Best Oldcities Podcasts (2024)

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Moving Home 7:21

3d ago7:21

7:21

SHOW NOTES ▬ Is home the place where you were born, the place where you’ve lived your life, a place that you love, or a place you never really find? ▬ Sources: → “ Government Unveils New Provincial Licence Plate for Come Home Year,” VOCM 16 Nov. 2021, https://vocm.com/2021/11/16/government-unveils-new-provincial-licence-plate-for-come-home-year/ → …

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Memoir of a Secretive Mother 22:32

10d ago22:32

22:32

My interview with Marjorie Doyle, author of Mary Foley, Mary Doyle (Boulder Books, 2024) ▬ Sources: ○ Marjorie Doyle’s site: https://www.marjoriedoyle.ca/ ○ Boulder Books: https://boulderbooks.ca/product/mary-foley-mary-doyle/ ○ Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Mary-Foley-Doyle-Unravelling-mothers/dp/1989417914/▬…

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Excellent Service vs. Don’t-Give-a-Fuck’edness 7:11

18d ago7:11

7:11

Degrees of good and bad service exist everywhere, but in St. John’s at least, they seem to be extreme ▬By Wayne Jones

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Tons a Stuff, My Dear: An Archive of Newfoundland Culture and Language 27:20

25d ago27:20

27:20

My interview with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist at MUNFLA, Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archive ▬ Sources: ○ Memorial University, MUNFLA, https://www.mun.ca/munfla/ ○ Painting of W.J. Kirwin, one of the editors of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, located at the Folklore and Language Archive, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Cana…

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I Finds Me Bird 7:30

1M ago7:30

7:30

Newfoundland English, a puzzling complaint for a Zimbabwean doctor to hear, and my own experience with health care in St. John’s ▬ Sources: ○ Canadian Medical Association, How Is Health Care Funded in Canada?, https://www.cma.ca/how-health-care-funded-canada ○ CBC Radio, “Dr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia’s Journey from Zimbabwe to Newfoundland to the Cana…

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Mothers Day in Corner Brook 6:34

1M ago6:34

6:34

I celebrate Mothers Day in person with my mother ▬ Sources ▬ ○ Mike Ellis, Newfoundland Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Newfoundland Terms and Phrases, Gibbs Smith, 2019 ▬ ○ “molasses,” Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd edition with supplement, 1990, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictiona…

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Newfoundland and St. John’s: Names and Dates 7:03

1M ago7:03

7:03

Is St. John’s the oldest city in North America? ▬ Sources ▬ ○ Joan Rusted. St. John’s: A Brief History. Breakwater Books, 2011 ○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/ ○ “List of Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities,” Wikipedia, May 15, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ol…

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Wass Ya Doin’ Daday, B’y? 9:18

2M ago9:18

9:18

Some notes about driving across Newfoundland ▬By Wayne Jones

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You Should See the New Ones We Got Comin’ In 7:19

2M ago7:19

7:19

Sarcastic greeting cards and good people ▬ Sources ▬ ○ Photos of a restaurant, greeting cards, and a dress, https://photos.app.goo.gl/KkXdgY4he9sTwA2U8 ○ Oxford Dictionary of English, 3rd edition, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001 ○ “Tilt Cove,” Wikipedia, February 20, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_Cove ▬…

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Tension 10:10

2M ago10:10

10:10

How I became calm ▬ Source ▬ ○ Georgios Kakarinos and Theodoros Koutsomitros, “Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP),” July 7, 2019, in EFPT Psychotherapy Guidebook, https://epg.pubpub.org/pub/istdp/release/5By Wayne Jones

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Being the New Guy in My Old Birthplace 7:42

2M ago7:42

7:42

I haven’t been from Newfoundland in a very long while ▬ Sources ▬ ○ “List of municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador,” Wikipedia, November 1, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_municipalities_in_Newfoundland_and_Labrador ○ Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills, St. John’s Population and Lab…

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Who Am I and What Is Newfoundland? 8:30

2M ago8:30

8:30

▬ A bit about me, a bit about Newfoundland and this podcast, and a story about my mother’s and my adventure at a skeety donut shop ▬ Sources ▬ ○ “Skeet (Newfoundland),” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeet_(Newfoundland) ○ Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D. A. Widdowson, 2nd ed. with supplement…

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Newfoundland Boy

Wayne Jones

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Moving Home 7:21

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Memoir of a Secretive Mother 22:32

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Excellent Service vs. Don’t-Give-a-Fuck’edness 7:11

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Tons a Stuff, My Dear: An Archive of Newfoundland Culture and Language 27:20

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I Finds Me Bird 7:30

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Mothers Day in Corner Brook 6:34

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Newfoundland and St. John’s: Names and Dates 7:03

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Wass Ya Doin’ Daday, B’y? 9:18

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You Should See the New Ones We Got Comin’ In 7:19

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Tension 10:10

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Being the New Guy in My Old Birthplace 7:42

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Who Am I and What Is Newfoundland? 8:30

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