Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TOAST33: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1547

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

In this 33rd episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out school jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

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Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us back. Yeah, the seats are still warm from those other two guys. Yeah. Yeah. What other two guys? Okay, I will let you know that I, I kept it a secret.

I did keep it a secret. That's the worst part. But is that bad? No, that feel, you know, I feel like so, It was a super secret episode. Yeah, no, that's fine, but he could have told us. It's us. But I wanted it to be a surprise for you as well.

Like, be straight up with me because I was thinking, you know, you're still monthly. Yes. Like every month is going to be Bob, Willett and Rob. It's not like I said, one month I'm going to cancel Rob and Bob and have cam and stew. They were just going to be extras. And they did start toast. So I, in my mind, my conscience was clear. I figured as long as they don't replace you, then I don't need to have a chat with you beforehand. But what were your thoughts when you learned there was an episode of toast recorded in August that featured Cam and Stu strangely betrayed.

Is that true? Like I need to know for real. Cause I thought in my head like, Oh, there's still every month. So this is just an extra toast. It was interesting. It was weird, but I enjoyed listening to it, but it did feel like they were in our place. Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised, but the whole coy advance thing seems so far away. Like I was happy for you because I know it's hard to get those two together. Yeah. Um, it had been 18 months or something. Yeah. It's great. And it's crazy. And I, um, you know, I I've had Stu stone on my podcast. He had a terrible zoom hook up. It was not a good episode.

And I've never I think Cam doesn't like me because he lives near me. And every time I see him, I get like a weird vibe. I feel like he doesn't like me. So, you know, I don't see him in my neighborhood. I mean, whenever I see him, I know him pretty well. There's no chance. There's no chance that Cam doesn't like. No, I think he doesn't like me. He might not like, he's not a warm guy. He's like this kind of mysterious figure.

He's not a warm fuzzy guy. He might be fundamentally shy. He might be misinterpreting, but there's no chance. There's no chance that Cam doesn't like Bob Willett. Right. Like where would that even come from? Well, maybe we'll have to have an episode with Cam and myself on. Or I could have Cam on my podcast, I suppose. Bring him in the basement. Bring him to the basement. He could actually be another live in the basement person, which there haven't been very many because I've did it started during the pandemic and I'm not as picky as Mike is about having people on a screen or not zooming. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, you know what? It was fine. If we're gonna, well, I'll drop the bit. Good for you. That's great. Um, you know,

I think they gave way too many props to Rob. No, um, no, they gave, they gave this, they gave the absolutely right amount of props to Rob. I felt like I was an afterthought, but you know, I'm really needy right now because I've been without work since February. So it's all, you know, I'm, I'm feeling pretty fragile guys. I thought that they're, they haven't done it together with you in a long time, 18 months. So it felt like you guys were really excited to be together almost like a reunion,

which we've got a different kind of a comradery going on because it's been pretty consistent, right? So you guys together felt to me more like a morning show. Like a morning zoo? Like a morning zoo kind of thing. Oh, interesting. I don't know if that's good or bad. You know what, that's the stew element, okay?

Yeah, stew brings that. I think we talked about what's the difference. One is more wrestling talk when it's Cam and Stew, Yeah, but the other is yes, Stu brings like a stick Yeah, so he's doing like shoes and you never know if it's a work or a shoot Yeah, and cam and I kind of do straight up and we don't really know if it's a work or a shoot, right? So when you us three do it, it's just we're just talking music. Yeah, there's no bit Yeah, there's no bits here. The only bits are when we kind of get on each other for, you know, either having far too many.

Queen songs? No, I was. Too many mind blows. Too many mind blows, too specific. All of our stuff is quite obvious when we're taking the piss out of each other. And yeah, just like you guys have a connection obviously. Wasn't I clear on that episode?

And I'll be clear now if I wasn't clear then that I actually don't, like I'm as excited to record with Bob Willett and Rob Bruce as I am to record of Stewart. The difference was it had been a very long time since the three of us were on the map. And we had done every week through the pandemic. Oh my gosh. 47 in a row. That's amazing. So, and it's like now it's been a while. So there was a bit of like, uh, well, it's been a long time. And it's not here that much, but I absolutely don't have this preference for the stew and cam toast. No, I thought it was pretty cool. No, it was good.

It's doing camps that, hey, let's go back to our monthly toast. No part of me thinks, all right, now I won't do a toast with Robert. I'll do this until one of you says, fuck it. I'm out. Yeah, right. No, no, I, I love doing it. And, and you can hear the camaraderie and it was fun. It's a, it's a fun episode. Um, it, it is a different, you're right. Uh, first of all, I want to say I could hold my own in wrestling talk with Stu. I mean that guy, I mean, he's an executive. I don't know these people personally. I, I've known some personally,

but you know, of course I know who's small Joe. He's an AEW now. And he was for years of beginning. He's Rob. Do you know some, he was a big a big indie, uh, he was like an indie darling around the country who's doing all this great work. Do you know who this guy is? Uh, that's a superstar Billy Graham. His name is Rick the Equalizer. What? Rick the Equalizer? Is he even anybody? What did you randomly- Oh! Do you know who he is? No, because I mean, he looks like if I showed you a picture of superstar Billy Graham and it's in black and white, you would think that it's superstar Billy Graham. Hey, on this topic here, since we talked about Cam and Stu, the last episode of toast, you guys are back, but you didn't miss a month. You're still every month. I'm excited to kick

out school jams. Happy September. So we're kicking out school jams, but in that episode in which Stu and Cam did talk more Rob Bruce, I think they were excited by the spoons connect. Sure. Like they should be and Cam doesn't like you, Bob. That's exactly it. Exactly. We've established that senior. This is this has come up.

So I'm going to play a clip. This is for Rob Proust. You listening, Rob? Uh huh. It's fucking like, oh yeah, this is great. So just to point out that the, uh, another member of the, uh, toast family co-wrote this song. Great video too. It's a great icon. I really love this song and you know what they have another

song that is the was the theme song for Maple Leaf Wrestling. That's right. Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na- up so you can pull it up. Steve Kerr was announced at the DNC. I did see his video. Smiling in Winter is the name of the spoon song that was the theme song for Maple Leaf Wrestling. Wow. I'll ask Rob about it. Please do. Next month when he's here. Here, just play this. Hey, Rob, huge fan, love romantic traffic, but you have another song from your catalog called Smiling in Winter that I remember being a theme song for WWF Wrestling on CHCH for many years. Can you confirm that? Were you guys paid for that? Are you a wrestling fan? Was it cool? You probably got a lot of exposure because wrestling was so popular in that era that people kept hearing your song on wrestling on

CHCH on Saturdays, I believe at 7 p.m. So Rob, let us know what you think big fan. Thank you Okay, there's stu stone addressing Rob Proust directly. So where do we begin? Firstly were you paid? Did they use that song they did use that song Sit here, right? Yeah, it's the middle section of the song. This was the opening. I'll bring it down. You just talked to it and tell me to bring it fast. Okay. I'll talk while it's playing. There's me. That's, I was like that. Is that you, Rob Pruss? Yeah. We used to open our shows with this song. It was always really cool. Bathe in dry ice. You know, this was our opening song.

Okay. So you tell the story about your song, the song we're listening to, which is called smiling in winter being used as the theme song for the wrestling that would be airing on CHCH. Yep. Okay. Tell me the story. I don't really know a lot of the story except that one day I would like turn on wrestling and there was our song.

I was like, what the you didn't get a heads up. I don't remember. I didn't give a heads up. There was another duo doing toast. Right. Yeah, exactly. Um, I don't know. I don't know if it was at the

same, like I don't remember the timeframe of it all either, except that one day I heard it. I was like, that's weird. It's our song and we probably got paid or didn't like give you like a, just mention it. It could have been a management thing, you know, like paid for this. Oh, we were probably paid. I have no idea. Um, but also it's CHCH. So it's like Hamilton. It's like, it's like getting your song on the local station, right? So I don't know how far the reach was for the show, if it was just Southern Ontario localized or what. Well, I watched it. Billy Red Lions was the guy. Don't you dare miss it. That's right. This Bubby. Absolutely. I have no idea. So because I saw it and I was like, well, this is just a Hamilton show. So I

don't know. This is cool that they're using our song, but CHCH has a big broadcast. Yeah. I guess it's a Toronto is why all there is house of Fridenstein. Yeah. No, I know. Tiny talent time, which I was on time, which you were on when I was eight. Yeah. And then this Maple Leaf wrestling, wrestling. So it was just, is this the part? Nope. Nope. It's the middle section of the song. So yeah, I mean, I, I could probably Google it. Stu probably knows more than I do about it.

So what's interesting is this was, I think it was like, what year would you have released this song? What album was it on? This album came out in 82. So this was used probably, Years 86 or 87. 82 through to 87, 88.

It was the theme. So this song came out before Nova Heart? No, this came out after Nova Heart. So we released Nova Heart. When was Nova Heart released? 82. We released Nova Heart as a single first in the spring of 82. And then we went as a single first in the spring of 82.

And then we went back in the studio in the summertime to record the rest of the album, now that we'd done that song that was like cool. And we said, let's go back and make more of that. So then we recorded the rest of the album, and it came out in like October 82. And this was on the album. So what?

It's coming up. It's still the chorus. It's the male. It's like the whole male section. OK, because we're past the midpoint. Yeah, yeah. It's a long song. They were long songs in the eighties. And this was a single actually at one point too. This was released as like the third single or something. Cause we, if the first Novahar was before the album, we released Aries and symphonies. It's coming

up. And then we released, this is a single. It got a little bit of a churn. Are you sure it's in this song? Yeah, it's coming up. It's a long song. We're setting up a mood. Here it comes. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Turn it up. Welcome to RISD Man on WWF on CHC. I don't know who the host is, but here's my radio voice. Jack Tunney, right? Was it Jack Tunney?

I bet you it was. It's on YouTube, the opening. It was this section right here. Wow. Does it sound familiar? No. I watched Maple Leaf Wrestling. It was very short though. It was a short segment of the intro. Even to me it was inconsequential.

I was like, oh, they used Smiling in Winter on that show. That's weird. I'm fascinated by it. Stu Stone finds out that Rob Pruce is the new co-host of Toast and then fascinated by like, you know, Stu Stone finds out that Rob Pruess is the new host and co-host of Toast and then he's like, Oh, they had a song and Maple Leaf Wrestling. I'm glad he remembered that. That's his job is to know all these wrestling facts. Okay. So we crack open our GLBs. Okay. Let's crack open the GLBs and I have actually another clip of a question for you, Rob

Pruess. So on the mic, everybody. All right. Ready? question for you, Rob Proust. So on the mic, everybody. All right. Ready? Thank you. Cheers. Okay. Cheers to you gentlemen. Cheers. I'm having a lovely premium lager. I also stopped in at my friend Sean Sage's shop here on, uh, on the Queens on Blake Shore here, right? Uh, the vital planet, the health food store. I thought because we're approaching the dinner hour, I got us some snacks. So I got us some, uh, I got us some I got us some peanut butter cups courtesy of my friend Sean. He's got 11 grams of protein. I thought we'd have a little chocolate, you know, just to, uh, no sugar.

Um, zero grams of sugar. So here's the thing, everything at vital planet, there would be nothing. There's no artificial flavors or colors in this at all. He doesn't carry anything that has stuff like that. So for all your needs in the Etobicoke region or wherever we are, South Etobicoke, South Etobicoke, on the shore, vital planet. So I brought, I brought those for you guys. That's a free plug for vital planet. And your buddy owns the store. He's owned the store since 2000.

I guess he started where he had since 2007 or so. Yeah. It's had a couple of locations, but it's on the South side of, uh, it's just over near sixth and of peanut butter cups. Yeah, I love, I know. Uh, I, I, I should have asked, does anybody have any allergies? We would have a disclosed that. Yes. Okay. Before I get to another question that came up for Rob, sorry, Bob, but this is all over Robin. Then I do want to talk about the most recent episode of Bob's basement and

that gentleman, because I can tell you that my story of meeting him. Okay. I'm going to play a clip from the very first episode of toast in 2024. You guys listening? Yeah. You guys have to vote on this will cause I'm going to pull this clip at the end of the year. And if, and if you guys are doing an episode in January, 2025, I'm going to play this. Okay. Will Oasis announce a reunion tour in 2024 start with you, Bob Willett. No, so quick to say no bomb. You're gonna ask me who's Oasis? No, I would guess no. I would predict no as well because no Gallagher's his band is actually kind of cool on their own. Oh, the high flying

like birds and actually you know what Liam solo stuff is good too. I haven't heard much of this all may be true, but think of the Brinks truck. I know you know what will be parked in there. I predict twenty twenty five will be when the shows are happening the thirtieth anniversary of what I wasn't entirely wrong of morning glory. What if there's came out in ninety four though some walls definitely maybe yeah definitely maybe came out in eighty four, that's the 30th anniversary now. I know. I know. Well, definitely maybe put them on the map. Yeah. But what's the story? Morning Glory put them on the map around the world. Yes.

Right. Wonderwall. Yeah. Well, anyways, I just wanted to pull that clip. I love how you were playing people city in the background. It's going to segue into my next clip actually. So that's people city in the background. So firstly, you guys just to let you know, there were, there wasn't a re a reunion was really and you guys always wrong oasis. Okay. So I just wanted to pull a clip and just say you guys were wrong and Bob was so quick to say no, I wasn't entirely you were entirely wrong. No, I said they would announce you want me to play it again. Listen closely. The question I said, no, I said,

no, I know you're right. I will, because I'm going to pull this clip at the end of the year. And if you guys are doing an episode in January, 2025, I'm going to play this. Okay. Okay. Will Oasis announce a reunion tour in 2024? Start with you, Bob. Will that? No. See the answer is right. All right. So people city, Rob, you know, the song people say, love it. Yeah. I played it in a, the 40th anniversary of much music, Origin story. Yes. Retro. Did you listen to that episode? I did. Loved it. Thank you. I was actually with Ed Conroy today at the breakfast. I'll get to that in a minute.

Hollywood suite. Thank you, David. I was at that much music opening on August 31st. Okay. So you're stealing my thunder. Cause I got to, this is the question that came out of that conversation with Ed listen closely. They had this giant party at 99 Queen and it was the most random people that showed up to this party. You had a lot of bands of course. I'm sure Rob Bruce was there.

