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The Bold Acting Podcast66. A Bug, not a FeatureI spent this past week on the road with two dear, longtime friends as they needed some cheap labour for their comedy show they’re touring around Ontario. We improvised from Ottawa to Cornwall to Peterborough and back to Toronto. We stayed in Airbnbs, ate at questionable hours, didn’t sleep enough, and drove for days. We performed on nights there was a world series. We danced like monkeys for drunken animals. We took pictures after with the appreciative. We were making comedy in Canada and it was so much fun.There’s more. This Tuesda...
2025-10-2901 min
Nutrition & Life#212 Managing Hormones, Sleep & Weight in the Menopause TransitionWelcome back to the Nutrition and Life podcast! In today’s insightful episode, Lisa wraps up Menopause Month with a comprehensive overview of the most critical lessons and actionable strategies gathered from last year’s leading experts on menopause, including Dr. Lara Bryden, Jason Theobald, Dane Anderson, Louise Digby, and more.Whether you’re in your thirties looking to prepare, currently navigating perimenopausal symptoms, or well into menopause, this episode delivers a wealth of evidence-based tips covering everything from hormonal shifts to metabolism, weight management, nutrition, exercise, lifestyle adjustments, and mindset. Lisa distills complex science and expert interv...
2025-06-0356 min
Almost MajorParker (2013) (with Logan Kenny!)We return to chat about PARKER (2013)!Logan Kenny returns to discuss Jason Statham, Florida, what time is the appropriate time for CAPONE and many more detours!Twitter: @AlmostMajorKevin: @kevbonesy on Twitter / LetterboxdBryden: @BrydenDoyle on Twitter + @JDoyle on LetterboxdCharlie: @ctnash91 on Twitter / LetterboxdOur guest, Logan: @LoganKenny1 on Twitter / LetterboxdAlmost Major is a part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network. To listen to other podcasts from the network, please click here!
2025-04-101h 16
The Bold Acting Podcast45. Starting ArtistsSomehow with all that’s going on the pressure is off. I’m reminded not to be surprised. Dogs are going to bark, baker’s gonna bake and humans are going to treat each other terribly. What’s important to you? For me, for now, it’s blood.Tonight I made some fake blood. Two tablespoons of chocolate syrup, one cup of corn syrup and some red food colouring. This is for a short film, a Western, I’m making with my old friend Mike and my new friend Shelly. There is nothing going on in Film & TV so there...
2024-11-1906 min
515 : The Ultra PodcastS6E9 -- Jen Annett : 515 World Record HolderSend us a textJen Annett drops by to speak about her recent record setting 515 race in Canada and preparations to take on the Ultraman World Championships at the end of the month. Jen has not had the best luck when racing as a pro at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, but this time she has the backing of her entire community and she is ready for the challenge. She also shares her Precision nutrition plan for racing for those who are looking for racing tips. Link...
2024-11-081h 10
The Bold Acting Podcast43. Kensington DinerWe have shot two episodes of a digital series I have created called Kensington Diner. We have four more to go. I based some of them on some of my favourite films: Cleo de Cinq a Sept, In Bruges, When Harry Met Sally, My Son the Fanatic. I steal from the greats — I do not just let myself be inspired by — and then I put someone else’s ideas or filmic techniques or casting choices or story elements through my own neophyte gaze and out pops a dog’s breakfast unrecognizable to it’s estranged parent. Rob Reiner, Agnes Varda and...
2024-11-0508 min
The Bold Acting Podcast42. MESSAGES TO MYSELFFrom the Oxford English Dictionaryhypocrite, n.From the Middle English by way of Old French: ecclesiastical; and the Greek: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to have feelings or beliefs of a higher order than his real ones: A pretender, a dissembler, an actor on the stage.It’s all about me, unfortunately. Every prescriptive pearl is aimed at me. I use the word ‘you” but I mean me. Do you? Don’t you? Don’t we all?1. You’ll Tire of MeA...
2024-10-1313 min
The Bold Acting Podcast41. A Weird Way to Go OutI found a book in a little library called Talk Like Ted. It’s annoying both because I’m easily annoyed and it was written by a finance Chad that’s more successful than me. One suggestion is when you want to engage an audience (like at a Ted Talk) teach them something new. Or at least frame it in a novel way. I’ve been doing this newsletter for a couple years now and I am ready for something new. So here is one:I’m doing a new podcast with my friend Preet Banerjee...
2024-10-0704 min
The Bold Acting PodcastA Massive BobA pendulum is a weight called a bob suspended from a pivot so it can swing freely. In Math there is a simple gravity pendulum that swings without friction. This is so nerds can measure things like amplitude and bob’s trajectory. In real life there are other forces affecting the period of oscillation, like gravitational pull and friction. The pendulum is within us and without. A starving man overeats and is soon vomiting. A suicidal person gets a terminal cancer diagnosis. You fall head over heels in love but soon the head and the heels find th...
2024-09-3003 min
The Bold Acting Podcast1. The Gord RecordNow more than ever actors have to make their own opportunities. On the first episode we talk about how ACTRA members can make their own stuff and how best to navigate the ACTRA Toronto Co-op agreement. Cohosted by Gord Rand and Jason Bryden. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit boldacting.substack.com/subscribe
2024-09-2736 min
The Bold Acting Podcast37. "… Open thine eyes. I am still here, just older.”How to be a Person is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.In Judith Kerr’s YA novel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (based on her escape from Nazi Germany as a child) she writes about how leaving her home and moving to Switzerland, Paris and finally London was a great adventure.It was not, of course, for her parents. They managed to keep it together under terrible circumstances and shielded their children from much of the horrors of displacement due to...
2024-09-2405 min
The Bold Acting Podcast35. Persistence - Adaptability = Insanity2009. A party at a house in Silver Lake. A horror movie director, named Tom, in a white button down shirt. A fat man with an architect’s eyewear that knew Jack Kerouac. The living room had a billiards table. The parlour had a wet bar, a wine closet and a stripper’s pole.I had made the hosts bucatini in a red sauce the week before. They served a better version of the same dish tonight. She had a tick where she would breathe quickly in through her nose twice when she wanted to punctuate some...
