put up your hand if you were on Stern, thought so, and then he just walks out of the room. That's why Wiseblood thinks it's his show, the Jay Brody show.

Yeah. I mean, I will. Did you pitch that name for the show, the Jay Brody show? I mean, I have been on Howard Stern, by the way. Shut up. You guys know that, but. Okay, good for you. In hindsight, I should have asked you to send me something new to play right now,

but I'll share it via Twitter later, Pierre. But then, again, coming back to you, Sean, in a moment, but Jay, do you have any, not Schodenfreude, but tell me how you feel because let me spill this out into the microphone here. You were on SiriusXM with Todd Shapiro. Yes. Todd became famous in this market for being co-host of the Dean Blundell show. Yeah.

That was the morning show. And Todd, he was there a long time, I think over a decade, I think before they let him go. Jason got it first. And then I guess shortly thereafter, Todd got it. And anyway, he was on that morning show,

Edge 102 morning show. I won't revisit it now, but there is an episode of Toronto Mic'd where Roddy Comer and Jay Brody discussed the parting of ways of Todd Shapiro. And you were very honest, as you always are. Yeah. And it wasn't a good parting. No, no, it wasn't a great situation.

Okay, so where I'm going with this is Todd Shapiro, who's, by the way, no longer on SiriusXM. No. That show's gone. Gone, yeah. And you don't have to say anything. Of course. It sounds like it left in an interesting manner. I'm always careful what to say because I don't feel like it.

So am I, but interesting. That's enough. That's enough. Interesting is a word to use, though. Other words include pineapple, apricot, steak. There's a lot of words. There's tons of words. But interesting is a word

you can use in many situations. I've learned this. All right. Okay, yeah. So contact Jay for more detail. But that show's long gone now. If it's been months, it's been gone. Yeah.

And he's not on the radio anywhere that I know of. And you have his old seat in doing the Edge 102 morning show. Like, Schodenfreude, the word, I don't know, you tell me. How, is there something there have his old seat in doing the Edge 102 morning show. Showed in Freud the word? I don't know. You tell me. Is there something there that you feel something...

I'm not trying to put words in your mouth. I'm compelled to win there with the B team. I'm compelled to win there and make sure that I do it by not only putting on entertaining shows every day and engaging with our listeners and creating a fan base,

but also being a positive person in the halls and in the industry as a whole. And that is something that I learned to value over a long road. And that's how I want to be remembered. Someone who is very successful in that the station I worked at became very successful alongside. And then ultimately I was a positive influence on people in our industry and in the hallways and whoever we shared mics with. That was beautiful, man.

Can you say it again? I'm going to play the music. I learned that, you know? I did load up again? I'm going to play the music. Yeah, you have to play some music kind of. I learned that, you know? I did load up a bunch of dream songs. Okay, well said. Now, you said you want to respect the history of the Edge 102 morning show or whatever it's called. I'll get another note for that.

Does that include bringing Todd Shapiro on the show? Oh, that's interesting, right? Interesting. That's pineapple. Interesting is another great word. I ask the tough questions on Toronto. You know that. Listen, there's interesting, right? Interesting, that's pineapple. Interesting's another great word. I ask the tough questions on Toronto, man. You know that. Listen, there's been some crosswords.

I think like other co-hosts that Todd has worked with have gone on and said horrible things about me. I was basically at one point, the story that was told was that I was a beggar and that I begged for every position i got so uh you know on a podcast it was they were saying that i begged for my job at y108 which to be honest me and shauna were there before jay got there i bet there was absolutely none of that i begged my way into serious i begged my way into the edge i begged my way onto Sirius. I begged my way into The Edge. I begged my way onto Howard Stern.

And I'd say this. If begging would have got that job done, I'd have bad knees instead of bad credit. But I just have bad credit, and I got great knees, Mike. That's a good line. That's a good line. This is how it works. So, again, we talked about Humble and Fred coming on the show.

Would you ever have Todd Shapiro on the B-Team show on 102.1 The Edge? I'd be interested to. You want to take this one? No, if you'd like, Chris. Probably not, to be honest. Yeah, if there's bad blood, there's bad blood. You're never going to put a live microphone at someone for that. No, that's the thing.

I would. Well, CRTC don't like us very much already. I would. Well, CRTC don't like us very much already. I have no desire at all to give any words to someone like him. So I'll just leave it at that. Shauna. Yes. What are your Thanksgiving plans?

