House of Crouse

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Dr. Jen Gunter. She has been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB/GYN. She is an OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician. She is Gwyneth Paltrow’s nemesis, a fierce advocate for women’s health and has devoted her professional life to caring for women. She also writes about sex, science, and social media and is the author of The...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Deanna Marigliese, the Canadian character art director for Pixar Animation Studios. Today we’ll talk about LUCA, a movie many families will enjoy together this weekend on Disney+. Then, comedian, host of CBC Radio’s The Debaters he’s a Dad to Scarlett and Norah, Steve Patterson joins us to talk about his first book, "Dad Up!" It’s getting great...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel. He joins me to talk about his intriguing new book Nishga. It’s a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence. Drawing on autobiography and a series...

On this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet two of the stars of "In the Heights," the highly anticipated film adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash hit show. You know Jimmy Smits from everything from "NYPD Blue" and "The West Wing" to "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and "How To Get Away with Murder." He plays Kevin Rosario, owner of his own taxi cab service in...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Brad Fraser. Brad is one of Canada's best-known playwrights, his work, plays like Poor Super Man, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and Kill Me now have been produced worldwide, in many languages, with highly successful runs in Toronto, New York, Chicago, Milan, Sydney and London… they’ve been adapted into films and named the best p...

We can't go to bars right now, so here is a chance to safely soak up the ambiance of the world's greatest watering holes. Last Call is a podcast on the stories behind the places where everybody knows your name. I’m Richard Crouse. I tended bar for seventeen years everywhere from hot spots to dive bars and I thought I had seen it all… In my life behind bars I witnessed everything from first dates a...

On this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Louise Johnson, a writer whose work has been published in The Globe & Mail, The Huffington Post, Darling Magazine and more. Her debut book, “Behind the Red Door: How Elizabeth Arden’s Legacy Inspired My Coming-of-Age in the Beauty Industry,” is equal parts educational biography of a woman whose name we know, but whose biography has been largely lo...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show, a real-life story that has all the hallmarks of tabloid fiction. New Yorker magazine staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe received international acclaim for his 2019 investigation of the Troubles in Ireland, and now, in “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty,” he turns his sights to three generations of the Sackler family, the dynasty behind P...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet author Jeff Vandermeer. He’s been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today.” His novel, “Annihilation,” won many awards and was adapted into a Hollywood film starring Natalie Portman. Several other adaptations of his novels will soon be coming your way from Netflix soon… but today we’re here to talk abo...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Oscar nominated musician, bandleader, and television personality Jon Batiste. We’ll talk sbout his new album “We Are,” which was just one of the many projects he’s had going during our last locked down year. From bandleader on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” to scoring the Pixar animated movie “Soul” to writing and recording this album he’...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor. His new solo album Share the Love is available now and has a fascinating backstory from studio to stores. We’ll also meet June Millington, guitar player for the best 1970s band you’ve never heard of. Formed in 1969, Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label and no less an authority t...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Craig Taylor, author of "New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time." Taylor is a chronicler of some of the world’s greatest cities. His book "Londoners" was called the "best book about London in at least a decade" and the new one on New York City, which is made up of profiles of bodega cashiers, hospital nurses, elevator repairmen, emergenc...

When I edit the audio from interviews I clean them up, cutting out "Ums" and "ahs." For your enjoyment I offer up a moment of zen, a compendium of the sounds you don't usually hear on the radio.

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Florian Zeller, the Oscar nominated director of "The Father." He discusses his personal connection to the material and what it was like working with Anthony Hopkins. Then, Dylan Playfair, co-star of the Disney+ show "Mighty Ducks: Game Changers" stops by to talk about how playing hockey prepared him for a career as an actor. Then, "Falcon and th...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast: If you love records like Joshua Tree, Wrecking Ball, and Time out of Mind you know my guest’s work. Daniel Lanois has an incredible resume. His work as a producer for U2, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, the Neville Brothers, Robbie Robertson and Neil Young among many others led Rolling Stone Magazine to say, “His unmistakable fingerprints are...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Vivek Shraya. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Shraya is a Canadian multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, poetry and children's books touch on themes of cultural as well as personal transformation. Her successful one woman show “How to Fail as a Popstar” details a failed career in music from singing in religious gatheri...

On this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet singer, songwriter Thad Cockrell who was about to throw in the towel on his music career when Jimmy Fallon chanced upon one of his songs and changed his life. He’s now a number one selling artists with a great story. Then, Kim Echlin, the award author of the new Bosnian war themed novel "Speak, Silence," stops by to discuss the book and offer tiup...

On this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet singer, songwriter and now author Kat Goldman. Her book "Off the Charts: What I Learned From My Almost-Fabulous Life in Music" is a funny and heartfelt look at what it's like to meet your first fan, date a rock star (never again!), perform in a grocery store, and rebuild your career after getting hit by a car in a bagel shop.  Then, did yo...

On this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Canadian acting icon Jayne Eastwood who talks about working with Cloris Leachman on family drama "Jump, Darling." Then Canadian animator Andrew Lawson talks about working on the big Disney animated film "Raya and the Last Dragon" during the pandemic. The comic book legend Josh Blaylock talks about his new project, a comic book company call...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet rock legend and “Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir” author Peter Frampton, who talks about everything from his early days–his friendship with “Dave” Bowie–and meeting Jimi Hendrix to superstardom and fighting a degenerative disease. Then, the panel, solo artist and STYX keyboardist and vocalist Lawrence Gowan and Grammy and Academy Award-nominate...

On this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet David Fishof who managed some of the biggest names in sports before turning his eye to music. While he was working with Ringo Starr he hatched the idea for the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, a retreat for amateur musicians to play with and learn from professionals like Roger Daltry from The Who and Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones. He is now the su...

Richard and NewsTalk 1010 host Jerry Agar discuss legendary film director Martin Scorsese's comments about cinema being devalued by on algorithms-based suggestions in streaming.

Today I’ll introduce you to Nicholas Snyder, a Brussell’s based filmmaker and astrologist. Nicholas says his aim is to use film as a language to convey the inexplicable. To that end, today we’re talking about his new documentary “The Astrology Of Pandemics,” a timely film that shows how valuable and useful astrology can be in the prediction of future pandemics and how we could use it as a tool to...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Rob Baker (The Tragically Hip) and Craig Northey (Odds) of Stripper's Union, the Canadian supergroup whose new album "The Undertaking" is available now wherever you buy fine music.  Then Cree composer/artist Nigel Irwin joins us to talk about his new gig as Nagamo’s Co-Creative Director. Nagamo Publishing is the world’s first Indigenous-created...

This week on the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Katherine Gray and Alexander Rosenberg, glass blowers and judges on the Netflix show "Blown Away." It’s a competition show, like "Survivor" of "Hell’s Kitchen," but here the contestants make beautiful hand blown glass pieces with the winner earning a career boosting residency at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. Then Rebecca Reid...