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Putting It TogetherGood Thing Going – Merrily We Roll Along (with Matt Steele)A beautiful song about relationships. But is this also about Charlie and Frank? Matt Steele returns to offer his opinions and tells why this is in his own audition book. You can learn more about Divos! here: https://www.divosthemovie.comYou can follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItsMattSteeleAnd on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsmattsteele/We are using three productions to frame our discussion of Merrily We Roll Along.The Original Broadway Cast (1981) starring Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price.You can listen...2023-01-041h 05
Xing The Gap, with Rick Miller(Video) Karen Johnson-Diamond, Stephanie Wolfe & Griffin CorkAs a bonus to season 1 of Xing The Gap, we're releasing video versions of your favourite episodes. Now you get to see AND hear some of the extraordinary Canadians we spoke to this season, plus live drawings by Rick Miller, and multimedia by Kidoons. To watch Karen, Stephanie, Rick and Griffin, click here. Enjoy!Rick speaks with fellow podcasters Stephanie Wolfe, Karen Johnson-Diamond, and Griffin Cork, the voices behind "The Breakfast Dish", "Scamtime", and "Bridging the Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each Other”, which Rick gu...2022-08-2935 min
ScamtimeEpisode 35 - Season 2 - Bonsai Tree Box Cats and Duckbill Platypuses. (Little summer nuggets of scams!)Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes.Sometimes the gals get too busy to dig deep into some real Scammy McScammersons, so in this episode they offer you some 'summer nuggets'; quick little peeks into the world of a bunch of scams they want to follow up on later.Duckbill Platypuses!Cats shaped like boxes!Gullibility!Here are some things to help this episode make sense:2022-07-011h 03ScamtimeEpisode 34 - Season 2 - It's Kind of Kooka Booka! (Greg Priore and Marla Olmstead)Welcome to SCAMTIME, a true crime podcast where your hosts Stephanie and Karen talk about all sorts of cons and frauds, bamboozlers and hoodwinkers, and fun hoaxes.In this episode, Karen throws the book at archivist Greg Priore, and Stephanie paints a picture of prodigy artist Marla Olmstead. 400 year old bibles and 4 year old artists. Would you commit a crime if you knew no one would be hurt and you'd probably never be caught? And is the scammer in Marla's story actually the media? George Washington!A practical joke on a fig le...2022-06-201h 38
The Breakfast Dish#75 - Alex SarianWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, for the finale of the third season of The Breakfast Dish Podcast, Karen and Griffin are joined by the quick-witted Alex Sarian. Previously working at the prestigious Lincoln Centre in New York, Alex has been the CEO of Arts Commons since 2019 and comes on the show to chat about Calgary, burps, and building a vision...2022-05-3140 minThe Breakfast Dish#74 - Luc TellierWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, director, and educator Luc Tellier. Luc is the is the Director of Education and Outreach at the Citadel Theatre, but he's mostly here to chat about Theatre Alberta's Summer Drama Camp for Teens: ARTSTREK! After a year away and a year online, they are back IRL with Qui...2022-05-2534 min
Xing The Gap, with Rick MillerBest Of Season 1 TriviaIn this episode - the last of Season 1 - Rick has put together a "best-of" trivia edit: 5 minutes each from 7 of your favourite episodes. It’s just silly fun, but these days, it’s more important than ever to laugh - especially at ourselves. So enjoy this special episode, featuringMary Walsh & Jamie PittBruce Kuwabara & Roxane BejjanyDaniel MacIvor & Zach Running CoyoteKaren Johnson-Diamond, Stephanie Wolfe & Griffin CorkRobert Lepage & Lyndz DantisteColin Mochrie & Debra McGrathJeremy Dutcher & John LerouxStay tuned for video edits of season 1 episodes, and a brand new XTG season of intergenerational conversations in the Fall of 2022.#Buil...2022-05-1937 minThe Breakfast Dish#73 - Spencer Estabrooks (Live at the Calgary Expo!)Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin were invited to record an episode live at the 2022 Calgary Expo! So, who better to chat with than filmmaker, author, and Expo Expert; Spencer Estabrooks. Spencer sits down with our hosts to chat about One Hit Die, Sharkasaurus, love comics, and BIKEPOCALYPSE.SPENCER ESTABROOKS: https://www.instagram.com/spencer.easy/2022-05-1848 minThe Breakfast Dish#72 - Arlene Orchard and Dai MatsuzakaWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Dai Matsuzaka and Arlene Orchard, a Grade 12 drama student/drama teacher combo at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Dai just finished starring in, directing, choreographing and designing a one act play for his high school and he tells us just how that is humanly possible. Arlene, besides being a...2022-05-1033 minThe Breakfast Dish#71 - Col Cseke & Mike KeirWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Col Cseke and Mike Keir from Inside Out Theatre. Col is the Artistic Director of Inside Out, and will be directing Karen and Mike in an online improv show later this month. They chat about their neighborhoods, their history with improv, lying to bus drivers, and telling time through wrestling.2022-05-0633 minThe Breakfast Dish#70 - Fabienne ColasWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with "The Queen of Festivals", Fabienne Colas. Winner of the 2019 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, Fabienne Colas