Jer’s new Hair!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something on here, something on there.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
And.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
It's time on TNT Alert Alert, Jare cut his hair
and Jonathan's back from Froston Gekin.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Gilson Kirkin but close and what's the best TV show
in Canadian history. That's all coming up right now on TNT. Toby,
I want to thank you for taking the meeting.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, Yeah, much appreciated.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I will preface it by saying HR isn't always the
most fun job because normally if we're encountering each other,
it's because there's been an issue or there's been uh,
you know, someone's reported behavior of some kind that they
don't think is appropriate for the workplace.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what could be the problem.
I've been, you know, just double banging every day, working
the old pimpoff. You know. See there's a good, good example.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You could just say I've been working really hard lately,
and that way you don't run the risk of offending anyone.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
But I want to start with the positives. You've been
really putting in a solid effort the last six months.
Thank you. I mean I kind of felt it a
little bit about a month ago, like I was getting
pounded in the clapp or you know it was really rough,
but I think I figured it out and kind of

(01:24):
squeezed out the old football as it were, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Okay, so this is this dovetails nicely into the reason
that you're in here. No one's questioning your work, Toby.
But for example, when you said to your colleague Charlene,
you felt like it was a bit of a helmet
nibble when she asked you to take on some extra work.
You can't like that, that type of imagery. You have

(01:51):
to understand that that's not appropriate in the workplace.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I know, and you know sometimes there sometimes sometimes
you know that they might come across that way. But
I don't mean that at all. You know, I'm always
talking about hard work, you know, like rock hard work.
So when you said a bit of a hot curling
iron up the eye of the horn to your other colleague, Amanda,
when she asked if it was difficult to get a

(02:17):
project done on time?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, what what does that mean? Like, why couldn't you
just say it was challenging?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, I mean it was. People are sick and tired
of hearing the same old thing when they're you know,
especially in a work environment, like they're tired of hearing
the old cliches of go get them and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
So you referred to you in a reply all company
wide email, you referred to our competitors as knob gobblers.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, so do you see how in.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
A work environment that can't happen, Toby. There, you could
just say our competitors are the bad guys, or there's
a more family friendly way of saying that. You don't
have to refer to them as knob bg.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, all right, so I'll just keep my head forward
and you know, push the blood to the tip and
really get those veins pumping.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Right again, I'm not sure that's how I would describe
wanting to have a maintain a sharp focus. You could
say moving forward or reaching out. These are lean in.
These are corporate sort of approved phrases that you might
hear people say from time to time.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Show up north star, right, I know those exactly, Like
those are the ones that I really feel like they
don't go over as well. But whatever, But okay, so again,
and I'm only bringing these up because I feel like
it's it's good fodder for discussion, right Yeah, Hey, like
who's the mater and who's the fodder in this one, right,

(03:50):
I'll allow it.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's just a kind of sloppy wordplay at best. But
for example, you said to your colleague Jared, we really
are gonna have to pound the k hole this weekend
to get it done.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, I kind of meant that. I meant, you know,
sometimes like if you're at a really crazy party and
they're doing ketamine or whatever, that's a k hole if
you're really going too far. So I just meant it
like that, Okay. But so when in a sorry I said,
I like another time I was in work and I said,
let's get come on, guys, let's get everybody feeling like
we see everyone as Disney characters because we're so high
on ketamine. Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I guess I think I'm a little naive, I'm a
little straight. I've had to google many of the phrases
that you used in the workplace. But I guess if
I'm being honest, if I want you to have one
takeaway from our conversation, it's said, there are things that
you say with your buddies at Crocodile Rock, maybe quarter
to eight on a Tuesday, after a picture of Long

(04:55):
Island iced tea, that you might not say in the
lunch room.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Do you understand where I'm coming from. I totally understand.
Like I said, I'm just trying to, you know, things
will bring a little levity into the room.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
You talked about our competitors in the following way to
your colleague Stephen on January seventh. You said, we just
have to spray our load all over them.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, what does that mean?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I also said, the boss he blows so much wind
that he's got his own hot air balloon and that's
coming through the pants. You know what I'm saying. I
think so, But I don't.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I don't understand why you would choose to create that
type of imagery. It's enough to say that our hope
is to do better than them in this pitch. You
don't have to resort to I mean, this sexual imagery
or it's it's sometimes.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Violent, right you. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Is let's skate over their necks? Like, what what's the
what's the intended outcome there that they bleed out? Well
I meant I said, I said, let's skate over and
then come back around again. Sure, like no one, no
one's questioning your your passion for the company or your
commitment to your job. All I'm saying is it's the

(06:21):
same gift, Toby. You could just choose different wrapping paper
that's less shocking to the to the naked eye.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I guess. Okay, Well, I apologize. You know, I'm sorry.
I came off the wrong way, and I mean I'm
gonna get through this next quarter and a quarter after
that won't be able to walk, you know what I mean? No,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Is this in in line with ground and pound another
term you used for a project deadline?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, you know, I'm just talking about a rough sunday.
You know, he's so.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Casual, He's so matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
I like Toby, Toby. I like where he's coming from.
Hr nightmare.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, listen, Well to hold these guys down and stick
it to.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Them, you know what I mean? Why, Like every meeting
there's someone like that looks like to twists their head
to the left at him, like, what did you just say?
Why is it so violent? Hey we're back, but we're back.
Oh yeah, a little uh, little summertime, loving, little busyness,

(07:45):
little family time. We should quickly give a little recap
on your Germany swift rip. Get us some character. Yeah,
the Garrison characin rip.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
So this is what I what I wanted to do.
I wanted to take July and August off for the
first time I think ever. And as you know, if
you're like I'm just gonna take on these couple of things,
suddenly it's like, Okay, well we need to have a
conference call about the thing. We need a rehearsal for
the thing. So you're doing one thing, but it's four

