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Episode DescriptionTen years to the day, JD travels back to July 30, 2016 and the second of two Edmonton nights on the Man Machine Poem Tour. He's joined by two Edmontonians who were in the building — Kirsten and Chris — for a conversation about scalped tickets and Ticketmaster nightmares, the last concert ever held in Rexall Place, a set list that dug deeper than anyone expected, and the two encores that sent a city home in pieces.It's a night of firsts and lasts: 'Scared' heard live for the first time and the last time in the same breath, a room full of strangers crying through 'Courage,' and a final 'Bobcaygeon' with the whole barn lit up. Fair warning — the waterworks come up more than once.Around the TableJD — host, Your Hipster's Reflections from the Final TourKirsten (Edmonton) — roughly 20 Hip shows deep; attended both Edmonton nights and Calgary night one. First saw the band on the third Another Roadside Attraction tour.Chris (Edmonton) — about half a dozen shows, going back to an Up to Here–era gig at the old Edmonton Convention Centre. Brought his brother to night two.In This EpisodeThe Icebreaker: One Song That Puts You Back in the RoomKirsten picks "Scared" — she was up in the stands when the lights came down and the neon tubes took over. The song and the staging landed at exactly the right moment.Chris picks "Ahead by a Century," and explains why the line "disappointing news getting me down" hit like a freight train that night. He also names "Scared" as a shock — a deep cut he had never heard live and never expected to.A running theme starts here: how far into the catalogue the band was willing to reach on this tour.Hearing the News, and the Fight for TicketsKirsten on the diagnosis: devastating, and immediately followed by a desperate need to be in the room to honour the band.Her Ticketmaster ordeal — bounced three separate times — and a side story about how organizing an unplugged Headstones gig for a Pledge Music drive led to a friendship with Courtney, from the Hip's management side. Shout out to Courtney for the patience and the eventual tickets to Edmonton night one and Calgary night one.Chris rewinds much further: his first Hip show at the old Shaw/Edmonton Convention Centre, when his buddy won the last pair of tickets on the radio and took someone else. Chris went down anyway, watched people offer $200 for a $20 ticket, walked back toward the LRT station, and got face value from the fifteenth person he asked.The beer jug legend — paying a bouncer $20 to work the beer gardens, selling jugs at a markup, and Gord reaching down, taking a swig from Chris's jug, and hurling it into the crowd.The Fully Completely tour show he almost missed: hungover off a flight home from Mexico, picked up at the airport by his dad, who happened to have tickets. They caught it from about song four.For the final tour, a coworker — Kathy Thompson, ticket savant — tipped him off about the presale three days early. He landed what he calls the worst seats of his life and has never been happier about bad seats.Who They Went WithKirsten took her friend Natasha to night two, up in section 201; she had been on the floor for night one with her now-wife, who had never seen the Hip before.Seeing the tour from two different vantage points meant two different shows — and from the upper level she could suddenly see the teleprompters on stage.Chris invited both of the buddies from that very first show — one in Victoria, one living in France — and both had to bow out. His brother got the ticket, and the two of them have a lot of Hip history together.The Set ListOpens with "Blow at High Dough."Chris on the run of Courage / At the Hundredth Meridian / Wheat Kings / Fifty Mission Cap — four of his all-time favourites back to back. He told his brother he could have walked out happy right there.The deep-album slot that night: We Are the Same. Kirsten singles out "Now the Struggle Has a Name" — she still remembers the notes Gord hit — and talks about the mood of "Coffee Girl" and "Morning Moon."Chris is candid that the later records don't sit with him the way the early ones do, and names "An Inch an Hour" as the one that got away.Both were set-list watching night to night, trying to guess which album would get pulled next — and Kirsten notes what it meant for Gord to rotate the set at all, given how well known his struggles with lyrics were (see: "Cordelia" quietly disappearing from set lists for years).The EncoresEncore 1: Greasy Jungle → Scared → Grace, TooEncore 2: Fireworks → BobcaygeonKirsten on closing with "Bobcaygeon" instead of the usual barn-burner — phones and lighters up across the building, and Gord taking long moments to look out and take it in.Chris connects the "checkerboard floors" line to the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, and reads the closer as the band pointing back at where they started. He still goes to the Horseshoe every time he's in Toronto.Gord on StageThe eye contact — a recurring observation across this series. Kirsten notes Gord historically avoided looking at people because singing faces threw him off, and that on this tour the fourth wall came down.Her impression of him off stage from a brief meeting: quiet, soft-spoken, very funny, extremely thoughtful.Chris was struck by how minimalist the production was — no big screens, just five guys, a silver suit, the feather hat and the Jaws shirt.The honest part: Gord was visibly struggling in places, missing