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When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
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What happens when a blacksmith is best friends with a tinsmith??. Andrew Cirtwill of Deer Run Forge and Kipling Campbell of Tapley Tinsmith challenge each other every month to make something great out of metal. We talked about our projects, lessons learned, motivation to create and other things that come up.
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Genesis: The Global Study

Pastor Dale Critchley

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In recent years, the Book of Genesis has produced more name-calling than any other part of the Bible. With widely varied interpretations, the first two chapters polarize churches, communities, and schools. Organizations, museums, and theme parks have been built around the debate, often making the political sphere look civil and tame by comparison. But Genesis is more than its first two chapters, and even those first chapters offer more than just a look at the early days of the earth. This st ...
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Matt Ward has been recording voiceovers and the spoken word since 1993, and now runs Audio Editing Secrets, a live online training course in how to make podcasts. In this podcast he talks to other podcast makers about their podcasts and how they create them. He talks through their process and workflow, how they have set up their recording space, what equipment they use, and then give them the opportunity to delve into his 30+ years of sound engineering experience to help them solve issues th ...
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Join your hosts as they discuss the highs and lows of medieval living history and re-enactment. Through their personal experiences, and with a help from expert guests and friends, they walk you through lessons learned in the hobby and set you on the right path to success.
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Post-Race Inspection

Alex Gagnon and Nate Schweitzer

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Hosts Alex Gagnon and Nate Schweitzer are here to break down each and every NASCAR weekend, with discussions about the previous race, major news in the NASCAR world, and more. Covers the NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series, Craftsman Truck Series, a bit of ARCA and more.
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In the Balance

Susan Lambert: LCSW, Therapist, Artist, Podcaster

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In the Balance is a new podcast featuring therapist and artist Susan Lambert. She welcomes peers, experts and leaders from diverse backgrounds/ all walks of life who share their experiences of working, loving, and playing with their entire, integrated, holistic, human selves. These inspiring discussions explore their stories, giving us “how to” ideas, routines, and strategies to achieve balance, buoyancy and energy!
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The Dimension Door Podcast is proud to be branching out. Welcome to our second show, Severed Fate! Join Amanda (Marge Gunderson) as she GM's a group of Gestalt Dhamphir Bard Half-Siblings through Paizo's horror adventure path, Carrion Crown. Our players include fan favorite Zac Kreitler (Norm Gunderson/Bolka Folgritson), as well as podcast newcomers Madison Rogers and Nick Thunder. Severed Fate airs every other Wednesday, in off weeks of the regular Dimension Door Podcast feed.
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Practical ideas, approaches, & tools to help you fast-forward your goals WHILE enjoying total wellbeing, and more time for you. I'm a total geek when it comes to tapping our full potential as human beings - so we can live great lives, and have a great time doing so! In podcast I share proven, implementable tactics and insights on wellbeing, personal development, mindset, lifestyle management, self-employment, and more. Plus hear from others who've walked the bumpy road of achievement. So you ...
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Infinite Minute

Jonathon Lawrence & Caitlin Mathieson

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Sk8 + friends = Infinite Minute! Adapting the movie-by-minute podcast genre to anime-by-minute, Jonathon Lawrence and Caitlin Mathieson attempt to rewatch the Winter 2021 anime 'Sk8 the Infinity' minute by minute! They'll analyse, scrutinise, and get sidetracked watching an anime they both really enjoyed the first time round, but will they discover more on an infinite rewatch? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Shallow Research

