Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

Life of an NHL Linesman / The Steven Avery Case

January 09, 2016 03:09 - 42 minutes

We spoke with Calgary's Michael Cvik, who's hanging up the skates after 29 years as an NHL linesman Also, reporter Tom Kertscher who covered the Steven Avery case - the focus of the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" - for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Listen to the roroshow live Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

War on Pond Hockey / Pot's in the Mail

January 07, 2016 03:17 - 34 minutes

We spoke with National Post writer Joe O'Connor about whether municipalities are going too far in cracking down on pond hockey Plus, cannabis activist Dana Larsen on why he decided to mail a gram of marijuana to all Liberal MPs Listen to the roroshow live Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgary's Uber Debate / The Case Against "The Biggest Loser"

January 06, 2016 02:55 - 41 minutes

Roger and Rob debated city councillor Ray Jones about the merits of Uber and whether surge pricing is "gouging" Also, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff on the negative impacts of the reality show "The Biggest Loser" Listen to the roroshow live Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oregon Standoff & Team Canada's Demise

January 05, 2016 03:16 - 45 minutes

With a standoff between the US Federal Government and militiamen underway, we spoke with John Sepulveda from Oregon Public Broadcasting about the situation. Scott Stinson from the National Post joined us to talk about ways Team Canada could improve at the World Juniors. Listen to the roroshow live Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Ebner on Bill Cosby

December 31, 2015 04:10 - 19 minutes

Mark Ebner, author of Hollywood Interrupted, joined Roger and Rob today to chat about Bill Cosby. Listen to the roroshow live Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rona Ambrose & The Sunwing Incident

December 31, 2015 02:58 - 34 minutes

Rona Ambrose, the Leader of the Official Opposition, joined us for the first time to discuss electoral reform and the need for a referendum. We also spoke with an air passenger advocate about the Sunwing plane that was on a tarmac in Hamilton for 8 hours. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Santa Claus with Roger and Rob!

December 25, 2015 03:17 - 1 hour

Taking calls from kids! Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No more comments & Canada Boy Vinyl

December 24, 2015 03:34 - 44 minutes

Roger and Rob talk to Russell Smith about the disappearance of online comment sections. They also Catch Up with Dean Reid of Canada Boy Vinyl for a great interview. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teachers using force & Pension Plan reform

December 23, 2015 03:04 - 44 minutes

Roger and Rob discuss the Canadian Teachers Federation position on the law that allows teachers to us physical force to correct children. Then they talk to the Canadian Assoc. of Retired People about the unwillingness of Finance Ministers to pursue pension reform. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mandatory Indigenous Studies & Studies that Contradict one another

December 22, 2015 03:21 - 43 minutes

Roger and Rob discuss the TRC recommendation that Canadian Universities make Indigenous studies courses compulsory. Then they talked to Professor Timothy Caulfield at U of A about how to properly interpret contradictory studies. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Callers! We Get Callers!

December 19, 2015 04:20 - 21 minutes

Plenty of phone calls on Friday's show - we pulled some notable ones for your listening pleasure Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Space Ring

December 18, 2015 02:18 - 6 minutes

A calgarian saved up for a whole year to buy his fiance an engagement ring- and then he sent it into the stratosphere with a weather balloon. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel Notley interview with Rob Breakenridge

December 18, 2015 00:03 - 21 minutes

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Paris Treaty / Sandy Hook truthers

December 16, 2015 03:10 - 40 minutes

We spoke with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen consensus, as well as Joe Uscinski, co-author of "American Conspiracy Theories" Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminal Threats or Political Venting? / Latest Cycle Track Numbers

December 15, 2015 04:17 - 39 minutes

We spoke with law professor Peter Sankoff about online threats directed at the Premier and whether police are likely to lay charges. Also, author and cycling enthusiast Tom Babin on the last numbers for Calgary's controversial cycle track Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raheel Raza

December 12, 2015 01:24 - 22 minutes

Rob's interview with Raheel Raza, the president for Muslims Facing Tomorrow discussing radicalists, bigots, and being muslim. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psychopaths

December 11, 2015 02:15 - 23 minutes

Peter Jonason, PHD social personality psychologist from the School of Social Sciences and Psychology Western Sydney University joins Roger and Rob to chat about psychopathic personality traits. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Have An Instagram!

December 11, 2015 00:10 - 2 minutes

We are hooked up on social media in case you didn't know Instagram: roroshowpod Twitters: @rogerandrob770 @rogerkingkade @robbreakenridge Facebook: newstalk 770 Calgary and our podcast site: www.roroshow.com Like us, tweet us, tune on in. we LOVE feedback! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Jean talks about uniting conservatives

December 10, 2015 23:57 - 11 minutes

Brian Jean join Roger and Rob today to chat about forgetting the past and moving forward- what Conservatives and the Wildrose can agree on. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gene Editing & Alberta's Climate Goals

December 10, 2015 03:38 - 44 minutes

Rob has been following the story of the CRISPR summit for a while now. We discuss this revolutionary genetics technology with Richard Gold from McGill University. Andrew Leach joined us to talk about Alberta's climate change goals and the policy they've implemented. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Traffic cameras are bad & School Boards cancelling trips because of terrorism

December 09, 2015 03:12 - 41 minutes

Roger and Rob discuss a new study that says traffic cameras are revenue generators, but do little for road safety. The Calgary Catholic School District has cancelled all trips outside Canada over safety concerns. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playboy meets Feminism and Guaranteed Income

December 08, 2015 03:07 - 39 minutes

Playboy Magazine will have Pamela Anderson as their final centerfold. Has Playboy helped or hindered feminism? Finland is floating the idea of a guaranteed minimum income for its citizens. Our callers were warm to the idea. Texters, not so much. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Calgary Indy Race & Nefertiti's Tomb