(08:18):
different commitments.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
So I was really trying to be I was really
fighting for this time. Because Shook started grade ten this year,
she's in high school. I assume next summer she'll probably
have a job. As you know, the window gets smaller.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
So well, they were still into the hang. Wanted to
create as many memories, force as many good times as possible.
So we took Condor Airlines to what's that? Okay, I'm
glad you asked, because Condor we booked it through west Jet,
and I assumed Condor was the discount airline owned by

(08:59):
west Jet in the way that Rouge is Air Canada
sort of discount airline. It's not.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Condor is simply a European airline that doesn't pay Canadian
taxes and fees so it can afford to have its
fares more inexpensive.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
So only in the East Coast.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, it's it's a European airline, so the planes are striped.
I think they fly out to Toronto, maybe Montreal, also Halifax.
They certainly fly out of New York and they it's
NonStop flights to Europe. So it was five hours and
forty five minutes to Frankfurt. Wow, it was more. The
service was great, the flight attendants were awesome, the plane

(09:38):
was brand new and big screens and nice meals and
all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Down the auto. Rip down the Autobahn to the gig.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, so we we looked at taking the train. It
would have been three trains, one of them we had
seven minutes to catch. Turns out to hire a map
was more cost effective and obviously an easier lift. So
ripping down the autob one SI to the tiny town
of Bochum, which is near Gettyson, kirten H and UH

(10:10):
just walked around, got our schnitzel on.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
So at that point you must have felt like the
like because when when Taylor comes to town, the city
becomes an extra city, right, like everything is aware. I
mean like in Toronto, for example, They're like changing traffic
around and buses and subway schedules to help. I'm assuming
she chose or they chose, Gettison Careen because it's both

(10:37):
central to Brussels and Amsterdam and easy to get to
from places like Frankfurt, but also because there isn't a
whole lot else going on, and the mammoth undertaking from
a production standpoint of this stage is so inconceivable. And
forgive me if we talked about some of this last time.
I can't remember because it's been a minute, but I

(10:59):
assume they couldn't travel every night. They have to just
set up somewhere, build it and live there. So she
sold sixty two thousand seats three nights in a row
in this town no one's ever heard of, this industrial
coal mining town that I probably realistically won't ever go
to again.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And then she did Munich also in Germany that next weekend,
and same thing like, except in this case it was
seventy thousand people inside and another thirty thousand people out
on the mountain around the stadium listening for free. So
here is the thing I will say about Taylor Swift.
It was a three hour show she can do I

(11:43):
don't care if you like her music. She can do
it with ten dancers and keep up. She can do
it with a hot band and keep up. Or she
can do it by herself with an acoustic guitar in
an arena, and is equally compelling and fun to watch

(12:04):
in each of those settings.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
And that's why the show is so long, because she
has to show everybody that that's how it works. I
guess so different. But she also does like.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
A few songs from each era, thus the years to her,
so I think there are nine years to get through.
Soar it's just a lot of songs. Yeah, every song
she plays, you're like, oh, of course this one, forgot
this one, And then on the way home you're like,
what about these thirty hits that she didn't play. Her
library is astonishing. But for me specifically as a production

(12:39):
person watching the technology, like in the middle of the stage,
block pops up, then two blocks pop up beside it.
They come less high. It becomes a staircase. But they
can also reconfigure those blocks so it becomes too high

(12:59):
on one side, i'd one lower in the middle, people
are lifted up on them, people step on them, and
then they go up like.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
The those crazy that they have those crazy hologram lights
going off too.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, and she she goes to the far end of
the catwalk. For lack of a better term, something opens up.
At one point in the show, she dives in. There's
a water sound effects water. Her hologram swims the whole
length of the catwalk, and then she pops up in
the flesh again at the other end in a different outfit. Yeah, sure,

(13:33):
like just crazy. And during the I think it's the
folklore era, there's a house on the stage and she
sits on the roof and like this was not a
small undertaking it it's it's every bit as ambitious as
the craziest Broadway show you've seen.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Like they probably have catacombs underneath with like golf carts
and all the like different stuff, right, I'm sure sure.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
And imagine taking the most challenging, ambitious Broadway show and
then doing it on the road, and then doing it
across the pond, and then doing it that many nights
in a row. Like the costume person for the backup
dancers alone is the most stressful job you can imagine,

(14:23):
Like just the she didn't phone it in I guess
is what I'm saying, which she certainly could. I don't
think you can at that level, you know what I mean,
like that level, So I don't think. So we left
Thursday on the Red Eye, got there Friday morning, landed
in Bauchum by ten am. The show in Gilfenkerten was

(14:46):
at whatever seven o'clock that night, and then the uber
came the next morning at nine am to take us
back to the area.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
You have Did you get to the hotel lobby to
have some musally and a couple of fish roll ups
before you got out? Did you see them?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Though?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
The fish rallies? It's so not my scene. It's there's
like muse ly and then warm milk and then those
rolled up fish and it's like, all right, here we go,
let's get on it. There was right, it is good.
It is good. Musely though.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
We got there ten ten in the morning on Friday
and our check in time wasn't until three, and the woman,
who was kind of unhelpful, was like, it's no problem,
you can go hang out and then the park and
like you have course after a red eye, let's hang
out in the park for five hours.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
She didn't say that. Yeah, she threw that. Go over there.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, there's a parking across the street, so it's no problem.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
And how is the park It must be pretty wicked, right, well.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I know, no, it's grass and trees. There's no They're like,
but I know, I know. That's much more European culture.
And it was a nice reminder people are sitting out
and enjoying the view and having conversations and leaving the
office and all those things the North Americans don't do.
But I swear the person behind me came up who
was like Gogaga, Googan, and the woman was like, sure,

