Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TOAST34: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1564

Episode Date: October 12, 2024

In this 34th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out harvest 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 and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

Oh Listen here before we know Here we go for real I'm gonna think about it. So FOTM. Do you know what time it is? It's I'm a little I'm a little I'm a little congested, just from some allergy stuff. Well, I listened to your Moby interview. Oh yeah. He sounded young from back then. Then you started to sound normal.

I mean, you sound like you now. I heard that. You guys won't get closer for the camera, just... Get a little closer. Rob's a... I'm fine, but where do you want me to go? You stay where you are. Rob, move over a bit. I'll do this. Does this help? He does not want to come over closer to me for some reason. I think he likes seeing your screen. Yeah, no, you know what it is. I like

to have my leg on this. I guess. Yeah. See? That's what it is. You're kicking. She said now I kick you. Welcome to episode 1,564 of Toronto M Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, a fiercely independent craft brewery who believes in supporting communities, good times and brewing amazing beer. Order online for free local home delivery in the GTA. Palma Pasta. Enjoy the taste of fresh homemade Italian pasta and entrees from Palma Pasta in Mississauga and Oakville. The Advantage Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada. Learn how to plan, invest and live smarter.

Season 7 of Yes We Are Open, an award-winning podcast from Monaris. The man went to Winnipeg. to Winnipeg. Recycle my electronics. Ca committing to our planet's future means properly recycling our electronics of the past and Ridley funeral home pillars of the community since 1921. Today returning for this 34th episode of toast is Rob Bruce. Hello. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo forays and putting out some episodes of Bob's Basement everywhere you get your podcasts. Enjoying it, enjoying it. Well, thank you very much. Yeah, I started to repurpose some old stuff that I've found on some USB drives

in a couple of different places. So a few years ago, I was at Proud FM and I did an hour long deep dive with Moby and I put that up and they didn't take it down because it contains all kinds of music too. The whole episode is great. Like I was listening to it when I was driving today. It was so good to hear all the Moby tunes and everything.

Yeah, the new stuff from that, the album was destroyed at the time. When was that? 2012 or 13 maybe? Yeah, like 11, maybe? 11, 12, 13, yeah. Something like that. And yeah, and then yeah.

You gave me some lyric inspiration actually. You guys were having a good conversation and there was something you said and I had to make a voice memo to myself. Oh, yeah, you gave me some lyric inspiration. Actually, you guys were having a good conversation and there was something you said and I had to make a voice memo to myself. Oh, so cool. I'll give you credit. Appreciate that. Thank you. That's fun. So yeah. And, uh, you know, still, uh, actively looking for a full-time employment, uh, not, uh, in radio at this point, man, let me ask you a pointed question. So there's a job opening for a new program director for Q 107 and CF and why 102.1.

Did you apply for that job? Of course I did. And do you have an interview? I do not. I didn't. I emailed. Did you hear back? Nothing.

And I emailed the person who I would be reporting to directly because I've worked with them before and didn't even get an email back. So do you think radio is done with you bomb? Well, I think radio might be done with me yeah and you're okay. You're not no, no, I'm fucking. I was pretty angry and I've gone through all the emotions. No, I'm not okay. No, I'm not. I've had some really ups and downs with it. It's been a really long road figuring out my

long road figuring out my being without the idea, without radio being part of it. It's what I've done for 25 plus years. You still have it in you though. I do, and I don't know if... That was inspirational when Rob said that. Thank you. I do, I have it in me. But you know what, well, I'm gonna interject

because here's Mike who's got the coolest universe of things that happen, but it has nothing to do with radio other than the people that come into this universe. You have all the experience of that universe and the world just wants you to now be yourself. I mean, I'm just telling you. Do it! I appreciate that. You know what I mean?

And I'm attempting to, I just I just said that, you know, being myself doesn't pay the bills right now. So that's the, that's the key right now. So, you know, life pays the bills right now. So you have an opportunity to step back and lick your wounds and think about that next chapter and what it looks like. Yeah. And, uh, you know, I'll be honest, uh, a part of me is like, let's just, uh, let's just get ourselves a government job, grab a pension for 10 years and you get Robbie J's old postal. I've actually spoken to him about about going there. I'll be honest with you guys. I applied to be a 911 operator here in Toronto. I think I'm a good

community. You drop fun facts and mind blows as people call in with their emergency. Yeah, I'd be like a 911. Hi, what's your emergency? You can hear me tonight on toast with no yeah, I don't know man, so yeah, so long answer to your question. I'm okay. I've been better. I'll be honest. I'm doing my best, but it sucks to think that you're not wanted and that's the way it's feeling because I've reached out to some people in the industry, but it's not personal and I'm getting no, it is personal. No, it's not personal. When you don't take the time to email somebody back

like that, that's personal. Like I've emailed you, I've emailed people just saying, Hey, I know you don't have anything right now. I hope you're well. We've worked together before, blah, blah, blah. I see there's some changes and crickets, man. I don't think that's cool because like I'd reply but I think they've been inundated with so many emails like that. They maybe they've tuned out or whatever. Yeah, sure. But it's weird that it is a personal thing because I go through the same thing all the time. Like I reach out to people doing shows and stuff and I'll email them like, hey, if you ever need another keyboard player with it and I don't hear, sometimes I hear back from people that I know really well, but the ones I know only superficially as far as like

hiring musicians and when I don't hear from them, I'm like, how hard is it to just write a, say, Hey, thanks for checking in. That's it. Yup. My wife says that, says that to my steps on all the time. Like she's like, he's 16. She's like, you need to start replying to emails just to let the person know that you got the email. Yeah. Yeah. Just, yeah, yeah, just like. It's just common. I've done follow ups with people. Like I've had people who, you know, we've put some things on, not on paper, but some ideas.

And then I'm like, okay, it's three weeks later, I'm following up, what about this? Nothing. So, and I get it, look, everybody's got their own thing and everybody's doing their own, everybody's got their stuff going on in their own world. I, I'm just from a personal level. It's tough, man. I'm filling my time with, I just finished Grad Review 2 with Second

City. I will be begging people to come see our show. We're going to be doing a run of shows in January. We've got a full Second City style review show all going to be in for four weeks, which will be fun. And then, you know, otherwise, do you know who the Savannah Bananas are? Of course. I even saw Roger Clemens pitch for them. Yeah. So the guy who owns the Savannah Bananas, I watched a bunch of stuff with him and he's like this crazy... He wants you to play third base. Yeah, exactly. He's a crazy ideas guy and, you know, and his whole point just kind of resonated with me. He's just like, yeah, we put out a lot of content and we made a lot of mistakes, but you

know, when it goes, it goes. So I'm literally, I'm just putting, I've got all kinds of ideas and I'm just putting them out there. Uh, so you can follow me on tick talk on Instagram, on Twitter or whatever it's called X and on, uh, on Facebook. I just I'm just trying to keep my name out there, keep the creative juices flowing and this is a big part of it. So thank you both at the Toronto tree. When we take our selfie, can you do a little video? They sure yeah, I'll do that. Sure. Can I have my beer now after talking all that seriously on the my? No, of course.

Thank you to the Great Lakes Brewery. I'm looking forward to going to the new place. You should apply there. They're looking to hire some people. Yeah, do it. Happy Friday night. Happy Friday night. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Happy October. Cheers. It's the season of the harvest. Did you guys know that heard that

did you know we're kicking out harvest jam? Isn't there a Halloween movie with harvest is the subtitle or the secondary title? Season of the Witch is one anyway. Halloween 18. Donovan. Donovan. Didn't I shit on Donovan in a recent episode? Yes, it was one of my songs.

In a recent episode. Yeah. Okay. All right. So that's how far I'm saying. That's pretty heavy. But you know what? I'm doing great.

My kid's in high school. She's doing amazing. My nine-year-old is in dance and I'm a dance dad and so it's great. That's pretty heavy. I, but you know what? I'm doing great. My kids in high school, she's doing amazing. My, uh, my nine year old is in dance and I'm a dance dad and so it's great. So, you know what? You gotta like, you got a tough professional thing going on, but all the stuff that really matters is going aces. Absolutely. Everything's pretty good. Cause you, you know what? That's what makes me feel good. I want to tell Rob Bruce that I actually saw Bob Bullett earlier today. I heard that. I saw that on the group on the thingy. saw Bob earlier today. I heard that I saw that on the thing. Yeah. I made up. I went to see Chris Cook see in East York. So I'm biking in this East York, man. That's a pretty good ride, but it was a beautiful day. And then I'm like, I phoned Bob and I'm like,

where are you? And he tells me and I'm like, almost like just, I happen to be like two blocks away or less, I think maybe. And it was just, I was in his hood and I rolled over. Yeah. So I was actually just leaving my house because we're, uh, we were, I was in his hood and I rolled over. Yeah. So I was actually just leaving my house because we're, uh, we're, I was dropping some toys off at this place called Pegasus in the East end on Kingston road where they take And they resell stuff and all the money goes to help people with special needs to help Bob. I do have some special needs That's for sure. Um, but anyway, so I was just taking it. So we met at the Petro Canada behind my house Oh, wow. Yeah, and it was really good. You two met behind the Petro Canada? We did.

It didn't sound so bad. I watched him pump some gas. I did pump some gas. And then, yeah, because I'm hosting 22 people tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Oh, that's right. 22? What's that poison song?

Like the gasoline going to pump me and leave me when you get your fill. Yeah. Unskinny Bob. Unskinny Bob. Oh, I remember that song. Yes. Unskinny Bob. Pre-grunge, that was a pretty funny song. It was get your fill. Yeah. Unskinny Bob. Oh, I remember that. Yes. Oh, it's good. You know, pre-grunge that was a pretty funny song. Yeah. I don't know if it's

great. I mean, all these years later, I remember like, I'm skinny, but nothing. How you remember a like anything except for no idea. Like I couldn't tell you another lyric from that song, except for skinny, but let me lead me when you get your fill. Yeah. Every time I get up, did you like open for them or anything? No. So a lot of ground I want to cover. What band was that? Molly Cruz? No, no poison. Come on. Was it poison or warrant? No, warrant. Warrant's cherry pie. Sorry. She's my, it was poison and it was unskinny. You didn't ask Rob how he's doing. I'm gonna get to Bob it about oh you I'm still on you Bob With no when I kicked out the jams of Bob would let yes. He kicked out Johnny Cash singing this song

This one my miss remember no not me. I didn't kick out this song Yeah positive you didn't kick out Sunday morning coming down I swear to you I did not Why do I think you did? I don't know. I might have done a Johnny Cash song. But we've kicked out the jams a bunch of times and I've never... At least twice I've kicked out the jams. Why do I think you kicked out Johnny Cash Sunday morning coming down? Go look at the list.

I will in a minute. I'm telling you, I did. Can we do Sunday jams? Sunday Jams. I'll have an idea for the next one. I want to pass by you guys. I just want to say Chris Christopherson was a cool mofo and this is his song and he's singing this song which he wrote and until right now I thought Bob Ouellette was a big fan of the Johnny Cash version, which is actually also fantastic. It's, yeah, but I did not.

So Rob Bruce, did you ever play with Chris Christofferson? Um one time? No, I didn't I have a friend of mine who's been on the podcast names Larry Foley He's a singer songwriter from Newfoundland and he was in a band called the punters I know that name. Yeah. Well, he's very like he's like one of these guys It's like, you know, he gigs for a living That's all he plays music for a living there and he ladies he went when people when like rock stars or you know, he gigs for a living. He plays music for a living there and he's, he, when people, when like rock stars or, you know, or country stars die, the NTV there, the Newfoundland television, they call him as the expert to talk about

because he's played with Chris Christopherson. You know, Larry Foley. He like, he co-wrote with Ron Hines, you know, yeah, so he co-wrote with Ron Hines. You know who Ron is? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So he co-wrote songs with Ron Hines. Newfoundland Man, right? This singer, Ken Tobias just passed away. And he's East Coast. And I feel like maybe I heard something that he had mentioned about Ken. Yeah, possibly.

Okay, so you kicked out Folsom Prison Blues. Not this song. No, close. Who the fuck kicked out this song? If VP's out there, just find out who kicked out Sunday Morning Coming Down by, cause I think it's a great song and I think it was a sad loss that Chris Chris offers his own with this.

Rob Pruce. Yeah. How are you doing? I'm all right. It's a podcast. You gotta elaborate. He just drove from freaking New York. Yeah, I got up this morning, I left at 9.30 this morning, got to Burlington after seven. No, yeah. Just before seven. Turned around, walked

my sister's dogs real fast and then I hit the road again. And I don't know what's going on, but why is the road busy between Burlington and Toronto all the time? QEW, even at eight o'clock at night, I'm like, what the hell? Dude, everything's busy everywhere. It's like LA now, right? Yeah, it is. It's like LA. And actually, statistically, they say Toronto is actually worse than LA. Because here's the thing with LA, and I've only been once, but it goes slow, but it moves. Toronto will just be dead. It's stopped. Are you saying there's romantic traffic, Rob?