It's next weekend. I know I'm doing a quick turn here. Other words, by the way, you can use. Chair. Ice cream cone. Table. Las know. I'm doing a quick turn here. Other words, by the way, you can use. Chair. Ice cream cone. Table. Lasagna. No plans, Mike.

Is it just the family you live with? Yeah. Who do you live with? I live with two kids and my husband, and we're just going to do, we bought a turkey breast, and we're going to do something just all of us. Yeah, just the four of you. Okay. How old are your kids?

Just the breast of a turkey? Yeah. Don't even get me started. How old are these children of yours? That's a great question. You should know, by the four of you. Okay, how old are your kids? Just the breast of a turkey? Yeah, don't even get me started. How old are these children of yours? That's a great question. You should know, by the way. You should know the ages of my kids. It happens every goddamn year.

I remember and then it changes. Seven, almost, and almost 13. Seven and 13. Twelve and six, I guess. There you go. There you go. 12 and 6, I guess. There you go.

There you go. Is the, are they, like, I know that the 7-year-old, is this 7-year-old in class or are they doing remote learning? Oh, no, they're in school and they will be. Yeah. As long as they'll take them, right? That's how I am right now. My kids are in school right now. I'm like, as long as it's open, I'm dropping them off for school.

Two days of my life recently that I'll never forget was when we got the job at the Edge and when they said schools were opening. I know. Yeah, so what was it like during all those months? Awful, awful. I agree. I love my kids, but it was really, really tough.

And I feel extra bad for people who work like nine to five hours because pretty much when we got done was when the household started to wake up. So I was able to do both. But I don't know how people were working during the day. She would host a huge radio show in Toronto from her basement and then like 10 minutes later Frere Jacques.

It was insane. At least the kind of older seven, you're pretty independent. He's not though. He's not one. He's a kid that needs a ton of attention. My experience was I had the four-year-old throughout this whole thing. And it's funny because the six-year-old,

I feel like the six-year-old, like he got up today, dressed himself, made himself cereal. Like he doesn't need me anymore. But the four-year-old, like, oh my God, how dependent. Like she's so completely dependent.

It was just, and I love my kids too. just like you love your kids. But get out of the house and go back to school, please. Yeah, it just didn't seem natural for them either. I'm sure I didn't do a good job. Shauna was great. When she finally let go of homeschooling, which I think happened in March, when she finally decided to, she discovers that it doesn't count.

Their grades won't matter. Oh, yeah. And then she came, like, it was like a new woman the next day, but we had no idea what changed. Yep. She's like, found out yesterday

that the grades don't matter. Yeah, that was a big moment. My son, who was in grade 12 when the pandemic struck, he said to me, he goes, you know, they can't lower my grades. And he basically,

that was like, he was off to university the next year. Like, it just, none of it mattered. It didn't matter at that point. Once he realized nothing could change, that was it. He tapped out.

That was us for sure. When I read that, we were all in the car. I'm like, fuck it! Fuck it! Almost schooling for the boy! She had new clothes on the next day. She was liberating. Oh, that's hilarious. Chris, do you have Thanksgiving plans? Not really.

I'll have dinner with the family. Okay, do you live alone? No, I actually never got a chance to get my house in Toronto because I moved in. Thank God my aunt and uncle have a massive house around here, so I am a freeloader like I do. He is the fresh prince of Etobicoke, by the way. He needs to have a TV show about his life right now.

You don't have to get, obviously. Looking homeless, living in a mansion. You're like Kato Kaelin. He's Kato Kaelin. That's exactly what he is. Wow, yeah, totally, dude. Why not? And, like, I didn't have a chance to do anything.

I couldn't go out. And the only sports that were open at the time was golf. Now I'm real good at golf somehow. Yeah, he's pro-level golfer. No, I'm pro-level. And what part, you obviously don't have to be too specific. You don't want to dox these wonderful uncle and aunt.

But what neighborhoods are we talking? Like around here, somewhere in Etobicoke? Back on to Islington Golf Club. Oh my God, yeah, that'slington Golf Club. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's a nice neighborhood. Are you kidding me? Mailmen deliver brie every day. Just instead of flyers.

Sean and I get flyers. Doesn't Steph Curry's wife work there at the golf club or something like that? Aisha Curry? I don't know. No way. Something like that. I heard something like that. Who knows anymore?