notes, with the band filling the gaps — and getting noticeably stronger night over night. Kirsten describes a collective will from the crowd pushing him through.The Last Night in the BarnThis was the final concert at Rexall Place / Northlands Coliseum before the move to Rogers Place — so the night carried a second goodbye.Chris and his brother started at the Vinyl Needle downtown (dinner, beers, and a Hip tribute band playing to a very envious crowd), then rode the LRT through pouring rain.Walking into a building he had been going to since 1980 and finding it stripped and sterile — memorabilia pulled down, replaced with deep-cut oddities like an old Edmonton Drillers photo.Kirsten on saying goodbye to a venue where she had seen Oilers playoffs, countless bands, and the Hip many times over.When It Hit"Courage." Chris looked left, looked right, looked down, looked at his brother — everyone was crying. First time he had ever cried at a concert.Kirsten describes it coming in waves, every night, over and over: this is it, this is the final tour.Chris screaming himself hoarse for one more encore — and getting it.Walking out: heavy, but joyful. The same line over and over on the way to the train — "I can't believe I was here."August 20: The CBC National BroadcastKirsten missed it live — Edmonton Fringe obligations with her wife — caught what she could on CBC Radio in the car, then watched her recording that night and lost it.Her take on Gord's address to Trudeau and the reconciliation focus of his final chapter, and on the optimism she thinks the country still needs.Chris hosted a house party for 15 or so, most of them less invested than he was, and had to explain to a room of nieces and nephews why Uncle Chris was crying on the couch.Both reflect on the outdoor watch parties across the country — and Chris floats the idea of doing one for the 10th anniversary.What They'd Tell Someone Who Wasn't ThereChris on the Hip as Canadiana nobody else has matched — the loon call in "Wheat Kings," getting away with naming an album Road Apples, the reflexive "Jacques Cartier, right this way" he and his buddy blurted out at a statue in France — and on being unabashedly proud to be Canadian.Kirsten remembers a spotlit banner behind the stage reading "Canada Loves the Hip," and lands on the privilege of witnessing it: great musicianship, great ambassadors, good people making good art.Notable Quotes“He didn't just sing it. He poured everything into that lyric — the only way he can.” — Chris, on "Ahead by a Century"“I was in the building. And that was what was important. I don't think I've ever been so happy to get such crappy tickets in my life.” — Chris“You just kind of willing him. There was a collective will, just like — you can do this.” — Kirsten“I looked to my left, looked to my right, looked down, and then I looked at my brother, and everybody was crying.” — Chris, on "Courage"“It came in waves. Each night it would come in waves — this is it. This is the final tour.” — Kirsten“I can't believe I was here. That was the thing we kept hearing over and over again as we got on the train.” — Chris“To be a witness of such great musicianship, such great ambassadors to Canada. Just good people doing good art.” — KirstenMentioned in This EpisodeVenues: Rexall Place / Northlands Coliseum · Rogers Place · Edmonton (Shaw) Convention Centre · the Vinyl Needle · the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto · K-Rock Centre, KingstonSongs: Blow at High Dough · Courage · At the Hundredth Meridian · Wheat Kings · Fifty Mission Cap · Now the Struggle Has a Name · Coffee Girl · Morning Moon · New Orleans Is Sinking · Cordelia · An Inch an Hour · Greasy Jungle · Scared · Grace, Too · Fireworks · Bobcaygeon · Ahead by a CenturyAlbums & tours: Up to Here · Road Apples · Fully Completely · Live Between Us · Music @ Work · We Are the Same · Man Machine Poem · Another Roadside AttractionPeople: Gord Downie · Paul, Rob, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay · Courtney (Hip management) · Kathy Thompson · the Headstones · Robert Plant & Alison Krauss at the Edmonton Folk Music FestivalPlugs & Next TimeKirsten and Chris both used their plug on this podcast. Take your flowers, JD.Next episode: Calgary, Night 1 — August 1, 2016.For more information and to follow the series, visit home.tthpods.com. To reach JD, email jd@tthpods.com.This has been a presentation of the Tragically Hip Podcast Series.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/tthtop40/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Music Yukon returns to the Hidden Track podcast for another year of collaborations! The music of the north is the focus of this episode with performances from Electric Lemonade; Jamaican-born longtime New Yorker, now Yukon-dwelling rapper/ beatmaker/ indie rocker Ryan O'Neil; and the celebrated soulful singer-songwriter Hendrika. These sessions are once again part of a larger collaborative project between the Edmonton Fringe, Music Yukon, and CKUA – one which sees artists from the Yukon travelling south to perform onstage at the Edmonton Fringe, and in-studio at CKUA. CREDITS Host: Grant Stovel Associate Producer: Scott Zielsdorf Executive Producer: Arianne Smith-Piquette Senior Producer: Jasmine Vickaryous Theme Music: Doug Hoyer Special thanks to the CKUA Events & Marketing Teams!  The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by the generosity of our donors. Thank you for your support!  Learn more about Hidden Track at ckua.com/hiddentrack.

