Podcasts about Brockville

In this one, the guys reminisce about their favourite memories of Alex Ovechkin over the years, now that he is officially the greatest goal scorer in NHL history. Then, Harp chats with Simon Mack, Brockville native, who is the captain of the Penn State hockey team who is going to the Frozen Four! Your next chapter starts today. Get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp online therapy: https://betterhelp.com/boysinthebooth. (In paid partnership with BetterHelp)Download your new favourite sports book using our link: https://signupexpert.com/boysintheboothUse code BOYSINTHEBOOTH for $20 off your first SeatGeek purchaseALL LINKS: https://linktr.ee/boysinthebooth

Hello to you listening in Brockville, Ontario, Canada!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.Question: What is the difference between knowing something and knowing about something?The distinction is important because people often write what they know about based on what social media tells us whether that's politics, sports, entertainment, social justice, and so on. Social media also tells us how come what we know about is important to us. As a result what we know about often doesn't matter that much. The disconnect shows up in our writing, as if maybe AI generated it.What we know comes from lived experience. What we know is a clue to what matters to us. For example, I might know about the grinding defeat of poverty; but I know from lived experience the defeat of betrayal.When we write a heartfelt story about something that we know we are pulling on imagination, sensations, memories, feelings, and emotions. Those universal story elements are shared by every other human being. When we write from that place of knowing we more easily connect with, engage and inspire our readers and listeners to action.CTA: Curious to learn more? Email me at info@quartermoonstoryarts.net to have a no-obligation conversation.Til next our paths cross, be well, do good work, and keep in touch.  You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, I hope you'll subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. Be sure to stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website, check out the Services, arrange a no-obligation discovery chat, and Opt In to stay current with me as "Wyzga on Words" on Substack.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved. 

Ewan Whyte's feature essay, ‘The Cult That Raised Me' – about the United States based Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College – includes the introduction, “When I was 11, my parents sent me to Grenville Christian College, a prestigious Anglican boarding school in Brockville. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult that brainwashed, abused and terrorized students. For decades, the school tried to intimidate us into silence. It didn't work.”Ewan Whyte is a writer, art and cultural critic. He has written for the Globe & Mail and the Literary Review of Canada. He is the author of Desire Lines: Essays on Art Poetry & Culture, Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art and Culture and Entrainment, a book of poetry, and a translation of the rude ancient Roman poet Catullus. His feature essay 'The Cult that Raised Me' was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Ewan's upcoming book, Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College, will be released in June and is available for preorder now. In advance of its release, Ewan shared some of his research and thoughts about these two organisations.You can support us on Patreon. Sarah Steel's debut book Do As I Say is available on audiobook now.Links:Mothers of Invention: Essays on the Community of Jesus and Grenville Christian College — by Ewan Whyte, Wolsak & Wynn, 2025The Cult That Raised Me — by Ewan Whyte, Toronto Life, 5 January 2021I-Team: Former Members Of Cape Religious Group Allege Emotional Abuse, 'People Don't Realize The Mind Control' — WBZ News, 4 November 2021Aaron Bushnell: Friends struggle to comprehend US airman's Gaza protest death — by Kayla Epstein & Angelica Casas, BBC News, 3 March 2024 Subscribe and support the production of this independent podcast, and you can access early + ad-free episodes at https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Got feedback about this episode? Send Carolyn a textToday I'm thrilled to introduce you to the extraordinary, Alyse Gilliver.At 36 years old, Alyse is living proof that it's never too late to discover your potential. A dedicated oncology nurse and mother of three young children – ages 2, 4, and 6 – she balances her demanding career and family life with a newfound passion for running. With the unwavering support of her husband and guidance of her coach, Paula Wiltse – a local legend in Brockville, Ontario and friend of Inspired Soles! – Alyse has made incredible strides in the marathon world.It's hard to believe that she only started taking running seriously in 2023 where she busted out a jaw-dropping 3:04 and 2nd place finish at the Georgina Marathon in September. Fast forward to today, and her marathon resume includes a 3:01 finish in Boston, an impressive 2:48 and 2nd place female at Petit Train du Nord, and since recording this episode last week, a blazing 2:44:38 at the Houston Marathon, where she placed 2nd in her competitive 35-39 age group.Beyond her racing success, Alyse has built a thriving online community through Instagram. She's transparent about how she balances training and racing with her family & career, but she also gives so much support to other athletes and moms who are getting after their own big running goals. This conversation is a great reminder of the many upsides to social media, how it can connect us with like-minded people, and propel our running to new heights. Resources we discussed in the episode:Alyse's episode on the Miles With Moms podcastEpisodes with Alyse's coach, Paula Wiltse:Redefining Success in your 50sRun Canada Podcast: Meet Your SheroesConnect with Alyse:Instagram: @aleebreegee.runConnect with Carolyn:Instagram: @inspiredsolescastYou can help spread the running love! The best way to SUPPORT Inspired Soles is to share your favourite episode(s) with friends, subscribe, or leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Connect on Instagram @inspiredsolescast or email guest ideas to inspiredsolescast@gmail.com.

(Jan 16, 2025) The family of an inmate who was fatally beaten last month is suing the officers involved, but union protections make it incredibly difficult for officers to be fired, even in cases of abuse; St. Lawrence County will soon have a new crisis intervention service provider; we hear about what it's like to be live on air — at a different North Country radio station; and, Brockville photographer Paris Escandón is legally blind. His latest works feature portraits of community members in crisis.

Laurie, Mark & Scott try to find some Christmas cheer after Hearts deliver a much needed win over St Johnstone, but the lads also have to cover the disappointing exit […]

(Dec 13, 2024) Paris Escandón's photos appear in "Brockville Un:Scene," which features photographs of Brockville's vulernable population, including those without homes and struggling with addiction or mental illness.

Learn more about Fetch Long Beach and register here today!  Meghan Solc, DVM, DACVD, grew up on a hobby farm in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Solc later moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada, where she ultimately achieved her dream of becoming a veterinarian, receiving her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 2012 from the Atlantic Veterinary College. After graduation, Solc relocated to Toronto, Ontario, to complete a rotating and specialty dermatology internship. She was accepted into a residency with Thrive Pet Healthcare Partner Dermatology for Animals. In 2018, she became an American College of Veterinary Dermatology diplomate. Solc has continued her work with Dermatology for Animals in Akron, Ohio, and recently moved to Catonsville, Maryland. She has trained two dermatology specialty technicians and continues to work with residents through the ACVD. In 2024, she received the dvm360 Veterinary Heroes Award for dermatology. She resides in Baltimore with her wife, Katie, and their fur kids, Bruce, Iris, and Max. When she's not promoting the field of veterinary dermatology, Solc can be found traveling, hiking, rowing, and exploring new foodie spots.

In this episode, Harp chats about three players who aren't living up to their contracts. Then, Harp is joined by the Mayor of Brockville, Matt Wren, to talk about the upcoming IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship! Support the podcast:1. Download your new favourite sports book using our link: https://signupexpert.com/boysinthebooth2. Use code BOYSINTHEBOOTH for $20 off your first SeatGeek purchaseLINKS BELOW:https://linktr.ee/boysinthebooth

The nights are drawing in and the Bairns are drawing as well as Ross and John look back at the results against Livingston and Partick Thistle Guest pundit Chris Hynd joins the boys and get ready for a brand new theme tune! Plus looking ahead to Hamilton, a Brockville blast from the past and how to sneak a pet into Centre Parcs… Expect the Unexpected! Behind the Wall – Behind the Bairns since 1985 Falkirk's best selection of fine wines lagers, craft and cask ales, fantastic value food and great service. Check out what's on www.behindthewall.co.uk Join the FFIT T8s https://www.facebook.com/groups/1803421196843918 Get the new Fakirk Daft t-shirt: https://pintsnprints.co.uk/collections/falkirk-collection And Remember sign up for our Discord and Social Media:  Discord - https://discord.com/invite/sVYbRzzusK  Twitter/Insta/Facebook - @Falkirkdaft  Get Merch: merch.falkirkdaft.co.uk For any sponsorship enquiries email sales@falkirkdaft.co.uk

If you go to Brockville, Ont., you will soon be able to find an ultra-discount grocery store under the Loblaw umbrella. The same kind of store is set to open in Windsor, Ont., and St. Catharines, Ont., as well. Scott Radley sat down with economist Moshe Lander, a lecturer at Concordia University to talk about what this could mean for the grocery shopping landscape.

This week on the podcast, we're chatting with Lisa, an alumna of Grenville Christian College, a boarding school in Brockville, Ontario. Founded in 1969 by Charles Farnsworth, the school aimed for high academics and Christian values. But in the late '90s and early 2000s, former students came forward with claims of abuse, sparking investigations and lawsuits. By 2007, Grenville closed amid controversy. The closure raised concerns about private school oversight and student protection. In 2013, former students won a lawsuit against the school, marking a pivotal moment for justice.   Join the class action lawsuit: https://scharfsteinlaw.com/class-action/ Statement of Claim: https://shorturl.at/bpxY9 Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LoAPod Donate to our Legal Fund: https://gofund.me/8a7995cc Instagram: https://shorturl.at/ejOY5 Twitter:  https://shorturl.at/mtIW3 Contact Us: legacyofabusepodcast@gmail.com

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we are joined by Sean Billing, whose fascinating journey began in the small city of Brockville, Ontario. For those unfamiliar with the geography, Brockville is a charming locale situated about 45 minutes east of Kingston, along the picturesque St. Lawrence River.After completing university and spending a brief period in teaching, Sean found his true calling in the hospitality industry. His passion has led him on an extraordinary career path, encompassing hotels and resorts across Canada, the United States, and Africa. Ultimately, Sean's journey brought him back to eastern Ontario, where he now serves as the Managing Partner at The Frontenac Club.The Frontenac Club, rich in history spanning 180 years, has hosted notable figures such as Alexander Graham Bell and, writer, Michael Ondaatje. Today, it stands as a 20-room hotel in the heart of historical Kingston, offering guests a unique blend of heritage and modern comfort.Join us as we delve into Sean's experiences and insights in the hospitality industry and learn more about the storied past and vibrant present of The Frontenac Club.Here is the address for the Club's website:  frontenacclub.comOur theme music is “Stasis Oasis”, by Tim Aylesworth Follow us on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, Threads & X Send comments & suggestions to thekingstonianpodcast@gmail.com Episodes also air weekly on CJAI at 101.3fm (Tue. at 6pm) and on CFRC at 101.9fm (Wed. at 2pm). Check our social media for program details.

(May 22, 2024) The Adirondack guideboat has become an icon of the North Country. But there are fewer and fewer craftspeople who still make them. We meet one of them in Blue Mountain Lake. Also: North Country motorsports fans have lost a legend in racing. "Barefoot" Bob McCreedie was a fan favorite during his 35-year career competing in LaFargeville, Brockville and Evans Mills.

This week Taylor discusses the hard choices she had in picking a movie this week. Mike tells a story about seeing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes this weekend, but he’ll save his review for next week. Taylor and Mike discuss a theatre closing in Brockville and the Netflix current subscription plans. This week, Mike […]

This week on the podcast, we're chatting with Lisa, an alumna of Grenville Christian College, a boarding school in Brockville, Ontario. Founded in 1969 by Charles Farnsworth, the school aimed for high academics and Christian values. But in the late '90s and early 2000s, former students came forward with claims of abuse, sparking investigations and lawsuits. By 2007, Grenville closed amid controversy. The closure raised concerns about private school oversight and student protection. In 2013, former students won a lawsuit against the school, marking a pivotal moment for justice.   Join the class action lawsuit: https://scharfsteinlaw.com/class-action/ Statement of Claim: https://shorturl.at/bpxY9 Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LoAPod Donate to our Legal Fund: https://gofund.me/8a7995cc Instagram: https://shorturl.at/ejOY5 Twitter:  https://shorturl.at/mtIW3 Contact Us: legacyofabusepodcast@gmail.com

Carolyn Bennett is a former Montrealer who left the city in the 1980s. She recently penned an op-ed piece in The Gazette after revisiting the city. She joined Montreal Now's Aaron Rand to explain why she left the city and what inspired her to write a love letter to the city.

There are many different ways in which you can instill and live out the values that you have founded your Canadian private practice on.  For Courtney, the value of community is a driving factor that positively impacts the work that she and her colleagues do. So much so, that her private practice offers a scholarship for students doing their bachelors in social work or psychology!  In this podcast episode, Courtney and I discuss her entry into private practice, why she decided to do her doctorate, and how she has found ways to bring the sense of community into her private practice. MEET COURTNEY Courtney is a Registered Psychotherapist who owns a group clinic; Courtney James Counselling and Psychotherapy, with locations in Kemptville and Brockville, Ontario. Courtney is currently completing her Doctorate of Counselling and Psychotherapy and is excited to engage in the further development of this amazing field of work. In her clinical work, Courtney uses a humanistic, trauma-informed lens and specializes in relational difficulties and developmental trauma. Courtney's clinical work and Doctoral studies are focused on her work within the foster care and adoption community. Learn more about Courtney on the practice website, Psychology Today, and Instagram profiles.  In this episode:  Why Courtney decided to become a psychotherapist  Starting a doctorate  Courtney's private practice  Growing the private practice  Offering group sessions  The mental health scholarship! Why Courtney decided to become a psychotherapist  Right after high school, Courtney started her psychology studies and then went into the field to gain frontline experience after graduating. Afterward, she shifted into the mental health field with a position in a school board. It was during one of her maternity leaves that she started her masters program in Counselling Psychology in 2017. Starting a doctorate  Most counsellors can open a Canadian private practice with only a masters degree, but Courtney went further and is working towards completing her doctorate.  For Courtney, the doctoral program that she's in is not specifically research-based, and it encourages a different style of approaching this field that's specific to psychotherapy.  Courtney's private practice  While Courtney was completing her masters program, it was her intention to start a private practice.  Even though Courtney began as a solo practitioner, she quickly hired colleagues into her private practice.  Growing the private practice  Courtney was mindful of where the needs were in her community, and so she therefore decided to open a second and third location in areas of her city where she knew that the population didn't have as much access to mental health care.  The point is to take calculated risks for your business. You don't have to know if something is going to work before you try it - sometimes you have to try first to gain insight, and to then take informed action moving forward.  Offering group sessions  Courtney's practice is creating emotional regulation groups that she brainstormed with a few of her colleagues.  Even though there is an interest in offering group therapy, Courntey and her team are working on the fine print and structural components of it before they fully provide this additional service to their clients.  The mental health scholarship  For students that are accepted into undergraduate programs in psychology or social work, Courntey's practice is offering a scholarship!  This will be the fourth year that the scholarship is being offered, and her intention behind offering it comes from the same community piece that is vital to her and is one of the foundational pillars of the practice.  Connect with me: Instagram Website  Resources mentioned and useful links: Ep 116: Samantha Sarty: Setting Business Boundaries to Grow Private Practice | EP 116 Learn more about the tools and deals that I love and use for my Canadian private practice Sign up for my free e-course on How to Start an Online Canadian Private Practice Jane App (use code FEARLESS for one month free) Learn more about Courtney on the practice website, Psychology Today, and Instagram profiles Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and TuneIn

MAX FUN DRIVE! Hosts Jo Firestone & Manolo Moreno play listener-created games with callers!Games played: Pancakes or Waffles submitted by Isaac Ebert from Leesburg, Virginia, Somebody Once Told Me submitted by Alex Adan from Anchorage, Alaska, and Hey, I'm Blankin' Here! submitted by Benji Russelburg from Chicago, IllinoisCallers: Mario & Jennifer from San Francisco, California; Kristina & Erika from Brockville, Ontario, Canada; Greg from Grand Rapids, Michigan; Rachel from Somerville, Massachusetts; Katie from Los Angeles, California; Caroline from Haiku, HawaiiOutro theme by Wilder Adkins from Birmingham, Alabama MaxFunDrive ends on March 29, 2024! Support our show now by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Every Wednesday, The Salvation Army in Brockville, Ontario, hosts a fun initiative called the Kids' Club. This program provides children with learning, games, and even a meal after school. Additionally, it serves as a bridge to connect new families with The Salvation Army.   The program runs from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. And it's open to students between Grades 2 and 6. During this time, children participate in games, crafts, and a biblical and moral teaching component. They are also served dinner.   While the kids are split into groups during activities, the dinner brings everyone together where the first step towards family connections is taken.   Hearing what the children have to say also allows the staff to learn about each child's interests. Some of the attendees have connected to the junior band program, and were additionally able to attend music camp with The Salvation Army.   Since its creation in 2022, Kids' Club has been joined by nearly 80 children from seven different schools.   Despite being a kid's program, Kids' Club helps The Salvation Army to connect with families and people of all ages.

