August 16, 2024 • 41 mins
The Godfathers of Podcasting are back with a brand new episode, and they're hanging out with legendary DJ, Starting From Scratch! He's worked with huge names like Kanye West, John Legend, New Kids on The Block, Russell Peters and many more! Now, Scratch is here with us, promoting a massive 90s themed party happening in Toronto on August 24th! One of the big parts of that event will be the breaking of a World Record: the biggest group Macarena ever!
Check out this week's episode!
Check it out! Send us your feedback by texting 437 375 2000.
Please check out our sponsor Black Bork
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-godfathers-of-podcasting--4303576/support.
Check out this week's episode!
Check it out! Send us your feedback by texting 437 375 2000.
Please check out our sponsor Black Bork
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-godfathers-of-podcasting--4303576/support.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to the Godfather is podcasting now?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You tell us now the podcast listeners before podcasting was
even call podcasting.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Our past of this show are available on.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Every meeting podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The buyer can even.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Find the archives and where is more on their website,
Godfathers the Podcasting dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now here're your.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Home you guys who have been broadcasting online today.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The Godfather's a podcasting himself.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Johnnie de Silva, Thank Kristen Well. Hello, Hello, Hello, it
is August fifteenth. I can't believe man, we are halfway
through the year. The summer is almost over. My name
is Donnie DeSilva, joining me this week, as always whenever
we decide to do this damn thing. Here is the
(01:06):
Eric b to my wreck him, the Jazzy Jeff to
my Will Smith. He's the Spinderella to my Sultan Peppa.
It's Chris did Well get bent? The jazzy Jeff to
your Will Smith?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What ed he knows?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The DJ is the one with the town.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Come on, ain't nobody tossing me out Uncle Phil style
out that front door.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It ain't happen alright, that's funny. That's what's going on, Donnie.
Not much, man, it's been. It's been busy times. It's
been busy times. All sorts of stuff going on, all
sorts of fun things going on, all sorts of projects
boiling for both of us, some of which have already
(01:53):
come to the service surface. Obviously, you've been busy over
on your TikTok's channel and doing the Law Live Buddie Wrestling.
I've got another project in the in the works that
we'll be announcing shortly. Some people checked out last week
I started doing a Instagram live with our friend Christmas
Abbot where we talk and do a recap show of
(02:16):
the live episode of Big Brother on Thursday nights. So
Big Brother fans, if you want to hear my thoughts
on that, you can check out the Instagram lives and
if you miss them live, they are posted up on
the Instagram account on Donnie dot de Silva or Christmas Abbit.
And this saves Tidd from having to listen. This saves
Tid from having to listen to Big Brother conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh yeah, I mean it doesn't save me from having
to listen to it. I just don't listen to it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So next week when we have a Big Brother guest
on the show, he'll just sit there like this.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
La la la la la la la.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I am not listening to you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
See.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Here's here's the thing that you don't have you don't remember, Donnie,
is that we've had this all before. We've had these conversations,
and I just don't know how to make conversations because
they're just you and they're fucked up, all of them,
every one of these people to do these shows or
do these podcasts, or just in general, we're humans. We
just have conversations.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's actually the brilliant common denominator between all of our
guests because people often say, well, you off, you interview
pro athletes, you interview comedians, musicians, actors, You interview authors,
you interview reality TV people, pro wrestlers, you interview everyone
(03:33):
on that show. How do you keep it all straight?
How do you prepare you? How do you know enough
to interview people from all different walks of life? And
tit just gave the quintessential answer. They're all just fucked
up humans. We're all just damaged pieces of meat.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do this show. They agree to
come on this show, You listen to this show, or
watch this show, whatever the case may be. And the
wheels go round and round and round, and it's great.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So there's been lots of stuff going on in the
world over the last couple of weeks. We have a
few minutes of talk before I guess joined us, so
I thought we would sort of kick the ball around
a little bit first and foremost, how much of the
Olympics did you actually watch? Because the Olympics have just
now come to an end, how much of it did
you actually take it?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, So here's the thing with the Summer Olympics. For me,
I think a lot of the sports or activities that
they do in the Olympics are useless worstless, and like,
what are you going to do afterwards? How do you
(04:53):
put that on your resume? You know? For example, we
had break dancing this year, and yeah, I did watch that.
But as far as the Olympics go, I'll be honest
with you. I watched a I watched a ship ton
of the wrestling, all almost all of the wrestling, A
whole bunch of the boxing I watched as well, you
know what I mean. But but like people doing synchronized
(05:15):
diving or handball, I also did watch a little bit
of basketball. I watched that game between the United States
and uh and Serbia. Mm hmm, woa, dude, game the
top notch game. That game should have been for the
gold right way that that game played out. So but yeah,
(05:39):
I watched. I watched actually a fair bit more of
the Olympics this year, just because of the wrestling and
the boxing and stuff like that, not because of the
of the drama that was going on around it. Those
are the events in the Summer Olympics that I usually watch,
you know what I mean. So, what about you? How
much of the Olympics did you watch?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'll be honest with you, not a ton. I saw
a lot of Olympic highlights. I did watch a lot
of the Olympic basketball. You know, I'm a big basketball head. Obviously,
I was crushed at the fact that Canada just got
absolutely jobbed. That was some of the worst officiating I've
ever seen in my life when they took on France
(06:18):
in France. But that being said, they also shot terribly
from the free throw line. They did themselves no favors whatsoever.
Had they not committed stupid turnovers and not shot the
ball poorly, they still should have had a chance to win.
Even with the officials being as bad as they were,
(06:38):
but the officials did them no favors. It was almost comical,
you know. And they obviously had some chemistry issues too.
I mean Jamal Murray, who I've known since he was
a teenager. Jamal Murray obviously didn't enjoy coming off the bench.
He sucked balls for Canada. He's used to being a
(06:59):
star player, playing next to that big dog who you
were just alluding to the place for Serbia, Shay Gilgess Alexander,
the pride of Hamilton, Ontario. He looked like one of
the best players on the planet and he is one
of the best players on the planet. When it's all
(07:19):
said and done and he retires, they'll be calling him
the best Canadian player ever. But aside from that, aside
from the basketball, yeah, I watched some of the breakdancing
just out of curiosity. Someone said to me, you were
talking off air about the Australian breakdancer, and I think
that whole thing went viral with how goofy It was right,
(07:42):
But someone said to me, don't disrespect Australia's talent because
that particular breakdancer is actually a legend in the breakdance community.
Just past their prime. So really, I.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Have some thoughts about this because there's videos out there
of this ray Gun person doing her stuff before the
Olympics can breakdance, this stuff that was done on the Olympics.
I think the entire thing was a setup. I think
the entire thing was meant to make her go viral
and turn into the internet sensation. I think the whole
(08:21):
thing is a work. It's very spinal tapish if you
ask me, you know what I mean. And it's worked.
It's worked because really, at the end of the day, Donnie,
does she care about winning gold in break dancing at
the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know about you, but if I see that
on somebody's resume that's looking for a job, oh you
won gold and break dancing. All right, So I.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Want to run the accounting department. I'll lift heavy stuff,
got it? Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Listen. And that's a thing that they said they were
doing for one year. It's another thing from the nineties,
you know, like a lot of things. In fact, did
that our guest who is waiting patiently right now, Uh huh,
it's here to talk about that very stuff the nineties.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I love that, And yeah, he's got an event coming
up and we're going to talk about that. So if
he's here, Tid, let's bring him in boom, because, ladies
and gentlemen, it's time right now for the big Hello.
This week's guest as a producer, radio personality, but you
know and love him as one of the most influential
DJs in history. He innovated a performance style that is
still copied or emulated to this day. It all started
(09:31):
innocently enough, spinning records at high school parties, but he
soon found himself working with guys like Kanye Cardinal, New Kids,
John Legend, Usher and Drake and many many more. A
lot of you know him as the personal DJ of
Canadian stand up comic former guests on this show, Russell Peters.
He's got a big event, which Tid was just alluding
to in the Greater Toronto area on August twenty fourth,
(09:53):
called way Back, a journey through the nineties. It's going
to feature iconic musicians from that decade, pro wrestling, and
an attempt at breaking a world record. Ladies and gentlemen,
if he's in a DJ battle, it's a big mismatch.
