Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toast 1: Toronto Mike'd #986

Episode Date: January 21, 2022

In this premiere episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Stu Stone and Cam Gordon as they catch up and kick out "welcome back" jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Canna Cabana, StickerYou, Ridley Funeral Home and Patrons like you.

A little piece of toast, cause there's so much to choose from. There's brown bread, white bread, all sorts of wholemeal bread. It comes in funny packages, we're writing on the side. But it doesn't matter which one you have, cause when you cut the crust off, have it with marmalade or butter, cheese, tomatoes, beans, banana, or chocolate if it's strange, it doesn't really matter. Oh no, it all goes with toast. Just toast.

After a long and dreary five-month absence, the Pandemic Friday crew of Toronto Mike, Stu Stone, and Cam Gordon Be afraid. Be very afraid. are back. FOTMs rejoice. This is Toast.

Okay, scrape that toast, boys. This is great. Love it. Did you compensate Peter Gross for this? Lasagna, buddy. Palma pasta lasagna. Don't make me giggle. Welcome to episode 986 of Toronto Mic'd.

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Are Cam Gordon Yes! Michael And Stu Stone! Yes! Oh my god! Yes! Yes!

Yes! It's finally It's finally time! I'm sorry Is this real life? I have so many questions I don't know where to begin But I'm actually going to begin somewhere else And then we're going to get to the obvious here

A moment, if you will Little Jimmy Taylor Little James Taylor to start us off. What day is this, Cam? Do we get to take some of that sponsor home? I have more details soon, but yes, you're going to be taken care of. What's it, the 20th today? This is January 20.

There you go. We'll let James get to the chorus and then I'll tell you. The big heroin guy. You sound like you're doing the giant impression. I know. Here we are. Good night, moonlight ladies. Rock-a-bye, sweet baby James.

There you go. So my oldest son, James, is 20 years old today. Wow, 20 years old. He's huge. Right off the bat, dropping that bomb on us. He's 20. He's in Waterloo, the bat, dropping that bomb on us. He's 20. He's in Waterloo, so I actually didn't get to see him, but we had a family Zoom at 6.30.

Is he your firstborn? He's my firstborn. So that's the first time that you conceived. That's the first time I produced a child. Now, did you wait till... Was that your first experience? Was it a one and done kind of thing? It actually took many years to make James, actually.

And it worked out well. Nice boy. And he's a good boy. Handsome guy. He's a handsome motherfucker. And I just want to know, if James is listening, I hope he is,

I love that son of a gun, and I'm so proud of him. He's at university, and he's 20 fucking years old. Wow. Mazel Tov. Where did the years go, Mike? I saw those photos.

Can you turn him up? No, him up. Hold on. I'm adjusting to the masked man. He's my first masked guest. Give me a moment here. You're yellow. You're yellow. That's so appropriate. Hold on.

Whatever, Loli. So, Cam, let me hear a bit more of you. Talk to me. Happy birthday to you. You're going to wear that the whole fucking Cam, let me hear a bit more of you talk to me. You're going to wear that the whole fucking time, aren't you? It's house rules in the Gordon house. I'd rather you be outside. How can I get a long cord and you do it from the driveway? I should just dial in.

I should just dial in tonight. Can you go to the car and zoom in? Yeah. I just wonder if I move this to the side almost like. How are you going to drink that beverage if you are wearing a mask to drink that beverage? Okay, so we're all boosted. I just want a catheter. Wait, do you go to restaurants when they were allowing that and you show your vaccination and then you sit down at the table?

Do you do that? Yeah. So how is this different? To have a drink in your hand and then back. You can speak to other members of my household if you want to discuss this. All right, let's move on. Is this a good topic? Lots of ground to cover here.

I'm going to play one more clip. So much ground to cover. I'm going to say a few sincere words. I'll keep this brief, but just to echo the sentiments of a lot of people. When I look back at the early episodes and I'm literally sitting on a bed with

a toque and we're recording this and I'm like, what the fuck's happening? And I, I sort of listening to some of those clips, like a sort of reflects that. And I, I do genuinely say like what sort of a stabilizer having be able to do this with,

with two of my best pals and, and all the listeners too, has been awesome too. And a nice antidote to everyone on Twitter who's talking about the pandemic too. I do appreciate it. It's great to see everyone and we'll see, we'll see where this goes from here, but I'm glad we could do this tonight for sure.

What the hell are you guys going to do with each other? We're not by the way. There you go. Mike, you want to, it seems like you want to go first. I'll go and then I'll hit this. All right.

Well, I just want to thank everybody for being here tonight. You guys give yourselves a round of applause. The only reason why I really came was to see you guys, because how could I let Mike just take you guys away from me like this? But don't worry. Once you're FOSS, you're FOSS for life. And you can follow my exploits as I go to Kingston and Bob's Basement

or wherever we end up. We'll do it together. I did love doing this, genuinely. It was so much fun getting to be with Cam. And before we sing, Mike, when Cam and I were on your show the very first time, you posed for a photograph

that actually is your profile photo and I thought, since that was the first time Cam and I were on the show, I would give you the George the Animal Steel figure. Oh, my God! So that you could be reunited with a friend that you met the first day. And this is the song I wanted to play for everybody, because we're all friends in the end. Even if you hate me, you still love me.

And we all love Cam. And we all love Mike. And the pandemic is officially over! How funny is that? I might bring it back in a moment, but this is from TMLX8 which was in late August 2021 on the patio

of Great Lakes Brewery. Fantastic sponsors. Shout out to Great Lakes. They're still with us. They're still amazing. That's the last time I saw you, Stu. You know, it's ironic that, like, now we're coming back doing this new show, Toast, and the case numbers for COVID are higher than they ever were at any point during Pandemic Fridays.

So Mike prematurely pulled the plug. I want to remind everybody. He's the one who ended the pandemic. And boy, was he wrong about that. Cam said something prophetic in a moment here. Hold on. I think I killed Pandemic Friday because I loved Pandemic Friday. It was every week.

It was 76 weeks in a row. And I felt it needed to end. And I figured if we're going to have to end this at some point, let's give it a big public, let's give it a farewell like this, like a good solid funeral. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. And I mean, look at all these people who stuck around for three freaking hours. I know the pasta was good and the beer was good,

but this is a Friday night and everybody's still here. And I do admit there's a tinge of like, why would you kill this beautiful thing? And then I think, well, everything ends. Like at least I can control it. Do you guys think that maybe you started the pandemic? Black is still here. I love that Rod Black's still here. I think it's about time.

Maybe if you end this show, perhaps it will just, as Donald Trump said, it will burn out. It will burn out. It's going to shed. It's wonderful. It's going to shed.

The rich little... Mike's crying right now. This guy's doing Trump. I'm sorry. That was shitty. I'm kidding. What a beautiful day. So there's a remark we made here here If Charles Barkley were here saying farewell

To the pandemic Fridays, what would Charles Barkley say? Come on man Man, I'm telling you, get the hell out of here guys You guys have been boring me For the last 76 Fridays I'm telling you right now Enough's enough It's a good Barkley

I need a cheeseburger, man. Hey, Mike, are you done? It's Pandemic Friday. Wait, wait, wait, before you do that. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a second. Another pandemic has started. There's literally four words that I need to say.

Wait, wait, wait. World star. World star. Four words. The first two are thank you. And the second, everybody can say them with me if they want. One, two, three. And that!

For the final time. And that! Rod Black, you're a great FOTM. Thanks for doing this, buddy. I love you guys. I joke with you. You know what? Start another show. Start another show. I'll be on anytime. Here comes Cam. There youM. Thanks for doing this, buddy. You know what? Start another show.

Start another show. I'll be on anytime. Here comes Cam. There you go. I think it's safe to say that we're toast, right? That's a good one. I think we're fucking toast. I just looked over your fence and I saw... Okay, so I'm only being done. In a minute, something happens that's going to segue over

to something else I want to talk about. But we said it there. That was on the patio of Great Lakes Brewery in August 2021. We said goodbye to Pandemic Friday. 76 weeks in a row. Rod Black was there. Cam and I remarked that it was toast. And here's toast. Welcome back, boys. Yeah, well, we

called it. I mean, we were toast. I mean, this is not complex like what this is, what this is. This shouldn't be unexpected to anybody who's listening closely. How have you guys been doing the last five months? Let's start with you, Cam, because I got some specific questions from Mr. Stone here. But Cam, how have you been doing the last five months? Yeah, I think things are good.

I feel like in the teaser, you know, probably the highlight is I actually went on some airplanes. I was out in the West Coast doing some contemplating, some soul searching, some kayaking and mountain climbing after a lustrous run. Were you hanging with Brother Bill there in White Rock? No, I didn't quite make it down there. I was only in Vancouver for a day, but that was awesome. Yeah, otherwise pretty status quo. But everyone's well? Your kid is well?

Yeah. Your MF is doing well? Yeah, she's good. She's everyone's well? Your kid is well? Yeah. And your MF is doing well? Yeah, she's good. She's still with you? She's hanging in. You guys been rolling around? A little bit, yeah. A little frolicking?

Yeah, yeah. Good to know. A little manual stimulate. Yeah, it's all good. Shout out to MF. Okay, Stu, may I... That's it for Cam? I haven't seen Cam since...

I'm going to get comfortable Cam since that fateful day when allegedly the Blue Jays lost. But it's been a long time, guys. It's been a long time, Michael. Hello, Michael. It's been a long time. I need to know, because I have some controversial things to bring up

regarding some statements that FOTMs have made about you, Stu. Sure, let's bring it on. Let's get it going. Well, I'm listening in the background here because that's, of course, lowest of the lows, Rosie and Gray. Yes. Which closes every single episode of Toronto Mic'd.

But I remember sitting on the patio of Great Lakes that fine evening in August. What a magical fucking night that was. Can we just say what a beautiful night. My mother, Trudy, was there. And is Trudy on the live stream? She could be. Did you tell her?

I sent it to her, but I don't think she knows how to talk. No, but she knows how to watch, right? Yeah. So here's Hebsey. Hold on. I'm trying to think where it comes in. I know I'm trying to vamp a little. What are you getting at here?

Listen closely. Ah, right. There you go. So another Toronto Mike James. So I think I fade out some lowest and low here, and I just let this play. Oh, Trudy is watching. to respect them. Next thing you know, we're in the VIP section. When crew runs deep like this, you wanna brag. I'm rolling with Saget. I'm rolling with Bob. I'm rolling with Bob Saget.

Nobody does it better. I'm rolling with Bob. I'm gonna cry again, sweater. Do my sincere, sincere condolences on the passing of your friend Bob Saget. Crazy, right? It's really crazy.

Unexpected. Sad. Shocking. It's really terrible. It's terrible, terrible, terrible. But you know what? All the things that you hear about that people are saying about Bob Saget

and then some, it's all true. The guy was such a mensch. He's just such a great guy and a major loss. I mean, even if you weren't a fan of his comedy or his entertainment, you didn't have to be. I'm talking about the people that knew him that got lucky enough

to be part of his life. He treated everybody like they were so important. And for us, for me and Jamie, I mean, Bob Saget is one of the most important ingredients for this CD that you bought here.

So Mark Weisblatt left that last time he visited and he gave it to me, yes. I thought he hates me. He loves to hate you. Okay, good. I like him. Oh, this is a Canadian version. It has like a weird sticker on it. It's like the BMG Music. Yeah, so I mean,

if Bob Saget doesn't get involved in our life, this doesn't happen. This whole thing is from Bob. So circlecircle.com wasn't enough. Nothing would have happened if it wasn't for Bob. And the true sort of vast version of the story is is that Jamie and I were trying to do. I mean, listen, we could probably do another episode where we just tell these stories because it's too long.

But I met Bob. The first time I was one-on-one alone with Bob Saget was in a recording studio recording this song. And Jamie wasn't there. It was just me and Bob. And I'm trying to get Bob to rap. And it was so, I can't even tell you how, like what a night that was, right? And then the song just sat in my computer for like a year. And, because nobody gave a shit.

And then one day I was just, and then I did record Circle Circle Dot Dot, like a demo version of that. And then just one day I just randomly put it up on MySpace. Remember MySpace? Of course. I i do yeah tom tom's place yeah and it went and it became the number one song on myspace over i woke up the next day to like an explosion like it it blew the hell up you were blowing up yes and uh mtv wrote an article about this bob saget song and they credited the song to the stone movement because that was the myspace page that it was all right so jamie and i called mtv and said hey we want to pitch a show and so when we went to go pitch the show we were like yeah jamie and i were going to try to be rappers and this and that they were like yeah and we're like but bob saget's

going to be part of it and they were like oh bob saget it got interesting and then it got interesting and then we shot a pilot and in the pilot episode of blowing up that's where we link up with bob saget and he jumps on the song and we sort of recreate what happened so you but there was already like a video for that or the video came after there was video came afterwards okay we shot the video during the thing uh and Bob, obviously, he was in three, four episodes. The last shot of the whole, like the series finale, the very last frame, because no one here has watched it. I'm not spoiling it. Don't worry.

The very last frame, Jamie and I, we get the record deal. We get on our tour bus, and we get on the bus to drive off in the sunset, and Bob is already on the bus. Wow. And he's made himself at home, and the three of us go off into the sunset. It was like a viral hit before that was a thing. Yeah. Like really. For sure. Hey, can I crack open a purse? the three of us go off into the sunset. It was like a viral hit before that was a thing. Yeah. Like, really.

For sure. Hey, can I crack open a purse? In honor of Bob? Yeah, of course. And there's another gentleman I want to pay honor. Can I just finish my Bob tribute? Yeah, but I just want to crack this now, and then you finish your Bob tribute. All right.

So, just want to say cheers. Cheers to the people who are joining us for the premiere episode of Toast. And again, I'm taking a sip here. For Bob. In memory of Bob Saget, who,. And again, I'm taking a sip here. For Bob. In memory of Bob Saget, who, as you said, you called him a mensch. Everybody's calling him a mensch, and I know what that means.

