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Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Ladysmith singer-songwriter Ryan McMahon is back with a Best in Folk North America award and a louder double single, and we play All in Good Time in this episode. Qualicum Beach author Bill Arnott explains how a map in a Danish museum launched his Gone Viking series, and what he found on a restricted archaeological dig during his Canadian Geographic expedition across central Mexico.

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(27:33) Ryan McMahon returns to the PULSE fresh off winning Best in Folk North America at the InterContinental Music Awards for his single There She Is. The Ladysmith singer-songwriter talks about a summer playing electric guitar with a full four-piece band, his rock-leaning double single All in Good Time and Masquerade, out November 6 and produced by Steve Dawson, the 16-year-old neighbour who painted the cover art, and how booking a February 2027 recording date ended his writer's block as he writes his ninth studio album. Contains the song All in Good Time. www.ryanmcmahon.com

(05:37) Bill Arnott spent 25 years as a financial planner in Vancouver before turning 50 and writing full time. The Qualicum Beach author of the award-winning Gone Viking travelogues, A Perfect Day for a Walk and the BC bestseller A Season on Vancouver Island talks about the museum map in Denmark that sparked Gone Viking, his fellowships with the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, a restricted dig at the Teocaltitán ruins on his recent Canadian Geographic expedition across Jalisco, and his new book A Festive Season on Vancouver Island. billarnottaps.wordpress.com

Episode Quotes:

"Happiness is fleeting, and it comes to us in these small doses daily if we are smart enough to recognize it."

- Ryan McMahon, Singer-Songwriter, Ladysmith

"Viking was originally a verb. It meant basically to go voyaging, to go exploring."

- Bill Arnott, Author, Poet & Songwriter, Qualicum Beach

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BONUS RECIPE: Download Chef Jonathan Frazier's Recipe for Homemade Hamburgers: https://bit.ly/S2EP08FootballRecipe

The NFL season is nearing its halfway point, and Jonathan and Erin are back to break down a bizarre Week 8. Detroit handed the previously undefeated Minnesota Vikings their first loss, Dallas let a 14-point fourth-quarter lead slip away against Arizona, Cincinnati beat Tennessee 43-36 in a historic overtime shootout and Tampa Bay somehow shut out Atlanta 16-0 without completing a single pass. Closer to home, the hosts recap their trip to Vancouver to watch the BC Lions knock off the Saskatchewan Roughriders in a CFL playoff showdown, and look ahead to the Grey Cup and why the kicking game matters so much this time of year.

In fantasy football, Erin's struggles continue after quarterbacks Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford each put up fewer than 10 points, while Josh Allen and Joe Burrow delivered big weeks and Kenneth Walker's production keeps sliding. Then Chef Jonathan fires up the grill, comparing charcoal, gas and pellet grills and sharing his tips for the perfect sear. His F3 Food Pick of the Week is the ultimate tailgate classic: a juicy homemade hamburger made with an 80/20 beef blend, simple seasonings and properly formed patties, served on a toasted bun with cheese and your favourite toppings. For Erin, a longtime vegetarian, a fully loaded veggie burger does the job just as well.

 In This Episode:

The biggest surprises and upsets from NFL Week 8

Detroit handing Minnesota its first loss

Dallas' overtime collapse and Cincinnati's historic scorigami

Tampa Bay winning without completing a pass

Erin and Jonathan's trip to a BC Lions playoff game

The road to the Grey Cup and the importance of special teams

Erin's fantasy football struggles and potential roster changes

Fantasy standouts, injuries and Kenneth Walker's recent performances

Charcoal versus gas grilling and Chef Jonathan's barbecue tips

The F3 Food Pick of the Week: homemade hamburgers

Looking ahead to Week 9 and more football, fantasy and food

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Alyshia Van Kannel always knew two things for certain: she wanted to be a teacher, and she wanted to teach internationally. That dream carried her all the way to Nicaragua, Central America, as a brand-new teacher. On A Resilience Project, she joins host Cindy Thompson to reflect on what that leap of faith taught her.

What Alyshia didn’t know was how much the journey would ask of her. In Nicaragua she faced personal and emotional obstacles, cultural and ethical challenges she hadn’t anticipated and, eventually, political unrest serious enough that even the Canadian Embassy left the country. How do you keep going when the path you felt called to suddenly becomes uncertain?

Looking back with the clarity only hindsight can bring, Alyshia unpacks the beautiful, scary and difficult lessons that came from trusting the journey. She and Cindy talk about listening to that quiet voice inside, and the conversation touches on journalling, gratitude, rest and burnout, and what it takes to stay grounded while giving everything you have to a calling.