(16:14):
here's your keys, and welcome to the hotel.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
And they actually said, I'm sorry, I don't have I
don't have a reservation, but I can get it rod, Yeah,
no problem, l two ways. And yeah, that's what it felt.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
So we were back home forty six hours after we left.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
That's crazy. So it must have felt almost fake and
almost like it didn't happen. It did such a shock
it did. But I'm going to tell you something.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
The first of all, for the for the economy to work,
like we can't spend ten days in Europe and then
go to the concert that's not the point. The point
was this was an exercise in is it really true?
It was like a street to this, Yeah it is.
It was it. So in the end, yes, there you
go for sure, because Condor is a wonderful, affordable, awesome airline.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Like if you if you went to for like something
in the States or even like the Toronto show, Yeah
you would have. It would have been way double probably
triple maybe yeah, because everything else around it, because the
concert tickets were so bananas. Luckily in Gettison Khan, which
is a town no one wants to go to. The
like even the you're not going to get any we're

(17:39):
not going to get any points for the old Gurrican
can like travel board.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
No. But because it's a place that I think only
the locals appreciate.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, is that better.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
The food trucks were like very affordable and uh, it
was very authentic food. I don't think they're used to
tourists going there, so they weren't really set up for it.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
So they had like some brats and some like oh yeah, baby,
wicked sour kraut whatnot? Oh yeah baby, and whatever mustard
concoction goes on. Actually, Schmitzer, here's The last thing I
would like to say about the Taylor Swift, with all
of the negativity in the world and the internet bullying

(18:29):
and sexual imagery and trumpeification of this moment school Shooting's garbage,
here was, let's say, of the sixty two thousand, realistically
fifty eight thousand, fifty six thousand Youngish girls sharing bracelets,

(18:53):
singing their hearts out, dancing as hard as they can,
arms around their friends, knowing every word. And there's something,
as you know, especially moving about people for whom English
isn't their first language, belting out things they might not
understand technically, but the sentiment of it they totally get
because it speaks to their heart, like it was, so

(19:16):
it was so beautiful in that sense. Yeah, I love
hearing the accent in the crowd. That's yeah, I'm feeling
twenty two.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hans and Franz just belting out twenty
two at the top of their life. So that part
was really cool. And obviously to see my girls see
what this person has accomplished, and really, as we've discussed before,
with pretty minimal gaffs for someone who's been that famous

(19:49):
for that long, starting that young, she hasn't really stepped
in it much, and that is really impressive.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
How was the sleeping, Like, no problems with their the
jet leg.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
We just we were gone such a short time that
it wasn't even really a fact.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
So they weren't They weren't tough because didn't you when
you went there, was it like you had to stay
up a longer time or would like what time was
it the actual when you arrived on your flight? We
just sort of.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Made a commitment to sleep when we had windows. Yeah,
so there was some sleeping on the Autobahn, bit of
a shutdown in the afternoon before the concert, had a
great sleep that night. It's actually, pardon me, Okay, we're
gone such a short time, we didn't even adjust it anyway.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
But I know you're talking about those like you take
the Red Eye, you travel for the day when you
get there and they have to stay.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Up all day, Like, yeah, where am I? Well, if
if that was the case, like if you went overnight
and you got there and at six am, right and
you're that you're supposed to stay up for the concert
at eight o'clock, that's when it's a little more tough. Yeah,
Like we got off the plane. It's two o'clock in
the morning our time. Yeah, that's not bad.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Like the crazy thing is from where we are here,
Frankfurt is closer than.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
That, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, see Toronto, it's like, yeah,
it's it's still a big that's a huge step. Yeah.
Six seven hours is a tough one to if it depends.
It all depends on when you get If you can
get a flight where you're still late in the night,
where you can get some sleep, that's that's good. But man,
sometimes if you go and you get there and it's

(21:29):
like you don't fall asleep till like six or seven
that time, and you sleep for eight hours and your
phone town, you're done phone town. So I had a
couple of little reps this summer.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I can't remember because it's been so long if we
talked about the Salt Lake trip, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
I think so, I think I remember the Salt Lakes. Okay,
Good went to Salt Lake and Wyoming in Montana and Idaho,
and then a couple of days in Palm Springs, and
then a couple of weeks ago I did a solo
mission over to Saint John's to do a cameo and
a new show starring Donnie Dunfie. Oh nice, that's the
bot on the on the ATV that rips around.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
And remember remember our bod Steve Dylan saying the reason
that Yuck Yuck's in Saint John's closed down is because
the Hecklers were funnier than anyone on stage. Yes, yes,
just Newfoundland people are just funny, they just are. And
Shania Twain was there for three days the day that
I arrived, playing three shows at whatever some park festival,

(22:38):
so everyone was fired up for Shania Nice.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
I went to I'm trying to recap quickly, but I
went to Black Flag concert which was pretty cool with
Analys and Wow and John and then so Anna started
her arts high school and loves it. And who's into
black Flag?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
She is?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Or you she is? She loves. Are you guys going
to Weezer tonight? By the way, No, No, she's uh,
she's okay with not going to the Weezer just because
she's kind of like not that she doesn't still like Weezer,
but she's kind of moved on to a lot of
different bands, including like from Minutemen to to fu Ghazi

(23:25):
to like kind of all those integral punk bands. But
also she loves Ween, which is another really cool band
that that I kind of slept on throughout like my
own career. Like I knew Ween, but I never knew
they were as good as she kind of turned me
on to, you know what I mean, Like I knew
there there's some of their songs. I didn't realize how

(23:45):
great they actually were.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
So are you feed these bands or is she discovering
them on her own?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
She well, some it's it's some of them I feed.
But then there's like she she gets really into certain
stuff and then I learned more about it, Like all,
tell her a band that I'll know a few songs,
and then She'll get more into it, and then I
get more into it, you know what i mean. Like
it's that kind of thing where she's she consumes. Same
with John and Jack too, like they're really able to

(24:15):
consume information and they like to really get into what
they like, you know what I mean. Like the focus
is really strong. Hm. So it's awesome to see because
she she becomes like like Nardoir, you know what I mean,
Like you know how in depth is with knowledge whenever
he's focused on a topic. So it's pretty cool to see.

