Standing By: The Terry and Ted Podcast · Terry and Ted

Remembrance, service and sacrifice (and no singing)

·1 hr 7 min·4 clips

A wartime chaplain writes, "It is sheer tragedy to be losing these lads."

1. Standing By: The Terry and Ted Podcast centers this episode on Remembrance Day, Bruce Springsteen, and a long guest segment with Colin Robinson. 2. Terry DeMonte and Ted Bird host the show, and Colin Robinson matters because he is a former commanding officer of the Royal Montreal Regiment and former honorary Colonel. 3. The episode asks what remembrance means in Canada now, and whether people still understand the Poppy Campaign, wartime sacrifice, and military history. 4. Ted says he is back doing mornings at K103 in Kahnawake, where he worked from 2010 to 2012, and Terry jokes about hearing him on air that morning. 5. The hosts explain that the show is recorded on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, for listeners hearing it the next day. 6. Ted and Terry also spend time on a Facebook-found "pizza burger" that looked like "a giant hamburger inside a pizza," plus bacon potato soup. 7. They use that food tangent to joke about shipping food with the UPS Store Canada and whether something like that could be frozen and sent same day. 8. Terry then describes seeing Bruce Springsteen in Montreal, where the show started at 7:33, ran until 10:45, and featured no opening act. 9. He says Springsteen is 75, wore a shirt, tie, vest, and jeans, and performed with a 17-piece band and 18 people on stage. 10. Colin Robinson says he got involved with the Poppy Campaign after leaving the Armed Forces around 2009 and managing it in 2010 and 2011. 11. He says Canadians’ attention to remembrance had waned and then surged again during the Afghan war. 12. Robinson gives specific fundraising numbers for Branch 14 in Westmount: about $10,000–$12,000 a year before the surge and $65,000–$70,000 after. 13. He says the campaign also helps new Canadians understand the poppy, the Vimy memorial on the $20 bill, and the place of remembrance in Canadian culture. 14. Robinson says the Royal Canadian Legion controls the poppy design through an act of Parliament from the 1950s and is the only organization authorized to distribute poppies for donations. 15. He explains that poppy money must be spent within the calendar year following the campaign and goes to veteran and family causes. 16. The discussion names the Adaptive Sports Foundation and the Old Brewery Mission as examples of groups supported by branch funding. 17. Ted then shares a family scrapbook about his great-uncle, Lance Corporal Edward Harold Williston, including medals, letters, and a grave at Moro River Cemetery in Italy. 18. The hosts read aloud a regimental chaplain’s handwritten condolence letter, and Ted struggles to get through the words "It is sheer tragedy to be losing these lads." 19. The tone is conversational, self-deprecating, and reflective, with a live-recorded feel, sponsor reads, and long stretches of back-and-forth interviewing. 20. Listeners interested in Canadian military history, the Legion, and remembrance will likely stay; listeners wanting fast entertainment or no sponsor segments may skip.

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