It's not romantic. I was in LA at the end of August and we were used to that driving like everybody's Everybody's just, everybody does 20. It moves though. Yes, but it moves. Toronto, it will just stop stop there and you don't know why and then it just starts going again and sorry am I yelling too loud but other than driving all day long today I'm good I'm working on some music to release possibly the new year nice like some solo stuff yeah and that'll be announced later on but

I've been working on it for a long time but I'm finally like I gotta just do it may I ask you about that t-shirt you're wearing? Yes I was gonna tell you about my t-shirt I was gonna tell you the story about the t-shirt that I put it on today. I actually want to run up I have the exact same t-shirt I almost want to run up and put it on. I believe you because I haven't worn it yet since I got it in the mail when I was sponsoring you for the Terry Fox run and this morning I was like what am I I going to wear? And I wanted to get a medium. That's a small. Oh, you're a small medium. I'm like a NDS. Excel over here. Maybe double Excel. Are you Excel? Excel for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, but I put the shirt on and then I heard the sad news about bill, bill vigors, bill vigors. And so I listened to your episode on the way here today too. And it was a amazing experience. Okay. That's one of those episodes where I feel like people didn't recognize the name and some people skipped it. You probably skipped it the first round, right? I think I listened to part of it, but listening to it today, like it was good that you put the little top and tail on it as well. Um, but it was just like a year ago, right? It was about 13 months ago.

Cause you were talking about the run from last year and his story about being with Terry, like it was unbelievable. You know, I listened to it again today as well. Yeah. Bill Vigors on Toronto Mike, which is in the feed is the most recent episode before this one. Yep. I, a couple of times I choked up and I did pull a little clip because I want us to hear a little Bill Vigors because Bill Vigors is the only FOTM to have passed away in 2024 thus far. Like we're not done a year yet.

You two could croak tonight for all I know. But so far, just Bill. And so it's almost like, it's not a normal thing. Like it's not like, oh, you know, it's still kind of a rare thing. And I had an amazing connection with Bill. And he told me some kind things about how that was like, not like any other interview he had.

But here's a little clip. I'm going to play a Bill Vigors on Toronto mic to 13 months ago. Bill Vigors no longer with us. He passed away yesterday. Here's Bill. I realized writing the book that I was having to address things that I thought I had addressed 43 years ago. I would be writing it and it was just all flowing out. I never took any pictures. I never did any diary. People would say, ask me, are you doing that? And I said, no, I'm making a movie up in my head that's going to last forever. And in reality, that's exactly what happened.

And that's how I wrote the book. So I would be in telling a part of the story and I would be sobbing and crying to tell you the truth at my computer and emotionally trained. And I would come out in my living room and I'd sit on the couch and it was my wife, Sherry McDonald, actually she was the one who finally talked me into writing it. And I just, a couple of times I remember just slumping on the couch and she just come over and she came over and put her hand on my shoulder and said, you're doing a good thing.

That was Bill Vigors talking about, you know, writing the book about his friend, Terry Fox. He was in that van when they got to Ontario. He was part of it. And then he told that story about going to Vancouver when Terry was in the hospital and like sitting with him on the bed. And they were watching the opening of, God, I forget what it was, but he was with Terry, like sitting beside him on the bed

and said that Terry fell asleep on his shoulder. And I was like, oh my God, it's unbelievable. Also beautiful. Because it makes you feel like you know the story from a, it's almost like having Terry tell you the story. As I told him on that app, when I'm listening back, I was like, Mike, you were pretty good in that episode. I was like, I was, he humanized Terry.

Like we think of Terry as, I think we made him like a God. Terry Fox is mythical hero. This God like person we bow down to and we try to emulate, but he was a human being. He was a kid, like a human and Bill humanized him. And Bill was a human being. He was a kid. Yeah. I got human and bill humanized him and bill was a great guy and, uh, sad to hear he had passed away, but I will say that episode ends with Willie Nelson on the road again, because

that was the big song in the summer of 1980 when they were doing the marathon of hope and on the road again was a perfect song for Terry. Yep. I just want to Terry. Yep, I just want to say I was going to do a bit where I said I don't I don't get Terry Fox, but you guys, you guys, you guys, when did you turn into humble how you guys, yeah,

like you guys both were wearing t shirts and then I was just gonna be real quiet and then maybe what you got what's going on. I don't know. I just I don't get it. I don't get it. Who is that guy? I won't do it, but in my head I'm like that's a funny bit. Anyways, that's a funny bit for a different pop for Bob's basement. Maybe for second city actually. Exactly. Yes. I'm actually directing this to Rob. What did you think, Rob, of the King's episode of Toronto Mines? I loved it. They're, um, they are, what's the right word?

They don't do a lot of your kind of conversations. And I've- What does that mean? Well, just like, like sort of open sort of historical kind of like what's the story of the band? You know, like, I just think that your, at your venue for them was because It's there sort of like when you had Johnny and Darion to like I just I was just excited to listen to them Because I know they don't your conversations bring different things out of people, you know Which is good because it's a little it feels a little more too long. What now?

I didn't see your conversations. You can't listen. It's too long I said some of your episodes are too long Yeah, some of them go on and on and on and on. This beat goes on. But they had a good time, too. Mr. Zero told me that he was pleasantly surprised. Well, I enjoyed Mr. Zero. I love to know what's in his brain.

He's going to be thinking about that. You make fun of Humble Howard. That's going to be in your brain now. I said that. No, no, no. I've been hearing it's too long from Freddie P for a long time now. It's fine.

They want to go longer. Yeah, do it. No, do it. I'm the one who's attached to Early minutes of like a two-hour plus. Oh, absolutely. I like being a part of a two-hour Well, what I like though is the variety of your episodes too, though I appreciate the length go they vary. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like Bill Vickers was one hour Yeah, Joe Eustis was one hour. So the only on a board was that like was one hour and Marjo Eustace was one hour. So they were like, you know. And Leona Boyd, was that like 90 minutes?

Leona Boyd was like, It was good. An hour, 20 minutes. Yeah, yeah, she was great. She started off real slow. I was like, oh man. I thought she sounded sad. She did.

She was like, as I was driving to her, You heard her music? Well, yeah. All her friends, well, she's usually just guitar, whatever. You know, she, I was gonna start listening to her at 1.2 or whatever. And then I slowed it down because I realized she has a rhythm to her voice. Very measured, right? Even at 75 years old. And I got used to the British accent her at 1.2 or whatever. And then I slowed it down because I realized she has a rhythm to her voice.

Very measured, right? Even at 75 years old. And I got used to the British accent. She's still got that British accent. Yeah. But she was talking about the realization of mortality and like all her friends who have died. And it was a beautiful thing though.

Like, again, you got that out of her, even through the Zoom. Like she was talking about Prince Philip explaining to her like how he had this awakening when he was, I don't know what age, I want to read the book that she was talking about and he lived to be 99 years old and you know she's got she was like a pen pal with Prince Philip which is kind of cool. It's crazy. It's that awareness of as you get older how like I

was thinking of then I started thinking about it when I was driving I just turned 59 on the day of you had the Kings here and I was like that sounds so freaking old. Right? Remember when you were 29 you're like oh my god I'm gonna be 30. Do you imagine yeah like what did you think 59 was gonna feel like when you were 20? I never thought about it You didn't think about it No But now at this point and then I was thinking of Leona Boyd at 75 talking about all her dead friends and she said her Husband lived to be 99. I was like god

He was must've been 20 Mike 20 years older than her But I thought at some point it must that the thrill totally wears off because you know There's less to go like in 10 more years, am I going to be like, oh my God, I'm 69. Okay, it's Mike Stafford who kicked out Sunday Morning Coming Down. I don't know how I'm gonna- You were thinking about that.

Yeah, but I just searched the spreadsheet. You are a multi-tasker. It was also kicked out by Rick Hodge. Okay. Sunday Morning Coming Down by Johnny Cash. All right. And I will point out, Rick Hodge kicked out the Chris Christofferson version.

He wrote the song. Whereas Mike Stafford kicked out the Johnny Cash version. And he conflated things because Bob kicked out a different Johnny Cash version. Thank God we can sleep now. I was gonna Google the shit out of that when I got home tonight too. It's true, it's true.

I'm gonna replace you guys with Cam and Stu, who I was hanging out with at Yom Dundas. Stu made another movie. They're prolific. Every year they go off to Winnipeg and they with very little money, they create something memorable and enjoyable and entertaining and then we got to enjoy it.

And it was the premiere last night? It was the world premiere. World premiere at Yonge Dundas Cineplex. And Cam Gordon was there. You know who was there? Ross Atkins was there really? Yeah, did you the row in front of me? And then I said to Stu, I said, oh, I didn't want to bother Ross. I needed like an intro and he's like, oh, I would have introduced. He goes Ross is a dear, dear friend really and then I wrote it. I said, I said, I'm sure he's

a lovely human being and a great friend and I just left it there and that's it. I don't want him to be GM of my major league baseball team. If that's okay. All right, Kings move over. I'm going to play something that's kind of kind of interesting. Maybe here we go. So this song here, just the first 10 seconds. Okay that word there. So after the person says El Scorcho, there's a word set. What word do you think is being said in this Weezer song?

Icarumba. Icarumba. Yeah, yeah. So I don't know if it's just because I heard it differently the first time and had fun with that and lived with that for the rest of my life, but I've always heard it as Pokeroo. So one more time. Okay. and lived with that for the rest of my life, but I've always heard it as Pokeroo! So one more time, okay? I'm gonna say it again, I don't know, let's now that you know how I hear it. Were you a kid when you heard it? No, I was in 90s, I guess. I was probably pushing 20. I am obsessed with Pokeroo. Okay, let's go see.

All right. I can hear it. That's funny. All right. That's all. And then one more tidbit here. Why did that come up in here? Like why today? Why now that? Because I just learned it was Icarum.

You just learned it. Oh, like in the last two weeks. Sounds funerary. It's not Leonard Cohen. If that's what you're wondering. Alabama three. And they're Scottish. You know that? No, I did not. Yeah And they're Scottish. Did you know that? No I did not. They're Scottish. That I didn't know though.

Now this software, I'm just going to point out before people complain, but this software needs to be updated because I do hear pops in there and they're not supposed to be there, these pops. It's like we're listening to vinyl. So Rob Pruse, why am I playing the Sopranos theme song? I'm not sure.

Come on, there's a mind blow you dropped on me. Oh, that I dropped? Yeah, you dropped it. It blew my mind. So slow it down and tell it properly because this is like the public premier of this mind blow. It's not the public premier. I think it's already in his world.

Pretend it's the public premier. In our world, the original, the first key keyboard player of The Spoons, who I replaced, his name is Brett Wickens, and Brett left the band, and then he moved to England, he was a graphic artist as well, and he wanted to get into graphic art, and he started working with a guy named Peter Saville. And he designed- Not the Barber of Seville? No, that was Jimmy Somerville. No, that's the guy from- That was Jimmy Summerville. Jimmy Seville.

No, that's the guy from... That's Jimmy Seville. Jimmy Seville. Did he say his name? Yeah. Peter Seville was an art, graphic art designer for... I did album covers for New Order. So Brett started working with this guy and he did covers for Peter Gabriel.

Okay, so hold on Rob, just to revisit the story. Sorry, for the recent... You replace a guy in the spoons. You're not the original keyboardist. The guy you replace is a graphic artist who goes on to do other things, including... Okay, you're speeding out. You're cutting to the chase. He designed the logo for the Sopranos.

Oh, cool. Yeah. What do you mean cool? The keyboardist that Rob Pruse replaces in spoons is the guy who designed that famous logo with the gun for the Sopranos. Yeah, it's pretty cool. That is cool. I mean, it's a cool... I don't know. What do you want me to do? I feel like it's more than cool. that famous logo with the gun for the soprano. It's pretty cool. That is cool. I mean, it's a cool.

I don't know, what do you want me to do? I feel like it's more than cool. Go and jerk off or something. What do you want? Is this how Jane Sibri felt when you were pushing her about the fun fact about the video? I think that's a fucking mind blow. Is this as much a mind blow as that video director?

Rob Pruitt in the Spoons, which is a fucking Burlington band. Yeah. Okay. The original keyboard is replaced by this guy to my left. Yeah. I could play with his hair right now if there was more of it. Don't. It's really the dude.

That guy who left the Spoons would go on, not to father the most decorated Canadian Olympian of all time, but he would go on to create the graphic for one of the greatest television series of all time. So he's in the history books connected to that show, which I think is really cool. Yeah, no, it is cool. It's cool.

Yeah, no, I know. Like, cool. Like, I don't know. Wow. Like, you know, I'm giving a little fist bump or whatever, a little, you know. And I'm not sure what kind of reaction you're looking for. It is a good...