Laura & Christina

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Welcome to Shallow Research - everyday pop culture and lifestyle recs from two Ph.D.'s in yoga pants. We're a nation of consumers, from media to macchiatos. But what's worth your time, money, and energy? We use our nerd powers of research, analysis, and synthesis to break down what makes our days a little brighter, aside from our scholarly pursuits. Listen to our hot takes on everything from Bravo TV to Oscar nominees as we share our favorite movies, shows, music, recipes, travel spots, beau ...
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Sloane Crosley’s jewelry was stolen from her home, and one month later, her best friend, Russell, died. She writes about these experiences in the memoir Grief is For People, which is witty and heartbreaking. Sloane joined Mattea Roach to talk about her grief, her best friend and writing about it all.…
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The novel Oil People is about a family in southwestern Ontario with deep connections to the oil industry. Oil is their present-day livelihood and heritage, but it might also be poisoning them physically and spiritually. David Huebert speaks to Mattea Roach about writing Oil People.
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Heather O'Neill is an icon in Canadian literature who has won a ton of awards. And now she has a new novel. It’s called The Capital of Dreams and it’s about the influence of art and literature on our lives. It follows 14-year-old Sofia as she hunts for her mother’s lost manuscript during the chaos of war. Heather speaks to Mattea Roach about her la…
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In this bonus episode of the podcast, farmer, co-op expert and newly minted University of the Fraser Valley faculty member Chris Bodnar describes a BC Tree Fruits Cooperative that was beset with internal problems in the years leading up to BCTF's recent, sudden closure in late July. Chris published a piece on Linkedin that delves deeper than we do.…
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Iranian American writer Kaveh Akbar and his novel Martyr! are everywhere these days. Martyr! made the New York Times bestseller list and several summer reading lists, including Barack Obama's. Drawing on Kaveh's own experience with addiction and recovery, it's about Cyrus, a 20-something Iranian American poet who’s in the early years of sobriety. C…
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For the conclusion of Writers and Company, the tables are turned and author Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel. Recorded at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal last spring, Thien speaks with Eleanor about her early life in Montreal, memorable moments from her career and more. They also look back on Eleanor's conv…
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The Scottish author reflects on the stories she grew up with, the influence of feminism and how time moves in circular patterns. Ali Smith has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize four times. Her 2014 novel How to Be Both won the Women's Prize for fiction and the Costa Book Award for novel. She spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2018 about the first tw…
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The BC Tree Fruits Co-Op announced it's immediate closure on July 25th. This shocked the apple sector, and hit the co-op's 300+ members pretty hard. Herein: a summary of the story so far, and an interview with a co-op member who's super pissed about this. She explains why the closure is such a big deal in terms of the impact it will have on apple g…
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Send us a Text Message. This month's Challenge is a Animal Brooch . It had to be an animal we had not made before, and it had to be small enough to be worn as a brooch. Kipling used copper and epoxy to make a loon brooch. While Andrew made a wire frame silhouette of a wolf with scrolls inside out of a coat hanger. As now tradition, we talk about ou…
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The American architect, known for challenging the idea of form, reflects on his life and the experiences that shape his work, from his days as a lieutenant in the Korean War to his time studying in Europe. He founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and is the author of several books on architecture and design, including Lateness. P…
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The American novelist draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. Raised with an acute black consciousness, during a time when "'mixed' wasn't an option; you were either black or white," Senna brings an awareness — and astute analysis — of class, race and identity to all her writing. She spoke wit…
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This week I am chatting with Hannah about her show, A Pair of Bookends, which started out as an online book club podcast during Covid, but has now become quite prominent in the literary industry with a wealth of authors and publishers requesting a spot as a guest on the show. Hannah shares a few secrets around her unexpected success, and we discuss…
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In episode 13, which focused on how agrologists are regulated in BC, I teased the possibility of sharing an interview with someone who has been affected by the regulation that grants exclusivity over the practice of agrology in BC to registered agrologists. Here's that interiew, but you'll get a lot more out of it by first listening to episode 13. …
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This time on the podcast, a conversation with Vincent and Lewis Burkholder, a pair of brothers who worked summers for the local sweet corn baron as teenagers and ended up taking over his operation, sort of. I'm referring, of course, to The Burkholder Bros Corn Farm, a business that thwarted my effort to nab the URL I wanted in order to promote a ne…