Brockville Community Hub - Irene Harris joins us ahead of the weekend's launch of the new Brockville Community Hub at 275 Brockville Rd. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

Join Oliver for the season 5 premiere, with comedian, podcaster and writer Chad Noonan in the guest chair! Though he's only a few years into performing comedy, Chad is a hilarious and commanding presence on stage who shows no signs of slowing down. He also hosts the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame Podcast, which boasts amazing past guests like Jim Belushi, Kenny Hotz, Steph Tolev, Ron James and so many more! Things kick off with Chad describing his Brockville roots and some of his past careers, leading to an interesting tale about manifesting his dream job at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Oliver learns how Chad first got into podcasting, which would ultimately lead him toward life as a stand up comedian. Chad then reflects on recently winning the CBC/Just For Laughs 'Comedy Pitch Program' in 2022, as co-writer of a television series proposal titled 'Nine Months To Die'. The conversation also touches on divorce, The Price Is Right, weird stuff Oliver found in his ceiling and much more! Recorded on December 29th, 2023 Audio/Visual Production by Brian Reilly Edited (poorly) by Oliver George Additional editing and graphics by Maverick Reilly ARCADE- Oliver: 26 / Guests: 13 (I was victorious!) ©2024 Just Chill with Oliver George

No one wants their pet to be sick... but vet trips can be especially hard for people without housing, and without a way to pay for vet bills. This morning, we spoke to an organization that offered a mobile vet clinic in Kingston specifically for unhoused individuals. A Lanark County animal shelter has lost nearly all of its board members over a dispute alleging harassment and mismanagement. We discussed what prompted the mass resignation. A proposed supportive housing project in Brockville is on hold... and there are competing theories about why that is. We spoke with Brockville mayor Matthew Wren about the chain of events... and about what comes next.

From being crocked by Romario, to becoming a Dunfermline legend and a shocking experience in the Brockville bath.Support the show

Elias Makos caps off the week with Political analyst Karim Boulos, and Jimmy Zoubris, special advisor to the Mayor. Justin Trudeau met with La Presse's Editorial Board in a year-end review and made it clear: He's not going anywhere, and we're not going to the polls before 2025 Canada's financial intelligence agency, Fintrac, has handed down a $1.3-million fine against CIBC for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures McGill says they won't rule out the possibility of moving some of their operations to another province

Between a virtual clinic and a regular OHIP-funded clinic, could there be a hybrid model to serve thousands of orphan patients ? A Brockville pharmacist believes so. We check in on the new clinic this morning Twenty years after the great blackout of 2003, Ontario's electricity production is moving towards a new direction, and a focus on battery energy storage. But as facilities are being proposed across Ontario, one township has given the idea a resounding NO. The Mayor of Elizabethtown-Kitley Township joined me this morning to explain why. A Mallorytown photographer is very busy this holiday season...taking Christmas photos of Santa with people's pets. We heard more about the demand, and the challenges, of capturing critters on camera.

Sydney Windsor grew up in Brockville, met Jesus, and is learning to follow wherever He leads. Take a moment to listen to her story and discover how God is moving in her life to connect people with His heart both near and far.

Join us for an engaging and insightful conversation with Bob Runciman, a true champion of public service in Brockville, Eastern Ontario, Canada. Having represented his constituents at various levels of government for over 45 years, Bob's dedication is nothing short of extraordinary. Now retired, he continues to contribute to his community as a volunteer board member overseeing some of the nation's most vital tourist attractions. In this podcast episode, we explore Bob's remarkable journey, discussing his recently released memoir, "From Mad Dog to Senator," which chronicles his experiences and achievements. Tune in as we explore the life and legacy of this passionate advocate for his region and its people. The memoir is available at Novel Idea at 156 Princess Street in Kingston, Beggars Banquet 126 King St. E. in Gananoque, River West 80 King St. W. in Brockville, or online, at amazon.ca or bobrunciman.com.  Our theme music is “Stasis Oasis”, by Tim Aylesworth Follow us on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram & Twitter Send comments or suggestions to thekingstonianpodcast@gmail.com Episodes also air weekly on CJAI at 101.3fm (Tue. at 6pm) and on CFRC at 101.9fm (Wed. at 1pm). Check our social media for program details.

In a news bits n' bites edition of the pod, Duane and James have a look at the League1 Ontario men's playoffs before talking about the Sudbury Cyclones joining the L1O system at the recently created League2 level. Duane dreams of a league of cities that start with B (Belleville, Brampton, Barrie, Brockville...) and James humors him in this dream. Then the boys talk about CanW17 pre-qualifying and how it's a blessing in disguise that Canada doesn't have a direct bye into the final event. After the break, the pod dives into the MLS Next playoff picture, highlights some Canadians that are getting it done in the MLS development league, and sets up next week's Canucks in NCAA chat. In a particular highlight, Duane tries to figure out if the Big East Conference still exists. It's hard to keep track. Support the pod through http://www.Patreon.com/24thminute

In this episode of the I Can't Sleep Podcast, fall asleep learning about Brockville, Ontario, Canada. While it sounds like a great place to live or vacation; and yes, many famous people have come from there; learning about it in a slow, insipid manner will surely knock you out tonight. Happy sleeping! Ad-Free Episodes Want an ad-free experience? Follow this link to support the podcast and get episodes with no ads: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Jupiter CBD Oil Save 20% off your first purchase by entering GETSLEEP upon checkout, or click here: https://www.getjupiter.com/share/icantsleep SleepPhones Follow this affiliate link to purchase headphones you can fall asleep with: https://www.sleepphones.com/?aff=793 then enter the code ICANTSLEEP10 at checkout to receive a discount. This content is derived from the Wikipedia article Brockville, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. The article can be accessed at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockville and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Islands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

