Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - TV Theme Jams, Pt. 2: Toronto Mike'd #751
Episode Date: November 13, 2020This 35th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out more TV theme jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone....
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There's only one way out. We've got to give this greedy town its money back.
But we don't have $15,000.
Unless...
Aren't we forgetting something, Marge? You were down $5,200.
But Mr. Trimble...
I asked you before the game if you knew the rules and you said you did.
Judges?
Red, Mom!
She ain't getting the home base.
It's time now for Pandemic Fridays.
Starring Toronto Mike, Stu Stone, and Cam Gordon.
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I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com and joining me this week for our 35th Pandemic Friday, back in the backyard is Stu Stone.
Yes, hello.
And Cam Gordon.
Hey Mike.
And before I forget, I tweeted this.
This has got to be your biggest week in terms of people in the backyard
with most combined Twitter followers.
And it's all Bob McKenzie, right?
Primarily, but I mean, Frankish has upwards of 2,000 or 200,000.
I've always been thoroughly impressed that 1.6 million people are following Bob McKenzie.
Why is that?
I mean, he is the premier guru,
the premier pundit of hockey.
I know, but if you do a little math,
okay, I agree.
Hockey's not just Canadian,
so you're suggesting people outside of Canada
follow Bob McKenzie.
Yeah, I think he just sort of owned
that trade deadline lane.
You know who else has over a hundred,
or sorry, over a million Twitter followers in the hockey sphere?
Darren Dreger.
Darren Dreger, correct.
Yeah, another FOTM.
So, yeah, it was a big week.
Is he quiet or is it just the headphones over my hat?
He sounds like he does a Zoom all over again.
I don't know. How's this?
Much better. I mean, geez.
He's just a softer spoken guy than we are, Stu.
But it's okay.
Sleepy camp.
Yeah.
Oh, that's last time we recorded.
You know, a lot of excitement happened.
One of the things that happened is that we were thinking they'd call it for Joe Biden.
And we kind of.
Still hasn't happened.
I mean, it has happened.
Who hasn't called?
I mean, it's over. Well, the fine folks over at Newsmax haven't happened. I mean, it has happened. Who hasn't called? I mean, it's over.
Well, the fine folks over at Newsmax
haven't called it.
Yeah, they're still...
OANN have not called it.
I don't know these places.
I heard there's some big announcements coming.
I've seen that announced,
but I don't know.
Three more, I mean, three more states
are still...
Yeah, I heard Alaska went to Trump yesterday,
so that's good news.
There's a hand recount coming in Georgia.
But for all intents and purposes,
this is over. And
regardless of what the current president says.
Oh, is this, you know, Mike says it
and here it is? No, this is
New York Times says it, Associated Press
says it, CNN says it,
Fox News says it.
Landstream media.
We're going to win this thing.
After they do this recount, we got this one.
Has not that kind of rabbi podcast announced it on the DL podcast?
They've never changed a leader through a recount.
That's yet to happen ever in history.
Until now.
Why are you jinxing it?
Jeez.
Pennsylvania is-
That's like Buck Martinez is always like,
well, now would be a good time to strike him out.
It's like a three-run home run.
Get out of here, ball.
That's a good Buck.
Thank you.
I'm actually, I'm a professional entertainer.
I do impressions.
Come on.
Yeah, well, this is a tough one right here.
Stu, we'll start with you.
I think we owe Alex Trebek a moment off the top
of the 35th Pandemic Friday.
He was just so solid, always there. I spent many hours watching Jeopardy! We owe Alex Trebek a moment off the top of the 35th Pandemic Friday.
He was just so solid, always there.
I spent many hours watching Jeopardy, and he just seemed like a good guy and a great Canadian,
and we lost him to cancer this past week.
Battled hard, though.
He fought all the way to the very end.
He was hosting shows up until the very end.
So God bless him.
Alex Trebek, of course, the host of Jeopardy,
the Jeopardy program, which we all grew up watching.
Generations have grown up watching. Generations have shouted
answers at the television and felt just a little bit smarter about themselves
if they got it right. There's a whole psychology to that show and that's what
it is. When you play in psychology to that show, and that's what it is.
When you play in your living room, do you do it in the form of a question or you just answer the question?
No, you just shout out the answer.
But I will say that Mr. Trebek always handled himself
with this sort of calmness and classiness that he carried himself with.
And he had all the questions, and of course we had all the answers
in the form of a question.
The great Alex Trebek, Canadian, great mustache.
Yeah, although he hasn't had it in a while.
Not too many scandals that I can think of.
I remember there was some, like, prank call thing that went down
where he was part of it.
Well, okay, I saw the outtakes.
He dropped the odd F-bomb, but that made him
even more relatable.
He's human. I thought it was great.
Listen,
he's a legend. It's like Bob Barker,
Pat Sajak. Those guys
are great, but Alex Trebek, come on.
For guys our age, he's the only host
we've ever known for Jeopardy. I don't remember
the previous host.
Of course.
No, not Don Pardo. In fact,
no. Oh, was it? No. Not Don Pardo.
In fact, Bob mentioned, yeah, he was the announcer. Bob mentioned him earlier today.
This guy's name will come to me in a moment. I might have to Google
it. But in the
I Lost on Jeopardy,
that's actually the old
pre-Trebek
in the video. Great video,
by the way. Sorry, this is the Weird Al version? Right. So the Weird Al version of I Lost on Jeopardy, it's a pre-Trebek in the video. Great video, by the way. Sorry, this is the Weird Al version?
Right, so the Weird Al version of I Lost on Jeopardy,
it's pre-Trebek, and I think Trebek takes over in 84,
but I sure wasn't watching any.
I mean, did Trebek ever sell reverse mortgage in commercials
or anything like that?
Did he do?
I feel like he did some life insurance something.
I think you're right.
I'm Alex Trebek.
Well, Tom Selleck does that.
No, but I'm saying trebek i think he was
the og of that like he was a very just trustworthy guy you kind of type of guy you could buy premium
life insurance off of uh but yeah listen of course the legend he will be missing art fleming there'll
never be another one art fleming of course that was the other host that was the host before i feel
silly not not of uh before our time before i actually went to see a live taping of Jeopardy
when I was about 10.
Wow.
I can't believe it.
Is this in Burbank?
Yeah, Burbank.
And, you know, typical TV show,
they film four episodes back to back,
which kind of blew my mind,
the fact that these weren't actually live to air
when we'd watch it.
Are you sure it's not five?
It was four or five, yeah.
Because Mike Stafford says when he went on Jeopardy,
he had to bring five changes of clothes.
Just in case he won, you have to change your clothes
so it doesn't look like it's all filmed on the same day.
Yeah, it was definitely, I mean, my first time in a TV studio.
Off the top of my head, I think the only other shows
that I've watched live from the audience
would be John O'Vision and the Mike Bullard show.
Wow.
Stu, have you seen a lot of shows?
Because I've only seen Conan O'Brien.
I've been to lots of shows, I've only seen Conan O'Brien. I don't think, I think the only show.
I've been to lots of shows, but I just, staying with Alex for a second, and not like Cam's
studio audience tales.
Or shit, like anecdote.
But Alex Trebek, great cameo in the film White Man Can't Jump.
Foods with the letter Q
and she goes on Jeopardy and runs the board.
I only remember the Cheers cameo.
White Man Can't Jump, great movie.
And of course the Simpsons one I played at the time.
Woody Harrelson's girlfriend, she goes on Jeopardy.
Rosie Perez?
Yeah, she runs the board.
Foods with the letter Q.
And then also, just Alex Trebek, man.
Come on.
I know.
And today's theme, it's the sequel to last week's theme, which was TV themed.
We could have kicked out that jingle there.
That's that Jeopardy theme song.
Yeah, definitely crossed my mind.
I mean, Stu didn't mention like he was at a WrestleMania.
Yeah, he sure was.
Like WrestleMania 9 or something.
He was at one of the manias.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
He was running around.
I kind of blocked that out of my mind.
Speaking of blocked.
Yeah.
Okay.
Speaking of blocked.
Pick it up, Stu.
There is an FOTM by the name of James.
Do you know who I'm talking about?
James Edgar.
Well, I call him Jimmy.
Okay.
Jimmy Edgar.
Jimmy E.
Rides a bandit, 1250.
Right.
He loves Hot Wheels.
Yes.
You know.
We've shouted him out on a previous Pandemic Friday.
He was once an extra in Police Academy and Police Academy 3.
Which were filmed, like, down the street.
Yeah.
You know, a great guy by all accounts.
It's funny.
I'm lucky it's Stu Screen.
His account doesn't look familiar at all.
Like, have I seen this?
And I work for the company.
Now, here's the interesting stat about this gentleman, who is a friend of Toronto Mike,
FOTM, a listener of the show.
Big time.
Yeah.
Big news.
Dateline, Toronto Mike.
Chris Hansen.
James Edgar, at Red Bandit 1-4.
There were 13 other Red Bandits.
Right.
Right. I believe it.
I believe it.
RedBandit14 blocked Cam Gordon on Twitter.
Cam Gordon.
Cam underscore Gordon.
Cam underscore Gordon has been blocked by an FOTM,
and I think it's because of his horrible appearance.
Like, you know, Cam just shits the bed week after week.
Well, you said stuff like the opening
cords of perfect strangers
are wrung out and then all of a sudden
you got a little prompt. Cam was blocked
by an FOTM. That's, you know,
that's big.
I want Cam's reaction. How do you feel,
Cam? Like, for the record, I want, in
defense of James, he claims it was an accident
I mean those things don't
can you accidentally block someone
is it easy is it difficult
definitely not
I mean anything's possible
but you can block me that's fine
other people block me
is there a long list of people
is there a way to see
who blocks you
well if you go to someone's account it's way to see who blocks you?
If you go to someone's account... It's easier to just not follow you.
Because it's not like
you're... Yeah, he blocked Kim.
That's not a one-button action.
Stop me
when I'm lying.
You have to go through a click, and then a click,
and then a scroll, and then a click.
It's more than just an accidental click. I'm siding james because james it's not quite a 2fa thing but you
know it's it's involved james is one of the few people who's been to all six tmlx events i feel
like i've said hi to james well not on twitter he's a sweetheart and if you look at his twitter
account right now uh not that cam's ever seen it but but at the top, there's literally like, he has the Toronto
Mike sticker from stickeru.com.
Right.
And you know what he doesn't have?
Cam underscore Gordon on his friends list.
Also false.
Okay, wait, which camera?
What's the hard cam?
This one?
Yeah, give him the goods.
I want to say a couple of things to James.
James, you and me, buddy, no hard feelings.
Maybe this Saturday, meet Dan Palm and Pasta out in the parking lot.
You know, we'll share a cannoli and we'll talk this over. It's no big
deal. Leave the gun.
Take the cannoli. Have you seen
that movie? He doesn't know what movies
are. Yes, that is
like Goodfellas or something. Close. It's Godfather.
Godfather. Okay. It's close.
Start with G. Different director,
different decade, but close enough.
I hope Cam has seen that one.
Speaking of Cam's...
Anyway, Water Under the Bridge.
Okay, yeah.
I don't want any FOTMs fighting.
I love you all.
And I love you, Cam.
And I love you, James Edgar.
So keep the peace.
We're kicking out more TV theme songs.
This was very popular last week.
Cam Brio is very active on Twitter right now.
He's asking for some songs.
I'm just going to shout him out and say he wants the 60s Batman theme.
Yeah, that's a great one.
Like, na-na-na-na-na-na.
Yeah, that should be there.
Well, we're in our 40s.
That's a great song.
Great song.
Shout out to Adam West.
That is a classic television theme.
It was the Joker, didn't we?
Yeah, Cesar Romero.
Cesar Romero.
Was he the Penguin or the Joker?
Cesar Romero is the Joker.
We did this before.
It's like a rerun.
He also wants the Sopranos theme.
He says it's not by Leonard Cohen.
No, that's the Leonard Cohen version that he wants.
Lenny.
And Levi Fumka says she can now see us on Periscope.
That's important.
And James Patterson says, is it pandemic Thursday already?
Yes.
So it all crept up on the other James there.
Good joke.
So I want to say
happy 75th birthday
to Neil Young.
Wow.
I was actually listening
to some Neil Young today.
Which song do you remember?
Horse with no name.
Needle in the Damaged Gun, yeah.
That's a great jam.
What's your favorite Neil Young song, Mike?
Oh, good question.
Maybe Cinnamon Girl.
Maybe Cowgirl on the Sand.
But they're both kind of these trippy, long...
That's the classic.
I mentioned to Bob McKenzie earlier today,
I said I closed with Long May You Run. That's a good one, too. That's also a. I'm a lot like you. I mentioned to Bob McKenzie earlier today, I said I closed with Long May You Run.
That's a good one too.
That's also a great Neil Young song.
He's great.
Yeah, and back in the day when you guys had to go to my basement,
you'd pass Neil Young in the hallway.
Literally, he was just there hanging out.
Any Paul Young fans though?
Every time you go.
You know what?
Paul Young, if I may. Do you guys remember the
song Toast? Yes.
Is that by Paul Young? Yeah.
I think Paul Young is in, what's that band called?
Street Band? No. Yeah, that was
sort of like a CFNY Dr. Demento
class. I used to hear it on,
they play it on CFNY. That's
Paul E. Young? Yeah.
Already the fun facts are coming fast and
furious.
It's a bit like Fish Heads.
Fish Heads, Fish Heads. Yeah, and in that video, it's Bill Paxton, I want to say.
That's right.
Billy.
So if you're looking for all the fun facts.
He's no longer with us, right?
He's gone, yeah.
I thought that's Pullman.
Pullman's still with us.
Thank God.
Pullman's the one who looks like Gerstein.
Thank God.
So I remember Pullman looks like Gerstein.
Good.
That's true.
And Paxton is gone, sadly.
Okay.
So I also want to shout out.
Trebek also gone.
Yeah, sadly.
At least he made it to 80.
Yeah.
Anyways, that's tragic.
I love a good run.
Toronto Joey, his name is.
He sent me a note and said on this,
and he said specifically on Pandemic Friday,
will you say out loud on the microphone
that Toronto Joey says, save weather radio.
Apparently there's this like,
maybe it comes from the,
either from the country or CBC.
I can't quite figure it out,
but it's a terrestrial radio transmission of weather across the country.
And there's some talk of going on the internet and removing this.
I don't know.
Toronto Joey's not having anything.
Toronto Mike's going to be the one.
By the way, speaking of weather,
I listened to part of your Dana Levinson episode.
You kind of turned heel on her,
saying she's not a weather person.
Yeah, well, she's not a weather person.
Yeah, but...
Well, either is Joey.
I mean, what?
I'm confused.
Don't you screen these letters before you read them?
Well, last week I was duped into playing a song for somebody.
So this time I just had to say save a weather video.
Were you duped?
Did they even thank you?
I never heard a thing.
Yeah, see, that's why you can't do people favors, Mike.
But it's not like they get compensation for that.
Yeah, they do.
Maybe we sold some iTunes.
That's a paywall.
Yeah.
You want to get your song played?
That's a paywall.
Pennies on the dollar.
Stu wants some paywalls.
I want to let people know who are listening and not watching on Periscope that Stu has
a wonderful Blue Jays blanket.
Yes.
Where'd you get that?
Like, when did you get that?
My mom got it for me.
She's always thinking of-
Shout out to Trudy.
Yes.
She's always thinking of my warmth and wants to make sure that I'm warm.
So I think she'd be quite happy to know that the blanket's being used.
And is it effective?
You're feeling okay there?
My feet are very cold.
You should wear boots next time.
I'm going to wear boots next time.
This is Toronto.
It's November.
And Cam, how the heck are you doing?
Just want to make sure you're holding up okay
35 weeks into this pandemic nonsense.
Yeah, now that James unblocked me, I'm all good.
Did he unblock you?
That was fast.
Yeah, he unblocked.ed me, I'm all good. Did he unblock you? That was fast. Yeah, he unblocked me.
Wow.
That was anti-climactic.
Yes.
I made peace amongst these dueling tweeters.
Yeah, I blocked them.
Two Twitter VIPs.
Unverified accounts.
So I said happy birthday to Neil Young.
I talked about Weather Radio.
Stu, you're done.
You're quarantined.
Yes.
And that's why you're in my backyard.
That's right.
So you got a great blanket there.
I got a good blankie.
Cam looks bundled up.
I think we should get into this because there's more mind blows than we've ever had in a previous
pandemic Friday.
Wow.
It took 35 weeks, but we broke a record.
There's a lot of mind blows.
And I only have one, so they're all you guys.
I got to say, last episode was really popping.
You can really go deep on these TV themes, because quite often we don't know much about the artists.
There's still so many to go.
