Teach Me Tiger

We promised homesteady episodes, and here is a real classic that’ll surely help you prepare for the apocalypse. It’s EPISODE SEVEN, baybeee! (Remastered with love, ’cause we are better at editing now.) Originally aired May 31, 2018. This epi is all about tiny homes and big ideas. And we all know what they say about “big ideas,” amiright?? Join us in conversation with Bridget O’Fl...

Homesteaders, doomsday preppers and wannabe farmers: this one’s for you! Originally aired August 9, 2018. Hop into the henhouse, dear listeners, for some Chick Chat and Cock Talk with fan favourite and Number One Fan, Justine Cruise-Campeau! And guess who your chicken experts are this week. You’ll never guess. It’s us! We cover coop setup, the dinosaur connection, best monikers, duck wa...

Social media is a pandemic lifeline, especially for us hustlers. Cat and Toby James of Cat’s Cove Communications are with us this week to impart tips, knowledge and talk strategy for small business owners braving the big bad online world. Sarah Wright joins Melody in this epi, for a fun- and revelation-filled social media coaching sesh. Listen up to learn about the biggest mistakes Cat and T...

Grab your tin foil hats! This week Melody and her husband Chris talk to Chris’ very longtime bestest pal, Mr. Mike Freeman. Mike gives us the lowdown on Chemtrails, MK-Ultra and HAARP and Chris jumps in with some COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Annnndddd we get a little bit into Jeffrey Epstein, Lizard People and New Coke. Mike also enlightens us on Psy-Ops and Wreckers. Don’t know what...

We’re still on lockdown with all of this pandemic nonsense, so let’s keep talking about animals – AMAZING ANIMALS! OG buds Liz Cooper, Nikki Rochon Kaiser, and your reggo host Melody Starkweather get together on the interwaves and share findings from their isolation research. We talk about octopuses, crows, dolphins, gorillas and parrots and how unbelievably clever they are! Hear...

This week, Liz and Melody are diving into the ocean deep with aquarium expert Thomas Burton and marine biologist (and Melody’s husband and sometimes cohost) Chris Chambers. The boys give us the lowdown on many marine creatures: electric eels, deep sea isopods, giant squid, octopi, what Melody calls a “Puppy Dog Fish” and the fascinating and prehistoric coelacanth, just to name a f...

Here we all are, in self isolation, many of us with our kids. And because of this, we took these last couple of weeks off from podcasting, which means, it’s time for a COVID Classic! We present to you, Cubs On The Loose, featuring some of our very favourite kids, talking about kid stuff! We’ve made this one kid-friendly, so you can listen together, although BEWARE – the topic of...

It’s The Pie-Cast featuring two of our most experty pie-preneur pals, Kassy Boulay and Josh Reil of the Perth Pie Company. We get the Pi Day party started with the humble pie’s origin story, and then get into some wacky pie facts, favourite pies, pie crust hacks, surprise pies, pie-litical assault pies and more! Grab a slice and join the party, ’cause you are at least 3.14 times...

This one might have you covered for your commute and back. It’s a little lengthy but SO totally worth it. Liz Cooper is back with Melody Starkweather and they’re covering two completely fascinating true crime stories: The Zodiac Killer, a bizarre and compelling Bay Area serial killer case that’s gone completely cold AND Charles Starkweather, the rampage killing James Dean lookali...

Oh Helllll yessssss. It’s another sexpisode, this time featuring the delightful Miss Jones. Co-creators of TMT Melody Starkweather and Sarah Wright sit down with holistic sexual wellness educator Miss Jones and talk about soooo much: sex buckets and bucket lists, squirting, big dick energy, yoni and lingam massage, kegel exercises, edging, body image issues, fun foods, sex toys and so much m...

Let’s talk about Mormons! Melody’s bud from work Megan Lefebvre joins her in this chat with ex-Mormon and ex-Utahn Stephanie McGee. We start out with a quick primer on Mormonism and the American Jesus. Steph tells us about her upbringing and how her Mormon “shelf” came crashing down. We cover Joseph Smith’s death mask, different levels of Hell, coffee as a gateway dru...