2024-09-1605 min
The Bold Acting Podcast32. How To Be A Person -- Everything is PornPorn is no longer relegated to sex acts. If the definition of a porn compulsion is an inability to stop using it (and let’s face it, we’re not just passively watching porn) then porn is also the way we interact with social media, dating apps and the biggest streamer in the world, YouTube. If you’re swiping and you’ve thought to yourself, “I’m 30 minutes closer to the grave and I have nothing but shame and self-loathing to show for it,” it’s porn. Swiping up and down, left or right = pornography.Comparison porn
2024-08-2305 min
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2024-08-221h 31
The Bold Acting Podcast27. How To Be A Person -- "A Second Intention"27. How To Be A Person — A Second IntentionThe kids were dressed-up. The parents were sweaty. 14 was graduating from his tiny middle school — population 58 students — at 1:30PM on a Wednesday in June. The ceremony was held in the gym at Shirley Street P.S. in the Portuguese neighbourhood of Brockton Village.Beside the school is 75 St. Clarens. The very first house we lived in all those years ago when we moved as a young family to Toronto. Coming back here triggers feelings of nostalgia and memories of that house: a wall-hanging of large lips made of hair...
2024-07-0705 min
The Bold Acting Podcast23. How to be a Person -- 40 000 FeetWhen I type the title of this newsletter there is always a grammatical negotiation that goes on in my head. Title case isn’t, as previously thought, capitalizing the first letter of every word. It is capitalizing just the major words — which suggests there are minor words. These are articles and pronouns. (Even in 2024 grammar doesn’t really care all that much about your pronouns.) But what of ‘be’? Isn’t the word ‘be’ major? It’s the subject of pretty much everything from Hamlet’s relentless monologuing re. his existence to all of the latest new age self-helpy be-here-now books, ‘...
2024-06-1009 min
The Bold Acting Podcast22. How to be a Person -- We’ve Got to Talk About How Justin TalksEverybody knows the polls look terrible for Justin. Everyone knows Pierre Poillievre will be our next Prime Minister. But there are three things that Justy Trews could do differently that would afford him a more elegant exit.By virtue of Pierre’s runaway popularity I find myself hoping the lengthy run-up to the next election is just enough rope for the Calgarian. And by the way, he IS a Calgarian so the Anglos trying to pronounce Poillievre’s name Frencherly can stop. Thanks. You’re fooling no one. I can’t stand being in accordance with pop...
2024-06-0405 min
The Bold Acting Podcast21. How to Be A Person — These are the People in your VictimhoodWhat stories are you telling yourself?Victimhood is the neighbourhood I used to live in (but I’m not talking about trauma. I’m just talking about how the ego hijacks.)A favourite story I used to tell myself was the one where I absolve myself of all responsibility for bad things happening. It was in 1993 and a friend of mine accused me of hitting on his girl. I would never have done such a thing. He was way stronger than me, older than me, I looked-up to him. I remember mooning about Banff (I don’...
2024-05-2407 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Dmitry Chepovetsky on How Children Ruin Everything, on Performance, Bankruptcy, Worry and Staying PresentBorn in 1970 in Lviv, Ukraine Dmitry Chepovetsky’s family moved to Regina when he was a baby.He began acting in high school before attending theatre school at Ryerson now known as Toronto Metro University.Chepovetsky is best known for his recurring role on ReGenesis as Bob Melnikov, the show’s lead biochemist and a person with autism. The role garnered him two Gemini Award nominations for best actor in a dramatic series once in 2005 and once in 2007.Chepovetsky has also played Nikola Tesla in CBC’s long-running Murdoch Mysteries. Picasso in Steve Martin...
2024-05-2251 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Eric Peterson is Out of WorkEric Peterson is one of Canada’s most iconic actors. With a career that spans more than 50 years. Best known for his roles in Corner Gas, Street Legal and onstage as the WWI flying ace Billy Bishop in Billy Bishop goes to War which he co-created with writer and composer John Gray.We talk about how at age 77 he doesn’t have any work lined-up. As well as what makes for great performance and what was his best year. Peterson lives in Toronto with his wife Annie Kidder, sister to the late Margot Kidder.He...
2024-05-1849 min
The Bold Acting Podcast20. How To Be A Person: Comparative Studies of my Navel via Social Media Equals I feel Bad About Myself Later (Approximately 3:30AM, 4:30AM and 5:45AM.)Thanks to my paid readers. I appreciate you more than you know. I brag about you in social settings. You don’t have to pay for this but you do. The future looks brighter with you in my corner. If you like this newsletter consider upgrading to paid. Doing so gives you license to complain to me about spelling misteakes, grammatical errors, etc. Consider becoming a paid subscriber. Apples to OrangesI recently spent an hour on instagram and deleted the app once again from my...
2024-05-1205 min
The Bold Acting PodcastWhat I Learned from Jimmy CarrGetting advice from comedians is like getting advice from a funny person that has managed to survive one of the most difficult vocations around. I don’t have to tell you that comedians come out on stage, into what is historically a hostile environment their only weapons a mic and their words. Who better to give survival tips? Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up comedian known for his offensive one-liners and deadpan delivery. “I could have phoned in a showbiz book of 60,000 words, stuck a couple of pictures in, cash the cheque, great. But I didn...
2024-05-0743 min
The Bold Acting Podcast18. How To Be A Person According to a Stand-up Comedian"What I Learned ..." is one of three different streams of podcasts you’ll find under the hospices of The Bold Acting Podcast. The other two are the Bold Interview (upcoming talks include Eric Peterson) and this newsletter. Find all the episodes wherever the podcasts are for you. Friday, May 3rd, 2024Advice from a stand-up doesn’t seem so wrong. British comic Jimmy Carr had a boring life, he didn’t want it anymore so he stopped working for Shell Oil and started doing stand-up instead.Now he has an interesting life.W...