It's a really cool. It's a fun time. Yeah. Okay, last point. Then we're gonna get to Harvest Jams, okay? I thought that was a mind blow that's... I'm glad you like it. Like, I think it's really cool, too's something. I'm glad you like it, like I think it's really cool too. You want my mind to literally blow?

I think it's cool, that's cool. A lot, it's cool, that's cool, that's cool. This is a fucking mind blow, man. You know? Like, scrape my brains off the fucking table right now. That's cool, I guess, like I'm a little nonchalant about it because I think it's cool, but I just, I like that you're impressed by it.

Yeah, like I think it's, I think it's cool, but like, have you never met a graphic artist like these you know good million graphic artists listening to us right now how many have made the low the logo for the soprano you know what kind of people blow my mind when there's interviews with Apple employees and there's like here's the guy who created the sound for the camera on your phone and he tells the story about how he had his old SLR Canon camera or whatever, and he like had a mic up

to the camera and he took, and you're like, every single one of us takes a picture now and it's his camera. Those kind of people are really interesting too. We could do a whole show about that. Sure. Sound effects on computers. I will say Andy says that that's definitely qualifies

as a fun fact. I think it's a mind blow. It's more than a fun fact. Yeah, I think it's a fact. It's a fun mind blow fact. No, if we found out that Rob Bruce designed the Sopranos, that's a mind blow. It's more than okay. It's a fun mind. We found out that Rob Bruce designed the sopranos. That's a mind blow. I think, I think a fun fact is one degree away. He replaced the guy in the spoon. It's not one degree away from James Gandall fucking Feeney. That is true. God, man. Oh, I have a friend. You need to

reassess yourself here. I have a friend who was on the subbran. Yeah. Who? Michael Imperial? You know, her name was Kristen Millie. She's an actress. She's actually in this new, there's a new series called Penguin starring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Colin Farrell. Yeah. She's the, she plays opposite him. She plays. She was in a play. You were in once the musical. Oh, she was originally, she was nominated for a Tony award. Yeah. And you were the music director. I was the music supervisor. See that's not, that's not a mind blow. That's just a, that's cool. Her first acting gig, I think was in the suppressor

and early she's been on 30 rock and all these shows, but she's like, what's her name again? Kristen Milliotti. Oh, she's amazing. I'll find out who she plays for me. She plays Sophia Falcone on Penguin. So for me, that's more of a mind blow than your story. I disagree.

I think that's, as you know, of course, you know, somebody who was in once went on to be in a TV show. I forgot her name because he's Christian. Well, Bob looks that up. Yep. I had Mary Jo used as Miliotti. I was, uh, and speaking of that, uh, Italian last name, I want to shout out Palma pasta. They make delicious Italian food. And I want to let people know there's a TMLX on November 30th from noon to 3 PM, November 30th. That's a Saturday. Even Andy will be awake for noon to 3 PM. TMLX 17 be there. She was in the Wolf of Wall Street. She was on how I met your mother. She was the mother.

She was the mother. Do you know this is a very popular television actress. She played the mother on how I met your mother. I've seen her in about six, seven. She is played the mother on how I met your friend. Yeah, I've seen her in about six, seven. She was in an episode of Black Mirror once too. I know that's a very well known. You want to zoom with Kristen? I could get her in here.

Okay, well, that's a well known actress. Let's get her on the program. Yeah, for sure. Let's do it. Okay. I play based in her band too. Do you know who I, I I've never worked at, but my, my wife's one of my wife's best friends

who she worked with at the ROM, her sister is on a uh, Graze Anatomy. Yeah. Katarina source score, score Sony. Um, and she's, uh, she plays a McDreamy sisters. She had a heroin addict and she was, yeah. So I'm just dead. What? I don't know if I'm allowed to say that I heard that late to say that. Oh no, I, I know, but I mean, I don't watch the show. But her sister's, his sister might be alive. Yeah, you know, she is. Yeah, yeah.

Anyways, I want to get, I just have a ball. I feel bad because like, hey, can I talk to your sister? But you know what's the funnest fact of all? We are all like six degrees away from like all kinds of cool people. Oh, you know what I mean? I'm sitting beside one. Yeah.

No, we're only one. We can all step and like, talk to one person who knows somebody else and it's sort of like when you do those genetic testing like if we all descended from like two people or yeah, whatever yeah, yeah, like the people we've worked with and you're so yourself included like I mean, yeah, but let's you're in another level because you've you've shared the stage with and you at with and you were with a huge band, two huge bands in Canada and then at and you were with a huge band, two huge bands in Canada and then

opened for an open international internationally successful bands. Right. So I always consider that a cool close encounter for sure, like with all those people. See, I actually don't find it impressive that you I know a guy who knows a guy like I don't really care about. I know a guy who hangs of Obama or whatever. Stu Stone hangs of Ross. I guess, but I think what's significant about the mind blow is that he was the original keyboardist in spoons and and he replaced Miss Spoons. Okay, so Mary Jo was on, just to wrap this up real quick, because this is an important message for anyone listening who gives even a little fuck about Traders Canada. They're

in season two. Mary Jo Eustace was on the show and then she got voted out. Then she came on Toronto mic for an hour to answer a lot of questions I had from people who watched that show and they had great questions and Mary Jo of course was very Mary Jo and she didn't, she didn't reveal who gets kicked off when or who wins this thing. She never revealed anything like that, but she did answer, say some things that violated her NDA. So tomorrow I'm going to crack open this episode, which which dropped yesterday and I'm going to make a few edits.

Oh. Okay. So this is actually like a PSA to say, if you want the unedited original version, get it now. Really? Before the lawyers come in. Well, before I get in there and I snip it because I'm gonna be fixing this at some point tomorrow because I promised MJ I would. So MJ got in trouble

if the producers were violating her NDA. She also tells a story on this episode about, and she's told it before, and I want Bob to definitively say if it's true or false, I'm tired about hearing about it. She says, Bob will let, would eat hot dogs at 5 30 in the morning. No, she's told it multiple. She thinks you ate hot dogs at five 30

morning, got like mustard on things. No. Okay. Well, I just wanted to hear it from you. So, I mean, I don't judge, I don't care, but I just don't know why MJ's telling this story. If it's not true, she was probably drunk like I thought I just know I would never. I would eat whatever Ken caustic cooked in the studio like and he used to cook stuff for breakfast. Yeah, we did what's

for breakfast and he would. He brought a little hot plate in and he would cook, do it, do things up for us, stink the whole place out, piss everybody off. It was great. No, I don't recall eating. I there was, you know, back in the day there would have been street meat right there at she's exactly she's exaggerating. So I will say this. There's a very good chance that I would that I would have got street meat at like nine thirty in the morning for

sure. Yes, that's definitely possible. So she's just she's made it more funny. Yes, make it five. Yeah, I would totally nine thirty morning. You would get a hot dog, but I've been up since three a three thirty. No judgment. I just think that's where it comes from. Is that yeah in the morning? It's a half truth. It's a half truth because that is early for hot dog, right? right rob pruss too early not if you get up at four in the morning before sure or not if you've been up all night if you've been up all night then it's which when i was a proud fm that happened a lot i don't want to there's some uh there's some proud fm stories someday that i'll tell and that day will be the next toast okay so rob so Rob Bruce, what am I playing? And well, tell us what we're playing right now.

It's great pumpkin waltz. And this is from the peanuts. It's from, it's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown. Nice. It sounds nice. But it also makes you think a little bit of a Charlie Brown Christmas. A little Christmassy, but not as Christmassy though.

But it was very close. This came out like the following year. Is it Dan Giroldi? Vince Giroldi. Vince Giroldi. You were so close. Is it his brother Dan was his long-lost brother that he found many years later they were separated at birth and Like ironically, he designed the Breaking Bad logo. That's right

So yeah, this is the great pumpkin. It's the great pumpkin waltz Nice flute nice piano little mellow. Do you think it was wise to record on a Friday night? I do sure Yep, we're going okay. Let's go. You got any liquor. We're kicking lots of beer. No liquor. We're kicking out harvest jams Okay, we're doing it. Thanks to the great support of Great Lakes Brewery palma pasta Season 7 of yes, we are Open. I have another speaker for you if you need one. I see that. That's from Minaris. And Al Grego went to Winnipeg. Just like Stu Stone and his brother-in-law, Adam Rodness, went to

Winnipeg to make their new movie, Al Grego went to Winnipeg to make his new season of Yes We Are Open, his award-winning podcast. So new episodes are dropping now. So season seven, we'll be talking more about that on Trondelmine. And I'm glad Al's back, because he was gone for a while. To Winnipeg? Well, no, off your show. Like, I guess as a sponsor maybe? Oh no, he does this three on three off. Is that what he does?

He waits till a new... he has to go off and make new seasons. Oh, I see. Then he comes back. So he comes back. That's cool. Yeah, I can't wait to hear him again. Welcome back, Al. Recyclemyelectronics.ca. Go there if you have old electronics, old cables, old devices, and find out where you can drop them off to be properly recycled so the chemicals do not end up in our landfill.

And of course, Ridley Funeral Home, who have- This sounds like the end of the show. Have a nice drive home, everybody. Ridley Funeral Home, who has that measuring tape, Bob and I discussed what's a jar, like what makes a door a jar? I said, leave the door a jar for Rob Pruse. And then I looked and I discussed what's a, what's an, a jar, like what makes a door a jar? Like I said, leave the door a jar for Rob Proust. And then I looked and I, I saw three inches open three and a half inches, three and a half. So if a door, if there's three and a half inches of a, like that night light,

you know, is that, is that a jar? The door was a jar for me. I think the door was almost closed for you. Can I ask a question, Rob? Yeah. if the door is three and a half inches, we measured it with the Ridley funeral home measuring tape. Three and a half inches. Is that a jar or is that just an open door? It's not an open door. You can't get through.

No, Rob, just answer the question. What do you think, Rob? I think it's a jar. If it's three inches, three and a half inches open? You think that's like open? Yeah, I think that's open. You know why? Because a squirrel could get in. This is what he said. A sun could get in. But here's the thing, you and a half inches, you think that's like open? Like, yeah, I think that's okay. You know why? Because a squirrel could get in this.

What he said could get in. So, you know, but here's the thing. You know what? He looks up there. He's like, it's 10 inches. Oh, I'm like Mary Joe. I have to hyperbole. I was like, dude, it's not you think that's 10 inches.

I was like, this is three and a half. And then he made a penis joke. Oh, the door. OK, here it comes. This is my grandmother's car. Oh, Lenny Kravitz is on the car radio. Did you take this video? Please fasten your seat belt. Oh, I was going to wait for it to get to the doors. It's a Chrysler. Did you take this video I was gonna wait for it to get to the doors. It's a Chrysler the car. Could you run these bits by me before you? Sorry

The door we need it. Can we have a pre-recorded show about these bits? You're bringing the program the door is a jar Robb Rue that'll be cut out Sorry MJ I was busy editing our episode of toast. A lame bit from Rob. Bob, well that was mean to me. I had to cut it all out. Rob, what would you like to say about your first harvest jam? My first jam, I'm pretty sure I remember which one is the first one. It just, it's a feel good kind of a song. And this was actually the first song that came into my head, even

though it's not like a huge favorite favorite favorite song of mine, except I just knew that the title contained the word. Oh, baby, it's together, everyone a scene Half of us are satisfied Half of us in need And last battle full in us Torn as fly I grieve Oh when will there be a harvest For the world Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah A nation planted Who is this, Robbie? It's the Isley Brothers Wow I'm not aware Really? Yeah I'm not of the Isley Brothers. Wow. I'm not aware. Really? Yeah.

I'm not of the Isley Brothers, but of this song. Yeah. This came out in 1976. Harvest for the World. This is just a cool, feel good kind of a song. That sounds like it's like live off the floor of the whole thing. Totally. That clap is just so raw.

That's how you make claps in those days. Yeah. You just had to beat the mic and go, yeah, that's all it is. Yeah. For sure. You used to get the clap in those days. You totally did. You did. There was medication for it. So I had this quote from Jasper Isley. He says the song asks when will the be it you phone him up?

I did so you said yeah. I said Jasper what's going on with that song? So and he said when will there be a time that people have an equal share of what's going on? And when will they have equity in their lives and it's true Wow So it's it's sort of like a universal kind of a you. You said that in 76 or whenever it was done? Wow. Jasper, you know, I don't know enough Jaspers. That's the old guy in The Simpsons with the big white beard. He's a Jasper. We had a voice student, my wife and I, his name is Jasper. This cute little guy. I like the name Jasper. I have a Jarvis. They say there's a park, you know, it's west. It's Jasper.

I prefer Banff. I've been to Jasper. What does Harvest mean? Jasper. I prefer Banff. Yeah. I've been to Jasper. Yep. Very nice. Yeah.

Did you Google Harvest? Like what the hell does Harvest even mean? Like as city boys, did you guys do this? I didn't like look up the etymology of Harvest. Okay, so it's, well, not the etymology, but what it means. It means the process or period of gathering in crops. All right.

