Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TOAST38: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1633

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

In this 38th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out space jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

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from Nick Aynes, sponsored by Fusion Corp Construction Management Inc. And Ridley Funeral Home, pillars of the community since 1921. Joining me today for Toast, it's Rob Pruse and Bob Willett. Welcome back guys. Even though it's been probably only a month since you guys were here, it feels like a lot's happened.

Like I think we've had a whole like lifetime in the past month. Possibly. There's been a few things, yeah. Life is moving slowly because there's lots of dramatic developments like every fucking hour. Time moves slowly. The days are long but the years are short.

Yeah, exactly true. So where I wanna begin is about the hockey game on Thursday night. So are you two dialed into this tournament? Yeah. Are you, do you care? Will you be game on Thursday night. So are you two dialed into this tournament? Yeah. Yeah. Are you, do you care? Will you be watching on Thursday night

when Canada takes on USA? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I honestly thought it was gonna be a dud tournament. I swear I thought it was gonna be like a bunch of all-star games, bunch of guys with their sticks doing this. And then that game, that USA Canada game was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

It was crazy. It's great, I love it. Yeah, and actually I have some news to share. I will actually be on the air live Thursday night on Indy 88 because they've asked me to go live six days a week now. Nice. Well, congrats, right?

But you need a break six days a week? Sounds like a, that sounds like a job. Yeah, it is a job. I bet you're thriving though. It is, it is a job and, but you you know not to get too much about me right now But that's okay. They're seeing real Increase in numbers when I'm on the air nice. Hey, do I get do we get personal credit Rob? Cross promotion with toast right? That's right. You are the best thing on Toronto radio as far as I'm concerned. Thank you

That's very reporting on the game on Thursday. Yeah, it's going to be a tough one because I go six to 10. So I'm going to have to talk about the game. Yes. I don't know how I'm not going to. So I got to figure it out. Score updates as you go. Yeah, exactly. And local.

Yeah. And then you'll be done in time to watch the overtime. Yeah, it's true. Yes. And when, oh my goodness, I'm already nervous. But I got to say, so I entered this tournament, Luke warm on it, like what is this thing you've invented? And now I have to care about the four nations.

And then we played, I tuned in for Sweden, and my 10 year old for the first time seemed to care about hockey or whatever. And we're watching, and then right away, you might remember, you got a power play, I think, and McDavid to Crosby, and then behind the back, less than a minute into the power play, I think, and McDavid to Crosby. Yes, that was it. And then behind the back. Less than a minute in, or into the power play. Nate McKinnon scores, and honestly, at that moment,

I'm like, oh, I really want to win this thing. Yeah. It was an instant thing. I can't, I said, if Canada makes the final, cancel. We had a gathering at the Imperial Pub, and I canceled it. Great. And I care very much about winning on Thursday night.

It's very exciting. And I'm already a little anxious about it. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be exciting. Oh man. You'll be in, you'll be back home. Yes. So Rob, have you been watching?

Yes, I was driving up on the night of the Canada USA game and I had my little YouTube TV on with my directions. So as I was driving, I was listening and like the beginning, like, holy shit. The three fights in nine seconds. Fights in nine seconds. Oh my God. It was crazy.

And the thing, they're getting the best numbers they've gotten in years on NBC sports down there. It had the best hockey numbers they've had in years. They tuned in for a hockey game and they got the boxing match. Which is what they want in the States. And this fucking Kachuk brothers are perfect heels. Oh my God. They really are.

And then the story about their dad in 96 or whatever. Yeah, Keith. Keith Kachuk was also a bastard. It's unbelievable that he did the same thing. It's like wrestling, right? Yeah. Like they scripted this fucking thing. Yeah.

And I mean, oh my god, I don't know what percentage of this country will be tuning in or whatever, but with everything else, we're gonna get back to Indy actually in a moment. There are congrats on the live stream, live.troddomike.com. Congrats to you, Bob. Jeremy Hopkins is there.

VP says Canada needs more Nico Dawes and goal. Yeah, I was thinking about Nico because with Sidney Crosby playing on the team, Nico was up with New Jersey last month and he played a, he did a game against Pittsburgh. Oh wow. And he won, it went into overtime, seven shut, like seven, what do you call it?

Shootout, a seven round shootout. Wow. Sidney Crosby's one of them and he won, he got him. Yeah. That's amazing. How crazy is that for your nephew to be like looking up and he's facing Sidney Crosby. But I mean, when he was with New Jersey a couple years ago, he faced, was it Ovechkin?

Yeah, it would have been with Washington. With Washington, but like all those kind of beastie players. Wow. So that's amazing. I know, it's crazy. So Rob, how long have you lived in the United States of America? Twenty almost twenty four years. Isn't that weird?

You're only 30 years old. I know. Amazing. Unbelievable. OK, so you live in New York state, Queens, New York. Queens. I've heard of Queens. Wow.

It's in a lot of rap songs. I listen. So what is the mood like? What are your thoughts as a. Proud Canadian. Just making sure are your thoughts as a proud Canadian? Just making sure, just making sure. A proud Canadian living in the States and Trump like fucking won't drop this 51st state bullshit.

I know, I'm gonna get a good Canadian t-shirt when I'm crossing the border tomorrow. There you go. What are you wearing now, open it. Well this is in Ontario. Oh that's nice, oh I like that. Black maple trading I think it's called. And is that like the, is that part of the coat of arms? Yeah, I think so. Uh-huh, wow. I found that online, it was cheap. I like that. And's cool, right? Black maple trading, I think it's called. And is that like the, is that part of the coat of arms?

Yeah, I think so. Oh, wow. I found that online. I like that. And I got my cherry blossom button. Yeah, I like that. RIP cherry blossom. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home.

And as we discussed last toast, just in one nutshell, is that if you were old enough to remember the ad for cherry blossoms, you have a whole different thought on this confectionary. Yeah, for sure. Item, and Bob and I were too young for that ad. I never saw that. So we don't really care about cherry blossoms.

You don't care. My mom liked them. Yeah, because she remembers the ad. Yeah, yeah.. I mean, Bob and I were too young for that ad. I never saw that. So we don't really care about it. You don't care. My mom liked them. Yeah, she remembers the ad. Yeah, yeah. It's just another, it's one more nostalgic nail in the coffin. It's pre-ad and post-ad. It's like, they should have brought that back for us 80s kids or whatever.

Okay. So tell me, what are your thoughts on, I know my thoughts because I've been sharing it on the show. On the Canadian, you mean the Trump bullsh**? Yeah, it's bullsh**. It's stupid. It's just a distraction. It's a's stupid. It's just a distraction. It's a stupid distraction.

It's just a distraction, guys. That's all it is. It's just so he can dismantle, watch John Oliver last night. I gotta watch the episode. You watch John Oliver's new episode. All these people have been saying it online that are much smarter than I.

And it's just a distraction so that he can actually, you know, there's checks and balances in the American, you know, that's why the Congress can only do so much and Senate can only do so much and the White House can only do so much and they all have to be, they all check and balance. They're trying to destroy those checks and balances. Well, why? Doge is doing it. They're doing that while saying we're gonna take Greenland, we're gonna take this, we're gonna do that.

All that bullshit is just bullshit. They have no intention of doing that. The biggest extra bullshit is that he pulled in the Palestinian, the Gaza thing. We're gonna make a luxury resorting to that. Also distraction. No, I get the discr- But you do know in early March with one signature by Trump and the tariffs are in place. Yes.

Like it's a distraction that we could have real world ramification. Of course, the trade- And he could fuck up our economy for shits and giggles. He's so-called closest ally. Yeah, well he's playing these kind of games to fuck up a lot of people around the world now. So everybody's gonna have to retreat

into their own individual sort of protection. Just fuck up your own country. Yeah, exactly. I mean, he's doing that well. I mean, it's amazing how insular he's making his own country. Not unlike Germany in the 30s. It's just, it's identical.

The nationalism that he's trying to cater to, it's insidious and like incestual, what he's doing. Part of the weird thing though is that he, if you look at the numbers of the results of the election, it's like point something difference in the voters that voted for Harris who voted for Trump. So whenever they talk about, well, we have a mandate to like do these things for America, people's like, fuck that, you know about, well, we have a mandate to like do these things.

And people's like, fuck that, you know, you don't, you barely got more votes than Harris did, you know? So- Because of the mandate. But one last thing on this, cause it's already irritating me. And we got to crack open Great Lakes. We got to do a check in with Bobby.

And then we got to get to our space jams. And I got the origin story here loaded up, but Rob, I'm looking in the eyes. Come home. We want you home. Come home. Even my wife the other day was like, oh, but Rob, I'm looking in the eyes. Come home. We want you home. Come home. Even my wife the other day was like, oh, you know, I mean, we talk about it.

It's time. We talked about it over the years. Yeah, anyways. She's American. She's American. She's from California originally. Go to California then at least. But we, you know, we talk about it once in a while

and she knows, you know, that I love seeing my mom up here and my sister and my sisters up here as well. And us. And you guys, of course. But the FOTMs are here. It's really interesting because the life that we live there is we're pretty well established in our life there, but I would fucking move up here in a second if this bullshit continues.

Got really bad. I'm not afraid at all of coming back. In fact, sometimes when I go back to the States and I get to the border, I hope they'll ask me some fucking shit. I have no problem speaking my mind. So John Wing was on this program in the last couple of weeks. I loved listening to your who for 20 something years, I can't remember how long, but for decades he's lived in California because there was no work for him as a comic here. He's looking right now in British Columbia. I can tell you, uh, Paul Meyers, another guy decades has been in California. He's not looking so much at Canada, but he's looking at England.

Oh, is he? Yeah. He's that guy. So BBC one, BBC two. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. S and L turned 50.

Did you guys watch this? Of course. Yeah. It was all over it. Yeah. I watched the music thing last night. Yeah. Oh, this is not amazing.

The concert from Friday night that we should have been able to see live. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah. I watched it. So post Malone takes Kurt Spot. Post Nirvana. Post Nirvana. It was fucking great.

It was great. I heard. Post Malone should tour. Yeah. And yeah, let Pat join the band. Well, Pat Smears. Pat Smears. Who's married to a Canadian.

Oh, is he? Wise Blood tells me he married someone from like working at Q107. Oh, wow I don't know. They're still together. Okay, so the music around the SNL thing was fucking great that doc from quest Love was fucking great and the anniversary special was great I just think Mike Myers came and did his Linda Richmond coffee talk I felt like maybe we could have got a better Mike Myers, but it was a little flat

But it wasn't horrible, But it was fucking great. Yeah. Oh my God. I thought it was great. There's also the other documentaries that were made. There was a whole doc, an hour long documentary on cowbell on the, yeah. There was a, there's a whole documentary on, uh, the audition process. Um, yeah, no, it's really, they went really, really deep. I'm going to, it's good that the actual anniversary is not till October. The first episode was October 11th. Yeah. And he said, yeah, they're celebrating the 50th of the year. Yeah. So I thought it was great. Drunk Uncle was hilarious on the Bobby Moynihan is one of

my favorite former cast members. Really good. I thought it was terrific. It was great. And I liked Adam Sandler's song and the love for Farley and of course, Norm McDonald speaking of great Canadians. Yep. So I mentioned Nirvana. So I'll share the origin story as to why we're kicking out Space Jams and then we'll get to Indie88 because I need a more thorough update from Bob

Woodland on that. But it was, this is February and I was thinking like Valentine's Day. Now we're going to be post Valentine's. No one wants to hear that lovey-dovey bullshit after Valentine's Day. And then I was thinking, what else is going on? And then I started hearing this song in my head

because this is the Foo Fighters, February Stars, which is a song I always liked. And then I realized February Stars, like, okay, what's going on up there of these stars? Like there's this whole like galaxy. Let's kick out Space Jam. And you guys said, okay.'s this whole like galaxy. Let's kick out space jam. And you guys said, okay. It's a beautiful thing.

Yeah. Here we are. We're kicking out space jams. I'm going to let Dave kick into this and then bring it down and we're going to talk Indy 88. Let's crack open the GLB while he's still I like the, uh, Vienna lager. I like, I love a Vienna lager. Mix it up for you, Bobby. Let's crack open the GLB while he's still warming up. I like the Vienna lager.

I like it. I love a Vienna lager. I'm going to mix it up for you, Bobby. On the mic there. So Bob's got the Vienna lager. Yes. Ready? Okay.

Three, two. Cheers. It's breakfast. Cheers. Cheers. Nice to see you. Cheers. Cheers.

Kicking out space jams. That's nice. Still warming up in the bullpen here. Okay, yeah, in the eighty eight. Yeah, so you're seeing an uptick in listenership when Bob Lillard is on the airwaves. So you can do so, you know, as you know, that's no longer diary. It's PPM is these little machines that you hold that you people sign up to. They just keep on their person all the time and whatever radio they're exposed to that counts as listening. So, uh, yeah. So

what's happening is, and it's, so you get daily numbers, you can get daily numbers, which is not accurate because sometimes people it's, it's, it's, it's, it's erratic because you know, sometimes of the thousand people, let's say who have it, maybe only 800 of them heard the radio that day or what you know what I mean so it's gonna be it's gonna be erratic however they have seen since I started doing Monday Tuesday Wednesday evenings an uptick mostly here's what they here's what they told me we notice more how low the numbers are when you're not there so they've asked me so I'm gonna be doing six days a week live we do

Saturday Sunday afternoons and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays live in the evening. So for the next little while you guys play great music too, though, I really enjoy the playlist. If I do too, I actually I wouldn't lie about that. It reminds me in a way of proud FM, which I used to run. It's got just a really good pop mix of music, you know, and it's got an all lean. It's good. It's a lot of fun. I heard a great song this morning from the lead singer of Maniskin. Yes,

yeah, David Damiano, Damiano, and I had to shazam him while I was listening because I was like his voice is so cool and familiar. Then I'll read one. I'm like, of course, it's the singer from asking. Yeah, I love him. Yeah, he's coming. He's playing in. He'll probably be in New York before that, but he's got in December. Oh, no. Okay. Wow. It's already for so this is a lovely song. Which albums is on color in the shape? Yeah, this is it, man. We have similar taste in music and hook this to my veins.

