Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, no news is not good news in Cobourg—it’s just a bummer; Edna gets pig farmers shaking their booties and their vaccines; Dick wonders why the G7 leaders can’t count; Shirley explores alien life forms in Edville; Heddi sympathizes with Euro cattle who have to postpone their vacations; krystal prefers the G7 Pikachus to the politicians; Buster promotes Cobourg’s Painted Picnic Table Initiative so his missus can win; Hugo fetes a mine-sniffing rat on the occasion of his retirement, and wonders why NASA would bother exploring a place as dreary as Venus.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Little Lake ladies spot a genuine celebrity; Edna reminds amateur  ornithologists that backyard chickens make bad pets; Dick explains to exurban newbies how to fix a leaky faucet; Shirley tries out a robotic eye and likes what she sees; Jeff explains how to turn your cottage into party central; krystal would rather see a massive Mexican sinkhole in person than go to the prom; Buster offers sage advice on what to do if you see a bear; Heddi wonders about the wisdom of paying hard cash for invisible art; Hugo turns his sartorial eye to North Korea, while questioning whether Friends is your best shot at ESL fluency.

This week, Buster blames Bob Dylan for funny geezer protests; Edna pities MP William Amos for getting caught on-cam again, red-handed and red-faced; Hugo worries about the full bladders proliferating in post-pandemic Toronto; Shirley offers some timely reminders about restaurant etiquette; Jeff gives Leafs fans several reasons to believe in unicorns; krystal is so fed up with littering that she’s thinking of recycling; Buster wonders about Germans’ self-driving drive for world domination; Hugo welcomes time travelers from the future, and pities Austrians who have had the wrong leg amputated.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, a minor alleged to be a Gazette columnist crashes her mom’s car at the Edville Tim’s; Edna wonders about the armies of angry rural voters who are destroying democracy; Bertie lobbies the Ford government to resume bribing the rich to buy EVs; Shirley offers a piping hot history of pizza, without pineapple; Jeff offers some tried-and-true D.I.Y. hangover cures; krystal worries about Eurovision and the Russians; Buster decides that virtual yoga with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau wouldn’t be right; Hugo follows Chilean and Californian politics so you don’t have to.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna frets about the cancellation of the Ex and an unrelated outbreak of pig diarrhea; Dick is triggered by the idea of a battery-powered F-150; Shirley loves all the little children, even the illegitimate ones; Jeff offers some D.I.Y. tips on growing weed more or less within the law; krystal explains how babies are lit; Buster explores the link between Covid and E.D.; Hugo exposes roid abuse in thoroughbreds, and the vaccine clinic at Castel Bram.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Missy penetrates the hidden horrors of pandemic celibacy (lube optional); Edna pontificates on cows in the news but wishes they were pigs; Dick welcomes Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez into the inner sanctum of the profane hoi poloi; Shirley discovers wondrous objects in the retreating snow cover; Jeff offers his best D.I.Y. tips on manscaping without bleeding out; krystal is sad about the loss of beloved pets; Buster ponders the implications of waiting four-to-six hours for an EV charge; Hugo Joshes around, while probing the subconsciousness of robots.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canadians face up to the fact that they’re pandemic lard-asses; Edna wonders about the need for a new Brighton Alert system; Dick ponders the clap outbreak in Belleville with maximum empathy; Shirley grouses about the vandals who keep stealing her lawn ornaments; Jeff reveals the dos and don’ts of gender reveal parties; krystal lights up the Brighton bat signal; Buster explains the essentials of geezer dating; Heddi gets naked in the garden, except for her rubber boots; Hugo explores the ethical implications of tracking devices and CG ads in old Bogart and Bacall movies.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canada prepares to finally annex Saint Pierre & Miquelon; Edna challenges the mad scientists creating human-monkey embryos; Dick ponders carbon-emission taxes from the comfort of his F150; Shirley extols the virtues of walking because you can smoke and fantasize about Viggo; Jeff shares his D.I.Y. recipe for making emergency casseroles; krystal assesses the risk to civilization of beavers and other toothy critters; Buster recounts a dramatic standoff between Cobourg police and geezer protesters; Hugo explores the movement to restore Anglo-Saxon architecture in the U.S. and ponders the great British gnome craze.

This week, the Minister of Finance finally delivers her “Hell or High Water” budget; Edna queries why tardy naked parliamentarians are such crybabies; Dick wonders what in the world Belleville did to deserve fourth place; Shirley ponders paleontological pudendas so you don’t have to; Jeff builds a D.I.Y. sauna with cash left over for beer; krystal examines the interface between humans and coyotes; Buster calculates how many Cobourgians it would take to feed all the world’s T-Rexes; Hugo explores the safest place in the galaxy to live, while anticipating hypersonic air travel here on Earth.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Holly frets about the impact of the global chip shortage on rural Ontario; Edna recalls Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, Jr., with fiscal fondness; Dick ponders Alex Salmond’s future in Scottish politics; Shirley and Jeff share their wisdom on how to make the most of virtual education; krystal confronts bored teen pyros who burn down buildings; Buster explains how physicists got the universe all wrong and have to start over; Heddi protests Madonna’s theft of her own luscious curves; and Hugo explores grand theft Lego, and a modern-day parade for ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.