Posers coming for the crown. But he will dispatch. Losers
will be crying, but there's no rematch because he's undefeated.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Starting from scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Ah, you wrote that nicely. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Are you suggesting? Are you suggesting that wasn't off the
top of the dome scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I am absolutely suggesting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You're a smart man. It's not a suggestion. It's flat
out saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Flat out.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's a flat top of my lungs. Listen, I don't
have to tell you. You know the state of freestyle battles
in our world today, they're all.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Written true, you have a valid point.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
So hey, I'm on trend, baby, how are you scratch?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And it's funny Chris, what you were just saying about
the Breakdancer. I had that same exact conversation and the
same viewpoint as you today too. I was like, that
was she did exactly what she wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah. Yeah. When I first saw it, I thought I
was watching a skit. I thought it was like Correll,
you know what I mean, forty year old virgin type skit.
And then the more it goes on, You're like, hold
on a second, there's more to this person. Oh, this
toll thing was was a work good forever.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, however she got in there, that's a whole other mystery.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But right, she definitely accomplished what she wanted to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean, if I'm in a if I'm in a
novelty category at the Olympics and I look at the
competition and I know, in my heart of hearts, I'm
being honest and looking at myself in the mirror, and
I know there's not a hope in hell I'm gonna
make it to the podium. What's the next best thing? Infamy? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You Roseanne? Bar that anthem? That's what you do. Yeah,
you make them, You make them remember you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I kind of love that. Actually, I think it's a
I think it's you know what someone said to me.
I can't wait to see the el sketch. I'm like,
she already smled herself.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What can they do?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Fallen already did it? Fallin already beat her to it?
Oh I know that, Yeah, Fallon did one already with her?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean it's you know how life goes, It's the
story of the ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's that ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So that's exactly right. I mean, we've seen some stuff
lately though, right in pop culture, with people getting their
ten minutes of fame. We haven't really even talked about
it on this show, TID, but someone made a comment
to me the other day and said, the Haktua girl
has turned her fifteen minutes of fame into a solid
(12:36):
hour and and I'm good with it because she ends
up being like one of the most charming, down to
earth Southern girls with an actual personality. I think she's
gonna go legit famous as a result of that stupid
Haktua interview, and no one is coming for her. No
one's coming for her, like, ah, screw hair. She doesn't
deserve it. They're like, oh, she's kind of charming and
(12:56):
kind of sweet.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's probably half and half.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And yeah, I think I think a lot of people are.
I mean, would you really want that to be your legacy?
That's what you're known as, you know what I mean?
No matter what she does in the future, she's always
going to be known as that. So I don't know
if that's the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I mean, I think she's to hold cash me Outside
chick or the you know, like, look that chick is
still famous to this day. You know what I mean,
but for the wrong reasons. So now she's only fans famous. Yeah,
oh she look how much money she made much getting
off of you? Donny?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh, I never can I see your credit card statements.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I will release my credit card statements. I have problem
with that. There's a lot of pole available for free.
I ain't going only fans. So let's talk about this
event you've got coming up on August twenty fourth. My
first thought that comes to my mind, scratch, is when
I first met this man next to me, Chris Tidwell.
We were working at nightclub in Toronto back in the
(14:01):
late nineties called Whisky Sigon, of course, And at Whiskey
Sigon it was open from Wednesday to Sundays. Every night
was rammed. Tid would often be grabbing drunk asses and
throwing them on the sidewalk. And I remember saying to
friends or family members back in those days, They're like, oh,
(14:24):
I'd like to come check out Whiskey Sigon. What night
do you think I would like? And I'm like, well,
our most popular night is retro Sundays. And then these
people that are like in their late twenties or whatever
at the time, like eighties are considered retro, right, they
have a little bit of a coronary, and they feel
really old because they're only in their late twenties and
(14:46):
now when we think about, yeah, we got to do
this way back party for the nineties, and it's like,
oh god, that was a long time ago. But for me,
it doesn't feel that long ago.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Scratch absolutely. I mean to this new generation, songs that
came out in twenty twenty three are old school to them.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, Like they're inundated with so much now that nothing
lasts anymore and everything just feels old to them, like, oh,
you have that on your phone already, ew or you
have that on your phone still it came out.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Last week, don't you have this? He already released eighteen
new songs this week.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I literally had a conversation with a young kid the
other day. He's like twenty one years old, and he's like, so,
you're into hip hop. I said, yeah, man, I love
hip hop, but I'm more into like the old school
hip hop. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. Like
jay Z and fifty that's what you call old school
hip hop?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, I mean jay Z qualifies because he had a
lot of nineties stuff but yeah, I mean fifty fifty
to these kids is old school.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So my old school, my old school hip hop. I'm
going mid late eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Bro totally lost them. You lost them. And that's like
our parents talking us about Benny Goodman.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I made I made the mistake one time at the
job and I put on some music at a young
kid Here's twenty twenty one said he listened to you know,
rap and hip hop and stuff like that in the back,
and so I put on like some old school stuff,
like some old Biggie and Tupac and even like grand
Master Flash and stuff like that, and he's like, what
(16:18):
the hell is this? He just like, just everything is
completely different. The music is so much different, The way
that rapping is is so much different, you know what
I mean, the pacing that everything is so much different,
not just in rap, but in pop music, in rock
(16:39):
and roll and metal, in all of it. Right, But
the one thing, the one thing that they haven't been
able to do since probably the nineties, maybe some of
the early two thousands, because you know there's those crossover eras,
is create music that is going to be considered that
(17:00):
you're still going to listen to in the twenty you know,
twenty thirties, you know what I mean, we like, but.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I don't think they care, to be honest, I mean
I don't think. I don't think that even matters to
these guys, to be honest, I think from what I
can see and from what I can hear, especially in
hip hop, I mean out I mean underground stuff is
underground stuff that's always going to live, that's always going
to be there for that audience. But like the main
poppy rappi stuff that you hear, songs are like two minutes,
(17:30):
you know, if there's no intent of any long lasting
you know, legacy with that kind of music, They're they're
making it as quick as they.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Can put it out.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The thought process of now I got to put out
another song next week, and another song next week, and
what hits hits, So when you're putting out that kind
of of quantity, you know there and we have this
conversation as DJ's a lot like there really is nothing
after the mid two thousands that will last like a
lot of people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, I was gonna see a lot of people talk
about the nineties as being the greatest music decade, right,
whether you're looking at the emergence of grunge rock and
alternative rock, whether you're looking at the hip hop that
was coming out at that time, even the pop music
that was coming out at that time was selling out stadiums.
(18:22):
Do you subscribe to this theory that that was the
single best musical decade, not just for one genre but
all the way around.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I don't know if I'd put my name on that,
but because I think every decade really has something special
about it, to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Be honest with you, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I think the difference was in the nineties a lot
of those things were introduced, right, So, like you're saying
the grunge, and I mean, it's been there since the
sixties and stuff, but it evolved into in what everybody
called grunge in the nineties, and even with the hip hop,
like that's when you kind of saw the changeover from
the you know, the cornish kind of eighties rap, and
(19:02):
it went different.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It went more clubby, and it went more street to
say on all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And that happened with the pop music too, like we
got to see megastar, but pop megastars in the eighties,
same thing you know what I mean. So I wouldn't
necessarily say that the nineties were the best, but I
think it was probably. I mean, there was a huge
difference between seventies and eighties, like massive difference in music.
(19:28):
It became very synthesized and very and pop took over,
especially in the eighties, like it.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Was all pop, more cocaine. Yeah, well yeah, I mean
that's every decade, but.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
So I think, yeah, I think the nineties is when
music became maybe a little cooler, and the newer generation
really had something to latch onto because in the eighties
it was kind of like everybody was listening to you
because all we had was radios, so everybody heard the
same music all the time. Then the nineties you would
have the Walkman's and you would have these different devices
where you can, you know, kind of individualize what you
(20:04):
wanted to listen to, and I think that gave people
more more options and it made those crunch all that stuff.
That stuff would have never survived in the eighties because
radio wouldn't have played.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It, only on only college stations would have played it.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
But then it became mainstream in the nineties because there
was so much different music coming out and it fit
the norm at that point. Who would have ever thought
like Nirvana or any of these groups would have been
pop records per se.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, you know, to talk to us about this event
you have coming up on August twenty fourth, the Way
Back Journey through the nineties. How did you get involved
with this whole thing? And what's what's what's the goal here?
