House of Crouse
549 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhere is the House of Crouse? It's everywhere and nowhere. It's in your imagination and in your headphones.
Hosted by Richard Crouse, it's a gathering place for interesting people to hang out and share stories. Upcoming guests to the House of Crouse include Amy Schumer, Josh Gad, Daniel Radcliffe and many more!
Come by every Monday for a new episode, curl up on the coach and see who has stopped by.
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Chantel Guertin + Ana Golja + Marci Ien
July 04, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Chantel Guertin, beauty expert and television personality, well-known to audiences of Canada’s number‑one daytime talk show, The Marilyn Denis Show… she is also a frequent guest of morning news shows. Her new project is a novel called "Instamom." it’s the story of an Instagram influencer who became famous talking about her fun, fabulous and child-free life… her life changes in ways she did not expect when she becomes romantically involved w...
Dr. Jen Gunter + Emma Brodie
June 27, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Dr. Jen Gunter. She has been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN. She is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. She is Gwyneth Paltrow’s nemesis, a fierce advocate for women’s health and has devoted her professional life to caring for women. She also writes about sex, science, and social media and is the author of The Vagina Bible and her newest book “The Menopause Manifesto,” which is in stores now. Then, Emma...
Deanna Marsigliese + Steve Patterson + Dan Robson
June 20, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Deanna Marigliese, the Canadian character art director for Pixar Animation Studios. Today we’ll talk about LUCA, a movie many families will enjoy together this weekend on Disney+. Then, comedian, host of CBC Radio’s The Debaters he’s a Dad to Scarlett and Norah, Steve Patterson joins us to talk about his first book, "Dad Up!" It’s getting great reviews… Denise Donlan said it should come with ‘READ BEFORE PARENTING’ sticker and Brent Butt, ...
Jordan Abel + Tony Hiss
June 13, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel. He joins me to talk about his intriguing new book Nishga. It’s a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence. Drawing on autobiography and a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir, transcriptions of talks, and photograp...
In The Heights + Moby
June 06, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet two of the stars of "In the Heights," the highly anticipated film adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash hit show. You know Jimmy Smits from everything from "NYPD Blue" and "The West Wing" to "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and "How To Get Away with Murder." He plays Kevin Rosario, owner of his own taxi cab service in In the heights. Joining him is Olga Merediz, who originated the role of "Abuela" Claudia, the lo...
Brad Fraser + Chris Wilson
May 30, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Brad Fraser. Brad is one of Canada's best-known playwrights, his work, plays like Poor Super Man, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and Kill Me now have been produced worldwide, in many languages, with highly successful runs in Toronto, New York, Chicago, Milan, Sydney and London… they’ve been adapted into films and named the best plays of their year by Time Magazine. His plays often include frank depictions of sexuality, dru...
Last Call Trailer
May 28, 2021 19:07 - 1 minute - 2.05 MBWe can't go to bars right now, so here is a chance to safely soak up the ambiance of the world's greatest watering holes. Last Call is a podcast on the stories behind the places where everybody knows your name. I’m Richard Crouse. I tended bar for seventeen years everywhere from hot spots to dive bars and I thought I had seen it all… In my life behind bars I witnessed everything from first dates and marriage proposals to knife fights and a woman who brought a pet monkey in for a drink. Not...
Louise Johnson + Noa Daniel
May 23, 2021 13:31 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Louise Johnson, a writer whose work has been published in The Globe & Mail, The Huffington Post, Darling Magazine and more. Her debut book, “Behind the Red Door: How Elizabeth Arden’s Legacy Inspired My Coming-of-Age in the Beauty Industry,” is equal parts educational biography of a woman whose name we know, but whose biography has been largely lost to time and memoir. Louise says it is a playbook for any woman looking to reconnect with her m...
Patrick Raddon Keefe + Cynthia Loyst + Belief Anthology
May 16, 2021 14:30 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show, a real-life story that has all the hallmarks of tabloid fiction. New Yorker magazine staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe received international acclaim for his 2019 investigation of the Troubles in Ireland, and now, in “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty,” he turns his sights to three generations of the Sackler family, the dynasty behind Purdue Pharma — they manufacture Oxycontin — and the modern opioid crisis. Then, The Social host ...
