Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Your Blog Sucks #9

Episode Date: November 22, 2013

Mike and Elvis discuss what sucks this 9th week.

And now, it's time for Your Blog Sucks. Welcome to Your Blog Sucks. I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com and joining me is my brother from another mother, Elvis. Episode 9 begins now. Episode 9 begins now. Hi, Mike. Elvis, there's some dirt on your lip. I'm a little embarrassed to tell you that. We'll talk about that a little later.

Oh, does that come up on the agenda? It does come up on the agenda. It's been a while. I was on my way over here today, and I called my friend because I had a little story to tell him. So I told him the story, and he told me that he was listening to our podcast last night in bed because he couldn't go to sleep. How about that? So now we have two confirmed listeners. And that would definitely put you to sleep. Two confirmed listeners. He said, what are you going to talk about today? And I said, I don't know, but we'll probably say fuck a few times. You know, on that note, your first,

the first listener we had, Mrs. Elvis, she felt, I swore, you were swearing too much. And then I swore. One episode about David Clarkson I swarkson and then i swore too much last week right so if we want to if we don't want to lose 50 of our audience uh maybe we need to cut the swears given given the topics that i see in front of me today i have a feeling that there might be some additional cursing this week so why did you bail the last few weeks you've been traveling the world yeah i've just been traveling a lot and uh q4 uh is, or the end of the year, as most people would say it, is extremely busy in my business. And unfortunately, that has caused this podcast to be irregular. However, I was informed a couple of weeks ago that I have 14 days of vacation time that

I have to use by the end of the year, which is not going to happen, but I do have quite a bit of time off. So in December and into January. So we should be able to bang out a fairly regular schedule. I'm glad you finished that sentence. I'm nervous. But that's awesome. To forced vacation at the end of the year is awesome.

Well, I mean, they tell us that you're not allowed to carry over any certain number of days. But according to Ontario labor law, they tell us that you're not allowed to carry over any certain number of days. But according to Ontario labor law, they can't take away vacation, a certain percentage of your vacation time. So they have to allow you to carry over some of it. So they're letting me pull some of that vacation time over into the first quarter of next year, which is fun. So it'll be nice to spend some time with with the kids and whatnot um but i have to warn the listeners again looking at the uh the amount of um uh comments that we have scheduled to speak about in regards

to local municipal uh politics this may or may not be a podcast that would be um you know your sort of uh fair however i promise i can't speak for Mike, but I promise that I'm going to be trying to try and be as jovial as I possibly can speaking about some of these negative topics. Elvis, I have with me my Bible. You know, I'm not a religious man, but I do carry a Bible. It's actually, it's an anthology of George Carlin books. So it's... One, two, three, four. There's three books in one here.

You had to count out loud to get to the number three. Because in the contents, the bonus material was listed as a fourth book. I didn't want to count that as a book. Three. You don't do that when you... You used your fingers even. Do you know I do the alphabet song in my head when I'm trying to figure it out? Okay, so do you mind if I read you a passage from George Carlin?

It's always a good time for Georgie. Elvis was a bogus white guy with sex appeal and good looks who ripped off a lot of great black music, watered it down, and made it safe for lame whites who couldn't handle the experience of raw, emotional black music. Never grew as an artist, remained an entertainer. Fuck Elvis. I'm not really sure what the point of that was.

But you will, when someone, and you've heard me say this, because you bust my balls about my fandom of of elvis what do i say about elvis that uh he ripped off the black man i said he's the greatest entertainer of all time okay right he is the greatest entertainer okay so you don't you agree with george carlin there are certain aspects of that yes that i would definitely agree with i was actually a reason he's a pop musician in today's time right not rock and roll necessarily he'd be on american idol he's a pop musician in today's time, right? Not rock and roll necessarily. He'd be on American Idol today. He's a pop musician and all pop musicians that we look around to today are very similar in that sense. It's very basic music, but that's also why it becomes very, very popular is because the whole point of pop music is that you appeal to a wide

majority of individuals. As long as you understand that you are basically worshiping the equivalent of the modern day equivalent of the guy who finished second in American Idol, who's on Glee now. I'm not really sure. You know what? That's not even close. I have no idea what that guy's name is. Not even close. I just wanted to, for the record, state that.

