Walk of Fame Jer!

Jono went to Costa Rica, we play a game called Pond 5 and Jer’s getting inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something went on here, something on there. It's time On
TNT a Costa Rica Recap, we play a game called
Pond five and guess which bud's band is getting inducted
into Canada's Walk of Fame. It's all coming up right

(00:21):
now on TNT. Hey boy, Happy New Year, but happy
superlated New Year's Yes, late late January is almost to
the point where it's like, you won't acknowledge those in public,
but we'll do it here. No, like we've written a
few twenty twenty five checks out already. Yeah, like the

(00:45):
novelty of the New Year has worn off a little bit.
But happy to talk to you. And a couple of
times this week I've been places where people are like,
hey love the podcast, but thank you. Yeah. A couple
of places I've been people are like, hey love the pod.

(01:08):
So that's a sign we had to get back into it.
I love how I hear that he do get hey,
do get hey? Do get that you do that kind
of one. I get a full on classics name Digga
a douga. I wanted to give a shout out to
a couple of buds. One is the guy that I
sought the Orthodonist when I was there with Shug the
other day. She's getting her braces adjusted and he was like, Hey,

(01:30):
love the pod, bud. Uh And I also want to
give a shout out too. There's a guy named Connor
Bowden who's a bud. He's the manager of the Monkton
Casino Entertainment venue where this week, uh eighties love ballad
duo by the name of air Supply was rolling through.
Come on on a reskad from the Fall. They all

(01:52):
got the COVID and had to cancel. I was supposed
to go with Mark Forward, so I had tickets and
Connor was kind enough to send me an email and say, hey, Bud,
are you coming? And I had to say no, life
had other plans for me. Really disappointing. He said, Oh,
I'd arranged a meet and greet with the band for you.
Oh man, wow, could have met the maths. COVID cut

(02:14):
your air supply mm hmm. But man, those two are
in their eightighties. Really yeah, like certainly late seventies and
still look up how many gigs they're doing this year.
It's like two hundred and forty. They're rock and watch

(02:35):
game backstage? Yeah, what does watch game mean? It's just
like those seventies you know the game show Network. Oh yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
they're watching match game and no wammis backstage on on
VHS tapes. Russians, I'm like, old, what's what where the

(03:00):
guys are always totally only doing sexual in the window.
Oh yeah, everyone there drinking and having darts. Yeah, what's
the weirdest place you've ever made? Whoopie? Yeah, that's the
whole show is just like sexual conversations and you're like,
so like awful family feuds gone that way too. With

(03:24):
Steve Harvey, questions are always like if you could see
one of Steve Harvey's body parts, which one would it be? Like?
Just what the hell? Isn't always gonna be about him
and his hammer? Have you ever had a fantasy about
Steve Harvey?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Have you?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I've heard that Steve Harvey's blank in the size of
a what. Yeah, you're leading the witness and Bowling Pin
the second number two and the whole lot of shows

(04:08):
Bowling Pin, you know when they read it out in
that lackluster bowling pin number three? My girl sledge hammer. Oh,

(04:39):
I'm trying to think of other ones, and I know
you are too. Trying to get it together. Number four
Billy Club. I have been watching some old game shows
though it is fun. Same with eighties movies. No one's

(05:02):
on their phone. It's just the best. Do you know
you haven't spoken since the bars and I went to
Costa Rica and it was I don't have to tell
you you've been there a bunch like obviously, the beaches
are incredible, the nature is wild. We did a tour
of kind of a sloth habitat in the rainforest, saw

(05:27):
some tree frogs and some little poisonous masks and cheek
hans like. It was wild. But the interesting thing was
sometimes when you go places that make their living from tourism,
there's a bit of tension or resentment between the people
that like work at the resort and the people that
are staying there. Okay, there was none of that here.

(05:52):
They are such a happy people, and they, like the
guys driving the golf carts around, were like look monkeys,
taking such joy out of their surroundings and so proud
of where they live and so pleased to show off
they're part of the world. And no one is feeling
sorry for themselves, which is just the best. And Carol

(06:16):
pointed out after a few days, no one has a
phone in their hand like that. We drove through towns
and stopped places, and at first we were like, oh,
maybe cell phones aren't really a part of life here. Nope,
everyone has one, they're just not glued to them. Yeah,
and and they're they're also unnoticeably very happy people. Yeah,

(06:43):
so those two things. My wife drew that connection. Those
two things are probably related. There is that thing if
you sit too long, like some fire ants gonna come
up on your foot. Yeah, see, you better keep moving.
Engine saw some gigantic grasshoppers. Like, like you said, everything

(07:06):
is kind of alien sized there. But super happy people,
super friendly, and it must be it must be a
little strange. I was talking to this young guy that
works in the breakfast buffet. He works six days a
week from six to two. He lives an hour away,
and he's probably twenty two, twenty three, but super happy,

(07:30):
loves his job. President. There is it one of those
things where like he's at the buffet serving you, but
then at like six o'clock at the concert at the result,
he's like, yeah, there was some Michael Jackson, Yeah, definitely,
some some multi hyphenetes working there, he's like he's all

