Here we are – the 2nd Annual Live Broadcast.

I should have known that something would happen. The show actually went off pretty well. I discovered after the show that the audio from my microphone wasn't really coming through well on the broadcast. What actually happens is that when the show is over, I have the option to download it, and post it like a regular episode – and THAT is when I heard the audio anomaly. Fortunately, I made a local recording WHILE I was broadcasting live (that's something I learned to do from my years in radio...long ago). I have taken the GOOD audio, and have married it with the rest of the file that I downloaded of the live broadcast.

Please enjoy the show!

I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Please go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

This week marks a milestone in the podcast...a couple actually!

It is the 2nd anniversary of the show, and the 90th episode.

It was due to be live, but it is not.

I will endeavour to get that live thing happening soon – but what you'll here today is an unedited “live-to-tape” show. I'm going to call it the “Pseudo-Live Triple-Threat”. I'll be looking at a few of the subjects from my Canada T-Shirt, and a couple of other things.

I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

Red Rose Tea

https://redrosetea.com

Plexiglass

https://200.mcgill.ca/history/the-invention-of-plexiglas/

Java Computer Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?si=OnoZxylywEwzYbX5

I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee. Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Today – something new.

Today – an experiment.

Today – I am telling you a story.

I've been working on this for a while, and due to the electronic/computer issues I have been having lately, it is time. It expands a bit on what I did last with with The Halifax Explosion.

Canada, as I see it is still a thing. In fact, I will be back next week, with a new episode.

This week, I present to you: Theatre, as you hear it.

Radio drama, that let's YOU create the picture in your mind.

There will be more episodes of this – when I can get them completed. I have a few in various levels of “completedness”.

This episode fits in with the darker, and spookier season. Considering the time change in North America this week, we'll have a little bit more darkness, as the day moves on!

Please enjoy today's submission for your approval.

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The music and sound effects from today's episode come from a very talented group of people at Pixabay.

Here they are:

https://pixabay.com/users/freesound_community-46691455

https://pixabay.com/users/floraphonic-38928062

https://pixabay.com/users/u_879x48oguz-48418712

https://pixabay.com/users/soundreality-31074404

https://pixabay.com/users/koiroylers-44305058

https://pixabay.com/users/zehendrew-39650991

https://pixabay.com/users/traian1984-41907904

https://pixabay.com/users/u_y3wk5ympz8-47045027

https://pixabay.com/users/soul_serenity_sounds-6817262

https://pixabay.com/users/magiaz-10236927

https://pixabay.com/users/moonshire-50609346

https://pixabay.com/users/dragon-studio-38165424

My daughter Liz Prevost designed the logo for Theatre, as you hear it (and the logo for Canada, as I see it).

I'd like to know how you're listening to me. Are you using Podbean's app? Do you listen from my site (whorpole.ca)? Or do you use one of the many podcast platforms that you can listen to this podcast on. I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

It was a challenging week. I had a computer meltdown.

Everything was safe, but the files looked like the proverbial frog-in-a-blender.

AND, this one was the one that had the most work to do on it! It's a little different than others...a bit more production, and more of a 'story' feel.

This week, I am talking about what was the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bombs were dropped in World War II. The Halifax Explosion.

If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?

I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

The Halifax Explosion https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax-explosion

Halifax Explosion National Historic Site https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/evenement-event/halifax-explosion

Maps of the Devastation https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-disaster-that-reshaped-a-city/

Vince Coleman - the man who saved hundreds https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/vincent-coleman-and-halifax-explosion

More photos from the disaster https://www.grownuptravels.com/searching-for-remnants-of-the-halifax-explosion/

The CNIB https://www.cnib.ca/en

Thanks go to TrenoX8, DavidDumaisAudio, and SoundReality from Pixabay for the music and sound effects I used this week. https://pixabay.com/

My Blog: https://whorpole.ca/blog/

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.

Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

This week on Canadian Geography 101 aka Canada, as I see it,

we take a look at British Columbia.