Now, I was sitting on a beach in July while camping, reading my George Carlinlin book and i i actually got i saw that passage and i bookmarked it and i don't know if you've noticed but it's been on the agenda it has for the last like six episodes it's been on the agenda and i just never i never bothered to take it off the bookshelf and actually do it so i'm not really sure what value that added, but anyway. Hey, sometimes we quote from the Bible on this show. Keep going, fuckface. You know what sucks, Elvis? What sucks, Mike? David fucking Clarkson. I'm not going to say I told you so, but guess what?

I fucking told you so, asshole. Allow me to elaborate, if you will. It sucks on a variety of levels. It sucks that idiots like you blame the player for his contract i don't blame the player for his contract i think uh it sucks that the first of all a he's been underwhelming i'm not defending his act he's got the one goal he's looked a little lost at times at other times he's actually looked pretty good a little snake bit and he should have had one last night but he hasn't he hasn't been the david clarkson uh we were expect the most of us were expecting my argument

is that he's exactly the david clarkson that we should have expected he is not a 30 goal scorer he was a 30 goal scorer once in a career that there is enough history to tell us exactly the type of player that he is and so he is exactly the type of player that we should have expected. But when you add in the amount of money that we- No, exactly. He's being paid like a 30 goal score. Correct. The amount of money that the organization gave him

was too much. It was an incorrect decision on behalf of the management to give him that contract. I have no issues with him signing the contract because if I was him, I would have done the same thing. However, he's a hometown boy who has all of these expectations on him that are not realistic and he management has in essence now uh tied the hands of the organization for many many many years down the road for a player that we should not be doing this for he's the third highest player on the team that's insanity his contract is better than jeff fingers though i just wanted to get my

bearings but his you know when they announced his contract and said he was going to make 3.5 million everybody said oh like we all assumed it was over the course of the four-year deal or whatever it was it was 3.5 per i'm talking jeff finger right now right but for david clarkson by the way do you know remember that mike kasha whose wife wouldn't come to my wedding yeah five minute chat with my ex he tells me every time he sees david clarkson he thinks of me because he says we look like brothers do you see any resemblance no i don't see any resemblance well that's not why i root for him i think maybe his wife told him that do you root against david clarkson still or are you rooting for him well i certainly on twitter i

do uh with you i do with uh james myrtle the columnist for the globe and mail who's a sense of humor i've noticed he does he doesn't have the sense of humor required like no to be on twitter he does not yeah and i had to tell him i'm like i'm busting your balls he's really like uh for me analytics minded and very rigid i find it very difficult to joke with that guy loosen up um i was trying to have a go at him right and you and bob i saw that it was whatever um he got really defensive very quickly he did he was like he's no damien cox he's pumping the brakes really quick no damien cox would have either had a go with me and laughed about it, or he would have immediately blocked me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He goes either way. I noticed our friend Argie, the commenter on Toronto Mike, has been goading Damien Cox on Twitter lately. Oh, I'm not following Argie on Twitter. I'm not even sure. He kind of messed up because his Twitter handle, I don't think you'll hear this, but his Twitter handle is not as anonymous. It's not as anonymous as his commenter handle on Toronto Mike. So I don't know, like to me, it's maybe I know too much.

So I, I know it's him. So maybe I'll tell you offline what his address is. Let's not, let's not get out of the bag here, but so yes, I think the whole situation sucks. I think that it sucks that everyone expects David Clarkson to be a 30-goal score.

It sucks that he missed the first 10 games, as you well know, and I think that's affected him, and I think he's trying too hard because he's a hometown guy from Mimico who grew up loving the blue and white. And I just think all around, I just hope this doesn't end up like Larry Murphy. Well, that's another thing larry murphy i didn't get into that with uh with myrtle but he he he was describing his stats over the course of however many games he had played at that point i think it was eight maybe sure and i keep reminding people that he's actually played whatever games he's actually physically you know you know you're deceiving yourself you're

ridiculous whatever i I hate him. I hate Dave Nones for what he's done. I hate the way Randy Carlisle is playing a $30 million man. The whole situation is just horrible. I don't like Randy Carlisle. I think he's a bad coach. I don't think he plays players the way that he should be playing them, but whatever.