What's this song called? February Stars. It's really cool called? February Stars. Really cool. I have a, before we start, I have little gifts for you guys today. Okay, hit me. Then I have a clip of you and Humble and Fred. Oh, okay. Do we? Okay. All right. So I have a nice little vinyl setup in my basement from mostly from my wife's grandmother, right? So I've got these little PSBB shelf speakers which are Canadian made and then the turntable and the and the receiver are both pioneer from the seventies. Now the pioneer was doing a little lag thing that the table was so I took it to ring audio. I'm not I didn't get any discount for this but

ring audio on car law Avenue in the East End really great place to get old stuff fixed. Yeah it's like you go in you there's like a pathway it's just covered in stereos from one end to the other. Yeah. And they, yeah. And they fixed it and they put this audio technique, a needle on it, like the cartridge and needle and there's like different levels. I went with the middle level. The sound is just simple. So I've been going through my vinyl and I found a couple of things that I thought you guys might like that. I would like to give him in.

This is the new segment that I would like that I would like to, that I would like to gift you both. All right. I'll start with the Rob's because I saw it and I was like I need to give this to Rob because he's mentioned this band so many times. Give me a clue. 80s. I got it. No, not talk talk not talk talk not Queen another band that you mentioned a lot. That From where from the American I, I actually don't know.

Their title, their name is a country. Japan. There you go. What? David Marsden. So this is from the Q107 library. There you go. And it's an EP.

Marsden's copy. I, oh my God, this is amazing. It's an EP with- Yeah, I had this when I was 14. You had that? Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, so I listened to it It's really good. Yeah, but I want you to have it. Oh, thank you. You're welcome

Oh, this is from this is from q107 library. Yes That cover oh, yeah, everybody Japan the cover of I second that emotion is amazing Yeah, so produced by our producer John puncher get out his Nova heart for us. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing Which is why when we worked with him, we were like, oh my God, he produced Japan. And so like, I will listen to this when I was 15 or 16. Wow, that's so cool. I'm so glad, I'm so glad.

Back photo, Peter Noble, he did all our photos as well. So I mean, it's the connections are crazy! It's the connections, I know! So I saw it, and I'll be honest, I got one, when Q107 was up at... Young and Norton. Young and Norton. We were up there with 640. And then when they brought us all down,

I was one of the last people to get to go through the album, but I bought two or three boxes home, including that. So that's for you. You're very welcome. And then for Mike, I don't even think you have a record player, do you? No. But I'm going to give it to you.

But I'm going to give this to you because I think it's going to look good on your set. This was the only double I have of a Pearl Jam album. So this is Binaural. I love this album. Yeah, so there you go. Thank you very much.

I don't have a Pearl Jam that goes with my tragically hip. Yeah, I had two copies of Binaural, so I want you to have that one. Thank you so much. Oh, you guys are welcome. What a thoughtful gentleman, Bob. This is an 88 everybody. I have so much fun with you guys.

I really do. Love it. And yeah. And you know what? And I know there are people from the FOTM universe who listen and because they'll check in, they'll text me while I'm on the air and stuff. So it's, it's really great. It's going great. I just, uh, I'm he's happy. I am so happy. Doesn't he look at you going pregnant or something? So I am pregnant too. No, I'm so happy to be on the right side of the

microphone. I feel like I spent a lot of years on the other side. I'm done with that. This is just all I do is try to make people either laugh or think or feel. And that's what I do every day. But you're on six days a week now? I am on six days live. Yeah, it's a lot.

But that's only for a little while. And then we're gonna reassess what's going on probably around May 2, 4 or so. Rob, how long Bob can't answer this for obvious reasons, but how long until Bob would let the new morning show host on India? Morning show host on the drive time. Well, that's the big spot, right? And did they have one on anybody wants to have that? Yeah. The morning shows are Carlin, Carlin and Jackie, the guy who sent me his jams to kick out and then ghosted me. Oh no. And then I had him loaded up. Yeah. Yep. No, they have the, the, the, the, the, the lineup is a

solid, uh, there. So I don't know where I'm going, man. I'm happy to be doing what I'm doing. And Carlin's, uh, fiance, is that what it's called? Yeah. Okay. Why don't I not know that Carlin's fiance? I have two connections to her. One is she used to work at great lakes brewery. Oh wow. Danny and her cousin was my first best friend who is known in the community as Joe from Tio, but Joe is a cousin, first cousin of Danny is going to marry Carlin. Wow. Carlin's like just a gentleman and a very solid broadcaster, really good guy.

I've heard nothing but good things. And the only bad thing I heard is when he said no to coming on Toronto, Mike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's funny. Uh, there's a, there's, there's a certain, um, certain, I don't know what it will, I would say a group of broadcasts. Let's explore this. Let's explore. Yeah. Well, like my friend Lana, who does afternoon drive, she just, nobody wants to, pardon me. She says nobody wants to hear from me about what, like what wants to hear

my story. I'm like, I think they do actually, but she just said, no, I don't want to. You're good as an individual, I feel like though, because you bring it all back to the music. I tried to, I tried to. You're communicating to the audience, but then you're also the presenter of the music as well. Morning shows always to me feel like it's a show. Yeah.

It's three people trying to be funny and laughing too much, which is entertaining for sort of. See, Bob never tries to be funny. No, you're naturally entertaining. Well, I never try to be funny. I do try to. That was a joke. Yes. Because I would never succeed. See, I was tries to be funny. No, you're naturally entertaining. Well, I never try to be funny. I do try to, I was a joke. Yeah. Ha ha ha. I, because I would say I was trying to be funny. Don't try it. Exactly. I mean, you know what? I do try to bring it back to the music. I

especially try to bring it back to just Toronto. Yeah. Like it's always everything comes back to the city and how much we love to hate it and hate to love it. Um, it that's really what if you were to say, ask me what my show was about, it's about Toronto more than anything else. Canadians love to hate Canadians too though. Don't they? You know, I noticed it even more now with the, what we were talking about earlier, the, the, the smaller number of Canadians who come back around to be like, well, Trump's not so bad. Like I'm like, really? Even there's like, what, what's it going to take to unify you?

Motherfuckers. Did you see the Pierre polio commercial with him all jacked trying to hang a flag? Oh my god He's on the white t-shirt and he's in a he's in a wispy field with like wheat and he puts a flag up Didn't they try to do this of Aaron O'Toole? Then they try to have a tight t-shirt. Yeah, they did. Oh my god It's hilarious. I've only seen it once. I think it was on like CP to four or something. Oh, it's hilarious Oh my god, let me know when Mark Carney's in a speedo. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna play a clip of Bob Willett. So since it feels like it's been forever since we had a toast, we're gonna get to these jams in a moment. We've got some mind blows, some fun facts, more fun facts for me, not mind blows, but I

want to take this moment to just say thank you to Palma pasta because they're gonna feed us at TML X 18, which is scheduled at Great Lakes Brewery for June 26, 2025. So Bob, I don't, you'll probably be on the air at Indy 88 because you're on every day. But if by some chance you're not, it's a Thursday night. So who knows what, who knows what'll be going on? Who knows what'll happen? There will still be snow on the driveways to Jesus.

Hopefully the snow's gone. But, uh, everybody who can hear my voice right now is invited again palm of pasta will feed you We'll see if Nick Aeneas from fusion Corp can come up with any giveaways for the FOTM he was on Toronto mic'd a couple of weeks ago a very an episode that sparked a lot of conversations including a Heavy combo between Rob and I in the pregame show, but that was not recorded. It was only for people at live.torontomike.com. But a lot of conversations came out of the Nick Iini's episode.

It was real Nick and he has opened his wallet to help fuel the real talk over here. So I gave him mad props for that. Subscribe to building Toronto skyline, his new podcast. Bob, I'm going to play you on humble and Fred and just tell me what you're referencing here And then I'm gonna play a song you said you hate and then I'm gonna do some mind blows about it. You ready? Hear me on on toast with

Promoting all your bullshit. We know you're on toast we get it. No, I'm being I'm that's not fair Bob and our producer Toronto Mike and some other dude who I don't recall. The guy from The Spoons! Oh, the guy from The Spoons. Yes, the guy from- they have- they put together a thing called Toast and it's exciting and everyone should listen to it. There you go. Alright. I know.

Are you done now? He's your producer, come on. Do you want to promote some more stuff, Bob? I'm good right now, thanks. So shout out to Bob who tried to work it in at the end. That song is like they're playing them off. He worked it in, I'm on toast to make me happy. And then some disrespect to the legendary Rob Proof.

Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah, a little bit. A little bit, a little rude. I don't care. A little rude here. That's hilarious. Some other guy. I think it's funny.

This is not some other guy, everybody everybody this fucker at 15 years old Was getting into bars the day John Lennon was murdered Assassinated if you will 5440 did their first gig on that same day, right? Yes, and you were at the edge. I was at the edge debuting with spoons right crazy. Okay, so here's a here's a song Okay. So here's a, here's a song, just a little bit. I just heard this on Indie driving in. Of course you did. Bob doesn't play the music. He doesn't pick the music. Right. Okay. So this song, again, just everywhere in 2025, it's everywhere.

Big hit for spin doctors and the guy who co-wrote it and the guitarist was in the basement a couple of weeks ago, Eric Schenkman, and he was amazing talking about, you know, Spin Doctors and this fucking song, which is still everywhere. Bob Lillette, what are your thoughts on Two Princes? Not a fan. Not a fan. There's a whole line of 90s, late 90s, early 2000s, more mid to late 90s. Yep. That kind of middle of the road bullshit nothing songs to me and band. And also, I put this in there with Train and...

How about Third Eye Blind? How about Third Eye Blind? It's Third Eye Blind. I actually don't mind. No, a couple of their songs are okay. So, but yeah, I'm all semi-sonic with One Hit Wonder, really. But... Step back from the ledge, my friend. Yeah, well, I'm all Semisonic with a one hit wonder, really. But step back from the ledge, my friend. Yeah. Well, that's a two hit wonder. No, that's not semi-sonic.

That's not semi-sonic. That's what's it called. That's a third eye blind. Yeah. But you see, I thought you were. Oh, I see. Closing time. Oh, semi-charm life. Yes. You said semi-sonic. Kind of like semi-charm life and semi-sonic completely different things.

Please disregard. All right. Yeah. Cut that out. No, I just, I find this music kind of it reminds me of mix 99 in the mid nineties, which as of before I started working in radio, I hated that radio station because they were always playing new music that the edge had been playing for like three months already and it ruined. I was just, I felt like it was just such a piece of garbage, but so I, you know, and then you know what this reminds me of? Moxie fruvis. Yeah. Yeah.

It reminds me of Moxie fruvis and I, yeah. And then I asked about some Moxie fruvis, which a lot of it was kind of silly, but wasn't stuck in the nineties, a good song. Or am I like, is that like some kind of stock? I don't know. I don't know. That guy's, yeah. That guy, that's all I know. You can separate the artists. I was going to say if you could separate the guy, I don't know. I think we can do, but what was their big hit? Wasn't there another one? Well, they had a, my, my girlfriend dates a bunch of authors or a spanner.

Yes. Now I eat humble pie. For some reason. This reminds me of that. And that same kind of groovy thing, right? I don't know. It's not my thing. I don't like Blues Traveler. I don't like those bands. Yeah, you and I agree on Dave Matthews' bands. Dave Matthews' bands. Forget it.

No, no. I really tried with Dave Matthews at one point in like 98 or 99. Oh, people love it. But I know. I don't get it. I don't get it either. But there was one album and one song

that sort of sounded like Peter Gabriel. I was like, oh, maybe this is good. And then the rest of it was this. And the one was Sarah McLaughlin. Don't drink the water. Yeah, it was a good song. That was Sarah McLaughlin. I feel like it was there. I don't know, but I know the song or was it a Lannis? I don't know. Landis Morissette. I'm changing it to a Lannis. Sure. Some great Canadian singer. Sure. I think and Murray did it with Dave Barthes and

fucking Murray. Now I'm here in the background. Now I I admit, at the time, it was just a song. You'd see how much music. You're like, oh, that's catchy or whatever. But I feel it's aged well, where now when I hear it, I'm happy to hear it. That's good. Takes you back to a different time in your life. That's why.

That's good. For me, I just know. For me, it's off. Some music ages well. I mean, music that makes you nostalgic is always going to age well for each person as an individual, right? You're going to listen to Go go it makes me happy what's an

interesting conversation what's a song by a band that you hate that you actually like one of their songs don't drink the water by Dave there you go see perfect yeah yeah I mean I don't I also try I have tried very purposefully to remove hate yes from my vocabulary and from like I don't say for Americans especially Donald Trump yeah I really don't want to randomly hate a band, but I just, I can't, I don't dig this band. I put them in the same thing as Train for me. I just don't find any soul in it. Ironically, Hey Soul Sister. I know that which is, I think Train is soulless as well. The least soul thing ever is Hey Soul Sister, but I

actually think there's some kind of, like this is real guys in New York and they they kind of come up with a good riff yeah I was in the basement Eric Shaffman and they got this like they love their cannabis shout out the Canada kev and they're kind of they kind of they throw this thing together they they strike oil if you will yeah so I've been when I had Eric on I sort of played a lot of spin doctors it turns out they only got a couple of songs, right? They got that little miss can't be wrong. It was just kind of a cool tune.

I would take a little miss can't be wrong over that one. I think I might myself, I would be able to listen to that. I might not turn that right off. Right. Okay. Maybe because this is overexposed, maybe, maybe that's it. Yeah. But here's a little bit of it.

And then I'm going to tie it to my 10 year old who was obsessed with a show called one piece and there's like, it turns out there's like a thousand fucking episodes of One Piece. It's like the Japanese Simpsons or something like it's been on forever and I'm gonna play this part of New Princess. So listen closely. So that last part particularly all started again here. So Jarvis watches one piece a lot and I watch it like casually. He does dubs, he does subs, not dubs. So I have to stare at the screen to know what they're talking about

because I don't speak Japanese. Yeah, you don't subs. I'm working on it, but there's a character. Shit, what's his name? Caesar Clown. I think is on it, but there's a character Shit, what's his name? Caesar clown I think is his name Caesar clown. Okay, and this is Caesar clowns laugh Okay, and if you hear a lot on the show, here's Caesar clowns laugh Okay, so one more time. Okay, one more time. So I see it.

I find them very similar. Does he watch the 2020 23 version of the 1999 version? 99 version. There's like a, I mean, I looked it up. There's something like a live action. No, it's not live action. It's cartoon. No, there's one from 23 says it's live action. Yeah. But the, that's not what he's into. He's into this cartoon that's been going for years. That's so funny. But the Caesar clown, you connected the laugh to the spin doctor. Because I was into spin doctors for a week. Yeah, for a week, hey? That's all you need.