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Novelist and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray reflects on the fascinating lives of her parents in her memoir, Them, which follows their journey from the artistic Russian émigré community of 1930s Paris to the top of New York's high society. The memoir won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Francine du Plessix Gray was…
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Born during the Depression in Lockport, New York, Joyce Carol Oates started writing as a teen and has since written more than one hundred books, many of them portraying the darkness of American society. Her writing has earned her virtually every major American literary prize, as well as Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Grand Prix in 2012. After accepting…
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In this episode I speak with Jo and Melissa about their podcast which is called Buddhist Chats. Its a lovely show which is basically a chat between the hosts and their guests who practise Nichiren buddhism about whatever they feel on the day. You can listen to the Buddhist Chats podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ft3HYXyCNW2hVI1obiOFM or whe…
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This episode: Jane Kerner, interim CEO of the British Columbia Institute of Agrologists, joins me to discuss recent updates to how professional agrologists are regulated in BC, the definition of agrology contained in that regulation, and what the exclusivity granted to agrologists in BC to offer agricultural advice means for farmers and other farmi…
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In this episode I speak with Haydn Williams, who is a creative consultant for the entertainment industry. He also hosts the Man In The Mirror podcast, which is about male grooming, skincare, fragrance, and what men really see when they look in the mirror, which runs alongside his @yousmellgreatwhatisit blog. You can listen to the Man In The Mirror …
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Even though Edna O’Brien left Ireland more than 50 years ago, the texture and atmosphere of the country continue to permeate her work. Her first seven books were banned or suppressed in Ireland. In fact her debut novel, The Country Girls, was burned in her home parish for depicting the ambitions and sexual desires of young women. Today, O'Brien is …
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This episode: Andrew Vogler on fifteen years as a mixed veggie grower in the Fraser Valley, and why he and his business partner decided to wind down a farm operation that was succeeding. Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board? Send a voice memo (preferred!) or written wo…
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In this episode I speak with actor, comedian and journalist Dominic Frisby. Dominic hosts a podcast titled The Flying Frisby, where he reads out loud the articles that he writes for Money Week and other publications. He tells me about his equipment, his process, and we also have a chat about how AI is affecting his work. You can listen to The Flyin…
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In 2018, Eleanor Wachtel went to New York City to interview one of North America's most renowned and daring creative pioneers, Laurie Anderson. The multimedia artist and musician had just published her retrospective book, All the Things I Lost in the Flood, inspired by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which destroyed Anderson's archive o…
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This week, for Pride season, the Oscar-nominated playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. Known most recently for his movie collaborations with Steven Spielberg, including Lincoln, Westside Story and The Fablemans, Kushner's breakout hit was his epic play Angels in America, the winner of multiple Tonys and a Pulitzer Prize, among many other awards…
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In this episode I talk to podcast makers Michelle Thomas and Joseph Dance about their “Greens vs Blacks” podcast. It’s a retrospective look at hit HBO show House of the Dragon, and I delve into their process of making their podcast, setting up a home studio, editing with Adobe Audition without any previous experience, and the importance of good mic…
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This episode: you'll hear from two brothers who farm next door to one another who fight about which weather forecast is better: Environment Canada or The Weather Network. Then: a meteorlogist from each agency joins me to explain how and why forecasts from different agencies come to different conclusions about whether it's going to rain on while you…
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Send us a text This month's Challenge is a Metal House Plant . Kipling made a copper money plant from scrap copper cutoffs using a broken texturing die and Andrew made a steel Venus Flytrap with multiple heads and sharp pokey bits.. As now tradition, we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share an esoteric eggle about some vintage music. Check…
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This week, American Canadian novelist Claire Messud. Throughout her career and in her new book, This Strange Eventful History, one of TIME’s most anticipated of 2024, Messud draws on her own family's history, especially that of her French Algerian father. In 2001 she spoke with Eleanor about her novel The Last Life, which traces three generations o…
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A final little bonus ‘Infinite Minute’! This was some of the stuff that I had to cut for context/coughing, funny little bloopers, or moments that I would send to Caity while I was editing that made us both laugh. Enjoy, or don’t! - Jono Full spoilers for ‘Sk8 the Infinity' are contained within this podcast. If you hate coughing on podcasts, do not …