Just that I make sure we get a baseline here. That's what Harvest is. Yeah, let's do that now after we picked our songs. That's right. Oh, there you go. I mean, this is a good Harvest song. Well, and- This is a Harvest song?

Well, and Harvest to me always feels like it brings up the idea of fall. Yeah. And autumn. Autumn, fall, Harvest. And I think of pumpkins and leaves falling. It's not quite winter, it's the end of summer, and it's- Sweater weather.

Yep. It's not quite breakfast. It's not quite lunch, but you get a not quite breakfast yeah lunch apple picking apple picking fall do you guys like fall I love fall I like fall yeah I love fall a lot I prefer to call it autumn or autumn sure with an N with an N the Isley brothers also know like different iterations of the Isley Brothers? Shout is like the Isley Brothers did. Shout's part one and two, there's an animal house is the one that I like.

Just a little bit louder now. A little bit louder now. That's what I remember the most. You were asking were there more, were there different iterations of Isley Brothers? Did they just keep replacing them like they did in the doodle? There's that Shout iteration, which sounds different than this one.

Is there an evolution of this band into something different? If only we had a device that would tell us if we typed in ISL. Well, you're the guy, you're the Isley brother expert. No? We can Google it later. No, yeah, because I just like the song.

Okay, well done, all right. And it starts off with a good feel good, sort of laid back kind of groovy thing. Yeah, no, it's really cool. Harvest for the world. It's not the kind of sap, you know, I found myself, you know, finding a lot of country based songs, folky songs and stuff. So then this is not like that. So yeah, so okay. So the current members are Ronald Isley and Ernie Isley. And here's some past members. Rudolph Isley, Isley, Oh, Kelly Isley Jr.. Well, Mervin, I sleep and Chris Jasper, not Jasper, I sleep Chris Jasper.

Maybe he, maybe that's the same guy. Yeah. I would imagine. Maybe. Yeah. I think so. You can call me Chris. You can call me Jasper. You can call me Chris Jasper. You can call me C Jasper. You can call me Chris J. You can call me Ray or you can call me J. There are some, okay. So we're off to a, uh, that guy died,

by the way, that Ray J guy. Uh, shout out to Ridley funeral home. So, okay. We're off to a great start. The Isley brothers harvest for the world. Bob, we'll let your first jam is on deck here. What would you like to say going way back? And I will say, I think very recently on toast, we played this artist. This will be very good. Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton and a whole lot of pick a bale of hay. You got to jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton. Got to jump down, turn around, and pick a bale of hay. You got to jump down, turn around, and pick a bale of cotton. Got to jump down, turn around, and pick a bale of hay.

Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton and a whole on it. Pick a belly of cotton with a hole on it. Pick a belly of cotton with a hole on it. Pick a belly of cotton. Oh, pick my wife. Pick a belly of cotton. And I'm picking my wife. Going to pick a belly of cotton. I'm picking my wife.

Going to pick a belly of cotton. Picking my wife. Going to pick a belly of cotton. Rob, do you know who this is? Not a clue. Bob, who is it? I love it. Lead Belly. Is it Lead Bell Not a clue. Bob, who is it? I love it.

Leadbelly. Is it Leadbelly? Yes. So Leadbelly, also known as Huddy William Leadbetter, born in 1888. Wow. One of the kind of like, you know, forefathers of blues, American Southern blues, black man singing this song, which of course has some really charged feelings to it and you know, in retrospect, the original lyrics you cannot play on the air. I can't say them,

but I mean, you know, it's this was originally though. It's not his song. He didn't write this song. Is it originally a song was a work song that was recorded by Texas inmates. Yeah, it was a James Ironhead Baker and and moose clear rock flat and in the nineteen thirties. Sometime was the first known recording of it and then, but then Mr. Led Betty that led belly popularized it and we're talking the thirty's here right. So obviously

there's you know in the south, especially there's huge with you know races, you know that we're not that far removed from slavery. Yeah, you know and this was a you know, probably a slave to like this was probably like like a him. You know, like that became a thing and the lyrics are not not the original. There are really aren't really appropriate. I can't say much, but Harry belly font, Harry Belafonte covered it. Yeah, all these guys, this lead belly guy, which we're going to get into it, like Johnny Cash covered his stuff, CCR covered his

stuff, lead belly. If you want to just let Zeppelin do things like based on his they stole the soul and heart of the southern music from the from these from these black artists, black blues artists. And if you want to feel cool, just go down a YouTube hole of lead belly stuff. Oh, the stuff that he was doing, you know, and you're, you know, and you know, these are all being lifted from like 78 and just the raw fee. And I know it's all through digital and everything, but it's just so cool. But just, but just the idea that it was all captured, like it's just a

performance, like they stuck a mic in front of him exactly. So you, we've talked about lead belly, I think before, I don't know if we were, but lead belly did another song. This is good that we all might know It'll get there in a second and it's worth it. Trust me. My girl, my girl don't lie to me. Tell me where you just sleep last night. Come on, tell me, baby. So, I will listen a little bit. Father, son, don't ever shine.

I was here the whole night to my mother, my good boy. Now, I know that young man across the table from me. We did this like we're going to finish finish this except we did exactly what you're doing now. We did this for the body of waters jams when I kicked out Lake of Fire by Nirvana. And then I fun fact, I played this and then I played what you're going to play next. But I don't listen to what you do. I remember that.

Yeah. I don't know if I should say anything, but but it's like no, like we literally did the exact same thing. Same thing. I don't play it. No, I'm playing it. You couldn't stop me if you try this go alive. So that's led belly. Yeah, this led belly. This was originally, by the way, also he didn't write the song. No, it's apparently it's called in the pines when lead belly does it, but in the pines or at least with the song he stole it from no, no, no. It was originally a civil war to like to go back to the civil war that far back and it's you

know, it's like a written. You know what? Now that you say that, yeah, I remember this. Yeah, I was probably really high. What? No, I'm kidding. I apologize. You get high. No, I'm kidding. I apologize. Bob, do you get high? No, not really. I mean, just on my prescription medication. Rob, do you get high? No. I'm not a weed guy.

None of us get high. I mean, I have like sporadically, I took a too high dose of a gummy on New Year's Eve last year. That was like too much, but I survived. I did a gummy, I did a double gummy at Year's Eve last year. That was like too much, but I survived. I did a gummy, but I did a double gummy at the Drake show last year at the, at history. And, uh, I ghosted my cousins cause I was like, I, I, I didn't mean, I took a double and this is the one where he had chaos. He had all these, like it was the Northern rap all stars show. And, uh, I don't,

I don't remember how I got home there's an eight dollar Uber ride on my I don't know where the fuck I went to get gummies nothing yeah so Bob absolutely Cobain was a huge lead belly yeah massive like yes and you know what I remember it now and I apologize for lifting your bit look we're similar people we're gonna get your cut from the same cloth. But, yeah, so this was apparently first recorded by Doc Walsh. And then Lead Belly about a year after. Anyways, yeah.

It's a great fucking cover though. Yeah. So, you know, obviously from the MTV. We're both so in love with this unplugged in New York performance that any chance we get to get back in my apologies though, I like shoehorned into anything. Yeah. Yeah. No, I appreciate that.

Yeah. So yeah, you know what is a pick a bail and caught in a harvest song. I hate that. Let's go back to that. Let's go back to that. So the definition again is. Jump down, turn around. The process or period of gathering in crops. So my question is, and I'm naive, I'm a city boy. I don't understand your country. How often do you pick up?

Is cotton a crop? Yeah, right. Oh, yeah. OK, well, then it's it's fucking hard. Like, you're not going to eat that shit, right? They're going to make clothes and stuff. Yeah, but it's still a crop. Okay, is it so it's you're harvesting the the cotton crops. How often do you I'd allow it. What do you think, Rob? I say I too generous to Bob. No, no,

because I know he's look how often do you harvest cotton cotton specifically is grown once a year in most parts of the US. It's traditionally the cotton fields have to be picked by hand three or four times each harvest season so this is on living history farm org so were you worried about this one we would pound oh no the other ones are way more worried about the other one okay yeah my my my I fucking love it no Rob listen to this fucking song No, Rob, listen to this fucking song. Ow!

It's good. It's on my album, it's on my album. And I think I dropped the fun fact when I did this a couple of months ago. He did this last, because he knew it would fuck up his voice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's so good. So good. It's so real. It's so good. Yeah. I just want to say thanks to Andy in the chat saying it's never too early for Street Meat. Thank you. No judgment on my part. Isn't this so raw? And in less than a year, he'd be dead. Mind blow. Literally.

Oh, my God. That's a mind blow. Woo! Inappropriate. That's a mind blow. I'm funny, eh? Hey is right. Hey can I roll out of this end of mine?

Yeah, do it. It's your show. It's your song number one. song number one her with a big grandpa now did that to us Yeah. It's like an episode of the Wonder Years. Forrest Gump's own track. A time to live and grab this, I'm determined A time to be born, a time to die A time to plan, a time to breathe

A time to heal, a time to heal A time to have, a time to breathe Leslie says glasses, Mike, is a whole new vibe. It's true. How is it, Rob? What? Your glasses? I was going to ask you about them.

How long have you been wearing them? I don't really wear them at all. They look great on you. I just, later at night, to see what I'm playing. Yeah. To make it clear. Yeah, it looks really good. And not fuzzy where I play the wrong thing.

I threw my glasses. I hardly ever wear them. They look good on you. Thank you, Rob. Thank you very much. Okay, this is Turn Turn Turns. I have many things to say about it. The version I'm kicking out is The Birds, okay? The Birds released this song in 1965. Wow, it was a good year. It was a great year for you, right, Robbie? That's right. It went to number one. Sure. On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. Do you know who wrote this song?

Any guesses from the Peanut Gallery here? Roger McGuinn, Bob Dylan? Somebody like that. No and no, but they're both good guests. What do you say, Bob? Any guess at all? Who wrote this song? No, I don't really. Joni Mitchell. No, I don't. She didn't. No, I don't know. That's a good guess too. I don't know. Do everything turn, turn, turn.

Neil Diamond? Be a diamond? to heal a time to laugh a time to weep do everything turn turn turn this is Pete Seeger Pete Seeger wrote this song this is his of a fun fact. Kind of like it. It's really cool. It's got a, like a, almost like a, like a, like a, like an Atlantic kind of like, Pete Seeger's amazing. Yeah. Tower of Song is a great documentary. Pete's no longer with us, shout out to him at the funeral home. This song is notable because a large portion of these lyrics are actually pulled from the

Bible. A time of love, a time of hate, a time of war, a time of peace, a time you may embrace, a time to frame. The number one hit with the oldest lyrics because some of these lyrics go back to the 10th century BC And they're accredited to King Solomon Okay, so this is the guy who wrote the song Pete Seeger, but he did not release the first version of this song This is a bit of a mind-blow and it's all gonna come back to the birds in a moment So Pete Seeger writes this song, but the first version that is released is this one

Some weird band yeah another banjo it all ties in it all ties together I love these vocal groups. Oh my God. It's so fun. It's like a mighty wind. Yeah. Exactly. 100%. Oh man, this folk group is called the lime, the lime lighters. Don't I got that right? Yeah. The lime light, the lime. Yes. Okay. I want to I hope I got that right. Yeah, the Lime Lighters. The Lime... Yes, okay. I want to make sure I got that right. Yeah, Lime Lighters. The Lime Lighters, okay. The Lime Lighters had a member...

Sorry, one of the backing musicians for the Lime Lighters that you're listening to right now is a chap named Jim McGuinn, okay, who would also be known as Roger McGuinn. Really? He sang with the Lamplighters? Yeah, the Lamplighters, the Limelighters. Limelighters. The Limelighters, yeah, get that name right. The Limelighters. Well, now you know why the birds covered this. Wow.

Roger McGuinn then recorded it with his band, but before the birds covered this. So if you're following along, the Limelighters have the first release, but it was written by Pete Seeger. We played his version of the song, then it's covered by the birds and it goes to number one, but before the birds cover this song and take it to number one, Roger McGuinn arranges it for a folk singer who releases it on her debut album. You know, it is a He knows And a time for a calling to call Phil Collins mom, it's Judy Collins Yeah, so in her daughter debut album Judy Collins

Covers turn turn turn to be born a time to die a time to And I have one more mind blow and this is for Rob Proust. And this is for Rob's father. How long has your father been gone? January of 2023. Almost two years. Almost two years and you still miss him, especially on these holiday weekends like Thanksgiving, right?

Oh yeah, always. Never gets easier. Does it get easier for you, Bobby? How long has it been for you since you popped? in the hip hop scene? Four years I guess. Four years now. Or maybe three coming up. Is it May? It'll be maybe three or four actually.

I can't really remember. It's weird. You know, I find myself sometimes, it'll be like a weird thing, oh I should tell my dad that. And I'm like, oh wait, I can't tell my dad that. That's what I get. Yeah.