I mean they premiered tell no lies by the spoons. That was one of the first music videos they showed that night. Well, I'll ask them. Yeah, you should ask them because that was as an infamous party. Eugene Levy is there. So it's like a mixture of bands and sort of Canadian personalities and obviously executives and music label people. And there's all kinds of technical difficulties, of course.

So cameras are cutting out and, you know, zooming in on things that they shouldn't be. And I think David Kines might have been the floor director that night. He knows a lot about how, you know, how crazy that first night was. Okay. But Rob, elegant exit there. Okay. Rob Pruse, tell us about August 31st, 1984. That is at 6 p.m. that evening, much music launched.

Yeah, it was fun. It was JD Roberts and Christopher Ward busting through this, like this piece, this sheet of paper or something. Yeah. Were you there? I was there. What do you remember from that day?

I don't remember a lot except that it was packed and it was Madness, so I mean we were crammed into the into 299 whatever, you know, I mean 99 99 whatever Yeah, it was that what it was the original City TV building where Toronto Rocks would have been Oh, yeah, you're right 99 East we used to go to Toronto Rocks there as well when it was channel 79 before it was channel Yeah, well, yeah, right the original home of the nightclub known as Electric Circus channel seven. Yeah, well, yeah. Right. The original home of the nightclub known as electric circus. Yeah. Yeah, there you go.

So we were all packed in there and it was, that party for me was, wasn't, it was fun sort of, but I was a little shy at that time still too. Like we were getting, we were pretty popular at that time. So I think there were a lot of fans hanging out. And you were a teenager maybe. I was 18, yeah. Wow.

And it was fun. And I think I probably brought my girlfriend with me, which was a little bit of a, like a comfort to, you know, help me along there. But yeah, but they premiered tunnel lies and that was, we had made the video that summer and it was like national slash was in it. And like, it was like a, Oh, uh, not cam carpenter. There was other like radio. I saw cam carpenter today. I did you, you saw him last week too. Yeah. He was in a, There was other like radio. I saw cam carpenter today. I did you you saw him last week, too Yeah, he was he was at that breakfast I'll go ahead in a minute, but they premiered the video like they did a new rush video

They did our tunnel eyes video blah blah blah, and it was fun, but it's one of those things It's a bit of a blur. My memory of it is more like just it was a crowd of people It was an oasis. It was blue. It was yes exactly Okay, so there that answers that question. See all these clips, see Rob Pruess kept coming up. So Bob Ouellette, before I just tell a little story about my breakfast this morning, and then we're gonna get to school jams,

but first I'm gonna kick out an unrelated jam. I don't think it's a school jam, but Bob, please tell us about the most recent episode of Bob's Basement and then also tell us how you're doing. I'm very interested, because this episode dropped this afternoon, so I have not heard it yet, but I was interested in your guest because I have a little story about your guest. Sure uh gentlemen his name is Bob Wegener. I think I met him at the last uh

tmlx or tmlx15. I believe I met him there and he's a friend of uh our co-host here Rob Pruse and he emailed me and said hey uh Rob was telling me about your podcast and about the whole everything about change and he goes I'd love to come on. He goes, I'm about to make a big change in my life. And I looked at his website. It's kind of guys that, you know, he's not a household name, but if you saw, we will rock you here in Toronto, he was the guitarist. Uh, he had to audition in front of Brian May to, uh, you know, uh, become the guitarist for we will rock you, which is amazing. And he's a big, Webster by all yeah. He wrote, he wrote a Max Webster

book and he's a he's very interesting guy. He's he got mad at me because I called him Gen X. Apparently he's an elder millennial. He is he's a he's a like Monica. Yeah, he's an early eighties baby, not so he got mad at me for that. I'm like well, I got gray hair dude. I mean anyway, so it was it was cool. He actually because he's actually living in the east end. He came in and I actually set him up in the basement and we had it. We had a real conversation face to face. Your chat was great. Oh, thank you. Yeah, you've already heard it. Rob, I listen on my drive in yes, Burlington. So it was, you

know, again, if you like musicals, if you like the, you know, we had a little bit of talk about how Toronto's a really tough city to live in right now. We talked a little bit about because he's leaving. That was one of his big changes. He's going to Montreal voluntarily. He's just leaving because he feels he's a single guy. He I believe so. Yeah, it seems yeah, I didn't feel like you're a single guy. You could just go anywhere. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it was a good episode. It was very busy. Yeah. And then other than that, I got some irons in the fire for some stuff, but right now it's mostly DJ gigs. So you got one tonight. I do

have one tonight. If anybody's out in the boat, no cover tonight. It's a ground control on Queen West near Ossington, and it's a David Bowie themed bar, but it is myself and like six other DJs from Toronto, who played at all the alternative places in the nineties and two thousand some great names. Michael X is one of them. If you ever listened to a Martin streak, he would have been picking up Michael X on the second floor of whiskey, Saigon and we're and we're calling it so there's a second time we've done it. We're calling it silver circles because we're actually D J with C D's again. So I had to pull out a

whole bunch of CDs today and actually you appreciate this. I got a little tick talk out right now. I've I'm using an old forty five box of my dad's with CDs to carry my CDs yeah, so I'm playing for an hour only there for from I'm playing for midnight to one amazing, but it's going to be a lot of fun yeah, and I'm doing a couple corporate gigs and some other stuff and but on the on the radio and media front, some like some things. Hopefully I can make some announcements pretty soon. Wow. I hope Bob Wagner. Was that today you recorded recorded him this morning at 10 a.m. So today just this is a day

in the life of oh yeah, this is an average Bob will let okay records with Bob Wagner in his basement. Yeah comes over here to New Toronto to record an episode of Toast with you, Rob Bruce. And now, and then he's gonna spin CDs at Queen and Ossington. Yeah, something like that. And thank you for the scheduling because I know we always go back and forth trying to organize this shit.

This is a tough one. Because I plan my weekends where I drive up, like I was on the road yesterday and then I'm leaving Monday. They almost replaced you guys with Stu and Cam. No, I'm not. Well, I was thinking that, that's why I really had to find something. I mean, you come all the way from New York, you come with Stu and Cam. Well, I was thinking that. That's why I really had to find something.

I mean, you come all the way from New York. You come from Queens, but you know, for me, I was saying, you know, I've got, you know, the kids are back in school, going back to school. My, my, my eldest started high school this week. And so like, so there's that amazing. And then, you know, coming and again, part of not torn up being an easy place to live right now.

There's no way to get from the East end of the West end for in less than an hour. Right. There's just no way. What's the nearest go station to you Danforth? So I could go. I could take Dan. You can take that to mimic. I can pick you up and then make you. Yeah, I could do that. I could do that and then I could have more than two beers and get hammered. It would be so much more relaxing for you. That's true. We should totally do that. I don't do that. I would love. Remember I picked you up once at the hotel. You were at like an event down at the Canadian music week a couple of years ago. That's right.

We're going to get this figured out here. I want to thank you for asking. Yeah. I'm going to play a little song and just talk a little bit about this, then give you a little update on my breakfast. And then we're going to kick out our school jams. Here's what I had for breakfast. Yeah. Well, mainly black coffee, actually. Mainly black coffee, actually. I feel like this is a stew jam. A stew stone jam. Got a Yacht Rock feel. Yeah. It's too yachty for sure.

Is this James Ingram? No. That's a good guess, though. That's what I want to talk about. Okay, so... People worship? The credit for this song... You won't believe this. The credit for this song is Brazilian band leader, Sergio Mendes. Yeah, okay.

Oh yeah. But who's the singer? Right. So here's what, so okay, I know this song, anyone who's alive at the time knows this song, right? Yeah. 1983. Yep.

Pibu Bryson? No, the guy singing, this is the mind blow, so Sergio Mendes is like a bossa nova dude, right? He died today. That's why I want to bring him up. He's out of the way today. Shout out to Ridley funeral home. But hold on, listen to this. Oh no, not yet. Okay. So, oh, here he is. I'm never gonna let you go. I'm gonna hold you in my arms forever. Big fucking jam, right?

Yeah. You could have put a gun to my fucking head and said Mike whose voices is a man and a woman we're listening to in This song whose voices are you hearing? I'd be dead right now Jeffrey Osborne. Oh Is it? No, I was on target Joe Joe Pizzullo. Oh, yeah And Lisa Miller, oh my god, it's Lisa Miller Here she is, hold on.

So, nobody's. Yeah, but so I know, I don't think until- Here's my confession. I'm not sure, I think I was like today years old, that's what the kids meant. I was today years old when I learned Sergio Mendez isn't singing on this fucking song. Oh really? I don't think I knew who Sergio Mendez was until today, like he dies

and I dig in and I'm like, oh, he's a Brazilian band leader. He's credited with like this bossa nova, this and that. This is like the big hit that I know. Right, you know this song already. He's like, it's like when you credit a DJ, but it's really Rihanna or whatever. David Guetta for instance, or yeah. Yeah, and then meanwhile.

Herb Alpert had a big hit that was sung by Janet Jackson, I believe, like, but it's Herb, you know, as his music. But who the fuck is Joe Pizzullo and Lisa Miller? So did you Google who Joe Pizzullo? You didn't even bother to do that! I was gonna find out if you guys know. No, I never heard of him. Okay, in the live stream, I wanna shout out

everyone on the live stream right now who's there to check out this nonsense. We're about to kick out these jams. Yeah, Michael McDonald vibes. That's Jeremy Hopkins, 100% right. Bob Willett saved the day for our family wedding. Wait, did you save Moose? No, that's the other Bob. You know why? Moose, you can't say Bob W when I'm talking to a Bob Willett. Okay? Bob Wagner. They needed an officiant,

somebody who could legally marry people. And Bob came through. I think this was at the old mill. Moose Grumpy had a relative getting married and their officiant dropped Oh. And Bob came through, I think this was at the old mill, Moose Grumpy had a relative getting married and their officiant dropped out and Bob Wegner said, I know somebody who can like perform the ceremony and it all came together. Canada Kev says Bob Wegner was a very cool dude to talk to at TMLX 15. Yeah. I'll quickly tell you, I met Bob Wegner at Blair Packham's house, I'll quickly tell you, I met Bob Wegener at Blair Packham's house, shout out to East York. I went to, Monica and I went to a party at Blair Packham's house and there's this guy there, tall, skinny guy with like a big energy to him. And he was talking about Max Webster and that was Bob Wegener. And I don't know like if that drew him into the tea. I don't know how he ended up at TML

X 15, but I was glad he was there and now he's like him with another friend Who was that? You know, I don't remember but it was a fan of the show actually. Are you shocked by that? No, that was just so I was shocked to see him there. Are you eating you're eating your yeah Yeah, the I lost my train of thought there who you're gonna tell me who these singers are okay so in the live stream That's what was so moose grumpy. Just I'm just shouting out Canada Kev moose grumpy Tavias Vaughn I lost my train of thought there. Who are you going to tell me who these singers are? Okay. So in the live stream, that's one question. Moose grumpy. Just, I'm just shouting out Canada, Kev moose grumpy, Tobias Vaughn, Jeremy Hopkins, everybody else.

Who else is there? Leslie Leslieville. Hi everybody. Hey ref. Yes. Hello. I know what I was going to say. You said Bob W saved the wedding.

And I have actually not, I wasn't an efficient, but I was at a wedding where the DJ didn't show you. And I w and I drove home and got my equipment and got the stuff and DJ the wedding. Wow. You saved that way and they're divorced now and I never even got a thank you. That's amazing. Okay. I now I'm going to sign this task now that I know that Mark wise blood is on the live stream. This is for you, Mark. Listen, can you please tell me who these singers are? I just went to the Wikipedia page for Joe. Who is he? Joe Pizzullo. This was like his big hit, but it looks like he's on a ship. I knew that hits, but it's

Sergio song, right? But he's, but as a background singer and as like a chorus singer, he's sung on a shitload of cool albums. He's sung for Alice Cooper, uh, David Lee Roth, Janet Jackson, Irene Kara. Well, he sang on a Wayne Chung album. He's sitting on Barbara Streisand album. So he's like a session singer. He Chung album. He sang on Barbra Streisand album. So he's like a session singer. He sounds good. He sounds like James Ingram type or Peebo Bryson. Yep. So for Sergio Mendez, of course, he's the band leader.

He's got the credit. He's got the name. So he wants to have singers. I'd be pissed off if I were Joe, like singing my ass off on a big hit. He probably got paid well. No one knows your name. I know. Lisa Miller.

Wasn't she? She was the host of entertainment tonight. I was going to say, what's she on there? Is it one of these? It was the host of entertainment tonight so find out if you can again I'm gonna set up the school jams and we're gonna get to it but find out if Lisa Miller can be heard on any other songs but also Sergio Mendes made some cool beautiful records in the 60s like if you just go on to any streamer or youtuber anywhere I've listened to Sergio Mendes for years just beautiful I. I missed out on Sergio. It's never too late. You start today. You'll be a fan. Instrumental music.

