Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Wrestling Jams: Toronto Mike'd #861

Episode Date: June 4, 2021

This 64th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out wrestling jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone. But first, a special appearance by Jason Agnew.

Live from the Springfield Center for the Performing Arts, the Wrestling Match of the Century. Today, Rasputin, the friendly Russian. Hey, didn't he used to be the mad Russian? Yes, but I'm afraid the forces of history have changed wrestling, perhaps forever. And the challenger from the University of Heidelberg, Professor Wernher von Braun. That's Braun with a W. Two titans at the height of their careers. Oh, if you ask me, this is going to be one hell of a match.

Oh, Bart, I hope you're not taking this seriously. Even a five-year-old knows that this is as choreographed as any ballet. You're not as mutant got to reach, but on the other hand, the professor's got his patent at Kovalok. If you ask me, this is going to be one hell of a match. Oh, look at us

show up and kiss his own muscles. Boo! It's time now for Pandemic Fridays. match. Oh, look at us show up. Kissing his own muscles. Boom! It's time now for Pandemic Fridays. Starring Toronto Mike, Stu Stone, and Cam Gordon. This is the episode.

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Learn more at realestatelove.ca. I'm Mike. From torontomike.com and joining me for this 64th Pandemic Friday is Cam Gordon and Stu Stone. We are fucking back in your backyard, Mike.

Huss. Huss. Huss. When were we last here? I feel like it was early December, maybe. It feels like it was like six months to the point. You're the one who uncovered that Adam Duritz pic. Is that you, Ken? Well, yeah, because, again,

someone, one of the fellow FO teams was talking about his appearance on the Bill Simmons podcast. For some reason, I listened to it, and I've never heard a guy more in love with his music. Which it was sort of refreshing. He was just saying, oh, he wrote Mrs. Potter's Lullaby.

That was an awesome song. And Round Here was awesome. Round Here. Stu's Lullaby. That was an awesome song. And Round Here was awesome. Round Here. Stu's a big fan of his music, I noticed. Like, he's Circle Circle Doctor. Oh, yeah. Yes, but that's kind of different. Stu, good to see you, buddy.

I only have the one song there, Mikey. I'm doing great, man. Good to see you. We're here in person. We're looking at each other. We are within striking distance. If someone steps out of line, we are in striking distance. The valet is there.

Yeah, we've got Palma Pasta staring at us in the face. In the squared circle. Describe the table in front of you for those who aren't watching. Yeah, for people who aren't watching, there's a lot of plunder. There's a lot of plunder. Well, you know, we are doing wrestling jams this week, which is really this is like the whole pandemic fight has been building up to this moment, really. We've talked about wrestling so often that we're finally going to get to talk about wrestling.

And I've got a whole bunch of props here. I have a King Kong Bundy, LJN King Kong Bundy figure, the heaviest wrestler, but also the heaviest figure. You could throw that figure at somebody and cause them great harm. Like if you threw this off an overpass. Blunt force trauma. And it's kind of a famous King Kong Bundy because it's been my Twitter profile pic for a couple years now. No, not that one. Oh, really?

Whoa. George the Animal Steel is the one you're talking about. Yeah, boy, you messed that up. Off to a good start here. I also have George the Animal Steel, LJN, here, complete with the green tongue and body hair. Also a pretty heavy figure. Is it true he was a professor or was that just something?

He was a high school vice principal. In Billy Madison, the character was based off of George the Animal Steel. And you know who else is in Billy Madison? The big show. Do Do The Clown. I was going to say Doink The Clown. Do Do The Clown,

he sure is in it. He sure is in it. Great segue. And he's my guest next week. When's he coming in? Are you going to ask him about Chris Farley and Adam Sandler?

You should. Yeah. Of course. His tweets at the Ellen show. Do you listen to Toronto Mike? Are you going to ask him about when he stopped the mugger from trying to rob the woman? Of course. DJ Farbs Mike? Are you going to ask him about when he stopped the mugger from trying to rob the woman?

Of course. DJ Farbsy, you're going to ask him? Of course. By the way, that's his nephew. I know. I have a question from an FOTM about that exact subject. Okay. So, gentlemen.

Huge cat. Before we get too deep into today's theme, which is wrestling jams. Yes. Just want to take a moment to be serious for just one moment here. So, this is actually serious. Okay. So, I just want to take a moment to be like serious for just one moment here. So this is actually serious. Okay. So I just want to

take a moment to have anything to do with Ridley funeral home. You're going to regret that joke in a moment. I'm trying to segue

into something actually serious here, but sorry, I would like to take a moment to honor the 215 indigenous children. Oh, yes. Found buried at

Kamloops Residential School. So if possible, all listeners and yourselves as well, if we can consider the magnitude of this tragedy while I play an honour song, this is from the Tekemloops Desewempak First Nation. So here's a little honour song, and let's just take a moment and remember the 215. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, And now we can get ridiculous and silly again, but I just wanted to open with that. And now as we segue to the wrestling dance. Before you segue out of that.

Yeah. What a fucking crazy story that is. I find it's almost amazing it's not a bigger story. Like how is it that we didn't, there was no inkling that something was going on? How do 215 kids go missing without that that being a story right let alone the finding of these remains it's absolutely horrific and what a fucking disaster that is and that's that's one school oh no i mean

i think it's almost overwhelming like i think a lot of people are like okay so when how what like is that possible? Like, where were the, like, where were the, the hunts for the hundreds of missing children? Evil.

And it's like, we talk about, you know, we get serious on this show. We get silly and we get serious. Yeah. And now this is our own backyard. Like,

I just think, I think we need to, this is going to be one that, it takes a while for us to work this out. It's hard not to get emotional thinking about it because you're dealing with, like the victims are kids. And there's 250 of them.

And like you said, this is one school. Like, imagine, we need closure for every residential school and regardless of the cost. And then what would that final tally be? Like, just think about this. Well, just describing, like, what it's going to be like to try to track down the families and just the whole process, I'm like,

it's like, like fucking dead three-year-olds in some cases, like it should, it's not be easier process. Like why is like, it's, it's, it's beyond fucked up. It's,

it's like a real, yeah, I didn't know that you were staying on our country is a huge understatement. Brutal. One of the most disgusting things I think that any of us will ever learn about. And hopefully there isn't something worse than this. Well, this is the tip of the iceberg. Like, we don't need to get worse than this.

This is pretty fucking the worst. So figure out how that fucking happened. And I don't know where we go from there, but holy shit, what a story. Absolutely. I'm just going to crack open my sunny side. I'm going to do that as well. Maybe I'll just have like a swig of beer just for, should I? Why not?

A very rare, like I don't drink. So you got your octopus. Okay, great. I just picked that up. I got Canuck Pale Ale. I'm going to crack. Crack open. Let's crack, baby.

Okay, good to see you guys. Honestly, this is wonderful to have you guys in the backyard here. Good to see you. Beautiful. Okay, I will keep my eye on the chat at live.toronomike.com. I'm just going to say. That's a nice brewski. Happy birthday.

That's my first swig. Okay. I've never had like a swig of this beer before. What about on the set? You only got the empties for the Faking a Murderer. Yeah. It was apple juice. It was quite delicious actually. It is tremendous. First of all, that's

super fresh. Like I picked all that, this week I picked all that up. Super fresh. Brewed like, you know, five kilometers away from us here. Jeez, looks like you could ride your bike there. I do. Shout out to Great Lakes Brewery. Go good with some fresh barbecue. Are you cutting that around here? I can do that. I do. Shout out to Great Lakes Brewery. Go good with some fresh barbecue. I can do that.

I can do that. The place that was near us is closed for reasons I can't quite remember, but I do have a special guest who's going to kick out the first wrestling jam. First, happy birthday to a couple of special FOTMs. Stephanie Wilkinson

and JJ. JJ? Whoa. Is it JJ's birthday also? Yeah. Two of my favorite FOTMs. Wow. You actually pick your favorites, huh?

Two of my favorites. Wasn't that Robbie Neville, like, say, lovey? Hey, JJ, what you been doing? Like, probably the same JJ. Could be. Jumping JJ Jones, friend of the Pasternak's? Absolutely. Big one. Pasternak's? Absolutely. Big one.

Pasternak, that's Ralph Ben-Murgy's wife's a Pasternak. Really? There you go. That's what we call Jewish geography. Who's the hockey player,

David Pasternak? Yes. Yeah, but it's spelled differently. It's spelled a bit differently. Missing an E. Kind of a... You know, the thing about wrestling jams,

I want to just point out before we get into wrestling here. There's so many songs that reference wrestling. I didn't go that direction at all, and I'm hoping you guys didn't go too far because I think that's a whole other topic where popular culture references wrestling. I stuck with wrestling songs.

Like El Scorcho. El Scorcho would have been perfect. They talk about New Jack and ECW. It was forever until I knew what the hell we were talking about. I had no idea until someone called it out. Yeah. One of the FOTMs. Yeah, I think it was Canada Kev maybe.

Someone threw the table or something. It's like watching Grunge powerbomb New Jack through a press table. Right. Something like that. And yeah, tremendous. So this is not that. So these are wrestling jams. These are actually jams that you would have heard in and around wrestling.

Right. So I'm just going to shout out some of the FOTMs watching at live.torontomike.com. We're a little late and we're sorry. By the way, Mike, sorry. New Jack. New Jack. Who passed away a few weeks ago. Right.

Rip New Jack. Cambrio says that in the chat here. The last interview he ever did was with me, Stu Stone, and it will be a part of Dark Side of the Ring episode coming out in a few, maybe in a few weeks, but I just saw some of the footage today, and it's haunting. It's like his last

performance as New Jack, and he delivers. He delivers. We might have talked about it last week, but when I went to see Stu at his safe house, like in the backyard, he was literally telling me about this encounter with New Jack about like, what, five days? He was dead like five days later and just describing what they're seeing because like New Jack had such a reputation. It was so wild. Wow.

It was wild. Anyway. So here's shout outs to James Bond Hawk. Yes. He says, who was hairier, George or John Yakut, a.k.a. the Beast? The Beast. Who is the Beast? I don't know the Beast, so I need the stew to answer this question.

The Beast is hairy. You know who's very hairy? Dutch Mantel. Dirty Dutch Mantel. Got a lot of back hair. Okay, so did George Animal Steel, though. Okay, Andrew Ward wants to give some compliments to Stew Stone, because he says, the Dark Side series,

he says that research is impeccable. He's loving it. Well, keep watching because the episodes that I really had more of a hand in haven't even aired yet. So wait, you ain't seen nothing yet. You know, MF watched an episode. She watched the North Korea episode. Oh, that was a cool one.

Oh, I'm going to check that out. I want to check that out. I want to say Canada Kev says happy birthday to the FOTMs. Jokeroo is here. Jokeroo! Jokeroo shows up. Who else is here? I saw Moose Grumpy

is here. You mentioned Cambrio. Cambrio. Legend. Who's talking about Doink? Someone's talking about... Whenever you mention Doodoo the clown

somebody mentions Doink I think. You should ask Doodoo about other clowns. You should actually do like a rapid fire and be like I'm going to name some clowns

and be like Krusty and he'll say... Word association. Krusty, Bozo, Emmett Kelly, Doink, etc. Shout out to Beck. Beck is here and of course Ian Service has made an early appearance. Double D.

I missed Tim. Double D is coming in here. He says the camera looks clearer than normal. I just want to let people know it's the same camera I've been using forever. Dan J is here. He's already opened up a Great Lakes beer himself. Atta boy. Welcome, Dan.

For people who are listening to this now, they need to follow your Twitter feed to see when this is live so that they can get shout-outs like this too, right? Is DJ Dream Doctor here? The trick is to go to live.torontomike.com. There you go. Sign up to- See, I'm helping you become a better host.

Okay, there you go. And of course, Oat Bran. I'm dying to know who Oat Bran is, but he says Double D is coming in bouncy and perky. Daryl Dahmer? I don't know. Or Russ Holden. Donnie Darko? Donnie Darko.

Maybe that's where it comes from here. Def Derrit? So let's start because I want our special guest who's going to show up in a couple minutes Daz Dillinger our special guest is going to kick out the first jam

but can we start by maybe we talk about who is our favorite wrestler of all time and like what's and here's what I'm interested in

I don't know I can answer that that's tough that's very subjective okay so hold on to that maybe it'll leak out during the episode but I guess I'm more curious

a lot of favorite wrestlers when did you start following wrestling and do you still I know the answer for Stu, but do you still follow wrestling? Like, what's your relationship with professional wrestling? Sure, sure, sure. Do you want me to go first, Cam?

Yeah, you go first. Well, I would say that I was a youngster, and I used to spend weekends at my grandparents' house, my father's parents, and my grandmother, my boobie, used to watch wrestling. So I would watch it with her, and she grandmother, my boobie, used to watch wrestling. So I would watch it with her, and I was captivated by this wrestler called Tiger Mask.

I don't know. It's probably before your time, kid. I don't know Tiger Mask. Tiger Mask was like a cruiserweight who did flips and flying, and I just couldn't fucking believe this guy. A real innovator. I got absolutely hooked on it, and I got my dad to take me to Maple Leaf Gardens

where I saw the British Bulldogs. They were the big act to see, and it was like the Dynamite Kid. It was just like, what is this? Then Hulk Hogan, and then boom. I just was hooked, and I loved it. And I knew it was a show because I had a showbiz kind of lens even at a young age. I could kind of see what was showbiz about it, right? Right.

And I thought that was so great. I'm a fucking nerd when it comes to wrestling. I've been to WrestleManias, lots of them, front row at a bunch of them. So I pulled something here on this note here. Here's a little taste of you that I think would be fun to hear right now. What is this? All right, Championship Wrestling from Hollywood fans. Everyone here is so excited for September 26th.

The big Championship Wrestling from Hollywood house show in Pomona, California. Now, you're going to see things that you're not going to see televised on television. So the only way to experience is to be there live. Hold on a second. You're telling me that there's a house show in Pomona on the 26th, information on the bottom of the screen, and no one told me about it until now? Are you misusing me?

The people want to see me. That's why they come out to these shows, to see me. This is crazy. How do you not put me on that show? Stu, you're going to be at the show. I'm booked? Yeah, yeah. Of course.

We want Stu Stone there. Oh. Hold on. This is going to be one of the greatest nights ever. I just might have to come. I just might have to take them up on their offer and kick some ass in Pomona. Stu Stone's going to be there. Might.

Might. Welcome, everyone, to Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. I'm talking to you along with Stu Stone. We got it, man. We got it. Okay, okay. Well, that's some fun. So remind us about your involvement with professional wrestling.

