Description: Valerie In Toronto

This year, Valerie and Matt are on a bus in Bristol UK, trying to review her last two months here.Download directlyAll of this is explained better in the Tumblr Gert Lush, Eh?

A year to the day since the last Description podcast episode, Valerie stands on a windy beach in Shediac, New Brunswick and tries to update you on stuff while fighting off pneumonia.Download directly from Archive.orgAssociated linksThe Second (Great) Canadian National Day of PodcastingTown of ShediacDescription 75: Be...In This PlaceDescription 73: The Dual Citizens (aka the one with the birth mother)Movies For the BlindBayley on the BaizeDemo of my day job"My City Was Gone" by The Pretenders (ironically now associated with a very unpleasant radio show in the U.S.)Actually, I had some great material for National Podcast Post Month this year, but I was just too busy to even try to start. But I still want to put it out, so I suspect if there comes a month where I'm not as busy, NaPodPoMo or not, I'll put it out there, so hang in. Thanks!

For the Canadian National Day of Podcasting, Matt and Valerie review their National Podcast Post Month, with what they did and didn't learn. Concludes with Derek and Clive.Download directly or SubscribeWhat went on? Mission Statement

With pauses edited out, Matt talks on the phone with his pub landlord friend Ben, who fills in the holes of a story in which Matt shoots himself and an old woman, gets thrown in the trunk of car and finds himself on a 100-foot-high cliff.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement(Note: there'll be one more episode tomorrow, to celebrate The Canadian National Day of Podcasting.)

Elsewhere in Valerie's podcast world...audio-described scenes from the cult favourite Dementia 13, part of Episode 148 of Movies For the Blind.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

In Ohio, while watching a Manchester United game on tv, Valerie dad and Matt compare notes on their respective versions of football.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Matt and Valerie walk through downtown Buffalo, New York and inevitably go into a Tim Horton's.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

With pretty bad sound quality, Valerie finds out more about one of Matt's favourite songs as a spanner (British for nerd, as he means it), "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" by Hawkwind.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

In High Park, Matt and Valerie chat with two women taking care of a well-behaved Sheltie dog with a difficult home life.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

From another proper Description episode not completed, Valerie starts a soundseeing tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario and settles herself in the Henry Moore statue just outside.Download directly or Subscribe"Down by the Henry Moore" by Murray McLauchlanWikipedia explains the ShmooWhat's going on? Mission Statement

After Matt finds himself onstage with seven other guys doing another podcast, he and Valerie (who gets too loud again - sorry) discuss credibility and the dynamics of male conversation.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Matt talks about a stay in Blackpool, when a guest house owner had an unorthodox way of finding out who wrecked his stuff.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Valerie meets up with Matt just after he discovers Canada's largest Christmas parade going on steps away from where they live.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

A voiceover artist with a terrible cold, Valerie finds herself being an announcer for one of the world's most famous series of infomercials.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Two associated tracks from an album dear to Matt's heart, Clutching at Straws by Marillion.Download directly or SubscribeSinger/songwriter Fish on writing and recording the albumWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Maybe the prototypical episode: Watching the World Series, Valerie explains some baseball and Matt explains some cricket while everyone else in the bar is watching the hockey game.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Matt talks about visiting a snooker tournament in Wales, complete with hand injuries, smoke-filled chalets, a drunken meeting with a hero and girl-on-girl action.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

At Fynn's of Temple Bar before going to Podcaster LIVE Nite last week, Matt and Valerie discuss the wealth of Toronto stories left untold, and chat with one of the few non-immigrants remaining.Download directly or SubscribeScarborough Dude's Dicksnjanes podcast"Caker" in the Urban DictionaryWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Valerie reads from the newsletter by Bob Lefsetz about his most recent encounter with Lars Ulrich of one of Matt's favourite bands (though more in the past than now): Metallica.Download directly or SubscribeThe post Valerie read: "Lars"What's going on? Mission Statement

After discovering the combination of orange juice and beer, Matt discusses the Black Velvet in different cultures and the Purple Nasty in his.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission StatementOkay, you can't really be Canadian and mention Black Velvet without thinking of the Alannah Myles song. Sorry.

In what was supposed to be Matt's official podcast debut in April, the Manchester United supporter and Valerie walk to their first TFC game, with a bypass and a stop at the loo.Download directly or SubscribeBelated thanks to Toronto MikeWhat's going on? Mission Statement

Matt and Valerie introduce you to the happiest speed metal band ever: DragonForce.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement(Btw, these guys are looking for a new lead singer. Check their site for details.)Valerie's favourite sequence starts about 3:23.

For Remembrance (Veterans) Day, Valerie and Matt talk about a Bristolian looking for her Canadian soldier birth father, Matt's dad in a field of poppies and the charms of Weston-Super-Mare.Download directly or SubscribeDescription 47 - Remembrance DayWhat's going on? Mission Statement

At Podcaster LIVE Nite, Matt and Valerie (beware of her audio distortions - sorry) are visited by Keith McNally, a Canadian who tried living in New York City and decided there's no place like home....or at least Toronto.Download directly or SubscribeWhat's going on? Mission Statement