That's a good fucking thing. Yes. So I'm sorry I never got to meet the man. I mean, literally, you're talking about someone who is so giving with his time. I mean, he's the type of guy that would have come on the show over and over again for 76 weeks without pay. That's the type of guy that he is. on the show over and over again for 76 weeks without pay that's the type of guy that he is and that you never got him on once well you never asked but

i will say that roll the tape he he he you know even recently as recently i was checking my phone the last time i heard from him was on december 21st he just randomly texting me i love you you know this is a great fucking guy. And it's just shocking. And when I spoke to Jamie Kennedy, obviously he was very, we're both very upset. And we want to kind of think of some way that we can honor Bob and do some sort of a tribute. Obviously, some of his more famous friends now have done stuff,

like John Mayer and the lot. But Jamie and I have a special connection with Bob that nobody else can duplicate or replicate. We're the ones that rolled with Saget. And, you know, if you ever saw him do stand-up comedy in the last 15 years, he came on and left the stage to our song. If you watch his Comedy Central roast, the whole career retrospective video was edited to that song.

Whenever he was on The view or any show that's what he would come out to so bob really loved the song he loved us and you know he sent videos for my nephew's bar mitzvah i mean this is a really menchie guy so rest in peace bob i miss you terribly and it sucks that we have to even talk about you in the past tense because man his comedy was so so, so funny. So funny. Great guy. And 65 is way too young.

Yeah, I love you, Bob. Way, way too young. Way too young. RIP, Bob. That's terrible. Tragic. You were my first thoughts, Stu. And that's crazy to me, because, you know, Bob Saget,

under, I don't know the word I'm thinking of, but you don't realize how big of a star he was unless you really think about the late 80s, early 90s. He's on Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos. Those are the two biggest shows on television. Bob is the star of both of them. For years. Yeah. For years.

Yeah. So it's like going out in public with Bob is like going out in public with The Rock or Hulk Hogan or anybody that's recognizable like that. Bob is not a little guy. He stands out. And, you know, anytime we were out in public with him, he was always so funny and did stuff with people

that came up and said hello. Just what a guy. It's like we've known about Roland with Saget for a long time here, of course. All the FOTMs know Roland with Saget. But it seems like a lot of people just discovered it when Bob passed away. I saw the TMZ.

Yeah, they also did a piece on TMZ TV a couple days ago that was a really nice five-minute long kind of piece with the video. So are you in demand right now for interviews and stuff? I mean, I don't know. Am I? What was the other one, like LA Times or LA Weekly? LA Times.

LA Times. Like he's talking through a fucking tunnel. I love it. Okay, well, fuck, it's a fucking pandemic. No, and to be included in that LA Times or LA Weekly? LA Times. LA Times. I think he's talking through a fucking tunnel. I love it. Okay, well, fuck. It's a fucking pandemic. No, and to be included in that LA Times article was insane, too. I mean, it was all like A-list comedians and comedy club owners and Stu. Okay, let's get the sadness out of the way off the top.

Love you, Bob. It's going to get a lot happier. Shout out to Decisive, who also worked on that song. Derek Kristoff. Yes. Stu, in 2002, where were you? L.A. or here? You were in L.A., right?

Yeah. Did you ever hear this song? No. Okay, we'll wait for the bit for the refrain, and then I could ask Cam if he knew this jam. It's not what you did. It's not what you didn't. refrain and then I could ask Cam if you knew this jam. Okay, so this is musician Custom, who's originally from Calgary She just likes getting her fuck on And it's a good one, I'm sure Okay, so this is musician Custom, who's originally from Calgary but lived in Manhattan.

Oh, yeah, he passed away. Custom passed away in mid-December, and it's kind of wild, and I'll go deeper into this when Mark Wiseblood visits in a couple of weeks because we do the Ridley Funeral Home Memorial segment. But it's interesting that as we speak here on January 20, I'm still the only source for the passing of this artist who I knew as a guy I'd hear on 102.1, The Edge.

So his family's not made an official statement. How did you? You looked at the Ridley Funeral Home logbook? How did you get the scoop? No, for a period of time in the early to mid-2000s, I was the official webmaster of Custom. Oh, wow. That's an interesting... Yeah, there's a few things in the Custom world that are interesting.

So I got notified by some super fans who had heard from his sister, and then I reached out to his sister, Custom's sister, confirmed everything, got more details, and it's interesting to me. I had a little conversation with a guy from the Canadianadian press but because i'm the only source for this he couldn't do anything so i gave him the email for a custom sister but here we are a month out i mean uh nobody seems to be interested in writing anything about the past i would say like not not to sidetrack this it is interesting that that doesn't qualify as a source of truth.

Oh, I know. It's not like I've ever lied before. Is that a lie? It's not like you're an obscure personality either. You have an established blog and the fact that if it was another media member, sidetrack RIP customs.

So there are what? There's 15,000, 20,000 entries at torontomic.com. And I've never reported it. I'm not out there to report a death for somebody who's going to read it and go, Hey, I'm not dead, man. Like I'm not writing about a death unless I,

you know, I'm certain the person killing Gordon Lightfoot for the eighth time or Gordon Corman or Gordon Corman. Sure. Hey, Bill Welichko went to Thorne Lee. Oh yeah. I knew that.

He's on Toronto Mike on Monday. He doesn't know us. so don't ask him. I heard Jarvis pretending that he didn't know me, but that's cool. It was a little awkward, but I thought I could save it by bringing up Jamie Kennedy there. Okay, now let's get serious here for a moment. We've recognized some of our friends who are celebrities and have passed on since we last got together. But I have received some notes from FOTMs for you, Stu. Yes.

So I'm going to read them verbatim. There's no editing from me, okay? I won't name names. Get comfy. People are saying Twitter is broken, Cam, but that's... Is that true? Is that Cam's responsibility? Okay.

I'll take a look. I notice he's eager to engage with blue check marks on Twitter, but not us common people anymore. I've lost respect for him with his behavior. We all offered so much support for his movie and Aunt Sandy. I'm going to need an Aunt Sandy update in a moment. And he dropped us like a hot potato. Why are you going to drag Aunt Sandy into this?

So, well, they're just, don't worry about that part. Let me clarify what I meant by this, Mike. No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't me. It wasn't Kim. It was not me. I'm not going to tell you who it was.

I have three different FOTMs. What, the person who wrote that asked to be anonymous? I don't, this person wrote it to me like via DM. Okay, go ahead. Finish reading it.

So, that one I've read. Okay, so I'd like to- Soak that in. Okay, sure. Do you want to address them all at the end? I'll just do one more. Yeah.

As soon as TMLX was over, he was gone and had nothing more to say. I felt we were all just convenient at a point in time. Are you fucking kidding me? That's the second one. Again, I'm just reading. I'm going to read one more.

Speaking of... Oh, no, that's something different. Maybe I didn't take a third note. That was your shopping list. That was something I want to say later about bat out of hell. Nothing to do with you. So, Stu, the sentiment I'm understanding is that you were, for 76 weeks, we got so much

First of all, let's just stop you right there at that 76 weeks part. Very what have you done for me lately attitude from these letters. The 76 weeks that I put in, I guess, mean nothing. And the 76 weeks of coming here and doing this and being a part of this, I guess all of that means nothing either, right? No, that's not true. No, Stu. I think they're wondering, well, how come there was such an absence of Stu in the FOTM community? First of all, Mike, I don't know whether to shoot or work here.

Well, be real. Be real. Let's hear some Stu. Bit of both. I mean, the honest to God's truth is that Mike, first of all, there was a little bit of resentment about ending Pandemic Fridays. Be honest. I want you to be honest.

I didn't want to end it. You said you were exhausted. I was exhausted. I went camping. Yeah, I went camping. I take responsibility for the death of Pandemic Fridays. Let's be honest. I'm going to just be the person that's honest right now. Just be fucking real, Stu.

Jesus. Within not even 24 hours of Mike making the decision to cancel Pandemic Fridays, Mike had hit up Cam and I about coming back and doing... Slid into our DMs. He slid into our DMs and was like, he regrets the decision. Pandemic Fridays, Mike had hit up Cam and I about coming back and doing... Slid into our DMs. He slid into our DMs and was like, he regrets the decision. We're going to do a new show and it's not going to be Pandemic Fridays. Get a logo.

As long as I can respond to this when you're finished. And we're going to do a new show and it's going to launch in October. And quote unquote, maybe you should lay low, Stu, quote unquote, so that we'll surprise everybody when we come back with this new show. Right? Is that DJ Lethal? No. We're going to surprise everybody with this show, and then you'll come back and we'll be surprised.

In October, we're going to do it. Then October comes. The show's not happening. Then I'm going to Winnipeg, and I'm like, Mike, what should I do? We'll get to that soon. We got questions about Winnipeg. He's like, okay, let's save it for December. We'll come back in December.

Lay low, Stu. And then when you come back. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stuart, Cam says no. 80% accurate. I didn't say it at that point. I have the receipts to show where I said to you, hey, what do you want?

What should I be doing here? Screen cap that shit. I'll show it to you. And so that was the whole by design. So I'm the puppet master. Some wrestling shit. I'm the guy. Stu, hide out.

Then you'll come back. It'll be a big surprise. Now, as obviously then pandemic goes wild again. Might we push this thing till January? And Mike has a whole new plan. And here we are in January. If I went that that long i may as well just go the whole distance and make the big appearance here where we're coming back so people know how to i don't hate anybody i didn't neglect anybody i was watching from afar i was hearing what's going on mike was letting you know to the ground

my ear was to the ground i responded to tweets i don't know what they're talking about, that blue checkmark bullshit. I saw that Corporal Kirshner passed away. He sent a very nice tweet about that. Exactly. So I don't. Blue checkmark. I want to say that. Yeah.

It's a two-way street, FOTMs that wrote those letters. I want to give a shout out to Cambrio. You want to know why? Cambrio reached out to me all the time and checked on me, asked me how I'm doing. Did you have to block him like Cam did? No, I didn't have to. Hey, how i'm doing because it's a two-way street so if people really wanted to know what was up they could have just hit me up like he did and he hit me up often and i responded to him and i told him i'm doing good i'm doing that this and that i said i'll be back soon enough you know what i mean so may i respond briefly quickly just a bit it's never things you said this plan backfired

and it and it because October became January right November December January

so here here's what you're right very soon thereafter so I wrote an apology by these FOTMs that wrote in

and all the other FOSs FOSSs out there you guys are still cool okay Stu hold on hold on so comment section

is blowing up if i may if i may blowing up that's the name of this stew stone jamie kennedy album you should find it wherever you get your used cds okay so uh just let me address this so you're right very soon after pandemic friday was dead i wanted to resurrect it but it was there was a very important detail here two very important details one was i didn't want the name to have anything to do with the pandemic because i was sick of the fucking pandemic still am by the way so we had to have a new name and then i came up with toast and we all call it toast secondly is this is very very very important stewart key detail come in i did not want to do a weekly show because it was killing me to go weekly every single week we'd wrap and i'd start prepping yeah so i wanted it to become a monthly show

and that's what we have now the third thursday of every month we're gonna do an episode of toast yes i love that i got time to prep and it's perfect right so those are two key details i couldn't pandemic friday was a weekly show for the pandemic and i wanted a new name and i wanted it to be less frequent okay yes we thought it was going to be october i remember this so that's like that was like five weeks past tmlx8 so i was thinking like you're big on the kayfabe do i have the right term yes and i was thinking for five weeks lay low and then wow you you jump out of the fucking bushes my fault cam decided to come back and he broke kayfabe oh p, PPMM. Yeah, that's a different brand.

Very different animal. Not as funny. I had an interesting opportunity. Not as funny. Right, Cam? No. We don't laugh on fucking PPMM, do we? No.

No laughter allowed. It's like a fire hose of just fun facts. And sometimes it's not so fun. I feel like that was a working name, like fun facts. Was it not? I would have sued you if you did that. So PPMM is nothing like- I don't even know what that is. So don't even talk if you did that. So, PPMM is nothing like... I don't even know what that is,

so don't even talk to me about that. It doesn't involve you, so it's not relevant. I'm talking about Cam's interactions in chats and on Twitter and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, I know, and we had Bentway beers. I never went away. You did. Cam didn't go away. For like a week and a half. Well, that's what I'm saying. He couldn't stay away.

We didn't notice Cam was gone because he was always on Toronto Mike or at a Bentway beer or something like that. That's fair. Okay, so you went to Winnipeg. And I also called you several times, Mike, and we spoke on the phone. Yeah, but I didn't write those comments.

Those are not my comments. I love you. I met you at the door. But you can vouch for the fact that I did not, and I even said to you, what should I do here? People are starting to get mad at me here. I did say that to you, didn't I? Let's see your phone, Bill. Hold on, Mike. Did I say said to you, what should I do here? People are starting to get mad at me here. I did say that to you,

didn't I? Let's see your phone, Bill. Hold on. Did I say that to you? Yes or no? Did I call you and say, what should I do here? These people are starting to get mad at me. I did say that. I don't remember that detail. I don't remember that detail. Can I ask you this, Stu? If I told you... If I told you to leave this

recording studio and go jump in the fucking lake, would you do that? Be accountable for your actions, Stu. Oh, stop it. That's a bad, bad analogy. Terrible analogy. Okay.

So do you want me to take the response? I will. I might have advised early that Stu lay low when Toast was going to be an October premiere. But I did not reiterate that fact,

I don't think, subsequently. You never un-reiterated it? fact, I don't think, subsequently. You never un-reiterated it. Well, I didn't. I thought that it was like inferred. So where did you go that we couldn't do this in October? You went to Winnipeg.

Yeah. I was in Winnipeg. Should I turn my head and see if there were any interesting comments going on? How long were you in Winnipeg for? Six and a half weeks. Wow. It was cold.

Yeah. It was like this outside right now was a warm weeks. Wow. It was cold. Yeah. It was like this outside right now was a warm day. Right. And you were there from what, mid-October?

End of October till the first week of December. Yeah. It's wild there. It was like, I spent some time there in November.

Before we ask the big question and it's what every FOTM wants us to ask and I know Cam and I are very passionate and before I ask it though, do you have,

like, are you have, like, are you telling the FOTMs who feel that way that this was a work? I'm telling the FOTMs that like, this was not me dissing them. You were intentionally not engaging. This was a way to try to make this a surprise. Okay. So it might've backfired because it went on too long.

