Seen and Heard in Edmonton

It’s good to be back to drawing your attention to some local podcasts. This selection represents things I’ve listened to over the past month or so, and some of these podcasts have published more episodes since these ones — it’s hard to keep up!

Less than 15 minutes: Shawn Kanungo and Wang Yip discuss the Spanx origin story on The Dip; Michael Short examines the debate over Canada’s national bird; and the fellas at Radio Free Skaro did 24 mini-episodes heading into Christmas answering listener questions about Doctor Who.

15 to 30 minutes: The Edmonton Community Foundation’s Well Endowed Podcast examines what Canada’s 150th anniversary will bring; Ryan Holtz predicts marketing trends for 2017; and I talk to Haley Radke and Wang Yip about finding your podcasting niche on the Seen and Heard in Edmonton podcast.

30 to 45 minutes: On That’s So Maven, Lauren Dary and Andrea Beça talk to musician Lindsey Walker about her kind of entrepreneurship; Minister Faust remembers Carrie Fisher with various writers on MF Galaxy; Tema Frank discusses customer service and the government on Frank Reactions.

45 to 60 minutes: On What It Is, Taylor Chadwick interviews artists involved in two shows: Star Killing Machine from Broken Toys, and Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes from Cardiac Theatre; on Modern Manhood, German Villegas talks about masculinity with Coun. Scott McKeen; and on Let’s Find Out, Chris Chang-Yen Phillips gets to the bottom of the case of the transported apartment.

More 45 to 60 minutes: The Movie Jerks talk to comic JR Brow about a bad movie he was in; the crew at Plot Device make up a surprisingly good movie treatment based on Jenga; and Dan Taylor and Ben Proulx wonder whether the news is actually worth paying attention to on 30 Minute Week.

Even more 45 to 60 minutes: Rachelle Saunders explores the issues around indigenous genetic research with Kim TallBear and Keolu Fox on Science for the People; Montreal Sauce concludes its interesting discussion about art with Adriean Koleric; and Kirt and Tania look back at the year in books on Write Reads.

More than 60 minutes: Tyler Butler and Linda Hoang talk politics and social media with Dave Cournoyer on Don’t Call Me a Guru; the Highlevel Showdown examines the presidency of Barack Obama with guest Sharon Mvundura, and Allen Featherstone discusses what it means to be a man with the aforementioned German Villegas of the Modern Manhood Podcast.

As always, that’s just the tip of the local podcast iceberg, so look for more on the podcast network page, in previous podcast roundups, on Guerrilla Radio, on the Edmonton Nerd List and on the Northern Content Network.