The Edmonton International Fringe Festival is a staple of the summer, and it's grown to the largest fringe festival in North America. But how did we get here? And what makes Edmonton such a theatre-forward, fringe-friendly place? Host Clare Bonnyman heads to the fringe grounds to meet Gerald Osborn, the first official Edmonton Fringe historian, to talk about the festival's place in our city.

When you consider that the Yukon's population density is estimated to be roughly 0.07 people per square kilometre, it's kind of amazing the cultural imprint that the territory has made — both in terms of Canadian and global culture! The majestic, dramatic land made world-famous in classics ranging from The Cremation of Sam McGee to The Call of the Wild has long inspired artists of all kinds, and it's truly become a haven for musical creatives. From the territory's living Indigenous musical traditions, to the fabled folk songs of the Klondike, to the incredible people making original music today ranging from bluegrass to hip-hop, the story of Yukon music is a vibrant, diverse, and ever-evolving one — as we hear in this episode, the thrilling conclusion of our first-ever Hidden Track two-parter!  Just as in Part One of our Music Yukon/Hidden Track collab, we're treated to some truly thrilling live performances by artists from that vast territory, and we get a sense of how the Yukon impacts their lives and art practices.  While Edmonton, Alberta is sometimes referred to as the most northerly large city in the Americas, with metropolitan population of more than one million people, you've got to make a roughly 2,000 kilometre-long trip southeast to get from the Yukon's capital city of Whitehorse to Edmonton! So, it was a pretty big deal when a whole troop of Yukon musicians made the big trek down south to perform as part of the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival in August 2024. This was thanks to the support of Music Yukon and a really cool partnership with the Edmonton Fringe.  While they were here, CKUA was lucky enough to host a whole bunch of them for Hidden Track sessions in our Studio A in Edmonton. They shared stories and songs with us that evoke the unique natural beauty, highly personalized sense of expression, and vibrant community feeling that make the Yukon such a magical place for music.  In Part 2, we hear from Alex MacNeil (leader of the outsider power-pop favourites Alex MacNeil and the Revenants, accompanied here by Hendika), the idiosyncratic punk-inspired stylings of Cryptozoologists, and the spirited soulful beauty of Bria Rose N' Thorns.  Host: Grant Stovel | Producer: Scott Zielsdorf | Graphics: Craig Taffs | Music: Doug Hoyer Recording and mastering for this episode by Brendan Cross.  The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production made possible by our incredible donor community. Thank you for your support!