Because when you have a guy coming over and you're sort of prepping, you start to get into it. You get, you know, like all of a sudden it was all spin doctors all the fucking time over here. One last thing. So I'm in the car and this song comes on, okay? And I won't play the whole thing because this song was played everywhere too.

Oh yeah. See, I think spin doctors, I think is a two hit wonder. Goetje is a one hit wonder. The Goatier is a one hit wonder. Here, yeah. Where is he? Australia and Finland, he has, because he's Finnish in background, but he's got hits in Australia. Okay, well here.

It's great. I like this song still. Yeah, it's a great single. Like, and... I saw him at Radio City Music Hall when he was riding on this. Did he just play the same song over and over again? It was actually not bad. I don't know any of the other songs, but it was all based on this. I mean, he got to book a gig at Radio City. He played Bud's stage on this song.

Yeah. Has anyone done more with one song than Goetje? Oh, I don't know. I'm not sure there is. Yeah. But then the song really also took off from the Burmese band, Walk Off the Earth, right? Yeah, because they did the one guitar thing. Well, that was a big deal, that video by Walk Off the Earth, when Humble and Fred launched.

And we got them all to mimic it and do a parody for YouTube in an effort to publicize this new podcast called Humble and Fred. OK, so I'll bring them Goetje. We all know this song, OK? So there's a couple of parts to this song, right? There's this So this song is called Seville by Louise Bonfa really

Realize like how much you go to do okay. So this is all together. Is it a sample or did he just recreate it? Oh, no, I don't PTSD The radio head Oh, now I don't get in trouble. According to you, last time I have a PCSD from the last time. The radiohead controversy. Right. But there, so this is... Damn. I think it's a sample, but I don't know. Interesting.

Okay, so what else is that Gochie song? We love that fucking Gochie song. Do you know why we love it? I have a song that no one will know. Ba-ba, black sheep, and the ladybugs. Oh, that's interesting. Yes, sir, yes, sir, we... No one will know. Bob Blacksheep. Oh, that's interesting. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That our friend Rafi.

I never thought of that. I'm here to tell you guys it clicked in only recently that Gochi is somebody that I used to know is Bob Blacksheep. That's funny. No wonder we like it. Childly child melodies are always very popular and they'll go into your subconscious. You won't even know why. Yeah. Very nice. And Rafi is the best.

And I did invite Rafi on Toronto mic and he didn't say no or yes. He just completely ignored me. Shout out to Cam Gordon. Okay. So, and I'm almost done here. I'm glad I have a professional keyboardist in the room and that is you of course Bob Oh, yeah, how's your keyboarding going? Okay. So we have to keyboarding 101 Like the goose keys in the calendar say hi to him for me

You're because his brother and I were buddies in high school. Oh, yeah, I you I've heard that story. Yeah Mike's a new record. That's really good. So he's gonna talk about that's so Mike but goose and I just had Greg Keeler. Yep How was that? Fantastic. Cause he gave me a lot of time and he was very interesting. He's a really interesting guy. He's an interesting guy. And bringing, sorry, accompanying.

So I was offered Mike Boguski who came over during the pandemic and played in the backyard, Diamond-Mined, it was fucking awesome, right? But they said, would you have him back? Cause he's got a new album out. And I said, if he comes with Cleve Anderson, like I put this rule, I'll if he comes with Cleve Anderson amazing like I put this rule I want him I'll have him on with Cleve Anderson I want to talk to Cleve Anderson who after outskirts which is the big breakthrough

for Blue Rodeo because try is on that yep he says I'm gonna take this job with Canada Post because it's a better for my I have a wife and child and this is better for it and I get the decision at the time but we can talk about it on Toronto Mike that's clean and as in any regrets we know you know wasn't it cleave was at the Gary top event you were like you want to go introduce yourself to him yeah he's got that hair yeah I know can't miss him trademark hair yeah so all of this is I need to talk to Rob Cruz about So Rob Pruss, this song is called Chest Fever. It is by the band.

And on keyboards there, that organ intro. It's heavy, man. It's Garth Hudson, who we lost since our last toast recording. Last member, they said. Last member. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home, Garth Hudson. What would you say as a professional keyboardist, Rob Pruss, about that chest fever opening? I thought it was Deep Purple for a second because I don't know this song and I'm not well versed in a lot of Deep Purple either,

but over the years like I've come to appreciate these things that I did not grow up listening to. And even Garth Hudson, I don't think I knew the extent of his influence and his inspiration on so many keyboard players. It wasn't inspiration on me. Not directly, right? No. But I've spoken to Kevin Hearn about him since Garth passed, and Kevin was good friends with him. I spent a lot of time with him.

And oh my God, I see it now. Damn, he didn't live that far away from me, actually, in upstate New York. Oh wow. I could have possibly met him, but not well. But this is amazing. Yeah, the more I hear, the more I love. It's just one of those things,

in the universe of music, like we talk about music we don't like from the 90s or whatever, there's so much to discover always. You always got to be willing to open your mind to new things, whether you like them or don't like them, but they're waiting for you. It's like a universe of sound in outer space. I'm trying to bring it back to space. There you go. Well, it's funny you're trying to bring it back to space because on the live stream, the VP of sales says that you mentioned Deep Purple. He says Deep Purple has a great space

jam and he's wondering if we're going to hear it today. So we're going to get to these space jams, but I got to give a special happy birthday message out to our former intern. Welcome, Matt. Oh, welcome. That's my, He's 18 today. I think he's 18. I hope I have the right year. He says he's legal. 18 is legal, right? Okay. So happy birthday to welcome Matt, son of Moose Grumpy. He's on the live stream genetic method. Okay. So we're going to bring this

down. Oh, I have one more thing. I know we're going to get to space jams. Everybody come on. It's been a month since I had these wonderful people in my backyard. Before you get to that, I have a recco for you. I was doing some Googling of my name and stuff because you know, I'm that I'm that for myself. I found this look at this baby face will let he's an organist. He's on Spotify, baby face will let as I would like to know what you think, because I know nothing about Oregon, but I think it's a pretty cool one. Yeah, baby face will let it's called face to face. Peter Jackson

is on tenor sacks great grant was before he did Lord of the Rings. Yes, exactly. I'm gonna make a similar. There you go. Yeah. Anyways, teen first of all, isn't eighteen legal? I'm just I think nineteen eighteen. You can vote. That's about it in and you can drink. Yeah, go back. Anyways, I want to know you think. All right, I'll listen on my drive home. Yeah, I want to know you think any time is all right. When your DJ plays the K, you will listen to what the kid has to say.

Because you know it's too damn straight. Can't wait. Got to get on down before it's too late. And even if so, it would be, my friend, just tell him to play it again. See, once it's lost, they'll beat your eardrum. They go way up to your head, bounces down to your belly and back. If you hunger, you'll bes, they go way up to your head Bounces down to your belly and back

If you hunger, you be fed It's all up to the individual This reaction is typical Somehow you get to catch up with that beat Snap that finger, stop your feet Do I love it? Oh yeah, do I want it? I'm going to bob on this, no offense, Rob I feel like it's so artistic

Do you know what we're listening to? No, I was going to say, it kind of sounds like early, like maybe like unreleased salt and pepper. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Is what I thought. But is it Mishimi? Is it? This is Yacht Kid K.

Oh, Spin That Wheel. Yeah, Yacht Kid K from Technochronic. Yes. Oh, that's it. I recognize the voice. I spin that wheel. Now, if I had got to the Spin That Wheel, I might have known it. So this song is in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie because I just watched with the

eight and the ten-year-old does that also have vanilla ice as the sequel secret of the ooze that's right sorry so that's ninja rapper so this is not actually Technotronic because it's only two parts of technique so they're called high-tech three wow and this is spin that wheel andronic because it's only two parts of Technotronic. So they're called High Tech 3. Wow. And this is Spin That Wheel and it is Y'all Kid K. I do remember that. Same voice though, right? So I'm watching this movie.

Yeah, same woman. So I'm watching the movie, lower budget than I remember it, but still I still enjoyed it. For some reason I like that 1990. It's got Casey Jones by Elias Coteus, the great Canadian actor. So I'm watching it and I see it's directed by a guy named Steve Barron, okay? Steve Barron directed this movie, 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

So I need to know more about Steve Barron so I start digging. Steve Barron was most famous as a director of music videos. Are you guys ready? I'm just gonna jump through a few songs. That he did the videos for? Yeah, like I'm gonna just gonna burn through. These are the videos. Are you guys ready? I'm just going to jump through a few songs that he did. Did the videos for, like I'm going to just going to burn through. These are the videos. So if you can imagine you're watching much music and the video comes on, okay, these are all directed by the same guy who directed that movie, teens, men, you guys ready to

do it? Wow. Crazy. It's crazy. It's not Weird Al, everybody. The light up floors. Yeah, so this iconic video for Billy Jean is directed by the same guy who directed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie in 1990. So again, these are quick tays, so so we're not gonna stay for Michael's vocals.

So. It's a long intro. It's good to talk over. That's right. That's right. What a jam, right? Amazing. You can't cancel this fucking jam.

No. Okay. Ready? Okay, so that's a big video, right? What about this video? Wow, that's always in the top three of all time videos. Number one is always thriller. Also the fact that we can recognize this song. Just from the drum beat. I could have done it just in the one. Yeah. I know. So right now we've already got two of the most iconic videos.

Also, Silch is a great song. And he hits that high note. And I try to hit it. Believe it or not, I don't come close. No. This is the beginning, like hand card, you know, if we have people don't know the video, it's all hand drawn. And it's been parodied so much.

I feel even the kids know it. Like family guy, there's a lot of parodies out there. Okay, so this video, Billie Jean. In your head now, picture an iconic 80s video. Just picture one, don't tell lot of parodies out there. Okay, so this video, Billy Gene. In your head now, picture an iconic 80s video. Just picture one, don't tell me what it is. Okay. So we've already got Billy Gene,

and we already have Take On Me, two iconic videos from the 80s. Oh. Oh wow, the MTV with the poly graphicic computer, I guess, or Polygon. Polygon! Is that CGI? Yeah. What's his name, the director?

Steve? Steve Barron. Steve Barron. Wow. So his spelling is B-A-R-R-O-N. Like the lead singer of the Spinductors. Isn't he Barron as well? Yes, yes.

Same guy, oh my god! Do you have a favorite video that you, you were in that I was in? You were in romantic traffic. No, people love that. I don't know. You're in that video. Yeah. I don't know. I like the Nova heart video. Actually go find a hundred people on the subway and say name of video. Well, they don't all know. Most of them say who the fuck are the spoons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then the people who know the spoon, you know, it's true. People are dumb. Depends on the age.

You know, as people are dumb. Oh yeah. Like I always thought people were like this dumb and I've learned from the past few years, people are actually this dumb. Set your expectations low, man. So of the hundred people on the subway, random hundred, how many people know the spoons, the band? Oh, on the subway today.

In Toronto? Yeah. Four. Yeah for yeah I have it at 10. So we're in the same boat. Okay, and of the 10 Who knows spoons and know that they had videos? All 10 say romantic traffic course and all 10 are over 50. That's right for sure At least 46 This guy who directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles directed Billie Jean, Take On Me, this!

I... Can Bob hit the post like that on ND88? I do. I actually get people text me, they're like, dude, you're like, somebody called me Johnny Fever the other day. I love that. And I was like, I'll take that.

Do you know what your secret is? You give a shit. Yeah, you give a shit. Absolutely. Just giving a shit puts you ahead of like 90% of people. I think about what I'm going to, how I always try to make a little pun or something with, I try to do something just to make it a little bit interesting. The other day I had lust for life.

It's got 72 seconds at the top. Nice. Yeah. But you know what? I think when you, when you want to generalize that people are dumb, I don't think it's just that there's dumb. People are asleep. Yeah. Big difference. They're in a, they're in a, uh, like a haze. Yes. I, I, you know what? I said people, people live lives that, uh,

shadow to cannabis. There's like a famous quote about people living lives of quite desperation, which is kind of true because if you, if you just live your life and try to get through your life and you don't look above, beyond where you are, you will seem like you're dumb, but you're not necessarily dumb, but you got to dig deeper. We're too comfortable. Too comfortable. We're too comfortable. And nobody, and look, and we, I will always say this younger people than us are not aware of what came before them because they don't have to be. That's right. We are because we had to be. We had no choice. Can I ask you, where does the parental responsibility come into play? Aren't parents responsible for informing their children, educating their children about the greater world that exists?

The things that are important to the parent. So we put so much weight into pop culture as us, like guys like us. That's what we're talking about here is pop culture. It's a bad sample size. Yeah. Like we put a lot of weight into how important it is to know, hey, how white blossoms had a fucking ad in 1971. Why can't you, why can't you identify a ha's take on me on two beats? You know, those things are important to us. If, as long as you are raising hopefully well rounded children who can, maybe they're not as familiar with older stuff, but they got to be. It's that world view that I think you were you're talking about and you got to make sure they're

a little bit uncomfortable. Sometimes there's actually is it right? Did you have a rake up David Rick off or now Simon Rock off? Oh yeah, he came to TM Alex, so I'm about Ellen's why yeah, did you in the same car his book? Don't get too comfortable or is that his brothers? There's two, isn't there two rock offs or right? Yeah. The other rock passed away. Yeah. So I think it's the one that he's got a book. I said, don't it's got a book called don't get too comfortable. There's, there's power in, in, in, in being a discomfort and also staying interested in life. Yes. Like being curiosity key.

We said it at the same time. Because a hundred percent, this podcast does not exist and has zero listeners. If you're not curious. No, it's true. I'm not, I'm not being paid enough to do this. If I'm not curious. Yeah. I feel like the first time I ever started listening to you and think the first episode I ever listened to was you and Kevin Hearn. And I didn't know much about Kevin before. Like I started, I had met Kevin. Oh yeah. We went back to, we went back to back. You did back to back. And I learned so much about Kevin, but Like I started, I had met Kevin. Oh yeah, we went back to back. We went back to back. You did back to back. And I learned so much about Kevin, but then I learned about you by your conversation. I thought, these guys are like, this is my world.

You genuinely care. Well, I'm the same way. Like I actually, I love hearing about people's lives. Yeah, and Kevin ties in with Hayden's. Yeah. Things are as bad as they seem. That was very prescient. Yeah.