(24:38):
So she's doing deep dives, deep dives and loves their
new school, like loves the arts program. And she's in
the percussion section. So there's three other kids that are
in the percussion group with her, and then you know,
obviously the other music classes and so it's wicked. Man,
it's great to see. How does she still do math

(25:01):
and English or yeah? Yeah, yeah, just once a day
there's music, and then twice a week there's after school
music and then they do like bank concerts and stuff
like that. So awesome. Yeah, and Jack is Jack's crushing
it as his last year at twelve, and John's actually

(25:22):
decided to take a year off because he's been so
stressed from from from just kind of the pressure of life,
you know, accomplishing every little step of of work for
four years in high school that you're not exactly crazy about.
So he just feels like he has not a chance
to do stuff that he's passionate about. So good for him,

(25:45):
you know, awesome. So is he gonna work? He actually, yeah,
he's well, he started. I don't want to I feel
like I don't want to talk personally about him as much,
but he's like you know how he can design games
and stuff like that, So he's doing that kind of stuff.
So stuff. Yeah, he's designing things and he's into that.

(26:08):
So he's doing that right now. So yeah he is.
That's work for him. I guess that's great.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, I think, especially now when it's not like a
university degree guarantees you a job and it certainly doesn't
guarantee you happiness. Nothing wrong with taking a beat to say,
yeah what excites me.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Also, Jack during the summer had the gumption to pick
up an extra gig because he's like, I need some
you know, he wanted to have some cash, so he
was he started cleaning windows, like knocking door to door. Awesome,
So him and his buddy Luke that they had a
little window washing gig where you know, like I think

(26:53):
they knocked on doors for eight hours or something and
got a couple couple gigs. But love that's cool. Yeah, right,
it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
So are they doing exterior windows? Like they have a
ladder and they'll do your second floor and all that.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Not the ladder they have the extendo. I think it
goes twenty five feet, so they have Yeah, they had
the grounded by they did one place that had I
think it had like eighty one windows, like a big place.
So do they quote per window or yeah, I think

(27:30):
it's five by five five bucks a window. Heck, yeah,
yeah I would. It ended up heart beat. It ended
up taking you know, it takes a long time, eighty
one windows where Yeah, I think it took them about
five five hours. So it's a it's worth it. So
are they going to keep doing that this fall? No,

(27:52):
Luke's gone to school and Jack's busy with school, so
it was just a summer gig. Maybe kick it up
in the next summer, but it was just something to
do too, to kill the you know, it's like it's
great to see that when a kid gets an idea
and they want to see it through and that's the
best stuff. I'm so into that. Yeah, it's like, you know,

(28:15):
it's it's like the same idea as when they're younger
and they want to do a lemonade stand or whatever,
and then you know, sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.
But like either way, you're going to learn that either
ignoring stuff doesn't do anything, but also when you do it,

(28:35):
you're you're going to learn that it's hard, it's not easy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, speaking of big decisions, when did you decide to
cut your hair off?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yes, I cut it all off. It looks I've been trying.
I've been kind of wanting to for years. I think,
you know, I don't know, And I think Lisa like
liked it more than I did. It's in a sense,

(29:06):
and I've been wanting. I'm not saying I was like
doing it because of her, but I just felt like
it was just kind of easy, and it hadn't been
to the barbers in decades, so I was just like
a little complacent, complacent, and then I just started to
get agitated that I'm not doing it. So I just
decided to go and get There's a place around the

(29:29):
corner here, and I walked in there and I just said,
give me something. I cut kind of like half of
it at least, cut out like a bunch of inches off,
so it wasn't like I had super long hair anymore.
So I went in and I just said, give me
something that I don't have to deal with, and enough
on top to style it if I can. And they

(29:51):
were into it. So, yeah, so she gave you bob
is the wrong word, but she cut like a foot off,
good foot, not a foot, no, like halfway so it
was just just at my shoulders when I went in
there instead of like past and did you keep the

(30:11):
hair or chuck it? I chucked it.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
That must have been quite a pile of hair.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Well, I mean, like I said, it was half gone,
and then like it wasn't even half gone. It was
like I did a good couple inches, and then another
couple of inches, and then by that time, like I said,
it was, it was not like I had super a
huge amount, but probably like your hair is getting pretty long.
If you went down to the wood, you have a

(30:42):
pretty good pile, right, I just got it hot? Oh
you did? How short? I'm not crazy short?

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Like I still I suppose people might describe me as
a longer hair gentleman.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Because you had a pretty good salad going there for
a bit. Yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
But then there's always one like it's I'm trying to
mow and it's in my eyes or.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh yeah that's one thing. Yeah, that's the best thing
I think about the short hair now is like when
I'm driving, I don't care if the windows open, whereas
before I think it's tied up. It drives you insane.
It's like a torture. Plus, you're probably faster now when
you walk places faster when I walk too. Yeah. And

(31:25):
in the showers, when when you wash your hair, that's
a big one. Yeah, and it's cool. It's cool. Yes,
sitting on your neck, yes, greasy or like exercising, all
the sweat just stays in the back of your heads forever.
Oh yeah, that's nasty. Plus now you can apply because

(31:48):
before you were a long haired freaky people. Yeah, let's
take a break.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
But it's Dennis Dejourn with you on Open Heart.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Theme song is Nova Heart.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
This song show is an open heart opportunity for you
to call in, get up your chest.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Whatever's going on in your life.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Maybe your mother in law is getting you down, Maybe
you're having a problem with your spouse.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Phone lines are open. We have Toby on the line.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Toby, what's your shortcut to an open heart?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
What's on your mind? Dennis to journal with you? What's up?
Holy Holy cal I felt like I was in a
lineup with dogs behind me waiting for their turn on
this thing. Holy Cayle, the producer have me waiting. How's
it going? How you doing fine? Fine? Thanks?