Tip of the iceberg.
I could be talked into going part three next week.
I don't know if we need to rush it until next week.
The vaccine's not out yet.
You know what I mean?
We got some time.
I don't know if we need to go trilogy.
Before we go to the holiday jams.
Oh, there's the Russian Sputnik V coming up, nipping at the eels of Pfizer.
I don't even, yeah.
I just know that.
92% effective, according to the Russians.
I don't think I got that update yet.
It's great news.
Synthetic.
Yakov Smirnov is my favorite Russian.
There you go.
We're keeping score at home.
Hard-boiled Zukov guy.
I'm a Nikolai Volkov guy myself.
Right, from Baltimore, right?
I would like to thank some partners right off the top here,
if you guys don't mind.
So Great Lakes, always a fantastic partner.
Keepin' us lubricated.
What beer did you crack open, Cam?
I've got the Hayes Mama.
That might be my last Hayes Mama, actually.
But no, I put it on the table for you.
Just wipe my droplets out there.
When was your last COVID test?
Before I drink that.
It's been a while.
So thank you, Great Lakes Beer.
We love our fresh craft beer.
Everybody should go to greatlakesbeer.com.
If you're in the right geographic location,
you get free delivery, but you can find it at LCBOs
or you can go to the retail store.
I was in there the other day dropping off stickers for one of their part-time drivers, Murph.
Oh, Murph.
And they're actually looking to, yeah, Murph.
You saw Murph?
Yeah.
Did you say hi from us?
I did.
They're looking to hire more part-time drivers.
What's that pay?
I don't have the salary in front of me.
What do you guess?
It's got to be at least $14.
I'm going to guess it's $14 an hour.
$14 an hour?
How many hours can you do?
They can't go lower.
Do you get tipped?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Anyways, you get to drive around the hood, you know,
and you get to meet nice people who enjoy fresh crab.
And you're driving around.
I'm sorry.
I might get a job here, Cam.
Don't cockblock this.
Now, are you driving around just the general vicinity
of the Great Lakes home base there?
No, no.
It's the entire 416.
It's like a bit.
The entire 416.
Where's this going?
They're hiring.
I'm looking.
Okay.
Are you?
Because I can get you to-
I have a car.
I can get-
And I don't really drink, so I won't get high off my own supply.
I'll talk to Troy because they are-
Let them know.
They are looking to hire-
I want $25 an hour, but let them know.
They're looking to hire part-time drivers.
I will let them know.
Thank you, PalmaPasta.
PalmaPasta.com.
They're in Mississauga and Oakville.
Mike, hand to God I had PalmaPasta before I came here tonight.
So are you a believer?
I'm not, but I had two slices.
When atheists say hand to God, it doesn't mean anything.
Whatever.
Anyway, it's delicious.
That's the main thing.
The main thing is it's delicious and we should support them. PalmaPasta.com. Shout hand to God. It doesn't mean anything. Whatever. Anyway, it's delicious. That's the main thing. The main thing is it's delicious, and we should support them.
Palmapasta.com.
Shout out to Anthony.
I already mentioned the stickers.
James Edgar has one.
I just dropped some off for Murph.
Oh, yeah, Murph.
That's how we got into that.
Murph's, yeah.
How much does Murph make an hour?
I can hook you up with Murph's email address, and you can ask him,
or you can just go straight to Troy and say how much does it pay.
You remember the first drummer, current drummer
for Dinosaur Jr.
Is that Murph? Also Murph.
Not Smurf. Maybe it's the same Murph.
I was chatting with someone today about
their podcast and I saw they had
Brendan Kennedy on and I've been
talking to FOTM David Ryder
about Brendan Kennedy writing about
Toronto Miracle, which I'll reference in a minute.
Long story short is I realized it's not the same Brendan Kennedy because I realized that's like John Smith, Brendan Kennedy writing about Toronto Miracle, which I'll reference in a minute. Long story short is I realized it's not the same Brendan Kennedy
because I realized that's like John Smith, Brendan Kennedy.
Like how many Brendan Kennedys are there?
Like Kennedy is a popular Irish surname.
How many Brendens are there in...
Brendan?
Yeah.
Brendan Kennedy is a popular name.
Is it? I don't know any.
Mike, do you know Brendan's brothers?
Wait, Brendan Kennedy?
Jamie Kennedy?
No.
John F. Kennedy?
No.
I don't know.
Peter Kennedy?
No, Kevin Kennedy, who runs Pitch Talks.
Oh, Pitch Talks.
Wow, I didn't know that.
So we're talking about the Brendan Kennedy from the start.
Correct, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, ex-sports writer now.
He's going to write about Toronto Miracle.
Love it.
And by the way, I won't go into a deep toronto miracle pitch right now good it's happening december it's
to feed the hungry oh of course that's what i'm saying it's good i'm trying to feed the hungry
and it's taking a lot of time and effort and i'm getting zero dollars and zero cents but that's
what i feel good in my heart i know so i just want to say saturday which is the day after tomorrow
my longtime friend Jordan is good.
I call her Jordy,
but Jordy is going to be in my backyard for an episode.
Oh, Jordy's coming here.
And we're going to talk about Toronto Miracle.
That's great.
So you're going to hear all about it,
and hopefully you're going to read about it
in the Toronto Star soon.
That's great.
If any press is listening
and they can cover this fantastic event.
Well, I would think if the press was listening
to any podcast, this would be it, right?
Let's see.
Brendan Kenney won a big journalism award last year.
He was an investigative. He also wrote about
my buddy's run around
the city of Toronto,
so that guy seems
to cover all my,
he's never written
about me,
but that's okay.
That's a good one.
Joanne Glutish,
do you guys know
the name Joanne?
I actually know
Joanne Glutish very well.
How well do you know
Joanne Glutish?
Well, yeah,
I happen to know
that if you are in
the market for a new
home or condominium,
Miss Glutish,
there's nobody better in the city other than maybe my sister,
but that's a whole other conversation.
That's a whole different conversation.
Mike, do you ever see clips of Don Rickles
on The Tonight Show in the 90s?
I feel, or sorry, in the 70s?
I feel like this is the vibe.
Like he's Don Rickles, you're Johnny Carson.
That's a compliment.
It's a mile a minute over here.
That's a compliment.
Thank you.
He was cool.
Thank you. You know cool. Thank you.
You know, like guests that are like quiet and uninspired.
That's like what camera might say.
When you're just a little low energy, right?
You're a little low key, low key F2020.
Well, it's the middle of November.
We're in like a backyard.
Well, the jams are coming.
I'm going to cut to the jams.
What about glutish?
You never finish your ad. Yeah. Fun fact. I don't know if I've mentioned this to you. Finish your the jams are coming. I'm going to cut to the jams. What about glutish? You never finish your ad.
Yeah.
Fun fact.
I don't know if I've mentioned this to you.
Finish your library.
Fun fact.
Joanne is one word, Joanne.
It's not two words.
It's one.
That's not that fun.
The A is capitalized.
Oh, that is fun.
Think about that.
Yeah, that's great.
Joanne.
That's a good gimmick.
Yeah, and that's a fact.
I like that.
Here, just in a nutshell, I've got it down to 15 seconds.
It's not the full version I played last time, but this is FOTM Sheila.
Oh, Sheila!
Who has never blocked Kim.
Holy shit!
As far as I know.
But this is Sheila.
You ready?
Oh my God.
So whether you're looking to buy your first home, move up, purchase an income property,
help your parents sell the house they've been in for 40 years, or just have your questions
answered, visit her at joannegludish.com and then give her a call.
So shout out.
Sheila nailed that.
Good job.
One take Sheila.
Somebody was upset that Stu was a little over the top with his praise.
Over the top.
That's called genuine sincerity.
You're reading the room wrong, whoever wrote that.
Or is that Stallone?
Oh, yeah, it wasn't Hogan.
It was arm wrestling or something.
I feel like if I called a public library
and they did not answer the phone
and then Sheila's voice did like,
you've reached the library.
Press one to reach Daniel Kuchar's mom.
He did.
Oh my God, that is true.
I don't even get that reference.
That must be a Thornhill reference.
That's in the iGraduate from Thornley95.
Shout out to DJ Farbsy.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Sorry for your loss, Farbsy.
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You won't lose your data, that's for sure, because Barb's got your back.
Oh, Barb.
Barb Paluskiewicz.
Spelled like it sounds.
BP.
Call her, 905-542-9759.
5-9.
They're your outsourced IT department. And we opened the program by, you know,
giving our condolences to the loss of Alex Trebek.
Is this a segue into a funeral plug?
Please tell me that's not what's about to happen.
I can't come out of these up-tempo records
with a dedication to a dead dog.
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Cam Gordon.
Is he going to be there?
I hope to see you.
Keynote speaker?
I hope not.
I don't know.
Featured general?
No, like attending. I'm just saying. I don't know. Featured? No, like attending.
I'm just saying I don't want to be sort of in a...
Oh, you don't want us to be remembering you.
Correct.
Because there's still time.
Yeah, I mean, we have a few more episodes before.
Right.
We got to get to the big four.
Oh, okay.
Absolutely.
Now, anything you want to say before I kick out your first jam?
TV themes, part two.
Yeah.
I say let it rip.
I mean...
Part two.
Yeah.
I say let it rip.
I mean.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. Bye. You want to be where everybody knows your name You want to go where people know People are all the same
You want to go where everybody knows your name
Sit, Ubu, sit.
Good dog.
Very good. Mike's kids just came.
Cam, I just want to commend you.
That was very, very good.
Hearing that back, I always...
Should I wait to give you some...
No, let's just get it.
I mean, the host is not paying attention.
Okay, so I always romanticized, Cam,
as a youngster growing up,
watching the television program Cheers.
Cheers.
That was Woody Harrelson singing that song.
Yeah.
As a kid, I always imagined that that Woody was the one who was singing the song from Cheers.
Okay.
I could see that, but I...
Sorry.
Even though we heard it with Coach.
Huh?
Like Coach.
Like way before Woody, that was the theme.
Exact same theme
when coach was
right in the bar.
right,
right,
but I'm just saying,
I just thought.
I know,
because you were young
and I have many years on you.
I was going to say,
shocking confession,
never see an episode,
cheers.
Okay,
because I was going to ask you
the obvious question,
which is coach or Woody
and then you got to ask,
is it Diane or Rebecca?
I've never heard a coach
or Woody be a thing.
Who's coach?
That's a thing.
Now,
Woody is clearly the.
Wasn't there,
there was a TV show coach,
was there?
Yeah, that's the guy from Poltergeist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, Woody is clearly the- Wasn't there, there was a TV show, Coach, was there? Yeah,
that's the guy from Poltergeist.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Okay,
so I'm the oldest in the room.
Let me just take over
for a moment to tell you.
On the death.
The death of Coach
was similar to me
to the death of Mr. Hooper.
Ah.
Okay?
I remember when Coach died.
This was a very likable old,
you know,
older guy,
but he was a very likable.
You kind of see him getting sicker
and then he dies
and they replace him
with the character Woody Harrelson.
So they're similar characters but different
but obviously... Was Mike Ted Danson
there? Ted was there the whole time because
without Ted there's no Cheers. But then like
Shelley Long. Shelley Long leaves to be a
movie star and then they bring in Rebecca.
The great Kirstie Alley. Who's been in the news lately.
Big Trump guy.
The two little ones who came to the
window, Monica showed them we're on Periscope
and there's a delay.
If they come here, they're on the
camera and then they run back and they see themselves
being on TV.
By the way, just to answer a question from the Periscope,
somebody wrote, does Mike
have the heater on him? Yes.
Mike has the heater on himself and not
Cam and I. What about the guests?
He's worried about gear that is totally fine in this weather.
Do you want it?
You can have it.
No, I'm just saying.
It's just rude.
But yeah, Mike has the heat.
He advertised to Cam and I, don't worry, guys.
I got a heat lamp.
And it's not pointed at us.
So I don't see.
I'm happy to share it with you.
I'm fine.
I don't even have this fucking fleece blanket.
It's the fucking LA years. You can ruin, man. Cheers is a great song. I'm fine. I don't even have this fucking fleece blanket. It's the fucking LA years.
You can ruin, man.
Cheers is a great song.
Cheers.
Great.
Who wants some fun facts?
Do you want some fun facts?
I do.
I want some
because I love that show.
Yeah, I love this song.
I guess we'll hear
about the song.
Even though you've
never seen an episode.
I'd like to hear
the song facts, I guess.
Well, here we go.
Sounds like a Beatles song.
I don't think we should
be kicking out jams
from shows we didn't watch.
I kind of agree, yes.
Nevertheless.
Nevertheless.
You know, very Cam to come out as strong as he's ever come out
and then drop a bomb on us that he's never seen the show.
Go to hell.
Who said they thought it was Woody's sign?
That was me.
Well, it was actually a gentleman named Gary Portnoy.
Oh, Gary Portnoy.
GP.
So he co-wrote this song with someone named Judy Hart Angelo.
Big jam.
Sang it.
The song's from 1982.
So Portnoy had previously written songs for people like Air Supply,
who I think we were talking about last week.
Because they had a big hit with a song.
Wait, 82?
Cheers was on in 82?
That's when it started, yeah.
Yeah.
Wow, I didn't know that.
So he wrote a song for Air Supply called I'll Never Get Enough
and also wrote a song for Dolly Parton called Say Good Night.
Remember, we talked about who's the guy who wrote Meatloaf
and did the Hulk Hogan song?
Steinman.
Yes, Jim Steinman.
He also had a big hit with Air Supply around that same time.
So we're seeing a common theme that, especially in the 80s, a lot of people who wrote
these songs also wrote other TV shows.
So this gentleman also wrote
the Mr. Belvedere.
Classic jam.
As sung by someone I think you in 1236
mentioned. Oh, Redbone. Leon Redbone.
Leon Redbone.
Big time Toronto connection.
Also wrote the theme song,
and I meant to look this up. I just ran out of time.
The Punky Brewster theme.
Wow, good one.
Wow, I remember Punky Brewster.
Maybe the world will change.
Wow.
Now this song.
So Leo Moon Fry.
This is very interesting.
The original version of this song actually had very different opening lyrics.
Oh, shit.
So I'm going to try to like sing these very.
Okay, go.
I can't wait to hear you sing.
Singing the blues when the Red Sox lose.
It's a crisis in your life.
On the run because all your girlfriends want to be your wife.
And the laundry tickets in the wash.
And I don't know.
They were wise to change it.
Yeah, but Red Sox mentioned right there.
Because Sam Malone was a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
Mayday Malone.
Yeah.
That was the whole thing.
He was a former relief pitcher for the Red Sox who opened a bar in Boston.
Okay.
Which, I mean, makes sense.
A lot of Red Sox.
In 2000.
And coach, I think.
Was coach a coach of the Red Sox?
Was he like a pitching coach or something?
One thing I do remember, though, when there was an opening scene,
there was a guy who had the sign that said, we win or something.
But that was sort of like a stock photo. Well, it couldn't have been recent. 1919?, We win or something. That was a stock photo.
It couldn't have been recent.
1919?
That was Chicago.
Johnny Damon or anything.
It was when Babe Ruth was on the team.
Kevin Euclid.
He was a big Euclid guy.
2011.
Rolling Stone magazine named
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
was voted the best television theme of all time.
Rolling Stone, man.
And then in 2013, TV Guide gave it the same award.
It's memorable.
I'm glad we got to it.
Smashcut to 2020, the current year.
Is that a commercial for Applebee's?
It better have been.
You guys ever eat at Applebee's?
I think I've been to an Applebee's.
I've been to one Applebee's once.
There's one near Heartland in Mississauga
Is it in Canada, Applebee's?
$9.99 all you can eat apps
I thought it was
I thought I was at an Applebee's in Mississauga
Applebee's is a pretty decent chain
I mean if you're like in the middle of nowhere
Is it as good as the
Olive Garden
It's very similar
It's in the same wheelhouse as
I liked Olive Garden when I was a young man.
Chili's.
It disappeared.
Applebee's.
Chili's.
And I have a very, very...
Mike, this is becoming my new gimmick.
Every song I like to have an FOTM tie-in.
Yes, please.
So this song's been covered a few times.
I think there was like punk rock versions.
I remember I had an EP by the band The Wedding Present.
Remember The Wedding Present?
They were a British band from the 90s.
They did a version of this song.
What does this have to do with Applebee's?
Wait, what does that do with FOTM?
We're going, you know, it's FOTM.
Okay.
I don't know why I remember this.
In 1995, Alan Cross, FOTM.
Wow.
Was he there?
He was there.
Wrote a book called The Alternative Music Almanac.
Okay, I believe that.
