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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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You’re an adult now because Moe Berg has come to Turned Out A Punk! Listen in as Damian sits down with the Canadian music legend to talk about the first wave of prairie punk and beyond. From playing biker picnics, to the Modern Minds/ Hi-Fi’s/ Pointed Sticks tour, to the origins of SNFU, to The Pursuit Of Happiness’ Much Music breakthrough and so much more: don’t miss this one!
Also, don't miss Moe playing with The Pursuit Of Happiness or The Trans Canada Highwayman!
Also, grab The Pursuit Of Happiness' official bootleg: "It's Been Too Much Fun: Live In Concert 1990", available from Murderecords!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hey, everyone, welcome to Turned Out of Punk. |
| 0:29.3 | Today on the show, one of my favorite musicians of all time, one of Canada's greatest songwriters. |
| 0:36.6 | You may know him from the band The Pursuit |
| 0:38.4 | of Happiness or you may know him from modern minds or you may even know him from face crime |
| 0:42.7 | or you may just be learning about his work today. Mo Berg is on the show. I'm your host |
| 0:49.2 | Damien Abraham and this is turned out a punk. This is a conversation I've wanted to have for years, like forever. |
| 0:57.8 | I've met Mo a few times as the years have gone by in different places. |
| 1:04.1 | We are both fixtures of the city of Toronto. |
| 1:07.1 | So I'd see him ever since I was like a little kid walking around. |
| 1:12.0 | But thanks to our mutual good friend and Mo's bandmate, Chris Murphy, |
| 1:18.3 | this conversation now has finally happened. |
| 1:22.0 | Chris Murphy and Mo, of course, play along with Craig from the odds and Stephen formerly of Bar-Naked Ladies, Stephen Page, a friend of the show, of course, play along with Craig from the Odds and Stephen, formerly of Bar-Naked |
| 1:29.4 | ladies, Stephen Page, a friend of the show, Stephen Page, too. |
| 1:32.9 | In the unbelievably cool, fun, supergroup, Trans-Canada Highway Men, this is the music I grew up on. |
| 1:41.1 | These guys are all performing and doing each other's songs. |
| 1:43.9 | They don't have any shows |
| 1:44.7 | lined up right now that I can see, but if they do have shows coming up, you should definitely |
| 1:49.5 | go and see them play because, uh, yeah, as I say, these are like some of the greatest songs ever. |
| 1:55.0 | This is the Canadian songbook from the 90s that these guys kind of collectively ended up having a huge part in writing |
| 2:02.9 | uh mo also plays still in the pursuit of happiness and hopefully you can uh see them play |
| 2:08.3 | if they've got any shows coming up and uh all there will be links to mo and all these projects |
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