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Lost me a little bit on the dog thing. What
clarity do you need? What do you need to purge?
What do you need to get off your chest? Do
we want to chopen heart here on the De Journo Show,
And yes, let me answer it before you ask the question.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
And I am heir to the frozen Pizza fortune, Dennis
are telling you, I'm just you know, it's tough at work,
you know, having a real tough time, Like yeah, what's
going on? I mean, H and R is up my back,
like you know, like a Yin yang salad the sandwich
and I didn't realize i'd eaten, you know, it just

(33:20):
started coming out and coming in at the same time
like that kind of you know, just rough, you know, Okay,
Like they're they're using you to make the green gown. Yeah,
except the green gown's red. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I'm trying to follow, Toby. Can you expand on that
just a little bit.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
What do you mean I'm saying? They just ride me
like I'm in jail for crying out loud and they're
just taking turns. You know, it's just rough. It's a
hard job.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oh, I see is the image potentially with some of
the imagery that you convey to tell your story.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, you know, like it's almost like I'm in a
meeting with Vince McMahon stead of HR.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
You know, No, I don't know, but it seems like
you're using a lot of harsh imagery.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
I'm sorry. I don't don't mean to put a tongue
in your butt, Dennis, just just just got a tough
time at work here.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's not a saying I'm familiar with. And just so
I understand, did you make that expression up?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
They just come to me sometimes, Dennis, I'm that guy,
you know.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Okay, So that the tongue in the posterior is that
that's an image that you're hoping to create in the
minds of people you're communicating with.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, and they probably tell you you're a salty dog. Dennis.
You sure are. What is what is a salty dog?
Peanuts too? Okay? I'm Dennis.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
If I had to hazard a guess, and I frankly
that's what they pay me a butt lo the money
for put it this way as the air to a
frozen pizza fortune.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I would rather this after that little kiss there seems
like you might be more from the eat more, you know,
to eat more candy bar fortune, I guess, eat more
candy bars, lots of peanuts and salt because your butt
in my tongue, remember.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Okay, I can land that plane, I guess, Toby. What
it comes down to is some of the images that
you convey when you're communicating. I'm guessing is what's giving
you a hard time at work. It's okay to find
more benign, more passive ways to say things.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
You're starting to sound like hr you know what I mean,
like take it easy? Uh, you got a hotel room
for me? Unconsensual?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Okay, there are things that used to be okay to say,
but the societal goal posts have moved and it's not
okay to bring everything back to what you put where
or who put things where in or on or around
or all over you. Do you know?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's what she said, Dennis Toby.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I think it until you take a log off the innuendo,
I think you're gonna find you're having a problem.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I think I think I need to be putting more
of a log in, if you know what I mean, Kenny,
log in, because you're too foot loose and fancy free
with with the way you speak. Do you have that
special someone in your life. Uh no, I uh long,
a long string of sad relationships, you know, just a

(36:46):
lot of phone calls, a lot of a lot of
you know, looking it up on websites. Okay, that stuff,
a lot of the websites.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Right, So you are are having intimate relations with yourself.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Well, someone's got to do it. Ag. Okay, that's what
I figured. So the problem is you are communicating in
an echo chamber and you're not able to change your
views because you're only exposing yourself to your own views.
Do you see what I mean? You you had me
at exposed?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Okay, Well, I want to thank you for your call, Toby.
Unfortunately I can't. But we're going to take a break
here on open Heart. Maybe the theme song can play
us out, Toby, and just think before you speak?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
How about that? All right?

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Why Nova Heart isn't the theme song for every radio
show in history?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
I will never know? I know it really is solid,
really brings the mood together. Boy, Toby's got some issues. Eh.
I love the spoons you do.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I feel like this is territory we've covered before. But
some of those songs that were sort of uh not
an eye roll, but definitely of a time.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
They hold up. Man, Yeah, that's a that's a jam,
absolutely holds up like any other eighties classics.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
I have something to confess. Carol and I went to
an auction this summer and it was for the Chester
Playhouse in Nova, Scotia, and I won tickets to Billy.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Idol and he's been he's been out there this summer.
I saw oad banging. Yeah, and guess who was opening
for him? Who? Platinum Blonde, No Way a double banger.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
And it was last Thursday and I couldn't go, so
he didn't get to see it. Well, here's the thing,
if I'm being honest, I could have gone like I was.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I was in town.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
We went to Massachusetts for a week as we do
every summer, and I was in town, but I couldn't
muster the jam. It was like, at the time that
I was bidding on it, I was like, oh, that
would be funny, like I'd like to see Platinum Blonde
and Billie Idol. But when it came down to it,
I was like, do I want to drive an hour

(39:22):
and park?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
And I don't know? Yeah, yeah, it is. It is
like if you were there already, sure, right, probably probably
should have, because every time I see live music, I
think I should do this more. It's great. Yeah yeah,
like did you leave black Flag all fired up? Uh? Yeah,

(39:45):
I know that it was great. It's good to see
for sure. It's always great to see live shows. How
they sound there, they were great. They're like a ball
of fire, like better than ever. I've never seen them before,
so like it was good enough for me. You know,
were you familiar with the band? I always or you

(40:06):
got into them because of analys? I I knew them
like uh more, like you know, like the songs TV
Party or whatever with Henry Rollins singing like I remember that.
I remember that era and I always thought they were
pretty cool band. I just didn't listen to them, and
she just started getting into them more so, like they're

(40:29):
not my favorite punk band, but I liked them a lot,
and they were good live like they I think it's
they have cool like not only are they aggressive and fast,
but they have interesting guitar riffs and stuff, So I
think that's what sets them apart a bit. Really, I
really liked The Minute Men, and I really like Fugazi.