jD, Pete, and Tim welcome Paul Langlois to the show to talk about his new record Guess What.TracksWill to FightDesperation Calling638 MainGuess WhatTranscriptTrack 1:[0:03] Well, I would see him working away in Timothee's from time to time, like I would walk past Timothee's and there would be Gord Downie sitting there on a laptop and, you know,my reaction as a super fan is like, I got to go in and say hi. And then, and then as the same super fan, I'm like, what if he's writing? Well, what if he's writing the next fucking great song? And I'm the asshole who interrupts that, right? Track 6:[0:28] Well, he would have been writing something, but he kind of put the songs together after. Track 1:[0:35] Oh, gotcha. Okay. Okay, gotcha. Track 6:[0:38] So, how is my signal? Because I can hotspot. It could be better. Track 1:[0:41] No, this is good. You're coming through great. Track 4:[0:43] It's great. Track 5:[0:44] Okay. Track 1:[0:44] It looks like a nice day. Are you outside? Track 6:[0:47] I'm outside. Track 1:[0:49] That's great. Track 6:[0:49] These are my little sister's paintings. Yeah, I sort of had a thing built where I can live outside and just be Oh, man Shelter shelter up there, you know, yeah So I spend a lot of time outhere. So I'm in downtown Kingston ish like about five blocks from the center of downtown and Cool. Yeah, so I like it here. We've been here like five years ever since the kids left Nice, nice. Track 5:[1:23] Just the two you have? Sorry. Track 6:[1:26] Two girls, yeah. And they're both kind of making their way in Toronto, 27 and 23, and in their separate career paths. Track 5:[1:34] Okay. Track 6:[1:36] So they're kind of, you know. Fairly entry-level and where they're working, but Sure. All right, and we just thought we Give them a break and they pay us far less rent than they would have to pay. Track 5:[1:49] Yeah. Track 6:[1:49] No, that's good I said and we've actually used the place because I have to be in Toronto More than I ever thought I thought I was retired and now I have to be in Toronto all the timeand So we stay there every time Cool. Ah. Toronto hotels these days, you're saving 600 bucks every time. Track 1:[2:07] Toronto hotels are insane right now. They're totally insane. So the premise of this podcast was, I found these two friends of mine that are from different parts of the world, but they both grew up in Southern California, and they had not heard ofThe Hip. So this is getting hip to The Hip, where we're taking them from not having heard them, and We go through the discography and sort of get their reactions as to what they're hearing. Because you know, you guys are a cultural phenomenon and it's strange sometimes when you meet people who aren't aware of this thing that is like 11 million people watched the lastconcert. You know, that's staggering when people don't know. Track 6:[2:51] I've got to say, great concept for a podcast. I did notice the title and I didn't really catch, like I didn't really know what it meant. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Track 5:[3:03] We're of the we're of the same generation pretty much here And you know Pete and I grew up with Southern, California radio you know, that's what got us into music and You know80s 90s. Track 4:[3:15] Yeah the radio. Track 5:[3:16] Yeah, I was making mixtapes off the radio and Middle school and yeah, you know, we didn't we didn't have the the hit playing on 91x in San Diego No, not a lot of radio play inCalifornia. Track 6:[3:28] There's a San Francisco station, uh, K-Fog? I forget the name of it. That's not K-Fog. There was a San Francisco station that played us, which is why we were able to, you know, eventually play the film or, you know, a couple,couple of days in a row kind of thing and sell that out. But that, I think it's K-Fog, something like that. Track 1:[3:50] It sounds very San Francisco. Yeah. There you go, actually. Track 6:[3:55] Our radio play was random. Dallas, we got played in the early days, and Chicago, we got played. So all the non-border towns, like, you know, Buffalo, they have Canadian radio. So we're always, we ended up in arenas there. Seattle, not as much, but then it was just random. You know, we'd get play in some American cities and no play whatsoever in others. So it takes so much longer by word of mouth than it does if you've got a song on the radio. Track 4:[4:29] Sure, you know, so so so Paul, this is something that I are you guys recording, by the way? Track 1:[4:35] Sorry, recording? Yeah, it's right. Track 6:[4:37] Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you're not losing all the all the goal. Track 5:[4:42] Okay, so we pretty much hit go and do no, no. Track 4:[4:45] Um, because we're talking about this too. And this has come up a number of times on the podcast, right? And obviously, you just were talking about some radio stations, you got random and play in certain cities, this and that. And Tim and I grew up at a time prior to streaming. We saw that switch. So essentially, whatever we were listening to, unless you were in some like super niche underground group with the cool kids and shit, you were listening to what wasbeing played on the three main stations, right? And we saw all the takeover with Clear Channel. We saw all that shit happen. Yeah, us too. The thing that I noticed, and I'm not trying to blow smoke up your ass here, Paul, but I'm going to maybe do a little bit, so clench if you got to. [5:39] I thought about a lot over the nine months we've been recording this podcast, is that good music is good music, and there's probably so much shit that falls through the cracks. Here you got Tim and I, who never heard of the hit before. We both have a lot of similar bands in common that we like, but J.D. Put us on this mainline IV drip of the Tragically Hip since we started this, and at first it was a slow burn, but But now it's like, I cannot imagine my life without your guys' band. And again, I'm sorry to blow smoke at you. No, that's not. I'm not trying to do that. No, I love it. I love it. But it's just like, good music is good music. And I had a deep dive into Guess What too, and we'll talk about that, I'm sure. Yeah, just it's if you're not exposed to it, man, then you're not exposed to it. Track 6:[6:43] You know, I really appreciate that like it's it's like and And the slow burn part as well. Like I think It was a slow burn for many people just because I Don't think it was that obvious like, you know, the early days were kind of like Oh, it's kind of like more a barroom bumpkind of you know know, um, really kind of not boring, but, you know, simple. [7:15] And so, but I know that when we were writing and recording, When we were writing and recording, we meant to do that. For these songs, the songs that we chose for each record, we believe that they would stand the test of time, that you'd probably have to listen to it four, five, six times before you start to,before it starts to grow on you, as you said, slow burn. And I think that's better. I mean, there are certainly songs I love that immediately it's kind of like, wow, okay, that's a hit. But a lot of times there's, even back then, you know, in the 80s and 90s, sometimes it's kind of spoon-fed stuff. I mean, it smells like Team Spirit right away. I loved it. That's not spoon-fed. We're just doing this thing. They're doing their thing. But there's many more examples of where it's more spoon-fed, where it lasts about nine or 10 listens, and then it's like, okay, I've had enough of this. Track 4:[8:18] Moving on, when I do when I when I press play on in violet light, I remember and I told JD and Tim this I was like, dude, I'm not I this is not gonna work. This is gonna be a shittytwo weeks. We're listening. And then like it ends up like, I just it just starts. It's like a cicada man. It just burrowed its way into my head. And then, like, at some point a week and a half into it, I'm rolling down the highway here in Spain, just like fucking windows down just like what? Where have you been all my life? Track 6:[8:50] That starts with Use It Up, right? Oh yeah, Use It Up. Track 1:[8:54] Oh yeah, yeah. Track 4:[8:56] Oh dude, Use It Up. Oh fuck. Track 1:[8:57] That was the song he picked. Yeah. Because every album I make them pick a song and Use It Up was for that record. Track 6:[9:05] It's so funny because I didn't like that song at first. I was like... You didn't? Yeah. Now what? We're reaching here, it's no good. And then it grew on me as we were sort of all learning our parts and playing it together. It was like, oh, I get it now. Use it up. Yeah, this is the best thingfor later. But at first, I was just like, this is going to be a horrible record. Track 4:[9:31] Oh, dear. Track 5:[9:32] Well, I even said to my kid, I have a 21-year-old, I have 21 and 18-year-old sons, and my 21-year-old plays drums and an amazing drummer and he's getting into other stuff too. But I played him some of the, you know, I don't remember which album, but he looked at me and he's like, are you sure you can do this? What is this band? And the guy, does he sing weird? What are you doing? And I'm like, I hope so, bro. Let's see what happens. But no, since then, I've played in bits here and there. And my whole family, of course, has been subject to the hip. Yeah, same here. And they're now recognizing the hip when they come on. I haven't forced them to sit down and hear an album, but that'll happen eventually, I'm sure. But yeah, the slow burn has been awesome. And for you guys to accomplish that, I mean, you were in high school, right? When you... Shortly after high school? Track 6:[10:34] Just after, yep. So there's a university here, Queen's, so three of the guys were at Queen's. Johnny was still in high school, drummer. Okay, that's right. He was in grade 13, which they don't have grade 13 anymore, but... Yeah, so it was kind of Yeah, a long long time Yeah, I mean for that to happen. Track 5:[10:55] It's like you know I have a My brother-in-law told me at one point like what are you gonna? Do bro? You know you're 19 You're not doing anything is like I'm gonna be a pro skateboarder And I'm like dude you got a one and what 40 million shot to be a pro skater Yeah, come on.I mean, but you guys you guys were young and you kept at it, and you didn't go after careers I don't think I mean, I'm sure some of you held like part-time jobs or something But you guysjust kept going at it. Track 6:[11:24] We all had parents that were kind of like very supportive but at the same time everyone was in University and You know, what's the backup plan my dad said all the time and I'mlike no backup plan dad These guys because I joined a bit later like a year and a half in they were covered in And I love them and Gord Downer is my best friend and he asked me to joinbasically because I was Leaving. I mean I didn't think of it as a threat, but he thought it was a threat that I was just gonna go down Try my luck as a songwriter and He was like he didn't like that at all. And so that's the other And when I joined, my dad was like, yeah, but, um, you're going to go back to school and you'll have a backup plan. I'm like, I don't need one. Track 1:[12:20] And so I'm just going to ask you what's the moment, what the moment was where you knew you didn't need a backup plan. You knew that early on, like that it was like you guyshad lightning in a bottle. Track 6:[12:31] I knew when I joined, I went to all their gigs and, um, but whenever I could, like I I was driving cab, but Gord would always have me on the list. And they were just like small in-town gigs, either at the university or at a biker bar or whatever, a few bars that they were playing. And... I knew, like, and it wasn't just Gork. I knew that Robbie and Johnny and Sinclair, like, that they were just doing something different. Now, mostly they were playing covers, but they had songs that never made it even to our first baby record. Great songs, Heart Attack Love and Baby Blue Blood and, you know, all these songs were Reformed Baptist Blues, which was on Thaskadelphia, but surprising. [13:21] But it was just like, God, they know how to write songs. Gord is unbelievable. Nothing like the friend I had. Like as soon as he got up on stage, it was just kind of like, wow. And so I just felt like, you know, they have it. And word of mouth already just in Kingston. You know, they say you can't, if you're in a band and you can't draw a crowd in your hometown, then chances aren't great. [13:53] But if you can, you can take that. And so we just would just gradually take it to the next town over, Belleville or, you know, Brockville, then Cornwall and, you know, Oshawa, justsort of like just took it up and down the 401, which is a highway around here. And just, we relied on word of mouth. And then we started booking things that way. Let's do three nights. So we'll play Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and by Saturday we'll have it full because everyone's gonna be going home saying, okay, the singer's crazy and the band isheavy and tight. And so we built it up that way. I'm not sure if you could do it these days. I mean, there's still venues. So I think you actually could still do it our way. It was the only way we knew how to do it, but we always felt like, we were always like. We all had a couple of hundred bucks in general, you know, so it wasn't like, um, we were, we weren't, uh, not making money, you know, we were able to, and our parents weresupportive, you know, Gord's parents got us a van and et cetera. It just kind of, um, we knew very early on that we could just keep doing it. Let's just keep doing it until it goes south. And it never did. Track 1:[15:10] I guess not. Track 4:[15:11] Holy shit. Track 1:[15:11] Amazing. Track 4:[15:13] It's an understatement. Track 1:[15:14] Yeah. Track 4:[15:17] So I want to, I don't know if it's cool fellas, but I want to dig into the to guess what a little bit. Track 1:[15:23] Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Track 4:[15:27] So first off, you guys recorded the bathhouse. Yeah, we talked to we talked to Gord. What was it like three months ago? We talked to Gord. Track 1:[15:35] Oh, yeah. Yeah. Track 5:[15:37] Let's go. Yeah. Track 1:[15:39] When his record dropped, he came on. Track 6:[15:41] Pardon me? Track 1:[15:41] When his record dropped, he came on. Track 6:[15:44] I really love that record. I've told him many times. He's so funny. You know, he's just like... He's such a sweet dude. Yeah, he is. And he's, you know, we complain mutually about having to be the singer and, you know, and just all the complications. But I love his record. I've told him all the time. It's just like, it's classic him. just such variety. But we're not talking about his record, I guess. Sorry. Track 4:[16:15] No, no. No, he kind of said some of the same stuff, but your vocals on, I love the vocals on it. And then I was kind of reading about what you did with the, in terms of choosing the band and what's his name? His name is, oh, Billy Anglin. That dude is a, he's a freak on the drums, man. Track 6:[16:45] Desperation calling oh yeah yeah when he does that yeah like what the hell is that he's a giant in real life I don't know if you knew that's crazy he's like I don't know I think he's sixfive Oh he's easily 250 must be I don't know how much away but well hey he's a giant and he was a kid that we heard about Johnny mentioned him to me. I remember back when we first started, Johnny was like, there's a kid over at Elsie, which was another high school. We were at Casey and they were at Elsie and there's a kid, Billy Anglin, and he's like five years younger than us. He's like, they had the same drum teacher and he's like, that kid's really good. And he played into his 20s and then he started a construction company and hadn't played for 20 some years. And another The other guy in the band, Joe Carscallon, is kind of like a family friend of his. And he was like, you know, Bill Anglin would do it if he asked and I'm like, seriously? And anyway, he is great. We just played a show just out of town. There's a little quaint little town, Guananacue. I'm not sure if you've been there, JD, but it's a beautiful little summer town, Thousand Islands. Track 1:[18:00] Okay. Track 6:[18:01] And we played a gig on Saturday night. And I was just like, for some reason, I was just kind of really focused on Bill and the stuff he was doing. I'm very lucky. And the same with everyone else in the band, of course. Oh yeah. He just hits them so hard and he's so big. And he has a huge drum kit too, like huge. Where it's like, oh my God. We pull into a little club a couple of weeks ago just to have a warmup show. Track 4:[18:32] And the club owner's like, You know, the drums basically took up the whole, it's like, is this a Russian, is this a Russian cover band? Is Neil Curtin? Yeah. Track 6:[18:43] Anyway, I'm going to tell Bill you mentioned him because he's amazing. Track 1:[18:49] The big toms at the beginning of Will to Fight as well. Track 6:[18:52] Right. That's what I thought. That's what I thought Pete was going to say. Track 1:[18:55] Those big toms right off the start, it's like, oh fuck, this song has a bone to pick with me. It's like, it's challenging me right now, this song, it's. Track 6:[19:09] We've been opening with that one. Oh yeah. And Bill loves it, you know, he's had a setlist. Track 5:[19:14] Cool. Track 6:[19:16] Oriented and I always put Will to fight first and he's quite happy with it, he loves starting. Like he is not short on confident. For a guy who hasn't played, he's played on his own but who hasn't played with anybody for 20 years, It's pretty amazing. Track 4:[19:31] That's crazy, man. You know, you, well, it's because we're talking about drums. This is something that's that came that came up a couple times in the podcast. I don't know what record it was that we're talking about. But I had mentioned and I said it and I said it exactly like this. I was like, Paul Langlois is a fucking drummer. Track 1:[19:52] Yes. Yeah. I remember you remember that? Track 4:[19:55] Yeah. And and I said that because I don't remember what song and what record it really hit me like a Like a freight train, man. Track 1:[20:02] It was in between evolution is what you said it. Was it? Track 4:[20:06] Was it in between evolution? Track 1:[20:07] Yeah. Track 4:[20:07] Yeah. Just your, the tone of that, bless Paul, and just the chunk, chunk, chunk that was, I can't remember the song that it was on where it hit me and I was like, dude, I don't knowwho's drumming here. Is it Paul or is it Johnny? Because I'm getting, because I've done that. I've done that thing where you listen to each member of a band individually. Like, I don't know if you've ever done that, like next time you, next time you want to have a good time listening to your, if you like Rush, I mean, I like Rush. Who doesn't? Track 6:[20:40] I love Rush. I love Rush. Track 4:[20:42] Take it, take a Rush tune or watch maybe a live, live recording and focus on one. Watch it three times and focus on one musician each time. And you'll just see something new every time. Track 6:[20:54] I love that idea. Yeah. I love that idea. And thanks for that. On my first solo record, because I always thought... I got a drum kit when I was 30 as a birthday present, and it was Johnny's kit. Well, he set it up. And so my wife got it for me, Joanne. And then, so I was just drumming secretly in the basement, just because I always wanted to try it. And so my very first record, Fix His Head, which was like, I don't know, 15 years ago or something. Track 1:[21:27] 2010, yeah. Track 6:[21:30] Yeah, so 13 years ago and... I was just on my own. It was just me. And really, I was in there, in our studio, just with the engineer. Like, it's quite awkward, really. Because it's just the two of us, you know? I'm like, Aaron, you go outside or go do what you're going to do. Just give me the song on a loop. And I'm just going to play the song. And if I get a good one, I'll run into into the control room and push the space bar and stop it. And so that's how I drummed, really, because I just didn't like him kind of just being bored in there, probably on his phone. Yeah. Track 5:[22:10] Hovering. Track 6:[22:11] So anyway, I did all the drumming on Fix His Head. And it's not stellar drumming, but I was happy enough with it that it passed. I mean, it would have been way, if Johnny or Billy Anglin was playing, obviously, it would have been way, way better. But I wanted it to be a private record. I didn't really want to put it out. Track 1:[22:33] That's crazy. That's so crazy. But it's interesting you say that. I have a question for you that's been bothering me since your new record came out. Your new record is called Guess What, and it's the Paul Langlois band. But I go back into my old records that I have. I have them in Apple, so they're digital. And they say, like, fix this head, says Paul Langelois band now on it. But wasn't it just Paul Langelois before? Track 6:[23:02] Yes. Track 1:[23:03] Oh, so I'm not going crazy. Track 6:[23:06] Yeah, no, you're not crazy. You're not going crazy. I mean, it drives me a bit crazy, really, the thought. And Joanne hates, hates Paul Langlois Band, hates that there's no the. Oh, really? Track 1:[23:19] She's like, Jake. Track 6:[23:22] Yeah, the hips are my manager. My manager is also the hips manager, Jake Gould. He does a great job, but he was kind of, he was very in favor of just Paul Langlois Band. And I'mlike, okay, that's awkward, though. Wouldn't you say the Paul Langlois band? Track 1:[23:39] Yeah. Track 6:[23:40] Two guys in the band, Greg Ball especially, was like, no, Paul Langlois. Don't say Paul Langlois band, your first two records were Paul Langlois, so just Paul Langlois. And through the agents and all the people booking and stuff, it's like, well, the Paul Langlois band would probably be more appealing as an act to book, because I was trying to playfestivals this summer. And so I was like, okay. And then it's like, oh, by the way, we gotta go back. And it's all because of Spotify. Everything's because of Spotify these days. Track 1:[24:15] Oh, God. Track 6:[24:17] You gotta go back and call your first two records Paul Langlois banned because if someone searches, I don't understand it, but the algorithm, whatever it is, if someone searches,guess what, Paul Langlois banned, my first two records aren't gonna come up. And so that convinced me. I'm like, I want my first workers to come up. Track 5:[24:36] It happens. Track 4:[24:37] But that's the same thing with Malcolmus and the Jicks. Do you guys, I don't know if you guys know that. He has the same, that's a weird thing on Spotify. They want it to come up. They wanted to come up the other records so everybody can access all the music. And I get it because you also want people to listen to your, you know, your other records. But it's also like that. Track 6:[24:59] Yeah, I would like that. But I get it. But I hate it. You know, it's, it's, it's silly. It's silly. Track 4:[25:04] Me too. Track 6:[25:05] Paul Langlois would come up. Just if I