(07:52):
of a sudden doing Michael Jackson, the same guy that
was like giving you breakfast. We saw the Michael Jackson show.
It was killer. There actually was one. Oh yeah, they're
always yeah, and the girls and I did karaoke together.
We did bust a move and they busted some moves

(08:13):
and sang the you want it part, which is great. Nice,
But I guess what I was gonna say is it
must if you're working six days a week, you're in
your early twenties, you work hard, you live an hour
each way, and then you know, not gonna generalize, but
certain entitled people waddle up to the omelet station to

(08:35):
ask if they can have a third omelet, Like it
must be hard not to kind of roll your eyes
or resent or judge. There was none of that. Yeah,
like so happy, the the vibes were so high as
they say, and just peravida as they as they say

(08:56):
as well, like so content and happy and yeah, it
was really really a special time. And we don't go
on vacation really, so we loved it. Man, did you
do some jungle time? Yeah, we did some jungle time,
and we did we did a little hike to a waterfall.
Oh nice, Like there was some of that like, hey,

(09:17):
you park right here, this guy will show you where
you're going, and then part way into it you're like, oh,
I see, I think we've hired a guide. Okay, yeah,
then all of a sudden, yeah for sure. Yeah. Well
it is good because otherwise I would have been like,
what that's I don't see any sloths, but I do

(09:38):
see that sort of moist coconut, And it turns out
that is a sloth sleeping in a ball. So them
maps know what they're looking for and can point it
out to much more easily than we could spot stuff. Yeah,
but it was really pleased. Like we we stayed on
the resort most of the time, but our two outings
were the waterfall hike and the sloth tour. And at

(10:01):
the end of the week I asked didn't Do what
her favorite part was, and she was like, hard to say,
toss up between waterfall and the sloth tour. So unlike
it when it works. I went on a I can't
remember the park. There's a jungle near where Lisa's dad's place. Yes,

(10:22):
as to Rios Estate, it's not park in there anyway,
we're there all day and it's the same thing. Like
they have waterfalls and pools where you can swim, and
hot treeings yeah, and tree top of the trees, trail masks.
You know those ones are way high up. Joh, I'm
not a fan of. But and then like you have

(10:46):
to get out of there by like by six or else.
It's like you're on your own. You don't want to
be on your own. But you could hear all the
stuff getting louder and louder as it started to get
to that point where it was almost left, like it
just at where the gates were closing because they lock
it in, but you could hear everything getting going in.

(11:09):
There's crazy noise in the jungle. Yeah, like everything just
started getting so out, all this stuff. I was like,
what the hell, let's get out of here. Why didn't
know there would be monkeys at our hotel? Yeah, but
every morning at six, these howler monkeys would start to
get loose and party, and we'd get up and follow

(11:31):
the sound and go watch them. And what a privilege
they they were so disinterested in us. And Carol and
I saw one on the ground one morning, but typically
they stayed up in the tree and little babies just
flying around, jumping from tree to tree. It was so
cool to see them in their natural habitat because it's
so abundant for them to just eat whatever they love

(11:52):
to have. Yeah, I need to stand around and wait
for tourists to hand them treats. Yeah, but they're not
trying to like shove you off. You're not chos or
anything like they did keep healthy distance. I think it's
more in cities, like when you see that when they're
more used to people, that's when they'll start rifling through
your bags throwing poo patties. Yeah, yeah, it was. It

(12:17):
was pretty special to see them from a distance and
they can make some racket. Yeah, no, it's amazing. It's great.
Like I said, the loudness, like especially when it gets dark,
you just hear if you're anywhere near forests or that area,
like it's just you hear. I remember staying at a

(12:39):
resort and that one when you looked out the balcony
at the resort, it was just this huge, grassy kind
of mountainside. Huh, and you could just hear stuff going crazy.
It's the best part, Like it's you can hear The
world starts at six o'clock. Yeah, it's great, and on
the subject of technology, especially at this particularly wild and

(13:07):
heavy historical transitional moment, it's easy to doom scroll and
look at your phone and stay glued to it. What
I found especially interesting is when we arrived, it was
at night. We rented a car, and we're driving. We
couldn't get Google Maps working. So you realize how when

(13:29):
you're driving in a new place where you don't speak
the language, and maybe it's not a part of the
world where reflector tape on signs has caught on quite yet,
so your headlights illuminate a sign, but you still can't
kind of read it because it's dark. You realize how,
like we used to be able to find things without
our phones, like we've gotten so lazy and dumb and

(13:51):
reliant on them. Actually enjoyed the adventure of trying to
troubleshoot without Google or Google Maps. Turns out day two
or three, we figured it out and it worked just fine.
I remember after a long travel day driving around in
the dark in a new place, it was like both
kind of tiring and a little bit of a drag,

(14:12):
but also exhilarating in a fun adventure. I remember driving
across the border. It was actually driving to the Buffalo Airport,
and as soon as I crossed the border, the GPS disappeared.
Like I'm like, oh no, And you know, in that