I'm here. He's there. So he must know more than me. But from the sidelines, it certainly looks as though he's a pretty shitty coach mike you know what sucks what sucks elvis people who drink wine in first class now i get to travel a lot for work and it's certainly nothing you know it's not exotic or anything that's very exciting i typically these days i'm going to new york and montreal more often than not i am going to am going to London and Paris in a couple of weeks. Nice. So I get upgrades a lot because the more you fly, the more status you have with the airline.

And I noticed this again yesterday where when you're in first class, they have a larger selection of alcohol for you to choose from. And it is, of course, free. But they will bring the card along. If it's a larger plane, they actually have a card in first class. And if it's not, they just come and take your order. But so many times have I seen people say, what kind of red do you have? And they will literally bring out the bottles of red and they'll be like, is this one OK for you? I'm like, the flight from Toronto to Montreal is 47 fucking minutes.

I think you can drink the wine from the box even during that particular time how pretentious are you you fuck you probably didn't even buy the first class ticket you got upgraded like me and just whatever take your free drink and be on with it how often do you get upgraded uh almost every flight now that's amazing i i don't fly nearly as much as you i don't fly that much they have a they e-upgrade credit system where the more you fly, the more credits you get, and then every flight you can apply to be upgraded. And sometimes, based on your status, because you're so high up on the list, you get upgraded right away, and other times you've got to wait until they call your name at the gate.

But I... It sucks that I've never been in first class, I think. Travel with me, brother. Travel with me. One day. You know what sucks, Elvis? It sucks that I've never been in first class. I think that's what I've never ever been in first class. Travel with me, brother. Travel with me. One day. You know what sucks, Elvis? What sucks, Mike?

Saturday Night Live not being funny when you really, really want them to be funny. I know where you're going. So I don't watch Saturday Night Live like I once did when Chris Rock was there or Chris Farley or David Spade and Adam Sandler. There were times, Phil Hartman even, Mike Myers. There were times I didn't miss Saturday Night Live. I thought it was really funny pretty consistently. And then I heard they were going to do a Rob Ford bit. So I happened to tune in at 11.30 on Saturday Night Live.

I was watching it live. And they opened with the Rob Ford bit. And I go, this will be fun. I've been watching the daily show clips on YouTube every day after. And they've actually been really, really funny. Unbelievably funny.

Just, it writes itself, but he, he ends up making, he presents things in a way where you, you don't, sometimes when you're in the eye of the hurricane, you don't realize how ridiculous things are. And then he presents it in a way where you go, is this real life?

And it just makes me laugh. And then Saturday Night Live, in my opinion, took very funny material that almost writes itself and made it pretty mediocre. It was pretty unfunny. I was really disappointed with the Rob ford skit on saturday night live you know how those models on the victoria's secret fashion show like have insurance policies on their boobs and their legs and stuff absolutely john stewart should have an insurance policy on his eyes because that is what makes john stewart so funny is that his his his uh expressions that he makes with his eyes are just remarkable it's like you know that this is shocking,

what he's reporting, and then just the eyes just make it so much more fun. Yeah, Jon Stewart's eyes were like Mary Hart's legs. Okay, remember that? Exactly. I will say this, that Saturday Night Live has been, I haven't necessarily been a frequent viewer in the recent history, but I'm more like you.

But from what I understand, the last, say, three to five seasons have been that sort of must-view type of quality. This season, a handful, more than a handful of regulars have left, and so there's a lot of rookies on there. So I'm not necessarily surprised. Bobby Monahan has been there for a while,

but he's not necessarily... He's their resident fat guy now. Right, but he's not necessarily their strongest performer either, right? He's not a strong performer not he's their resident fat guy now right but he's not necessarily their strongest performer he's not a strong performer he's just a fat guy he so i i totally agree i think they had the opportunity to be extremely funny they weren't um but you know it sounded for toronto to be for rob ford to be the opening skit on saturday night live that's pretty well that's the bizarre world we live in like um we now big news on Anderson Cooper 360 or whatever American network. They're opening with Ford stuff, which is just kind of bizarre when you step back and realize.

