Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TOAST29: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1512

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

In this 29th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they recap #TMLX15 and kick out < 2 minute jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada, The Yes, We Are Open podcast from Moneris, The Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Team and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

We're ready to go! Start the goddamn show! Just toast! I'm gonna think about it, so... F-O-T-M's! Do you know what time it is? It's... Toast time! Toast! Featuring Stu Stone, Ken Gordon, and Toronto Mike! Last time! Neither of whom were here last night. Although one had a good excuse. Well, they both had good excuses. One was in Kentucky and one got in a car accident on his way to TMLX 15.

No! Yep, Cam Gordon and MF were on their way to TMLX15, got in a car accident. Both are okay. They're both okay everybody. No shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. But I don't think the car is okay. Not sure. We'll have to find out. Welcome to episode 1512 of Toronto Miked, proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery,

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committing to our planet's future means properly recycling our electronics of the past. Season 6 of Yes We Are Open, an award-winning Monaris podcast hosted by FOTML Grego, who was also there last night, and Ridley Funeral Home, pillars of the community since 1921. Today returning for the 29th edition of toast. It's Rob Bruce and Bob Willett. Long time, no see gentlemen. What is that? It's been less than 12 hours or just about 12 hours. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's talk off the top. Uh, I want to sit back and listen. How was TML X 15, which took place last night at Great Lakes brewery. How the hell was it for you guys? Well, I want to sit back and listen. How was TMLX 15, which took place last

night at Great Lakes Brewery? How the hell was it for you guys? Well, I want to know how hell it was for you. It was your 50th birthday. Um, we got to wish you a happy birthday in person. There was a little, uh, secret, uh, conversation happening, uh, about you and how we got some things for you. And I had nothing to do with it except for donating a little bit And how much did you donate? I don't know. Do you really want to know? I don't I do want to know but I don't care like I don't know I would donate $100 an Unemployed son of a bitch like you yeah offed up a hundred big ones. Yeah, my fifth cuz you've done so much for me

We were all happy to yeah, like like I was happy to, um, you know, Mike, you know, so, so anyway, so if you weren't there, you don't know what the hell we're talking about. No, it's not. I mean, don't never say, sorry, you gave me a hundred bucks. You can, you can talk over. So cause if you were there last night and I don't know how many people were there, but I, I only count drink tickets, like, but then lots of people don't drink. And then there were a few people who couldn't drink and I don't know.

Oh yeah. I chose not to drink. So they don't want to drink ticket. What are they going to do with it? So I have no idea, but let's pretend it was close to a hundred people or whatever. Oh, easily. Yeah. So I don't know, but it was a really good turnout. It was a great turnout.

The mother nature, the one part I could not control was amazing. Like perfect night, perfect crowd. Again, a lot of people who wanted to be there, couldn't be there. Elvis was in New York City Stu Stone was in Kentucky a lot of some what? Joe Louie was in Greece like a lot of people just someone was in Italy like people were all over the place Oh and Ian service tells me now he didn't get his drink ticket. So

And I come on get it right now, buddy He bought me a drink and I didn't buy him a drink. Yeah, that's, I mean, I've tried to give everyone a drink ticket. You should have come back and tap me on the shoulder here, but, uh, and shout out again to FOTM hall of famer, cam Gordon and his wonderful wife MF whose name I cannot reveal. I've been sworn to secrecy, but they were on their way to TMLX. Like it's been in their calendar for months. They were excited and they got in a car accident on their way to TMLX 15 and they're both okay but they couldn't get to you know great lakes brewery last night so it was all from my perspective it was just amazing to see you all there and to feed you delicious palma pasta and to let watch you enjoying the fresh craft beer and just have a good time and then i was completely

blindsided and uh i don't know who to thank for this But I know moose grumpy was involved the VP Tyler Campbell somebody organized this top secret FOTM channel, so I don't know how many people were in the FOT everybody but you yeah Most listeners are not in the what's app group, right? So it's sort of like the subset of the FOTM community that's in the WhatsApp. And if you think you belong there, send me a note because we can get you in there. But I was given, for my 50th birthday, I was given a kayak.

I always wanted a kayak because I live near the lake and I always wanted for my 50th, I thought I would love to get a kayak and get out there. I was gifted a kayak from the community, but more than that, like money to buy peripherals and a gift card from Mountain Equipment Company get you know your paddle your your life jacket everything I need. Oh shout out to Lieve Funke but more on her in a minute. Of course yeah VP Stephanie Wilkinson was heavily involved, Moose Grumpy, I'm getting the notes in the live stream

here but I was blindsided by this act of kindness and so completely touched because I never even thought for a second, I thought maybe there might be a cake. Like I thought, oh, maybe Leslie Taylor will make a cake or something. And she did and it was delicious. And thank you, Leslie Taylor.

I never had a moment where I thought I would get a gift, like a fucking kayak and all this money. Like I know about 50 people apparently coughed up money for this thing thing including you guys And I just want to say thank you to everyone who contributed and again most listeners weren't given an opportunity to contribute because this is a whatsapp group made from in another one and it was like I Don't know, but I had the best time. I Was so touchy get Adam vancouvered in in the basement for some paddling tips. That's a good idea. Great. That's a good idea. Actually. Thank you. Canada cap. So many people on the live

stream right now. I want to just say hi to them all, but I know I'm rambling here, but I was so touched by the crowd, by the vibes, by the kindness. I can't wait to get out on that kayak. I got to kind of process everything because there's all this money tied to it. And I still can't believe it happened. There's money for charity involved. The human fund. Have you heard of this? The human fund. It's all coming back to me. But thank you guys very much. This apparently there's like a board I have to dive into. I have called a kudo board. Tell me about this Rob Bruce kudo board was set up so that people could uh people in our secret group and then I think it opened up to everybody else as well. But, but we could do birthday greetings and like, it's sort of like a card because everybody who

contributed to the kayak, we sort of decided that, um, everybody could make, make their own little greeting and say happy birthday and cheers. And so you have to make your way through that whole thing and it's super cool. So tell me about this audio you sent me this morning. Is this tied to that? It is actually. Yeah. So tell me which one to play and set it up for me. It was one of the two that I sent you this morning. Which one of the two? Do they have names on them? Okay. One starts with RP with, and then the other one's like a...

The other one, does it start with the letter N? Let me just, yeah. That's it. Okay. Well, I recognize this. I put this on your Cuda board, but listen. Wow. That's a Rob Prus. Original for you. Original for me.

It's like an NFT. This is worth something to me. Thank you, Mr. Rob Prus. It's my Nova Heart happy birthday. It's amazing. That's amazing. In all honesty. Eat your heart Eliza Fromer.

I actually made it for Gord Depp when he turned 50 50 you son of a bitch. Yeah, I recycled it. That's good I figured I didn't have to tell me that yeah No, I know but I'm telling you anyways because because it sort of exists in a small very small surface. It's just me and gourd. Yeah Put on the kuda board just cuz I thought it was a fun time to drag it out and you sort of know that song As well, so do, I do. But anyways, the cuda board is so fun to just look through and like everybody, it's just really neat to see everybody's personalities together on it as well. Well, I honestly can't wait.

I just need to find time to really focus on it. So I haven't had time yet. I can't wait to dive into that. What's this other clip? The other clip is the guy I met last night. Really? Okay, so I'm going to play this. Okay.

Okay, Mike, this is extra birthday special. I'm talking to Alex Honestchuk. Honestchuk. And tell them what you did in 1997. In 1997, I invented the very first haptic touchpad. So as found on Macbooks today and various other products. And when you press... So back in those days, there were buttons. Yeah. There was a touchpad and there was a button. Yeah. And we said, no, we don't want buttons. That's that's that's like yesterday. So when you press now, the touchpad is pressed down on a whole thing. And it makes a click and it makes a click.

And you did that. You feel a click and you hear a click. And you did that. Yes. You're coming on the show. OK. Stay tuned. This guy looking for you. Yeah. I thought that Rob firstly, well done to get that audio. But this gentleman who I met at TMLX yesterday. Alex, yeah. Alex, yeah.

I had no way that you just don't know. You don't know who's there. I know. I had the best time talking to people. I had a good talk last night with 1236 as well. Oh. And like just- Wait, Mark Weisblat was there? But I'd never met him before.

And talking to Blair Packham and talking to Bob and everybody. Yeah, Blair Packham was there. And I kind of wished, like this is why I recorded with Alex because it's I felt like I feel like a correspondent like because the way we sit here and just chat yeah I was talking to like everybody I talked to you last night I felt like man this I wish that I like it recorded every conversation because I want to remember everything yeah it's just so neat to talk to everybody but anyways Alex I was like super fascinated that he invented this thing that we all use in our lives

for 20 and a half. No, you never know. Remember that time we had a TMLX and then there was that guy who was like a country guy? That old country guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, I'm being, so the Kudo board, we got to shout out YYZGord.

Apparently he set that up for everybody. So thank you YYZ. I get so many people thank like, Hey Ref was there, you know, Canada Kev, Andrew Ward, Jeremy Hopkins. Okay. I'm not going to run down the whole list. I'm just looking at the people that are actually on the, um, the live stream right now. It's amazing. But, uh, so many people, Andy, thank you for not breaking my rib. She gave me a big hug. She was trying. It was great to see Andy Pandy there. Uh, you know, I just can't say

enough about the turnout. You mentioned some names, Mike Apple. So you got to meet Mike Apple for the first time. Bob, yeah, I'd never met Mike before. Obviously iconic voice in the city, I'd say. And, uh, you know, does the morning drive on six 80 and you know, a survivor of radio. So good for him, you know. Uh, and I also, I laid eyes on Mr 12 36 on wise block for the first time in maybe 25 years. So is it chorus the halls? Like he was doing like a six 40 thing. Yeah, we were, he was, he was very happily describing in great detail how, uh, how we knew each other. I do remember that era hearing him. I heard him on humble and friend.

He used to come on the humble and Fred show weekly as kind of like an entertainment correspondent. I remember his delivery. Yeah. How can you not? He's like Richard kind on speed. Yeah. Um, and I love it. He's a little bit guy. Yeah. Yeah. There's some Gilbert in there too. We also had a guy named David G Marco, David D G Marco. I think his name was he used to write for cigar aficionado and he used to come on on the phone. Yeah. There, there was a bunch of guys we had. Of course we never paid them. Um, but them, but wise blot became his bits became very well. That's actually how we met the late Andrew, the lawyer guy,

crystal, Andrew, crystal, Andrew, crystal, Andrew, crystal. Isn't that r.i.p. right? Yeah, yeah, the first f o t m to die, I showed out to a Ridley funeral, shadow to really funerals. So anyways, yeah. And he was one of them. And I always got along with wise, but I, we were friendly and he sees, I just want to say cause humble has no love loss for him. Like a humble who made an appearance last night. Yes, I missed him, but yeah, yeah. Yeah. You missed him by that much. Yes, but not a big wise blood fan because when Howard Stern came into the Toronto market, there was a press conference and Mark wise blot asked a question of Howard Stern. It's

funny how this looks a while. These stories are well to hear him out loud. So wise blot just basically are you aware how one do you think I play our pack? I'm does a good way. Are you aware there are these two guys on on our FM radio trying to do the Howard Stern stick or something to that effect and humble and Fred have never forgot that question, but they brought him on. But the funny thing is they brought him on after that. See, I didn't know that. Oh, it's like, it was like keep your enemies closer. I think it was one because wise blot used to write a column about Toronto radio in a, in an industry paper or paper was a website or

blog or something. And I think they just thought, you know, let's bring this guy in who, you know, they clearly didn't like. And anyways, no, they still don't like him. Wisebots a good guy. He said some very, very kind things to me about what I could, you know, he listens to this to want to toast.

And he was very, very complimentary of Bob's basement podcast. And you know, he gave me some ideas on what he thought I could do with my current situation and try to turn it into some sort of content. And he's a good, he's a good dude. I'd never met him before.

And it was, he sat down and started talking to me. And as I was listening to him talk at first, he didn't have a name tag on him. And then I'm like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah. Well, one of the most frequently asked questions at this event yesterday for me was like, when is Mark Weisblatt returning to Toronto? He hasn't been on since I'm going to say September, 2023 really that long. I think so. It was monthly at one point.

It was monthly for years, three hours a month. Now it's now it's whenever he's ready. Yeah. I do want to say, you know, this, you. You know the the money that was raised for you with there is, like you said, there is a good charitable organization. It's not entirely altruistic on my part because I was told that it would go to a sponsorship for the show, so it's kind of hoping to make that the extra cash was going to be one of your monthly sponsors. Ask the VP of sales. That was the original idea that that the FOTM, I don't know any of this. Yeah. The FOTMs will be a month, will be a sponsor for a month. That's what that money is. And I said, and people were like, well, what can we do? I'm like, I think we get,

make him rotate live liners for every, you know, so why's that idea? I don't know if it ever happened. I put it out there. Maybe it was, I know it is. I know it's a radio idea. If you're a sponsor, now I need to declare it. Yeah. It got into questions about tax implications. If it's a birthday gift, you're right. You're right. Yeah. If it's a birthday gift, which was, that's what it was. Sorry. I don't have to tell the CRA about it. Right. Yeah. You were gifted. So we're not sponsoring the show. Who'd want to sponsor this show? No, it's apparently quite a few. Did you guys see the picture on the wall?

I just put it up. Oh, I saw that arrived last night, but I didn't know. Larry Fedorik gifted that to me. That's a Dr. Ruth Westheimer poster from, that was on the subways in the mid eighties. She had a show on Sunday nights on 680s. It was going up.

Yeah. Was that going up against Sue Johansson on Q? Yeah, cause Q had Sue. Yeah, Sue Johansson. Dr. Ruth was on CFTR. I met Dr. Ruth one time at the opening of Mamma Mia on Broadway. You met Dr. Ruth?

Yeah, it's amazing. She came to our opening night and she was this tall. It was the cutest thing ever. But she was like, wasn't she in the Israel, Israeli military? Like, wasn't she? Oh, like the Mossad or whatever? I feel like she might have been a sniper or something.

I feel like there's a Dr. Ruth Westheimer story. Shoot kneecaps. Yeah. How is that? How is she not had a biopic? I know. Who's got a player? Danny DeVito.