For this special episode, Hidden Track is doing something utterly different. This isn't a feature on one artist, song, or album. It casts a spotlight on a whole scene—on a whole Canadian Territory, in a sense!   Yukon is a Canadian territory that's bigger than most countries on Earth, but its nearly half-million square kilometres are inhabited by only about 40,000 people.  In partnership with both Music Yukon and The Edmonton Fringe, CKUA invited five acts into CKUA's Studio to share some of their music and their story with us. In Part 1 of this unique collaboration, we hear from Ellorie McKnight and her longtime musical collaborator Brigitte Jardin, touring veterans Diyet & the Love Soldiers, and the incredibly soulful Elijah Bekk (and band).  The Hidden Track Podcast is a CKUA production, made possible by the generous contributions of our donors. Thank you for your support!  Host: Grant Stovel | Producer: Scott Zielsdorf | Graphics: Shaun Friesen | Music: Doug Hoyer Associate Producer: Aajah Souter Recording and mastering for this Session provided by Brendan Cross. 

Actor, writer, and improvisor Kevin Gillese drops by to celebrate our own Kevin's birthday! Trent Reznor drops us a line and Thomas gets crabby when we talk about things we used to believe were true when we were children. Kevin then takes us into sincere-ville with a reflection on our favourite poems and quotes. For the last stretch, Moos takes them into an kangaroo catastrophe. 00:00 - Intro & Check Ins 9:50 - Trent Reznor Cameo 17:30 - Juvie Fakeout 26:12 - Words, Words, Words 42:00 - Breaking Moos Colin Mochrie live at the Edmonton Fringe: https://www.showpass.com/colinmochrie/ How to Ruin the Holidays: https://tv.apple.com/ca/movie/how-to-ruin-the-holidays/umc.cmc.7ah31ayxhm45w66sfi2uioyvx https://www.amazon.com/How-Ruin-Holidays-Amber-Nash/dp/B0CHGZCJX7 Submit Segments to Oops All Segments: https://forms.gle/rfwsaeFFnX5AAFHY8   Drunk Shakespeare United: Instagram: https://instagram.com/drunkshakesunited Twitter: https://twitter.com/dshakesunited Check out our DnD show: 'What We Do in the Basement': https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-we-do-in-the-basement/id1552947049

This week's interview is a bucket-list chat for me, as I get to talk to Mark Meer! To any gamer growing up in Alberta, especially one with a love for theatre and performance arts, Mark has been a bit of legend since he stepped into the voice booth for BioWare. Mark is a voice actor, writer, and improv artist - and he is best known for bringing life to the male version of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect franchise. He has voiced many, many other characters for video games. In this episode, we dig into, amongst other things: Mark's journey into gaming through Dungeons and Dragons (filling in a cleric role), and later video games, Moving from small-town Alberta to the city and getting into gaming and acting, The Citadel Theatre's Teen Festival of the Arts and working with Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, Auditioning for, and working with, BioWare, Being a guest at conventions (and what is is up to at Gen Con this weekend), His various experiences with Live Play and streamed games, D&D In A Castle hard core mode? (and DMing for D&D In A Castle), Where he will be at the Edmonton Fringe this year, and What improv can offer you as a game writer, designer, or even just as a player! Give it a listen Mark's Links: -> Instagram -> Facebook -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads -> ⁠Gordon's Big Bald Head -> Black Dice Society -> Chaosium YouTube (Bookshops of Arkham) -> Graveyards of Arkham Kickstarter -> Tiny Plastic Men -> Gordon: A Batman Fan Film⁠ Find The Corner of Story and Game: -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -> TikTok -> Threads -> LinkedIn -> Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gerald@storyandgame.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you have any questions or comments on this, or any other, episode, please let me know. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear more conversations with professionals in the video game, tabletop game, and fiction industries.