Toronto municipal politics is headline news in big American networks. Insane. And you know, just Saturday Night Live, I think it would have been a lot funnier if they just aired regular Rob Ford press conferences unedited. You've got a point there. But you know what sucks, Mike? What sucks, Elvis? People being in love with Rob Ford. And I'm going to put you into this particular equation.

There is this obsession with this particular man and what is going on with him. And I understand that a lot of it is very gratuitous. It's very flamboyant. It is certainly worthy of our attention, but I'm unsure if it's worthy of the attention, the amount of attention that we are giving it. We have tens of thousands of people dying in the Philippines because of a natural disaster that did not make anywhere near the front page of at least the Philippines because of a natural disaster that did not make anywhere near the front page of at least the mobile versions of a lot of newspapers in this city. There are politicians down in the US that have done this thing and worse. There are scandals that are happening in politics all across this country that are probably greater than what Rob Ford has done

and yet is not receiving the attention that it deserves. I think people need to take a deep breath, calm down, and recognize that this isn't all that crazy. He makes it crazier than it really is, and there's a lot of other things that deserve our attention, if not more so. Two things. One is you're 100 right that uh in the perspective of things this this should not be as big as it is part of it is that it's got

everything in it it even it had everything and it had drugs it even started introducing potential prostitutions and then rumors of this other tape and and there's there's lies and there's uh just bizarre statements he used the p word live on you know cp24 and everywhere yeah i'm okay with that because he if they used the p word in the report fine but if he just decided to use it which i guess maybe he could have given okay but i asked monica the thing that is worse is p in the report because i don't know monica said the word box is in the report, B-O-X. Which you could say, I don't know which is worse. The thing that is worse than the P word is when he said that he has more than enough to eat at home.

That's the thing. People just get so crazy with words. Okay, and by the way, that was not, and for a lot of people, it was strange to me when counselors would say that was the tipping point. What? That was the tipping point? Like that was the least, like that goes like number 97 on the list of my rob ford issues and i agree if you were it's a big we're making it a big deal because it's got it's just a sensational story that you just get draws you in it it's sort of like the wire meets uh jersey shore it meets the

kardashians kind of but real life happening and right before our eyes like out of nowhere he'll make these statements like, yeah, I smoke crack, probably when I was in a drunken stupor. And he says these things and it's really happening and it's just scandalous and sensational. And I'm not in love with Rob Ford, but remember, I live in Toronto. In fact, my handle is Toronto Mike.

So CNN and everybody is on my turf right now. I've been on this story since he was a counselor. So yes, I agree. I've always been harsh on story since he was a counselor. So yes, I agree. I've always been harsh on Ford because he's an idiot and we deserve so much better. But I'm the guy who says, and if you ever listen to my other podcasts where I get serious, I'm the guy who said, we have to wait till the next election to get this guy out. I'm not calling for the premier to kick him out. I'm not calling for a coup d'etat, as they say i know we're stuck with this if he won't resign

we're stuck with him till next october i'm hoping we all get out and vote and elect somebody who represents this city uh the way it deserves to be represented i love democracy for the record oh i love democracy yeah the other thing that that is just remarkable is all these counselors getting up and talking about how they you know they want to do all this that and the other thing that is just remarkable is all these counselors getting up and talking about how they want to do all this, that, and the other thing. And he's an asshole and he sucks and whatever. And yet like – Where do you live? Doug is partially correct where he would – if you were to get people to stand up and say, when have you ever done anything that is morally, ethically, or legally incorrect? You probably have a lot of people in that chamber.