...where it is

...how it got its name

...its native celebrities

and an introduction to a new bit...personal stories.

If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?

I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

British Columbia – Official Site

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home

BC Wines

https://winebc.com/bc-wines-101/

CBC Still Standing https://gem.cbc.ca/still-standing/s01 (search for Lytton BC)

Ignite My Voice

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ignite-my-voice-becoming-unstoppable/id1827041495

Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/2tygm-367971/Ignite-My-Voice-Becoming-Unstoppable-Podcast

Linked In:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignite-inc-voice/

My Blog: https://whorpole.ca/blog/

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.

Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

Last week, it was the first big trip.

This week, another first.

Today, it seems as though every entertainment venue you look at, has a corporate name attached to it.

I'm not arguing it – in today's financial climate, it's almost necessary to survive.

But when did this all start?

Well, put it this way, it was so long ago, that it can retire this year.

Join me, as I look at the first venue to ever have a company name attached to it.

If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?

I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

Meridian Hall

https://tolive.com/Meridian-Hall

Carling O'Keefe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_O%27Keefe

The Original O'Keefe Business Office

https://www.eraarch.ca/projects/ryerson-continuing-education-building/

Rogers Centre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre

Major League Baseball Stadium and Team Names

https://www.mlb.com/team (if you run behind a VPN, turn it off to see this site – it doesn't like them!)

My Blog: https://whorpole.ca/blog/

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.

Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

You always remember the first.

First day of school.

First job.

First love.

Today, I'm going to tell you about the first trip that Caroline and I took together. The first big trip.

Plenty of links to check out today, and a new one...a photo album.

All can be seen at my site: https://whorpole.ca

Join me, as I take a trip down memory lane, on a highway...and a train...and a canoe...

If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?

I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

Photos from our trip https://whorpole.ca/Photos-from-our-trip-to-Cochrane-2004/

Cochrane, Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane,_Ontario

The King's Highways – Downloading

https://www.thekingshighway.ca/jan11998.html

The Polar Bear Habitat Site

https://www.polarbearhabitat.ca/

The Polar Bear Express Train https://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/travel/polar-bear-express-passenger-train

Shania Twain Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/shaniatwain/?hl=en

CBC Gem

https://gem.cbc.ca/still-standing/s10e01

The Long, Long Trailer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047191/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

My Blog: https://whorpole.ca/blog/

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.

Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.

The Earth is made up of mostly water.

70% in fact.

So water, most of the time, is the drink that people will choose to quench their thirst, or cleanse their palate.

But, thanks to the curiosity of some, and the adventurousness of others – there are many different ways that water can be transformed into an abundance of beverages.

And since this is a podcast about all things Canadian – I'm here to tell you about the beverages that are...all-Canadian.

Remember, you can check out links about anything I mention during the show – https://whorpole.ca

If you do have any questions, or is there something that you would like me to talk about?

I encourage you to contact me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca – and let me know - I'll mention you on the show (unless you don't want me to) – and you'll forever be able to say, “I got James to say my name, way back before he was a super celebrity!”

Check out these links mentioned in this show – and others, just because:

Craft Brewers in Canada https://ccba-ambc.org/about/

Sour-Toe Cocktail https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles/tasting-the-sourtoe-cocktail-in-dawson-city-yukon

Kissing The Cod https://www.amatravel.ca/articles/getting-screechd-in-a-history-of-kissing-cod-in-newfoundland

VQA Wines https://www.winegrowerscanada.ca/vqa-wines/ Andy Dundas' ALS Challenge https://myalschallenge.com/

My Blog: https://whorpole.ca/blog/

If YOU want to be a part of MY podcast, send me a recording of you saying, “This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.

Send it via Facebook Messenger, or by email to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca

AND, you can also contribute, buy Buying Me A Coffee.

Go to my website – https://whorpole.ca and click on the yellow “Buy Me A Coffee” icon. Or, just look up, it may not be yellow on this page, but it's there at the top on the right. It'll help me in my endeavour to find and produce the best Canadian content for you, every week.