Best Karen Johnson Diamond Podcasts (2024)

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Season 4 Ep 47: Did you do something with your hair?!?! (Karen's Facebook Marketplace scams and The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist) 1:03:54

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Welcome back to our scattered schedule of scams! We are your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond and we'll bring you the scams that our tickling our fraud fancies at the moment. This episode: Karen talks about almost falling for a Facebook Marketplace scam, and Stephanie brings us a bank heist to beat all bank heists! Bots! No Guns! Flo…

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The Return of SCAMTIME! Season 4! Episode 46 (Geek Squad and Stephanie's spam emails) 1:02:25

11M ago1:02:25

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Well Stephanie and Karen went away, but scams sure didn't. We're always going to tell you about them, but probably not as frequently as before. Join us for our first episode in...forever. It's Season FOUR of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, no…

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Episode 45, Season 3 - Supernatural Bully Romance - Author Susan Meachen and Stephanie's Instagramscam. (TW: Talk of suicide) 1:01:03

1+ y ago1:01:03

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 44 - Season 3 - Broken Tacos and Cheezies Leggings. (The Lularoe Multilevel Marketing Fiasco) 1:25:52

1+ y ago1:25:52

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 43 - Season 3- Debunk Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale fools us all) 58:19

1+ y ago58:19

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 42 - Season 3 - My God Is A Guitar Pick (T. Lobsang Rampa and updates on three previous scams from Stephanie!) 57:52

1+ y ago57:52

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 41 - Season 3- Can't Find My Crockpot (PART TWO of The Bush Boys and an Intro to T. Lobsang Rampa) 54:39

1+ y ago54:39

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 40 - Season 3 -Bears Don't Peel Avocados! (Bush Boys PART ONE, and Heather Tallchief) 1:21:47

1+ y ago1:21:47

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 39 - Season 3 - This is How Mad I am at Hitler! (You Say Tomato, I Say Matisse) (Art stolen by Nazis and what is 'swatting'?) 1:36:24

1+ y ago1:36:24

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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(Repaired) Episode 38 Season 3 - A Tasty Mix of Porridge (The Catfishing of Manti-Te'o and the American National Ballet ) 1:39:08

1+ y ago1:39:08

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Episode 37 - Welcome to Season 3! : Gbuhgbuhgonkers (Gucci Billionaire Master and the fake Academy Award) 1:22:09

2y ago1:22:09

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It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists though, at times, we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives…

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Episode 35 - Season 2 - Bonsai Tree Box Cats and Duckbill Platypuses. (Little summer nuggets of scams!) 1:03:27

2y ago1:03:27

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. Sometimes the gals get too busy to dig deep into some real Scammy McScammersons, so in this episode they offer you some 'summer nuggets'; quick little peeks into the world of a bunch of…

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Episode 34 - Season 2 - It's Kind of Kooka Booka! (Greg Priore and Marla Olmstead) 1:38:34

2y ago1:38:34

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. In this episode, Karen throws the book at archivist Greg Priore, and Stephanie paints a picture of prodigy artist Marla Olmstead. 400 year old bibles and 4 year old artists. Would you c…

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Episode 33 - Season 2 - BALDERDASH! (..no...seriously...we're playing Balderdash) with Jan, John and Mark! 49:00

2y ago49:00

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week, Stephanie and Karen are joined by some past guest hosts (Mark Bellamy, John Ullyatt and Jan Alexandra Smith) to play the scammiest game there is: ABSOLUTE BALDERDASH. Here is…

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#75 - Alex Sarian 40:14

2y ago40:14

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, for the finale of the third season of The Breakfast Dish Podcast, Karen …

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#74 - Luc Tellier 34:42

2y ago34:42

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, director, and educator Luc Tellie…

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#73 - Spencer Estabrooks (Live at the Calgary Expo!) 48:32

2y ago48:32

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin were invited to record an episode live at the 2022 Cal…

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Episode 32 - Season 2- Don't stand on Jesus!!! (Layton Davies, George Powell, and 'Archbishop' Gilbert Deya) 1:09:20

2y ago1:09:20

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week, Stephanie digs up a buried treasure scam in the U.K. ( Layton Davies and George Powell) and Karen 'delivers' the story of a self titled "Archbishop" who promised infertile wo…

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#72 - Arlene Orchard and Dai Matsuzaka 33:41

2y ago33:41

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Dai Matsuzaka and Arlene Orchard, a Grade 12…

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#71 - Col Cseke & Mike Keir 33:04

2y ago33:04

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Col Cseke and Mike Keir from Inside Out Thea…

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#70 - Fabienne Colas 43:54

2y ago43:54

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with "The Queen of Festivals", Fabienne Colas. Wi…

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Episode 31 - Season 2 - Blackjack and Papinis - (With Trevor Leigh) (MIT scams and the kidnapping of Shari Papini) 59:59

2y ago59:59

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week guest host Trevor Leigh tell us about a bunch of MITs making MILLs and Karen shares the very current fake kidnapping of Shari Papini Hit! Double Down! Branded shoulders! Thing…

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#69 - Jason Mehmel 48:24

2y ago48:24

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Jason Mehmel; the Artistic Director of Sage Theatr…

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Episode 30 - Season 2 - Left Handed Whoppers and Spoon Benders (Amazing Randy and some April Fools tricks) 1:25:07

2y ago1:25:07

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie talks about the Amazing Randy, debunker of mentalists and 'healers'. Karen shares some of the worst and weirdest April Fools jokes/tricks/scams. Dusty phone lines! L…

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#68 - Tenaj Williams 41:44

2y ago41:44

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Tenaj Williams; Actor, Singer, Dancer, Playwright …