(14:33):
area of Buffalo and like forty eerie all those at
that spot, it's like there's highways all over the place
that just kind of connect in the air.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, so you know what, all of a sudden, I'm
got I got no no GPS, and I'm on this high, big,
huge highway that's came off one of those like scary bridges.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
There's always those scary bridges that are all super skin
any but super tall over water, you know those ones. Yes,
So I was like going over this huge hill and
there's no GPS, and I'm like, oh my god. I'd like,
this is only gonna end up around this corner into
another series of highways that go all these different places
that look like if you take the wrong one, it's

(15:18):
gonna be fifteen minutes period right in one of those
like like Montreal, if you're stuck on one of those hues,
yeah right, but yeah, with and no GPS. So I
literally had to kind of find like what an assemblance
of an off turn that looked like a road that
I could turn back on. Thankfully, to just figure out,

(15:41):
I had to restart my data or whatever to get
GPS back on. But yeah, it all of a sudden
I was lost, and I was like, there's no map
in the glove compartment. I know, but we used to
do that, like even have to write it down before
you left home. You'd kind of remember remember it for sure.
Now you don't like phone numbers. I don't remember phone numbers.

(16:05):
I don't remember my own home phone number here now
and I've lived here for four years. Do you guys
have a landline? Yeah, I don't know it. I don't
know calls it. Well, mostly re Lisa's mom that uses it.
That's the generation still using phone. Yeah, so that's pretty much.

(16:25):
It's either spam or someone for Lise's mom. Surely here's
an interesting one technology wise. I opened the Facebook yesterday
and there's a picture of my home and barn and
cars in the driveway. Okay, and it was taken by
a guy as part of the Jay Rocks Party bos

(16:47):
facebook group, a group of trailer park fans who's like
Jay Rock lives five minutes from my house. Take a
drone shot or something. Nope, just driving down the road
snapped it out the window. So I said him a
message and said would you mind taking that down? And
he was very cordial and was like absolutely, And I

(17:08):
said I'm happy to you know, can I pop a
Jay Rock picture in the mail to you or something?
He said, no, that's fine. You know what I'd really
like to do is meet you. I said, yeah, done.
So he lives nearby. I said, I'll be there in
the next couple of days. I guess it was a
Wednesday or Thursday, today Saturday. So today I noticed he posted,

(17:29):
well I've been stood up by Jay Rock. So I
sent him a message and was like, are you home now.
He's like, yeah, those are my favorite stories in the world.
So I drove over to his house. In like five
hundred yards from his house, there's a blockade and like
seven fire trucks and was like insane drive around. So

(17:55):
there was an accident or a house burnt down, but
I had to drive all the way around. So I
I sent him a message, was like, uh, you know,
I'm sorry I have to drive around because of the
fire trucks. And he's like, it's no problem. I was like,
I just wanted you to know why I would be late. Anyway,

(18:16):
Super nice guy pulled into the yard, signed a couple
of Pokemon cards, took a picture Pokemon cards. Are you
christ Buddies just because it's Pokemon?

Speaker 3 (18:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't know. Super nice guy really friendly, scared, He
asked me about Degrassi and uh, and I left, but
not before I said, my children didn't choose the way
I would make a living, so I try to do
my very best to keep life normal and private for them.

(18:53):
And also, I guess I don't want to advertise where
I live because if I'm away for work, I don't
want people knocking on the door and saying, is Jay
Rock home? We saw your picture on the internet, picture
of your house on the internet. And also I'm I'm
really proud of our home, but I know things are
really hard for people right now, so I would never

(19:15):
want to appear to be boasting that. You know, we
have a nice house. Anyway, I guess I don't have
to explain why it was not ideal to have a
picture resolutely home on the internet. I appreciated how accommodating
he was, and that's why I was more than happy

(19:35):
to play ball with him and go say hi, super
nice guy. But what a weird feeling to see your
house on the internet. There's a little skiff of snow
in that picture that was taken like just this morning.
Oh yeah, well, hopefully everything is cool there. Hopefully everything

(19:58):
is cool. But it's funny that the trailer park fans
fall into kind of two groups. One is just go
back to the boys, Jay Rock, not understanding that first
of all, that would not be enough of a living
and second of all, the shows for my money kind

(20:21):
of over and has been for quite some time. The
other group of people would comment on the picture of
the two of us, me and this guy, say, oh,
Jay Rock's old. I'm like, well, yeah, that's why I'm
not Jay Rock anymore. You see what I'm saying. Yeah, Like,
why isn't it okay to just say that was a
great show? It's over now? I still enjoy watching the episodes.