Well, there's a show called Championship Wrestling from Hollywood that you just played that clip from that I was working with for many, many years as an on-air talent, as a manager, as a commentator, as a producer behind the scenes. Super Hill. It got me booked all over the West Coast. I was doing the indie wrestling thing for a while. And when I got the gig to do Haunted House on Kirby Road, I came to Toronto to direct that movie

and I never got to go back to wrestling again. Do you regret it though? Do you regret not... I don't know because maybe I would be doing... A lot of my friends and contemporaries from that time are now the people that are on television every week on wwe and aew so it's like maybe i would have been part of that but look at how it's brought me back anyway i'm working on dark side of the ring i'm in wrestling and i love

it and and i don't keep up with it as much as i did when i was a kid but i still keep up with it i still read about it and watch when I can and check out what I can. It sounds like a guest running. Now, this is interesting because normally we're all on Zoom and we see this guest. Suddenly the guest is here. I'm the only one who can

see this guest. It's going to be a long show. By the way, because I'm the only one who can see the guest, I can tell you I can see in the background. Tito Santana. This guest has Great Lakes beer in the background. Wow, cheers. It's going to be a long episode. I might finish this.

Val Plante. So maybe we'll do it this way. Since I'm the only one who can see the guest, I already know who the guest is. I invited this guest. So to kick out the first wrestling jam, special guest, please introduce yourself. First of all, let's do that because we got the good old Great Lakes going on here, friends.

Cheers to you, Toronto Mike. Tis Jason Agnew, Sunday Night's Main Event. You're doing a rest of the show. I had to be here, right? That's big. That's big. That's a get. That's huge.

That's a get. I'm actually a fan. Who else? I used to park my car and stay in the car on Sunday nights to listen to him. There you go. Yes, the days of live audio wrestling, I would be guessing. Mm-hmm. And you remind us, of course, you've got your own show now.

What is it called again? Saturday Night Event? No, Sunday. Remind me of the title, Jason. Look at the great research on Toronto Mike's part right here. Sunday night's main event. We used to refer to live audio wrestling. You'd get off the main event of the pay-per-view just before 11,

then you'd turn on the real Sunday night's main event, which was the LAW live audio wrestling. So I continue on doing that myself, Dan the Mouth Levransky, and a fun cast of characters that join me to do that show. He's great. On the iHeartRadio Talk Network. For sure. Love it. Legit. This is like the iHeartRadio Talk Network. For sure. Love it.

Legit. Like, this is like a big get. You don't understand. Like, as a wrestling fan, like, I'm blushing hearing that he's on the show with us. Also, Jason, you hosted the reboot of Tiny Talent Time. Did you not, too? Which is huge.

I did indeed. Yep, Tiny Talent Time. Speak of clowns. The reboot. I am the modern-day Bill Lawrence. Love it. Love it. That's amazing. Mazel tov on that. You know, Jason Agnew, who I the modern-day Bill Lawrence. Love it. Love it. That's amazing.

Mazel tov on that. You know, Jason Agnew, who I've known for a very, very long time. You're so lucky. He fell in love with the woman who played his wife in a Swiss Chalet commercial. Shut up. Okay. That's amazing. It's the truth.

And you're still in love? I hope I'm not speaking out of school here. You're still in love with her? Yeah, she's upstairs. We are still in love. Okay. Is it a... Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you... All good did you all good what was the swish la order is it like a festive special you already got it ding ding ding festive special 2017 commercial i cast with her as my wife we have

two children in the spot i took the wife home uh she is my lady friend we left the kids on set that's amazing i. That's amazing. I think that's amazing. So that's a way to do it. And at the same time as I was seeing- Money for nothing, Swiss for free. At the same time as I was seeing Jay on the Swiss LA ad with his now girlfriend, I was seeing him on this Tim Hortons ad about the beans and how they make the beans and all this.

And this ad ran like crazy, right? You must have made a mint on that national spot for Tim Hortons. Am I right? I don't know about that, Mike. I know that Timmy spent a mint on it because they sent us to Columbia for about 10 seconds of footage. They also sent a whole whack of their executives to Columbia as well. Someone clearly wanted a vacation.

This is blowing my mind. I had no idea that he had this acting career as well. I just thought he was like the wrestling guru. I feel like that was Stu's the tail end of the early years. Acting's a very strong word. Jason, are you familiar with Stu Stone? No.

Do you realize who Stu Stone is? I'm just wondering. He knows Tiger Mask, though. I do know Tiger Mask. Why, was Stu Stone under the Tiger Mask? I was. Also, I know that's not the case. Tiger Mask 6. Okay, great. So, how about we do this now? And by the way,

Jay, when you finish talking about this jam that you've chosen, it's 100% up to you if you need to disappear and do something with your gal or do something else. That's cool. Or you could stick around. We're just going to talk about wrestling music for the next couple hours. So it's all up to you.

Like Stu Jeffries, he bolted very quickly, but Mike Richards last week, there was a hockey game. I think Mike Richards is still on that zoom. He's the man. Is he? Yeah.

I loved him. Maybe they'll just take it and put it on nine 60. They should. Well, they got, isn't Bobcats gone? He's gone. Maybe he asked for some money.

Well, it doesn't matter. No one in East Toronto can hear that. Ask Romer. Oh, no. Romer's in York Region. I'm down to work for a Swiss Chalet gift card at this point. Alright, let's kick out Jason Agnew's jam to kick us off. These are wrestling jams.

Here we go. Love it. Oh, of course. I got alongside burns and my hair's slicked back. I'm coming to your town in my pink Cadillac. I'm just a honky-tonk man. He's a honky-tonk man. I'm just a honky-tonk man. That's great.

I mean, literally, we could do like 50 songs, Mike. There's so many songs to pick. Honky Tonk, a great start. Okay, let's hear from Jason Agnew. Jason, why the Honky Tonk Man? What's this song? Oh, it's called Honky Tonk Man by Honky Tonk Man. Why this jam?

Yeah, I mean, Honky's on there. And along with that, it's produced by Jimmy Hart. And Jimmy Hart is someone, when you talk wrestling music, you can't leave him out of the discussion. Even if you look back to pre-the rock and wrestling time in WWE, Memphis Wrestling was already doing a lot of music. I mean, these are the days of Andy Kaufman, and Jimmy Hart was one of the people that was there. I suppose I don't have to tell your panel about Jimmy Hart's musical history.

The band that he was on. The Gentries. And the Gentries was his band. Ah band that he was on. The Gentries. Ah, yes. Keep on dancing, everybody. So, you know, that was a great track. I used to walk into, what was it, Shake a Tail Feather over at Clinton's there.

Oh, wow. Deep, deep cut. Love it. So, yeah, Jimmy Hart is someone who definitely you got a reference and i mean he is he is the dick clark of wrestling where he he doesn't seem to age all that i feel like he wrote other themes like he wrote i'm a sexy boy and stuff like sean michaels or the young stallions crank it up oh yeah that's a good track crank it up he did yeah and and i'm not sure if he did um sorry what was the other one that you threw out there i feel like he wrote i'm a sexy boy like Crank It Up. Oh, that's a good track. Crank It Up, he did, yeah. And I'm not sure if he did,

sorry, what was the other one that you threw out there? I feel like he wrote I'm a Sexy Boy. I think he did. I don't know if that was him or Jim Johnson. I think he may have worked on that song. Yeah. Do you want to hear a little of I'm a Sexy Man? Do you want a bit of that?

I'm a Sexy Boy. I'm a Sexy Boy. He's not a man. He's just a boy. Oh my God, a fucking amateur here. Here's a taste. What a jobber. Hey. He's not a man. He's just a boy. Oh, my God. Fucking amateur. Here's a taste. What a jobber. Oh, oh, sure.

I think he's cute. Hey. Oh, the Sherry version. Yeah. He's got the look. This ride that goes wild. R.I.P. Sherry. She was fucking awesome. Definitely Jimmy wrote on this song.

He's like the one who probably came up with, sexy boy. He had a lot of say when they went to WCW You know, when Hogan moved over there And then Jimmy was doing a lot of those tracks Like Hulk Hogan had an entire wrestling album Featuring tracks like Hulkster in Heaven And stuff like that And Jimmy was all over producing that album

So didn't Mike Richards have a Jimmy Hart encounter? And he just said he would turn it on, turn it off, like I'm sure all these guys doing like morning TV. I mean, what about, can we talk about the Honky Tonk Man for a second? Oh, my God. Yes, please. Greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time. So self-appointed, but yes.

True, true. Until he was, didn't he, how did that work? Was it Steamboat? How did that whole thing end with him? So yeah, Steamboat dropped the title to him. And then Honky, I mean, as we just saw on both Dark Side of the Ring and the A&E bio series with Ultimate Warrior, Honky dropped the title

to Ultimate Warrior in what, 27 seconds at SummerSlam or something like that. And Honky tells the story that it was his idea because Warrior was dangerous. Right, right, right, right. But he was actually supposed to wrestle Brutus Beefcake on that SummerSlam, and Bruteye got hurt, so they threw Ultimate Warrior into the mix,

and then, bam, the rise and the fall of Ultimate Warrior. So which show was better, with the A&E one or the Dark Side of the Ring one? Shockingly, with the Warrior. Now, it was actually i found the a and e one was better as opposed to um normally i would say dark side of the ring is a great series so for wrestling fans listening they know that for anyone else if you want to know an interesting bio and you know you you have the decision to go with a wwe product or dark side of the ring dark side

of the ring is so well put together and well produced. And sorry, what is the, I don't even, what do you guys talk about? The A&E? A&E has a wrestling every week. They have a bio and a hidden treasure show. It's like all wrestling.

Arts and Entertainment Network. Yes. Yeah, so they pair it up with WWE, right? Because WWE is actually one of the producers on this. So a lot of what you're seeing is really kind of has the WWE wash to it. For instance, the one that they debuted with was Stone Cold Steve Austin

about a month and a half ago. And it was well done, except they just kind of skipped over when Austin beat the crap out of his wife. They didn't want to put that into the mix. Well, you know. Pretty prominent part of his bio and his character there.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But by the way, and aside, if any of you watch any of the NHL playoffs, these commercials with Steve Austin and Ice-T and Marc Messier. I know. I'm watching these. What the fuck is this? I don't think Ice-T knows Messier's in that ad.

I think he's got some. I guess it's all cold calls, like Ice-T, Stone Cold, Messier's on Ice. No, Messier's last name is like Messy. Is that what it is? Is it laundry? I don't know. It seems like a real stretch. Anyway, back to wrestling.

So can we educate Jason Agnew on the Stu Stones' role with the production of Dark Side of the Ring? No. It's kind of important, I think. Don't be modest. I work on the program this season three. Oh, amazing. Yeah, so a bunch of the episodes that you haven't seen yet, which are coming, which are really awesome.

And to your point about the A&E stuff, obviously our Warrior episode was much different because we had his first wife on the show. So we had the story of the rise of the Warrior that the other show didn't have because they had his second wife, who he didn't marry until after he was already well out of wrestling so you know pick which perspective

you want to hear anyone had a lot of really great footage that we didn't have that WWE only has which is unbelievable like the outtakes you know in between the promos and stuff like with Vince and him that stuff's amazing so listen for wrestling, watch all of it.

Well, watch. I'm waiting for the wrestling fan that has too much time on their hands and then cuts the two together because then you will actually get the full-on warrior cut. That's like putting the Pfizer with the AstraZeneca, like the best of both worlds. There's literally, though, wrestling on every night of the week now, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

It's like so much wrestling everywhere. It went from being only one company so now you can't turn away wrestling's everywhere okay can i offer an anecdote about honky getting back to honky yeah i i don't really watch the current product but i do watch like shoot interviews on youtube and i'll listen to uh the bruce pritchard podcast once in a while um. And I feel like there was a story of Jake the Snake, whose demons have been well documented as battles with alcohol and other things. But I feel like Jake has been on record in saying it was when the honky-tonk man hit him in the head with the guitar in the snake pit. Yeah.

That was actually a real pivotal moment because he was so badly concussed that it actually sent him down a very dark path. Am I imagining that wrong? No, no, that's a real story that he says. That's a real pivotal moment because he was so badly concussed that it actually sent him down a very dark path. Am I imagining that wrong? No, no, that's a real story that he says. That's a real story. It wasn't a gimmick guitar. Yeah. I have one in my trunk.

I was actually planning on bringing it and busting it over your head cam. It's like full of powder. Didn't I send you a honky tonk something else there, Mike? Yeah, I didn't load it up. You didn't load it up? There was a second honky Tonk song.

The one with Greg Valentine for Rhythm and Blues. Yeah. When Valentine dyed his hair black. And they debuted the song in Toronto at the Sky Dome at WrestleMania. They came down in a pink Cadillac. Wow. Owned by who? Owned by who?

Diamond Dallas Page. Yeah, there you go. All right. Come on now. I feel like I'm at a heavyweight tilt right here. Holy smoke. DDP. Watch it, Agnew.

Did some yoga. So wait, a couple of people want to send a note to Agnew here. So we're live at live.torontomic.com, which is our pirate stream. So they can't get us for playing this unlicensed music. And Jokeroo says, Agnew is a legend. Wow. Agnew is a legend. That. Agnew is a legend. That's Jokaroo.

And Opran says, Agnew doing Saturday, Sunday, 1010 mornings the next few weekends, I believe. So give us an update. When can we hear you on the mighty 1010? Yeah, you got it. I'm actually covering for Trafford for the next three weeks. I'm doing Saturday and Sunday mornings. And, of course, I'm always doing Sunday morning trivia from 9 until noon, which is cool.

Now it's all across the province on like five different stations. Wow. Very cool. Consolidation helps. And you love your Great Lakes as much as we do. So I love your background. I wish I could broadcast that to the people. So, Jay, it's up to you.

Listen, what a start to the Wrestling Jams episode. it's up to you listen what a start to the wrestling jams episode i almost feel like you should hop on your bicycle you could probably be here in 10 minutes and come into my garage you're right down the street that's right that's right but man uh i would we'd love it if you'd stick around a bit but no pressure what are you so what are you guys you're just kicking out different like we each talking about we each picked four wrestling jams to kick out and we're gonna to start with Cam Gordon right now. We're going to kick out his jam. Yeah, I just need to call up my notes.

So talk about... Oh, there we go. Well, now, again, this is a little bit potato, this audio quality. I'm just going to warn the listenership. So I'm going to play this choice clip from Cam Gordon. And I can hop off whenever he wants. Agnes?