Support the show on Patreon - patreon.com/benbankas Ben and Armin and Daniel talk about Chinese election interference, getting cancelled from Edmonton Fringe, Trans regret and more.

Guest: Caroline Stokes, Edmonton-based actor, playwright & producer.

Edmonton playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Katherine Koller will read from her collection of short stories, Winning Chance, followed by a Q&A led by Fort McMurray author Dorothy Bentley. Katherine Koller writes for stage, screen and page. Her first plays, Cowboy Boots and a Corsage and Magpie, were for CBC radio. Her full-length stage plays include her Alberta LandWorks Trilogy: Coal Valley, The Seed Savers and Alberta Playwriting Competition winner, Last Chance Leduc. Her opera, The Handless Maiden, received a recital reading in Vancouver and Hope Soup, for radio, was recorded at the Edmonton Fringe. Her web series, about Edmonton youth changing their world, is at sustainablemeyeg.ca. Art Lessons, her novel, was a finalist for the Edmonton Book Prize and the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. A Finalist in the High Plains Book Awards, Winning Chance is her recent collection of short stories. Katherine co-produces Script Salon, a monthly play reading series, and Edmonton Script Salon Podcasts. She has taught at the University of Alberta and Maskwacis Cultural College, and served as Canadian Authors Association Writer-in-Residence for two years. Katherinekoller.ca

In this week’s episode, I sit down with Zoë Glassman. Zoë Glassman is an Edmonton based actor, dancer, theatre creator, and producer. In our conversation today we discuss the Edmonton theatre community and how it engages emerging theatre artists through festivals such as the Edmonton Fringe, the type of theatre work that speaks to her and how it has shifted her priorities in the industry, as well as both the differences and similarities between the Edmonton and Calgary arts communities. We also discuss how the benefits that come from running small grassroots showcase/workshop style nights and how they help strengthen both the work and the community, some of the upcoming theatre work she is doing and how she hopes to continue to create work that engages non-traditional theatre audiences, as well as the things she has learned from stepping away from the theatre industry and the conversations she hopes continue to happen in the industry with regards to visibility and diversity in Canadian theatre.

In this week’s episode, I sit down with Zoë Glassman. Zoë Glassman is an Edmonton based actor, dancer, theatre creator, and producer. In our conversation today we discuss the Edmonton theatre community and how it engages emerging theatre artists through festivals such as the Edmonton Fringe, the type of theatre work that speaks to her and how it has shifted her priorities in the industry, as well as both the differences and similarities between the Edmonton and Calgary arts communities. We also discuss how the benefits that come from running small grassroots showcase/workshop style nights and how they help strengthen both the work and the community, some of the upcoming theatre work she is doing and how she hopes to continue to create work that engages non-traditional theatre audiences, as well as the things she has learned from stepping away from the theatre industry and the conversations she hopes continue to happen in the industry with regards to visibility and diversity in Canadian theatre.

This podcast features Western Canadian authors reading from their novels, short fiction, poetry, memoirs, or non-fiction. It is created and hosted by Saskatchewan novelist Lisa Guenther. Reading West is open to featuring published authors from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. For the most part, the podcast focuses on literature, but writers working in other genres are welcome to inquire. For more information on submitting, visit lisaguenther.com/reading-west-podcast/  You can also check out the show on Facebook at www.facebook.com/readingwest/ Theme music is Flax Flower Blue by Best Kept Secret Girlfriend Katherine Koller writes for stage, screen and page. Her plays include Coal Valley, The Seed Savers and Last Chance Leduc, which won the Alberta Playwriting Competition. Excerpts from her opera, The Handless Maiden, played in Vancouver this year and Hope Soup, for radio, was recorded at the 2019 Edmonton Fringe. Her web documentary, about Edmonton youth changing their world, is at sustainablemeyeg.ca. Art Lessons, her debut novel, was a finalist for both the Edmonton Book Prize and the Alberta Readers’ Choice Award. Her new collection of short stories, about second chances, is Winning Chance. Katherinekoller.ca    

