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Episode notes

Here’s more on what we mentioned during this Canada Day nostalgia-fest (most of these are Canadian but some are American things we mentioned in passing):

• What is Canadian content?
• One-hit wonders, like Snow
• CJYR Radio in Edson (which appears to have died in 2005)
• Anne Murray 
• Shania Twain
• Loverboy
• Burton Cummings
• The Poppy Family and Terry Jacks’s Seasons in the Sun
• Taproot article about the downtown market returning to 104th Street
• Bryan Adams 
• Corey Hart 
• Glass Tiger
• Drake
• Stan Rogers
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Leonard Cohen
• Video Hits
• Good Rockin’ Tonight
• Four O’Clock Rock
• MuchMusic
• Platinum Blonde
• Honeymoon Suite
• We might do a playlist. We’ll link it here if we do.
• Eugene Lee Yang’s music video 
• Earth by Lil Dicky
• Night Vale Weather
• The Littlest Hobo
• Wayne and Shuster / Bathtubs Over Broadway
• The Beachcombers 
• SCTV
• Schitt’s Creek
• Great White North / Bob and Doug Mackenzie 
• Mr. Dressup
• Under the Influence
• The Friendly Giant
• My Brother, My Brother and Me TV show
• Your Movie Sucks
• Murdoch Mysteries
• Invader Zim
• Danny Phantom
• Anne with an E
• Cadence Weapon
• Brook Lynn Hytes

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