Podcast episode 456ish: John Cullen

John Cullen returns! The TOC/curler/drummer/podcaster/
comedian/straight arrow has just put out an album and is here to talk about it. It's called Most Likely to be a Comedian and is available in all platforms. Check it out. But first listen to this chat we had. He talks about being gifted, being in bands, his hidden aggressions, his two podcasts (Podcaps and Real Good Show), and sponsoring a Little League baseball team (go Jokers!). We also put his gifted status to the test.

We, too, are available in all platforms. So go check us out on iTunes. Or Stitcher. Or PodcastAddict. Or TuneIn Radio. Or right here!

May 21: John Cullen

Mayday! Mayday! (I don't get why this weekend celebrates a distress signal, but whatever.) Tonight we welcome back standup comic John Cullen. John's got a brand spanking new album and we're going to play a couple tracks off it. And he'll tell us what else is new in his world. Is he still teaching? Good question. I think I'll ask that. Is he still curling? He must be, but we'll find out for sure. Was he really voted most likely to become a comedian in high school? These are the kinds of hard-hitting questions you can expect from me tonight.

Tune in at 11 pm to CFRO 100.5 FM here in Vancouver. Or, if you'd rather, livestream us at coopradio.org. Or maybe you'd prefer to catch us on the TuneIn Radio app. We're not choosy. Just listen.

Podcast episode 343ish: John Cullen

Hello Canada, and curling fans in the United States and Newfoundland. It's my pleasure to welcome to the podcast all the shut-ins, the pensioners, the blind, and all of those people who can't get out to watch curling games... Curling games? Okay, I've been exposed. I don't know curling from hockey, but I do know they both take place on the ice. And you don't "play" curling; you just do it. After talking to comedian (and curler) John Cullen for an hour, I know more about curling than ever before. I always figured because of my expertise in Wii curling, I'd just need six weeks training before I'm competing nationally in curling. But he insists that's not the case. Whatever.

The episode isn't all curling, though. We also talk comedy, magic, give a review of the Bill Burr show we went to that very night, discuss pedagogy (John's also an in-demand substitute teacher, or TOC to use the lingo du jour), bad first dates, and embarrassing high school poetry. Plus we're joined in studio by fellow teacher and curling fan Jack Showers to translate stuff to me in language I'd understand.

Stream the episode below or go download it at Stitcher, PodcastLand or wait who knows how long for iTunes to get around to putting it up. It'll get there eventually.

Mar. 16: John Cullen

It's sweeps week on Co-op radio. Not in the broadcasting sense, since Co-op radio is above such base considerations as listenership. I mean in the curling sense. Our guest tonight is John Cullen: comedian, teacher, and curler. As a comic, Cullen recently played to a sold-out Vogue audience as the warm-up to stunt magician Wes Barker. As a curler, he hosts the popular (in the curling world) video series Cullen and a Curler. He's also pretty adept at the sport, too. He's been a curler on the World Curling Tour for the last eight years, he won a bronze medal in the 2012 BC Men's Provincials, has appeared in four straight provincial tournaments, and was ranked 25th on the World Curling Tour money list in 2012. And as a teacher, he was able to join us so late on a school night because it's March break. He's also a bit of a drummer and was named one of Vancouver's most eligible bachelors by the Province newspaper. So we've got lots to talk about, even though I know nothing about curling.

We get things started at 11 pm PT on CFRO, 100.5 FM in Vancouver. But curling fans the world over can livestream the show at coopradio.org.