2024-05-0306 min
The Bold Acting Podcast17. How To Be A Person - A Walk With the Man With the ScytheThank you to the paying customers, you golden few that have upgraded to paid. I really appreciate you. Do you pay for other newsletters? If so what makes it worth it? I’ve included a poll here for paid subscribers. I’d love to know what you think and how I can make BOLD better.This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: Be Bold ‘Cause You’re Going to Die. (When it comes out you have only one choice: buy in bulk. I have your email address. I’ll know if you only buy one. I’m d...
2024-04-2811 min
The Bold Acting Podcast16. How To Be A Person: Buying Pornography for My Children14 and 11 (almost 12) are keeping their cards close to their chest. I am always asking them if they’re masturbating yet in an attempt to normalize it. I am beginning to think I have failed. You know when someone talks so much you can’t hear them anymore? I think that has happened.I haven’t used porn since September 2022. I wasn’t hooked on it but I did rely on it and I wanted to have my house in order before my children came of age.I miss it. So convenient. Not like a miss cigarett...
2024-04-2205 min
The Bold Acting Podcast15. How To Be A Person: TroubleThis week on the Bold Acting Podcast I read my notes gleaned from Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art. One of the things he talks about is why we get ourselves into trouble: because it’s easier than finishing what has to be done, Pressfield says. Everything from being late to blaring loud rap music, drug addiction, compulsive screwing up and jealousy is resistance (his word for the universal force that is at war with the creative spirit).Obviously there is a lot wrong with the above statement. Addiction is an illness not a choi...
2024-04-1804 min
The Bold Acting PodcastWhat I Learned from Listening to "The War of Art" by Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield is a cheerleader. And we need more of those in this world. There are too many naysayers out there and inside our heads. We don’t need someone else telling us we’re getting it wrong. What serves me as a teacher? To position myself as rarefied? To conflate experience with wisdom? To profess my way as being the only way?In separating myself from the pack, I want to remain a student and a cheerleader. We didn't get into this mess because we've been making too much art. We've been focusing on the...
2024-04-1533 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Rebecca Northan on Her Be$t year, Authentic Intelligence and Why You Should Make Your Own WorkRebecca Northan has been improvising and working as an actor since the 1990s. I met her at our illustrious alma mater The University of Calgary. She got her start at the famous Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary. There she met founder and improv master Keith Johnstone whose teachings would shape Northan’s career and life.In 2004 she was nominated for a Gemini Award for "Best Ensemble in a Comedy". Northan is also a five-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee, and one time winner, for "Best Female Improviser". She has made several appearances at the Montreal Just For La...
2024-04-1056 min
The Bold Acting Podcast14. HOW TO BE A PERSON: Apropos of EverythingGabrielle Zevin wrote in her novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.“The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures … Where white European people only make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience not their own.”The slogan Nothing about us, without us was first used in 1505 as a political motto that helped form and establish constitutional legislation in the Kingdom of Poland. It was also used in pre-WWII when th...
2024-04-0211 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Bruce Horak On Making Art, Bookkeeping and Kitchen Renovations When You're Visually ImpairedHaving lost over 90% of his eyesight to a childhood Cancer, artist and actor Bruce Horak has has been making stuff in the world of the fully-sighted for over 25 years. Bilateral Retinoblastoma is a cancer which appears on the retina of the eyes, the treatment of which left Horak completely blind in one eye, with only 9% sight in the remaining eye. He has performed across Canada, the United States and Europe with Monster Theatre and his own solo shows This is Cancer which won a Betty Mitchell Award 2007 and Assassinating Thompson which explores the unique way he sees t...
2024-03-2845 min
The Bold Acting Podcast13. How To Be A Person: The Best Way to Pass the Time Before Time Runs OutAs far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little.” — Fernand Point, father of French Cuisine.The future is not here yet. Why are we so enamoured with it? And the past? What is so bad about the present?Do you remember that voice-over in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Read Line?Who's doin' this? … Robbing us of life and light. Mockin' us with the sight of what we might've known. Does our ruin benefit the eart...
2024-03-2207 min
The Bold Acting PodcastWhat I Learned from Reading Rick Rubin's The Creative ActOscar Wilde said some things are too important to take seriously. And this is Rick Rubin’s stance on creativity.For me the pragmatic act of making art is the destination. And if we’re wary enough of inspiration we can get down to the business of getting our reps in. Art isn’t about thinking or even about being in a state of mind. It’s about doing it. And most of the time it’s better to be out of your mind and in your body.Just make art. Quit waiting to be visited by...
2024-03-1737 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Nicola Correia-Damude On Being Too Ethnic, Too Mixed Race, Too Fat And Too Tall.A Guyanese-Canadian actor Nicola Correia-Damude is best known for her role as Dr. Lucy Di Silva on Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent. Nicola came over to my house to talk about how, up until six years ago, she didn’t have a career in Film & TV. Since recent cultural shifts she has never been busier. In the before times she said she was “too ethnic, too mixed race, too fat, too tall, too this, too that, too everything.” But the birth of her child put that “everything” in perspective. And as she freed herself from the need f...
2024-03-1352 min
The Bold Acting Podcast12. How to Be a Person: Your Money's WorthThis week I went to the Comedy Bar here in Toronto and I did not get my money’s worth.We went to see the 9:30 standup show called Point Break Comedy because we didn't have time to go to the 8 o'clock improv show “Nice Time” that has a lot of heavy hitters in it.The first Comic got up and was the picture of a young stand-up comedian. Odd, bad with eye contact, lots of inappropriate humour. He told jokes. They weren't always great, but they were jokes. That's something that one would expect a standu...
2024-03-1007 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Jeff Low - Commercial Director Talks Comedy, Suicide and Working in Eastern Block CountriesThis episode previously aired on In the Dark, July of 2017..WARNING: Topics discussed include suicide and depression. While in Bucharest, Romania I spoke with the acclaimed commercial director while we were working on a male incontinence campaign. I loved making these commercials. Jeff will be guest-teaching in my online class this Sunday March 10, 2024. Email me at jasonbryden@gmail.com if you want to audit for free. Thank you for reading BOLD . This post is public so feel free to share it.If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk...