(20:42):
Why does it have to be this? When are you
going back? You owe it to the people. It's weird.
Oh I know, I get the same thing for people. OLP. Well,
how are you feeling on this thirtieth anniversary? It's funny.
Can't you remember how we got there, but we were
trying to figure out how old you were yesterday in

(21:04):
relation to me, and I think you're five years younger
than me. I don't know if it's that much. I'm
forty nine. Oh are you okay you're three seventy seventy
five or right, I'm a seventy two or yeah, but
I was trying to think you started an old when
you were seventeen. It's the thirtieth anniversary, Yeah, like forty seven,

(21:24):
forty eight was my guests. Yeah, yeah, well we're we
were getting inducted into the Canada Walk of Fame. Phenomenal.
That's good. That's a good way to kind of commemorate it.
I guess, so what what happens whatever they Heck, is
there a dinner or a ribbon or I don't know
if you've seen the Triumph one or like there's been

(21:47):
lots of them where they have just kind of a celebration,
and I guess there's tributes or whatever. But like it's
there's it's not just us in the day. Mike here,
Mike Weir is going into which is no way. Yeah.
I actually gave Mike We're a drum lesson like a
couple of months ago he started drumming. Wow, and uh

(22:11):
he's a bad and a great, great dude. But it'd
be nice to celebrate it with him and all the
golf world.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Too, which is cool.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
There's lots of Uh Leona Boyd, come on, Samantha nt
the Doctor. I might be missing one or two, but
it's going to be a great celebration. I remember going
to see Leona Boyd play when she when I was
about seven, at the Confederation Center in Charlottetown and uh

(22:43):
met her afterwards. I think she might have been she
was dating Pierre Trudeau, wasn't she Probably didn't. They get
some stuff going back in the dizzy. Probably, Yeah, that
makes sense. Yeah, she was a hot to mally but
back then my seven year old self and obviously she
can play like nobody's business. Yeah. So is it Is
it like a dinner or is it a sit at

(23:06):
Roy Thompson Hall kind of show or is it a
stand outside while they cut the ribbon and reveal your
stuff like the thing. I think it's a bit of
all of that, kind of tied together, you know what
I mean. Like it's the place and there's performance and
then talking and then probably some press, and so do
other people play the songs. I've seen that before. I

(23:30):
don't know anything about it. I'm not playing anything. I'm
just kind of going, and Mike Turner and I are
going as well as great and currently and so it'll
be you know, I'll be kind of hanging with my
family and Mike and his family and it'll be nice,
be really great management and a coalition Eric and Rob

(23:53):
and therefore. Wow. Yeah, will it be the first time
seeing Rain in a while. Yeah, yes, that since since mediation,
that's for sure. How do you feel about that? It's fine,
it's all good. I saw Steve when I was in
La last and saw Dunk about earlier this year, the

(24:17):
past year, right, so you guys are all fine. Yeah,
it's fine. It's gonna be good. But I kind of
lost my train of thought. But that's a lot to celebrate.
That's really cool. Yeah, definitely. Have you met the drummer? No,
I like I might have, like through social media said

(24:40):
hello or something in previous times, like before I was left,
But I think that's about it. Crazy. Well, that's a
huge honor and much deserved. Yeah, it's cool, man, It'll
be good times on a very different sort of special
occasion and Tip Kelly Lance, who's abode and listens to

(25:05):
the podcast sometimes. A realtor in Charlottetown a couple of
months ago sent me a picture of a Torren's real
Estate sign that was my dad's company and PI in
the seventies last and he had started as Torren's real
Estate company. Then he had two partners, Bradley and Parker,
so it was Torren's Bradley Parker. Then when my dad died,

(25:26):
it became brad park These days it's Parker Realty. Anyway,
Diane Bradley is retiring from the real estate industry and
she found a couple of Torren's real estate trinkets and
I asked if I could have the sign, or buy
the sign, or make a deposit, you know, to a

(25:48):
charity or something in exchange for them. And Diane Bradley said, well,
I'm having my retirement dinner at the end of January.
Maybe you would come. So I'm going to that on
Thursday night. It's not often I'm in a room with
people that knew my folks, especially my dad who's been
gone a long time now, but I get I get

(26:09):
to have these Torrens real Estate signs from the seventies
because they were on display at the PI Realtors Association
sixtieth anniversary. I don't know, meeting or dinner or something.
That's great. Yeah, it's nice to have that. Yeah, it's
kind of neat and I needed a new logo. So
my new logo is inspired by the Torrens real estate

(26:32):
sign from back in the day, which has our family
crest on it, and I wear a pinky ring that
was my dad's that has our family crest on it
as well. So it feels deeply personal and kind of
one of those neat life page turn things that I'll
be happy to be there for. You should get it
printed and then have that sign put on your wall

(26:53):
and your recording spot. Yes, right, yes, I should. Good,
that would look nice up there. Yeah, it's really the
logos very of a time. It's very seventies ish. Like
my friend Fiona called the red like Spanish wine red.
So does it looked like it looked like like it

(27:15):
would smell like darts? Probably? Yeah, yeah, it probably does.
You can see the carpet and like just the vibe
of the dark, the dark stained glass, yep, purple. It
has like a deep purple and cream trim, like chicotine
nicotine nicotine trim. Yeah, it was probably white and it's

(27:36):
become cream thanks to the Rothmand King size. Yeah. Classic,
But I'm pumped. That'll be that'll be a fun night
that has nothing to do with my day to day existence. Yeah,
but I'm into it. So I gotta, I gotta. Before
we take a break, I have to pay tribute. We

(27:58):
lost a huge component and heart figure in the ur
Lady Peace Camp. Kevin Meekl, our first tour manager, passed
away in December. And Kevin was kind of like I
think he was our tour manager from day when it
mattered to you, the mid two thousands. So it just

(28:22):
from the old little half van bus that we traveled
five times across Canada and around America as well, four
or five times. And with Kevin and John wadd who's
passed away as well now, it was our road family.

