Robert W. Service
English-Canadian poet and writerWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Tim JohnsonHOST
If you say, hey, I just went to Dawson City, they'll say, have you drunk the toe or had the toe or whatever? And so they have something called the Sour Toe Club.
Tim JohnsonHOST
It's kind of loosely based on a Robert Service poem or passage, you know, the cremation of Sam McGee, strange things done under the midnight sun.
Tim JohnsonHOST
It's definitely a strange thing, which is you take a severed human toe and you sit with somebody like this across from them.
Tim JohnsonHOST
And he's wearing a sailor hat.
Finn ThormeierHOST
Uh, the other quote, um, and you don't necessarily have to comment on it, but I really loved it, you sent it to me, that I wanna read.
Finn ThormeierHOST
Um, it's an excerpt from the poem "The Men That Don't Fit In" by Robert Service.
Finn ThormeierHOST
And it's a small, small excerpt from the poem.
Finn ThormeierHOST
People should read the whole poem.
Dave KelloggGUEST
I, I love that quote.
Dave KelloggGUEST
And it's an unusual place to go for branding.
Dave KelloggGUEST
Um, [laughs] Ro- Robert Service is a, I think he was a Scottish poet who lived in the Yukon Territory, and he, he wrote, uh, kind of ballads about all the chara- colorful characters who lived up in the Yukon with him.
Dave KelloggGUEST
And, uh, I love the line, "So they chop and change, and each fresh move is only a fresh mistake," because that's, that's how branding happens a lot, right? They're tired of the things that are and want the strange and new.
Mama FoxfireHOST
That's what I'm doing right now.
Gaylen WilsonGUEST
Oh, what was his name? Robert Service.
Mama FoxfireHOST
By Robert Service.
Mama FoxfireHOST
Yep.
Gaylen WilsonGUEST
Robert Service.
Mama FoxfireHOST
Yep.
Gaylen WilsonGUEST
You gonna read it for us?
Mama FoxfireHOST
Is it pretty short? Oh, it's pretty long.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
You have Jack London, you know, wrote Call of the Wild, a lot of that stuff up here.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
You have Robert Service that wrote all of his different poetry or things like The Cremation of Sam McGee, you know, and all that.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
So you've had writers coming up here to Alaska and these kind of things.
Merrill WhiteGUEST
And you had early on in Alaska, there was a good core of the original sourdoughs, the prospectors, the miners.
Boaz SoiferHOST
I was going to say in a challenging environment, but really any environment is challenging.
Brian LeeHOST
And right here is where we would insert the poem by Robert Service, right? I have closed with the naked north.
Brian LeeHOST
The Heart of the Sourdough by Robert Service, 1907, public domain.
Brian LeeHOST
There where the mighty mountains bear their fangs unto the moon.
Brian LeeHOST
There where the sullen sun dogs glare in the snow bright bitter noon.
Pat FalveyGUEST
So I love verses like that.
Pat FalveyGUEST
That's Robert Service-like, you know.
TadhgHOST
Yeah.
Pat FalveyGUEST
It was on like about saying all the fuck ups are all the mistakes that we made in the fuck up if you want to.