Canada, As I See It

For me, this is the Christmas season.
What is it for you? Or IS it anything for you?
 
This week, is a little more personal.
I'm talking about what this season is like for me.
I let the tangent machine loose, and I talk about what I do at this time of year.
 
I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.
 
 
Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca
 
AND, you can also contribute, by 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.

Space...The Final Frontier
 
and Canada's place in it
 
There's a lot out there...space, that is...and a lot of Canadians have been a part of it.
Join me, as I take a look at the Canadian people, Canadian places and Canadian things that are a part of it.
 
I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.
 
Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca
 
AND, you can also contribute, by 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.
 
And for ALL of the links about what I spoke about today, they'll be on the left side of the screen at https://whorpole.ca – just after you Buy Me A Coffee! ;-)

Today, I'm going to look at something that is SO Canadian, some would say TOO Canadian.
An orphaned girl, mistakenly sent to stay with an older couple in the fledgling province of Prince Edward Island, at the end of the Victorian Era.
 
Anne of Green Gables.
 
I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – (especially PEI) - please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.
 
Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca
 
AND, you can also contribute, by 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.
 
Links to some ot the things I have mentioned today, can be found at my website:https://whorpole.ca

Today, I'm going to accentuate the Canadian Accent.
It's a thing – subtle, but it's there.
I give you an idea of what it is. There's a bit of joking, and a bit of seriousness – but hopefully after listening today, you'll get an idea of ANOTHER thing that makes a Canadian, a Canadian.
 
I'm still looking for your stories of your home province – please send them to me (audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read) to me at the SAME address you can use, if YOU want to be a part of MY podcast. For that, please send me a recording of you saying,“This podcast is produced by the Fireside Chat Club of Canada”.
 
Send either of those to: AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca
 
AND, you can also contribute, by 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, we're back to my look at Canada's provinces.Today, it's Manitoba.
Just to give you a heads-up – New Brunswick is next on the list, so if you have any stories about YOUR province, please email them to me, as an audio file or a few paragraphs that I can read. That actually goes for any one of the other ones that I have or have not spoken about. I'd like to hear YOUR stores about your homes. Email them to me at AsISeeIt@whorpole.ca
 
As always, here are some links to things I have spoken about during the show:
There are a lot of them this week. You can find them at my homepage – https://whorpole.ca
 
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.

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 Lightfoothttps://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 Pawby 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