December 03, 2015 03:51 - 36 minutes

Roger & Rob discuss the idea of an Indy Car race coming to Calgary. They also discuss the potential discovery of the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alberta Ministers' conflicting messages on Bill 6 and a really lame distracted driving ticket

December 02, 2015 03:20 - 40 minutes

On today's highlight podcast, you'll hear conflicting messages about the controversial Bill 6 from both the agriculture minister and the minster of jobs and labour. Then we took some calls about a guy who got a distracted driving ticket while waiting for food at Tim Horton's. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lori Sigurdson: Bill 6

December 02, 2015 00:33 - 10 minutes

Minister of labour and jobs joined the roroshow today to answer a few questions about Bill 6. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More on Bill 6 and The CFL Season that was

December 01, 2015 03:28 - 40 minutes

Alberta farmers have a lot of problems with Bill 6. We talk to another farmer about her concerns. The CFL season has wrapped. We talk to Scott Stinson of the National Post about what the CFL has to do to recapture some glory. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens if you donate your body to science in Alberta?

November 28, 2015 02:44 - 19 minutes

If you register with the provincial system to donate your body to science and medical research at license renewal- your wishes may not be carried out. And other things you are curious about when it comes to body donations. Producer Andrea Montgomery joins the roroshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trudeau's perplexing ISIS mission & Poker Star Daniel Negreanu

November 27, 2015 03:19 - 37 minutes

Roger and Rob played back some tape of Prime Minister Trudeau's interview on BBC. They take issue with some of his positions. (At this point, Roger lays out his feelings about some of the audience responses.) Poker Hall-of-Famer Daniel Negreanu talks poker and his new documentary about him. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Suzuki equates business to slavery and the case of DB Cooper

November 26, 2015 03:10 - 39 minutes

Roger and Rob found some interesting audio of David Suzuki comparing the oil and gas sector to slavery in the southern states of the 19th century. Ross Richardson discusses his book "Still Missing" about a potential suspect in the decades old D.B. Cooper mystery. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tragic Death of Manmeet Bhullar & Burlesque laws relaxed

November 25, 2015 03:27 - 29 minutes

We spoke with Jim Prentice on the passing of his dear friend, Alberta MLA Manmeet Bhullar. It was a very heartfelt discussion. Following that, we took a look at the relaxing of an Alberta law that paves the way for Burlesque shows to be more revealing. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prentice - Bhullar

November 25, 2015 00:43 - 11 minutes

Former Premier Jim Prentice remembers Calgary-Greenway MLA Manmeet Bhullar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remembering Manmeet Bhullar with Jim Prentice

November 25, 2015 00:12 - 13 minutes

Today former Premier Jim Prentice joined Roger and Rob to share some stories of his friend PC MLA Manmeet Bhullar who was killed in a car accident on the QE2. #roroshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michelle Rempel and people who call our show about refugees

November 21, 2015 03:49 - 37 minutes

We were pleased to welcome Michelle Rempel to the show today to talk about the Liberal Refugee plan, which we'll know more about next Tuesday. We also took some phone calls about the Canadian resettlement plan and the concerns many Canadians have. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alberta (Beer) Advantage and Beware the Fake Vaccines

November 20, 2015 03:25 - 46 minutes

As we continue to discuss the new Alberta beer taxes, we took some time to talk to Graham at Tool Shed Brewery. He says that Alberta has finally done the right thing. We also spoke to a doctor who is concerned that people are being sucked in by vaccine alternatives, which basically do nothing. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Refugees, an Immigrant, and Boys who play with dolls

November 19, 2015 03:04 - 38 minutes

The conversation about refugee screening continues with some very serious questions about safety on the minds of many Canadians. Don called in to discuss. Denny shared his story about moving to Canada after fleeing his home. Then we talked about boys who play with dolls and why it's not a big deal. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radicalized Terrorists and Undetectable HIV

November 18, 2015 03:27 - 38 minutes

Highlights from Nov. 17th with Roger and Rob on News Talk 770: We continued talking about some of the issues facing Canada as we move toward resettling 25,000 refugees. Mubin Shaikh talks about how he was radicalized and eventually de-radicalized. Charlie Sheen disclosed that he has undetectable HIV. We talked to a 17-year-old girl who was born HIV positive and can tell us what "undetectable" means. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast a...

Paris Attack discussion with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

November 17, 2015 02:59 - 31 minutes

Highlights from Nov. 16th with Roger and Rob on News Talk 770: Friday saw one of the deadliest attacks ISIS has carried out on foreign soil when attackers killed 129 in Paris. Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ISIS and murderabilia

November 14, 2015 04:03 - 42 minutes

Highlights from Nov. 13th with Roger and Rob on Newstalk 770: ISIS turns their sights on Russia and Paul Bernardo gets to publish a book! Listen Monday to Friday from 9:30 to 12:30. You can also check out the roroshow podcast at roroshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sniper Jody Mitic

November 13, 2015 22:16 - 17 minutes

On Remembrance Day, Roger and Rob spoke to Canadian Forces Sniper and author of "Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper" Jody Mitic. His story is flat out amazing. Enjoy. You can also listen to the roroshow podcast every week on iTunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NDP flip-flops on spending during elections

November 05, 2015 06:56 - 15 minutes

The provincial government has promised in the past to end government announcements during an election. The party was heavily critical when former PC education minister approved new classrooms for a school in his riding during a byelection. Now a new bill that would have ended pork-barrel spending during an election has been scuttled by Rachel Notleyâ€™s government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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