You know what? Yeah, so Moose Grumpy is making a good point, which is we need to debrief the party with Mike. So yeah, I need to know what everything. So we don't have time on this episode because we're gonna kick out our favorite songs that are under two minutes in length. So let me wrap this up. Let me just say and hello, not everybody could be at the event yesterday. Obviously I'm seeing the live stream,

some good people that could have made Jesse Duarte and a bunch of people who couldn't make it out. But I'm again, I'm just like, like so blessed that this community is so loving and it was such a good crew. And honestly just love being a part of the TMU and oh, by the way, I'm very the lead. Um, no, I mean the comments and this is a, distracting me, but thank you. Thank you to everybody. Whether you gave a dollar or not, it was the best birthday. Yeah. Dr. Ruth was a sniper. This has been Jeremy Hopkins. I knew I had that fact. And I, oh yeah. Hey now, hey now it's 12 48. So thank you. Thank you. I think Michael, I think we all thank you too for bringing everybody together.

I mean, this is, it's like the feeling is mutual. Yes. They said in some old film, um, um, because you know, you, it's all for you and we love being a part of your universe. Oh man. Okay. I don't want to cry, but uh, no, thank you very much. And like, honestly, I don't want to cry but no, thank you very much And I like honestly I said in the kudu board you've done so much for me. We met years ago We're both you know, Dan Durant's house Can I take a second to thank Rob Bruce for something something before we move on I'm Over the course of my you know current

unemployment, I've decided to try to give a acting ago again and I actually got not. I went in for an audition. I didn't get a call back or anything, but for a musical and raw, I needed to bring piano music and I needed to have a you'll be prepared to sing along to a track and Mr. Prus went and I wanted to do beauty school drop out from Greece because it was a funny. It was Evil Dead, the musical and he found a karaoke track and then he played piano over it and thank you very much. That was one of those moments where it's like kind of like you were you were saying. Well, I

have arrived the UN ambassador to Canada to my last guest. Yes, Canada's I ambassador. I had I had a moment. I'm like, I was like the dude from the spoons and honeymoon suite made me a little piano thing. So thank you so much. You're welcome. It was so fun and I hope we can do more. I also too. This is just the beginning of another journey. Exactly. Thank you. Yeah, you are honestly, this is the whole idea, right? Like we help each other because we're all good human beings in this on this big blue marble and it's beautiful to hear that we love helping each other.

And again, when, when, uh, is Stu and Cam needed to move on from toast, uh, you were the, you two were the first guys that popped in my head. I'm like Rob Pruss and Bob Ouellette. I wonder if they would do it. That would be a good combo. And it happened and we're on our 29th toast. And most of those are you guys. And I just want to know, I appreciate you. But this song, Rob Pruss, what can you, what do you know about this jam, Strange Advance?

What do I know about it? I mean, I know that I love it. Did you hear the Strange Advance? I did, yeah, yeah, it was fantastic. Was it good? Okay. Enjoyed it. So this is their, they have a few hits, but this is their big hit.

And then it got me thinking of this one right here. See if I can do this I smell the 80s I smell the hairspray shout out to Ed Sous. Future FOTM. I just got a need for me. For sure. Was there a radio edit without this long? There must have been. Of course. I can hear Larry Podorek talking it up. Coming up next, 22 degrees in the city of trees.

Coming up next 22 degrees in the city of trees Lock a seagulls on 680 CFT are oh yeah there would have been a ball there was a radio I knew to chop at that intro cut and right to it. Yeah That's the kind of thing we'd talk over on Sunday nights at whiskey Saigon with Martin district though You click we would do the whole thing and then you know exactly when to stop. Oh yeah, he always, yeah. He never, he, he, he King of hitting the post was streaked. That's what you call it. Hitting the post. Yeah. He hit the post. Yeah. Well, Bob, you want to try to hit the post on this one? What do you want me to do? Who knows where it is? Who knows? Okay. So I think I know where it is. But basically, okay. So strange advanced had a big hit with we run. Okay. You know what this song is called? Space age love song. Isn't it? Nope. I ran. Sorry. Wrong one. Sorry. So We Run is the Strangit band song. We run. I ran. That's a Canadian band. Yeah. Gord Spoon. Oh nice.

And apparently Gord Spoon is in this band because of Ed Susan. You know that? Isn't that fucking weird? We ran, I ran. The next song somebody needs to write is called They Ran. Oh, that's true. Or Baby Ran, 5440. Baby Ran. So that's also Canadian. Run to you, Ryan Adams. It's a net. So that's also Canadian run to you right now. The Canadian artist. Yeah. This song is really dark when you think of it, when you, the lyrics are like,

he's totally the one in the empty swimming pool. Oh, I don't know. I couldn't tell you. I don't remember the video. You're two years older than me. So I can't, I'm actually, he's, he's even another, in another decade. We represent three different decades right now. Not yet. The brawl is in his 70s. No, but you're... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm almost done with this fun little game I'm doing here.

This is useless actually, but here, I'm almost done. Who can name that tune? It's an FOTM jam. I wanted to close here with an FOTM jam. It's also Canadian artist. I can tell it's the 70s though. So that was run to you. This is not an FOTM.

This is a... It's a carol. I thought... I was thinking about... Yeah. I'd go to the live stream, but I'm sure everybody knows it on the live stream. Don't look back. My live stream doesn't update.

Oh, okay. Because... Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, apparently according to our official Toronto Mike historian, Brian Adams wrote, run to you about cheating on his wife with his guitar. Sure, sure. Is it Ian Thomas?

Correct. Okay, thank you. All of a sudden I got the voice. This is Ian Thomas. This is the Correct. Okay, thank you. All of a sudden I got the voice. This is Ian Thomas. This is the runner. Oh, right. So it just occurred to me that if you consider that Gord Spoon and the Gord Dep is in Flock of Seagulls right now, all four of these run jams and then Babyran, like you said, these

are all Canadian artists and running songs. And we've always had some of the fastest runners in the world. Yep. Well, not always. One of them was here yesterday. Yeah, one of them was here yesterday and the other one was here just a little while ago. That's true. I have a gift for you. I forgot. Do you want me to give you the gift after when we're done? Can I crack my beer? I know if you're ready. Do you want to crack your beer? It's breakfast beer, boys. Yeah. Come on. Alright, so three, two, one. Okay, cheers to you guys. And thank you again to Great Lakes for their hospitality last night.

They were great. They were great hosts and like wonderful. And Ben was great help. And Mike, I want to give you a gift. The free beer we all got except for Ian service. It's a little something. I almost said Ian Thomas, but he wasn't there last night.

Okay. He was in Dundas, Ontario. I'm opening a gift from Rob Pruse. And then I'm going to thank thank a couple more sponsors and we're going to get to two minute jams. I'm surprised we didn't pick a Canadian theme. It's Canada Day weekend. I didn't really think of it. Oh, what is this? Every episode of Toast is Canada theme. Open it gently because you're going to say it's it came to my house. So it's got my address and then I just transferred it. But it's a, it's a little something for you. It's funny when I was getting that gift that I just like, you know, Tyler's making a great speech. He's like, we have a gift for you. And I'm thinking, what if I don't like it? I have to pretend I like it.

That's what I'm saying. That's what good people do. And I'm like, okay, Mike, you can do this. Just, you got a shitty gift. You don't want, just pretend you're happy. And then I got a gift I wanted. And I'm like, it's so much easier to not have to fake it. So I'm going to, you can get ready to fake it. Get ready to fake it. Where am I? Okay, it's very well packaged. I know.

Yeah, what's going on? Oh, very nice. Yeah, this is, there's a little tagging. Shut up the swing, Kurt Swinghammer here, hold on. So this is, there's a camera. Yeah. Can everybody see that on the camera? Okay, so this is beautiful.

It's a limited edition lithograph. I think it's a lithograph. There's a technical name for what it is. A print. A print, exactly. Yep. Okay. So yeah, it's funny. His wife was just here.

She's lovely, Lori Cullen. She's a great episode drama. Kurt Swinghammer, certificate of authenticity. Thanks. Beautiful. This is honestly, this is- Sam the Record Man, by the way, we haven't said that yet.

This is Sam the Record Man, I'm sorry. Well, you know what it is? It's the bag. It was the shopping bag. Right. He designed this artwork for the bags. Oh, did he really? It's got a real Keith Haring vibe to it.

It's pretty great. Well, and knowing Kurt's art now, like getting to know more of it, I see like the Kurtness of it as well. Rob, that's perfect gift for me. Thank you so much. Maybe you could frame it. It would look nice on a wall.

I didn't get you a gift. I'm sorry. Well, you contributed to a hundred bucks to the kayak for fuck's sake. Like, you could frame it, it would look nice on a wall. I didn't get you a gift, I'm sorry. Well, you contributed to a hundred bucks to the kayak, for fuck's sake, you know, honestly. And you guys, everyone who contributed, I don't know what to say, just, you're amazing. All right, so we're doing- Jam it up. Jams are under two minutes.

I wanna thank, cause I saw him last night, the cuddly one, Al Grego. What a great supporter Al Grego is, you know. Now he was a supporter, now he's an award winning podcaster. Now it's like, he's now inspiring me. Okay. I might win an award one day thanks to the great Al Gregor. So in Al Gregor, there's a woman I met for the first time yesterday, Shirley hello to Shirley making her TMLX. A lot of people made their team Lex debut last night, including Jerry Scott quickly. Hello to

Jerry Scott who flew here for one night from Co. Greatland, BC because it was a, in Jerry, full disclosure, he's a client. He's with Raymond James. Okay. We love Raymond James, but he came in with Tim Niblett. He was also with Raymond James, but Jerry Scott is a sweetheart. He handles money for snowbirds. If anyone out there wants to, you know, have their money, make money and properly invest in everything, especially if you're a snowbird, let me know.

And I'll hook you up with Jerry Scott. He's a sweetheart. Lovely to see him last night. But I met Shirley for the first time. Thanks to Al Greggo. Al Greggo is hosting. Yes, we are open. The sponsorship actually, this might be the last episode of the sponsorship. I want to thank for another great run with Monaris. I know they'll be back. The wireless speaker that Rob Bob Ra Ray took home with him. I love that speaker still speaker every day. I use it. I know. So I just like minas keep sponsoring.

So I give out these wonderful speakers. A great promo item. I love seeing Al last night and I looked at him across the, across the hall or across the room and I never talked to him all night long. And I kept saying, I can't wait to go over and meet Al finally. And I didn't say he's a big fucking deal. I've got a future, a future goal. I walked up to him and introduced him, him as award winning podcast. Yeah and I didn't. He's a big fucking deal. I've got a future a future goal.

I walked up to him and introduced him him as award-winning podcast. Yeah, I did. Well, that's what I always say. There's an award-winning podcast There's got to be one at every event here. So thank you out. I guess we are open is a great podcast He travels around talking to small business owners about their how they triumph over adversity Triumph I saw Chris Brown my painter was there yesterday with David Rider from the Toronto Star their brothers-in-law and Chris and Chris Brown had this hat and it's a triumph and at first I thought it was the band but it's a motorcycle I guess it's a motorcycle

okay so motorcycle first I'm thinking Rick Emmett over here he's got the triumph hat I was very impressed but subscribe to yes We are open and a war winning podcast recycle my electronics dot CA cliff hacking couldn't make it yesterday But he's been a great supporter And if you have old electronics old devices don't throw them in the garbage go to recycle my electronics dot CA So they can be properly recycled shut out the Ridley funeral home Brad Jones was supposed to be there last night And then he somebody died so not in his family, but he's that's what his viz. So he was, uh, he was working, you can't really, you know, program that. So he was working 14th and Lake shore. If somebody, you know, dies, you know where to go talk to Brad Jones at Ridley funeral home pillars of the community since 1921,

I think. And who did I miss here? So shout out to everybody, Paul Mappasta and ... I saw Mike Epple had his Maple Leafs baseball club book. My God. That's so... Brian Gerstein wanted a book as well. They both... And Brian, I finally got you the book. It was good to see Brian Gerstein yesterday. That guy's a... And then I was introducing him and then the jingle, properdn6.com. And then he's like, Oh, I retired that jingle. You don't retire jingles, right? Like you don't, you don't have to air them anywhere, but they don't retire.

They just kind of go to sleep. There was a jingle on your 12 hour playlist yesterday for the birthday too. You know, that's I love your playlist. You cure. It was our playlist. We all put it together. I didn't, I didn't do that. You didn't. Oh, no, I missed that one. It was, it was a shared spot.

Oh, I'll send you the link. Do. Yeah. Yeah. But there was getting orders. Cause there's one more thing I had to say before we move on to these two minute gems. Can you put that closer to the camera for leave a FAMCA up there so I can see, cause I don't know. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause my it's not refreshing for me. Let's see. Let me do it. Okay. So there's a delay. So we did, we're gonna open. Trust me. Okay. That's for leave a FAMCA this, I don want to bury this lead. I was going to get a recording in a proper announcement FOTM cast with cam and Tyler, but they're okay. Then she can see it now. Oh, that's pretty good. But did you guys catch my speech? Your speech was yesterday. Okay. So in the

speech, I was just so honored that leave a Fumka was there last night because like literally the day before yesterday she was harvesting stem cells, okay? I can't act like I know exactly what that means but it's very like literally draining and it's hours and they need millions of stem cells and they're gonna wash them and put them back. There's a whole process

because she's in a battle for her health. But she was there yesterday. I was gonna say, you know what the other song is in the playlist, speaking of Levi, I put in the Bon Jovi song as well. We'll be there yesterday. I was going to say, you know, what other songs in the playlist speaking of Levi, I put in the Bon Jovi song. Nice. We'll be there. I'll remember you. Yeah. I can sing better than that by the way. You know, we'll do it again. We'll do it again. You ready? Okay. I hope, I hope the Dutch win this a Euro, uh, the Euro so that she can have that to

celebrate. But so Levi Fumka, the big announcement is, and I thought long and hard about this one on many a bike ride meditating on this. I'm putting her ahead of you to OK, before Bob will let Rob Bruce get into the FOTM Hall of Fame, leave a FAMCAS being inducted. This is big news. If you weren't there last night, you're only learning about this right now. I'm going to get the proper Peter Gross announcement for FOTM cast, which is next week with

Tyler Campbell, the VP of sales and cam Gordon, who survived a car crash last night. So amazing. And thank you leave a FAMCA for being there. When I saw her there, that was it. Like if no one else showed up, I was going to be the happiest guy in the world yesterday that leave a FAMCA was there. Congratulations. Now let's get to the jams. But before, okay, I know I'm rambling a lot of it. Can I shout out to Leslie Villian, uh, who made the cake, who made the cake and was, uh, talk to me about her, of course her sister and, uh, um, about a second city and whatnot. It was a Carolyn Taylor. Yeah, it was an

OTM Carolyn. Yes. Uh, huge fan, um, of, of all of her work. And I kind of, I, I don't think I made a sketch show. kind of I don't dare me on sketch. Oh yeah, I don't like, you know, we're at the cottage and the leg tattoos and half bottle of wine, like all those are some of the best bits ever. And then her show with me, Martin. Anyways, that's I the Whitney Houston. Yes. I have nothing.