Okay, let me do a... I'm going to do a first round. Okay, do a round. Okay, awesome. Amazing. Guys, do a round. Okay, awesome. Amazing. Guys, guys, guys. Okay. Just before we start,

we're talking wrestling jams. This, I thought, would be the only way to start this episode. Let's listen to the audio. The bowling contest is scheduled for one fall. Ladies and gentlemen,

in the ring to my left, introducing first the manager, the doctor of style, Slick. And he represents from the Soviet Union, weighing 313 pounds, Nikolai Volkov. Slick now going over. 313 pounds, Nikolai Volkov. Nikolai's a great guy, by the way. He was. Total match. We'll get to that. I have some questions for you.

I've been asked by the Doctor of Style that you all please rise and respect Nikolai Volkov's singing of the Soviet National Anthem. There you are. Give me your wishes granted. This is my favorite part. I love his voice, man. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great.

He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great.

He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. He's great. I wonder why he bothers. Nobody ever listens to him. Oh, Lord Alfred Hayes. Promotional consideration paid for by the following. So, Jason, you can't see the camera that's on Stew and Cam, but they did.

Oh, you're watching the stream, so I can see now. I see George the Animal Steel. I see the first show. The Macho Man t-shirt. Boom, I'm in. What an age we live in. But that's Lorde. What's the name of the gentleman there?

Lorde Alfred Hayes. Lorde Alfred Hayes. He's the one being satirized in that opening Simpsons clip that I played. Oh, really? That's the inspiration for that voice doing the wrestling call at the beginning of the Simpsons clip there. That's very good. Okay, talk to us, Cam.

The Russian national anthem. You know, big jam. Of course, for those, I assume probably nobody's listening unless you're a wrestling fan. Just in case, just to give a bit of exposition, the late, great Nikolai Volkov

would demand that be sung and he'd sung it himself before every one of exposition, the late, great Nikolai Volkov would demand that be sung, and he'd sung it himself before every one of his matches in the WWF. I feel like there's going to be a lot of anecdotes, especially Stu and I, like wrestlers we've encountered over the years. A quick mention of Slick, who was the manager of Nikolai Volkov. One of my first

wrestling encounters, me and my dad were at Maple Leaf Gardens. This would be like probably 86 87 and we were just like leaving we saw like a commotion after the card because some of the wrestlers were leaving so we stayed and watched and a gentleman who actually just passed away butch reed ah the natural if you remember him yeah it came out with his manager slick slick was wearing a full length full coat and like slick was sort of like a pimp gimmick, I think. Would you say that's fair, Stu?

Yeah. And everyone's like hey, fuck you guys and kind of all this stuff and Slick actually turned around to a group of little kids and said, don't touch the fucking coat. Talk to a bunch of kids and I'm like nine at the time. This explains a lot too. When he had to leave the movie,

remember? Because of the sperm scene? Yeah like, this explains a lot too. Like when he had to leave the movie, remember? Because of the sperm scene. Yeah. Like, look who's talking. Um, a few, a few fun facts about Nikolai Volkov,

who we did like lose with him last year. And by all accounts, it's like a really solid dude. Uh, wasn't actually Russian. No. It's from Yugoslavia. Yeah. From Baltimore.

Bus driver. Yeah. Baltimore. Yeah. Uh, trained by another, this could be a theme, dead wrestlers, but trained in Calgary by the late, great Stu Hart, the patriarch of the Hart family.

I kind of forgot about this. He was the first member of Ted DiBiase's million-dollar corporation. Yeah, he came out with like a little cent sign on his trunk. Yeah, like I went back and watched videos. Oh, yeah, like he was like down on his luck, and he's just sitting in the crowd and it's like, oh look at Nikolai,

he's a Hall of Famer and oh, he can't, you know, he's made some bad investments wearing like a really drab Soviet, like DiBiase was like his sort of slave and stuff.

I totally forgot about that. A bit about the music and then I'm going to ask you some questions because I know he was a contact of Nikolai and had some encounters with him. The official name of that song was the State Anthem of the Soviet Union. It was actually written in 1938 by Alexander Alexandrov.

This is your wrestling jam. Now, the lyrics were from 1944, but were amended in 1977, the year Stu and I were born. Sure, sure. Speak for yourself. The shoot year, not Stu's work year. Right, right. They added some added lyrics in 1977,

the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. This is taking up valuable time. We'll do about 40 minutes on that a bit later. They actually abandoned that national anthem in December of 1991. A lot of changes, obviously, in the Soviet Union in the early 90s. Yada, yada, yada. Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall. All the greats.

All the greats. Stu, I know you met Boris Zhukov. Why did you meet Volkov? It's the Bolsheviks. Volkov was obviously tag team partner of the Iron Sheik and you know I worked on the Iron Sheik film. Sure. So got through the Iron Sheik obviously you're speaking

to a lot of Iron Sheik people and Nikolai's one of them and every time he sort of had bookings in Toronto you know I'd see him and say hello. Friendliest guy. Yeah. But also such a healthy guy. Like he was in great shape even when I saw him him and say hello. Friendliest guy. But also such a healthy guy. He was in great shape even when I saw him last.

And he was always talking about diet and eating clean and exercising. I think he's one of the guys that never drank, never did drugs. Well, I think he was famous for he would bring his own food on the road and a hot plate. He wouldn't be out rabble-rabbling with whoever, ravishing Rick Rude or whoever. He'd be cooking his food on the road and like a hot plate. Like you wouldn't be out like rabble rousing with whoever, ravishing Rick Rude or whoever. Like you'd be cooking his food in the hotel. Like just like real sort of humble.

Again, like he's sort of like Eastern European upbringing. I'm sure. You couldn't think of polar opposites than the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkov. And the fact that they were traveling partners, there's probably like a documentary there. Like it's like planes trains and automobiles it's like the odd couple like chic and volkov are polar opposites those aren't pillows yeah yeah that the classic uh mid-80s like evil foreigner gimmick though volkov

but uh i i saw an older match volkov fighting uh bruiser brody and they just like kicked the shit out of each other because they're both like six feet. Barrel chested. Huge, yeah. Just like big burly guys just like fucking pounding on each other. Well, before Nikolai

was Nikolai Volkov, you know, he was a main eventer for Vince's dad. He wrestled Bruno San Martino in Madison Square Garden. Is that right? Is he still on with us?

Yeah, Jason's here. That would have been like, but he wasn't Volkov yet, right? No, he was like the Mongol. I think he was a Mongol. Yeah, he was Mongolian. But I think he actually main evented with Bruno at the Garden.

I saw some old pictures of the Mongols when I was researching the Russian National Anthem. Scary looking dudes. If it was like 1971, I saw the, because the other Mongol looked like, they kind of almost looked like the missing link a bit, like kind of like crazy hair cats, but just like huge guys and very different presentation to kind of the sickle and kind of the little hat,

Russian hat that Volkov would wear, all the red. But what a legend, Nikolai Volkov. Love him. Did you want to play the mind blow? I mean, I think that this want to play the mind blow? I mean I think that this is probably like the real song yeah just like 30 seconds

of the real song, yeah this wasn't really a mind blow before you play this I was once on Cole Cabana's podcast, Art of Wrestling and he asked me, he was doing a wrestling jams and he's like pick one wrestling song, you can only play one and I picked this song it's not what youams, and he's like, pick one wrestling song. You can only play one.

And I picked this song. It's not what you think. Oh, it's not? No, because you're thinking Karamiya, right? It's not Karamiya? It's not Karamiya. Oh, that blows my mind. I thought we were going to hear Karamiya. Too obvious.

It's not Little Lime. Too obvious. Oh, my bad. But Karamiya is a beautiful song. Yes. He does a great job on that. He sure does. Beautiful.

And just for the listenership, so Stu and Cam, and of course Jason Agnew, they know their wrestling, like the history and everything. I'm like 85 to 88, but so far all these names I actually know. Like I know Honky Tonk, man, and I know. Oh, yeah, we'll keep it in your generation. Well, you don't have to. You don't have to because I'm going to learn a lot from you guys.

But here's the mind blow from Cam Gordon. Gordon. So it's like his version was like not even the real song. I can hear it. It's close. It's there. It's there. Now, I will say, and I feel like this is going to be a theme.

Growing up watching wrestling, which, you know, a lot of people just consider the most lowbrow entertainment, lowbrow art form. You do get weird pockets of very high culture. This would be one where you'd be watching the Olympics or something and you'd hear it. And even if you didn't vocalize it in your head, you'd be saying, Nikolai fucking Volkov!

Because you're watching, sorry, children around. That's okay. They're used to me swaying around them. Because you're watching children around. That's okay. They're used to me swaying around them. So you want high culture. Well, my first jam is a nice segue from that. Do you want me to kick? Okay. So I think, by the way, also hearing this Russian anthem in my head here. You just went on Cam's first wrestling jam with the Russian national anthem.

Let's just leave that out there. Okay. Let's keep it cultured for my first jam. Okay. So this is my. I guess you start the show with the anthem. Let's just leave that out there. Okay, let's keep it cultured for my first jam. Okay, so this is my... I guess you start the show with the anthem. My first jam. Ah, there we go. This is what all the kids get to hear on Zoom this year, right?

Oh my God, yeah. I actually only identified this with Macho Man before I even knew it was like... Me too. I always just thought it was Macho Man's song. I had no idea when I was at my grade 8 graduation this was played at graduations. And you would just hear a murmur of little boys saying, Oh, Macho Man. All right.

So I have some fun facts for those who don't know. Firstly, we call this pomp and circumstance. Yeah. Do that. Yeah, you're wearing the T-shirt for those who can't see, but we will take the photo by the tree and they'll get this photo. Sure, sure. The macho man shirt there.

Okay, so this was composed all the way back in 1901. Wow. Sir Edward Elger, he put together... Eddie Elger. Double E. They're called marches, okay? He had six marches that he composed. Six marches?

Did they go to the Billboard 100 on marches? Guess where they were slain. This was the first march, the one we're listening to now. Oh, okay. Again, composed in 1901. And there's only three countries that made this the graduation march. Canada. Canada.

America. America. Sarasota. Can you name the third country? England. You contribute here as well. Australia. Nope.

England. Ready for this? I should get Monica out here to announce it. The Philippines. Oh. So it's Canada, USA, and the Philippines that called this the graduation march or public circumstance.

All the other countries who let the dogs out. They used Rujo Brothers' All-American Boys. That's a great song, by the way. I think Jimmy Hart wrote that song. I think that's a Jimmy Hart one. And I think Jimmy probably also did I'm the Mountie, I'm handsome, I'm brave, I'm strong. Remember the Mountie's first anthem?

It was like... No. Anyway. You're a good singer, Cam. As you are. Thank you. Well, okay. So I'm going to elaborate more on Macho Man with another jam I'll kick out later.

I'll just say that as a guy who watched a lot from 85 to like 89. He was the star of the show. Macho Man and Elizabeth, Miss Elizabeth, when they were doing that entrance, that was it, man. There was nothing bigger than that.

I know the Hulkamaniacs might disagree, but in hearing that song, which again, I did not know was a graduation song. I only knew it as the Macho Man entrance thing

and I loved it. That's as cultured as I got back in 1985 was that pomp and circumstance right there. By the way, I still remember the foreign object that he takes out of his shorts. It looks like he's wiping his penis out.

No, it's like a bicycle handle or something. Yeah, so that's Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. No, Tito Santana when he smacked him in the head. Oh, that's right. To take the title. Is that how he wins the Intercontinental? Yes. Okay, so that whole, to me, I don't even think at the time I realized this was fake,

okay, or sorry, predetermined. I know that's a better word for it. I think I thought it was all real at the time. Danny Davis was the referee. Right, Danny fucking Davis. So that's pomp and circumstance. So, so far, Cam and I have kicked out wrestling jams that are like classical pieces of music.

By the way, Stu's been known to do some great wrestling impressions. He would do a great impression, but not just the voices, like the mannerisms. This is sort of a deep cut, but when Randy Savage jumped off the top turnbuckle onto Ricky Steamboat, whose throat was like prone on the metal, Steamboat would be like grabbing his throat.

His tongue would be like out like he was fucking Gene Simmons. I thought he was dead. He was like squirming. It's like, oh, his esophagus. His esophagus just got crushed. Wait, now, in real life, I feel like Steamboat was like going away to like do like a TV pilot or something. Am I right about that? Well, Jake the Snake like DDT'd him on the cold, hard floor.

It was macho with the bell yeah but jay do you know anything about this uh was that so there's two different things right jake did hit him with the ddt and knocked him out um but it was macho man with the bell which with the right angle where he eventually had to come back and won the belt at wrestlemania after they stole the show at Wrestlemania yeah so I don't know if Steamboat went away Steamboat's whole deal is he didn't want to be on the road for like 300 days so he asked for some time off

and it was like and Hogan also didn't care for him after Wrestlemania 3 I'm gonna think I'm gonna dig into this but I think that I remember that he shot like a TV pilot that summer also for some show that like never went anywhere. But maybe I'm wrong.

Like the one with Piper and Jesse Ventura where they played buddy cops? It could have been that one. What was that show called? What was that show called? Because I want to watch it. It's like Body Slam. Can I offer... Tag Team. Was it called Tag Team?

Sounds about right. Can I offer an unpopular view? I think Savage and Steamboat at WrestleMania 3, a little overrated. Wow. A little overrated. Well, you say that now, but you think of like... At the time, maybe, yeah. You know, the storytelling in that match, all those false finishes that they had, they

were not for nothing because the match ends on a roll-up. So it's like like that's the beautiful part that the wrestling guys like because it's told such a beautiful story i think it's that this gentleman right here pushed macho off the top yeah i think that always kind of bothered me because it seemed like a bit of a tainted victory and uh captain like steamboat was like kind of the epitome of like baby face i Was Steamboat ever a bad guy? No. I don't think so.

We've had Ricky on the show. I mean, he's a bad guy. He's just someone who never really worked as a baby. You know, in modern-day Steamboat, I've been calling Jungle Boy the modern-day Steamboat because there's a guy that just has the crowd all behind him right now and is going to work as a beautiful babyface. And I don't know how he works as a heel. Who's Jungle Boy?

That's Luke Perry's son. Yes? That's Luke Perry's son. Yes. Sorry, Luke Perry's son. Yeah, he's in AEW. Just won a big match. That's a fucking mind blow. Yeah. Wow.

Like Dylan. He's getting a shot at the title in two weeks. He looks like his dad, too. Versus Kenny Omega. He just needs to put on like 40 pounds. This is wild. Okay, Jay, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here because Stu Stone is going to introduce his first jam.

Well, listen, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here because Stu Stone is going to introduce his first jam. Well, listen, Mount Rushmore, someone should have played Flair's song, but Cam wasted his spot with the Russian national anthem, but that's all right. He's got three more shots. And Macho Man Savage was just played. So this is a controversial figure in professional wrestling, but without this gentleman, probably none of us would be sitting here right now. These toys wouldn't be here. None of this would be sitting here right now. These toys wouldn't be here. None of this would be here without this guy. No chance in hell.

