CJMP Podcast

Move over microplastics, there's a new villain in town. What have you flushed down the drain lately? Pills, cleaning products, paint from brushes, or even bacteria, fungi and metals, maybe?  Do these contaminants of emerging concern need to be better regulated? We talk with a City Councilor and informed concerned citizen about their efforts to do just that. 

We tap into the Hold Onto your Butts campaign as well, to hear about the unexpected consequences of tossing cigarette butts and what some towns are doing to offer a safer alternative.

Is the recycling system broken? We’ll dive into the recycling bin and see where the bulk of our recyclables end up and also what they get turned into.

We’ll also celebrate BC’s first marine debris depot arriving in Powell River by tuning into an interview that Let’s Talk Trash team member, Abby McLellan, had with with CBC host, Gregor Craigie.

Finally, we'll take the Grinch out of a giftless Christmas.

Making Peace with Invasives

Weeds and invasive species. Are they friend or foe? We look at these sometimes maligned plants from a few angles in this episode. Aryuvedic practitioner, Todd Coldecott, chimes on their role in rebalancing both the planet and our wellness. Founder of No Spray Powell River, Lisa-Marie Bhattacharya, shares how pest management practices affect biodiversity, and finally Karen Skadesheim, talks about using so-called invasives as materials for basketry and other creative endeavors.

Music from

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Music knows no boundaries
• Kalayla Johnny - Can't Help falling in love
• Mama D http://horizondancer.com/ - Mr. Businessman's Blues
• Bjork - In the Musicals
• Tom Waites - Swordfishtrombones
• Bryon Lee and the Dragonaires - Je t'aime
• Micky Hart and Babatunde Olatunji - Iyanu (surprises)
• Cream - Politician 
• Pielle's and Gonzolazes - The Churchhouse Love Song

The story of bottled water is nuanced. Backed by the reality that we need clean drinking water to survive, and then infused with marketing campaigns that played on fears of water born pathogens and the wonders of trace mineral content. 

What is the full story of bottled water? And with 1 in 7 people having no access to clean drinking water, can we thrive without it?

Would you live in a house made from mushrooms? Would you wear a suit embroidered with fungal spores to help decompose your corpse? Fungus has always been among us and now we are more actively seeking a symbiotic relationship.  This episode explores the role of mushrooms in reducing the waste we produce, as well as cleaning up the waste we inevitably do create.

Cognitive Scientist & Mycologist, Theo Rosenfeld also shares how mushrooms can be key to physical and mental wellness during times of personal and even global crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join your Cousin Awd as 42 Fish leap ahead into the unknown depths! 

Music to thrill your earholes by:

• Dragon Fli Empire
• Lee Scratch Perry & the Upsetters
• Harry Nillson
• Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
• NADJIWAN
• Northern Cree
• Scenic Route to Alaska
• Robbie Grunwald

Plus!! Updates from the Sunshine Music Fest... get your breaking news! 

Fabulous and Flirty 42 Fish funkify fridges into the new year. 

Hindsight is 2020 so we revisit some ol' friends!

These musicians use their art to make change in the world. Use whatever you have on hand Cousin! May Creative and Critical thinking rain down on the world!

• Corey and Joel - Groove is in the Heart of a Jam (home recording)
• Fred Wesley - Swedish Funkballs
• Kimmortal ft. Ostwelve - Activation 
• Tonye Aganabe - We Ain't Friends
• The Bahama Soul Club - Open Wide
• Dragon Fli Empire - Hold Down the Fort
• Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra - T.M.I
• Queen Ifrika - Times Like These
• Ndidi O - Engine Gone Cold

Todays New Word in the TlaAmin langauge is: nupnutch - pants 

New music from

• StupidHumanRecords
• Tonye Aganaba

Then we get a bit horny with

• Funnky Fred Wesley
• Tuba Heavy

Music from home for friends who can't be home right now! 

• Slim Milkie
• Cameron Twyford

Some of the heaviest I could find all from D.J. Tony P,s old record labal TEE PEE Records.https://teepeerecords.com/  DO NOT download or press play unless you want your brain melted,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Seriously!!!

Give me silence and I can walk up Valentine Mountain. Give me this, and I feel like I could run up to the top of Mount. Everest. This Awesomness is the best naturaul HIGH on EARTH!!! The huggest thanks to David and The Unending Subtilties Of River Power for bringing it all back for me about 6 years ago. I thought this genre of music died out after Marty Balin left The Plane in 71. Boy was I ever wrong. Of all the genres of music that fascinates me,,,,,,,this is #  Fucking # 1  I am not much of a metal man, but combine that with psych and I am hooked. Cheers to all who LOVE Psychedelic music!!!

Playlist:

Harsh Toke  - Plug Into The Moon

Earthless - Flower Travelin Man

Earthless - Lost In The Cold Sun

Playlist:

Super Mama Djombo - Sol Maior Para Comanda

Ebo Tyler - Atwer Aboroba

Teta Lando - Massanga Mame

Super Mama Djombo b- Jamm Session

Super Mama Djombo - Amilcar Cabral { Chefi Di Guerra }

We're Wheeling and Dealing with emotions this month as Cousin Awd gets ready for Halloween with Real Life scary stories and how we handle them! 

Interview:

John Gagnon, CEO Wawatay Communications, Omushkago Cree
Speaking on Mental Health, Colonialisim, Suicide and the imposed disfunction on Indigenous communities from the Indian Act and Residential Schools.

This interview is part of Death Becomes Us, a Transmedia Art Installation by PJ Kelly and Zoe Ludski at the Powell River Art Centre. For more information and further audio go to http://cousin.myportfolio.com

Music:

• Slim Milkie - A Little Land (For Emballs and Lindz)
• Kimmortal ft. Ostwelve - Activation
• Alia Sharrif - Don't Forget Me
• Kimmortal - Sad Femme Club
• Dragon Fli Empire - Banff Ave
• The Pursuit of Happiness - Terrifed
• Della Reece - Compared to What