Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 119

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 119

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy 
Air Date: 04/13/2012 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
Free Podcast Download Location: iTunes.

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Rebroadcast: 04/18/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

This weeks we continued on with our Winnipeg Comedy Festival Coverage.

Our first guest was comedian Chantel Marostica who has roots to Winnipeg's comedy scene. We converse about her life as a female comedian and touch on some of the successes and challenges Chantel has faced throughout her career.

Another comedian who has done very well for herself is Jen Grant, who was scheduled to perform 4 times throughout the festival including Saturday's taping of The Debaters.

Jen Grant has performed at most festivals in Canada including the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, as well as the Halifax, Vancouver, St. John's Newfoundland and Sudbury comedy festivals and was the first woman and first Canadian to make it to the finals of the prestigious Boston Comedy Competition. And as if that weren't enough, Jen has also traveled to Egypt and Israel to entertain our troop. 

Our last guest was Gemini award winning entertainer, comedian and author Sean Cullen.

A Multi Canadian Comedy Award and Gemini recipient. Sean has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show,Comedy Central Presents, The Ellen Show and also made finals of NBC's Last Comic Standing in Season 6, and he also has a multitude of roles in Seven Little Monsters, Odd Job Jack and Jimmy Two Shoes.

During our conversation with Sean we learned what we could expect from him throughout his 9 Winnipeg Comedy Festival appearances.

To download this episode please subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes Music Store or click here to be automatically subscribed. For more information, please visit http://wakeupwinnipeg.com or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg

You can also become of a fan of our show on Facebook at Facebook.com/WakeUpWinnipeg

Until next week,
-Av
 
(c) 2012 A. Valpy - Wake Up Winnipeg/UMFM

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 118

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 118

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy 
Air Date: 04/06/2012 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
Free Podcast Download Location: iTunes.

Web: http://wakeupwinnipeg.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg
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Rebroadcast: 04/11/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

On today's episode we began our full coverage of the 2012 Winnipeg Comedy Festival!

To help entice our listeners into checking the festival out, we were joined by two well known Canadian comedians.

Starting off the program we welcomed Nikki Payne to our show. During our confab Nikki filled us in on what she's been up to and weighed in on the topic of bullying.

Following Nikki, a voice that some of our listeners may know from from another radio station. Fans of The CBC would recognize Steve Patterson's voice from his hit CBC radio program The Debaters.

On this weeks show, we had a proper chat with Steve about his experiences in life and learned more of his exciting new one man show called This Is Not Debatable. 

To download this episode please subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes Music Store or click here to be automatically subscribed. For more information, please visit http://wakeupwinnipeg.com or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg

You can also become of a fan of our show on Facebook at Facebook.com/WakeUpWinnipeg

Until next week,
-Av
 
(c) 2012 A. Valpy - Wake Up Winnipeg/UMFM

Rapid Transit Pushes Forward

By Andru Valpy
04/05/2012

  Winnipeg Transit invited citizens to a free ride on the Southwest Transitway on Thursday April 5, 2012. Free rides were offered from 10:00 am until 8:00 pm, giving Winnipegger's a chance to see their city in fast forward.

“This is a great opportunity for Winnipeggers to test drive the new RT before it goes into full operation on April 8,” said Mayor Sam Katz.

The new Rapid Transit service, branded as “RT,” will go into full operation on Sunday, April 8, 2012.

The 3.6 km Transitway is a high-speed roadway for buses, physically separated from the regular street system. Buses on the Transitway will operate at speeds up to 80 km/h, free of any other traffic, providing very fast, reliable service.

On Thursday evening, we took a ride on the new Southwest Transitway from Jubilee (stop #11034) to Graham Mall (stop #10619) and back.




Raw Video: A ride on the Southwest Transitway.

During the ride our host Andru Valpy (@AimlessAndru) tweeted his observations:

6:27 PM - At least 20 people are on the RT express bus I'm on. We were able to hit 80 km around the Fort Rouge area.

6:28 PM - Driver referred to the underground tunnel by Osborne station as "The Love Tunnel".

6:31 PM - Bus driver is still learning the route! Just about made a left turn on to St. Mary instead of Graham Mall. Says he was used to turning there.