Yeah. I just want to say I had a really nice conversation with her. She's a fellow East Ender and she was very encouraging about the whole second city thing and which is, I'm just, I'm just starting grad review. Uh, I finished conservatory and now I'm in grad review and then, uh, and I'll have a couple of shows coming up, but then I'll have a big, I'll have an actual review, uh, in, uh, early in the new year. So, okay, Bob, we, we, we need up, sorry, along the way. No, uh, want to celebrate your successes. I want to shout out cousin Jan. Oh, too.

That's actually Leslie Taylor's cousin and I've been bumping into her at like go and Simon head was there. So many people are there. I can't name them all. Simon head who directed the subversive documentary about lowest of the low and I met cousin Janot at the premiere of that documentary and then I met her again at the two ninety nine Queen Street documentary was none of you are allowed to see, but we saw it and since this candidate weekend, this is not a two minute jam, but I just want to say that they remastered the new. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to bring this as a, as a mind blow for my first one.

Oh wow. So I just wanted to play it because it's really, I fucking love it. And you know the story. Let's listen to it for a moment. It's from 1989. okay? Recorded in 1989. So I just want... I thought was my friend We are right till we get back again So I just want... Okay, so they remastered this song. So good! How did they not make an album? Okay, so I... You want to know the story quickly?

I actually was chatting with Jake Gold yesterday because he sent me a happy birthday note and... He also said... Because I said Gord... Not Gord, Danny, sadly, because we can't get him back, get him on the show, but the other Gord, I said you should come on. Cause he tells a great story about this song was supposed

to be on Up To Here. Yeah. For most of us, that's the first tragically hip album we loved, unless you were really cool and you're in on it. And you had the EP. Right. So this is gonna be, it's a great song. They all love it.

It sounds amazing, right? FOTM Paul in the background there. So why is it not on Up To Here? Because then they write, I guess they're in New Orleans or something? They went to Nashville, I think. Is it in New Orleans? No, because I actually remember seeing an interview

on Much Music with, I think it might have been Bill Willett. No, it wouldn't have been Bill, it was too early. Anyways, but I'm almost sure it was Nashville. Okay, so they write 38 years old, and then they just, 38 years old, they like a little better and it's fresh and they're digging it. So this thing gets left on the cutting room floor

in favor of 38 years old. And I'm hearing it in 2024, and now that it's been remastered and cleaned up and stuff, you don't have to rely on some shitty bootleg or whatever. It's fucking amazing. It's amazing. It's the Canada Day Jam and I've been like singing it and it's just like I had goosebumps listening to Gord there.

Who, here's a, okay, here's a selfish question. Who's playing it on the radio? Oh, I don't know. Would Hits FM be playing this? 97 seconds? I would be, if I was still running Big FM in Kingston of all places. I'd be playing this every hour. Again, I don't know, but wouldn't Q 107 play this? I don't know. You think, you know, the edge doesn't play any currents

during the day. So they don't play any current songs during the day. Uh, they only play recurrent. Do you own chorus stock? Think fuck? No. When did you get out? I know I never had any. I never bought in yeah. What are they down to like seventeen cents or something or something like that? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not. Yeah, I don't not to bring it back to radio and me, but when I heard this, I'm like, you know, would this would if I would if you're running boom here in Toronto, which is one of the number one radio stations and they play a ton of tragically happen to

people who listen to boom love the tragically have. Would you play it? I know I would if I was the program director because I'd be like this is this is actually from eighty nine. Yeah that story. This isn't this song's actually thirty plus years old right. Right. You know I would and I don't know if it'll be thirty eight years old well played. Okay, so I love an ad, but here, so setting it up. Last time we had toast, we did jam jams and they were all very long and we said, let's do short jams. So we said we're kicking out jams that are under two

minutes in length. And then the first two songs that jumped in my head, I learned very quickly were ineligible because one of them were there like two minutes and 10 seconds? Yeah, basically like they were early twos. So this one, for example, was like two or two or three or something so close. We. Somebody brought it up yesterday and I said it might get Hanson because I didn't pick it, but it doesn't qualify. I thought of it right away and then I found out but there's another song so of course as you know Bob from producing the humble and Fred

show and to be a member of the humble official if you had only a couple of minutes before the news break Sloan we well okay well you're yeah that's the next one sorry that's okay sorry or that one's okay. Sorry. Or that one song too. Yeah. Something too. Or Sloan. Yeah. If you need a can call and you went to slow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ladies and that's brother. Is it? And I got, so I, and I got to do it. Um, that's one of my favorite moments at the band show. Um, they were playing and I was working at 94 nine, the rock and I got to introduce them. And I said, guys, can I, you know, and they came and they played this first. They did exactly the same thing. I was like this is like a dream come true. I was like would you please welcome to the stage

Sloan and they did it. So you talk about mind box right? So I got the following three people messaged me happy 50th birthday yesterday. Chris Murphy, wow, Jay Ferguson and brother Bill. ice. Can you imagine like 20 like late to late late 20s Mike? No, it's great. It's amazing as I as much as you know, there are ups and downs and whatnot. Even now as a mic might be leaving a career in which you know not to make it about me, but while I'm leaving a career and we get about you, it's I will have to take the second to go. Holy shit, I got to do that, it's, I, I will, I have to take the second to go, holy shit.

I got to do that. Holy thing. I met that person. Holy, you must, you must get that as you like, you went from not in front of 10. That's my whole life. Like my whole life. I mean, I mean, from the cool things I've done in the band to just like fucking music that I loved when I was a kid. And I still think we get to live through this whole life and have all these experiences. And you, now you, at any point in your life, you go, I did that thing. And it's not here now, but it's a part of who you are yeah yeah yeah for you that's the most exciting thing to be on that stage like that like oh my god it's so cool it was so amazing oh my god so

this is 150 I think Owen no it's over two minutes is it over two so that's so song two and the good and everyone are a little over two minutes both ineligible so you won't hear them nope except now but we're now going to roll into the first jam from Rob Cruz that he's talking again we'll talk over two minutes, both ineligible. So you won't hear them. Nope, except now. But we're now gonna roll into the first jam from Rob Pruse that he's done. And again, we'll talk about, these are songs that are under two minutes in length. Okay, here's a question, a favor.

A favor? Yeah, here's what, when I was driving in today, I rearranged my list. Oh, Jesus. Okay, so you numbered these five, so tell me what you want. So, okay, so you know the email that I sent, all five? Like, there's numbers on the names of these things.

I sent you four tracks and a YouTube link. Yeah. Right? Can you start with the YouTube link? And can I explain it first? I'm gonna set it up. Of course you can. Go ahead. So here's what it is. So I've- It's all jams the rest of the way, everybody.

Yep, good. Here we go. So this might be the longest toast ever. With the shortest song. I know! It's perfect. It's the perfect blend. We're gonna cook. So my last song, which is now gonna be my first song, is the newest discovery for me.

And I feel like it's gonna sort of bridge the world from the Jam Jams into this world. It's two minutes long. It's a new band to me. Is it two minutes long or under two minutes? It's under, two and under. Okay. It's a new band.

No, you were two minutes. Well, this will be a discussion, but if a song that's two minutes in length, I deem it ineligible. It's under two and under. Okay. It's a new band. Two minutes. Well, this will be a discussion, but if a song that's two minutes in length, I deem it ineligible. It's going to be one 59 or less. I'm going to say it's one 59. You ready? Yeah. Yeah. You know, thank you. The Is that throat singing in there? Maybe. There's definitely a didgeridoo. And a sitar. Is there a tabla as well?

Oh, it did dance with a harry. Okay. You can't hit the post on this one. without hearing. Okay. You can't hit the post on this one. No, there's no post. All right. Talk to me, Rob Bruce. This is called Before You. This is called Before You. It's a band called the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Oh, I know that. Cam Gordon and I, we talked about like bands that like took names.

Yeah. Yeah. I remember you talked about that. Yeah. Yeah. We did that in the original. They're literally Yeah. Yeah, I remember you talked about that They're literally new to me even though I've known the name for 30 years Sure I watched for the first time an episode of Anthony Bourdain's show that he had done like traveling around the world And it was the episode in Berlin and he's with this guy named Anton Newcomb

And then they were talking about his band and how he likes living in Berlin and he he's like he had just turned 50 And he had to get away from his life and stuff and then they were referencing his band and how he likes living in Berlin. And he's like, he had just turned 50 and he had to get away from his life and stuff. And then they were referencing his band. I'm like, I, I've, I've known the name Brian Jones, Tom massacre for years, but I was always a little afraid to listen to them because the name scared me a little, even though I was old enough to know better. But, and then he was, scary name to be honest. And so then after watching him like currently, or like five or six years ago or

whatever, um, I went back to their music and I thought, these guys are super cool. This is from an album that came out in 1996 called Their Satanic Majesty's Second Request. Crazy. I gotta say though, I don't know why, but I'm surprised to hear like an instrumental that I've never heard of in your favorite songs

under two minutes. Me too, that's why I started it. And that's why I started fighting for more songs, literally, because when we decided this episode, this, this subject last time, all these songs popped into my head for various reasons, because I've loved short songs my whole life long. Oh, interesting. But this kind of came out of left field. So I wanted to just throw it in. But then I realized it's a good sort of introduction because it's an instrumental.

So there I'm done. Nice. OK. And Bob revealed moments ago that he almost had me play Get Back Again by the Tragically Hip as an intro to this song. And I quit like just read his mind because I had it loaded up to play anyways. Just because I'm fucking loving it. Like I'm absolutely loving Get Back Again. And it's kind of a mind blow

that that thing was left on the cutting room floor. And it's only been cleaned up in 2024. By the way, when Gord was talking, Gord Sinclair was talking about, like he he got left on the cutting floor because if they chose thirty eight years old instead, I was telling J Gold time to get Gord on Toronto Mike. Enough is enough. And then J Gold replied, there are two more announcements coming when they're out. We're going to make that he always he's the he's the king of teasing. You know, if you get on the phone with him, the

funny thing is, like he'll if you call him, if you get he's great king of teasing. You know, if you get on the phone with him, the funny thing is like he'll, uh, if you call him, if you get, he's great because when I was the program director at, uh, at big FM and even before that, he's always been pretty great to me because we used to have him on the humble and fresh show when he was a Canadian idol judge. He had a fight with Howard because Howard said all the tragically hip song, he wrapped his hand around Howard's throat and put them up, put them up against the wall. Let's get that story. That's a good witness. It I did not witness it. I came up on board.

So I was on the whole Fred show. Jake, go literally our against the wall. Yes. Every time I'm making fun of my band, every time a tragically absurd play humble Howard would make a joke that they all sound to be like, it'd be like, it's not true. It would be like, uh, they would be playing like 50 mission cap and he'd be like, uh, new Orleans is sinking or you know or you know,

thirty eight years pigeon camera or you know, look some weird shit and then jay gold said fuck this shit and yeah, but then jake came on after and jake's a good guy jakes really doing a good job with the legacy of the band. I think and and the band is engaged with telling the stories. It's really great watching them. He did get Paul Lang one my basement to play live, but that was a jay goal. Yeah, that's amazing happening there. Yeah, so so set up this okay. Yeah, so setting this up. So

obviously this is not a tragic hip song. Actually, this is a gourd downy song and yeah, let's just listen to it and then we'll talk a little bit The myth has been hammered there from the air. It's just blue lake stains of greed and hemified and cursed spirits who experiment and muster and honeytongue scuffed up kitchen door tiles top of bones with a big trap door Tows down by a window Disappear and drop all the same things

Into the air And the smoke Underneath between the layers Only under, better than nothingness In our eyes The curves of clouds clouds rising in the sky. There's a few little suns of gold. There are a couple of them.

There's a couple of them. Star painters are taking over. The staff room is in its place. And as you can see, I'm just tonight. Just washing up. And we're away. I see opening track from gord down, he's two thousand and one release coke machine glow. God, that's good. Isn't that good

and haunting in retrospect? Oh he, you know, the star painters are out the scaffoldings in place. I, you know, I legitimately love this album, this this album was Vancouver divorce on it right. Yeah, I, you know, I legitimately love this album. This, um, uh, this album, uh, was Vancouver divorce on it, right? Yeah. This Vancouver divorce and Canada geese or Canada goose are the two kinds of singles from it. It's very, it's, it was the beginning of really weird gourd. I mean, I love that so much and I've never heard it before. Oh, you got to listen to machine glow. So it came with a, you know, FOTM. has a podcast series called

discovering Downey where he literally talks a couple of Americans, I think, and then a guy from Vancouver. They talk about go down. He's so little material because they look at the stream counts on Spotify and stuff. And it's like there's a lot of hip streams and no one's

listening to the Gordoni. Wow. Well, it's like it's like people and everybody owns it. So here's the interesting part. I remember seeing on that this album listening to the Gordownie. Wow. It's like, it's like people. And everybody owns it. So here's the interesting part. I remember seeing on this album, Gordownie played the government.