Oh, my God. I've been there a couple times. Let's start that rumor. know something like that i heard something like that who knows who knows anymore oh my god i've been there a couple times let's start that rumor did you guys hear that chris is sleeping with steph curry's wife by the way you should listen to the edge we'll talk about it i'm gonna get knocked out by steph curry we're going viral team all right guys uh to wrap up i want to know like uh again this is a tough question to ask because of the pandemic. I feel the pandemic has paused all these things. But what is your hopes and dreams? Like, I know you just want to kick ass in the ratings and go, like, you know, 25 years. Like, what is the goal?

If you could write the way you, because so far, Jay, the way Jay writes it on the board, it seems to happen. Like, I don't know how that, like, that's kind of amazing in itself. Oh, shit. Say a bunch of stuff about money. What else have you guys all written on the board for your time at Edge? 102.1 The Edge. I think we just want that number one spot. I have one thought, number one.

I don't know what comes after that. No, because in radio, there's like, oh, we're number one. But, hey, in our targeted demo, we're number one. Like, be specific. Honestly, we can't get specific. You can get specific at your targeted demo, just not the numbers. You can't get specific You can get specific But you're targeting demo Just not the numbers You can't

Really? Honestly you can't say Other than we want to be The top show And make that station The top station again Make it culturally relevant Make it inclusive

And have everyone enjoy it Throughout the entire day I'd also like to own pants That don't have a hole in it Yeah That's up to you We all would like that. This is the small hole pants.

And we'll go across Canada. We'll become the A-Team. Yeah. E-H-Team. Eventually do the show in a train car. Freaking rides, man. Yeah, exactly. Take across the whole country.

Guys, you kicked ass. I realized I loaded up all these dream songs so I had Fleetwood Mac dreams we heard that I had Aerosmith's dream on the Cranberries dream and I'm just looking at what's on the cutting room floor here Dreamboat Annie sorry Dreamboat Annie

great jam I got Super Tramp's dreamer good times the Dream Police by Cheap Trick. Dream Police. And I decided instead of the Eurythmics, I would play Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams. It seems like more of an edge.

We'll do that here. New album's fantastic also. You should put out some new music. It's great. Will you guys return to Toronto Mic'd in the spring? Because at some point, that's the thing. I have pivoted. I'm doing this in the backyard.

Today's actually a really nice day. Yeah. It's turned into a beautiful day. At some point, it's going to start getting freezing out here, and I'm going to have to go back to Zoom, which really bores me to tears. I'll tell you this right now. If we come back in the spring, it'll be more than a year at the edge. Yeah.

Which would make us not 8 for 8. That's right. Or we'd have to pitch our show name for another station. Either way, Mike, we'll either be on the top of the Toronto radio market, or we'll be back here trying to hopefully persuade a manager,

a promo director from a different station to hire us. Anyone that listens to you, Mike. This is pretty much how it works. I want to thank Poma Pasta by the way for this lasagna. And if you could send more The Edge B-Team.

What a pleasure. You guys are two for two. Jay, you're like four for four. But I cannot be clear about this. I wish you guys so much success. You're there now. I wish you guys so much success. You're there now. You're at the mountaintop.

Morning show at 102.1 The Edge. I hope you guys kick ass and dominate in these ratings you can't talk about and I hope you guys have a long, long career at this station. Thank you very much. Until some New York station recruits you to come for the big bucks. We will die by the hands of the

Ryan Seacrest AI machine. We'll eventually kill most radio hosts in this country, but that's fine. We resigned to a fate like this. It's okay. Get Rick the Temp on your show, because I always liked that guy, Rick the Temp. Is he a robot as well? We'll bring him on. Sure, why not?

We love Rick. Nicest guy. Yeah, he's awesome. And that brings us to the end of our 730 second show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Okay, let's get all these in here. Shauna, what's your Twitter handle?

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At DJ Brody Across all platforms And most importantly Listen to The Edge Every morning 530 to 9. We have a podcast, the B-Roll podcast. Check that out as well.

But we'd love for you to join us every morning, every single day. What hours are you on live at 102.9? 530 to 9. 530 to 9. Christ, that's early. What time do you guys wake up to do this? 333. Chris gets up at 730 in the morning every day.

I'm there, just not mentally. Oh, that's funny. And Jay, what time do you wake up? What time is the alarm clock? 3.50. That's not good for you, man. I feel like you don't want too long a career at this slot. No, it's fine.

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