Hayden's daughter, who I know from soccer games at high park is in a school because of Kevin Hearn's daughter. Wow. For special needs children. Yep. So before it runs out this fucking jam also directs it, also directed, I just want to throw some can con in there and I'll bang off one more and then we're going to get to space jams and we're going to start with Rob Bruce. Space Jams is also fun to say. I'm looking at this guy's list of videos. It's unbelievable.

Well, yeah, I only pulled five and I'm going to do one more. You ready? Yes. So it's a guy who directed. It's so cool. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1990. All these songs I played, the music videos were directed by him. And so many more.

And he's Irish. And we're going to get back to Brian Adams. Last word is that might be the best opening lyric in 80s music. Oh, interesting. That's a great, great conversation. What's the best opening line in a 1980s song? It's been seven hours and 15 days. Yeah. Yeah. Is that 1990 though? That might be not, but it was written in the 80s by Prince. That's true. But I'm still, I don't know. This is a good one. You are waiting for a semi-click. It's a good one. Okay. Can I get just because we're so far off of that. So my

I can't remember what year was 98. Maybe there was a band called Marvelous Three that was played on the edge. They had one song and they were opening for I think it was maybe I mother earth and moist at the warehouse and marvelous three was the opener they had one song which I can find remind me because there was seven Mary three no this was marvelous I'm marvelous I'm freak of the week it was called yeah marvelously for freak of the week I already had it on my butch Walker is the guy from the band. Oh, I remember his name. Yeah. 98. So they were at play and they covered this.

Oh, funny. Okay. Well, then let me bring it to 2000 when I'm at Summer Salt at Molson Park in Bury to see the farewell tour of Smashing Pumpkins, who are the headliners. Our Lady Peace went on before them because it's their thing. They covered this song. Who did? Smashing Pumpkins. Really? They covered this song. Who did? Smashing pumpkins. Really? They covered this song. Wow. Yeah. And I remember being so disappointed by the set. It was terrible.

And I was a huge pumpkins fan, but then I saw them again decades later, a different incarnation, but Billy Corrigan's fan. With me? With Bob Willett, who got us in because of record label reps or something. And I thought they were great. That's amazing. Like they were terrible in 2000 when they were doing the farewell tour at Moles and Park when I saw them. And then they were great whenever I saw it with Bob Willett. His podcast is pretty good. He's got a new podcast. Billy Corgan does. Oh, I heard about that. I saw the Human League on this tour.

Oh, wow. Played the concert hall. Nice. And I wrote a school report because I was in grade 11 or grade 12 or whatever. No, I was in grade 12. they I thought they were pretty bad. So if you're grade 12, sorry Yeah, you were 15 when you were making music great. Yeah, you're 17. I was 16. You're 16. Can I see upgrade for oh you skipped grade 4? Well, so we had we and so we had recorded no longer Lawson over here I'm just asking if you were in school

We saw the I saw the League, and I was so disappointed because they didn't sound like the record. And me as a keyword player, even at 16, I was like, they're not playing the right parts. And it didn't sound right. Sorry, I wrote a whole book. I wrote a report for my music class, like how disappointed I was.

So yeah. Okay, time for Space Jam. All right, let's go. We were like, I know, like 50 minutes in without even getting to the- We were short last time, so I brought more- That's true. But things come in. I watched the movie. I thought that was a mind blow. Yeah. That is a mind blow. Would change. Oh yeah. Yep. Jane, would Jane find that interesting? No, the chain meter of giving a shit. I love that over the month.

You just put things aside to talk about on toast. I love that. Okay. So somebody that I used to know other than that one sample or inspiration, if you will, is absolutely Bob, Bob Blacksheep. Shout out to Raffy who's nominated for a Juno. Yeah, of course. He's still going. I wish he'd come to Toronto Mike. Okay. This is just a little side topic from the nursery rhyme.

Another one? Yeah. So you know the song Frosty the Snowman? Yes. No, I never heard of it. Can you sing the opening of frosty? The snowman just do without words though, just a mill frosty, the snowman. Okay. Now take off the frost and just sing it again. So in your head, T the snowman, right? That's the opening of Raiders of the lost dark. Ah, it's going to say John Williams thing. I knew it was John Williams thing. Yeah.

Exactly. Um, and then what is it? Is it Holst, is it Holst the Planets? Is the inspiration for the Empire March? And can you name the band that features John Williams' son? Oh geez. No. No. What band has John Williams' son?

I feel like you've mentioned this before. You don't know either, he's looking it up. I've dropped this fun fact before. I think you've mentioned it before, yeah. Because it's a great fun fact. Yeah, Toto. Oh, that's right. He was the singer or something, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think so. So John William Sun is in Toto Shout out to Stu Stone who returns to Toronto Mike next week amazing the founder of a co-founder of toast. Okay But fuck those guys. Okay okay Rob any words before I press play we're getting a space champs no this was the first one that came into

my head and it sort of speaks for itself and it sort of represents the beginning of where we are Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, civilizations to boldly go where no man has gone before. Name that instrument. Is that a theramine? It's actually person singing. Actual voice. Yeah. It sounds like a theremin. You're right though. It does have that sound, but it's a woman singing. What about good vibrations?

That's a theremin. That's a theremin? Yeah. Okay. I got to get my instruments. This was 1966. I'm not very good at this. I feel like the idea of space, outer space, you know, in the sixties was like the great dream, right? And there were movies in the fifties and I mean, for all time, people questioning what's in space and how do we get there and all that jazz. And it was starting to become a reality in the sixties. But man, Star Trek lost in space was a big deal. Yeah, that theme was written by the robot. Was that Robbie? Yeah. But for this, that's jam. Uh-huh the opening of the theme for lost in space unbelievable I know it's crazy, but this was written by a guy. Yeah, he just turned 92 last week

I'm just a kid this theme was written by Alexander courage who used to do music for the Twilight Zone and stuff like that Wow, and apparently he Gene Roddenberry was the creator of Star Trek He wanted Alexander courage to write the music for the first couple episodes But what ended up happening is that Alexander got pissed off because Gene ended up writing lyrics for this theme. Yeah, I've heard a version with lyrics. Kick number two.

Oh my God. Oh my God. I can't believe it. Here we go. This is Jack. Beyond the rim of the starlight, my love is wandering in star flight. I know he'll find in star-clustered reaches, love, strange love a star woman teaches and i know his journey ends never because his star trek must go on forever but tell him as he wand the story. See, remember, remember thee. Wow. He's in heaven. He's in heaven.

Hey! Cha cha cha! Shout out to Jack Black. So Gene Roddenberry wrote those lyrics and basically said to Alexander Courage, okay, I'm getting half the royalties for this theme. And he was like, what the fuck? So then he sort of didn't write any more music for the show for a long time. Um, yeah, cause that's bullshit. It is bullshit. But so the thing I learned last week,

Alexander Courage did the sound of the spaceship in that theme too. Like if you're watching Star Trek, he, there's an interview with him and he said they couldn't figure out how to get that sound. And he was like, it leaves me. So he went up to the mic. He just went went shh okay so you mentioned Jack Black yeah and then my brain thought of what I saw last night which was a fucking great couple of songs by Jack White oh at the SNL thing he did yeah and he's rocking in the free world which he opened his show here at Massey Hall with opened with oh yeah shout out to FOTM Jill LeBlanc. Yeah. Who was writing about these shows for the Toronto star.

And he also wrote this piece that you see on the wall. Talk of the town. Who's that? Okay. So I have another question. So I kind of vaguely remember this story where, um, who's the other guy in tenacious D what's his name? I don't remember. I don't know. I gotta Google this. Okay. Yeah. The other guy in tenacious D, which, uh, if I don't go, maybe it's, he broke. Yeah, the other guy in tenacious D Which if I don't go maybe it's broke up the band Well, he said something about remember the assassination attempt on yes Trump and he made a comment about how it was too bad He missed or something our next time they won't miss or something. Jack Black was pissed off and like broke up the band

See, okay. I say we offer that gentleman whose name by the way, I now have it, Tenacious D is Kyle Gass. Kyle Gass, right. Canada should offer Kyle Gass asylum, right? And reward him, celebrate him or something. What an overreaction by Jack Black. I know, weirdly overreacted. So what's that about? Is Jack Black afraid of Trump,

some surprise audits or something by the others? There's a there's a weird thing where you in the united states, I find even very, very left minded and maybe I'll even say forward thinking people. They there's a reverence for the position. There's a reverence for the office for the title that doesn't necessarily meet like you can hate. It wasn't in office at that time, but he but but he wasn't but he had been, but he had been. Yes. So, and I think that there's there, there is an old school way of thinking that maybe jack black has of like, okay, we may not like him, but we still have to respect

the office in which he held and, and then, and not say shit like that. I don't know. I'm just trying to hear you. I hear you're trying to, that's the same reason. That's the same, same justification that people give for not booing national anthems. Like you have to hear to anyway. I do. You know why I go open the can. I don't know passionately staunchly in favor. Pro booing your pro boo the star spangled banner. Yeah like boo it. If I were ever at one of them now is in Boston. So that's all kind of doesn't matter now But although be Canadians, they'll be Canadians there but boo it like it's your fucking job

What a peaceful way to protest some serious bullshit coming from their leader But annexing this fucking great nation of mine. Yeah, cool boo. No, I say why are people against booing? I'm if you pay to be there. You can do whatever as long as long as you're not threatening anybody shit on the ice Yeah, as long as you know as long as you're not interrupting the game threatening anybody or swearing around children I say go for it Yeah, you probably have you been to an opera before in Europe? No, they boo the shit out of opera singers when they come out for bows if people are like hardcore if they don't like a performance They're like boo

Now I'm thinking of Gare Joyce who is very vocal in our FOTM chat. And he is like really against booing. And I'm trying to understand, is it like what? We need to respect their fucking song about their great country when their president is talking, literally talking about governor Trudeau in the 51st state of Canada. And you're offended by booing their song? Yeah. Bullshit. Like there shouldn't, well, maybe in the 51st state of Canada and you're offended by booing their song.

Yeah bullshit like there shouldn't well maybe in the four nations is different but in regular NHL games they just remove the fucking anywhere but they have them and I fucking root for the boo. It's like a little little protest anyway. I wondered if I had any actually anti-boo people with me. I think if you pay you can do whatever you want. Yeah. Do it everyone. Can you whip out your wiener and fly it around? Well, I said without offending people it depends on your wiener I guess. Okay, so I watched too much Simpsons. There's wiener references on the Simpsons. Okay, so

Bullshit what black did Jack black did to Kyle gas. Do you agree? Yeah. Okay overreaction overreaction That's a great start. That's Star Trek theme. I'm actually not a Star Trek guy. I'm not a game Star Trek. I just never got into it. I've been watching it a lot at night when I'm trying to go to sleep cause it's on Pluto TV and it's so of a moment like they, and everything's kind of like they go to this planet and there's a bunch of hippies. Yeah. Like it's like, why are there hippies at this planet? I did hear about that upside.

OK, so speaking of great shows, let's kick out Bob's first jam. Yep. Let's go to TV. A little quiet. Yeah, sorry. It's the Great Space Coaster. Get on board on the Great Space Coaster. We'll explore a common ride, a fantasy To a place where dreams fly fast and free

With new friends and new things to see Who's been you through the galaxy On the great space coaster, oh-oh-oh On the great space coaster, off we go Get on board, step inside, soaring for a magic ride, roaring toward the other side, where only rainbows lie. On the great space coaster. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, on the great space coaster of course was a television show

that was on in syndicated from the early eighties. So I bought 200 episodes. Used to be on WUTV. That's where I watched it. Channel 29 in Buffalo. That's where I would watch it. I remember watching with my dad I was like six years old when it came like I loved that show No good news is good good news with Gary good new forgot about Gary. Can you hear it? Can you is the first thing I thought of so since I send you this I found a whole bunch of mind blows that I Wish I had of had of been better prepared for so this was originally written by Spencer Michelin and Annie and Bryant. So they went on, check this out.

Michelin went on to compose the theme song for GI Joe. Wow. My little pony. Wow. Yeah. And as well as the transformers cartoon in 85 more than meets the, that's right. Did that. And then went on to become the music arranger on gem in the holograms. Oh, geez. Jam. Jam. It's right. And then went on to become the music arranger on Gem in the Holograms. Oh, geez. Gem, Gem, it's truly outrageous. No, no. My wife just introduced the eight-year-old to Gem in the Holograms. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. Yeah. So...

But the misfits are better. Their songs are better. We are the misfits. We are better. No. We are the misfits. Our songs are better. That's it. Yes. We are the misfits. And we're going to get her. So, um, crazy also, um, they went on, let's see, they, uh, they kept, they see, they kept doing a bunch of other things. So here's the male voice in there. So these are actually three people from the show, was Ray Stevens. Ray, no, not that Ray Stevens. Sorry. No, but this is Ray Stevens.

But Stevens was the lead singer of the Village People in 1985. And that's Donald Trump's favorite song. That's right. But unfortunately, he unfortunately passed away in 1990. But this, the gray space coaster, they went along, the people who wrote it, they also did, where did I see this? I just wanna make sure, they also did the theme to Dora, the Explorer.

That's a big one. Yeah, like it's crazy the amount of stuff that they did. So the show was pretty wacky. There There was the big like it looked like it was kind of like trippy almost, you know It's very much taking from 70s like it's just early 80s, but it was electric company exactly what I was just about 71 Yeah, I know in Freeman. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, there you go And I so when somebody when we said space songs this came to mind It's amazing like the first thing that came to mind. And the best part of the electric company was the Spider-Man cartoon.

Yes, I did love that. Yes. Have you ever watched Yo Gabba Gabba? Yes. I've seen them in concert. They're crazy. Also trippy. I took our kid.

Yeah. When that's like three years ago, they came to the Beacon Theater. Amazing. Yeah. So this was, yes, January 81, it had five seasons of 250 episodes. I'm more interested to know that it was created by Kermit love Space the show. Yeah Kermit love who was one of the head puppeteers. He created Oscar the Grouch a big bird

Yeah, he came up. He was a Jim Henson guy so there's a bunch of puppets on including his name is Kermit he's made a ninja turtles Jim Henson made the Turtles and splinter. Oh, did he that makes sense? That's why they look so good. Yeah, and his name is Kermit. Yeah. Um, Gifford. So Chris Gifford, who's one of the singers. Yeah, that was it went on to co create Dora the Explorer. Um, and that's a big one. And also the theme song for the babysitter's club in the nineties. Yeah. So you know, all from that farmers one is fine because I was a big transformers more than the I was ever got was Optimus prime. Like I was just love. I got, I had Optimus prime and Like I was just love I got I had Optimus Prime in Soundwave

Did you yeah? Oh my god. I love the cassette right? He was the cassette right? I still have ravage was the cassette, right? Right there was ravage and there was four of them you could get that went in and they turned into different. I had sideswipe It was like a red sports car. Yeah, I'm trying to remember now, but okay and you're the Transformers generation bumblebee Of course bumblebee. Yeah, because he was the yellow bug. He was the beetle. Yeah, yeah, but it was I'm trying to have a case on Transformers more than meets the eye Autobots rage and battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons. Transformers more than meets the eye. Nice job. I love it.