Yeah. With a band. Shout out to Ridley funeral. Yeah, exactly. With a band that was made up of people who was in the band. Julie Dorian, Adam McGoyen was in the band. Wow. Sweet Hereafter. And he did at Courage was sung by Sarah Paulie in the band. Yeah. Yeah. And uh, here after, and he did at courage was sung by Sarah

Pauli and the sweet here after. That's right. And uh, there's the, the dinner is ruined, which is a indie rock band with, um, Dave Moore, Dale Morningstar pre Kevin Hearn. So this is, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. The Kevin Hearn stuff came after there was like, uh, I was wondering if that was Kevin playing on that. No, that was so, um, that Kevin Hearn came after that. It was at the country of mirror something country miracles, country miracles. Yeah, um, right. But here, this is the

interesting thing about you. Yeah, gourd Downey can solo. Even if he played tragically hip songs would still only get a place like that. A thousand P, a thousand cedar, right? The tragically hip without Gord Downey will play a club, but the, the five of them together, this magic happened and Canada just, and it resonated this album though, I think was a really great opportunity for Gordon B that we, the weird Gord that we all, I think guys like us definitely loved. I, I don't know if the hat backwards,

hip, hip, hip, hip guys, as you know, as a, I remember, not the band. I hate those guys. I don't think they get it. I'm going to be honest. I like, you know, when you talk, when I saw Jim Cuddy talking about getting hip, uh, you know, because they were on before the tragically hip at some festival and it's, it's you can't, you can't do anything about it. But this particular if it comes to two minute songs this I love the opening of it it's yeah it's the production is the same or down he eventually is sadly passes away at the age of fifty three from is it brain

cancer cancer and this song if you listen to the lyrics it's clearly I think it's about maybe it was his wife at the time. Somebody is battling cancer. So we're going way before he had a cancer or down his song. Yeah. Oh one, but we're down a song and that's why it's so haunting in retrospect. But what's beautiful too, like, like even though you, you could assume that those fans wouldn't get into this stuff, you could say 24 years later, everybody's grown up and lived through a lot of shit.

So now they might go back to it. They're ready for it. Well, they're actually arts and crafts in 2021 re released it. It's actually on vinyl now. Cool. But if you, if you, you know, if you take a hundred hip fans right now, just a random hundred, 50 hip fans, how many do you think have listened to coke machine glow in its entirety of a hundred hip fans? 20. I'm not even sure. It's not even sure. 20, 20, but still think about that. That's their, that's their gore downie, right? Yeah, but it's great. It's all the solos of great. Love it. Oh my god

I'm coming with the secret. The whole album is amazing. What else was oh and also this is so I this was the Album in which he was playing much much more music for an intimate and interactive And I was in the audience And I butchered the question. That's it. Well documented several times. That's amazing. That's amazing.

Yeah. We all, we joked that, oh, we have two minute jams. I know, I know, I know. Five each because they're going to be so fast. Okay. So let's kick things up a notch here. My first song that's under two minutes in length that I love very much. I said, are you alright? I said, I must be fine, cause my heart's still beating Come and kiss me by the river side, yeah Bobby says, if I need no considerate cheating now We're here with a call

Another roll, probably, or am I the eyes for beeping? Can't keep away from the girl She's signs on my brain, need to have a meeting Can't think of anything to do, yeah My left brain knows that our love is fleeting She's just looking for something new, yeah I said, it must be fun, but it bears repeating now Okay, so this is the White Stripes. Love it. Fell in Love with a Girl.

I think this is like a minute fifty. We're under the two minute mark here. Their first single? So this is their third studio album. Already the third. But this is the breakthrough the breakthrough Yeah, this is when like CFM Y discovers the white stripes if you will so now what year approximately? 2002 okay. Oh, he was released as a single in February

2002 here so this is a song seemingly everywhere in the alt rock world I loved it very much and it got me to buy the album and I loved the album and then I love the white stripes and then the rest is it. What a fantastic band, the white stripes. Okay. This is the first single from the band to reach the U S alternative songs chart. It went to number 12. What's interesting is if you watch the video, if you go to YouTube and say, show me the video for fell in love with the girl, it's Lego. It's like a Lego video and I must have been the inspiration for have you guys seen the fan video that is basically the definitive video for circle circle dot dot by the wonderful Stu Stone and Jamie Kennedy. So I flipped it for Stu. It's really Jamie Kennedy. Yes, he's doing here. But circle circle dot dot, which was a big hit off. I'm'm gonna call it a hit a hit off of this blowing up CD I'm holding right now. Thank you to Mark wise blot forgive me the CD Although as Stu pointed out when they have you know, it's like a

Copy, but you know, he's still the kind of my CDs are like Bob will let's entire CD collection has pretty much marking on the bottom here But the video is also Lego just cut from the same cloth So you could argue in the world, in the words of Michael Williams, you can argue no fell in love with a girl, no circle, circle dot dot videos. So it's all connected here, but you might know the cover fell in love with a boy by Joss Stone, which I would have played, except we're not playing any bonus jams today. And of course you might know the weird Al Yankovic, angry boy, angry white boy Polka. He's got this in his medley and that's on the album poodle hat.

But I fucking, it's like even my heart rate just jumps when I hear fell in love with a girl. It's just so the manic delivery by Jack White and it's perfect. And it's all in under two minutes. Love it. Beautiful. Yeah. Now, see, now I realize we can do five jams cause look at how fast I can go. Here we go. Yeah. Okay. So Rob Proust set up your second jam. Okay. So now you're going back to my first jam. Right. Right.

I'm just confusing. If I could fall, I'm in my fifties. I might not be as quick as I used to be. So now back to number one. Okay. Right. And this one speaks for itself. Okay. Does that mean play it? Yep.

Okay. Well, it's one for the money, two for the show. speaks for itself. Okay, does that mean play it? Yep. Okay. I'm walking down, stepping my face Slamming my name all over the place We'll do anything that you wanna do But now, honey, lay off the limps, shoot and don't do Step on my blue suede shoes Well, you can do anything But take me off of my blue suede shoes Let's go, gang! Go, gang, go! Oh, walk the Oh, walk the dog. Rock the dog.

Well you can burn my house, steal my car, drink my liquor from an old fruit jar, or do anything that you wanna do. But I'm a honey, lay off of my shoes and no shoes. Step on my blue suede shoes. Alright, before you tell us about this jam, Ross, why you... I know, we can almost play the whole song, I guess, except I wanted to quickly, just because you talked about the Brian's Jones massacre real quick here, and it jumps on me in the live stream. But Tobias Vaughn was at their last show

and something happened at their last show, which was interesting. I'm trying to find it. But again, there's a user interface. Probably a fight or something. Okay, yeah. So it ended with the band having an onstage fight. Anton's storming off.

That's right, cause there's a movie. So I discovered this band in the last week and a half. There's a movie called Dig from like 2004. That's about the competition and the sort of the story of Brian Jonestown massacre and the Dandy Warhols. And they were friends and competitors. Which is similarly named bands, right? Because they're named after famous people. Then they change, you know what I mean? And both bands I sort of ignored until I started listening to their music, but their names sort of turned me off in the beginning. Yeah, but at least Andy Warhol, I don't think he had a bunch of people die on his watch

there. Shout out to the Campbell Soup Factory that was recently closed in New Toronto. I used to smell the tomatoes in the sky. Okay. Tell us about that because, okay, that's the Elvis version. Elvis Presley. But that's a Carl Perkins song. Carl Perkins.

Carl Perkins, as pointed out in the live stream the OG the OG Carl wrote and recorded it in 1955 and Elvis recorded it in 1966 the million dollar quartet did you see this yeah but he did on his first album so Elvis was 21 years old when he sang this and to me like when I started thinking about two minutes and under songs I was like early rock and roll was super short because they were pressing 45s and the whole idea of like commercializing pop music and all that stuff was was all brand new and it and I thought all these Songs are super short. I mean the The barometer when we were making music in the 80s was like well your song can't be longer than three minutes and 30 seconds

So we were like, oh my god, we got to make sure it's, what about Bohemian rhapsody? Well, exactly. There's a few outliers, but, but generally it's gotta be like three 30, but going back into the sixties and the fifties, two minutes was like, I'm not unusual. And it really feels like you've lived a whole lifetime in two minutes. Cause then I realized Beatle songs were short and bands had to learn how to construct a story and a sound in that short amount of time. And like, I'd never thought really the blue suede shoes was only two minutes long until I was started. What is the length of it? 159, 158. Okay. Okay. You're under the wire. Yeah, they're right on the wire, but that's why I thought, damn it, I'm including it because it's like the beginnings of rock and roll. And this is, and you know, songs are now shorter now,

like it's come full circle. They're not too many. Uh, yeah, some are. I mean, tick tock songs. So while there's that, yeah. But when I was programming, when I was music director for Virgin radio, uh, there was a lot of, especially can con like that would be deemed pop or urban or dancey that really tried to keep things not necessarily under two at two 30 was definitely if you had a can con song that didn't suck, that was two 30 was definitely if you had a can con song that didn't suck that was two 30 you were definitely on the list. You were definitely on the list. What about that blur song? What's the timing of that? Was that over? I think it's over two minutes, but not much. No, no, not much at all. There's something weirdly satisfying about a

short song. Oh, absolutely. It's almost like when you go now nowadays, like on broadway when they do musicals and a lot of shows are one act. It's 202. 202, that's amazing. 202, oh wow. Song Two by Blur. Wow. Which we're not kicking out officially

because it's too long, it's 202. Speaking of Broadway, my next selection, when we move on. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, when you finish your blue suede shoes. Yeah, that's all. I mean, I just, I'm just excited to know, to think about like the beginnings of

rock and roll, short songs, short attention spans, because it was a whole new world and people hadn't yet learned how to jam. You know, in the world of jazz, they were jamming the shit out of it. Right. In the fifties, that's what was all blues and would have been jamming and stuff. Yeah. But, but pop music was like, we need to be concise for the kids so that we can play more songs and we can sell more ads and like all that stuff. Right. So some more records, records, right. Yeah. And that's very punk, right. Cause then the Ramones, I mean, there's a hundred Ramones songs. Yeah. Kick out under two minutes, a lot of punk songs. Yeah. And I thought about the Ramones and I thought about, uh, you know what I thought about, uh, violent femmes, but a little too long blister in the sun's a little too long and American music's

long. But I'll be honest with you. When it came to the Ramones, I was like, do I love the room? That's the thing too. Like do I, I legit, like for me with the whole thing was, do I love this? And I've never put, I put Ramones on, on vinyl cause I have it. Um, cause like I inherited it. I got it, but I don't, I'm like, I play the Ramones if I'm DJing an eighties night or, but I just, I don't love it. That's why it's fun for us, I think, to bring these songs in because, because we're first of all, things on the top of our head are coming into the picture.

Now that I'm thinking, I'm thinking of a different song here that I just want to look up anyways. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, anyways, uh, yeah. So it, it really, for me, it became about what did we, I know it doesn't count Girls by the Beastie Boys, 213. Love Girls by the Beastie Boys, but it's 213, so it doesn't count. Under 2 was our rule. Did you know Sheena is a punk rocker? It's a whole 2 minutes and 49 seconds.

I just looked it up. That's too long. That's too long for a Ramone song. That's a long Ramone song. But Boots Creek Bop is over 2 minutes, I think. I think so, Yeah. Wow. Okay. Well, we uh, so far I don't want to spoil anything, but we might not hear any Ramones today. Okay. Set up this jam. Bob will let because it's so off the beaten path. I think it is. Yeah, I

guess it is for me. I don't even know it, but I know you love this. Yeah. So when I was a kid, my dad introduced me to Jesus Christ Superstar, the musical, but the Norman Jewish and film is what you know, and there was the brown original cast recording. That is Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, but I didn't have, I didn't discover that Murray head on Murray heads on that one, but I knew the movie and my dad would show me the movie and at a very young age and I got it pretty early. I went to Catholic school and I actually went to a pretty interesting Catholic school

was in grade seven. We actually studied the Brown vinyl version in our religion class. That's how I learned all about the life of Jesus. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Mr. superstar. Yeah, and actually the last time I was, so I'm always talking about being unemployed.

The last time I was unemployed, not the last time, one of the times I was unemployed, I was between Mix9999 and Proud One of the times I was unemployed, I was between mix ninety nine nine and proud FM again. I went back to acting and are trying to are doing some sort of theater and stuff, and I actually auditioned for a play that I I got hired for. I actually I landed a position at the old diesel play house with with with and I got paid, but my audition song was this song. with and I got paid, but my audition song was this song.

I think it's gonna be a little low in the mix here, so we'll have to pump it later. I dreamed I met a Galilean almost amazing man. He had that look you very rarely find. The haunting, haunted kind. I asked him to say what had happened, how it all began. I asked again, he never said a word. As if.

As if. He hadn't heard. And now just a break, brings it. And next, the room was full of wild and angry men. They seemed to hate this man. They fell on him and then disappeared again. Then I saw thousands of millions crying for this man. And then I heard them mentioning my name and leaving me the blame pilots

dream. Wow. Yeah, come on now. We should go to the piano. You guys enhancing jam. I love it. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So it comes in under two. It's a interesting thing. I love the line. I heard the mentioning my name like the way uh Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice or what to Maris would have done. The lyrics really makes pilot look like he didn't want to do what they did, which I thought was an interesting angle. And I'd be on it when you talk about songs under two minutes. I love that. So yeah, I think it's beautifully done. This Barry Denon is his name. He passed away in the 70 version. This is the 73. No, this is the 73. Yeah. This is the

film. It's Murray heads. Yes. What's that? I got specific. No, it's different. Yeah. No, I wanted. I didn't want the Brown, the Brown album. I wanted the film version of the Norman Jewison. Yeah, it's very, it's different. It's a limit. We talked about this before seeing superstar at the Danforth music hall and who's saying this song on the, it was Dennis, it's different. It's a little bit. We talked about this before seeing superstar at the Danforth music hall and who sang this song on that was Dennis DeYoung from sticks. Yeah. I saw Dennis DeYoung from sticks and it was the coolest experience to hear his voice to hear the voice of come sail away. Sing this song. And I got shivers. It was

so great. Um, I was, I saw, uh, uh, Carl, uh, Carl Anderson and Ted Neely do it with Irene Cara at the O'Keeffe center. Oh my God. I saw that show too. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about, yeah. So, um, we're nerds for Jesus Christ. Superstar is my favorite musical and I love that song and I like singing along to it. It's even though it's out of my range, I still like singing along to it. I love your passion for this very much. So passion of the

Christ. Shout out to Mel Gibson. Is he worth shedding? Oh no. Shout out to Jesus and a shout out to Ridley Feudal. But he got up anyways. I'm having another great day. So many Mel Gibson jokes here. Shout out to Jodie Foster.