call this the Paul Langlois band, which is- Change the algorithm, man. Track 4:[25:13] Change the search bar. Like make them both come up. Track 1:[25:16] Jesus Christ. Track 5:[25:18] That's funny you mention that Paul, at one point during our discography review of you guys I said, yeah, I love this whole process but the hip has totally fucked up my algorithm inSpotify. Like every time I play something now it's like something associated with the hip. It's like all these other bands but I have discovered some other bands. Track 1:[25:39] We were talking one day, Tim and I were talking, I was out for a walk and he's like, you're going to get a kick out of this, Paul, cause he's like, who is April wine? Oh, really? And I was like, April wine is like a seminal Canadian. Track 5:[25:52] Absolutely. Many, many hits. Track 6:[25:53] Big band. Good hits. Good. Yeah. Track 5:[25:59] Yeah, they're, they're fucking cool. Like I would, that was a fun surprise for me. That was, you know, thanks to the algorithm. So, but that, but that was, that was one of those things, you know, So 10 years, 10 years between Not Guilty and Guess What? Track 1:[26:18] Yeah. Not Guilty was 2013. Obviously that was a fucking giant 10 years in your life. What changed singer-songwriter wise? What did you take from that 10 years of experience and put onto this record? Is there anything you can lay down for us? Track 6:[26:47] You know, I think I got the… Lyrics are my toughest. That's the toughest. It's like finishing the bathrooms, you run out of money. And so, oh yeah, let's go for the vinyl shower. And so that's what I would do with lyrics. I'd kind of almost get, I get somewhere, but then I just stop and I didn't know where to go. So I think time passing more than anything. Gord, Gord passing. Track 1:[27:18] Yeah, yeah, of course. Track 6:[27:19] Time passing, the way the tour was so special, such an achievement on all our parts, but especially for Gord. Of course. The achievement on his part was unbelievable. It was unbelievable to watch, like from the inside, just how hard he worked and how driven he was. Was, like he didn't stop. And so I think that kind of affected, that helped me just with lyrics. Time passing, the girls moving out, my daughters, you know. And you know, now it's like in my 50s. And it's kind of like, I think that sort of just came through in the songs, Will to Fight, you know, just anything, just kind of like. So there was that. I didn't think I would ever, like I just was not interested in songwriting until I got offered a gig. And it was a few months away. And Joanne said, well, you've got to do it. And I'm like, well, I've got to put a band together. I'm not fucking into that. Who would I get? [28:34] Anyway, so then I thought of they're all buddies, Kingston buddies, and musicians, but they all have other jobs. And, um... Yeah, and then we started rehearsing and playing and and It was fun and so I decided I had a couple of songs Okay, maybe I'll finish those and we'll have a couple of You know new recordsongs. I was just playing my first two records kind of thing and then that was the end of August last year and and I booked the studio for November 7th, I think or 8th and And so then I had adeadline, so in September and October, I just kept throwing songs at them and I kept writing. And so it was the first time I'd written anything in 10 years. Like I just, I hadn't written anything. And then it was like, oh, wow, this is fun. These guys are good. And so the whole record is live. I mean, I play guitar and at the same time, I didn't do anything except one scratchy vocal. I redid one vocal, but we're playing live and there were very little fixes and very little overdub. Joe overdubbed a couple of solos. [29:54] So it was just kind of exactly how I wanted it to be and it was very reminiscent of how the hit recorded. You know, we like to not make mistakes, go into the control room and be like, yeah, this is a one. Of course, we'd leave it mostly up to Johnny, because the drums have to be right. He would always pick the ones that we wanted, without even talking about it. Okay, we like take number three. That was a very similar process to recording in the hip or in the bathhouse, so it was all very inspiring. So I'm a new person, honestly. I really thought I was done. Gord died, I just thought, well, we had a good run. It's sad. Yeah. But it was like 32 naturally years actively together. It's been longer now, but you know, all of us together playing and it wasn't like a five-year run, you know? And so I just thought, okay, that's good. But you know, yeah, we did it. And I'm just going to move on and come up with other things. Track 4:[31:07] I just didn't come up with anything else. No, but 638 Main says, like, I got a window into the song where you were at with this record and what kind of the question that JD asked. Like that I was like, okay, I see kind of where Paul's Brain was at with this record and like that's fucking cool, man. I'm so happy for you, dude I don't know. I had the same shit too before we recorded like before I Jumped in with this band that I'm in man. I was just kind of like, all right, I'm done playing music and then you fall in and then you get a band together and then you're like Like, oh, this is fucking, this is fun, man. This is rightwhere it should be. Track 6:[31:52] Yeah, you forget how fun it is. I did. And it's funny you mentioned 638 Maine. Not many people, but I have a couple of quirky friends that are like 638 Maine, man. I love that one. Whereas most of my friends, I'm sure they've never mentioned that song. I don't think it's necessarily a skipper, but it's an odd one. Track 4:[32:14] And basically- That's what's cool about it. Track 6:[32:17] Yeah, it's, you know, to me, it's cool, because I made it up on the spot. I didn't have anything written down. And I just pictured myself. Track 1:[32:26] What? Track 6:[32:26] Like I'm talking about what it's like to be in a studio. And we were in there eight days. And Greg and I, those guys were going, like there's a firefighter, construction, a factory shiftworker. Greg's a waiter, so he took the eight days off. And I don't have another job, so I did too. So Greg and I were out there the whole time. And a couple of nights, it was late. They were all latenights. And I was just sitting there, just like, oh, it'd be good if I could set myself in a bar to describe what it's like being in a studio. I didn't know if it was Monday or Tuesday. It was kind of like, you're lost in the music. You're lost in the recording. So I thought, and we only had nine songs, or nine that I liked. And so I was like, I want to try this one. And I just made it up. I just like set myself on fire. And then I'm kind of chasing the song. You know, it's all turning out like it should or whatever the words are. Track 4:[33:29] But it paints the picture, man. There was a hip song like that too. Do you remember, Tim, the apartment where Gord was describing the apartment? You know what I'm talking about? Track 1:[33:40] Apartment song. Track 4:[33:40] But that 638, man, it paints the picture, man. Track 6:[33:44] Oh, well, thanks. Thanks. Yeah. I was, I was very, uh, very happy with that. And Greg and Joe were asleep on the couch in the control room. So it was just, I just laid it down on acoustic and then, um, and saying it. And... And Bill and Matt, drums and bass, they played. And Joe and Greg were kind of pissed off because I missed it. So I allowed them to add a guitar and backup vocal. Track 4:[34:23] So anyway, I'm glad you mentioned that. It's cool, man. It's a deep cut. Deep cut. Yeah, we're going to Kingston. And for the finale we're doing is September 1st, but I think the day before or the day after we're going to Kingston. Yeah, August 31st. Track 1:[34:41] We're doing it. They're flying in August 30th. And uh, we're doing a road trip to Kingston. Track 6:[34:48] You're kidding. Track 1:[34:50] No. Oh, yeah, we're gonna do it. Yeah. I've got it right. Track 4:[34:54] Like I mean, yeah, I'm gonna be so dragon ass, man. Track 5:[34:59] It's all part of this process. Track 6:[35:00] That's what are you? Are you kind of Just doing it for fun. I'll meet up with you either way whether you're recording something or not That would be amazing to buy you a beer yeah, yeah, that would be absolutely amazing Yeah, we check the redhouse. Just get in touch with me. Track 4:[35:19] All right Let's do it, man. Let's do it. Track 5:[35:22] Let's do it Yeah, we're flying into town and we have an event at the rec room in Toronto on September 1st. So that's that's like our Our grand finale of the pod is we're meeting up and there's a tribute band, 50 Mission, playing at the Rec Room and we're doing this fundraiser for the DanielWinsor Fund. Track 6:[35:45] Oh cool. And so are you going to be, is it an event where you're not sort of talking together or are you guys going to get up and sing? Track 1:[35:54] We're going to record the final episode of the podcast at this event. Track 6:[35:58] Oh cool. Track 1:[35:59] So they'll finally reveal whether or not they're hip bands, which they've done a poor job concealing it. It's so funny at the beginning, they would be like, Pete would be like, oh, yeah, there's this lick that the rhythm guitarist plays. And you know, then later on, it's like, Paul Langlois, am I saying his name right? And then later on, it's just Paul. You know what I mean? Track 4:[36:21] I had no concept of your existence, man. I mean, I was like, what's this guy's, who's this guy's name? Now it's like, everything's off the tongue, man, but I, by the way, I gotta ask you, and I know they're for different things, but what do you prefer about it? Do you like your telly or do you like the Les Paul? What's the, what's the one that you're, that you, if you die with the guitar in your hands, the one you want in the hands? Track 6:[36:45] I mean, it would kind of, it would have to be to tell you, I'm playing the telly on the solo band shows. Okay. So, I've gone back to the telly. I don't regret playing a Les Paul. I started Les Paul day for night on. And that was a black one, Black Beauty. But then I switched to a Sunburst, which I love that guitar. That's my second favorite. That's my second favorite. But the Tele for sure. That was the first electric I bought, like officially bought to play in the band. And I'm using it now. And yeah, it would be the Tele for sure. Track 4:[37:28] I never played a telly ever until about six months ago when I visit my family in California. I walked into a guitar center and I went into the expensive room that you're not supposedto go in. I sat and there was nobody there. It was just a ghost town. I sat with a telly for like an hour and I was like, jeez, man. I got it because I always played a Strat. I got a Jazzmaster, and an SG, but I never, and I've never played, I mean, I played a Les Paul once, twice, but I never owned a Les Paul. That's thenext on the list. But a Tele was, I liked it. Track 6:[38:05] Yeah, well, see, it's funny, because I find a Strat the most different guitar, and because Robbie played it already, and he was like, he had 15 years of experience on me, because Ididn't start playing until I was 19, and he started playing, he was small. And he was playing a Strat. And so I was like, I mean, I started out playing acoustic and after a while I was like, fuck this, I can't fucking hear. And I had a big train ramp and it was just like, it was impossible to, I'd turn it up to, and I got electrocuted all the time because it was a old shit. Well, I finally said, I'm playing electrocute It's a lot of telly and because I figured that telly is kind of the opposite of a strat almost and I've never really ever tried to play a strat, like Ireally honestly never have. Les Paul's and Telly's I find are way more similar. The Strat to me is a different one. It's super cool, but it's just not my thing. Track 4:[39:13] I just like the pickups, man, like that Steve Miller tone, that Buddy Holly, those 57s and those 59s, those pickups are just so tinny and, you know. I don't know, I like that. Yeah, no, it's amazing. Track 5:[39:31] So, when we were just getting into Saskadelphia, right, and I'm listening to Crack My Spine the other day with my headphones on, you know, because I want to hear everything, andyour guitar on that was just like, it kind of just sounded like, it reminded me of the Ramones, like you were just kind of playing some power chords through there. It just reminded me of like 80s kind of punk rock, you know, and I just, I just loved that about it and it's been such an interesting thing hearing you guys playing guitar because, you know,most bands you got bass and drums kind of linked up as the backbone and you might have a lead guitarist but you might not or a rhythm guitarist but you guys were just like playing guitardoing your thing and it works and I think that's just such a cool rare thing about a band that you guys pulled off. And then it's been so fun to then go on and listen to your solo stuff and hear your evolution too, because we don't get this opportunity with bands very often in general. Like how many bands are still around or guys still around? Well, that's so cool to hear. Track 6:[40:43] You know, what I would credit that the most, or whom I would credit, is Don Smith, who produced Up to Here and Road Apples, because he handled us, he hard panned us, left andright, Robbie and I. So listen, I listen to ACDC, and sorry, but Malcolm Young isn't loud enough. Like, it's like the guitars are like this. Track 5:[41:12] It's true. Track 6:[41:14] So Don panned us. And so then every producer after that, and our guy, Mark Breakin, who actually helped us produce our only record we did without a producer was Trouble at theHen House. And Mark Breakin still mixes, you know, he mixed Saskatoon, he's been our sound man and our live sound man for the whole time. Although he did leave to bigger and better things for a good chunk of 15 years or so, but he's back with us and he pans them too. So he, so you can hear one in one ear, one in the other. I'm deaf in my right ear, So I have to listen to it twice just to. You know, hear what Robbie's doing, the odd time I'm interested. [42:03] But I credit Don because Don did that and he was super cool and we were so, he was unbelievable and we couldn't believe we were working with him. He'd done Traveling Wilburys and he did everything and he was Mr. Cool and he was just like, you guys just do your thing. And this is when we were young, impressionable, you know, we wanted to do our thing, but we figured, you know, people are going to tell us, you know, you should be a bit more countryand people did, you know, a bit more country, maybe or something. Don was just like, just do your thing. And he panned the guitars. So basically, he, he, I credit him with my job. Because people can hear me if they want, you know, if they're taking a closer listen, and like you guys do, it's kind of like all my parts are just naked on one side. At one point though, I made a list, and it's an ongoing list of songs where I'm in the right speaker if you're looking at it. I'm always on the left, and Robbie's always on the right. Except more and more, I'll check it, and I have like a list of about 12 songs where I'm on the right and Robbie's on the left. My producer decided to switch it. Track 1:[43:20] Oh, funny. Track 6:[43:23] Which is curious to me. Because when I put on headphones, so I can only hear out of this ear, 100% deaf in this one. Wow. I always put the left ear, because that's me. Oh, shit. Track 4:[43:37] And then you go. Track 6:[43:39] And then the odd hit song I'll run into, and it's kind of like, that's not me. That's Robbie. Track 4:[43:44] Who's this shitty guitar player? Track 6:[43:46] We didn't listen to each other at all, by the way, not at all. Track 4:[43:53] It's funny, dude. Paul, when you guys did Trouble, man, and that was a record, I think Tim and I, I don't know, I'm speaking for Tim here, but for me, that was the record where I was like, it finally openedfor me. And I got everything prior to that too, but that record was like, okay, this band doesn't give a shit about what anybody thinks, man. Just gonna do their own thing. And that's where I was like, you guys grew into this just animal that nobody knew existed. I don't know, man, that was a that was a break. That was the record that JD when JD flew to Malaga for primavera sound last year, he brought a vinyl and this is me still not knowinganything about you guys. And he brought me trouble at the house. And I was like, Yeah, I do you remember? Track 1:[44:48] Do you remember I mailed you trouble at the hen house on CD. And you're like, I don't have a CD player. I was like, who doesn't have a CD player? Track 4:[44:56] We moved here and I and then yeah, because we moved from the state. Anyway. Yeah, yeah. Track 6:[45:07] It's it's funny. Just to add something, because I thought of it earlier, very early on this chat, you were saying something, Pete, that I thought of, and I'm like, oh, fuck, I thought ofsomething good to say, and I forgot, but now I remember. So there was this band, there's this, I don't know that they're a band anymore, they're from Philly, and they're called Marah, M-A-R-A-H. [45:36] And they're a couple of brothers. And anyway, out of the blue, the day after our last show, the singer writes Robbie a letter. And he's like, and he describes, the letter makes me cry. me cry like it he describes his life and you know they got signed to, Maybe Steve Earle had a label, someone like that. Oh, nice. Nashville person. So they had some success, but they just ruined everything all the time. That was just their nature. You have brothers, and any time things started to go well,they would kind of blow it up. And then he described, he goes on to describe, he was out in the country on a TV at a cabin he doesn't use, but he happened to throw on the TV, and the CBC covered that show live, youknow, so it was live on the air, and he describes, you know, watching the show and what's about to happen, and what was my point? Well, there's this thing in the doc that Robbie quotes him, like, what's going to happen here? You know, are they gonna all bands either explode on the way up or on the way down everything? [47:01] Burn out nothing works out and What are you telling me? These guys are gonna pull the he compared it to a You know an air balloon, whatever they're called parachute No, like a balloon, you know, oh, yeah hot air balloon what they're all gonnapull it down and and land safely, like win rock and roll or something. It's just kind of like, anyway, it was just an amazing letter years ago. And I've always had the intention to kind of reach out to him and say, fuck your letter, man. Cause he, it's way more than that. Another thing he said is he would try, cause this is quite like this podcast that you're doing JD. He would, he learned not to play the hip to people, to his friends, to anyone, various girlfriends. He was like, I'd never do it. If he found a real hip fan, he said, like because they're touring, right, in New York or London or wherever, as soon as he realized it's a real hip fan, they'd be at the back of the bar. He'd take them to the back of the bar, and they'd have pints, and they'd talk about all things hip. [48:18] And anyway, so he said, if someone came over to my house, and I trusted them enough to play the hip, And they started talking over the music. That's it. Christmas lights off. Everyone's going home. [48:34] He's an amazing writer. Track 4:[48:38] It's so true. I said that to JD a couple of weeks ago when I was in California this last time in May. We were driving to Joshua Tree. And I fucking hate when people put on music and they're like, listen to this band. You're going to love this band. And it's like, you build it up, right? I didn't do that. I grabbed my buddy's phone, we're driving down, I don't know, 64 or whatever it is, down in Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, and I just grabbed his phone and I put on Trouble atthe Inn House. Yeah. And he's like, who the fuck is this? Track 6:[49:10] That's how to do it. Yeah. Track 4:[49:12] That's all I did. I played a couple tunes and he's like, who's this band? I was like, oh, it's... And then, you know, cause you don't set the expectations. Yeah. Track 6:[49:23] Yeah, no, exactly. That's how to do it. That's the downy way, actually. Did Gord and all his brothers. You surprise somebody. If you give people warning, it's not the same, you know? Yeah. It's just like, no, no. Track 1:[49:38] Expectations. Track 6:[49:39] Yeah, and when Gord was sick. Track 5:[49:41] It's true, it's true. Track 6:[49:42] His brother was looking after him mainly, and I was mainly there to help Pat. Someone would be, I wanna come over and see Gord, you know, because there was no tour in the future. Like, we all just thought this is it. And I was like, oh, this guy wants to come by. And Pat's like, well, just don't tell Gord about it. Tell them to come but we won't tell them about it. It'll just get surprised. That's how the Downies do it. It's like, oh we're here. Track 5:[50:10] That's cool. Track 1:[50:15] Paul, I know we said 45 minutes and we're over so I'm sorry for taking more of your time than we should have. No problem. Track 6:[50:20] I still got seven minutes before the next one. Track 1:[50:26] Oh wow, you're on junket mode, eh? Track 6:[50:28] Yeah, three today. Track 1:[50:32] Oh wow. Well, any chance we'll see you on the road in the fall? Or is it just take it as it comes? Track 6:[50:43] Take it as it comes, yeah. Sort of trying to stick to festivals, but obviously they start disappearing when the fall comes. So, unknown. So, I've got two more gigs in August and like one in Windsor-ish, Kingsville, and one in Bath, where our studio is, and those are both in August. Track 1:[51:08] It's been great talking to you. So great. Track 6:[51:10] Yeah, great talking to you guys. It's nice to meet you too, as well. Track 4:[51:13] Nice to meet you, Paul. Thanks for your time, man. Track 6:[51:17] Hey, we'll talk again. Track 5:[51:18] Yeah. Track 6:[51:18] Good luck with everything. Track 5:[51:19] For sure. Track 4:[51:20] Take care. Track 5:[51:20] Thanks. Track 6:[51:21] OK. See you guys. Track 5:[51:22] All right. Cheers! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/gettinghiptothehip/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: 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A cadre of police agencies searched five locations in Cornwall, Ont., and another in Brockville, Ont., last Friday morning, after biker gang violence erupted in the former community and a large and suspicious fire destroyed a motorcycle clubhouse in the latter city less than 36 hours later. In the wake of the searches — and the earlier arrests of five people charged in the Cornwall fight — one of the police forces involved is now teasing the release of more details about the investigation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/motorcyclemadhouse/message

