FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH with Blake Melnick

Send us Fan Mail  Welcome to this week's episode of For What It's Worth , and our new series called # IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters . I'm your host, Blake Melnick, and this is Chapter Two of our story , #The Old Guitar, The Interview, Part One… with my guest, the multi-talented  #DouglasCameron ... singer, songwriter and the author of "Old Guitar"...for what it's wo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters and Chapter 1 of #TheOldGuitar. Today's episode was inspired by the short story, old guitar written and read by Canadian singer-songwriter, Douglas Cameron. Some say guitars remember. The wood retains the memory of every note, of every song that is played through them. The older the guitar, the richer the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick,  the prologue to #TheOldGuitar, the first story in our new series called #IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters. How does a man become a story? How does that story become a myth? passed down from one generation to another. What do we add or change, forget or remember, embellish or dismiss as his story changes...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and the launch of our new series called #IntheCompanyofReaders&Writers. We are really jazzed about this series cause who doesn't love a good story? Over the past number of months we have been collecting some great ones and we are excited to be able to share them with you in some really creative ways....

Send us Fan Mail Well Happy New Year and welcome to 2022. and this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. It is the conclusion of our two part interview with our new artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell This episode is the official passing of the jam. Blair Packham, our artist in residence for the past month or so, joins me as  my co-host  to #PasstheJam to our next artist, the a...

Send us Fan Mail Well, welcome to this week's two-part episode of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick called  #LongHairedCountryGirl . This episode is the next installment in our #PasttheJam music series, where our current artist in residence #BlairPackham a will join me to help pass the jam to an amazing new artist. Rooted in the heart of the Kootenay Rockies. She draws her inspiration fr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #TheSpaceinBetween called #SongFood. I'm your host #BlakeMelnick. And this episode is a lead into our popular music series called #PasstheJam. For those of you that are new to the show and unfamiliar with this series, here's the skinny. What began as an idea, born from our frustration, with the inability to play recorded music on fo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is the conclusion of our three part interview with #DrTomCarey, part of our #innovation series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation called #BridgingtheGap". In our last episode, Tom and I discussed the difference between #entrepreneurs and #intrepreneurs, the future of learning and work as a result of changes...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week’s episode of #ForWhatit’sWorthwithBlakeMelnick.  This is part 2 of my interview with #Dr. TomCarey called #BridgingtheGap”, part of our new innovation series the #ManyFacesofInnovation In last week’s episode Tom and I discussed the challenges facing Canada around innovation as well as some of the ways in which we can make #innovation more understandable, acces...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first episode of season three, of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick.  For those of you that had a chance to listen to our trailer for season three last week, know we have an amazing season in store for you. This first episode is actually a re-release of the original podcast we did back in June, 2020. The reason we're re-releasing this episode is twofold. Number...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 3 of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick and #TheSpaceInbetween. We have an incredible season in store for you!.  Guests for this season include, #BlairPackham, #LindaKash, #DavidEdey, #DanMangan, #DouglasCameron, #KenKlonsky, #TomCarey, #SueSiri,  and more. Check out the trailer for the skinny ....For What it's Worth Music for today's show complemen...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week’s episode of #ForWhatit’sWorthwithBlakeMelnick and our final episode of Season 2 of the show, called #RamblesandRuminations with our special guest, comedian extraordinaire, @Ron James. Cam Brown, Ron and I discuss, Ron’s  soon to be released new book, #AllOvertheMap; his childhood years with his family in Halifax, Nova Scotia; His early career as a stand up co...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode of #TheSpaceinBetween called the #KindnessofStrangers, recounts an adventure my wife and I had a little over a week ago, which could have been quite horrendous had it not been for the incredible kindness shown to us by complete strangers we met along the way. This episode is dedicated to Rogers towing, Dean's Garage,  U-Haul in Ossoyos and the Josie H...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of, #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick called #Betweenthesheets.  Our podcasts #ForWhatit'sWorth and #TheSpaceinBetween is now one year old. We launched the podcast on June 8th, 2020 with our trailer, which described our concept for the show. The pandemic became the backdrop for exploring ideas for a changing world. So in this episode,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of #TheSpaceinBetween recounts the story of the late great #BrownieMcGhee and #SonnyTerry told through the liner notes, from their live recording at #TheBunkhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia, written by the late George Hoefer, music historian, fan and jazz collector. It is in essence a tribute to all the people who wrote liner notes. Thanks for keeping the memories...

Send us Fan Mail Well welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, called #LivingtheImpossibleDream part 2, in our music series called #PasstheJam, with my guest Canadian music icon @Blair Packham In part 1, we discussed Blair's early career as a singer / songwriter, the founding of his band, #TheJitters. Those heady days in the late 1980s, where they opened for He...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part of our #PasstheJam music series, called #LivingtheImpossibleDream part 1, with my guest @BlairPackham. My multi-talented  guest has been fixture on the Canadian Music and Entertainment Scene for four decades - A prolific singer, songwriter, sound engineer, composer, producer, radio personality and...

Send us Fan Mail Next week on  #ForWhatitsWorthBlakeMelnick we have an amazing interview in store for you. Our multi-talented guest for the next episode of our music series #PasstheJam has been a fixture on the Canadian music and entertainment scene for four decades; a prolific singer songwriter and composer, Ron Sexsmith says of him that he is "One of Canada's best unsung pop writers&qu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #thespaceinbetween on  #ForWhatItsWorthWithBlakeMelnick, called #TheCampfireJesusPlaylist.  For the past month or so, we've been playing songs written by our current artist in residence, #OliverMcQuaid for all the intros and outros to the show. As a precursor to our next episode of #PasstheJam, where Oliver will join me as a co-host to &...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week’s episode of #ForWhatitsWorth. I’m your host Blake Melnick. This is the Part 2 of # ItReallyisAllAboutYou" , my interview with Ayelet Baron, renown Futurist, and award winning author of the Fuck the bucket List Trilogy. In the last episode, Ayelet and I discussed the her soon to be published 3rd book of the trilogy, Fuck the Bucket List for the Health Con...

Send us Fan Mail If nothing else the pandemic has given us time to think. It has given us space to re-examine the world and the various structures which govern our lives, and ultimately make the decision of whether or not we want to continue to adhere to these structures or whether we want to  use this opportunity to create something better. Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthw...

Send us Fan Mail As our listeners know, we started this podcast in the midst of the pandemic because we saw a unique opportunity for change. A chance to re-examine our world and the various structures under which we operate through a critical lens; to determine whether the paths we have been treading are the right ones or whether we need to blaze new trails. We wanted to give voice to a cross sect...

Send us Fan Mail Music is a reflection of both our history as well as our social consciousness. It helps us make sense of the world and allows us to make personal connections with it. Perhaps more than any other art form, music is evocative; it triggers vivid memories of childhood, falling in love, loss and sadness - it forces us to look at ourselves to remember who we were and who we are.   Music...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this week's episode of #thespaceinbetween called a #PinterPause. We've just surpassed 2000 downloads of the show, not counting streams and this episode marks our 37th since the release of the podcast, back in June of 2020. During this time we have chronicled the impact of the COVID pandemic on the lives of Canadians and we've attempted to raise awareness...

Send us Fan Mail I am really excited about this week’s, 2 part episode called #CampfireJesus. It is the first in person interview we’ve conducted since the show began (albeit at opposite ends of an 8 foot long banquet table); the second episode of our #PasstheJam music series, and the inaugural “passing of the jam” from our current artist in residence, @BenHunter to an exciting new artist, OliverM...