They wrote it. Same same people. Amazing. Yep. And you have a B. Oh, what is it? I don't remember. Let's play it. Oh, so this is one? I don't remember. Let's play it. Oh, so do you? This is one of the shorts in it. Do you remember? This is an italian cartoon where the guy, this guy, I think right in the drawing guy. Remember that? So this was part of the show. That's what I want to remember. He

he makes his own. Need to watch this number. Those. But you got to get high before you know. Y'all. They're so funny. Do you get high? Yeah, sometimes. How OK. I'm always curious now who partakes. My wife and I. OK. What's the wow?

You get high. Barely. Yeah, really. I'm a drinker. Said Holly McNarland. Do you get high? Ah, rarely. Yeah, rarely. Once in a while. I'm a drinker. Is that Holly McNarland? Do you get high from this? Is that Numb? A 90s Holly McNarland, like CF and Y song.

It was Numb is her song. Yeah, but the other one was Do You Get High? Oh, maybe. She had two. Oh, okay. Numb was a good one, yeah. But Do You Get High from this? Anyways, yeah, that was, this was part of,

this is my favorite part of the Great Space Twister. It's amazing. And it was, this was something that was done in the 70s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Italy. It's so stir. It's amazing. And it was, uh, this was something that was done in the seventies in, in, in, in Italy. It was like a dim memory this show because I was almost too old, but I still loved all this kind of shit. Yeah. Yes. And it's like, he's drunk. Yeah. It reminds me of that. Yes. I remember this very well. Absolutely.

So here's, do you get high? It's amazing. What's that song called? Oh, that wasn't a song. It was part of the video. I'll send you the link. I want it. Hey, we're going to get to my first jam in a moment. Little detour real quick. I don't know if Bob remembers because it was all over CFMY in the WV. Is this Holly Mcdarlan? She's been on the show, right? No. Oh no? We're friends on Facebook. She's in Prince Edward County. Is she? All the grades are going to Prince Edward County. Although Steve Anthony came back. Yeah, well that's a whole other story. He's getting high. Not anymore. Right. Well he does on

more. Right. Well he does on artificial sugars. This is the second single after Numb. Yeah. Numb was the big one. This was the other big radio hit though. So I remember digging this one actually. I like Harley McDonnell. Here it comes. Yes. I remember this song. I remember this, yes, but numb was on one of the big shiny tunes, and that's why it was so huge. Oh, yes, I thought Holly and again, I don't want to be disrespectful here because Holly had a nice career, but I really thought she'd be a big fucking deal like I just thought she had a great sound for the time to reach out to her. For some reason, we're come over for some reason, we're friends on Facebook, like friends over here.

It's not like, yeah, I think we I might have met her when she went with humble and Fred she might have come in then this seems about right that sounds right okay I am going to kick out my first jam and there's some fun facts around this that will tie nicely with Rob Pruss's sweet spots so let's kick out my jam something old Seems as though I've lived my life on the bad side of the moon To stir your drags and sickness still without a rustic spoon Now come on people, live with me where the light has never shone And my hornets flubbed like hummingbirds Speaking in a foreign tongue

Is it my life? Is it my life? Is it my life? My life? Is it my life? Is it my life? Is it my life? My life? It seems as though I've lived my life on the bad side of the moon Stir your dreads, sit yourself, and find a way to slow the world Now common people live with me, where the light has never shone But my hornets walk like loving birds, speaking in a more dark I'm a life away, from a human mistake Okay, ladies and gentlemen, April Wine, an FOTM band. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home.

Miles Goodwin passed away a few years ago, a couple years ago. This is him. This was a big can-con jam and it was all over the radio and I grew up hearing it all the time. I remember when it was on the radio first time around. Was I like five or five years old or so? Was it 70? 70?

1970? 72? 72. Oh yeah, even better. Oh, I think. But okay. So I don't even know if it's a mind blow to anybody, but I've decided to like exercise on the side of people don't know shit.

So that's my new thing I'm doing here. So April Wine, Bad Side of the Moon, which, uh, ba ba ba, April Wine, of course, Miles Gould died in 2023, by the way. And this I think was their first hit. Yes, it was. Because the next one was You Could Have Been a Lady. Similar. It's weird. In a way, it's sort of similar. Something about it is related. Well, they're both covers. That's the first thing. So on that note, they're both covers. I will bring down Miles, Shout Out to Ridley Funeral Home, and I will play a different song by one of Rob Pruss's all-time favorite artists. The writer of the song.

The original version of this song. It seems as though I've lived my life on a bedside on the moon. To stir your drags and set me still without the rust next door. Common people live in me where the light has never shone. Rob, do you remember the original version of Bad Side of the Moon by Elton John? Yeah. Love it.

I knew the April Wine version first for sure because it was a radio hit. I don't know that this was actually a single for Elton. Well, I have a fun fact on this. This is the B-side to the very first radio hit that Elton John ever had. Okay. We're going back to 1970 here. Okay. So let me play the A side. So we now know if you didn't know, April Wines' Bad Side of the Moon is a cover of Elton John's Bad Side of the Moon, the B side to this song right here. Porter's song. Really? bad side of the moon the b-side to this song right here

Porter song really He has been held to distant cousins from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. All them bosses I have been removed. Ready for a mind blow? Bob, are you ready for a mind blow? Do it! This song peaked at number 34 in Canada, making it the very first time in the career of Elton John. He cracked the top 40 in any country. This did not chart in the UK. It made 92 in the United States, but 34 in Canada. The first chart appearance in any country for sir Elton John was on his greatest hits album

Which he released in 74 as well, which I thought was interesting because I that album for me when I was nine years old They were all new songs to me. Anyways, what the greatest it's the first great I tell him and that came out in 74 He'd only had like four you imagine anybody now after four years doing a greatest hits album with like ten fantastic songs? It's crazy. That's been a contractual obligation. Yeah, for sure. But it was like they were such great songs. So border song and just to wrap up my mind blows here. I don't know if this, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too.

Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah.

I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind.

Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. Distant cousin from down the line, brand of people who ain't my kind. Oh, yeah. I have seen the specter, he has been here too. This is the Queen of Soul everybody. This is Aretha Franklin. Nice. Amazing. Who had a bigger hit with this song than Elton did.

Wow. She took it to number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100. Remember Elton fizzled out in the 90s, 92. But Aretha did not name this song border song. She called this song Holy Moses. Oh funny. Interesting. And she closed her Young, Gifted and Black album with this jam. Amazing. Turns it into a gospel track. Yeah, really gospel-y. Even Elton's like in the beginning, you can sort of hear that tinge, right?

He always loved that style. Wow. I can't drink anymore of that water. I've been falling from my head down to my shoes. Bob, any words before... No, Rob. Rob's also Bob. Should people call you Bob, anybody? Only by mistake. Like I just did? Rob, any words before your second jam? No, this is my newest outer space jam and I really discovered it just a couple of days ago searching Spotify.

And, because there's too, to me there's too many choices. Like I had a lot of- I do find this interesting. I don't know if Bob will agree with me, but like when I name, when we decide on the topic, that you don't take something from your brain, you discover something after the topic. I do a bit of both. Because it's only three songs. I really want it to count. And, and this one, cause I got demoted on one of my other, my other choice, which is okay. It's very rare. We, us, we get a dupe.

I know, but it's good. It's good though. Is it mine? I don't know. It was mine. Oh, okay. Good. Um, first come first serve when there's dupe. I know, but it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. but I didn't mind because I felt actually that that song, that there was more options. But then this song came out of left field and I love it. And it's a kid's song. And it's really to me, it like, you know, we were all fascinated with outer space since childhood.

It's one of those universal questions that we have. What's out there, you know? So the queen of soul is gonna take us to, personal questions that we have. What's out there, you know? So the Queen of Soul is gonna take us to, it's gonna be quite a shift in tones actually, gonna take us to Robb's second jam. ["Can We Live in Peace?" by Queen of Soul plays.] Now can we, can we, can we live in peace? I'm in my ship, I'm ready for launch, just waiting for a blast off. I'm heading up, away from the ground, just waiting for a countdown.

T minus ten seconds. Nine, eight, 7, ignition sequence start! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Blast off! Outer space, outer space, flying my ship through outer space Outer space, outer space, fly my ship through outer space I'm ready to be an astronaut And see what's beyond our pale blue dot Look how close we are to the moon Wow! There's a satellite going zoom!

And there goes a comet flying past. I wonder how long it's been doing that. What else could there be out here to see? Flying our ship to infinity. Outer space, outer space, flying my ship to infinity All right Rob tell us what we're listening to buddy It's a it's a YouTube dude named Blippi Of course it is so Blippi apparently is a big hit with kids today heard of Blippi Yeah for like the last 10 or 15 years Blippi's been a thing

Where he's one of these people there was an article in the New York Times on some other channel called CocoMellon that people- Oh, CocoMellon's massive for the under four crowd. Yeah, yeah, so CocoMellon, Blippi's in that world too, where like I found this song on YouTube and there was a version where they had basically looped it for like two hours. People are killing their kids with the killing the brain cells instantly, like at a nice young age.

I have a question, can you monetize videos for kids? I don't know actually. Sure, of course you can. What's about views, right? age. I have a question. Can you monetize videos for kids? I don't know. Actually sure. Of course you can. What's about views, right? No, but it's about ad inserts. Yeah. Like, and I feel like they don't do ad inserts. When I, when I have looked, I got the Toronto Mike feed and it says, is this made for kids? Right. They ask you on the upload and I'm like, no, man, we're going to drop some F bombs. And then you can, it can be monetized. I wonder, just allow it. Like you get a trillion views on your kids thing.

There's gotta be some way to monetize. You don't see the ads when it's for kids, right? That's right. So this guy, Stephen John, who was the creator of Blippi, and he's basically, it's like a billion dollar industry. But I love this song because it sounds, you know what it reminds me of? It sounds like sort of like the flaming lips.

And it also reminds me of Kevin Hearn and the Bare-Naked Ladies. Kevin would write a song like this in a second. It's there's like a prusit Right. I would sign this. Why don't you and your wife start a channel? Kid song I know I've been thinking about it. I mean move to Canada and do it from here But there's a childlike innocence to that music and yet it's dealing with the thing that we the questions that we all have about Outer space, you know Starting at that young age the questions begin getting into you. So.

Stephen John, who is the guy who plays Blippi, he was actually a member of the Air Force. Yes. From 2006 to 2008. And then he came out of the military a couple years later, he started this thing. Yeah, and now he's quit. Yeah, he's quit.

He's quit being Blippi. He said he thought it was too childish. Yes. And there's so, he has people that like do it, cause he was like a character. Shadow to Rafi, he's never gonna quit. Stephen John is his name. Clayton, oh, now there's so he has people that like do it because he was like a character. He's never going to quit. Steven John is his name. Uh huh. Cleat. Oh, now there's a new guy. Jeremy Hopkins says Blippi's excavator song is off the hook. Back to Aretha for a moment. Yeah, we should all check out Aretha live at the Fillmore East. Oh,

yeah. For more insane covers. Yep. And he also chimed in on you'll gabba gabba It's supposed to be a talking yam, but it reminds me more of a turd Canada cancer Loves you gabba gabba. She's a big you'll gabba gabba head. I'm checking in the live stream There's a new generation of you'll gabba gabba, too They have a young girl now who's the host but it's the same characters as well But trying to like sort of revitalize it and the observation made by Canada Kev is up to now Rob, you know, you did a TV theme song. Yeah, and then you did this YouTube thing

That's true and Bob did a TV theme song. Yeah another and childhood childhood I just you know, I'm the only one who kind of went off and did real song No, I got a real song coming up. All right, my song my song in fact won the Academy Award for best song of the year. What? The year it was released. Yeah. Okay, you want me to kick in? Yeah, I just want to say Blippi was sold for 120 million dollars, by the way. Crazy. Good for that guy. Yeah. The guy sold it, the guy, Steven John, sold it to Moonbug Entertainment for 120 million dollars. You know what? I would take that money for Toronto Mic'd. Yeah. I just think that...

If somebody wants to buy that, yeah, just like, you know, there is a number, right? I thought it wasn't for sale until I heard that number. Okay, so I'm gonna kick it. I have two songs from you here Okay, so I gotta get him in the right order. Here we go No, oh, we're doing this one now. Okay. Okay, that's cool. No, this one did not win an Academy Award That's why we'll do this. Yeah, I think that's the order you sent. I Maybe check the archive. I don't know doesn't matter This one came to my first I think that's the order you sent it. I don't know, yeah. Maybe. Check the archive. I don't know. Doesn't matter.

This one came to mind first. That's a great... This was on my list as well. Standing there alone, the ship is waiting, all systems are gone. Are you sure? Control is not convinced, but the computer has the evidence. No need to report. The countdown starts

Watching in a trance, the crew is certain, nothing left to chance All is working, trying to relax Up in the capsule, sent me up a drink Jokes major tongue, the count goes on The count goes on. Four, three, two, one. Earth below us drifting, falling, floating, waiters calling, calling. There you go. That is a space song.

All right. Yeah. Peter Schilling, German Peter Schilling, definitely an homage to David Bowie, of course, Space Oddity. I didn't know this. So this is actually part of a pop music cultural scene in Berlin at the time called NDW, which was New Deutsch Well or veiled new Deutz-Vell yeah so it was a social movement within the German within

German society and there's it so there's English and German versions of this song the German one is great yeah I know that I knew this because it would have been on the I think it was a pop hit like it would have not just been on a CFNY I think it crossed over to mainstream pop and I think it was a pop hit like it would have not just been on a CF and why I think it crossed over to mainstream pop and I think it was a top. It reached number one in West Germany. It was number fourteen in the billboard one hundred. Yeah, so big song. I used to play at the Sunday nights from whiskey side gone a lot. The retro eighties night, DJ Dwight Martin streak and myself. We used to play

this quite a bit. It went over very well and when I yeah. So two things that came to mind immediately with space songs was the space great space coaster and this song came. So is this a response to so control sort of yeah. So it's a new wave. So basically what it says is it's featuring the story of the character unofficially related to tom major tom, the astronaut in bowie's space oddity. They never actually, he's never actually said it was for sure, but yeah, absolutely. It is. I have a collection of, uh, I always take photos of the charts. Oh yeah. Jump charts. So this is from January 7th, 84. It was number six. Oh wow. Yeah. I just have a nice, yeah.