Because when I see an event with general admission tickets
being free, now you do have the high roller tickets,
which I think is kind of sick. But you know,
(20:52):
you look at this and there's a bunch of names
that are appearing on this. How did you get involved
with this? And and you know, what's what's the mindset
behind an event like this?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So I was approached by a friend of mine and.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
He already had it set in his mind that he
wanted to do the largest Macarina.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Thing, and he had the venue and had.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I teased that there was a world record attempt being broken,
but I didn't say what it was, so you hinted there,
they're going to try to set the record for the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Largest Oh, we will, we will, we will, We're going.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
To bring what is it?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
What is twenty two hundred and nineteen people.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Twenty two hundred and nineteen. Those assholes couldn't find one
more person just to keep it an even number.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You'd go figure right, right.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But the key to that is, like, you know, they
did it at Yankee Stadium, they did it at all
these different sporting events and so forth with thousands, but
it was never legal.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It was never you know, officiated, let's say, right, so
all that none of those things count. So it was.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
This school and then or whatever that did it, and
they had twenty two hundred and nineteen and that was
you know, over ten years or I don't even remember
what the year, but I think it's.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Like ten fifteen years ago or something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So I was approached with this, and at first I
was like, well, that doesn't really sound like my kind
of thing. But then we kind of talked to it,
and I said, well, what if I build something around
it to make it and we make it like a
full day event. Because that was the other angle was
we really wanted to do something and bring like I
(22:31):
wanted something I could bring my kids to and bring
the communities and the families in. And even originally when
we put it out, it was kids eighteen and under
were free because we really wanted that aspect to be there,
and then we got a lot of people latched onto it.
We had some great donors and sponsors, so we were
able to make it now free for everybody, which is incredible.
(22:53):
So yeah, the basis of it was the base around.
It was always the Macarina thing, and then I built
what the hell but my partner we built the night
part of it, which is a night which is where
all those acts come in. And then we brought in
the wrestling stuff in the daytime, and there's gonna be
tons of activities for the kids.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We really were really really trying to make it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
A family I know we say family friendly, but we're
really trying to make.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It family friendly as well. I know a lot of
people say.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Family friendly, which means you can bring anybody, but we're
really catering to the family aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So there should be some like some cousins and stuff
like that. Fighting wouldn't expect anything less if it's anything
like my family functions.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The drunk uncle.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Right, go home. Yeah, you've had too much.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And they'll never Macarina for you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
They never go home, do they? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I mean that's the basis. That's the basis of the event.
It's kind of like three parts in the day, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And the performance is from from names like Real to Real, Snap, Maximumillion, Technotronic.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Some some iconic nineties bangers that are going to be
in there. Is there anyone in there in that list
of people that are going to be performing that for
you personally, like I want to rock with that person?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean I know, like I know Matt Stuntman personally,
I know Simone Danny obviously. Personally I've met I've met
Snap before, never met Technatronics. I'm looking forward to that,
never met Maximilians. I'm looking forward to that. I Mean
that's what the business is, right, It's like you do
you do this work with people, you establish those relationships
and down the line you get to work with them again.
(24:39):
So I'm really looking forward to it. I have a
lot of it's a lot of it's.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
A very family unit.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
That's actually like with Tony Monico and z one O three,
like we've been friends for you know, thirty plus years,
so it's a very family friendly on that on behind
the scenes as well as in front of the scenes, right,
So it's it's it's it's fun.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
At first, like I said, I've first with the whole
Macarina thing.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I thought it was going to be cheesy and all that.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
But then I was like, well, wait, if we really
build around it, I think we can make it something
really fun and cool. And then the funny thing is
I'll just talk to random people now that like the
word's gotten out pretty well, so random people will stop
me or I'll talk to them, or they'll send me
messages and they'll be like, I can't wait to do.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
The Macarena thing. In my mind, I'm like really.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
But then it is exciting, Like I got to bring
my daughter with me on TV. She's gonna come with
me tomorrow morning. We're going to do another TV appearance.
So the fact that I get to do this stuff
with my kids is the best thing in the world
to me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
No, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And I think it's sick that you just mentioned Tony Monico,
of course, long time radio personality on Z one on
three here in Toronto. I mean I met Tony when
when I was a kid in high school, and back
then he was like this grown man. Yeah, my old
buddy that I went to high school with, Iron Mike,
(26:03):
who was DJ.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I know Iron Mike, Yeah, of course, uh so, Iron.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Mike knew Tony through the club scene and when there
would be a w when there'd be a WWF pay
per view, you know, Tony would host it his place,
and we all a bunch of teenagers showing up at
Tony Monica's. I was to watch wrestling and we got
it cool.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We all used to play hockey, Iron Mike and all
those guys, we all used to play hockey together.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, Mike's a decent little hockey player.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We all used to play. Chris Shepherd Yeah, yeah, we
all used to play.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
DJ dog Whist so crazy. Uh listen, I think it's
going to be a really cool event. I'm going to
try to make it out. I'm gonna see if I
can get Notorious t I d Chris Tidwell over there
to come do the macarena. Tid Do you know the macarena?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Can you do the macarena?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, yeah, I do it every once in a while,
usually with cheese, sometimes like a tomato sauce and some sausage.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A besiege as you should. As you should.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I mean, if anything, if anything, we can get Chris
in the wrestling ring for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
If anything, I think those days might be over.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Sorry, we've all had dreams of doing that, that killer
leg drop at the end.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Unfortunately Chris has done so many of those that his
body won't allow him to.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Do another one. That's true.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's the bottom line. His entering days are done. But
I think it's cool that you got the guys from
Battle Arts Pro. Obviously they're a great organization and a
lot of good people involved with Battle Arts. So I'm
sure that'll be a lot of fun. I'm going to
try to make it out and see all the fun. Scratch.
I know you've got a busy night, so we will
let you go. But thanks for coming on. And and
(27:46):
if people want to find out more about the event,
or they want to purchase the high roller tickets, where
can they get more info?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh? What is a nostalgia in? I believe I think
we have it on the flyer in front of you.
But I think it's that Or if anything, if anything.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hit me up on Instagram or something, or I'll get you.
I'll get it sorted out one way or another.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We'll get it up on Godfathers apodcasting dot com in
the show notes for this episode, and you can check
out Starting from Scratch On Instagram, you can check out
Nostalgia Ink and get your high Roller tickets or just
show up with the free general admission. Do the macarena,
bring everybody back, bring it out?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
What happens if one person does the macarena and they're
not on time or they do it backwards? Are they
just called from the count?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
No? So I know the way it works is we
have to.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Have one volunteer basically for every fifty people, so they
watch it in groups. But obviously not everybody's going to
do it on time and whatever. Not everybody can dance
the same. But I think as long as your stay
in motion, we have to do it for five minutes,
that's their stipulation, and they're obviously they'll watch from the
stage and watch the massive people do it. Everybody's gonna
(28:58):
have a little square to step in and do it,
so it's really organized. It's really great, and yeah, I think, like,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
They'll knock you if you mess up the move as
long as you stay moving.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Okay, So it's not like synchronized swimming in the Olympics.
It's a little more lenient.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I mean, imagine it would look like, you know when
you see the Shallon Temple and they're all doing the
moves of thousands of kids doing the moves, like it
would look like that.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It'll look amazing.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But I mean anybody and everybody of any age level
or dance capacity can come out and try it out.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We really want to break this record.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I think it would be a great look for everybody
and something positive that.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We need now.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Like everywhere you turn it is this social media is
this crazy with negative stuff all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Man, we just did a spot. We just did a
spot on.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
City News and so I was sitting there watching with
my daughter. We were of course the last thing they played,
So I watched the whole newscast and my.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Wife is like, can you turn this off? This is
really depressing. I was like, I know it is.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's like every single thing on the news is like
it's terrible. So just to have something positive like this,
we're all really looking forward to it. We know Mother
Nature is going to be really cool for us. Nice,
She'll be nice she'll be nice to us that day.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
And yeah, we're just looking by. I mean it's free
for everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Come on out, there's everything, food trucks, licensed area.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
For the older folks. I want to have. Yeah, I
want to have the adult juice and then that's it
for everybody. It's a full day. It's gonna be a
great day.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think for the I think for the Macarina attempt
get the get the older white folks, like the really
white folks and put them at the back because sometimes
they struggle with the rhythm.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I was gonna reference that, but I mean, look at
us three on here, so I mean, come.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
On, well, I mean tids indigenous and and I'm I'm rhythmless,
so you know, I'm speaking of myself the Scotch Thanks
for hanging out with us, Man, much appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I appreciate you guys so much. Man, thank you for
shining a light on it.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I always appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun event.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We we were happy to talk about it. Have a
good time.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thank you guys. Take care. There he goes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
DJ is starting from scratch. He is an absolute legend
in the community. We didn't even have time to talk
about all the cool stuff he's doing with Russell Peters,
we didn't have time to talk about all the cool
stuff he's doing in the music world.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We'll do that another time.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We just wanted to put a little bit of a
spotlight on what he's got cooking before we wrap this
up to as we're talking about the nineties, I mean,
that's the decade you and I met, and we just
sort of alluded to it with Scratch about how there's
a lot of great music that came out of the nineties.