And then I'm like, oh yeah. Yeah, I can't do that. Okay, so this will resonate for your father Rob who's listening to us right now He's watching live dot Toronto Mike calm in heaven right now. Okay, so this is for your dad I knew you were going to play a German version. Not just the German version. Okay. I have a little notes on this one. Okay. I just like saying glob.

Who is the singer? This is big. Are you sure? Okay, I have a little notes on this one, okay? I just like saying glob, glob. Who is the singer? This is big. Are you sitting down, Rob? It's 1963. Marlene Dietrich. I guess later in her year, little.

It's a woman. Yes, and a famous woman, Marlene Dietrich. No, I know, but I mean, she must have some smokey. I believe shouted out in the Madonna song, Vogue. Yeah. I know. Dictor. That's Marlene Dietrich. Yes. And backed by a Burt Bacharach conducted studio orchestra. Okay. I'm pausing for the bigger applause. Okay, I'm pausing for the bigger applause. That's crazy. Because there were always in that era, there were young German singers like like young boys who would record as well.

And they had they sounded just like her. Maybe that's why they had that sound. Remember once on this very program, somebody heard Working Man by Rush and said she sounds great. Can I bring it back? I just read and doing some stuff here. So the Pete Seeger who wrote this song, not the German version of course, but you know, he's here who wrote it was interesting. He was doing records in the fifties with a band called the Weaver. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got it on the blacklist. Yeah, and do you know Goodnight Irene, their song?

Written by Lead Belly. Cool. And it all comes around. There you go. That's amazing. There you go. And that! We're shutting it down early.

That's it! A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plan, a time to be. On a serious tip, though, I was madly in love with the documentary Tower of Song. I think that's the right dog tower of song that doesn't sound that sounds like the Leonard Cohen dog hey what's the name of the Pete Seeger somebody Google Pete Seeger documentary it's fucking great the guy lived to be 95 or something I can't a really long 2014 yeah and he built his own like cabin and shower of song so the Leonard Cohen documentary I love I love a good music document. You'll love it. You'll love it. I'm too castaway stone Pete Seeger

We miss you buddy. We need you we need you He checked out long before Trump became president. Okay, we need him. Okay. What do you want to say about your second jam Rob? Prus, um Trump became president. Okay, we need him. Okay. What do you want to say about your second jam? Rob Pruss? It's not have to say anything. No, it's a good. It's a song I like and it can't this song came to my mind for a harvest era song, but it's not really about harvesting. Fuck that you get harvest on. I just saw I like, well, this don't sound harvesting. It sounds. This sounds like the opening of a TV show. A sitcom.

You can spin it. I can spin it. You harvest in the autumn, right? Yeah. I rest my case, John. Take a note of this. She sang in the clothes of a lion. I do not know this song.

And I didn't know your first song. Will I know any of your songs? I don't know. You've still got them on your mind. It's Christopher Cross. It's making you shiver. Summer didn't last that long. Even the nights are brighter.

It's now in September. I need some big shoulder pads right now. I like this. Here's the, here's the, here we go. Boys will be boys. I know this. But's the musical. Here we go. I know this. It sounds like things I know. That's true. Who's singing this song, Rob? I can't take this.

His name is David Roberts. David Roberts is a Canadian. Yeah, I don't even know a singer named David Roberts. Yeah, I know. This was like his one real hit song. What year? 82. Yeah. Rob, I can't take this. His name is David Roberts. David Roberts is a guy.

I didn't even know a singer named. Yeah, no, this was like his one real hit song. What year? 82. This is like, like it is very Yacht Rock. It's very Christopher Cross, Yacht Rock. It just fit into that sound at that time. Yeah. Who would have been playing in like in 82 here in Toronto?

Well, CKOC played it. Of course, my station played it.. Well CKOC played it. Of course my station played it chum probably would have played But my my the reason I've always had this song stuck in my head for my whole life is because he performed At the 83 Junos when we won the spoons when we performed to the Junos as well that he was nominated That's why I've always loved this on today. It's called the boys of autumn That's why it've always loved this song. What's the name of the song? It's called The Boys of Autumn. Really? That's why it predates Boys of Summer. Yes, exactly. And it was his one hit,

but it really tapped into that Christopher Cross sound. And I just always loved it because it's sort of a generically kind of a great song. And it was produced by, it was recorded in LA with like the guys from Toto. These are literally the guys from Toto. Oh, this is that scene. It's Jeff and Mike Porcaro.

Porcaro, yeah. It's the rhythm section with Steve Luk at theirs on guitar very stew stone ass Yeah, absolutely. So it's to me. I'm sorry that it's not really harvesting, but it's about autumn says autumn It's autumn and harvests happen in the autumn. And so that's my it's a boys of autumn What the fuck do you think they're doing playing baseball? They're hard. They're fucking harvesting Exactly. They're in the fields. They're in the fields harvesting man And they're they're remembering the summer with the girls and they're hard, they're fucking harvest. Yes, exactly. They're in the field. They had their in the fields harvesting man and they're they're remembering the summer with the girls and they're looking forward to next year. But actually some of the some of the analysis of the lyrics online, people are

saying like, well, it's like an analogy for like your whole life and like the boys of autumn. It's like the end of your life looking backwards at memories and stuff. Boys, boys, you can't forgive those adolescent lies. Yeah. As you get older, it gets a little colder when the winter's over, they become the boys of summer again. There you go, Don Hanley heard that in Ramada. There you go, exactly. She's hanging clothes on the line, you're laying by the river, you've got them on your mind. You know what, it's a pretty song. It's a very pretty song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gathering the crops while listening to pops and cleaning with mops. Yeah, he's got a great voice. Wearing crocs?

You know what? It's good too. I recognize it. I know I've heard it. It's vaguely familiar, right? Here's what I'll say about this song. It sounds like one of those songs. If I didn't hear that Juno story, I would wonder about Rob Bruce's taste. I think the Juno story implants it in your head as this reminds you of your heyday as a keyboardist

for the fucking spoon. Well, yeah, and also I do actually like, like I like these kinds of songs because they were on the radio. But there's much better than this. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. But you can't listen to all the hits all the time.

No, and as much as I love being- It can't all be Africa. No, ha ha ha and as much as I love being- It can't all be Africa. No, ha ha ha. As much as I love being in the new wave world, these kind of songs kind of reminded me of like just simple pop songs, easy listening. Straight ahead pop music. Easy listening stuff.

Yeah. So my other jam is another song that David Roberts co-wrote. What? That I thought you might recognize this song. It's nothing to harvest at all. Well let's dedicate this to Midtown Gourd, can we? This nothing to harm us. Let's dedicate this to Midtown Gord. This is your mind blow. Can we dedicate this to Midtown Gord? David Roberts co-wrote this with the singer and he's singing background vocals on it. But can I dedicate it to Midtown Gord?

Yes. Gord, this is for you. Gord knows that tune. show me a river that needs no ocean to flow. What you do to my body? So I don't know this, you might know when he gets to the course. I didn't know. Do you know a guy by the name of Steve Cassie? He says he's a he's a V P of Durham radio and he says he was part of the year and project

says he played keys. Yeah, I thought you might know him. You know, I think you know all the keyboard is not all of them not yet. What would that guy sound from their logo? Yeah, I know. So David Roberts co-wrote this is doing backup vocals called only human. Did this get any much music play? I think it did. I actually looked at numbers on this. It was not high on the radio charts, but I think I remember the song more from the video because this was 1987. Yeah, so this predates what you do to my body. Yeah, like a Bonnie

Tyler type video. Yes, I kind of flames and body. Yeah, like a Bonnie Tyler type video. Yes, I kind of flames and hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like birds and slow motion and shit. Yeah, David Robert sucks right and those were the days he's two songs he wrote or shit. Bob Lillette. Can I go to we can go fucking write a better song than then? I don't think we could. This man wrote romantic traffic. I know. These, the two songs we heard from Robert. But you don't know this song because you're too young. We don't need another hero. Exactly. Yeah. This came after that so. Oh, that's the inspiration of course. Yeah. Because I think I remember now that you say that. We don't need another hero is good. It's a great song.

We don't. This isn't. When we were. Do you think this is good? This is not a good song. No. You other one's not bad. No, but the other one I was kind of that's kind of cool It sounded like some good sounds like a Christopher cross song. It sounds like yeah It sounds like a whole bunch of things that you might know. Yeah It's fine. Honestly, this is a video song. You're full of hate man No, but it made like Christopher cross sound like Beethoven Speaking of Beethoven Pete Seeger did a good Beethoven cover. Oh yeah. Actually with the banjo. Yeah.

With the banjo. Cool. He did Beethoven's 9th symphony. It's unbelievable. Tower of song. The power of tower. The power of song. All right.

So Lear and who's really Karen. Yep. And brother Bill knew her like pre Lear and Dave. What was her real name? Karen something. Of course. She's a Karen. Of course.

I just like brother Bill because when I re listened to Bill Biggers, shout out to really What's her real name? Karen something. Karen, that's right. Of course she's a Karen. Of course. Karen. I just like shout out brother Bill because when I re-listen to Bill Vigors, shout out to really funeral home, he was a good guy. Bill Vigors says he was in White Rock and I heard myself say, the home of brother Bill. Oh yeah. Great. And I said, and you're a Bill.

That's right. You were so excited to tell him that. Listening back to yourself is dangerous, especially like 13 months later. You're like, why did I, why did I bring 40 years later when I hear myself and I was like 18 or 19 and interviews, I'm like, what the hell? Right. Yeah. Cause you would have been like there with like Erica M or whoever. You're hearing this. I mean the music, the music is timeless.

I mean, you won't be around, but when I listen to this. You don't know that. It's fucking great. You wrote this and David Roberts is writing that schlock. Well I know. I have good, it's in my heart though. I appreciate it. Pete Seeger could write in two minutes better than these David Roberts jams.

What about this big 80s tour that's coming through this fall? It's coming across the country. Well tell me what, what is it, you, I don't even know about it. It's called the eighties club and it's my bands. They're, they're like together. Together. It's the, it's. But you're not invited, right? No.

Can I, can I just say this on your behalf as a guy who, maybe I love you. What? Do I love you? I don't know. Okay. Love you, man. Let me just say this. She's got really, really.

Getting GLB fueled Friday night. It's the glasses. One fucking tall boy. You guys are rock. I needed one tall boy to say to Rob Proust that I love you. I think that's bullshit. But you don't want to do it though, do you? No.

You know what though? He doesn't want to do it because they've never asked him to do it. I don't know. If they asked him to do it, he'd want to do it. He's game, he drives here for toast. This is more exciting to me. They get on stage.

But they're doing a big tour across the country. You know what, I'm not gonna promote any of their shit and I'm not gonna root for them because they didn't invite you. But can I ask you something? Because I actually believe that you don't actually want to do that. But do you want to be a musical director again?

On a show? No. No? Not really, no. Really? That's another thing that I've never, yeah. I'm like, it's another thing I've never really pursued which would have been clearer years ago because I did Mamma Mia for so many years I love doing that show

But we had other musical directors who came through and like went on to other shows because they were musical directors, right? And they want to keep on moving but I loved playing the music right to see and you were music supervisor on once on once right? But but playing Mamma Mia, I loved playing the show loved playing it Yeah, and it felt like being in a band actually which was right the reason I loved playing the songs But I never wanted to like stand up and be a conductor kind of thing. You want to go back to Broadway? Would you like no? I mean, I mean I would but I don't really pursue it right now at this point so much when you were doing it I'm just going on a little tangent here. But when you were doing it, did you appreciate how?

Kind of cool it was? No, like, no, he didn't. Yeah, it was just cool. I mean, it was the job at the time, but like in retrospect, thinking about all the different, all the different people who like fucking work their entire lives to get to Broadway and you did it for how many years? Like 15 years. Yeah. Yeah. And you would go, your job was to go to fucking Broadway. I'm, I'm, I'm not envious. I'm. I admire the people who go from show to show to show. Like we have a lot of friends who are actors who go on to do different shows.

Your wife was an actor too. She was among me as well. Right. But we have friends who've done like eight or nine Broadway shows and it's unbelievable to like just see that work ethic for them and they can be cast in so many different shows. That's not the motivator for you. Not so much.

No, I mean music is my thing. So that's not the motivator for you. Not so much, no. I mean, music is my thing. So that's why I think about this 80s tour with my old bands. It's sort of like not doing a Broadway show. I'm not doing the casino tour with my bands because it's Honeymoon Suite, The Spoons, Flock of Seagulls, and Men Without Hats, which is a great bill.

But it's funny to me to think that it's two of my bands. It's just weird. They're playing my songs. What's weird is you not being invited. No, but they're in the band. I mean, the bands exist without me. Is this an Ed Sousa show? I'm not sure. Oh, no, no, I don't.