The Resilience Project is a Vancouver Island podcast hosted by counsellor Cindy Thompson, featuring conversations with authors, health professionals, community leaders and everyday people whose stories of resilience, healing and personal growth offer hope, encouragement and practical life lessons. The Resilience Project is part of The PULSE Podcast Community.

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Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Bryan and Sarah Baeumler take us behind the scenes of Home Town Takeover Canada in Port Alberni, from eight local changemakers to a covered gathering space at Harbour Quay, with a detour through a foggy Nova Scotia proposal and a hurricane-rerouted honeymoon. Parksville firefighter Liam Robinson and Craig Bay Food Drive coordinator Penny Rutherford explain who relies on the Salvation Army Food Bank, what it needs on its shelves, and where to find the boots on November 14 and 15.

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(29:25) Bryan and Sarah Baeumler have spent nearly two decades on Canadian and American television, from Disaster DIY and House of Bryan to Renovation Island and their Bahamian resort, Caerula Mar Club. This summer they brought HGTV's Home Town Takeover Canada to Port Alberni, the first Canadian town to get the treatment, renovating for eight local changemakers, working alongside the Tseshaht and Hupacasath First Nations and building what Bryan calls the most epic covered gathering space on the West Coast at Harbour Quay. They also tell Peter how Bryan proposed on a fogged-in drive to Canso, Nova Scotia, why their honeymoon ended up in Las Vegas, and the DIY mistake Bryan still sees over and over again. www.citytvplus.ca

(06:25) Liam Robinson of the Parksville Volunteer Fire Department and Penny Rutherford, coordinator of the Craig Bay Food Drive, talk with Dave about the growing need at the Salvation Army Food Bank in District 69, which recorded 20,982 service visits last year. Since 1998 the firefighters' Fill the Boot drive has collected roughly 430,000 pounds of food and about $660,000, and Craig Bay's 427 homes have added more than $334,000 and 22,400 pounds of groceries over the past 11 or so years. Firefighters will be out Saturday, November 14 (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Sunday, November 15 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at Tim Hortons, Thrifty Foods, Quality Foods and the BC Liquor Store at Wembley Mall, plus Canadian Tire and Save-On-Foods on Saturday. www.parksvillesalvationarmy.ca/services/food-bank

Episode Quotes:

"I don't know where the bigger impact was, whether it was on the town or whether the town had the bigger impact on us." - Bryan Baeumler, Host, Home Town Takeover Canada

"The stigma around asking for help needs to fade, because the cost of living has made asking for help unavoidable."- Penny Rutherford, Coordinator, Craig Bay Food Drive

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What happens when you revisit James Cameron’s most punishing production with the man who taught the cast of Avatar: The Way of Water how to hold their breath? You get one of the deepest conversations Too Old or Movie Gold has ever had - literally.

Host Olen Vanderleeden of the Comox Valley and Gen X co-host Matthew Stockton are joined by Millennial sci-fi enthusiast Sean, Gen Z panelist and self-described rat rights activist Nicole, and special guest Kirk Krack of Campbell River, founder of Performance Freediving International. Kirk has trained world champions, military special operations teams and Hollywood stars in breath-hold diving, including Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Margot Robbie for Suicide Squad, and the Avatar cast, from Kate Winslet to Sigourney Weaver.

The 1989 film starring Ed Harris, Michael Biehn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is personal for Kirk. He became a dive instructor months before it came out, moved to the Cayman Islands (where the story is set) the year it was released, and later went on to work for Cameron, help develop underwater habitats, and join a working group studying real-world liquid breathing. So when the panel’s skeptics call it a bad movie with good ideas, Kirk tells them they’re “way out of your depth” and walks through just how technically accurate the film really is.

The panel dives into the brutal CPR scene, the groundbreaking water tentacle effects that paved the way for Terminator 2, the 7.5-million-gallon set built inside a nuclear reactor housing in South Carolina, and a shoot so gruelling the cast nicknamed it “The Abuse.” Kirk compares working with Cameron to helping Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and shares stories of spending five days to capture three seconds of underwater footage, replacing “action” with a countdown clock, and a 550-foot scuba dive that needed six and a half hours of decompression, passed by reading a Mario Puzo novel one chapter at a time.

The Abyss earned about $90 million on a $70 million budget, won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and holds a 75% Rotten Tomatoes critic score. 

