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Episode Eleven of The Cordcast, Nov. 22 – Season One
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Good day to you, our valued listeners. It’s a quartet today, Karlis, Shyenne, Garrison and Emily lend their voices to the discussion of superhero movies, stories in role playing games and capped off with our Editor in Chief, Kurtis Rideout, reading some letters to the editor. We would love to hear from you: You can…
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Episode Ten of The Cordcast, Nov. 15 – Season One
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Welcome to the “deca-sode,” the 10th episode of The Cordcast. This week, Karlis dives into the feature from The Cord newspaper about the disappearance of guitars. Going along with this, Tanzeel and Michael jump in to discuss guitars, Taylor Swift’s progression in music and a special mix of “somethin’ good.” Thanks for listening, we hope…
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Strumming a swan song: an obituary for the guitar
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Over the past hundred years, learning to play the guitar has been an important, often defining component in the lives of many adolescents in the Western world. Fragile teenagers across the continent have found buried parts of themselves in the poetry of lyricism and the shifting, emotional, varied tones — both crunchy and smooth…
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Episode Nine of The Cordcast, Nov. 8 – Season One
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Hi there! Welcome to Episode 9 of The Cordcast. Today Karlis facilitates a conversation with Luke and Erin about Gord Downie, new vegan food options on campus and, as always, something good. New this week! The Cordcast is on iTunes and Google Play! Be sure to go check us out there, especially if you are…
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Separating fact from fiction: does reading really make us smarter?
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“I wish I read more.” – Everyone I spent the bulk of this past weekend reading through a recent bestseller. Despite being steeped in historical, artistic and architectural facts, it was not what would commonly be considered an enriching, thoughtful novel. It was a vapid, blunt yarn. It was a shallow, derivative adventure story.…
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Episode Eight of The Cordcast, Nov. 1 – Season One
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Hi! We hope your Halloween was a hoot. It’s time to settle into the fall season, maybe curl up with a good book or maybe grab a hot beverage and relax to this positive podcast from our Features Editor, Karlis Wilde. This week our theme is books. Karlis had a phone interview with Mandy Brouse…
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Episode Seven of The Cordcast, Oct. 25 – Season One “Halloween Special”
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Welcome to this weeks Cordcast! This episode Karlis talks with Alan Li the Graphics Editor and Kurtis Rideout the Editor-in-Chief. Tune in to hear their thoughts on this weeks paper, Halloween traditions and all things of this season.
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Crafting a community: the value and importance of drinking local beer
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Craft beer can be a bit of a misnomer. The name connotes a kind of quality that is often a component of the beverage but isn’t an actual requirement of the final result. To say that all craft beer is genuinely ‘crafted’ isn’t entirely true. To qualify under the umbrella of ‘craft beer’, a beer…
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Episode Six of The Cordcast, Oct. 18 – Season One
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Welcome back from reading week, we are glad you can join us. This week Karlis gathered with Jake Watts, Shyenne MacDonald and Michael Oliveri. The crew shared their thoughts on shopping locally, pumpkins and lots of other fun things. Here is Episode 6 of the Cordcast, we hope you enjoy it.
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Episode Five of The Cordcast, Oct. 4 – Season One “Thanksgiving Special”
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Wow! Can you believe it? This is the fifth instalment of The Cordcast. Karlis leads the discussion around Thanksgiving and the information he found while researching the tasty holiday. In this podcast you’ll hear from Creative Director, Madeline McInnis and Laurier professor of Religion and Culture, Dr. Michel Desjardins. Perhaps its time to sit down…
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