I think it's a bigger thing. It is a bigger, but I'm not sure. He might be involved. He might be involved. I would fuck that man up, okay? That's bullshit. No, no, it's got nothing to do with me. I'm very happy for them to be doing this

because it's super cool. They're going from the farthest corners of the country across, which is great. Yeah, yeah, it's a big tour. Yeah, they're gonna play Hamilton and they're doing history in Toronto as well Great time excited for you. Thank you. Oh my god. So good. Yep And I'm excited to play this song cuz everybody knows what I think. Well, I gotta ask Bob's yeah, you're wrong Okay, Bob any words before I kick this this one's a bit of a stretch, but it's a fucking great song Much of a stretch cuz the lines in there. Yeah okay good.

Oh you like this. I do this is from the greatest hits my mom spun over and over again. voice. Move over, Chris Kristoffers. That's right. I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after I'm after whatever the other life brings In the mirror I saw him and I closely watched him I thought how he looked out of place He came to the woman who sat there beside me. He had a strange look on his face. The big hands were calloused. He looked like a mountain.

For a minute I thought I was dead. But he started shaking his big heart. It's 90 seconds in before he gets to the fucking part Come on Kenny worth it. Don't Boris get to the chorus For hungry children and a crop in the field gotta harvest that crop buddy It is bullshit, but I'm in a good mood Rob and a crop in the field. Gotta harvest that crop, buddy. That's right. I've had some bad times. You know what? It is bullshit, but I'm in a good mood, Rob. I'm a little fucker. Crop in the field.

And I am going to be nice to Bob because of my next pick. A bad time to leave me loose. What was that joke about? There's a joke about you picked a fine to leave me loose wheel when it comes off a car. I think I've heard that joke in my day. Absolutely. And don't forget the Arrested Development with the loose seal. Cause there was loose seal

too and then he got bit by the loose seal. Yeah. It's a whole, uh, now nobody's on. No one cares. Uh, 1977, Teddy Rogers, loose seal from his debut solo album. This is like he was, he was with the fifth dimension before not fifth dimension. First edition. First edition. First edition. Sorry, wrong. Kenny Rogers in the fifth dimension. Yes. That would be good. I'd pay to see that. I would see that too. Yeah, this was number one, or excuse me, number five. Number one on the country, number five on the Hot 100. Just Kenny Rogers is the best. It's best. I'm just a huge,

huge fan. The song was actually not written by Kenny. Kenny did a lot of writing. He wrote with Lionel Richie, some stuff, but this is actually written by a couple of guys by the name of Roger Bowling and Hal Bynum. And they also wrote another song that we might know. Is it you got it? Is it going to be played? Yeah, I got are you going to play them with the exact same time? Or is one fading out? You're fucking like, go to train wreck wreck that was. You're so stupid you never stood down

I get fired from radio for it. Oh wait, I already was. I'll fix it in post. No, that's fine. They also wrote this. Mama named him Tommy. I love this song. Now this is better than Lucille. I remember this song. Did it come first? Yeah.

No, this came after. Really? There's no crops in this, huh? No. Just cowards. He was only 10 years old. So they wrote this as well. So when I, I actually, for episode 1500, I kicked out my jams and this was one of them. Was it? Coward of the County was in 79.

And that was 77. I still recall the final words my brother said to Tommy. Son, my life is over over but yours has just begun. I remember this song. Promise me son not to do the things I've done. Walk away from trouble if you can. Now it don't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. I hope you're old enough to understand.

So this bowling guy did these two songs. Okay. That's a fun thing. What's his first name? Roger. Roger Bowling. Roger Bowling. Yeah. There's a great bit and I was going to, you have to like, if you just Google Norm MacDonald podcast coward of the county. He was on a podcast. I think it was with the guy who used to be with the man show with Kimmel. Anyways, doesn't matter. Yeah, that guy. I know that you know who I'm talking about. Early podcast. Adam Kroll. Adam. I think it's Adam Kroll's podcast and Norm MacDonald, who I think is still one of the funniest. He's got a bit about this song. It was they were trying to go.

They're trying to end the show. Norm just keeps going off on this. I go. What is shit? How shitty this song was to the Gatlin brothers like there's all kinds of it's. It's hilarious. Look it up. It's really funny. So anyways, yeah, so yeah, there's a there's a crop of the field, so that's why it's a harvest song. Well, it's more of a harvest jam than mine. Okay, so let's start it. You ready? Yeah. Great fucking jam though. Any excuse. Let's go boys. Buckle up! Alright, number two. Crack another. Thank you GLB. We're dancing in the moonlight Everybody here is out of sight But they don't bark and they don't bite They keep things loose, they keep things alive

Everybody was dancing in the moonlight Dancing in the moonlight Dancing in the moonlight Everybody feel the warmest pride It's such a wild and natural sight Everybody's dancing in the moonlight We like our phone and we never fight You can't dance and stay up tight It's supernatural delight everybody was dancing in the moonlight. Who doesn't love this song? We all do. What a great song. Okay, who could

name this band? It's a 1972 hit single. it's called Dancing in the Moonlight. What's the first letter of the first name? K. K is in Canada Kev. What's the second letter? Did Bob check out? Like is he, uh, paid his taxes there? Okay. So, this is a rock band known as King Harvest.

King Harvest. What about Top Loader? Well, that's not this, okay? Oh, so this is a King Harvest. King Harvest. What about Top Loader? That's not this. So this is a King Harvest jam. Buckle up, this is King Harvest, okay? So this is the hit. 1972, Dancing in the Moonlight. He's flowering.

You're supposed to be on top of your head when we ask these questions, you don't get to cheat. So this is- Tell me to Google something last time, son of a bitch. This is your version of a flowers jam. yes right Brendan flowers flower jam this is exactly the same situation I think Wow what a hypocrite well it comes back around but we still love them oh yeah no of course I still love them but and it is a good song on this episode I'm sure I'm comfortable with it do

they mention harvesting it all no just moonlight you need moonlight to harvest the crops I guess you don't harvest in the moonlight well the moon's doing work at night though what I told you to gentlemen this was you see the northern lights last night whatever I didn't see you know I was biking home from this movie stewstone put out and I'm biking to here which is very close to here in the distance I didn't see this fucking here uh, I saw pictures of VP of sales and it's like, how did I miss it? You know what?

At 10 30 I was biking right by this place. Not visible by the naked eye, but through your camera, you can see it. That's bullshit. That's what it was. I was looking with my naked eye. That's really true. So stop bullshit. Everybody says that.

And that's why everybody got good pictures. I didn't know that. So gentlemen, I am going to drop some fun facts on you. Okay, about that. I told you King Harvest, that's not their song man. They covered that song. Okay, yeah, this is the original dancing in the moonlight by top loader. No, who's top most every night that a moon gets the moonlight. Everybody here is out of sight. They don't bark. This could be Earth a kid.

This band is called Bofolongo. Bofolongo releases Dancing in the moonlight. He needs more cowbell. You got those sticks. You need a cowbell down here. I do need a cowbell down here, but then I'll just play it all the time. So Mike, can I crack a hop pop? Yeah, of course. I love these things.

Of course you can, big guy. He just called you big guy. Friday night. Because Bob won't fucking shut up about these guys, I'm playing this, okay? I don't know, it's the one that I... The one you found via Google? I think I know this one better. No. I don't think you do. I think King Harvest is the one you hear on key 107.

Are you telling me what I think? Harp? What? And who's this? Top Loader. Sounds like Harvest for the how this thing so the writer of this song is a guy named Sherman Kelly okay Sherman Kelly was in the band Bofolongo. So Bofolongo, I like saying that word. Bofolongo. He doesn't know who Bofolongo is.

Oh, he said Bofolongo. Oh, God. Well, Sherman Kelly's band, Bofolongo, records dancing in the moonlight. Cut, that's 1970. Two years later, King Harvest dropped the version I started with. And that goes to number five in Canada, number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Are they Canadian? No, they're like from France and America. But where's Bofolongo from? I don't know, but I don't think that version, don't worry about that version, it didn't

hit. But in 2000, only 24 years ago, a British band known as Top Loader covers this song and has another hit with it so if Bob is... I think I know. Yes but that's like that's ridiculous people... Why is it ridiculous that I know this song? You know this version. But not better than the King Harvest version. You're telling me what I know? What do you know? What do you really know? Jesus! So this is the cover of the cover as you will so King Harvest covers Bofolongo Has a hit in 1972. I really like Bofolongo Springfield And then comes back to Neil Young then top loader vegetable fruit market called Bofolongo

Top loader has another fucking hit. Yeah in Top Loader has another fucking hit. Yeah. In 2000. 2000? With the song, and that's why I know it. And Bob was playing that probably on the rock. Top Loader. You mean this song came back in 2000?

This is from 2000. They're not Canadian. They're British. This is from 2000. It is? Yes. Oh my god, it sounds like it's 1973. This version's from 2000.

Where are these guys from? England. This sounds like King Gizzard and Wizard Lizard. Yes. A little bit, right? Yes yes like it's kind of like yeah my buddy my buddy saw them this summer and said it was one of the best shows he's ever seen so gizzard yeah that's a Canada Kev band they're doing very well so gentlemen King Harvest where does that name come from why did this band call themselves King Harvest?

Is that a rhetorical question? If you know, you could shout it out. No, I've never even heard of them. I know Top Loader. Now this is... Sporn of the Cotton Food? Soak this in for me. That's funky. Well, you know this band. So this song is called King Harvest.

And this song is why the band called themselves King Harvest The only non-canadian in this whole entire band leave on leave on Wow This should be your harvest song For this I wanted to play King Harvest Listen to this great leave on out cool. You said the only kid not That's cool, that's a harvest song Dancing the only could have been the fun fact your hands if you're glad I played King Harvest's Dancing in the Moonlight. Oh, you want to hear the song?

I love that song because it was on the radio when I was seven years old. And I remember it. I remember the 2000 version when I probably played it up high. Bob likes the 2000 version. Okay, I've got to shout out John Donobie for a moment. John Donobie was at The Last Waltz. John Donobie was very good friends. He was invited by Leavon Helm and Robbie Robertson to go to The Last Waltz.

So he flew over, it was there. That's a documentary Scorsese managed to finish. I watched that recently, like a couple of weeks ago, and it's unbelievable how good it is. I love it when the staple singers do the weight. Oh my God, the whole thing. It's actually very good. Yeah. And then they just cut in the middle of a song to like backstage interviews or whatever from the band to the side. Rick Danko. Yeah. So great. There's only one left as you know.

Fucking great. And anyway, shout out to John Donobie, who was going to be on Toronto Mike this week. Oh, I heard you talking to Leona Boyd about that. Yeah, so he had to postpone. I won't say any more. But I'm thinking of John Donobie because A, he's a sweetheart and a great FOTM, but B, he's got jams to kick out. And at some point he'll be in this basement kicking out his jams and you know you're going to hear the band when John Donahby's kicking out the jams. Listen to this. Should it come? That's really cool.

Ladies and gentlemen, Bob will let us return from the facilities. Rob Pruse, anywhere is before your final jam. How are these Harvest Jams going, buddy? We're going to all finish strong. I think they're fun because you guys have stretched outside the zone of what I... I was a little nervous about mine, but I don't really care anyway, because it's fun to be in... We had like a overarching theme yeah I'm like how many songs about harvesting are there actually is uncle Neil gonna

be a handsome here you don't know but he was at the last waltz as well yes it's all about the last waltz here can I play it my song well you got to play it from zero though yeah there you go what other where you got to play it from zero though. Yeah, there you go. What other, where else would I play it from? Have I ever played a song from anywhere but zero? Oh yeah, you said a train wreck earlier. I don't know what that is. I did play that from zero. I'm sure you did. Okay, now just let this, let this wash over. Okay, let me drink my beer and listen. Thank you. A criminal mind, a no sorry. No, you're right.

Is that what this is? The instrumental version of Gawain's A Criminal Mind? It's beautiful. It is beautiful. And these lyrics are all about harvesting like gotta gotta get the crops There are lyrics I'm sorry. Is this a prog rock single here? I don't know.

No, this is actually a very important album. Right, Rob? It's gone. And it was released 43 years ago tomorrow actually. It was U2's second album. Oh, it was called October. Was it Boy? Oh. When was Boy? Boy, War, October, like. Yeah, Boy was a boy. It was boy. When was boy, boy war like a boy October war.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I think I didn't know. I, you know what? I have this on vinyl. I don't know. I'm going to have to go listen to it. That's beautiful. Isn't that beautiful? Title track October. Wow. Amy Winehouse also has a song called October. So she, yeah. So, and I was reading like I didn't, there was good quotes from Bono talking about the song because as a title track And I sort of remembered this vaguely that the band almost broke up at that time Okay, because they were like fighting about both they felt like they were conflicted between there They were like pretty hardcore religious dudes, right? Yeah, and they felt like maybe being in rock and roll was like like the wrong thing to do through they they were super Catholic

Yeah, the story was that three out of the four guys like wanted to do it. And I don't know if it was Larry the drummer who was the dissenter or who it was. I don't remember who it was. But it says October. Larry the cable guy? Yeah, maybe.