It's gorgeous. Like so cool. Bossa Nova stuff. Right? Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. I want to say hello to you, Rob Bruce. This is from Jeff Rogers. Hi, Jeff Rogers. I saw Jeff Rogers at this David Kines Hollywood sweet breakfast. David Rogers is on- Jeff Rogers. Sorry. Jeff Rogers was on Toronto Mike because of you. Yes. And then Jeff suggested Sir Jerry Levitan and Sir Jerry Levitan

was so cool came on because of Jeff and he's the guy who interviewed John Lennon when he was fourteen years old. Do you know where that interview happened? In a hotel somewhere. The King Edward Hotel where I was today at that breakfast. So quick story, this is a bad story. It's at the King and Young. Okay. So I just really quickly, I'm done. I'm going down on the elevator from the 17th floor and I'm going to bike home. Okay. This is at like 11 something AM. I'm getting out of there now and I go in my pocket to get the keys out so I can unlock

my bike and start my trek West. No keys in my pocket. get the keys out so I can unlock my bike and start my trek west. No keys in my pocket. I have this moment of this great, like, oh my God, I can't unlock my bike. I'm going to have the TTC back. I had a thing I had to record at two o'clock. I'm like, I have all these important things on that key. I've lost my keys. This is the worst thing. I'm like, is it in the elevator? So I start to retrace my steps. Anyways, the good news is I'm in this ballroom on the 17th floor, like just looking at at the floor walking around and I see my keys on the floor I know and I have this like feeling of such relief and I just want to say thank you God for helping me find Thank you God was wasn't busy with anything else. It's like I can get my kids keys from a distance. Okay, so we're gonna kick out

God jams next time. Oh, that'd be fun. School jams. Bob, your kids are back in school. Yes, your daughter started high school. Yes, my daughter started high school. She's going to a school for the arts, which is great. My my and then the my youngest is nine. She started grade four and she asked me about dad. What was grade four like for you? Now I went to a very dysfunctional school. I just want to share. I had a teacher who got fired during the school year while I was in his student. He was his name was Mr. Standard and he was anything but this would have been so whatever grade four. I would have been like early eighties

and he believed computers were the future. He was right. However, he forgot for went everything else, gave us the math textbook and said do whatever you want very, very, very, very crazy man and he also like we started every day after the national anthem. He made us stand on top of our desks and sing the rose by bet middler. What I just sang that man. You just did. That's what yeah yeah fucked up. Yeah, so we would like some say love like a bunch. Yeah. Crazy. When you play the song and you say, well, by the end we knew it. We didn't need the song, but what were the odds? I would just learn out. Like I don't even

think about bett middler except the Simpsons episode when she's cleaning up the highways or whatever. The Johnny Carson episode, I'm auto titling, right? But I just, I say a line from it because it's God is watching us. That's right. That's why I'm thinking of it. Yes. And then you're telling a story about a bet. Miller song about my crazy teacher and great. And he got fired. Like how to wonder when teachers get fired. I remember he kicked me in the ass, like literally kicked me in the ass. Well, that's how they get fired because well

yes, and then and then he said he made me pay. He swear not to tell anybody. Wow. This guy was nuts. So I was like, I told my grip, my, my kid and she's like, well, I'm glad I didn't go to school when you did. Wow. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah. So it's school, a school jobs. That's funny though, cause I reconnected with my grade three teacher this week. Wow. Which is so weird and random. I thought I think of her all the time, like, like every year, those like a really influential and a good really interesting, a good way. And like when teacher appreciations come up, like every year. One of those really influential and a good way teachers? Really influential and a good way.

And when teacher appreciations come up, like on Facebook or whatever, people talking with teachers. And one year for fun, I made this list, I could think of all my teachers. Did you track her down through Facebook or something? I tracked her down through Facebook. And I saw the name. First I like- I thought you met her at a supermarket.

No, I Googled her first. I was like, I always remember her name, Mrs. Opez. And so this was at my public school in Burlington. And I saw this name on Facebook. And I looked and I thought, well, the age looks like it could be probably right. 50 years ago, she was my teacher. She was like 25. She's like 75 now. But I wrote her a note and I said, if this is you and you were a teacher, let me know. And I I'll send you the class photo and I'll talk. And she wrote me back. Can I read to you what she said to

me? Of course. She wrote back. She said, I said, no, she said, it's me. All right. I remember you so well, Robbie, one of the smartest kids I ever taught. I still have the yearbook we made that year in which you said your hero was Liberace. The musician was in you then I will forward your page to you if you want. Like she, but the reason she changed my life was that she, we would sit on the front lawn at the school and she would read us stories like these, like, like, like chapter books and stuff. And it changed my life like as far as reading and like these, like chapter books and stuff. And it changed my life, like as far as reading

and like sort of like having an imagination of reading and creating the pictures in your mind. I love that shit. That's my great three experience. Rob, I'm kicking out your first jam. There's a slow buildup to this jam though. So I'm gonna tell a little story as I put it in, okay? This is the first, yeah,

we need to let this whole song play and build. I will just say on the- It is a different world we live in. The WhatsApp chat, Leslie Taylor, who say on the world we live in the whatsapp chat. Yep. Leslie Taylor who's on the live stream now saw that left a comment saying if we don't play super tramps school, I can't was she gonna revolt? She said I'm revolting. Yep. I couldn't comment because I knew what was happening. No and I just said well tune in at four and see what happens and I can't I don't want to

spoil anything either. Right. But here we should just listen to it for a little bit. Let it build a little you're the boss I'll eat my chocolate do it. It's good You're ruining the vibe though. And be like Johnny Toogal Don't you know he never shucks He's coming along I'm the school's over you're playing in the park Don't be out too late, don't let it get too dark They tell you not to hang around and learn what life's about And grow up just like them, home that you work it out and you're full of doubt What instrument's that?

A voice Was it a voice? That's guitar. Is that a xylophone? It's a wooden one, yeah. They're really cool. Feedback on a guitar. It's going somewhere. What's happening?

It's building up. Wait. The drums are building. Wait. It's a pretty epic beginning. Here it goes. It's building up. The drums are building. It's a pretty epic beginning. Here it goes. Sounds good in the cans. I bet you could have got this in quadraphonic sound. So It's not enough to a piano solo, here comes electric piano solo.

Come on now. You're here to tell me what instruments I'm listening to. That's a world tour electric piano. With a piano. No wonder Cam likes you better. At this point, I just wish you had a cannabis sponsor again. I feel like I would really be into this. Don't worry, Canada Kev is on the Yeah, he's smoking up for all of us It's a pretty epic song there's one more verse

It's fucking epic sounds great in the headphones. And most importantly, Leslie won't revolt now. That's right. I don't want to know what that looks like, but what's it about school? Is it? Yeah, is it? Is it really? It really is. It's a really about school. There's kids playing like what I heard that, but like one of these lyrics in this last like what's he talking about? This is a great school jam. Don't let bob. I'm just asking. Well, no, I'm gonna get trouble. I feel like it's a precursor also to I shouldn't mention the song, but other school songs. Okay,

well, yeah, there are other songs that this is nineteen seventy four. This was on the super tramp album crime of the century. Crime of the century. Yes. Classic. Is that before breakfast in America? Yes. Yes.

Yeah. That amazing. Like you, how many years in between crime of the century and the breakfast in America? Five years in between. Wow. Yeah, it's crazy. And I saw supertramp in 79, FOTM Bob Roper,

of course was the tour manager on that tour. Right, good callback. Yeah, I saw them at the C&E, was, blew my mind when I was 14. It was one of the best shows I'd ever seen at that point, although I had seen Queen already too. But I was a huge fan of this band just as far as the keyboards, you know, and like Roger Hodgson was the keyboard player, Rick Davies was the other lead singer and he played keyboard as well.

So it was just keyboard heavy with mostly electric pianos and stuff, not a lot of synths. But I saw Roger who sang this song and wrote this song, I saw him play in 2020 and my old Honeymoon Suite colleague Ray Coburn was playing keyboards with him. You get Ray on the show actually. So Ray is the guy that I replaced in Honeymoon Suite. And Ray also played with Corey Hart. He played with... It's a shame about Ray. I know it is. Um, but he plays right now with Kim Mitchell as well,

but he was on tour with Roger as his second keyword player. So he played all those keyboard solos on this song and stuff. And I saw him, and it was the last show I saw in COVID like, like January, 2020, before the right before everything shut down, I got to meet Roger afterwards. And it was so cool. It was crazy. But yeah, this is a good school song cause it's called School. Absolutely. Absolutely. And there's children in the beginning.

And there's children screaming and stuff. No, it's a great song. And I'm glad you kicked it out. Again, I don't want to know what it looks like when Leslie revokes. You don't want somebody to say what. But Canada Kev is recommending next month we kick out Harvest Jams.

Harvest? I like some. I mean, I like it. But I kind of dig it. I don't mind that. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, I like suggestions like that. Thank you Canada Kev. And thank you Rob Pr I like suggestions like that. Thank you, Canada.

Kev and thank you, Rob Bruce for kicking things off with some super tramp. Every like best album of all, best albums of all time list has a super draft album on it. Either breakfast in America or cry about a century. Yep. Or both sometimes. Or both sometimes, yeah.

Excuse me. Quick. Thank you to all the FOTMs who have pledged money for my Terry Fox run, which is in a couple of weeks. This is kind of wild that I created the account or whatever for this, registered I guess, for this year's run. I do it every year, but then I shared the link

and hours later I hit my $1,000 target. So I might go in and sneak in like a little ninja edit and make it $2,000. But thank you to everyone who gave money. So many people we know and love in the community gave money to the Terry Fox Foundation. And a special shout out, because he went above and beyond on this one,

I wanna say a special shout out to Andrew Ward, who whipped out the credit card and just gave big. So thank you to Andrew Ward and everybody who pledged my Terry Fox run. Amazing, good for you. Yep, I'm looking forward to hearing your results. Well, I don't run it, the dirty secret is it's the family and I walk it.

Don't tell anybody, but I'm not much of a runner. But also, I'm with an eight-year-old, I can't really run it, okay. I would love to kick out Bob Willett's jams, any first jam, anything you want to say, Bob, before I kick out this first one. Now let's just listen to it. ["Welcome Back To The World"] Welcome back.

Your dreams were your ticket out. Love it. Welcome back. Up your nose with a rubber hose, Bob. Same old place that Bob same old place happy days was my favorite show No, I can ever tell you I don't know if it's a worker a shoe with this well the full version, so bring her down. I love this theme song body, John Sebastian of the love and spoonful, the television show. Of course, welcome back. Carter, Mr Carter, too young for this. I watched it when it was once a week. So yes, wet hogs and judge. That's right. Signed Epstein's mother.

Yeah, no, I loved this show when I was a kid. You're right. I mean, it only ran from seventy five to seventy nine. So I was three when it was done. I loved it when I and by the time it got into syndication, it was on all the time. This and threes company, Mork and Mindy, all those shows were huge syndication. And again, it goes back to that conversation we always have about kids today, quote unquote, not knowing the music or not knowing anything, pop culture references that came before them. We did because we had to.

That's all we had. It's all that was on. We'd watch the Flintstones at lunch. We watched Leave It to Beaver. We watched Leave It to Beaver and Andy and Mayberry. The Partridge Family. All of that stuff. The Monkees.

And that's funny because for me, my generation, I saw the stuff that came earlier than me. So you was like honey mooners, honey mooners. I remember I love this TV show called Hazel like weird fifty show. Yes, yeah, father knows best all those fifties Ozzie and Harriet. Yeah, so this is you know, this show started in seventy five with the theme on ABC and with this show was a number one song by 76. I had the single yeah when I was nine years old. I love this song on the radio. It was amazing. It's a great song. I mean you hear those that first those bomb. I don't know anybody who doesn't like it.

It doesn't specifically talk about school, but I mean no, this is a school. This is a school for sure. Welcome back to I have a more controversial pick than this. Oh good. This is I'm looking forward to that yeah. I mean and that show. I mean obviously you know you know John Travolta being on it was just amazing. The song itself star. I you know I didn't have time to get mind blows, but Lupe Fiasco amazing rapper. He's sampled it in a couple saw in a song. It's been used a lot. It was featured in in scrubs. It was been featured in a lot lot of different every time like a former blue j comes back to the home. They play. Yeah, they do.

They still do. Yeah, it's true. If somebody, you know, it's like, oh, look, Jimmy key is here. Welcome back. You're like, oh, it's yeah, somebody's back. It was a great show. And I will say the Mr. Cotter's Gabe Kaplan, right? His wife always reminded me of Bailey quarters and W totally oh yeah for sure for sure and I had a crush on both of them. She's got I would say also a bit of a Mindy vibe, working Mindy. I would say I I've been so you know as you know, happy days at the spin of happy days. Strangely enough, it is so one of the few things that of course entertainment seems to be doing right

is having the rights to Pluto TV here in Canada. I don't know if you ever watched a TV. They have full stations just repeating television shows all the time. They have a happy day station that plays Carol Burnett channel, but that channel they have a tonight show. You can watch old Johnny Carson bits. It's a Graham Norton out of the be out of the UK is amazing. I am hoping very soon for a welcome back Carter station on Pluto TV. Yeah, so that's why I don't know. It's weird. I'm not going deep on this one. It's just a great song. I enjoyed it and I gotta say what's strange is so happy days is a show taking place in the fifties, but is it's happening in the seventies, but

it's taking place in the fifties and then more can Mindy spins off of that and takes place in the seventy current. Yeah, it becomes like they just jump ahead twenty years. Well, they can be outer space. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. You do whatever you want. Well, they can because he's an alien. Come on and then and they also they age backwards in orc because John, John, John, John, John, John, John came on and played his played like a young kid, but it was Jonathan. So welcome back. Carter, yeah. Be Gats, John Travolta as more commendi be Gats, Robin Williams. Yeah, I

would say so. I mean, I mean, I think Travolta was already doing the move, doing some movies at that point. No, not until after. No, that's after he started. Yeah, he had a made for TV movie called the boy and the plastic bubble, which is one of those like, like TV. He doesn't get staying alive. What's the, what's the name of the Saturday night fever? Yeah. The sequel is staying alive. So Saturday night fever, he gets that after he's already, uh, yeah,

he's already on, he's a teen heartthrob right around the same time. I was very close. Yeah. But Carter comes first. Yes. What? Who? Who? What? Where? Where? Who? Who? Forget about it. Mini Bubba Reno. Anyways. All right. Good show. I'm going to kick out my first school jam. You ready guys? Who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who,

who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who Charlie Brown, he's gonna get caught, just you wait and see Why's everybody always picking on me? That's him on his knees, I know that's him, yeah and seven come eleven down in the boys' gym Jim Charlie Brown Charlie Brown he's a clown that Charlie Brown he's gonna get caught just you wait and see

Why's everybody always picking on me? All right who can name this band? The Coasters. Very good, very good. So the Coasters, they had a string of hits in the 1950s. They're all, all of these hits by the coasters are written by the producing team of Lieber and Stoller. You know, these guys here. Definitely, definitely a school jam. Charlie Brown, no arguments there. This went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 hit. Hang on. How is it definitely, how is it no arguing that it's a school jam? To make your argument it's not a school jam. Are you listening to the words?

Somebody's picking on him. Yeah. Okay. What else? He's picking on it at school? Auditorium, of course. It's happening in school. I think it's very clear that this is a school jam. Did you say auditorium? Is it lyrics? I? He's getting picked on in the auditorium? Yeah. Is the auditorium at school? Yeah, I mean, it could have been... No doubt about it. I don't think... It could have been like a Sunday, a church thing.

Sunday school. Yeah, I don't know. I love the saxophone though. Saxophone. Let me tell you about the saxophone. Thank you for mentioning the saxophone. Do you know who's playing that saxophone? Boots Randolph. That's a good guess.

I don't know who that is Do you know Bob will I do Alright, so I'm gonna play another song with the same Saxophonist the only other one I know is Clarence known me There's some panning there a left right Oh, there's some panning there, eh? Left, right? Ah! Oh, so... Same guy.