Okay. Let me kick out my second jam. You guys ready? Do it. Good times for a change. Good times for a change See the look I've had can make a good man turn bad So please, please, please Let me, let me, let me Let me get what I want this time

Haven't had a dream in a long time To see the life I've had can make a good man bad So for once in my life let me get what I want Lord knows it would be the first time Lord knows it would be the first time One minute and fifty seconds in length. That is Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by the Smiths. Amazing. I know, I don't know if you cancelled him or whatever, but it still sounds great in the fucking cans.

Holy smokes now. Now, let's say about the length. Okay, so this was on Rough Trade. That was the label. And they had concerns about this song because it was so short. And Morrissey said, when we first played it to Rough Trade, they kept asking, where's the rest of the song? Morrissey, who characterized the song, a very brief punch in the face argued, lengthening the song would, to my mind, have simply been explaining the blindingly obvious.

So they held firm and a minute and 50 seconds means they get to be kicked out on this episode of Toast on Toronto Mite. Amazing. I wanted to say, when you started playing that, you made a reference to The Simpsons and how The Simpsons might be the bridge to the younger people. And my kid, my thirteen turning fourteen year

old showed me a recent episode where they have a Morrissey type character who used to be like a really cool lefty, you know, super every and now he's a big fat like he's it's Morrissey. It's a hundred percent. She's like, don't you think this when I'm like, do you eat you like it's like he sees a British's it's Morrissey. It's 100% and she's like, don't you think this funny? I'm like, do you eat you? I guess like he sees a British. It's hilarious. It is identical. So my eight year old is obsessed with the Simpsons and there are so many like cultural touch points that are, you know, the last three guys would toss out and she gets it enough like to kind of be

funny enough to them since yeah, it's like, Oh, that's the song that, uh, whatever. Like you name it. There's so many cultural touch points. I told her, I know, I told her, I said, well, this, they're doing this, this guy's named Morrissey's from this band called The Smiths. And she's like, oh, I didn't know.

But she still loved the episode. I love that. Which I thought was really interesting. Wow. Now, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is sort of an important movie to Gen X. I think we've all seen it. I loved it.

What did you guys think of Ferris Bueller's day? Oh my god, come on first. Come on. Who the fuck am I talking to you're in your 50s now? Yes, this is our shit Yeah, no, no, no. I yeah. Okay. So when Cameron's viewing the the Painting yeah a Sunday afternoon is the name of Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. Oh, yeah Okay, is by George looking at the painting an instrumental version of this song isatte. Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. He's looking at the painting, an instrumental version of this song is playing. Oh cool. That's cool.

I don't think I knew that. That's cool. But what's interesting, there's a musical theater sort of connection to that because that painting was what inspired Sunday in the Park with George by Steven Sondheim. Wow. Which had just come out around that time.

That's why you guys are here. Because I could never have dropped that fun fact. From Ferris Bueller to Steven Sondheim. That's why we're here. Okay. Honestly, keep him coming. Keep the fun, fun facts coming here. Uh, that's a great song. So I've kicked out two songs that are a minute 50 in length. I'm just pointing that out here and I'm loving this very much. I love the under two minute jam topic here,

even though we should have done a candidate thing, uh, you know, whatever, every episode of Toronto Mike does a candidate. I was going to say we play a lot of Canada. Well, we played tragically. Yeah, we are. Yeah. And we played Gordowney, which is super superstar. Okay.

Let me hear from Rob Proust, who's going to kick out a third jam because again, every episode of Toast, we kick out our three songs tied to the topic. Today we're doing five. I just want to repeat that. We're doing five songs. What say you about this? Here's what I have to say about my next actually we have three more to go, right? You got a buddy. So good in in lieu of

Who's Lou in don't call me Lou Shirley in lieu of adding other like surely with that TML X I met her for I know you were saying that early and I was gonna do that joke, but I know I think I was gonna do the same Joke in lieu of adding other other songs like mind blow kind of songs, what I felt was important to do for a couple of these short songs was to give context. Because these are songs that are very important to me in my life as a child listening to music, wanting to be a musician and being inspired by music.

So these short songs came right into my mind, but I felt what was important was to give you context to see how they develop and how they go. So what I've done is I made a little mix of this next song. So, okay, I'm gonna play it and then I'll yell at you later. Yeah, yell at me later. But what I've done is I've ended,

there's a song that's gonna go, you're gonna hear, it's gonna drop in about halfway through another song, okay. Is this legal, Bob? I think he's a, come on. I'm pushing. I'm going to play what you sent me. I haven't listened to it. No. So what I've done is I've started in a, in a, but halfway through a song and you're going to totally you're being me. Yeah, I'm totally, but you're going to see why. So there's a song that's going to go,

but the song that you're going to be, whatever the song is, it's under two minutes. Oh my God, this song is one minute and seven seconds. It is is fine yeah all right all right but in context you're gonna hear you're gonna hear part of a song it's fine then you're gonna hear the short song and then you're gonna hear where that goes from the short song just to show you the can i play yep i'm excited Is this why you're wearing that shirt? It all goes together. So what is this though? Like, to give it, like what is this? That's Freddie Mercury He's just an overgrown schoolboy

Let me tell you right Drunk with disease, you're the king of the seas Put your money where your mouth is Mr. No What's the fit on your back, part of the deal? Shock Death on two legs Tearing me apart Your back part of the deal Shock Death or too late Tearing me apart Death or too late

You never had a heart You never did You're all right from the start Insane, should we put inside You're a surrogate In a cesspool of pride Should we be made unemployed? Be yourself, darling boy If you feel good

I feel good Is that Mr. Dress Up? What's going on? I go out to work on Monday morning It's Monty Python? so mr. dress up that's Freddie Mercury I'm just an ordinary guy. Fridays I go painting in the loop. I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night. I'm gonna be lazy on a Sunday. Lazy on a Sunday.

Lazy on day Sunday Lazy all day Sunday On to the moon Alright man. Rob, I had no idea you liked Queen. Keep going. Keep going he says. Stop talking over my jam he says. Ok, you can fade it out now. This is the next song. Stop talking over my jam.

You can fade it out now. This is the next song. So that was it. That was the song. That was the song. Is that from Night of the Opera? That's Night of the Opera. And that's called Lazing? It's called Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon. I never thought. And what was the name of that painting in Ferris Bueller?

Sunday, A Day on the Grand Jete. So it wasn't called lazy none of the afternoon. So the reason I added those songs was because, so the first bit of the song was the opening of a Night of the Opera. It's called Death on Two Legs. Hard rock like song about, it was about their manager. It reminds me of Pearl Jam live album. I have a Night of the Opera on vinyl.

Death on Two Legs. I've got to listen to it more. But so you got this heavy metal rockin' thing that then builds and builds and builds and then goes into this little twinkly like music hall song for a minute and seven seconds and then back into Roger Taylor singing I'm in love with my car but the serious serious question so when Pearl Jam named their album live on two legs is that an homage to that? Probably not. Sure maybe maybe maybe right like I never even knew about this death on death on two legs

yeah so so this is the album, right? The album ends with Bohemian Rhapsody, the end of side two. Right. So for me as a 10 year old listening to this music. Which I teased earlier by accident. What? I said Bohemian Rhapsody.

Well yes of course. But I didn't know. No I know. I know. But for me as a musician, as a budding musician and as a listener, hearing this range of music, I think even a song like Lazing on a Sunday afternoon

was sort of what kept my ears open to the idea of musical theater even. Cause you're at that point at 10, you're classically trained, you're conservatory. I was taking piano for a few years. I was already wanting to be in a band. The idea of being in a band, this is what was sparking.

Who was it who called you a genius and then I corrected them and said you were a prodigy? Who was that? Do you remember? Was that Cousin Janow? Was last night was it cousin Jano? Maybe somebody called Rob Bruce. Uh, I was one of my favorite things that these events is somebody called Rob Bruce, a genius. And I said, well, he's actually a prodigy. He's not a genius cause geniuses are smart. Wow. You're fine. You know, for a guy who has like, you know, like, and I'm saying this as a guy who is this like for guys like you and me who have no skills like I

Prodigy to me is more impressive. Like you are incredibly gifted. Yeah in this one area here. You are a prodigy He's walking prodigy to me sound is like there's still those things to come. Yeah, you're a prodigy I feel like you are you're about to become something Mozart was a prodigy. I feel like you are, you're about to become something. Mozart was a prodigy. Rob Prince is a prodigy. Mozart was a genius. Yeah, he was a genius for sure. So, so musical genius, cause he was a prodigy. No, I think I don't, what's the Princess Bride.

I don't think that word means what you think it means. It's debatable. I don't think that word means, yeah, that's what I think. And then there was that band prodigy too. I love band, oh my God. Oh, I think the singer just passed away a few years ago. Yeah, that's what I think. And then there was that band prodigy too. I love being. Oh my God. Just passed away a few years ago. Yeah. Firestarter firestarter. Yeah. Fuckin that was a Friday night. I'm going to plug my club gig

next Friday night. I actually have a club gig next Friday night at ground control. Wiki Wiki. Yeah. I'm I'm doing a set next Friday, July 5th. fifth, amazing, no cover, no guest list, just prodigy, okay, come and see Bob with a place in part of the r two D two. What was your name again? R Q, E Q, but they're doing the bingo bob thing right now, but it's fine. Does you hear the episode of Chris Pack? No, Chris Pack came over with his wife. Yeah, long time weather network person, Kim Mcdonald, and what the color person, weather specialist person, Kim McDonald, I don't know what they call a person,

weather specialist, Kim McDonald, and they each kicked out five jams. And there was a jam that was kind of dedicated to Martin Streak and talked about working on the traveling road show. Yeah, on the road show. And video road show. And I feel like there was a lot of interesting CFNY.

Yeah, I know of Chris Pack, I never met Chris Pack. You never met him, because you're different eras. I have different eras, but yeah, so next Friday night, I'm actually I know of Chris pack. I never met Chris pack Adam. Different areas, different areas. But yeah, so next Friday night I'm actually doing a set with a DJ Lazarus. So if you're a Queen West person, of course, of course, yeah, Lloyd, Lloyd Warren, I believe is really anyways. Yeah, I'm going to do a set. There's an homage to my Friday night gig, which was sinful Fridays, which I did a new a New Year's Eve gig with

brother Bill there. I did. I did a chicken swarm. I used to DJ it and then I took over him chicken swarm. Yeah and anyway, so I did friday nights there for like three years. If I five twenty queen street west, this is a shop shopper drug mart now and we're just down the street from velvet underground and savage garden and all those fun places and playing you know that kind of early two thousands rock the kind of stuff you would have heard on Saturday nights on club one or two. If you were at home and I've been practicing good, I haven't played me. Yeah, yeah, I got the equipment out the other day and you know, I used to DJ with all CDs and the ideas we're bringing were supposed

to do well. It's an homage to DJing with CDs, so I'm going to be, I'm going to be spinning some of that stuff. You'll hear the prodigy for sure. Okay. So it's like a Russian doll thing. It can't maybe Rob Bruce is a prodigy and a genius prodigy. The official definition is a person, especially a young one endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities. Okay.

But of course many prodigies are also geniuses. You might, maybe I would call Rob Bruce a child genius. I just think when I hear prodigy, I definitely attach a younger age. Well, but I've been around for a long time. Like that's the stupid part of like the life that I've lived is that like when our first album came out. Well, you were like 15.

I was 15 when our first album came out. So that word definitely got stuck into some reviews. Yeah, you were probably for sure. Well, that CBC clip I played on when you made your debut. Exactly. They called you a prodigy. Yeah, and I was only clip I played on your debut. Exactly. They called you a prodigy. Yeah. And I was only 15.

So it's funny to talk about it now because I'm so old. But I think if I think back to those days, I'm like, well, yeah, I was young and I didn't think it didn't matter to me that I was young, but everybody else wanted to talk about it. Right. And well, yeah, cause that's all you know. You don't know any different.

And I didn't you leave the band before you were 20? I turned 20. You turned 20. And I had a midlife crisis. I was like, I need to do something else. Thank God it wasn't a midlife crisis. I've been in this band for five years. I need to move on.

That's so crazy. That is wild. And Honeymoon Sweet was calling. Later. A few years, right? No, nine months later. Oh, no, nine months. It's like giving birth.

But it was counting. Just dating, right? No, I know, it was all in the same year. And nine months later. Yeah, Honeymoon Sweet. Honeymoon Sweet was born. No, they were already around. I don't know.

All right. Okay. Now I have a question. When we kick out these jams on toast, do we have a rule where artists can only be played once? Like can- I don't hope not. I've played Pearl Jam in almost every one of my- No, no, no.

I meant in the same episode. Oh. I meant in the same episode. No, I don't think we've ever had that. Like in theory, like if I said, okay, we're going to kick out under two minute jams. Could I play five Ramones songs? If you wanted to. Okay? I think so. I just I just your show man Yeah, but my understanding is we could kick out more as long as it yeah, if there's no rule is we can't kick out the same

Song. Yeah, that was kicked out before right? Okay, or we write if if the rule doesn't exist then just make it up Yeah, we make it up. If you don't like it then change it. Yeah, what do you have to say Bob? I'm looking at the next jam and I'm thinking about when shock G passed away and you came on Toronto mic to talk about it because you and I are cut from the same class. It came to say this. Yeah. So this album came out in 1990 and I can't believe I keep talking. Yeah. I can't believe I, um, I needed on five to have a final, the full album. This is sex packets by digital underground. This is sex packets by

digital underground. This is the album and there I thought I might get in trouble for this one because it is a oh no, yeah, you have that you have the the packet man. We have the it's a twelve inch do what you like. I was a huge do what you like fan. Yeah, I love this album. It was I was 14 and the Humpty dances what everybody knows, but when you listen to this album, it's so derivative of that seventies black psychedelic music sly in the family stone. George Clinton. It's and it's the samples are insane as fuck and amazing.

So, you know, and shock G passed away. Shock G was also Humpty hump. He was also Humpty Hum he was also in blow he was also the piano man by the way you're talking about the song that we're about to hear yeah play it play it yeah so this is so this actually I thought I might get in trouble because this is a prelude okay you might get fucking in trouble sharpening my knives over here it's a song excuse me trooper weoper. We have been needed in the past. He's never heard this. OK, he is a panel man, so he should listen. That's what I mean. It's on a rap album. Bob Ray invented hip hop in this city.

