blog post Wrath of Khanna: The Breakfast Club with The Dears!

Good Morning All 

Well I am indeed a fan of The Dears! As such looking forward to the show. For breakfast today I am going to have my usual yogurt, toast, and coffee. For lunch I will have a rubber tire. 

This guy is my favourite celebrity chef. 

That's very cute! I don't think I have mentioned this before but I am addicted to lolcats. It's a serious illness. 

Just when you think you know someone, all these strange new predilictions come to light...

/jk, they're the best.

Everyday is Caturday for me. 

Mornin' Garf!

Murray was inspired by soccer.

soccer if I must

I don't like it when you call it soccer. It's football for you. 

Yes contrats! 

Morning everybody! Love The Dears :-) wish I could listen to the show, have to put it on mute. at job club looking for a job at the moment 8-)

Contrats tb3!!

Birthday: March 17th

South by South West

SxSW March 17

Wow, I was slow. I'm out of practice! Congrats!

Contrats

I am going to go and sulk, or find food, one of the two

most likely the food one

Good morning everyone!

I must say, I haven't really listened to The Dears at all, aside from whatever they play on air here... I guess I should change that! They've been around for more than 10 years so they must be good... :)

Breakfast = Tea. I have no food. It's sad. On the plus side, its my last day of work for 11 days and we have a work dinner tonight so I get free dinner which is pretty sweet!

I'm sorry we don't have any peanut butter in the house at the moment

Very nice! 

I got my peter elkas album yesterday! Thank you! Imma so excites.

Yes, March 17th and SXSW are both correct! You win! Contrats!

I hope that pony survives...

Cooooool - Thanks!!!!!!

On a side note Charlie Sheen is scaring/scarring (hmm) the bejusuz out of me that I am afraid to be Bi-Winning anything. 

Really Vish?! THIS song... Booooooo. 

Hey, I need to chime in too! Thanks Vish! Patton Oswalt arrived in the mail, too yesterday! I love it already, and I've just read the foreward.

I watched the Piers Morgan interview with Sheen last night and it was the most reasonable he's seemed this week. Piers Morgan is actually a really great interviewer.

I must find it... because the ABC (i think) one where he is smoking is bizzarro. 

XL

They only sign stuff that they love.

XL

Your ultimate source for all of Charlie Sheen's recent television appearances...

Is it just me or is everyone friends with Sam Roberts except for me?

Thanks I will send an email shortly! 

By the way they sound like they are in a pretty good place right now

What's that supposed to mean? Uh oh. Have you been studiously watching Dr. Drew again?

Also, can anyone guess which label head Murray was referring to in that Hillside/SUV anecdote?

Have I not harmed enough ponies today?

Although I am sure it was awkward for them when the tall waitress used your face to mop the floor with after you made one too many comments about her height. 

Thank You! 

Helen is such a tall woman. It's like being served by a beautiful Wilt Chamberlain.

I am just going to say this if your doctor uses their first name after Dr. you might have a problem. 

Godspeed

stars

Stars

Contrats

Cool beans! I'll send ya a text tomorrow when we're heading there or whatever! Woo!

congrats novascotia tim

Thanks!

I've never been to a bout before, so I'm pretty excited! :)

How does post 77 trump post 76?

Just tuning in, but I am also curious about this.

Yes the roller derby/wrestling match/holy fuck show. Still probably the strangest show I have attended. 

The answer is Stars. Tim got it. Oh, what, because of the lower case "s?"

I don't count cases but I do count spelling. How's that?

I watched a couple of seasons of Hell's Kitchen but have lost track of it.

I imagine there's still a lot of incompetence and yelling, yeah?

Yes, I love the Food Network.  In fact, with the threat of (drastically) increased cable fees coming down the line, I was looking into OTA-HD as a viable option... but there is no Food Network (for us), no Treehouse (for the baby) and no sports channels (for our other son)... so it's a non-option sadly.

Yeah, we're gonna try and reduce our Rogers bill by cancelling our answering machine.

We also might change our diet so we only consume food that we can find.

I was listening to them on the way in this morning, to the new album, in fact.  I've been following them since their first album; even caught them in concert at the Molson Amp about 8-10 years ago; they opened for Billy Bragg and The Weakerthans I believe.  Trivia fact: I won the tickets to the show from The Chatroom featuring Craig Norris!