Is there anything that was happening in the nineties that
(31:36):
you miss or things that happened in the nineties that
we no longer have that you go, I'm glad the
world is no longer like that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, the amount of sex that I had back then
was a lot more.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You had a lot of sex back then. That is
a shoot. This guy was This guy was a cocksman,
And that is also the same answer for both questions,
the thing that you miss and the thing that you're
glad you don't have exactly. People don't know Tied was
(32:20):
quite the cocksman.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, anyways, what else are you going to do at
that time? Huh.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I mean you're at that age, right, Yeah. Yeah, just
having a good time, ladies.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
How you doing? Just doing what we do? Hey, you
want to come to a night club.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think one of the things for me that I
found really exciting about the nineties, and I think Scratch
alluded to it, but he was talking about music. But
if you look actually holistically, there was so much was
emerging in our lives for the very first time in
the mid to late nineties. So when we first all
(33:04):
got exposed to the internet, right like before that, like
I got my first email address when I went to college.
Before that, I didn't even understand the concept of email.
I'm like, so what I type on a computer and
someone's gonna see it?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Cell phone?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Cell phone? We didn't have cell phones then, you know,
I remember you, you and I both had pagers. We
were walking around like where doctors are drug dealers or
something with a little pager.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And because of working in the fucking clubs when we did,
and working at Whiskey and in Toronto there, I was
one of the first people to have a cell phone.
Because you have the guys coming around, you know, those
first salesman coming around and be like Okay, let's let's
work out a deal here. And it was that you know,
motorola looked like a It actually looked like that Tesla truck.
(33:55):
Therolla phone looked like the Tesla truck. And that's what
you had. Then he had to pull the antanna up
and pop open the bottom and the battery was, you know,
five times the size of the actual phone itself. That
was the nineties. Look where we are now, can you imagine?
I mean, listen, we're probably gonna be dead and gone,
but like in another you know, thirty years where we're
(34:19):
going to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Why it's crazy? And you know what you mentioned this
getting the cell phones for the first time. We're talking about,
you know, the days when we were at that nightclub,
Whiskey Sagon. One of our colleagues that we worked with
at Whiskey Saigon. I was gonna say, I don't want
to say his name.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Who cares I say?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
His name is Cisco. Cisco was the first guy I
ever saw walking around with his own cell phone that
wasn't like a company thing, you know what I mean,
He just he had a cell phone. But he was
one of these guys where it seemed like every week,
he had a different one, and they kept getting smaller
and smaller and smaller, and he got to the point where,
(34:57):
I don't know if you remember this, he had a
little silver cell phon and I'm demonstrating for the people
listening and not watching, but get a little silver cell
phone that was like an inch and a half tall. Yeah,
and it was a flip fode. I was like, how
do you use that? He's like very carefully.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, don't you remember they all made their way down
to like, you know, a Snickers bar side. Yeah, he
had those those ericson cell phones, and they just kept
getting smaller and smaller and smaller. And then as soon
as we got like any kind of touch screen involved
at all, now bigger and bigger and bigger and pretty
s be like walking around. You know, we're gonna be
walking around with twenty four inch monitors on our shoulders
(35:38):
like it's the seventies and it's a boombox, you know
what I mean. Like we're gonna resort like, oh, I
need a bigger screen now come.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I remember when when you and I were doing our
original radio show together, which was an all internet show.
And again the name of this show is based on
that the fact that we were one of the first
ever be broadcasting online. It's not just that the tagline
that's legitimate. But whenever there was an opportunity where the
station we worked for wanted us to go to a
live event or a live to air from somewhere, do
(36:09):
you remember the amount of people and the amount of
equipment and gear that was required for us to go
live to air somewhere. Like we'd have at least two engineers.
We would have stacks, right, and stacks of road cases
and mixers and compressors and pre amps and all this crap.
(36:32):
But now it's like you do everything off a phone,
you do everything off a computer.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, yeah, legit, legit. I still I still tell people
how much I hate you for the day that you
had booked that convention when we were doing the O
show stuff and you booked at that wrestling convention and
had to bring all of the equipment, like we're hauling
speakers in, like oh, hey, the band is here, and
it's like no, no, we're just setting up to see
(36:58):
if we can fucking you know, talk shit it to people.
Ridiculous thing in the world. We had a fun day,
though we ended up you know, listen, let it be
known that we've always been able to make the the
have a good time in the worst of situations.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
This is true. This is true. We always end up
smiling and having a good time. I'll be I'll be
fine in the apocalypse, That's all I'm saying. It is crazy, though, man,
just the the amount of tech progression that we've seen
just in our adult lives. Never mind like you know
what I mean, Like if this must world must be
(37:37):
hard for seniors, they look at that and go, well,
in my day, you know, the computers were for nerds.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Three letters for you, Donnie, three letters d A t oh.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Dat tapes. Yeah, we used to record everything we couldn't
record in those days onto a computer because computer our
drives were like there was no size, there was no
storage capacity on a computer, so we had to record
to digital audio tape, which looked like a little tiny
(38:14):
cassette tape. And all of our original broadcasts were recorded
to DAT tapes.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
And like someone said to me the other day, like, oh,
do you have all those dat tapes? And I'm like,
even if I did, who the hell has a dat
tape player?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Knowing how bad. Some of those early shows were I'd
rather just set those things on fire anyways.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
So I know who has a player? I was a player.
You know them too? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
A musician friend of ours that would actually did this show.
Oh what's his name? Uh Big Big Watus Yeah from Weedis.
That's right. He went through the wholes of converting their
album from dat. Yeah, he talked about that because back
(39:06):
in those days, same era when he did Teenage dirt Bag,
everything in studios was getting recorded to DAT because computers
didn't have that ability. Now you just, my god, you
could store a million movies on your laptop, you know,
like it's crazy. We sound ridiculous right now. We sound
like the grandfathers of podcasting. So you know what, I'm
(39:29):
done aging ourselves TID anything you want to plug or promote,
and let's wrap this sucker up now. You know, you
can always check out all of the other stuff at
Notorious Tid on all of the socials on x on Instagram,
all of those places, as well as the Law Live
audio wrestling always on YouTube. We got some new stuff
coming up and that's you know always I Like you
(39:52):
said earlier, my tid talk stuff over at Tid Talk
on YouTube as well. That's never a dull fucking moment, Donnie.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
It's never a dull mind.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Y'all can follow me on Instagram at Donnie dot da Silva.
That's Donnie with an Ie. Someone spelled it with a
Y and I wanted to patch them in the throat
Donnie with an Ie dot da Silva on Instagram and
you can see whatever the hell I'm up to or
not up to or whatever. It's all there, folks. I
think we wrap this one up a little early, Tid. Yeah, yeah,
(40:20):
that way you can get to your Thursday night Big
Brother talk, right. He just wants to make fun of
me so badly.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
For it's really that's really what it's boiling down to.
You're like, yeah, oh uh, in and out quick time,
I got Big Brother stuff to chat about.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
The truth is the Big Brother Live episode starts fifteen
minutes from now, and I haven't eaten yet, so your
boy needs a little bit of nourishment before the Big
Brother nonsense and then the live stream with Christmas Abbot.