I just want you to know I learned that on the Bob Ray episode of Toronto Night. No Bob Ray. Listen to the song! It's only fifty seven goddamn seconds. You only on my birthday. Don't yell at an older man. So

it is really so that's it. Fifty seven seconds. It's called the packet prelude. You know, that owes a lot to Prince as well, right? Oh, even that little sped up voice sound right there. That's so so the packet man. So digital underground was shock G and money be a shock G. He passed away in 21 and I came on the podcast to talk about because this album the album sex packets is one of my favorite albums of all time and that's Mike's as well. I love it. And what's interesting is shock G played these characters like Humpty Humpty and but he also played the piano man. People like he played the piano on all of these things and playing him playing it. He's the lead rapper of the band and he played this. He he he, uh, this album, like I wanted to include, I haven't, I don't think I've ever been able to talk about, I mean, we've talked about when he passed away, but just how like cool this album is, like from beginning to end, it's got like these crazy, they, these, these crazy little, um, sketches in it almost. Um, and the music, and I know you have

a hip hop thing when it comes to lyrical content and whatnot, but this like they have a song which samples love to love you. Yeah, Donna summer and it's it's a freaky fucking song. It's a great tune man. I love listen to more of it, but as an as an adult who has a 14 year old now, and when I was like 13, 14 listening to this, I'm like, what are my parents thinking? Right? Like, well, like this, these songs were dirty. Some of these songs, but there were, you learned they've become very sexy. I think that's

a sexy song. It's a little, it's, and I, uh, that's what made me think of Prince too. Yeah, for sure. Cause yeah, his music. So yeah, it's very sexy packets. It is called sex packets, which by the way, it's a kind of a concept album and I didn't kind of didn't realize this yeah that actually it was a concept album based on the something called G S R a genetic suppression relief antidotes, which is a pharmaceutical substance is produced in the form of a large glowing pill, the size of a quarter, which comes in condom size packaging and is allegedly was allegedly developed by the government to provide

astronauts with a sexually satisfying experience. It's this is the whole thing. And he wrote this whole album on sex packets and how, and how he was, they would deal with sex packets on the stream. Yeah, it's a crazy album. That's really cool. Oh, it's so crazy. Wow. Love it so much. No, love digital underground. And that's a two pockets has started to talk about later. Uh, by the way, shadow song, same song, right? And, uh, just shout out to attic records I've had on, uh, uh, they both passed away now, but, uh, attic records distributed that album. That's cool. I would, uh, kill for a vinyl copy of that album. Wow.

So I only have the 12 inch. Yeah. What you like. I have a nose job and kiss you back the 12 inches from the other albums and the second album, uh, sons of the P, but I, I, I would love to have a final copy of that album. Anyone can help out Bob would let his birthday. Maybe we'll chip in here in a in a half. Yeah right. We're almost there a lot of people hidden 50 here. Okay here's my third jam. Fell in love with a girl. I have a type, okay? Yeah, yeah, we know. We know. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! I've got a bad smile I realize the taste of my home, home, home I'm out, I'm out, I'm out I'm out, I'm out, I'm out Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Wow. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. Steve Albini passed away recently. We talked about that in the last toast here, but he, uh, of course he, I put in quotes here, air quotes produced in utero. And this is of course, uh, Tourette's by Nirvana. This is from in utero, which was released in 1993. Amazing. You know, the whole fucking album, the funny little anecdote from this, so they record this in February 93 in Minnesota and then the label gets it, right?

So this is coming off Nevermind. You ever heard of Nevermind? Heard of it. I don't know, that was a little hit. So Nevermind. Now this is, of course, this is a Steve Albini thing and they're trying to get a more abrasive sound or whatever. Kurt Cobain wants it to sound a little more...

Like bleach. Yeah, exactly. A little more like that, but that's not commercial sound, of course. So the label gets this and they're like, oh, they're like really concerned. It's not particularly commercial. A lot of it sounds a bit lot like that and they almost I believe the story goes that they were considering that not releasing it because of how on commercial and abrasive it sounded the in utero. I love in utero in euros a short album. I feel like when I bought it, I bought it opening day and I remember feeling oh, it's

only 40 something minutes. Like I felt like, oh, I want where's the rest of it? This is like the Smith story. Where's the rest of it? And in fact, a lot of the singles like all all apologies, heart shaped box, penny royalty, the singles were all like, um, like remixed by another producer. This guy's Scott lit just to make it a little more commercial sounding. But this song clocks in. Are you ready at one minute and 35 seconds to rats on the final studio album by Nirvana. Super cool. Yeah. The interesting I've heard some great stories about that album and how it was made obviously with Steve LBD passing away for me what I I always think kind of gets buried is that

wasn't the album wasn't doing well it was it wasn't it wasn't commercially it was doing okay single is hard big single was Hard Shape Box. And the videos were doing fine, but it wasn't critically acclaimed. No Smells Like Teen Spirit. Yeah, the critics didn't embrace it. And I think that probably had a lot to do with Kurt's death, to be honest.

Like it was not a loved album. Well, there was a shift happening in radio at that point too, right? Like between what was getting called alternative and geek. Well, they had the post grunge era was starting with the smashing pumpkins and the bushes and even collective soul, which is super poppy. Yes.

They were trying to find the poppier way to move forward to sell more records in their own way too. But man, in fact, if you hear on the radio, all apologies, you never hear the in utero version. Like you always hear the unplugged version. So it's like, that's the version you hear. It was like it was safer, right? Or something.

It just was a sweeter or gentle. But I mean, I'm a big in utero fan and thought it was a great follow up, but not nearly as commercially successful as Nevermind. And that was it. Yeah. You just said Bleach and Nevermind and- Three albums. That's it. Three and out.

Hit it and quit. And then we all bought, okay, we all bought incesticide, right? Betweenmind and three albums. That's it. Three and out hit it and quit. And then we all bought. Okay. We all bought incest aside right between the two and three there. Do you ever hear? Did you, do you remember the first time you heard, you know, you're right. That the lost track. Yeah. So there was so I and brother bill played it on the edge. Yeah. And I was in my car. I was in my 1975 Buick century and, um, and, and, and I, I turn the car on and the songs playing yeah and I'm like holy fuck. This is this is after years after it was good. I mean, oh, it was really good. That reminds me of hearing get back again. I'll cleaned up just very similar. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, it's fucking good.

A band I loved that lead singers dead and aren't making new music. This is a great old thing that I get to have now. And that was like, you know, you're right. And kudos to brother bill, Neil Morrison, a lot of brother bill. I know, right? I still, I caught the end of it. And I was like, that has to, he comes back, back sells it. That's the new, you know, we just found it was never releasing the greatest hits album, that black one. And he was like, that's so good. Let's play it again. And I was

like, Oh, this before I was in radio. I remember like, that's amazing. Yeah. You know, you're go. This is before I was in radio. I remember like that. That's amazing. You know, you're right. And there, you know, we talked a lot about Gordowney who died at 53, but man, Kirk Cobain's 27 years old. And what did that catalog he left us with? I still listen to a lot of Nirvana. Yeah.

Wow. Okay. Amazing. Onto the fourth jam. We never get to say that on toast. I know. That's right. Here we go. All right, Rob, Bruce, set up your fourth jam. I'm in territory say that on tour. I know. That's right. Here we go. All right, set up your fourth jam. I'm in territory.

And we're gonna cook with gas here. Okay. This one has a lead in song to give context as well. So you could, I thought we weren't allowed to do that. Well, I didn't know that we weren't allowed. I was clear. We said that from the beginning. Do you notice none of us are playing bonus jams?

We said we would only do the five, two minutes. Yeah, I know. It's a good thing you're a good person and so good looking. I guess I called it context. So you can start playing it and I'll talk about it. And I'll tell you as we're listening. So it's the Beach Boys. Okay, so this is an album called Smile,

Friends, sorry, Friends. So the late 60s Beach Boys, all their songs, they had all these short songs that they were sort of weaving together. And I felt like I wanted to bring the context for my choice of a song, which is like way under two minutes a minute 20 seconds and it's true Bob because we said five jams no bonus cuz it can be under two minutes each but he's found a way to take these two minute under

under two minute jams and make them like four or five minutes or something not my last jam was 57 seconds I know so I'm making up for that last time I mean that that extra time so yeah it's just I consider it the leading because the context of short songs Which I think is important because the weaving together is what makes you realize that a song is only a minute or two minutes Okay, but okay, so this is not your jam This is not my jam, but you don't need to play as much because we do it 10 seconds of the leading jam I know give us an idea. I think it was enough. I stepped out of my comfort zone. I think we should kick him out of the fucking basement.

No, we can't do that. You've lost the live stream. Nobody's left. Let me pop in and see what's going on over there. I mean, this is the song that doesn't count. It's called Little Bird and it's Dennis Wilson. You got to hear the Beach Boys jam with the Grateful Dead. It was at the Fillmore East in 1971.

Theremin jamming and all. That's from Canada, Kev. Of course it is. And these songs are so short that like, we don't realize how much it's kind of going by anyways. And actually my song that's gonna start reminds me of your Gord Downey song. Oh cool. It's related.

Okay. Wow. It's about to start. This piece right here, Brian Wilson contributed. On the album, it goes right into it? Right into it. Okay. You'll hear it. I like that, I like that. One second. And these were bits and pieces of snippets of songs that Brian Wilson wrote. Okay. You'll hear it. I like that. I like that.

And these were bits and pieces of songs that Brian Wilson wrote. I'm gonna turn it up and shut up. But YYZGORD points out the fact that you're too nice to disqualify because I think Bob and I would have our knives out if you were less nice a person. That's all I'm gonna say. Basement Dweller wants to get lunch.

So here it comes. Bring us something. I got leftover penne upstairs It's all so deep within Oh Your life is beautiful A seed becomes a tree A mountain into a sky This life is meant to be Oh This life is meant to be Oh, now is the time

Life begins Take that simple path and Love will set you free Live in harmony and Love will set you free You know, you know you are Be still and know you are You know, you know you you are, be still and know you are. Come on, it's beautiful, isn't it? It is. You treat your music like a classical radio station.

You like, you wait right to the very- I was gonna say, I kind of gave you the signal. Let's hear you talk over it. You're like, no. No, no, he's waiting. It's like listening to 96.3. First time I went to see a string quartet play like a live performance. And the coolest thing to me was when they ended No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not. But you can appreciate all ways to do it, right? But that moment of silence sometimes.

So the Beach Boys at that point were heavily into transcendental meditation. And it was the Maharishi, Mahashyogi was the dude. I think it was the same guy who the Beatles. George Harrison. We're gonna say same guy, right? Right, Mike Love, because Mike Love was with the Beatles in Rishikesh, you know, doing all that stuff.

And the Beach Boys were all into it as well. Is that Mike Love singing? That's Dennis Wilson. So that's Dennis Wilson, sorry. With Brian playing the organ. That's a really funeral home. Yeah, and that's all it is So that's Dennis Wilson, sorry. Brian playing the Oregon. Yeah. And that's all it is. It's just Brian on the Oregon and Dennis who produced it. Uh, I don't remember. Probably Brian. I was going to say, yeah, I,

what I love about it is the rawness in his voice. It's so like, it's a, it's a good way. Yeah. It's, it's just, it's, it's absolutely real. I feel like it's a one take. Yeah, probably. It's probably a one take. Dennis's voice. And it's, it's's a, it reminds me a little bit. You said it reminds you of Gord downing. Yeah. It reminds me of the final track on nevermind actually a hidden track. No, underneath the gray, it's okay. Something in the way. Oh, something in the way and butch vague talked about which I kicked out on a

way. Oh, something in the way. And butch Vig talked about, which I kicked out on a toast. Yeah. I think and butch Vig talks about how he literally had, he wasn't, um, in the studio. He's lying down. So that, that has that same intimate quality to it. So, so how, so how old were you when you discovered the song? Oh my God, I was, it was in the early 2000s actually. Oh really? 2002. I went on a Beach Boys discovery journey

and I had just moved to New York and it was the early days of like downloading when, you know, before any streaming or anything. I was finding these Beach Boys albums and reading like old Rolling Stone, 1960s articles about them. And I was like, holy shit, I didn't know that they had this late 60s era

is the most beautiful creative music. Mike, do you remember when you, like I remember when I finally realized like all these lists, the greatest albums of all time, and Pet Sounds is always on it. Do you remember actually listening to it and going, oh, okay, I get that. Cause I have a moment where I remember that.

Because they weren't part of my world. My beach boys was fucking Kokomo. Exactly, and they ate, right? I know. Do you have that? Mine was the surf rock. I knew all like get around. Yeah. And surf in USA. Surf in USA. I knew that too. And Kokomo. That whole era of the surf songs. That's my first beach before Kokomo. I suppose. Yeah. I would have known that too.

But I didn't know how then seen pet sounds like Where he had the spaceship and and dr. Johnny fevers in this movie Oh my god, I don't like the sound of the navigator. I want to say I get around with that big jam. I had I watched that I don't be that's a great track I get around with a big jam. I had, I watched that. I don't be. That's a great track. That's the album is friends. Cause I have smile.

Yep. Like the, the smiley smile. Yeah. I, that's all like, I have never really listened to it to be completely honest. I'm telling you friends. And actually the, the, the information page about it says that there's five songs under two minutes.

Wow. So that first bit I played, which was the illegal track. So you mentioned Rolling Stone magazine. Yes. So quickly, here's a quote. This is from almost famous, a movie I fucking love. Yes. So Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was my favorite actor of all time, showed up to funeral. I love that guy. Yeah. She has really few home. He played Lester bangs in almost famous and his quote is,

do you know the letter by the box tops is a minute and 58 seconds long means nothing, but it takes them less than two minutes to accomplish what it takes. Jeff Rohtal hours. So true. It's so true. Great. Wow. So shadow to the under two minute jams. I almost played the, uh, the letter, which I knew is a parody single called Vanna, pick me a letter. And I had it on a 45. I had a 45 bell my body. Yep. Then I pick me a letter. No one does it any better. I dream about you. And that was of course a parody. Did anybody do, do we have any Beatles songs in this mix today?