(40:53):
Those two really I think are like like those bands
influenced lot of people. Jesus Lizard's great. There's a lot
of really cool bands that like when you listen to them,
you can hear influences about Like when you listen to
certain Black Flag songs, you can hear where Rage Against

(41:16):
the Machine got a lot of ideas and feels and stuff,
you know what I mean, like just the breakdown rifts
and the kind of the stuff that they did. So
it's just you hear all the the nineties band like Fugazi,
you hear a lot of stuff that you would hear
in Nirvana or a lot of other kind of of
the grunge bands. I think Soundgarden was one of those

(41:37):
bands that were on their own it from the start, different,
you know, like integral cool, like super interesting different, and
then like you know, Alice in Chains kind of came

(42:00):
from that kings X kind of low. You know that
the drop D tunings and the and the background vocals
being really harmonized and intense like notes and stuff. So
like you can hear a lot of of the beginnings

(42:20):
of those kind of bands, and a lot of those
eighties punk bands, and some of those punk bands are
actually more kind of rock than people would think. This
is what I guess is My point is we heard
lots of we heard Rever Corners, Stone, Temple Violet.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, but it was it was called Unpopped and it's
Sunday Morning on serious like acoustic versions of all your
favorite nineties and two thousand's rock. Was interesting hearing that
song stripped down to see if it holds up, because
oh sure, I like the O G version of it.

(43:04):
I was kind of lukewarm on this one.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Oh you were. I didn't think it was just because
you're like, okay, it just keeps going. Well.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
I like when there's like a really were when it's that.
But yeah, not the Sunday Morning uh hungover?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah yeah, black coffee version, gotcha, Coffee of Darts version, Yeah, no,
I hear you. Who was the clientele at the Black
Flag Show? A little bit of everything, even like they
had the U you had the the classic mohawk two
foot high guy getting thrown around in the pit. Aw right,

(43:42):
love that guy, the two foot mohawk. Not the two
foot guy. Oh I see. I thought you meant a
little person, and I like when people show Yeah, sure that,
but this was like a I don't know, probably a
five foot nine maybe maybe something like that but had
a two foot mohawk on top of that. It was

(44:04):
getting chucked around, a lot of people getting chucked around. Yeah,
those pits are nuts.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Hart pits are Do people still like swing their fists
around blindly?

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Yes? Yes, yeah they're still like the King of the
Pit thing where the guys are just pounding into each
other crazy and girls too. Like it's just I don't
know why people go in there because they always come
out like holding their eye or their ear or you
know what I mean, Like they come out of the
pit all like sore. Something happened, like you clash heads

(44:35):
with someone running into each other, Like come on, man,
that's insanity. But whatever, they love it.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Were there lots of kids, Like are they enjoying a
resurgence with children?

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I don't. I didn't see any other really other kids.
There was another kid and his age like fourteen maybe
so not really, but it was all ages obviously. And
it was at the Rock Pile, which is like a
bar that I don't think I've ever been in before
on the Queen's Way. It's been around forever, like classic,

(45:11):
like it looks like Patrick Swayze should be working there.
Vibes was that the place that.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Where did the Sloan had four nights at the Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Yeah that's different. No, no, this is just a bar. Literally,
the Rock Pile is like a bar with like a
fake jail in one corner and then a stage in
the other corner. So why was she allowed to go
because it's all ages? So do they wristband for liquor? Yes? Yeah? Wow?

(45:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's for some reason.
They do more shows there than I remember at the
Rock Pile, like bigger bands, because I remember it always
as kind of like a cover bar place.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Well, I feel like that's that's so sleeping cool.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah, no, it is great. It must have been really
cool for her to see a rock show in a
bar like that. Yeah, for sure, definitely. And they have
the you know, the black Flag always had the cool
They have one of those like iconic logos with the
four bars. Yeah. The T shirts Yeah, so that's that's

(46:23):
that's their bread and butter, I think because there there
was a huge lineup for their merch and yeah, I
had to get an a T shirt. Awesome. Yeah, has
she worn it yet? Oh? Yeah, she wears it a lot.
She's got probably a I don't know, like thirty forty
rock band shirts now or punkin rock shirts crazy, it's

(46:46):
like classic. It's she loves that music. She's in it, man,
she's right in it. Is Lisa. What she doing? Lisa's rocking, man,
she's rushing it. Is she doing interior design stuff? Still,
she is not doing that as much right now. She's
been doing a million other things with us. Yeah, family

(47:09):
and take taking care of her mom who lives with us.
And you know, surely she's immobile, right, so she's got
a you know, she just needs care a lot, just
to make sure everything goes okay. You know, she's she's
getting stronger and able to walk more, so I think

(47:32):
she can probably even build upon that. Nice. But yeah,
it's uh, it's it's you know, Lisa's rocking though, she's
doing amazing. That's great. Yeah, yeah, we we have like
it's falled, just like it feels like it just start

(47:53):
started today where it went from like twenty seven degrees
with burning humidity to eight degrees and it's free out.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
I kind of dig that, though, I find you see,
by the time it arrives, I'm kind of ready for it.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
What's one thing we've been walking like long walks almost
every day. And one thing like, it's probably better if
you're wearing a sweater in this kind of weather for
like a like an hour and a half rip and
whereas before in the swimmer, yeah you're soaked kind of
when you come home. It's like, yeah, this is good

(48:27):
for a long walk for sure. Seven degrees in the morning,
twenty five in the afternoon. Styles, yeah, exactly. Well, I
have a couple of television programs coming up that I'm
excited about. Oh yeah, making a show called zero to sixty,
which is about a driving school. It's based on my

(48:48):
friend Steve Lawrence, who owns an actual driving school. But
he's a musician by trade, so he has been working
on the theme song for the show. It's so great.
It's gonna have kind of fresh Princes vibes. I love
that sitcom aesthetic. That's like.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
It'll feel like it was filmed in front of a
live studio audience, even though it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Yeah, like just.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Kind of of a simpler time. Everything that's uh kind
of single camera curb your enthusiasm is uh, is one
way to go. But I like the I like the
old school sitcom aesthetic.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Yeah, no, yes, because you don't see it anymore. No,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
And a few people have tried to bring it back
in with with not much success.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Like I guess even.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Chuck Lore, who's like two and a half men clinging
to the og sitcom dynamic now does Young Sheldon, and
it does not have any of that.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
You you watched that, right, Young Sheldon. Yeah, you've never
watched it, never seen it. Did you watch Big Bang? Nope?
That's that Chuck Laury math too, isn't it. I think so, man,
that guy's got a string of hits he has.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
The girls got into Young Sheldon, and I had a
really bad attitude about it. It's it's perfectly fine as
a television show. I've tried to watch a Big Bang
Theory a few times. It's not my scene, but Young
Sheldon is it's.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
I The only thing good about Big Bang Theory is
Ed's getting paid big time. That's the only thing I
like about the Big Bang Theory. I didn't know this
about Ed. Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Remember I sent a video to you guys last week
of uh someone was playing if I had a million
dollars at this campground?