That part of it had like a timeline of the called the alternative music almanac okay i believe that that part of it had
like a timeline of the history of alternative music and this is 1995 so a lot's happened since
then yeah but they had a picture that was supposed to be nick cave in the birthday party
but it was actually a photo of the wedding presents oh wow i don't know why i remember that
but yeah that's like i'll tweet a photo of it right after this
That's the dewy winds of
Almanacs
Which I can see like the birthday party, the wedding present
I can understand why people would mix it up
Of course
By the way
On the Periscope
Potential Applebee's
Get together for FOTMs who are listening
There is one in Ajax
Okay And I'm suggesting that maybe when The pandemic is over Applebee's get together for FOTMs who are listening. There is one in Ajax.
Okay.
And I'm suggesting that maybe when the pandemic is over,
we all make the drive out to, it's worth the drive to Ajax and we get some Applebee's.
And I actually have a text comment here.
Who is texting?
My girlfriend, MF.
Okay, MF.
Look at that.
It's the live stream in the background.
She's been to the Cheers Bar in Boston and did a little.
Wow.
Look at that. I knew I liked her. Look at that. She is really cool. Shout out to MF. stream in the background. She's been to the Cheers Bar in Boston. Oh, wow. Look at that.
I knew I liked her.
Look at that.
She is really cool. Shout out to her.
Ever since she gave me a beer on my birthday.
Love her.
She's a delight.
Number one.
Anyway.
But next time, she's pointing over her shoulder and saying,
there's Detroit.
She's probably been there.
To Ajax?
She's probably been there.
She's probably been there.
She's probably been there, too.
What's she doing in Ajax?
Guys, I never do this, but there's lots of jams and lots of mind blows, so we've got
to get rocking.
Let's do this.
Because most of the mind blows blow.
There's an Olive Garden, by the way, at Yonge and Edmonton.
I think I won that round.
No.
Yes.
No, there is not.
I'm sure there's not.
No, no, no.
It's what's being said to me.
Okay, we'll have to verify that.
We'll check that out.
I don't think it is.
Okay.
Okay.
Are you ready for your first jam, Stu, or you got like a preface?
Hold on a minute. Let me just... your first jam, Stuart? You got like a preface there.
Hold on a minute.
Let me just.
Okay, Cam, do me a favor.
Let me take a look at you, bud.
Do me a favor.
Wait, wait.
There it is.
Come on.
Yeah, show me that smile, Cam.
There it is. Show me that smile.
Show me that smile.
Don't waste another minute on you crying.
We're nowhere near the end. The best is ready to begin.
In our hands, baby, you and me We gotta be the luckiest dreamers
Who never quit dreaming
As long as we keep on giving
We can take anything that comes our way
Maybe rain or shine all the time
We got each other sharing the laughter and love Wow.
Just a great one right there, ladies and gentlemen.
The great Stu Stone with the great Growing Pains theme song.
Wow.
Growing Pains is, of course, a sitcom.
One of the better sitcoms.
Surprisingly, how many years do you think that show was on?
Okay, I think it went for 10 years.
10 seasons?
I'd say 8.
8.
The actual retail price, 7.
Oh.
So it felt like it was on longer than it was,
but 7 seasons, 166 episodes, tons of syndication.
It was on every day practically.
You know, after school at some point at like 5.30 in the afternoon
or something on, you know, the new VR.
Yeah.
That type of thing.
CFMT.
What's happening now?
Yeah.
Cam sent me a YouTube link.
I think you might have to fast forward a bit,
because I believe it's the same artist
going to be singing this song in a bit.
What's happening right now?
Why not get right to the point?
Cam's hijacking your choice.
I feel like this might weave into one of the fun parts.
So what I'm looking at is I'm looking at
the grand opening of Sky Dome.
Were you there?
I was.
Alan Thicke and Andrea Martin are on stage right now.
So I'll bring this down, but I think Cam thought it would be something nice.
Did you just send it to him right now?
Yeah.
Huh.
Is that what we're doing now?
Dude, the floor is yours.
The floor is yours.
Alan Thicke, the late, great Alan Thicke. Starred as Dr. Jason Seaver.
A psychologist, if I'm not mistaken.
Worked out of his home.
Psychiatrist.
Worked out of his home.
Head of the curve.
Joanna Kearns.
Yes.
Maggie.
Maggie Malone.
Kirk Cameron.
Michael Seaver.
Mike Seaver.
Friend of DeBone.
DeBoner.
That's right.
Tracy Gold.
Carol Ann Seaver. Eating of the Bone. The Boner. That's right. Tracy Gold. Carol Ann Seaver.
Eating Disorder.
Ooh.
Jeremy Miller.
Ben.
What's he up to?
Ben Seaver.
Yeah, what is he up to?
The great Ashley Johnson, who played Chrissy, the little kid.
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Wow.
Leo.
Played Luke Brower for a season.
He was like a runaway or something?
Yes, something like that.
That's a big one.
And of course, Andrew Coeng, who played Richard Milhouse Boner Stabone.
Boner Stabone.
How about that?
Can I tell you that I spent an afternoon with Alan Thicke?
Ooh, where?
So I was doing work.
Like a Loblaws?
No.
At a production house in this neck of the woods.
I was doing work for a company
that had hired Alan Thicke
as their spokesperson. We were filming
a bunch of television ads and I
was hanging with him. He was very proud of his
son Robin. He had a lot of talk about Robin
and some of his recent successes.
Was this pre or post
Blurred Lines? Pre.
Now just like I had thought Woody sang the theme song for Cheers,
I always had this image in my head that Alan Thicke sang the Growing Pains song.
And that's why I sent it to Michael Boone.
I think I thought that too because Alan Thicke wrote that song.
Well, fake news.
No, he didn't.
And no, he didn't.
Oh, no.
But he wrote something.
No, not that.
What about Different Strokes? Yeah, Different Strokes I was going to say. I don't know. Why don't you look no. But he wrote something. No, none of that. What about different strokes? Yeah, different strokes
I was going to say. I don't know. Why don't you look it up?
But it's definitely not this.
Skydome is quite a place. Stu is always
a little testy when the weather is not perfect.
He's hostile. Hostile negotiations
here, guys. I'm not going to concede.
Here we go. The theme
for fucking
What the fucking? What is this?
Growing fucking pigs.
Growing pigs. There were nine versions of the theme song used. Wow. Nine. for fucking what the fucking what is this? Growing fucking growing pains.
There were nine
versions of the
theme song used.
Wow.
Nine.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah.
The royal pains.
Let me get to some
fun facts here.
One of the seasons
do you remember
the nylons?
Oh.
Do you guys remember
like na na na hey hey
goodbye was a big hit.
Of course.
And then Bobby McFerrin
had don't worry be happy.
Yes.
And then of course boys to men had Don't Worry, Be Happy. And then, of course, Boys to Men did So Hard to Say Goodbye for Yesterday.
Rockapella.
Rockapella.
Acapella was making a big comeback.
Uptown Girl.
Never left.
Let's check out what Growing Pains did to keep up with the trend in season six. Show me that smile.
Show me that smile.
Don't waste another minute on your crying. I remember this.
I like it.
It's different.
It sounds like
community theater in like four seasons.
Yeah.
Not four seasons.
What you say?
Oh.
Moke and Geek. in Slides. Ooh, whatcha say? Oh. I like that one.
Moken.
Okay, when you're ready, Stu,
I have a list of TV theme songs that Alan Fink wrote.
He did not write Grown Men.
I'm not ready yet. We can take anything that comes our way
Maybe rain or shine
All the time
We got each other
Sharing the laughter and love
Okay, so here's the thing.
The fans shat all over that version.
In a few episodes into season six, they pulled it and re-recorded.
First of all, BJ Thomas should get credit for being the singer of the Growing Pain song.
Really a who's who list of females that accompanied him on the song
throughout the different various recordings.
Of course, a fun fact, Eric Carman released a version of the song and it actually peaked at number 51
on the Billboard chart. Speak of big Trump guys.
So yeah, they abandoned that acapella version
and they went with this one here. I'm sorry, I'm not on the right page.
Okay, say that again. They abandoned the acapella and went with this.
This version.
This is going to blow people's minds, guys.
But this became the...
Time rocks.
Don't waste another minute on your crying We're nowhere near the end
The best is ready to begin
Okay, so this was released as a song.
Yeah, because it's like four minutes long.
This sounds like new country. Wait until you realize who released as a song. Yeah, because it's like four minutes long.
This sounds like new country.
Wait until you realize who's singing this song.
I'll leave it to Cam because I'm reading it.
But it is a fun fact.
Who do you think this female is?
Who the female is?
Okay.
There's no way he's going to guess it.
No, who is it?
Dusty Springfield.
No.
Yes. Dusty Springfield. No. Yes.
Dusty Springfield and BJ Thomas picked up.
It picked it up.
She continued on the rest of the way.
Okay.
Seeing the various different versions.
Dusty Springfield.
That's a genuine mind blow.
That's a mind blow. I'll give it to Stu.
Like Carol Pope was probably like lurking off set.
This version played in the lobby of dentist's office all over North America
because it got play on the adult
contemporary hot AC format
in early 89, peaking at number
five. That was CHFI back in the day.
Number five on the chart. And BJ Thomas, in case
we haven't mentioned it, you might know him
from such hits as Raindrops Keep
Falling on My... Am I stealing your thunder here?
No, no, go ahead.
Didn't he do Hooked on a Feelin'?
I don't know.
I don't have it in front of me.
I will say that Growing Pain spawned a spinoff series.
I don't know if you guys remember.
Oh, yes.
It was like The Babysitter and Mike Seaver together.
No, Growing Pain spinoff was called Just the Ten of Us.
Of course, yes.
With a coach
Like a chubby white
Coach guy
And one of them
Was Heather Langenkamp
From
Nightmare on Elm Street
I also feel like
You guys
I might be making this up
I might be making this up
But I'm pretty sure I'm not
That the final episode
Of Growing Pains
When they move out of the house
I feel like
Another
Like Family Matters moves in.
I feel like another show moved into their house.
Am I crazy?
Like step-by-step?
Yeah, like something like that.
Like a different show moved into the house.
I don't remember that.
I think Stu is...
Am I imagining that?
I don't know if it's that cut and dry,
but yeah, I think there's some connective tissue
with another ABC franchisec uh franchise like
they're the ones that moved in like the fresh prince i don't know it's not the fresh prince
should i look this up because it might be okay well i'm gonna just let everybody know that uh
i erroneously said i thought alan thick wrote this song because i'm confusing things of course
the two big theme songs that alan thick wrote were different strokes and the facts of life wow those two theme songs written by
alan because i i remember in growing pains there was a song sung by alan thick they they went to
hawaii or something and it was a it was a real like schmaltzy ballady type song like it sounded
like christopher cross sailing the jesus freak was Cameron, Kirk Cameron,
married his buffalo-born girlfriend
from the show.
She had like
blonde hair or something?
I thought she had,
no, he didn't like her
because she had appeared
in Playboy or something.
It was a brunette
that he was dating
on the show
that he married.
What was that show
he swept away,
or the movie
swept away?
Stu has something
exciting to say.
Oh my God,
I have like breaking news.
Breaking fucking news.
Do you know the show Hanging with Mr. Cooper?
Yes.
He moved into the Grog Payne's house.
Stu's right, then.
He's got a good memory there.
Why did Hanging with Mr. Cooper?
Because that was the same person did the theme song for Hanging with Mr. Cooper that wrote Perfect Strangers.
Yes.
As discussed last week.
Oh, my God.
Right.
Right.
It all comes full circle. We have to do a As discussed last week. Oh my God. Right. Right. It all comes full circle.
Wow.
We have to do a third part of that.
Someone shouting out the Edison Twins great theme song.
Well.
Someone shouting out.
FOTM wrote that.
My Secret Identity also being shouted out.
Yes.
Oh wow.
Yes.
With Dr. Jeffcoat.
Okay.
Great.
That's a great show.
Okay.
And the guy from Stand By Me.
Degrassi was played last week.
Yeah.
Degrassi was last week.
Let me get to mine.
If you're born in the...
Mike, we're two for two.
It was Bojana's
like losing it over there.
I'm going...
Even though
Alan Thicke is Canadian,
it's still an American song.
I'm going to go
CanCon of mine.
You ready?
Yes.
Let's do it.
Now look up.
Way up.
And we're on our way
to the castle.
I'll hurry over first
and go in the back door
so I can let the drawbridge down and open the big front doors for you.
Good one.
Ready?
Very nice.
Here's my castle.
The recorder.
So this is hitting me right in the nostalgic bone.
What's the record? Not a flag. Yeah. So this is hitting me right in the nostalgic bone. It wasn't a report, not a fluke.
Yeah.
Skin fluke.
This was my jam, guys.
It's like Ian Anderson over here.
Playing the harp.
Beautiful song.
What a gentle melody.
This is like a nap time fucking song.
So this recorder bit, which I have a mind-blowing fun fact about in just a moment, but I'm going to let the good captain talk to us again here.
Here we are inside.
Here's one little chair.
What a friendly giant he was.
Friendly giant.
I think a captive kangaroo. It's my nickname. Someone who likes to rock. Here's one little chair. What a friendly giant he was. Here's a friendly giant. I think a captive kangaroo.
It's my nickname.
Someone who likes to rock.
Okay.
A rocking chair.
I love those little,
those little,
you know,
little models.
So I,
every day,
the friendly giant
would come on
and I loved this show.
And he,
you know,
was rusty
and they would,
you know,
the friendly giant
would put out the chair for me. And honestly, I'm listening to Rusty now and the Friendly Giant would put out the chair for me.
And honestly, I'm listening to Rusty now and Jerome the Giraffe.
And anyways, this was my stuff.
So if you're of a certain age, because if you're a little too young,
it just won't mean anything to you.
But if you're a certain age, listening to the Friendly Giant theme should do it for you.
Want to be blown away by this fun fact?
Sure do.
In the history of Pandemic Fridays, in 35 weeks
of Pandemic Fridays, this is
the oldest jam
we've ever kicked out.
That song
that opened up every episode of
Stu had my wife
run down the street
to buy him some
Girl Guide cookies. I think they're called girl
guys but uh anyway crack the seal on that song that opened up uh the friendly giant is called
early one morning and it dates back to about uh they aren't sure exactly but the 1700s
that song early one morning was composed in the 1700s. Sorry, the 1700s.
1700s.
So, like, I think Bojana was just... How did they record it?
Bojana was just in her 30s.
It was written in the 1700s.
They did not record it.
It was live every episode, I think.
I don't know, maybe.
But anyway, that show, The Friendly Giant,
it aired from 1958.
How did they record it if it was in the 1700s?
You know how it is back then.
You pass it down to your kids kids and then they tell their kids.
It's like on a stone tablet or something.
You just tell it.
You teach your children and they teach their children.
And that's how you keep it alive through the years.
I should have got the mint cookies.
These are kind of weak.
Oh, people.
Well, give me a glass of milk.
I'll join right in there.
So, Friendly Giant aired from 1958 to 1985.
Wow.
Shout out to Rusty the Rooster
and Jerome the Giraffe
and of course the Friendly Giant. Love that show.
Okay, Cam Gordon. Good pick.
Thank you. Oh, I like your pick
here, Cam, because this is one of my favorite shows of all time.
A bit more contemporary here.
You ready? Yes. Get yourself
a, what was the
drink that he would have?
Do you remember?
An old fashioned.
Old fashioned.
An old fashioned.
Here we go.
This is a good show.
Excellent show.
You gotta watch it.
I love it.
How many seasons is it?
it's like
five or six
five or six
and it just like
gets better and better
as you go
it's pretty consistent
I think it's pretty steady
it's pretty steady
it's always good
I think it's always good
this might be the last show
I've watched too
oh wow
even though it went off
the air
like
god it's been off
what six years
it's been off a while now
but yeah
why did it go off the air?
These things run their courses, right?
Did it have a definitive ending?
Yeah. Okay, don't ruin it then.
I wasn't going to ruin it.
It's worth it. I feel like we're going to be in lockdown
soon anyway. Honestly,
one of my favorite shows of
all time is Mad Men.
Cam, did you watch this show?
I actually watched it i i know we
joke that i i don't watch tv but this this was definitely one of the last shows that i i really
got into i even have the dvd all the dvds of this show um i believe they're currently living at mf's
cottage right now so you can in that first episode the pilot's called uh when smoke gets in your eyes
i've i can watch that pilot over and over again.
It's like a movie.
I just think it's stunning.
It's really well done.
I mean, I have many thoughts about this show, which we'll get to in a minute.
Anyway, the name of the song is A Beautiful Mind by the artist RJD2.
Too close to R2-D2, right?
Very similar.