This is not, and this is not the WWE. Like these are, it is the WWE. This just went on too long. is not and this is not the wwe like these are no it is the w this just went on human beings who felt like they just missed you to make the heart go grow fonder not angrier before i ask the big bandits is this good content do people actually care they do okay before we get to the bandits content how is ann sandy doing most important she's she's okay she's uh she's okay but it's not easy for. You know, she's in a long-term care place. Are you allowed to see her?

No. And she's locked in there. She can't even leave her room. It's been three weeks that she can't even leave her room. And this is the second or third time that she's gone through this sort of thing. So she's hanging in there. But she's not getting stronger staying in bed all day, that's for sure. And it's not good.

But I speak to her every day I go there and drop stuff off for her as much as I can and I'm dying to get her out of there because I'd love to visit her and be with her so hopefully things get under control with what's going on right now and people like Cam are helping

absolutely yeah absolutely I think we're opening things up I'm doing the right thing January 31st. Thank you, Cam. Shit's fucked. It really is. But again, we're all boosted in this room. And it's not just Antoinette.

It's anybody who's living in one of these types of places. I feel terrible for all of them, especially the ones whose families actually care about them and want to visit them. Well, a lot of the FOTMs at Live, and again, we might not have addressed this off the top, but this is live at live.torontomic.com. Ian's service has spent many hours enhancing the experience at live.torontomike.com and i want to

give a very big thank you to the wonderful ian service for his uh service pun intended there attaboy tim attaboy clarence timmy boy uh and so it's a great experience there and there's a whole whack of people there right now and a lot of people are wishing Aunt Sandy well. Thank you. And I want to say to those people that were disappointed in my absence, as somebody who has abandonment issues himself, if you've seen the great film, Jack of All Trades, available on the Toronto Public Library, according to my buddy 1236.

There you go. You know, I wasn't going to leave you guys. We were trying to do something special for you guys, and that's what this is supposed to be. So hopefully we'll get the love back or the forgiveness. You know, I didn't cheat on you guys and join up. I didn't go do the Basement Bob Kingston show. I didn't start another show like Cam and Mike did.

I didn't do it. You should be mad at those two guys. In a way, Cam, he's a great show. They're the ones that did it to me. Not at the expense of us. Well, they didn't invite me to be a part of it, that's for sure. You'd be out of place. Forget it.

You guys enjoy that disaster of a show. Ratings are off the charts, but go ahead. That New Wave episode was awesome. They're literally off the charts. They're not on the charts. Blue Peter retweeted me. I will say, though, that there's nothing but respect. And for them to throw in my face the promotion they did for my movies.

You know what? Don't promote my movies. No, fuck that. Bandits is coming soon. I don't make you do anything. You do that on your own. I ask. What does David Kine say?

But I don't force you to do anything here. You promote those movies because you love them, I hope. Not because you're doing me a solid. No. Can I speak on behalf of most effort? We fucking love you, Stu. I hope so. And I'm so happy you to do anything here. You promote those movies because you love them, I hope. Not because you're doing me a solid. No, can I speak on behalf of most effort? We fucking love you, Stu. I hope so. And I'm so happy you're here right now. So I apologize that I made people feel that way.

Let's get past this. Yes. What the fuck happened in Winnipeg? Can I get some number ones? If you accept the apology and we're ready to move on in this chat room, press the number one. Okay. I want to see that we're ready to move past this.

There's a 10-second delay. And when Twitter is working again, to see that we're ready to move past this. There's a 10 second delay. When Twitter is working again, you can tweet out that you love... Let me look at this again. So VP of Sales forgives you. VP of Sales, Gord and me, we're boys. YYZ Gord, who we had Bentway beers with, right Kev?

She's not interested yet. That's fine. Oh, she's in. Good. I like her. You know what? She's a key cog in the FOTM wheel. Canada Ke fine. Oh, she's in. Leave me. God says one. Good. I like her. You know what? She's a key cog in the FOTM wheel as well. Canada Kev, we're cool, buddy. Canada Kev says no need to apologize. Okay, so it looks like we're cool, and now it's all been explained, and Moose Grumpy will come around.

We're not sure. She's.5. That's halfway there. That's fine. Living on a prayer. Halfway there. Living on a prayer. But yeah, listen.

Oh, there's a fire emoji. I never abandoned you guys and I love you guys and I'm back and we're back. That's the main thing. We're back. Did you know that there's emojis

at live.trundle.com? I see it. By the way, I brought some gifts for you guys. Okay, great. I got gifts for you too. Double D, what's up? I gotta find out

what the fuck happened with that van in Winnipeg. Thank you. This is a Twitter... Some sticky notes. Thank you so much. Did these work? Those work. Okay, I've... Fuck you. This is a Twitter. Some sticky notes. Thank you so much. Sticker you. Do these work?

Those work. Fuck you. Those will never go down. Cam, I think you're the man who needs to carry around a measuring tape. Oh, great. That's courtesy of Ridley Funeral Home. They're giving measuring tapes? Measuring tapes.

But you know what, Stu? That's such a unique trinket. You know, when you're outside and you're making your way, you need to have some flashlight to make sure you don't trip and fall on ice, et cetera. That's courtesy

of Ridley Funeral Home as well. Wow. Look at that. Who was it who kept the flashlight in her purse? One of your guests. This is great. Is that Dana Levinson?

Thanks. Is this from Brad? No, this is Tish Eyston. Tish Eyston, yeah. But she kept the measuring tape in her purse. So thank you to Brad and the good people at Ridley Funeral.

I have more. This is so cool. I have, and you're not leaving here today without a large meat lasagna. So tell Trudy. Is Trudy right now? Can I just, Trudy? Yes.

Trudy, it was a pleasure to meet you at TMLX8. Yes. You have a wonderful son, and I absolutely love the fact that we're back, baby. And I hope you join us third Thursday of every single month, live.torontomike.com. Trudy, you raised a good man.

Yes, thank you. And he's bringing home lasagna for you. And she recently turned 70 last week. Muzzle tough. Thank you. Muzzle tough. Can't believe it. There's a great reveal video on the internet.

Yes. That was very fun. Yes. Enjoy that. And thank you to stickeru.com. I'll have some more good news to share about the new sponsor in a minute but can you please tell us for the record stew uh what happened with your van in winnipeg when you went to shoot the film bandits which

we'll be talking a lot about uh sooner just to be clear is this a worker shoot shoot just be fucking real with me i'm always real with you assholes. Now he is. Okay. Tell us what happened. Like, this is a true story because I saw it in the press, but nobody was confirming with police. Like, was your van really stolen? What do you mean?

Do you think that the news would do stories with us if they didn't confirm with the police? Like, CBC News would just cover it because we said something happened? Sam, what do you say? You're the PR guy. CBC News would just- I'm not a journalist. I'm a PR person. 17 different news outlets would just report on something that we just made up?

Is that what you're saying? Is that how good of liars we are? Cam, is that what you're saying? You'd have to ask a journalist. I don't know what they do for back. Why don't you ask MF? Don't you know a journalist? Text MF.

So don't they do some checking before they post a story? Many do. So your van was really stolen? Of course it was. I know. I believe you. I'm just talking for the FFL. If I wanted to do some sort of publicity stunt, why would I get rid of the gear that I need to make the movie?

I shot that movie with, like, no gear. Well, that's what I want to know. How did you finish it on time? It was impossible, but we did it. And we had lots of complications. And it was not an easy shoot. And it was not easy to light because we didn't have all the lights that we had. Did you get a loaner from William White?

We got whatever we could from whatever we could. But the problem is there's other movies shooting. Big bar in steel. There's other movies shooting in town. The gear's all out. We had our gear package. And it was gone. So this was stuff you had rented locally.

Yes. And stuff that the production company owned as well. Okay. Did the insurance cover it? Like, I just want to know, are you out of pocket? Yeah, we're out of pocket big time. But you and Adam. The movie went over budget as a result of it.

Yes. What does FOTM David Kynes have to say about all this? I mean, I spoke to him today, and he was kind of laughing about it. And he's been really cool about it, to be honest with you. If he gives you trouble, let me know. He won't. We're very close. of laughing about it and he's been really cool about it to be honest with you trouble let me know because we're very close first of all david kines is a big supporter of five seven films and

clearly he is a definitely a cool guy and he gets it and the fact that adam and i made lemonade out of it he loved that and he should love that because that's really cool and it made a lot of headlines like a lot of people talk about the irony that a film about stealing would have their van stolen. Exactly. And it wasn't lost on us either. And so we ran with it, obviously, as you saw, if you saw the various articles that came out. Good coverage. And by the way, funny that Cam is pretending not to know stuff about media.

I'm just saying, I don't know. He's the one that suggested that I reach out to people. The real talk. Holy fuck. The real talk is spilling on toes. He's the one that told me that I should reach out to the media and get the word out. I just gave you a little snapshot

of media in Winnipeg. Who some people are. I didn't reach out to anybody. You did it yourself. So wait, let me get this straight. I said you got the Winnipeg free press. CTV's got an outlet. I'm responsible for the kayfabe of you shutting down for five months. Cam's responsible for this

kayfabe of your van. I didn't offer commentary on this. I just said, here's the media in Winnipeg. Did we ever recover the van? The van and the gear. Some of the gear was recovered. The van was found, but it Some of the gear was recovered. Wow. And the van was found but it was after

the filming was over. Okay. And the gear that was found the police impounded it for whatever investigation they were doing and we never got it back. Here's the crazy part, okay?

Yeah. Three different people contacted us in the production saying we have your stuff. If you want it send $3,000 to us and we'll tell you where the you want it, send $3,000 to us

and we'll tell you where the car is. Or send $5,000 to us and we'll tell you where the car is. So that's extortion. Yes. So the police brought in the RCMP. Sorry, this is by email. Phone calls. Phone calls to the production office and emails.

Did they disguise their voice like Cam's doing today? So anyway, so the RCMP got involved, Mike. And they set up sort of like a sting to catch the guys that stole the truck. Oh, yeah. And it turned out that

all three of the people that called were all fake. Oh, my God. And all of them got arrested. Was Andrew Ward one of them? No, but people who saw our bad news on the news were trying to catch a break. They were like, hey, we know where your van is. I'd say that's not surprising. That's like

the least shocking part of this. That happened. Was Rod Black one of them? No. If it was Rod Black, he would have been doing like some Rich Little type stuff. But yeah, so the van, I don't know if they got it back fully. I left Winnipeg. No, but it fucked you pretty good. Oh my God, did it ever.

So when does Bandits come out? Well, I have to edit it, so we've got a long way to go. How was the talent? I forget if you announced the talent. Yeah, the talent was incredible. The talent was incredible. I had some sources on this too, but do you want to name drop some of the big names that are showing up? Sure, big, big names.

Well, who do you know about? I don't want to say because I don't know what's public or not. Everything's public. Jan Arden. Jan Arden. Let's talk about Jan Arden. Jan Arden was fantastic. Jan Arden was in the movie.

Yes, she's in the movie. Wow. She was in our movie. She's so funny. Did you tell her to do Toronto Mike? I didn't tell her to do Toronto Mike because I was on hiatus. Oh, that's true. And she was so funny.

And right now we're in the process of trying to actually license one of her songs to be in the movie. Insensitive? Yes, that would be the one. Big fucking jam. Trying to get that. Not cheap. But she's so funny. And she plays a character.

You know, it's funny. The way that Bob Saget did Rolling with Saget with us. And most people thought of Bob a certain way and then saw the video and then perceived him a completely different way. It's very much that. I've actually seen her show. It's not bad.

Yeah. I hear her on CBC Radio a lot, and she's very funny. She works very blue in our film. Oh, like a Bob Saget style. Yes. But she was really, really great. Big on Twitter. A lot of don't eat animals. Yeah, like a Bob Staggastown. Yeah. Yes. But she was really, really great. Big on Twitter.

A lot of, like, don't eat animals. Yeah, she's very much... Yeah, she's never in the Burger King. Don't eat horses. Burger King drive-thru. She's very cool, though. Very giving. Good friend of Rick Mercer's, actually. She had a great time. Okay. And who else? Rob Wells, Ricky from

Chalapag Boys, who is now going to be doing more 5-7 Films projects with us. Wow, can you get Mike Smith from the Sandbox? Well, we've got Ricky. I think he was cancelled, wasn't he? AKA, Rob is so funny. He's hilarious. He could still be a fucking bandit, so

he'd be a cancelled. Is Kevin Spacey in that movie? And Rico Colantoni, if you know who that is, from Flashpoint. He's on a bunch of big shows. Oh, he's on Just Shoot Me, that NBC sitcom all those years. Yeah, with David Spade. Yeah, so he's hilarious. He was so funny.

Tony Napo returning to the film. If you've seen Faking a Murder, the man who plays David Stoner. Wow. He's back again for another round. Well, let us keep us abreast. Speak of heels. Hey, so Stu, I was thinking of you when I was speaking with the good people at Canna Cabana. Because Canna Cabana was created by... We should hook up Colt Cabana with them.

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Well done, Mike. Good sponsor. Are you indulging these days? Well, I have, and I have to get the details. I have a meeting next week for the details, but Stu, you're being hooked up. Oh, yeah? Now, I can't confirm

whether it's... I think there might be a rule about product, but it's definitely going to be accessories and more. Can't they go under the table? Well, we're going to talk about this. Are you getting stuff for Morgan and Jarvis? Can't you slip something at a certain age to enjoy? Can't you slip something on the side?

Juice box or something? Did you know we kick out jams on Toast? So this show, Toast, is... What's the format? It's Pandemic Friday with a new name and less frequent. All the same gimmicks, though. The only change is instead of us bringing four jams each, we bring three jams each.

Because there's going to be a bit more time to banter off the top. Yeah, because there's going to be like three weeks in between visits. So there's going to be lots to catch up on. Lots of people to discuss. Again, I like this cadence, the monthly visit. I know you do that with 1236 and other guests. It feels like we never left. In some ways.

It's just like we're just back in the saddle. Some ways. And really, I was worried this might be a Zoom. like we never left in some ways it's just like we're just back in the saddle some ways and really i was worried this might be a zoom and i was ready to end toast the way i ended pandemic friday i'm like fuck it i'm exhausted this is over but the fact that we're all together means a lot to me so i just want to say i'm glad you guys uh are healthy i'm glad you're boosted and you both look fantastic thank you so do you make and i want to say about, you know, I haven't had COVID and I'm happy about that.