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Brockville, Ont., police have confirmed that a massive fire affecting multiple buildings in the city began at a biker gang clubhouse. Brockville Fire Chief Chris Paul said no one was injured as a result of the fire, but more than 17 buildings and were affected by the heat of the blaze, causing more than $4-million in damages. The fire began early Monday at what is widely known to be an Outlaws Motorcycle Club clubhouse. Paul said that firefighters are treating the incident as suspicious, and that Brockville police are investigating the blaze. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/motorcyclemadhouse/message

From Ep 171 After a short break, we return on the road! For our first episode back, we went to beautiful Brockville, Ont. in the 1000 Islands region to learn all about a company that not only produces craft beer, but craft vodka and cider as well. In this interview, Owain Devlin of 1000 Islands Brewing Co. shares his story and what the brewery will produce next. All Beer Inside is a podcast by and for craft beer lovers. We travel near and far to sample the best brews and meet fellow aficionados. Drink craft, not crap! Please like, share, comment, subscribe and hit that notification bell! 1000 Island Brewing Company65 King St W, Brockville, OntarioWebsite, Instagram, Facebook All Beer Inside:Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Untappd: @allbeerinside The video portion of this interview can be found here Search for All Beer Inside in all your favorite apps. #craftbeer #craftbeerlove #drinkcraftbeer #interview #1000islands #ontario

Cottage season is gearing up .Which means that it is also the season of loud parties... over-crowded rentals... and annoyed neighbors. We spoke with the City of Kawartha Lakes about their solution for problematic short-term rental properties. It isn't much as far as scandals go, but 'Recycle-gate' was a hot topic at Brockville city council this week.. Residents are starting to see their blue bins left behind, and recycling contamination is cutting into the city's finances. We spoke with mayor Matt Wren about where the city goes from here. At this weekend's Doors Open event in Loyalist Township, it will be the barn door and farmyard gates that'll be open at the Second Chance Ranch. It's a sanctuary for farm animals to be rescued, rehabilitated, and relax into old age.

Paula Wiltse is an elite 55-year old masters runner from Carolyn's hometown of Brockville, ON. She has personal bests of 17:02 for the 5k all the way up to 2:48:50 for the marathon, and has even held some Canadian masters age group records throughout the years. At the age of 50 in 2017, Paula became part of a rare group of women to break 3 hours for the marathon, running an impressive 2:58:52 in Chicago. Carolyn interviewed  Paula about her storied career on the Women Run Canada podcast back in 2021, which you can find in our show notes. In this episode we take a deep dive into what's been going on for Paula over the past 5 years and to sum it up, it's a LOT. Like many of us, Paula's running took a big hit during the pandemic, but she's also been dealing with perimenopause, the strength and speed loss that happens to women in their 50s, and losing her 20-year sponsorship with Saucony. We talk about how she's navigated all of this and redefined success for herself along the way, as well as how she plans to get back in touch with her competitive drive to knock out a fast 5K this fall.Paula is an online coach with Mile2Marathon and she coaches a group in the Brockville area called MyReason2Run, so if you're looking for some help with your running you should definitely check her out. Paula is the real deal and we appreciate her sharing so honestly about the challenges she has faced over the past five years. Resources we discuss in the episode:Women Run Canada's episode with Carolyn/PaulaPaula's Sub-3 in Chicago, Canadian Running MagazineOur interview with Ilona Thomas (Paula's friend doing Two Oceans)Connect with Paula:Instagram: @wiltsepaulaMile2Marathon Coaching email: paula@mile2marathon.comReason2Run Coaching email: myreason2run@gmail.comConnect with Carolyn & Kim:Email us with guest ideas: inspiredsolescast@gmail.comInspired Soles InstagramKim's InstagramKim's FacebookCarolyn's InstagramCarolyn's FacebookCarolyn's website (sign up for her free weekly newsletter on the homepage)We love hearing from you! Connect with us on Instagram @inspiredsolescast or email guest ideas to inspiredsolescast@gmail.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend, subscribe or leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

Show notes: [0:58] What's Dan's background? [4:51] On what happened with Wim Hof [12:50] Finding the sweet spot with ice baths [17:19] How does he work with athletes and corporate people? [27:41] What are the things he learned from travelling the world? [41:01] Where to find Dan? [43:45] Outro Who is Dan? Daniel de Luis is a Performance Coach, Corporate Stress Reduction Specialist, Biohacker, Cold Therapy Specialist, Wim Hof Instructor, Mindfulness, Meditation, Breathwork, and Yoga Instructor. He has studied under various teachers around the world, including Shamans in the Amazon, Swamis in India, and the Iceman-WIm Hof himself. Studied and lived at Yoga Ashrams around the world. Exploring many esoteric disciplines, including plant medicines in the Jungles of Brazil. Daniel has blended both ancient wisdom with advanced science to develop a system that helps others find their full human potential.    Daniel has taught and studied all over the world, with over 25,000 hours of teaching experience. He has had the opportunity of teaching many NHL, Olympic, elite, and professional athletes. Some of Daniel's current and past clients in the Corporate world include the CBSA, Canadian Military, NIKE, HEXO, 3M, CANARM, BRIGHTDAY, and more.    Daniel has also given his stress reduction wellness programs/workshops in a wide range of facilities from Government agencies, correctional institutions, Police and Fire Departments, hospitals, elementary schools, high schools, and Universities.    He is based out of his wellness center in Brockville, Ont, Canada. Leading workshops, yoga, meditation classes, and retreats. He also teaches and speaks on Biohacking, teaching others how to be the best version of themselves. His programs help people with various issues anywhere, from back pain to stress reduction and overall well-being. He has committed his life to helping others live happier, healthier, and stronger lives.   Learn more about Dan: Website: https://dandeluis.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/dan_deluis Email: dan.deluis@hotmail.com   Links and Resources: Peak Performance Life Peak Performance on Facebook Peak Performance on Instagram

Tattoos have been popular for a long time so it's not surprising that some people are having second thoughts about what they immortalized on their skin with ink. The CBC's Hallie Cotnam tells about a service that specializes in removing tattoos. And business is booming; Storytime featuring drag performers reading to young children are increasingly popular. But they are also attracting angry protests. We hear why one storytime scheduled for this past weekend had to be canceled while another one moved ahead, but not without incident. Geraldine Sark, the Brockville library CEO and Betty Baker, a drag performer from from Peterborough share their stories; Ontario is launching a new grant program for child care operators to create more daycare spaces. Rachel Vickerson, the Executive Director of the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario discusses how these grants will improve access to care; Jessica Zwarych of the Ontario SPCA tells us how they have over 24 rabbits in care who are in need of homes.

Listen to a story of hope infused trust through the power of prayer from a familiar voice in our Brockville region!