I don't have any. I don't want to spoil anything. Okay. I don't. Okay. I will admit I don't. I won't. Bob's going to confess, but I want to also shed out Mike Grigotsky who was at TMLX 15 last night. Cause as you were listening to that, I just got a link. He wrote about me on LinkedIn and I got to say this guy, I produced two podcasts for Esri Canada and I've long told the wonderful Mike Grigotsky that there should be an Esri geography corner in every episode but you know, they'd have to break out the Benjamins, but

what a great I'm looking at this photo of us. He took a selfie of me and sorry Yeah, me and Mike Grigotsky last night and Grigotsky is, yeah, it's a good photo cause he took it on me. What a tremendous supporter Mike Grigotsky is. And it was lovely. He biked over yesterday and he says he's going to come to Christie pits on July 7th to check out the Maple Leafs game with me. But what a sweetheart.

So I wanted to shout out Mike Grigotsky and now I want to kick out a Bob Jam because this was on my list of five and I took it off when Bob. Oh, you didn't have to do that. Well, no, I, I didn't mind. I had like eight songs. I needed to trim something anyways. Yeah. But set it up 1996, no code pearl jam have to do it. I am. If I didn't, I wouldn't be true to my character. Just play it. If I didn't, I wouldn't be true to my character. Just play it. Ha ha ha ha. Shout out to Neil Young who canceled his show.

I was going to go to that show. I had tickets for Michelle and I. Yeah. Yeah. I make a walk to walk and close my eyes for a minute and go I make a ride out to the office taking reason by Stop at the supermarket, people stand like I'm a dog I'm on the loose end I know I'm on the loose end I long to die loose end

Open the fresh No, I know life is wild It sounds like lemon Yeah, a little bit I can hear that. I fucking love this song. They actually just had to cancel the show as well. Eddie's had a cold for a while and they were in Tottenham, I guess they're in London, I guess. They had to cancel.

Oh, the home of the hot spurs. Yes, the Tottenham hot spurs. They had to cancel a show. So that's called Lucan from No Code. So No Code is my favorite Pearl Jam album. If I had to say what my favorite. That's wild. That's wild.

I love No Code very much, but I wouldn't do No Code as. I was my favorite because it's it's because it was the first one that was really strident. It was really out there. It didn't sound like there was a whole bunch of stuff and it's the album where they almost broke up. It's one. You know, they really almost broke up. The guys in the band were working with with Neil Young on Mirror Ball, his album. But this this what I liked about this when you found out the story. So it's called Lukan and it's named after Matt Lukan, Matt Lukan of the

Melvins and Mudhoney and Lukan. But so the song is actually both going to Lukan's house. So it's, I'm going to Lukan's is the thing. And actually the interesting part is so, Matt Lukan actually is a little thing. He's a better had a stalker and he was a famous story that he had a sucker that would come by his house. It was freaking him out, so he'd start to avoid his house and he just come over to my place, so I'm going to Luke in he would just sit around and we'd drink

and we'd talk about a stalker problem. Then we just like drunk, get drunk and throw darts and that's what this is about that combination. Yeah, I do it all the time. She come to my back here at some time and it's also about you know, Eddie has said like how a kitchen is a bit of a sanctuary and as a person who is married a into a half Irish family, the kitchen, Kaylee, the kitchen parts of going to Newfoundland in a week and hanging out with some of the kitchen. It really is something special. And they saw in that, in that, uh, minute, whatever it is, uh, is talking about the, the safety of a kitchen. And even though it's, and he's also, so they've, they

have another version of it, which if we did mind blows, I chose not to, because we aren't doing other songs, Rob, I don't think my songs are mind blows. Um, he's, they've actually, he's done it and set it with strings and they do it live. Yeah, they slow it right down and they turn it into a three and a half minutes. Yeah, I need to. Yeah, they turn it into like a three minute song. Is there a recorded version? Oh yeah. Um, no, only live like youtube probably some. Oh yeah, there's no studio version. Okay, there's live versions of it. Absolutely. Yeah. So can I talk about Mudhoney for a second?

Sure. So Matt Lucan bassist for Mudhoney here. So I'm very interested in grunge. You might know this. I'm a big grunge. Sorry, what? Big grunge in here. Oh, no snooze.

Absolutely, but I'm always interested in like the origin of like, when does like that mixture of like rock and punk and everything become grunge or whatever. And a lot of like people will say, go to the Mudhoney song, Touch Me I'm Sick, okay? Touch Me I'm Sick, people are like, oh, that's the first grunge song, listen to this song, this is what leads to grunge or whatever,

and Touch Me I'm Sick is fine and all, but I'm here to tell you though, my favorite Mudhoney song is Overblown. I fucking love Overblown. Is that on a single soundtrack? Over, yes. Yes. I love Overblown.

Me too. By Mudhoney, and Mudhoney, which is, you know, never reached the levels of the, all those other big grunge bands we referenced. But do you love it because it was, it's the right sound for me. And so I mean, again, if we were doing bonus jams here, cause I had Luke in my list, I would have probably kicked it. I actually, if I'm going to, we're going to talk about the first grunge song. I think it's a pixie song myself. Uh, shout out to Steve Albini.

Yep. I really do. But, uh, anyhow, No, no pixies, no Nirvana, at least not sounding like that. That's for absolutely sure. But yeah, I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song.

I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. I think it's a good song. myself. Uh, shout out to Steve Albini. Yeah, I really do. But anyhow, no, no, no pixies, no Nirvana, at least not sounding like that. That's for absolutely. Yeah. But anyhow, uh, but honey, as one of those bands that I w I don't think I was cool enough to get into, you know, I really wasn't. And I, I think I will get a green river. Like would you, would you get down with green river as a Pearl Jam head? I try, I listened to it. Yeah. I mean, I had the CD, but it wasn't something

I put in my five disc changer on a regular basis. But I can still remember taking and listening to trying to get into Andy Wood, the band that Pearl pro jam was before like would wait what they called my god. How can I remember this? Jesus Christ? It's called Mother Love Mother Love. I and but it was still very much. And if you look at the videos of the of then it was still very much kind of a glam rocky kind of look yeah yeah yeah and sound and I never got

but Pearl Jam covering it with Eddie doing their songs like Chloe, Chloe Dancer and the Crown of Thorns. Amazing. Pretty damn good. And now I'm just thinking because I love Alison chain so much, but the song would like just to fucking when I hear the first chords of wood or whatever, I'm and it's all about the single soundtrack. Well, that's what I was going to say. Like a soundtrack. So for me, that was my entry into that. I love drown. Yeah.

Like, oh my God, all those. All there's a jam we should have put out eight and a half minutes of drown at the smashing pumpkin song. But also mixed into that single soundtrack was Anna Nancy Wilson as the love mongers doing a Led Zeppelin song, which was like the missing Misty Mountaintop battle of evermore battle of evermore. I could run as Mike now. But but also there's a yeah, there's even Hendrix is on that soundtrack.

And it's so good. And isn't there a song that has Cornell solo? I was going to say the Cornell song is also done by Pearl Jam changes, changes, right? Yeah. It's like with two different lyrics, right? Amazing. Yeah. And one of the greatest Pearl Jam songs of all time in my humble opinion, state 11 fucking trust. Yeah. State 11 trust breath of both those. Yeah. So when you guys heard at that, when you guys were that age and heard singles, like heard that soundtrack, you already listening to all these bands as well, or was that like a gateway into that world? We were already, I mean, I would have 91 is a 10 and yeah, nevermind. So in 90, I'm in 90, I am starting high school and I love

digital underground and bell bib bib de vo and dance hall music because I grew up with all Jamaican kids and I love like and Euro dance crap because I grew up with Portuguese guys and then then I get to high school and I still remember a band we had a talent show and they played smells like teen spirit and I'll be honest I didn't I maybe seen it on a much music and that was, and night. So yeah, 90 to 91, it was like it switched and I still love hip hop. And my last, my last selection will, will reflect that. But yeah, night by singles comes out. And I was actually just,

we the soundtracks are such an interesting thing that I don't think have an impact that they used to know at that time. They still did. Oh my God. Single soundtrack. I was literally thinking about the my girl soundtrack because I heard the fifth dimension really the other day. Yeah. Like my song here will lead to some soundtrack chatter because I know this song from soundtracks. Okay. So this is your fourth. This is my fourth of five. Bring tea for the tiller man, steak for the son, wine for the woman who made the rain come Seagulls sing your hearts away as wild sinners sing the children play Oh Lord, how they play and play for that happy day, for that happy day.

Come on, that's amazing. Beautiful. One minute, one second. Amazing. Tea for the Tiller man by Scott cat Stevens. This is from the album of the same name Released in 1970 November 1970 and you talked about soundtracks Have either of you seen the movie Harold and Maude? Yes fucking great. Yes. It's amazing fucking great Okay, so it's like Harold Maude. I fucking love that music perfectly kind of dark humor deal

And then that songs full of cat Stevens that song's full of a cat Stevens. It's like a loaded with cat Stevens. Where did the children play miles? It is a cat Stevens songs, isn't it? Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. But wasn't it also for like the theme for a TV show? Well, okay. Yes. Extras. Okay. So that's right. So I'm just going to shout out, uh, Harold Amad, T for the Tillerman is a prominently featured in that. And the cast Stevens is all over that movie. And it's a wonderful movie. movie Harold Amad you guys should see it is from 1971 and yes extras the closing title track for that sitcom was this song one minute cat Stevens boom boom shadow to maxi priest who covered wild world that's

right nice big baby oh baby baby okay one jam left each we are going a little overtime because we had a lot to talk about TMLX 15 But what would you like to say before I kick out your final jam Rob Bruce? Oh, I broke the rule There was no rule. Yeah, you literally broke the rule on four of your five jam There's a context. That's a context again, so you can start playing it and I'll talk Okay, you give a lot of content. Yeah, like you can once again. It's my it's the 10 seconds of content It's the same band. This song is just over the limit. Oh, I know this.

Do you? Okay. Yeah, I love this song. Yeah, this is Queen. This is- But my song comes out of this song. So it's sort of like, it's kind of similar to my other one as well, because Queen always went from these hard rock extremes

and these heavy metal extremes to Freddie's like music hall, you know, gentle songs, whatever. This is called Stone Cold Crazy. This is not my song, but I can keep talking over it. Cause this is your song. No, no, this is two minutes and 13 seconds. This is what I don't like about what you're doing here. I'm sorry.

Most of the music we play are not your fucking choice. Like you're confusing everybody. It's, it's against the rules. The song itself is only a minute and seven seconds. You're gonna have to like really be like, you'd be much more. Two songs by the same artist. Like twice in the same artist. That's what you were alluding to.

Did you know that I was doing it yeah, yeah you did the titles That's what you're leading me on. Yeah Yeah, because I don't think that's allowed is it not both maybe we didn't explicitly say that we didn't I called crazy It's great song. You know who did this song at the Freddie Mercury tribute? Metallica, but this is not your jam right? This is not your gym. No, but it's Tribute on Metallica. But this is not your jam, right? This is not your jam. No, but it is jam.

So what the fuck am I spending five minutes listening to? So that we can talk. We're just talking over it. We're talking over it. I want to give context. I don't understand why you can't just play 10 seconds of the song leading into your song. Because here it comes, here it comes.

Here it comes. Oh, now you have to turn. It's coming up. But listen to this. Listen to how cool this is and where it goes. The important thing is where the song goes. So for a minute and seven seconds, coming out of this changed my life. Well, it'll change your life.

So these are again, back to back on the vinyl? Back to back on the record. Yep. Which album? Sure, Heart Attack. 1973. I have all this on vinyl from the Q107 library. I gotta listen to it.

It's coming up. It's coming up. But you've got to enjoy the sharp turn it takes. Here it comes. Interesting. So we haven't got your jam yet? So you're giving context is what you're saying. Yes, context.

That's a lot of context though. That's a, it's a lot of context. I'm sorry. But I- So is this your song now? Nope. No, not yet. Keep going, keep going, yeah.

Here it comes. Touch your nose when it comes. Okay, turn it up now cause it's coming. Oh no, not yet. Okay. No, it's still a good song. Well I'm fucking perused. Rule breaker. Okay, turn it's still a good song. Robb fuckin' Prudence.

Rule breaker! Okay, turn it up, here it goes. Only tears to dwell upon I dare not say as the wind must blow So a love is lost, a love is won Love is one Go to sleep and dream again Soon your hopes will rise and level From all this gloom, life can start anew And there'll be no crying soon that extreme, that heavy metal. No, I like the context. I think that's nice, but you don't need that much context. No, I know. But if I just gave you this little song, you'd be like, oh, that's a really pretty little ballad written by Brian May and sung by Freddie.

And you don't get the idea of the short songs that exist in a world of larger pictures of music. It's like a symphony. It's like classical music that has like movements, right? Where you start with this and then you go to that. I hear you. However, we all know we will rock you into We Are The Champions. I didn't even do that. It's the. However, we all know we will rock you into we are the champions.

I didn't even do that. It's the exact same thing. I know, it's true. So I'm not gonna say that they use that a lot, but they use that a lot, let's be honest. And it's great, and it's great, but that's exactly what I'm thinking as a stone cold crazy. You know, that stone cold crazy,

the last 10 seconds would have given us the same vibe. But we gotta sit sit in it. I mean, it's not even your jam. That's the thing. Okay. It is. You know what? And I can appreciate being X amount of years old

and hearing it and going, that's insane. You guys don't care. No, no, I'm not. I mean, I know. No, I know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no romantic traffic for no. Jesus Christ.

No, I appreciate it. I just gonna say not the right venue. No. Happy birthday. I love it. I love it. No, I do. I totally get it.

My dad was a huge queen fan as well. Me and your dad. We have a lot in common. I know a lot about Queen and I listened to. And it's very theatrical. Like it's very musical theater. That's why I can say, Oh, Rob Proust likes Queen.

