The Littlest Hobo

And so, uh, it becomes a, a, a survivalist movie.

So at this point, it kind of started to feel to me like it was The Littlest Hobo with just a little taste of a movie like The Revenant thrown in as well.

Uh, but it works pretty well because you've got Brad Pitt.

Uh, people like him, and, you know, you have this idea that he, uh, has the physicality, that he could probably, you know, make his way through this, this, uh, minefield of unforgiving territory.

social history of Canada told through long reads about our pop culture totems.

So on the surface, it looks like, okay, there's a chapter on snow, and there's a chapter on Drake, and a chapter on maestro, or chapter on the littlest hobo.

Like, it looks like kind of pop culture ephemera, but on a deeper level, it's kind of built to create connections.

So each chapter ends with a quiz, so it can kind of be a social book.

What was that?

The Littlest Hobo?

No.

What was that?

I remember they used to finish...

What did they finish on? They used to play the theme tune from The Littlest Hobo and stuff like that.

But in the back room...

It was, you know, that was great.

The dog, Littlest Hobo.

Oh, I love the Littlest Hobo.

I love the song for that as well.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah.

Can't watch it.

The Littlest Hobo.

Is it about a dog?

You may cause Richie to play the song that makes him cry.

The Littlest Hobo theme song is the only song that can make me feel any kind of emotion whatsoever.

Any kind of like human emotion.

Like my heart is black as pitch.

It's basically a lump of coal at this point in my life.

The world made me this way.

But the only thing that can elicit any kind of basic human emotions is or nostalgia or sentiment in any way is the littlest hobo theme song.

And I don't think we're going to go there right now.

I'm gonna agree with here where you're gonna put this next Canadian one.

Uh, I'm assuming you mean The Littlest Hobo.

Mm-hmm.

So Littlest Hobo, kick Rin Tin Tin out.

Littlest Hobo, near great.

Well, I, I was gonna say, um, I would even maybe put Littlest Hobo in great, because Littlest Hobo was the basically the Canadian version, albeit, uh, a decade or so later, of Lassie, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Daryl, what did you think?

Well, it's, uh, it's nice to see that, uh, ROM has become the littlest hobo.

Um, I don't know if, You guys in the South have that show, but that was an 80s show for us Canadians where a stray dog would just go around from town to town, never really claiming an owner, and just helping out people that needed a helping hand.

It was called The Littlest Hobo, and it was the saddest song that you would see ever.

because the dog would never keep a home, and it would just kind of wander off at the end of an episode.

I think we had that

to admit, that Incredible Hulk song at the end, that's pretty sad.

Yeah.

Later in his career, he was in the Western revival classic Unforgiven, where Clint Eastwood's character shot him in the back, and also Bride of Chucky, Billy Madison, and The Freshman.

Early in his TV career, he appeared on King of Kensington, Cagney and Lacey, and The Littlest Hobo before the role on Seeing Things.

He had a role on the final Cinemax season of SCTV, and later appeared on another episode of Seeing Things.

Also, Street Legal, TNT, Rin Tin Tin Canine Cop, Due South, Bag of Bones, Warehouse 13, and a show called Avocado Toast, on which he was also serving as executive producer.