But I'm also going to say that if I did have it, I didn't even know I had it. Right, you were asymptomatic. So I like to consider myself sort of the Barry Bonds of COVID, meaning I've never popped on a test. The clear of the cream a test. The clear

of the cream. Okay. The premise for this week's jam kicking, and again, there'll be more banter between the jams, et cetera, but we wanted to do, I call them welcome back jams. Do you think that's an appropriate title? Yeah, I think like coming back, returning, coming home,

all the gimmicks. At least for my first jam, I'm just going to... I don't want to fucking talk about Matt. Come on. Okay. Yeah, there's better topics. Well, are you ready for your first welcome back jam? I am.

I'm so ready that multiple hosts actually picked this jam. Right. We'll get into that. Let's listen to a bit and then we'll share some fun facts. Did not hit the post. I'm rusty. It'll get into that. Let's listen to a bit and then we'll share some fun facts. Did not hit the post. I'm rusty. It's been a while. Five fucking months. I know. Yeah, I know. I told him. You picked it.

We're back, baby. We're back, baby. To Rod Black. Yes. Rod Black. Yes. Rod back. What a jam. I actually saw there was conversations about like the first CD you bought I saw going on. So you're lurking. You're just not engaging.

Will you start engaging now? Yes, of course. I've been waiting to. I've been waiting for this moment. But this was in that batch. The first batch of CDs I bought was this CD, and Nina Cherry was one of them. Okay, yeah.

Raw like sushi. I feel like Tone Loke was in there. Like all the hits of 89. Yeah, for sure. Which means I had a CD player pretty early. So we're giving this jam, even though you both picked this jam, officially this is Cam Gordon's jam. Cam, tell us why you chose Soul to Souls back to life.

Yeah, so Soul to Souls back to life. Mike, you may recall, I thought we had chosen this on a Pandemic Fridays, which you said we are allowed repeats. To let the listenership know. So we had a rule on Pandemic Fridays that once you use this song, it was burnt like you couldn't, burnt like toast. You couldn't use it again.

We're wiping the slate clean, so shout out to VP of Sales who keeps a meticulous track of these jams we kick out. But everything's on the table for toast, but once you use it, once you play it in toast as one of your three jams, it's gone for the rest of toast. Well, Mike, we did actually hear

Soul to Soul on the, I think this was the penultimate episode of Pandemic Fridays. This was episode 75 of that brand, Beast of the Reest. What a great fucking name. Yeah, we actually heard Keep on Movin', the other big jam from

soul to soul similar kind of swing 100 yeah this was actually a grooves right it's still grooves yeah a real timeless song this was actually a number one hit in the uk in the summer of 1989 shout out to but they're from the uk right soul to soul yeah yeah kind of a collective from the uk uh number one this went to number four in the US. Number 11 in Canada and top five in a bunch of countries, including Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, a bunch of other places. Now, the female vocalist you hear,

someone named Karen Wheeler. Do you know who this is? Yes. Kate Wheeler's cousin. She wishes. I feel like who this is? Yes. Kate Wheeler's cousin. She wishes. I feel like she's from another group. Oh, you're thinking of Strike It Up? Yeah, Black Box.

Well, I don't even know if she's known, but she did sing on a lot of famous songs, including Every Day I Write the Book by Elvis Costello. Wow. Yeah, and she also sang back up on Erasure, Chains of Love. Okay, these are big jams. These are big jams.

She's the lead singer here? Cam, can I say something? I said this to Stu earlier. I'm going to say it to you now. Fuckin' love you, man. Honestly, I'm looking at you now. I'm just thinking. It feels right. Like Stu said, we're right back in the saddle here. And if we do a PPM every month, I get two doses of cam a month.

Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't be allowed to promote other shows with you guys on it while we're doing this show. That should just be a rule. Here's one more Elvis Costello fun fact. Who else is on that show with you? Brother Bill. He's cool. You guys are so awesome.

We took a very funny Stu Stone and replaced him with a very serious Brother Bill. Yeah. That must have gone really well. If people want to laugh, they want toast. If they want serious deep dives. Well, what was the analogy I used? Like, PPM is like rapid fax.

This is like much on demand. Is it a similar thing? You guys play music and give fax? No, we don't. Well, we don't play music live. Like, I add some music in post, but there's no music on the recording. We just talk about music.

You guys just yammering? We just yak about music. Yeah, we pick's no music on the recording. You guys are yammering? We just yak about music. Yeah, we pick a topic. We dove deep into New Wave. He's still not listening. No, he's not listening. Why aren't you? PPMM is pretty good. Sounds awful. Can I give one more fun fact about Elvis Costello?

He's not going to care about this, but you might. Elvis Costello? What are you talking about? His name is Declan McManus. He's my second favorite Elvis. There you go. What about Elvis Duico? Yeah. Number one. Okay, good man. Okay, the song Shipbuilding.

You know that song? It's like a ballad. Sing it for me. No. He's got to see. The thing about Elvis, my thing about Elvis, I like a lot of Elvis.

I'm just going to hate this one. If I may. Elvis Costello has too much stuff. Did you meet him at a shopper's drug mart? There's too much stuff. It's a lot of stuff. He's prolific. He releases like,

he's like the old Beatles, like two albums a fucking year or whatever. What's his band called? The Attractions. He's prolific so there's just too much stuff. Do you know who played trumpet on the song Shipbuilding? Think of famous trumpet players. Someone from like Mighty Mighty Boston?

No, Chet Baker played on that. Chet Lemon I know. One more final notes. and this is just like a stream of consciousness. Collective Soul to Soul Soul Asylum. Is that a new gimmick? That is just a note, you know, apropos nothing. I'm going to put my mask back on

and let's get to another jam here. Is there an Esri Geography Corner? Mike Grogowski from Esri. He got COVID. The whole family got it. I thought he was also working with Ryan Imgrund. I've been told by another FO team that he's a sociopath.

Let's move on. Let's move on. Oh, is it me? I go second? Oh, is it me? I go second? We'll switch it for the next round. Right, I forgot.

You close. Guess who's back, back again Shady's back, to a friend Guess who's back, guess who's back Guess who's back, guess who's back Guess who's back, guess who's back Guess who's back Well, I think that we all know this song. Right? Welcome back, Conor Jam. Guess who's back, back again.

Big Jam. And he's doing the Super Bowl halftime show. Without me. The Canadian pronunciation without me. Eminem. Right. Interesting. This is from his fourth album

if I would have had to make a million dollar bet on that I would not have said his fourth album I would have guessed second or third album okay

the first one was the My Name Is right that's the My Name Is that's the best one I would have guessed this I would have guessed this is the second one

yeah I would say the second yeah so we all would have lost what was it the real Slim Shady that was like his lead single yeah that's right that's right and That's right.

And then there's the Marshall Mathers LP or whatever. And then this is from the Eminem show. Can you do the verse from Rap God? Are you able to do that, Stu? But these were all within like five years. This is from 2002. Wow. So I wouldn't guess that.

But this song, it went all the way to number two. Not a number one song. That's another thing I would have lost. What blocked him? I would have lost a million bucks on that. If I had to guess, was this a number one song? I would have, without even thinking about it, I would have said yes. Monster Head.

Maybe something like Empire State of Mind or something blocked it or something. Because in that post 9-11 fervor, it was tough to beat the Alicia Keys. Interestingly enough, for people who are into pop culture of the time, Eminem used to make headlines when he included people into his songs back then. In this particular song, he talks about Dick Cheney. He talks about Chris Kirkpatrick of NSYNC. Limp Bizkit. This is some dated. Moby.

Prince. And Elvis Presley. They're all sort of name dropped in this song by Eminem. And he's going to be playing at the Super Bowl halftime show. And obviously, there's a lot of people that rank Eminem very high up on their list of all-time greatest. He's not my number one, but I definitely like him and love him and blah, blah, blah.

But I think that, you know, this is probably the last Eminem song era that I probably was really paying attention to. I think that it's amazing that he's still going and releasing music, but I don't think that he's ever recaptured my attention. Okay. Like eight mile was after this. I feel like just right after this. It was.

It was after this eight mile, which has lose yourself on it. Yeah. Which is a big fucking jam. But what about that jam with Rihanna? Yes. Yeah. I did that.

I was already. You were off the bus. That was a piece of shit. I wasn't off the bus, but I just was like, it wasn't the same thing anymore. Yeah. It was like, it was so different.

So you're long gone by rap god. Yeah. I still think he's the man. Remember he did that cypher? Does this sound like, I'm just going to like bury my fucking ass. No, I'm serious. I don't understand. Anyway.

But yeah. So who's playing the Super Bowl? It's like him, Kendrick, Dr. Dre. Oh, I just saw the championship teaser. Yeah, those guys. mary j blige is in there wow that's gonna be great and uh snoop dogg's there love it it's big where's the newer league oh no it's in la of course the pontiac silver dome i think evan m is great and his body of work is incredible and his first album for sure is like a classic and if i it go you could

put it up against any other album of that era, especially hip-hop, and it's just as good, if not better, in a lot of ways. What year was the first album? It's got to be 98 or 97, 98. Because I saw him open for Limp Bizkit in 2000 and he was coming off the second album that just dropped. Like when that Hi My Name Is Slim Shady

that song came out. 98 maybe? That was like such a different thing remember? It was just like what is this? I thought it was a joke when I first saw it. Also that song reeked of one hit wonderdom. Like when that song was big I said okay this guy's a one hit wonder and it turned out we were fucking

wrong. Yeah but when you heard the rest of his album it was just like what is this? It was so different and fresh and new and but they're no third base. I think he's better than that. Is that Pop Goes the Weasel? Yeah. But I prefer the Brooklyn Queens. Shout out to MC

Search though. Member of the tribe. MC Search, of course. Member of the tribe. Yeah, and he had a big radio host in New York, right? Yeah. He's got a radio show there. Wisebot likes him. So here, I accidentally went last, but I'm not supposed to go last. So I will, after this round, I'm going to go second and Stu will go last because you

want to have your Joey Batts' batting cleanup here. So here is my first Welcome Back Jam. Huh? Welcome Back Jam huh Welcome Back Jam yeah I guess the opening line we got there and that's it and fade

that's enough okay now you talk about a song that was awesome when this came out this was like my favorite song for like so long like I knew every word to this song. And I would like wear the bucket hat and like box like a boxing bag in my room. This was like a total like let's fight song. What a gem.

Great video. So this of course is, and I think it's appropriate too because my son James turns 20 today. And as you guys know, ladies love Cool James. There you go. So it all makes sense now. So LL Cool J, this is the fourth single from his fourth album. Probably his biggest song. Also called Mama Said Knock You Out.

Yeah, you know what? I would say it is his biggest song. Sorry, this was the fourth single from that album. Because I think I remember. I can remember he had that six minutes of pleasure. What was it called? That's a good song. Yeah, he had some other jams.

And he was a rapper who liked to have a few love jams in the mix too. I need love. That's right. So the reason he starts this off, don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years, is because at this time in his career, people felt like LL, like he was done. Like his career was waning and his grandmother, so LL Cool J's grandmother, believed in her grandson and told him to knock out all his critics.

But he would have been like 20 here. Because he was like really, really young when he showed up. I'm bad and stuff. Yeah, like by radio and shit. But he's a bit older than that at this point. But this did hit number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. I would have thought this was like a number one song also. I learned this with You Can't Touch This.

They didn't measure the charts based on the sound scan thing, whereas once you scan the barcode at the record store, it automatically went into some database. It was sort of like record stores had to report sales, and this genre, hip-hop and rap, was always notoriously underreported. So a lot of hip-hop jams got fucked on the charts until they introduced them.

I feel like they changed that in 92. You're telling me LL Cool J's biggest song ever was only number 17? I'm just the reporter here. Then this can't be his biggest song. I would say, what's his band like, Doin' It? Like some of those slow jams. Not as iconic as this. A lot of great samples too.

You got some funky drummer in there and you got Sly and the Family Stone. Shout out to Stu Stone. Their trip to your heart is on there. He even samples his own shit. You hear some Rock the Bells in there, which of course, that's from the debut album, Radio.

Because you know I can't live without my radio. He seems like someone who's probably in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's had quite the run. Like real longevity. He was in the Kennedy Honors. But you know, it's funny because the shelf life,

you're talking about maybe 1985, 86 is radio and all those songs, right? I was in primary school. This is from 1991? This song? It's not even five years later. It's not even five years later. It's like 1990 and it's like not even four or five years later.

And it's like, that's his shelf life had already exceeded that fast. I guess grandma's given it like grandma's saying, you know, knock them out grandson. And this is what he wrote. Dude, this seems like someone you would have encountered in your Hollywood.

Did you ever like probably met him, but not like, uh, not like we didn't go for like a matzo ball soup or anything, but I've definitely been would have encountered in your Hollywood. Did you ever, like, cross-cross? I probably met him, but not like we didn't go for, like, a matzo ball soup or anything. But I've definitely been in the same place as him. But I'll tell you, I remember he also had, like, his own sort of Kirkland version of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air show. Oh, right. It was like an LL Cool J sitcom.

WB or something. Or the UPN network. Yeah. I remember those. The WB. Remember Cannabis? Is that like cannabis? Cannabis Distance. Sure. Can I bus? Yeah. See, yeah of those. Can't remember cannabis? Is that like cannabis?

Yeah, sure. Can I bus? Yeah. See, yeah. Yeah. There you go. But faintly. Shout out to Canna Cabana.

Canna Cabana, my friend. We're going to get something on the back wall so you remember. But Canna Cabana. Two N's in Canna. CannaCabana.com. Yeah, Bonneville. There's one on Parliament. There's one on Yonge Street. There's one at Keele.

Shout out to George Clinton. All over the city. Did you know Mississauga won't let you open a... I don't know Mississauga. Just Mr. Saga. Apparently, you can't open a cannabis shop in Mississauga. Really? This is a municipal bylaw.

Like going forward? Like they don't have any? Yeah, like Bonnie Crombie. Is that her name? Bonnie Crombie, sure. Officer Crombie? Said no to the cannabis store. I guess every municipality can choose for themselves. Who's that? David Crombie. Officer Crombie? Said no to the cannabis store. I guess every municipality can choose for themselves.