(28:43):
And he was kind of I was only seventeen eighteen
when I met him, and he was kind of my
dad on the road. He really helped me learn about
just life and how to kind of keep it together
on the road, not get to home sick or not
now you know just what to He just taught me

(29:04):
so much that I can't even remember, you know what
I mean. It's so much of how I conducted myself
because he was so sweet to everybody, and he knew
how to fix everything, and he just kind of was
always helping people all the time. So when I heard
the news that he was sick, it was very sad,

(29:26):
and I got to speak to him for a few
minutes a few days before he died. And France, his
longtime partner who he's loved and he used to he
met her. I remember he would go to jams Wild
Tea in the spirit Wild t Tony Springer and a
guitar player would have a jam I think hat Shark
sitting around the Young and Young and Eglington area, and

(29:47):
we'd Kevin would go there all the time and just
hang out because he used to beat Wild Tea's tour
manager as well. And that's where he met France and
and they were together ever since then. And his daughter Crystal,
he loved so much, and he was just a very

(30:08):
loving guy and just really sad to have happened. And
I didn't, you know, I loved him very much, and
it's just been hard to kind of comprehend ever since.
I mean I didn't think it would I knew it
would be an impact, but I didn't realize how much

(30:31):
it would affect me. His loss. I think because of
I forgot all the stuff that we did together and
how much he helped me. And then when it happened,
it all came back, like all the different things that
we did together and just the moments we spent and
how much he helped us. You know, just Kevin Mieklman,

(30:55):
legend and forever missed. Nice tribute pod. Yeah, it takes
a very special type of person that's partly mother and
partly father and partly coddler and partly knuckle rapper, right
like type a organizer to keep the train on the tracks. Yeah. Man,

(31:21):
He's from Calgary, so he was hardcore. Like winter like,
there was never enough cold. He would wear t shirts
and shorts in the winter on January tours and he
was always like you in the early days, he was
sleeveless everything, right, wow, you know it had to be
like forty below for him to be put on some

(31:42):
warm clothes and it's just he was that tough, you know.
So who else did he work with over the years.
Well from Us, he went to Simple Plan and rent
around the world with them a few times, and Finger
eleven he did a lot of touring with and then
he worked with Cole at their music school m So

(32:05):
he did a lot of work there for them with
developing artists and bands that were there get you know,
rehearsing or whatever. So any artists that were involved with
Coalition's program there. He was always the face of that
for all the kids coming and going, and so I'm
sure another generation of people fell in love with him

(32:26):
for the same reasons that I did. And yeah, he's
He's will will be missed by many. For sure. There's
going to be a celebration of life form in the spring,
and it'll be nice to kind of see everybody and
talk about how great he was.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, I bet you won't believe the people that show
up there. They had no idea he impacted or helped.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Absolutely. You know, I was talking to Andrews Tookeley was
out here to do the sound for the lacrosse game
in Halifax, and he was saying, last time he did hockey.
He was in Nashville at Bridgestone doing a Predators game
and he said attached to Bridgestone is another to scale
arena that's like a practice arena for bands that are

(33:17):
about to go out on the road to practice their
show before they start. Yeah, of course that exists. It's
never really occurred to me before. I've heard of, you know,
r kels are in rehearsals for a week somewhere before
they go out. Did you guys do that out East?
Like ever, like practice, let's set up the whole thing

(33:38):
for a few days. Yeah, yeah, and I think Monkton
we did it at an arena. Yeah, yeah, Like so
you just rent the rink for four days and the
first show is on day four or something. Yeah, so
either your first show will be there and you have
it like the first four days before or but yeah,
it was a lot a lot of the times the

(33:59):
East Coast was the move for that. Is there a strategy?
I noticed that most acts start out east and end
up out west. Is there a reason for that? I
think just because the East is closer together for driving,
because you can hit a lot of spots, and then

(34:19):
the West it's so spread out that it's kind of
you got to hit the when you're hitting the East.
There's so much if you include the states just in
within eight hour drive. Yeah, like there's so much that
you can do. So usually start and do the bulk
of stuff in the touring in the in the that

(34:40):
area of the East and then kind of go down
the horseshoe and then rip and in the West Coast
is usually like, you know, a couple of weeks in
comparison when you have all that merch cash well, just
in cities that are in terms of what you know.
For us anyway, it depends on on your band. Some

