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Featuring producer/writer Nick Santora & Marc Hartzman, author of We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History Of UFO's And Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears And Fantasies

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Producer/writer Nick Santora is back on the show.  He has two hit shows on with two different streamers.  FUBAR, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is on Netflix and Reacher is on Amazon. Nick is also the author of a couple of favourite books of mine. Slip & Fall and the excellent page turner Fifteen Digits.

Marc Hartzman, from WeirdHistorian.com and the author of We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History Of UFO's And Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears And Fantasies is back, with the weird story for February. This one deals with the US, during WWII, attempting to weaponize goat poop.

This week’s guest slate is presented by photographer Tim Shields, who runs The Photography Academy, and is the author of several books to make you a better photographer. He was also a guest on the show just last week (#0741).

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Featuring astronomy buff, Brian Michel; Katherine Hayes, author of A Fifth Of A Story; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Brian Michel is an astronomy buff who has created telescopes with a 3D printer.

Katherine Hayes is the author of the thriller novel, A Fifth Of A Story.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week Stuart lovingly suggests some classic titles appropriate for Valentine's Day:

Love Story by Erich Segal (originally published in 1970 by Harper)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (originally published in 1936 by Macmillan)

Tracy and Hepburn by Garson Kanin (originally published in 1971 by Viking)

Bogart and Bacall: A Love Story by Joe Hyams (originally published in 1975 by McKay)

You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times.

This week’s guest slate is presented by voice over artist, Donald James, a lifelong friend.

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Featuring Biko Skalla, from The Savannah Bananas; University Of Toronto biology professor Dr. Nicholas Mandrak; & airplane fishing shack owner, Lee Saretsky

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Biko Skalla is the broadcast entertainer for the baseball team, The Savannah Bananas.

Dr. Nicholas Mandrak is a professor of biological sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough.  He has been studying the problems we have with invasive goldfish in the wild.

Lee Saretsky is the proud co-owner of the fuselage of a decommissioned British Aerospace turboprop plane that has been turned into an ice fishing shack.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Dylan Black, the Afternoon Drive Announcer and Assistant Music Director at Boom 99.7FM in Ottawa.

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Featuring Melanie; Word Warrior, Christopher Williams; & science writer Andrew Fazekas, author of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky and National Geographic’s Stargazer Atlas: The Ultimate Guide To The Night Sky

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On January 23, 2024, legendary folk singer Melanie, died at the age of 76. We feature part of an interview that we did with her back at the beginning of 2021. (You can hear the full interview from 2021, via YouTube under the title Melanie - Folk Singing Icon).

Christopher Williams, from the Wayne State University Word Warriors with their annual list of long-lost words. They also have a Facebook group that is a lot of fun on a daily basis.

Science writer, Andrew Fazekas, The Night Sky Guy, author of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky and National Geographic’s Stargazer Atlas: The Ultimate Guide To The Night Sky, is back to talk about some of the space missions to look forward to in 2024.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Rebecca Whitlinger, who has travelled the world, and been photographed wearing a bridesmaid dress that she has worn since 1988. She was on show #0736, and just last week her appearance was also featured on my podcast, Business Beyond Bizarre.

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Featuring Jeff Margolis, author of We're Live In 5: My Extraordinary Life In Television & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Legendary television producer/director, Jeff Margolis, has just written his memoir called We're Live In 5: My Extraordinary Life In Television.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is The Road Years by Rick Mercer (Doubleday Canada, $36.95). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Alex Sanfilippo, the founder of PodMatch, a podcast and radio booking service that automatically matches ideal guests and hosts together. PodMatch has generated over 75,000 interviews among their almost 11,000 members, of which The Stuph File Program is one of them. Alex is also the host of the entrepreneurship podcast called Creating A Brand.

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Featuring Bart King author of Time Travel Inn: 2; Dodgeballers Xaysana Phavone & Melissa Phavone & Marc Hartzman, author of We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History Of UFO's And Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears And Fantasies

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Bart King is back on the show with the follow up to his Choose Your Own Adventure book called Time Travel Inn: 2.

Xaysana Phavone & Melissa Phavone are brother and sister, who are part of Canada’s Dodgeball Team and hope to travel this August to Austria to play in the World Dodgeball Championships.

Marc Hartzman, from WeirdHistorian.com and the author of We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History Of UFO's And Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears And Fantasies is back, with the weird story for January. This one deals with the world's heaviest man.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Scott Overton, author of the science fiction novel, Indigent Earth. He was also a guest on the show just last week (#0751). He’s also the former radio morning man, a gig he did for 30 plus years, which led to his first novel called Dead Air.

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Featuring UK farmer Fiona Wilson; Scott Overton, author of Indigent Earth; & Joyce Merwin from The Train Mount Railroad Museum

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Fiona Wilson is the co-owner of Dumble Farms in East Yorkshire in the UK. You can visit the farm to experience cow cuddling.

Scott Overton is the author of the science fiction novel, Indigent Earth.

Joyce Merwin is the office manager at The Train Mountain Railroad Museum in Oregon, which features the world’s largest miniature railroad with over 36 miles of 7.5-gauge track on over 2,000 acres of pine forest. (Also mentioned in the segment is the excellent video done by Mike Downey entitled, Riding the WORLD'S LONGEST Model Train Track! from his YouTube channel, DownieLive.

