The Jim Richards Show

The Showgram's favourite music journalist, broadcaster and publicist That Eric Alper joins us as he does every week, and guesses the music news of the week based on the short song bytes we play. Guess why Drake is in the news Again this week!

#drake #music #musicnews

Jim explains how he is NOT ANGRY DAMMIT!

A little rant about 9-11

Echna calls in to express her admiration for the Showgram and the bad boy of talk radio.

And one more call-in from high school confidential.

Jim Muses the News - including coverage of the anti-vaxxer protests

David Cooper joins the show as he does every night and we start with more technical difficulties.

Natasha Vinik Oops I Dated Again - How many Natalies?

Oops I Dated Again with Natasha Vinik

Jim Pranks David with a call to a business owner that David has interviewed. Listen to this hilarity.

Would you rather show up to a party/even #overdressed or #underdressed

A lesson on how #drivers should #merge

The Showgram talks to Caryma S'ad who was at the #Antivax protests in Toronto and later we follow the #protests to the west and across the country with Roger KingCade.

Reports of Sex Assaults at University of Western Ontario. We discuss this with Executive Director of London Abused Women's Centre Jennifer Dunn.

Sex worker outreach staff at Maggie’s Toronto unionize. We talk to one of those workers Jenna Marie Hynnes about the effort.

What time is it when you say "it's getting late?"

Jim reads some of your mean texts the show received last week at 7-10-10

What was the rumour, drama or gossip in high school? YouR calls to the Showgram.

Jim muses the news including coverage of anti-vaxxer protests across the country. For commentary the Showgram is joined by Dr. Michael Warner,  medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital.

 

David Cooper on the Showgram as he does every night, and he goes through the reject pile of topics and questions.

David Cooper digs into his reject pile of topics such as regrettable tattoos and unpopular opinions that might make people hate you.

Jim talks about what sounds he listens to during for his mediation sessions. There are birds and water waves and fireplaces... but not all those sounds fit the bill.

Another game of Don't Be Chris Hansen - The Movie Edition! Producer Tony has a list of great movies and Jim needs to guess whether thIs this movie was made under or over 18 years ago!

Disturbing new footage of Kiska the lone Orca at Marineland have surfaced which show the whale violently smashing her own head against the wall of her tank for more than 20 seconds straight. Marineland animal cruelty whistleblower Phil Demers joins the Showgram to discuss what needs to be done to #saveKiska.

What are the most useless technological advancements in automobiles in the last decade? Car enthusiast and writer at Driving.ca - David Booth is on the Showgram to tell us about all those gadgets you don't need!

Hot off the English Language Election Debates, the Showgram talks to several political pundits who will tell us if they think any of the political leaders stood out in this debate. Political pundit Scott Reid joins the Showgram to unpack everything happening in the federal election. He has a few hot takes! Check out his podcast The Hurle Burly.  Debbie Hutton is a communications expert and has prepped 2 Premiers, a couple of leadership candidates and a mayoral candidate for debates. 

A game of Confessions as you need to guess which of the confessions actually belongs to the bad boy of talk radio

Several conservative and anti-vax radio hosts in the United States have died of... COVID.