is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, speaker, and business owner who works tirelessly and passionately to support and promote diversity off and on screen around the globe. We're focusing on the Calgary Black Film F...2022-04-2543 minThe Breakfast Dish#69 - Jason MehmelWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Jason Mehmel; the Artistic Director of Sage Theatre and long time D&D buddy of Griffin's. The trio chat about Sage's upcoming production of 'Cantata', the difference between TED and TEDx, and their theories on debunking hypnotists.JASON MEHMEL: https://www.instagram.com/jasonmehmel/CANTATA: https://sagetheatre.com...2022-04-2448 minThe Breakfast Dish#68 - Tenaj WilliamsWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Tenaj Williams; Actor, Singer, Dancer, Playwright and T-Rex Fighter! Tenaj tells us about the experience of being an understudy, which is about as stressful for him as his reoccurring dream with the wall of spikes. You can catch Tenaj on Season 3 of the hit CTV sitcom "Jann"TENAJ WILLIAMS...2022-04-0441 minThe Breakfast Dish#67 - Mary-Ellen PerleyWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Mary-Ellen Perley - the President of the Alberta Drama Festival Association (the minds behind the One Act Festivals)! Mary-Ellen comes on the show to chat about the upcoming regional and provincial festivals, Mark Rylance, and mothers in their natural state of snitching.MARY-ELLEN PERLEY: https://twitter.com/meperley...2022-03-3039 minThe Breakfast Dish#66 - Monty HaughianWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen (bravely, without Griffin) is joined by Monty Haughian from Grande Prairie Live Theatre. Monty took some time to tell Karen all about the theatre in Grande Prairie, how not to bank on working wheels and about why he 'comes alive' for Theatre.MONTY HAUGHIAN: https://www.instagram.com/montyhaughian/GRANDE PRAIRIE LIVE...2022-03-2138 minThe Breakfast Dish#65 - Alixandra CowmanWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, musician and honey lover Alixandra Cowman. Alix is a co-creator and company member of 'Alberta Kitchen Party' - playing now at Alberta Theatre Projects. She'll rap, she'll reminisce, she'll really warm your heart, AND she wrote and performs our podcast jingle!ALIXANDRA COWMAN: https://www.instagram.com/a...2022-03-1437 minPutting It TogetherThe Contest – Sweeney Todd (with Jonathan Chisolm)Pirelli makes his entrance with a flourish! Now he has to prove that he's as good as he says he is. Jonathan Chisolm returns to discuss the effectiveness of his bad Italian accent and why it was good that the second half was cut out of the show. Jonathan's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Grune123Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jschisolm22/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jschisolm22Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jschisolm22You can purchase Stephen Sondheim's first book of lyrics, Finishing the Hat, by going here: https...2022-03-0950 minThe Breakfast Dish#64 - Gabriel CovarrubiasWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor and lovely human, Gabriel Covarrubias! Gabriel originally hails from Mexico City and is now living in Vancouver. He and Karen have been working together on the Citadel Theatre's production of 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' - and she realized we had to have him on the show!GABRIEL...2022-03-0833 minThe Breakfast Dish#63 - Crystal McGrathWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Canadian country music artist, Crystal McGrath. Crystal ( a fellow podcaster and host of Crushing Chaos) comes on the show to chat about her new single "All These Things", Live With Love, The Artists Behind The Music, and a full cup of icing.CRYSTAL MCGRATH: https://www.crystalmcgrath.ca/2022-03-0236 minThe Breakfast Dish#62 - Dave SmithWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Dave Smith. If you're in the Albertan theatre community, you probably know the jack-of-all-trades Dave. He's a designer, an actor, and now an instructor at the University of Lethbridge! He chats with our Breakfast Hosts about the strike at U of L, and his favorite memories working with K + G.2022-02-2344 minThe Breakfast Dish#61 - Louis B. HobsonWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Louis B. Hobson! Louis is an actor, director and playwright - but he is best known as a pillar in the Calgary theatre community because of his work as the theatre critic for the Calgary Herald. Karen and Griffin chat with Louis about his life, his career, and his part...2022-02-1440 min
Kyle and Dave vs The MachineFitzcarraldo (1982)A film where an obsessed man decides to build an opera house in the jungle. Kyle just wanted to go on a hike. Dave decides to wear all white. The Machine is taking notes on exploitation. You can follow us on Letterboxd to see the entire list of movies we've talked about: https://letterboxd.com/kdvstm/Watch the trailer for Fitzcarraldo here: https://youtu.be/xWeb7i8IjYsOur sponsors this week are: Rümi - https://www.rumi.ca/ - Our guiding mission is to create homeowner happiness, one smile at a...2022-02-111h 29The Breakfast Dish#60 - Franca GualtieriWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Franca Gualtieri! When Karen met Franca, she was working with former Calgary Mayor, Naheed Nenshi. But then they became friends (maybe lovers?) and she now comes on The Breakfast Dish to chat about the Chinook Blast festival!FRANCA GUALTIERI: https://twitter.com/francaincalgaryCHINOOK BLAST: https://www...2022-02-0939 min