Wow. Atlantic Records, right? Stax. I think it's the Stax. Stax guys, yeah. King Curtis. Oh! So he's in a bunch of stuff. Yeah.

King Curtis does the saxophone. He's on this song. He's on Charlie Brown This of course the notice reading song that was just taken reshaped By Aretha to become her signature song. Here's a fun fact So Charlie Brown the comic book care comic comic character comic strip character debuts before the song Charlie Brown but apparently the song Charlie Brown is not named after the comic character like it's a coincidence interesting so you're saying that who the person who wrote Charlie Brown that song had never heard of or read it wasn Brown. Yeah, apparently it wasn't as, it was a, at the beginning Charlie Brown was a less known figure in pop culture.

So, so could one then glean that the term Charlie Brown was a common term in any common vernacular? Well, Ryan's such a Charlie Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but like, be like, you know, when I was a kid, if a guy was a nerd, we'd call him a Wall-E. Yeah. That guy's a Wall-E. We called him a Browner.

Browner, yeah. So are you, which is also, could we say that perhaps we could suppose, we could make a supposition that Charlie Brown was a common insult amongst people in the 50s. And that Charles Schultz took it and ran with it. When I was a kid, we called them a Bobby. That's what we called them.

I think he's making that up. I think he's making that up. Yeah. Okay, so the coasters. I just want to say a couple of things about the coasters. So I mentioned Lieber and Stoller writing these songs, these hits for the Coasters. This was their first big hit for the Coasters. And basically they're just trying to do this again.

They put in great effort to make another Yakety Yak. And Charlie Brown was a Yakety Yak S. They're the same fucking song. It pretty much is. Yeah. I mean, in those days people would write songs that were just basically trying to recreate a hit when I yeah when I was in grade 10 myself and this guy who I haven't seen since high school Derek Harwood were in a camera boring class were in but for some reason we wrote a parody version of this called yeah take out the papers and the hash

or you won't get no shadow to can a command. Yeah. Yeah. So and it was like, you know, yuckity, yuck, smoke some crack. Oh yeah. No, it's great. Oh, I have the lyrics somewhere still. I still have the lyrics. That's I was like, this is going to be something someday. So the coasters have the formula. They got the lever installer writing yackety yak. And then of course Charlie Brown, but they have another hit after Charlie Brown I'll bring this down because you might know this song He trapped her in the old sawmill and sailed with an evil laugh If you don't give me the key to your ranch I'll saw you all in half

And then he grabbed her And then he tied her up And then he turned on the buzzsaw And then, and then And then a long day jumps Carving jumps Long came Jones Talking Jones Slow walking Jones Slow talking Jones

Long came Jones All right, any Blue Jay fans in this basement right now? Fairweather. Fairweather fan there. OK, Bob, you're only a couple of years younger than me. Do you remember? I should bring out my Stephanie Wilkinson collection of Blue Jay. Here. Sure. No, of course I remember.

Do you remember all these? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. I think you've kicked out something from that on another show here. Well, I'm going to kick out something else. OK, you ready? This is by the Chum FM people.

You ready? You ready? You ready? Well, uh- gonna kick out something else, okay? You ready? This is by the Chum FM people. You ready? You ready? You ready? Listen closely! One of the greats! Then Giller got tired of standing back, and his face made an evil grin. He said, if you don't give me a pennant this year, I'm gonna trade your butts and win. And then he lost it. And then, he put Tony on a bus to San Diego. And then, he rang George's bell. And then, he called down to Cleveland. Oh no, not Cleveland!

And then, and then, and then along came Joe. 91? With Robbie and Tivo. You know what, I love a parody song that's so topical with the music they pick. All the big bills and stuff. Along came big bad fashion Joe. The song's about FOTM Joe Carter.

Amazing, amazing. So I remember this at the time, this is a Chum FM. Obviously they just shouted out chum FM. Yeah. And a parody of along came Jones by the coasters. When I was on the humble and Fred show, we did a fair amount of parodies and you know, the one of the main rules was no more than a minute and a half, right? You can't cause enough of that, right? You're not weird. Al it's like, yeah, it's gone. Um, and I can still remember our friend scary Pete Cuneo kicking out. It was funny. He did. He worked so hard on the song and

but it was not a current song. They always wanted it to be a current song. It's gonna be something at least relatively recent. You know, they're obviously they did the cults snow removal machine. Yeah, yeah, for ready for Howard, though. Oh yeah, that's way. Yeah, but on the humble of fresh. So there was a whole thing. I think when Jack Layton got caught in a rub and tug and scary P writes this song. I still remember it instead of message in a bottle. It was massage in a brothel. My God, that's and I'm spending dough on

S C X. I'm spending dough and I was I remember how live. He was so proud of it and humble and Fred looking at and going. Yeah, but Pete, this song is like 20 years old at that time already. I was 15 years old. Anyways, sorry, I started just derailed that, you know, scary Pete Cuno. Yes, I do. Do you know his daughter is a rising Yes, I do. Do you know his daughter is a rising musical star? I have heard. Goes by the handle Dellen Grey. Yes, I've heard. And Biff Naked was doing work with her. In fact, I believe as recently as yesterday

Monica's watching CP24 and they have in that they have like upcoming concerts. Yeah, and I saw like Dellen Grey playing somewhere. So Scary Pete's daughter, Dellen Grey. I'm not surprised. Those jeans, those Scary Pete jeans, he's a talented fella. Man, he's a great musician and a great singer. These are fun songs you're playing here, Sean or Mike. Let's just do a coat kick at the coasters. But you know, don't drop the lead, don't bury the lead on Lever and Stoller too, right? Because they're architects of rock and roll. They wrote Hound Dog. Yeah. Wow. They wrote on Broadway. Do you know the original recording artist of Hound

Dog? Big Mama. Thornton. Yeah. Good job. That's excellent. A lot of people erroneously say Elvis Presley. Right. All right. Set up your second jam, Rob Pruse. My second jam is, oh, I got a couple of extras that are sort of like variations on the same song. I'm ready, man. You already ready for it? So yeah, you could just kick it. It's a fun song. Is it actually related to yours? Yeah. Same era. I thought it was right now out of my automobile. Is that right?

The teacher is teaching the golden rule. Right now on the automobile. What song is that? Same song? I think it's the same song. It's a different verse. It's a different verse maybe, yeah. Working your fingers right down to the bone. Let the guy behind you won't leave you alone All this upbeat stuff in my song is just gonna bring us to a fuckin' halt.

Ring, ring, Goldsville So cookin' the lunch rules ready to sell Shout out to Chuck fuckin' Berry. You're lucky you can find a seat An OG of the rock and roll scene You're fortunate if you have time to eat Whose music will live forever in Back to the Future and roll scene whose music will be live forever and back to the future and hold fiction. Amongst other places everywhere. No, just just fiction and back to the

future. There are no other movies. No, I love the there's some people who've kind of taken the piss out of back to the future. A couple comedians of basic is like it's kind of a bit of a problematic script. Now, what you know, you have a white kid who basically inspired the black guy to play that music, right? You didn't think of it at that time that way, but trouble. What say you about school days? Turn up a little bit as you wish. You've got to hear something that's really piano with the one you love. He's got

Jimmy key all day long. You've been wanting to dance I can play that. It's a Chuck Berry is underappreciated, isn't he? He is, but his piano player on this, Johnny Johnson, is like another architect of rock and roll. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he played on all of Chuck's songs. And apparently Chuck wrote Johnny B. Goode sort of inspired by Johnny. Oh, I believe that. That's a fun fact. I remember years ago, like Johnny B. Go Good, the guitar riff. I think that Chuck was trying to do what Johnny had done on the piano. Right. So it was like, they went back and

forth between each other. They sort of inspired each other. But like this is 1957. What was the title of the song? School days, school days. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But here's the end of the song. It's often called hail hail rock and roll. That's what I mean. That's why I want to do documentaries called. Jams got a great song called hail hail. and roll. It's often called Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll. Right, that's what I mean. And the Chuck Berry documentary is called Hail, Hail. Pearl Jam's got a great song called Hail, Hail. They do. I love that song. I quoted it at my wedding.

Did you? Hail, Hail? Yes, I did. You're a bit of a Pearl Jam fan. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Oh, man. So I just have a couple of other versions, similar. The next one is, you can just play a bit of it.

That's kinda cool. Hey, hey, rock and roll. Long live rock and roll. Is that Bart Simpson singing? Rock, rock, rock and roll. Scientologist singing. Hey, hey, rock and roll. That's Sabrina Carpenter's aunt.

Up in the morning and after school That's Buster Poindexter The teacher is teaching the growing rule I told you, I learned about Buster Poindexter before I learned about the New York Dolls I told you this, right? Hot, hot, hot That's it, it was hot, hot, hot And Scrooge

With Bill Murray The guy behind you won't be alone And then later I learned about New York Dolls and I went, oh it's the guy, Buster Poindexter! Scrooge Bill Murray And then later I learned about your goals anyway, oh it's a guy I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you? What was this featured on? It was on their album Simpsons Sing the Blues Okay, you said your Simpsons talk. I have I collected the Simpsons album. I have things to say I figured you knew things about it. This was the 1990s Simpsons Sing the Blues And there's a guitar solo on here by Joe Walsh. What? From the Eagles, yeah. It's a superstar.

It's an all-star affair. And this is before the Simpsons were as massive as, I mean, they were big. What year did this come out Rob? Nineteen. Are you sure it's 90s? Yeah. Because they debut in December 89. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So in season one, after season one, they made this album. They're like, let's make an album. They got people on board. Already have. Wow. Yep. Okay.

Really quickly on this, this album, it's not so good. Cause they also had an album which was songs from the show, but songs in the key of Springfield. Which is terrific. That was an amazing album. That was fucking brilliant. Like a play through. Who through this quickie mark.

Yes, which is also didn't age well. No Hanks is there. You can't do it anymore. They've also, he was good though. He was amazing. And they also changed the voice of Dr Hibbert on the show. Yeah, but at least Hibbert got a new voice actor. I know he's got rid of a booze just disappeared. Jesus. Okay. So Ganesh, not Jesus. They had had another they said they had this album was kind of pretty successful. So they did let's do it again It's called the yellow album like the yes. It's the worst piece of shit. You'll ever hear Oh, it is even a die-hard Simpsons fan like me cannot listen to this piece of crap Shadow to Neil Young. It was a piece of crap

to this piece of crap. Shout out to Neil Young. It was a piece of crap. Piece of crap. My favorite musical moment was always the Planet of the Apes musical. Oh yeah, Dr. Zayas. Right, help me Dr. Zayas. What was that?

Here's Joe Walsh. I was wrong, it was Earth all along. Morgan and I quote that fucking episode all the time. Because can I play the piano anymore? Of course you can. Well, I couldn't before. Do do do do do do. I was in my improv class the other day. The funny thing was we were doing kind of a parody of Music Man, Lyle.

Lyle. Lannley. Lannley is the Simpsons character that is played. But Hank Hill is the one from Music Man. Nobody knew the Music Man. Very few is the is the one for music man. Nobody knew the music man. Very few people actually knew the Simpson one too. It's very young class. That's unfortunate, but yeah, but they did. We were doing something very similar episode. Yes, it is. Yeah. Um, play my next one. There's, I mean, this is Simpson's, but don't tell me what to do. Okay. Just get to it. It makes more just another variation, but it's kind of cool too. I just thought this was kinda cool.

If you find it cool, I find it cool. I love this. I recognize that boy. ACDC? What? ACDC 1975. It's like a throwaway. It sounds like they're just jamming, you know? Yeah. I've had it so cool.

Original lead singer. It's just Bon Scott? Yeah. Wow. It's like that album Van Halen covers, right? You know, and you got more. I got one more. This is just a lot of people. Okay. So let me bring this before I play the next one. Let me give some love to Palma pasta, delicious, authentic Italian food. When you guys were here last month. You got lasagna is did you eat them? Yes

Can I tell you a tragedy? Oh, no, you left it in the car. I left it in the fucking car You were that okay. Yes, I fucking it was summertime. It was summer and I had I put it August Yes, how long before you remembered because you can say you were fine. You know what? Here's the thing It was a good four or five days. Cause I'm not driving to work. Yeah, right. It probably was cooked. I will say this, however they have it sealed,

excellent, no smell. So good for them. Their freezing techniques are amazing. It was a tragedy. And I apologize to the people at Palma's Kitchen for how hard they work to make it. In memory of the great patriarch who passed away last month at the age of 100, we apologize.

I felt horrible. I enjoyed mine. And I was gonna let you know. And then I thought, no, you know what? I'll just wait. And if he asks me on the air how it was, I will fess up. Okay, well let me find.

Did Rob Pruss make his list on this? We sure did. With my sister and her family, we enjoyed it together. The kids are all home for the summertime and they're all back to school in Burlington in Burlington. Yep. Nice. I know from oakville where there's a location. That's right. My nephew, Nico's back in New Jersey with the devils playing amazing practicing and daughter there. Yeah, he's over. Wait a minute. Oh, an NHL player had some lasagna. So cool. Oh

yeah. And so we cool. Oh yeah. And so we all had it together. It was amazing. We should have brought him on the show. He'll be on some day. Why don't you get him to zoom in to say hi to his uncle Rob? His uncle Robbie. I would love it.

Honestly. I just, I mean, I'm fascinated by professional athletes in general. Me too. Just the commitment and the level of. But you know what I see? The coolest thing, my sister and I talk about it all the time. It's very similar to what I went through as coolest thing, my sister and I talk about it all the time.

It's very similar to what I went through as a kid in the rock and roll business. In the music business and the sports business, it's not really a business. It has to be a love first. He was playing hockey since he was three years old. Like me at the piano at five, it's all he wanted to do was like every day he'd be like dad. To be fully in. It's got to be a passion.

What's easier, being an NHL player or being like a hit maker musician. It gotta be the same. I think. Yeah, I think that's an interesting question. I mean, I mean the level of pressure, the level of devotion, first of all, is gotta be very similar. I'm gonna do a show with Nico. We're gonna talk about it together. Oh, amazing. It's similar. Our stories are very similar, but it's producing your podcast. I don't know yet. Nobody yet. I'm kind of unemployed right now and I might not. I maybe I maybe I meet my Bob's Mike now right. Mike and I are going. I'm going to become the west, the East End affiliate of Toronto Mike East and Mike East and Bob East and Bob Toronto

West and girls East. I have one more little version just to play to all right. We could just talk over it, but I have a question for Bob. Okay. Oh sure. Is this good? I don't think I don't know if it's good. No, it's not. I'm going to. All right. We can just talk over it. But I have a question for Bob. Okay. Oh sure. Is this good? I don't think I don't know if it's good. No, it's not. I'm not. First of all, this song I'm going to know. It's worse.