See, the big issue is, and I know no one wants to hear this anymore, but back in May when he was confronted with the three journalists who saw the video and described what they saw, and he said they were pathological liars and that he did not smoke crack and he was not an addict, and he denies the entire thing, he kept that lie going for five months until he simply couldn't keep the lie anymore because he knew the video would eventually see the light of day he lies and lies and lies until he's faced with uh evidence that uh can't be can't be trounced and then he blames the messenger

then he went after the police and he went after the star and all the media when the sun turned on him this guy lied to us consistently for months but but again this is no different than what happens so good yeah so next so yes in the united states they built an entire news network around it next right next so let's build fox news i don't know but i can i don't i don't watch fox news but i i hear some of the things but uh next october i'm hoping my fellow torontonians will elect a better candidate, and there will be many, many better candidates than this idiot. Next October, Ontarians across this great province will re-elect and elect new politicians, and all of them, at one point in time or another, will lie. You have a simple outlook where all lies are equal and even the ones you assume. I mean, all politicians spin, which is a nice word of saying lie, of course.

But these black and white blatant bully tactics and lies from Rob Ford is a whole different category. He doesn't deserve the office. Doesn't deserve the office. I didn't vote for him. I won't vote for him again. I just hope others won't fall for the same trick. He lies. I'm just surprised as to your shock

at this, because really it's no different than what a lot of other politicians do, and frankly there's a lot worse things that can happen. I'd argue it is different. In another podcast, we'll compare the differences between politician David Miller and politician Rob Ford. We won't do it on this one, because

it'll send our two fans jumping out the window. You know what sucks? What sucks, Mike? Contrarians looking for a fight. I'm talking about people who will say to me, usually it's an anonymous comment on my blog, sometimes not so anonymous, sometimes it's you on this microphone, but sometimes it's my buddy, Freddie P.

You think I'm contrarian? Sometimes people will say things like this. Ready? Sometimes it's you on this microphone, but sometimes it's my buddy, Freddie P. Sometimes people will say things like this. Ready? I'll give you a few examples. Sidney Crosby sucks. That's ridiculous. LeBron James sucks. Also ridiculous.

David Suzuki's an idiot. He is, but you could argue that maybe he's not. He's not an idiot. The Toronto Star makes up its stories. I've seen him be an idiot The Toronto Star makes up its stories. I've seen him be an idiot. Toronto Star makes up its stories. I don't necessarily think they make up their stories, but they certainly have an agenda, just like the Toronto Sun has an agenda.

Rob Ford is a great mayor. Don't isolate that sound bite and don't stick it on. Don't isolate that sound bite. Take it out of context. There are people, I mean, I'm hearing it. There are people, like I had a chat with somebody from Dallas just yesterday. And I was just telling her that it's interesting how many Americans don't accept the Warren Commission report as fact. And they think there were multiple shooters that day.

She just looked at me, looked me in the eyes and said, I think it was a service, the security, what do they call it? The service security guys, the CIA guys, whatever. Secret service agent behind him who shot him in the head. Do you believe that the Warren Commission is fact? Yeah. You really do? Only because I have consumed so many documentaries at this point where they break it down and recreate, and they have the professionals in there who break it down.

And 100%, I believe, three bullets were fired from the sixth floor of the book depository. But the gun that he used is pretty much impossible for anyone to have done that. That's 100% false. It's 100% false. They've actually taken the same gun and done it, and it was easy.

Not even a great marksman, but just moderately trained marksman from the Marines or whatever have a very simple time hitting the targets from that distance, recreating the whole thing using the exact same gun. I'm not, I'm not bullshitting you. Well,

that's one magic loogie. If you'd ask me, no, because I guess, first of all, fucking, that's my favorite part of this JFK talk is remembering that episode. And I heard they were talking about the sink,

the single bullet theory. And then I, I break into my Seinfeld, you know, I love that. It might be my favorite episode of all time. What is the thing that bothers you the most from a contrarian? What's the one thing? Because for me, there's certainly one on this list that drives me right up the wall.

Oh, which one's the one? I don't know, except it'll kill me when somebody who has accomplished so much in their sport, and I'm going to use Crosby as example now, because he's at the top of his game right now. And the best hockey player in the world. That's the one that gets me too. It's a Sydney Crosby sucks because I hear a lot. It's I don't get it.

I really don't get it. I think the, the, the, the, they're just being contrarians because they want to fight. I think the people who are, you know,

sort of on the Ovechkin side versus Crosby at the beginning of their career, we've certainly seen who the clear winner is there. Sure. Ovechkin's come on again. He has. He can score a boatload of goals, but Crosby is the much more complete player. He's won a gold medal.

