{"id":234,"date":"2019-06-05T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2025-03-01T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:34:42","slug":"bus-strike-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/archives\/bus-strike-song\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD SONGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s an old saying that comedians secretly wish they were musicians and musicians wish they were comedians. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true or not but these videos show I&#8217;m about halfway there in both forms. These are a bunch of dumb songs I&#8217;ve done throughout the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>THE LRT SONG<br>Basically a rewrite of 2009&#8217;s OC Transpo Strike Song. Updated to talk about the ongoing problems with Ottawa&#8217;s public transportation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ottawa LRT Song 2021\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZb77hNDpKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>MY BROWN LUNGED GIRL<br>A love song dedicated to a heavy smoker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brown Lunged Girl\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MPmjppft07w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>THE DANY HEATLEY SONG<br>It&#8217;s 2009 and the Ottawa Senators are having a messy public breakup with star forward Dany Heatley. He was part of the core that brought us to the Stanley Cup finals two years prior and the city is all wrapped up in the drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dany Heatley Song\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAHupEEZ9N4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>THE VANCOUVER OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONIES SONG<br>In the winter of 2010, Vancouver BC was welcoming the world to the winter olympics. I was hoping someone would have the power to get me included in the opening ceremonies. Unfortunately that dream didn&#8217;t come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vancouver Olympic Song 2010\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVGBGvkO-X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>THE OC TRANSPO STRIKE SONG<br>In the winter of 2009, OC Transpo was on strike and this video got over 20,000 views in the span of a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OC Transpo Strike Song\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhsEa1NuPuQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old saying that comedians secretly wish they were musicians and musicians wish they were comedians. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true or not but these videos show I&#8217;m about halfway there in both forms. These are a bunch of dumb songs I&#8217;ve done throughout the years. THE LRT SONGBasically a rewrite of 2009&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/archives\/bus-strike-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OLD SONGS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5121,"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/5121"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickcurrie.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}