ACDC's power is school days. No, no, they're just jam. Look, I'm going to get into a lot of trouble here. It's more than just jamming. I, this is a full cut single. It's actually very produced for them. It sounds very like it's different. It's not like jamming is coming up next.

No, but you know what it is? It's just the sound of the studio. Like what sounds produced is just well, well placed microphones. They're just playing. But this isn't just some like a live on that. This is a, they're cutting a single here. You're saying this is not live off the floor.

Oh, it's live off the floor for sure. You think so? Oh yeah. All right. Oh yeah. Why do you say that? What makes you think it's live off the floor? I'm not like, you couldn't create this.

This is just live wrong. I know he's a musician here. No, no, no, because when you go in the studio, no, no, when you go in the studio, people talking, you think that's why it's this one. Listen, when you go in the studio and you set up microphones and you get a good sound and then you play, you literally are just recording what's happening in front of you. That's like, So you're saying that that bond, Scott didn't go back and do those vocals over anything?

I bet not. I don't know for a fact. All right, well, you know what? You know better than us. Well, in 1975, for sure, you would record off the floor and you would keep as much as you could. Right, of course. Because it's too expensive.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. That's why to me, it sounds like a jam. It's like, they're like, fuck it, let's just do Chuck Berry. To answer your question. Uh, no, that's not good. And I, um, and I am not a fan of ACDC. Oh, you're not. I have, I have real musician friends such as yourself. But not even shook me all night long. I have to, I would play,

I play shook me all night long and hell's bells. No, horrible. Thunderstruck's a horrible song. Um, but I will say this, what I said, I'm not confounding my opinion with fact. I just don't. Opinions are just opinions. I don't like them sonically. They're not my style of music. I don't enjoy it.

That style, like that production. Yeah, I don't, I just don't enjoy them. Do you like Led Zeppelin? I like some said Led Zeppelin. I like some Led Zeppelin songs. They're an AI exactly one of them. But I learned about you today though with Bob. Because you described the fact that you didn't grow up with like any sort of prog rock not at all different generation Yeah, right. So rush. I had no rush in my household. I had no I mean the Genesis I knew was I can't dance

You know, that's the I knew I knew Land of confusion and those things but But so Peter and the Peter Gabriel I knew was sledgehammer exactly so you're just a few years away from that. So that when the funny thing is I like a band like I like a lot of songs by tool who are I would say is that kind of a metal prog rock band like they're very you know layers and thick like that but I've just none of the music has ever and I have and I'm not the biggest fan of Getty Lee's voice, so rush is never really. I can't. I haven't taken the time, so those bands have never resonated with me and they weren't part of my world.

We had a very musical family. There's lots of music in my house. Prog rock was not one of them. I was with David Quinton Steinberg at this breakfast that I mentioned ten times already that we were chatting today and he's and I just mentioned hey, because he's the lawyer for Getty Lee. And I said, David, Getty Lee needs to come on Toronto Mike. David goes, I'm having lunch with him today. And I'm like, you need to ask him for me. So I'm going to follow up with David Quinton Steinberg and find out what reaction.

Getty and Alex together. Even though I'm not a fan, that would be so cool for you. And apparently there's some new music coming from Getty with David Quinton Steinberg on drones. Oh wow. Cool. Good for you. If you get that, it'll be so happy for you. That's amazing. I got to finish up the bar. Uh, the, which one of you Rob? Is there one more thing? So just a little bit. You don't have to play the whole thing. It's sort of dumb. I'll play a bit. Yeah. I'll uh, shed a couple more sponsors and then we'll get to so that

Chuck Berry song was so influential that like lots of people would do versions. So apparently when Elvis was doing his live shows, the band would jam on it. When he introduced the band. Boom, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. It's very... Yeah.

It's great. It's like the Max Weinberg 7. Yeah, right? It's so good. But it's Elvis. It's the king. Oh, I saw a great clip of Elvis. Just a random came in my algorithm of

somebody asked him about roles he plays and about whether he's like a country boy, who, you know, just understates shy country boy. He's like, well, let me stand up and show you my gold belt, honey. Right. It's just like so cool. I'm such a fan. That's him just jamming on the song. But it's neither that song had that influence into the culture. He would just take a snippet and go, let's just bamboor it.

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but a little wouldn't do it. So a little got more and more. I just dropped an episode called a, an FOTM KOTJ on funeral jams. Can shout out to Ridley funeral home. And it was immediately removed from the spot of why yeah, like immediate. Oh shit. Too much. Too many. The ratio of music. Right. Not enough. Yeah. Is that how they measure it? Well, yes. I know this from trial and error.

But it's bots for sure. For trial and error, the algorithm, it just didn't let, it just said, you're out. Too much music to whatever. So I find that interesting. And I'm trying to like- Figure out a way to get that on. We get away with these toast episodes

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I didn't skip a number. That episode is not on spotify, but it's everywhere else on apple podcast. It's on apple. I will say this. You have the feature where you are automatically being what's the word i'm looking for where they type the words out you transcribe. Yeah, so there it's on on on on Spotify. You can watch them do the transcription. It's not happening to my podcast yet, but I don't think I have enough listeners for them to do that. It's not like I'm nowhere near Toronto Mike numbers, but it's pretty cool to watch. It's pretty neat. Listen,

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or you can drop off your old electronics to be properly recycled. I was just looking it up, and there's one at the Victoria Park in Danforth near me, and I have so much stuff to bring there and I will be doing that bless you, my child bless you. Okay, bob set up your next jam. Okay, so look so I actually was having a conversation with my buddy shawna vital planet before this and I was telling him what we were doing and I told him this song and he was like okay, anything to play pearl jam kids

and I actually haven't played pro jam in a little while. However, I want to say that given what just happened in the United States, there was a school shooting in the United States. That's a daily occur. I know it is. I know it is. I just wanted to this was this song was chosen before I you right. It is a daily occurrence before it happened. This where was the most recent one that you're referring to that was in actually don't remember. It was the guy he had the parents bought the kid, the gun, the rest of the day yeah and the dad. The kid was named after a gun. I'm not going to say he has a name. He was named after a type of gun and

the dad was actually like defending his son's actions and anyways. I think I feel like it was Virginia or something. I don't know. It doesn't matter somewhere in America, but that's frightening enough that we can't so any town USA so back. So I mean if your music back in nineteen ninety one was released in ninety two actually, but in nineteen ninety two one ten coming out came out. This is the video that put Pearl Jam on the just you know that you gone in a different order than you sent them in, so I can do that one. I can do that one. Oh, I didn't mean to do that. It is my so did you want want to introduce the other one? I've done this now. I might do this. All right,

well, let's do this. Let's do this. You can hit it. I'm going to go to the washroom and then we'll talk about it and whether or not it's a school jam. I talk about how you you love project, but I do. I've heard you like them. Yeah, and I'll tell Rob that they edited the video so it became less clear what's going on here. I remember that. Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a beef, but they lay in pools of maroon blow. Daddy didn't give attention. This is our introduction to Pearl Jam. Really? No. No? No. They had two monster singles before this. They had a massive hit even flow

Oh even flow and alive same album though same album. Yeah, yeah ten, but this single came out after those guys I've heard of the video though. So were you watching much music at this time? Oh, yeah, so the even flow video was all over much music before this video But this this was I think all that Bob talk because I didn't do any homework on this But I think I remember my brain thinks this is the third video from 10. In the days when every song... And Black never got a video, but Black got a lot of radio airplay. And as you know from previous episodes of Toast, Bob and I both adore Black.

Yes. Let's hear from the great Bob Willett, everybody! So... So this, obviously, the song is actually the music written by Jeff. I meant the the band's basis and Eddie wrote the lyrics based on an article he read about this kid Jeremy. The kid's name was Jeremy Wade Dell. He walked into his class and killed himself in front of the entire class and so the and this is the days before like school. He didn't kill

anybody else. He just killed himself. And so and this is the days before like school. He didn't kill anybody else. He just killed himself. It's a heavy, heavy song. It's a heavy, you know, as far as in the history of the band, yeah, I heard you overheard you guys talking whilst I was relieving myself. I heard you guys talking about whether it was, you know, this was like the third, but this video is really what made them mainstream. It made them one, the MTV video awards. Yes, to which again, he said, I made them stop make video. Yeah, it made them stop This won the MTV Video Awards and all that. Yes, to which again- It also made them stop making videos. Yeah, it did.

It made them stop making videos because they were like, forget the- It's still evolution. And if you watch the 25 directed, Pearl Jam 25 directed by James Cameron, not James Cameron, Cameron Crowe, you could see that like they talked a lot about trying to keep control of what was happening in their world. How it was just, it was getting so massive, so big. So and that's what they did. They just they went in and they just kind of huddled together and it all, you know, and then they and they wrote verses while they were on the road to the next

album. It this is a school jam to me. I mean, it's about a kid going into a school school. It literally says school jam. Yeah, like it literally says, you know, he you know, he gnashes teeth in with the recess ladies, it's a it is not a fun day, a fun song. Obviously it's a powerful song, a great song and the last time I saw them here in Toronto, they're on tour now and they didn't do trial. They did Vancouver, but the last time I saw them at Scotiabank, it's amazing. I've seen them again on forty plus times and it's amazing that you'd think maybe that this song wouldn't do it. You'd be like okay, yeah,

yeah, yeah, we've seen this one before, but I was, I happen to be behind the stage like in the front row, the three hundreds kind of behind the stage and I get you like just everybody sings along to this empire. I spoke it. Everybody knows how exactly the way he did what he did and it's I it's just amazing to see eighteen thousand people. Yeah, that's what they did and it's I it's just amazing to see eighteen thousand people. Yeah, that's what they do and it's like if you look at it, I love it, but like and I everybody's doing it like eighteen thousand people and they know every thing and they go exactly where I'm on it.

So I fucking have to chill. And then you go, oh! Exactly where. I love it. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! So good. I fucking have to chill. I never even ever. Look, look, look. Look, look at my arm. Yeah.

Just funny. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! I've done this in Rome. I've done this in Vancouver. I've done this, like, sing along to this song in Madison Square

Gardens. And it's just the same feeling of this, like, communal event. Like, the song is a horrible song. Yeah's this amazing really hard it though that's what it is I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, It's flashing like the date that this happened and everything and the articles and man. Should we talk about the edit to the video though? Sure. This came up recently. So Jeremy Hopkins came on.

He comes on once a quarter and he was on since your last appearance and Jeremy Hopkins always delivers shout out to J-Ho. But his name is Jeremy. So I think we started talking about Pearl Jam's Jeremy because I wondered how many people sing that song to him are like Jeremy smoking. Anyway there was an edit to the video that made it more ambiguous like it's not to me yes he kills himself in front of the class but then the video you don't see that scene you just see blood on the shirts or

stuff it's not clear to me that Jeremy's killing himself I think you can misinterpret the video to think that Jeremy shot up kids in that class are you talking like this edit you're talking about it's happens since it was released I think it or I think very early. Oh, I didn't have, I don't know. Cause I, my memory and I haven't seen the video in a long time. My memory is seeing the kid, he, this flashes the kid playing them and he's got the American flag wrapped around him at one point and one point he's got no shirt and the kid pulls it, puts a gun to his own head. Okay. I think the edits after that. Okay. And then, and then yeah,

it cuts to a tableau of the kids all with their hands up and they're covered in blood. I think that gun to the head is gone. Oh, it might be. It might, it might, but that's what I remember. I think it's more ambiguous by the way, Leslie tells us it was Georgia where that school story that you're referring to. So with all due respect to what goes on in the United States, I, you know, I was funny. I didn't even think of it. And when I worked in radio, we, you know, we were always trying to be cognizant of what's going on in the community and and trying to, you know, not play things that we're going to offend anybody and I and I was like it was funny. My voice like is a little

soon to be to be playing that and I'm like he shot himself though. I'm like that yeah, this is a different yeah, but different, but it's still a gun. It still becomes like it's a gun, slender, harmless little, but also you guys describing the feeling of being in a concert and feeling that emotion and that that release. Yes. And that cathartic experience is the power of music. It's not necessarily about the subject matter of the song, right, which is the inspiration for the song, but it's the fucking power of music. Do you have a moment or several moments or or is there something when you've been kind of lifted away like either in like

it's transcendental always as a musician? Is there a like either in like it's transcendental always as a musician. Is there a more even if it's like a crowd of seventy five people or whether or it's a big festival show and people are like like what is it like to be on the other side and what is it like to be on the other side when it's something that you wrote? Oh, it doesn't feel so different when you're okay. Okay, yeah, I know that's different, but for me the greatest experience was always doing Mamma Mia. Right.

At the end of the show, we do Dancing Queen. Like it gives me tears in my eyes. Oh fuck, it's unbelievable. People just love it that much. Yeah, oh that's amazing. Now what about, and I'll ask you, because you did Blood Brothers too. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I love that. Like, but that's a different kind of power, very powerful at the end. But so with every, so you're there, you're in the pit. With Dancing Queen? Yes, with Mamma Mia. Oh, I love that. Like, yeah. Yeah. But that's a different kind of power, but very powerful at the end. But so with every, so you're there, you're in the pit, with dancing queen, you're in the pit. Can you sense it? Like, can you see the crowd? Can you, because, because I'm in the front row conducting the show and the audience is around me. And it's unbelievable. And you look around and it's just pure joy. Nothing but pure joy. Oh, I love it. That's so me. I'm so happy. You make me so happy. You know, I don't even know blood joy. Oh, I love it. That's so, man. I'm so happy. Did you make me so happy?

You know, I don't even know blood brothers. Oh God. It's beautiful. Is this big? Yeah. Yeah. No, it wasn't big. No, it was, I think it's, how long did it play here for? Just like six months or two months.

No, it was a short run. It was, it went to Broadway as well. Right. It was here with, it was the original cast. So, so yes, the original, I did the show when it was here. But not with Willie, the guy who wrote it, it was no or they passed away. What's Stephanie? Stephanie Lawrence was the played the mom. Okay. I saw the Amy sky version. Oh, did you?