Jeff Vandermeer + Jonathan Meiberg + Sonia Manzano
May 09, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet author Jeff Vandermeer. He’s been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today.” His novel, “Annihilation,” won many awards and was adapted into a Hollywood film starring Natalie Portman. Several other adaptations of his novels will soon be coming your way from Netflix soon… but today we’re here to talk about his latest novel “Hummingbird Salamander,” a speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endanger...
Jon Batiste + DoT - Marie Jones + Gordon Deppe
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Oscar nominated musician, bandleader, and television personality Jon Batiste. We’ll talk sbout his new album “We Are,” which was just one of the many projects he’s had going during our last locked down year. From bandleader on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” to scoring the Pixar animated movie “Soul” to writing and recording this album he’s been a busy guy. We start the interview by talking about his earliest musical memories. Then,...
Jon Batiste + Dot-Marie Jones + Gordon Deppe
May 02, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Oscar nominated musician, bandleader, and television personality Jon Batiste. We’ll talk sbout his new album “We Are,” which was just one of the many projects he’s had going during our last locked down year. From bandleader on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” to scoring the Pixar animated movie “Soul” to writing and recording this album he’s been a busy guy. We start the interview by talking about his earliest musical memories. Then,...
Greg Keelor + June Millington + Craig Pryce
April 25, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor. His new solo album Share the Love is available now and has a fascinating backstory from studio to stores. We’ll also meet June Millington, guitar player for the best 1970s band you’ve never heard of. Formed in 1969, Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label and no less an authority than David Bowie called Fanny one of the finest bands of their time. “They’re as important as any...
Craig Taylor + Anthony Q. Farrell + Lucas Hedges
April 18, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Craig Taylor, author of "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time." Taylor is a chronicler of some of the world’s greatest cities. His book "Londoners" was called the "best book about London in at least a decade" and the new one on New York City, which is made up of profiles of bodega cashiers, hospital nurses, elevator repairmen, emergency dispatchers; the people who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the ...
UMMMSANDAHHS
April 16, 2021 21:33 - 3 minutes - 3.01 MBWhen I edit the audio from interviews I clean them up, cutting out "Ums" and "ahs." For your enjoyment I offer up a moment of zen, a compendium of the sounds you don't usually hear on the radio.
LAST CALL PODCAST: Harrys New York Bar
April 13, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBLast Call is a weekly podcast on the stories behind the places where everybody knows your name. This week, we visit Harry's New York Bar in Paris, the home of the Bloody Mary! I’m Richard Crouse. I tended bar for seventeen years everywhere from hot spots to dive bars and I thought I had seen it all… In my life behind bars I witnessed everything from first dates and marriage proposals to knife fights and a woman who brought a pet monkey in for a drink. Nothing could surprise me… Or so I th...
Florian Zeller + Dylan Playfair + Georges St Pierre + Comedy Panel
April 11, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Florian Zeller, the Oscar nominated director of "The Father." He discusses his personal connection to the material and what it was like working with Anthony Hopkins. Then, Dylan Playfair, co-star of the Disney+ show "Mighty Ducks: Game Changers" stops by to talk about how playing hockey prepared him for a career as an actor. Then, "Falcon and the White Soldier" co-star (and MMA legend) Georges St-Pierre talks about why he never enjoyed ...
Daniel Lanois + Nomadland + William Shatner
April 04, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: If you love records like Joshua Tree, Wrecking Ball, and Time out of Mind you know my guest’s work. Daniel Lanois has an incredible resume. His work as a producer for U2, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, the Neville Brothers, Robbie Robertson and Neil Young among many others led Rolling Stone Magazine to say, “His unmistakable fingerprints are all over an entire wing of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” Lanois has moved back to Canada an...
Vivek Shraya + Eden Robinson
March 28, 2021 10:59 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Vivek Shraya. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Shraya is a Canadian multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, poetry and children's books touch on themes of cultural as well as personal transformation. Her successful one woman show “How to Fail as a Popstar” details a failed career in music from singing in religious gatherings where you sang as a kid, to talent shows in Edmonton malls, to a grab at pop stardom… It’s no...