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Episode 29 - Season 2 - Falcon! Get out of the Mushroom! (The Twin Flames Universe and the 2009 Balloon Boy) 1:25:52

2+ y ago1:25:52

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie and Karen tell you about Shaleia and Jeff Ayan and the Twin Flames Universe, and the story of the 2009 Balloon Boy! Mushrooms! Falcons! Restraining Orders! Things to…

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#67 - Mary-Ellen Perley 39:13

2+ y ago39:13

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Mary-Ellen Perley - the President of the Alberta D…

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#66 - Monty Haughian 38:51

2+ y ago38:51

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen (bravely, without Griffin) is joined by Monty Haughian from Grande Prair…

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Episode 28 - Season 2 - So Many Camels! (With Trevor Leigh) (Jonathan Tokeley- Parry, plus some nuggets!) 59:48

2+ y ago59:48

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie and Karen have a couple of fun little nuggets, and they are joined by good pal Trevor Leigh. Trevor has knocked the gold leaf and plaster off of an excellent scam an…

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#65 - Alixandra Cowman 37:17

2+ y ago37:17

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, musician and honey lover Alixandra Cowm…

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#64 - Gabriel Covarrubias 33:28

2+ y ago33:28

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor and lovely human, Gabriel Covarrubias! G…

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#63 - Crystal McGrath 36:29

2+ y ago36:29

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Canadian country music artist, Crystal McGrath…

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Episode 27 - Season 2- Crop Circle Ballet (Crop Circles and the American National Ballet part #1) 1:40:37

2+ y ago1:40:37

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes. This week Stephanie circles around crop circles and Karen dances around the American National Ballet. Gun Bras! Dave! Doug! Fractals! Things to help this episode make sense: Tiger ice c…

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#62 - Dave Smith 44:26

2+ y ago44:26

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Dave Smith. If you're in the Albertan theatre …

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Episode 26 - Season 2 - Paul Is More Dead (With Kimmy Beach) (More on the 'Paul is Dead' hoax) 59:33

2+ y ago59:33

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes where no one was actually harmed (but Paul is Dead). This week, Karen's sister Kimmy (author, editor and Beatlemaniac) fill us in on more details of the Paul is Dead hoax of the 60s/70s.…

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#61 - Louis B. Hobson 40:39

2+ y ago40:39

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Louis B. Hobson! Louis is an actor, director a…

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#60 - Franca Gualtieri 39:54

2+ y ago39:54

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Franca Gualtieri! When Karen met Franca, she w…

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Episode 25 - Season 2 PAUL IS DEAD...or kidnapped (Paul McCartney and fake kidnapping scams( 1:21:31

2+ y ago1:21:31

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Note: This is our final episode for 2021. We'll be back in February with more Scammy MsScamface Scamaramadingdongs! Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and unsubstantiated eastern religious symbols. This week, Stephanie talks about fake kidnapping scams and Karen g…

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#59 - Anna Cummer 48:15

2+ y ago48:15

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Anna Cummer - an actor, playwright and voice-o…

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#58 - Mike Tan 44:32

2+ y ago44:32

44:32

Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Mike Tan; Actor, artist, photographer and one …

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#57 - Caleigh Crow and Cris Derksen 42:16

2+ y ago42:16

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Caleigh Crow and Cris Derksen about the co-product…

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#56 - Jordan Bouma 42:00

2+ y ago42:00

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin chat with animator, actor, grip and Jack-Of-All-Trades Jorda…

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Episode 24 - Season 2 - FBI Bush (Alan, Eric, Precious/Ghana Princess scam...plus some nuggets!) 1:10:32

2+ y ago1:10:32

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and baby FBI agents This week Karen gets on the scam-nugget train with some circus scams, and Stephanie talks about Alan, Eric, Precious and THE WIFE; all made up names in a Ghana Princess scam. Brenda Towers! Agent Martin Shaw! …

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#55 - Sandy "Oma" Moser 44:34

2+ y ago44:34

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week, Karen and Griffin finally convince the Great One to come onto their weird litt…

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Episode 23 - Season 2 - ALL Games are HARD!! (Charles and Diana Ingram and some tasty scam nuggets) 56:47

2+ y ago56:47

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds...and talking eyeballs This week, Karen tells the story of Charles and Diana....Ingram. Not the Royals. Who Wants To Cheat On A Game Show!? Stephanie has some tasty scam nuggets shared by folks who have fallen victim to these Scamm…

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#54 - Rohit Chokhani 43:59

2+ y ago43:59

43:59

Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week Karen and Griffin are joined by the new Artistic Director at Alberta Theatre Pr…

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#53 - Jamie Dunsdon 39:25

2+ y ago39:25

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! This week Karen and Griffin are joined by Jamie Dunsdon. She's the Artistic Director of V…

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Episode 22 - Season 2 - Shit Shoes (Pepsi Number Fever and Esther Reed) 1:17:13

2+ y ago1:17:13

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Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds.....and the adjective 'bucolic' (not a disease). In this episode, Karen covers "Pepsi's Number Fever" or "The 349 Incident" , while Stephanie takes us to school with the story of Esther Reed who stole the identity of a missing woma…

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#52 - Stephanie Wolfe 32:15

2+ y ago32:15

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free! Stephanie Wolfe is an Edmonton based theatre artist who has been hanging out on stages, b…

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#51 - Emily Renner Wallace & Matt McKinney (Live from CIFF) 39:56

2+ y ago39:56

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Welcome to the premiere of Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! The mandate of TBD is changing a little bit. Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. But sometimes there will be guests that our hosts just think are just the best with nothing to promote. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Joh…

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