Radio Free Edville

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Ottawa launches a meme war with Brussels over vaccine delays; Bertie explains why he loves the Guardian; Dick pretends not to want to be nominated for Governor General; a Montreal restaurant owner tells it like it is; Heddi reminisces about a yogurt massage from a cabana boy; krystal_bb trashes scientists for stating the obvious; Buster gives myopic teens some excellent advice; Jeff offers tips for families on back-yard fire pits; Hugo explores why classical music makes pigs happy; and lawyers for Roy sue the Gazette for cruel treatment of a British celebrity.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Mr. and Mrs. Bingle assess a cave painting that set off warring tribes of art critics; Edna ponders mealworms as a tasty human food source; Dick alerts lottery addicts to a massive unclaimed prize certain to make them batty; Heddi wonders about an “adult” massage parlour in Peterborough that eschews sex and alcohol; krystal_bb and Buster meet at the skate park for inter-generational dialogue; Jeff offers DIY tips for home beer brewers; a modern-day King Arthur removes a sword from a stone; and Hugo ponders some odd Brexit regulations over a sandwich.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Gazette exposes the vicious U.S. persecution of Canadian celebrity Caillou; Bertie is seriously disappointed by Bill Gates’ green-washing; Dick and Foz get to the bottom of Tweed’s new sewage-treatment lagoon; Jeff offers some excellent D.I.Y. barbecuing tips from the man cave; krystal_bb and Buster recount some hair-raising driving mishaps; Hugo ponders killer squirrels in New York and dancing robots in Boston, while completely ignoring the riot in the U.S. Capitol; and Dick gives two thumbs up to the world’s richest renter, Elon Musk.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Roy wades through the fog of the global dry-ice shortage, double-necked guitar in hand; Edna un-friends Dr. Tam; Dick diplomatically questions the need to wear masks even after the pandemic; Jeff offers some excellent D.I.Y. vehicle-maintenance tips; krystal_bb and Buster assess the socio-cultural impact of Brighton’s new skateboard park; Mabel solves an ancient banana mystery; a Russian man discovers a coin in his nose; Scouting finds itself mired in a gender debate; and Hugo ponders the medical miracle of “awake surgeries.”

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, bandleader Guy Lombardo rings in 2021 at the Little Lake Pavilion; Edna wonders if chichi “snow beef” is a lot of bull; Dick ponders the wisdom of cycling in snow-bound Canadian cities; krystal_bb worries about the health of really old people in their forties; Buster worries about the post-pandemic prospects of young people; Abigail throws out her Christmas tree entirely without remorse; Jeff offers more sober safety tips for winter adventurers; Roy reports on the covert war between major record labels and bootleggers; Hugo assesses new claims about Earthlings mingling with extraterrestrials; and Germany lauds the unsung heroes of the pandemic, namely the chronically lazy.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, France’s privacy watchdog fines Big Tech for cookie abuse; Edna defends rural Canadians’ claims to the feds’ carbon-tax booty; Dick explains why the “local news crisis” is bollocks; Jeff has a couple of brews and offers ice-fishing safety tips; Cobourg cancels New Years; Aunt Millie hopes a midnight stranger will put something in her stocking; a male model is incapacitated by a banana peel; the German city of Bielefeld claims to actually exist; a man with psychic powers does exceptionally well on the lottery; Hugo queries whether a rocket that explodes on the launch pad can really be called a success; and Dick appeals to eco-warriors everywhere with an adorable possum pic.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Edna ponders the politics of meat-eating and cannibalism; Jen totally doesn’t judge other mothers who hire photographers; Dick urges investors to hoard garbage tags; krystal_bb craps on those awful gamer boys; Buster explains how boys cannot become real men without Hot Wheels; the editors of Time Magazine are sent to remedial math class; Bruno recounts the embarrassing tale of a pene piccolo; a German restaurateur protests lockdown by pandering to pandas; and Bruno tracks a storm of tenacious tumbleweed in Australia.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the feds deploy ice-cream trucks to distribute pandemic vaccines; Edna queries the need for emotional-support chickens; Dick marvels at Prince Edward County’s clandestine real-estate boom; krystal_bb_diamondz16 recounts a rowdy raccoon brawl; Buster ponders the need for CCTV cams in low-crime Cobourg; Tim Hortons joins Port Hope police to thwart impaired driving-thru; Bertie reluctantly endorses Christmas-tree deforestation; Heddi straddles the mysterious disappearance of a big wooden penis; Roy skewers “pandemic” as word of the year; Hugo wonders whether big ugly spiders make worthy pets; and Heddi catalogues Germany’s draconian covid Christmas regs.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, the Earl Spencer ditches overpriced Edville for affordable Muskoka; Edna ponders Dr. Tam’s political future; Dick laments the end of double-cupping at Tim Hortons; krystal_bb_diamondz16 lampoons a deranged boomer who destroyed a gumball machine; Buster busts the feral mall rats in Calgary; Bertie worries about the fitness of otter penises; Canadians take fluctuating lettuce and cheese prices in stride; Canadian tourists lament the decision to rename the village of Fucking, Austria; and Hugo wonders about the origins of a monolith in Utah.

Join host Roy Thomas Padgham for your weekly hit of wisdom and wit. This week, Canadians fight food waste by overeating during the holidays; Karen puts non-Karens on notice about the Karen meme; Dick ponders the mystery of Canadians hoarding cash and debt; Edna reprises the great Edville windstorm of 2020; Abigail challenges pandemic doomsters to have a Merry Zoom Christmas; Hugo ponders the silencing of profane parrots in the UK; Heddi wonders if 15-minute audio-book summaries enhance literacy; and P.J. ponders Washington’s climate posturing.