“From my point of view, pure gold, pure platinum, and in James Cameron Avatar world, pure unobtainium.” - Kirk Krack

“I think it had a lot of really incredible moments, and it had a lot of potential, but I think as a whole it fell a little flat.” - Nicole, Gen Z panelist

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BONUS RECIPE: Download Chef Jonathan Frazier's Recipe for Homemade Soft Pretzel Bites: https://bit.ly/S2EP07FootballRecipe

With the NFL season nearing the halfway mark, Erin Haluschak and Chef Jonathan Frazier are back to unpack a Week 7 full of surprises. Atlanta knocked off the previously unbeaten San Francisco 49ers 29-20, Cincinnati rallied past Baltimore, Chicago beat New England and the New York Giants edged Houston in overtime. Erin's Seattle Seahawks kept former Seahawk Kenneth Walker in check to beat Kansas City on Sunday Night Football, leaving Minnesota as the league's last undefeated team, while the Los Angeles Chargers' slide continues.

On the fantasy side, Erin's roster has hit a rough patch, with a quiet week from Jaylen Waddle and injuries to Mike Evans and Romeo Doubs pushing her toward the waiver wire and the trade market. The hosts also look at big days from Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Joe Burrow and Michael Penix Jr., and why protecting the football matters, something they saw first-hand at the BC Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers game in Vancouver. Then Chef Jonathan heads into the kitchen to build the perfect watch party spread, from seven-layer dip and wings to sausage rolls and pulled pork sandwiches, and names homemade soft pretzel bites, finished in a baking soda bath and served warm with mustard or cheese dip, as his F3 Food Pick of the Week.

In This Episode

The biggest surprises and upsets from NFL Week 7

Atlanta handing San Francisco its first loss

Seattle's win over Kansas City and Minnesota remaining undefeated

Cincinnati's comeback against Baltimore and other NFL highlights

Erin's fantasy football struggles, injuries and potential trades

Fantasy standouts Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Joe Burrow and Michael Penix Jr.

The impact of injuries and turnovers across the NFL

Erin and Jonathan's trip to a BC Lions game in Vancouver

The best foods for hosting a football watch party

The F3 Food Pick of the Week: homemade soft pretzel bites

Looking ahead to Week 8 and more football, fantasy and food

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Greg Nowik tells how a dozen unclaimed RCMP bikes in his mother-in-law's garage in Cedar grew into Bikes for Kids, a volunteer program closing in on 6,000 refurbished bikes for kids from Nanaimo to Port McNeill, and why it is short on 24-inch bikes right now. Certified Master Gardener Debora Gurrad explains why you should leave the leaves, what a super El Niño could mean for next summer, and when to plant spring bulbs, move shrubs and divide crowded perennials.

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(24:00) Greg Nowik moved to Nanaimo with his wife, Cindy, in 1998 and founded the Nowik Mortgage Team, but many Islanders know him for Bikes for Kids. The program began in 2017, when a dozen stolen and unclaimed bikes from the Nanaimo RCMP were fixed up in his mother-in-law's garage in Cedar. Run entirely by volunteers, with help from DBL Disposal, Canadian Tire and the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society, which supplies helmets, it is closing in on 6,000 bikes for kids from Nanaimo and the Cowichan Valley to Port Alberni, Lasqueti Island and Port McNeill. Greg explains how a donated bike gets from a DBL drop-off to a school assembly, why you should register your own bike with Garage 529, and why 24-inch bikes for kids aged 9 to 14 are the program's biggest need right now. www.bikesforkidsvi.ca

(05:07) Debora Gurrad is a certified Master Gardener with the Vancouver Island Master Gardeners Association and a retired teacher who presents gardening workshops from Campbell River to Nanaimo. Back on the podcast for fall, she explains what a super El Niño could mean for a dry spring and summer, which fall veggie transplants will survive the winter, and why you should leave the leaves on your garden beds. She also covers chop and drop in the vegetable garden, planting spring bulbs after Halloween, moving shrubs and dividing perennials while they are dormant, and the trees and shrubs that bring colour to a winter garden, from ginkgo and red twig dogwood to the Seven-Son Flower. www.vimga.org

Episode Quotes:

"Just making sure that every kid that needs a bike gets a bloody bike, and every adult who needs a bike gets a bike." - Greg Nowik, Co-founder, Bikes for Kids

"Your fallen leaves are a valuable source of nutrients for your garden, as well as a wonderful mulch layer to protect your garden beds from soil compaction from the pounding winter rains." - Debora Gurrad, Certified Master Gardener, Vancouver Island Master Gardeners Association

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BONUS RECIPE: Download Chef Jonathan Frazier's Recipe for Lemon Pepper Wet Wings: https://bit.ly/S2EP06FootballRecipe

The NFL season is underway, and F3 is back with another episode of football, fantasy and food!