2024-03-0658 min
The Bold Acting Podcast11. How to Be a Person: Outside the Butcher’sOnce I had a friend named Ben. He was really nice. I value friendship over most everything else and I wanted to be a man that makes friends easily. But Ben was boring. So boring. I felt terrible for leading him on. But not as terrible as I did hanging out with him. I ghosted him but he wouldn’t take a hint. Then he caught me in front of the butcher shop and confronted me. It was an amazing time, two middle-aged men having a hurt-feelings spat on the street like we were in high school again....
2024-02-2707 min
The Bold Acting PodcastRIP Guy MacPherson | What I Learned from Reading The Method by Isaac Butler, Pt. DeuxGuy MacPherson was a friend of mine. I only reconnected when I heard he had cancer. He didn’t seem to mind hanging out together. Guy was a lover of comedy and comedians. (He would object to me using the word lover.) He was Vancouver’s first comedy critic (The Georgia Straight), The world’s first comedy podcast and the longest running comedy radio show (WSF?) His legacy is large. You can read and listen to a lot of it at guymacpherson.ca. RIP GMacP. The World Keeps TurningOkay, onto Isaac...
2024-02-2339 min
The Bold Acting PodcastWhat I Learned From Reading "The Method" by Isaac Butler -- Pt. 1Anyone can call themselves an acting teacher. In 1898 in Moscow that’s exactly what an actor named Constantine Stanislavski did. Stanislavski and his crew came up with what turned out to be the most enduring acting system in the world. And it needs a refresh. Actors are savvier these days. As are audiences. It’s 2024 and we are post-method.Anytime everybody is doing the same thing move in the opposite direction. If the hills are on fire soon come the chanterelles.. Stanislavski was responding to Commedia dell'arte and stayed Victorian performance traditions. 125 years ago The Meth...
2024-02-1356 min
The Bold Acting Podcast10. How To Be a Person: Advice from Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie MungerThere is so much Ven overlap between investors and actors. So this week I’ve cribbed from the best, Warren Butler’s partner, Charlie Munger. And then, because I love talking about me (and acting and teaching) I use Charlie’s wisdom as a jumping-off point. Because Charles and I are equals … in the pantheon of mind.Charlie died a couple months ago but not without leaving a wealth of great advice. Here are some of the highlights from his book Poor Charlie’s Almanac: the Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger.- Goo...
2024-02-0912 min
The Bold Acting PodcastWhat I Learned from Reading "The Art of Acting by Stella AdlerStella Adler was a giant within the modern method acting movement of New York beginning in the 1950s. Her book although prescriptive and judgemental still has many practical insights that apply to surviving showbiz these days. I've read it and made copious notes that I read to you here.If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk it up at your next dinner or book club. Word-of-Mouth is the best form of advertising. If you don’t like it maybe just keep that to yourself.Rating and reviewing the th...
2024-02-0447 min
The Bold Acting Podcast9. How To Be A Person: Always Keep One Hog BackGambling Actors gamble with their feelings, their egos, humiliation. But you don’t want to bet the farm. Not every time. You’ll become depleted. Always keep one hog back. The winters can be long in this neck of the woods.We deal in feelings and feelings are the reason we are all here however, we cannot be ruled by said feelings or we become victims instead of observers. Lemme explain.To be a responsible actor means you have to show up early with your homework done. We can’t hope...
2024-01-3008 min
The Bold Acting Podcast8. How To Be a Person: It’s All in the Way You Hold Your TongueDavid Rotenberg died recently in Toronto. He was a legendary acting teacher with a lot of big name students that came through his doors over the years. I lasted three classes with him before he emailed me and told me not to come back. I was missing the very basics of acting he said and there was nothing he could do for me. He didn’t offer me a refund.When I was a kid my mum left for a month to hike in the Himalayas. She did this from time to time. A Mrs. McKay came to...
2024-01-2608 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: Shaun BensonShaun Benson was born in 1976 in Guelph ON. The son of an English professor and a German literature professor. Shaun started his creative career as a ballet dancer and a musician. He completed his undergrad, a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at Western University. But fate intervened. Upon seeing a play at the Stratford Festival starring national treasure Colm Fiore something switched on in his brain.His early acting work includes roles on General Hospital, Being Erica, And the Associates. Career highlights include the films Bitter Harvest, Trench 11, Arq, Populaire, and the CSA-nominated Kept Woman.
2024-01-2351 min
The Bold Acting PodcastHow To be A Person: Odious ComparisonsYVR Jan 4, 2024This morning walking back from the gym through the gloom and rain I saw that someone had written in marker on a large hydro box “All comparison is odious”.I compare myself frequently to others. On instagram, at the gym or even in conversation. Like when I feel someone losing interest in me. I shut up as soon as I realize it now. I didn’t always have this self-awareness. But I wonder in the shutting up do I diminish myself? Am I just deferring to someone more confident?On the other...
2024-01-1711 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Interview: From NBC's "Transplant" - Actor Gord RandThere are two streams that make up the Bold Acting Podcast: How to be a Person — The Newsletter which I read aloud and publish, and the Bold Interview. Today I speak to Gord Rand. Gord Rand is an actor and creator. He has performed on stages such as The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival and the Worldstage. He won a Dora Award for his portrayal of a naked Ukranian plutonium dealer.Gord Rand writes and directs both films and plays. recently completing his first feature documentary Goodness in Rwanda. He’s penned plays such...
2024-01-1444 min
The Bold Acting Podcast8. How To Be A Person : In TranslationI am not a great teacher yet. I haven’t been doing it long enough. I’m a great student but that’s because of mentors like Ben Immanuel and fellow actors like Michael Teigen and it’s also because I’ve started teaching. The teaching makes me a better actor. The teaching gives me so much. The students do too. If they only knew just how much. (But the click-through rate of 66% on this newsletter means that some will still remain in the dark about this.)“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your...
2024-01-1308 min
The Bold Acting Podcast7. How To Be A Person: Ten Ways to Use Annoying People to Win at LifeThey are all around us. They drive without signalling. They talk loudly on their phones in the library. They holdup the line at the bank with all their dumb complaints. They write newsletters. But instead of letting a perfect stranger highjack your happiness perhaps they can fuel your creativity? If annoying people are inevitable then we should learn to use them to our advantage. Like Soilent Green. It’s people. Finally, someone found a use for people.How To Be A Person is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a...
