Humble and Fred
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With a federal election scheduled for Monday, May 2, 2011, my friend Freddie P's blog www.canadianthinker.com has become a part of the Conservative Party's propaganda machine. It's essentially unvisitable until this election passes, so for your convenience and mine, I've created this handy little countdown clock: //Dynamic countdown
This past Saturday, I joined Humble and Fred as they recorded their Gift of Christmas Podcast. Just in time for Christmas, here's the podcast in four easy to digest chunks. Enjoy... Part 1Download the MP3 Part 2Download the MP3 Part 3Download the MP3 Part 4Download the MP3 Thanks to Dan
I've got dozens and dozens of vintage Humble and Fred bumpers that used to air during their morning radio show. In the spirit of the season, I decided to dig up 15 Christmas bumpers to share with you all. Most of these are from the old 102.1 CFNY days,
I've just returned from a visit to the PROUD-FM studio at Church and Wellesley where we recorded the Humble and Fred Christmas podcast. This is our 8th podcast overall, and once again we were joined by Dan Duran and Bingo Bob. Humble also brought along the first Humble and Fred
Humble and Fred fans, I have some good news to share. The boys will be recording a Christmas podcast on December 11. If my math is correct, this will be podcast #8 since Humble and Fred were forcibly removed from the old Mix 99.9 studios a few years ago.
This past Saturday, I joined Humble and Fred as they recorded their Eastover Podcast. I think that's what they called it... or was it the Podcast of Resurrection? This time, we're sharing the podcast in four easy to digest chunks. Enjoy... Part 1Download the MP3 Part 2Download the MP3 Part
I spent a few hours this afternoon with Humble, Fred, Dan and Bob at PROUD FM's studio recording the latest Humble and Fred Podcast. I should be able to share the audio with you all early next week. It's hard to believe it's been almost four years since we started
Humble and Fred recorded a podcast that would have been perfectly timed had it been released during the Olympics. Unfortunately, Dan just got me the MP3 today and the Olympics are looking pretty distant now in the rearview mirror. Nevertheless, Humble and Fred have recorded this for you, and they're
Humble Howard is currently co-host of the Boom Breakfast Show on Boom 97.3. He's also a good buddy of mine, and tomorrow he turns 50. He's just asked me to post something he's written on the subject. When he sent me this prose via email, the subject line read
Back on December 12, 2009, Humble and Fred recorded Humble and Fred's Fifth Podcast It's a good thing we didn't make this Christmas themed, because here it is going live on January 4th. The home page for this podcast, should you want to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or
Humble and Fred fans, I know you've been waiting patiently for Humble and Fred's Fifth Podcast. Dan's passed it over to me, and I'm ready to throw it into the wild just as soon as I get Freddie P's final blessing. I just listened to it, and about an hour
Freddie P finally wrote about Stephen Harper's request to prorogue Parliament. Fred's got a hard on for Stevie, anointing him "the rational man" no matter what he says or does. Fred's entry opened with a direct shot at yours truly. "Check out the crap going on over at Taliban Mike.
As promised, EZ Rock is now Boom 97.3, playing "Toronto's Greatest Hits". Humble and Colleen are still doing mornings, Maie Pauts takes it from there and KJ still takes you home. Yes, that ad does start with the song that's absolutely everywhere, the same song they played right after
As a fan of the old Humble and Fred show that aired on CFNY throughout the 90s, Humble's role on the 97.3 EZ Rock morning show has been bittersweet. On the one hand, he's back doing mornings on Toronto radio. On the other hand, it's EZ Rock, home of
Shortly after 8:30 this morning, Humble and Fred were on the radio, together for the first time since 2005. It was an EZ Rock promo for their 5th podcast. Their Fifth Podcast is ready, but it's so racy and raw, it needs to be cleared by an army of
No, I don't have Humble and Fred's Fifth Podcast online yet. It'll be here before the big day, don't you worry. In the meantime, Buffalo Boy has some great audio to tide us over. I posted the audio from the BNL portion of the 1998 Christmas Spectacular, finally got it
As I type, Humble and Fred are recording Humble and Fred's Fifth Podcast. The top secret location can now be revealed. It's the home of PROUD FM at Church and Wellesley, the first gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender focused station in the country. And here's a pic of Humble and
After a two year hiatus, the annual Humble and Fred Christmas show is back! Humble and Fred are reuniting for their fifth podcast this Saturday afternoon. Admittance is by invitation only, but I'll be sure to share the resulting audio with you all as soon as I get it from
I recently wrote about the Humble and Fred network cable special that aired on Rogers 10 back in 1993. Thanks to Ryan at Rogers 10, I now have in my possession the opening for "Humble and Fred's First Ever Network Cable Special". It's got some great footage of the old
Rogers TV Toronto (channel 10) is producing a series called "Retro Rewind" featuring some of the classic, and not so classic, moments from the community channel's history. Tomorrow night's episode features Humble and Fred when they did a cable show called "Humble and Fred's Dance Party" around '91 1993. It
I'm hearing from usually reliable sources that Rick Hodge and Kim Stockwood are no longer part of the EZ Rock morning show. It's now a two person booth with Humble Howard and Colleen Rusholme. A lot of noise was made by Astral when Rick Hodge left CHUM-FM for EZ Rock
Item #15 of the Bloggers Code is the following: "When friends make TV shows, free promotion is mandatory". My good friend Humble Howard, along with the gang at Redfish Entertainment Studios, have a new 13-episode docu-reality show entitled "Last Bride Standing". And this one actually airs on a station you
A little over three years ago, I gave Toronto morning radio host Humble Howard his own blog. 1263 entries later, we've decided to kill it. The Humble Howard blog is dead. I spent a whole 4 minutes designing the new HumbleHoward.com. Click on over and check out the new
Fans of Canadian Thinker have noticed that Fred hasn't been posting as often lately. Others seem to think he's censoring comments and there's speculation that Fred's bosses at Corus have asked him to cool it. Fred tells me Corus isn't censoring the content of his blog and he hasn't been
As seen on Canadian Thinker, former Humble and Fred producer and all around good guy Dan Duran is returning to Toronto radio as a swing announcer starting later this month. Dan Duran will be heard Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings from seven till midnight, then again from noon till six