Barry Horowitz. Here we go. Buckle up. I am a real American. Fight for the rights of every man. Big jam. I am a real American. Wow. Big jam. I know. Fight for what's right.

Fight for your life. When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside You gotta take a stand, it don't help to hide If you hurt my friends, then you hurt my pride I gotta be a man, I can't let it slide I am a real American I mean, you just hear this song and instantly it takes you to a place. Mike's nipples are like... Vince McMahon is the mad scientist of professional wrestling, but Hulk Hogan is the Frankenstein.

I mean, he is the reason why we're all here. I mean, Hulk Hogan threw us all in. Hulkamania was huge. The full package. And whether you were a Hulk Hogan fan or you watched the show to see if one of these bad guys would eventually beat him, like I was a guy that cheered for Hogan to lose. This motherfucker here took a shot.

He got his ass kicked. But this is a wrestling jam right here. He's playing the King Kong Bundy, everybody. Now, Hulk used to come out to the ring to Eye of the Tiger. Right, Survivor. But then, because he was in Rocky, the Rocky film. Right, number three. But this, ultimately, there was another song that was meant to be Hulk Hogan's theme,

which was the, we've played it before, the Jim Steinman song. The Ravishing. theme, which was the, we've played it before, the Jim Steinman song that ended up being the Bonnie Tyler song that was used for Hulk Hogan's Rockin' Wrestling. But this song was actually meant to be for Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo, the U.S. Express. Oh, wow. I actually knew that. Also known as IRS. And I didn't need notes for this soundbite.

I'm making a pitch to be a guest host on Ag News show here. Sunday's main event. Listen, here's kind of a mind blow that's going to blow your guys' mind about this rock and wrestling thing. Obviously, it's a credit to Cyndi Lauper, obviously. Captain Lou Albano, Roddy Piper, that whole thing. MTV put them on the map, right? But here's a really interesting fun fact. The credit for this whole wrestling album stuff, Weird Al Yankovic.

Explain further. I did not know this. Weird Al Yankovic was scoring huge success in the 84, 85 period, parodying Michael Jackson's songs. Yeah. And Vince had an idea I could do something like that. Dave Wolf was the manager of Cyndi Lauper, was like, hey, you could do something like that. The producers of the song Eat It and Fat is Rick Derringer.

Rick Derringer got the credit for the one who did, was good at this oddball music stuff, so Derringer comes on board, and he writes Real American. And he also writes this other song that we'll just play a snippet of, The Greatest Tag Team. Is this the right? No, that's not it.

That is not. Oh, no, yeah, leave this here. Yeah, play this first. Play that first. Yeah, this is fine. Hogan went to WCW. Couldn't take Real American with him. This was his first.

This was his Kirkland theme. This is the fake Real American when he was in WCW, the Jimmy Hart version. Shit. It's like complete horse shit. It's almost like Vanilla Ice and Queen. Do you remember this? Of course. This one.

Yeah, this is the kirkland brand this is the kirkland brand version okay let's break this there's another one right there's another one like this if you if you pick up abyss's theme from tna when he was doing the imitation of hulk hogan they got jimmy hart to write another one so it was like a parody of a parody of a parody it's like a bad photocopy so So funny. And the Wrestling Boot Band, as Agnew alluded to earlier, is the funniest musical group in fucking history. It's Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, Linda Hogan.

So she's, it's like that's the band. And then they have like studio musicians around them. It's like Toto is in the studio with them. Steve Luke came in. Hogan and Jimmy Hart wrote the songs for the album, including allegedly this ripoff of Real American. So this they did when they went to WCW.

When he went to WCW, he couldn't take Real American with him, right? So they had to make this new one. And Hulk Hogan was a bass player. I don't know if he was good or not, but he was a bass player. Right. He claims that he was going to be

the bass player for Metallica. Yeah, and Metallica refutes that. I thought that was like Les Claypool. But Hogan, famously at the Slammys, plays bass when Vince Singh stands back. I mean, in the music video for Real American, it looks like the real deal. Just chops. Weird Al Yankovic. How about that?

Agnew didn't even know that. But you have another mind blow, right? I did not know that. Obviously, Rick Derringer goes on to produce the wrestling album. He also does Piledriver, the wrestling album, too. I'm sure we'll hear from that later. This song, Real American, was used by the great Barack Obama as part of his campaign. So good on you here.

Well, Obama also played this at the correspondence dinner when he produced his birth certificate. Yes, he did. Which is, like, fucking hilarious. He had a real, he did. Which is like fucking hilarious. He had a real sense of humor. What a guy. Amazing. But I did want to just say that Agnew's going to know this, but this is Rick Derringer's best song might be Real American,

but the real smart wrestling fans know that Derringer's best wrestling song is this one. Oh, yeah. This was my third song, you know. Really? Oh, I fucked up. I didn't even notice. You know what?

Stu gets his fucking jams in too late. Mike, I'll just say this pick, this is where I insert my Northern Lights force fit. Okay, why don't we just let Cam just talk about the song now? Okay, how about this? Cam, DM me or text me another song, and I'll get into it for you. No, no, no, he can just start talking about this song. I'd like to talk about Demolition.

This is perhaps the best theme of all time. I mean, it's so good, and it's Rick Derringer singing and playing. I should have caught that you would pick the same thing. That's okay. Cam's the next song anyway, so just have him do this now. And you know what? There's a lot of overlap here, so yeah, why don't we just hot shot this in? Can you just turn it up for a second?

Yeah, okay. Why don't you tell us what we're listening to? This song fucking kicks ass, for one thing. Demolition. Derringer on the guitar solo. Cute. And the vocals. Rock and roll hoochie-coo.

One last fun fact to get in on Real American I forgot to mention. Cyndi Lauper, background vocals on Real American. So those high, high like that's her anyway sorry demolition yeah the best tag team the best song before you leave real american you know what's sort of an interesting sound alike i'd never really notice it so we've got i when it comes crashing down and it hurts it's like and edwin collins i never met a girl like you before. You're right. You're right.

Just thought of that. Let's talk a bit about Demolition. Mike, do you remember Demolition? Were you out of wrestling? Axe and Smash. Kind of like an S&M. I caught them when they entered. The funny thing is, because you talked about Ric Flair earlier,

I missed any wrestler who wasn't in the WWF during my time. So like Ric Flair was a guy I never knew anything about. Dusty Rhodes or the Road Warriors. I only learned about them as an adult. I learned about the fact. Stuff Eddie Gilbert. Nothing. But I remember these guys did enter the WWF just before I checked. They made a big impact both literally.

So the demolition of course were Bill Eadie who was Axe. Then you got Barry Darsow, who was Smash. Later on would be a number of characters. You had the Repo Man. He would repossess. He played a golfer.

I do not remember. Payne Stewart. Yeah, Payne Stewart. He was the Blacktop Bully, which I... Had a match on like a moving truck with Dustin Rhodes. Yeah. And prior to becoming Smash, you talk about Volkov, not really a Russian.

Barry Darcelle played, he was Crusher Khrushchev. Even though Barry Darcelle is from like Minnesota. From the Minnesota. Yeah, so he was sort of, a lot of wrestlers from Minnesota, including, I think, was Ric Flair from? Well, that whole crew, There's a whole Minnesota crew. Train there with Vern.

Kern Hedig and Ric Rude. Yeah, I'm talking about, well, Agnew's talking about there's the Flair, Sheik, Steamboat, all those guys trained with Vern. But in Robbinsdale, Mr. Perfect and Ric Rude and Barry Darsow and the Legion of Doom, these guys all went to the, like, they're all from the same neighborhood. James Bonhawk points out, and I remember this being the case, that Demolition was like the WWF's

cheap imitation of Road Warriors. Well, maybe at first it was like that, but I think, like, they evolved into their own thing. They were able to escape that moniker, I think. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just looked at them as their own thing. While I'm catching up on the chat here, I do, I'm going to just shout out Cambrio and Andrew Ward.

They want me to ask you, Stuart, about Buff Bagwell. Yeah, well, we'll get to that. Oh, that's going to come up later? Okay. I don't know Buff Bagwell, so I know Jeff Bagwell. Jeff Bagwell, Hall of Famer. He's traded for Larry Anderson. Anyway, there was a third member of Demolition that I'm sure Stu,

and now just let me finish because this is going to be one of our favorite parts of the show. The third member, his name was Crush, real name Brian Adams. Wow. Not the same as Brian Adams who fucking co-wrote Northern Lights. That's your Northern Lights force fit for this week. Now, just before we leave, Bill Eadie acts. He was also in The Machines. Yes, and I saw them at Maple Leaf Gardens,

or maybe at the Hulkamania. Well, I mean, this was sort of... Because who knows I was there. See, I feel like we've had a few concerts over the year where like, oh, we saw it was Lollapalooza, or it was at the R.E.M. concert or whatever. This is an event the three of us independently were at. And I'm sure Jason was at that too, right?

The main event? Yeah, the big event. I actually wasn't. Okay, you know what? I made that assumption. I think every time Jason comes on Toronto Mic'd, and there's some good Jason Agnew episodes of Toronto Mic'd, by the way,

he's got the best Barenaked Ladies story because he's like the last guy to see the original band members perform live besides that Junos event where they reunited. Whoa, where was this? It was on the cruise. Who did I confirm it with? Tyler Stewart or Steven Page? Do you remember,

Jay? I don't know if you had it confirmed. You didn't have it confirmed when I was on because you had me do a bit for Tyler. It was Tyler. You had me do a bit for Tyler afterwards. And he confirmed it. So we have like corroboration that that is true. Okay, so check that out. Two demolition things.

Okay, do the demolition and then we're going to get back to this main event. There better be a Moondog reference here. I was about to say, the first thing is that there was an actual another member, Cam, that you don't know. Moondog Rex. So he was the original member before Darcello, but the fans recognized him and they were like, Moondog!

And Vince was like, okay, he's out Do you know Blast? Yes Who was a famous French-Canadian That was in the independent scene Yeah, Richard Charlin Who I remember was sort of like the jobber you would see Like he would fucking lose to Iron Mike Sharp

Or like Steve Lombardi Like real lower the card guy It's like Axe and Zap. Anyway, let's get back to the machines. Wait, I didn't get my other two demolition points in. Number one was that. There was another

Moondog. And also Fudge the Stooge. Number two, every fantasy sports team that I've ever had in the history of fantasy sports, my name is Demolition. Wow, that's a great one. Hey, can we just go back a moment? That Hulk Hogan theme, what's the tag team, Rotunda?

The U.S. Express. So what's the deal? Well, Barry Windham, he left. Okay, he left the WWF. So then that team got split up. Then Danny Spivey, they tried it with him. It didn't work. Okay, boy. It didn't work. Okay, and they wanted something original for Hulk

because they were doing Eye of the Tiger or something, which they don't own the rights to. Right. This is what I was going to say about Demolition, the last point. I'm in a fucking burst. Do you think anyone's listening who doesn't give a shit about wrestling? Are we only with wrestling? No, no, no.

They care. They care. Is Moose Grumpy listening? The Road Warriors were so popular that they needed to be copied by Vince. But the Road Warrior pop, that's what, if you ever heard about anything. Okay, but time out. Yeah. Young Mike, who would have probably.

Legion of Doom. Where did you, yes. That would have been in Georgia. On TBS you would watch it. I didn't get TBS. I had a satellite dish. Okay, I'll just say as a guy. I bought the magazines.

I watched Maple Leaf Wrestling with Billy Redlines, and Jay likes to say, don't you dare miss it. Toronto is a WWF town. Okay, because all I could find on my television and WUTV had wrestling. Well, you weren't looking hard enough because CFTO had WCW on. So, Jay, you're only a couple years younger. You're my brother's age because you went to high school together. Jay, did you watch anything other than WWFf on television as a young man so there were two

things that were available they're right cfdo did air a little bit of nwa but it was tough to find it moved around the other thing that you could see on city tv was international wrestling out of montreal like sweet daddy siki dino bravo where he was martel crazy star there yeah rick martel was on there but that's about it. Pro Wrestling Plus? Oh my fucking god. I wanted to say Pro Wrestling Plus. All my fucking fun facts are gone. Hosted by Ed Whalen.

Who just passed away. Yeah, was the play-by-play guy for the Calgary Flames. Yes. In the meantime, in the in-between time. Yeah. I didn't know that he was... Anyway, let's tie all this... I have another fun fact. No, Cam Gordon has this floor. Thank you. let's tie all this no cam gordon has this floor thank you let's tie this shit together okay real american the original theme song for mike rotundo don't call me rotunda yes who later became erwin r seister the wrestling account and we'll get to

that a bit later now mike barry windham half of that tag team. Okay. A couple of things. Yes. He was replaced by Dan Spivey, later became Dangerous Dan Spivey, a partner with The Undertaker, also became Waylon Mercy, who was a great... Anyway, when I was little, I used to sleepwalk a bit. My sister told... My daughter does that, but not this one. My sister told me, I once went in her room.

She was like sleeping. I'm like lindsey lindsey she's like what it's like when is mom bringing danny spivey over don't know what that's about anyway do you know who danny or sorry that's what he was boiling up to tell us no no no i'm gonna bring it back that's better than the sperm story yes i'm gonna bring it back hey that's a nice sprinkler. I love my sprinkler story. That was good. I like it.

Okay, Michael. Barry Windham. Legend of the Ring. Sure. I'm Michael. Yes. Did you know, what would you do if I told you his dad was in the machines? Oh, he was. Occasionally. See, the machines were always masked. Yes. Because we thought Andre was in the machines. Oh, he was. Occasionally. See, the machines were always masked.

Yes. Because we thought Andre was in there. Well, Andre was in there. He was. The other two members was... Blackjack Mulligan. Fuck off. Was Super Machine, later to become Axe, and...

Wow. Giant... Big Machine. Sorry, Big Machine, who's Blackjack Mulligan. Not to be mistaken, Giant Machine, which was... There was also Hulk Machine and Animal Machine. Piper Machine and the whole gimmick. Agnew Machine.

Can we... Okay. So let's park that. Let's go back to music for a second. Rick Derringer. Yeah. Fucking crazy career. I'm just going to like...

Stu actually had a lot of my fun facts. Okay, because people today only really know one jam from the day. Yeah, I'm just going to go right through this. I have a rock and roll hoochie-coo. Okay, let's go back to 1965. Soupy Hang-On. Oh, that's it. Okay, leave that cam. I didn't I'm just going to go right through this. I know, but Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo is all you hear. Let's go back to 1965. Soupy, hang on. Oh, that's it.