He's got leadership. And no analyst would disagree with that. The other one that is funny and it's related is the LeBron sucks. And I think LeBon has done a lot of things in his career to show us that he's actually a douche right he's a bit of a douche but not as big a douche as i thought he was gonna be right okay i'll give you that i'll give you that we're not hearing about you know he's not sean kemp let's put it that way i don't root against him

like i thought i might right but you know he does sean kemp's not so bad either he does suck when you compare him to a player like Michael Jordan right in the sense that he isn't maybe necessarily as good as Michael Jordan I get that but that doesn't mean he sucks okay you know what he doesn't suck like he doesn't suck he's not he's not sucking the bag he is the opposite of sucks in that if I could have one player in the NBA to build my team around I would want LeBBron James. But I wouldn't hesitate to pick LeBron James. Would you want, I agree right now. How about if we were say seven or eight years ago, would you have taken LeBron today or would you have taken Kobe? Well, it's kind of a tough one because the hype, I mean, they were broadcasting LeBron's high school games like

on national television. Like the hype around LeBron was completely different than the hype around Kobe. Kobe wasn't even a first pick overall right but kobe is turned into an exceptional player right one of the greats that's a tough one but now you're basically one a and one b in it like so i but the bottom line is i know the michael jordan shadow looms over the lebron story and the big thing to me was that lebron brought a couple of all-stars in to kind of help him win his championships, and Michael Jordan did not. He stayed put and kind of brought in some pieces around him. Like, guys like Pippen, who, by the way, Pippen was recently named, like, one of the top 50 players. That was, like, 560.

It's ridiculous. He's riding certain coattails. So I don't think it's very—it's sort of like comparing Crosby to Gretzky. Like, it's not a fair compare. So in his generation, LeBron is the greatest. And Crosby, I hope he stays healthy because he's definitely the greatest right now. And if he stays healthy, he will be the greatest of his generation. I think we just lost Mrs. Elvis.

So contrarians suck. Contrarians like you, Elvis. Right. You know what sucks, Mike? What sucks, Elvis? Movember. let me put this into context i think the the um i i participate in movember i have a ridiculously horrible mustache but you usually do i have a horrible mustache on november 3rd so it's something that just gets

worse and worse as the month goes along um but i have a big problem. I love the cause. I think it's amazing that they brought in not only prostate cancer, but also mental health issues to the campaign. You know, I didn't even notice. Yeah. It's very much part of the campaign is that it's not just about cancer. It's also about the mental struggle that goes along with that. I think it's a great program. It's just fantastic. However, I have a huge problem with guys who have turned Movember into something cool. And by cool-

Do you think they're even raising funds anymore or they just grow on the mustache? People who grow their mustache in the month of October or grow a beard in the month of October and then start November 1st- That's cheating. With a mustache. And they shave it into like this cool,

I'm doing air quotes here, this cool shape or something crazy looking. Guys, cheating. With a mustache. And they shave it into like this cool, I'm doing air quotes here, this cool shape or something crazy looking. Guys, cancer is not cool. Movember is not supposed to be cool. You're supposed to look like an idiot. You're supposed to feel self-conscious about it because that's kind of sort of mimicking what a cancer patient feels like.

You retard. It's not about being cool. It's about raising awareness. You aren't going to use that word anymore, Elvis. Fucking assholes. I think some people are actually growing the mo because they can in November and then they aren't even raising funds. Well, you know what? You could say, though,

that even if they aren't raising funds and you're seeing somebody walking around with a mustache and it reminds you of the cause, and that's probably good enough. I get what you're saying, though. I'm not trying to be contrarian. But I really do have a problem with the people who think that it's cool to start growing your mustache before November 1st. Yeah. I'm mustache list because I blow my wad if so to speak on the, uh, Terry on the Terry

Fox run, which, uh, you know, I always get commenters and everybody contributed and I always, uh, raise a pretty good amount and that's where I kind of, I don't want to dilute that with, uh, another cancer proud supporter of that brother you're a good man you know what sucks elvis what sucks mike well what sucks is that i will never or i won't say never but i cannot see wkrp in cincinnati in its original format, so to speak. Unedited. Like, what do you mean format?

