The Stuph File Program

Peter Anthony Holder

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#0708: Sherri Davidoff; Kristen Lopez; & Andrew Fazekas
13-03-2023
#0708: Sherri Davidoff; Kristen Lopez; & Andrew Fazekas
The Stuph File Program Featuring cyber security expert, Sherri Davidoff; Kristen Lopez, author of But Have You Read The Book?; & 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 Download Cyber security expert, Sherri Davidoff, CEO of LMG Security, talks about artificial intelligence, some of the pitfalls, and where it can take us in the future. Sherri is also the author or co-author of several books, including Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace; Ransomware and Cyber Extortion: Response and Prevention and Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity. Kristen Lopez, film editor for TheWrap, is the author of But Have Your Read The Book?. It’s done in collaboration with Turner Classic Movies and features 52 films and the books they were based on. (Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Kristen and I have a post interview chat about films based on movies). 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 orbital space debris. (Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Andrew talks about China's spy satellites spying on other satellites; China's dead rover on Mars; lunar time zones and more). Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 750 selections to choose from! This week’s guest slate is presented by Montreal freelance writer, Steve Hatton.
#0707: Jim Marggraff; John Campbell; & Stuart Nulman
05-03-2023
#0707: Jim Marggraff; John Campbell; & Stuart Nulman
The Stuph File Program Featuring educational innovator, Jim Marggraff; John Campbell, author of Beyond The Fading Memories: Guiding Words For Dementia Caregivers; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download 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.  Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 750 selections to choose from! 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.
#0703: Vic Ferrari; Peter McNally; & Andrew Fazekas
05-02-2023
#0703: Vic Ferrari; Peter McNally; & Andrew Fazekas
The Stuph File Program 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 Download 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). Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 700 selections to choose from! 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.
#0699: Vic Clinco; Matthew Hughes; & Andrew Fazekas
08-01-2023
#0699: Vic Clinco; Matthew Hughes; & Andrew Fazekas
The Stuph File Program 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 Download 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). Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 700 selections to choose from! 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.
#0698: Aaron Donaldson; Arlene Duane Hemingway; & Stuart Nulman
01-01-2023
#0698: Aaron Donaldson; Arlene Duane Hemingway; & Stuart Nulman
The Stuph File Program 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 Download 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.  Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 750 selections to choose from! This week’s guest slate is presented by Montreal actor, Michael Rudder.
#0697: The Year-end “Best Of The Stuph File Program” Show
25-12-2022
#0697: The Year-end “Best Of The Stuph File Program” Show
The Stuph File Program Featuring some of the great guests of 2022 in this “Best-Of” year ender Stuph File Program Download Les Ansley, the creator of Indlovu Gin in South Africa, makes his gin by filtering the botanical mix from the dung of elephants.  (Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where you can hear more of our conversation with Les). First heard on Stuph File Program #0655. Also heard on Audea under the title Les Ansley - Elephant Dung Gin). Žilvinas Kulvinskis, co-founder of Chazz Chips, who offer a potato chip that has a very distinctive flavour of the nether regions of the female anatomy. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0684. Also heard on Audea under the title Žilvinas Kulvinskis - Pus*y Flavor Chips). Amanda Booth, founder of Trinkets By Amanda, makes jewelry that has elements not normally found in jewelry, such as breast milk and semen. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0691. Also heard on Audea under the title Amanda Booth - Jizzy Jewellery). Thordur O. Thordarson is the manager of The Icelandic Phallological Museum, probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0668. Also heard on Audea under the title Thordur O. Thordarson - The Icelandic Phallological Museum). We remember legendary director and film historian, Peter Bogdanovich, who recently died on January 6th at the age of 82, with a conversation from 1997. At the time we talked a bit about his career but also a lot on the amazing book he wrote about directors called Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors, which showed Peter’s love of the history of filmmaking. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0647. Also heard on Audea under the title Remembering Peter Bogdanovich). We remember actress Sally Kellerman, the original Hot Lips Houlihan, from the film MASH, who died in February at the age of 84. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0655. Also heard on Audea under the title Remembering Sally Kellerman). We remember comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who passed away in April.  We share an interview from 1994 when he performed in Montreal at Just For Laughs. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0661. Also heard on Audea under the title Remembering Gilbert Gottfried). We remember legendary songwriter, Lamont Dozier, part of the number one writing team of all time, Motown’s Holland Dozier Holland.  He died in August at the age of 81. We feature part of an interview with him from 2004, when he was promoting his album, Reflections.(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra featuring the full hour long visit with Lamont, including featuring three songs from his album). (First heard on Stuph File Program #0678. Also heard on Audea under the title Remembering Lamont Dozier). We remember Bob McGrath from Sesame Street, who died in December at the age of 90 with part of a conversation from 2004. He was one of the first four humans on the classic children’s program. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0695. Also heard on Audea under the title Remembering Bob McGrath). Journalist, broadcaster and author, Alan Hustak, talks about the Monarchy, it’s future in Canada and his connection to King Charles III. (Alan is also the author of Titanic, The Canadian Story Centennial Edition). (First heard on Stuph File Program #0683. Also heard on Audea under the title Alan Hustak - Canada, The Monarchy & The Commonwealth). TV producer/writer Nick Santora on how TV writers and novelists pick character names and how they get them cleared. Nick is also the author of a couple of favourite books of mine. Slip & Fall and the excellent page turner Fifteen Digits. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0686. Also heard on Audea under the title Nick Santora - Character Name Clearance.