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, that was by the way
the guy's just giving her too, and it sounds like
sounds like he's the only one there too. He was
no one was watching.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
It's like one of those Uh yeah, I'll work out
those muscles for a couple hours.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Like yeah, do you think maybe he was getting it
ready for later that night he was gonna do it
with a backbar like I was playing in a sound check.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Probably it's it's interesting like these. We were in Cody, Wyoming,
and we went to this place called the Cody Cattle Company,
and there's sort of a house band that plays while
you're eating dinner and they play country classics. These were
four of the heaviest players I've ever seen in my life.

(51:38):
And they they place, you know, six to eight every
night in the summer, and then they go off and
play bar gigs or whatever.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
And at first I was like, man, it's.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Like the line and piano man said at the bar
and put bread in my jars, say, man, what are
you doing here? Like these these guys swung so hard
and when he introduced the band, like they were all
heavily educated and like Berkeley Cats, and uh played every
jazz festival in the world.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
They probably love that gig.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
It's great every day, I guess. So that was my
second thought. My first thought was what are you guys
doing here? My second thought was, wait a sec. They
played a four hundred people every night between six and
eight and then go play another gig if they feel
like it, but don't have to. They're staying in a
nice place for the summer. They probably put them up

(52:27):
like it's probably a dream gig.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
Sure, yeah, there you go, there you go. That's that's
that's why they got no problems, I know. And they
were mother're like muscle shoals skies like that vibe. Was
it like that, like clat just crushing it?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
More like country music started in the year whatever, and
it had sort of a sound like ding chick chicken
don chicken doing, And then over the years it became
more boom bookinga boom bookinga boom booking, but then it
came ding du ding, like just crushing every era. So
they did little medleys of like when it started, this

(53:09):
was the sound. Here's four or five of the songs
that my in laws knew, you know, crushing, all the destroying.
And then by the time they get to lately, country
music has sounded like this. They're playing the Man one, two,
the three to the four. You know they can kind
of riff in and out of the waves. But yes,

(53:32):
they they they just crushed it. I can't remember what
we were talking about before. I I was talking about
that some picking.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Up truck up Friday out of Friday Night and post Malone. Yeah,
that guy. I talked about a transition, eh, going from
hip hop straight in the country and like still the same.
But this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
He's apparently a lifelong country fan.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Sure, yeah, he's from Dallas. It makes sense, like they switch.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
He's been embraced by the country community, which and Darius
Rucker was too.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Yeah, but normally.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
The country community is like mmm, I don't know. I
guess Taylor Swift did it. Beyonce tried to do it.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
No, But that's the thing. There's a whole new that
that Morgan Wallen stuff, basically the stuff with the hip
hop beats now, like I think older purists or hate
that stuff now. So it's almost like that's like out.
It's almost like a rebellious in a sense, you know
what I mean. So it's like young country people so
that the older ones hate it, right, So I don't know.

(54:46):
I mean, that's probably what's going on because it's the post.
Malone is basically saying, listen, this is the same fricking
producers I'm using for hip hop with the same you
know what I mean, same beats, and then they just
put a couple vibes country maladies over it and it's
all done. Like how hard is that? I know what

(55:06):
I was talking about before we got here. It's the
most formulated music in the world. Like, if you get
the formula right, then it's printing money time. But there
are certain themes that you kind of have to stick to.
It's almost like a Hallmark movie. Yes, totally, there's there

(55:28):
has to be an almost kiss.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
There has to be an unlikely do they get stuck
together doing a thing they want that has at the
end no kisses till the end. It's it's satisfying because
it delivers on your expectation and doesn't challenge you. And
country country music is kind of the same way.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Totally fast food. So here's bass food done right. This
is what I was saying several minutes ago when I
sent you guys the video of the guy playing Find
a Million Dollars, just going for it.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I said, it's happy hour at the campground and he said,
I wrote that song as an eighteen year old camp
counselor on a school bus.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Yeah. Oh crazy. I was like, no way, how is
that not part of the public lore. You imagine hearing
him ripping up and down the aisle while they're driving
singing that, like, hey, this is kind of catchy. I
like this. Yeah, And then you pointed out like was
did some kid who was in the cabin later say like,
I was there? Yeah when he wrote it. That was

(56:36):
in the room, because that's the Nashville law. But in
the room law, if you're there, then you get the
it is. You could be sitting there just picking your
ass in the corner and you get in No, is
that really the rule of the bus? Yes, in the

(56:57):
bus rule. Yeah, that's the rule. Wow, I said, wow.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
It's It's so tricky with writing on television show shows
because normally the agents work out who gets the written
by credit, but what actually ends up on the screen
might have fifty hands on it totally. So written by
is a credit that you want, but not necessarily the truth.

(57:31):
Speaking of television programs, this guy, Craig Baird on X
as Twitter is now known, I think we should still
call it Twitter. Yeah, let's not let him have it.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
He does these polls. He's kind of a Canadian historian.
One day he might do the history of the Nova
Scotia Duck Toller. Another day he might do the.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
History of Lauren Green. So he did search for Canada's
best TV show? Did you see it? I remember he
did the best music exactly. Yeah, but it's random draws.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
So ships Creak might end up against Trailer Park Boys
and Tough Tough Titty. That's that's how it's gonna go down.
So in the end, let's see of the five. Let's
see if you can name three of the top five
Canadian TV shows as voted by the people.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Okay, so let me guess. I will pick.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Do you want to do three of the top five,
or see if you can do five of the top ten.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Well, let's see if I can. Yeah, Let's let me
give five and I'll see if any of them there
Canadian TV shows across all genres. It might be it
might be children's, it might be comedy, it could be anything. Okay,
all right, so I'm gonna go. I think Trailer Park
Boys has got to be top top three or five
at least, it's not. It's not. Okay, so this whole

(59:03):
list is just as fucked as the music. One trailer
was just for reference, was number twenty. That's ridiculous. Okay,
so I think it's this is all his demo? Right,
So I'm gonna picture Beach Combers has to be top three.
It's not. It's not. Where's is it in the top five?