You mean like on a glass tube television screen? One moment, Elvis. I'm living on air in Cincinnati. Cincinnati WKRP. You want to join me? No.

Did you watch the show? I did, yes. I loved the show. I wasn't, I'm not as big of a fan as you are. I loved the, I did this in an old office of mine. I taped out my office space on the floor. Oh, at like Les Nesman.

It's so hilarious. Elvis, you know, there's only four seasons of this show. I watched it in syndication after school. And it made me fall in love with radio. At the time, I was quite young. And I thought DJs got to choose their radio like at the time i was quite young uh and i thought djs got to choose their own music at the time because then the show venus flytrap is choosing his own tunes and it looked that's not real it's not real but at the time i thought they did and i grew up and i would

record myself on a cassette like i never i kept thinking my voice would drop that was the idea and then i'd be just like i'd be like tom rivers he was like my early hero tom rivers yes we're both on both on the tom rivers bandwagon and i'd be like introducing tunes. He was like my early hero, Tom Rivers. Yes, we were both on the Tom Rivers bandwagon. And I'd be like introducing tunes, and I'd play the great tunes. And everyone would be like, I love the tunes. Like, you know, the Boon Man plays. That's awesome. And yeah, this show is what did it for me.

Lonnie Anderson. Lonnie Anderson, absolutely. Hot. And you know, everything was great in that show. Herb Tarlick, like what? You know, Johnny Fever was amazing. Les Nesman was the best. You know, even Mrs. Carlson and Arthur Carlson, you know, big guy and little guy.

It was amazing. So why can't you watch it in the original format? So when they recorded this show, this tune makes me want to dance, so I'm going to kill it. But they used music. So the original run of the show used music you might hear a kiss oh i've heard this yes you might use a kiss song for example okay since you're a big kiss fan i'll leave my example and it's a real example when andy decides we're going to change formats they might throw on a kiss song and it was a key moment and in syndication you'd

see this but if you were to buy this show on DVD, for example, they would actually put in canned music, much less expensive to license music that sounds Kiss-like, but was not the Kiss song. So throughout the series, they are now taking out certain songs that were popular and, you know, real pop hits or rock hits and putting in canned music that sounds a little bit similar just so they can actually release this. They couldn't afford to license all the original music. That is a, that's a shame. I'm, I'm doing it as a shame.

Uh, Wikipedia hearing at Wikipedia in here. What have you learned? It's, it's, uh, it's, it is sad.

It's very, very sad that I know I, I had heard that. I forgot about that. And, uh, yeah, I would like to watch,

uh, the original series, uh, all four seasons yeah i would like to watch uh the original series uh all four seasons i would like to watch it and a lot of people are talking about wkrp right now because our friends to the south the americans are about to have their thanksgiving and every time americans have their thanksgiving people talk about the turkey episode of wkrp as god is my witness i thought turkeys could fly. I remember that one. It's heavily referenced at this time of year.

So a lot of people are talking about it. I would love to be able to watch the four seasons with the original music, and that is not possible today due to licensing restrictions. That's too bad. It does suck. That really is too bad. I also heard a similar story about the Wonder Years.

Well, back in, so I was reading quickly here as you were talking. The deal was back in the day, you would license a song for 10 years whereas now you tend to license it for forever and ever but didn't you also license for certain formats like you have to re-license it for dvd release for example perhaps but the the either way the the licensing would have lapsed at that particular point in time so i i'm guessing now that when they will cost them a billion dollars to release wkRP on DVD. So you'll have to...

It was only four seasons. Only four seasons. And 100 episodes. Something like that. I knew it was only four seasons. Yeah, but it has such a huge cultural impact, I think. Remember Les' dog? Les Nesman's dog.

And when he would go to feed it, he had to wear the armor. I love that show. It was a good show. It was a good show. It was a good show. Thanks for listening. You know what else sucks? What?

The fact that I don't get music played during my frigging thing. But your blog and your blog sucks hard. Ha ha!