For 100 days in a row from March until June, I went on Instagram live (@ryanseeker) and chatted with whomever I wanted. And a show happened. Now - after a few months of rest - join me as I interview friends and connections around Canada and the world to ask how they have adapted to these "unprecedented times" and some of the downs and ups of this rollercoaster in our collective history. Released every other Thursday at 7pm EDT.
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"Pretty Deadly Self-Defense" w/ Susie Kahlich
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Susie Kahlich (@prettydeadlyofficial) has travelled the world developing and teaching a revolutionary self-defence program that weaponizes everyday gestures — giving her students a physical vocabulary in case of emergency. We talk about how the origin story of Pretty Deadly Self-Defense, how patriarchy lays the foundation for victim-blaming and, th…
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Artistic phenomenon and fancy foodie Maddox Lu @maddoxthings and I have known each other for a long time. In this episode we talk about where his career ambition originated, how he repeatedly "lucked-in" to amazing opportunities (like designing Cher's makeup) and how COVID has revealed his next passion.…
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"Revelations: The Book of Mike" w/ Mike Smith
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Toronto-based Super Queer/Career Queerdo Mike Smith is a non-binary, harm reduction and sexual health advocate who's not afraid to talk about their past in the work that they do. Mike grew up in a extremely religious Mormon household and came to terms with their sexuality and gender identity under the iron dome of an uncompromising religious cultur…
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"Picasso, Etrog and deciding our own heroes" w/ Alma Mikulinsky
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Art scholar Alma Mikulinsky talks about how her "niche interest" in Pablo Picasso had her scoured by the Tate Modern in London, UK and the conflict between appreciating, criticizing and adding context to one of the world's most celebrated artists. Oh, and then we make plans to visit Windsor, Ontario to view the most recent Sorel Etrog exhibition sh…
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Speaking with Cirque du Soleil alum and über flexible Joey Arrigo about his settling into COVID-induced Toronto life - complete with and the ups, downs and upside downs of building a home and transferring skills from strutting on stage to slinging drinks.
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"You Know it's True" w/ @Canada.gov.ca
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Season 2 Opener! Welcome back lovely listeners! This season we're going audio-only (despite the handful of loyal followers who watched on YouTube) *sorry Dad*. This season kicks off with a fabulous conversation featuring the secret and highly-storied Admin of Instagram account @Canada.gov.ca who wants us to look beyond the internationally acceptabl…
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I'm excited! It's really happening! After a few months away, I'm back, back, back again! New episodes will being again on Thursdays, starting June 24th!
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"Another Facet to COVID" w/ Michelle Mai
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(SEASON 1 FINALE!) By day, Michelle Mai is a scientist working in the Bay Area of California and by night (and morning and evening, too!) she facets gems on a cutting wheel in her kitchen. After the murder of George Floyd, her Instagram became as much a platform for anti-racism as it was beautiful sparklies for sale. Michelle and I talk about our s…
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What makes home, home? And since when did getting wet in the rain make you "more of a man"? In this, the second edition of the "Gay Away" series, I discuss the difference between places you date and places you settle for with Jose Patiño-Gómez. Jose continues his amazing journey from Caracas to Barranquilla to Bogotá to Montréal ... and eventually …
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While the world reels from an "unprecedented global pandemic", for Muluba Habanyama and many others living with HIV, this isn't our first rodeo. Born with HIV herself, Muluba has become an activist and journalist whose work centres around busting stigma using a wealth of personal strength, experience and resilience. In this episode, I ask Muluba ho…
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"Abortion Dream Team" w/ Karolina Więckiewicz
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As many governments around the world lean extreme-right, Poland is tightening restrictions on an already extremely limited state-controlled abortion criteria. Now, more than 97% of Polish citizens are forced to look elsewhere to safely terminate unwanted pregnancies. Karolina Więckiewicz - member of the "Abortion Dream Team" in Warsaw - talks about…
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As the Executive Director of 2-Spirited People of of the 1st Nations, Torontonian Keith McCrady has had to be nimble and creative in keeping his Indigenous community members healthy and connected. Several times a week, he provides food, PPE and harm reduction supplies to a growing list of people in Toronto and - if possible - beyond. When I ask how…
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Sarah Gardiner is a union organizer in the food and hospitality industry - an industry that has been hit first, and arguably hit hardest by COVID. Now, with 90% of her members laid off, we talk about what it means to be an "essential" worker and how she and her union can provide support.
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"The Spirits of Diversity" w/ Ren Navarro
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Ren Navarro of Beer. Diversity. has the tall order of educating tall can producers *and wine, and spirits* about what inclusion looks like, and how good communities can be formed by everyone - at every level of production! She also just started her own brand new podcast: Ren Likes to Talk. Find it, and her, here: https://www.beer-diversity.com/link…
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In this episode of Nocturnal Transmission, we're going all the way to Warsaw, Poland to chat with Przemek Krynski about the political situation in Poland under an increasingly right-wing government and how he reacted to increasing social pressure and hostility by being the truest to himself he's ever been. Give Przemek a follow on Instagram https:/…
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Happy New Year from Nocturnal Transmission!
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Happy 2021! It's already off to a roaring start. In lieu of regular programming, I opted to record a little greeting and well-wish for you listeners. Thank you for continuing this journey with me! Join me next week with a whole new episode. We might be going international again... who can say? ;)
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"DJ COVID" w/ Phillippe Villeneuve and Brad Allen
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Toronto's DJ Phillippe Villeneuve and Brad Allen have done a lot to keep the music going in Canada's largest city. Dj Phillippe tells us about the night "the music died" and how he's keeping himself strapped into the digital nightlife rollercoaster.Brad Allen, co-founder of runaway hit digital dance party "Club Quarantine" talks about how community…
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"COVID Christmas" w/ Kailey Jane Hawkins
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Cozy by the fire in Owen Sound, Ontario, Kailey Jane Hawkins takes us on a musical journey through Christmas past and present and the lasting traditions in her family for this different year - for all of us.
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"Keep Calm & COVID On" w/ Darren Brown and Renée Pang
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All the way from London, UK, Darren Brown shares his experience of being redeployed from working as a physiotherapist with patients living with HIV to treating COVID-19 in patients in an overwhelmed emergency room, as well as managing recent long-COVID symptoms in himself. Renée Pang on the other side of the pond, in London, Ontario, shares her jou…
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Welcome to Nocturnal Transmission, a podcast that releases a few different angles of this bumpy world experience we’re all sharing, with new angles and different lives featured each time. I’m your host, Ryan Kerr, and I want to thank you for joining me here, from wherever you are, and whereever you are in your journey in these unprecedented times.…
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"Jazz Hands Jonathans" w/ Jonathan Christopher and Jonathan Savage
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Two music-theatre professionals, Jonathan Christopher and Jonathan Savage, have been displaced by COVID-19 and are making ends meet in their new locations and directions.
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