Joses Martin joins the Jerks updating us on the upcoming show coming to The Grindstone Theater https://www.grindstonetheatre.ca/ for the 2019 Edmonton Fringe https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/. We take a look at non-Disney cartoons and end up watching a 2019 release, so... spoiler alerts for the second half of the episode.  Check out the new single from our Artist Of The Month for the month of July. Here's Rebecca Lappa's "Can't Be Tamed"

Can you believe kids these days are getting Fortnite coaches from their parents? We talk about that and the stuff you tried and quit as a kid. With the Edmonton Fringe firing up Matt told a tale of his on stage folly, and we took your calls too. And back by popular demand, Matt the thespian returns with more Shakespeare lyrics.    

Join us and super special guest Amy Shostak in this Edmonton edition of the HUNKS Podcast! First up, we talk taco in a bag, an Edmonton Fringe ‘treat’. We discuss the majesty of the Edmonton Fringe late night cabaret and Quinn Learns about Boanthropy, a condition that makes you believe you are actually a cow. In a very special ‘Breaking Amy’, Amy’s future lies in politics and she becomes the mayor of Edmonton. Her platform relies very heavily on honouring an Edmonton staple, the Roller Blading Guitar Guy. Can Amy save the city of Edmonton with her blades, her cunning, and just a little help from Edmonton’s most infamous folks? Finally, in Two Truths & A Lie, Amy chugs too much vinegar, creates an all Weezer Fringe Show, and performs as a close-up magician! Or does she?!?!? Tune in to find out! Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

Join us and super special guest Amy Shostak in this Edmonton edition of the HUNKS Podcast! First up, we talk taco in a bag, an Edmonton Fringe 'treat'. We discuss the majesty of the Edmonton Fringe late night cabaret and Quinn Learns about Boanthropy, a condition that makes you believe you are actually a cow. In a very special 'Breaking Amy', Amy's future lies in politics and she becomes the mayor of Edmonton. Her platform relies very heavily on honouring an Edmonton staple, the Roller Blading Guitar Guy. Can Amy save the city of Edmonton with her blades, her cunning, and just a little help from Edmonton's most infamous folks? Finally, in Two Truths & A Lie, Amy chugs too much vinegar, creates an all Weezer Fringe Show, and performs as a close-up magician! Or does she?!?!? Tune in to find out!

Dan & Jordan perform Improvised Star Wars live at the 2017 Edmonton Fringe Festival. PowerCub won Best Improv Show at the 2016 Edmonton Fringe and also did a show for Shaw Television. Email goodimprov@gmail.com for bookings and follow @GoodImprov on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram for info on upcoming performances.

Top of the morning to you, Edmonton! And also, the bottom of the morning to you. You get the whole morning! That's... that's how this works, right? Either way, it's time for another episode of YEGS & BACON, your weekly morning pop culture and comics show! On this week's episode, we talk about happenings at the Edmonton Fringe, and discuss Nathan Fillion's efforts to raise money for the Varscona. Then, its on to this week's comic book recommendations, because that's how we do. Podcasting!

Comedian Marcus Ryan is up from Australia and stops in for a visit!  He tells us about some of his travels and adventures.  We also talk about some of the crazy things that happen at Burning Man as Marcus gets ready to go again this year!   Find Marcus at www.itsmarcusryan.com and check out his show at the Edmonton Fringe this year!