Thad Cockrell + Kim Echlin + True Crime Panel
March 21, 2021 10:59 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet singer, songwriter Thad Cockrell who was about to throw in the towel on his music career when Jimmy Fallon chanced upon one of his songs and changed his life. He’s now a number one selling artists with a great story. Then, Kim Echlin, the award author of the new Bosnian war themed novel "Speak, Silence," stops by to discuss the book and offer tiups for writers. We wrap with a panel, journalist Kevin Donovan author of “Billionaire Murders,”...
Kat Goldman + Paul Shaffer + Perez Hilton
March 14, 2021 12:39 - 39 minutes - 36 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet singer, songwriter and now author Kat Goldman. Her book "Off the Charts: What I Learned From My Almost-Fabulous Life in Music" is a funny and heartfelt look at what it's like to meet your first fan, date a rock star (never again!), perform in a grocery store, and rebuild your career after getting hit by a car in a bagel shop. Then, did you know "It's Raining Men," the 1982 disco hit by the Weather Girls, is part Canadian? The upbeat...
Jayne Eastwood + Andrew Lawson + Josh Blaylock + Greg Mason
March 06, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Canadian acting icon Jayne Eastwood who talks about working with Cloris Leachman on family drama "Jump, Darling." Then Canadian animator Andrew Lawson talks about working on the big Disney animated film "Raya and the Last Dragon" during the pandemic. The comic book legend Josh Blaylock talks about his new project, a comic book company called PopCultivator, whose fans are its main investor and creators. And finally, Disney Vice Pres...
Peter Frampton + Stephan Moccio + Gowan
March 01, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet rock legend and “Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir” author Peter Frampton, who talks about everything from his early days–his friendship with “Dave” Bowie–and meeting Jimi Hendrix to superstardom and fighting a degenerative disease. Then, the panel, solo artist and STYX keyboardist and vocalist Lawrence Gowan and Grammy and Academy Award-nominated composer, producer, pianist, arranger, conductor and recording artist Stephan Moccio, discuss ...
David Fishof + Legends Panel
February 22, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet David Fishof who managed some of the biggest names in sports before turning his eye to music. While he was working with Ringo Starr he hatched the idea for the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, a retreat for amateur musicians to play with and learn from professionals like Roger Daltry from The Who and Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones. He is now the subject of a fun new documentary called Rock Camp that details the wild and woolly beginning of t...
Richard and Jerry Agar on Scorsese
February 18, 2021 20:29 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBRichard and NewsTalk 1010 host Jerry Agar discuss legendary film director Martin Scorsese's comments about cinema being devalued by on algorithms-based suggestions in streaming.
Nicholas Snyder on The Astrology Of Pandemics
February 18, 2021 19:27 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBToday I’ll introduce you to Nicholas Snyder, a Brussell’s based filmmaker and astrologist. Nicholas says his aim is to use film as a language to convey the inexplicable. To that end, today we’re talking about his new documentary “The Astrology Of Pandemics,” a timely film that shows how valuable and useful astrology can be in the prediction of future pandemics and how we could use it as a tool to understand the current pandemic. Nicholas Snyder joined me via Zoom from Brussels.
Stripper's Union + Nigel Irwin + Jim Cuddy
February 15, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Rob Baker (The Tragically Hip) and Craig Northey (Odds) of Stripper's Union, the Canadian supergroup whose new album "The Undertaking" is available now wherever you buy fine music. Then Cree composer/artist Nigel Irwin joins us to talk about his new gig as Nagamo’s Co-Creative Director. Nagamo Publishing is the world’s first Indigenous-created production music library for media. Nagamo’s goal is to provide Indigenous composers much-needed...
Blown Away + Rebecca Reid
February 08, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Katherine Gray and Alexander Rosenberg, glass blowers and judges on the Netflix show "Blown Away." It’s a competition show, like "Survivor" of "Hell’s Kitchen," but here the contestants make beautiful hand blown glass pieces with the winner earning a career boosting residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. Then Rebecca Reid, author of "Rude: Stop Being Nice and Start Being Bold."
Karma Brown + Jake Brennan
February 01, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Karma Brown, the bestselling author of five novels including the #1 bestseller "Recipe for a Perfect Wife." Today we talk about her first non-fiction book "The 4% Fix: How one hour can change your life." It's all about how to find guilt-free time for what you really want to do, and why it matters. Then, Jake Brennan, host of "Disgraceland," the number downloaded music podcast in the world, stops by to talk about where music and crime inter...