Kelly Brakenhoff is an author of six books and an ASL interpreter from Nebraska. She has served as an interpreter for deaf and hard of hearing persons now for over 30 years. You can tell how much she likes her chosen professions by listening to her as you get to do in this episode.   Kelly is especially excited by a series of books she has started involving Duke the Deaf Dog where she introduces readers to ASL, American Sign Language. She is working to help readers, especially children, better understand the deaf and hard of hearing community. On top of everything Kelly has done, she has used the crowdfunding program, Kickstarter, to help fund her newest book. It turns out that another famous author also used this program to fund their efforts. You get to hear all about it.   I very much hope you enjoy our episode this time and that you will give us a 5 rating. Thanks for listening.   About the Guest:   Kelly Brakenhoff is an author of six books and an ASL interpreter from Nebraska, US. She divides her writing energy between two series: cozy mysteries set on a college campus, and picture books featuring Duke the Deaf Dog.  Parents, kids, and teachers love the children's books because they teach American Sign Language using fun stories. And if you like a smart female sleuth, want to learn more about Deaf culture, or have ever lived in a place where livestock outnumber people, you'll enjoy the Cassandra Sato Mystery series.   Social media links:   kellybrakenhoff.com and follow her social media or blog by using this link: https://kellybrakenhoff.com/quicklinks/   About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is an Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes* Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:21 Hi, and here we are once again with unstoppable mindset, the podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected me. And the unexpected, as always, is the fun part of the podcast. We love to carry on different kinds of conversations with people learn about them. And you know what I'm going to say once again, for any of you listening out there, I'd love to have conversations with you. I'll bet you have stories that we should talk about. So definitely reach out. Michael hingson.com/podcast or Michaelhi@accessibie.com. And I'd love to chat with you. But for now, we have Kelly Brakenhoff, who is here with us. She is an author, and ASL interpreter, and a Kickstarter campaign runner par excellence. But does that elevate you are what Kelly Welcome to unstoppable mindset. How are you?   Kelly Brakenhoff  02:18 Hi, I'm great. Thank you for having me. today. I'm really excited to be talking to you.   Michael Hingson  02:24 Well, I'm really excited to have a chance to chat with you and learn all about you and and learn why you're unstoppable. When I started this podcast, because we think that everyone has a story to tell, we all have had challenges in our lives and, and we've overcome them. And it doesn't need to be a huge challenge. But still a challenge is a challenge. And when we overcome it, that's great. And when we recognize that we did something that we didn't think we can do, then I think we fall into this concept of being able to move toward a mindset of unstop ability. And so we started unstoppable mindset, and we have a lot of fun with it. Well, why don't we start with your story a little bit? Why don't you tell us about you kind of growing up or anything about that that you think we ought to know?   Kelly Brakenhoff  03:12 Well, sure. Um, yeah, I'm a fan of your, your mindset, your your podcast, I think this is just the coolest thing. So like I said, just super excited to be here today. Um, I've been an ASL interpreter for more than 30 years, and an author for just over three years. So although I'm a veteran interpreter, I'm still a baby author and publisher. I learned new things every day. So I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. I guess. I've moved around. One thing that's interesting about me as I've moved around quite a bit. I grew up in Connecticut. I've lived in Nebraska, Boston, Hawaii, Seattle. And then now we've been in Nebraska for quite a while since Austin. Last Boston, Boston. Yes.   Michael Hingson  04:01 So can you say it pack your car and have a yard? Of course.   Kelly Brakenhoff  04:07 My uncle is from South Boston and so he married my aunt who's from upstate New York and listening to the to talk was so fun. I lived with them for a summer in college. And and I just had such is such a fun time, especially if they like had a little discussion or something you know, and they they get the voices raised and they'd start going in their accent they revert.   Michael Hingson  04:35 I lived in Winthrop, Massachusetts for three years and spent some time in the in the Boston area before then and back a little bit but I love the accent but I love Massachusetts. I love New England in general. And my wife and I have a story about Mr. Connecticut. We were going there for something and And I don't even remember what it was. And we were we were traveling the right way but we were traveling a lot further than we thought we needed to to get to Mystic So ever since I've been saying that one of the things about mystic is it moves around and doesn't stay in one place. So I'm sticking   Kelly Brakenhoff  05:17 to memory of mystic is going there on probably a sixth grade field trip. And you know afterwards, the field trip they take you through the gift shop and I bought a little pewter whale. Yeah, sure. I still have it somewhere in the bookcase somewhere in my house.   Michael Hingson  05:39 We stopped at a restaurant there. The second time we went to mystic and I'm still convinced it wasn't in the same place. It was the first time we went to a restaurant and sat right along the river and watch the drawbridge coming up, which was   Kelly Brakenhoff  05:55 that is really fun. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  05:57 definitely. Yeah. We love New England. And I hope that we get a chance to go back there. I have all sorts of stories about Boston. We went I went a lot over to Daniel hall into Quincy Market and ADA Durgan. Park. Have you ever eaten there?   Kelly Brakenhoff  06:13 I have it in there. Yes, I love Faneuil Hall.   Michael Hingson  06:16 I don't know whether Durgin Park is still open. I've heard it. I've heard that it is. But I'll have to tell you. Well, I'll tell you the story about Durgan Park. It's a Durgin Park, for those who don't know, is a restaurant that if it's still there, serves food family style, and they have tables along the side. That will seat for people. But you have to have four people, if you want to sit at one of those tables. If you have three, you sit at the long tables in the middle. If you have too long tables in the middle. They're very snotty about it. In fact, waitresses and waiters are hired to be snots. It's all an act, but they're supposed to be absolutely obnoxious. They're just what some people would say the typical clothes New England style of of being, if you will, but anyway, we go into the restaurant one night, and it was me and two other people and my guide dog Holland, who is a golden retriever with the most luscious eyes in the world. And the hostess said, you know, I'm just going to let you guys sit at one of the tables for four. So she seats us and the waitress comes over. And she says what are you people doing here? You can't sit at this table. And I said, well, the host has put it put us here. No, she didn't you just snuck in here. You can't sit at this table. And she yelled at us. And we said no. We got to sit be seated here because we have a guide dog under the table. No, you don't I don't believe that. You're not going to fool me with that. You can't sit here and she just went on. Then she goes away. And she comes back and she said you can't sit here I said, look under the table. Finally she looks. There's these eyes just staring back at her. And she just melts. And the next thing we know she goes away. One of the things about Durgin Park is that they serve a when they serve prime rib. It's a huge piece of prime rib that takes the whole plate. She comes back with this plate. She said somebody didn't eat much of their prime rib. Can I give it to the dog? And oh, it was great. But it's just fun memories of all over Boston. So I'm glad you had a chance to be there. Well, enough about me in that. So you've lived all over?   Kelly Brakenhoff  08:29 We have we've moved a lot and you haven't moved a lot recently. But when when I was younger, I moved quite a bit.   Michael Hingson  08:35 Yes. What caused you to be moving around. Um, we   Kelly Brakenhoff  08:39 grew up in Connecticut. And then in high school, my parents decided my mom's from Nebraska so and my dad's from upstate New York. So when I was in high school, we moved our family moved to Nebraska. And then when my husband and I first got married, he worked for a construction company who moved us to Hawaii for five years that works. That worked. That was a great honeymoon, We'd only been married six weeks. And so that was that was a five year honeymoon. That was awesome. Our first couple of kids were born there. And we decided that we after a year or so they really didn't get to see their grandparents very often. So he decided to move back to the mainland and we made a stop first in Seattle and then we came back to Nebraska. So we've been in here for quite a while but I really enjoyed getting to experience all the different cultures and all the different places and I also have a very soft spot in my heart for New England to   Michael Hingson  09:35 Well, it's great to live in various parts of the US shows what a wonderful and just incredible country we are with all sorts of different cultures that can really blend and meld together to form what we get to experience if we only keep the culture going as as really we are the melting pot and that just makes it so Great when we get to see that,   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:01 I totally agree i Yeah.   Michael Hingson  10:04 So how old are your kids now?   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:07 They are grown up. We have four kids, three boys and one girl. And so the oldest is 21 going to be 29. And our youngest just graduated from college last year. So he's 22 in Nebraska, and Nebraska. Huskers everybody's a Husker.   Michael Hingson  10:28 Go Huskers Go Big Red. Yep.   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:31 So um, but we have four grandkids too. So that's a lot of fun. And we're really lucky. They all live in town, so I get to see them quite a bit.   Michael Hingson  10:38 That works. So you see you fix it up. So you now have this this Braden half ghetto, if you will,   Kelly Brakenhoff  10:45 yes, my Twitter handle is actually in Brockville. Because one of my friends quite a while ago used to tease me that I was trying to create my own village. So we call it in Brock anvil.   Michael Hingson  10:59 There you go, that works. Nothing wrong with that. Well, so I know you're an author. And I know that you are an ASL interpreter, and so on, tell me how you got into being involved with ASL. And a little bit more about all that.   Kelly Brakenhoff  11:16 Sure. Um, I in high school, I volunteered at a camp for deaf kids. My parents wanted me to do something in the summer and stay out of trouble. So they kind of sent me to go volunteer. And at this camp. In the end, I didn't know any sign language. So I got a book. And I started trying to figure out a few signs before I first went to this camp. Of course, the first few weeks I was there, I had no idea what anyone was saying, because they were all using sign language. And I didn't know it. But by the end of the summer, I had learned quite a bit and I had made some really good friends. And I just kept learning during the school year, when they went when they were all gone. I kept taking classes and reading more books. And it actually turned out to be my, the language that I took when I was in college, it counted as my foreign language. And I just kept learning and hanging around with Deaf people. And eventually, my mentors in ASL, the deaf people that I was friends with, invited me to try interpreting for them. And I didn't, if I had known, I wasn't very good, but they were very kind. And they they asked me to interpret so I did and it just ended up kind of something I fell into. It wasn't something I intended to do. But it's become my whole life's work, and I really like it.   Michael Hingson  12:40 So is that kind of a full time job? Or are your vocation then?   Kelly Brakenhoff  12:43 Yeah, I would say it, it's my Well, it's hard to say what's my vocation because I also really love being an author, even though I haven't been published until recently. But I've been a writer my whole life in college, I actually majored in English. And I always wanted to be a writer, it just, I guess the interpreting thing just kind of was a very long detour. But I always wrote even when I was interpreting and so in raising my family and stuff, so once my kids started getting into high school and college, and I started looking around for something to fill some of my empty hours. That was when I really got serious about finishing my first book.   Michael Hingson  13:27 Well, from from an ASL standpoint, and interpreting it certainly is something that's, that's a little bit different. What have you learned about deafness and disabilities and so on from being involved in all of that,   Kelly Brakenhoff  13:41 oh, my goodness, we don't have enough there's not enough time in the day to talk about it's just changed my whole mindset, like, like, you've talked about that. I think it's just a way of looking at the world. Like a lot of people think that people who are deaf and hard of hearing, it's about your ears being broken, but it's really just a different way to move through life. So instead of a hearing world do like they have a visual world, so everything is visual. So it's like the opposite of what you experience now. So it's, it's just a way of moving through the world, you know that. And so instead of being like broken and something that needs to be fixed, it's just kind of a way of life. I guess. I just have a lot of respect. I've worked a lot in at the University of Nebraska. So I work with a lot of college students. And I've over the years done just Gosh, 20 Something different majors. I sit in on all the classes. I interpret what the teachers seen at the front of the class, and the discussions that the students do. And so I've gotten to learn a lot of things just by osmosis over the years and I have a really deep respect for the students because you know, their classmates sitting in the same room with them, they can listen to the lecture, write notes, you know, go online and do stuff all while this is all going on, whereas the deaf student has to sit there and watch me. If they want to take their own notes, they kind of have to look down and take their own notes, but then still keep an eye on me. And then if there's a PowerPoint, they're trying to watch that. And if there's a video, they're hoping that it has good captions, and so like, there's so many things going on, that it's amazing that they can get as much as they do out of the classes. And then of course, they have to study so much more afterwards, because a lot of times, they have to go back over the notes or back over the reading to see what they missed, because they were just, you know, a lot of their attention during the class is on me. So it's just given me a really healthy respect for how intelligent and how hard workers the students are. And I've just kind of seen that in all walks of life. I've interpreted for a lot of different situations, and different businesses and all kinds of things. And I just, I'm always in awe of how, how hard workers, the deaf students and just deaf adults in their job, or   Michael Hingson  16:13 how did the students then really get the job of notetaking done? Do they oftentimes have people who take notes for them? Or are they successful enough at taking notes themselves,   Kelly Brakenhoff  16:26 it really depends on the student and their preference. You know how some people don't mind having someone else take the notes, because then they can pay more attention to the interpreter and the PowerPoint and the teacher. But then other people maybe don't, you know, when you take notes, we could listen to the same speaker and your notes would be different than mine. And so some students don't really trust that another student is going to write down the same things that they would have written down if they were taking their own notes. So it really is a personal preference. But luckily, now, with the technology, I have a couple of students who, so they're deaf, and they use ASL and they use interpreters, but they also use cart, which is the captioning service. And so they'll have a laptop, or they also use like an otter, which is an app that the teacher wears a microphone and then it, it makes a transcript of everything that the teacher has said, and then they can save it. So I have a few students who even though they're, you know, pretty much dependent on the sign language for comprehension, they still use the transcript, because then they can go back later and like highlight the parts that they thought were important. And then it's kind of I think more in their control. Or if sometimes, like an English word has, you know, five different signs for it. And so if I do a sign, and they want to know what the exact English word was, they can look at the transcript and see oh, okay, that's the word that, you know, I need to remember or that's the word that I want to know. So I think it's great that they have all these tools. Because, gosh, back in the day, when I first started, none of that existed. And a lot of times, they would just have someone else take notes for them. And if that person wasn't a good note taker, they were kind of out of luck.   Michael Hingson  18:25 We use otter actually to do the transcribing of all of these podcasts. So that one unstoppable mindset is published. There's a written transcription as well. So we use otter to do that. And oftentimes, I will use otter to transcribe a meeting, or make it possible, make it possible for for people to come into the podcast, and listen and watch if you will in real time, which makes a lot of sense. So I found that otter works really well.   Kelly Brakenhoff  19:00 Yeah, I've tried several different apps and different services, because I have a thing to like you, I really want to make my website as accessible as possible, and my appearances as accessible as possible. So I get transcripts made of all the podcasts that I do whether the provider does or not. And so I've tried several different services, and I do agree that I think otter is a it produces a good product, and the price is good, too. So   Michael Hingson  19:33 I certainly right, you're right, the price is certainly right. But also, it does a good job and it's improving over time. Some people have said they're better systems than otter and I haven't really tried other services. And the people who help with the podcasts have looked at various things and we all end up settling on otter it really works well.   Kelly Brakenhoff  19:54 That's good to know. That's good to know, because a couple of years ago I tested several and I haven't read rechecked back into it. And the last six months, it's great. I think the one of the good benefits of the pandemic has been, how everyday people have realized that speech to text. And other, just things that we used to think of as being accessible for people with disabilities are now helpful for like everyone. And people have just come to realize that with all the Zoom meetings, and all of the the work from home solutions, so things that used to be just in the realm of special are now every day and they're all getting better, because we all demand that they get better. So the AI captions and everything are so much better than they were even just a few years ago.   Michael Hingson  20:47 Well, and then look at that you bring a very good point to light, which is that oftentimes, there are things that we use, that when other people start to use them first of all makes them much, much more affordable. But also, that will cause them to improve a lot more than otherwise they would have look at Dragon Naturally Speaking that started out as Dragon Dictate and did okay. And now Dragon is a lot better. I don't think that it transcribes as well as otter does in terms of plugging in punctuations, and so on. But I'm not surprised or wouldn't be surprised if that improves over time. But when you look at what otter does, it's pretty incredible.   Kelly Brakenhoff  21:31 It is it really is. And the What's incredible to me is the the short amount of time that it's gotten better. So I think that's great. But like you said, I think I guess it's sad to me that it takes it took a pandemic for enough people to use the tools that we've all been using for years to you know, demand a higher quality and a lower price. But I guess you know, if that's one good thing that comes out of all this, and that's great.   Michael Hingson  22:02 I think we tend to just get locked in to doing things one way and we, for whatever reason tend to be very slow at looking at other options. And you're right, the pandemic has made a significant difference and look at how many people are using zoom as opposed to pre pandemic, yet, Zoom has been there. The other thing that we've noticed along the way with Zoom is that they have deliberately and absolutely focused on accessibility and inclusion. So when a person who is blind encounters a problem with zoom in something is working right. There is a process to report that and we find that very quickly, it gets resolved, because they have a whole team working on issues to make sure that Zoom continues to be very inclusive.   Kelly Brakenhoff  22:55 Yes, I agree. Because I think when we first started with Zoom, the there was no, the only way you could have captions was hiring a person to do the captions. And then once they started making them automatic and everything that that was huge. That was that was huge. That's I'm glad to hear that they have a team doing it. And I agree, their improvements have have been amazing.   Michael Hingson  23:23 I don't want to put zoom on the spot, but have you compared otter with, if you compare it to otter with the zoom, automatic closed captioning,   Kelly Brakenhoff  23:31 um, I have, I guess if I just stop and think about it, I think they're pretty similar. What's actually kind of funny is when I will do a large meeting on Zoom, where I'm one of the interpreters. So I'm one of the little heads in the Brady Bunch group of people on Zoom. So I'll interpret for some of the deaf people in the meeting. And what I'll do sometimes is I'll turn on the captions because, you know, occasionally I might have a hard time hearing someone talking, or I might miss something or whatever. And so I can look at the captions and see if you know try to correct myself or, you know, check my accuracy. And yeah, so I have seen some pretty bad interpretations on our transcript on on Zoom and on otter, where things just don't come out. Right. It's, it's definitely for people who speak like standard slow American English once you have any kind of an accent or any kind of, if you speak too quickly, then the captions pretty much everywhere are a lot harder to understand. But they like I said, I still think they've gotten a lot better, which   Michael Hingson  24:48 I only asked that just out of curiosity because I know that the service is there to do automatic transcription or captioning. And I've never, never asked anyone exactly how well it does, except I've heard that it does a good job, but I've never compared it to like otter or something. And I bought otter for teens. And the reason I did that is so that it is now set up and integrated with Zoom. So it automatically starts when I opened a Zoom meeting. And what I do usually is unless there's a need to I will stop it. But it automatically starts when I come into a meeting that I that I initiate, and that's great, because then I don't even have to think about it. And it's a an effort of volition if I want to stop it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  25:42 Oh, yeah, that's great. I didn't realize you can set it up that way. That's awesome.   Michael Hingson  25:45 Yeah, the otter for teams. Home, I think, unless the price has changed, it was like $240 a year. And if you're a nonprofit, or whatever, it's half that. So it's not even a lot of money to do it, which is what's great.   Kelly Brakenhoff  26:00 That is That's awesome. Well, thank you. So the more users that use things, then the cheaper the price for everyone. And I think that's what we're seeing now with a lot of these tools.   Michael Hingson  26:12 It is ironic that we have to go through something like a pandemic to see things become more available, and for people to start to see that maybe some of the tools that say a person who is blind or low vision, or a person who is deaf or hard of hearing uses might very well be relevant for the rest of us. I'm still amazed that in driving with people using cell phones, we don't find more automatic use of the verbal technology voiceover for Apple and talkback on an Android, I'm surprised that we don't see more use of those verbal systems. In the driving experience, there's no reason not to do that, and do more to keep people's eyes on the road. Unfortunately, we're going the other way, we're getting more driving experiences with touchscreens, which means somebody's got to watch the screen, or look down and then quickly look back at the road. Why should that even have to happen today? Because we have such good voice technology. And we can also have good voice input technology to go along with it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  27:21 That's an excellent point. That's, that's so true. Yes, there's definitely you know, all the fancy touchscreens. But when I got my latest car, I had to sit in the driveway with the owner's manual for an hour just to figure out how to reprogram the clock. So you definitely don't want to be doing any of that while you're on the road. Well,   Michael Hingson  27:42 if you and I, I love Tesla's and I think that the technology is great, it is demonstrating the state of the art technology that's out there. But it's all controlled by a touchscreen, which means a blind passenger, I can't even do what a passenger would do to tune the radio or turn on a podcast or turn on whatever the services are available, much less anything else, because it's all touchscreen. And there's no reason for that today, we should be able to keep people's eyes more on the road. Even if you have the Tesla copilot function, which can take over a good part of the driving experience. It's not an autonomous vehicle software, but it can help with the driving experience. People should be keeping their eyes on the road not watching a touchscreen. And I'm still amazed that we're not seeing more people recognize the value of audio input and output.   Kelly Brakenhoff  28:36 I did not realize that I wrote in my first Tesla just a few months ago, and it was really neat, but I didn't I guess I just assumed that they had voice input things. I mean, wow, that's that's really shocking. as fancy as that whole system is that is very surprising. Well, let me let me rephrase that Ilan and say, hey,   Michael Hingson  28:59 well, let me rephrase it a little bit. There is availability of voice input for some things, but it's not an automatic process. So you have to invoke it, then you have to do something, I think to make it work every time you want to use it. What I'm saying is, it should be as much a part of the driving experience as anything else. And I'm saying it should be more part of the driving experience than using a touchscreen, it should be automatic. And we don't do that. We're too young to eyesight and we think that eyesight is the only game in town. Just like I'm sure that people who are deaf and hard of hearing would say that most people think that hearing is the only game in town. And in the in reality is neither is true. Exactly. I've said for years that I've said for years that people with disability, well, people who have eyesight, have their own disability and that is their light dependent. They can't do things without light Thomas Edison as the Americans with Disabilities Back would define it developed a reasonable accommodation for light dependent people when he created the light bulb. Let's get real, and I and I don't have the stitches. Lee it's true. You know, it's it's unfortunate that people are so locked into doing things one way that they're missing opportunities to make driving safer. But there you go.   Kelly Brakenhoff  30:22 I love that. I love that idea. I love that idea. I think that should be used to make that a thing as a political movement. I love that.   Michael Hingson  30:31 Yeah, well, we got to get Elon to go along with it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  30:34 Well, you know, he's kind of busy with Twitter right now. So maybe that all wrapped up, then he can he can focus his brain power on this?   Michael Hingson  30:43 Well, once he gets it set up, and if he's gonna do Twitter, then we'll start doing tweets. Oh, there you go. There you go. What a world we live in right now. So you said that you've done a lot of writing, you've been very much involved in writing, since college and so on. Why do you like writing so much?   Kelly Brakenhoff  31:07 Honestly, I don't know. I think it's just how I think how I process things. It's communication, talking to people talking to people like you. That's just kind of how I think it's just, just what I do is is who I am. That's a pretty simple answer.   Michael Hingson  31:26 We'll put Hey, it works. It works. So you said you just pretty recently got involved in starting to actually write books?   Kelly Brakenhoff  31:36 Yeah, I think it was 2014. I joined NaNoWriMo for the first time, which for people who haven't heard of that, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it's in November, where, gosh, by this day, by last year, I think it was around 750,000 people around the world, try to write 16 167 words a day for 30 days, and you come up with a 50,000 word manuscript by the end of the month. And that was signing up for that challenge was because I'm kind of competitive. So if I sign up for a challenge like that, I'm gonna do it. So that was like the thing that broke the barrier for me of just having ideas and just wanting to write and whatever and actually finishing a manuscript for the first time. That's what kind of gave me that push to actually do it.   Michael Hingson  32:33 So what did you publish your own books? Are they published through a publisher or what?   