Description: Valerie In Toronto

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
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Sinopse

A personal, sometimes-profane primer on things particular to Toronto and Canada, from a radio refugee born in the USA but Canadian by choice.

Episódios

  • Description for the Canadian National Day of Podcasting 2011

    02/12/2011

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

  • Description Daily: December 1st

    02/12/2010

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

  • Description Daily 30

    01/12/2010

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

  • Description Daily 29

    30/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 28

    29/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 27

    27/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 26

    26/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 25

    25/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 24

    24/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 23

    23/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 22

    23/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 21

    22/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 20

    20/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 19

    19/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 18

    19/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 17

    17/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 16

    16/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 15

    16/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 14

    14/11/2010

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

  • Description Daily 13

    13/11/2010

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

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