Yes. Oh, so I did. Oh TM Amy sky is yeah, probably when it first came to Toronto It was the original British production the London production, right? And it came for just we did it. I swear swear it was like a month and a half or something. Because then it went to Broadway and David Cassidy and his brother Sean did it. Yes. Right? That's the, yes.

But we had the British cast. We had the Partridge family. We had the Partridge family reunion. But I got to watch the show every night. Amazing. And like up in the, like because the band was split up in the set. So it was like an apartment building with two windows,

right? And I would watch it every night and it was like. It was a thing that they, I think we've talked about it on here before. So when it came back, and I think it was a permanent part building with two windows, right? And I would watch it every night. And it was like, there's a, it was a thing that they, I think we've talked to it on here before. So when they, when it came back and I think it was a permanent part of the Mervish thing with Amy and Michael, Michael Burgess, Michael Burgess, the narrator, he played the narrator, but David Cassidy was in it as well. David Cassidy was in it.

Oh my God. And he's got the horse head woodbine that he names Peter the gross. That's exactly it. Yes. Seriously. Yeah. Is that, should he, oh really? Yeah. Like this is. That's exactly it. Yes, seriously. Yeah. Is that so he oh really yeah like this is real. This happened with Cassidy did this yeah. Perry left co was friends with David

Cassidy who was because of the horse racing connections crazy. David Cassie had a horse and he left here all the shows going on. Peter the gross after Peter grows and he did wow. That's amazing. I almost met David Cassidy but anyway, oh yeah. So but so the one that what he did come here and do it with the merrish with the merrish production. It was at the well Alex. It was the world Alex, but they I still remember because I was such a theater. He remembers that the ad campaign always in like now magazine was thirty seven shows, thirty seven standing ovations and I was like well, I'm going to go see it, but you know I'm

the they're not going to force me to stand up and it's the one of the few plays I've ever seen where they didn't wait until the to the to the cat, the call, the curtain call in the dark as soon as the last as soon as that tell me it's not true. That last thing goes you are so moved. You cannot help. It's unbelievable. You literally and it's just, oh my God, that was Ami. Even if the rest of the play, which it's not a strong play, it's just okay.

It's just okay, but that last song, it pulls it out of the fire, man. But it's not just a song. How come I didn't have a longer run here? Why don't I know it? Cause I know Mamma Mia. Well, it's very, it's more of a play with music. Yes. Right.

So Willie Russell. It's not a musical, yeah, fair enough. But it's really the last scene that makes everybody stand up. We've taken a huge diversion here. We have, but it's about, but it's about the music. It's about having a physical reaction. Yeah. And those things are Pearl Jam. Obviously for me is, uh, right now actually at TIF is the, the, they're doing the tragically hip. I was with Jake Gold today and he introduced, how did you not get an invite to go see that good question? So Jake, somebody has breakfast,

which I'm now mentioning for the 11th time. And he goes, I want you to meet somebody. He goes, I want you to meet Michael Downey, right? Cool. Gore Downey's brother. So I'm going to bring Michael over. He's going to come to the basement and say, yeah, of course I said, yeah. And I had only recently bumped in at Jamie do's event. I talked with Patrick, this guy dropping like this event, this event, no, I know, but I, you know, I saw John John Vedder. I used to do events. So I don't do events anymore. Anyways, go ahead. This is a great fucking event. Ed Conroy. It's a great event. Anyway,

so she met Michael Downey today. So I met Michael Downey and I hung with, I was hanging out with J gold who did not invite me to any fucking tip. Not yet, not yet. But I mean, not yet, it was yesterday. Oh, it was yesterday. It was the last night. Did they watch all four hours? Yes, they watched all four hours.

So this is a prime thing, which is four episodes. It's coming out in September. But they just watched them all in a row at this event yesterday. But choir, choir, choir was singing a head by a century. On King Street. On King Street. Oh, that's cool.

And I missed it and that's fine. Hey, I do. I need to do a little mop up on my coasters thing. I just want to tell you in nine who corrected you for this. No, don't correct me. It's a fun fact. I wanted to share. I think even Jane Sibri would enjoy this. The coasters in nineteen eighty seven were the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Wow. Really? Coasters. Cause it was alphabetical.

Cause who else would have been there that year? Well, ABC, I don't know. I don't know. Okay. They would have in the first year. No. All right. Now I'm going to kick out a jam, which it's mildly, we'll see if you guys give me help for it.

What was the subject again? I'll explain it all. School jams. I'm going to kick out a school, a song. This is definitely to me, a high school jam. I can't wait to kick out a school, a song. This is definitely to me a high school jam. I can't wait to kick it out and talk about it because of a certain movie that I love very much. You guys ready? Ready. Okay. See you first person to name that tune. Sister Christian by Nighthawk, Night Ranger, there we go. I got there. Did you know that? This is absolutely a guilty pleasure for me. Did you know that? I thought it was 38 Special Action.

We'll talk about it. Let him go. Motor in? Let him motor here. You better have a good reason why this is a school jam. I do have a good reason. This is a video. The motor and watch a priceful flight. And finding Mr. Right will be alright tonight. It's about time we kick out Sister Christian on an episode of Toronto Mic'd here. So, you know in the past we've done screen enhanced jams. I can't remember if that was Pandemic Friday or if it was Coast.

I think it was Pandemic Friday. Screen enhanced jam is the jam that you love more after seeing it on a film or a TV show. So I'm here to celebrate a movie I still adore and I fucking love this movie. Boogie Nights. Rob, have you seen Boogie Nights? When it came out, yeah. Yeah, in 97 I think.. Rob, have you seen Boogie Nights? When it came out, yeah. Yeah, in 97, I think. And Bob, have you seen Boogie Nights?

Sure, it's Mark Wahlberg and his plastic donk. Dirk Diggler. Dirk Diggler. Dick Dirkowin. Oh, is it Heather Graham? Yeah. Heather Graham. Oh, Heather Graham.

She's a robot. Oh my God. If she was a president, she'd be Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, no, Heather Graham in that movie. Heather Graham also in the Austin Powers movie. Have you ever seen her on Instagram these days? I haven't check her out. I would. I do. Are you? Do you follow Heather Graham? I don't follow any famous people on Instagram. I like people like I can bump into on

King Street or I'd like to bump into Heather Graham. She's beautiful. Yeah, she really is. Okay, so Boogie Nights. Yeah, I recently rewatched it every once in a while. I got to watch that whole fucking thing. I just love it so much. But I love the music, Paul Thomas Anderson's use of music in that movie. The soundtrack was big. Just so many, just songs all the way through, setting the stage or whatever.

And there's this great scene near the end of that movie where there's a drug deal taking place. It's a very tense scene. And there's three songs played, okay? They play this song, followed by Rick Springfield's Jessie's girl and then Nina's 99 left balloon okay what a great fucking scene and this song kills in that scene and I didn't take place in this guy's apartment oh not in a school no not in a school but you're asking me why do I think it's a

school jam yeah I'm sure asking a school gym? Is that what you're asking? Cause I anticipated this. Okay. Tell us. Have you guys seen the video for this fucking song by night range? I think I saw beams and butt head. Watch it. The videos in high school. It's a high school video and Chris sister Christian, it was sister Christie and then they were, no one heard it as Christie and it became Christian because sister Christie is one of the guy wrote it. It wrote it, wrote it about his sister going. Anyway, if you watch the video, go to YouTube, watch the V that's true story. So go to video, go to YouTube and the drummer, Kelly Keighy is his name. He's the same.

So this is one of those bands where the drummer is the singer. I love not have told you that. I've told you anything about this name a bunch. Okay. Phil Collins and Genesis, right? Leave on helm in the band. Yeah. The Kelly Keagy in a span called night ranger,

Don Henley and the Eagles singing hotel California drummers who sing are fucking rad, right? Don Henley though, when he's solo, he doesn't play drums. No, but in the video for hotel California from 77, he's fucking playing. Yeah, it's cool. That's crazy. Anyway, you can say this is a terrible song and I would appreciate it because it's a power ballad.

But it's a guilty pleasure for me because I enjoy singing it. I enjoy listening to it. It is far and away the biggest hit of Night Rangers. It is, but you're saying that the school aspect. It's only the videos. It's about a video. It's only the videos.

It's a high school song. Okay. So it came into your mind as a school song. That's good. Yeah. I really was kind of like finding a way to get sister Christian in the mix because of boogie nights. Right. Well, you know what? Like, uh, yeah, it's completely because of the views. There's nothing lyrically about the song. I don't think there's a big U S like the lyrics are ambiguous. They don't talk about the auditory. I think if you were on a toast episode with those other guys, they might give you a whole time about it. Oh yeah. Well, you know, I was, I don't know. There'd be

one you could give you, you know, I'm going to give you a hard time on saying it's a guilty pleasure. I'm going to quote my, my friend Chuck Klosterman, who is not my friend. I would love to be his friend. Chuck Klosterman, one of my favorite writers and essayists and he, uh, I believe in sex, drugs and Cocoa puffs, one of his first big books. He said he hated the term guilty pleasure because it what it does is it it it actually minimizes the the your your actual enjoyment of it. It's like you shouldn't be ashamed just like what you like essentially and don't be

ashamed of it, but that's no fun. This guy obviously never had a podcast. Okay, so so have you ever have you ever read any of stuff? Chuck, I've always wanted to read. So it's a bit of a tough. He's a, he's my favorite nonfiction writer. Really? So that band, so that band, that band is called night ranger. Yes.

Okay. That song is called sister Christian and most people who remember music from 1984 know that song. Yes. Okay. That song is called Sister Christian and most people who remember music from 1984 know that song. Yeah. Yes. Can you name any other song by Night Ranger? No. Okay. I'm gonna just... So that was the second single from the this album. Okay. The first single was called You Can Still Rock in America, but I'm now gonna play the third single which is their second biggest hit. Are you ready? I just want to know if this resonates with you at all. Okay. So this is the second biggest hit of night rangers career. Let's see if it resonates with Bob and Rob. Wow. That has got a craft work for you, right?

Was this featured on Miami Vice? That era, yeah, I feel like it would have been something on Miami Vice. Picture right. It's like a semi-life picture. Right? Is this like 1987? 84. Oh my god, wow. These guys would have been chart mates with you. So this song is called

Don't Tell Me You Love Me and it is the second biggest hit of Night Ranger's career. And you don't know this? I didn't tell me you love me. And it is the second biggest hit of a Night Rangers career. So what's and you don't know that I didn't know what did it rank? Like where did it end up on the charts? Do you have a number? I might have that in my notes, Bobby. Let me check. Cause I haven't. Okay. So sister Christian peaked at number five from the billboard hot 100. Yeah. And I can only tell you this is top 40. I can't remember where it so here's the thing radio

that did it, you know, because of testing and one on all of the these kind of tertiary songs that somebody loved this song. Yeah, some people loved this song. Somebody believed in somebody believed in it and it got played to get to the point of top forty. Yeah, because of the way because of the way radio went and the way and the way testing my music testing went. All of these songs just disappeared from the calm and that's where I think a guy like Paul Thomas Anderson or or quintin Tarantino are so good at pulling out those you know, like you never can tell by Chuck Berry. You know, I didn't know

it until Paul fiction. He's so good at finding those secondary songs, secondary is exactly right, and I and they're still good songs, but they never made it to the top ten. I was just on my way in today. I was flipping around a little bit and I was trying to listen to some because tonight I'm DJing at Ground Control doing a budget that doing a bunch of ninety stuff and I was I had lithium on serious XM and they played a song and they're calling them like deep cuts or something. They played a song by live called rattle snake and I was like I this is from the secret somebody is from this album after throwing copper

and I was like this is a great song. I forgot how good this was, but it didn't resonate didn't go and wouldn't test well, so those songs are gone now. They're gone shadow to FOTM Rob Del Mundo who kicks out live in that aforementioned FOTM KOTJ on funeral. Nice. He kicks out lightning crashes. He wants that to be played at his when the placenta hits the floor Rob. That's a little weird, but Rob Del Mundo Bob. Well, that's coming for you, buddy. He's a good guy. You know, I watched so boogie nights fucking love every minute of that fucking film. I just love it so much

It's like my favorite non Tarantino thing. I just fucking love it. And at the end you get to see Dirk Diggler's penis Yes, okay. I Thought it would be bigger. Can I say that you've watched some bad? It's prophetic. You've watched some interesting porn I gotta say the way they built it up and everybody glances down and they have that look. It's unremarkable. I gotta say no, it's a big penis. I thought it would be bigger like I'm under I said to but my mother's loan I'm under well. I was underwhelmed by jerk diggler's penis. By the way, Bob Wagner reminds me of Chris Murphy in a way. Yeah, the hair maybe, but I underwhelming, but it's a big penis, but here's the thing, but also it wasn't. If I remember correctly, it's not erect.

No, it's not. It's not. Could you imagine? So if he's a grower, how much you know what it would look like? Yeah, if he's a grower, like I enjoyed your conversation with Carol when you guys were talking about the things that care off and you're like, well, I usually call it like a dink or a wiener on CBC. As it happens, they call it a penis, right? And that call it like a dink or a wiener. On CBC, as it happens, they call it a penis. Right. And that's a common term. That's what they probably should call it on CBC.

Penis and vagina. But when I'm talking about it, it's a dink or a wiener. Right. Well, there's very different, you know, cock and dick. Cock is much more English. Cock is sexualized. Cock. They're all...