So it says October reflects the spiritual turmoil of the band at the time it was written during which three of the band's members were wrestling with whether being members of a rock band was consistent with their Christian beliefs. Wow. Crazy, right? Amazing. I know.

And they were like 20 years old. Beautiful too. Like just, so who's playing those keys? It's the Edge. He always plays the keys. Oh. Yep. So this is Bono's quote. He says, October, we've been,

this is how he described the song. We've been through the sixties, the time when things were in full bloom. We had fridges and cars. We sent people to the moon and everyone thought how great mankind was. And now, as we go through the 70s and 80s, it's a colder time of the year.

It's after the harvest. Wait, did you say we had fridges and cars? Yeah, he thought that was a big deal in the 60s. Was it? Uh-huh, it's a colder time. After the harvest. In rural Ireland, probably. Things people, we take for granted now.

It's crazy. Like, you think that things that people didn't have, you know, like- Is that where they kept the potatoes? Yeah, they used to have ice boxes for that shit, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it's not really, it's an October song. Beautiful.

I like it. Can I drop a quick fun fact before Bob spills his science? I have two questions. I have two questions. Okay, so my fun fact is that that key's there is by The Edge and Bob O'Lett used to work for a station called The Edge. Yes, that is true, I did. You take it away, Bob.

Is that related? I set you up. So on that, uh, recording, I will ask your expert opinion. Is that a real piano? Is that electric piano? What do you think? That's a real piano. That's a real piano. Yep. Like a grand piano. Cause it's got like this resonance. No, it sounds to me like a Yamaha electric grand piano, which, because they use that on the album war as well. New Year's day. Okay. The piano. Yes. And it's the same piano. Okay. I think it sounds like there's a piano and possibly an electric piano or a guitar doubling it as well. Okay. Cause yeah, there's just a, I'm again, you know,

it's we're doing it through Boone's a shitty, um, uh, the MP3 quality. Yeah. But, but the other reason I love what your free, uh, software he used. Yeah. Yeah. But what I love about the sound of the song, it sounds like it from you to to me, it sounds like nineteen eighty one. This is the sound of of rock and roll at that time. It sounds like Peter Gabriel. It sounds like Japan was another band I loved. I know it just sounds like all those bands that were doing. It's actually reminds me a lot of Gary Newman too. So everybody was really influenced by everybody else, which is why that piano sound was really prevalent. So my second

everybody was really influenced by everybody else, which is why that piano sound was really prevalent. So my second question about that, and you kind of just touched on it, is it's 81, 82, are you with the Spoons? Yeah, we released our first album already. Okay, so the new wave thing's going on and U2's doing that, what do you think? What do you remember thinking when you hear that stuff?

Well, we'd already done our first album, Duran Duran had already released their first album as well. So we were all in the same boat. We were all doing the same shit, which is why to me you too, wasn't as kind of like, no, they were more guitar bass, more guitar. So when I heard a song like this with the piano, I was like, holy shit, there's a piano in you too. That's really cool. And then when the next album came out, when war came out and new year's day had all the piano all over, it was super cool. I remember seeing them in Maple Leaf Gardens and the edge

would like to like hold his guitar and then he walked up to the piano on stage and cool a lick and then come back to the guitar. It was so cool. Yeah, but but we all everybody was influenced by everybody else. So yeah, all fed, you know, yeah, yeah, I just wanted like there was like, I mean again, they, I don't know if people realize Bono's kind of like almost a parody of himself now. right. I don't think people realize that you know, you know, going back, of course, is live aid is the is the big show

where they say all it yeah, where they really it's there coming out party kind of like internationally and I'm not the first person to say this, but that was like until then for the early eighties, Duran Duran was the biggest man of the planet. Yeah, I remember when you two took over and I said that's what I'm not the first person to say this, but that was like until the, for the early eighties, Duran Duran was the biggest man on the planet. Yeah. I remember when you two took over and I said that's what I'm talking about. And I think, I think the whole until the Joshua tree, but it was, it was, it was a lot. Yeah. So there's actually people who say when Duran Duran booted, uh, of you to a kill at live aid, uh, it was the end. That was the beginning of the fall for Duran Duran. I remember being a honey which I even a cluster man thing. I really yeah, but I remember even looking in billboard magazine and seeing an ad

for you to and it and it was like the first three albums in this picture and I remember it had like it mentioned the statistics of how many records they sold. I remember thinking man, I can't believe America's falling for you to like I mean falling in love with them, but I realized oh it's because they're a pretty traditional kind of a rock band. Straight ahead, yeah. Which Americans can get a grasp on. Easier than getting synth bands and stuff like that.

You know what I mean? Yeah, interesting, interesting. And they certainly, they worked at like a rock and roll band too, like that's really, I think, why they had that success. Yeah. But it's funny, because listening to, I listened to the whole album October today

while I was driving up. You got a chance to listen to a lot. I listened to lots of shit for nine hours. But the funny thing listening to October, some of it is so rock and roll. There was a song that I thought, man, they could have done a cover version of a Kiss song. There was a song that reminded me of Love Gun,

a Kiss song. And I thought, man, Bono could have sang this shit out of it, which is really weird, but I could imagine the juxtaposition of the two. Yeah, like I don't think people, I don't even realize, like by the time, my U2 was like Sunday Bloody Sunday was a retro song by the time U2, right?

So, but now I actually have some of the old vinyl from the Q107 library when I'm, and so I've been listening to a little bit of it, I'm like, cause I, you know, they never resonated with me. You can't imagine what it felt like in 1983 when they came out with New Year's Day and you heard that piano and I was like, holy shit, like there was nothing like it.

It was the same year that Spando Billy put out true as well. So for me, this is like, like current stuff. Cause we were recording at the same time. That's why I asked you, you kids, you don't know. Yeah, I mean I do. I actually been thinking a lot about the eighties and just, um, because I've been thinking about trying to figure out my content. Yeah, I'm gonna do and just about how I don't know if there's a better era for pop music with the breadth of sound for the variety of really bad stuff to them. Of course, I

think while you keep going, of course it was, but there was also like the fact of the matter is you turn on a top 40 station, you would get Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Wham, Tom Madonna, like Tom and twins. And, but also you would get, uh, you know, uh, run DMC walk this way. Kenny Rogers. Yeah. Kenny Rogers would be David Roberts. David Roberts burning up the charts. That's right. But you know what? The funny thing is,

is listening to a lot of the seventies bands that tried to get with that 80s sound and how bad that could be sometimes, like with a drum machine, people who were like, oh, foreigner nailed it. That's for sure. Well, they really did. Yeah, of course. Some people made the transition really well. But there are some 70s acts who didn't work so well.

And there's all those, you have an argument, I actually saw of like all the other bands who tried to like. Remember, it's all, I'm sorry, but yes, his biggest hit came out in the eighties. Oh, Nervous Lonely Heart. Yeah. There were some seventies guys. Yeah.

Anyways, that's cool. That was beautiful. It was nice. I'm glad that you thought it was like a prog thing until Bono comes in. I did. And then even when Bono sings, I'm like, it kind of sounds like Chuck Circle

a little bit too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? He's got a little bit of that sound. Amazing. Bob's got one jam to go. One jam to go. So Bob has a jam plus three Bonus and I have this one three. So we're gonna get like

Yeah This is Canada's YouTube. No, I'm kidding No, no, no that blue rodeo would be Canada's use you have to know you only have to have to one lead singer So can I was a hip? Yeah, the hip is can it is you too. This is often album that is often overlooked, but I've listened to it a few times and when, when, when the idea of harvest came up, farmers came up to my in my mind. So here we go. You probably don't even know this song because it's an album cut,

but one of your mind blows to this song was on my list when you said, Oh, really? Yeah. It's an F, an FOTM jam. Yeah. I tend the wheat field that makes you bread I bind the sweet veil, pluck the hens that make your bed Mother nature and Mother Earth A two of three women who dictate what I'm worth Well I'm the farmer I work in the fields all day Which will mean to lover

But I know it was meant to be this way He cried a tear I wiped it dry I put you up, up, up on a bed of steel so high If you should wave it, if you should sway I'd catch you spread my tiny wings and fly away You signed your picture with an O and X I bet you don't write love each time you sign your checks I'm the farmer, I work in the fields on the first album. No, it's a third. Oh, geez, this is born on a pile of shit. Oh yeah, this is a born on a pirate ship, very naked ladies. Is this a no? There's a

couple more. You get stunt after that, you know, this is a very good ladies straw hat and old dirty Hank, which I think is the first or second track on the album. Of course, the album mostly known for the old apartment okay and break your heart is the one that's live is so good, but but definitely the old apartment, which of course the video was directed by Jason priestly yeah yeah, Brendan Walsh, FOTM Jason, Jason priestly. I'm a big fan of these guys

pre split up. I think they're like I they're they're a big part of my life much music. I mean, I remember seeing I'm not a yellow tape guy. I didn't have the yellow tape. I got into them as soon as I you know, their lovers in a dangerous time cover was it. So when we when we started talking about harvest songs, I thought about this and I started because I'm the farmer. I work in the field all day. It's a harvesting. That's a harvesting right and then I dug into the song and I didn't even know what the fuck it was about, but the song is

actually like really smart. These guys like Ed and Steve together. I know they don't. They can't do it anymore, but man, they wrote some really cool things. This is actually a song about Robert Keeling. He's a Saskatchewan we farmer who became obsessed with Ann Murray in the nineteen seventies. Wow! Yes, this is like a whole song. The whole song is about stalker, a stalker. Wow. Yes. And there's lyrics in it. Um, like, uh, there's, uh, I cried a tear. You wiped it dry, put you up on a pedestal. So high is from, is that my first or my one you needed me? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember which I gave first. Sorry. Do you want

that one? You're teasing for? Okay. Yeah. There was the same key. Oh yeah. It's true. you're teasing for okay yeah there was yeah same key oh yeah it's true yeah it's like in the first it's like the line comes early so but like there how Canadian is this it's a suck like I can't but like I didn't even make the connection like this reminds me of your conversation with Leona Boyd. She talked about her Gordon Lightfoot song and she had got permission to use some of his lyrics in her tribute song. So this guy, he had 30 court appearances for his obsession with Anne Marie. Yeah. Between 1980, between 80 and yeah, 30 things. Wow.

She lived in Thornhill at that time, so he was from Saskatchewan. Wow. And I guess he can't. Anyways, she got a restraining order, whole bunch of stuff, that's scary shit, man. Oh man, no kidding. And then obviously, so it's Ryan Dunn has the same thing going with Ed Robertson. Yeah, yes, I was thinking about Brian Dunn when I brought this up, if he's going to be listening, if he's listening or not. So there's also lyrics. Did I put the others? Did I put Snowbird in there too? Yeah, you want Snowbird? Yeah, let's do Snowbird because there's also... I might

have this part here. Hold on. Okay, sure. I just had a thought. Can you imagine Karen Carpenter covering this? She would have been amazing. Yeah. Not that Ann Marie doesn't look great. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh. He was on the Oh What a Feeling box act. Snowbird. Yeah, because there's a lyric in the song called Spread My Tiny Wings and Fly Away. Oh, yeah. In the song. That my tiny wings and fly away So smart, yeah such a smartly written song

And she's a hell of a golfer she's a hell of a golfer So the song we haven't played yes is the one Yeah, so King Harvest replaced it. Did you remove yours because of my mind blow? You should never have to remove your song because of a mind blow. I wasn't married to it, but I did have it. So this song is called Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank, which of course is a... Throwback. Shout out to Denise Donlin. Dusty old farmer, out working your field, hanging down over your tractor wheel. This is a harvest jam. Yes.

The sun beating down to the red paint of us. It sounds like Lucille. It does. Exactly. You're right. Marie Mclachlan. There's no other way to solve this problem. Oh, it is. It does! Exactly. You're right. Murray Mcloughlin. Oh it is! Oh my god, absolutely.

72! 5 years ago. Oh you're right! Here comes Carson. Yeah, hang on. Murray MclLaughlin. No, no. Not, not a, wrong. I've been a face like a shoe.

That's pretty great. That's just a folk tradition, right? Yeah, no, I know. If you're doing it live in a bar, Jake, right? Yeah, you just do both. You do both. That's a mashup. Well, you guys remember when I played,

I played Smashing Pumpkins today and then I played Bist naked? My daddy's getting married? Yes. Murray McLaughlin and Kenny Rogers, very much the same. So this song though, big hit in Canada. So this is a Farmer song. That's really cool. 1972.