He was kind of an electronic artist slash hip-hop producer type
guy um this song was actually on an album that he put out his third album it was called magnificent
city in 2006 um this was actually the last song on the album and not not a single but subsequently
madman started around that time so this was subsequently adopted as the madman theme and
i know for me like when I was watching the show,
I was also working for agencies,
albeit not advertising agencies, but...
You could relate.
To some degree, like, I don't know,
when I started working for PR agencies,
which is in like 2004,
it was definitely less male dominated
and definitely less...
More Peggy Olsen's.
Yeah, I'd say so.
But I remember when this show came on, every edition of like Adweek and Ad Age and Marketing Magazine and Strategy Magazine.
Inevitably, they do like their year end awards, like Agency of the Year.
And every agency that won would do the bad man themed photo shoot sure
and everyone thought it was like you know sort of this original thought and for like three years
it was like all these bad men themed photo shoots great show sites and i liked how you know it ran
through i guess it starts in the 50s and then it ends i guess in the early 70s or something like
that but it you get to kind of like things happen in real the things that happen in real life happen
around the show you know like be it uh you know the be it the JFK assassination or Marilyn Monroe dying and those kind of things.
Even some early technology, I don't know if you remember,
there was an iconic episode with the Kodak slideshow.
Oh my God, the best scene ever is when Don Draper pitches the carousel.
That's the best scene, I think, in the whole fucking series.
Yeah, I mean, I always like the show too.
Because I mean there wasn't really that much action.
It was pretty.
No.
Kind of low rung.
It was just kind of day to day stuff of a bunch of people.
A real.
Albeit stylized.
But snapshot of Madison Avenue in the 1960s.
And kind of the advent of like just sort of mass media too.
As someone who's kind of worked in this industry for a while um again like there was there was even some like ad campaigns
like with like coke and stuff that were you know slices of uh stuff that actually happened in there
um can i say a few words about the artist rjd2 of course because we had a whole like minute and a
half left in the jam here too yeah so he he uh perhaps he's most famous also for
remixing other artists including massive attack the doves or i think just doves um yola tango and
one of one of the artists that i famously botched in an earlier episode jodakai most death most
death most death not jodakai um i i have a small anecdote this this is perhaps even less
interesting than my alan cross anecdote but uh do you know the creator of madman matthew weiner
weiner is this gonna be about the sopranos he was uh okay uh i know of him but yeah he was like a
writer or like a showrunner so he was kind of like, I believe he was executive producer for Mad Men.
So back in 2017, he did, I don't know if you, I don't think Stu would go because I think he was still in LA during these years.
Mike, have you ever been to any of the events at the Toronto Reference Library?
Where David Marsden spoke last year?
Yes.
No.
Yeah, exactly.
So I've been to several events there over the years, including
God, Martin Amis. I saw Salman Rushdie there. Wow. But I went to one actually with Matthew
Weiner with my dad. Wow. He had written his first novel, Heather the Totally was the name of this
novel back in 2017. And I remember this very specifically because the day before, this is
right in the midst of the Me Too hardcore movement where a lot of people were being outed for bad behavior.
The day before, Matthew Weiner had, I think it was in Variety or Hollywood Reporter, a writer for Mad Men named, what's her name?
Kater Gordon, no relation to me, accused Weiner of making comments at the office one night
to the effect of that she owed it to him
to see her naked.
Weiner did not
comment on that.
I don't think anything
ever came of that, but I do remember
that was the day before his appearance at the Toronto
Reference Library, and unlike
every single other Q&A
I saw there, where there was like Salman Rushdie or Martin Amis
or Daniel Klaus or other people I saw there,
they did not do an open Q&A after.
Which I thought was very interesting.
Me and my dad were sort of wondering,
is like, are people going to ask him about this?
But they didn't.
They didn't even try.
Now, Stu, which fun fact did you like better,
that one or the Alan Cross one?
Can you wake me up when September ends?
Jesus, guys.
But this is good.
We love that, man.
Okay.
I like it because, you know, we're learning.
Yeah, sure, Cam hasn't seen The Godfather, okay, or maybe he has, but I don't, you know.
I have seen The Godfather.
Okay.
But, you know, he's a cultured guy.
He's going to the reference library to hear Salman Rushdie talk.
Yeah, authors.
That's kind of cool.
Yeah.
I also saw Conrad Black there, if you can believe it.
Oh, I saw him at a Leafs game once.
Oh, I got to do a quick...
It was a scoundrel.
I was at the Ontario Science Centre with the two little ones maybe four years ago.
And the guy who played Pete, Vincent Kartheiser, I think is his name,
was there with his wife who was in town filming the show with Peggy Olsen, Handmaid's Tale.
Really?
Yeah.
Who's his wife?
And they're married.
She's from Gilmore Girls.
She played Rory in Gilmore Girls.
And now she has a starring role in The Handmaid's Tale.
And it's, yes, I'm going to have to Google her.
I actually saw Pete recently in the, I don't know what the show was called.
It was like a Netflix, like social, The Social Dilemma. Was that the name of it? Yes, yes. I saw him in that. I don't know what the show was called. It was like a Netflix The Social Dilemma.
Was that the name of it?
Yes, I saw him in that.
With the weird cut-ins. He was sort of the mad scientist
behind the console. It seemed a bit unnecessary,
those scenes.
I also saw a few of my
former colleagues showed up in that.
I was surprised to see him in that.
Rory Gilmore is portrayed...
The woman I saw was Alexis Bledel
I think is how you say it
but she's a big deal
herself
any relation to Dean Bledel
no
turn in the bass
that's Stafford
oh that's Stafford
keep your
keep them straight
that's right
okay great pick there Cam
are you ready Stu
yeah remember last week
when Cam scared the shit
out of you
when he played
the Doctor Who theme
yes I do
very much
and I know we talked about
someone agreed with me on Twitter, by the way.
It's a scary tune.
We also have, I think, talked about the very scary TV Ontario Read All About It song.
Read All About It.
Which is very scary.
Terror.
But I want to suggest that this song, you made me think, oh, well, the Doctor Who song is scary.
But this might be scarier than the Doctor Who song,
the one that I'm going to submit to you right now.
Magic Shadows.
Yeah, it's got that Halloween thing going there.
That's a Halloween style.
Yeah. Is this Unsolved Mysteries?
It is.
Love it.
I never watched it, so I can play the role of Cam.
Oh, I've seen it.
The bridge is coming.
The bridge is coming to the song.
It's a classic song here.
Ready for the breakdown? breakdown it's coming
Kim
you know
I want to
talk over this
so bad
one two
three four
oh
I could totally see this like
Martin Street talking
like this is like Sisters of Mercy
like a B-side or something
that's a Phoenix on a Friday night
in the background
Unsolved Mysteries
what do you know
alright guys
this fucking jam right here
the scariest jam of them all Unsolved Mysteries What do you know? All right, guys. Locked and cranked. This fucking jam right here. Wow.
The scariest jam of them all.
Unsolved Mysteries.
Wow.
Good pick.
Television show hosted by the one and only Robert Stack.
From Airplane?
Boo.
Robert Stack, the man, the myth, the legend.
Sort of the Alex Trebek of mystery shows.
Dry Ice.
I thought that was Peter Graves.
Calm and Cool.
Robert Stack.
This show has been on television in some way, shape,
or form for 30 years plus.
Like non-stop?
A couple of breaks in between.
Started on NBC.
Then moved to CBS. then moved to Lifetime, then moved to Spike TV.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Now it finds itself back with a brand new series on Netflix.
A whole new Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix.
I've seen like two episodes.
And this is the Netflix version of the song.
Oh.
It's a lot more...
Pretty cool though.
I should have brought this for spooky dreams.
Yeah.
This is sick.
Of course, if you ever wanted to learn about UFOs, Bigfoot,
murders, arsons, miracles, updates.
Remember the updates?
Yes.
Campy acting, because the reenactment actors on Unsolved Mysteries
are among the worst, best actors imaginable.
And are you prepared to have your mind blown?
Yes.
Is there another mind blow?
No. Okay. It's a fun fact. Is there another mind blow? No.
Okay.
It's a fun fact.
That's a mind blow.
Sorry, I thought I had something else to say.
A mind blowing fun fact.
Okay.
I was going to say, I feel like there's a lot of spontaneous combustion.
A very famous actor made one of his very early television appearances appearing as a reenactment
actor.
Can you give us a clue?
I can give you a clue.
Let me think.
All right.
All right. Chris Evans. All me think. Alright. Chris Evans.
Dustin Diamond.
Alright.
Alright.
Alright.
Matthew McConaughey.
So this is before
Dazed and Confused. Matthew McConaughey
was a reenactment actor
on Unsolved Mysteries.
That's what I like about high school girls.
The older I get, every year I get older, they stay the same age.
Yeah, that's it.
Have you seen Days Unconfused?
Yes, yes I have.
Great soundtrack.
Unsolved Mysteries, I loved it.
And the updates were great.
Update.
You always get so scared to see the updates too.
Like scary updates.
I'm just glad that-
I'll just remind you of past scary stuff you saw.
I'm glad when Stu kicks out a theme song,
it's from a show he watched and enjoyed,
unlike Cam Gordon.
But I do picture Cam hearing that song
and just knowing him as a youngster.
I picture him running and hiding under the dance.
Okay, do you want to know the irony?
I never saw Cheers.
I watched Friendly Giant.
I watched Unknown... I was. I watched Unknown Pleasures.
Shout out to Joy Division.
Unsolved Mysteries.
I watched, what was the other show?
Growing Pains.
I watched that and did not watch Cheers.
So everything but the first one you did.
I did watch Mad Men.
And you watched Mad Men.
Okay, great.
Four for five.
Stu, do you want to say anything before I kick out your second jam?
That was my jam.
You just played it, Unsolved Mysteries.
Now it's your turn, you son of a bitch.
Oh, I see.
You have so many mind blows that they're all over the place.
It's like, okay, you're right.
It's my turn.
Okay.
Let's see if Cam has seen this great show.
Oh. Down in Fraggle Rock. Work your ears away. Dancing's more rock than anything.
Let the Fraggles play.
We're go-voguing like a bird.
Fraggle Rock.
Jim Henson Productions.
Muppet Show spin-off.
You know, the Muppet Show was filmed in the UK.
This happened right here in Toronto, Fraggle Rock.
That's true.
Yep.
In fact, let's hear a little bit of Jim Henson talking about this great city of ours, Toronto.
The Muppet Show has been taped in England for the past five years,
and so I asked Jim why this show would be done in Toronto. The Muppet Show has been taped in England for the past five years, and so I asked Jim why
this show would be done in Toronto. Well, we've had just real nice relationships in our past
specials that we've done here, and when we first came up with this show and thinking about it and
where would we like to do it, when we came up with the idea of doing it in Canada, we all just
loved it. It seems right for the program.
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog.
The announcement of the new show was made by Henson and Jack Crane,
the CBC's Director of Programming.
Is this Linda from?
Crane explained that the project would showcase Canadian talent
as well as using Canadian crews and technicians.
We think that over half of the creative element will be Canadian.
Okay, so on that note as they
tell us it's being filmed here with canadians a lot of music on fraggle rock including that
theme song and a couple of canadians behind the jams philip balsam who i had not heard of
and dennis lee do you guys know who dennis lee is was he in like Crowbar? No, he's a poet.
That was a key part of my youth because he wrote these two books, which I owned.
One was called Alligator Pie, like an anthology.
Yeah.
And Garbage Delight.
These are two anthologies of poetry.
He wrote poems for kids.
Alligator Pie was like, must read.
Alligator Pie. Is that like Freckle Juice?
It was a big fucking deal.
Bigger than that.
I mean, this was a big deal.
Chocolate fever?
So, Fraggle Rock, filmed in Toronto.
Bruno and Boots?
At the CBC.
Gordon Corman.
Jacob Tutu meets the Hooded Fang?
Whatever happened to McDonald Hall?
And then, yeah.
Gordon Corman.
Yeah, Gordon Corman.
Amelia Bedelia?
Gordon Corman was a big deal, too.
Went to Thornley.
Went to German Hospital.
We talked about this.
The Paperbag Princess
He wrote like a smut novel
He did young adult stuff
And then he did whatever
I think he wanted to be like Shel Silverstein
Where are the sidewalk ins?
My name is Sue
How do you do?
Are you there God? It's me Margaret
You know who's still alive as of this moment?
Judy Blume
I think she's like 105 years old
Why don't you get her
On the show
Bring her in the backyard
Yeah
She's an older woman
I gotta work on that
But Fraggle Rock
1983 to 87
So right in my wheelhouse there
At CBC Studios
And on location
Around the GTA
So Mike
That clip you just played
What was that
What were you listening to
That seems like
That must have been
A CBC news report It been a CBC news report.
It was a CBC news report.
That was like an MF of 85.
It was MF.
She was only four years old, but she put together a nice report.
Is Fraggle Rock, is it considered CanCon?
Is this like Canadian content?
Those songs are all written by Canadians.
Canadians are doing all the stuff,
but obviously it's a Jim Henson production.
I want to confess something.
You've never seen Frank O'Rourke.
Of course I have.
At one point in my life,
You auditioned to be Gomer.
Jim Henson was my absolute hero.
I thought he was the best.
I still think he's the best.
I loved Mel Blanc, and I loved Jim Henson.
And Henson, of course, you know, growing up on Sesame Street
and growing up on Muppet Babies and The Muppet Show.
To a lesser extent, The Fraggles.
Yeah, but that was the big, you're right, that was the big three.
You had Sesame Street, you had The Muppet Show.
And, of course, McDonald's had the Fraggle Rock toys one year
instead of The Muppet Babies.
Wow.
I remember those.
Well, hold on to that nugget. It might come in useful soon, okay? Is Muppet Babies. Wow. Hold on to that nugget.
It might come in useful soon.
Is Muppet Babies coming?
Ixnay on the ombre!
Ixnay on the ombre.
I can do the whole thing.
No need.
If you ever saw the footage of
the funeral for
Jim Henson and
Big Bird. Is this a Ridley Funeral Home segue?
Big Bird was saying,
sing a song for Jim.
Good.
I mean,
it's very good to find this footage of the Jim Henson funeral.
Who also just died this last year too.
Carol Spinney.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Mike,
you're a bit older than us.
Were you scared of Fry Girls?
I always found it a bit scary.
The garbage heap made me.
Garbage heap,
they lived in a cave.
Because I'm older, I wasn't scared.
In fact, by the time that show wraps up,
I'm pre-teen or something.
Two things I remember.
One, they were sort of the droids.
Yeah, the worker guys.
Which would also be their food.
Yeah, they ate those tubes.
Yeah, that was their food, which was, like, fucking bizarre.
Well, every show opened with the old guy
and the dog and, like, a letter.
Yeah, like, the dog I found a bit scary.
I will say this.
Whenever they got outside
and they encountered the trash heap,
that trash heap was a bit scary, you know?
That guy's a talking trash heap.
Now, Boober Fraggle.
Kind of looked like Andy Cap. That guy's a talking trash heap. Now, Boober Fraggle. The cow looked like Andy Capp.
Goober.
Not Uber.
Gobo.
There was one that was really into laundry,
like had a laundry fetish.
Who doesn't?
I don't know.
Am I matching this?
It's funny.
People of a certain age have these strange Fraggle look.
You know, Mr. Cooper moved into the Growing Pains house.
Moved into the cave.
Mr. Hooper, another product of the Jim Henson enterprise.
May Mr. Hooper rest in peace.
Of course, Cam, you know Dog City?
Yes.
That was Howie Mandel?
No.
What was that?
Oh, no, it was Bobby's World.
He was a little baby.
Dog City.
That was the dog cartoon in Half Puppets, Half Cartoons.
You were in it.
Yes, that's right.
Just making sure.
Stew Stone.
Jim Hansen Productions.
Just making sure.
It's a gig.
Paycheck.
I think a lot of listeners
will be very happy
to hear that Cam Gordon's
kicking out this particular theme song.
This is a popular one.
We're like on fire tonight.
Wait till next week
when we get it right.
Some feel-good tunes.
Do you have any preface,
any statements you want to make? No, I don't. Okay, let's
kick out Cam Gordon's third
TV theme song, Jam.
Well, we're moving on up
We're moving on up
To the east side
We're moving on up
To a deluxe apartment
in the sky
We're moving on up
We're moving on up
To the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie
Fish don't fry in the kitchen
Beans don't burn on the grill
Took a whole lot of trying
Just to get up that hill
Now we're up in the big leagues
Getting our turn at best
As long as we live
It's you and me, baby
Ain't nothing wrong with that
We're moving on up
To the east side
To a deal of apartment
In the sky
We're moving on the road to
the east side
We've got a
piece of the
pie
That's a jam right there.
So that's moving on up.
