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101 Robert Ironside: The Big Reveal
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- Generation X Offender
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- Jun 13, 2026
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Summary
In the grand tradition of a proper Bob & Kathy visit, it is obligatory to proceed at once to the stove and put the kettle on to boil. Brew the tea properly careful not to bruise it and ease yourself in to this week's episode of The GXO Podcast focusing on everything Robert Ironside & Family... Robert Ironside: The Big Reveal Now this story may have begun in 1983, when, on one fateful Halloween, two star crossed lovers first met... Or it may have begun August 16, 1983 when a 119 pound Toronto bound Blitz Kid stepped off a train at Union Station and into the skin of a 17 year bleach blonde alternative school educated punk calling himself Damien Emez... Or it may have started years earlier in the 1930s on the unforgiving streets of Depression era Toronto where a sullied homeless boy with holes in his pants never combed his hair... Or it may have started before World War 1 on Thorah Island with Bessie Big Canoe Emes, her husband William (referred to from here on is as Old Man Passmore) and their golden boy Joseph William Preston Passmore, who came into the world with so much promise in 1911, only to perish at the tender age of 7 in 1918 while his father William was fighting overseas in the muddied bombed out trenches of Europe... Thorah island, 60 miles northeast of Toronto, was under strict quarantine at the time due to the global Spanish flu epidemic. Alone with no one to help her, Bessie, our grandmother, was tasked with preparing her son's final resting place and committing his remains to the earth... Years later on her deathbed, Bessie turned to her youngest surviving son, my father, Bill Passmore, and made him vow that the family land on Thorah Island, southeast on Lake Simcoe, two and a half miles west of Beaverton, Ontario, never fall out of family hands...…