But regardless, we're gonna power through.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's Tid.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm Donnie. This has been episode. We are done this party.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
We'll see you next day, see a nerd.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Fuck this shit, I'm mount, but this shit, I'm mount.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
No thanks, don't mummy.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I'm gonna grabdmaself and knees.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Excuse me, please, but this shit.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I'm mount.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Help but this ship. I'm mout. All right then, I
don't know what the butcher's happened, but I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I'm gonna get the fucker Patty here his ship.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I'm out.
Welcome to the Godfather is podcasting now?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You tell us now the podcast listeners before podcasting was
even call podcasting.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Our past of this show are available on.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Every meeting podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The buyer can even.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Find the archives and where is more on their website,
Godfathers the Podcasting dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now here're your.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Home you guys who have been broadcasting online today.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The Godfather's a podcasting himself.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Johnnie de Silva, Thank Kristen Well. Hello, Hello, Hello, it
is August fifteenth. I can't believe man, we are halfway
through the year. The summer is almost over. My name
is Donnie DeSilva, joining me this week, as always whenever
we decide to do this damn thing. Here is the
(01:06):
Eric b to my wreck him, the Jazzy Jeff to
my Will Smith. He's the Spinderella to my Sultan Peppa.
It's Chris did Well get bent? The jazzy Jeff to
your Will Smith?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What ed he knows?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
The DJ is the one with the town.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Come on, ain't nobody tossing me out Uncle Phil style
out that front door.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It ain't happen alright, that's funny. That's what's going on, Donnie.
Not much, man, it's been. It's been busy times. It's
been busy times. All sorts of stuff going on, all
sorts of fun things going on, all sorts of projects
boiling for both of us, some of which have already
(01:53):
come to the service surface. Obviously, you've been busy over
on your TikTok's channel and doing the Law Live Buddie Wrestling.
I've got another project in the in the works that
we'll be announcing shortly. Some people checked out last week
I started doing a Instagram live with our friend Christmas
Abbot where we talk and do a recap show of
(02:16):
the live episode of Big Brother on Thursday nights. So
Big Brother fans, if you want to hear my thoughts
on that, you can check out the Instagram lives and
if you miss them live, they are posted up on
the Instagram account on Donnie dot de Silva or Christmas Abbit.
And this saves Tidd from having to listen. This saves
Tid from having to listen to Big Brother conversation.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh yeah, I mean it doesn't save me from having
to listen to it. I just don't listen to it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So next week when we have a Big Brother guest
on the show, he'll just sit there like this.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
La la la la la la la.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I am not listening to you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
See.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Here's here's the thing that you don't have you don't remember, Donnie,
is that we've had this all before. We've had these conversations,
and I just don't know how to make conversations because
they're just you and they're fucked up, all of them,
every one of these people to do these shows or
do these podcasts, or just in general, we're humans. We
just have conversations.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's actually the brilliant common denominator between all of our
guests because people often say, well, you off, you interview
pro athletes, you interview comedians, musicians, actors, You interview authors,
you interview reality TV people, pro wrestlers, you interview everyone
(03:33):
on that show. How do you keep it all straight?
How do you prepare you? How do you know enough
to interview people from all different walks of life? And
tit just gave the quintessential answer. They're all just fucked
up humans. We're all just damaged pieces of meat.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do this show. They agree to
come on this show, You listen to this show, or
watch this show, whatever the case may be. And the
wheels go round and round and round, and it's great.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So there's been lots of stuff going on in the
world over the last couple of weeks. We have a
few minutes of talk before I guess joined us, so
I thought we would sort of kick the ball around
a little bit first and foremost, how much of the
Olympics did you actually watch? Because the Olympics have just
now come to an end, how much of it did
you actually take it?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, So here's the thing with the Summer Olympics. For me,
I think a lot of the sports or activities that
they do in the Olympics are useless worstless, and like,
what are you going to do afterwards? How do you
(04:53):
put that on your resume? You know? For example, we
had break dancing this year, and yeah, I did watch that.
But as far as the Olympics go, I'll be honest
with you. I watched a I watched a ship ton
of the wrestling, all almost all of the wrestling, A
whole bunch of the boxing I watched as well, you
know what I mean. But but like people doing synchronized
(05:15):
diving or handball, I also did watch a little bit
of basketball. I watched that game between the United States
and uh and Serbia. Mm hmm, woa, dude, game the
top notch game. That game should have been for the
gold right way that that game played out. So but yeah,
(05:39):
I watched. I watched actually a fair bit more of
the Olympics this year, just because of the wrestling and
the boxing and stuff like that, not because of the
of the drama that was going on around it. Those
are the events in the Summer Olympics that I usually watch,
you know what I mean. So, what about you? How
much of the Olympics did you watch?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'll be honest with you, not a ton. I saw
a lot of Olympic highlights. I did watch a lot
of the Olympic basketball. You know, I'm a big basketball head. Obviously,
I was crushed at the fact that Canada just got
absolutely jobbed. That was some of the worst officiating I've
ever seen in my life when they took on France
(06:18):
in France. But that being said, they also shot terribly
from the free throw line. They did themselves no favors whatsoever.
Had they not committed stupid turnovers and not shot the
ball poorly, they still should have had a chance to win.
Even with the officials being as bad as they were,
(06:38):
but the officials did them no favors. It was almost comical,
you know. And they obviously had some chemistry issues too.
I mean Jamal Murray, who I've known since he was
a teenager. Jamal Murray obviously didn't enjoy coming off the bench.
He sucked balls for Canada. He's used to being a
(06:59):
star player, playing next to that big dog who you
were just alluding to the place for Serbia, Shay Gilgess Alexander,
the pride of Hamilton, Ontario. He looked like one of
the best players on the planet and he is one
of the best players on the planet. When it's all
(07:19):
said and done and he retires, they'll be calling him
the best Canadian player ever. But aside from that, aside
from the basketball, yeah, I watched some of the breakdancing
just out of curiosity. Someone said to me, you were
talking off air about the Australian breakdancer, and I think
that whole thing went viral with how goofy It was right,
(07:42):
But someone said to me, don't disrespect Australia's talent because
that particular breakdancer is actually a legend in the breakdance community.
Just past their prime. So really, I.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Have some thoughts about this because there's videos out there
of this ray Gun person doing her stuff before the
Olympics can breakdance, this stuff that was done on the Olympics.
I think the entire thing was a setup. I think
the entire thing was meant to make her go viral
and turn into the internet sensation. I think the whole
(08:21):
thing is a work. It's very spinal tapish if you
ask me, you know what I mean. And it's worked.
It's worked because really, at the end of the day, Donnie,
does she care about winning gold in break dancing at
the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know about you, but if I see that
on somebody's resume that's looking for a job, oh you
won gold and break dancing. All right, So I.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Want to run the accounting department. I'll lift heavy stuff,
got it? Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Listen. And that's a thing that they said they were
doing for one year. It's another thing from the nineties,
you know, like a lot of things. In fact, did
that our guest who is waiting patiently right now, Uh huh,
it's here to talk about that very stuff the nineties.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I love that, And yeah, he's got an event coming
up and we're going to talk about that. So if
he's here, Tid, let's bring him in boom, because, ladies
and gentlemen, it's time right now for the big Hello.
This week's guest as a producer, radio personality, but you
know and love him as one of the most influential
DJs in history. He innovated a performance style that is
still copied or emulated to this day. It all started
(09:31):
innocently enough, spinning records at high school parties, but he
soon found himself working with guys like Kanye Cardinal, New Kids,
John Legend, Usher and Drake and many many more. A
lot of you know him as the personal DJ of
Canadian stand up comic former guests on this show, Russell Peters.
He's got a big event, which Tid was just alluding
to in the Greater Toronto area on August twenty fourth,
(09:53):
called way Back, a journey through the nineties. It's going
to feature iconic musicians from that decade, pro wrestling, and
an attempt at breaking a world record. Ladies and gentlemen,
if he's in a DJ battle, it's a big mismatch.
Posers coming for the crown. But he will dispatch. Losers
will be crying, but there's no rematch because he's undefeated.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Starting from scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Ah, you wrote that nicely. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Are you suggesting? Are you suggesting that wasn't off the
top of the dome scratch.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I am absolutely suggesting.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You're a smart man. It's not a suggestion. It's flat
out saying it.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Flat out.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's a flat top of my lungs. Listen, I don't
have to tell you. You know the state of freestyle battles
in our world today, they're all.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Written true, you have a valid point.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
So hey, I'm on trend, baby, how are you scratch?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And it's funny Chris, what you were just saying about
the Breakdancer. I had that same exact conversation and the
same viewpoint as you today too. I was like, that
was she did exactly what she wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah. Yeah. When I first saw it, I thought I
was watching a skit. I thought it was like Correll,
you know what I mean, forty year old virgin type skit.
