This short episode was recorded the night before Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Pierre and Crazy James talk about Da Oilers and their personal experiences with hockey and television at St. John's. Fun, short, and timely.

30th Episode - Good evening, today! Pierre and Crazy James talk about what everyone is talking about - the Edmonton Oilers. Meandering through James' love of the Oilers, Pierre joins in to shower love on Gary Bettman and bemoan the fact that there could have been a Bedard playing in San Jose. We discuss an arson incident in Alberta, the ups and downs of Oilers hockey, how Pierre is really just a beer league Ken Dryden, and how we all hate Florida. This episode was recorded two days before game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Today we talk to the antithesis of Jordan Peterson, Doctor James Arnold, a retired psychologist who also happens to have attended SJSA. Doctor Arnold is very active in his local community (if you consider Saskatchewan a community) both as a serious Saskatoon biker and social activist. He read Toughest School in North America and keeps a copy in the washroom. Richard de Candole and I discuss things with the good doctor.

As a core mission of any school, education is key, if not everything. Emma Croft-Biggs, an educator with 35 years experience and a Masters joins her husband Matt and myself, an overeducated bilingual St. John's graduate with a BA, a French DEUG, an MBA, and Juris Doctorate, to talk about Education @ St. John's.

Pierre and Crazy James talk about absolutely nothing: their past jobs, hobbies, and the impact of certain events like the demolition of the Tropicana in Las Vegas, movies, TV shows, and the St. John's culture, including the prevalence of a 'prison economy' and strict disciplinary measures (according to #722). They terminate the interminable podcast by talking about baseball cards from the late 1960s.

Pierre and Richard talk canned meat products, primarily. Other deep thoughts include personal anecdotes and confessions, family origins histories, and the impact of the fur trade route on canoe sizes. Listen while eating some Spam, or Klik, or whatever.

Immigration is a central theme of a new dystopian series, break the chain. Writer Eswar Priyadarshan and I share our immigration experience in this special edition of Bedard's Unofficial Podcast. ​ Every immigrant has their own immigration origin story, and ours were no harder, nor easier than anyone else's. Readers of break the chain may recognize how our views on immigration manifest themselves throughout the storyline. You can get break the chain on Amazon.

Matt had to work so it's just Pierre and Emma, talking about avoidance, selling honey and meat door-to-door, and the media, among other things. The theme is healing. It's a slab of back bacon snuck out of the meat room to get some needed calories in for lack of chicken soup. This podcast has calories. Something like that. Enjoy.

In the first of a series on the Lake Timiskaming tragedy, Pierre, Emma, and Matt talk about where they were when they first got word. ​ Emma lost her brother. Matt, who was slated to be in the brigade, lost classmates. Pierre hosts and graduated from the Selkirk school in 1975. Forty-five years later, we talk about the resilience and strength of the community, as well as the lessons learned, the fragility of life, and the importance of cherishing every moment.

Pierre interviews Richard about Toughest School in North America, how he wrote it, and why? It's an interesting journey into Richard's mind and intent. It's a book, first written in the '80s about events in the 1960s, and then recast in 2022. We each name our most notable alumni. Altogether, a great episode where I let Richard do the talking.