He's redeeming himself this week.
Until you find out he's never seen the show.
I've actually watched it.
It's of course the show that I have seen
is the song that this themed
it was the Jeffersons
great Norman Lear production
spin off of All in the Family
absolutely
great iconic theme song
sung by Jeanette Dubois
is that who sang that?
any relation to Patty Dubois?
I don't know who that is.
Do you know the Dubois sisters?
Do not.
Aren't they Marge Simpson's sisters, the Dubois?
They are.
Yeah.
No, Bouvier.
Bouvier.
Because it's after JFK, after Jackie O.
Who am I thinking of?
Jackie O is me.
Anyway, no relation.
Dubois.
Dubois.
Oh, you're saying a Blanche Dubois.
Blanche Dubois.
From Streetcar Named Marge.
From Streetcar Named Marge.
Blanche Dubois.
Stella! Yes, thank you. Can't you hearamed Marge. From Streetcar Named Marge. Blanche Dubois. Stella!
Yes, thank you.
Can't you hear me yell?
You're putting me through hell, Stella.
Stella!
No.
See?
Nothing.
I opened with some Alex Trebek on Simpsons,
and that Streetcar Named Marge with the Apu performance,
that is one of the classic Simpsons shows.
Okay, continue.
Probably Age Well. No, nothing with Apuu performance. That is one of the classic Simpsons shows. Okay, continue. Probably some age well.
No, any nothing with Apu age as well.
Anyway, I'll say no relation,
but yeah, some relations to Jimmy Walker.
Dino Mike!
Because Jeanette Dubois, who you heard sing that song,
was a regular on Good Times.
Yes, Dino Mike.
Yeah, and she was also, once the MTV age started,
she also made the transition.
Was seen in a very famous
music video at the time, mid-80s.
She played Janet Jackson's
mom in the video for Control.
Oh!
There's a fun fact. There's a little
mind-blow for you. It's pretty fun. It's Jackson.
Now, that song, the main song you heard was Dubois
with a gospel choir.
There was also a cover version that appeared.
Did not chart, but Sammy Davis Jr.
And you didn't send this to me.
Did not send it to me.
I probably should have.
Sorry, sung by Janet Dubois,
but that song was actually written by a guy named Jeff Barry.
Here's the FOTM connection here.
Is it Andy Kim?
Yes. So Jeff Barry wrote, say thank you. Should I go on or do you want to take it? Well, it was a guess. I didn't know. No, kidding aside, that's a great
guess. Cause yes, Jed, the same Jeff Barry wrote such 60s hits as Do Wah Diddy, sampled in a song.
I think it was like Dirty Jams Did You Run Run
by I forget
if that was like
just Shirelles
or whoever that was
Somebody told me
that his name was
Did You Run Run
Yeah a couple songs
by the Ronettes here
Then He Kissed Me
and Be My Baby
These are big songs
Great 60s songs
And the Wall of Sound
These have Phil Speckers
Yeah these are Phil Speckers
Great 50s and 60s songs
Chapel of Love
and Sugar Sugar
by the Archies.
Fronted by FOTM.
Andy Kim. The great Canadian
Andy Kim. Wow. So the
Jeffersons was very famous. Had a lot
of guest stars. Last week we talked about
WKRP in Cincinnati. Had the
late great Sparky Anderson on.
Jeffersons had some sporting
talent too. Mr. October.
Reggie Jackson was on it.
Who had a problematic tweet yesterday.
Reggie Jackson?
What was it?
It just sexualized a young woman.
Not too young, but it just wasn't a classy tweet.
Reggie, stay classy, Reggie.
It's November now.
Just focus on those Reggie bars.
Joe Frazier.
Smoking Joe Frazier.
Made an appearance.
I remember a big, big part of my youth,
Edie McClurg.
Oh, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Ferris Bueller's, yeah.
He's a righteous dude.
And on WKRP, she was married to Herb Tarlick.
Was she really?
Yes, that was Herb Tarlick's wife on WKRP.
I feel like she was the next door neighbor
in the Hogan family too.
Oh, she made the rounds in the 80s.
She was everywhere. And I remember feeling very sorry for her because Herb was very public about his affection I feel like she was the next door neighbor in the Hogan family too. Oh, maybe she made the rounds in the 80s.
She was everywhere.
And I remember feeling very sorry for her because Herb was very public about his affection for Jennifer Marlowe.
But Herb was married.
Meanwhile.
Meanwhile.
Like this was,
you know,
Mad Men.
Well,
do you remember who had an album or no,
a single called the Tarlicks?
FOTM here.
I don't know,
but there was Aaron Davis and Don Daynard ads for CHFI where Herb Tarlick was in
them. That's right.
There's your connection. Anyway late period
right before they broke up for the first time
single by the Rea Statics called the
Tarlicks. Wow. Do you remember that?
Davidini. Don't remember. Anyway three more
people who showed up on the show. Charo
Oh yeah from Love Boat
Yeah Hollywood Squares
Sure. Gary Coleman Oh yeah. He also had a great memorable Picharro. Oh, yeah, from Love Boat. Yeah, Hollywood Squares. Sure, sure.
Gary Coleman.
Oh, yeah.
He also had a great memorable Simpsons cameo.
Yeah, and here's a mind blow.
Final Seasons of the Jefferson.
Uncredited cameo from Donald J. Trump.
I'm glad I'm sitting down for this.
That is true.
So Trump makes an uncredited cameo.
Is he evicting him from the place?
Well, he made an uncredited cameo. Oh, yeah, he doesn't like people of color. That is true. So Trump makes an uncredited cameo. Is he evicting him from the place? Well, he made an uncredited
cameo. Oh yeah, he doesn't like people of color in his
apartment complex. Well, this is not
a card. This is actually in
Atlantic City. I think it's more than a card. Trump made an
uncredited cameo in an episode in which George
Jefferson and their maid, Florence,
go to Atlantic City.
Oh yeah, he bankrupted those casinos.
How about when... Also, WrestleMania
4? How about about Sherman Helmsley
appeared in a movie with Hulk Hogan
was it Mr. Nanny
one of them
of course he was in the show
Amen
that was a good show
227
was the show that gave us
future Oscar winner
was in 227
an actress
whose name will come to me in a minute.
She's such a big deal.
Yeah, she's a big fucking deal. She just won
Best Supporting Actress, and I don't know why her name's not
on top of mine.
But I'm going to find out the
227 actress, the young 227
actress who has won an Oscar.
Alright, do that. You guys say something.
Something. Anyway, the Jeffersons, Donald J. Trump.
The Jefferson Starships.
Jeffersons?
That's right.
Jefferson Airplane.
Jefferson Airplane.
Regina King, of course, is her name.
Oh.
She was in 227.
Very good.
And Jack A.
Jack A.
I love Jack A.
Still do.
She's cool.
Let's not lie to her.
Good Twitter follow.
Sexy.
Is it my turn?
It's your turn. I love that choice there, Cam. Thank you. I it my turn? It's your turn.
I love that choice there, Cam.
Thank you.
I want to give you some props for that.
As far as I'm concerned, you're three for three today.
Cam was listing off a laundry list of really great 50s and 60s songs in his last little anecdote there.
I figured maybe I would play a classic TV theme from the 50s and 60s since they weren't really represented.
Now, I could have picked the Flintstones.
Stewstone with a cold open.
Flintstones should have
been picked
because that's a great song.
We're not done yet.
How do you know
it's not coming?
I'm guessing it's not coming.
Fine.
But you know
a lot of great shows.
Happy Days is not the 60s
but it took place
in the 60s.
No it's the 70s.
But it took place
in the 60s.
It takes place in the 50s.
You know MASH
takes place in the 70s.
I don't know what I'm getting at here. No it took place in the 50s. Okay good. MASH takes place in the 70s. I don't know what I'm getting at here.
No, it took place in the 50s.
Okay, good.
But it's from the 70s.
My point is, I've got a show.
Suicide is painless.
I've got a show for you.
Here we go.
You recognize this at all guys
is this the honeymoon
don't say it if you're looking at the title Mike
this is for Cam then
there's a point to this Mike
what a classic show
my two dads it's the classic show. My two dads.
It's the classic show right here.
It's the classic tune.
All right, let's talk about this, okay?
Cam has no idea what that is.
You can turn it off for a second here, Mike.
You can kill it.
I feel like we're getting worked.
You are, a little bit.
This shows you the importance, Mike and Cam,
of a good TV theme.
Because that song right there
was the original theme song
for a show that would have
gone away had they not made the decision
that that song was not memorable
and quite shit.
They flipped it up and went with a different theme and the show took
off as a result of having such a memorable theme. Cam, you may have
not recognized the original, but this is what they went with in the end.
Big
difference. Big fucking difference.
You know this song?
I mean, I...
It's I Dream of Jeannie.
It is.
I Dream of Jeannie, ladies and gentlemen.
Barbara Eden, 2,000-year-old Jeannie.
Larry Hagman, Dallas.
Shout out to Dallas, one of the greatest themes of all television.
J.R. Ewing.
Let's just say J.R. Smith.
Larry Hagman plays an astronaut who becomes the master of a sultry genie by the name of Genie.
Who never showed her belly button.
Barbara Eden as Genie.
That's true.
Maybe that was too sexual or too risque.
Of course, the original song was a piece of shit, so they switched it up.
It was a piece of shit.
It's in Larry Hagman's words.
Really, really exciting stuff.
You know, the show was on...
You know, Gilligan's Island is another show
that had a pretty good theme song.
Remember, we're doing a part three.
Gilligan's Island is another example of a show
that had a shit theme song, and they switched it up
to the Gilligan's song that we know.
Maybe you should save this for part three.
Well, I Dream of Jeannie
is a perfect example of a show that was rescued by a good theme,
memorable theme song.
Now, I'm going to blow your mind here, Cam.
Okay.
You know, Weird Al was dominating the charts with parody songs, right?
Sure.
But there was somebody who infringed on his lane back in 1990 when this song, a parody song, took hold of some radio airplay.
See if you remember this one. Is this Tom Steiner?
Yes.
I am sitting on the sofa.
There's a TV in the corner.
I am watching Major Nelson.
He is played by Larry Hagman.
Genie!
And he found a little bottle.
Okay.
This was a I Dream of Genie
Tom Steiner parody
that was played.
I had the cassette single for it.
There was a music video
that got a lot of airplay.
Who's he?
I've never heard this.
I've never heard of you.
Mark Jonathan Davis.
From Korn.
Yes.
So, yeah,
not that exciting here. And he's a pitcher, right? Mark Dillia won the Cyan Wars. Yes. So, yeah, not that exciting here.
And he's a pitcher, right?
Mark Dillier won the Cy Young Award.
But I will tell you, that may not be the most memorable use of I Dream of Jeannie.
But maybe this will make up for that.
Big mind blows today Stu's not fucking around
First single
For Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Of course.
Most people think it's Parents Just Don't Understand.
They would be surprised to know it's actually Girls of the World Ain't Nothing But Trouble.
Wow.
And then Jazzy Jeff worked on Deep, Deep Trouble, the Simpsons song.
Did he?
Okay.
Yeah.
Really?
You know this song, Kim?
Yes.
Yes, definitely.
Wow. There, definitely. Wow.
There you go.
And this young man, Will Smith, did anything become of him?
Well, he ended up having a kid named Jaden Smith who was played recently in our Offspring episode.
Oh, and my daughter Michelle.
Who's Michelle?
Michelle.
She's inside right now.
I'll bring her out to tell you about the day she met Will and Jaden Smith.
Wow.
Did she have a seat at the red table and hash it out?
Yeah.
I'll give her a mic.
There's the red table right there.
I'm talking about the show.
Jada Pinkett has that show, The Red Table.
I thought you were talking about The Red Table.
Yeah, yeah.
You know when Will Smith, the entanglement and all that,
that all happened on that show, The Red Table.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Kirkland version over there.
Great.
Mind blows today, Stuart. Okay, let me gently fade out over there. Uh, great. Mind blows today,
Stuart.
Okay.
Let me gently fade out of there.
That's fantastic.
Okay.
So gently we go.
I'm kind of can con heavy today,
which is,
uh,
I like to be you guys ready.
Yeah.
Oh,
didn't we talk about this last week?
Great song though.
Possibly.
We didn't play it though.
It's a good one.
I'd like to see them do this live.
Seems like it would tear the house down.
I saw it on New Year's Eve.
Yeah, tell us again.
This is a good time for you to share that story again.
Yeah, someone suggested this.
This is, of course, the theme to the kids in the hall shadowy men on a shadowy place toronto's own having an average
weekend um yeah i actually saw them it was the last time i guess i spent new year's eve in public
um shadowy men or what's left of them open for the sadies i like the sadies yeah they opened at
the horseshoe tavern uh dallas good uh from the sadies
he's guesting in for the three-piece one of the members of shadowy men died reed diamond men many
years ago um yeah and i i tweeted i actually tweeted out a video of them playing the song
at the horseshoe tavern on new year's eve about just over two years ago. And it is fucking great. It sounds exactly like this.
Very musical.
They formed in 84.
They won a junior award.
Who is it that plays the song?
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet.
And there's a fun story I was reading
about how people were kind of
putting them in the surf rock bucket.
Surf rock.
And they were adamant
that they were not surf rock.
And I think they recorded a
song called we're not fucking surf rock or something like that i kind of like have this
memory of like the first time i was ever exposed to like humor that was done tastefully in like
involving sexuality and stuff like that was all like from this show am i crazy to think that like
they opened up my eyes to like that's about about right. Sort of an introduction to, you know,
uh,
you know,
heterosexuality is not the only thing going on.
Well,
I won't,
uh,
I won't,
I won't quote it.
Kids in the hall,
right?
Kids in the hall.
Uh,
but I distinctly,
I still remember a hilarious skit called the running F word.
It was called the running F word.
F word being,
uh,
the homophobic slur.
But this was Scottpson who is a proud
gay man who was playing this character anyway it's just some of the stuff that uh you'd see
i love the show i watched it it was a buddy cole buddy cole yeah and i i never yeah but you're
right the french canadian you're thinking of the the yeah there's that whole universe with buddy Cole the French Canadian I can see the guy from news
radio hold on Dave Foley playing a
character anyway just the whole the
whole show I found it hilarious and very
cutting-edge and risque and I would tune
in every week and I just loved I just
like I think like what I meant was when
when I grew up you know you saw Saturday
Night Live and some of these other shows
homosexuality specifically was often the punchline of the joke.
And I feel like on Kids in the Hall, it was the opposite.
The joke was they were the one delivering the joke, not the punchline of the joke.
I think you're right.
I thought that was the first time I kind of was like, oh, that's great.
And I would be very subversive.
Progressive.
Yes, very progressive show and hilarious.
I'm going to discard for that because... Progressive.
Yes, very progressive show and hilarious.
And of course, the Kitson Hall starred in a video featuring an FOTM,
which is the odds that are featuring...
Who is it? Craig Northey.
Yes, from the odds.
And a member of the Kitson Hall is an FOTM.
That's right. Kevin McDonald's been back here.
Kevin McDonald's been in the basement, actually.
Very good. He's great. Pre-p been back here. Kevin McDonald's been in the basement, actually. Very good.
He's great.
Pre-pandemic times.
Good choice.
Yeah.
So thank you, Kids in the Hall, because it really had a lot to do with, you know, I talk
a lot about the Simpsons.
Cam saw Brain Candy in the theater.
I love Brain Candy.
I think I did.
And he had a poster.
No, I love Brain Candy.
College dorm.
I thought it was really underappreciated.
Yeah.
And the soundtrack I thought was interesting because it had both tragically hip, odds,
and shadowy men, but
also had pavement,
Yola Tango, a lot of the Matador, Liz
Fair was on there, so it was sort of like, you know,
these worlds colliding. Big brain candy guy.
But you take kids in the hall, you throw in a little
like a little David Letterman, some
Simpsons, and now you're kind
of shaping the sense of humor that
I enjoyed.
Okay, we alluded to this earlier. This is Cam Gordon's
fourth jam.
There it is.
We have a lunch bag lockdown
after Fraggle Rock.
That's okay.
When your world looks kind of weird
You wish that you were there
Just close your eyes
Don't make believe
And you can be anywhere
I like adventure
I like romance
I tell great jokes
I'm all done
I've got my computer
I've got blue hair
I'm Mr. P.O.
And I got blue hair
Ha! P.O. You're my P.O. P.O. P.O blue hair Is everything alright in there?
Yes, Nani
I've barely seen every episode of Muppet Bigger
And that's June Cleaver, right?
The mom?
Is June Cleaver?