2024-01-1006 min
The Bold Acting Podcast6. HOW TO BE A PERSON: Day OneOn a podcast I heard a founder of a startup say “Day one, your product is never worse.” He was talking about encouraging early adopters to sign up for their product even though it wasn’t complete. When you admit that today the thing you have to offer is only going to get stronger and better you enter into a covenant with yourself (I’m talking to me right now): I must improve and grow Bold Acting Studios or no one is going to come. So …Welcome to HOW TO BE A PERSON. I'm re-branding the Bold Acting new...
2024-01-0811 min
The Bold Acting Podcast5. How To Be A Person: Daniel Day-Lewis Was A Highly Ineffective ActorThe ROI on DDL Daniel Day-Lewis is a highly ineffective actor when you consider his Return On Investment. It’s a good thing he’s retired so we don’t have to put up with further reports of his methodology. If only Jeremy Strong’s wholehearted admiration for Mr. Day-Lewis would also have him knock-off to Ireland to renovate a castle or Kirk.You cannot argue with Day-Lewis’s results. I am an acting teacher not a critic. I make stuff, I do not solely disparage. But I regularly extoll to my student...
2023-12-2207 min
The Bold Acting Podcast4. How To Be A Person: The Mildly Interested StrangerGerry and I went for Korean on Wednesday. We ordered a beef dinner for four instead for some reason. The appetizer was thin slices of beef cooked on our table. All the smoke blew into Gerry’s eyes. Then there were mushrooms — the only vegetable I saw all night except for the kimchi. Which was delicious.Gerry’s dog had just died. Or Ger had just put her down. We cheers Poppy. I’m not really a dog person. Not a cat person either although I have one on the premises now. I can finally understa...
2023-12-0306 min
The Bold Acting Podcast29. Dinosaurism, Cognitive Autopilot, Design Thinking, the ACTRA Lockout and Phone ZombiesI got strong opinions. And I say the same thing over again. Sometimes these things bear repeating. On this week’s episode I repeat myself mostly because I know what the click rate is of my newsletter. 63% of you open the Bold Acting Newsletter so I can record audio versions of four of these and there’s a good chance you’ll be hearing this content for the first time. I hope you get something from them. I wouldn’t do it without you. Jason Bryden in Toronto This is...
2023-11-2232 min
The Bold Acting Podcast28. The Guide Beside You, Not the Guru in Front of You -- Incest, Embarrassment, Great Writing and David Milchard, Former Internet Sensation“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.” — Douglas Englebart - Father of the computer mouse and digital pioneerComplaining is a human need: the transfer of information, much like gossip, between village members is a survival tool we’ve come to abhor incorrectly due to there are too many of us doing it. This is a product of us losing our village perspective (we live in giant cities and are exposed to too many humans) not it’s efficacy. To complain is to warn others - Fuck that guy...
2023-11-1140 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Ep. 27Catchup on newsletters you haven’t read yet. Let me read to you instead. Thank you for reading The Bold Acting Newsletter. This post is public so feel free to share it.If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk it up at your next dinner or book club. Word-of-Mouth is the best form of advertising. If you don’t like it maybe just keep that to yourself.Rating and reviewing the thing is also greatly appreciated. It goes a long way to spreading the word.To get...
2023-10-3133 min
The Bold Acting Podcast26. Goblins, Macbeth, Questions and AnswersI don’t like Shakespeare. Mostly it’s our outsized reverence for Shakespeare that I don’t like. Reverence for anything makes me roll my eyes. A preciousness for the old where it leaves less room for the new makes me suspicious. The bard takes up a lot of space, still. Would he be so popular if we had to pay his estate for the rights to produce his plays? Not likely. We don’t like paying artists these days.I went to Stratford to see Goblin Macbeth. It’s a truncated version of the Scottish play where thre...
2023-10-2835 min
The Bold Acting PodcastBrezhnev, a Meth Addict and Chupa ChupsOn this evening the Emergency Ward at St. Joseph’s hospital in west Toronto did not disappoint. A woman that looked like Leonid Brezhnev (mostly in the eyebrows and weight class) triaged at window number 3.There’s blood coming out of my pee pee, Leonid said.At window number 4 a Mexican man said “I can’t close my eyes.”At window number 2 an Indian man was missing a third of the skin from his face. He glistened red like a licked Chupa Chups.When you’re out in the world you se...
2023-10-1824 min
The Bold Acting Podcast24. Falling Asleep in a Theatre, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Being Human Vs. AIToday on the flodflast: * The Dalai Lama is boring. * The aged watch theatre like Mexicans watch film. * Tim Ferriss needs my help. And …* Jetlagged. A full dose of zopiclone in response. What a treat. Normally I make a script of thirty pills last me approximately nine months. That way it’s not another thing I’m hooked-on (Right now the running tally is wet gin martinis, short fiction, nasal spray, Henley shirts and gilgeori toast (the greatest breakfast sandwich on Earth.) So a whole pill really gets the job done...
2023-10-1228 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp. 23 What is Beautiful is SeizedThe Bold Acting Podcast is reflections on performance and how it relates to life. What fuels a creativity, what we covered in acting classes and how a modicum of self-awareness goes a long way towards being a person. Thank you for listening to The Bold Acting podcast. This episode is free. Feel free to share it. "What is beautiful is seized.” I read this in a Lorrie Moore story. I think it might mean beauty is momentary, what is noticed, a cell of film, a picture, a Fuqua freeze-frame, the moment yo...
2023-10-0441 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp. 22 The Most Selfish Thing You Can DoNo one ever told me the nicest thing you can do for you is to serve others. There is the altruism, the charity, the moral high-ground of it all but really the real reason it’s such a good thing to do is that it must be the most selfish move around. Because you are no longer thinking about you. And that right there is a type of freedom.If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk it up at your next dinner or book club. Word-of-Mouth is the best form of advertising. If you don’t like...