Well, penis. Oh, dick. Nobody's going to say put your dink in me. Fair enough, to be fair. But I mean, it's very like... But I'll put your dink in me. That whole, that whole B but I mean it's very like the word dink in that whole that whole be the you know, there's the whole BD power, the big day in the say it's very American dick, dick energy, big dick energy. That's it. That's very American. The

dick thing and cock is very English and dink is you know, very childish. What about weenie weiner weiner is also childish. It's pretty great. So Dirk Diggler is penis reveal, which is prosthetic. Of course, that's not Mark Walbriggs penis, but I did, I was underwhelmed by it. I thought it would be bigger. That's all I'm saying. All right. You know, I'm glad you got that out. How often do you watch the film? I used to watch it all the time. It's on Crave. So it's like, uh, I did just rewatch it, but it's a movie where if the kids are around, I can't watch it cause there's nudity and there's fucking and all these things that the kids can't see

So I kind of just have to watch it like in these mildly short bursts where there's nobody around sure I know I know like the term longs for great. I love I know I know those I know those movies You can only watch for a little bit and then you're done You just can't watch boogie nights if the kids might walk in the old yeah but in the old days when you couldn't watch anything like when I was like 10 or 11 and we try to tune into channel 79 on a Friday on a Friday and I watched the baby blues well yeah yes that's why they had it at night no one can see it one last thing about boogie nights is when you rewatch it now right so in 2024 is it's really

too well you got the 70s and then literally at the stroke of midnight 1979 when it's turning into 1980 right no the 70s and then literally at the stroke of midnight 1979 when it's turning into 1980 right no spoiler, but I'll just say the words little bill okay So there's a little bill episode and then it's the 80s And it's really two movies divided by that little bill episode like this Rise and it's fun and games through the 70s and then the 80s hits and then you're in for a fucking a slide Okay run in games through the 70s and then the 80s hits and then you're in for a fucking a slide. Okay, and it's wild to kind of think of it as two different movies completely separated by the little bill incident that happened at the stroke of

midnight, 1979 right. So do you think that in culture in general? I don't I don't think it's that simple to to just say, you know, like again, we talk about the nineties versus the whatever's okay. It's always somewhere else right. It's not necessarily at the stroke of midnight. I always find like when you're in radio, you actually you often you'll you'll categorize your music by decades, but there are songs that are in the eighties that sound like they're from the seventies and there are songs from the

eighties, the selling from the nineties and stuff. So you have to kind of, yeah, you have to figure that out. Okay, so go watch boogie nights and enjoy sister Christian again. A funny line from Leslie on the live stream where I was, I guess I said that I was underwhelmed by the size of Dirk Diggler's penis and Leslie said the same thing about my basement studio. They're well, well, there you go. All right, I am ready for your final jam. What are you going to say there? But I was going to say I am like I am in awe. I'm not in all I am amazed by your your your confidence and having the people who you've had down here like like because it is a kind of shit. Carol off kind of shit.

I'll carry. I think it's I do wonder when it comes in your car off, spends a decade at CBC, sixteen years as hostess, and I do wonder like when she's coming down the stairs, if she wonders like where did my career? Yeah, I think they do. I think people do. I think you've actually heard that. I mean, Gino Vanelli was the first one. He, you could tell Gino Vanelli pulls up to this. Like, where am I? He's like, what the fuck am I doing here? Colin James had a lot of that. Like Colin James was like, what happened to my career? That 's why, but you know what? Everything's changed. It doesn't matter what it

looks like. I don't actually care, which is part of my, that's part of your charm is that the fact that you don't care you would have like you won't have Corey hard on unless he comes here. Yeah, Corey, I might have on he's a guy I might have on but Carol off. I won't have on unless she's in the basement. Wait until I'm a big Corey off head. Yeah, but wait until the day that Getty Lee walks down these stairs. That's gonna David Quintus. I said to me, he says, you know, I said to him, you know, he was on a Willner show. I said, and then David Quintensteinberg goes, really? He was on Willner show? He goes, there's no way he went to Willner. And I said, I have no idea. I didn't even hear the episode. I said, I don't know if I remotely did it. And he goes, well, I don't know if I can get Getty and I don't think he'll come to your basement. And I said, for Getty Lee, I'll do a fucking zoom. Of course you will. I might do a zoom for Corey cory hurt, but I don't know, but like so who would you say before we were all off top? Who's the who would you say is the most popular person

like the most known celebrity you've had in this in the basement in the basement? I know I could pick a Ben Johnson. It's pretty up there down here. Donovan's here a lot. Yeah Ben is like worldwide known. Don't have any Kim come down here? Twice Andy Kim. That's a big come on. I made him coffee. We had a yeah Like like the perspective from Andy Kim's but but don't have a celebrity like I'm talking like you but I'm talking also not only Celebrity but pop cultural influence because well, yeah, I mean, I mean what the most important thing to remember is It's the final product when somebody just clicks clicks onto Spotify or Apple product cast or whatever, and they listen to an episode, they don't know what this looks like.

They don't know what this is. No, it doesn't matter. That's fair enough. And so, and what I flashed back when you were talking about this, when I was in Memphis on tour with the musical cats and I went to a tour of sun studios and it's the smallest hole in the wall. And you're like, Elvis Presley stood right here and made these songs and you're like, this is a piece of shit studio. But it was 50 years ago. So it doesn't matter.

More than that now, but yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. So the biggest mover and shaker in the basement? Yeah. Gotta be Steve Pagan, right? Yeah, probably. Has James Bevin down here?

God, yeah. James Bevin? He's a god, yeah. He's sleeping around the corner. He's right here. He's coming in to clean the studio after. All right, last jam. What?

What do you say, Rob, about your last school jam. Friday night. We're rambly. Yeah. We're rambly. Anyway, what is your final jam? Um, I love this song and I don't have any really fun information about it, but it's kind of a school related song, except my friend. What do you mean you have no fun information? My friend, Nile Rogers played guitar and did the arrangement of the song. Come in with these, uh, fun facts. Yeah. All friend, Nile Rogers played guitar and did the arrangement of this song. Would you want to hear it first and then come in with these fun facts? Yeah.

All right, here we go. Any moment now that's going to play, I promise. Here it comes. Oh yeah, it sounds like... It's Nile right there, yeah. Nile. It's got a Duran Duran feel to it. Yeah. Have a little dinner, Chloe. It's your reward. Afternoon in the whole room, they're about to let you go

And the locker slam on the plan you had tonight You've been messin' around with a boyfriend, maybe better left alone There's a wise guy that you know could put you right And the life of the boy that that alibi doesn't rep your heart Cause it's only lonely spots she shares with you And the long halls of the gray walls are gonna split apart Believe it or not, there's life after high school And that's why the student of mine has got a bad reputation.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. What they need is an education. You're back at school in a bad situation. Oh yeah, oh yeah. What you want is an adult education. Yeah. Hall and Oates. Is this Hall and Oates? Hall and Oates, 1984. Yeah. They released a greatest hits compilation called Rock and Soul, part one or part two.

And they had two new songs on the album. And this was one of them. Wow. This was a single. Wasn't the huge charting single? I was gonna say like, I know, I like Hall and Oates a lot. I mean, this is like Method of Modern Love era, right? Era, yes. Just before that album came out.

Okay. And released this compilation. Of their greatest hits from the 70s, and then throw this? Yeah, but they did two new songs, and Niall did this song with them, and he produced, he's not credited as producer, but it's got him all over it. And his drum machine producer programmer was on it as well. What's the name of the song? It's called Adult Education.

Adult Education? Adult Education? Adult Education. Wow. J-Ho submits Bob Ray as the biggest guest in the basement. Well, he is on the UN council for Canada. I think Gino Vanelli though beats that actually. Hall and Oates, I loaded this jam for you, Rob. And I forgot it was Hall and Oates.

And I wasn't sure who it was. Really? I don't know. But I just don't know the song. Yeah, yeah. Adult Education. Yeah, no, it was just one of two new songs on this compilation that they released. Yeah, Rock and Roll. Rock and Soul Part One was the compilation. I remember that other song, Bob. I remember M-A-T-H-O-D.

Yeah, Method of Modern Love. Yeah. This song kind of led into that album. That was all over the radio. Big Bam Boom, yeah. We opened for Hall and Oates a couple times. Amazing. In 85, yeah.

And I missed one show. I was stuck on a plane and I missed the show at Maple Leaf Gardens. Oh, that's funny. You missed the Maple Leaf Gardens show? I missed the show. Have you, tell me you've played Maple Leaf Gardens or was that your only opportunity?

No, we played there on New Year's Eve, 84, with Platinum Blonde and Corey Hart. And then in the spring of 85, we were supposed to have a little downtime and my family, we went to Florida. Can you get me Mark Holmes? Yeah, Bob's failed. We're trying. You know what? He's been one of the like, anyway, he just did a big tour platinum blonde.

Yes, they did. With Billy Idol. They did. They just opened for Billy Idol. It's interesting. If you go back to the very first episode of Bob's Basement, it's with Mike Turner, the original guitarist from our lady piece. And he talks about, he's about lady piece, and he talks about he's about yeah, and he talks about. I remember seeing them in eighty seven after or ninety seven after clumsy came out and they were ever clear opened and they closed and I asked him about because again it was the beginning of like what it was like to play me. There was it was a different to play me, but he's like are you kidding me? Of course it was. I saw queen there

like seeing me too. That's what maybe that's why I'm telling the story. It was that weird feeling because I know when we played there and our first time playing there was the new year's eve show. Wow. And I saw queen there when I was 11 and like that feeling. I mean it's a feeling anywhere like when the lights go down and you're like the show's with some ghosts. Yeah though right. Like it's got it's not some it wasn't clean. It was the backstage. But to be on the other side the, of the vibe of the lights go down and then you're going to go on stage. It's kind of the same, but a little different.

Cause you're like, okay, now I'm going to work. Right. Yeah. Once you get up there. Yeah. But when you're watching before I can be like, Hey, there's the golds. There's the, there's the reds and the greens and the grays and the blues in the corner and stuff. I could imagine. I remember that first feeling when you'd walk into a stadium to a show and you're like, where am I in relation to the stage and then you see the stage. And you forget where you sat to see Queen.

You gotta think about that. And then you see the stage and you're like, they're gonna be right there. That's so cool. Rob, I'm a little surprised you didn't kick out High School Confidential. I'm surprised none of us did. Oh, you know what, it actually didn't even come to mind.

I avoided it because this topic was done by Pandemic Friday. And I kicked it out then. Did you kick it out? Okay. I just wanna say that this compilation, this topic was done by pandemic Friday. I kicked it out. Then did you kick it out? Okay, I just want to say that this compilation, this this greatest hits is insane. I know it's crazy. So Sarah smile, she's gone rich girl kiss on my list. You make my dreams private eyes. That's insane. I can't go for that man eater one on one and wait like this is like it's a great album. This is a great, a great greatest hits. I know I never had it. I have a bunch of a vinyl of uh, Darrell Hall and John Oates. This is a great, a great, greatest hits. I know I never had it. It's funny. I have a bunch of a vinyl of, of, uh, Darryl Hall and John Oates.

I did a workshop of a musical 15 years ago. It was a Hall and Oates musical. And, um, it never happened. Nothing happened. There's actually was an article in New York times a couple of months ago about, about shows that are in development that never go anywhere. And apparently they did, they tried two different musicals with Hall and Oates. So we did this thing in 2009 and Darryl Darrell and John came to the came to the to the presentation and we got to work with their bass player T bone woke who passed away like six months later, but he like was played in the band with us and

Darrell and John came to watch this thing. So I was like playing these keyboard parts like holy shit. This is the right thing. Yeah. Oh, that's a it was really cool. That yeah, it's a great album. This is an amazing. I was insane by the way. So we're gonna talk about things that got hansened because I mean we'll like the high school confidential. I didn't do somebody obviously none of you two have two more to go. I know, but none of us I don't think I can't imagine any of us doing schools out. I was cooper like that's it. That's got gotten hansen. That's a big one yeah and I won't say

and I'll leave it. That was kind of the one that came to me as like, okay, obviously that's way too obvious. Yeah. There's one other one I'm not going to say mine won't be. I don't think mine is a very big, uh, this is a shout out to Brian Dunn who I also saw at that breakfast earlier today, but Brian Dunn would be disappointed. He's not going to hear grade nine, grade nine by the bear naked lady. And I love that. So I love that album. I saw the cordons amazing. And of course, here's the one I thought one of you might kick out,

but a van Halen's hot for teacher. Oh, I never thought of that. I didn't even think of that either. That's so funny. Molly crew smoking in the boys room. Well, that's the cover. Yeah, it's a cover Brownsville station did the original never. Yeah. Didn't even cross my mind. You know, so many, once you start thinking of it, yeah, I didn't. Yeah. The one that I didn't do is a late eighties rap song. Are you doing a lady's rap song for your last one?

It was principal's office by young M. C. I don't see did bust a bus to move right, but his second single was principal's office. I remember it well. Yes. All right, but any words before your last jam? I will. I have a little story, not a story, just a relationship that was something to do with with ABBA and this song and kind of my relationship with this song. Except that's the same I watch, do, touch, do, make, for, not, not, not I'm gonna teach you All about my damn world Sit, sit down, take a seat

All you gotta do is repeat after me ABC, easiest One, two, three, all simple as dog Break me, ABC One, two, three, baby, you and Jackson, I mean come on Michael Jackson, nineteen seventy with his brothers. It actually beat out let it be as the number one song on the billboard hot one hundred look Michael Jackson is a divisive character in pop culture. I cannot help

but he like he's a huge part of my life. I loved Michael Jackson when I was a kid and I actually when I got to know Michael Jackson, you know, like off the wall with seventy nine and you know eighty two is Quincy Jones and with also Quincy Jones with Thriller Thriller obviously blows up everywhere and it's just it's it's it's ubiquitous this song. I got to know later like I didn't know Jackson five stuff really that well. I mean maybe from ten fifty chum my dad would listen to ten fifty chum, but I would drop the song. I'll wait till Rob comes back from

the or the restroom, but this is a you know. I mean Barry Gore is the corporation right. It's very Gordy. It's it's those guys. I want you back with the single before it. It's crazy. It's one of the, you know, I mean it's ABC. It talks about school at the beginning. It's these kids. It's just great. How good is this song? I mean in its catchy AF and it's fun to listen to. Not surprised it's it would beat out the Beatles to be honest in America anyway. Well, yeah, and so it was one of you know, it's funny high school confidential. I literally didn't even think I love high school confidential, but I when I started thinking about songs of a school, ABC School Confidential, I literally didn't even think, I love High School Confidential, but I, when I started thinking about songs

about school, ABC 123 was one of the first ones that came to my head. And there's a Simpsons connection to this song too, because Michael Jackson, of course, in the only episode you can't watch on Disney Plus, did the voice of the guy in the jail, right? He does the voice of the guy, or not the jail, in the, yeah, the imposter or whatever, in the jail right. He does the voice of the guy or not the jail in the yeah, the imposter, whatever in the meant insane asylum or whatever right and he co wrote. Well, he wrote Lisa, it's your birthday right and he's got something to do with do the Bart man right. Yes, I think he does yeah yeah yeah. He might have been like a co writer right. I think he was a huge fan of the show.