6:32 PM - Just rode from Jubilee to Graham Mall in 14 minutes. Not too bad. Pretty rapid so far.

6:36 PM - Bus driver just gave me a rapid transit pen as I exited at The Bay. Now for the return trip.

6:58 PM - Getting ready for my return trip now.

Return trip:

7:05 PM - Second bus driver informed us that the bus stop in front of The Bay is not actually a stop for BRT. Kind of confusing if you're going South Bound.

7:07 PM -…at least he stopped for us. But not without giving us a bit of grief and a head shake. Perhaps he forgets today's the first day of #brt.

7:08 PM - Guy walks on the bus and says to the bus driver "I had to see what 40 million dollars paid for". Gives credit to himself for paying taxes.

7:12 PM - 7:33 - time from Graham to Harkness.

7:14 PM - 9:33 - time from Graham to Osborne.

7:16 PM - 11:05 time from Graham to Fort Rouge.

7:17 PM - 12:32 time from Graham to Jubilee.

7:19 PM - That concludes my free trial of the #brt system. My favourite part was the tunnel:

Photo by Andru Valpy

7:20 PM - Overall I liked the design and ease of riding the #brt and if I worked downtown I'd probably use it. 12 minutes isn't too bad.

Detailed route and schedule information for the new Rapid Transit service, which includes 13 rapid transit routes, is now available at http://winnipegtransit.com. On April 8, Rapid Transit service information will be available on all the TransitTOOLS passenger information systems Winnipegtransit.com, Navigo Trip Planner., TeleBUS, BUStxt, BUSguide, BUSwatch, and BUSgadget).

Additional information about the Southwest Transitway may be found at: http://www.winnipegtransit.com/en/southwest-transitway/

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 117

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 117

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy 
Air Date: 03/30/2012 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
Free Podcast Download Location: iTunes.

Web: http://wakeupwinnipeg.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg
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Rebroadcast: 04/04/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

For the first time in Wake Up Winnipeg, we aired our conversation with Canadian Comedian classic Colin Mochrie in it's entirety. Colin was the first guest we ever welcomed to Wake Up Winnipeg and stems from episode number 1.


Though we have aired certain portions of our conversation before, we have never aired the entire chat un-edited. We do this to kick off the 2012 Winnipeg Comedy Festival which starts next week.

To download this episode please subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes Music Store or click here to be automatically subscribed. For more information, please visit http://wakeupwinnipeg.com or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg

You can also become of a fan of our show on Facebook at Facebook.com/WakeUpWinnipeg

Until next week,
-Av
 
(c) 2012 A. Valpy - Wake Up Winnipeg/UMFM

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 116

Wake Up Winnipeg - Episode 116

Hosted Live/Produced/Recorded by: Andru Valpy 
Air Date: 03/23/2012 6:00 PM on UMFM 101.5 FM
Free Podcast Download Location: iTunes.

Web: http://wakeupwinnipeg.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg
Become a FaceBook Fan: http://facebook.com/wakeupwinnipeg

Rebroadcast: 03/28/2012 on CJUM 101.5 UMFM - 6:30 AM

We started today's show off with a developing story regarding Air Canada's wild cat strike at a variety of airports across Canada. To understand how the strike affected passengers with flights scheduled in Winnipeg. To help us, we spoke with Christine Alongi who is the Director of Communications & Public Affairs at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport.

Following that we welcomed Canadian hip-hop artist Classified back to our program for his second time. We spoke to him moments before he took the stage to open up for Canadian band Headly at the MTS Centre while on tour in Winnipeg.




Finally, we welcomed back Dan The Intern who offered his thoughts of the Poor Young Things performance at the Oak bar in Winnipeg.

To download this episode please subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes Music Store or click here to be automatically subscribed. For more information, please visit http://wakeupwinnipeg.com or follow us on twitter at twitter.com/wakeupwinnipeg

You can also become of a fan of our show on Facebook at Facebook.com/WakeUpWinnipeg

Until next week,

-Av

(c) 2012 A. Valpy - Wake Up Winnipeg/UMFM