Teach Me Tiger

Join returning cohost Sarah Wright and Melody Starkweather with the ever clever, funny and lovely real-life Newfoundlander Gina Gill as they venture onto the Rock. We cover all kinds (best kind!) – Newfoundland and Labrador accents, culture, heritage, literature, food, music, art, anxieties and true island love. Gina also tells us about her online Newfoundland culture magazine, T int of Ink...

Slide into the melty world of cheese with Melody and her sweet baby brother and seriously silly chef Scott Starkweather. It’s a cozy fam jam kind of time as these two Starkweathers discuss the Montreal Cheese Mafia, Swiss Cheese Cartel, human cultures, catacomb cheese, cheddar addiction, cheese theft and more!

Mel and Clare have been dating it up for the last few years and they think they might have learned a few things. Clare came on Episode 61 to set up her very first Tindie profile, and we are just thrilled to have her back to tell us how that all went! Join us for a fun and candid discussion on hard-earned lessons, dating Do’s and Don’ts, wild stories, and more. So much more! This is our...

If you didn’t consider the title of this episode disclaimer enough, consider yourself DISCLAIMED: this episode is about SEX and we kindly ask that children, prudes, exes and immediate family members steer clear of this one. Now, for the rest of you perverts, are you ever in for a treat! Melody and best bud/former cohost, Sarah Wright, are sitting down with Casey Easton of Erotic Embodiment f...

Viara Mileva, PhD is back, with our good buddy Liz Cooper, to unpack childhood attachment styles, and pontificate on how they affect us and our interpersonal relationships as adults. Viara is wearing her former academic hat (she works now as a photographer,) as she spent years in the lab studying how primary caregivers and small children interacted and bonded (or in some cases, how they didn&#8217...

Back by popular demand, it’s Melody’s father Justin – and just in time for Father’s Day. He’s been working on a list of tales yet untold, and he’s here to share them with us all (ever lucky!) Justin has been interviewed in several previous episodes of Teach Me Tiger – Episode 44, My Daddy Is A Ballerina, Episode 55, Trying Different Things, and Episode 58,...

Originally aired February 28, 2019. Hustle, hustle, hustle, baby! Kim Murphy, the ultimate healing hustler, is here to help us simplify our highly saturated lives. How do we tune in, instead of tuning out? What do we really want? Where in our lives are we leaking energy? WHO ARE WE?? AND WHERE THE HELL AM I??? After a real fun game of Icebreakers, we dive deep into the Millennial-and perhaps Xenni...

Best friends make the best fun, and we’ve all missed the BEST FUN with former co-host of the show and Melody’s longtime good buddy, ELIZABETH COOPER! (Insert airhorns here.) This episode is a bit of a departure, in that it’s not educational in the slightest, but you know what?! It’s a global pandemic, the world’s on fire, and we’re going rogue! In today’s...

Originally aired July 12, 2018. Holy Moly, it’s the Fab Four (Feminist Fathers.) Episode 10 boasts the hunkiest Dad panel in all the land: Greg Aarons, Chris Chambers, Kaajuk Kablalik and Brent Maguire. Ever lucky! These progressive pappies sit with us to talk about impending fatherhood, filthy earholes, invisible housewives, coffee romance and BBQ bromance. Swooooon!!! Find Chris at  www.ott...

Welcome to our comedy-cast, featuring the hilarious and ever clever Claire Haus, who we’ll call a comedy “semi-pro.” Claire tells Melody about all the wild stuff she’s been up to since their time together in Toronto, and how she made her way into stand-up comedy in London, UK. We discuss why the popular kids don’t get to be comics, how to get into improv, the Edinburg...

Lemme axe you something: have you ever been curious about why axe murder is such a thing in pop culture? We were curious too, and although we may not have all the answers, we have a great time pontificating on the question. Meet Scarlet Christiaans. She’s pod host Melody’s dear childhood friend. She’s also very funny and smart and obviously devastatingly good-looking. In this epi...

They’re BACK! It’s Sarah Wright and your host Melody slinging salacious jokes and talking tattooing. If you forgot or if you’re just tuning in, Sarah co-created the show with Melody and it’s always a great time when the original dream team is reunited. We learn about some different types of tattoos, misconceptions about stick-n-poke, truly wild tattoo stories, tattoo histor...

Was 2020 a dumpster fire? Yes. Yes, it was. But you know what? We managed to release some pretty stellar episodes in spite of all of that. There were technical challenges as we moved to remote recording for all of our guests. There were social challenges as well – as in, we all wanted to play with our friends! Listening through the episodes we released this past year, however, helped us reme...