Okay, leave that cam. I didn't know you were going to say that. That cam, Gordon, have the fucking mic. I didn't know you were going to say that. I'm going to mute his mic, Cam. No, no, don't you dare. This guy's killing me.

This guy's killing me. I control everything. Hang on, Sloopy. Sloopy, hang on. Okay, I apologize. That's a big jam. Rick Derringer. Hang on, Blue Jays.

Blue Jays, hang on. Derringer. Yes, the Blue J album Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo Yes Rock and Roll Later sung by Mean Gene The late great Mean Gene

The late great The best Tootie Fruity A song we've kicked out before Sloopy Hang On Total Eclipse of the Heart He wrote that? Who's playing guitar in it?

Kim Steinman How about that? That makes sense. Rick Derringer on guitar. Jim Steinman. They probably met on the wrestling album. They did all sorts of stuff. Hold on to that.

I might be doing that later. This motherfucker over here, Yacht Rock, here's a callback. Gaucho. Oh, wow. That's a big one. Steely Dan album. Yeah. Rick Derringer played on My Rival.

This guy's My Rival. If you played on a Steely Dan album, that means you were a good musician My Rival. If you played on a Steely Dan album, that means you were a good musician. Only the best of the best on a Steely Dan album. That's why his yard rod is well-crafted. I will say, I think when Jay said, I'll do a round, he thought, babe, I'll see you in 15 minutes.

No, he likes this. Listen, I am going to go. I do want to leave you with one thing because you continued, Mike, to bring up Eye of the Tiger and how Hogan used that. Do you guys know the story of Eye of the Tiger and why it was created for Rocky?

I know this because of trivia. Wait, slow down. Give me a second for a moment. What the original song for Rocky was supposed to be? Yeah, Win in the End. No. Oh, You're the Best. You're the Best.

Like the Karate Kid song. Phil Esposito. Esposito. Joe Esposito. You're the Best. Am I right? It was originally supposed to be Another One Bites the Dust. Stallone wanted that.

Freddie Mercury turned him down. He then went ahead and got Survivor to do Eye of the Tiger. This guy knows his trivia. Better song, by the way. Like for Rocky. For Rocky, yeah. I mean, it's an anthem now. But I mean, that could have been Another One Bites the Dust.

Joe Esposito. That's a different whole fucking... There is some tie-in with Joe Esposito. Like, Joe Esposito's You're the Best was supposed to be for a Rocky. I think Survivor got the... You're thinking of the Karate Kid 2 song, which was the Peter Cetera song,

was meant for Rocky 4, but ended up being Karate Kid. I think also You're the Best was meant for Rocky 3. And ended up in Breaking? And then ended up going to Karate Kid, which is made by the same guy who directed Rocky. Really? I think Karate Kid was just the same guy who did Rocky.

That probably makes sense. Right. Joe Penetino knows. And the other song I confused it with, A Win in the End, is from Teen Wolf. Nothing to do with, except they were songs that They were songs that pumped me up when i was young i've done a great job okay sending you far off track oh my god jason i will now make my exit

hey thanks for uh doing this you were a great guest on our wrestling jams episode and you're a legend like somebody said in the chat so thanks man this is awesome yeah i gotta go pay that guy all right bye guys okay see ya see ya buddy um I'm just happy Moose Grumpy is still with us. Not only alive, but she's actually active in the chat. She's enjoying it. She's participating. Three more fun facts about Rick. Three more?

Fuck this guy. Well, this guy fucking sold my song, so. I should have caught that. Latter-day Rick Derringer. The Latter-day Saints? You know, Davey. Oh, Davey. That was all by the Latter-day Saints guys. You know, Davy? Oh, Davy. That was all by the Latter Day Saints guys.

You know, that was all propaganda by those guys. They gave it away to Commander Tom. Yes, okay. Yeah. It was just meant to like... Commander Tom was propaganda? No, no, no. They gave that show to like shows like Commander Tom

because they wanted to like... They were like, come here, Goliath. And at the end, that's why at the end, there was always like, oh, you know, the Lord was with us when you would ever, like there's all that Jesus stuff at the end. The Lord, Joel Smith. Go. Infowars.

Oh. Do you ever watch Infowars? No, I don't. Did you watch it in 2017? Sure. If you were, you might have seen Rick Derringer show up. Oh, really? In a full sit-down interview, interviewed by Roger Stone.

Oh, wow. Get me Roger Stone. Get me Roger Stone. Get me Roger Stone. Also in 2017, Rick Derringer collaborated with two former baseball players on a new version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a celebration of his love of baseball. Can you give us a clue? Because I would like to get you out of this.

You will never fucking get these guys. Orlando Cepeda. It's Cecil Cooper. No, it was Tom Seaver. Seavey. The other one was Gary Reedus. I don't remember Gary. Of course. He played for the White Sox and the Pirates with Barry Bonds.

Last but not least, his last time out on the road 2018, Derringer embarked on a tour with three other outfits. Vanilla Fudge. Play that funky music yeah Mitch Ryder

who I think would devil with the blue dress the Detroit Wheels right and also a band that comes up a lot on on Pandemic Forest

I'm not sure why Badfinger yeah that's a super that's a super is Badfinger a super group they were they were 27

oh that's Bad English Bad English is a super group Bad Company right and that was like two big bands John Waite They were 27. Oh, that's Bad English. Bad English is a super group. When I see you smile. And that was like two big bands. John Waite. I'll be missing you. Yeah, that's the singer of Bad English.

But also the rest of the guys were just deep purple or something. I don't know. Now, okay, so we've sort of trumped one of my picks. Oh, Trump. Now, just in case we don't come back to the big event. Our friend Ryan's not here. We told this story on the show before.

Let's hear it, though. Put it in the wrestling album. But we've told it before. We're running out of material. Do the short version. Do Do the Clown's Father takes Brian Farbsy Farberman to the exit to see that big event. Yes.

We were all there. We were all there. So he was in probably like I think they were in like the 17th row or something. Wow. And DJ Farbsy has to pee really badly. He's like eight. And so his grandfather just like hands him a cup and is like just pee in here. He's like that MP.

So he pees in the cup and then like when hogan comes out and gets the big pop he throws the cup fast forward allegedly a few weeks later at a boat show there is like a the boat show right at the x they have like the boat show he's at the boat show big event talk about big event it's like a couple of guys are just like mauling about their experience at the big event. And some guy was like, I was in the second row and someone threw a thing of piss at me. And there you go. That's the story.

I love the story. Ask Doodoo the Clown. That's not as good as my sprinkler story, but just a couple of clarifications. I don't think Doodoo knows that story. We got a couple of things wrong. Apparently I was wrong. Play That Funky Music was Wild Cherry, not Vanilla Fudge. I think it's because Vanilla Ice covered it.

Vanilla Fudge did a cover of You Keep Me Hanging On, like a heavy version of it. All right. And also I said Davy and Goliath was Latter-day Saints, and I really did think that. But according to Andrew Ward, it's actually a Lutheran thing. So maybe I'll Google it if I get a chance. I actually was pretty, I thought it was the Church

of Latter-day Saints. Like, I can almost see the credits. But anyway, I trust Andrew. I can check that later. And the funniest line I've read in a while is that Moose Grumpy's waiting to find out if Toto has a wrestling song. They do. Because Stu has kicked out a lot of Toto. Well, they're a great band, and you know,

in my private life, in my private personal life, I am always looking for new fun lot of Toto. Well, they're a great band. And, you know, in my private life, in my private personal life, I am always looking for new fun facts about Toto. So, feel free to send me one if you have one. Cam, I'm sorry for stealing your third jam. You want to sit this round out and then we'll give up. Why don't you mix it up?

So, I'll kick out my second jam and then we'll kick it. It kind of ties in. Why don't you just switch Cam's two picks around so that was Demolition is his second pick? Okay, well, that's kind of what I'm doing. I'm skipping him this round. It's the same, whatever works. Come on, I'm the host of this show, Stu. Sometimes.

Here is my second jam. Beauty. Hey. Hey. You got to know how to pony. Like Pony Maroney. You got to know how to twist. And it goes like this. You do the mashed potato.

Now do the alligator. Holding such a yo-yo. You've got to move like a sheep. Let's send a clap your hands. He sent a clap your hands. And then you move your feet. I love it, man. This was the first cut on the album. I actually liked this song as a youngster, just as a song. It's so fun. I thought it was a good This was the first cut on the album. I actually liked this song as a youngster, like just as a song.

It's so fun. Like I thought it was a good song. Was it Wilson? Hey, I got the fun facts around here. Come on, Cam. What a hypocrite. Let's hear Demolition again. What a hypocrite.

Don't pull a stew. Hey, Sloopy. Sloopy, hang on. All right. This is Land of a Thousand Dances. It sure is. Actually written in 1962. It was written and recorded

by a guy named Chris Kenner. Oh. But that's not the hit. The big hit. Multiple people had hits with it, including Cannibal and the Headhunters. Yes. And the version that we all probably know, the Wilson Pickett version. Wilson Phillips. Wilson Pickett, not Wilson

Phillips. Oh. Look at that various look at this guy. All dressed up. Went to number six on the Billboard Hot 100. And it was recorded at. Run in. Kareem. Yeah, that's amazing. Kareem the dream.

Kareem has entered the chat. Look at his shirt. Look at his shirt. Wow, he looks so good. Where's he going? Holy moly. Where are you going with those credentials in that beautiful coat? Something kind of crazy about his shirt.

Are you a teacher now or something? You look great. Oh, from court. Oh, shit. Yeah, but he wasn't on trial. Okay. He works there. Oh, you work at the court.

You look good, man. Wow. Ready to be an Esquire watch model. We got to get him a watch. Yeah, I am Wow I've never looked this good Never

In my life You can't There's like a vest there And there's a Honest to God Kareem I had no idea Classy I couldn't pull that off

Beautiful man I know Handsome Sharp dressed man Yes Like ZZ Topson Yes Totally

You got that shirt no oh the wrestlers yeah all right Kareem we got to get you a mic next time man

because we can't hear you but good to see you buddy yes special appearance I heard some in the background and now we got Kareem all the greats

it's great to be back the band is back together so much better Mike's neighbor he's just gonna blow your mind you ready for this yes in June 2021 It's great to be back. The band is back together. So much better. Mike's neighbor. He's just going to blow your mind. You ready for this? Yes.

In June 2021, a guest on the Toronto Mike podcast, Kareem's wife. Whoa. I won't give more details, except your mind will be blown. Wait, you're doing what with Kareem's wife? Does he know this? Wow. Is this on your OnlyFans? They have an open thing? You're going to regret cracking jokes about this. Oh, God. Why do you always do that to this? Wow. Is this on your OnlyFans? They have an open thing? You're going to regret cracking jokes about this.

Oh, God. Why do you always do that to us? Wow. What do you mean? It's like you set us up with some grizzly thing with a wink and a smile. In the beginning of this episode, Mike Richards. He was like, guys, I have a bit of a segue. And he like winks and like gives us a smile,

then talks about like the tragedies that happen in the world. I said, I need to be serious for a moment. You didn't believe me well how could i i knew you're you're serious yeah we have serious i said it will get silly i heard that all day hold on i want to turn this part up here quickly i love this part oh this is your favorite part This is the camera. Oh, I never caught it. He was talking about Deren. Did you hear that? Did he say Deren?

Yeah. Pat Patterson. Right radio stations, all the television stations. You'll never see his ugly face again. Oh, is that? Yeah. I always wondered who that guy was. I'm glad to get away from it. I never caught that ever in my life until today. I like that French Canadian accent.

I'll tell you, that's funky, chaotic rock if I ever heard it. Wasn't King Kong Bundy great? He was off key. Was he ever. I'll tell you though, I happened to be next to Junkyard Dog and he was superb. Junkyard Dog, let me tell you something.

The dude's got no business being in rock and roll. He sounds like a mutt with a bad bone in his mouth. Give me a break. He's on his way downstairs to do a single right now. We won't hear that one. I do like that one a lot though. I kind of forgot about these, Lola. Grab them cakes?

I'll tell you now. So this is the height of my WWF love. Are you going to play Grab Them Cakes? No. That's just part of that first jam. I love that. I will just tell you, and you can have a guess on this, where do you think the wrestling album,

so that's the first cut on the wrestling album, that's the debut soundtrack album by the WWF. It was released in November 1985. Sure. Where do you think it peaks on the album sales charts? Probably doesn't. I don't think it appears on the charts. Do you have a guess? I'd say like nine.

57. I think that's a top 10 album. 84. Ah. Wow. So somewhere between your guesses. So not. So shout out Land of a Thousand.

It did very well in Canada. I know that because I owned it. Yeah, I love that. You couldn't get a copy. You'd go to the store. It was sold out. It's funny. It was called the Wrestling Album,

but mine was a cassette, and it said the Wrestling Cassette or something. The Wrestling Tape. The Wrestling Tape. You remember the cover of it? It's all the wrestlers. It's all the wrestlers. You know my favorite is Paul Orndorff

about to fucking pound the drums, but he's also flexing. Yeah, flexing. Paul Orndorff about to like fucking pound the drums but he's also flexing. Paul Orndorff. Mr. Wundy. Yeah. He's the one who pinned Hogan at the exhibition stadium. Didn't count. Did you say you knew it was always fake, right? I can't. I honestly now

I thought I knew it was always fake but I don't know what that foreign object. I don't know if you would call it fake. I would just say it's a show. That foreign object with Macho Man, I have memories of thinking it was real. It's a show. That's like the proper way to say it. Pre-determined. You can say fake, real talk.

Point being, when I saw this video when I was very young, I didn't understand it's like, here's all the bad guys, here's all the good guys. They ultimately did at the end. But you got fucking King Kong Bundy, you got the Sheik, you got,

excuse me, JYD, Greg the Hammer Valentine. Right. These are like bitter enemies. Right. Right. Why are they being so well behaved?

So I did Land of a Thousand Dances and this segues nicely. I'll let Stu introduce his jam. Sure. I mean, in the wrestling album, Land of a Thousand Dances was a signature song.

It was a huge success, you know, in the same vein as USA for Africa or Northern Lights or Do They Know It's Christmas Time. They brought all the wrestlers together. And I think that was supposed to be like the We Are the World kind of gimmick there. Right. Totally. It worked so well. Why don't we try again? Totally. It worked so well. Why don't we try again?

During Piledriver, the wrestling album 2, which featured a title track by Coco Beware, they tried it again and brought all the wrestlers together, and this is probably Cam's favorite song. Love it. What a jam. Original, too. This is not covered, right? I don't think so.

Honky. Who was the first guy? That really doesn't matter to me. Honky. A lot of you guys want to see me in a movie. Who's the first guy? TBS. Bean in the brain. Fucking love the brain. Bam Bam Bigelow. I think it's Butch Reed.