Bonus fun fact, I did not know that yeah um just some bonus comments
before we get underway here from cambrio please bewitched once a year i assume that's he's very
demanding well he got i dream of genie yeah which is yeah good enough there's also the british uh
girl band bewitched do you remember them i assume he means the tv show oh it's like the letter b and
then correct yeah uh He also wants your
Gunsmoke and Rawhide. How old does he
think we are? Well, how old is he?
Cambrio is
80 years old. He is a man
who is very cultured. He knows
pop culture since the beginning
of pop culture. Big Lorne Green guy.
He also said
Heart Pomerantz guy.
And Craig Northey did the Corner Gas the corner gas oh yes that's true
and we discussed that when he was on toronto very good um so anyway enough about uh rawhide let's
talk muppet babies we're here in the backyard it's november there's a pandemic and here's three
grown men sitting around talking about muppet babies um so this So this show had a good run. 1984 to 1981 on CBS.
I finally do this every once in a while.
They brought it back too.
We'll get to that in a second.
This guy is like...
Scoop Scoop McGee.
Yeah.
So you guys are big Muppet Baby fans.
I was.
I felt too old for it.
Still am.
That's fine. Although now I watch Teen Titans. I felt too old for it. Still am. Well. That's fine.
Although now I watch Teen Titans.
I don't think it holds up.
I don't.
It's probably not good.
But then it was good.
Did you know.
And the toys.
The McDonald toys were great.
Oh yeah.
I heard about those.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
But did you know Stuart Stone.
That the mom on Muppet Babies.
Of course.
Yes.
June Cleaver.
Come on.
Is this known?
This was not.
I think it was well known.
Everybody fucking knows that.
The voice is exactly like. Exactly June Cleaver. Come on known? Yeah, I think it was well-known. The voice is exactly
like exactly June Cleaver.
Barbara Ballingsley,
who also had a great cameo
in Airplane,
which I mentioned earlier
because Robert Stack
was in that movie.
Okay.
Here's the word-for-word description
of Muppet Babies
from Wikipedia.
Okay?
You guys ready for this?
I feel like we need some like...
I was born ready.
You want some music?
What do I got here?
Give me like Summer of 42, like some melancholy. No. Why ready. You want some music? What do I got here? Give me like Summer
of 42, like some melancholy. No.
Why don't you just play the Muppet Babies theme? No, that would be too
distracting. So the show portrays
childhood versions of the Muppets
living together in a nursery under the care
of a human woman.
Yeah, Nanny.
Shut the fuck up.
What, is that a mind blow?
I'm trying to do this for like dramatic effect.
I'm going to cut your mic.
Now go ahead.
The moment's gone.
Fake news.
Roll me a cookie.
Come on.
Fake news.
Take your fucking cookies.
I've eaten half the tray.
Look at this.
You sure have.
Throw me a chocolate while he talks.
Yeah.
Identified only as nanny.
Okay.
Nanny.
Barbara Blink.
Yes, nanny. Okay. Never mind. Let him finish. Never mind.anny. Barbara Blink. Yes, Nanny.
Okay.
Never mind.
Let him finish.
No, please.
He's reading Wikipedia.
You guys have ruined it.
Quiet, please, Stu.
Anyway.
We'll just park that.
I'm not going to fucking continue
until you finish reading this fucking Wikipedia page.
I'm not staring the camera.
Okay, go ahead.
The show portrayed childhood versions of the Muppets
living together in a nursery
under the care of a human woman identified only as nanny in brackets the whereabouts of the
parents is never addressed who appeared in almost every episode but her face was never visible no
legs only stockings shut the fuck up only the baby's view of her pink skirt. Stockings.
Purple sweater.
Green stockings?
Mike's having a moment over there. Green and white stockings?
Distinctive green and white striped socks is shown.
Nanny.
Yes.
Whereabouts of the parents?
Not addressed.
Oh, that's interesting.
I never thought of that.
They just live at the nanny's house.
Yeah.
Also, it's a talking frog and a talking pig.
Right.
Whatever Gonzo is.
The idea of presenting...
Stand by me.
The idea of presenting the Muppets as children
first appeared in a dream sequence
in The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Oh, that's right. Yes. Released two months before Muppet Babies first appeared in a dream sequence in The Muppets Take Manhattan. Oh, that's right.
Yes.
Released two months before Muppet Babies debuted in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog had grown up together.
The Babies imaginary games transitioned from the nursery into scenes that became real to
the babies.
Often like a lot of pirate.
Monster clips. Yeah, like a lot of pirates and like monsters and stuff. In the babies. Often like a lot of pirate monster clips. Yeah, like a lot of pirates
and monsters and stuff.
In the closet.
They'd open up the closet and there would be
clips playing. That's right.
It's like, oh.
I never really thought of this, but this is very true.
It's noted,
Muppet Babies is noted for starting
a trend of relaunching popular
cartoon characters as younger versions of themselves.
Yeah.
This trend can be seen on numerous, I'm going to say this.
A pup named Scooby-Doo?
This guy's killing me, Mike.
Like, you got to cut this guy's mic.
A pup named Scooby-Fucking-Doo.
I can't believe, the Archies had like a little baby Archies?
No. That's not on my list
actually so you can just type down.
Flintstone Kids. Flintstone
Kids. Yeah. Baby Felix.
I don't know. Is that like Baby Felix? Sure.
Yeah. Tiny Toons Adventure.
The Tiny Toons. Yeah. Tom
and Jerry Kids. Tom and Jerry Kids.
Get out of town. About young
Tom Cheek and Jerry Howard.
And something I don't remember, Jungle Cubs, which sounds...
Problematic.
I was going to say like a pornographic film, perhaps.
But it's like the Jungle Book, but like, I guess, kids.
I thought that was Tailspin.
Oh, or Kissy Fur?
Kissy Fur?
No.
Tiger King?
Tiger, anyway.
Sparky Anderson? Anyway, that song was written by Robert Walsh. He was a music conductor. Tiger King? Tiger. Anyway. Sparky Anderson?
Anyway, that song was written by Robert Walsh.
He was a music conductor.
Oh, Bob Walsh.
And directed the Warner Brothers animation beginning in 1979.
Always have to give a shout out to Smashing Pumpkins.
He actually worked directly with Fritz Freeling.
Oh, wow.
Remember that name you'd always see in the credits?
Of course.
Yes, of course.
At the start. This gentleman also worked on other programs such as G.eling. Oh, wow. Remember that name you'd always see in the credits? Of course. Yes, of course. At the start.
This gentleman also worked on other programs such as G.I. Joe,
A Real American Hero.
One of the best songs ever.
Transformers is great, too.
Transformers.
Save it for next week.
My Little Pony and Friends.
We're not doing TV shows for a third straight week.
I could be talked into it.
And this was a great theme song.
Jem.
Jem is truly outrageous.
Which version of Gem?
Because there's
Gem is truly outrageous.
Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Yeah, what other ones?
We are the misfits.
Our sounds are better.
We are the misfits.
It's all one, isn't it?
No, but then there was
me and my friends
are Gem girls.
I think that was
more for like the toys.
Gem is my name.
I don't know that one.
Anyway, I was going
to mention to We are the misfits. Our songs are better. We are the mis Anyway, I was going to mention
to...
I always thought it was
like Misfits we heard
like Where Angels Dare and stuff. We'd listen to
them. The Metallica version,
not that Misfits.
I was going to mention FOTM
Retro Interior actually has a commercial for
the Muppet Babies toys
at McDonald's.
They did it twice.
There's a Christmas plush toy as well.
This is all covered on the Wikipedia page.
And yes, this show was rebooted on the Disney Channel in 2018, March of that year.
Yeah, you're supposed to say, you're supposed to do it like this, Cam.
Muppet Babies, they had an ad for McDonald's.
McDonald's?
McDonald's presents.
Oh, I forgot I saved the link. Did someone say presents?
A present for me?
I once got a present.
A special delivery.
What are these fake Muppet voices?
Fun little Muppet babies.
Couldn't get the real guys.
It's like Santa likes.
McDonald's for 49 cents each plus tax.
Like 49 cents.
Like that's incredible.
There's Baby Kermit, Baby Miss Piggy, baby Fozzie Bear, and baby Gonzo.
Fun to race, fun to collect.
A different one each week.
They're going fast.
They're going fast.
That's no joke.
Wow.
Okay, serious.
Hi-ho, Kermit the E-Var.
That was a terrible Kermit, that guy.
This is a serious question for Sue Stone.
Yes.
In theory, if someone had, like, mint-conditioned Kermit in the original package.
I have that.
How much?
Okay.
We heard the commercial from, thank you, Retro Ontario, 49 cents.
I have it.
What would you say that would go for?
Three bucks.
Okay.
I was just curious if that was like a big collectible.
I have it still in the package.
I have all of them.
I have all of them. There's only four. And there's also the four pl collectible. I have it still in the package. I have all of them. Have you learned nothing? None of it's worth anything.
There's only four.
And there's also the four plushies.
I have those as well.
Wow.
Also in the package.
In the package.
I have a fun fact.
A fun fact.
The Fozzie the Bear, the voice of Fozzie the Bear is the same as the voice of Yoda.
That's my fun fact.
They're both Frank Oz.
Not on the cartoon though.
Well, I don't know anything about the cartoon, but I mean the real Fozzie.
That's not a mind blow.
No, I know. I'm just, for somebody out there, it's a mind blow. I don't think so about the cartoon, but I mean the real fuzz. That's not a mind blow. I know.
For somebody out there,
it's a mind blow.
Not everyone's as dialed in as you.
Can I do my Kermit the Frog impression?
Yes.
It was good.
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here.
That's good.
That's pretty good.
I think it's good.
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog.
Looks like John Tesh
sounds like Kermit the Frog.
I don't think that
that's a very good Kermit.
Anyway.
Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here for Sesame Street News.
Yeah.
Well, I think Kams is better.
Ho-gum.
That's pretty good, too.
Ho-gum.
Are you ready for Stu Stone's sports jam?
Well, Norman Lear was already mentioned.
Yeah, of course.
He's still with us.
He's still with us.
Jefferson's.
You know, he's still alive.
He's like 180 years old or something.
I heard him on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast.
He's still going.
Yep.
Active on Twitter.
Here's another great song from a Norman Lear show.
Funky! We are talking about
Sanford and Son
with the great Red Fox.
A show about a guy who owns a trash,
like a trash heap, I guess,
a trash dump.
Junkyard.
A junkyard.
And he's always,
every episode,
he's got some sort of a get-rich-quick scheme
that sort of flops in his face. Sort of like Three's Company, another great show.
It might have been from the Norman Lear family as well.
I don't think so.
Maybe not.
My point is, though, each week there's some sort of misunderstanding on Three's Company.
Each week on Samuelson, there's some sort of get-rich-quick scheme
on Samuelson. There's some sort of get-rich-quick scheme
that
him and Lamont,
his son Lamont,
is always trying to talk him out of doing.
Blows up in their face, of course.
Usually, you know,
fakes that he's having a heart attack.
Hilarity ensues.
Here comes the big one. I'm coming.
You know what I'm
talking about? Are you familiar know what I'm talking about?
Are you familiar with what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
Yes. And he, on set for, I guess, whatever the show he made after this, on set, he died of a heart attack.
Red Fox did.
Like, while filming his next show, he had a heart attack and died.
Do you remember what the wife's name was?
Nobody?
I don't have a lot of Sanford and Son memories, actually.
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, yes.
Norman Lear, of course, all in the family.
Sanford and Son, the Jeffersons.
Maude.
Of course.
One day at a time.
Wow.
Nice run.
Schneider.
Schneider was about the belt, that belt, the utility belt.
Love it. What a memorable song
Would you be surprised to know
That the composer of this song
Is Quincy Jones
How about that?
That's a fun fact
How about that?
Yeah, I can see that
Quincy Jones
Mel Allen, yeah, that's a fun fact
The great Quincy Jones
You know what this song sounds like?
Who said it was a Henry Mancini baby elephant walk.
Yep.
And dancing Homer and other great Simpsons.
Now, Quincy's version of the song, the full version, is called The Street Beater.
Released by A&M Records on his 1973 album You've Got It Bad Girl.
This was a single
from that album.
Sorry, this song?
This song.
Okay.
Did reach number 294
on the chart.
Not bad.
They don't count that high,
do they?
Although Rolling Stone,
who Cam quoted earlier,
ranked this the ninth
best television program
It's funky as all hell.
Yeah, it's a good song.
It's a funky song.
Now, there was a gentleman named Harry James, who is before our time, but a big band leader.
Back in the heyday of big band, he took a real liking, and when he sort of dusted off his trumpet to come back on the scene,
this was the song he chose to come back as a big band artist in the late 70s.
Which is kind of fun.
It's so like late 70s. It's like touring in the 70s.
Yes.
What a time to be alive.
Opening track.
Yeah.
Wow.
Hello.
Hello.
A lot of personality in these horns.
Think about Wailing Sax.
Woo.
Did you guys see like some Twitter exchanges today that the people that don't like the
sound of the saxophone, did you catch any of that with, yeah, a couple of FOTMs were kind of sharing that thought.
This was like in the DM thread?
No, this was public Twitter.
Robbie J was in there, and Jason Barr was in there.
Just the sax in general?
They hate the sound of the saxophone.
Now, back to this.
If you want to pull this one down.
Last song I played for you was sampled by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Now, this kind of blew my mind because I had no idea that this song even existed.
But check this out.
I want two beef patties, special sauce, onions, tomatoes, lettuce,
on a sesame seed bun.
On a sesame seed bun, you big dummy.
I want two beef patties with onions, special sauce, cheese, on a special sauce, sesame seed bun. With onions Special sauce Cheese
On a special sauce
Sesame seed bun
The big dummy
I rock the mic and make the crowd say ho
People if you ready to ride then let's go
The older the wine the more vintage
You familiar with this group?
Is this a fat point?
No I feel like I've heard this I didn't know about it but Are you familiar with this group? Is this a bad point? No.
I feel like I've heard this.
What I've heard?
I didn't know about it, but we can keep going until you guess.
Oh, shit.
Spank Rock?
No, I'm going to let another rapper come in. own cheap j strong 44 long stay today's bath and what's your name bone the abba had his head
reflecting off the chrome bank loan for a mil oprah hold me down like dr phil this is nap zap rap
point joint gas my gas point at you now you can't point back penetrating skulls i'm digging holes
like the mole it's like shit yeah okay that's rizza right there, Rapper. That's Wu-Tang Clan.
No.
Yes.
Yeah, that was ODB. ODB.
Master Killer, the RZA.
I had no idea that the Wu-Tang Clan
did a song with the Sanford and Son theme
until I researched this particular song for it.
Wow.
So Quincy Jones composed the song
and Wu-Tang Clan sampled it.
How about that?
When is this?
I have no idea.
I've never heard this.
I'm not sure about this.
But that's clearly RZA.
Who was the first?
The first rapper was Mastakilla.
Okay.
And that's ODB.
Sure.
Yeah.
Anyway.
There you go.
Wow.
Samford and Son
Have you guys ever seen
Red Fox do stand-up?
Very funny
Yeah
He's like
He can be like
Filthy as hell
Alright
That's the second
McDonald's ad we aired
In this episode
Of course you can get
Plush toys of Wu-Tang Clan
Right
Alright
I'm going
I'm gonna go
I'm gonna
Let's face it
I'm gonna keep my
Can-Con street going here.
Here's a jam.
Shout out to Good Times, by the way.
Yeah.
Here is a song that.
What a Toronto jam this is.
You ready?
Sure.
City Pulse News.
Isn't this like from Rocky?
Yeah.
But it's a different version.
It's Maynard Ferguson.
Canadian Maynard Ferguson recording the...
Is this Gord Martineau?
He was the main anchor for St. Paul's at Six.
Shout out to Gord!
We're not allowed to...
We don't want to spoil anything.
Spoil away!
Are you sure?
Gord, baby!
Gord fucking Martineau.
Yes.
F-O-T-M, Gord Martineau.
Star of Faking a Murderer. Star of Faking a Murderer! I wasn't sure? Gord, baby! Gord fucking Martineau. Yes. F-O-T-M, Gord Martineau. Star of Faking a Murderer.
Star of Faking a Murderer.
I wasn't sure that was public, but here it is.
Still waiting on a tweet from Kim.
Yeah.
Got played.
You know, and I work with people who are on City Pulse newscasts.
That's right.
Lauren Honigman, Peter Gross.
One of the greatest Toronto Mic'd episodes
in the history of the world
is the Ann Roszkowski episode.
Oh, totally.
I'd say that's a must listen
for anyone in media.
Sorry,
Maynard Ferguson's Canadian?
Are you sure?
Oh, maybe, maybe.
I just thought he was,
but maybe he's not.
I think so.
Hold on here.
I'm not sure about that.
You might be right.
