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Moe Berg from The Pursuit Of Happiness and Modern Minds is here

Turned Out A Punk

Turned Out A Punk

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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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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