(35:01):
bands are they start getting bigger and then they're the
biggest when they hit the West Coast. It depends on
the on the on the on the band. Mm hmm,
let's take a break, but yeah, take a break, hey, bod. So,
Indy and I were playing a game the other day
where one of us would spell out a laugh the

(35:22):
way someone might text, and you had to actually do
the laugh, like the text would be like for example,
b H A H A H A. So that's obviously yeah,
but then we were like, okay, what if it was
h e e h O h O h A like

(35:44):
So it's a good road tripper for sure. It was
great because there was something that were like, Okay, can
you do h h A A j h O, Like
they are kind of hard to land in some of these.
It sounds like acting school, Yeah, exactly, So I was

(36:05):
thinking kind of in the same spirit, is a game
called Pond five. If you don't know the website, it's
a cleared music and video site, so for example, and
I think they have still images. So if I needed
footage of car accidents or waterfall, you can go to

(36:28):
Pond five and it's just a library of a bunch
of footage. You can pick the one you like and
you pay forty one bucks and drop it in. So
sometimes if I'm making a TV show and I don't
have a bunch of dough and I can't hire a
musician to do it, I'll just go to Pond five
and grab a track for like breaking news or something
like that. So I thought it'd be a fun game

(36:48):
if we give each other search words on Pond five,
because you can dial it in like acoustic or trippy,
and then you have to say the podcast that would
a theme like whatever comes up. So it might be
the kind of thing that's that's easier to just do
than try to explain perfect like gas. You're going to

(37:14):
find me one yes, and the word that that I
would like you to search is upbeat. This one's for you.
And then I just have to do whatever podcast would. Okay,
So you should like an intro to you should put
upbeat into your your thing and talk over it your audio. Oh,

(37:36):
I'm going to play it here. Yeah, yeah, and then
I'll play music on my end. Oh I wonder if
I can do that. Yeah, it will sound better that
way because you're talking over that. Oh I see, okay, yeah,
but can you hear it? I wonder? Oh yeah, for sure,
I'll be able to hear it. Okay, So I put
upbeat and the first song that comes up, it's forty
one dollars, but I can preview it. It's called Summer

(37:57):
vlog Upbeat Party and upload dance background. Okay, here it comes.
Let's see if I can play it on the same
device that I'm recording on. Will that work? Is that
what you're doing? Yeah? It should like is uh are
you on the laptop recording? Yeah? Yeah, it should work.
I'm doing the same all right, let me see here

(38:18):
we go. No, it's not working, there's nothing. No, Okay,
I need to get me to do it. You do one,
and while I get I should get an iPad that
I can play it from. Yeah, exactly, do that. Okay,
go on your pond five and I'll do one first. Okay,

(38:40):
you one, and I'll i'll type in you put upbeats,
so I'll put something else. Okay, Uh, let's say mystery.
How about mystery? Here we go like Scooby Doo vibes. Yeah,
just something like this. This is a mystery surrounds. It's

(39:01):
twenty five pounds. Let's see this. I'm into it.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Hey man, you ever smoked banana peels or think about
what's going on when you look at the stars. I
want you to come sit with me, learn about conspiracies,
what the hell's going on? Who's trying to mess with us?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Man? Just come and listen to me my new show,
Tokes with Rogues. Wow, Tinfoil hat wearers. There are a
lot of those guys, man, for sure. Absolutely, it seems

(39:49):
like out there, it seems like that's that's more. If
you want to hit podcasts, that's the move. What's your chat?
You know? Indy and her friend Adriana recorded a podcast
together last weekend, and they called members of their class

(40:11):
and asked them the same a series of questions like
what's your perfect day? And what are you afraid of?
What's your favorite food? Like that kind of thing. It's
surprising how interesting. Yeah, the answers to questions like that
are like everybody does have something they're afraid of. Wells,
that's what a good podcast is supposed to be, is
like a good conversation, right, or at least interesting. You

(40:34):
know something that that is speaking your interest. Okay, so
have you got your iPad dialed? No? I moved upstairs
to Carol's desktop because, okay, I think it'll work. The
girls are working at indie Shootique today, so Carol's down
there with them. So it's a rare moment where I
have the house to myself. So I'm recording on the laptop.

(40:57):
I'm talking on the phone, and I'm about to hit
go on summer vlog, Upbeat Party and uplifting dance background,
and then just hit the podcast once it goes okay,
here we go, there comes, there comes. I can feel
it already. Hi. I'm Dana Turingo and welcome to Why

(41:26):
Did You Bring That up? The podcast where we look
at scenes and movies where people have vomited from the
nineteen eighties. Let's get to it. It feels like that's
a Vegas elevator jam. Yeah, for sure it is. But

(41:47):
that's that sounded pretty Uh definitely upbeat, that's for sure.
I do like the idea of a podcast where you
look at scenes and movies where people barfed. Are you
thinking of any in particular? Like movie scenes where people
throw up? Yeah? The Exorcist, that's a good one. That's

(42:08):
pretty solid. That's the one that I thought of that.
That's the right head spinning puke, right, Yeah, like that's
the next level. Wasn't there also a pie eating contest? Yes?
And stand by me right Yeah, Yeah, that's a good
puke scene the Blueberry Pies. Blueberry Pies. That's a movie

(42:29):
I haven't watched in a long time. I should watch
that movie again. Yeah, that's a good one. Okay, what
word are you searching? Next? Is?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
What do I want? The word we go for? I
don't know what?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
How about what does busy sound like? Mm?