2023-09-2739 min
The Bold Acting Podcast21. You’re Always Allowed to Start AgainYou’re always allowed to start again. It’s one of our great strengths. Author Sebastian Barry says something like no matter what you have left behind, no matter how you’ve lived or not lived, whether you’re young, middle-aged or old, is that you can always start again.It takes a bit of larceny. There’s a taste of bile in the back corners of your mouth. That is shame. Spit it out.The courage of actors to go out there and be human in public is a very inspiring thing. Their courage just to re...
2023-09-2136 min
The Bold Acting Podcast20. Disappointment, Shyness and the Rat Race that You Needn't RunThe rat race to me is that special place within the middle class where you’ve made just enough money that they will loan you so much more money that you can live above your means. I think this is where the saying They’ll sell you just enough rope to hang yourself with” comes from.I’ve been keeping up with my neighbours. For the last ten years I’ve been living in Roncesvalles. A neighbourhood that I could afford when we first moved here from Vancouver because relative to Vancouver it was affordable. Things have changed. I...
2023-09-1328 min
The Bold Acting Podcast19. My Mortgage is Longer than My LifeI’m 51. If all goes well I’ll have 25-30 good summers left. How many do you have left? Are you acting accordingly? Are you taking big risks? Are you batting for the fences?This week I talk about public versus private moments, style versus preference, the end of summer and just … the end. Then we have advice from industry experts Andrew Deiters of Groundglass Casting, Ian James Corlett, voice actor located in LA and James Sullivan, filmmaker and actor from Vancouver. If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk it up at...
2023-09-0638 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp. 18 Adversity as Adventure, Smartless is Terrible and Advice from Industry ProsWhen I think back at what an idiot I was in my twenties, thirties and forties I immediately think What will you think of your 2023 self when you are in your 70s? It’s a horrible thought. That I’ll still be a disappointment. And that when I’m in my 70s I’ll only be, statistically, ten years away from being in my grave.Yes, I plan on being buried in a grave. Laid out. With a large bust of me on top. And maybe I’ll have a large bust too. I mean, I am a fan. My...
2023-09-0133 min
The Bold Acting Podcast17. How to Get an Agent, How to Nail the Callback and How to Keep GoingOh to have the energy I had when I was 25.You’ll never again have the strength you have in your twenties. Trust me. I know. Your job now is not to achieve work/life balance. Forget all of your expectations of others. You’re owed nothing. Your job is to work harder than everyone else. Quit taking breaks. Stop talking about how you’re exhausted. Apart from real mental illness you have no excuses. Put your nose to the grindstone then get a glass of water and go to bed early. Every day, every day, every day.
2023-08-2449 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp.16 The Bold Acting Podcast“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” — Nick ToschesWisdom comes from failure for the most part. A regret, adversity, a challenge. You don’t learn much from wins. Regrets are a real shortcut to learning. If you have no regrets you’ll make the same mistake twice at least. Not having regrets is like not learning from your history.“Those who cannot remember the past are con...
2023-08-1826 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp. 15 Bat for the FencesThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit boldacting.substack.comLearn from the greats. You might not know Alison Steadman but you should watch her performances and see if you can’t benefit by taking a page out of her playbook. She’s acted in Mike Leigh movies, The King’s Man, Pride & Prejudice and my favourite Gavin & Stacey among others. Her performances are surprising, unlikely, bold yet grounded in reality. Liste…
2023-08-0219 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp. 14 The Bold Acting PodcastToday I read three newsletters and answer three questions. I love the Q&As. If you have a question you want answered on the show email me a voice memo to jasonbryden@gmail.com. For more information go to https://boldacting.com.Drop-in to my Sunday night cold-read class in Toronto. Email me at jasonbryden@gmail.com and I’ll put you on the list. Sign up to my free newsletter at boldacting.substack.comFind my podcast The Bold Acting Podcast wherever the podcasts are.Watch many of my...
2023-07-2940 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Ep. 13This week five conversations with creatives from the archives. Yael Staav is an award-winning Film and TV director I used to share an office with. She interviews me for a change. Then I speak to the director of Whale Music, Barney’s Version and Westworld, Richard J. Lewis. After that I speak to my old comedy partner David Milchard who is a veritable internet sensation. Don Enright is an Emmy award -winning producer and a Hollywood legend with a tonne of great stories. And finally while shooting commercials in Romania I sit down with my director Jeff Lo...
2023-07-2041 min
The Bold Acting PodcastHow To Talk To ActorsIntroducing an earlier podcast of mine you might not have listened to. To My Glorious Self is a book of essays I have partially podcasted. Find all the episodes wherever the podcasts are. Originally aired March 2nd, 2022. The names and some details have been changed to protect the innocent.Actors are some of our most vulnerable, most insecure yet underrated members of society. We are prone to hyperbole, unemployment, mental illness, addiction and wasting an ungodly amount of money on psychics. So if you’re thinking about befriending one of us -- like me -- please handle wi...
2023-07-1213 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Ep. 10This week I talk about: * How advantageous it can be to be the foil. Mine the contrary.* The power of the opposite is highly underrated.* The Tour de France is on. Are you working as hard as they are?* Spend time doing nothing.* When we make art for ourselves we speak to other hearts.And I answer these three questions: * From Tanya in Toronto: “Hi, I’m an actor not taking your class but currently enrolled in another school. My parents are less than supportive abou...
2023-07-0736 min
The Bold Acting PodcastAudition Your LifeActors hate auditioning. It’s a lot of work for nothing. 99% of the time nothing comes of it. Auditioning is a lottery ticket, with commensurate odds, that you pay for with your time and energy.The only way around them is to become a star so that they just give you parts. Or you can go do something else altogether … like plumbing. Plumbers make nearly as much as your family doctor.Or you can make the audition not for casting but for yourself. Without expectation. If you don’t care about the result then y...
2023-07-0206 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Attack on the Working Class ContinuesThis week I answer questions on the difference between union and non-union actors, whether an actor with an accent should try to sound more Canadian and how to save money when you’re a gig worker. But first I talk about the Method. It’s an acting technique. It’s 100 years old. And I thought what a perfect thing to disrupt. This made me think of reverence and how poisonous it can be. I’m allergic to unfounded reverence. We place import on received wisdom rather than thinking for ourselves. We revere religion, the deceased, doctors...