Kelly Brakenhoff  32:38 Yes, they are. They're self published, I tried for about a year to publish my firt, or to find an agent and all of that for my first one. And then at the same time, I was also checking into self publishing. And I don't know I think just a lot of factors kind of all converged. And I just decided at the end that self publishing was was the way to go. I'm kind of a control freak. And I like to, I like to have the my input into how to make you know, I hire my whole team. So I have an editor and a cover designer and and proofreaders and all of that stuff. And I get to decide what the finished product ends up to be. And it turns out that, yeah, I'm kind of bossy I guess.   Michael Hingson  33:23 You have a publicist who helps with the PR, and all that. I do.   Kelly Brakenhoff  33:27 I do. It's a it's called creative edge is the one that I use. And, and they've really, I've really enjoyed being part of that group.   Michael Hingson  33:37 I met Mickey a couple of months ago, actually, for the first time, he was introduced to me by someone else that we interviewed on the unstoppable mindset podcast. And she said, you know, he works with a lot of authors who might very well have interesting stories for you. And so that's how we met him. And we've actually started working with him as well. We're just getting started. But having written thunder dog, which was, and we're blessed by the fact that it was a number one New York Times bestseller, and then was published by Thomas Nelson part of HarperCollins. Now, but then we self published our second book, which was called running with Roselle, which was kind of more for youth, but more adults by it than then kids do. And it's the story of me growing up and Rozelle growing up. And then how we met after she became a guide dog in training, and she became my guide dog, and you know, kind of went from there, but I love writing, but I haven't done that much of it. We are starting to work on a third book, and that'll be a lot of fun. And we just got a book contract for that as well. So that's pretty exciting.   Kelly Brakenhoff  34:46 That's great. Congratulations. I didn't know that. That's awesome.   Michael Hingson  34:51 But But I'm curious. You've written I guess basically what two different kinds of books children's books and mysteries. How do you do mystery How do you come up with a plot? And how do you? Do you make it all come together? Because I think mystery writing has to be if you do it well, it has to be a real challenge to come up with a not only a plot, but create all of the scenes, do all the things that you need to do. And essentially, keep the solution hidden until the end of the book unless there's some value in presenting that earlier. And it's really how you get there.   Kelly Brakenhoff  35:30 Yeah, that's a funny question. Because I definitely write in extremes. I mean, I write 70,000, word mysteries, and then I write 500, word picture books for the children's books. So very different, very different approaches. But yeah, the mysteries and thrillers are kind of the things that I have always read my whole life. So I thought when I wanted to do that first NaNoWriMo challenge, I decided to kind of mash up all of my experiences. Like I said, I've lived in Hawaii and Nebraska, the East Coast, Seattle. So I kind of took all of those different elements working at a college and I put them all together into this murder mystery. And I got about two thirds of the way through and realized exactly what you said that writing a mystery is hard. It's actually one of I think, the most difficult genres to do because exactly for the reason you said, you want to make that mystery puzzle complicated enough that it can't be solved too early. Mystery readers are very smart people. And so it's very challenging coming up with enough suspects and clues to keep people guessing until the end. I guess I just love a challenge. I think it's it's fun, but it's also just what I love to read and write. So a read so it was kind of the most natural thing to write.   Michael Hingson  36:59 I think you just hit on it. Essentially. mysteries are puzzles and puzzles are as good as it gets. Who are your favorite mystery writers?   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:10 Oh, I have so many.   Michael Hingson  37:12 Yeah, me too. Yeah.   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:15 I think like my, you know, the ones I kind of grew up with was like Sue Grafton. So that letter A is for those Jana Ivanovic. There's Stephanie Plum Siri   Michael Hingson  37:27 plum. Hey, come on. We all love diesel, but that's another story.   Kelly Brakenhoff  37:30 Oh, yeah, diesel's awesome, too. Well, I'm sure being you live. You said you live in New Jersey, right? Oh, yes. Yeah. So you're very familiar with tenants. Definitely. Trenton definitely fun. And then I also just love like John Grisham and James Patterson and Michael Connelly. I mean, gosh, I just, that's all. I haven't really met very many mysteries that I didn't like.   Michael Hingson  37:54 Yeah. My my favorite still is Rex Stout with the neuro wolf series. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they I've never solved any of his books before the end. And I worked at it. I love Mary Higgins Clark. But I was able to basically figure out all of the, the mean people in that before the end of the book, still, they were fun to read   Kelly Brakenhoff  38:20 is fun, right? I mean, as long as it's a good story, even if guests are having an idea of did it by the end, as long as the character still keep you in it. And a lot of times this setting is kind of a character to then I don't mind, you know, reading to the end to confirm that I was right. I think what's funny since I became a writer, and I don't know, you can tell me if this is true for yourself. But since I became a writer, an author, I kind of ruined for reading, like I read a lot. But I read now to learn and to see what when I read a really good book, I love to pick it apart and and see why it's good. And not just the structure of it. But like if I if that paragraph was beautiful, I'll go back and read that paragraph several times and try to figure out what is so great about that paragraph, or when someone throws a twist or a turn in or I thought I knew who it was. And then at the end, I find out it was someone else. I just love that. That thrill of like, oh, you fooled me, you know, and I really like to think about all of that. But that means that a lot of times I'm not really enjoying the book. I'm like studying the book. And so I have found that if if I really get so sucked into a book that I am not doing that, that means that it's a really, really good book because if it took me out of my analysis into just enjoying it, then that's a me that's the mark of a very good book.   Michael Hingson  39:53 Sue Graf passed away from cancer did her last book ever get published? Because I don't think she finished it, did she?   Kelly Brakenhoff  39:59 It did not odds are one of those.   Michael Hingson  40:01 Zero Yeah,   Kelly Brakenhoff  40:03 yeah. The sad things. Is it never it's, it's not finished. I don't even know how far she got in it. But it wasn't finished enough to be published. Yeah,   Michael Hingson  40:12 yeah, I guess that's kind of what happened. But her mysteries were definitely some of the best. And we read them all. And some twice, which is always fun if I if I want to read a book a second time. And I don't have that many hours in the day that that's easy to do. But if I want to read a book a second time, then I know that there is something about it that I must have enjoyed. And we read here, a lot of books on audio, audible and other sources. The reason we do is that instead of watching TV, we pipe books through the house, my wife has learned to listen to audio. So we listen to books together. What I've been occasionally finding are editor mistakes where they said something and then later on referring back something, they say something different. Somebody messed up in editing it, and I don't see it often. But I do occasionally see it and I always find them. Which is a fun.   Kelly Brakenhoff  41:15 It is it's i It's funny, because, you know, even though my books are self published, I work really hard not to have those kinds of errors. Yeah, they go through an editor, at least one editor, numerous BETA readers, numerous proofreaders. And then, you know, six months after I published it all open it up, and I see a typo. And it's like, at first I used to get so frustrated at that. And then now I saw something one time on Facebook, it was like, cheers to you, you typo you made it through three rounds of editing, 10 proofreaders and you still made it you you go, you know,   Michael Hingson  41:58 I when I was in college, we used in freshman and sophomore physics, a series of books called the Berkeley physics series, because it came out of there. And I had a dorm mate, who looked in detail at every single book, looking for a mistake, because he said a lot of books, there are editing mistakes. And he said he finally found one in one of the Berkeley physics books, but he said it was so fun looking just to see any error. And he couldn't find them in the Berkeley physics series. It was just incredible that he spent that time. On the other hand, he was an excellent student. So I guess he learned from it as he was reading.   Kelly Brakenhoff  42:43 Have a niece who's a doctor and they actually some textbook company paid her. I don't know if she just got free books. Or if she actually got paid her last year of med school, they they paid her to go through the as she was going through the textbook to note down any errors that she found.   Michael Hingson  43:03 See, it's always good to to read as much as possible and proofread as much as possible. And you're right. There's nothing like a good editor to help.   Kelly Brakenhoff  43:12 Right, exactly, exactly.   Michael Hingson  43:14 So how hard was it to write your first mystery? Oh, must have a lot   Kelly Brakenhoff  43:22 of courage. And it was a lot of it was a lot of I think I must have gone through 10 or 15 jobs. It took me five years to finish it, it was ugly, there was a lot of tears. But you know, you just learned so much I kind of consider it like getting a master's degree. I just did it at home with my, my own process. But you know, I just had to learn a lot. You have to be humble, you have to be willing to accept criticism and advice from other people. But I feel like it taught me a lot. And of course, then the second book teaches you even more and the third and you know, each one you do, I think you just learn more, either about yourself or about writing. I'd love to read books about writing craft and how to do better. You know, I want every single book that I write to be better than the last. I think most authors are that way.   Michael Hingson  44:15 They get easier the more you write. That's a   Kelly Brakenhoff  44:18 funny question, because I'm right in the middle of writing my fourth mystery right now. And I've been stalled for quite a while. And what it's taught me is just about myself and my process and what I thought my process was versus what I'm finding. I thought I could speed it up, but it's actually making me slow down. So that means that I was not speeding it up correctly. If that makes sense.   Michael Hingson  44:46 Yeah. Well, and I don't know whether it becomes easier or not. I have been very blessed when we did thunder dog. I had someone to collaborate and help with it Susie Florrie And that happened because she actually found Me, because she was writing a book called Dawn tales, which was 17 stories about dogs who had stories. And she wanted to include Roselle in that. And she did. But as we discussed my story, she said, You should really write a book. And so we got started down that road. And I met her agent who became my agent, Chip McGregor on thunder dog. And we, we had a good time and collaborated well. And I think that there was a lot of value in that for me, because I know that I don't have the writing experience as such. But I know what's good when I read it. And I also know that I can add value. So we really had a very collaborative process of writing thunder dog, a lot of it is hers, and a lot of it is mine directly. And we blended the two which was great. Now with the third book that we're getting, which is getting ready to do, which is going to talk about fear and controlling fear and people learning that they can overcome fear and not let it blind them, if you will, to being able to make decisions. The working title is a guide dogs Guide to Being brave, and I'm doing that with a friend of Susie's Carrie, Carrie Wyatt can't. Because Suzy is in a Ph. D. program. Yeah, we love the title. We'll see what the publisher does. We've got a contract for it. We'll see what the publisher does with it over time. But so far everybody likes it. That was a carry creation, because I was going to call it blinded by fear, which was more accurate in some senses. But I think a guide dogs Guide to Being brave is a lot better title.   Kelly Brakenhoff  46:35 Yeah, it reminds me of that one. Is it the Art of Racing in the Rain? Yeah, yeah, it kind of reminds me of something like that, where it's it's a little off of what the theme of the book is, but it's still engaging, and it makes you want to know more about it.   Michael Hingson  46:54 It was a good book. And so   Kelly Brakenhoff  46:57 you said something that really resonated with me, you said, I know, it's good when I read it. And I think that's a big obstacle for beginning writers. And is that usually, if you're a writer, you're a reader first. And so I've read tons and tons of great books, and I know what great literature is, and I know what a great story is. And then when I write my first one, it's not very good. So you kind of have that, that huge gap between what you know is good and what you've produced. And so it's, it's, it's hard, you have to overcome that, that feeling of, of my stuff is really bad, you know, and then you have to work really hard to make it as good as, as you want it to be, you know, as good as it is to be able to actually share with the world, you know, to get up to that level of what your your bar is the bar that you've set. And so I think that's something that stands it's a barrier to a lot of people. And that's where I think a good editor comes. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  48:05 Yeah. Well look at John Grisham. You mentioned earlier the first book he wrote If I recall was a time to kill but it was the third one published the first one that he wrote, and it was published was the firm and then I'm trying to remember what the second one was. Was it the Pelican Brief the Pelican Brief right? And then A Time to Kill, which was the Jake Brigantes initiator, if you will. But if you look at all of them, you can see how the the books evolved over time in his writing style. So it's it is a natural progression. And I mentioned Rex Stout, a Nero Wolf, if you go back and read fair to Lance, which was his first book, and you compare it with especially much later writings, you can see changes, but you can see where everything is starting from and you get engaged in in fact, fair Lance was not the first mirror wolf book I read. by a longshot. It wasn't the first, but having gone back and read it. Even though everyone in the book all the characters developed a fair amount and since then, and his writing style improved. It was engaging. Mm hmm. Well, tell me about your mystery series,   Kelly Brakenhoff  49:26 sir. Um, it's about a college administrator named Cassandra Sato and she lives in Hawaii. She gives up her her life in Hawaii to move to Nebraska because she wants to accept her dream job at a tiny college called Morton college in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska. And she and her eventual goal is to become a college administrators or college president. So she thinks this is you know, the Path is gonna get her there. But of course, moving from Hawaii to Nebraska is a very, very large cultural, cultural shift. And so she encounters all kinds of problems, discrimination, barriers, everything. And a few months into her job, a student turns up dead on campus and see has to be part of the group of people who figures out what happened to the student and then find justice.   Michael Hingson  50:28 Yeah, come on. Cassandra really did. And she's been hiding a whole series. Yeah, that's   Kelly Brakenhoff  50:33 the end of the series. It was Cassandra.   Michael Hingson  50:35 That will come later on about the hundreds book, right. That's awesome. When Karen and my wife and I are talking about who did it in various books, we, we usually do things like that. We've been reading a lot of the JE NACHA as well, we read a chance to but the JD Robb books, the in depth series, have you read those. And so I read very many of those now, we we oftentimes will spin a story how Eve Dallas really did it. Or Roark did it and had just a lot of fun with it. But again, a great series of books is there's a lot of sex in those books, but they're still taking Ross. Yeah, they're great mysteries.   Kelly Brakenhoff  51:20 Yeah, a lot of times people like the ones that I write well, obviously, I have four kids and grandkids. And my kids would cringe if I if they had to read a sex scene that I wrote. So, you know, my kids were like, high school and college age when I started writing. So I decided all the sex in my books, there's gonna be behind closed doors, and yeah, nobody, nobody wants to have their mom. Yeah, no.   Michael Hingson  51:46 I've, I've talked to several authors who say that who, one who said I would never any more, I would never let my daughter or my wife, wife read the books, or I changed the sex so that they could read them. But the value of having them read them as they're great critics, and so it's worthwhile. But yeah, it is fun to to see how people react. But, you know, a mystery. Doesn't need to have all the violence thrown at you right out in the open, which is why puzzles are so great. At James Patterson tends to be a little bit more violent, but not nearly as violent as he could be. So we we've always enjoyed Of course, the Alex Cross series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  52:33 Yeah, it's there's such a huge variety in Yeah, the violence level and all that stuff. I myself, I have a pretty vivid imagination. I don't really need people to spell some of that stuff out for me. My mysteries are technically like cozy mysteries, which kind of means that there's no like blood on the page. There's no swearing, there's no sex. So like, even you know, high school kids can read them and, and that kind of thing. So I guess that's just, I just write what I like. So that's only because I like to read. So that's what I like to write.   Michael Hingson  53:12 Come on. That's only because Cassandra is trying to hide everything, but we know the truth.   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:18 That's right. She's really Voldemort.   Michael Hingson  53:21 Yeah, she's really Voldemort. Speaking of another good series of books   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:28 that's that's a whole different ballgame.   Michael Hingson  53:30 But but you know, looking at the Harry Potter books, again is another one where going from Book One through Book Seven, just how it evolved. And they're so fun.   Kelly Brakenhoff  53:42 They are they're definitely one of my I, I like all genres. So yeah, I loved Harry Potter Lord of the Rings, Narnia. I mean, you name it, it's I thought during the pandemic that I would just read all day every day but it turns out I actually have to do other stuff too.   Michael Hingson  53:59 So I hate it when that happens.   Kelly Brakenhoff  54:02 There is no laundry fairy I hate to be the person to tell you this but there is no laundry fairy,   Michael Hingson  54:07 I haven't found one either. And I get to do the clothes washing at our house which is fine. So for me, I love the brainless activities on Sunday. So there are three tasks that well for that I do on Sundays. It starts with doing the laundry or starting the laundry. Another is we I take the cat box out we use a litter called litter one it's not sand, it's all pine kernels. And you buy them and they come in a disposable box. So we just use in different new box every week. And it's about the same as using regular sand that you buy in the in the store. But at the end of the week, you just throw the whole box out and put a new one up and the cat is very demanding when it comes time to change the box. So that happens on Sunday. I take the trash out on Sunday. And then we have a little If we do get housecleaning help during the week, Karen's in wheelchairs, he has been in a chair her whole life. So it's kind of hard for us to do some of those things. So we do have a housekeeper that comes on Thursdays, in fact, and today's Thursday. So Jeanette is here, but we have a robot vacuum and I do the vacuuming again on Sunday with the robot in our bedroom, because that's also where Alamo my guide dog sleeps. So we get all those. So those are my four tasks on Sunday. And they're they're all pretty brainless in a sense. So I can read while they're going on, which is fun. And Karen is a quilter. So she's usually in sewing. And and she's reading the same thing I read. So it's a question right now, who finishes which JD Robb book first?   Kelly Brakenhoff  55:44 Yeah, that is definitely the the good thing about audiobooks is being able to multitask on some of those things that you don't have to pay so much attention to.   Michael Hingson  55:54 Tell me about your dupe the deaf dog ASL series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  55:58 Well, that is the second series that I started after I finished the mystery novels, I kind of had a moment where I realized that I, you know, I started my own publishing company. And I just had a thought, I mean, it's kind of cliche, it was actually a dream that just came to me of like, what I could do with this publishing company, if I just kind of unleashed it. And so I came up with the idea of, of this orange, English spaniel dog who is deaf and all of the people in his or all of his family can hear. And so it's just about different experiences that he has as the only person in a family of hearing people, and trying to get deaf and hard of hearing children to see themselves and their everyday life experiences on our pages of our books. But I also want kids who can hear to understand what it's like to hear differently. We just finished the third book, and I'm actually actually we just finished the fourth book, the third book just came out. But the fourth book is in production right now. And I had no idea when it started, what it was going to end up being but it's actually turned out to be more successful. And I would say even more fun than my mysteries, the mysteries are kind of like my thing that I enjoy. As far as, like you said, creating the puzzle and, and the challenge of it, but the Duke, the deaf dog ASL series, is kind of what I feel like I'm taking my 30 Whatever years of interpreting and hanging around with really cool Deaf people, and then like sharing that with the world.   Michael Hingson  57:49 So it's not a mystery series.   Kelly Brakenhoff  57:53 No, it is not. They are picture books. So they're only like less than 500 words. And each one is a different situation that do gets into so there's like a different message. And each one more than 90% of children who are born deaf or hard of hearing have parents that can hear I did a lot of research to before I started the books, and there's very few books for young children that have deaf and hard of hearing characters. Once you get into like high school age, or even beyond, there's more books that have deaf and hard of hearing characters. But at the kindergarten, first grade age, there's very few books. And you know, my kids had lots and lots of choices of books to read. So I feel like deaf kids did have lots and lots of choices, books that have characters like them in there. So each book has a different message like the first one was called nevermind. And the message is that everyone deserves to be included in conversations. I mean, how many times do we tell people nevermind when they ask us to repeat ourselves? Or maybe we have, like a older parent or spouse who doesn't hear well, or even like someone who's just a little bit slower to act, or to understand a lot of times we just get impatient and say forget it. I'll explain later. And this book like after I published that first book, I've had so many deaf people come up to me and tell me stories of times when they've been told nevermind. And they thanked me for sharing their stories because they want hearing people to understand how hurtful those words are and what it feels to be left out. So I have a pretty long list of situations I've seen throughout the years that I plan to incorporate into the books and I I'm only stopped by my amount of time and and money to hire illustrators at this point.   Michael Hingson  59:55 Back to mysteries. Of course there's the cat who series Lily and Jackson Brown and also Rita Mae Brown and sneaky pie Brown. But in thinking of the cat who books, why not have a Duke, the Duke, the deaf dog series, solving mysteries, and also deal with all the frustrations that Duke has of trying to get his humans to listen? And how he has to figure things out, not being in a hearing world himself.   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:00:27 Yeah, that's a good thought. I'm actually like I said, I have so many ideas that it's really limited by my time and money, but um, the picture books are more like so Duke's a dog. Right? It's more like he's like a pitbull, like, they stand on their hind legs. And they kind of like even his dad wears like a tie. So they kind of are like human, but they're dogs. But it's a nice way to be able to show diversity and like breeds of dogs and colors of dogs and abilities and body types and stuff without actually having like different children in there. So it's kind of like, like, I don't know, if you remember the Mercer Mayer series, little critter. That's kind of what I thought of, as I   Michael Hingson  1:01:13 was able to read them. Yeah,   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:01:15 that was like my, my model, I guess of who I thought of it's like, so Duke is more just like a character, a fictional character. But I do have a couple of other ideas for series for like middle grade age kids. And those would be mysteries, and those would use some characters. I have a couple of young characters in the Cassandra Sacco series. I did a Halloween short story last year called scavenger hunt. And that two of the main characters in there were 10 year old kids. And so I think I want to do a separate series with them and have those be mysteries because I agree, I think I can incorporate a lot of the things that I know about the Deaf community and Deaf culture and ASL into a mystery, and they get kind of fun that way. And   Michael Hingson  1:02:05 it's great that you're using this opportunity to teach people more about deaf and hard of hearing. And not only as a culture, but as just as much an included an inclusive part of society as everyone else. I am concerned when you're talking about do looking like a character and looking a little bit like people. I just don't want to see a new book coming out about do the deaf dog ASL series goes to Animal Farm just saying. But Duly noted. So So you you did one of your books. As a Kickstarter campaign?   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:02:43 We did. Um, the the most recent one that just published in January, I did my first Kickstarter campaign.   Michael Hingson  1:02:51 Now why did you do that? What brought Kickstarter into it.   Kelly Brakenhoff  1:02:54 I went to this conference last fall in Las Vegas, and I met some authors who publish their books first on Kickstarter, before they release them more widely and other stores. And listening to them made me realize that Kickstarter might be a good way for me to reach new readers. The nice thing about Kickstarter, which I think you said that you've supported a couple of campaigns, honestly, before I had gone to this conference, I did not think starter was something I needed to do, I hadn't really gone on there, I hadn't pledged sponsored anybody else's project. So I just kind of went into it blindly. But I realized that the cool thing about Kickstarter is you get to develop a direct relationship with people who want to buy your product. So in my case, it's a book, but I've gone on there. And since then, I've supported all kinds of different projects. I've done a board game, and a coloring book and a purse. And I mean, there's so many neat, creative ideas that people come up with and put them on Kickstarter, just to see. So then the the customers can come on and pledge money towards that product and say, Yes, I think that's a great idea. The world needs that. And I'm willing to plunk down my money to pre order that thing that you want to make. And so if enough of those people say that they'll pre order the product, then the project is successful, and it funds and then the person who listed the project goes ahead and makes it. So that's been really exciting. But you have this direct relationship where the creator is sending you messages and keeping you updated on the progress like, okay, you know, we're finished in publishing, you know, in the case of publishing, you say, Okay, we finished the illustration and we're waiting for them to be printed and then I actually personally boxed everything up and mailed them to the people with personal note and some extra stickers and everything. So I think I'd really enjoy that contact with people and that communication because it goes both ways, then people can actually respond to me. If I just sell stuff on Amazon or in the local bookstore, I don't really know who buys my, my books. And so the Kickstarter has been a really cool way to just kind of, I guess, learn more about what people want and what people like about them. And it's kind of a neat way to have this direct relationship. It made me I funded my first project successfully, we raised $2,500, which was enough money to buy some hardcover books. In the past, I haven't been able to afford doing those books, as a small publishers. So it's great to be able to order those books and get those into people's hands they came with, they're very well done on nice thick paper with really vivid color illustrations. And then there's photos on each page of different ASL signs. And the photos are really clear. So it was definitely worth I guess, the experience. So I'm actually going to be doing another one in July for the, for the next Duke book. But as a person, like you said, you you have a contract to do your next book. And so you get a lot of times authors will get paid in advance, this is kind of almost the same thing where I'm making this idea. And then I'm, like pre paying some of the costs that it cost to produce the book, like, you know, the illustrating, or the printing, or all the different things that are associated with making the book, it's like a way for me to almost get like an advance except this directly coming from the customers instead of from the publishing company.   Michael Hingso