Bill King
January 18, 2021 11:59 - 38 minutes - 35 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Bill King, a three-time Juno Award nominee who has served as music director for Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt, the Pointer Sisters, Martha Reeves and Craig Russell. He’s a renowned musician, a radio host and now the author of “Coming Through the ’60s: An American Rock ’n’ Road Story,” his second book release in the past year, following the spring debut of “Talk! Conversations in All Keys,” a collection of interviews that King did with everyo...
Josh Groban + Jessica Rothe + Jim Cuddy + Claire McNear
January 11, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet international superstar Josh Groban who talks about writing and recording his new album "Harmony" while in lockdown in Los Angeles. Then, Jessica Rothe & Harry Shum Jr., stars of the romantic drama "All My Life" stop by. The pair play a young couple whose wedding plans are put into jeopardy when the groom-to-be is diagnosed with a terminal disease. Then, Canadian icon Jim Cuddy talks about his new single "Good News" and author Claire McN...
Bob Blumer + Jon Dore
January 04, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Gastronaut, artist and eight time Guinness World Record holder, Bob Blumer. He is the creator and host of the television series Surreal Gourmet, and Glutton for Punishment, and a producer and host of World’s Weirdest Restaurants. His shows air on various networks in over twenty countries world-wide. He is also the author of seven cookbooks including the most recent "Flavorbomb: A Rogue Guide to Making Everything Taste Better," a book he hopes...
Song Writing with Robbie Robertson + Sting + Elvis Costello + More
December 28, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show we have a look at the art of song writing with an A-list group of artists: Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Geldof, Alice Cooper, Randy Bachman, Bob Ezrin, The Kings, Kevan Staples, Robbie Robertson, Damhnait Doyle, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Bernie Taupin and Sting.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas... In Toronto
December 24, 2020 19:40 - 1 minute - 1.39 MB'Twas the Night Before Christmas... In Toronto, an ode to a weird holiday.
Shaggy + Harnarayan Singh + Robert Lacey + Disney's Soul
December 21, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBOn this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Jamaican-American reggae musician, singer and DJ Shaggy who is here to talk about his new reggae-themed holiday album "Christmas in the Island." Next is Harnarayan Singh, host of the Punjabi-language broadcast of Hockey Night in Canada and the author of a fascinating new memoir called One Game at a Time: My Journey from Small-Town Alberta to Hockey's Biggest Stage. In this interview we talk about the FIRST memoir he wrote… when he was six ye...
Anthony Daniels + Cole Horton
December 14, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: Anthony Daniels, the actor behind C-3PO Zooms in from London to talk about the paperback release of his book "I Am C-3PO," sing a song and send a very special Christmas wish. Then, "The Star Wars Book" co-author Cole Horton swings by to talk about why "Star Wars" still resonates after more than four decades.
Elvis Costello
December 07, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week on The Richard Crouse Show Podcast we are joined by iconic musician and songwriter Elvis Costello. In an exclusive one-on-one Costello talks about life in lockdown, creativity in isolation and his 33rd album “Hey Clockface.”
Christian Blauvelt And Stephen R. Bown
November 23, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we answer the age old question, "What are you watching on television?" Culture journalist and co-author of "What to Watch Next," now in bookstores, helps you navigate pandemic viewing. Then, award winning historian and author of "The Company," Stephen R. Bown, drops by to discuss one of the worst villains in Canadian history.
John Landis + Jason Blaine
November 16, 2020 12:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Podcast we meet John Landis, director of some of the most popular movies of all time including The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, National Lampoon's Animal House, Three Amigos! And Spies Like Us, Coming to America. His new project is "John Landis Presents The Library of Horror – Haunted Houses: Classic Tales of Doors That Should Never Be Opened," an anthology book featuring classic haunted house ghost stories. The selection includes tales of terror by Bram S...
Andrew Farriss + Justin Ling
November 09, 2020 11:59 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Andrew Ferriss of INXS. In the 1980s and for much of the 1990s he wrote some of your favorite songs including "New Sensation," "Never Tear Us Apart" and "Elegantly Wasted." He’s put the new wave dance rock of his superstar band on hold to write a series of heartfelt songs with a country-roots edge for a new 5 song EP called "Love Makes the World," which is available now wherever you legally buy or download music. In this interview we talk a...