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Yeah, here we go?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Ready, yep, Hey, let's get up and go.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
I want to figure out to do something, do something quick,
get your hand. A man needs want to talk about
how to get your life together. You want to coach,
want to listen to way you want to learn, Come
listen to me, big time Steve.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I'll teach you whenever you need to know.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
Come on down and sign it down or all the
way around the world.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
I can take you.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Into geographical history. I can also learn about.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
The science, or perhaps you want to learn about just
playing old movies, easy doing general.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Come on down. I love talking about stuff you don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Get it down fast, Steve, Big time Steve. I like him. Nope,
but that's how it starts. Next thing you know is
did you guys watch Blue? Or your kids are too
old for that? Blue? Yeah, it's an Australian cartoon show.

(43:58):
I don't know. It's terrific. We're in a blue phase
right now, is it like I might come on down
and look at this. Yeah, but it's a little bit
like anyway. My favorite character in television history is on Blue.
He's a haggler at a yard sale, like just a

(44:19):
supporting character, but he just comes. The episodes are you know,
seven or eight minutes long. So this older woman is
having a yard sale to sell stuff to make money
to go on holiday. Since Hermann pasted or whatever. She
wants to go away by herself. So she's selling stuff, okay,
And this haggler shows up like three or four times

(44:40):
during the episode and he's like, hey, much is this
And the woman will say, I want to know twenty dollars,
And every time he goes ham bamp two dollars, he
beats her up on the price of everything, no matter
what she says the price is. He's like, hand bamp
two dollars. He's kind of a and a little pushy

(45:01):
and the in search of deals, Ah, that's good stuff.
Is it that Darby Reese guy? It sounds like him.
I don't know. But sometimes in the credits you're like,
oh that Rose Burn, like there are some name performer notable. Yeah, people,
are you ready for another? Do you want to try

(45:21):
another game? Yes? I looked up uncertain Oh okay, okay,
I'm gonna hit uncertain times, concern questioning, mysterious, All right, okay, Hi,
I'm Morby Parker and this is debunk beds, where we

(45:43):
just spell a mess about things that happen in your sleep.
Do you know when I was a child, someone told
me you shouldn't wear socks to bed because every night
your feet shed an entire layer of skin. Is that true? Today,
Doctor Jeremy Taggart is here to tell everything skinteresting about

(46:03):
what happens while you sleep. I didn't think there'd be
any songs for uncertain it's pretty good. There's a bunch
of them that sounded like I just turned it on
the radio. There debunk bed, We debunk myths about what
happens when you sleep. Okay, let's do one more round

(46:25):
where we give each other a word to search. Okay,
so you give me one. Your word is power.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Okay, get this dialed in here.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Oh I'm getting the creating account and it's like, hey,
oh really yeah, it's not like okay, it's all right. No,
I found a couple here. How much is the track?
Twenty pounds are twenty twenty eurows. I don't know why
where I am, but it's all euros?

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Okay, okay, what are you doing with your life?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
It's time to get up.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
It's time to wake up.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Wake up. I just told you it's time to wake
up and figure it out for yourself. Through me, Vincent Steve,
I'm here to change your life.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Wake you up, Get the stiff out of your neck,
give you a chance to live your life again?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Why is it so compelling? Like I I was whatever
Vincent Steel was selling. I was in motivational music. It's
funny how power has so many like did you see
Irish folk? Fast punk rock? Power? Violin fiddle? A second? Okay, whoa?

(48:31):
I got a word for you to search. Okay, Okay,
hold on, okay, distress? Oh good one, I'm gonna hear
then a notion in distress? Okay, how are you? My

(49:00):
name's Rri Davenport. And this is etymology where we take
a trip through the origin of words since the dawn
of time? Did you know that there are rumors to
suggest that the origin of the word nerd is actually
from the nineteen fifties, when there were two types of teenagers.
There were drunks and there were the opposite of drunks,

(49:23):
drunks spelled backwards nerd k n rd. Over time, the
spelling of nerd has changed. But is that really the
origin of it? Or am I bad shit? That's all
coming up right now on etymology of words. Okay, did
you know that? Okay, it has rumored originated during the
time of steam travel, when the under educated dock workers

(49:46):
would have to signal up to the people on deck
to say all clear to pull away. Of course they
thought it was spelled okay, all clear because they were illiterate.
Is there any truth to it? You tell me our
guest today, doctor Jeremy Taggart, gonna get to the bottom
of all that. That's so long that music, I don't know.