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This episode, my conversation with Richard Bullock, a past Chair of the Agricultural Land Commission. Richard joined me to talk about a life in farming and why chairing the ALC was the hardest job he took on in sixty five years as a farmer. The ALC's Annual Report is a good way to learn the fundamentals about the ALC/ALR if you're into that sort of…
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We finished ‘Infinite Minute’! We have finally completed "Sk8 the Infinity" minute by minute, our long journey has come to a close, the dub gets one final chance to redeem themselves and they kinda blow it, we’re getting our tennis players and hurdlers confused, and Jono has STATS. Thank you for joining us on this MASSIVE undertaking, whether you’v…
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Classic church and steeple bit on ‘Infinite Minute’! Holy god it is the final full minute of the show and we’re not sure what to do with ourselves, the boys got closure because the pup said kay and the dog said hai and we’re not calling this episode Tadushy, we don’t know where anyone is, the whole show is bookended beautifully, and good work, guit…
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Germany's Jenny Erpenbeck is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 for her novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann. She spoke with Eleanor Wachtel, who chaired the International Booker Prize jury, in 2015 about The End of Days, an imaginative story that spans the 20th century through the eyes of a character who lives multiple versio…
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The political subplot is the centrepiece of ‘Infinite Minute’! This podcast has been our early thirties, Kaoru “caligraphies” on Joe’s face, Miya gets a cute send off (care of the Chill Out comics), POV you’re standing on Kiriko’s desk as she gets shipped off to Tokyo, the superintendent has a funny voice, and Mitch teaches us about Meguca and asks…
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It’s Mitchell again on ‘Infinite Minute’! We’re served up with a jam-packed ED montage, Mitchell can’t remember every character from this show because he hasn’t watched it in three years, we’re STILL talking about Challengers (2024), the green hoody is canon, and Jono sounds extremely out of touch talking about a meme no-one understands Full spoile…
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SHADOKA APPEARS on ‘Infinite Minute’! We finally see a long-awaited ship moment, we feel more for Tadashi and Ainosuke than the Renga hug, Shadow is the best and Cherry is the worst? and “if the hug doesn‘t get me the puppy play will” will be etched into Jono’s tombstone. Full spoilers for ‘Sk8 the Infinity' are contained within this podcast. Twitt…
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This episode we’re taking a look at small scale pork production in BC, and specifically, a few farrowing operations around the province. Got something to tell me? Are you a farmer or non-profit that wants to post something on the community bulliten board? Send a voice memo (preferred!) or written words to Jordan: 250 767 6636 podcast@farminginbc.ca…
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Send us a text This month's Challenge is a Bird Bookend. Kipling made a brass and copper woodpecker with fancy cutouts and Andrew made a hummingbird with small flowers on a heavy metal base. As now tradition we talk about our shop woes and wonders and share some esoteric eggels too. Check us out on social media to vote for your favourite @deerrunfo…
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We don’t know what we’re watching anymore on ‘Infinite Minute’! We’re banking our finale eps, we are in a volunteer environment and should be a registered charity, the beef finally finishes, the fence is giving cemetery, Vale is cooking onion and potato galette because Caity hates vegies on the side and we’re all tangented out because we’re talking…
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Jackie Kay’s adoption as a baby, and investigation into her birth parents — a Nigerian father and Scottish mother — give her an original take on Scotland and cultural identity. Jackie Kay talked about her uncomfortable discoveries upon meeting her birth parents, as well as her two books, Wish I Was Here and Darling: New and Selected Poems, when she…
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What are they gonna change fun to in the dub on ‘Infinite Minute’! We’re taking it one word at a time as Adam does not have any fun, the whole peanut gallery has their say, are you the kind of person who gets scared pouring milk on your cereal,” why does God force me to work” we scream to the heavens as we contemplate the meaning of life, and yeah …
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Chicago (2002) did win the 2003 Academy Award for Best Picture on ‘Infinite Minute’! But Challengers (2024) is all we’re talking about! Are you team Patrick or Art? What do you think the ending means? How good is that score?! By the time I’m editing this episode it’s already off the TL but we had JUST WATCHED IT OK Full spoilers for ‘Sk8 the Infini…
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In 2004, just before she won the Scotiabank Giller Prize (for the second time) for her story collection, Runaway, Alice Munro met Eleanor Wachtel at a restaurant near the author's home to discuss her new book, her interest in writing about infidelity and sex and her life growing up in Wingham, Ontario. The acclaimed Canadian short story writer, and…
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Count the rotations of the fall on ‘Infinite Minute’! And what a minute (sarcastic), as the boys spend a lot of time on the ground, Langa is spinning on the X axis while Adam is on the Y, and then everyone wills them to stand up, and hey I just summarised the minute so you don’t have to! Full spoilers for ‘Sk8 the Infinity' are contained within thi…
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