The Pulse

"Send us a text about this episode!" Why You Should Listen to This Episode: This week we sit down with Victoria blues rock guitarist Paul Black, who traces his path from a gospel and country childhood in Thornhill, BC, through a life-changing Stevie Ray Vaughan concert, to his own soulful cover of Brick House. Then goaltender Hunter Dryden, grandson of hockey legend Ken Dryden, joins us fresh off signing with the Victoria Grizzlies to talk carrying a famous name, controlling momentum in the c...

"Send us a text about this episode!" BONUS RECIPE: Download Chef Jonathan Frazier's Recipe for Game-Day Chicken Wings: https://bit.ly/S2EP01FootballRecipe Hosts Erin Haluschak and Chef Jonathan Frazier of the Comox Valley kick off a new NFL season - covering the latest roster moves, the players and teams worth watching, and how to set up a winning fantasy lineup. They weigh the stats, the experts, injury reports, podcasts, websites, social media and even AI, and talk about how to separate the...

"Send us a text about this episode!" Why You Should Listen to This Episode How many of you can think of one or two key people in your life who had a real impact on you - a coach, a teacher, a family member? Steve Anderson has spent nearly three decades in the classroom being exactly that person for his students, and this episode is about what resilience actually looks like when it's built on community, purpose and positive relationships. In this episode: Steve Anderson joins Cindy Thompson on...

"Send us a text about this episode!" Why You Should Listen to This Episode: Season 3 opens with two Vancouver Island stories built on showing up for other people, year after year. Darrell Fox was seventeen when he joined his brother Terry on the road for the 1980 Marathon of Hope, and 46 years on he's still carrying that story forward, now through a documentary built from footage nobody knew existed. Marnie Grimes has spent decades behind the Port Alberni Toy Run, one of Canada's largest comm...

"Send us a text about this episode!" Peter Kent of Qualicum Beach joined hosts Olen Vanderleeden and Matthew Stockton, along with panelists Sean, Anthony and Nicole, to unpack James Cameron’s 1994 spy-comedy blockbuster True Lies. True Lies stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold and Bill Paxton as a secret agent who has spent years hiding his real job from his wife, only to discover she may be having an affair with a used car salesman while he is busy stopping nuclear terro...