Seen and Heard in Edmonton

This time around, I begin the podcast roundup with new creations from two of the six voices of Verity!, a delightful Doctor Who podcast. I’ll tell you about them, then we’ll get into the usual collection of locally made podcasts, organized by length.

Katrina Griffiths and Erika Ensign are the Edmontonian members of the Verity crew. (Listen to them play Doctor Who trivia!) Kat’s brand-new podcast, Start the Music, is something completely different. She’ll be asking bands, fans and industry folk how they fell in love with music, and she’ll introduce us to some new music along the way.

Meanwhile, Erika has launched Beginner’s Puck, a hockey podcast for fans both new and old, with fellow Verity cast member Deb Stanish. They nerd out about hockey, in a very accessible yet passionate way. It’s superb.

15 to 30 minutes: That’s So Maven checks in with Ally and Carina of Park Avenue Communications; Monetizing Your Creativity chats with a variety of actors about the business of acting, including former Edmontonian Amy Shostak; and Lorne Rubis’s Culture Cast explores useful ways to give and receive feedback.

30 to 45 minutes: The Broadcast features a fascinating and at times enraging panel featuring four women in politics, moderated at a live show by Trisha Estabrooks; then you can hear Trisha and co-host Alex Zabjek talk to me about how they started The Broadcast on the latest Seen and Heard in Edmonton.

30 to 45 minutes: On the Modern Manhood Podcast, German Villegas talks to Daniel Letourneau about how to overcome the toxic masculinity that seems to take root so easily in restaurant culture; a crew of MacEwan students from the new online magazine Enthuse chat about Kong and Ed Sheeran; and Adam Rozenhart hears the most amazing story of serendipity in South Korea from his latest interview subject on The Expats.

30 to 45 minutes: A little more entrepreneurship: On That’s So Maven, Andrea Beça and Lauren Dary talk business with Jessica Clarke, founder of True Life Fitness Apparel; and I talk to three smart entrepreneurs about growing beyond solopreneurship on the newly resurrected Capital Ideas Edmonton podcast.

45 to 60 minutes: Jessica and Katie discuss Canada’s performance in the Algarve Cup on For Kicks; Science for the People reveals the secrets of concrete; and we have more students discussing Kong, this time from the University of Alberta on The Watch-men.

More than 60 minutes: Erin E. Fraser and Matt Bowes have a hilarious and illuminating talk about dance competitions in and out of the movies with Devin Bruce and Danica Leblanc on Bollywood is for Lovers; and Erin and co-host Paul Matwychuk compare and contrast two Steven Soderbergh movies, sex lies and videotape and Ocean’s 11, on Trash, Art and the Movies.

More than 60 minutes: The PhDs at Plot Device come up with a way better Batman movie than you’ve ever seen; Nathan and Adam of the Loyal Company of the River Valley talk about FC Edmonton fandom with Dave from the Edmonton Supporters Group; and on Highlevel Showdown, Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio discuss the Alberta budget and Jason Kenney’s leadership win.

More than 60 minutes: Finally, a double-header on Montreal Sauce with Jeff Samsonow, a man of many talents and media adventures, including the new Edmonton Quotient.

There’s a bunch more in my queue that I just didn’t get to. Find more in previous roundups, on the Northern Content Network, on Guerrilla Radio and on the Edmonton Nerd List‘s media page. If you’d like my picks delivered to your inbox every other Saturday, subscribe to my newsletter.