This week, Jonathan and Erin head to Atlanta for the final team in their 32-team NFL series. They break down the biggest stories from Week 6, check in on Erin's fantasy football lineup and explore Atlanta's Southern food traditions, finishing with a game-day favourite: lemon pepper wet wings.

In This Episode:

The biggest stories and surprises from NFL Week 6

Erin's frustration with the Seattle Seahawks and Sam Darnold

Houston's close win over Jacksonville in London

The Los Angeles Rams' disappointing start to the season

Fantasy football standouts, including Kenneth Walker and Drake Maye

Erin's fantasy lineup, Bryce Young and Jared Goff's bye week

The history of the Atlanta Falcons and their Super Bowl record

Michael Penix Jr. and the Falcons' potential under Kevin Stefanski

Southern food traditions, including fried chicken, peach cobbler and shrimp and grits

The F3 Food Pick of the Week: Atlanta lemon pepper wet wings

Looking ahead to the next phase of F3, with more NFL analysis, fantasy football and food

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On this episode of The Resilience Project, host Cindy Thompson sits down with Shelley Buck and her lifelong friend Kathy Curtis, co-authors of “Leave Your Light On.” Shelley and her husband, Academy Award-winning director Chris Buck (“Frozen” and “Frozen 2”), had just watched their 22-year-old son, Ryder, beat cancer. The family finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, only a few months later, Ryder died after being hit by a car.

Rather than turn away from her grief, Shelley chose to follow it, with vulnerability and courage, into unfamiliar places that revealed deep insights about love, loss and what it means to keep living. Along that healing journey, she was inspired to write about Ryder's larger-than-life spirit and the legacy he left behind. With the help of Kathy, those memories became “Leave Your Light On,” a book that is both beautifully tragic and truly inspirational.

The Resilience Project is a Vancouver Island podcast hosted by counsellor Cindy Thompson, featuring conversations with authors, health professionals, community leaders and everyday people whose stories of resilience, healing and personal growth offer hope, encouragement and practical life lessons. The Resilience Project is part of The PULSE Podcast Community.

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Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer Michelle Wright takes us from a farm in Merlin, Ontario to the Grand Ole Opry stage, where she sang Snowbird with Anne Murray sitting right down front, and explains why The Great Canadian Roadtrip with Jason McCoy and Doc Walker feels like hanging around the kitchen table. Comedian and author Ron James swaps Cape Breton roots with Peter, remembers sharing the makeup room with the SCTV cast at Second City, and makes the case that a comedian's job is to rock the apple cart.

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(26:40) Michelle Wright is a Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer from Merlin, Ontario, whose 1992 hit Take It Like a Man carried her from southern Ontario clubs to Nashville. She grew up around parents who played country music, soaked up Motown from Detroit radio, sold vacuum cleaners door-to-door at 16 and played clubs six nights a week before opening for George Strait, Alabama and Kenny Rogers. A longtime World Vision ambassador who recently travelled to Zimbabwe with Jason McCoy, she is back on the road with McCoy and Doc Walker for The Great Canadian Roadtrip, with Vancouver Island stops this October. Contains the song The Great Canadian Roadtrip Rides Again. www.michelle-wright.com

(05:30) Ron James was born in Glace Bay, Cape Breton, grew up in Halifax and studied history at Acadia University before heading to Toronto and Second City in 1980. After three years chasing the sitcom dream in Los Angeles, he came home, launched his solo career with Up and Down in Shaky Town, created the series Blackfly and went on to nine record-breaking CBC specials and The Ron James Show. The author of the national bestseller All Over the Map: Rambles and Ruminations from the Canadian Road is bringing new material to Courtenay, Campbell River, Nanaimo, Duncan and Victoria. www.ronjames.com

Episode Quotes:

"Going to Africa changed my life. I came back from that trip and I thought I needed a new couch. I kept that couch for another 20 years." - Michelle Wright, Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer, The Great Canadian Roadtrip

"The whole point of laughter or stand-up comedy, for me anyway, is to try my best to process the daily trauma and chaos in the language of laughs." - Ron James, Comedian and Author, All Over the Map

The PULSE Community Podcast is a weekly Vancouver Island podcast hosted by Peter McCully and Dave Graham, featuring conversations with musicians, authors, actors, athletes, business leaders and community builders from Vancouver Island, British Columbia and beyond. The PULSE Community Podcast is part of The PULSE Podcast Community.

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