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Almost, but not quite 12 months after our last show – here’s B&AJ 110!

Strangely enough, it’s recorded at the same cottage where we recorded the last xmas show. However, there are some subtle, yet important differences :

• Interplanet Janet (AJ’s wife) joins us
• Fuzzy Logic (Luc) is with us as well
• AJ and Luc’s kids are there too
• We started drinking wine WELL before hitting record
• The police (the law enforcement people, not the band) also join us. Seriously.

The police appearance didn’t make it into the show, so I’ll explain here :

The kids were playing with what they THOUGHT was a dead phone, dialed 911 (emergency services), and hung up. Then, 911 phoned back, so they answered and hung up. The kids alerted us, and we called 911 to tell them everything was ok. BUT, since a child made the call, they had to send the police to be sure everything was in fact ok. So a freaked-out kid and 2 rather friendly police-people later, the show was done.

I have to say that I do find it funny this happened merely minutes after a discussion where I had been called a “helicopter parent” for spending too much time making sure my kid is ok. Life is funny that way.

So in this history-making Canadian podcast, we were effectively shut down by the police (again, not the band).

In a strange twist of fate, Bob forgot to turn the recorder off, and so over 4 hours of material was recorded. Keeping true to Bob and AJ form though, only a small part ended up useful, and (thankfully) the rest stayed on the cutting room floor

So there’s our Dec 1 show – AJ refuses to call it our holiday show, leave the door ever-so-slightly opened for 2010 holiday episode. Lawyers are checking into this for us.

We’re happy you found this episode, and we’re sorry it wasn’t better but at least we got one done for the true North strong and free!

Hungover Santa

45 minutes

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Happy Whatever-the-hell-you-celebrate from Bob and AJ -

Join us as we sit by the fire, and actually do a B&AJ show in time for the holidays.

Thanks for all the emails/comments/patience this year, hope the holidays find you safe and happy, and we’ll see you in 2010!

The Bob and AJ show is officially Canada’s oldest running podcast. No doubt about it.

This year, we mark our 5th anniversary, and I REALLY want to do a Christmas show. No, you don’t understand… I NEED to do a Bob & AJ Xmas show so that my model of the universe continues to exist.

AJ, as most of you know, spends little or no time online, so he doesn’t get the feedback I get sometimes. The thing is, AJ doesn’t see what you and I talk about on twitter, facebook, or what is emailed to me directly, and to be honest, he’s feeling a bit unappreciated.

I think it’s really important for us to do an Xmas ’09 show, if only for the fact that I haven’t seen AJ since the summer, and hell that’s just too long.

So I need your help -

I’d need you to comment on THIS post, and tell AJ how a Bob & AJ Xmas show would make you feel. Be honest, be brutal, but please post..  Want to call it in? Sure – (267) 220-3701

Help me make AJ feel the Xmas love!

Thanks!

Bob

extra old, eh?

by debaird.

39 minutes

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sic..

Here’s part 2 our of Canadian music journey, a few choice selections, but a whole whack o’cheese!

bobandaj in 2005

by Bob Goyetche.

just over an hour.

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Thanks so much to everyone for the audio,comments, emails etc helping us discuss Canadian music..

It was too long for 1 show, show here’s part 1, part 2 will be out in a couple of days..

That’s pretty much all the show notes you get..

So we’re getting ready for the show we’re recording in a few days (another?? so soon? ) , and we decided to make this one about Canadian music. AJ and I could easily talk Canadian music for hours, but we’d like your input…

So here are the questions for you :

• Favourite Canadian Band ?
• Their best album ?
• Their most influential tune, and why ?

Simple enough eh?

You can get your answers to us by:

• Commenting on this post
• email to bob AT bobandaj.info
• Sending an mp3 of your lovely voice telling us : bob AT bobandaj.info
• phone it in (267) 220-3701

looking forward to your thoughts!

Bob

Direct download here -> holy crap – 68 minutes.

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We make up for lack of frequency by adding length to this one.

• Musical selections based on a criteria pioneered by Scarborough Dude.
• Inside the Bob and AJ Studio – with your host, CC Chapman
• Fuzzy Logic makes his appearance
• the “Father Robert” birthday tune for Bob
• This show fueled by rum from Sylvain Grand’maison
• I’m tired of typing – just listen

Tunes Not played this week:

• Ikea from Jonathan Coulton
• Sound Scientist from bill
• All I crave from Stereomovers

Audio comments /emails and cold hard cash always appreciated! See you in a few weeks!

XMas Balls

by C.P.Storm.

Direct download here -> 30ish minutes.
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Well here it finally freaking is, the 2008 xmas show. Delayed by power availability and weather, but in your ears now none-the-less…

• the power failure debacle
• David Lee Roth soundboard
• Bob mashes David Lee Roth and Cream into Strange Dave
• The oldest canadian podcast thing
• AJ turns 39
• We were robbed of our xmas show
• Google controls the planet
• integrity as per Fuzzy Logic
• The Lighthouse Hole
• The Bob and AJ legacy

Our mostlytunes musical selections this time:

• Phantom 49 – Ramble On
• Lighthouse
  “One Fine Morning” (mp3)
  from “One Fine Morning”
  (Ole)
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Nico fascinated by a mouse

Direct download here -> 47 minutes.
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The real story is, we record and release a show each and every week. What happens is we post all those shows to another website where we get paid gobs of money. Once in a while, we put a show here to make sure no one suspects anything…  I think it’s working so far…

• AJ & family’a trip to Disney World
• Snow
• Comments
• Things
• Hamster On A Piano (Eating Popcorn)
  
• AJ discovers the Segway (segue)
• Pet Peeve: Handicapped parking violators
• watch your tires near AJ
• 4 years of Bob and AJ
• Grey Cup
• Nico joins in
• No last names

Our musical selections this time:

• 20Minute Loop – Dr. Vitus Werdegast
• Corby Yates Band – Back From Yesterday
• Victory By Revenge
  “Pillow Fight” (mp3)
  from “First Date Mistakes”
  (Quickstar Productions)

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Our Sad Album from 1970

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A sure sign of summer being over is the ability for AJ and I to get together. It almost didn’t happen, neither of us are in a place where returning calls when agreed upon is easy. BUT – we rose above it, because there was cold beer to be consumed, and audio to create.
Even though the elections in Canada and the US are about a month away, we remain faithful to ourselves and avoid politics in favour of Hockey and The Muppets…..

• Frank Sinatra’s Watertown (BoingBoing Wikipedia)
• The Habs = this is our year (as long as Detroit doesn’t spoil it)
• AJ & family are off to DisneyWorld
• Bob’s San Francisco trip (Pics of Bob at Pixar Thanks Pat!)
• The Hunt for Big Mike
• The anti-government French “Seal” video “Culture en Peril“
• This year’s xmas show will be our 5th Xmas show!
• Barenaked Ladies “troubles“
• Barenaked Ladies awesome “Bathroom sessions” videos
• Oh Danny Boy
• Jeff Dunham
• Great Quebec french movie : Bluff
• Tetes-a-claques is now in English

Our musical selections this time:

• nelo – You Don’t Know
• Brown Shoe – Uh Oh