Description: Valerie In Toronto
A personal, sometimes-profane primer on things particular to Toronto and Canada, from a radio refugee born in the USA but Canadian by choice.
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December 1, 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.
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The Second (Great) Canadian National Day of Podcasting
Town of Shediac
Description 75: Be...In This Place
Description 73: The Dual Citizens (aka the one with the birth mother)
Movies For the Blind
Bayley on t...
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The Second (Great) Canadian National Day of Podcasting
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Description 75: Be...In This Place
Description 73: The Dual Citizens (aka the one with the birth mother)
Movies For the Blind
Bayley on t...
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December 1, 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.
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November 30, 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.
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(Note: there'll be one more episode tomorrow, to celebrate The Canadian National Day of Podcasting.)
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November 29, 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.
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November 29, 2010
In Ohio, while watching a Manchester United game on tv, Valerie dad and Matt compare notes on their respective versions of football.
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November 27, 2010
Matt and Valerie walk through downtown Buffalo, New York and inevitably go into a Tim Horton's.
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November 26, 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.
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November 25, 2010
In High Park, Matt and Valerie chat with two women taking...
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November 24, 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.
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"Down by the Henry Moore" by Murray McLauchlan
Wikipedia explains the Shmoo
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November 23, 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.
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November 22, 2010
Matt talks about a stay in Blackpool, when a guest house owner had an unorthodox way of finding out who wrecked his stuff.
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November 21, 2010
Valerie meets up with Matt just after he discovers Canada's largest Christmas parade going on steps away from where they live.
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November 20, 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.
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November 19, 2010
Two associated tracks from an album dear to Matt's heart, Clutching at Straws by Marillion.
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Singer/songwriter Fish on writing and recording the album
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November 18, 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.
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November 17, 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.
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November 16, 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.
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Scarborough Dude's Dicksnjanes podcast
"Caker" in the Urban Dictionary
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November 15, 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.
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The post Valerie read: "Lars"
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November 14, 2010
After discovering the combination of orange juice and beer, Matt discusses the Black Velvet in different cultures and the Purple Nasty in his.
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Okay, you can't really be Canadian and mention Black Velvet without thinking of the Alannah Myles song. Sorry.
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November 13, 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.
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Belated thanks to Toronto Mike
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