And then the more it goes on, You're like, hold
on a second, there's more to this person. Oh, this
toll thing was was a work good forever.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, however she got in there, that's a whole other mystery.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But right, she definitely accomplished what she wanted to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean, if I'm in a if I'm in a
novelty category at the Olympics and I look at the
competition and I know, in my heart of hearts, I'm
being honest and looking at myself in the mirror, and
I know there's not a hope in hell I'm gonna
make it to the podium. What's the next best thing? Infamy? Right?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You Roseanne? Bar that anthem? That's what you do. Yeah,
you make them, You make them remember you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I kind of love that. Actually, I think it's a
I think it's you know what someone said to me.
I can't wait to see the el sketch. I'm like,
she already smled herself.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
What can they do?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Fallen already did it? Fallin already beat her to it?
Oh I know that, Yeah, Fallon did one already with her?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean it's you know how life goes, It's the
story of the ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It's that ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So that's exactly right. I mean, we've seen some stuff
lately though, right in pop culture, with people getting their
ten minutes of fame. We haven't really even talked about
it on this show, TID, but someone made a comment
to me the other day and said, the Haktua girl
has turned her fifteen minutes of fame into a solid
(12:36):
hour and and I'm good with it because she ends
up being like one of the most charming, down to
earth Southern girls with an actual personality. I think she's
gonna go legit famous as a result of that stupid
Haktua interview, and no one is coming for her. No
one's coming for her, like, ah, screw hair. She doesn't
deserve it. They're like, oh, she's kind of charming and
(12:56):
kind of sweet.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's probably half and half.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And yeah, I think I think a lot of people are.
I mean, would you really want that to be your legacy?
That's what you're known as, you know what I mean?
No matter what she does in the future, she's always
going to be known as that. So I don't know
if that's the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I mean, I think she's to hold cash me Outside
chick or the you know, like, look that chick is
still famous to this day. You know what I mean,
but for the wrong reasons. So now she's only fans famous. Yeah,
oh she look how much money she made much getting
off of you? Donny?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Oh, I never can I see your credit card statements.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I will release my credit card statements. I have problem
with that. There's a lot of pole available for free.
I ain't going only fans. So let's talk about this
event you've got coming up on August twenty fourth. My
first thought that comes to my mind, scratch, is when
I first met this man next to me, Chris Tidwell.
We were working at nightclub in Toronto back in the
(14:01):
late nineties called Whisky Sigon, of course, And at Whiskey
Sigon it was open from Wednesday to Sundays. Every night
was rammed. Tid would often be grabbing drunk asses and
throwing them on the sidewalk. And I remember saying to
friends or family members back in those days, They're like, oh,
(14:24):
I'd like to come check out Whiskey Sigon. What night
do you think I would like? And I'm like, well,
our most popular night is retro Sundays. And then these
people that are like in their late twenties or whatever
at the time, like eighties are considered retro, right, they
have a little bit of a coronary, and they feel
really old because they're only in their late twenties and
(14:46):
now when we think about, yeah, we got to do
this way back party for the nineties, and it's like,
oh god, that was a long time ago. But for me,
it doesn't feel that long ago.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Scratch absolutely. I mean to this new generation, songs that
came out in twenty twenty three are old school to them.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, Like they're inundated with so much now that nothing
lasts anymore and everything just feels old to them, like, oh,
you have that on your phone already, ew or you
have that on your phone still it came out.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Last week, don't you have this? He already released eighteen
new songs this week.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I literally had a conversation with a young kid the
other day. He's like twenty one years old, and he's like, so,
you're into hip hop. I said, yeah, man, I love
hip hop, but I'm more into like the old school
hip hop. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. Like
jay Z and fifty that's what you call old school
hip hop?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Well, I mean jay Z qualifies because he had a
lot of nineties stuff but yeah, I mean fifty fifty
to these kids is old school.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So my old school, my old school hip hop. I'm
going mid late eighties.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Bro totally lost them. You lost them. And that's like
our parents talking us about Benny Goodman.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I made I made the mistake one time at the
job and I put on some music at a young
kid Here's twenty twenty one said he listened to you know,
rap and hip hop and stuff like that in the back,
and so I put on like some old school stuff,
like some old Biggie and Tupac and even like grand
Master Flash and stuff like that, and he's like, what
(16:18):
the hell is this? He just like, just everything is
completely different. The music is so much different, The way
that rapping is is so much different, you know what
I mean, the pacing that everything is so much different,
not just in rap, but in pop music, in rock
(16:39):
and roll and metal, in all of it. Right, But
the one thing, the one thing that they haven't been
able to do since probably the nineties, maybe some of
the early two thousands, because you know there's those crossover eras,
is create music that is going to be considered that
(17:00):
you're still going to listen to in the twenty you know,
twenty thirties, you know what I mean, we like, but.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I don't think they care, to be honest, I mean
I don't think. I don't think that even matters to
these guys, to be honest, I think from what I
can see and from what I can hear, especially in
hip hop, I mean out I mean underground stuff is
underground stuff that's always going to live, that's always going
to be there for that audience. But like the main
poppy rappi stuff that you hear, songs are like two minutes,
(17:30):
you know, if there's no intent of any long lasting
you know, legacy with that kind of music, They're they're
making it as quick as they.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Can put it out.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
The thought process of now I got to put out
another song next week, and another song next week, and
what hits hits, So when you're putting out that kind
of of quantity, you know there and we have this
conversation as DJ's a lot like there really is nothing
after the mid two thousands that will last like a
lot of people.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, I was gonna see a lot of people talk
about the nineties as being the greatest music decade, right,
whether you're looking at the emergence of grunge rock and
alternative rock, whether you're looking at the hip hop that
was coming out at that time, even the pop music
that was coming out at that time was selling out stadiums.
(18:22):
Do you subscribe to this theory that that was the
single best musical decade, not just for one genre but
all the way around.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I mean, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I don't know if I'd put my name on that,
but because I think every decade really has something special
about it, to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Be honest with you, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I think the difference was in the nineties a lot
of those things were introduced, right, So, like you're saying
the grunge, and I mean, it's been there since the
sixties and stuff, but it evolved into in what everybody
called grunge in the nineties, and even with the hip hop,
like that's when you kind of saw the changeover from
the you know, the cornish kind of eighties rap, and
(19:02):
it went different.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It went more clubby, and it went more street to
say on all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
And that happened with the pop music too, like we
got to see megastar, but pop megastars in the eighties,
same thing you know what I mean. So I wouldn't
necessarily say that the nineties were the best, but I
think it was probably. I mean, there was a huge
difference between seventies and eighties, like massive difference in music.
(19:28):
It became very synthesized and very and pop took over,
especially in the eighties, like it.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Was all pop, more cocaine. Yeah, well yeah, I mean
that's every decade, but.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
So I think, yeah, I think the nineties is when
music became maybe a little cooler, and the newer generation
really had something to latch onto because in the eighties
it was kind of like everybody was listening to you
because all we had was radios, so everybody heard the
same music all the time. Then the nineties you would
have the Walkman's and you would have these different devices
where you can, you know, kind of individualize what you
(20:04):
wanted to listen to, and I think that gave people
more more options and it made those crunch all that stuff.
That stuff would have never survived in the eighties because
radio wouldn't have played.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
It, only on only college stations would have played it.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
But then it became mainstream in the nineties because there
was so much different music coming out and it fit
the norm at that point. Who would have ever thought
like Nirvana or any of these groups would have been
pop records per se.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, you know, to talk to us about this event
you have coming up on August twenty fourth, the Way
Back Journey through the nineties. How did you get involved
with this whole thing? And what's what's what's the goal here?