Oh, yeah, you're right. Jimmy. It's all the guys you mentioned. What a voice. Fast as two feet could carry you. I'd like to bust you up real, real bad. Yeah, see, Virgil. This is like a collection of WWF stars at the time.

Ted DiBiase, Honky Tonk Man, Slick, Bobby Heenan, Bam Bam Bigelow, Butch Reed, Jimmy Hart, Randy Savage, Elizabeth, Coco Beware, Junkyard Dog, The British Bulldogs, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Hulk Hogan, Coco Beware. Everybody in the video is in the song, except for one guy, the fun fact, one guy who appears front and center for the most of the music video is the only person that doesn't have a line in the song. Cam, any ideas?

Jimmy Hurd. Virgil. Virgil is in the video. Reference in the song, even DBS, he says, see Virgil to Hulk when you get in that argument. Virgil, no, not on the song even DBS he says see Virgil to Hulk when we get into that argument Virgil no not on the song I don't really even remember the video for this please realize

look at my eyes did you want it turned out I'm flat hit my Cadillac wait we want to get to the end where Hogan says I want to get to the end where Hogan says, I want to bust you. Oh, here it is. Here it is.

Yeah, everybody's got a prize. Oh, it's not yet. Oh, I'd like to bust you up real, real bad. Yeah, see Virgil. So there you go. Virgil reference, but not in the song. And Piledriver, the wrestling album, too. The second album released after the success of the first wrestling album. This came out in

87 and Coco Beware, like I said, the theme and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you know a shocking revelation I had when this album came out? I don't know if you remember that there was a video for the song Piledriver. Yes. With Coco Beware. Oliver Humperdinck.

It was like a construction vibe. Correct, yes. Superstar Billy Graham. But seeing Vince McMahon there having no was like a construction vibe. Yes. Superstar Billy Graham. But seeing Vince McMahon there having no idea he was jacked. Right. Like not knowing he was the owner, not knowing he was a fucking bodybuilder and he's wearing like a muscle shirt. Yeah, and he's jacked. He's like bigger than any of these guys were like.

Oh, yeah. When I remember, I had no idea Vince had any kind of ownership or managerial, but I thought he was just a guy who commented with Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby the Brain. of ownership or managerial, but I thought he was just a guy who commented with Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby the Brain. I wanted to give a deep cut here for a mind blow here

because WWE wasn't the only game in town that was doing these sort of ensemble wrestling tracks, Kim. Is this the... Yeah. Okay, I almost chose this. Vergagna and the AWA up in Minnesota, they had their own wrestling song.

A shooter right up to the end. This is Ken Riddick, and I'm here to say we've got the greatest wrestlers in the AWA. But you're not here to listen to me mumble. Let's fill you in on the WrestleRock rumble. Get on. WrestleRock, be there. With the Midnight Rockers, Shawn and Marty

Shawn and Marty Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty there It's like the Icky or the Jim McMahon Super Bowl Shuffle Super Bowl Shuffle, yeah It's an awful lot like the Super Bowl Even Vern Gagne That's not Vern But Vern does rap on this as well Super Bowl shuffle, yeah. It's an awful lot like this. Even Vern Gagne.

That's not Vern, but Vern does rap on this as well. So it's a rap song. The AWA. I feel like that was Rick Martel. Promoting an event at the Minnesota, the Dome in Minnesota. Metrodome. The Metrodome. Big fucking show.

Shout out to Kirby Puckett. And if you watch the music video, it's hysterical. You'll see WWE future greats like Scott Hall and Kurt Henning and the Rockers. Anyway. That's it. Wrestling Rock Rumble. Okay. Mike, do you know this league at all? The AWA Basement?

You know what was, again, because i feel like i got into wrestling and then like two years later into baseball and i would buy like the magazines that had the other leagues and knowing you just mentioned verne ganya it was like the head of awa had a son greg ganya right greg yes okay just stay with you i know you're going. Based in Minnesota, Greg Gagne was sort of like, oh, he's the owner's son. He kind of sucks. He sort of like has no gimmick. And then getting into baseball a couple years later and seeing there was Greg Gagne of the Minnesota Twins. Wasn't he Greg Gagne?

Yeah, Greg Gagne. Yeah. And they had won the World Series and later put the team. Joe Ducay. I'm like, how is this not? Sorry, they're both in Minnesota. Yeah, they were. That was a pretty good team, of course.

They won. Jack Morris had the Game 7 Ken Herbick Tom Brudenski Dan Gladden Chuck Knobloch Although the downfall of Kirby Puck

It was questionable If you remember his whole Sexual assault Did he go blind? Yeah, but he got some weird stuff. Every time I see you smile, I go blind. Shout out to FOTM. Anyway, just check out the...

Who is FOTM? No, they covered that. You know the cover song. All right, I want to just give love because you guys haven't had, because we've been doing Zooms all year, you haven't got a good lasagna from Paul LaPosta. Oh, you know what?

I'm looking forward to that more than anything. Now, these are empty boxes for the cameras, but in my freezer, I have, for each of you, delivered this week. Penny? Frozen meat lasagna. Meat? Penny.

Pony. You said meat, actually, because then I said it was my wrestling nickname. Yeah, no, I want the meat. Yeah, the wrestler meat. So don't leave without it uh we already thanked great lakes but they got delivered some i picked it up but fresh craft beer and i'm already enjoying one and you guys each cracked one open awesome the guy who's ripping up the mimico real estate scene was

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Well, you know, some podcasts, they play an ad. If they play an ad, I don't go that way. It's funny, when Cam got here, he saw the sanitizer, and I think he made a crack like, Oh, is this a sponsor? And then he saw that that was a sponsor.

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two more jams from each of us. This has been a great thrill. Cam, Gordon, anything to say? I just cannot wait for Stu's reaction to this jam. What? Cam's got another filibuster? I can't wait. I just cannot wait for Stu's reaction to this jam. What? Cam's got another filibuster? That's a good jam. Sorry, I'm just looking at...

And I hope... Okay, so you want me to just play it? Yeah, so like Demolition, this is going to be my second jam technically, right? Well, we did your second because Stu kicked it out. So this is like your third jam. I think I know what's coming, so yeah. Okay.

Let's hear it. Do you recognize it yet? I do. I love this. Sounds like serious. Like at the start. Damn. And then,

Oh yeah. Cut from the same. Yeah. Like the bowls are going to come out. This is not the calcium video song or is this Ric Flair? What is this? Let it, let it,

let it. Yeah, it's Ric. Nature boy. Woo! Hogan! I ate your guts! Woo!

Woo! I hate your guts. Woo! It's like Arne Anderson's going to do a run. Arne Anderson, my best friend. Woo! Shout out to

Kubrick. Bojana! Stanley Kubrick. Take a ride on Spaceman. Woo! Kareem Woo Bojana can handle it

She's been around Bojana Get in line honey Woo So cultured To be the man. Woo, woo, woo. You got to beat the man.

Stinger. Luger. That's good stuff. Then they just loop it. Also, Sprack, Zalathusta is the name of that song. Can you give me an applause for my Flair impression? I mean, that sounds like Ric Flair. That is as good of a Ric Flair impression as you're going to get on this show.

Well done. It's a fine impression. Anyway, more commonly known as you're going to get on this show. Well done. It was a fine impression. Anyway, more commonly known as either the theme to 2001 Space Odyssey or Ric Flair's theme song. So, Mike, you said like in the 80s you're watching

you had no idea who Ric Flair was. No. Stinger! Never knew him. He would say something. So, it was interesting. Again, I was watching. Complete blind spot. I was watching. I told MF hey, Stu's stew's working on this documentary oh you should watch this episode about when wcw goes to north korea right so rick flair's like prominently featured in it and she's like goes oh his hair and i was just i kind of assume everyone knows who rick flair is she had like no clue i'd never he's he's the hulk hogan what's the other one called uh and he's the rick flair of of nwa yeah but he's the hulk hogan of

the wcw he's the rick flair i know you're doing there but completely different thing yeah but he's the big guy like i know i know now i've seen the documentary on rick flair like i've watched that documentary i think it was hbo or whatever did that that. I know about him now because of pop culture. I like to know things I should know, but I did not know about him during the 80s. I feel like even when he came to WWF, the first time was pretty brief. When was that?

He was there for a year and a half. He won the championship twice during that run. Best Royal Rumble ever. With a tear in my eye. See, Andrew Ward chimes in to say NWA was not broadcast in Southern Ontario. It was, it was on CFTO.

Well, I was going to say, I feel like it might've been the first time I watched a pay-per-view ever because again, Stu had like a satellite or a box or whatever. So a bunch of like 13 year olds at Stu's, it was probably like your mom's house, I think. Yes.

And like we're all on the fucking, the basement. Is she watching now? No. Why not? She let us do our thing. She doesn't care for wrestling. She knows about it. Okay.

But anyway, like I say this completely devoid of irony, like Royal Rumble 92 winner gets the WDF title when Ric Flair tossed tossed out i feel like it was but sid said justice yes like hogan was in there macho man like what a fucking moment tosses like the giants of justice wins the wf title mr perfect was his manager heenans there like all the guys it was just it was fucking awesome put down that cigarette yeah but anyway Ric Flair huge star um do you want to hear

who wrote this song Richard Strauss do we need to go into this any relation to Jeff Strauss is his great great grandfather Ricard yeah

anyway it seems like the first time in pop culture aside from 2001 Space Odyssey where this came out Elvis would actually use this throughout the 70s as his intro music

really including a bunch of live albums. That makes sense. Live in Madison Square Garden, Aloha from Hawaii, which I think was a famous album. Well, it's an epic piece of music, but don't gloss over the importance that Kubrick 2001, because that is the scene, and that is where...

That's where everybody got it. That's the scene, that's the song. And I think Sesame Street did a... I remember a Sesame Street, they had a monolith or something and they had that song. Like I remember it from Sesame Street. I mean,

you still like one of the most epic piece of music ever. It's cocking, right? Get the mono. Now the band Phish. Were you in that ad? I wish. Okay, Phish, yes.

I wasn't able to. I was a kid actor. Grateful Dead. As a child actor, I wasn't allowed in cock commercials. Hey-o. Wasn't it my friend Dean Glendale that used to do like...

Agnew was in that commercial. Is it home repair or pornography? Was that the bit or something? And then they'd play like, oh, cocking. Yeah. I'll tell you though, doodoo the clown. He was in the commercial for I want a big Mac McDLT a quarter pounder. Asshole, can you please fucking make

a list of all the shit I can't forget? He's on this next week. That's the last one. Just remember that. McDonald's. Remember that one, Cam? You used to be able to say it. Circling back to Fish. This song, a staple of their live set. They played it over 200 times live in concert,

including 13 times alone at Madison Square Garden, where Elvis Presley would use this as his intro music. I feel like there was a disco version of it. Is that blowing your mind? No, that's Beethoven's Fifth. Or Disco Duck or something. Is it Beethoven's Fifth? Rockin' to the Oldies, or is that Richard Simmons?

Hooked on 45. No, no, I know what you're talking about. You're talking about Beethoven's Fifth, but there's also a version of this. Dun-dun-dun-dun. Right. Anyway. the oldies or is that Richard Simmons? Hooked on 45. But there's also a version of this. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Classic. Ric Flair, one of the greatest ever. I'm incredibly still with us too. We're talking about a lot of dead people, but Ric Flair is still alive.

I don't know if he's well, but he's alive. That's surprising, right? It's sort of like when you find out, you know, Anthony Kiedis is still alive. Keith Richards, yeah. Or David Gahan or something. And his, like, daughter's, like, she's, like, the champ. Woo! Awesome. Awesome.

Ric Flair. Awesome. Stu needs some of that cock money, is what Ian Service says. Yes. My Flair impression, Kim. That's up there with your Andre. Alright, now it's my turn. Okay, so I mentioned this jam.

I'm going to kick out this jam. Stinger! Admittedly, I discovered this jam. I'm kicking out this jam and then it's going to, baseball and wrestling, it's all going to come together. Here we go. You're bleeding, man. Of course. Doing telephone commercials, I seen ya Dancing in tight as a ballerina I knew all along you had those tendencies

Cause you've been running from macho like I got a disease Dude, please, your pay-per-view event was a joke You're avoiding Randy Savage cause you know you can smoke Come on, that phony fight, the rock is straight too fast But when I tell him to hold me to a real fight, he passed I called him out, but the punk was scared to go It was a charity event, but the Hulk didn't show. Hollywood Hulk stuff.

You're at the end of your rope. And I'm going to kick you in the butt and wash your mouth. I was so. Oh, boy. Like Rodney Dinkins. Oh, whoo. So come on, Hulk. Let's wreck.

So I can put you in the chat. Here it comes. Be a man, Hulk. Come on. Don't be scared. You're running from macho. That's what I heard. Be a man, Hulk.

Come on. Don't be a chump. I never thought Hulk would go wild like a punk. Be a man, Hulk. Come on, don't be a chump. I never thought Hulk would go wild like a punk. Be a man, Hulk. Come on, don't be scared. You're really strong, Macho. That's what I heard. Be a man, Hulk.

Boy, you's a chump. Because Hulk Hogan is a real big punk. They call you Hollywood. Don't make me laugh. Because your movies and your acting skills are both crap. Your movies straight, the video, the box office can't stand. While I got myself a feature role in Spider-Man. All right, shout out to Macho Man, who was in Spider-Man, of course.

That's pretty bad. I like how specific this song is. I know, by the way. I'm going to wash your mouth, that was so... I absolutely... At the end of your rope. I love this song. Okay, so this is a rap album that Macho Man released.

The album is called Be A Man. This is, in my opinion, this is called Be A Man. This is the, in my opinion, this is the standout track. This is the diss track against Hogan. There's another great track you should listen to where it's a tribute song to Mr. Perfect. Oh. Kurt Hennig.

So, is that, is this your official review? Yeah, that's my official fucking review. Just a few things I want to say about, I know you're wearing the Macho Man shirt, and you can chime in after I finish running out of some of these obvious facts.

So you guys are going to know all this shit, but some people might be interested to know. So Randy's dad, so Randy Savage's father, Angelo. So he was a wrestler, but he held the Guinness Book of World Records for most sit-ups in a row. Yes. Whoa. 6,033.

Sure. 6,033. I don't, I don't think I could do six. How long was that even? I don't even know, but that's unbelievable. So yeah,

he was in the Guinness Book of World Records. That's how fit he was. No, that was the real fucking deal. They don't fuck around at Guinness. But everyone knows this,

but I'm going to share it with those who don't because somebody needs to learn it for the first time. You know, Randy, his name is Randy Poffo and his brother, Lanny Poffo, Leaping Lanny Poffo.

