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Featuring educational innovator, Jim Marggraff; John Campbell, author of Beyond The Fading Memories: Guiding Words For Dementia Caregivers; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Educational innovator, Jim Marggraff, inventor of LeapPad, and author of How To Raise A Founder With Heart: A Guide For Parents To Develop Your Child’s Problem-Solving Abilities, talks about keeping grandparents connected with their long-distance grandkids. He also has a great new line of educational products called Kinoo, a child's first smart device.

John Campbell, author of Beyond The Fading Memories: Guiding Words For Dementia Caregivers, talks about how Alzheimer and dementia sufferers respond to music. John had first hand experience in dealing with his mother.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is Don Rickles: The Merchant of Venom by Michael Seth Starr (Citadel Press, $36). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. 

This week’s guest slate is presented by Wendy Barrett-Stuart, a college friend who is a cat rescuer, who runs a cat rescue operation here in Quebec.

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Featuring relationship coach, Frank Kermit; Mack Little, author of Daughter Of Hades; & Marc Hartzman, author of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

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Relationship coach Frank Kermit talks about relationships and social media..

Mack Little, author of Daughter Of Hades, a tale of historical fiction that takes place in the slavery days of the Caribbean.

Marc Hartzman, from WeirdHistorian.com and the author of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural is back, with the weird story for February. This one deals with President Eisenhower and aliens.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Gerry Bradley, a college friend and a The Stuph File Program Patreon subscriber.

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Featuring Emelyn Rude, author of Tastes Like Chicken: A History Of America’s Favorite Bird; Melissa Yi, author of The Shapes Of Wrath; and Elizabeth Power, author of Healer: Reducing Crises

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Emelyn Rude is the author of Tastes Like Chicken: A History Of America’s Favorite Bird and the designer, editor, and publisher of Eaten Magazine, an independent magazine celebrating the past and present of what we eat. She's on to talk about the popularity of chicken, as in the US alone Americans devour about 75 million pounds of chicken a day, which is close to 8.6 billion birds a year.

Melissa Yi is back with her latest Dr. Hope Sze medical thriller, her tenth.  This one is called The Shapes Of Wrath. 

Elizabeth Power, founding director of The Trauma-Informed Academy and author of Healer: Reducing Crises, on why we like to watch and share bad news.

This week’s guest slate is presented by 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.

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Featuring Philip Fracassi, author of Gothic; lawyer J.D. Mortmain, author of The Fuzzy Pink Bathrobe And Other Tales Of The Law; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Philip Fracassi, the author of the horror novel entitled, Gothic, which deals with a horror novelist who has a bout of writers’ block, and the lengths he'll go to combat it.

Lawyer J.D. Mortmain looks at the lighter side of the law with his book, The Fuzzy Pink Bathrobe And Other Tales Of The Law.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is Spare by Prince Harry (Random House Canada, $47). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. 

This week’s guest slate is presented by Damica Alleyne, who is my niece.  She’s in university studying languages and she also works as an assistant manager at Mastermind Toys.

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Featuring Vic Ferrari, author of NYPD: Law & Disorder; Palace Watcher, Professor Peter McNally; & 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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Vic Ferrari is a retired NYPD detective, who has written a number of humorous books about the job, including NYPD: Law & Disorder. How did this writing gig start for him?

Peter McNally, Professor Emeritus at the School of Information Studies, Director of the History of McGill Project and a ‘self-proclaimed palace watcher’, discusses the current turmoil within the Monarchy and the alleged battle between Prince William & Prince Harry.

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, talks about the use of Artificial Intelligence in space exploration; the recent arrival of Asteroid 2023 BU and more.(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Andrew talks about NASA's work on a nuclear rocket; a SpaceX test firing; a private company's moon lander and more).

This week’s guest slate is presented by Lori Knight, a Stuph File Program listener in Northern California. She’s also a licensed animal technician.  She loves to bake and can preserves, and has a soft spot for hairless cats.

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Featuring spirit maker, Christopher Pellegrini, author of The Shocku Handbook; Rick Antonson, author of Train Beyond The Mountains: Journeys On The Rocky Mountaineer; & Marc Hartzman, author of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural

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Christopher Pellegrini is a spirit maker who has been a contributor to the award-winning Oxford Companion to Spirts & Cocktails and is the author of The Shochu Handbook.  He actually started making alcohol as a high schooler.

Rick Antonson is excellent at writing travel memoirs.  His latest is about a very special train in Western Canada.  The book is called Train Beyond The Mountains: Journeys On The Rocky Mountaineer.

Marc Hartzman, from WeirdHistorian.com and the author of Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural is back, with the weird story for January. This one deals with the story of an unfriendly ghost at the turn of the 20th Century in New Jersey.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Robert Soroka, who is a professor at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.

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Featuring Michael Bowker, author of Michael Bowker's No Ordinary Days; Chris Jackson, Head Cider Maker at Treasury Cider; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Michael Bowker, who has had a career as an investigative journalist, is the CEO of Sixty Degrees Publishing and the author of Michael Bowker’s No Ordinary Days. He's also the author of the fiction novel, Gods Of Our Time: A Paris Love Story.

Musician Chris Jackson, one of the co-hosts of the amazing podcast, The Spoon, but his day job is the Head Cider maker at Treasury Cider in Upstate New York.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta (Scribner, $32.99). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. 

This week’s guest slate is presented by Global National reporter Michael Armstrong.

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Featuring Melisa Schonfield, author of Bitter Or Better: The Melisa Schonfield Story & Chelsea Banning, author of Of Crowns And Legends

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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.

Chelsea Banning is the author of the fantasy novel, Of Crowns And Legends. It’s her first novel, but she had a disastrous first book signing. Only two people showed up. So she vented on social media and that post went viral.

This week’s guest slate is presented by Peter Anthony Holder host of The Stuph File Program.

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Featuring hot sauce collector, Vic Clinco; Matthew Hughes, author of Ghost Dreams; & 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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Vic Clinco has an unusual collection.  He has a basement shrine to display his over 11,000 different bottle brands of hot sauce.(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Vic and I go a little further into the hot sauce world). 

Matthew Hughes is the author of the chilling novel, Ghost Dreams.

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, talks NASA's plans to get astronauts back from the International Space Station after a Soyuz leak on the Russian rocket, plus what's in store for space exploration in 2023.(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Andrew talks more about what 2023 holds in space and also what’s the manmade object that’s the farthest away from Earth).

This week’s guest slate is presented by Chris Jackson who is one of the co-hosts, along with Robbie Rist and Thom Bowers of the excellent weekly podcast, The Spoon.  Chris, like his two cohorts, is a musician, but he's also is the Head Cider Maker at Treasury Cider at Fishkill Farms in upstate New York.

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Featuring Aaron Donaldson, author of The Alien Movie Project: Studying the Narrative, Affective and Production Politics of Alien Stories in Cinema; Arlene Duane Hemingway, author of A Twist of Lemon: 100 Curious Stories in Exactly 100 Words; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter

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Aaron Donaldson is a lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt in California, in the Department of Communication, teaching critical thinking, persuasive speaking, speech and debate, and rhetorical theory. He's the author of the e-textbook called The Alien Movie Project: Studying the Narrative, Affective and Production Politics of Alien Stories in Cinema.

Arlene Duane Hemingway, author of A Twist of Lemon: 100 Curious Stories in Exactly 100 Words, talks about drabbles. A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length.

Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week’s reviewed title is From Saturday Night to Sunday Night by Dick Ebersol (Simon & Schuster, $38.99). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. 

This week’s guest slate is presented by Montreal actor, Michael Rudder.