February 1st, 2025-Canadian Whisky Awards and the 2025 Victoria Whisky Festival.
It’s early January. It’s Victoria. Must be Whisky Season!! THE SHOW It’s the first of two Whisky Specials from the 2025 Canadian Whisky Awards and the 2025 Victoria Whisky Festival. There are always headlining whiskies and star whisky makers in attendance! Whisky fans want to taste and explore the new releases from Crown...
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Mulligan Stew Feb 1st 2025- Is Blackie Back?
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings are one of the most interesting bands working anywhere today. Sometimes they’re in a recording studio time warp with more songs to choose from than Gabriel. Followed by tours and festivals everywhere. Then they disappear The punch line to the tale is, the Blackie guys have their own lives, careers...
EP 335 | Critics Round Table – Critics Choice Awards 2025
The fires outside Los Angeles had brought tragedy and carnage. Everything stopped for the firefighters, medical teams, first responders, support teams, and those directly affected by the wildfires. It’s awards season in LA. The 2025 Critics Choice Film and TV Awards were to take place in January just as the fires were raging. Those fires and the...
January 25th, 2025 Alderlea (Cowichan) and Meyer/Mayhem(Okanagan Falls)-
Alderlea (Cowichan) and Meyer/Mayhem (Okanagan Falls) THE SHOW North of Duncan, Vancouver Island lies Alderlea Vineyards. Formerly home of Roger and Nancy Dosman. Roger would talk about his Pinot Noir plantings until you ran out of batteries. Rightly so. For over 20 years, they had beautiful Pinot Noir harvests. When they sold, Zac and Julie...
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Mulligan Stew Jan 25th 2025-Blackie and The Rodeo Kings remember Garth Hudson and The Band
I was able to convince Tom Wilson, Colin Linden and Stephen Fearing to join me on Zoom this morning to talk about the state of Blackie and The Rodeo Kings and their own solo careers. (I was really hoping to convince them to get together again and make music) Because each of them had worked with and had become...
EP 334 | The Changes in 2025 BC Wine Rhys Pender Master of Wine /Kathy Malone Winemaker (Hillside)
Rhys Pender – Master of Wine/Little Farm Winery (Similkameen) Kathy Malone – Winemaker at Hillside Estate (Naramata Bench) There are so many elements in play during the 2025 BC wine-growing season. AND it’s just started. Two cold snaps that damaged or killed many vines and vineyards over the past two Winters. It caused many growers to...
Mulligan Stew Jan 18th 2024- An hour of LA artists honoring First Responders and Firefighters
Our Donor in hour one is our fearless former leader Ken Reagan. Ken wrote “Let’s dedicate this hour to the people of the City of Angels and to the first responders and firefighters from the US, Mexico, and Canada. I wish them all safe harbor.” Those fires continue and so will we. Ken suggested filling...
January 18th 2025- Changing BC Wines in 2025.
Changing BC Wines in 2025. Guests: Rhys Pender – Master of Wine/Little Farm Winery (Similkameen) Kathy Malone – Winemaker at Hillside Estate (Naramata Bench) The SHOW There are so many elements in play during the 2025 BC wine growing season. AND it’s just started. Two cold snaps that damaged or killed many vines and vineyards over...
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TRR Jan 11 2025 – This is Wine School & BC Wines Direct to Alberta
This is Wine School – Kelcie Jones and Jenna Brisco wine educators And BIG NEWS: BC Wineries can now sell directly to Alberta consumers. The Guest is Paul Sawler. Board Chair Wine Growers of BC. Plus sales & marketing for Dirty Laundry. THE SHOW This is Wine School Smaller, funny and essential wine school in Chinatown with...
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EP 333 | Paul Sawler on BC Wines Now Direct to Alberta
BC Wine/Alberta wine fans. – Finally, a hug and a handshake. Our guest is Paul Sawler. Board Chair BC Wine Growers & leadership at Dirty Laundry (Summerland) Starting this week, BC wineries that register can sell directly to consumers in Alberta. Alberta is a huge market for BC wineries, so it is about time that...
Mulligan Stew Jan 11th 2024- I’m a King Bee. Music for your Saturday Night
Our thoughts are with families and friends fleeing from the fires close to Los Angeles. One family we know had just finished rebuilding their 1925 Spanish-styled home just before Christmas. Now it’s gone. They’ll start again. I’m starting this Stew with a salute to Slim Harpo, who was Born on January 11, 1924. He left many...
EP 332 | The Return of Oscar Lopez
Welcome to 2025 all. Our guest is Oscar Lopez. 2 time Juno winner. 10 albums were released. Nothing usual about the words above, except that for several years Oscar had disappeared! From entertainment, media and life itself. This interview is his way of explaining how he went from winning two Juno awards and walking onto...