The genius. He used to read the poetry. Yes. I loved and I had no idea Leaping Lanny Poffo was Randy's brother. Big John Studd. Now, Lanny Poffo, this is interesting. According to wrestling folklore,

and when you're talking about hidden objects in their trunks, Virgil comes to mind as somebody who's often referenced. Rick Flair has been mentioned. Lord Alfred Hayes has been mentioned. Milton Berle. But Lanny Poffo. Danny Thomas. Lanny Poffo. He just shit on the... Apparently Lanny Poffo

is also... Wow. He's packing a flashlight. Good to know. Fleshlight. You might be interested to know. Look at me! You two gentlemen know this, but Randy was Randy the Macho Man. Randy Savage was a heck of a baseball

player. Heck of a baseball player. Yes. He was shocked not to be drafted. Like, they were confident he was drafted. I thought he was. I thought I saw a baseball card. Yes, because he was signed as a free agent.

With the Reds or something. The Cardinals. Okay. But his career stalled at single A. Okay. Not bad. Well, it's better than you and I are going to get to, but if you're aspiring to be a Major League Baseball player, it's not good.

But I just want to say, we've lost Macho Man because he had a heart attack while driving. Oh, yeah. I think he sneezed or something. No, I'm serious. That's what they say. They say your heart stops when you sneeze. Yeah, he sneezed and had a heart attack. But I will say that in terms

of Hulk Hogan, Hulkamania and all that, eat your vitamins, say your prayers and all that, but I'm telling you that Macho Man Randy Savage was larger than life and a big part of it, I mentioned the entrance with Miss Elizabeth, a big part of it was the stuff he would do of Mean Gene Okerlund and hype you for the matches. The stuff's too stoned in. The cream of the crop.

Can you do a little because honestly. Call 1-800. What was the hotline? 1-976-2929. Did you used to call the hotline? No. You used to call and it was like pre-recorded. We'd be like, oh, yeah, this is Macho Man.

Keep holding the British. And then, like, you would talk so slow. 99 cents a minute you know who does the British this is Don Mark here from the British can you guys

name the FOTM who does a tremendous macho man me I just did a better that's the best impression it's one of the hockey guys no not really a hockey guy

but more of a baseball guy or uh Scott McArthur yes oh he does good but come on Scott McArthur does a good macho man

okay okay the cream of the crop here's an anecdote Stu probably hasn't heard this for many years Scott McCarthy? Yes. Oh, he does good, but come on. Scott McCarthy does a good module, man. Okay, okay. The cream of the crop. Here's an anecdote. Stu probably hasn't heard this for many years. The FOTM's now. Stu makes a lot of fallacies on the show, but he is correct about one thing. That he does the best impressions?

No, this stalling on the 1-800 number. Yes. I remember calling in 1986 as like, this is Hercules Hernandez. Why are you up there in Canada? You got that funny money? And he got these stalls and I thought he was actually there.

And I'm just like, I guess. Let me tell you something. When I come to the Maple Leaf Gardens, like Billy Jack Hanger, whoever the fuck he's like pissed off at that week. A Frank Tunney. But meanwhile,

that was probably like $6, which in 1986 is like a lot of money. Oh, that was huge money back then. Huge money. I'm just going to play this. So that's the Macho Man diss track.

Can I ask a question about that? Yeah. Is this a real album? Yes. It's a real album. No, I know it's a real album, but was he actually mad at him? Yes.

So this is like all like a shoot. Well, yes. Well, here's the Hulk Hogan rap song. I think it's... Hulk Hogan rap song. I think it's... When Hogan responded... Listen to how awful this... Jimmy Hart on the track.

Come on, baby. Oh, boy. Looking for some action, had my radio set on a rap station. Saw a girl in trouble, a sticky situation. She wanted me to give her mouth to mouth and say, Oh, boy. It's called Beach Patrol. That's Jimmy. We were cruising down the beach, checking out the action. Had my radio rocking to a heavy metal station.

Putting on some shades, trying to catch some rays. When I caught the lifeguard, messing with my bank. Is it? That's Jimmy. Like that. That beach patrol. Yeah. This is like that era when like Bart Simpson was rapping and the Flintstones were rapping. Everybody do the Bart, man. Right. Coming on the sea, brother.

Walking on the beach, putting on my shades. One more verse and I'll get right here. Whoa. Whoa, he clearly didn't write these lyrics. There it is, brother. Is this the WCW album? This is the Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band. Okay. So that's his wife singing like party party party yeah you can see so much look all you want but you better

not touch take it from me don't lose control because you're gonna have to deal with the beach what a horrible song yeah okay so this song makes uh be a man sound like Funky Cold Medina. Yeah, that's a horrible song. Can I share a weird pandemic YouTube deep dive memory? I don't know if I mentioned this to Stu, but he'll probably remember it. We've talked about Wump There It Is quite a lot on this show. It was such a big fucking song, like 93 or so. Yeah, when we played the Phillies. Yeah, exactly.

And there'd be signs and stuff. Adam's family. But I remember watching or maybe I just, I looked this up on YouTube. I found it like WCW Saturday Night was on TBS. It was like a studio wrestling show. So like it wasn't an arena. It was like maybe 150 people. Whenever the crowd would get excited

they just started chanting Whoop Their Desk and nothing to do with the match. I feel like there's a match that's like Lord Steven Regal Dustin yeah versus Dustin Rose or like Ricky Steamboat and like the good guy comes back and people just start going whoop there it is whoop there it is just like unprovoked like what a

pop culture sensation it's sort of like you can't touch this like that was sort of people didn't chant you can't touch this they were at wrestling they were chanting whoop there it is and we thought they were saying who whoops, there it is. We didn't even know because the song hadn't come out here yet.

It's still in the strip clubs. Yeah, there were the two versions as we discussed. We are. The whoop, there it is. You want to hear my latest wrestling impression? Welcome in.

My latest wrestling impression? We are the beach patrol. That's some bad shit, but this is a good one. Set it up, Stu. Let me just remember what I picked. What do we got? So many fucking songs here.

Oh, yeah, this is a good one. So usually we're living in like the 80s here. But the 90s had a lot of great wrestling songs too. I mean, so many fucking songs you could have picked here. And I know it's controversial to not pick Bret Hart. But Stone Cold, his song is great. The Rock, these guys all have great classic theme songs. Val Venus, Chris Jericho.

But I went with this one. Are you ready? Big jam. You think you can tell us what to do? You think you can tell us what to wear? jam this is uh O-T-D-X Sounds like Rage Against the Machine Bulldog Parade Killing in the name of

Degenerations You can tell me what to do So you're listening to the Degeneration X theme DX for people who watched wrestling in the late 90s WCW had the NWO, great music there. And WWE's counter-programming was to put a staple together called Degeneration X, which featured Shawn Michaels, Triple H, China,

The Road Dogg, Badass Billy Gunn, X-Pac, Toronto Kid, Jason Sensation was in there for a second. But this is DX. This was their theme. And this is a golden era for themes, too. Jim Johnson, who we haven't really mentioned here, but he's the guy that wrote 99% of WWF's music that you've heard over the years. He was their in-house guy. Wrote Stone Cold song, Bret Hart, Ultimate Warrior.

This, I mean, every big song is him. You could do a whole deep dive just when did he start he was there from the beginning and he didn't but like was he there yeah like for sure okay and he just left in the last five years would he do like like big boss man for sure like for sure if you although that could have been a rick derringer song too by the way i'm not kidding like that sounds like it could have even even been Rick Gerringer singing that song. You should look that up. You really should. You should look up who sang that.

Anyway, the guy who's singing here obviously is not Rage Against the Machine, but wrestling did a lot of sound alikes back then. If you watched WCW back in that era, you would think you were hearing Pearl Jam songs and all sorts of songs as theme songs, and they just weren't. But this was a Rage Against the Machine sort of sound.

Christopher Warren, the name of the vocalist who impressed the WWE so much, they actually used him to sing the song My Time, Triple H's theme song. He did this song. He did a couple others. And he's actually passed away at the age of 49 unexpectedly in 2016 uh but uh dx how about that so this song you know wrestling was it was so popular it's like the second wave of wrestling you know the 80s had wrestling with hogan and all that rock and wrestling and i broughty piper and the Goonies and blah, blah, blah.

And in the late 90s, it all came back again full circle. So, you know, WWF put out another album. So this was like another wrestling album which featured this mind blow, which was a flip of the DX theme. Check this out. Wow. Wow.

Down with the king. Is this actually in the music video? Yeah Oh shit So it's Run DMC Run DMC with Limp Bizkit No, Run DMC That's Run DMC rapping No DMC with Limp Bizkit. No, Run DMC. That's Run DMC rapping.

No, I know. With this guy, Chris Warren. Right. And this was on a wrestling album called, I believe, Ruthless Aggression, which featured lots of WDF theme songs sort of remixed with rappers of the time. So it's like a judgment night. Yes. And this ended up being.

Now you've got my attention. DX used to come out to this song for a short period of time as well. But there you go. So was this guy Chris Warren, did he have a career outside of... Not really, no. Just sort of... Well, he was in some other bands, but his biggest works were the D-Generation X song. Anyway, Big Boss Man was Jimmy Hart with J.J. Warren. Ah, there you go.

Jimmy Hart. One or the other. Interesting Ah, there you go. Jimmy Hart. One or the other. Interesting. So there you go. DX. If you're not down with that, Cam, I've got two words for you. Yeah, what's that? Point, point. He knows what those words are.

Alright, now set us up for your final jam Cam Gordon That's a cam jam Like I said I don't think anybody's still listening, by the way No, there's people active on the chat Like we scared everybody away Anyway, I'll get to my fun facts in a second

But again, I like this episode Because it's sort of mixing the lowbrow and the highbrow Are we doing wrestling again next week? No, I was hoping we could do parentheses jams next week. We got to do it before this pandemic ends. We don't have much time now. There's a limited number.

We should start counting down. Limited number. Oh, boy. Late August, by the way, on a Friday night in prime time is our finale. If you smell what The Rock is cooking. So let's... He played in the CFL or just tried out with the CFL? I think he actually played. Like a regular season game?

I know there's a picture of him on the field. He said something about Wally Buono once. They have a relationship. Because his dad was a CFL player, right? His dad was in WWF. Rocky Johnson. Did his dad ever play in the CFL? Um,

Rock's dad. I'm not sure. We have to check into that one. Okay. I heard he's doing movies now. I heard. Anyway, wrestling,

often seen as lowbrow, classical music offices, highbrow. I don't think either, but it's all just art, you know? And then there's sort of rock music and there's a lot of things, but it's,

this is kind of an interesting episode because in doing the research it's it's really interesting to see there's a lot of commonality and like all these different types of uh entertainment so why don't we just listen to this i want everyone to be quiet i want to say everyone i mean this gentleman do we have to listen to all nine and a half minutes i know i mean the the first clip should land at the right spot it's like several minutes in you can just go like that yeah but i i want sue just to listen not make any comments and try guess where this is going and what wrestling song this is gonna lead us to This video is like incredible too. Is this like Exodus or something?

What is this? Man, music was so good back then. Do you realize? We don't write them like this anymore. So much talent. Hey, yo, yo. Yo So fucking culture I like it Shh Quiet

Peter and the Wolf Achilles Hernandez Close What the fuck is happening? Harley Race. He's handsome. Yes. Goldberg?

We're almost there. Almost there. Now we've lost everything. Shh. Can I get flagged for this? I'm the pirate's dream. Shut up, Deanser. DMC.

Okay, we're almost there. Remind me to... Shh. Oh. Ridley Funeral. Pay tribute without pain of fortune. This was an easy win for me this week. Uh-oh. Oh, shit. Ladies and gentlemen.

He's like a conductor. I'm into it. He's the maestro. Andrew Ward's got it But he's a cultured guy James Bond has it This is gonna be Handsome James Bond has it. This is going to be handsome. Indeed.

I'm not handsome. We'll call him King. Okay. Wow. Wow. It took a bit to get there. Okay Wow Wow It took a bit Wow What a piece of music

This is the journey not the destination Wow Let's listen to this I love this Maybe we should kick out the classical next week I want to come out to this Like what you come out to When you're the king

Jerry Lawler Multiple kings have used this Great job I'm going to cry So emotional Wow What a jam wow so the name of this song the bogator gates in the capital of kiev also commonly known as the great gates of kiev um part of a 10-piece musical suite by a jam

modest music that's what I thought. A Russian composer. 1874 seems like... We're going to have to do a sequel. Yeah. This song has been used by a lot of kings in wrestling. Everyone from Handsome Harley Race, King Haku. Oh, yeah.

Someone I forgot about, King Jim Duggan. Jim Duggan had the crown for a while. And maybe most famously, Jerry Lawler, who... So, wait, wait, wait. They had the crown for a while. And maybe most famously, Jerry Lawler, who... So wait, wait, wait. They had the champion, and then they said, we need an intercontinental champion, which is what Macho Man usually was or whatever.

And then they said, hey, we need a king. That's right. Yeah, but they're all sort of like... And there was value to this? Well, they had a tournament that you had to win to become the king of the ring. I do remember King Harley race vaguely, but that's the only king I remember.

Yeah, well, I think the king was just supposed to be his gimmick, right? But then he ended up losing the crown to Duggan. I think Haku was in there. Yeah, Haku beat Duggan, and then Macho Man was the king for a while. Yeah, the Macho King. Mabel was the king.

Do you guys realize, because Stu stole a cam jam, the demolition thing, right? Yeah. So that means the three jams that Cam got to really kick out were either the Russian national anthem stole a cam jam the demolition thing right yeah that's right so that means the three jams that cam got to really kick out were either the the russian national anthem or two pieces of like classical music well that there is a mind blow on this and you wanted pomp and circumstance right i

did want that so you're so fucking cultured who would have thought on the wrestling episode now there's a mind blow of this we haven't talked that much about rock music but the great gates of kiev and i didn't know this this is very interesting and this is a band we talked about before has actually covered this song in a rock format here's like a live track why don't we give this a listen A day in the life. The Beatles. Like very soon. Woke up. Went out of bed.

Wow. So what you're hearing here is Emerson Lake and Palma Pasta from 1971. They actually did a full cover of this 10-piece suite of music, ending with a big crescendo, a rock and roll version of The Great Gates of Kiev. I had never heard this before when I heard this. Do you ever hear old intros like Johnny Rodden or Joe Strummer? They're like, we were trying

to kill Art Rock. I feel like they might have been referring to this album. Wow. ELP singing over a fucking Harley Race's theme song, Who Would Have Thought, 1971. There was actually a single from this album that actually charted in can, number 48.