Yeah. So yeah, this was a, this is a great, this is, this is a jam. It's a good jam. Rob Bruce, did you hear me chat with John Rollins? Yes. And that the iconic photo of David Bowie, the archer they call it, one of his most famous picks. Amazing. It's a good conversation. I don't think I did, I didn't have any mind blows for this, did I?

No. Yeah, you do. Okay. I don't remember anything. You don't remember any of your mind blows. I sent this like two days at three days ago, so totally All right, we're gonna roll into a mind blow here gentlemen. Yeah, and all right, then I'll build it Well, let me just skip ahead but I refuse all right

Yes, very spacey. I like it. Mm. Yes. Oh. This is. Yeah. All right. This guy's already been on the show. This is a cover by William Shatner. Oh. No way. Yes.

Yep. This is a cover by William Shatner. Because he did a whole album of space songs. And this is it. This was his big. Yeah. What's that? He did Major Tom?

Yeah. It's coming up right here. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition. Didn't, uh... Lift off. Can't remember who produced this. Lift off. At lift off, air four, take distance.

T minus one, tenet. What the hydrogen tank is at flight pressure? Yes sir. T minus one minute. What's the hydrogen tank, is it white pressure? Here we go. Oh wow. T minus one minute mark and counting. The firing system for the sound suppression water will be armed in just a couple seconds from now. Is it in arm? Standing there alone. The water will be armed in a couple of seconds from now. It has been armed. Standing there alone, the ship is waiting. All systems are go.

Control is not convinced, but the computer has the evidence. No need to abort. The countdown starts. Watching in a trance. The crew is certain. Nothing left to chance. All is working. Trying to relax.

This was released in 2011. Send me up a drink. Shatner did Rocketman, right? Yeah, he did a whole bunch. I mean, spoiler alert. It's going to be Hanson today. Yeah, too bad. That would have been a good one too.

Well, yeah, I mean. It would have been better than the YouTube one you discovered last week. Where's rocket man? How do I not get rocket man from Proust? Too obvious. Or even space oddity. Too obvious. You're Hanson in these. Go ahead, Bob. So just listen to some of the people on this album. I don't know about on this song, but on this album is Zach Wild,

Cheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Bootsy Collins. It's crazy. Sheryl Crow just sold her Tesla, gave the money to MPR. Would you guys get rid of a Tesla if you had bought one like five years ago before we realized what he was about? I mean, probably, probably. Humble Howard drives a Tesla. Does he? I didn't know that. Yeah, you bought one. Yeah, last year. be done our drives a Tesla. See didn't know that. Hey, you bought a bought one Yeah last year. Oh, there's a problem. I mean, he's already got the money. I don't know I would have never bought one in the first place. Would you want to be seen driving it? No, I now urinate on Cybertrucks Oh good to know I whip out my wiener. Oh By the way, there's a measuring tape. Yes, you whip out your wiener with. From Ridley. CyberTrucks.

This is a cool arrangement, actually. Except for his voice. Him talking it over. I gotta say, I love his cover of Common People. Common People is the best one he has. Roaches, climb the wall. Still with us. Great Canadian.

Yeah. So it's a rock spoken word album. They call this. That's his jam and rocket man. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. There you go. That was it.

Oh yeah. This is, this did not win an Academy award. My next song. All right, gentlemen, I am going to kick out another FOTM. Maybe I'm only kicking out FOTM jams. No, that's not true actually, but this one is an FOTM jam. Oh yeah. I knew this was gonna happen. She's playing in Brampton at the Rose Theatre. Oh, that's a nice theatre.

Yep. It's off-seat. Where she's advertising on Indie88. Huh? Tell me you have the remix too. Alright, this is Biff Naked. Yeah. Ibificus. Ibificus, the greatest Biff fifth naked album, full of radio hits.

CFNY played a lot of I-bificus. She's terrific. I know she's been on your show a bunch of times. She came on my show. She's great. Sweetheart, always walking her dog, literally reblocks very closely. From you, yeah. Really?

There's a park she brings her dog. What year was this released? 98. Really? Earlier than that, I think than that I just want yeah you know what you're right you're a 93 or 4 and what's it called what's the name of the space man space man so this is okay so Bob alluded to it already but this is the version on ibiscus yeah this is the album cut this went to number 36 on our RPM singles oh wow when was ibiscus released I'm looking at it right now we released we went to number 36 on our RPM singles chart. When was Ibificus released? I'm looking at it right now. We went to number 36 on the RPM chart, like you just said.

98, dude! I told you. 98? Yes. I told you. Oh, OK. Well, the remix came out at 98, because I'm going to play it in a second. Here we go, the original. Space man, oh space man, come rescue me.

Spark is calling, oh alien, come rescue me. Space man, oh space man, come rescue me. Spark is calling. Shout out to Andy on the live stream who bumped into Biff naked at the shoppers drug mart at Park Lawn in Queensway. And that's her hood. So Biff, Andy, that's her hood. She's in the condos there. I believe we call that Mimico, but they added a new Humber Bay shores neighborhood.

I think I can't tell anymore where Mimico ends and Humber Bay begins. But okay, I call that Mimico. I believe it's actually, no, it's the America Bay Shores now. You get out of my fucking basement. You know what? Who's the guy, I want to know,

who's this fucker who went to the Canada US game in the Bell Center in Montreal wearing the Trump jersey with 51 the Bell Centre in Montreal, wearing the Trump jersey with 51 on the back. Seriously, because you know I'm an unviolent man, right? Do you guys know this? I don't know, you piss on cars. I would punch him in the nose.

I piss on cars, that's unviolent. I boo anthems, I piss on cars. That's a trolling shirt. But I think it's illegal to punch that guy in the face. I'm serious, I'm very proud of this country. And my favorite thing about this country that I was born into is that it's not America. It's literally number one on my list of things I like about Canada is that we're not America. Don't fuck with that. I'm taking this.

I got tomorrow morning in this basement is an MP Marcy Ian. Oh yeah. I was like, what do I want is an MP Marcy Ian. Oh, yeah. I was like, what do I want to talk to Marcy about? I'll tell you what number one is. Protect this nation's sovereignty. It's the most important thing for sure. You Charlie Angus is on a roll, too, right? Like I'm taking partial credit.

You have to take credit. It's amazing that he's been down here, but he's like he's in Brussels, right? Given shit. You know, he's he came to it. Turns out I found out he's he was in Toronto because he was going to go on the agenda. OK, OK. Right. He had time Monday morning to drop by. Yeah, I feel like I'm not taking any credit because it's all Charlie Angus.

He was going to do it anyway. But I noticed a lot of these things he worked out in the basement appeared everywhere else in the fucking course. It's a nice warm up. You're like you're like his warm up. It's a nice warm up. You're like, you're like his warmup. It's a good fucking warmup. Okay. My goodness gracious. Okay. And by the way, VP of sales, who is a MIMICO guy, I don't hold that against him. He's a sweetheart. That's his shoppers. See, I got a shoppers in new Toronto,

but it's, I call it the shitty shoppers. Like it's small. It's old school. They don't have a lot of selection. If I need to go big on my shoppers, I got to go to Royal York and Bloor where there's a big, or I got to go to park lawn and a Lake shore, which is the one we're talking about. That's why they park lot in Queens. We has one too, but I go to park line and find a Rex also give everything to Galen. Like at least Galen fuck that guy. But law, blah, still a Canadian company, right? I just need to keep track of all this shit. Okay.

And the Tim Hortons coffee I see to my left because you're drinking beer brewed in Southern Etobicoke. Okay. All right. What about, isn't it a Brazilian hedge fund? I mean, it's not American anymore. No, yeah. Throw it out. No, but it's not, it's not Canadian. It's not saying it was, but it's not American. No, it was bought. So it's okay. It's Brazilian hedge funds. You can support the Brazilian hedge funds on this program. Okay. When I think of a Brazilian, I don't think of a hedge smaller, a less than very short, very short. Can you do pubic hair jokes on Indy? I can do whatever I want.

Like, do you know the line or I've discovered the line? Yes. Okay. How can you tell us that story? Sure. Sure. I can. I did a story just, it wasn't a sexual thing.

I've just, I discovered how sensitive the indie listeners are because I did a story just it wasn't a sexual thing. I've just I discovered how sensitive the Indie listeners are because I did a story about a guy in Calgary who died on stage He was a local community actor and he died on stage in November. Yeah, he was in Yeah, he was in the middle of doing it and I said look I said I'm a nice person I try to be nice, but I get dark thoughts sometimes and I said and then this is the dark I mean like a preamble at all. Yeah I said, look, I said, here's what I thought he was doing is in November and he was doing Charles Dickens, uh, night, the Christmas Christmas Carol. And I said, well, sometimes, you know, if you

do Christmas stuff too early, people die, right? So someone is offended by that. Someone try a half a dozen.. One person called me a fucking asshole. That's they're giving us all the bad name. No, I'm saying that, you know, this whole bullshit I hear snowflakes, this and that. Oh, I love dark humor. It was a little dark, but I throw it around. I can take it. I find the dark.

I even said, look, if it was local, I wouldn't have done it because his family could have been listening, but it wasn't local. I said it was humor. They call it Gallows Humor. I, and I pre-amble that it was going to be dark. So like, it's not like it came out of the blue. No, that dark just says, if you do Christmas stuff early, somebody's going to, somebody's going to die. And it's multiple people, multiple people. What do they do to complain? They send emails. So some, no, I'm, I got one email.

I got several texts and then they also commented on the India 88 Instagram. Oh my God. Did your boss talk to you? No, so nobody said I told him about it. Okay. Okay. I just wondered if they said hey Bob. Wow Here's what I've been told. I will tell you guys what I've been told by the owner of the company He goes I want some what the fuck on your show. Yeah good. He said I want some WTF He goes, I know you're a performer. I want you I want to tune on I want to put your show on and go, wow, I didn't expect that. I'm like, Oh, that's amazing. You're born for that. Be ready. Rob Bruce. That's the first time you heard Biff naked spaceman. Yes. Okay. So that's the version on I'd if I can, it was really good. And hey, but it's

funny that you say 1998, I can envision that that sounds like, Oh yeah. All right. You want to hear something that sounds even more like, yep. Yep. All right. This might be bigger than that version. You went to number two. Much dance 98. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question.

I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question.

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I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna ask you oh, this was on all the top 40 stations. Yes, it's a number two. Yeah. Cool. This went to number two, 1998. This is the boom tang boys. I remember. Hard to say quickly. Say it, Bob. Boom tang boys?

Two against. Boom tang. Boom tang boys. Again. DJ Denny D. Z1035. Tony Monaco with you. Before I read a note for Bob, for Rob,

and then we get Rob's final jam, I will just play a little boom tang boys. An original. We like to party. I'm blue. I feel 65 era. Or even aqua. Like, yeah, aqua. Oh yeah. Yeah, very awkward. You're right. I think she's Norwegian. I feel awkward.

Norwegian. Danish? Swedish? Danish? No, aqua is actually- Not Swedish. Danish? No, I think they're Danish.

Yeah. Copenhagen. Even prozac. Like, uh, it sucks to be you and all that. I was young and I was just pretend Now I'm ready for something new Even Prozac-y? Like, uh, it sucks to be you and all that Prozac? Yes, very good, which, yeah. You could be my squeeze toy Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah Wow. Okay.

So what's worse, this or Two Princes, if Bob Willet had to choose? I would keep this on because I never hear it. Yeah. I'll take Two Princes, hook Two Princes to my fuck. Would you? Yeah. Two Princes sounds like Pearl Jam to me I never hear it. Yeah. I like two princes, two princes to my foot. Would you two princes sounds like Pearl Jam to me after I hear that? No, we're hearing this.

At least it's not something that radio and satellite and all the playlists to I will say the algorithms have killed. Right. If you put on a 90s reason for that, no one wants to hear it. I don't know about that. I want to hear it on fucking Indy.

Yeah, I work it on. I work it in a background. Yeah. Well, you know, why can't you do these things, thematic Bob shows where you do the mind blows after you? I know you don't get the control of music. So here's the thing. I'm working on a feature.

I just toast skin on Indie 88. I'm working on a feature that will be kind of like a, let's call it an ongoing history of new music, but Toronto related. So not necessarily about Toronto bands, but things that happened in Toronto. So I've already written the script for a bunch of them, things like the John Lennon, the Plasticono band at Versity.

That will be one. And we'll play some John Lennon from that. You can play Echo Beach and you can talk about where Mark was when he thought of this song. You know, Spadina Bus comes to mind, you know. You can play Echo Beach and you can talk about where Mark was when he thought of this song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, it's a good love opening line. Spadina Bus comes to mind, you know? Yeah.

Lovers in a Dangerous Time, the video that really started nationally putting the Bare Naked Ladies on everybody's radar there. Yeah, it gave much music something to play. My definition by the... Exactly, my definition by Dream Warriors. Yeah. So I've got all these scripts written. That's so cool. We're just getting it put together and it'll be on my show. Yeah. So I'm, look,

I'm working on a theme song. Do I need a theme song? Maybe. Yeah. But how long before he's too big for us? Like he's like, I can't slum it in your basement and he won't forget us. He won't forget. I like this. This is a keyboard is for spoons. One level of, but Bob's going up there. It's good aim high aim, aim high. Aim for the universe. Richard Blanchard sent me an email and he said, I'll read a verbatim because it pats me on the back off the top. Good interview of Alan Gregg.

It was a good interview, wasn't it? The Spoons concert was during the summer of 84 for young PCs. I found another appearance by the Spoons for PCs, Michael Wilson's leadership campaign in 1983 So I don't know this alliance I know you say you would play anywhere and you didn't care what you were doing now But this this alliance the spoons and the conservative part progressive progressive bill Davis era, right?

Yeah, it's surprising. This is surprising. No idea. You know, just please play where you go To vote so Gord said you're doing this and you just did it. Like I'm a keyboardist, I play at this band. And who knew they were a bunch of Alex P. Keedans in that band. There really were. Young Republicans. Yeah.

