Introducing my new talk show
EPISODE SIX
guest: Trish Elliott
- coal kid, world traveller, reluctant memoirist
We talk about:
- smuggling shirts across the U.S. border
- starting an international incident in Bangkok
- never flying First Class
EPISODE FIVE
guest: Carla Beck
- Tae Kwon Do master, hairsprayer
We talk about:
- the independent Republic of Saskatchewan
- Finesse vs AquaNet hairsprays
- flying dropkicks on the floor of the Legislature
EPISODE FOUR
guest: Paul Dechene
- writer, political pundit, podcaster
We talk about:
- his love of Stallone and football
- his doppelgangers in Ottawa and Malta
- mathematicians at a dinner party
- his wife's mental state
EPISODE THREE
guest: Ian Colvin
- trombonist, librarian
We talk about:
- the two possible centres of the universe
- achieving one's greatest accomplishment at age 11
- sitting on a pail with one's dad
- and, of course, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto ad nauseam
EPISODE TWO
guest: Dr. Annabel Townsend
- writer, bookstore owner, coffee expert
We talk about:
- the insanity of blindly moving from the U.K. directly to Regina
- how Canadian editors try to de-British her books
- Annabel's interest in psycho-geography
- her horribly failing a Regina facts quiz, possibly jeopardizing her immigration status.
EPISODE ONE
guest: Brett Carson Bell
- filmmaker, writer, director, actor, editor, composer, teacher
We talk about
- Johnny Carson's connection to the Kennedy assassination
- Eva Braun's parking lot
- a film director who should have been stopped
- Colin Thatcher's bright yellow Corvette
- and a sad aspect of 9/11.