Yeah, he's Canadian.
Okay. Whenever you doubt me, I doubt myself. You might be right. Yeah, he's Canadian. Okay.
Whenever you doubt me, I doubt myself.
Yeah, I know.
Because you have such integrity.
Thank you.
He's a Canadian jazz trumpeter and band leader.
Very cool.
I'm going to, let me see if I have any fun facts for everybody.
Well, the only fun fact, I have no fun facts here.
But the fun fact is that Gord Martineau is in Faking a Murderer.
And if anyone listening has not yet seen it on Hollywood Suite, not too late.
Then you will end up in Ridley Funeral Home.
Ridley Funeral Home.
We'll get you the Toronto Mike discount, but you'll be there.
That's for sure.
Yeah, this was my news source for many, many years.
I feel like you would not hear a song this upbeat
soundtracking a 6 o'clock news broadcast in the year 2020.
If you got a little space heater that could go on the floor
that just heats our feet, that would be good.
Let me work.
Look, if I'm lucky enough.
My feet are really cold.
Cam's lying if he says otherwise.
I'm actually totally fine, but maybe I have just a better line to your heater here.
Because I'm frigid.
Okay, look.
I'm flaccid.
Let me see what I can do.
Monica and I will come up with some solution here.
Because I will say this is my opportunity to say this.
Possibly.
Anything's possible. Here's the mind blow
for the FOTMs here.
What you were about to say.
Feels like a big reveal.
Does it include another heater?
I was wondering what you were going to reveal.
No, I will say
that this episode in person
I find
this just so much more fun and
full of energy. Of course, visceral.
I will do what it takes to keep these
in person because of how much more pleasurable it is.
It starts with a space heater on the ground.
You need to light a fire
under Stu's ass. I can get an extension cord.
It's right here on the
ground and just the heat will rise on us
under the table. Rise up, rise up.
Okay, I will put the wheels
in motion. Like one of these long space
heaters. Because I have a small one
right now. That's not going to cut it.
You take the small one and give us
that one. Okay, yeah, maybe that's the answer.
Get this nice and close to you guys. Could you get
like a cedar log delivery service?
That would be okay.
Ben Rayner wants to start a fire
back here anyway. Well, we didn't start the fire. I'm down for sponsor? Ben Rayner wants to start a fire back here anyway.
Well, we didn't start the fire.
I'm down for that.
Ben, do you want to have a fire with me?
Yeah.
That song ripped off R.E.M., right?
Because that's the same spirit as End of the World.
Yeah, almost like scatting.
I don't think Billy Joel is a rip-off artist.
Well, if you think about it, what does Michael Stipe do in It's the End of the World?
He starts Leonard Bernstein.
And what does Billy Joel do in We Didn't Start the Fire?
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire.
I don't know.
I think Ariana did it better.
Is that a good song?
Like We Didn't Start the Fire?
I don't like We Didn't Start the Fire.
I think it was a popular song for people to memorize the words to.
And if you're a boomer, maybe it brought back like some nostalgia or something, right?
Because we, you know, like Mad Men.
It's fun to hear about JFK and Marilyn Monroe.
It might be like the 90s version of it.
I'm going to let him big finish,
and then we're going to kick out a big jam from Cam.
And I have a preface before I
kick this out. You both
sent in this jam. By the way, last week
we also both had the same song,
and I gave it to Cam. This week
we both had the same song, and I gave it to Cam. Because, you know, if there's one thing that I do, and I gave it to Cam. This week we both have the same song and I gave it to Cam.
Because you know what?
There's one thing that I do.
That's give it to Cam.
Ay!
You know what?
We're going to share this.
Cam's going to kick out the jam
but Stu has the mind blow.
Oh.
You ready?
Ha ha ha ha! Oh, you run with this season.
Is this your number one?
Well, Ken, like, they're not ranked. Well, I mean, it's the last song you're playing. This is your number one? We're getting like, they're not ranked.
Bro, I mean, it's the last song you're playing.
This is your number one?
Yeah.
I'm not complaining.
It's a great fucking song.
Relax, bro.
You did good.
Jason Priestley lives a lot of the time in Toronto
because he films the show Private Eyes here,
which is based on the books written by FOTM.
Beverly Hills 90210, of course, is the show, right?
Gare Joyce.
Gare Joyce.
Yes, this is 90210.
Beverly Hills 90210.
How's Gare Joyce doing?
He moved to Kingston.
Really?
He's very immune compromised.
Is that the terminology?
And so he moved to Kingston to hunker down
until this thing blows over.
Good for him.
Yeah.
He's like a talented guy.
He really is.
If you're going to do a thing like talent compared to fame
ratio thing,
there's a biggest gap for Gare Joyce.
And I feel like just
unfairly unknown.
You guys should shut up for a second.
Beautiful. Sorry, go ahead.
Okay, bring the fun facts to Ken Gordon.
Glad to hear Gary Joyce is doing well.
Of course, that's a theme to Beverly Hills 90210.
Wow. Iconic show.
Big deal.
Iconic show.
That show debuted in October 1990, 30 years ago.
Wow.
Can you imagine?
Wow.
Darren Starr brought us that one.
Shout out to Joey Tata.
Joey Tata, yeah, Nat.
Carol Potter, James Eckhouse, the adults on the show.
Hey, how you doing, Brando?
You doing okay?
The peach pit, right?
Hey, Nat, how are you, Nat?
Chill out, Brando.
Hey, what's the problem?
Audrey.
Brenda, come on.
Here's Cam's random 90210
anecdote. I probably mentioned before
I worked at Candice Wonderland
for a while in the 19th, several summers.
I don't know what it was. At least two or
three years I worked there, they would have 90210
day and Ian Zaring was
always there signing autographs.
Nato's own.
Big lines for Ian Zaring.
Steve Sanders.
He was there from day one to the last Wow. Steve Sanders. Steve Sanders, yeah.
He was there from day one to the last day.
Probably the worst guy on the show.
Well, you know who was- Tori Spelling.
I was going to say-
She was okay.
She only got the gig.
I don't know how-
She was good, though.
Donna Martin graduates.
Yeah, but her boyfriend on the show-
David.
David Silver.
David Silver.
Stu and I went to school with a David Silver. We did.
Was married to Megan Fox. Yes.
Not the David Silver. We're talking about the notorious
B.A.G. Brian Austin Green.
Right. Who was married
to Megan Fox. And he did like a drug.
Like he had a drug overdose. It wasn't
it was like
euphoria. Euphoria.
Yeah. I watched this show.
You had to take the egg to get the direction to the ring.
Oh my God, yeah.
I mean, I don't want to steal your thunder, but are you going to talk about, is it Scott?
What was the name of the kid?
Scott died.
Yeah.
Ridley Funeral Home.
Really early, right?
Scott shot himself.
In season one.
Cowboy had Scott.
Yeah.
But like really sort of predated kids with guns.
This guy had like a gun thing.
Yeah.
And he shot himself and died.
That's right.
And it was a big deal in season one. And all of a sudden everyone was nice to him. And then Brian was like, you didn't even like a gun thing. Yeah. And he shot himself and died. It was a big deal. Season one.
And all of a sudden everyone was nice to him.
And then Brian was like,
you didn't even like him.
Right.
And he did like a confessional on the morning announcements.
But do you want,
wait,
do I know the irony?
Yeah.
Scott,
the truth is this guy's killing me.
Let's do chill.
Cause this could be relatable.
So Brian Austin green,
David silver did the morning announcements,
a West Beverly high. Do you remember
who did the announcements at Thornley
Secondary School? The
David Silver. Oh, wow. Really?
That's inside baseball there.
Brian Austin Green was a character
where he started as a nerd.
And they made him a hunky, cool guy.
So cool. They totally changed
that character. I feel. And he of course
he famously took
the virginity of
what was Tori Spelling's
name again?
Donna Martin graduates.
Donna Martin.
Right.
Okay.
Similar to All the Way
with Stephanie Cage.
Valerie how about
when Tiffany Amber
showed up on the scene?
Oh yeah.
And she was smoking
in the window.
Saved by the Bell
great show by the way.
I love Saved by the Bell.
They're bringing back
a reboot of that.
Not looking forward to that.
Sands Dustin Diamond
of course. Problematic. Problematic. That's problematic. I actually forward to that. Sans Dustin Diamond, of course.
Problematic.
Problematic.
That's problematic.
I actually went to see him play at Yuck Yucks.
Dustin Diamond?
Dustin Diamond.
Any relation to Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys?
Shout out to Dustin Revin.
Luckily, no.
Couple of fun facts really quickly about this.
The composer of this song is a guy named John E. Davis.
Any relation to Joe E. Tata?
Oh, my God. John E. Davis. Any relation to Joe E. Tata? Oh, my God.
This is going to be a good episode.
This is a bit hard to deal with.
Isn't there a current Blue Jay named Jonathan Davis?
Yes, I tried to make that joke earlier,
and then you thought I was talking about Mark Davis,
so I let it go.
Okay, right over his head.
Anyway, this guy, Johnny Davis.
Not Johnny Davis, John E. Davis. Not Johnny Davis. John Davis.
Like Joey Tata.
Is there something coming with Joey Tata?
Like David E. Kelly.
Am I shitting on some Joey Tata thing that you have set up here?
There's no Tata stuff coming up.
I'm just saying for such an iconic theme song,
this guy, Johnny Davis, at least based on his IMDb page, did very little.
One and done?
The only other credit he has was
the reboot of Mission Impossible from
1988.
That's not even the one with U2.
I looked, there was not even
any notable actors
in it that you would have known.
But that's an iconic theme song. It's very memorable.
This will go into a nice
mind blow that Stu reminded me of.
One more fun fact about this one. They
rebooted 90210
a few years ago. Now this is not
the new class. This is the one with
I think it was just called 90210 with the
original characters. Oh, the kid from The Wire
was in it. No, but they play themselves.
Like, Ian Ziering plays Ian Ziering.
Yes. Yeah, it's what Stu's describing.
Oh, that was last year.
Yeah, it was like meta. Meta as fuck. I watched the first episode, yeah. Because there was another's describing. Oh, that was last year. Yeah, it was like meta, meta as fuck.
I watched the first episode, yeah.
Yeah, because there was another version like six years ago
that had someone from like Degrassi.
That's the one.
Yeah, Sinead Grimes.
Yes, and the guy Mike from The Wire.
That's right.
Brenda was on it too.
Michael from The Wire.
So anyway, when the one two years ago,
that's the characters as adults,
when that debuted,
there's actually a detailed interview
in Variety magazine
about this theme song.
Okay.
And 80% of it
is about the punch,
punch part
and how he added that
and without that punch part,
there was nothing
and he stood up all night.
He's like,
this song needs to flourish.
This show was canceled,
sadly,
but that show you're describing,
which was very meta,
they play themselves
and whatever.
Luke Perry refused
to participate, as I recall. Luke didn't want to do it. but then he ends up showing up. was very meta, they play themselves and whatever. Luke Perry refused to participate,
as I recall.
Like Luke didn't want to do it.
But then he ends up showing up.
Oh no, then he dies.
He dies.
Because he's on Riverdale.
Yeah, they acknowledge,
they acknowledge it on the show that he died.
But he opted out of participating in that.
Well, you know,
his son is a professional wrestler,
Jungle Boy in AEW.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Is that true?
True.
That's the funnest fact I've heard in a long time.
Jungle Boy, Jack Perry.
Jungle Boy.
Luke Perry, who, by the way, is also known,
and Simpsons fans call him Sideshow Luke Perry.
Yes.
Okay.
Who's Shark Boy?
Shark Boy, different boy.
So Luke Perry has a child who's a professional wrestler?
Yes.
Jungle Boy.
What?
AEW wrestler, Jungle Boy.
Luke Perry was in a movie when he died?
Luke Perry was in a show
called Riverdale.
Was he in that movie?
I think it was called Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Yes. Tarantino. It's amazing.
It's fucking amazing. He's in that.
I didn't love it. I saw it on the airplane.
I loved it and watched it like five times.
So he was in that too?
Yes. Along with Growing Pains is Leo DiCaprio.
I would say that if you appeared on 90210, you're pretty much a legend.
Okay.
Time for your mind blow.
And that's your Scott because nobody even knows his name.
Well, you know.
It's like 30 years later.
We're still talking about him, so he's clearly.
And Audrey, I didn't do a lot.
Where's Audrey Zuckerman?
She's like the head of the practice of SAG.
Okay, sorry.
She's a big fucking deal.
Gabriella Carteris. Yes, that's Yeah, she's a big fucking deal. Gabriela Carteris.
Yes, that's right.
I apologize.
Here's a little mind blow.
She's like 70, though.
She was older, that's right.
Yeah, she was like in her 30s.
But Luke was older, too.
Luke Perry was older, wasn't he?
I've been there, guys.
A 32-year-old high school kid?
It happens.
I bet.
Could you play a high school kid?
I have recently.
When I was 34 years old, I played a high school student.
Is that recently?
And Misha Barton played my teacher. Oh, my God. And she's like 24, and I was 34 years old I played a high school student is that reason Misha Barton played my my teacher oh my god oh my god what you say
Oh see that what where can we see this you can see it it's called resurrection
a horror film with Michael Clarke Duncan Oh Misha Misha passed away right yes
yes from the Armageddon yes and a In the Green Mile. Yes. Okay. Sad to hear you pass away.
Here's the quick mind blow.
I play a high school student.
Cam, do you recognize this song?
It's not Queens, right?
Well, you might not recognize it because this was the original theme to 90210.
It's not bad.
That was replaced with the... Punch, punch.
Obviously, the show was shit with this.
Well, they pulled an I Dream of Jeannie.
Yeah.
This isn't bad.
It's not good either.
Well, it's not memorable.
It just sounds like Saved by the Bell, the college years in between scenes interstitial.
I like that song. It's like an open source,, it's not memorable. It just sounds like Saved by the Bell, the college years in between scenes interstitial. I like that song.
It's like an open source,
like the primetime sports theme.
Like rights-free music.
Rights-free music.
Royalty-free.
That's not the only mind blow here, guys.
Oh.
What else you got?
Kim, come on, man.
How disrespectful can you be?
Is there any FOTMs that were ever on 90210?
Oh, I can do this.
Steven Page.
How about Stu Stone?
No.
Look it up, you pricks.
I swear on my life.
On my life to God.
I was on Beverly Hills.
Is he fucking with us?
Look it up.
You have a computer in front of you.
Why would I make that up?
I've never lied to the listeners, and I will not start now.
What episode?
When David Silber gets fired from his job
at the Urban Outfitters
because he's too busy talking to me.
And who are you?
I play a customer.
He's credited.
Yes, Stew Stone.
Okay, Stew Stone is in an episode.
Why would I lie about that?
I don't want to say you're lying.
Son of a bitch.
This is amazing.
The episode's called Friends Indeed.
Friends Indeed.
He plays Kid.
I played Kid.
You're Kid.
Yes.
You were Kid.
Yes.
And it was, yeah, it's the credit just before the Magic School Bus.
Right before Magic School Bus, 90210.
And right after Rescuers, Stories of Courage, 210.
Okay.
It would have been in the 90s
okay
okay chill
okay
I thought that
you were like
just leading up to this
whole Stu was on 90210
we didn't do our homework
no I was like
oh there's a Variety Magazine
article
there is a Variety Magazine
I'm a kid
but if I may
if I may
guys
Bare Naked Ladies
Bare Naked Ladies
played Peach Pit After Dark
they did
therefore
Steven Page and and Tyler Stewart and Stu Stone.
Yes.
You've got three 90210.
Three FOTMs have been on 90210.
Yes.
And if people actually didn't turn off the show and made it this far into the broadcast,
their mind is blown.
My cast, you have a serious question.
Yeah, of course.
Have you had many actors here?
No.
Very few.
Hardly any. No. I had very, of course. Have you had many actors here? No, very few.
Like hardly any.
No, I had a very, very few.
I was pitched a woman who I had on because she was the mean nanny in Working Moms.
And it turns out she's in the very early scene of The Boys,
season one, episode one,
where she gets obliterated by some guy
who's running a million miles an hour and obliterates her.
And this is like a really like
big popular scene that opens up the boys and that's her but no i haven't had many dude do i
i i have actually have a boys anecdote uh go ahead because dan duran who's almost not quite an fotm
but uh we're friendly and he's going to be an fotm and uh does a lot of stuff a humble and
he's a he plays a character in this is the most boring Cam underscore Gordon anecdote ever.
More boring than the Alan Cross and the other whatever the fuck that was.
Stu is literally going to break the remainder of these cookies over my head.
I like that.
So I recently bought some furniture from Ikea.
Jesus Christ.
I know Ikea.
Ikea.
Me and MF didn't want paper.