There's actually so on prime or somebody. There's a the last hour of Michael Jackson's life. It's like a documentary and it go and I tried to watch in the Simpson and I try yeah. I tried to watch it and I was so poorly done. I couldn't. I did recently watch the we are the world. Oh, it's so good. The documentary. Oh, that's in Wayland Jennings. I really, really, as soon as he's like, I ain't singing. So he Lee out of here, the same for me and you know, I'm as soon as he's like I a SIG, a Swahili out of here, the same for me and you know, I'm as a and they're waiting for Prince and they're using yeah, it never comes and I'm a huge Huey Lewis fan. So watching Huey Lewis and

he's in the documentary, actually talking about that day and talking about what that was like, but I was gonna say as a DJ, not necessarily ABC, but I want you back the single before that I can drop in almost any party and I'm not joking any age, any. I know in fact I did it at the at the supermarket at Kensington, a bunch of like you know, university age, mostly girls and they wanted to hear dancing Queen. So I played dancing Queen and then you're like, okay, do I go into Sabrina Carpenter or chappell role Chappelle ron or whatever, you know, which is or Charlie XCX. I like, no, no, no, I'm going into, I want you back. Good for you. And I want, so the opening piano of, I want you back out of, out of, it's

not necessarily about beats. It's about feel, uh, dancing queen into, I want you back is one of my, it's my, one of my secret sauce is a DJ. Yeah, it's one of my, it always, no matter where I am, it always kills. That's amazing. Yeah. So they go. That was my high school. That was like ABC one, two, three. They talk about school, you know. Okay, so I mentioned I recently rewatched Boogie Nights and I also watched another show and I can't remember where it was. One of the fast, one of the free ad supported TV stations to be, uh, I think it might have been to be to be or there's another one

I will frequent it'll come to me but one of these have this move this movie and I rewatched it and I'll drop a fun fact at the end of this but here's the song and then I'll this is your third gem my last chance from schools out to grassy movie Rock and Roll High School I just wanna have some keeps I just wanna get some chips Rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, rye, movie but the Ramones are in that movie so a lot of Ramones love in that movie. There's three versions of this song okay this song we're listening to the first version which was recorded in 1979 for the Rock and Roll High School soundtrack and it's got kind of an extended drum beat at the beginning. I'm gonna play another version so I I'm going to burn through this, okay? We all know this song. Bring her down and play version two. And hearing them, you might not even know the difference, but actually there's a difference. The second version we're listening to right now is a bit of a remix from that first version.

Produced by... Bill Spector! Because Bill Spector was producing End of the Century, the Ramones' next album. And you can hear wall of sound mixing techniques in this version that Bill Spector was known for. Not a good mix. This just doesn't make sense to me. And there's a third version. Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, Are you ready Steve? Yeah. Andy? Nick? Alright fellas, let's go! Alright, so you've got a longer guitar chord off the top that's like a sustained guitar

chord and you have a different arrangement in this song. This is also Phil Spector, he re-records it for the aforementioned end of the century album. So three different versions of Rock and Roll High School by the Ramones. This is the most lo-fi version. It's all mono. Yeah, and this is the version in the video. You gotta remember, we're also listening to digital. I don't know what Mike's sources are. This one is actually the original video. That's why it sounds a little lower on this one.

It's a little tinny. OK, so Rock and Roll High School by the Ramones. Every time I hear it, give it a bit of a moment here. I'll tell you what I hear. Oh baby, oh baby Yes, exactly Let's go to the X Let's go to the hop Let's go to the X Hop, hop, hop

At the hop Well you can rock and you can roll And do the stop and even stroll at the hop Hop, hop, hop When the rapper stops spinning you chill it So you can roll and do the stop and even stroll and add the hop, hop, hop. When the rapper starts spitting neutralizer when you're chicken add the hop, hop, hop. Do the dance and say some status group in the nation add the hop, hop, hop, hop. Let's go to the X, oh baby. No, Bobby, that's what I hear too, is the X version.

The 80s version, yeah. Always. Let's go to the hop. But is it me? here too is the X version. 80s version, yeah. Always. But is it me? Or is it a complete carbon copy? Did the Ramones just take this hit by Danny and the Juniors? Are you surprised? Give writing credit to Danny and the Juniors.

But it goes back to your Coaster song, where rock and roll all fed off of each other. Everybody was inspired. Nobody tried too hard to change it. Yeah, but at least they're the same writers. They're ricking off themselves. Oh yeah, I know. Everybody ripped everybody out. But like you can't hear Rock and Roll High School without hearing At the Hop by Danny and the Juniors.

Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock and roll high school. This by the way is in American Graffiti And we talked about happy days earlier. And what a rip off of American graffiti. Happy days was like even the original theme song was rock around the clock. Isn't it amazing? This the nostalgia in the seventies for the fifties and we have no nostalgia for the two thousands here in the 2020s. Yeah, because it's all one blob. Yeah, we have no yeah like that in the nineties, like if you were like Greece comes out in nineteen seventy whatever seven yeah, and it's about musical was like seventy two or right. They run it even earlier, but the movie

comes out and it's all about like this wonderful. You know, it's like I feel like like the like the sixties were so tumultuous and so crazy. There's like we just need to go back to the you know to the simple time and then you but then you have the Ramones doing this, which sounds like this. You know, I think nobody's gonna nobody from like where's where's Danny in the juniors? Are they gonna sue him? Are they gonna sue the Ramones? No, I mean you know, you know there's so much except outside of what's his name? What did who did for all brutal? Mars to give it, you got

to give it up. Oh Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye had got to give it up and the guys, all the guys who wrote the Robin Thicke song, blurred lines. That's the only time that he actually lost like like for rel lost, but there's so many times when people are inspired by another style or another song. I just and they just have to let it go and like let it and I then that's and that's what in for all I some he was he was being interviewed by I can't remember who another music was like he's like I got in trouble for that one and it's like he shouldn't have been as a bullshit. He shouldn't have been. It

really is. You know that's like a mood. Yeah, exactly. He's a groove. The problem was he was quoted in saying we were going for a got to give it up vibe. Yeah. And then, and then so he ends up losing all this drinking game. Whenever we say vibe, uh, they take a shot. There's a drink. Apparently we see a vibe a lot. I didn't really notice it till it was pointed out on this show. No, only once today. I think I don't think vibe, vibe, vibe, one time for her. There was a drink. I threatened to kick out the vibe gyms, but just Bob, to your point, the C and E should absolutely go back to at the X. Like what a great campaign that was.

Where are they going to advertise it? Where's the TV? Yeah. Who watches TV? People are watching TV. I guess maybe if they can get them inserted into TV, TV, TV, my mom watches the social. Your mom's one of the few people who probably still wants to go to the X because the X is so useless. No, I think the X had a pretty good attendance this year. Did they?

I think so. I only went because I had a ticket to see Cypress Hill and it got me into the sea. Yeah, I know. I was supposed to be dealing poker that night. Oh, that's right. I heard that story. That's right. All right. Well, shout out to the at the X campaign based on at the hobby. And the cow singing and all that. And there were moments at Forest Hills, where I live now in Queens, New York and Forest Hills, they all went to Forest Hills high school. Crazy. That's where they were from. These are mind blows. Where did the Ramones live in your life? Because you

were, you were not a punk guy. No, I knew of, I knew of them, but I didn't really pay any attention. Like I knew they were over there with like bands like television and like real guitar bands. Like what about the the clash like where was the class? I loved rock casbah like if I heard them on CF and why I loved it, but a clash fan hates that album. I know I loved it. I could still remember my my high school rugby coach and he was my job. Owen Lydon, Mr Lydon and he we go to his house. It was bad. We were go to his house and drink when we were still in high school and we're on rugby and we would be playing a ball go to school. Oh, don't

even get me started. I could do a whole expose on east end Toronto schools and how bad it was, but and he had every see every clash CD right and I had new combat rock of course and he was like that's the worst one. That's the worst one and then it gets the most popular. Yeah, because it was pop. It was pop. The only band that mattered. I have one last on our way out here. Yeah. If it's OK with you guys.

I'm going to drop a little fun fact. Sometimes I try to do things. It just doesn't work out the way I want it to. And I get real frustrated. They're like, I try hard to do it. And I take my time. But it just doesn't work out the way I want it to. Mo Berg.

I concentrate on real hard. I'm an adult now. It just doesn't work out. Everything I do and everything I try hard to do it, and I take my time, but it just doesn't work out the way I wanted to. Mo Berg? I'm an adult now. It just doesn't work out. Everything I do and everything I try. Greetings, Mo. So I'm on YouTube, and I'm searching for institutionalized by suicidal tendencies, and YouTube served me up a page to say, call this number if you're

thinking of hurting yourself. Oh, that's good. That's great. I know, it's good. But I, the song. But now it's all in your algorithms messed up. The reason I'm kicking out institutionalized, which is a song I still fucking love and you might have heard me say more than one time. All I wanted was a Pepsi like I'll just blow that out and it's because of

this fucking song, which I really, really love. But why am I kicking this out? Because the principal again, I just watched this again. I used to watch on late grade movies. I just revisited it. Fucking love the song, by the way. Kind of a high school jam too, actually. It's a little bit of a not a surf. The opening of the talking memory. It's not a surf, though.

That's the basic. Exactly. The principal in Rock and Roll High School is played by the actress Mary Warrenov and Mary Warrenov and she plays principal Evelyn Togar and this is a key character in that movie. That actress plays the mom in the video for institutionalized by suicidal tendencies. Rob, are you hearing me right now? My mind is blown. That is actually a mind blow. That's actually that's a good one. That's a blow in the mind. I didn't even

connect these dots until I revisited rock and roll high school because I hadn't watched it in years and I wanted to see it again and then I'm like that's the mom from institutionalized and that's how we're ending this edition of toast. You guys were fucking awesome. It was a fun one. I want to say you know you talk with movies that were on city tv or whatever like great movies. Do you remember summer school with mark harman yes, I corny thorn smith. Yes, I loved that movie so much. It was on all the time and I loved that he's in that no phoebe

kate. No, that's not time to reach on. I there was a better movie. Yeah, summer school horrible movie, but I loved it watchable. I watched a lot of summer school and fast times at ridgemont high was one of the first DVDs ever bought because I fucking love them. Maybe I should maybe we should like do it. Maybe I should do a series of like reviews of movies that would have been on city TV, poor poor, these classic revenge of the nerds, revenge of the nerds. Of course, they just read. Did you see that they actually they were at an expo like a comic con? I know I

didn't see anything and the guys from they redid the song that they did in the movie. The guys from revenge of the nerds, they redid it live. Wow, I can't remember. I'll send you the link. It's crazy. Anyway, I yeah Anthony Edwards was one of the nerds. Yes, he was and booger. I was the other guys., the guy who who came on to he kind of ruined happy days and then he went on to ruin married of children. Oh yes, yes, yes, all the guy was the neighbor with the big hair. Yes, he

looks like Jim J. Yeah, yeah more handsome than Jim J. Oh yeah, yeah and less gay. Yes. Oh my God, you know what every place I think I think you know what I think I should do a little offshoot of Bob's Basement and just get together with people and watch these movies that were on great late great movies and just and then get together and talk about them. I think I have a new a new project. I mean I'm not going to make any money off it in my retirement. I know My retirement Fucking love you guys. This is fun. Do it. I'm have nothing on YouTube. They're good guys. There's not a single song on this

blowing up that's as good as romantic traffic. Come on now. You know, I like rolling with sag it as much as the next. I like circle, circle dot dot, but nothing here as good as romantic traffic. Someday we should do an episode with all four or five of us together. Why? I think so. I like four mics though. You have to share my, we got to do it somewhere else. We're inputs here. I don't know. We can get a splitter, dude. Yeah. Well, you bring me the fucking splitter. No, you know what?

You come to my house. We'll do it with you. How about him? Doesn't like you. You know what? Cam Cam is East like Mike's. Yeah. I could you set up.

He still doesn't like you. RIP to long Mr. Long. I'm a quaid. You can rent cheap. It is to rent mics there because of how good he was to musicians. We could rent mics, no problem. Okay, well, good luck getting Stu cam Bob and Rob in the basement at the same. No, we're not talking to the basement. It's going to be in my backyard. It's gonna be in my shed. See, we'll make it happen. All right, well, it'll be an episode

of Bob's basement. Yeah, there you go. Are we kicking out harvest jams next time? I'm good. Sure. I mean, it can't be all Neil Young, but yeah, like fall harvest. Pumpkin shit. You can only kick out one jam per artist, as you know, and we can't dupe the jam. So there's Harvest Moon and there's the album Harvest. Yeah. There's no song Harvest.

What's the song? Harvest Moon, Harvest Moon, by the way, one of my favorite. That was actually written for the album Harvest. But it wasn't on Harvest. Harvest Moon's not on Harvest Moon by the way, one of my favorite. That was actually written for the album Harvest. But it wasn't on Harvest. Harvest Moon's not on Harvest. So in love with Bob. You know that, right? I don't know that.

It was written for- Save your fun facts for next month. It was also get Harvest Moon then. You take it. You can have it. Love, Neil Young. And that brings us to the end of episode 1,547. Go to torontomike. com for all your Toronto Mike needs. Go to, I don't know, listen to Bob's basement. That's a

podcast by Bob Ouellette. He talks to only Bob's on that show. And if you, if you have any opportunities for a out of work radio guy, please give me a contact. Give me, you want to mow my lawn? That's mow my lawn? How much does it pay? That's euphemism. How much does it pay? Five on the air. Rob Bruce, you're just a gem of a human being, to be quite honest with you. Good to see you guys again, as always.

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See you all. Who's next? Do you guys know? No. Do you guys know the musician Chris Burkett? Yes. Is that true? String, string, string something.

How do you know? Cause sometimes you... We're friends, well we're friends online, but I think he might be from Peronison or his band, Sultans of String is his band. He's coming over on Monday. Cool. I want to work with him. I want to do music with him.

I haven't asked him about it yet though. Record something and send it over and I'll play it and on the spot he'll have to respond. You can play my question. Chris, let's do some music together. Send me something some music but I don't want to come in hot. Okay See you all then Everything is coming out rosy and gray Yeah, the wind is cold but the smell of snow warms me today And your smile is fine and it's just like mine and it won't go away Cause everything is rosy and gray

Well, I've kissed you in France and I've kissed you in Spain And I've kissed you in places I better not name And I've seen the sun go down on Chacla Cours But I like it much better going down on you, yeah, you know that's true Because everything is coming up rosy and green Yeah, the wind is cold but the smell of snow warms us today And your smile is fine and it's just like, and it won't go away Cause everything is rosy now Everything is rosy, yeah

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