(59:24):
It's not in the top okay? Twenty? Is this like?

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Not?

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Was this the okay? Danger bay? Is that what we're
talking about? No? Okay, fucking all right. Not in the
top twenty? Come on, man, ah now not like seeing Things?
Is that anywhere? No? Oh my god, no way, okay,

(59:50):
Fred Penner's place, No, I.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Would say overall, it's I think you'll approve of what
about mister Choices, mister Dressup's number one?

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Okay, there you go, there's one would be on there,
and you said Fred Panner is not on there?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, think of two formative comedy shows that you like. Yeah, okay, okay,
Kids in the Hall probably up there, number three, c
T s C TV number two, okay, uh, the show
rounding out the top five just started its thirty Canada.

(01:00:33):
That's number nine. This This Hour is number five. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
So the only other one in the top five is
number two, which starred a father son duo. This would
put the father in two of the shows in the
top five. I like it has some good play along.
It's more more recent. And in fact, two of the

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stars of the show and number two were on SCTV.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Oh Shit's Creek, Yes, yeah and so yeah. So there
was no like Degrassi wasn't on there at all.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
It's on there. Okay, let's do the speed round. I'll
give you hints as we ran out the top twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Remember, okay, here we go. Okay. One of the original
cast members of This Hour has twenty two minutes stars
in the number six show Oh Our Boy, Yeah, Mercer, Yes,
Mercer Yeah. Brent Butts Saskatchewan sitcom. Uh And why am

(01:01:43):
I drawing a blank on his show? Butt Show? It's
a Saskatchewan yeah classic. Somehow I'm drawing a blank, like
a mental blank. Forget corner gas, like when you forget
a bit like the Beatles. That's literally it's too easy. Yeah,

(01:02:04):
and I must I apologize because that's Brent's a beauty
and deservedly in the top ten, but one of the
funniest Canadians around.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
While we're here, also an incredible author. His debut novel,
Huge was gripping and terrifying and it's not funny. It's
funny because the character is a stand up comic. But
it's gruesome and grizzly and not what you would expect.

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All the moore is reason to read it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Read it? Okay, ready, next one?

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Yeah, yeah, let the music play. Yeah, rag o rock, Yes,
Hockine in Canada, you got. And then rounding out the
top ten, Megan follows, Yeah, seven Pi the East Coast.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
I was just by the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Freaking founder of rock. That looks like a two head beaver.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Not not the road to Avon Lee. No, it's the og,
the og and a green gables. Yeah that's Is that
a show exactly? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Yeah, Number eleven, here's a chair for two to curl
up in.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Yeah for the friendly Giant. Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Number twelve. Joey and Wheels and Snake the Grass.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Number thirteen. This one stars Yenikbi So it's on CBC.
It's a period piece where a kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Guy solves Murdoch mysteries. Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Number fourteen this is from this hour is twenty two minutes.
Cast member co stars Malcolm McDowell.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Ye of a son of a critch that's already up there.
I love that. I know, crazy because it's only a
couple of years old. Yeah, mister d must be on
the list here, so it is not what the hell's
going on? Number fifteen, This guy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Was like not the greatest American hero, but the Canadian equivalent.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Overconfidence Albert Albert Brooks brother right, super Dave. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I forgot that's Albert Brooks brother. Yeah, you know it's
Albert Einstein. Is his real name? Which is Einstein? I know? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
This next show pits two childhood best friends against each
other in a series of pranks and stunts.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Oh us Kenny versus Benny.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Yes, next one, there's a voice littless hobaal Yes. Next
one was actually born out of a play starred Andrew
Fung and Paul young Son. Lee was on CBC.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Oh convenience.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Yes, this one was First Nation's drama starring Tina Keeper
and Tom Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Uh. It refers to a longitude. Oh yeah remember yes,
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
It's not east, west or south.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
The other warth of sixty yes, and then trailer Park's
number twenty Wow, interesting out of ridiculousness. Well here's that
I feel like I feel like that. Yeah, that's what
when these lists, it is like you can't really argue
with some of them, but you you certainly can't argue

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that they're missing some of the other ones in the
you know what I mean. Like, I don't know, sometimes
I feel like as much as I love the comedy ones,
they get like they're always thrown up at the top, huh.
Like s ETV as much as I love it, it's
like it's it's I think it's more about the people
in it at that point, right, interesting, you know what

(01:06:04):
I mean. It definitely is because like you're laughing a
lot watching Trailer Park Boys and SETV are laughing, But
it's it's more because like like there it's not the
same thing. You're not laughing as much, you know what
I mean. It's it's sort of nostalgia. It's comfort food.
It depends yeah, like it depends on the sketch and

(01:06:26):
who's doing the sketch as well. But like consistency laughs
per minute, like that's a it's a thing, you know,
like how many times was kids in the hall more
like weird or out there instead of going for the laugh?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
What I can't believe is that trailer park is still
so relevant to mostly teenage boy audience after all this time,
Like new audiences find it all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
I drew some Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
I was starting to feel like I was the bad
luck charm because it was like mister d against Shit's
creek and streets and against kids in the hall, dress
up like you didn't stand the chance on any of them.
We really, those are apples to oranges.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
How do you compare? Well? You know what, I bet
your numbers if it was like the most watched or
streamed Trailer Park Boys would probably be number one because
it's the it's still in the top ten at Netflix
all the time, which is Bananas, which is the big one. Right,
Holy cow, Bud, time to go. Yeah, we're rolling. We

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rolled out and we'll be right back. Now. That's a
good old fall time. John