Online dating! What a racket! Kim Angell (from Episode 4 – Body Break!) guest hosts on this episode. We discuss our own experiences, share some of your stories, set up a freshie fresh Tinder profile, demystify some 2020 online dating slang, sanitize some glory holes and even discuss some ways to hack the system and make your profile stand out. Also, Kim wants to set you up on a date. Apply w...

Originally aired October 10, 2019. UFOs! Aliens! Strange things in the sky! This week we talk to serious expert, Laura Thursby, PhD, on the history and culture of extraterrestrial lore. She gives us the scoop on Roswell, Area 51, the UFO/cold war connection, abduction story tropes, and more! We hear some listener stories, and your pals Melody and Liz present some light Google research. And of cour...

Originally aired October 23, 2019. We are getting spooky this Halloween with ghost stories from our friends, as well as some spine-chilling stories of our own. We’ve brought in our favourite spooky couple, Jenna and Kaajuk Kablalik (check them out in episode 25, What The Folk?, and also hear Kaajuk in The Dadisode, episode 10.) Oh and Sarah Wright, our former co-host, is sitting in for Liz this we...

Originally aired September 13, 2018. We’re BAAA-AAACK with more of your spooky scary ghost stories. In the second instalment of this juicy two-parter, we visit haunted BnBs, cottages, family homes, bars and even haunted dreams. We also touch on the Dibic box, Annabelle the haunted doll, death portraits at vegan cafes and Dear David. Oh, and we talk a lot about farts. (What’s new?) Find Justine at&...

Originally aired Sept. 6, 2018. Good Golly, this one’s a doozy! This here is the chilling first instalment of our long-awaited ghost ep, featuring our creepiest neighbour Justine Cruise-Campeau, the spooOOoOooky Melody Starkweather, and the totally spooked Sarah Wright. We’ve got YOUR tales of ghosts and ghouls from all walks of the afterlife, not to mention a few harrowing accounts of...

This week, Melody is joined by co-host Chris Chambers and special guest, Emmet L. F. Cameron, to talk about cool stuff that was happening for queer people in the Weimar Republic, and how the Nazis ruined it, like they ruin everything. Emmet sets the stage with some depictions of the scene in popular culture – Sound of Music or Cabaret, anyone? We learn about key players Magnus Hirschfeld and...

This week Melody is joined by cohost (and podcast co-creator) Sarah Wright, in conversation with Jim McEwen & Ryan Urquhart. On the semi-educational scale, this rates low. We are mostly just shooting the shit, as they say. We talk a bit about how Jim isn’t a writer, despite doing lots of author-type things. We also surprise Ryan with messages from some of his nearest and dearest wishing...

We’ve finally arrived at the long-awaited Hippie Years episode in the 3-part series on Melody’s father Justin Starkweather. (Part 1 is Episode 44 and Part 2 is Episode 55.) Justin gives us the scoop on life in the late 60s/early 70s at Twin Oaks, a commune in rural Virginia, USA. He discusses commune life, the division of labor and how people lived. We talk sex, drugs and rock n roll,...

This week, Melody is cohosting with Nikki Rochon Kaiser, and they are talking to their new internet bestie, Diz! Diz hosts the Astrocast by Diz Microcast, and comes slinging all kinds of astrological knowledge. She explains some of the workings of astrology – charts, rising signs, moon signs, MERCURY FRIGGIN RETROGRADE! And more! So put on your space helmet, dear {insert your astrological si...

Melody and Liz are back at it, nerding out on another research project for your listening pleasure. This week we’re talking about some seriously problematic filmmakers: Roman Polanski, Leni Riefenstahl and even a touch of the Woody Allen. Undeniably talented, they all have experienced huge levels of success in their careers. Polanski (and Allen) have gone on to work with A-list actors and re...

Melody’s Dad is back in the New York groove. Justin Starkweather is the star of this episode, which picks up where we left off in 1960s NYC in Episode 44 – My Daddy Is A Ballerina. (If you haven’t yet listened to 44, we’d recommend starting there.) In this period of soul searching and “trying different things,” Justin gets into Sufi whirling, or Dervish turning,...

Another from the vaults in our homesteady series and this one’s all about BEES! And it’s with Liz Cooper. DON’T YOU LOVE LIZ? Originally aired August 1, 2019. Buzz buzz! This episode features bee enthusiast, Jacklyn Wright, who not only really cracks up Mel and Liz, but also teaches us all A LOT about bees! Tune in, dear listeners, to learn about Jack’s favourite bee facts, setti...