{"id":1618,"date":"2013-06-13T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2013-06-13T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:08:02","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e30-a-little-bit-wet-with-dave-shumka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E30: A Little Bit Wet with Dave Shumka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1619\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"shumka\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shumka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, British Columbia with comedian and podcaster Dave Shumka, co-host with Graham Clark of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/shows\/stop-podcasting-yourself\">Stop Podcasting Yourself<\/a><\/em>. They discuss what everyone in Vancouver is, a little bit; the city&#8217;s much-touted &#8220;livability&#8221;; becoming that icon of fun that is a comedian in &#8220;No Funcouver&#8221;; the origin of <em>Stop Podcasting Yourself<\/em>; the newly classic Vancouver lifestyle up in downtown condos versus the classic classic Vancouver lifestyle in his hundred-year-old house; waking up in adulthood to find himself in a reasonably cool city; the pull, for comedians and media people, of both Toronto and the United States; his job overseeing international music at the CBC, and to what extent it puts his finger on the pulse of the Canadian musical consciousness; whether music will always out-cool comedy; the quaintness of the Canadian media experience; whether Vancouver has stories to tell, and how he&#8217;d like to see them told; the scarred hookers of the less-scary-than-sad Hastings Street; how many Torontonians it takes to screw in a lightbulb; the struggle for comedic visas; the descent of the stretchpant; Vancouverites&#8217; tendency to luxuriate in the idea that they could, theoretically, ski and windsurf in a single day; how he heard the call of comedy at a Salvadoran restaurant; his strategic conversational use of mundane topics; Vancouver&#8217;s stinkiest buses; and the most fruitful sources of ridiculousness he has, including dumbness and his own simulation thereof.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e30-a-little-bit-wet-with-dave-shumka\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e30-a-little-bit-wet-with-dave-shumka\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver, British Columbia with comedian and podcaster Dave Shumka, co-host with Graham Clark of Stop Podcasting Yourself. They discuss what everyone in Vancouver is, a little bit; the city&#8217;s much-touted &#8220;livability&#8221;; becoming that icon of fun that is a comedian in &#8220;No Funcouver&#8221;; the origin of Stop Podcasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}