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Episodes
162 episodes
Chris Frye of The Bills & Aki Shaw on Generic Semaglutide
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: The Bills' Chris Frye looks back on three decades of Vancouver Island folk music ahead of their Salish Coast Music Festival show, and pharmacist Aki Shaw explains what Canada's new generic semagluti...
Two Governments, One Chair - with John Jack of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations
On this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Parksville City Councillors Joel Grenz and Sean Wood sit down with John Jack, known in his own language as Sayaač̓atḥ, who holds two elected roles at once: Chief Councillor of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, ...
Dr. Taryn Stejskal - Five Practices of Particularly Resilient People
Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal is widely regarded as the world's leading expert on resilience. Founder of the Resilience Leadership Institute, she draws on more than fifteen years of original research to reveal what separates people who bounce back f...
Brent Butt Touring the Island and the Parksville Wine Walk
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Corner Gas creator and award-winning comedian Brent Butt opens up about his small-town Saskatchewan roots, seventeen years on the road, and his brand new comedy album, while Nanaimo sommelier Veroni...
Real Golfers Watch Tin Cup - And They Have Notes
What happens when you get four real golfers in a room to break down Hollywood’s most famous golf swing? You get one of the liveliest, most opinionated episodes of Too Old or Movie Gold yet.Host Olen Vanderleeden of the Comox Valley was j...
Joe Bakhmoutski - Finding Hope in Times of Uncertainty
Joe Bakhmoutski is a father, husband, author and testicular cancer survivor from Melbourne, Australia. After years of living with debilitating anxiety, Joe faced a cancer diagnosis that carried him through the lowest depths of misery and pain b...
You Said It: Your Comments on Vancouver Island , Debora Gurrad Busts Garden Myths
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: This week we hit the road for our 'You Said It' segment at a Mid-Island car show, catching up with Vancouver Islanders on what makes this place home. Then Master Gardener Debora Gurrad of Vancouver ...
Riding the Rails - with Thomas Bevan of the Island Corridor Foundation
On this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Parksville City Councillors Joel Grenz and Sean Wood take the show “on the rail”, recording aboard a high-rail vehicle rolling along the old E&N corridor from Parksville to Coombs. They are joined by Th...
Rephar Salamba - Be the Author of Who You Want to Be
In Nairobi, Kenya, Rephar Salamba is mother to her 16-year-old son. After leaving an abusive marriage, she rebuilt her life through determination and quiet strength, discovering a passion for handmade jewelry and becoming a community advocate a...
Greyston Holt of “Neagley”- A BC Day Special
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Actor Greyston Holt - the werewolf from Bitten, the vampire from Supernatural, and this fall's Detective Hudson Riley on Prime Video's Neagley - is our guest co-host for a BC Day long weekend specia...
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away - or more precisely, in 1980 - a sequel arrived that would change cinema forever. In this special May the Fourth episode of Too Old or Movie Gold, host Olen Vanderleeden of the Comox Valley brings toget...
Lisa Strogal - When Hiding Is No Longer an Option
Lisa Strogal is a Master Certified Coach, CEO and founding principal of Shadow Light Consulting Inc. With a long list of accomplishments, certifications and corporate experience behind her, Lisa has developed programs for leadership development...
Roy Henry Vickers on 50 Years of Art & BC Wildfire Crew Leader Kyle Gilson
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Roy Henry Vickers spent his 80th birthday thinking about the schoolhouse he was born in, and this year he's released a fifty-year retrospective built from more than 400 works of his art. Meanwhile, ...
What “Housing First” means in practice - with Shayla Day
On this episode of Nonpartisan Hacks, Parksville City Councillors Sean Wood and Joel Grenz sit down with Shayla Day, founder and CEO of DayHomes Society, a nonprofit serving the Oceanside region with outreach, food support, housing navigation, ...
Kim Wilkinson - Finding Purpose Following Loss
Kim Wilkinson is a mother and Grief Recovery Specialist who lost her 22-year-old son, Tristan, to a drug overdose in November 2019. Through that loss, Kim discovered healing, recovery and transformation, and now works with others facing mental ...
Blues Musician Harry Manx & What’s On at The McMillan Arts Centre this summer
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Harry Manx opens up about a life that took him from the Isle of Man to busking in Europe and Japan, and into the studio for his new album Falling Upwards, out this August as he tours Vancou...
Stargate (1994) - Is This Sci-Fi Classic Still Pure Gold?
It has been 31 years since Roland Emmerich’s Stargate first sent Kurt Russell and James Spader through an ancient portal to a desert planet ruled by a false god - and the Too Old or Movie Gold crew just stepped back through to find out if it st...
Karen Alcantara - Remembering the Human in Humanity
Karen Alcantara joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to share her journey from self-proclaimed "Ghetto Girl" to emotional support worker. Drawing on her teenage experience with gang life, Karen speaks candidly about the seduction of bel...
Two NEW Novels from C.C. Humphreys & The Salvation Army Feeds a Growing Need
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Major Sergii Kachanov has watched need at the Mount Arrowsmith Food Bank climb toward last year's total in just five months, and he explains exactly what's driving it and how the community can help....
Decoding Your Property Tax Bill
Every spring, property tax season brings the same wave of confusion, and Parksville City Councillors Joel Grenz and Sean Wood are digging into it head-on in this episode of Non-Partisan Hacks. Using the City of Parksville as a case study, they ...
Shannon Bergstrom - Letting Go of Perfectionism and Listening to Your Body
Shannon Bergstrom joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to talk about perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the cost of chasing impossible standards. A teacher, wife, and mother, Shannon shares how childhood loss shaped her instinct to kee...
Boxing and Drumming to Battle Parkinson's & The Hands & Hearts Food Program Feeding Families
LISTEN HERE: Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Doug Pickard has spent more than 13 years proving that boxing gloves and conga drums can push back against a disease with no cure, turning rhythm itself into therapy ...
Airplane! - The Funniest Movie Ever Made?
What happens when you gather two Gen Xers who worship a comedy classic, two Millennials seeing it fresh, and one very unimpressed holdout? You get the most hilariously divided episode of Too Old or Movie Gold yet.Hosts Olan VanderLinden ...
Pam Botterill - The Importance of Belonging
Pam Botterill joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to share what she calls a good-news story of adoption. An Indigenous woman from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River, BC, Pam was adopted at nine months old and raised by a no...
Tears for Fears Drummer Jamie Wollam & Cancer Warrior Carly Carey creates Carly’s House
Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Jamie Wollam grew up tapping along to Kiss and AC/DC records in Southern California, never imagining he'd spend sixteen years behind the kit for Tears for Fears - or that he'd find sobriety and a re...