(50:08):
That's great notion in distress, cinematical label, dark, intriguing, edgy.
I just feel like I just turned on CBC Radio
in nineteen eighties five. I know it's forty two bucks,
but really, like, if you had a synth at your house,

(50:29):
why wouldn't you rip a bunch of those and just
fire them into pond five totally twenty people a day
by your twenty dollars piece of se for this music.
It's getting way more than people pay for real music
on Spotify, and it's like, sure, it's yours to keep,
but like, at least you're getting paid for it once

(50:52):
you're not kidding. I think, did I see Snoop yesterday
say artists make zero point zero in one sense a
play on Spotify? Yeah, something like that, zero point zero one, Like,
how do you make a go of that, you don't.
There's no money to be made on Spotify for just

(51:13):
for the people that are getting paid from the advertising.
You know what, Like if honestly, if only fans, like
if Spotify was run the same as only fans, artists
would be like loaded. Imagine because of I guess only fans,

(51:33):
you get eighty percent of the money that you generate
from your only fans or whatever, right, and imagine that
was the case for Spotify. Like the listens Bowling, pin ding,
they're monthly subscriptions. Like the money they're getting from the
advertising to listen to your music, it's nuts. Okay, pretend

(51:56):
you've come in to like audition to be the morning
radio guy, Like it's actually Jeremy Taggart and okay, let's
just honestly, it's just a little test we want to
share with the bosses. I'm gonna hit the theme song
and you just kind of introduce yourself and say, what's
coming up on the show today? You ready, Yeah, Okay,
I'll hit the theme and just kind of vibe with

(52:17):
the theme here. Come sure, Holy moly, it's Friday already.
It's your wacky boss big chair here, and we're getting
crazy this morning. Huk, wake, wake.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
You know what I'm saying, Let's get thats, come get
thats the old chair.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Sorry, Jeremy, don't mean to interrupt it. So this is
a serious rock station, so I guess it just needs
you to to kind of like, you know, you have
credibility as a as a rock guy. Just I feel
like you're kind of making fun of it, kind of
poking it with a stick a little bit. Just be yourself, man,
he's into it. Okay, okay, let's try again. Here here

(52:59):
comes the theme. Hey, come on down and listen to
some rock and roll with Jair. Here Friday mornings. We're
gonna listen to some great music, teach you about some
history of your favorite bands. So you can hear the theme, right, yeah?

(53:19):
I can? You can hear it, okay, because it just
sounds like what you're saying doesn't really jive with the theme,
because that's what I thought you were going for. No,
So what do you want? You want kind of like
a happy thing, just okay, okay, take one more whack
at it all right, Hey kids, it's Jair. I wish

(53:48):
I could you could see the.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
Fire coming out of my asshole right now, because it's
crazy here on this Friday. Come on and watch the
blame fly on this farty Friday.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
It's called clown College. H on five might be money
saver game. What's with the like worst program director, your guy.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Of all time?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
They're doing an interview like setting you up to fail?

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Yeah, like.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
He just hated me and wanted to fight with me. Yeah. Hey,
by the way, there's no chance you're getting this position
at the end of it. Hey, Jared, can you just
lay down. It's a happy, fun show and I'll just
hit the intro theme and you just welcome the people
to it, and we want to give people a break

(54:46):
from the hardness in their everyday lives, like just kind
of make it fun. Okay, here comes the theme. Hey, everybody,
how you doing. It's Jeremy here. Sorry, Why does it

(55:08):
sound like such a downer? I'm sorry. Let me let
me try it again. Okay again, Okay, I'll just hit
the theme and just keep it light. This is an escape.
It's a fun thing for people. You're making it sound
like so morose. Okay, okay, okay, Hey guys, it's Jeremy here.
How you doing. I want to hear some music on Friday?

(55:31):
I think this is funny. Worst interviews in history. Yeah,
like my uh my experience doing a voice member for
American Dad. Yeah, it was almost like that, Like it
was just like they're like, just tell me to go

(55:54):
if you're going to act like this, Okay, we're rolling, Okay, Hello,
No it's hello. Oh okay hello, No it's hello, holy shit,
okay hello, No you're not listed, it's hello, okay, Hello,
are you serious? Like one word, let's take five, like

(56:15):
get some water, and you're like waiting, like wait, you're
turning something that's supposed to come into my head that
wasn't never there, Like am I on just for laughed gags?
What is what's happening? As it's That's what it's like
with that, like really the voice stuff right, like they're

(56:36):
they're hearing stuff. I don't even know what the hell
they're talking about. Yeah, I mean they'd always I've told
you before, they'd always say like we weren't like guy
next door, like super friendly, super warm, and then when
it would come out, it would be Hugh Dillon. Yeah, exactly.
It's like goes from like happy, go lucky to like
one guy he talks completely like this. It's the same guy,

(56:59):
every things so slow, fun sash, but yeah, bods, that
was a good one. We're into the twenty twenty five
and rolling on. Hard to believe it is it our
tenth anniversary at least? Yes, crazy it is. Yes, happy anniversary,
but happy anniversary. But to all the pods out there,

(57:23):
thanks for rocking with us. Good