Graydio Canada

Can “The Deadliest Catch” fishery survive warming seas and years of reckless overfishing? A walk on deck with one of the Discovery Channel’s former real-life stars, Captain Casey McManus. The takeaway? Reality TV has very little to do with reality.

A walk with 91 year old music promoter, manager, publicist, and raconteur Richard Flohil is a walk through musical history. Miles Davis tried to buy his car to skip out on a gig. Benny Goodman was “miserable as sin”. Chuck Berry would only play an encore “if you slipped cash under his dressing room door”. And The Chieftains were “a feckless bunch of good time people who drank a lot”. Keep walking, and he’ll tell stories of working with Eric Idle, Alice Cooper, David Crosby, and Billy Connelly. As a nonagenarian, Flohil is a living repository of music history, and he tells his (often profane) stories with a twinkle in his eye, a delight in mischief, and with little regard to what anyone else thinks.

Walking with folklorist and singer Ed Miller, he can’t help but sing an old song in praise of whisky. It’s appropriate, as we are strolling on the beach leading to the source of another delightful Scottish export, the Bowmore Distillery. For over a quarter century Ed Miller has toured all corners of Scotland, singing songs and recording stories that reveal the beating heart of his home country; a world apart from the “shortbread tin” version found on tourist brochures. Tune in to join us for a walk through the real Scotland.

She’s acerbic, insightful, passionate, and blunt. She’s Catherine Ford. The former national newspaper columnist is 80 years old, and still has a lot to say about life, politics, the human condition, the current plight of the media, and her immunity to hangovers. What do two veteran journalists talk about when they wash up on the same beach? Tune in to find out.

Are Canadians really as divided as our politicians would have us believe? What feeds this narrative of a binary political world? A walk with Senator Paula Simons, in search of some sober second thought.

For fifty years the Royal Canadian Air Farce ruled Canada's comedy airwaves. This is a walk and talk through one of Toronto's oldest neighbourhoods with founding member, Don Ferguson.

Ed English, innkeeper, owner, and storyteller in chief of Quirpon Island tells tales of giant icebergs, French demons, endless pods of whales and the occasional lost Polar Bear.

As you read this, migrating birds are following ancient flyways, along fault lines and mountain ranges, guided by gravity, polarity, and stars. Billions of creatures world wide, continuing a ritual that began eons before we crawled out of the mud. This plodcast is a walk through the Carolinian forests of Canada's southernmost tip, Point Pelee National Park, with birder extraordinaire Don Enright.

He's b-a-a-ack. We talk about unions, taxes, human rights, an alt.reality government, his health, and why he believes the Daniel Smith Conservatives are “incompetent, immoral, and dangerous”.

Musician Matt Mays on the hoser vibe, a musician’s confidence, dealing with the normal world, and being newly sober— 90 meetings in 90 days battling “the only disease you can get yelled at for having.”

Lorna Crozier has won just about every literary award our country has to offer. She’s an officer of the Order of Canada, has at last count five honourary doctorates. She’s been asked to read her work on every continent except Antarctica, and has mentored dozens of Canada’s best writers. She’s also patient enough to dawdle along a sea side path with me.