Marcus Ryan joins us in the Roving Studio for his fourth appearance on the show. The Aussie explains the crazy insects and reptiles of his home and native land, discusses his one-man Edmonton Fringe show called Love Me Tinder, complains about the unrelenting heat of Vancouver summers, regales us with a harrowing tale of hitchhiking in Ucluelet, makes the case for why Burning Man is awesome, and has second thoughts about merchandising.

Welcome to the fourth episode of the second season of the Unknown Studio with many different guests. You see, because Scott was out of town the past ten days, we decided to ditch the long-form interview in favour of wat I lovingly call "tidbits of sweet, sweet content"! Here's what this episode is all about: 0:00: Show intro ("Optimus Prime!") 2:20: We dip into the You've Got Mail bag 5:31: Interview with Eri Riot from Geekbadge.ca 13:10: Interview with Stanley Woo of Apocalypse Kow — the group's appearing at this year's Edmonton Fringe! 22:50: Sex Talk with Brenda Kerber from the Traveling Tickle Trunk 26:31: Interview with Carrie Robinson, who recently auditioned for Wipeout 36:02: Outro ("So long Cybertron!") Huge thanks to Parabolix, DJ Chronos and LG from the Free Sound Project for helping out with our zipper sound effect and Cybertron soundscape. Let us know what you thought, everyone! Do you dig the new format? Hate it? TELL US! Download episode 30 of the Unknown Studio directly to your computer. The Unknown Studio is a proud member of the League of Extraordinary Media. ===================================================== EDMONTON JOURNAL STILL SPONSORS THE UNKNOWN STUDIO ===================================================== It's true! After so much joking and tongue-in-cheek referrals to Edmonton's newspaper of record on our show, the Edmonton Journal decided to put their money where our mouths are, by sponsoring the Unknown Studio this month! We're helping EJ to promote their Blackberry mobile launcher. You can check it out by clicking here on your Blackberry browser. If you have any comments about the mobile launcher or the Journal's mobile site, let us know and we'll pass it along! =====================================================