A cover of the Nutcracker suite Called Nut Rocker From the same album Top 10 album in the UK Oh we should have kicked out that song for Vasectomy Jam It would have fit It would have fit but anyway Again Harley Race's theme

ELP singing over it What a random song But I feel like it fits very well into this whole. Rest in peace, Harley. Yeah, Pandemic Fridays. And a lot of Yelp. Emerson Lake, I think Emerson's dead or something, or Lake's dead, or they're both dead. Wow. Rock and roll is dead.

Anyway, rock and roll is dead. A lot of music there, but. Long live rock and roll. Those are my picks. Okay, fantastic. I really feel like there's room for so much more. Well, yeah, but we can discuss. I really feel like there's room for so much more. Well, yeah, but we can discuss.

I'm happy to do a sequel. Sometime. But you've got to choose. Maybe during Fridays when it just becomes Fridays. Just Fridays. You either get a Wrestling Jams sequel or you get a Yacht Rock sequel. You can't have both.

So you have to think. Maybe we let the fans decide. Are you? Robbie Dupree is like a crossover. I found out O'Brand would comment often on TorontoMic.com as Brandon. O'Brand comes from Brandon. Do you know who this is?

Who Brandon is? No, I don't think. Unless you've shown up at a TMLX. Is it Mike's responsibility to know every single listener? Yeah. You know, there's tens of thousands of listeners. Just a question. And none of them are listening now. And happy birthday again to Stephanie Wilkinson, who's definitely not listening. And JJ, who's not listening.

Not listening. Who's not listening. I think you've lost everybody. So you guys ready for my final jam? Hell yeah. Of course. Hey. Hey.

Oh. Oh. Hold. Hold. Oh. Oh. Hold. So here's a name we've said many times on Pandemic Friday, the late, great Jim Steinman. What a great piece of music.

Like very 80s, but just, I don't know. Well, you know, everything he did was epic. Just go listen to Paradise by the Dashboard Light or something. He wasn't subtle. He wasn't subtle. Right, right. So Jim Steinman composed he composed and produced this song which has the title

Hulk Hogan's Theme. Hulk Hogan's Theme. And it was used, you guys I know you guys watched. I sure didn't miss it. Hulk Hogan's Rock and Wrestling cartoon. Sure. Shout out to that cartoon. What a big deal to me at the time.

And there was a video for this song. I remember like a great aerial shot of like kids just descending on Hogan. It was awesome. Of course,

the guy who played the voice of Hulk on the cartoon was... Oh, Brad Garrett. Brad Garrett. That's right. From Everybody Loves Raymond.

Really? Or I know him better as the honest mechanic on Seinfeld. Because I didn't watch... The carburetor's not... We are the nation! I loved it because you had the cartoon and then you had these live

interstitials. Yeah, those were the best. I think I said this. I think we've talked about this before. I always share the same fucking memory I have. I feel like Andre the Giant's shopping for a used car and he buys this little tiny like, a little, a tiny car and he's got his body out the sunroof, so his arms are, like, around the car

like this and his body's out the sunroof and he goes, it's too small. It's too small. And I think it's... Cam, can you say it's too small? It's too small. Don't reflect. I can't believe Hulk Hogan body slammed that man

holy what a moment there's actually a YouTube montage of like everybody slamming Andre like Kamala slammed him does he jump

at the same time as you lift is that his deal depends on who's working with him yeah like Andre by that point was like immobile

like if he everybody slammed Andre he had a giganticism don't you know yeah like he never stopped don't you know and yeah that man the French the French giant okay so shout out to Andre Rousseau or whatever his name is he slammed onto it. He had a gigantism, don't you know? Yeah. Like he never stopped crying. Don't you know. And yeah,

that man, the French, the French giant. Okay. So shout out to Andre Rousseau or whatever his name is. Rousseau. Rousseau.

Right, right, right. So this song, the fun fact that we've shared a hundred fucking times on Pandemic Friday, including the episode

where we did like songs we didn't know were covers or something. Right. So here we're listening now to this. And I got this song from the wrestling album, of course.

But here's the. Was this on the wrestling album? Oh. Absolutely. Hey. Does it sound familiar? Hogan. I wonder if Derringer's on this.

He might be. It's the same fucking song without the Hulk. Hulk. I love you every day. It's like the lyrics. Jim Steinman did this a lot. He did a lot. Just reused the same shit for different songs.

He did it all the time. Like Meatloaf. Like every song. Like Godspeed. Like he literally took the song he wrote for Hulk Hogan's theme and he handed it to Bonnie Tyler. And stuff just traveled more slowly. She might have no clue that this was like...

Right. So this was on... There's a couple of interesting facts about this. It was on Bonnie Tyler's 1986 album, Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. Did you guys own that album? That had the best on it. Was it not? Simply the best? Oh, I don't know, but the song's called Ravishing.

Ravishing. That's the name of the song right here. Now, here's just a little fun fact about Bonnie Tyler, and then I'll get out of your hair. Turn around. The big jam from... Every now and then. Well, the big song that was on Secret Dreams...

I need a hero! Right, right. The big song from Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire was not Ravishing, which we're listening to right now. It was Holding Out for a hero, which had already appeared on the 1984 soundtrack for the film. Footloose. Footloose.

Was she Scottish? No, but I was going to say, I did not realize she's not Scottish, but you're close. Who wants to guess where Bonnie Tyler's from? Oh, Welsh. She's Welsh. Like Tom Jones. Very well done.

I'm surprised. Stereophonics. Sometimes I surprise you. Wow. I can't sign that check, Mr. Brell. Jim Steinman. I mean, one day we should kick out the Jim Steinman. We should kick out the Jim Steinman because he would do this a lot.

He would write a lot of- Save that one for a Sunday night. Musical. Maybe I'll do that one with Brother Bill. There you go. Brother, if you're listening- He's not. We're kicking out- Nobody is. We've lost everybody. We're kicking out the Jim Steinman. That's what I Brother, if you're listening. He's not. We're kicking out.

Nobody is. We're kicking out the Jim Steinman. That's what I'd like to do. Stu. Any more impressions you want me to do? I did Flair. I did Macho. Yeah.

Can you do Ultimate Warrior? I did some Warrior earlier off the air. Kamala. I did some Kamala. Coco? I did some Coco. Why don't you set up your final jam To some quiet Bonnie Tyler Yeah for those of you who are still with us

Actually while you're at good Where are they going to go I love you Brother love There's no love The guy whose song I'm about to play Is a guy whose name has already been mentioned on this program. But when you think of wrestling songs, I'm actually quite disappointed when I did my research.

There's a mind blow that blew my fucking mind. Blew my mind. Blew my mind. Which is not hard with wrestling. And it's going to get to, it is hard. No, that's what I meant. Think about how much I know about wrestling. And this is the best song.

And I had no idea the Mind Blow was going to blow your mind. It's going to blow your mind, Cam. This is the number one. It's like Undertaker theme. Well, Undertaker theme would have been great. This is the number one jam for wrestling songs. Oh, of course. Oh, I thought it was going to be

like Ravishing Rick Rude's theme song. It's a good jam. What a jam. Good bookend, too, Chris Rude. This lady and I told her quite a story Said I'd love her forever more But the trouble is I tell the same old story Seems trustworthy. You trust so far. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. You're a die-so-bro.

This is the sex-ta. I don't do nothing but tell the truth. This is the sickest. Slick rapping. Love him. Jive So Bro. Akeem. The African Dream Akeem.

Who is a white guy wearing a dashiki. Problematic gimmick. But boy, oh boy, was it entertaining back in the day. The Twin Towers. Lethal. This is slick, man. Slick was the man. I like he just bought Volkov and the Sheik.

People would just buy contracts. He's like, I'm managing Sheik and Volkov now. He sold Hercules to Bobby Heenan. Do you remember? I'm managing like chicken. He sold Hercules to Bobby Heenan. That's right. You remember? I'm not a slave. Of course, let's talk about Slick before I get to the mind blow. I think your neighbor's got this. I don't really care.

Did you know that Slick, real name Kenny Wayne Johnson, his father, he's a second generation wrestler. I didn't really know that. I feel like I don't know much about him personally His father was a wrestler named Rufus R. Jones Who was like a territorial star Like mid-south guy

Like SD Jones Sure, like that type of thing Kenny Wayne Johnson Of course he became a member of the WWF roster in 86 As Slick, the Dr. Style managing camp's favorite The natural butch Reed. That's got to be Rick Derringer. Totally.

Playing that guitar. That's some funky shit. What a song. He managed, of course, Boris Zhukov, Rick Martel, Power and Glory, great team, The Warlord. Kamala and Kim Chi, they took Kamala Bowling That's right

I'm a man So on the wrestling album The song Jive So Bro Credited as written by David Wolf and Butch Taylor Who were the team behind Most of the wrestling album songs So you're thinking

Oh That's so cool That they wrote this song Isn't that what you're thinking? Yeah That's pretty cool That these guys Wait wait wait Got together and wrote this song Isn't that what you're thinking? Yeah That's pretty cool that these guys Wait, wait, wait Got together and wrote this song

Is this a cover? The thing that blows my mind, Cam Wow Check this out Okay Sounds like the same song It's actually like a tighter Pocket Better production too

Wait till the rapping starts. Oh, bro. Is this like Blowfly or something? Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Mike, I just sent you something on your instant message there. Who is this? So this is a rapper. Sure is.

Named Captain Chameleon. And his song that was released in 1981 called Jive Old Foe. So they didn't write that at all. Hold on. Before you play that, stop, stop, stop, stop play that Stop stop stop I just want to say something really First of all that blows my mind Jive old foe Jive old foe Jive old foe

Don't you speak jive Jive old foe So David Wolfe and these guys Didn't write the song They ripped off this fucking guy. Like just blatantly. Like Xeroxed it. They literally just did in Slick, by the way.

This is an example of a cover that's better than the original. The production might be something, but Slick's performance is much better than the original. But it sort of consists of what Slick is, because he's like a huckster. But he's just a better rapper. Yeah, he's talented. Than the pro.

Yeah. Now, Jive So Fo was the B-side, Cam. This is going to blow your fucking mind. This is big. This is the B-side. The guy who only released one single that I'm aware of. Captain Chameleon. Captain Chameleon only had the one single.

So Jive So Fo was side B. The A-side of his single is just going to make you so angry. Are you ready? From 1981. You ready? Yes. Sure. Is this Blue Monday?

The orgy version. Oh, shit. It's going to blow your mind. Sorry, is this the Sopranos theme? No. Well, I started as dams in the neighborhood. Now everybody doing it. Wow. That's good.

That's good. That's good. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid.

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I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this guy got paid. I hope this That blows my mind. That's a good one. So Captain Chameleon in 1981 releases a single called Grab Them Cakes That Goes Nowhere. The B-side is Jive So Fo. And both songs end up on wrestling albums. Ripped off, might I add.

Junkyard Dogs' Grab Them Cakes is a cover, which we didn't know that until today. Right, right, right. And Jive So Bro. Although Junkyard's is better because it's got the woman doing the background. Both of them are better. It's almost like they must have bought like a shitload of songs like at auction for nothing

and just said, just throw them in like the slush pound. We'll just pick off. And it's just remarkable how both wrestlers do better performances than the original. But the point is, two of the most iconic wrestling album cuts are both... This is big.

By the same guy. I think Junkyard Dog was the first of my wrestlers to die. Like, he was the first one. I think. Unless, maybe Adrian Adonis. Adrian Adonis. Adrian Adonis, yeah. Adrian Adonis, and then maybe Junkyard Dog.

I feel like Andre, like... Oh, true. Once he was retired, like, he would... Once he was retired, like, he would... Right. Dino Bravo, like, he had kind of a weird cigarette gimmick. I don't care what it takes. So, WWF's version is different on both songs.

But not that different. The vocals. Yeah, not too different, but yeah. Wow. Okay, good mind blows today. I would love to know how much this guy got paid for both of these things. I don't know that anybody made it this far in the episode, but their mind would be blown by the Stewstone victory. They hung in there.

Okay, I got to say this. Great night. We didn't have any rain, even though the tarp's up for no particular good reason. Beautiful night. It's amazing to have you guys in the backyard. This is so much better than Zoom. Even just the audio and the way that you fade in and out. I can read your eyes. Are we back next week? You guys are invited better than Zoom. Like, even just the audio and the way that you fade in and out. I can read your eyes.

Are we back next week? You guys are invited back next week. Yeah, probably. I would love it, man. I would love it. But thanks for doing this. Yeah, thanks for having us.

And don't leave without your palm of pasta lasagna. Every week, I'll be in the freezer. Go stock up. You can find me at Stu Stone

on the Twitter machine. Yeah, I'm on Instagram. Hey, that's my job. That's my job. And that. No, that's your job. And that. And that.

Brings us to the end of our 860 first show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Stu is at Stu Stone. Did I tell you I'm interviewing the Sheepdogs on the Facebook? Stagger! The Toronto Mike's Facebook page. Woo!

I play some Sheepdogs. I play some Sheepdogs, and I get a cease and desist right away for the guy who wrote it and sings it. And I thought that was interesting. That's ironic. Also, if you listen to Feeling Good by the... I played it, Feeling Good, by the Sheepdogs, and the first part is exactly Spirit in the Sky.

Oh. Listen to that. Yeah. Completely identical. Seize and desist. Look at this. Stu Stone, he's at Stu Stone. Cam.

I feel good. Cam Gordon's at Cam underscore Gordon. Cam, next time make sure I ask you what the hell Twitter Blue is. That sounds like a big deal. Yeah, we'll get into it. Launching today in Canada. What is it? It's a paid version of Twitter.

I've got to learn about that. You've got to learn. How much is it? $3.49 monthly. And what does it get you? Amongst other things, an undo button. If you send a tweet, you have a bit of time to... That's big.

How long does the undo last? Up to 30 seconds. How did Stu get verified on Twitter? That's him. Prior to him getting there. That's true. I have no idea. I've been at Twitter longer than him.

Our friends at Great Lakes Brewery, they're at Great Lakes Beer. Sticker! Luger! Palma Pasta's at Palma Pasta. Sticker U, they're at Sticker U. Oh, wait, Cam, good tweet about these guys, lowest of the low, I saw you did. Yeah, yeah, something about the blue box. And I remember all the songs about kites.

My blue box is full of empty bottles. Has any other band ever sung about the blue box? I think you might be right. Maybe Rafi did. I can't remember. So Ridley Funeral Home. They're at Ridley FH. Ridley Funeral Home for the nature boy.

Shout out to Bojana. Mimical Mike's not on Twitter. Ripping it up. He's on Instagram. Majeski Group Homes. Shout out to Kareem. Kareem. See you all next week. Play this guitar just the best that I can.

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