This week we are getting loud and thick and heavy with Steve Needham, who needs some ham. (And on that note, he needs a better nickname, too.) Nikki Rochon Kaiser joins Melody and Steve for this heavy metal deep dive. We talk metal origins, terminology, best intros, guitar shredding, Satanic Panic, Slayer (of course), Indonesian metal, and more. Do some neck warm-ups, tiger babies, ’cause we...

Happy New Year, Tigers! May we all put the teens behind us and forge ahead victorious into the Roaring Twenty-Twenties. Before we do that, though, maybe we should reminisce a little about our last year as a teenager. In this 2019 wrap-up, Chris Chambers co-hosts the pod. Melody and Chris walk listeners through a Teach Me Tiger top ten countdown with clips from our favourite episodes. There are gre...

This is a special holiday episode, featuring a very special man in Melody’s life: her dad Justin. Justin Starkweather (formerly John) worked in New York City in the late 50s to early 60s as a dancer, actor, film editor, puppeteer and stage-manager. He was a member of the original Camelot lineup on Broadway, with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, and also rubbed elbows with many other success...

We’ve finally got an expert, who ADMITS TO BEING AN EXPERT! Meet Viara Mileva, PhD, who studied genetics, maternal behaviour, child-parent attachment and bedsharing. She knows a lot of sciencey stuff about mothering, and is also just a badass mother. (And a badass photographer!) After some auxiliary chat about limb loss and California, Viara gives us the science-based lowdown on SIDS, attach...

What do you get when you put three adult women and BFFs in a Days Inn to catch up over Prosecco? F*cking hilarity! And some fun facts! Melody and her old (but obviously very young and hot) Toronto roommates Katerina Theo (of Episode 1) and Nikki Rochon Kaiser (of Episode 33) got together, mic’ed up, and just had the best time ever. Although Kat fell asleep (cause there’s always one tha...

Power up and plug in. Liz is back this week for a gametacular episode featuring her main squeeze JM and his best friend of 20+ years Richard. It also features a lot of animal noises, because Liz and JM live in a zoo. (Please note that all burps and farts may be attributed to said animals.) What a topic; what a world! We discuss favourite childhood video games, widely-held myths about gamers and ga...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Enjoy this Patreon bonus episode because we love you and we love Halloween. We would recommend listening to the full episode 40 before this one. And if you would like more of these bonus episodes, go see us at patreon.com/teachmetigerpodcast/ THANKS AND HAPPY HALLOWEINER! Hey Tigers! This Patreon bonus episode, just in time for Halloween, features a couple more listener and person...

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 week. And by “sit in,&#82...

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 course, our resident cinephile can&#821...

Oh yeah! It’s Liz’s big sister Louise Cooper, AKA Coop De Loop or Coop Du Jour, and she’s here to have a great time and talk to us about her experiences as one of the original Kingston Roller Derby Girls. She gives us a quick breakdown of the game, tells us how we can get into it ourselves, and reminisces about her own (super badass) derby days. We talk gender, inclusivity, derby...

Originally aired February 14, 2019. This Valentines Day, we bring you romantic tragedies, local lore, northern mythology, and wild personal stories about mysterious beings. Legendary couple Jenna and Kaajuk Kablalik join us for this episode. It’s beautiful. It’s scary. It’s folklore, baby. We discuss the Watson’s Corners Kangaroo, Selkies, Sedna, Shadow People, Sasquatch, t...

We are back with a new epi. This week, we are talking about MUSHROOMS. Our friend Steev Morgan joins us to teach us all about fungi. We learn about fruiting bodies, bespoke antibiotics, the mycelial network, micro-dosing, and the Santa Connection. And as always, much much (mush mush?) more! Grab your hardhat, because your mind is about to be BLOWN! You can find Steev at mycognosis.com or brookemed...

Originally aired August 23, 2018. Joining us this week is a very special guest all the way from Detroit, MI (and also from Sarah and Melody’s crazy 20s), the lovely and foxy Deveri Gifford. Pull up a stool as we listen to your stories of crazy and terrible dates, as well as recant some wild tales of our own. And make sure to listen all the way through as there is a surprise late addition from Deve...

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, setting up a hive from scratch, how bees make honey, messy and violent bee copulation, saving our pollinators (and save the world) and how to catch a swarm of bees. Oh, and Gam...