I love these guys... always have (except for, perhaps, the Missles album; still can't love that one, sadly)

I assume you were joking... but, there is a collective of people in Vancouver doing just that: eating only what they can find.  Part of the collective, which I heard about via Radio3 awhile back, is The Beehive.

Otherwise, yes... we tried to pair down our Rogers (Cogeco, actually) bill too, but because of the way things are bundled, it's really, really hard.  It's very much an all-or-nothing thing it seems.  Monopolistic media delivery bastards.

Has that ever happened before? That's sooo scetchy! 

Also, sorry to Dears fans, but they are the most boring people to be on the Breakfast Club since I started listening to this show. I like it better when Vish chooses the artist to be featured. 

Yeah, I don't think Letterman is a drummer. He does seem to have a thing for drums though. Remeber when Anton was featured on the show a lot more back in the day?

I do kind of remember that yes. Yeah Letterman might be the kind of guy that just gets fixated on things. 

It is a good morning! Got my copy of Zombie, Spaceship and Wasteland last night!

I meant I like it better when you approach the artist, as opposes to them approaching you (that was the case with the Dears, no?). It's better when you have an established relationship with the artists and they get your hilarious humor. It usually comes across as friendly banter where as this with this show there seems to be a certain distance.

It's true, they asked to be on the show. But I think we're getting a long really well! This feels like a good show to me. There's been somch chuckles and Gordon Ramsay impressions. Everyone seems pretty engaged to me my friend. But how can I be objective about my own show, right?

routine

security

5. What do the Dears require to maintain their sanity on the road?

A - familiarlty

contrats d-licious!

I was looking for routine, and you gave it to me! Contrats! You win!

I really need to start getting up earlier.

Hello everyone.

contrats! :D

dang you, customers!! always coming in on the host breaks...curses! :P

I am not offended in the slightest, no worries. There have been peppier shows for sure but y'know, everyone's different personality-wise so I think it keeps the show dynamic. Highs and lows in terms of energy. But I think the Murray and Natalia have been very chatty and open about their life and work. Not sure I could expect anything more from them. But, if you're not fans of theirs or are scrutinizing them more closely than other guests, I can see why you might be like, "I don't like these guys."

In any case, I think I'm on fire today! I'm feeling it man! That "gaze" joke. I mean c'mon!

Oh okay. Well it sounded quiet to me but then again it could have just been my shitty speakers, or like you said shes a quiet talker. Then again it could just be because Murray Lightburn has a very distinct and loud voice? Anyways, I am not saying that having it quiet is a bad thing per say. It's just it gives it a different vibe. 

Also, I am enjoying the Gordon Ramsay impression! I used to watch Kitchen Nightmares a lot! It's pretty much the only "reality" show I will watch!! 

Damn! That could have been exciting! Gallagher style!!! 

Neither did you tell them that you were on the AF bandwagon way before Murray was.  Wow, intense conculsion to the show!  Thanks for the interviews Vish; already downloaded the podcast so I can catch-up on what I missed earlier.

Cool, thanks Eric!

I'm glad you called him on the "rules with an iron fist" flip-flopping. I've heard/read him take questions about others writing songs badly before too. But he HAS been the sole (or almost sole) writer for the band so it's valid to ask him about it. I don't understand why he can't just say "Yes, I've written most songs in the past but I love and trust these guys and they write great songs so it worked out to write as a group this time around" Or something. (I haven't had coffee)

This has been a more contentious blog than usual. So much so, no one's been all that awestruck by how Helen up there, towers over every other human on the planet...

That's a lot of Helen!!!

I was just about to comment on how massive she actually is. When you said it on air it sounded so mean, but now it makes perfect sense!

What?  You mean, you three aren't sitting down in that photo?  I just had to assume that was the case... if not, then... wow.

No vacation for you?  I'm sorry Vish!  Nothing is worse than losing your previously requested vacation time.  :(

Gotta commend CBC R3 on the song choices today! Almost every single song played today is among my favourites. Lots of like-minded people I am sure. So... Kudos CBC Radio 3 thanks for making my day off supercalifragilistic!