Who's that? David Crombie. David Crombie was the mayor of Toronto. Crombie, Stills, Nash & Young. Okay. So now we're going to get the right order here. Hold on. I just want to get this out there.

Crombie, Stills, Nash & Young. There you go. Cam fucking Gordon, are you ready for your second welcome back? Can I do a little intro on this? Oh my god, yes. Mike, you and I were talking by DM every show, because I kind of did this with the other one. Is it weird if I have a tickle in my throat? Apparently Oakville has the same rule as Mississauga.

I feel like Mike got a cat. It smells like kitty litter down here. There's no cat in this house. I feel a little tickle in my throat. Is that normal? It takes a little longer for COVID to set in. This is like an N95. You smell kitty litter down here? Yeah. Anyway, let's...

Honestly, I've been here eight years. No cat has entered this home. Maybe it's Stu. Anyway. Check Stu's sweater. Smell his sweater. Let's just hit the jam. Stu's sweater smells like Otto. I get that reference. Okay. I want to see if Stu remembers

this jam. This song is, and I'm going to let it brew here, but it is lost to history. Totally. We'll get to that. I love it. Great jam. Wise Blood had the casingle for this song. Really?

Really? Why can't you think it over? Why can't you get by the last? This is a silent Heartbeats a second chance I gotta download this song. I'll put it down there You don't want my hot take on this song until it's time. I'll let Cam celebrate this jam.

Sam, what are we listening to? So the name of the show is Sam Crenshaw. Sam Crenshaw. You know, the fucker's playing solitaire. He's a security guard. He's playing solitaire at the opening of that show. It was a different time. Coffee the Mouse, by the way, will be heard on episode 1000 of Toronto Mike.

And all FOTMs are invited to be a part of episode 1000, which is coming soon. So record yourself talking about Toronto Mike for 30 to 90 seconds and email that audio file to mike at torontomike.com, and you will be alongside such luminaries as Jerry Howarth and

Jack Armstrong. Huge. J&J. Now, they're going to have a second chance to be on the Toronto Mike podcast. And who would have thought that's the name of the song? Stu, do you know who the artist is here? Is this our 77th appearance on the show? That's got to be a record. Well, there's more because we did like two episodes before the brand.

And also you did your little side projects. But Wiseblood is coming up quick. So he's probably disappointed we brought back Toast. That's what it is. We're uncatchable. Guys, 38 Special. Is that who's there? This is a 70s out.

Can I say this? I would never guess that. 38 Special. Sounds like Chicago. Or Don Henley or something. Same era. Same era. Aren't they like more of a country

country sound or do I think of a different band we're gonna get to that in a second now just before we do do you guys know

what a 38 special is it's a gun okay is that generally known I never knew what that was I would have guessed a gun as well

yeah like some kind of cartridge designed by Smith and Wesson Wesson Wesson not to be confused with Smith and Wesson the rap groupon? Wesson. Not to be confused with Smith and Wesson, the rap group. Quick, quick, quick, quick poll.

Have anyone here ever held an actual gun in their hand? I've been to a shooting range in Las Vegas. Did you shoot living things or targets? I've never shot a living thing, no. I shot at a clay pigeon once. Oh, clay pigeon, not a real pigeon. But I've never, I've never, never shot at a living thing

glorified version of a pellet gun feels so manly glorified version of a pellet gun glorified version of a pellet gun cause the drummer at the time

loved God in fact I got to that's okay man cause I love God anyway getting back, I got two. That's okay, man, because I love God. Anyway, getting back to 38 Special, this song went to number two. Cam shot the sheriff, but he did not shoot the deputy. Shout out to Bob Marley, and I'm not that fucker

who ruined it. Clapton? Yeah. Although I like Layla, but I like the piano. I'm going to try that again. This song went to number two. He's so fucking sensitive. He's not like this on PPMM. No, he's not. I wouldn't know, though, because I don't listen to that trash show.

Wow. Shout out to Brother Bill. Okay, well, you know it wasn't trash, this song, because this went to number two in Canada. You're telling me that this song charted the same place as Eminem's We Will Meet. In 1989, the same summer that Soul to Soul only went to number 11.

Really? I thought it was earlier than that. Yeah. It's not a good song. I don't think it's good. You think so? Yeah. I think it's weak sauce.

No, this is good. Well, do you know who was in 38 Special? It was Donnie Van Zandt. Oh, from Leonard Skinner? No, Van Zandt. Younger brother of Ronnie Van Zandt. Who's from Leonard Skinner. Yeah, so they were Van Zandt who's from Leonard Skinner yeah so they were

another Jackson I may have to like burn through these fun facts they were another Jacksonville band along with here's the Ezri Geography Corner

Limp Bizkit ZZ Top Limp Bizkit's in there so you got the Allman Brothers Limp Bizkit Leonard Skinner Creed

they're from Jacksonville yeah I would have not guessed that no but you Limp Bizkit. Yellow Card. I never... It's garbage.

Pat Boone. Speak of emo. He covered some great rock songs. In a metal mood. In a metal mood, that's right. And then a litany of great 90s rap bands. You got 95 South. Okay, yeah, they did...

Woot? Yeah, they did Woot. There it is. Woot, there it is. Woot, there it is. We talked about that. That's the No Frills. You got the 69 Boys. I don't know the 69. Wow, that's the same group as the other one.

Yeah, and then you got the Quad City DJs. All four of those groups. Come on, ride that train. All three of those groups are the same. But I always thought those were Miami-based songs. Are you sure your information is correct? All from Jacksonville. That's bizarre.

Is this the Esri Geography Corner? That was the Esri Geography Corner. Now, interestingly, this was a massive. Gotta get a bike horn down here, Mike. This was a massive hit, right? Massive hit. Yeah. 38 Special somehow managed to get dropped from their record label.

What was their hit in the 70s? Their biggest hit was, because yeah, they were like a second tier southern rock band, Hold On Loosely. Hold On Loosely. Yeah yeah and another song called caught up in you caught up in you i just made that up that's not the real and they've sort of been in the wild for most of the 80s uh probably most notable song before this was a song called back to paradise which is the theme song of revenge of the nerds to. Nerds in Paradise. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Blah, blah, blah. Apparently it was in the movie Teachers with Nick Nolte as well. Oh, okay. Anyway, like one of those bands, but like what do we know about 38 Special? Like not much. Whatever you just told us.

I would call it like truck stop rock, right? Where'd that come from? Somebody asked for a bike horn. I did. I only had a bike bell. I wanted you to go, ha ha. Or we need like a truck sound or something. Oh, I have a truck sound, but I also have this.

That's like... Nope, that ain't it. And Stu has left the fucking building. Alright, enough of these silly things. This isn't the morning fucking zoo here. Welcome to. Let's work this through. And by the way, speaking of the morning.

What happened with Kingston? It looks like they found some other guy. Can we just set, can we be straight up here? You never really applied for that gig. I did too. That was a work. That wasn't a work. I was on a DM thread with Bob Willett and Stu Stone.

I asked him. Talk about salaries and everything. everything. But you didn't take it to the next step. Well, because I asked him about doing a show there. I said I would only be able to do that if I could make a show out of it. Can I make a TV show about me relocating my life to do this thing and shoot there? And he,

the conversation never expanded past that. I'm not going to blame him for that. He needed somebody that could come down there without caveats. This was going to be like an internet show or something? No, like I would do like a sitcom about like a workplace comedy. Like Mr. D? Like shoot it like Faking a Murder style. Or like The Office, like WKRP.

But I thought it would be very interesting if I was actually hosting the morning show, but I could also shoot scenes that aren't real and combine it with real and fake. He said no to that? He didn't say no. He didn't jump on it, put it that way. But I don't blame him. But they're risk're risk averse at chorus like all these big there's a lot of puns like you could king stone like well listen it doesn't mean it can't happen in the future because you know i'm from what i hear monica's not happy uh you mean mike's wife though yes to be clear yes

shout out to monica uh but uh yeah no i love uh i love love the fact that they did find somebody finally and I hope it's going really well it's obviously going to be a different experience than something I would have brought to the table but I'll tell you what the listeners of Toast they're the ones who are going to get treated to this kind of version of you're the beneficiary

the crunch of this new brand if there was a Toronto station, however, without having to relocate my life, that would be an interesting topic. Oh. You know? Even if it was a sports talk station, I would be concerned.

10-10 CFRB. Yeah. You know anyone? I'm surprised 590 didn't just hand you the keys and say, Stu, you're the new morning guy. They should have. I know. They really should have.

You and Blake Murphy, who's also an FOTM. Okay. So now we're going to switch up the orders. I'll go and then Stu will close. Here is my second Welcome Back Jam. Okay. All right. Hey.

Hi. My name is And you are Are you wearing black? Navy blue Navy blue Navy blue This goes out to Rob Black Remember

Eric Bischoff When he first came into WWE before they made their own sort of generic copy of this song for his theme song? The first night he came out, they did use this song. Really? Yes. I thought they never used real songs. They did that night.

So, okay. I'm going to catch you up. There's lots of activity at live.torontomic.com. So, if you're listening to this in the podcast, consider joining us 8 p.m. third Thursday of the month at live.torontomike.com. But 1236 is in the chat.

And he says that Stu can do all the shifts he wants on Saga 960 or 105.9 the region. You can smoke weed there. You just can't buy it there. But you can go to canofkevin.com. We got like Kevin You can smoke weed there. You just can't buy it there. But you can go to Canada.com. Remind us, who's there? So we got like Kevin Frankish and Romer.

Do they have reach? Sunil Joshi. I like Sunil. Do you hear, can you hear that here? Like in Toronto, can you pick up that station? Or you have to be in Mississauga? Maybe Etobicoke. Maybe.

It's close. But the reach is not that. But they can stream. Like Trudy can stream it online. But one more interesting comment from somebody whose name I don't

recognize which I like it says Saga960 is stealing the wifi from the restaurant next door whoa

so I will say I do talk to Mike Richards often who's at Saga960 and yeah that sounds that sounds Oprah in there

tonight Oprah in there I saw those guys get paid that's a big no so it's like a passion project is Bob McCowan is his podcast O'Brien there tonight. O'Brien was on earlier. I saw those guys get paid. That's a big no. So it's like a passion project. Is Bob McCowan, is his podcast still on there? No, he's at SiriusXM.

Okay, so he's not doing that simulcast anymore. He fled the coop there. I want to say much love to Moose Grumpy, who's back with us. Oh, Cambrio is online. Canada Kev is here as well. Some big names there. I need to put on my glasses, I think, to read the other names here. Unless you can go in and give some fun facts about Back in Black.

I can't see past this fucking mask. I do have my glasses, which I might have to stick on here. Oh, yeah, Richard Surrett is at the station. Oh, wow. That's from Quebec Irish Boy, who's here of David Drolet. They came to TML. Yeah, those guys are awesome. They are fucking awesome. Love those guys. You know, love those Quebecers. The fabulous Rougeau brothers.

Four-Eyed Mike. Thanks, Canada Cam. Now I'm not going to put on my glasses because you call me Four-Eyed Mike. Back in Black is of course by ACDC. Shout out to my buddy Elvis. That's an Australian rock band. Last time there was a pandemic in Toronto, ACDC was played. Oh, Sarasvest. Of course. Stole the show from

the Rolling Stones. Okay, so this is the lead single from their seventh album, which was called Back in Black. And of course, it's got that killer riff we all know and love. And it was written as a tribute to their former singer, Bon Scott, who died not too long before that.

He died in February 1980. And this song went all the way to number 37 in 19... That's it? Yeah, it's one of those songs that sort of... I can't believe these massive hits. I would lose. If we had like a, yes, is this song a number one song podcast

where you bring jams that people have to guess are number one songs or not? I would have guessed that song a number one song podcast where you bring jams that people have to guess are number one songs or not? I would have guessed that song was number one. I feel like a lot of those Q107 staples weren't big hits in the traditional sense. Like fucking Babbo O'Reilly and all the Zeppelin songs. This song has gained momentum

through the years. Someone in the chat room just wrote the best band where the original lead singer died. Okay, let's talk about that. That might be true. I can think of another band that's... The only other good one, but he didn't die. Dan Halen did well without... I can think of a great one. Wait, okay, stop.

Somebody, a band who did well after their lead singer dies. Yep. But Alice in Chains. No. But they didn't have big success. They had one minor hit. I can think of a band.

I don't know. He's got one, so give me a moment. I've got a good one. Okay, he's got a good one. He's got a good one. Fuck, what does got a good one. He's got a good one. Fuck, what does Stu have brewing there? Let me think quickly here. I've got a real good one.

Who died? Lead singer died. He's got a good one. Can you give us a clue? What era? Well, they were big in the 70s, and then they came back in a major way in the 80s. I was going to say Journey,

but Steve Perry's not dead. And they didn't have any hits after Steve Perry. They don't have any hits. No, it's karaoke. It's karaoke, right? That guy's Filipino, by Steve Perry's not dead. And they didn't have any hits after Steve Perry. Like, there were no hits. No, it's karaoke. It's karaoke, right. That guy's Filipino, by the way. Is that the guy's name? Karaoke?

I have to shout out all the Filipinos. Okay, that's like my obligation here. The answer is Chicago. So who died? Who died? Their lead singer died, and then Peter Cetera became the lead singer. Okay, I'll accept that. Yeah, of course you will.

The guy that sings through Saturday in the park. He's not alive. And you're the inspiration is Peter Cetera. Yeah, of course you will. The guy that sings through Saturday in the park, he's not alive. And you're the inspiration is Peter Cetera. Yeah, Chicago was huge. Okay, that's a good one. Thank you. But ACDC is bigger than that, maybe. Of course, but I just said I could think of another one. I have a mind blow, and it's not a big mind blow,

but can I play a little mind blow here? Someone said Boston singer died too, and of course Paul McCartney died in 65. Is this Billy Squire? I do hear a little sample there. Stroke, stroke, stroke. Oh, back in black. Is this like Blue Jays are back?