Because when I see an event with general admission tickets
being free, now you do have the high roller tickets,
which I think is kind of sick. But you know,
(20:52):
you look at this and there's a bunch of names
that are appearing on this. How did you get involved
with this? And and you know, what's what's the mindset
behind an event like this?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So I was approached by a friend of mine and.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
He already had it set in his mind that he
wanted to do the largest Macarina.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Thing, and he had the venue and had.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I teased that there was a world record attempt being broken,
but I didn't say what it was, so you hinted there,
they're going to try to set the record for the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Largest Oh, we will, we will, we will, We're going.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
To bring what is it?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
What is twenty two hundred and nineteen people.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Twenty two hundred and nineteen. Those assholes couldn't find one
more person just to keep it an even number.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You'd go figure right, right.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But the key to that is, like, you know, they
did it at Yankee Stadium, they did it at all
these different sporting events and so forth with thousands, but
it was never legal.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It was never you know, officiated, let's say, right, so
all that none of those things count. So it was.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
This school and then or whatever that did it, and
they had twenty two hundred and nineteen and that was
you know, over ten years or I don't even remember
what the year, but I think it's.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Like ten fifteen years ago or something like that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So I was approached with this, and at first I
was like, well, that doesn't really sound like my kind
of thing. But then we kind of talked to it,
and I said, well, what if I build something around
it to make it and we make it like a
full day event. Because that was the other angle was
we really wanted to do something and bring like I
(22:31):
wanted something I could bring my kids to and bring
the communities and the families in. And even originally when
we put it out, it was kids eighteen and under
were free because we really wanted that aspect to be there,
and then we got a lot of people latched onto it.
We had some great donors and sponsors, so we were
able to make it now free for everybody, which is incredible.
(22:53):
So yeah, the basis of it was the base around.
It was always the Macarina thing, and then I built
what the hell but my partner we built the night
part of it, which is a night which is where
all those acts come in. And then we brought in
the wrestling stuff in the daytime, and there's gonna be
tons of activities for the kids.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We really were really really trying to make it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
A family I know we say family friendly, but we're
really trying to make.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It family friendly as well. I know a lot of
people say.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Family friendly, which means you can bring anybody, but we're
really catering to the family aspect of it.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So there should be some like some cousins and stuff
like that. Fighting wouldn't expect anything less if it's anything
like my family functions.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The drunk uncle.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Right, go home. Yeah, you've had too much.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And they'll never Macarina for you, Steve.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
They never go home, do they? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I mean that's the basis. That's the basis of the event.
It's kind of like three parts in the day, okay.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And the performance is from from names like Real to Real, Snap, Maximumillion, Technotronic.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Some some iconic nineties bangers that are going to be
in there. Is there anyone in there in that list
of people that are going to be performing that for
you personally, like I want to rock with that person?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yeah, I mean I know, like I know Matt Stuntman personally,
I know Simone Danny obviously. Personally I've met I've met
Snap before, never met Technatronics. I'm looking forward to that,
never met Maximilians. I'm looking forward to that. I Mean
that's what the business is, right, It's like you do
you do this work with people, you establish those relationships
and down the line you get to work with them again.
(24:39):
So I'm really looking forward to it. I have a
lot of it's a lot of it's.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
A very family unit.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
That's actually like with Tony Monico and z one O three,
like we've been friends for you know, thirty plus years,
so it's a very family friendly on that on behind
the scenes as well as in front of the scenes, right,
So it's it's it's it's fun.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
At first, like I said, I've first with the whole
Macarina thing.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I thought it was going to be cheesy and all that.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
But then I was like, well, wait, if we really
build around it, I think we can make it something
really fun and cool. And then the funny thing is
I'll just talk to random people now that like the
word's gotten out pretty well, so random people will stop
me or I'll talk to them, or they'll send me
messages and they'll be like, I can't wait to do.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
The Macarena thing. In my mind, I'm like really.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
But then it is exciting, Like I got to bring
my daughter with me on TV. She's gonna come with
me tomorrow morning. We're going to do another TV appearance.
So the fact that I get to do this stuff
with my kids is the best thing in the world
to me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
No, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And I think it's sick that you just mentioned Tony Monico,
of course, long time radio personality on Z one on
three here in Toronto. I mean I met Tony when
when I was a kid in high school, and back
then he was like this grown man. Yeah, my old
buddy that I went to high school with, Iron Mike,
(26:03):
who was DJ.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I know Iron Mike, Yeah, of course, uh so, Iron.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Mike knew Tony through the club scene and when there
would be a w when there'd be a WWF pay
per view, you know, Tony would host it his place,
and we all a bunch of teenagers showing up at
Tony Monica's. I was to watch wrestling and we got
it cool.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We all used to play hockey, Iron Mike and all
those guys, we all used to play hockey together.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, Mike's a decent little hockey player.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
We all used to play. Chris Shepherd Yeah, yeah, we
all used to play.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
DJ dog Whist so crazy. Uh listen, I think it's
going to be a really cool event. I'm going to
try to make it out. I'm gonna see if I
can get Notorious t I d Chris Tidwell over there
to come do the macarena. Tid Do you know the macarena?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Can you do the macarena?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, yeah, I do it every once in a while,
usually with cheese, sometimes like a tomato sauce and some sausage.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
A besiege as you should. As you should.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I mean, if anything, if anything, we can get Chris
in the wrestling ring for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
If anything, I think those days might be over.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Sorry, we've all had dreams of doing that, that killer
leg drop at the end.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Unfortunately Chris has done so many of those that his
body won't allow him to.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Do another one. That's true.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's the bottom line. His entering days are done. But
I think it's cool that you got the guys from
Battle Arts Pro. Obviously they're a great organization and a
lot of good people involved with Battle Arts. So I'm
sure that'll be a lot of fun. I'm going to
try to make it out and see all the fun. Scratch.
I know you've got a busy night, so we will
let you go. But thanks for coming on. And and
(27:46):
if people want to find out more about the event,
or they want to purchase the high roller tickets, where
can they get more info?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh? What is a nostalgia in? I believe I think
we have it on the flyer in front of you.
But I think it's that Or if anything, if anything.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Hit me up on Instagram or something, or I'll get you.
I'll get it sorted out one way or another.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
We'll get it up on Godfathers apodcasting dot com in
the show notes for this episode, and you can check
out Starting from Scratch On Instagram, you can check out
Nostalgia Ink and get your high Roller tickets or just
show up with the free general admission. Do the macarena,
bring everybody back, bring it out?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
What happens if one person does the macarena and they're
not on time or they do it backwards? Are they
just called from the count?
Speaker 3 (28:32):
No? So I know the way it works is we
have to.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Have one volunteer basically for every fifty people, so they
watch it in groups. But obviously not everybody's going to
do it on time and whatever. Not everybody can dance
the same. But I think as long as your stay
in motion, we have to do it for five minutes,
that's their stipulation, and they're obviously they'll watch from the
stage and watch the massive people do it. Everybody's gonna
(28:58):
have a little square to step in and do it,
so it's really organized. It's really great, and yeah, I think, like,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
They'll knock you if you mess up the move as
long as you stay moving.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Okay, So it's not like synchronized swimming in the Olympics.
It's a little more lenient.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I mean, imagine it would look like, you know when
you see the Shallon Temple and they're all doing the
moves of thousands of kids doing the moves, like it
would look like that.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It'll look amazing.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But I mean anybody and everybody of any age level
or dance capacity can come out and try it out.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We really want to break this record.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I think it would be a great look for everybody
and something positive that.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We need now.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Like everywhere you turn it is this social media is
this crazy with negative stuff all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Man, we just did a spot. We just did a
spot on.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
City News and so I was sitting there watching with
my daughter. We were of course the last thing they played,
So I watched the whole newscast and my.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Wife is like, can you turn this off? This is
really depressing. I was like, I know it is.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's like every single thing on the news is like
it's terrible. So just to have something positive like this,
we're all really looking forward to it. We know Mother
Nature is going to be really cool for us. Nice,
She'll be nice she'll be nice to us that day.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
And yeah, we're just looking by. I mean it's free
for everybody.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Come on out, there's everything, food trucks, licensed area.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
For the older folks. I want to have. Yeah, I
want to have the adult juice and then that's it
for everybody. It's a full day. It's gonna be a
great day.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I think for the I think for the Macarina attempt
get the get the older white folks, like the really
white folks and put them at the back because sometimes
they struggle with the rhythm.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I was gonna reference that, but I mean, look at
us three on here, so I mean, come.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
On, well, I mean tids indigenous and and I'm I'm rhythmless,
so you know, I'm speaking of myself the Scotch Thanks
for hanging out with us, Man, much appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
I appreciate you guys so much. Man, thank you for
shining a light on it.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I always appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun event.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
We we were happy to talk about it. Have a
good time.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Thank you guys. Take care. There he goes.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
DJ is starting from scratch. He is an absolute legend
in the community. We didn't even have time to talk
about all the cool stuff he's doing with Russell Peters,
we didn't have time to talk about all the cool
stuff he's doing in the music world.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We'll do that another time.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
We just wanted to put a little bit of a
spotlight on what he's got cooking before we wrap this
up to as we're talking about the nineties, I mean,
that's the decade you and I met, and we just
sort of alluded to it with Scratch about how there's
a lot of great music that came out of the nineties.