No wonder he likes all this right Broadway. You pick in superstar to me was like a nice shock as well because like I didn't expect that. Yeah, well, and I think that's what I, I, I like to be, if I'm going to be honest when I'm thinking about, I want to state, well, there's two things I want to do. I want to try to say as true to the idea as possible, but then if I can, I want to fuck with Mike and then I fucked with Mike unintentionally with Mike and then after that, but I also want to show in a way like the diversity of the things that move me. Right. I really, because I think we all, we all have that. And this next one, when we get into

my, if we're going to kick it in a second, yeah, it's only, it's only a minute. So I did, I do refer to him as Kat Stevens, even though he is, but he has said you can call him by cat Stevens. Well, the album is T for the tiller. Like I just got even as cat, even in twenty, twenty four, he says you can call he goes by he'll go by both names. It's not offensive to him. If you call them cat Stevens, call me cat. You can call me. I'll shit hotel. Gregor award winning podcaster. Okay, Let us kick this out because I love this album very much too, Bob.

Even though we talk about people getting killed. I can tell Morrissey. People who we can or can't like anymore. This is definitely a guy we can't like. This guy, you can like him, but he does not seem to like the Jews, okay? It makes it hard to like him, go for it. My Jewish friends, please, a trigger warning.

["Spring Day in the Garden"] Beautiful, a trigger warning. Beautiful though. Beautiful. Love it. I'm gonna listen to this now. So I had a prelude earlier. This is an interlude now. Is this legal, Rob? Do you think this is legal? Yeah, I don't know.

Do interludes and preludes count as songs? See, I think that they count as much as me giving you context. Okay, there you go, I see it. He's getting me on his side. No, yeah, no, I agree, but see what I- You both disqualified. What I would have done was I would have played it into whatever it goes to.

Well, so next is All of the Lights. This is Kanye West. Oh, this is Kanye West. My Twist Beautiful- What a song that is. The whole album, my beautiful, my dark fantasy. I want to know where it goes. So all what you can. Wait, wait, wait. You haven't heard this album. No, this is the oh my God. This

is no Kanye West. You're also known as yay. Yay. Kanye like Kanye West Kanye West released this and some people have called it the Sergeant Pepper of hip hop this and some people have called it the sergeant pepper of hip hop and it is and again there are lyrics there are a lot of bad world. I know I like the production all of the it's and so there's a story of how he produced it. I think it was in Hawaii he had like he booked out a whole hotel yeah and he brought all these people in and he had rooms that he was doing different songs and he would literally run from room to room with like, and he'd have sequencers and different things in every room and he,

cause he's, he's crazy. He is a crazy motherfucker. Like I'm, I'm not a fan of him as a human being, but as an artist, I don't know if there's anybody more creative than he, than him in hip hop, especially. He might be a hateful bigot. Uh, he might have some issues he needs to manage, but that album you're referring to right now, my twisted dark fantasy or my dark is one of my all time favorite hip hop. Okay. I need it. It is so good. And what it goes into and what it goes into is insane. Really? Oh, good. Like it becomes this hype song. It starts off

like that in that almost the opposite of what you're, it starts off like that. Beautiful strings in the piano. And then it goes into this, this like anthony, like arena rock song almost. I love that. So, so you want to, I wanted, I thought of songs that were two minutes and under and I, you didn't give context like I did. I did not. I'm,

I'm explaining the guys. I didn explicitly say like no extra jams. I was so clear. I said normally I let you, because I like to do this. I like this because it's not about me. Like it's normally Mike's mad at me and you're putting the middle. Now it's his D, Mike's mad at you.

I know, I know, it's true. Anyway. Four of his five are illegal jams. Okay. So are you guys ready for my final song? These are all songs I love, all five of them them and this song I love very much. It's an FOTM jam. Here we go. Joey pulled himself to his feet.

I'll just body back up the bank and look back down there. What happened? Pause jam. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, the day Hey, hey, hey, skip the day I tried to look casual sneaking round the back So shot put across the track Into the gate beside that board it holds But I'm a tired and school-crazed slaps I run tight on school gray slats Doesn't blend in with the grass Has to teach you his changing plans He chased me halfway through the park Till I ran into the woods And I'm very good in the woods So I was an Indian Put the fire by the creek

And dried my eyes out There's a record body count this year There's a record body count this year There's a record body count this year Joey stepped up on a block of ice Put a rope around his neck And fell asleep before he died One One minute and 54 seconds. That must be just under.

154. That's amazing that even still under two minutes, it felt like it was like a three minute song. Yeah. Real Statics. Yeah. We also, you guys are now sitting in my South Etobicoke basement. This is the Etobicoke band, Real Statics. Amazing.

Formed back in the seventies probably. And shout out to the Garys, both FOTMs, because the first gig from the real statics was at the edge. It's named for a guy who designed the residential school system. Boo Edgerton shadow. Yes. Right. A shadow to Gordon is a beautiful, beautiful secret path album, which I urge everybody to listen to. It's quite beautiful.

OK, so you got real statics. That was Martin Tielli you heard there. He wrote this song. He's not a founding member, but one of the founding members is an FOTM, who I heard from yesterday, Dave Badini. But Martin has not been on the show. No, but I was listening to him on Zed or whatever the CBC show was.

And I saw like FOTM in the band or whatever. He had some solo stuff and it was amazing. But this is that's so that songs from Melville. That was like a like a breakthrough for real statics and that it got played on much music for goodness sakes. You know, record body count, like a lot of people. That's the big jam. So Melville, though, this is kind of a fun fact.

Let's see here. I have it somewhere here. Do Melville. Fun fact here. Okay. So chart. I have it somewhere here. Melville. Fun fact here. Okay. So chart. I think cam Gordon might've written for chart at some point, but chart in 1996, they did one of their big polls, like best Canadian albums of all time. Melville placed 16th. Yeah, I could see that, but then in 2000, they did it again. Melville placed, ready for this guys?

You ready? Give me a drum roll. Fifth, fifth place. The only artists who beat real statics, Melville, from which that song is from, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Sloan.

Wow. Okay, so I guess one of those artists, I'm gonna have two in there, but yeah. I was gonna say. The math doesn't work there. not up, but that's, this is unbelievable here. So another guy, uh, Tyler Campbell, the VP of sales, it says he's going to get on Toronto Mike this Tim Vesely because he's a family member who has the only guy. And again, uh, you know, your keyboardist, uh, Rob Bruce, Dave Crosby was the, uh, keyboardist and, uh, and yeah, you know what, you know what, what Rod Westlake was a founding keyboardist and yeah, you know what?

Rod Westlake was a founding keyboardist and Dave Crosby replaced Rod. But then Kevin Hearn also played stuff with them on certain records as well, right? Yes, and then that ties into the Tragically Hip. Yes. Because Kevin Hearn with the Rio Statics played that, I was at it, the New Year's Eve 1999, they did a whole tour of Tragically Hip with the Rio Statics. They had that group of seven recording that they did as well with Kevin is involved with it.

It's gorgeous. It does everything that is amazing. So he is so instrumental in the secret path as well. We just referenced there, but I recently had Wendell Clark back on the show because I re since we last got together, I recorded live at a Glen Abbey golf club. Oh, right. Yes. The Joe Carter classic.

You got, you won't believe the people like Tom Cochran, for example, had a nice chat with him, but Joe Carter, Joey bats, that's Josh Donaldson. I'll stop by. They just kind of drop by and you're one-on-one. You just, just my table. Yeah. And this guy's shooting the shit, but a Wendell Clark and Rick five, but when a Clark dropped by and I just want to shout out, I still love it. It's early Rio statics before record body count. The ballot of Wendell Clark parts one and two, just a tribute to Wendell Clark. It's so Etobicoke. And that was like the first song, I guess, CF and why I kind of picked up on. And they put it, this is what I love. The real statics put that on an album. They called greatest hits. Right. I love that. Yeah. And they only made a thousand copies of that thing originally

before they re-released it here. So real statics kind of, they kind of, uh, like kind of didn't want to be like sort of like Nirvana within Uniro. Like they're like, we don't want to be commercial. There's not, there's not a lot of commercial appeal to the real statics. I don't think anyways, Claire is probably their Claire is their most commercially successful song. A hundred percent.

That's whale music, right? Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. Claire is their most, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful song. Like it's one of those songs that I, you know, I was thinking of some like songs that if you hear on the radio, if you happen to be on the radio or serious or whatever, it comes across your playlist that you would never turn off. Yeah. You know, Claire is one of those ones. If it happens, if I have, if I stumble upon it, I'm like, Oh yeah, this is, I would never turn it off. Claire's one of those things. Yep.

No, absolutely. And when I had Badini on, uh, we, we talked about it, but that's like their biggest, uh, the big, you're right. They're not, they're not. I told you my story. Somebody quit the band because Claire was too commercially successful. Why do I have this in my story in my head? Sounds clear. Oh, this is too commercial. Really? I'm out of here. Somebody tapped out. Oh, geez.

You imagine. No, I told you my Badini story, right? I think at some point, I first met him when he was 16 and I was 15 when our first Spoons album came out and he was a journalist for like a high school newspaper. I think you did tell that. Like across Canada. Yeah.

And we took a bus across Toronto. Like he met me at our record company's offices and we just like got him. Any interview, so these two teenage little. Yeah, he had a little look. Little ner a little quarter and we were sitting on the bus, just riding across town, like talking. It's so weird and cool. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And a little fun later when you're listening to Claire from real statics, which is fantastic. Listen to coax me by Sloan and do a back to back.

Really? Sure. Oh yeah. Yep. I get that. And I can't remember which one came first now that I talk about it, but, um, but interesting how close they are. They're only a short distance apart here. So yeah, there you go. There you go. Shout out to the Rio statics, the topicals great band. I think we covered a lot of ground, but again, thanks to everyone who came out to TML X 15 and everyone who contributed to that birthday gift. And I know not everybody was allowed to contribute because of a small little group on WhatsApp, but I'm a tickled pink and touched and I got to owe you all the big things. You deserve it all. Especially you. You deserve it all. Can I say one thing just

quickly while this is on? 27 years ago today was EdgeFest97, June 28th at Molson, Park and Berry, headlined by Our Lady Peace and the Tea Party and it was my wife and I's first date. Oh my god. Is she date. So, yeah, well, she's not now she's left me. No, no, she's, she's, she's away for the weekend, but yeah, it's our anniversary. It's our 27th anniversary of our first day. She went away for the weekend on your 27th anniversary. Can I do another on this date?

30 years ago, I saw Jeff Buckley for the first time. Oh wow. At Albert Hall on Bloor street. Oh wow. Shout out to Ridley funeral. Yeah. Yeah. Two nights. Anyone else?

I just want to say happy anniversary to my little new wife. Happy anniversary. You're right. It's an amazing. Happy dating anniversary. 27. Yeah. Two nights. Anyone else? I just want to say happy anniversary to my love. Happy anniversary. Happy dating anniversary. Yeah. 27 years ago. You punched above your weight with that one. Oh, you're telling me, but Rob is not even close. It's amazing. Like, you know, sometimes there's a little gap, but this is like, no, no, she's like, I'm a three at best and she's a three. You know, we hang out for sure. Honestly. So cause I've only met her a couple of times. I haven't seen her ever, but so Bob's not a three. Yeah. Bob's a solid six and a half. It's Bob's almost seven, almost seven, but she's a nine and a half. Like she's the director of exhibitions at the

AGO and also like unbelievably beautiful. So yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. So, so anyways. Oh yeah. So anyways, her boyfriend is a lucky man. She's actually, she's actually in Atlanta this weekend with a friend to see Ryan Adams talking with somebody who should have been canceled, who shared shares a birthday with Brian Adams, Ryan Adams and Brian Adams of the same birthday. Yeah, seriously. That's a me. So she's in Atlanta, Georgia right now. Yeah, I'm going to the live stream to see what's going on here. Sorry, I didn't mean to. Happy anniversary, Bob.

That's from Jeremy Hopkins. Ian Service, as I was there at EdgeFest 97. I tell you, Ian Service, I'll get back to you real soon. And, uh, but that is, so Basement Dweller points out, I played the real statics. That was, uh, Dave Bookman's favorite. Yes. Yes, for sure.

Shed a lot of shout outs to Sheldon. Ridley, funeral home, and, uh, Bookie's favorite. Yes. Yes, for sure. Shed a lot of shout outs to really if you don't know, man, in Bucky and Badini and Bucky were super tight. Shout out to the Bookman. And that we got to come up with a topic for next month. Happy Canada Day weekend. That brings us to the end of our one. Bob's going to everybody. That's true. You can't stick on the jam and just go take a leak. That brings us to the end of our 1,511th show. You can follow me on Twitter and Blue Sky.

I don't even know why I do this. I gotta rewrite my script because I'm everywhere at Toronto Mike, but go to torontomike.com. Much love to all who made this possible. That is Great Lakes Brewery. Hell of a host last night. Go have events there. And the beer is delicious. I just enjoyed a morning brew. Unbelievable. Did you enjoy your beer, Mr. Rob? It was nice for a morning brew. Yes.

Which one did you have? Oh, Canuck. Yeah. Good 24-7. Canuck Pale Ale. Palma Pasta. Can I just shout them out? I said, we need to good 24-7. Yep. Connect Pale Ale. Palma Pasta. Can I just shout them out? I said, we need to feed 100 people. They sent, in fact, it was Anthony Petrucci's son, food, fresh hot food for 100 people. I can't even believe it. Now, Palma Pasta, they're in Mississauga,

and they'll feel amazing. It was so good. So good. Recyclemyelectronics.ca, the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team. Get your ass to Christie Pitts. Great baseball. No ticket required. Forget Phil Collins. No jacket required. No ticket required. Menaris. Goodbye, Menaris. I hope to see you again in a few months. Every few months they come back. Love just shouting out Al Greggo every episode. Maybe I'll do that anyways. Giving out that great speaker, but go listen to Yes We Are Open.

And Ridley Funeral Home! See you all next week. My next guest on Toronto Mic'd is... Who is it? Oh, this'll be fun, because I had John Gallagher on and he talked about being paid not to say the word Moulson. I think Labatz gave him a bunch of money not to say the word Molson I think Labatt's gave him a bunch of money not to say the word Molson for a year and then somebody called bullshit on it I don't think it was Robert Lawson although it's good to see Robert Lawson last night but there's another gentleman who got that money according to John Gallagher so he's gonna come over Tuesday and I'm gonna confront him with the John Gallagher clip and find out did John Gallagher embellish the story or is

this accurate this gentleman is on boom today. Boom radio. Jeff Chalmers makes his Toronto mic debut on Tuesday, the day after Canada Day. Enjoy your long weekend. Peace and love. See you then. You