Better than that. Fight, fight, fight, fight me, boys. We don't regret. There's nothing wrong with the TV show. Better than that Is this the Beastie Boys? Beastie Boys Yeah So They did not seek permission To use

Back in Black For this song This song is called Rock Hard So then they decided In 19 They did not seek permission to use Back in Black for this song. This song is called Rock Hard. So then they decided in 19... This is from 1984. They were going to put it on a compilation in 99. Because they just issued it as a single in 84. And then they went to get permission from ACDC.

And ACDC said, No way, Jose! And would not let the Beastie Boys sample back in black. So... This is barely even a sample. This is kind of just wrapping over the riff. Well, Malcolm Young has a good quote.

Okay, so here's the Malcolm Young quote. He said, nothing against you guys, but we just don't endorse sampling. I'll work on my impression of Malcolm Young. Keep it simple. Are they still around? Because the one guy died.

There's a lot of guys died. So the guy had dementia. One of the brothers. I should know more about ACDC. I want to say hi to Andy. It's perfect timing for Andy because my next song is dedicated to Andy and Jokeroo is here

and yeah lots of good people showing up I love it this is what I missed actually to be honest can I be honest I didn't miss you guys as much as I missed the whole community we didn't really have it without Pandemic what about the DM thread that's pretty good but if you go away for you know

let's say two hours you're fucked because it gets pretty busy. This is true. And Captain Phil left. Oh, shit. Why? I don't know. I should ask him why he left. Okay.

So let's go back to the great Stu Stone. Yeah. Stu Stone, you want to set up your final jam? I think Andy came here at a perfect time because this next group that's going to be played for Welcome Back Jams is affiliated with one of Andy's favorite jams groups. Yeah.

I didn't know it started with the words. I thought you were going to hit the post. I didn't hit the post there. Kickstand in the morning, everybody. Back to the dance cam. Good morning, everybody. Backstreet's back. Here we go.

To the dance cam. How's everybody doing on a Thursday night? Andy Pandy announced. Hey, hey, hey. Bathroom break time for a lot of the episode. Is she big, Backstreet Boys? She's a big new kid on the block. So I don't know if that means she was she big, Backstreet Boys? She's a big new kid on the block, so I don't know if that means she was too old for Backstreet Boys.

Yeah. Because you know. All right, so there's confusion in the chat because MF arrived, and there's wonder whether that's the real MF or not. It's got to be the real one. It could be an imposter. If it's the real MF, then she needs to press one. We know that the real MF loves this song. Yeah. So if it's really you,

MF, give us something about Cam that no one else would ever know and then we'll know it's really you. She says it's really her. Oh, wow. And MF can maybe Vouch now that she's in the chat That journalists with integrity

That work for major outlets such as CBC Do fact checking before they report Stories about major theft Yes or no Seriously I don't think they do go to the cops And confirm that the van was stolen They definitely do or else anybody could call and say anything I think that's what happens now.

No, not to a news outlet, maybe to a tabloid. It's not like Woodward and Bernstein are working at the Global Chorus, whatever. He was actually just on the Press Box podcast, Bernstein. All right, guys, this is called Everybody Backstreet's Back. Can you turn me up a little bit, Mike? You? Yeah. Or the song?

No, me. You're pretty high. Hello, yes. Maybe it's just my headphones volume. You want me to turn that up? Yeah. Alright. Everybody, Backstreet's Back to the Song by American Boy Band. Backstreet Boys!

Interesting stuff. We love it when there are songs that the record label or people didn't want to put out or didn't believe in. Sure. We love those stories that come back to bite them in the tussies, don't want to put out or didn't believe in sure we love those stories that come back to bite them in the tussles don't we love it this is one of those stories gentlemen and mike's putting on his glasses uh this was the first single from their debut album in the united states called everybody back streets back and the record label did not want it to be the lead single because it was the first album in the United

States so why would they be saying Backstreet Back? Right. Because they were like big in Canada. They were big in Quebec. This is a band that blew up. David Drolet in Quebec Irish Boy big fucking fans. No doubt. No doubt we're good too. They were big too.

This is so interesting because I wasn't a I wasn't a huge Backstreet Boys fan or anything like that at this point, but I can recognize the massiveness and a formula that clearly worked when we were younger with the New Kids on the Block and even in generations prior with the Jackson 5 and Monkeys and Menudo

and all the different boy bands that we played. But yeah, this was big, guys, for them. And Backstreet Boys obviously blew up in Canada first. And then because the Canadian markets were playing it, U.S. border towns started playing it. And then it started sort of spreading like a pandemic. Like a virus, like a pandemic. The song wasn't even added to the U.S. album

until after the first million units had already been produced. So in a Billy Ripken error card kind of way, you can buy a Backstreet Boys album that doesn't have this song on it. Now what number on the chart did Backstreet Boys, everybody Backstreet's back get to on the Billboard Hot 100? Number two.

I say didn't chart. Of course it charted. Come on. I don't know. Number four. Wow. Not number one. Here's some last little tidbits just to get out of the way. The music video. Monica just entered the fucking chat. Oh, wow. She said,

I heard Backstreet Boys talk. I had to jump in here. She'll love this story. She jumped in for the Backstreet Boys. Andy Pandy says because they toured with New Kids on the Block, she's a big fan. This is how we get the ladies. You got to know your audience. Now, here's says because they toured with new kids in the block she's a big fan this is how we get the ladies more of action you gotta know your audience

now here's something really interesting that music video was directed by a guy who became a huge music video director named Joseph Kahn you've heard of him

I'm sure all those Taylor Swift videos what not Killer Kahn he got offered this video he didn't even KAHN

he didn't even want to do the video it was pitched to him as a white Jodeci or Jodakai as Cam calls them. And he was unaware who they were, and he was shocked when he saw their sales figures in Europe

and was like, all right, I'll do it. He used the treatment for the Backstreet Boys video was something that was originally crafted for an Ice Cube video, and Ice Cube didn't use it. It was like a horror thing. Yes, and so he puts the Backstreet Boys in it. You know what Ice Cube saw? You don't know.

The record label was not interested in putting up the money for the video that was required, so the Backstreet Boys bet on themselves and put in a million dollars of their own money. Self-financed. And guess what happened, guys? It was a big hit. The video was a huge smash,

and it won a bunch of awards, and it also, the great Max Martin, we could do a whole deep dive on him. But this is a Max Martin jam. And there you go. Did you know I played slow pitch with a member of the Backstreet Boys? I did not know that.

I've actually had some encounters with several Backstreet Boys. You always have to one-up me, Stu. I've never played softball with them. I played slow pitch. I never played slow pitch. With Nick Carter. Okay, I think we knew that.

Okay, because there's that. Did you know that Dan Gallagher liked my sprinkler? Yeah. That's all I got. Big story. Cam got like a shipment from... Cam saw Elvis Doico returning... No, returning a high five.

He was returning a VCR. A forehead high five VCR to Towers, right? Big one. Future Shaw. Future Shaw. I always want to say to the Towers. Just blow the lid. All right. I love it to say to the Towers. Blow the lid. All right.

I love it. Thank you for that. You really upped the... Can you name all the Backstreet Boys? Yeah. Can I try? Yes.

Nick Carter. Yes. Howie. Howie. Yep. I can name the new kids on the block, but I can't name

the Backstreet Boys. Kevin. Kevin. He's the one who's like a Trumper, right? Kevin? No. Brian. That's Brian. Brian Littrell trumper, right? No, that's Brian.

Brian Littrell. And AJ. What about Lance Bass? Oh, it's NSYNC. For some reason, I know every single member of New Kids on the Block. Who are struggles? Jonathan is the homosexual

man who dated Tiffany. No, Alyssa Milano. No, Tiffany. And Alyssa Milano. And Tiffany. I don't know about this. Maybe Alyssa Milano and Tiffany.

But Jonathan's brother is Jordan. Yes. He's like the lead. Yes. Then there's the young curly haired guy, good singer. Give me a second. Joey McIntyre. Joey McIntyre.

Then there's this like wood. Danny Wood. Danny Wood. He's like a muscly guy. Danny Wood. Then there's Marky Mark's brother, Don donnie walberg he makes hamburgers now is he married to jenny mccarthy yes anti-vaxxer jenny mccarthy and he's also on some on a tv show uh blue bloods are one of those kind of shows sure uh okay somebody's proud andy's proud of me for naming all the new kids in the block. Okay. Yeah. Uh, cam Gordon, this is your final jam.

Yeah. Please, uh, let me know if you want to set it up or do you want me to just rip it? Um, I'll just say we're going to probably spend more time talking about the song writer than the, the,

the song singer of this one. This has an interesting backstory, Mike. I know, you know, the whole backstory. So, well,

that's why it's off the top. I might've mentioned battered of hell because I was kind of, Oh, this is a Jim Stein whole backstory. Off the top, I might have mentioned Batted of Hell because I was kind of... Oh, is this a Jim Steinman song? There's a bit of that and I'm just going to play with my Ridley Funeral Home. What are you measuring over there, Cam? I'm measuring the casket of the songwriter of this because he just passed away.

Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. This is a welcome back song? He'll explain himself. Yeah. Because it does say coming back. Oh, it's all coming back to me now. Right. It's like March of the Pigs.

Shout out to Celine Gian. Ian Service actually just DM'd me the registered email address of MF in there. And I can confirm it is actually the real MF. Oh my God, I'm so honored because MF has been an elusive I love MF.

I do too. She reached out to me when Bob Saget passed away. She's the best. She offered her condolences. She's all class. She's all class. Classy lady.

She's very fun. She's no Monica but she's alright. Is this like the video? There were nights when the wind was so cold That my body froze in bed if I just listened to it I can picture myself slow dancing with MF to this song. Get in line, buddy. Or Liz.

Oh, okay. Say that. That you needed like the needle scratch. That's episode two, but I will set it up later. Oh, God. Okay, Mike, why don't we bring this down a little bit? It's all coming back to me now. You know, the pandemic Fridays.

It's all coming back to how we do this. The virus, all the things. This, of course, Celine Dion. This was the number one hit in Canada. I was a little surprised. Don't be surprised. It's a monster fucking jam. This was the only number you played, this was the only number one you played? That's right, yeah.

I love that. There you go. This was huge. I just didn't think it was the number one hit, though. I didn't either. I'm not surprised. We only heard Celine Dion once on Pandemic Fridays. That was on the Canadian covers of non-Canadian songs.

Do you remember what song that was? Probably, If I Were Your Lady. Oh, I Drove All Night. I Drove All Night. You Are My Man. Not I Am Your Lady and You Are My Man. Yeah. Whenever You Reach For Me.

God, there's a bunch of like PPM. She still owns the... Schwartz's Deli. Schwartz's Deli. And Nichols. Oh yeah, Nichols. I thought she... Actually, I think she divested the Nichols stuff.

Anyway, this song written by Jim Steinman recently passed away. God, there's a whole... The whole backstory about how this was written for Meatloaf was supposed to be on Bad Out of Hell 3 or 2, but he passed. Or no, it was supposed to be on Bad Out of Hell 2.

He passed or he got mad or something and then it eventually did show be on Bad Out of Hell 2. He passed or he got mad or something. And then it eventually did show up on Bad Out of Hell 3. Well, slow your fucking roll because I literally... It's really confusing. I was shocked when you picked this jam because I just wrote on TorontoMic.com about Ellen Foley. Do you know that name? Yes. So Ellen Foley is the vocalist in Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

Correct. So she does that with Meatloaf. She's also in a band called Pandora's Box. Okay. Pandora's Box is the first act ever to record Jim Steinman's It's All Coming Back to Me Now. Okay.

And she's married to like an athlete or someone famous? She was in Night Court. I know that has nothing to do with what you said. I was going to say she was married to Chuck Finley. Who am I? I'm thinking of Tawny Katane. She's passed away, Tawny Katane. She also, speak of dead people. Anyway, this song. And she was in

David Cloverdale. What's his name? Coverdale. Oh, right. White Snake. Yeah, all the White Snake videos. Right. This song was influenced by the book Wuthering Heights. Not to be confused with the Kate Bush song. I was forced to read it in one of my English classes, Wuthering Heights. Okay.

Heathcliff. Here's a little quiz. Stu's doing some reading, so Michael, direct this to you. We've lost you. Where's that car sound effect? Who said this about this song? Okay, I'm ready. The greatest love song ever written.

This will be the record of the millennium. Who said this about this song? And it wasn't Jim Simon. It wasn't Celine Dion. Wise lot. Did this individual ever produce an album for Pursuit of Happiness? No. Glenn Bowden.

Chris Wardman? Brian Adams. No. I don't want to work. I want to bang on the drums all day. Here's a clue. It was Andrew want to work. I want to bang on the drums all day. Here's a clue. It's Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is very operatic, as all the Jim Steinman stuff is. It's all very Broadway. Totally. Yeah.

Anyway. Okay. I love it. Google if you want. Just drop this. What have you dropped over there? Come on. Oh, Doug Bernstein is the husband of Ellen Foley.

Do we know Doug Bernstein? I don't know who that is. The video for this, you remember the video looked a lot like... I would do anything for love, but I won't do that. Yeah. By Meatloaf.

So it was actually directed by a guy we've talked about on past Pandemic Fries, Nigel Dick. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe one more time amongst other things. But he's not a thing to do with Max Martin, right?

Well, no. He's more like a video advertising guy. And then years later, 2018, this appeared in a commercial for Applebee's. You probably didn't know. Once I did eat at Applebee's in Heartland, Mississauga.

I don't think it was ever in Canada. I feel, okay, Monica, let me know if I'm right. I think there was an Applebee's in like Heartland, Mississauga? I don't think there was ever in Canada. I feel, okay, Monica, let me know if I'm right. I think there was an Applebee's in that, what's that called, Mavis? Yeah, Mavis in the Heartland area of Mississauga. I feel like Monica and I went to an Applebee's. Monica, let me know. Okay, last but not least,

most recently this version appeared in a 2020 promotional montage for the National Football League. So who would have thought the NFL, Celine Dion, Jim Steinman. But they never go away. How can they come back? Nothing stops the NFL. Maybe this is the greatest love song of the new millennium. It's still popping up. Well, shout out to Ellen Foley. And she didn't sing

this song in Pandora's box. But I just love the fact that Ellen Foley was the character in Night Court that was replaced by Marky Post's character, Christine Sullivan. Marky Post is dead, you're right. So everybody's dead. And Harry Anderson is dead. Shout out to

what's his name? Bull Shannon. Richard Maul. I hope he's still with us. Marsha Warfield? Yeah, I hope she's still with us. She's kicking some ass. Okay, we lost fucking Stu. No, I just was getting reminiscent. I saw this. I haven't looked at the liner notes of this.