This week’s guest slate is presented by actor Bruce Dinsmore, who has worked in many animated TV shows, such as being Binky Barnes in Arthur, Tubby Tompkins from The Little Lulu Show, and a host of other animated voices. He also plays a police detective in the live action thriller, Charlie Tango, which will be released in February.

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Featuring Titanic VHS film collector, JD; Madame Maven, author of Death Maven: Having Everyday Conversations About Death And Dying; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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JD is a collector.  He has over 2,500 copies of the movie, Titanic, on VHS and he’s hoping to reach a million copies.

Madame Maven is the author of the humorous book, Death Maven: Having Everyday Conversations About Death And Dying.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This time it's a look ahead to some of the anticipated titles that will be released in 2024. This week’s suggested titles are:

Knife by Salman Rushdie (Knopf Canada, April)

The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (Crown Publishing, April)

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson (Little, Brown, April)

The House of Hidden Meanings by Ru Paul (Dey Street Books, March)

The Search Party by Hannah Richell (Atria Books, January)

You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Julie Gedeon, a writer, editor and writing coach.

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Featuring some of the great guests of 2023 in this “Best-Of” year ender Stuph File Program

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Melisa Schonfield, author of Bitter or Better: The Melisa Schonfield Story, which chronicles the story of how she spent three years in jail for trying to hire a hitman to kill the abusive boyfriend of her daughter and his son. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0700. Also heard on Audea under the title Melisa Schonfield - Jailed For Hiring A Hitman).

Markus Pukonen spent the last eight years travelling around the globe, but he did it without a plane, train or automobile. In fact, he made the trek without involving anything that had a motor. He even avoided elevators. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0727. Also heard on Audea under the title Markus Pukonen - Travelling The Globe Without A Motor).

Dennis Palumbo, one of my favourite mystery writers, is also a psychotherapist. He talks about how his profession is depicted in film & television. He wrote an essay for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine about this topic entitled Your Shrinks Might Need To Be Shrunk. He was also the Consulting Producer on the recent Hulu series, The Patient, which is about a therapist held hostage by a serial killer hoping to be cured of his homicidal tendencies. His thriller series contains six Dr. Daniel Rinaldi novels, with the latest one being Panic Attack. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0713. Also heard on Audea under the title Dennis Palumbo - How Therapists Are Depicted In Film & Television).

Julian Sher, author of The North Star: Canada And The Civil War Plots Against Lincoln. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0715. Also heard on Audea under the title Julian Sher - The North Star).

Liz Deacle, author of The Travel Bog Diaries, whose family uprooted themselves to live in New Zealand, then later decided to travel around the world backpacking with her husband and teenage children. She’s also co-hosts the podcast, It’s A Drama: A Wife & Husband Podcast; plus she’s a YouTuber, entrepreneur and professional storyteller. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0723. Also heard on Audea under the title Liz Deacle - The Travel Bog Diaries).

Gothic horror novelist, Jennifer Anne Gordon is back with her latest book that is a collection of stories called, The Japanese Box And Other Stories. She’s also the co-host of a podcast that features discussions with other authors called Vox Vomitus. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0732. Also heard on Audea under the title Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box).

Christopher Bouzy is a tech entrepreneur who is the creator of the new social media platform called Spoutible. (You can also find me on Spoutible as paholder) (First heard on Stuph File Program #0739. Also heard on Audea under the title Christopher Bouzy - Spoutible).

Doogie Lish Sandtiger is a collector.  He’s also known as the King of Crocs because he has over 2,100 pairs of the colourful shoes. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0714. Also heard on Audea under the title Doogie Lish Sandtiger - King Of Crocs).

Fashion model Paul Mason, better known as Fashion Santa.  He started Fashion Santa back in the middle of the last decade as a way to help raise funds for worthy causes, such as Save A Child’s Heart. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0725. Also heard on Audea under the title Paul Mason - Fashion Santa).

Rebecca Whitlinger is one of those rare women who not only got to wear her bridesmaid dress more than once, she’s worn it in many different circumstances and in many parts of the world, ever since she first wore it just six months after the wedding, back in 1988. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0736. Also heard on Audea under the title Rebecca Whitlinger - The Bridesmaid Dress That Has Seen The World).

This week’s guest slate is presented by Don Deschamp, a long time listener of The Stuph File Program.

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Featuring a perennial favourite holiday program. It’s The Meshach & Malik Christmas Special

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This is a special one hour show for the holidays. The Meshach & Malik Christmas Show, an irreverent children’s program unlike anything you’ve heard before during the holidays. So just sit back, down another eggnog and enjoy!

Music heard on this week’s show includes:

The Chipmunk Song – David Seville

Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer – The Rovers

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jackson Five

Have Yourself A Looney Christmas! – Looney Tunes Folks

Jingle Bells – The Singing Dogs

I Tawt I Taw Ol’ Tanty Claus – Tweety & Sylvester

Twelve Days Of Christmas – Bob & Doug McKenzie

The Angel – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio

Who Put The Stump? – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth – Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Christmas Dragnet – Stan Freberg & Daws Butler

Silent Night – Mahalia Jackson

This week’s opening slate is presented by Biff Wellington, the manager of The North Pole Reindeer Stables.

(If you want a little background into how this special Christmas show was created, Patreon subscribers to The Stuph File Program can enjoy a Patreon Rewards Extra that features info on how the show was created and outtakes of the boys!)