Ansley Simpson + Simon Beecroft
November 02, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show podcast we meet Ansley Simpson, a Toronto-based Anishinaabe singer-songwriter. Nominated for two Indigenous Music Awards and winner of “Best New Artist," on November 6 and November 12, she appears as part of the 13-episode AMPLIFY series on APTN. The show has a fascinating premise… invite an Indigenous songwriter to find a piece of Indigenous inspiration (whether it be a book, art piece, belief, etc.) and write a song about it. Then from his home in Lond...
Sam Roberts + Ethan Lou
October 26, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week on The Richard Crouse Show Podcast we are joined by Sam Roberts who joins us via Zoom from his home in Montreal. His band, the aptly named Sam Roberts Band has been nominated for fourteen Juno Awards, they’ve won six, including Artist of the Year twice. They’ve been very busy since the world pressed pause back in March. The band’s song ‘We’re All in this Together’ became an anthem of sorts for various promos featuring frontline workers and Canadians alike. They put the finishing to...
Alan Doyle + Jake Clemons
October 23, 2020 19:02 - 38 minutes - 35 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Great Big Sea's Alan Doyle who stops by to talk about his new book "All Together Now" and tell us why St. John's has one of the best pub cultures in North America. Then Jake Clemons, saxophone player for the E Street Band discusses his Uncle Clarence and working with Bruce Springsteen.
Fran Healey + Mena Massoud + Rich Aucoin
October 19, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: Chart topping songs like "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" and "Coming Around" and albums like album, "The Man Who," which spent nine weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, made Scottish rock legends Travis one of the most interesting bands of the last few decades. They are back with an emotionally charged & deeply heartfelt ninth studio album simply called "10 Songs." it’s a record about life’s challenges and how love can help weather those t...
Tonya Williams + Mena Mossoud
October 12, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: This year is the 20th anniversary of Reelworld, a festival founded by my guest Tonya Williams, to showcase films, animation, shorts, music videos, industry panels and awards from racially diverse and indigenous filmmakers and media artists. Missing this year are the parties and galas as ReelWorld has adapted to the pandemic and moved on line. The entire festival will be online - with live webinars from Oct. 14 to 19. They are also promoting www....
Kevan Staples + Ace Frehley + Steve Earle
October 05, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBOn the October 4, 2020 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet former Rough Trade keyboardist and “High School Confidential” co-writer Kevan Staples on the occasion of the song being inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, Then, Ace Frehley, former guitarist for KISS swings by to talk KISS Koffins and the release of his new solo album "Origins Vol. 2." Finally, we talk to Steve Earle, a Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, a record producer, author and actor whose song Copperhead...
The Kings + Bob Ezrin
September 28, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we talk about one of the most enduring Canadian rock and roll hit of all time. John Picard of The Kings said, “We never made a million dollars, but we had a song that people love and has stood the test of time.” 40 years ago The KIngs released their Bob Ezrin produced debut album, “The Kings Are Here” on the US major label Elektra Records. That same month, their smash hit single “This Beat Goes On / Switchin’ to Glide” first entered the Billboard Hot 100...
Gloria Kim + Tamara Cherry + Kevan Staples
September 21, 2020 11:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Gloria Kim, writer/director of a new family drama called "Queen of the Morning Calm." In this interview we about the eleven years she spent working to get this story to the screen, How her background in journalism (former Maclean’s reporter) informed the writing of this story, how she guided her eleven year old co-star Eponine Lee through the film’s difficult material and much more. Then, former CTV Toronto crime reporter Tamara Cher...
Battle For the Planet of The Humans + Hannah Georgas
September 14, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBOn the September 12, 2020 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner, director and producer of the climate change movie “Battle for the Planet of the Humans.” The controversial documentary is a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices. Then we spend time with singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas. Her new album, “All That Emotion,” is a lush and lovely record, produced by Aaron Dessner, hot off his wor...
Iain Reid + Midsommar
September 06, 2020 14:28 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Iain Reid the Canadian author of the bestselling novel "I’m Thinking of Ending Things." "I’m Thinking of Ending Things" has been described as a psychological thriller and horror fiction, and is about a young man who takes his girlfriend to see his parents on a remote farm and the disturbing aftermath that follows. It sounds simple, but this is anything but. It’s a story of predetermination and free will that bears up to reading and r...