The thank yous are hysterical in here. I mean, I thank Joe Carter. Well, tell people what you're reading because most people hear this as a podcast. I'm reading the liner notes of the Blowing Up album, which Mike has here. Just photographs that I forgot existed like that gem. Well, you look at that.

YYZ reports. Look at the abs, by the way. There's still an Applebee's. You have abs? Is that Photoshop? No. Holy shit. Let me see. It's got like the V formation. What happened? Actually, I did see you naked, right?

I was just like a young, handsome guy. Storm, and you came down here in your underwear or whatever. But YYZ... Gambino's thank you in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. YYZ says there's still an Applebee's in Ajax. I just want to let you know. At LaFontaine.

Yeah, Corey Snyder. You guys ready for my final, no, is it, where are we at now? Is it, yeah, my final return jam. Oh, Cam, do you want to do your bonus jam? We have a bit of time. Oh, you want a bonus jam? No, let's save it. Are you sure?

I want to do a deep dive. Okay, so let me just say this since we're saving things before I play my last jam. I've pulled clips of Liz, F-O-T-M Liz at TMLX8 addressing you, Stu. And this was after...

As opposed to undressing me. After TMLX8, most comments I received from people were oh my god, I can't believe what Liz said. Now remember, Trudy is like five feet away at this point when Liz gets on the mic and starts tearing you down. I pulled the clips.

So next pandemic, sorry, what is this called? Next toast, which will be February's toast, third Thursday of February, we're going to play those clips. And Stu, we need your like, you need to remember your real, how you felt in the moment and how you felt subsequent. Because there's a Pulitzer Prize winning photo of you and Liz

still discussing the matter at the park we all went to after Channel XH. Shout out to the Quebec boys. Yeah. They saved me. Okay. Save this. So everybody. You're going to need a trigger warning on that.

Like, it's intense. Come back, everyone, for Toast 2, everybody you're gonna need a trigger warning on that like it's intense come back everyone for toast too because stew's going to address the liz controversy from tmlx8 and this is my return jam Oh, yeah. A little Mark Morrison. Okay. I like that little piano part at the beginning. It's classy. I actually didn't,

I've never heard the piano version like this. Yeah, I've never heard this. It'll come to you in a minute. Yeah. Well, I gotta let you know. And I'm here to stop the show. And I gotta let you know. Mike never lies.

Hey. This guy's a one-hit wonder, right? Indeed. Go cool, Jay. Go cool, Jay. Hey. Hey This guy's a one-hit wonder, right? Indeed Go Cool J, go Cool J Hey That's right, y'all The album cut Soggy in the morning, Stu Stone

And we're here with Toronto Mike and Cam And we're listening to Mark Morrison, Return of the Mack And don't forget the return of the McRib At your local McDonald's. Don't forget to drive through. Limited time only. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. What a fucking jam. We're back, baby.

We're back. Pandemic Fridays are back. Toast. The premiere. This, of course, is British. I wouldn't guess that. Whoa. I heard him.

You know, I watched these opening ceremonies. And when the games were in London in 2012, I remember Mark Morrison performing this. And I remember saying, oh, fuck, he's British. So he's British from the UK. That's a huge gig for a one hit wonder like yeah what 15 years who's the dynamite guy teo cruz oh teo cruz yeah he was in that opening ceremony too and i was like fuck he's british too you never know that's another song that's like falling off their

dynamite break break your heart remember that that a good jam. Don't go breaking my heart. Right. Even if you try. We hear that. Okay. So this song actually went to number one in the UK. And then it went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Can you believe this song was originally released in the UK back in 1996? Doesn't it sound a little fresher than that? I just

have a lot of memories of being at pub nights at McMaster University where this was like a banger on the dance floor. So that seems right to me. It is fucking right. I can picture Cam dancing on the dance floor to this song. Totally. Tearing it up.

Many times. Him and Mark Fuller. He was there. He'd come visit sometimes. You're right. So my next, I guess I already, did I mention this off the top? How's the chat room feel about Mark Morrison? Hey, Cambrio just wants to point out he's British.

Oh, okay. Habeas Kirkus. Habeas Kirkus. I hope I'm saying that name right.'s all latin to me but he's saying that it's a true one hit wonder it's true like there are some one hit wonders where you're like well actually they had another hit like another top 40 hit but this is a bonafide mark morrison is a bonafide one hit wonder what's the second biggest song do we know that okay let us know in the chat the second biggest song i don don't think there is one. Of Mark Morrison.

When I think of One-Hit Wonders, one of the great examples to me is Lost Lobos because... No. Yeah, here's why. What is Hebsey? Hebsey won't like that. Is Hebsey a big Lost Lobos, Mark? His theme's on this song here. That's the opening theme to Hebsey on Sports. We're live tomorrow at 9. That's so funny. I didn't know it was a Lost Lobos song, though. That's Lost Lobos. That's the opening theme

to Hebsey on Sports. We're live tomorrow at 9. That's so funny. I didn't know it was a Los Lobos song, though. That's Los Lobos. It's called Do the Murray. Do the Murray, welcome.

Hebsey in the morning. Take your time. Okay, so where am I going with this? We've got a great show lined up for you. The Vancouver Canucks have lost another game. Okay.

The Kingston Frontenacs, are they still around? Okay, so the Lost Lobos had a number one jam. La Bamba. No other top 100 songs. So there's nothing else. But that wasn't even their song. Of course not, but it's still their credited number one song.

Do they have an original song? They have lots of original songs, but none that hit the charts. Can you think of a... Okay, here's a good sub... I mean, maybe it's a topic for another episode of this show. But... Let's do a quiz.

How about bands that had huge success doing soundtracks for movies? Like, Los Lobos did this Las Bamba soundtrack and it put them on the map. Okay.

I want to give a shout-out to a documentary that I watched two nights ago and I'm not ashamed to admit it. And if you've made it this long into the podcast or this episode of Toast. Called Faces of Death. Then I'm happy to share this information with you.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I even cried watching this movie. Oh. But the Bee Gees, the Bee Gees doc. I watched it. It was good. Amazing. But the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, they did that. Maybe Whitney Houston, the Bodyguard soundtrack.

She did the whole soundtrack for the most part. 38 Special on Revenge of Nerds. Iggy Pop on Adventures in Babysitting. Train Spotting. Train Spotting, too. Of course, that brought back. What do you sing for Adventures in Babysitting? Real Wild Child?

But I'm talking about people who did like the whole, more than one song on the soundtrack. I know. Bill Medley. Patrick Swayze. Yeah, Patrick Swayze is the soundtrack. Yeah. I know. Bill Medley. I think we just covered them all. Yeah. Patrick Swayze is a wonderful one. Jack Wagner.

Oh, yeah. From Mellows Place. General Hospital. All I Need. Yeah, both. That's a good one. Okay, so it's important, guys. Got to have a mind blow here.

So you're hearing in the background Return of the Mac. Yeah. Mark Morrison. Okay, so. I would have guessed this is a number one song the sample that that's billed on top of amy man someone said maybe that's a genius well done cameron yeah amy man's a great example Because that Magnolia soundtrack Well, I gotta let you know And I gotta let you know

Yes, I did And I'm about to know That I'm here to rock the show Yeah, I hear it This, of course, is Tom Tom Club This is also Mariah Carey I was going to say That was right around the same time

Like fantasy Oh, there's another mind blow coming up This is also Mariah Carey. That was right around the same time, like fantasy. Oh, there's another Mind Blow coming up. We'll wait until Tom Tom Club gets to it, and then I'll bring in some Mariah. What are you going to do when you get out of jail? Can you do the ODB? Me and Mariah go together like a baby and pass a fire. Okay, so Tom Tom Club, Genius of Love,

which is a great fucking jam, really. What happened? Oh, this is it. Me and Mariah. Isn't it real, son? That's right. Rest in peace, ODB. Me and Mariah Isn't it real, son? That's right Rest in peace ODB Me and Mariah

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Me and Mariah Me and Mariah Me and Mariah Me and Mariah Me old dirty bastard. Stop the fucking... I can call her right now. Confirm that. Sorry, your mom was... How is that possible? Because he lived next door to me

when I moved to LA. I thought Warren G did. He also did too. He did too. But my mom actually had a friendship with him. Friendship?

What does that mean they like hooked up this is a whole can of cabana product any can of cabana product okay that's a mind blow no that's a

this is why we need to keep Stu Stone in the fold you don't know when he's gonna drop one of those fucking nuggets let me see if I can get my mom to answer the phone

yeah if Trudy fucking had a relationship of old dirty bastard. There you go. But you know, when you listen to the Tom Tom Club Genius of Love and then you listen to this,

it's like, what the fuck? What the, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we'll be able to get her on the phone to confirm this, but we'll try.

Hello? Hello, sorry to wake you up. Hi. Hello? Can you hear me? I'm watching the show. Oh, you're watching the show. Well, real quick, when I first moved to L.A., who were some of your friends that were my

neighbors? Wu-Tang Gang. Wu-Tang Gang, yep. Old Dirty Baster. There you go. There you go. Danny, yeah. Okay, we're going to stop there.

Thank you. Who was the big guy? Who was the big guy, the producer? Rodney Jerkins. Dark Child. Rodney, yeah. Dark Child. I thought that was all of them.

Yes, she did. They called her mama Mama Stone What does Trudy think Of the show so far? How do you like Toast? Are you happy? She's gone

No Okay But she vouched She vouched What do you think of Toast? No no She loves it Trust me

The Wu-Tang Gang The Wu-Tang Gang She was friends All of them? Yeah they all lived in our building She was friends with them Even Method Man? Even Method Man I Even Method Man.

I fucking love him in The Wire. Wow. Oh my God, he's so good. Okay. The Wu-Tang Gang. You know what? It's sort of a better name. I know it's a better name.

So, okay, to recap, and then we're going to close out with Stu Stone, of course. But Mark Morrison's Return of the Mack is built on Tom Tom Club's genius of love. And of course, Tom Tom Club's genius of love is, I don't know of the Mac is built on Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love, and of course Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love is, I don't know what the term is. It's more than just sampled. It's like it interpolates the song

that became Fantasy by Mariah Carey, which of course is a number one fucking jam. Well, it took a while to get to a number one jam. Mariah Carey. I'm trying to think. I feel like that's still a sample. What is that, Stu? What would Jeremy Taggart say? For which song are we

talking about? Mariah Carey, is she sampling Tom Tom question? Well, the beat, but then she does the whole Yeah, that's a sample. It's interpolating it. That's a sample. We'll ask Jeremy Taggart later. I'm excited for the final jam

from Stewstone. Before I kick out the final jam for Stewstone, I just want to tell you guys I'm so glad we're back. Toast is back. I'm excited to meet you guys once a month

and kick out jams. We're doing the welcome back jams. And then, of course, we're planning to do some of these live with an audience. We were talking about maybe doing monthlies

when the weather gets a little warmer over at Great Lakes. There'll be a ticket at alies when the weather gets a little warmer over at Great Lakes. There'll be a ticket at a paywall. There's going to be a new Great Lakes opening. Actually, I want to shout out

Great Lakes that they have a Jarvis shout out to my son and Jarvis Church who doesn't remember Stu Stowe. Well, he does. That's the funny part. But were you nervous? That moment when I said,

hey, I thought he was a buddy. He's going to say, oh, Stu, I love that guy. The whole, like, I don't know that guy. I don't know. At first I thought to myself, oh, wow guy I was thinking

how is that possible for him to even say that but then he remembered but listen how many people that are listening into this right now would be interested in coming to see this live when the weather is warmer can we get a number ones in the chat

room for people that yeah if you want to see a live recording of Toast when the weather's better and the virus is under control. And we can all kiss and stuff. Here's my plan. MF can make appearances. I want a TMLX9 in the spring and then I want a TMLX10,

TMLXX, if you will, that also coincides with the 10th anniversary of Toronto Mike, which is August 2022. That's like an amphitheater. That's just everything coming together. So this is the plan. So we got a lot of ones here.

Oh, my God. Moose Grumpy put 100% in there. There you go. She's back. So I'm going to say that I'm down also to do that. MF would make an appearance at that. Imagine that. But she won't go to Mike, right?

She might. She says she will. Oh, she's down there. I'm down to do this, and I think that's exciting. She wants some GLB. I think she likes Hayes Mama. She's a big fan. The main thing, Mike, is that it is a family that you've built here, and there's sort of like a sub

family that Cam and I are sort of involved in, and I think that it's great that we're back doing this with a better name than the word pandemic, even though the pandemic is way more raging now than it ever was when we did pandemic Fridays. But I do want to say that the building of a community that supports one another

and doesn't throw it in each other's faces when they do support one another that is what we're here to do. We support Cam's endeavors, my endeavors, Mike's endeavors, people who are in the chat and communicate with us. We're all supportive of each other's endeavors and each other in general. We're building a community here

and I'm happy to be a part of it and I never really left, guys. I never really left. You say our show with Brother Bill is a piece of shit. That's true. And finally, like Mike says, I never lie. Finally, a cannabis

a cannabis and a cannabis sponsor. And a cannabis sponsor. Sponsored now, member of the community. That's huge. So that means when we have these after parties, after the recordings, maybe they'll be sponsored. Well, Great Lakes during the recording, Cannabis After,

it's going to be a perfect... Oh my God. Don't leave here without your lasagna. This is the last request. Judy and MF your lasagna. This is the last request. Judy and MF are requiring it. This is the last request for ones in the chat room. We've got so far it's been all positive. If you are still a member of the FOSS, can I get a number one?

If you're still a member of the FOSS. And before I kick out your final welcome back, Jim. Which I want to set up. Okay. Then I'll wait for your cue. We'll wait. Let's see. Okay. Yes. Oh, thank goodness. Y I want to set up. Okay. Then I'll wait for your cue. We'll wait. Let's see. Okay. Yes.