We did a lot of gigs in those days. Like we played like every high school in Southern Ontario as well. I'm like, really? This is the pinnacle of where we are. Well, you were talking about April Wine earlier. And like they played every town, county fair. That's what made them huge, right? They would they they would play you go over the people are Russian Max Webster followed the same template

Yeah, yeah, that was the thing to do and you know what it's still happening to a degree You know, Peterborough has a music fest that they get somebody, you know, obviously the Burlington one is a big one They music. Yeah the sound of music one. Yeah. There's, there's, and that's government money. It's all government money. It's all sponsorship money from the government and it's still happening. Yep. Still happening.

Rob, any words before your third jam? No, it's a little obvious, but this was the first one that came to mind. Wow. A lot of John Williams talk on this show. That is the sound of space. Like for a generation. Is there excitement when you hear that? Yeah, that's first chord, right? Especially, yeah. With the scroll? Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty great. Yeah. You can't go wrong with this. Can you, and you know, the thing is that opening chord is the most exciting thing you've ever heard. And it's just, it's pretty great. Yeah, you can't go wrong with this. Can you, and you know the thing is that opening chord is the most exciting thing you've ever heard.

And it's just, it's the whole orchestra playing one note. Is it really? Yeah, so it's a B flat. Can you go back and start it again? Can I? Anything for you. Yeah, yeah. While he's always getting it re-cued up,

how much of your gear do you still have? It's not tape, I got a key to put it. Oh, you were gonna ask me that, that's right. I did, I wanted to ask you that. I have a lot of old keyboards. Yeah? I have my spoons, my, my spoons, keyboards. I still have, I have the very first synthesizer I ever got

when I was 11, my mom and dad bought for me. Wow. And they surprised me with this. Yeah. Don't throw those keyboards out when they break. No, those chemicals end up in our landfill. Wow. Go to recycle. That's right. That's me. It's true.

I'll never recycle code. I never don't have Rob, but I'm going to get you a postal code. Come home. L7L3J6 I mean this. That's the old one. That's my, my, my sister. We want, it's time to come home. I never recycle code. You don't have Rob, but I'm gonna get you a postal code. Come home. L7L3J6. I mean this. That's the old one. That's my sister.

It's time to come home. I know. Like you're being called home. You're in enemy territory. I'm home every month. You do, you come back every month. How do you ever come home? Your wife will thank you later.

You belong here and you're in, do you know you're in enemy territory? Do you know we were great allies to that country? He can be our spy. He can be our spy. We were America's best friends. in America for no reason at all. No good reason. Just decided to fuck our shit up and threaten us.

It's the weirdest thing, right? Like out of nowhere. I put it in my mind. My eight year old was asking me about this thing and I said, okay, who's your best friend? She goes, Oh, it's Winnie. And I said, okay, let's say you and Winnie are best friends. And then one day because of nothing you did, not your fault. Winnie came in, she was super mean to you. She started pushing you around and

not only said, I'm not your best friend anymore. I'm not your friend at all. I'm now your enemy. And she said, well, that would never happen. I'm saying it happened. That's what you think. It happened more. Watch Winnie. It's happening right now. I think the saddest thing is that there's a lot of Americans who don't feel that way But they're like they're led along but people you know for years and years and years people say well This isn't who we are this you know the government is always does shit There's like wars of choice whatever and and there will always be people saying it doesn't represent the best of us and unfortunately with America When your president is a fucking idiot, but I don't hear the voices I don't hear any I know I don't hear any you know what else is really me. And I don't mean to pick on this guy specifically, but he was the first

name because in the Charlie Angus shoddy came up. But people like Wayne Gretzky, like people like these Americans, sorry, these great Canadians who moved to the States because that's where the work is, the money is whatever, who aren't speaking out on this. I'm now watching these, I'm watching the SNL thing and I'm seeing, oh, that guy's Canadian, that guy's Canadian, like they're being silent on this. No, and I don't hear anything from this. They made fun of it with the opening with Steve Martin and Martin Short.

They had Martin Short arrested by ICE. Oh, jeez. I did see that. Yeah, free-go. One thing that was nice is after the lonely planet tribute at the concert I watched last night, the Canadian flag went on the screen. And it was like a quiet little Lorne Michaels thing or whatever. The guy's from here.

He's Canadian. Yeah, he's a Toronto guy. But the silence is really irking me. And then I remember, oh yeah, we're supposed to be part of some fucking Commonwealth, right? So on my money, I got, well, right now it's Queen Elizabeth, but it's going to be this Charlie guy, Charles, King Charles, right? Yep. The whatever I've lost track of these things, but I hear nothing from him. I'm not hearing any support. He's coming. He has, he's gone on record. Yes, he did. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't make it to my,

who cares what he thinks. He has no real power. It would be nice if the world were more vocal about the fact that, Hey, you don't get to threaten your, your NATO ally. Yeah. Your best friend. No, they did. They invited us to join the EU. Well, who invited whom to join the EU? What does Charles said? No, Charles is not in the EU.

So, no, but they brexited. Yeah, they brexited. No, there was a whole thing. I think maybe it was the day. Is it who owns Greenland? Denmark. I think it was the Prime Minister of Denmark said, May all maybe we should get Canada to join the EU.

Okay, well there's one guy out there. But I feel like all these big Canadians down south have been very quiet on this issue. I'm not being quiet. They're afraid, you're not being quiet. No, but I'm in Canada. But I'm in Canada. But any chance I get to speak out to people in New York?

Yeah, I mean you're also preaching to the choir out to people in New York. Yeah. I mean, you're also preaching to the choir there, too. Right. Exactly. Go do that in Kentucky. I know how that goes. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Can we hear that opening? So wait before you play before you play. So it's one giant note.

It's only a B flat, the whole orchestra at one time, which is why it's so exciting. It's the sound of the universe. Here it is. One note. Is that like a full whole note or is it like, yeah, it's like a, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was born in 74. Okay. You can figure it out. And Bob, a couple of years later, 76, but I was 11 years old.

This movie was fucking everything. I was 11 years old when I saw this and like in the first month I saw it like 11 times. Like you just keep going back to the movie theater. Yeah. And then I think I shared this on the program a few times, but there was a period of time where every birthday party I went to, they would rent a VCR. Yes. Yes. And this movie. Yep. And we would watch it. And it was like unbelievable. When I was a kid I remember CFTO Channel 9 Sunday afternoons would play Star Wars or Empire with commercials and I would watch it at my grandmother's house after church and and then in 83 or 80

was 83 when Jedi came out yes I saw it at the Palace Theatre at Danforth and at Danforth and Pape. And it was just that it was just amazing. Fun fact by Canada Kev is there's no sound in space. That's what we know in space. No one can hear you scream. But if you scream in a forest and nobody's there to hear it. Well, that's Bruce Colburn, right? If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody care? And then this breaks down into this.

This music right here. Then it gets mysterious. That's John Williams. So he used to do music for the Twilight Zone as well. Yes. And you can sort of feel that. Oh, for sure. Mysterious. Also got a bit of a Western vibe. Some of the, some of his stuff. Oh, this is a space Western.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Very good. You get some mind blows, right? Space Western. Yeah, it is. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Very good. You get some mind blows, right? Yes. Okay. So that you can, you can play the next one, which was on the radio as a big hit. Mecca. Yeah, same key. I have the 45. Yes. What I do, what I do. ["Mekko Menardo"] Top 10 songs. Yeah, it was. And the little RTG2 sounds are the best.

Yeah, I know. ["Mekko Menardo"] I used to play the hell out of this when I was a kid. That was the best. ["Mekko Menardo"] Who is Mekka? Mekko, Miko, Mekko. Miko, M, Mecham. His name is Mechamonardo. Okay. And he was an actual like a musician in New York. And he, so he went to the opening weekend

of Star Wars and he was like, holy shit, this is the coolest thing ever. And he, and he proposed the idea of doing a disco version of the music to a couple labels. And somebody, I don't know with CBS said sure go for it. So it was released top 10. Yeah. Yeah. Love it. And one of the co-producers. Doesn't it break down into the Cantina song too? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a big metal. Oh yeah. One of the co-producers was Tony Bon Jovi. Tony Bon Jovi, John Bo Jovi's second cousin.

Wow. Yeah. So he ran a station recording studio. And that's why John Bon Jovi, the holiday, the star Wars Christmas. Oh, that's right. He's sitting on that. That's right. Cause that's his first credit. Yeah. I own that. I actually, I have it on vinyl. Is that the one where a Wookie get a Wookie, a comb for Christmas? Yeah. I have that on vinyl. That's like the big jam off that album Okay, Tony Bon Jovi was one of was one of the producers on Jovi the real one a josey b o n g i o vi Do you and I think the no bueno the o n g i o vi

So and then he began this recording studio called the power station, which is where we recorded right Rogers and John I now I think back. I'm like, I don't know, but I think John used to sweep up the studio even in those days. It was weird. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh yeah, here's the Cantina band section.

Yep. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And it sounds like an old name in the 1930s. Just picture yourself in Studio 54, just doing rails of coke, dancing to this. Shout out to Steve Anthony. Inspired mind blow on the Star Wars theme,

but we're not done yet. Oh, you got my other one. We've been talking, as I did, we've been talking quite a bit today about this 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, because it produced such great content. Like I've been loving watching like the musical performances. Yeah. And then I just came off Fire Aid.

Did you watch this? Yes. We're Nirvana. I don't know if you can call him that because there's no Kurt. I don't think it's about the others. Did three songs, three different singers. And I was like, oh, I fucking love this band. And then we saw Post Nirvana. And I'm like, oh, I fucking love this band. And then we saw post Nirvana and I'm like, Oh, they should fucking tour. Like, okay. So we're going to roll right into a celebration.

Glad I remembered this one. Who did weekend update? He counted down the top. I thought that was pretty good. His brother was number one. Brian Doyle. The African American one? It's just Che. You know, Freddie on Mad Men, I know you know this, is another brother. Yes, I did know that. Another Murray brother.

There's a lot of Murray brothers. This is the Nick Winter Show and I do the entertaining. Thank you. Let's go out with something really hot today, folks. A big hit out of 77 Paul Safer on piano. Oh my god. That was in 1978. Wow. So before we kick out Bob's final jam, I will just do my top three people who didn't attend the SNL reunion the 50th anniversary because some people couldn't attend because they were dead. Oh, okay. These are people who could have attended and did not attend.

I was surprised they weren't there ready for this my own personal list I just did it while watching it. Dan Aykroyd was not there. Yeah, that's a big one Kingston's own shout out to the tragically hip and Bill Willitchka the great great Kings who's now selling cars. Yeah Yeah, doing a good job. Yeah, like Barry Davis is so I think he's selling boats Maybe nice, but yeah good for them. Okay, so Dan Ackroyd Dana Carvey. Yeah, I feel like if Dana showed up we wouldn't have got maybe coffee time We might have got a Wayne's World, which is what I wanted, but there was no Dana. So no Wayne's World. Okay third Politely declining the invitation something. I know a lot about is Bill Hader. Yeah. Yeah

Any more big glaring omissions for you? Those are the biggest ones for me. It's weird. Yeah, Dan, especially like, I mean, from the original cast. There's a bunch of articles out there of why they didn't, couldn't make it and stuff. And you know, here's the thing. They were both involved in a lot of the document. They were all three of those guys were involved

in the documentaries leading up to it, but just didn't come to the actual show. Interesting. I mean, accurate particularly, I saw him a lot in that tragically hip documentary that unprimed there, but I don't know. Did we talk about the film Saturday night? That's already on Netflix. I haven't seen it. It's really good. It's a right. My son, right? Jason Rayman. Yeah, I liked it too. Yeah, I've watched it. I've heard mixed reviews. It's, it's worth

watching. I gotta say, I love the fucking thing. I've really enjoyed it. I also like the Blackberry movie. I know. No, I heard it's good. See, I like that. And this is like that similar vibe. I liked it very much. All right. This one in Oscar, what's going on here, Bob? Yeah, this one, the Academy Award for best original song that year. All right, here we go.

Nice. Would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar, and be better off than you are? Or would you rather be a mule? A mule is an animal with long funny ears, kicks up at anything he hears. His back is brawny and his brain is weak. He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak. And by the way, if you hate to go school, you may grow up to be a mule. Or would you like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar,

and be better off than you are Rooted Or would you rather be a pig? So there you go, that is of course Bing Crosby What a great choice The movie was Going My Way from 1944 It was number 37 in AFI's 100 years 100 songs list in 2004 Now that song is written by Jimmy Van Heusen

and Johnny Burke. Jimmy Van Heusen is the composer. I didn't know the prolific history of Jimmy Van Heusen. It's insane how much this guy has written and how much he's been nominated? He is one, one, two, three, four Academy Awards for swinging on a star all the way. High hopes and call me irresponsible nominated like another. Did you blow your mind blow? No, I mean, you can play it. Just play it. Yeah, what a great song this he also yeah also did next time you're found with your chin on the ground. There's a lot to be so

just what makes that little old and thing right so this was yeah, this is Frank doing I can't remember what I don't remember the name of this one. I hope I hope this is I hope I hope that's right right, sorry This one song in it's a more innocent time. 1959. It's no lose yourself, but it'll do. Yes, right. Frank Sinatra. By the way, when you're done, your mind blows. Maybe I come in and do a mind blow. Yeah, go for it. And then you'll finish off your mind. Sure. Go for it. It's kind of

tight. It is. Okay. So I think my next one is also Frank related. So yeah. So you sent in swinging, uh, swinging on a star. I'll tell you how I, so how, how I found out about that song. Like, um, when I was a kid, the very first album that was put out for kids like it was called mini pops. Yes. I remember the very first mini pop album behind the green door. Yes. I had that. And there was nine to five on it and there was this like little girl who was

like wearing too much makeup on the front. But when I was a kid, I was like, oh, I like her jumping a Ramsey Yeah, a little bit, but they're on the B side of it. There is a compilation or like a medley of Novelty songs. Yeah, it includes would you like to swing? Similar origin story except mine's a bit later maybe, but I'm watching TV one day, one weekend. So what I'm playing right now is the opening theme song to a shitty show I watched far too much of and I don't know why I watched it. Oh yeah! But nothing else was fucking on.

Like there's nothing on. We've talked about this. Out of this world. Out of this world. I never heard. This is the theme song to Out of This World and I watched it because I'm telling, I don't know how to tell my children this. It was the only thing that was on.

