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Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving here in Canada. I hope you are enjoying the beautiful long weekend. I also hope that you can take some time to reflect on the things you are thankful for this year. I know that 2020 has tested us in ways we probably never could have imagined. Things have been difficult, but we…
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What Happened to the Beach?
What happened to the beach? This used to be a great place to sit in the shade. This grouping of trees was meters away from the water and up a small hill. Here’s an old picture of it from my blog archive. It was the only one I could find. You can see that it…
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Mastermind Street Jam – Live Via Satellite
This is Tape 18 of my collection of Mastermind Street Jam cassettes taped directly from the radio back in the mid 1990s. This was required listening every week and I rocked with the tapes for weeks afterward. Free mixtapes! Yes, sir! I even completed the j-card for the first time with this tape. Original air…
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Let’s Make a Change (for the better)
Today, the Canadian government announced that they will be extending the Canada Emergency Response Benefit for an additional 8 weeks. Over 8.4 million Canadians signed up for the program so far. I wanted to share an excerpt from Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Cool today because I think Calvin made a great case for continuing this…
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RIP Stezo (WIB Rap Radio #414)
Rest in Peace, Stezo. I hate having to do two tribute shows back-to-back. This really sucks. But it’s not all tears; we got some great new music and some classic jams coming your way this week too. We even have a brand new Notorious B.I.G. song. What!?!?!? Plus, an exclusive from ENDXR that you won’t…
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No Time to Talk . . . Really?
“We are at a crossroads. So many people say they have no time to talk, really talk, but all the time in the world, day and night, to connect. When a moment of boredom arises, we have become accustomed to making it go away by searching for something—sometimes anything—on our phones.” Maybe, we shouldn’t be…
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New Show Intro . . . Starring YOU!
Word is Bond Rap Radio is an underground hip-hop mixshow that airs weekly on 94.9 fm in London, Ontario, Canada. For the 400 episode, I produced a new theme song for the show and did some scratching over the beat. Now, I am looking to add a rapper to the start of it. Do you…
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Women in Hip-Hop 10 Shining a Spotlight on Hip-Hop’s Better Half
March 8 is International Women’s Day and we celebrate it every year by dedicating an entire overnight of radio programming to the Women in Hip-Hop. This is Women in Hip-Hop 10, our tenth annual spectacular and we have tons of treats for you. If you missed the show last night, stream or download this portion…
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Super Scrabble – Round 2
It’s time for another Scrabble story. My wife and I started playing Super Scrabble by keeping the game board set up and playing one word (or more) a day. It’s a similar concept to the correspondence games people play online. I used to play chess this way with my dad (Rest in Peace, Dad). This…
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Let the World Educate You
“If you are a young person, open your eyes wide and let the world educate you to the fullest extent. (‘Ascend no longer from the textbook! warned Walt Whitman, and I warn it, too; there are many ways to learn that do no necessarily involve schoolrooms.) Learning is a life-long experience. You start learning the…