Oh, thank goodness. YYZGord. The brother. Oh, shout out to the brother who's here. It's always good to see brother. We're still members of the FOSS. Ian Service is involved here. Midtown Gord. I'm going to shout out Midtown Gord. Double D. That's David Joulet. Andy Pandy. By the way, the other

and Jokeroo. Sorry. Uncle Bobby Talk. Steve. Steve is really big on that. Steve's there. Andy Pandy. By the way, the other, Joe Carew, sorry. Where's Uncle Bobby Talk? Steve. Steve is really big on that. That's my dude. Yeah, VP of sales. Don't see 1236 on there, but I'm assuming he's going to press one in his mind. I think he likes you more than Greg Brady.

I'm not sure about that. I like him. It's a one-way street. I respect him. Canada Kev is, Cambrio put many ones. I'll say this, Mike. When my father passed away, Mike. Yes, sir.

I thought that 1236 did such a wonderful tribute that was unexpected. And I've respected and loved him even before then, but ever since then, even more. So I don't know. I don't know what to say about that. So thank you to him. I think he loves to listen to you.

Yeah, I hope so. His frustration, I think, comes from his fact that he thinks he knows more about the subject than you do. Well, he does. I'm not denying that. I think it's all the factual errors. I think we all contribute. That's the charm of this program. I did my homework. That's the charm. The warts and all.

Set up your final jam, brother. I played a lot of big songs today. I played Backstreet Boys. I played Eminem Without Me. Cam played a bunch of big jams, too. He's got 38 special. All the big jams. 38 special.

Mike. Celine fucking Dion. Of all of the songs that I played today, two of them which were two big jams, none of them went to number one on the chart. Well, here's a mind blow. My final song on Saga 960 in the morning was a number one song. Holy shit. Of course.

Finally. Love this song. Gabe Cattle. And for those keeping score at home, the first episode of Toast, Sue Stone wins. All right. Welcome back, champs. Come on. And for those keeping score at home, the first episode of Toast, Stu Stone wins. All right. Welcome back, champs.

Come on. It's okay, Mike. I'm sure you picked it, too, and you let me have it or something. But, you know. Hey. Back there where you need us. Back there where you need us Well, we tease him a lot And we won't suck his gut Welcome back

Careful. Welcome back, welcome back Can you believe that this was a number one song? Welcome back, welcome back Can you think of another TV show theme song that went to number one? I can think of probably some. Let me think. I don't know if they actually did or not.

I'm just guessing. Maybe Greatest American Hero they actually did or not. I'm just guessing. Maybe Greatest American Hero. Believe it or not. That was a big one. That was a big one. The Friends theme had a run. Thank you for being a friend. Thank you for being a friend.

I feel like that was a single. But the Friends theme actually had a run. Yeah. Let me think. Hold on. Give me a moment here. What about the Munsters theme? I was going to say the MASH theme.

Suicide is Painless. Suicide. Yeah, that got more money for... was going to say the MASH theme. Suicide is Painless. Suicide, yeah. That got more money. It was a real feel-good theme. The director's son made more money than the director on that movie because he wrote the lyrics to that. Suicide is Painless. So this is the theme song from the show Welcome Back, Cotter.

And fun fact, John Sebastian, the singer, do you know who he is? Love and Spoonful. Yeah, the Love and Spoonful. And he was at Woodstock. And it's funny because... Oh, and we lost Michael Lang, so I know... Not the FOTM, okay? The FOTM Michael Lang is fine.

And he was at one of the Bentway beers with us. That's right, yeah. Good times. A good man. And James Edgar was there, and YYZ Gord was there. Good times. Good crew. You know, somebody is saying in the chat that this was a song before the show,

but my research doesn't tell me that story. No, he changed the name. I heard that story. The song existed, but it wasn't called Welcome Back Cotter. It was called something else. Apparently, the producer of the show wanted a quote, love and spoonful like theme song for his new sitcom called

Cotter. Heard this song, and they changed the name of the whole show to Welcome Back Cotter just because of this song. Of course, let's talk about Welcome Back Cotter. Gabe Cotter, played by... Gabe Kaplan. Gabe Kaplan. Yeah.

He's still with us. Who's the baseball player? Gabe Kaplan. His wife, Julie Cotter. I don't know if you'll remember her. Don't know her. Michael Woodman was a character. Vinnie Bobarino.

We know him. What did he ever do? He did something. One-hit wonder. Horseshack. Arnold Horseshack. Right. Boom Boom Washington. Oh, my God. I loved it., Arnold Horshack. Right. Boom Boom Washington.

Oh my God, I loved it. This is the sweat hog. Epstein. Yeah, Epstein's dead too. And interestingly enough, the show was sort of like a precursor to such films as Dangerous Minds, where Mr. Cotter came back to a quote unquote, you know, a troubled sort of...

From the other side of the tracks. Another side of the tracks type of place. They were all in their 30s or something, were they not? The show only went four seasons. That's a bit of a shock. It feels like that show was on way longer. Only four seasons. Not to be confused with the place that Rudy Giuliani did his press conference.

The four seasons. The landscaping. It was a huge hit, including some funny stuff here, guys. Yeah, I love it. And now, raise your hands or the chat room play along if you had any of these items that came out. There was a Welcome Back Cotter lunchbox. Did you have one of those?

You know, I know that we were all born a bit too late for Welcome Back Cotter. No, I was a bit unsure. I have no relationship with it. Welcome Back Cotter dolls. I watched it in syndication. Welcome Back Cotter trading cards. But Gabe Kepler action figure. But wait, let me do the math.

You were born in 78, right? 77, if we're taking math at home. It depends. 1980. But my parents were big Welcome Back Cotter marks. Okay. So it was passed on to us. I feel like we had to watch it in syndication because we missed the first one.

But it was on. There was a board game called Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose. Right. And in the game, commercial for the game, there was sweat hog lookalikes in the commercial. Whoa. And the person that played Vinnie Barbarino ended up getting his big break in that commercial.

Mr. Cat T. None other than Steve Guttenberg. Oh, wow. From Short Circuit. Okay, wow. From Short Circuit. Okay, that's a fun fact. In Police Academy with James Edgar. Filmed in Toronto. There was one attempted spinoff of Welcome Back, Hotter.

It was called Boom Boom. Starring Pat Morita. Oh, wow. And it was called Mr. T and Tina. And it was about Mr. Takashi, who was Pat Morita's character when he was a teacher on Welcome Back, Hotter for a few episodes.

If I may, Pat Morita, quickly. Whenever one of my kids, when they were little, and two of them are still little, when they hurt themselves, I do the Miyagi trick where I rub my hands really fast to make it hot. And then I push down on the part that hurts

and I tell them this is the Miyagi trick and then magically they're fine after that. It always works. They're into it. I got that from Pat Morita on the Cartier. Here's a little juicy tidbit for you guys. Is it about the sprinkler? Because Dan Gallagher loved it. So I did work with John Travolta as you may or may not know. Whoa!

And he was so cool in an open book and we could ask him whatever we wanted, and for sure I did. And Welcome Back, Cotter was obviously something that I talked to him about. And he had mentioned to me, and put this into perspective, back in the 70s,

there was really like three or four channels. Well, there were three networks. Three networks. There was no Fox. There was no thousand channels to pick from. ABC, CBS, and NBC. So if you were on a prime time show right in that era right 60 million people were watching you right he became an overnight like i don't

think that you could be a bigger star than he was in that era but he was a big deal and and he was telling us that you know his life was absolutely crazy from that show. He became an urban cowboy. Sorry, when was this on? In the mid-70s. Yeah, it made him famous. And it's just like, there'll never be an era like that again. We call that the monolithic culture. We were all watching the same thing.

It doesn't work that way. Right, and so even in the 80s and the 90s when we were watching... See, now Trudy's watching Toast. The Cosby Show and The Simpsons and Family Ties. In the 80s and the 90s when we were watching, you know. See, now Trudy's watching Toast. Yeah. Yeah. The Cosby Show and The Simpsons and Family Ties. Right. These shows, they don't even compare.

As big as those were, Welcome Back, Connor had 30, 40 million people watching every week. Right. Well, the MASH finale. I know MASH just came up. The MASH finale, look at the numbers for that. Like, that can't, you know, maybe a Super Bowl. Like, do we know, like,

with the top show on broadcast television now, like what would be the rating? Not high. I'll tell you that much. I bet you it's like 10 million or something. Not even. And I would imagine

that the top rated shows are probably live events that you have to tune in live like sports, sports, even WWE gets ratings because you got to watch it if you don't want to,

if you want to see it live. The news, you got to watch, you don't know no one was. The news, you don't know who's watching yesterday. 60 Minutes. Shout out to the news. Nobody's watching the game from two nights ago. Andy Rooney. You know what I'm saying?

It's like stuff like that doesn't have replay value. Once the news airs once, nobody's watching that again. This is a dumb question. What's the biggest show on television? Oh. How I Met Your Mother? No. Come on, dude.

What the fuck How I Met Your Mother that's what I'm asking I don't know they already figured that shit out years ago I couldn't tell you

maybe like one of those like The Bachelor or something because it used to be Big Bang Theory or CSI Miami no no no

maybe The Bachelor I'd go with What about that song that all the my my who is it people I know like my mom and stuff

will cry because they watched This Is Us oh This Is Us is that a big deal no that's not number one. Anybody who knows, let us know. Excluding sports. That was a big show.

Who Shot Mr. Burns was a big fucking deal. Which is a spoof of Who Shot Al Capone's Vault. You think I don't fucking know that? I didn't think you did. That wasn't for you. I'm older than you, Stu. That was for Tim. I know you got a mind blow you're going to set up. It's not that big of a mind blow. Mark Gapel's stuff.

Just to bring it into the hip-hop roots that we love. This is not such a mind blow, but we're going to play it anyway. Forever. Yeah, man. How you doing? You good? I know you like that. I know I think that

This is Mace Welcome back Yes I think we this is Mace. Welcome back. Yes. I think we all loved, well, maybe not we all, but Mace was so loved by enough of us that we were waiting for him to come back. And I feel like this was it. He did this one song and then he went away again.

This sounds like an outtake from the first Kanye album. Like where he had all the Khaleesan songs. It is. It is on the first Kanye. There is a Kanye remix of this song that he could probably find. That's Kim and Kanye. The Jesus Walks album? From the college dropout.

I could totally see it. Can I just tell you a quick little John Sebastian fact, which is he lived near Woodstock, and I feel like one of the bands that was supposed to perform was stuck at like, because of the weather or something, they couldn't fly the helicopter to the Massey Asgers farm in

Woodstock, New York, or whatever. So I think John Sebastian did a set because he was like there, and they needed somebody to go on stage. Like a fill-in. I feel like he did a whole set. And they of course had a Canadian in the band band uh zal yanov zal yanovsky was that the guy yep that's right and uh uh yeah the love and spoonful you're talking about yeah but then he owned the restaurant in kingston uh shea piggy and that's where monica likes to go to go mf spent some time in shea

piggy too famous uh breakfast place. She went to Queens. She went to Queens. There's a clue. My daughter, so right now my 17-year-old is now picking her university, and so I'm getting all the updates on how it's going, and she's very interested in Queens.

Interesting. So are you going to be, we should put it in our calendar now, like when are we coming back? It's already in your fucking calendar. The third Thursday. I'm talking for the people here. What's the date?

Okay, what is the... You're asking what is the third? When we end these shows, we should give them when's the next time. People can't figure that shit out for themselves. Okay, so let me tell the people. The third Thursday of February is... I can't wait that long. Maybe we need to just do this weekly.

No, because then we're going to get in the same... I'm going to get exhausted and go camping. The 17th. So we are back on February 17th, and we're going to talk about the Liz situation at TMLX8, and we're going to have a great new topic and great new jams. I want to thank quickly here, before I play the

lowest of the low because I'm digging this mace jam. I just want to thank StickerU.com and Great Lakes Brewery because I enjoyed my burst very much my IPA and Jack Armstrong wants me to get some more Great Lakes IPAs to him. He's in love with the Great Lakes IPA so

shout out to Hello Jack Armstrong. I want to thank Palma Pasta. I literally said, I got Stu and Cam in the basement and Anthony at Palma shipped just emergency delivery in the snow. Speaking of a menge.

You say February. You pronounce the R. Because you're supposed to. Right, Cam? I say February. How do you say it, Cam? I don't do the R. What the fuck?

February. Say it again. Feb-u-ary. No. It's a little pretentious. You do the R. You do the R. A the fuck? February. Say it again. Feb-u-ary. No. It's a little pretentious. You do the Roo. You do the Roo. A little pretentious.

February? Yeah. Say it. February. Say it again. February. How about just Feb? February, if you want me to slow it down.

Can you spell Wednesday? Wednesday. What does that spell? February, you absolutely put in the Roo. Like, that's key, man. It's a long song. Shut up. You definitely put in the...o. That's key, man. It's a long song. You definitely put in the... By special request, Mike, I've only got two words

for you. I thought we'd never say it again, but here we are. All over again, folks. We're back, baby. And... that. Never leave me again, Stu. And that. Never leave me again, Stu. And that.

And that. And that. And that brings us to the end of our 986th show. So we won't be here by the time you do 1,000, so Mazel Tov in advance. You know, I think you might. It's going to be close. I got 14. I looked at my schedule. Is there a chance that we will be 1000? No, because 1000 is a clip show

of FOTM sending in their audio. It could be 999. Is Tarzan Dan hosting that? Oh, Dan would be great for that, but it will be fantastic. I got a lot of great clips, and everybody who's listening can still submit their audio for episode 1000. Do it.

Get your audio beside Jerry Howarth's audio. Huge. This is big guy. There she goes. Hello again, friends. And welcome to Blue Jays Baseball. That brings us to the end of our 986th show. You can follow me on Twitter.

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Fuck checkmarks, right, Cam? Sure. We don't have one. You don't have one either. That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't engage with either of you two if that were true. There you go. Our friends at Great Lakes Brewery are at Great Lakes Beer.

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We're going to make that happen. I have a meeting about it next week. Swag. Ridley Funeral Home. They're at Ridley FH. They're dying to talk to you. See you all. Next week.

February. February. February. And that's the 17th. I know it's true. Yeah. I know it's true, yes I do. I know it's true, yeah. I know it's true. How about you?

All that picking up trash and then putting down ropes. And they're brokering stocks, the class struggle explodes.