It might be his biggest hit. But the opening line is there's actually like a whole thing about Where is it like a boat of dirty like here it is straw hats and dirty old hankies and the baronica lady song is called Draw a hat and dirty old dirty old Hank. No Yeah, it's good though. I love this Yeah, really like when you recognize songs that are familiar like yeah these days somebody like somebody would get a lawyer and sue Somebody for it, but that's what inspiration is all about. Well, that's an interesting thing I actually just saw I mean obviously the whole

Pharrell with Robin Robin fixing with was a big problem at his dad Pharrell's dad or Robin fixed it His dad was on TV or something. His wife wrote some really good songs. Did you really? Gloria Lauren, his wife wrote some amazing theme songs and songs. Friends and Lovers with Carl Anderson, one of my favorite duets. Carl Anderson. What about the Growing Pains theme song?

Show me that smile again. Anyways, so there you go. I thought I was going to get in trouble because the farmers are definitely it's a harvest. Okay, I will say this. Bob almost became program director at Q107 and the first song ever played on Q107 is a Murray McLaughlin song called Hard Rock Town. I did not almost become the program director at Q107. So when I can't even get a fucking interview. Can you tell me the name of the person you want me to get in contact with and say no? What's the point?

You can be like my mom calling. You got nothing left to lose. There's nothing left to lose. You set yourself on fire. Well, here's the thing. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Chris Christopherson. Me and Bobby McGee. Chris Christopherson. Shout out to... It's all back to Chris Christopherson. Well, you know what? I didn't get in as much trouble

as I thought I would for my selections. Well, I literally kicked out a song called By King Harvest. That's right. You bred the flowers. We're all in a good mood here. Okay. But I am going to finish properly. Are you guys ready for the final jam of the night? Okay. You're going to finish proper. We're going to a good mood here. Okay, but I am gonna finish properly. Are you guys ready for the final jam of the night? Okay, you're gonna finish proper. We're gonna finish properly There we go. Okay Inevitable. Yeah, I wanted to On the live stream says that Hanson is in town tonight

Fourth musical I think really so. They're in town. Let's go, let's all hop in the car. You imagine, you crash that party. Huh? That's a great song. Just like children sleeping We could dream this night away This song washes over you. Oh, so good. But there's a full moon rising No David Roberts, but it's pretty fucking gay. But there's a full moon rising There's no David Roberts, but it's pretty fucking good There's no dancing in the light

I saw Pearl Jam do it with Slater Kitty No way What? Yeah When you were playing U2, I was thinking I saw Bono and Eddie Vedder sing Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World That's right

Yeah, they got Let's go out and feel the night At ACC Really? That's really cool Alright, man Yeah, they covered it at ACC. Really? That's really cool. All right, we're good. Hurry up, Rob, because I have fun facts and I'm saving them for after your PP. Because I'm still in love with you I want to see you dance again because I'm still in love with you

on this harvest moon. Bob, can you name the woman in the background there doing backing vocals? I'm looking at the Wikipedia site. I don't like this. I know. You're not supposed to do that for this. You told me earlier.

You're supposed to listen. Can I identify it? Do I know? I don't, I don't. I don't without looking. Oh, it's Nicolette L I don't, I don't. I don't, without looking. Oh, it's Nicolette Larson. No, it's not. She was long dead by then.

So this is 92, and Nicolette Larson was long dead, I believe. No, it's Linda Ronstadt. I was going to have Rob guess. So Linda Ronstadt is doing the backing vocals. That'll be significant in a moment. But let's talk, give the 101 here. This is 1992, Neil Young.

The album has the same name. It's called Harvest Moon. Neil wrote this song. He produced this song. He sings this song. He's dancing in this song. This is Neil Young, 92, baby. I heard a story once from a Neil Young cover band. I was at the C&E

in like the summer of 92 or 93 and they were playing like a beer garden or something and I wasn't in there. I was outside of it. I could hear it and I heard the guy tell the story that this song actually Neil wrote back when Harvest came out and I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know. I don't know if that's true, but this is don't know if that's true but this is a Waltz. Yes. Not to be confused with the future vice president Waltz. Different pronunciation. Okay so Linda Ronstadt. Okay so lots of... where do I want to go next? How long is this P gonna be? I'm waiting for Proust to get back in. Maybe it's another P. All right Bob put on the headphones.

Let's see if you can identify the backing vocalist. It's Linda Ronstadt. I heard you talking about Sparrow's Role. There she is. I think she's wonderful. Linda Ronstadt's amazing. Her documentary's really good too. Okay, more on her in a moment here.

Hi. More on her in a moment here. So more on her in a young girl's town With your mother and so much pain I was almost there at the top of the stairs With her screaming in the rain Did she wake you up to tell you that it was only a change of plan? Dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup with the promise of a man. Okay, I know where I want to go to wrap up this wonderful episode of Toast. As always, I'm so glad Rob Proust drove nine hours to be here in Vaughan. Love it. Did you get a turkey dinner at least while you're here? Probably Swiss Chalet.

I'm doing Swiss Chalet on Sunday. Are you? With my mom and her partner. Tomorrow you're doing the big deal. And tomorrow, yeah, we're hosting 22 people and I have a 20, I have a 28 pound turkey. Wow. Yep. Speaking of 28 pound turkeys, okay, so this is Harvest.

Yes. From 1972, so 20 years earlier. And this album, of course, is called Harvest. So here's kind of a fun fact. So Linda Ronstand, she sings backing vocals on Harvest Moon, which came out in 1992. But she also sings backing vocals on the number one Neil Young jam, the only number one of his career, Heart of Gold, which is on Harvest. So on Harvest is Heart of Gold and the backing

vocals are by Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor. And while we're talking about sweet Linda, Neil Young had an autobiography entitled Waging Heavy Peace. And he wrote that Linda Ronstand once warned her protege, Nicolette Larson, not to get involved with Neil. Because he doesn't live in the real world. Well, Larson did not heed that advice because... Nicolette Larson featured heavily on Proud FM.

Oh really? I feel like this is the only song I know from her. Oh there's a few. There's probably more. It's the only one I know from her. She died pretty young I think. But it's a great song. And Bob will tell you it's can fun. Of course it is. Because? Well I'll get to the moment. Let's split a brew of it here. But wait, Holds Up, right? What a well-crafted song. What a great song. No wonder they're still playing the song. It sounds like David Robert. It does. It kind of does. It's that same. Am I wrong? You're wrong. It's that adult contemporary sound. Wash your mouth. That was so fun. CHFI, Candle light and the wine. Okay, before I play the last, not even a mind blow if you know what's going on.

I was walking with my son today in the junction and we were talking about all this and he's like, dad, everybody knows that. And I actually said to my son, I said, not everybody. Okay. You know it, I know it. Bob knows it, Rob knows it. But somebody listening right now doesn't know it I promise you having a good time somebody doesn't know what is about to be shared okay which is Linda go screw yourself because Nicolette Larson is gonna get involved with Neil Young.

Oh cool. And yes, everybody, the reason it's CanCon, Bob will tell you, he knows radio, it's because the writer of this song is Neil Young. Can I tell you a fun fact? It's a Neil Young song. Yes, it's music and lyrics. The producer of her version of Lotta Love was my producer with Honeymoon Suite.

Nice! What's the name of this person? Ted Templeman. That's a great fun fact. Absolutely. Not as fun as the sopranos logo. Well, that's a fun fact. Mine, the other one's a mindblow. Yours is a mindblow. See, there's a difference. They all go together, logo. That's a fun fact. The other one's a mindblow.

See, there's a difference. So yeah, Nicolette Larson's biggest hit by far is her cover of Neil Young's A Lotta Love. That's something now, hearing it like this, I'm like, oh yeah, of course it's a Neil Young song.

When you hear lyrics, it'll look clearer. But I'm sure, Oh yeah, of course it's a Neil Young song. When you hear lyrics, it's a little clearer, you know, without the, yeah, yeah. But I'm sure, I don't know, maybe it's only one person, but somebody's listening right now. Oh, you found somebody's mind. Oh, for sure. Somebody is now realizing a lot of love is a Neil Young song. Yeah. Oh, there's, there are people who don't know that for sure. My son James says everybody knows that.

Everybody knows that. It's like don't waste your time. Your son James is how old? 22. Your son James, first of all, good on him for knowing. But he's vastly misinformed. People didn't know, oh you'd hate this. Today, or Wednesday night, I was in my second city class. And everybody, the closest, everybody at least 10 years earlier or more didn't know what a tickle trunk was

didn't know Trunk was that's Yeah, that sucks, but I don't even know if James would know because you don't see that anymore I know but you'd hear the key dives into music and he goes You don't see Mr. Dress up any point. I just want to say there's at least two people on the live stream. The point is people are stupid. Yeah.

Ignorant is the word all the way. Those people are on the QBW tonight when I was there. But Leslie and Andy are two great FOTMs. I'm going to be seeing them at TMLX 16 on October 21st at GLB Brew Club at Jarvis and Queens Key. And they both just now learned that Nicolette Lars Larson's lot of love is a Neil Young cover So there's more than one can I can I plug anything? Yeah, so a couple things November Well one thing really November 23rd Saturday, November 23rd

I'll be doing a set at the Phoenix concert theater in the parlor where I used to play retro music Opposite of Club 102 Saturday nights. I'm gonna do an hour from like a 10 to 11 and then I'm gonna party at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in the parlor where I used to play retro music opposite of Club 102 Saturday nights. I'm gonna do an hour from like 10 to 11 and then I'm gonna party. I'm just me and a whole bunch of friends and come on out. There's only like 50 advanced tickets left already.

We are almost sold out. You can get like $25 at the door, but first come first serve. I really, I'm looking forward to this. I have so many great memories about the Phoenix. I'm actually gonna be doing a little Bob's Basement, kind of not obituary for the Phoenix, but I'm talking to a whole bunch of people about the Phoenix. Like DJ Dwight? DJ Dwight's actually, I'm recording with him and Paul Dhingra on Friday,

on Sunday. And DJ Paul Dhingra? DJ Schwarma? Schwarma's going to be on. I want, if you have, not just about Club One or Two Saturday Saturday nights and I'm stealing your idea here you can email me a voice message Bob.wilett at gmail.com your favorite Phoenix concert theater show could it count as the diamond as well? The diamond as well yes but that's way too real. I think it has to be the Phoenix. Okay you're right. You know I don't I don't have any non Phoenix memories so I know it was the diamond you know, I don't, I don't have any non Phoenix memories, so I know it was the diamond before that was like a Polish social club, right? I remember here. So yeah, so anyways, November 23rd doing that. That's cool. And gonna try to get our friend Tim Welch on who plays the guitar. He was

the lighting tech there for years. That's right. So November 23rd, I'd love to see some people come out. But if you have any, if you have any any, any memories of the phoenix bob dot will at gmail dot com and you go and take a little listen to Bob's basement to hear the final product in the next few weeks. I'm calling Lauren Honickman. I think I own that format that you're stealing yet nobody else ever. You know we weren't doing that with input one or two back in ninety eight or and it's Mike. I got another one speakers corner. Yeah, nobody else does it. No, and that

and that I saw Stu yesterday. He's told me I gotta do it bigger and that there you go. By the way, I should tell everybody to get your ass to young done desk and a plex audio on because or theater, whatever they call it, because there's one week, only one week, and this is the week where you can actually see Don't Fuck With Ghosts in the theaters. On Halloween, it goes to streaming at Hollywood Suite,

but you can see it in the theater this week. So get your ass over there. I did it yesterday. Stu, you did it again again buddy. That's amazing. And that brings us to the end of our 1564th show. You can go to torontomike.com and follow me on wherever at Toronto Mike. I don't know. I have to shore up that sentence it sucks now. But I'm all over the place. Bob is that Bob Willett? He's all over the place. He's making content all the fucking time. He's gonna make a video by the Toronto tree You do it right now. Yeah, Rob Bruce. He's just a sweetheart but put an X on the end

I think right at Rob Bruce X all of that son of a bitch too much Love to all who made this possible. That's Great Lakes Brewery Can't believe that have to fucking edit that Mary Jo Houston episode. I'm gonna listen tonight. I don't want to, what if I don't? Well, then I'll get upset.

Well, because then you lose your friendship with Mary Jo. I'll do it. Are they gonna go back and listen again and check and make sure you did it? By the way, you're welcome for that. Friendship, because I set you guys up. Yeah, no, two things happened simultaneously. You did set that up with Mary Jo,

and Dean McDermott came through Helen Tansy when he came to the basement and they happened like the same day Sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Shout out to Dean McDermott and shout out to What the fuck I just can't remember name who's that who's Donna Donna from 902 and Tori Spelling That's the second 90210. I said Brandon Walsh earlier. That's two 90210. But that one, you couldn't remember that actress name. No, I remembered Brandon Walsh, not Jason Freese.

Then I said Jason Freese, and this one I only knew her as. Yeah, there you go. There you go, same thing. Yeah, East versus West. Gray Lace Brewery. I was in the East today. Scary there. Palma Pasta, RecycleMy Electronics.ca, Raymond James Canada,

Monaris, and Ridley Funeral Home. My next guest is a former live-to-air guy himself, Pre-Shep. You might have heard some guy named David Marsden in the basement. Dave Mickey. He's here Wednesday, everybody. See you all then. Why you made it right to the end of the song.