We got TaskRabbit in.
You bought it together?
Why?
Because it was just complex.
It was like a dresser.
The guy who came to put it together did a great job.
That was Joey Teta.
But no, we were just talking to him.
It's like, oh, is this kind of a side gig for you?
He's like, oh, I'm actually an actor.
I've been in a couple episodes of The Boys.
Okay, that's it.
That's it.
Guess who my guest is on Monday?
Joey Tata.
Joey fucking Jeremiah.
Oh, wow.
We owe Cam all the credit.
I don't know if he'll remember me, but definitely say hello.
I'll see
probe on this favor
I ask him.
That's my first question. To what do I owe this honor? I ask him. It's going to be my first question.
That's my first question is, to what do I owe this honor?
I met him at a trivia contest one night.
I met him in 1989 when I was managing a game booth at the C&E and I let him play for free.
Yes.
Who is he with?
He was, I don't know.
I don't know who he's with, but he was with a bunch of dudes at the C&E.
You wheeled a snake.
I got my second question will be,
let's talk about Neil Hope wheels.
That's a sad fucking story.
Are you ready
for your last jam too?
I want to give a shout out
to Cam Gordon.
Yeah?
Because he did a good job
this week.
Thank you.
He picked some
formidable tunes.
90210,
a great jam
and I know that Cam
is an expert.
He's seen many episodes
of the show.
Obviously not the key episode.
I'd say less than you'd think.
Well, he hasn't seen the episode when Brian Austin Green lost his job.
I did see when Scott blew his head off.
But you did see when Scott blew his head off.
Right.
Who's Jonesy?
Dylan hires a private eye.
Jonesy, do you remember this guy?
Yes, yes. He was in Mexico. It's time for me to plug Do you remember this guy? Yes, yes.
He was in Mexico.
It's time for me to plug a new Stew Stone project.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Yes.
You're in the 90210 reboot.
In January of 2021.
I'm nervous.
There is a new series that is going to be coming on in Canada
with regards to the great game shows of Canada.
Okay.
I don't know if you saw season one,
but they're doing season two.
And one of the talking heads on the season two
is yours truly, Stu Stone.
Wasn't Ed Conroy involved in this?
No.
You know who you're thinking of?
Stephen Page.
There you go.
Okay.
Oh, shit.
Yes.
Was it Wiseblood who recommended him or Conroy?
I think it was Wiseblood,
but the bottom line is I've seen a clip from this show
where Stephen Page talks about being on bumper stuff.
That's right.
So it's like that except me.
Wow.
And one of the shows that I talk about is the theme song for a game show
that I chose as my song.
Oh, I know what this is.
Oh.
Okay, it's on.
Oh, I know what this is.
Oh, okay.
It's on.
It feels like Austin Powers here.
Of course, the show is called Definition.
Canadian game show.
I didn't realize it was only a Canadian game show.
Canadian game show Definition.
Is it Jim Perry?
Luke Perry's older brother?
It could be, actually.
It ran from 1974 to 1989.
One of the longest running shows of all time.
And it emanated
from CFTO Television
Studios in Scarborough,
Ontario.
Where Uncle Bobby was. I was going to say, Uncle Bobby
was back in the Airstream trailer
with all the moms. Yes, absolutely.
Jim Perry.
Impossible relation to Jim Perry.
Impossible relation to Luke Perry.
I don't know.
Well, William Perry.
The fridge.
Nick Nicholson.
Oh.
And Roger Muir, the creators of the newlywed game, came up with definition,
which is sort of like a Wheel of Fortune meets Hangman.
You know, they'd have like a sort of a hangman
puzzle and then you'd have to like give clues to the words and the letters and it's pretty basic
popular show uh that uh was as popular as concentration and the price is right
perry became a household name during the 70s and 80s but i'll have you know sadly today only a handful of episodes
still exist due to a then
common practice that Retro Ontario
may know about
yes you know what it's called
they re-recorded over the tapes
they re-recorded over the tapes
like it's crazy
it's called wiping
they would wipe the tapes
and hence there's only very few episodes that are even still available to view.
That's unbelievable.
Definition has encouraged viewers to send in their own puzzles,
and if they read your puzzle, you would win a prize.
This show is frequently mocked, as most Canadian game shows were at the time,
for the cheapness of its prizes.
You know, if they got the puzzle right, it was worth $10.
Right, something like that.
They'd win a small appliance or pen and pencil sets.
Like a blender.
So it was just a big schmoz.
Here's the big mind blow for you folks.
The show's theme song is composed by...
Oh, I already know.
I think everybody knows. I think it's Quincy Jones.
Quincy Jones.
Again, I went with a double helping of Quincy Jones for my list this week.
Quincy Jones, of course, did the last song that I played, Sanford and Son.
Quincy Jones did this song, which is actually known as Soul Bossa Nova,
which was repopularized in the Austin Powers movies.
Of course, it was also used by Ludacris in his rap song of Coming for Your Number One Spot.
Coming for your number one spot.
Ooh-ha, this is my number one spot.
You'll have to do research on your own on that.
Ironically, the show, which emanated from Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario,
if I'm not mistaken,
if I'm not mistaken,
a Canadian rap group
recorded their video in and around
that neighborhood. I could be just making that up,
but I feel like it was.
I think I'm going to Hollywood squares my way into saying
that it was shot in that area.
Maybe you remember this.
What the fuck is this?
My definition of a boombastic jazz style.
You're in the right place to talk about this, Chan.
Dang!
This album was produced in the basement of an FOTM.
Is this Joel?
No.
Gober?
Good guess, though. Oh, Ron Nelson. DJ Ron Nelson, correct. Very good. Good guess, though, Joel? No. Gilbert? Good guess, though.
Oh, Ron Nelson.
DJ Ron Nelson, correct.
Very good.
Good guess, though, Joel Gilbert.
Of course, this is the Dream Warriors.
My definition of a bombastic jazz style.
What a fucking great jam.
Oh, this album, And Now the Legacy Begins, is stellar.
Yo, Dream, we got this new album.
It's stupid.
Honestly, I love this song
and I love this album.
Why did they not have a longer career?
Good question.
I think they were big in the UK.
I remember they had the album
California Dream.
Or is the song, it was from the follow-up to this that was pretty good.
I don't know.
I've been trying to get them on Toronto Mike for a long time.
I feel like Diggable Planet's kind of moved into their space.
I can only name one Diggable Planet song.
Camp Blow kind of moved into their space.
Luchini, This Is It.
Very cool stuff.
Coming out of the gate hard with this.
The first big hit was Wash Your Face In My Sink. I think this was of the gate hard like with this. Oh yeah. Well the first big hit was
Wash Your Face In My Sink.
No no I think this was first.
I think this was second.
I think this was first.
I think Wash Your Face In My Sink
was second.
Second.
That's second.
I remember it first.
Oh that's your memory.
At least on CFTR
680 CFTR I remember
Wash Your Face In My Sink first.
I don't know why this would be
playing right after Gowan.
So yeah the Dream Warriors
they've got this new album,
It's Stupid.
I want to give a shout out
to Dallas.
I want to give a shout out
to the A-Team.
Mr. Belvedere.
Why do they say Dallas Green?
Oh, these are honorable mentions.
Mr. Belvedere,
Full House.
You don't want to save it
for your third round?
Because we can't do
a trilogy next week.
Who's the Boss?
Okay.
Air Wolf,
which was mentioned on Twitter.
I never saw an episode.
Simon and Simon,
great detective tandem.
Don't know.
The Fall Guy.
Yeah, I heard of it.
Saturday Night's Main Event.
Yes.
Lots of great songs
that are left.
Are you talking like
Obsession
or the other theme?
Any.
Da, da, da, da, da.
Obsession is the
fashion television.
Stay by the bell.
You wake up in the morning.
No, yeah, yeah.
Wake up in the morning feeling.
That's Degrassi.
When you wake up in the morning and you look at the water,
you're talking to your homoclast.
There was an episode of Mad Men with Mr. Belding in it.
That's right, yeah.
Mr. Belvedere, yeah, great song there too.
Mr. Belvedere, that is a great.
It's a Toronto connection. I almost picked This Week in Baseball. It came up last week. I love that song, yeah. Mr. Belvedere, yeah, great song there, too. Not Mr. Belvedere, though, but that is a great... It's the Toronto Connection.
I almost picked This Week in Baseball.
It came up last week.
I love that song, yeah.
It's called, like, Roaring Crowds or something.
Yeah.
It's great.
Beautiful song.
So good choice here, Stu.
You were awesome.
I'm excited to be closing out this...
Another victory for Stu Stone.
Well, hold your fucking horses.
Wait a minute.
One more to go.
Hold on.
Should we guess what your song is?
Because I think we've...
Yeah, go ahead.
I can't remember because I think I guessed it earlier.
Have we said it already?
Not today, I don't think.
Are you 5 for 5 on CanCon?
Correct. So this is going to be CanCon also?
Hmm.
We haven't mentioned it, so it's not the Edison Twins.
No. It's not the Wayne and Schuster show.
Nope. I don't even know the theme.
Is it a TV Ontario? Correct, yes. It's not the Wayne and Schuster show. No. I don't even know the theme for the Wayne and Schuster show. Is it a TV Ontario?
Correct, yes.
It's a polka dot.
Oh, I'm getting, I think you guys are getting warm.
It's going to be polka dot store today's special.
Today's special.
It's going to be one.
I think we already did today's special, didn't we?
No.
We didn't, so that's what this is going to be.
Size small.
Are you ready?
It's off to the children's department once again.
Jeremy.
Not Pearl Jam Jeremy.
But Jeremy wouldn't be CanCon, right?
It's a France production. I'm a bear, but I'm a Jeremy. Yeah Jeremy wouldn't be CanCon, right? It's a France production.
It's either going to be Today's Special or Polka Dot Door.
I know what it is.
I know what it is.
What?
The Green Forest.
No.
No?
I don't think that's Canadian either.
It's either going to be Today's Special, Cam.
Peter Rabbit, hippity hop.
Today's Special or Polka Dot Door.
It's one of the two.
Are you ready? I'm going to go with Today's special or Polka Dot Door. It's one of the two.
I'm going to go with Today's Special.
And I've kept on, this is this rip from TVO. It has some
interesting little interstitial things at the beginning
and some identifications I kept on.
Here we go.
Elway is waiting to bring you the concluding
chapter of Swamp Water next on
Magic Shadows.
Do you need a blanket?
This is channel 19 in Sudbury,
channel 9 in Thunder Bay.
Hmm.
Whoa, not today's special.
321 Contacts?
Colored lights are flying
like an agent through the air.
Shadows moving faster than they are.
What in the fuck?
As you listen, think about what song it reminds you of.
I've never seen before
They'll take you to the sky
Right upon a silver screen
What in the fuck?
Where pictures seem to flow like magic
Magic Are you scared of this song? Shadows Where pictures seem to flow like magic.
Magic.
Are you scared of this song?
Shadow.
This one was trippy to me.
Okay.
You're listening to the opening theme to Magic Shadows.
No fucking clue.
That was a 30-minute show on TV Ontario.
I'm out of here.
Hosted by... That's a David.
You really don't know.
Wait, wait, wait.
Time out.
You really... Neither of you know Magic Shadows. I have never seen that's what David... You really didn't know that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Time out.
You really... Neither of you know Magic Shadows.
I have never seen that show
or heard that song in my life.
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
I'm going to get Rich Ronteiro on line two.
I know it because you've talked about it
on many other episodes.
I listen to some episodes.
But you've never seen the show.
That's why I like you.
But you've never seen the show.
I've learned a lot from listening to
the Toronto Mike podcast.
So you knew that song?
Yeah.
You knew that song. When he played it, you knew what it was.
Ed fucking Conroy's been over here.
He's a good friend of mine.
You know that show? I know that song.
Have you seen that show? I've heard the song.
Have you seen more episodes of that show or Cheers?
Take your droplets off.
I got some great mind blows for you.
So the composer of that theme song
sounds familiar.
It's a Canadian named Harry Forbes the composer of that theme song. Sounds familiar. It sounds like Donovan. Is that Donovan?
No, it's a Canadian named Harry Forbes.
Oh, that's Harry.
Who created that Magic Shadows theme song.
Okay.
But a lot of people hear that song.
Sounds like David Bowie.
And when they hear that song, they think of this song.
Oh, the Beatles?
Right. So we'll get a little bit of this and I'll blow your mind again.
Okay. Oh, the Beatles? Right. So we'll get a little bit of this, and I'll blow your mind again, okay?
Sowing the seeds of love, of course.
So a lot of people heard the Magic Shadow song by Harry Forbes and said...
He as you are, he as you are, me and we are all together. And they said, I am the walrus by the Beatles.
But our mutual friend, Ed Conroy, had a conversation with Harry Forbes recently.
Yes.
And he came on in the last five years.
And he came on Toronto Mike, Ed that is, and
revealed to us all
that the song that inspired
the Magic Shadows theme song
was not by
the Beatles, but it was by
the Beach Boys.
Oh.
Oh yeah, that does kind of sound a lot more like it.
There you go.
Cam doesn't know this song either.
So, Cam, what's that show about, Magic Shadows?
You know, there's a bunch of shadows.
Yeah.
They're kind of magical.
Right.
I guess they didn't get into that on the Toronto Mic'd Up episode.
A bit over your head.
Dude, do you not know Elwie Yost?
I don't.
Wow.
You know what?
I'm not sure we can have a 36th Pandemic Friday.
This guy was in the Canadian TV industry for years.
I mean, maybe I do.
You might know his son, Graham Yost, who wrote Speed.
Sure.
Okay, kidding aside, what is Magic Shadows about?
I don't know what it's about.
No, it was Elwie Yost hosting a movie.
So it would be like, he'd be your guide to the movie.
And Elwie would be your comfortable guide, and he'd talk about the movie.
And then you'd watch the movie.
Wasn't it just called Saturday Night at the Movies?
There's two shows going on.
There's Magic Shadows.
Wait, that guy I know, but what's that got to do with Magic Shadows?
He had two shows.
Oh, so he was on Magic Shadows also?
Correct.
This is complicated.
What's this song called?
Feel Flows.
Feel Flows.
This is a fucking trippy Beach Boys jam.
When is this?
This must be like right after Pet Sounds, I feel like.
It's later than Pet Sounds.
Like post-Pet Sound, pre-Marcella.
But isn't it...
Pre-Kogamo.
And if you could just give it a moment in the headset
before I play it down, but...
Apparently there's a little Ozzy Osbourne in this audio.
Playing the trumpet inauguration.
Needs more cowbell here.
What's that, like a harpsichord?
Not my most elegant segue there.
I'll work on my,
it's all live.
You know,
people think I edit the shit out of this cause it's so polished,
but it's all the main thing.
We,
we blew some minds left and right tonight.
I think we all mind blowing of our,
uh,
35 weeks.
I think so.
Well,
35 weeks.
Crazy.
Are we,
uh,
Yost passed away July 21st,
2011.
Sure did.
Of course.
Yeah.
He's a passport to adventure TV,
Ontario's magic shadows from 74 and Saturday night at the movies.
Well,
that Saturday night at the movies.
I know.
Yeah.
So you just,
you were batting 500.
Pretty good.
I do know who he is,
but I don't know the magic shadows.
Uh,
so I'm a little disappointed that I was number one on your list,
but that's all right.
Well,
you know,
it's no 90210 theme,
but it's pretty good. I enjoyed
this very much, and I know
Stu Gaffod, my suggestions
would do a part three, but I would do it, but
we can talk about this later. It's up to you guys. We'll mix it up.
Guys, I'm just going to leave you with this, because I'm going to
talk more about this Saturday, but December 5th,
you both live in Toronto?
Correct. I've heard of it.
Okay, close enough.
We're going to try to feed Toronto's hungry people.
The hungry people in Toronto.
We have a Toronto Miracle, December 5th at 10 a.m.
Are you bringing any palma pasta to that event?
Leave a non-perishable food item on your doorstep.
Oh, then I guess that won't work.
Marked for Toronto Miracle.
Because palma pasta is quite perishable.
We have volunteers.
We're looking for more volunteers.
More on this Saturday, but we're collecting these donations,
and we're collecting these donations,
and we're going to redistribute this food to those in need in the community. Quick question, Mike.
Sorry to interrupt.
I'm only trying to feed the fucking hungry here.
See how I have a computer here?
Is it frozen?
You see how it still works?
I just wasn't sure how cold it was going to get out here.
But thanks for being here, guys,
and I'll get some kind of heater for you next week.
Thank you for being a friend.
That was last week, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was last week.
Yeah, made the cut.
And that brings us to the end of our 751st show.
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Guys, I'm doing a show over here.
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I muted myself instead of them.
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