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe the 1926 Maitland Lights. But what if there were more sightings this year? What if they were connected? What if they occurred not just in Brockville, Canada, but in China, Mongolia and the United Kingdom too? Can we prove that numerous sightings that year were connected? Will we even try? One of those connections may be a little-known case from Lancashire, England in the UK during November 1926 - did Henry Thomas get away from whatever Henry saw? Along the way, we ponder what Moonwalker has been guzzling. We also learn a little about prohibition and Harry Houdini (who we have since learned may have been struck before he was prepared). We also, also, explore whether cows lay down when it is going to rain and indeed, whether cows can forecast the weather. Most importantly, who were Nicholas Roerich's team? Oh and how does all this connect to the Mafia? All that and more on this week's file.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram @ ButItWasAliensPodcast Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers     Music:  Music created via Garageband. Additional music via https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people.

In this one, the guys are joined by Brockville product Gavin White, who was recently selected in the 4th round by the Dallas Stars in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.

In the wake of a leaked draft of a US Supreme Court decision that could overturn Roe v Wade we spoke to Celia Zhang of the Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights all about destigmatizing abortion. Whose land is it on anyways? That's the question being asked in Brockville at the corner of Stewart Boulevard and the 401 overpass where an encampment has grown over the last few months. But it's unclear exactly who is there...and why...or what the city can do about it. As fighting intensifies in Russia's war against Ukraine ... some may wonder: what happened to peace negotiations that were going on just weeks ago? Dr Lin gave us the secrets to a long and healthy life…for those hoping to live until 100. The prices of so many things are on the rise, from gas to food...but cannabis? Not so much. More than three years after the legalization of recreational weed, we took a look at how Canada's cannabis industry is faring.

A Brockville man convicted after a biker gang raid in 2018 has been sentenced to seven years and three months in jail, roughly half the time recommended by the prosecution. Justice Brian Abrams said in Brockville court Monday that while Tom Bell chose a lifestyle of organized crime, he accepted Bell's remorse was genuine.Help us get to 10,000 subscribers on www.instagram.com/BlackDragonBikerTV on Instagram. Thank you!Follow us on TikTok www.tiktok.com/@blackdragonbikertv Subscribe to our new discord server https://discord.gg/dshaTSTGet 20% off Gothic biker rings by using my special discount code: blackdragon go to http://gthic.com?aff=147Subscribe to our online news magazine www.bikerliberty.comBuy Black Dragon Merchandise, Mugs, Hats, T-Shirts Books: https://blackdragonsgear.comDonate to our cause with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BlackDragonNP Donate to our cause with PayPal https://tinyurl.com/yxudso8z Subscribe to our Prepper Channel “Think Tactical”: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-WnkPNJLZ2a1vfis013OAgSUBSCRIBE TO Black Dragon Biker TV YouTube https://tinyurl.com/y2xv69buKEEP UP ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackdragonbikertvTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/jbunchiiFacebook : https://www.facebook.com/blackdragonbiker

In this episode we take a look at The Fulford House in Brockville, Ontario, The Firkins House in Fort Edmonton Park, Alberta. For Our Para-Media segment we take a look at the 2019 Mini Series: The Haunting of Hill House. Enjoy!

The CWB Association brings you a weekly podcast that connects to welding professionals around the world to share their passion and give you the right tips to stay on top of what's happening in the welding industry.Today's guest is Manuel Castillo, from Brockville, Ontario. Manuel got hooked on welding in high school when he learned how to do a repair with a welding process. Tune in to learn how his fixation turned into a passion that would lead to co-owning his own sanitary process fabrication company.Follow Castlemore SPF on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mano-Steel-Castlemore-Sanitary-Process-Fabrication-268211287049996/

On this episode we sit down with Matt Mason who is the owner of Hooks & Triggers Coffee Company in Brockville, Ontario.Matt talks to us about his company and how he started roasting coffee over an open campfire on an iron skillet for fun and how that pastime has grown into an actual company for him and his family. We also talk about our joint collaboration effort on resurrecting the #RiseAndGrindEm coffee blend that GoHuntBirds had out several years ago. Check out Hooks & Triggers Coffee Co. at their website - https://www.hooksntriggerscoffee.com/#GoHuntBirds | #evolve | #ShareBirdHuntingIntro/Outro Music by Martin Klem - "The Demon's Smile"#GoHuntBirds | #evolve | #ShareBirdHuntingwww.GoHuntBirds.com

The Old Firm Facts podcast has hit 20 episodes, and Adam is joined by two excellent guests to celebrate that milestone.  Daily Record sportswriter talks about how Denis Law became his hero, his frustration with the treatment of youth football in Scotland, how the Scottish press have responded to Ange Postecoglou, Brockville memories, the nasty side of social media and how he nearly got an FA Cup quarter-final cancelled. Sydney Morning Herald sports reporter Vince Rugari discusses Postecoglou's 'velvet sledgehammer', the Celtic manager's man-management, how toughness is manifested in Angeball, what Australians have to say about the likes of Tom Rogic and Martin Boyle, and Lyndon Dykes' decision to choose Scotland.  Adam debunks two myths this week, with the first concerning a BBC headline about Rangers and the second relating to the depressing footage that emerged from a Rangers supporters bus. He puts questions from Twitter to his guests, attempts to summarise a relentlessly ridiculous week in 90 seconds and shares an extract from The Neil Lennon Guide To Acceptable Body Language.  For more information about Old Firm Facts, go to: www.thebiglight.com/oldfirmfacts