It was literally the only thing on. I don't know what it would be a Saturday or Sunday, whatever. And this is on TV. I forgot. Yeah, and she could stop time. Yes. She's in her.

I put this in the same category as that one little wonder with the robot girl. People get them confused all the time. They're very similar. And they were on at the same time. But yes. Cheap syndicated programming. Oh, whatever. Like cheaper. It looks cheaper than Mr. Belvedere. Like Mr. Belvedere was at least a network show. Here's the closing theme. I'm looking

out. Wow. He's Bert was in this episode. Dennis Haysbert would become what? The president in 24. Oh yeah. That's so funny. Big deal. I forgot about that. That's so yeah, so I I never even realized I was the theme song. So here's when you when you kick. Oh yeah, so my last song is also written by our award winning Jimmy Van Heusen, also a TV thought theme. I thought I would share oh come on yeah right. He wrote this and really would love this show at the time. Would Married with Children have succeeded without this opening?

Right? Like, I think it's so iconic. It really is. Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and a carriage. And you know, they didn't have the rights for the DVD release, so you know that they had to put in another- Oh. You can find it on YouTube.

They had to replace this song with a sound-alike. Really? And it sucks. Oh, so bad. I'm sure. Wow. Everything's the same, except you don't hear Frank. That's so funny.

You hear some sound-alike marriage song. I guess the lesson from this, if there was a lesson, this, Jimmy Van Husson, insanely important in American music history. There's a bunch of guys that are like that. Oh, you see the name and you all of a sudden go and explore. And you look, it's unbelievable how much this guy wrote. It's crazy. That's so cool.

Yeah. Like Steve Barron directing all those things. It really is the same. Yeah, Married of Children, man. Wow. It's on right now on that Pluto TV streaming all the time. It's so bad. Like it does not hold off. I mean, I guess it has its moment. No peg people have trouble for now. Okay. So he lives a pretty good

middle class lifestyle based on selling shoes. Yeah. There's no one can relate to anymore. Secondly, is he he's got a hot fucking wife. Like that's a piece of the peg. Do I have to just once to fuck the is he he's got a hot fucking wife like that's a piece of Fuck the guy and he's like can't be bothered and you're like Serve some up for poor peg and the way that they sexualized Kelly Bundy. Oh, yeah Is insane. I don't know how old she was during that show, but my goodness And she played the dumb blonde so well. I'm glad she's actually really smart. Don't try it out for the bud buddy role. Oh, did he? Yes, to

still. Wow. The lore of students who's here next week and maybe I'll revisit this with him, but he tried out for the bud buddy. Well, I could see that. Yeah, obviously. Obviously. What was another? I remember vividly that show I watched quite a bit of because it was the neighbors member Marcy. Marcy. That's right. Steve and Marcy and Steve. That's right.

And yeah, it was just, it was a show that, you know, I'm just literally toilet humor. He loves talking about toilets. I distinctly remember an episode with a young and again, I was young, so it's like age appropriate for me. Yeah. But Mia Mila Jehovah, bitch. Oh, yeah. And I still, she was smoking hot. And I remember the joke was Bud Bundy was drilling a hole

in the wall to like watch her change or something. And somebody, I think Kelly's goes up to bud and says something like, what do you do? What are you building there? And then bud goes, a home entertainment system. And I thought it was the fucking best. I mean, it doesn't age well, but oh my God. So Christina Applegate, when she started playing

Kelly Bundy was only 15. And she was playing a dumb blonde slut, essentially. Do you remember a terrible looking in hindsight, but a rap band called fine young black young teenagers or something that but they were white guys no okay and they had a song I saw the video on rap city rap city was appointment viewing for me and I would record it the VHS it was tough to get your tough to get your public enemy videos outside of rap yes unless you got a public enemy spotlight

remember the spotlights those are are fucking great. Yeah, but I recorded this song. The song was called Kelly Bundy. Nobody knows I had Kelly Bundy like looking back. It was the worst song, but I definitely enjoyed it. Remember in 1990 PM. Dawn did drift on set a different. It's about Christina Applegate. It says right in it Christina Applegate. I'm a fan It's like there's a whole thing, right? Yes, and then that's right and that was tis true true by Sample it's a real simple. Actually. I should have done that for a sample song. That's a good one actually Okay, so we're a mildly vamping for Rob Proust finishes urination because this song is for him And I'm gonna kick it the moment he sits down and puts on his headphones, we should talk about, you know, some time, no, just about inappropriate things, songs like, you know, when you say she's 16, she's beautiful and she's mine.

There's a song by Frankie Avalon from 1956 that I heard it's called Bobby Sox to stockings. And it is one of the creepiest songs. It like how? These are called problematic jams. They always wanted to do it. Cam vetoed it. So we were gonna do it. Stu and I had it all lined up problematic jam. Oh, I can name. Yeah.

And I was excited about it. Then Cam didn't want to always worry about his corporate reputation. Put a kibosh on it. Cam thinks he's a little more important than he actually is. A hundred percent. No, I'm just, let's do it. But we know you and Cam don't get along. No, he hates me. reputation put a kibosh on him thinks he's a little more important than he actually is 100%

But we know you and cam don't get along no, he hates me. I don't know why I think I think I walked by him I love our love laws near that you yeah, I think he actually like he spat at me see some people are lucky enough Shout out to Robbie Alomar some people are lucky enough to walk by Biff naked and some people walk by fucking can't So my goodness gracious. Let's talk about that, but we still have Rob's other one to do. No, we did mine. We're on mine. My last one.

No, no, I meant the next theme. Oh, it's for Rob. The next theme. Oh. What is it? Oh yeah, no, we talked about it. You wanted to do one. No, we had two going on.

We had outer space and then there was something else. I thought it was yours. No, it was Mike's. Oh, okay. He was like, let's save it for next time. I can't remember, so we'll talk about it later. But I will wrap us up by kicking out a jam that Rob and I both wanted to kick out,

but I had it first. I think it's, well, let's listen. Yep. ["She Was Underwhelmed"] She was underwhelmed if that's how it worked. I know it's not cause I looked it up. Just one of those skills I learned in my school. She was a... It's a Pruse Jam, everybody. Oh yeah! Every night is a different flight to a different galaxy

Do a so damn show then I hit the road In my Starship, live my dream Get so damn tired and uninspired Doing all these one-night stands It's a giant leap for a rock'n'roll But it's too much for just one man I'm a spaceship superstar Alright, let me talk about Spaceship Superstar, the first single by Prism. Looking at Rob, because I feel like Rob would be a prison fan. Prism, are you kidding? When this came out, I lost my mind,

because I was 11, and that's when I got my first synthesizer and I would listen to this and be like, what the hell is this? Yeah, changed my life. Wow, okay, and even, did you know this thing hit the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart? It went up to 82. Spaceship Superstar by Canadian, Canada's own Prism. Okay, went to 63 on our charts, but of course.

Only what? Yeah, but that's the masses. They don't know what the, like, what did Sloan ever do on those charts, right? Like, fuck those charts. Come on. It was a big hit in Hamilton so 1978 yeah We're talking about in a night. Sorry 2011 They would use this song to wake up the astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery This was the wake-up song for the astronauts on space shuttle

Discovery in 2011 here comes a good synth solo. Oh, here we go. Yeah, here comes. Wait, it rides out the song. Good, I got more mind blows coming up. It's like Styx. Very Styx. So is that like a sequence piano? Oh no, it's a move.

He's playing that too? Yeah, okay. Then it gets faster. Here it comes. So he's over here with that. Two different keyboards, right? It's like you know, it's like you jump then hilling. Yes. That is yes What yours is from? 78. Wow. So I'm glad you're talking about

inspirations here, okay? I'm going to play a little bit of three songs you know that inspired this song, Spaceship Superstar. You ready? Yep. Yeah, for sure. Oh yeah. All this whole album, The Who. So huge influence over on that song is The Who. This is Baba O'Reilly. Shout out to Pro GEM, who does a great cover of Baba O'Reilly. They cover it all the time. In that Lonely Island, that stuff thing that Andy Samberg does with Lady Gaga for that thing I watched last night. Who's doing the Michael Bolton part, but Eddie Vedder. Oh, fucking amazing.

I haven't seen it. You gotta see it. I know. It's on YouTube, just watch the Lonely Planet. Is it on YouTube now? Yeah. Because they were pulling it off. I shared it in the chat actually a few days ago.

Yeah. All right, so the who, Bubble Riley, obviously, but I'm not done yet, I'm not done yet. Yes. I think we talked about this recently. Free ride. And one more obvious inspiration. Crap work, of course.

Yeah, I was going to pick a crap word song as well because their sound is all out of space. Like, you know, those synthesizers, it's otherworldly. On the spaceship superstar. Right. Wild, right? Got a solar powered laser beam guitar. Spaceship superstar. Spaceship superstar. It's all the same. Yeah. It's those the same.

Yeah. It's those same three chords in rock and roll, right? Even on a synthesizer. The other thing about Spaceship Superstar written by Jim Valance. Oh, that's my mind. Is that your mind blowing? Oh, sorry, dude.

Fuck off, Bruce. I'm doing that right now. Okay, go. I'll pretend you didn't say, I'll fix that in post. And this is what I'm gonna say. Yeah. Ready for a mind blow, guys? Yeah, do it. in post. And this is what I'm gonna say. Yeah. Ready for a mind blow guys? Yeah, do it.

Who do you think wrote? I have no idea. That Prism. So he was in Prism, although left the band before that song was a hit. And he also had an alias back then. Can Rob Pruse tell me the Jim Valance pseudonym? Nope.

Rodney Higgs. So Jim Valance as Rodney Higgs wrote that song I just played. Jim Valance, how do I know this name? Oh yeah, I did 2.5 fucking hours on, tears are not enough. Okay, Jim Valance wrote that song with others. But Jim Valance, what are other songs Jim Valance,

I mean, he's written so many great songs, but let me just play a couple. I've already played one today by the way, but I'm gonna just play another song. ["You're My Song"] An F-O-T-M jam. Yep. That's important, everybody. An FOTM jam. That's important everybody.

I played Brian Adams earlier. He's on this song. Jim Valance and him, they go to the washroom together. Okay. Yes, I heard that. I won't repeat that for Bobby here, but just because for Shits and Giggles, another song written by Jim Valance. Okay. On our way out, I'll say this was a great episode of Toast. I fucking loved it. Fun.

Fun one. It was a good one. We didn't even reference the fact that we had more snow dumped on us this past weekend than I, since I moved to this neighborhood, this is the most I've shoveled. Lots of shoveling, right? Crazy. Crazy out there. And I drove 600 kilometers in it. Wow. Crazy. Cause I went back and forth from a cottage to be on the air all weekend. Oh jeez. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, it was nuts. It's fucking crazy. These are the best years of our lives. There was a day that's, I think it was Saturday. I'm trying to remember my days, but there was a day,

I had to go out like every couple hours and shovel. I've never shoveled, I just shoveled, yeah, that was Saturday, it was just relentless. I just kept coming and coming, and then I ran out of places. You just said relentless like Trump. Relentless. How do you say it? Relentless. No, it's just the way you, I don't know, places. Relentless like Trump. Relentless. How do you say it? No, it's just the way you, I don't know. It just,

relentless. Get the fuck out of here of your Trump love. Get out of here. So I thought maybe a summer of 69 on our way out because I will tell you this snow will melt. It might take a while. Three weeks. They're saying it's going to take the clear it off. Do you know what the snow really does? It fucks up my cycling stats. Get that violin out buddy. Let's go. Because I like have targets and I've really been fucked over by this particular snowstorm where it's some of these trails I rely on are unrideable. Unrideable. Nope. It's not happening. We're going to come up with a topic for next week. Next to next month. I like the problematic one. That's a week. I like the problematic one. Next month?

Did I say week? I could do the problematic one. Let's kick out problematic jams. I've got one right off the top of my head, the one I just mentioned. I want to do that. You got to listen to that one. The only rule is you're kicking out songs that are problematic. You explain why they're problematic.

Why do you find it problematic? Why is the song problematic? Yeah, sure. We probably kicked out a couple of problematic jams today. Who knows? Yeah, let's do it. Absolutely. It'll be controversial yeah, let's do it. Absolutely. It'll be controversial. Yeah. Controversy is okay. Me, we give it proper

context. Controversy. We're not condoning P Diddy's activities. That's right. We're saying it was a good fucking jam. Yep. Can we listen to R Kelly anymore? That's right. Stay tuned, everybody. Problematic jams coming in March 2025. Who put this cover of Rosie and Grey together? Rob, it's a good job. But I am thinking this and I don't want to like put any pressure on you. Time for an update. New...

Yeah. New mind blows? Easter eggs. Yeah, let's do it. Easter's coming by the way. I'll give them to you. Shout out to the Christians out there. So...

They don't get enough love, those Christians. No, that's right. They're the most oppressed. Yeah. I feel sorry for all the straight cis white male Christians out there. That's right. Nothing breaks their way anymore. Every year there's a war on Christmas. They're trying to take the Christ out of Christmas, apparently. Well, that's bullshit, Rob. But you need a new version of this with new Easter eggs, because it's always, it's fun when it's fresh and you talk about what are these Easter eggs. You could give me a couple of suggestions

for some new Easter eggs. You listen to Toronto Mike, right? No, I know. I feel like you've listened enough that you know the touch points, the things I come back to. Bob knows exactly where I'm going before I go, because there's been a lot of episodes of this fucking show.

When's the next episode of Bob's Basement? That's a good question. I'm finding it a hard time to figure out how to manage the radio show and then the podcast. I do want to. It's on the radar. I just don't know what yet. Eddysales wants a criminal mind Easter egg. Oh, I could do that. That's a good one actually. Shadow to Gowan. Yeah.

Shadow to Stix. Didn. Shout out to Stix. Didn't we talk about Stix in this episode? Yeah. What a small world we live in. Jeremy Hopkins says it was an amazing toast. And he says it was another great episode and she's looking forward to problematic jams. Right.

Canada Kev won Zombie Jesus. Oh, I thought he was asking for Zombie Jesus jams. But he's just saying it's zombie Jesus. Oh, shout out to the Christians. You know, I don't want to pick on them. No, I got bigger fish to fry. Yeah, like that fucking president of the United States of America. Go Canada on Thursday night. Yes.

Looking forward to that. And that brings us to the end of our 1,633rd show. Go to torontomike.com for all your Toronto Mike needs. Which there are many. Much love to all who made this possible. That's Great Lakes Brewery. I enjoyed my burst. Yes.

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