2023-06-2740 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Sociolinguistic Tools We, Like, Deploy … You know?It’s only old people that complain about subsequent generations. When I was young I complained about their complaining: “They don’t get us. They don’t know what it’s like.” What I didn’t realize was how annoying young people can be to old people that are really just jealous of the high collagen levels present in the former. It’s part resentment but it’s also because young people do annoying shit all the time. When I was young I didn’t know this. Now I know.John McWhorter, the Columbia professor of linguistics said...
2023-06-2506 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Ep 008Today on the show I talk about styles of performance and redirection. I also answer questions from listeners on what we can learn from performers, how to improve self-tapes and who exactly watches them. For more information go to https://boldacting.com.Drop-in to my Sunday night cold-read class in Toronto.Email me at jasonbryden@gmail.comSign up to my free newsletter at boldacting.substack.comWatch my other videos like:A Message to the Young:Don't Make Your Bed:The Words...
2023-06-2146 min
Stories: the true and the fictionalStory Chat #34 - Jason MathesonJamie and Ryan chat with Aussie author Jason Matheson about his former musical life, current Librarian life and his latest book Buzzbomb.
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2023-06-201h 12
The Bold Acting Podcast11. I Would Have Never Made it as a Woman in AfghanistanThe fear of public speaking is greater than the fear of death. The risk of the former is more immediate than the latter for most of us. And because we are inherently lazy creatures proximity plays an outsized role in how we determine what to worry about. (You can watch my video about prioritizing your worries here.)We worry about being ostracized by our cohort: the people that make up our extended social circle. These aren’t restricted to our friends — they are normally people we can count on in spite of our behaviour. For some...
2023-06-1807 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Episode 007If you like the Bold Acting Podcast talk it up at your next dinner or book club. Word-of-Mouth is the best form of advertising. If you don’t like it maybe just keep that to yourself.Rating and reviewing the thing is also greatly appreciated. It goes a long way to spreading the word.To get in touch email me at: jasonbryden@gmail.comOr on Instagram @jasonbrydenofcanadaThe song used in this podcast is called Sure and it was made by Braak which is electronic and cinematic music made by Øyvind Strand Endal from...
2023-06-1543 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Episode 006I shouldn’t have gone to university. Actors should take acting classes and personal finance classes not learn about the history of Canadian theatre. We need to learn how to get a day job that won’t destroy our souls. We need to learn how to pay taxes. When you do finally get an acting gig you get this big chunk of money. But no one from university told me you first have to remit your HST or the CRA will come and break your legs. That’s their money. Then you need to pay the ba...
2023-06-0845 min
The Bold Acting PodcastRussian in the ParkWork It Weekly is a drop-in scene study class with me, Jason Bryden, an actor and a teacher with over 25 years experience. It’s a great way to get back into class, to get coached on an audition and to find your community.My Sunday night class is more than just about acting. Find your voice. Take your space.Email me at jasonbryden@gmail.com or go to boldacting.com for more info.And don’t forget to subscribe to my free weekly podcast the Bold Acting podcast — now more self-deprecating! I’ve b...
2023-06-0409 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast Ep. 005In real life we do weird stuff with our face, our hands, our body. That’s why life is not always the best model for what we’re doing here. This is make-believe in here. This is something better than real life. We’re after something bigger. We’re after something closer to the truth.The truth is that thing that resonates with diverse and manifold audiences where no matter who they are relative to you they get the thing you are putting out there. The widest audience doesn’t have to come from the person who is the bes...
2023-06-0123 min
The Bold Acting PodcastMonologues on MonologuesThe monologue inside my head has me regularly the victor. I am fostering grudges, serving up street-justice, putting dickwads in their place. My eyes narrow as I mutter. My brow pulls down. My face now angular feels like it looks like the sharp end of an anvil.I walk around High Park holding another monologue in my hand. One written by André Aciman from his novel Call Me By Your Name — one of my favourite books (A High Wind from Jamaica, I Capture the Castle, A Whole Life, An Unforgettable Woman, The Animals being my oth...
2023-05-2805 min
The Bold Acting PodcastEp 004 The Bullshit Metre Inside of YouMy bullshit-metre is a finely honed machine. I can smell it a mile away. The writer Michael Turner first turned me onto this. I had never thought of it before. But once I had I saw it everywhere. Especially in myself. I don’t know what you look for in a politician but I want a smart person to do the heavy-lifting for me. I’m lazy. And when some sleaze-bag says they’re going to lower taxes and invest in my children’s future my bullshit-o-metre redlines. I get bored, start people-watching and eventually find a martini...
2023-05-2429 min
The Bold Acting Podcast7. Great Ideas Are A Terrible ThingI’m editing video right now. I can’t stand it. I’m too old for this. It’s sooo boring. It’s for a show my buddy Dave and I are making. It was his idea. And it’s a great one.But great ideas are like Spanx: I look great when I’m wearing them but it doesn’t mean I can skip the gym (or start eating fries again). It’s the execution of an idea that makes it worth something. Some Recent Great Ideas of Mine-Yoga classes on commute...
2023-05-2110 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast 003Advice on performance and on life from me Jason Bryden. let me tell ya how to do it. Whether you’re starting out in your 20s or your 60s. Whether you’re a doctor, a lawyer, an actor or a politician we all have audiences to serve.I’m JB. You can call me by my initials. Most people do. I’ve been an actor for 25 years but I just started coaching and teaching recently.Today some contrarian thoughts on performance technique as usual. Followed by a Q & A. If you have a question send a voice...
2023-05-1734 min
The Bold Acting Podcast6. Tolerance is the Best We Can Hope ForRemember when tolerance was a bad word? For about five minutes. It was right after we discovered we have to love one another despite our differences. Now that the bar has been lowered down to the dirt I am advocating for a return to the bare minimum.Toleration NationThanks for reading The Bold Acting Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Clearly we’re wired up for assholery. So much so it makes me question the Theory of Evolution. It should be called the Theory of...