Hello and welcome to another episode of Geeks on Drama!:00 We are starting with fabulous quote from Back To The Future one of the geekiest movie you could find to put you in the mood on this great episode we have planned for you. We are going back in time to the future of podcasts.:30 Culture is a process which has a creation, an establishment, a crisis and innovation. In the same way we believe that the Fringe Festival and podcasting have become cultural phenomenons. We therefore looked at podcasting as such. As a cultural process. An so we begin with Its creation...1:20 We begin with the the beginning of the Edmonton Fringe. The Edmonton Fringe began with the lack of budget of the Edmonton government. This lack of budget for one big production inspired them to make a festival where smaller troupes could perform their art. It was the experimentation which led to having all kinds of shows. In reverse Podcasts came out of a surplus of technology. The amount of new technology that people were able to wrap their hands around led to the same kind of experimentation and innovation that the fringe festivals saw. Ben Hammersley not only talks about this in his article "Audible Revolution". In this article he coined the word Podcast after offering us with some other terms such as Guerrilla Media. 4:45 The easy and cheap barrier of entry in the podcasting world and that of the fringe has been one of the key aspects of the spread of the fringe and of podcasting. This allows for the democratization of radio.  The fact that everyone can go and put their ideas and voice forward for the world to listen to makes it varied and different. Not two podcast are the same in the same way that not to plays are the same.6:09  I know we sound like a broken record but it is true. There are so so much out there. maybe not Australian samba although there is a funny video of it in You Tube.6:35  Ben Hammersley in the same article talks about the low barrier of entry and also about how journalist no longer need an editor. In much the same way the Patron- Artist relationship is broken. In the past the artist worked for a patron Leonardo Da Vinci's "La Gioconda" is said to be the wife of his patron. It is a well known that the artists life is not one of riches which usually means you need someone to pay for costumes, set design, so on and so forth. even back in the time of Greek dramas you had one of the aristocrats be the one to pay. with this lower barrier of entry you no longer need a patron. 6:56 If you want to find a modern day patron you could say that today's TV networks and big production companies are patrons with the writers and the actors as... well... the artists. This is not a hard jump to make. The writers can write what they want but in reality only the things the networks executive wants will get made. Podcast enjoy the freedom of being able to produce a show they like. Podcasters don't thrive on ratings we thrive on community. Whether the listeners are ten or 1000 it doesn't matter things will get done regardless. Podcasters don't need patrons because we have something much better Muses. Our audience, and the community that is created around those podcast is all we need.Its establishment...8:35 Freedom to innovate and the ability to do so cheaply allows you to do so. Ask a Ninja   is the epitome of what this freedom creates. A ninja in character answering questions as a ninja, from a ninjas perspective. Trying to put this on in as TV show would never fly but as 2min segments in the Internet it is incredibly successful. 9:47 "The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities." From the Webby Awards about page.10:23 In the Wikipedia page of Canadian Theatre Festivals they list them all. Out of 22 eight are fringes and to put it into perspective out of the 22 only 4 are Shakespearean. It seems silly and I am sure there are more festivals not on wikipedia but it does give a an interesting picture. 10:53 Since June, 2008 iTunes has had a built in podcast section which facilitates getting the podcasts. Since this the Podcast downloads have doubled and in some cases, tripled. This not all. It also signifies that it is here to stay. A big company such as Apple especially one that has always been on the forefront of revolutionizing technology is willing to put this in their store and put so much effort in it means that they saw something that could be great. 11:59 By this point Tim and I are starting to be mean to each other cause we have been stuck together for too long. 12: 41 MY PRECIOUS MINE MINE... this part reminded me of Gollum.14:00 Word to word and mouth to mouth. The show and tell aspect of podcasting. This gets delved into much more in Episode 4.Its crisis and innovation...15:34 Oprah actually has four podcasts. There are around 20 different lost podcasts not all are official, some are made by the fans. Harry Potter has 30 podcasts. Drama has 30 as well as you can see the amount of podcasts and of the different varieties are immense. 16:06 iTunes the mecca. I know we have said this over and over again but you could really never get bored of looking into all that iTunes has to offer. The reality of things is that your podcast is there in the same "store" as TV show, Movies and CD.17:30 iTunes U, I can't stress how cool this is. Here are just a few of the universities that are involved, UC Berkley, Stanford, Harvard, Texas A&M, MIT. 18:16 Duke not only has iTunes U  but it gave iPods in order for first year students to use the Podcasts you can read the article here.18:41 The UBC podcast, What a disappointment. From seeing all of these universities and what they have done with the technology available to the sad reality of our life. It does exist here. Not sure why you would want to subscribe to it as it is not what I would call interesting. Just sad.20:53 Video Podcasts what to do with them. Tim believes they will take over I think there is space for them both to coexist. The truth of the matter is that video is much harder and expensive to do. It is also trickier to make. You have to have a setting a set, wardrobe, props, it is not as simple as just having a sort of guideline of what you want to talk about and then talking about it in-front of a computer. So Video killed the Podcaster star?  21:53 Anonymity of podcasts? Why do we believe that it is so personal? Video podcasts also eliminates the ability to be anonymous because it is you on the screen. In much of the same way audio podcasts it is your voice and this creates a bigger ownership, and makes it harder for it to be anonymous. There are effects that you can put on the recording for it to be unrecognizable but they can be removed by someone very skilled. You can alter you voice as I did in 23:41 but I don't think it gives the person enough sense of security.24:30 Is Ask a Ninja anonymous? Maybe you can be the break dealer. I still think it is sorta anonymous but Tim says otherwise. 24:50 The Future is Yours! Yeah it is trite but it is true. You are the listener and the provider of ideas. You can create what ever you want. It is for you to decide where this technology is going and what to do with it.25: 46 The Knitting Podcast of this Podcast: Knitters UncensoredSee you next time!