#0696: The Meshach & Malik Christmas Special
17-12-2022
#0696: The Meshach & Malik Christmas Special
The Stuph File Program Featuring a perennial favourite holiday program. It’s The Meshach & Malik Christmas Special Download This is a special one hour show for the holidays. The Meshach & Malik Christmas Show, an irreverent children’s program unlike anything you’ve heard before during the holidays. So just sit back, down another eggnog and enjoy! Music heard on this week’s show includes: The Chipmunk Song – David Seville Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer – The Rovers I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jackson Five Have Yourself A Looney Christmas! – Looney Tunes Folks Jingle Bells – The Singing Dogs I Tawt I Taw Ol’ Tanty Claus – Tweety & Sylvester Twelve Days Of Christmas – Bob & Doug McKenzie The Angel – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio Who Put The Stump? – Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth – Spike Jones & His City Slickers I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jackson Five Christmas Dragnet – Stan Freberg & Daws Butler Silent Night – Mahalia Jackson This week’s opening slate is presented by Edna Sugarplum, Santa’s clerical & secretarial elf. Special thanks to Local 802 of the Elves’ Union for allowing her to participate at this very busy time of the year. (If you want a little background into how this special Christmas show was created, Patreon subscribers to The Stuph File Program can enjoy a Patreon Rewards Extra that features info on how the show was created and outtakes of the boys!) Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 700 selections to choose from!
#0695: Bob McGrath; Jennifer Khoe; & Andrew Fazekas
10-12-2022
#0695: Bob McGrath; Jennifer Khoe; & Andrew Fazekas
The Stuph File Program Featuring actor/singer Bob McGrath; actress Jennifer Khoe; & 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 Download We remember Bob McGrath from Sesame Street, who recently died at the age of 90 with part of a conversation from 2004. He was one of the first four humans on the classic children’s program.  Jennifer Khoe, from the TV show, Kung Fu. She plays the shapeshifter Xiao. 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 success of Artemis One’s journey to the Moon from its stellar pictures, to record breaking swings past the Moon. and what it all means for the future.(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Andrew talks about China’s astronauts going to their own space station; a historical mega tsunami on Mars and more). Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 700 selections to choose from! This week’s guest slate is presented by history professor, military historian and filmmaker, David O’Keefe, author of many books including One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe and Seven Days in Hell: Canada's Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers.
#0694: Bruce Baek; Daniel Ross; & Stuart Nulman
04-12-2022
#0694: Bruce Baek; Daniel Ross; & Stuart Nulman
The Stuph File Program Featuring actor Bruce Baek; voice actor, Daniel Ross; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download Actor Bruce Baek, whom you’ve seen on shows like HBO’s The Flight Attendant and Netflix’s Jessica Jones is now in the second season of Apple TV+’s anthology series, Little America. Daniel Ross is only the third voice actor to embody the character of Disney’s Donald Duck. And he’s up for an Emmy for it in the first Children & Family Emmy Awards. The category is Outstanding Voice Performance In A Preschool Animated Program. Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. It’s our annual roundup of great holiday book ideas. This week’s reviewed titles are: Montreal to Moscow by Terry Mosher (Aislin Publications, $30) Our America: A Photographic History by Ken Burns (Knopf, $99) The West Wing and Beyond by Pete Souza (Voracious/Little, Brown, $63) Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life by James Curtis (Knopf, $54) You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times. Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 700 selections to choose from! This week’s guest slate is presented by Clay Campbell, host of the show And Now . . . on CKLU 96.7FM in Sudbury.  His show is on Saturday morning from 10 to noon, just before The Stuph File Program.  Clay plays audio drama’s, classic comedy bits, strange and obscure music, plus he shares interesting bits of information that will make you the star of your next dinner party.