Is there anything that was happening in the nineties that
(31:36):
you miss or things that happened in the nineties that
we no longer have that you go, I'm glad the
world is no longer like that.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, the amount of sex that I had back then
was a lot more.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
You had a lot of sex back then. That is
a shoot. This guy was This guy was a cocksman,
And that is also the same answer for both questions,
the thing that you miss and the thing that you're
glad you don't have exactly. People don't know Tied was
(32:20):
quite the cocksman.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, anyways, what else are you going to do at
that time? Huh.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I mean you're at that age, right, Yeah. Yeah, just
having a good time, ladies.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
How you doing? Just doing what we do? Hey, you
want to come to a night club.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think one of the things for me that I
found really exciting about the nineties, and I think Scratch
alluded to it, but he was talking about music. But
if you look actually holistically, there was so much was
emerging in our lives for the very first time in
the mid to late nineties. So when we first all
(33:04):
got exposed to the internet, right like before that, like
I got my first email address when I went to college.
Before that, I didn't even understand the concept of email.
I'm like, so what I type on a computer and
someone's gonna see it?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Cell phone?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Cell phone? We didn't have cell phones then, you know,
I remember you, you and I both had pagers. We
were walking around like where doctors are drug dealers or
something with a little pager.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And because of working in the fucking clubs when we did,
and working at Whiskey and in Toronto there, I was
one of the first people to have a cell phone.
Because you have the guys coming around, you know, those
first salesman coming around and be like Okay, let's let's
work out a deal here. And it was that you know,
motorola looked like a It actually looked like that Tesla truck.
(33:55):
Therolla phone looked like the Tesla truck. And that's what
you had. Then he had to pull the antanna up
and pop open the bottom and the battery was, you know,
five times the size of the actual phone itself. That
was the nineties. Look where we are now, can you imagine?
I mean, listen, we're probably gonna be dead and gone,
but like in another you know, thirty years where we're
(34:19):
going to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Why it's crazy? And you know what you mentioned this
getting the cell phones for the first time. We're talking about,
you know, the days when we were at that nightclub,
Whiskey Sagon. One of our colleagues that we worked with
at Whiskey Saigon. I was gonna say, I don't want
to say his name.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Who cares I say?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
His name is Cisco. Cisco was the first guy I
ever saw walking around with his own cell phone that
wasn't like a company thing, you know what I mean,
He just he had a cell phone. But he was
one of these guys where it seemed like every week,
he had a different one, and they kept getting smaller
and smaller and smaller, and he got to the point where,
(34:57):
I don't know if you remember this, he had a
little silver cell phon and I'm demonstrating for the people
listening and not watching, but get a little silver cell
phone that was like an inch and a half tall. Yeah,
and it was a flip fode. I was like, how
do you use that? He's like very carefully.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well, don't you remember they all made their way down
to like, you know, a Snickers bar side. Yeah, he
had those those ericson cell phones, and they just kept
getting smaller and smaller and smaller. And then as soon
as we got like any kind of touch screen involved
at all, now bigger and bigger and bigger and pretty
s be like walking around. You know, we're gonna be
walking around with twenty four inch monitors on our shoulders
(35:38):
like it's the seventies and it's a boombox, you know
what I mean. Like we're gonna resort like, oh, I
need a bigger screen now come.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I remember when when you and I were doing our
original radio show together, which was an all internet show.
And again the name of this show is based on
that the fact that we were one of the first
ever be broadcasting online. It's not just that the tagline
that's legitimate. But whenever there was an opportunity where the
station we worked for wanted us to go to a
live event or a live to air from somewhere, do
(36:09):
you remember the amount of people and the amount of
equipment and gear that was required for us to go
live to air somewhere. Like we'd have at least two engineers.
We would have stacks, right, and stacks of road cases
and mixers and compressors and pre amps and all this crap.
(36:32):
But now it's like you do everything off a phone,
you do everything off a computer.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, yeah, legit, legit. I still I still tell people
how much I hate you for the day that you
had booked that convention when we were doing the O
show stuff and you booked at that wrestling convention and
had to bring all of the equipment, like we're hauling
speakers in, like oh, hey, the band is here, and
it's like no, no, we're just setting up to see
(36:58):
if we can fucking you know, talk shit it to people.
Ridiculous thing in the world. We had a fun day,
though we ended up you know, listen, let it be
known that we've always been able to make the the
have a good time in the worst of situations.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
This is true. This is true. We always end up
smiling and having a good time. I'll be I'll be
fine in the apocalypse, That's all I'm saying. It is crazy, though, man,
just the the amount of tech progression that we've seen
just in our adult lives. Never mind like you know
what I mean, Like if this must world must be
(37:37):
hard for seniors, they look at that and go, well,
in my day, you know, the computers were for nerds.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Three letters for you, Donnie, three letters d A t oh.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Dat tapes. Yeah, we used to record everything we couldn't
record in those days onto a computer because computer our
drives were like there was no size, there was no
storage capacity on a computer, so we had to record
to digital audio tape, which looked like a little tiny
(38:14):
cassette tape. And all of our original broadcasts were recorded
to DAT tapes.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
And like someone said to me the other day, like, oh,
do you have all those dat tapes? And I'm like,
even if I did, who the hell has a dat
tape player?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Knowing how bad. Some of those early shows were I'd
rather just set those things on fire anyways.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
So I know who has a player? I was a player.
You know them too? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
A musician friend of ours that would actually did this show.
Oh what's his name? Uh Big Big Watus Yeah from Weedis.
That's right. He went through the wholes of converting their
album from dat. Yeah, he talked about that because back
(39:06):
in those days, same era when he did Teenage dirt Bag,
everything in studios was getting recorded to DAT because computers
didn't have that ability. Now you just, my god, you
could store a million movies on your laptop, you know,
like it's crazy. We sound ridiculous right now. We sound
like the grandfathers of podcasting. So you know what, I'm
(39:29):
done aging ourselves TID anything you want to plug or promote,
and let's wrap this sucker up now. You know, you
can always check out all of the other stuff at
Notorious Tid on all of the socials on x on Instagram,
all of those places, as well as the Law Live
audio wrestling always on YouTube. We got some new stuff
coming up and that's you know always I Like you
(39:52):
said earlier, my tid talk stuff over at Tid Talk
on YouTube as well. That's never a dull fucking moment, Donnie.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
It's never a dull mind.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Y'all can follow me on Instagram at Donnie dot da Silva.
That's Donnie with an Ie. Someone spelled it with a
Y and I wanted to patch them in the throat
Donnie with an Ie dot da Silva on Instagram and
you can see whatever the hell I'm up to or
not up to or whatever. It's all there, folks. I
think we wrap this one up a little early, Tid. Yeah, yeah,
(40:20):
that way you can get to your Thursday night Big
Brother talk, right. He just wants to make fun of
me so badly.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
For it's really that's really what it's boiling down to.
You're like, yeah, oh uh, in and out quick time,
I got Big Brother stuff to chat about.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
The truth is the Big Brother Live episode starts fifteen
minutes from now, and I haven't eaten yet, so your
boy needs a little bit of nourishment before the Big
Brother nonsense and then the live stream with Christmas Abbot.
But regardless, we're gonna power through.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's Tid.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm Donnie. This has been episode. We are done this party.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
We'll see you next day, see a nerd.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Fuck this shit, I'm mount, but this shit, I'm mount.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
No thanks, don't mummy.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I'm gonna grabdmaself and knees.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Excuse me, please, but this shit.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I'm mount.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Help but this ship. I'm mout. All right then, I
don't know what the butcher's happened, but I don't really care.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
I'm gonna get the fucker Patty here his ship.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I'm out.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!