2023-05-1406 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast 002I’m doing ANOTHER podcast? Why? Because the struggle, the battle, the process — whatever you call it — never ends. Of course I’m doing another one. And so should you. Everybody should have a podcast. And not because there are a million out there already but because the bar to entry is low. And because we know the results are none of our business. And because when technology democratizes something like free speech we should not take it for granted. We need more democracy these days. Now more than ever. This week’s podcast includes topics suc...
2023-05-0826 min
The Bold Acting PodcastThe Bold Acting Podcast 001Welcome to the first episode of the Bold Acting Podcast. You can listen to it here or wherever the podcasts are (except for Spotify for some reason. I haven't figured that out yet.)I started doing this for the money. I hung my shingle out as a teacher because I wasn’t getting any acting work and my singing teacher told me I’d be good at it. I told her I didn’t have anything to teach and she said It doesn’t matter. You have charisma. People want that.And as soon as I starte...
2023-05-0825 min
The Bold Acting Podcast3. The Bold Acting Newsletter: The Vodka StumpHarvey Milk said You gotta give’em hope. Well, Sean Penn said that while playing Harvey Milk in the eponymous movie Milk. And really the screenwriter said that but nobody pays attention to the writer. So Sean Penn at the behest of the director said it. So Harvey Milk said it. Anyway, who cares about attribution really. As David Shields writes in The Trouble With Men — and I paraphrase to the point of annihilation — there is no point in attribution when everything has already been said. Besides, putting quotations around sentences is fingerly strenuous.Hope is where the he...
2023-04-2407 min
The Strange RoadGiants & The Smithsonian | TSR Detours 03Giant Skeletons & The Smithsonian | The Strange Road 03Mikey & Bub take a Detour on The Strange Road finding themselves in the Ohio Valley exploring the stories of the “The Tall Ones”, a forgotten race of giant humans. The guys weed through the countless reports from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s telling of large skeletons found in ancient burial mounds all over North America. Ohio alone has over 300 historical accounts of giant skeletons being revealed in the great earthen mounds of the Ohio Valley. The tales of the lost giants is an extremely controversial subject in the archaeological communit...
2021-08-102h 43515 : The Ultra PodcastS1E11 -- Ultraman Canada 2021 Race PreviewSend us a textSteve King and Brad Sawa join me to discuss each of the athletes competing at the special “Canadian only” Ultraman Canada 2021.Resources mentioned in this episode:Ultraman CanadaIronman Canada Ultraman World Championship Miracle Mile (Kona)Race Across America (RAAM)Adelaide 24 hour runGreat White North Half IronmanBadwater 135Brazil 135Epic 5 ChallengeWattie InkUltraman FloridaBare BonesAxel Merckx GranfondoOliver Half IronmanPeach ClassicXterra World’sShout outs and mentions in this episode:Brad SawaSteve KingJD TremblayHeather MyersEric DufourMark NaphinJon GreyellBarry BergChad BentleyScott BeasleyCurtis FlockDave WilsonWendy MyerDan JensenBrian Schroeder Phil MakinGary WangEllis AndrewsDede Greisbauer...
2021-07-161h 05
What Works with Jason ToddHow technology has changed the car dealership landscape with Scott BrydenScott Bryden grew up in the car business. As a…
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2019-04-1800 min
AudiencePH022: Jason Bryden of PoliticizedJason Bryden is a political activist and entertainer who co-hosts a podcast called Politicized. The show focuses on Canadian politics and the ultra-left viewpoint that Jason identifies with. Jason explains why he chose to discuss such a polarizing topic in a podcast format. He also shares some of the technical challenges he faced while recording ... Read more
2018-08-1632 min
Word On the StreetEpisode 1: Introduction to the collectiveHosted by: Bailey, Aisia, Jason,Killian, Alex, Crystal, Aidan, Jonah,James, BrydenThe collective is born! In this episode we introduce the Lower Mainland to the Music Affairs collective. We get close and personal to the members and find out about their music tastes, passions, inspirations and aspirations.
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What's So Funny?What's So Funny? 2016 Highlights Episode 1 - January 15, 2017We look back at highlights from our shows in 2016. Clips from guests Dino Archie, Byron Bertram, Jason Bryden, Sophie Buddle, Sara Bynoe, Jeff Cooper, Grahaeme Cowie, Ivan Decker, Glen Foster, Jessica Holmes, Caitlin Howden, Paul Hooper, Shauna Johannesen, Sean Kent, Julie Kim, Simon King, Dave Merheje, Camille Mitchell, Tim Nutt, Rob Pue, and Mike Storck.
2017-02-041h 19What's So Funny?What's So Funny? with guest Jason Bryden - August 21, 2016Jason Bryden left Vancouver for good 3.5 years ago. He's Toronto through and through now, but we still love him. In this episode, he talks about quitting comedy, quitting theatre, quitting social media, and starting a new podcast (In the Dark with Jason Bryden). He may or may not have been wearing an adult diaper during the recording.
2016-09-051h 02What's So Funny?What's So Funny? with guest Jason Bryden - November 20, 2011Jason Bryden soberly discusses fatherhood, takes on Doug Stanhope, and relates how he told Marc Maron he was a dick. Plus we get to know the high school version of JB and learn what profession his father suggested he go into. It's a cram-packed, fun-filled WSF? this week. This episode brought to you by Gin and Tonics. Have three while you're listening.
2011-11-2759 min
Stop Podcasting YourselfEpisode 110 - Jason BrydenComedian Jason Bryden returns to talk about Foursquare, fatherhood, and Conan O'Brien.
2010-04-191h 24Stop Podcasting YourselfEpisode 63 - LIVE, with Jason BrydenJason Bryden joins us for our first live podcast, recorded May 15, 2009
at Cafe Deux Soleils in Vancouver. After getting to know us, we do some
audience Overheards, and the greatest Graham's Dad Movie Review segment
ever, featuring Graham's Dad.
2009-05-1755 minStop Podcasting YourselfStop Podcasting Yourself - ep.12Hollywood triple threat Jason Bryden joins us to compete in an allergy competition, talk about "that big blond from Designing Women," and blow the lid off two new segments.
2008-05-221h 11