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Bob Got a Microphone
by Bob Tarantino
Conversations with interesting people.Hosted by Bob Tarantino.
Episodes
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Benjamin Perrin - Changed Heart, Changed Mind
Professor Benjamin Perrin has recently published a book - Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial - that proposes some revolutionary changes to the criminal justice system. You might think that's not particularly noteworthy - some law professors routinely advocate for radical changes to...
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David Frum - Journalist
David Frum doesn't need much of an introduction - if you've paid any attention to Canadian or US politics over the last twenty-five or so years, you know him. He's written ten books, is featured in The Atlantic magazine, is a sought-after commentator on television and online - in short, he's a...
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Jason Ward - Breaking the Habit
Jason Ward seemed to have everything a lawyer could ask for: his own successful firm, community recognition, money, a family. But there was a problem: he was drinking himself into oblivion every night. Jason has come through to the other side of mental health and substance use challenges that…
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Caryma Sa'd - The Chronicler
Lots of different people use lots of different words to describe Caryma Sa'd: citizen journalist, lawyer, provocateur, badass - but one which seemed obvious to me, and seems even more obvious after this conversation, is storyteller. We discuss how she acquired her public profile, how she has...
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Amy Salyzyn - Artificial Intelligence, Legally and Ethically Speaking
Professor Amy Salyzyn (University of Ottawa) teaches and writes about, among other things, legal ethics, and recently she's been turning her attention to the practical and ethical implications for lawyers of the latest wave of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. We talk…
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Rebecca Durcan - The Last Bencher Election?
Ontario lawyers are soon going to be electing the Benchers who oversee the Law Society - and since lawyers are a self-regulating profession, that's more important than it might at first sound. Rebecca Durcan is running for Bencher, and in this conversation we talk about the risks that professions...
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Philip Slayton - Navigating the Endgame
In 2022, Philip Slayton started publishing The Endgame, a Substack where he contemplates a world in which few moves remain, victory or defeat are close at hand, and options are limited and rapidly diminishing. That all seemed a little melancholic to me, which struck me as odd: Slayton has had a...
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Graham Henderson - The Radical Percy Bysshe Shelley
I find it compelling when someone is passionate about something – especially when they’re passionate about something that isn’t, you know, obvious. It’s not something they can monetize, it’s not something everyone else is talking about... it’s something that they’re bringing focused insight to in…
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Michael Barclay - Hearts On Fire: Six Years That Changed Canadian Music
No one writes about Canadian music with more insight or elan than Michael Barclay - and he's just released the magisterial Hearts On Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000–2005. It's the authoritative story about how, in the early years of the new millennium, the world noticed that the...
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Rob Tarantino - The Bagelmeister
Some serendipitous conversations early in the pandemic inspired employment and human rights lawyer Rob Tarantino (no relation! really!) to do something a little unusual, a little creative, and definitely a whole lot tasty: he started making and selling small-batch, hand-rolled bagels. We talk…
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Angela Han - Finding Compassion for Yourself
If you follow Angela Han on LinkedIn (and you should!) you probably know why she's appearing in this episode: she's a life coach, podcaster, and lawyer, sure, but more importantly she's someone who speaks candidly and compellingly about the importance of curiosity, being compassionate towards...
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Andrew Kirsch - Spies Like Me
Andrew Kirsch spent a decade as a spy with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) - he joins me to talk about his new book, I Was Never Here: My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffees, Code Names and Covert Operations in the Age of Terrorism. We discuss what motivated him to Google "How do…
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Quinn Ross - "Do You Want to be Part of this Adventure?"
How does a four-day work week sound? With no reduction in pay? Quinn Ross thought it sounded so good he implemented it at the law firm he runs. Oh, and he also increased the size of the team to 70 people. During a pandemic. We talk about how his commitment to the four-day work week is both driven...
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Jonathan Kay - Two Middle-Aged Guys Discuss Hobbies
A few weeks ago I was listening to a podcast hosted by my friend Jonathan Kay - he's a writer and journalist who has authored such insightful books as Your Move: What Board Games Can Teach Us About Life (co-written with Joan Moriarty) - and he offhandedly mentioned that he liked watches. "Hey", I...
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Erin Zipes - Learning, Leading, Empowering
Erin Zipes wears a few different hats: she's VP Legal at Shopify, one of the country's biggest and most successful companies, and she's part of the Backbone Angels investing collective - but just naming those roles doesn't shed enough light on how thoughtful and insightful she is about how…
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Emmett Macfarlane - Dilemmas of Free Expression
Dilemmas of Free Expression, a collection of papers edited and contributed to by Professor Emmett Macfarlane, presents a variety of perspectives examining ways to confront the challenging moral issues and policy problems inherent in controversies such as hate speech, far-right populism, campus...
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Mika Bereket - The Good Egg
If you've been to Toronto's Kensington Market, you're probably familiar with Good Egg: an eclectic and personable shop offering a curated collection of cookbooks and kitchenware. Mika Bereket is Good Egg's owner and we chat about how she discovers and chooses what to carry, how being located in...
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Andrew Deman - The Claremont Run
Chris Claremont was the writer of Uncanny X-Men from 1975 to 1991 - the longest tenure in history on a mainstream superhero comic - during which he turned it into the best-selling comic in the world, featuring iconic characters like Wolverine and Storm and lauded stories such as The Dark Phoenix...
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Chris Ross - We Argue About Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
It does what it says on the tin: to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Guns N' Roses' "Use Your Illusion" albums, me and my friend Chris Ross argue about which tracks deserve attention, which album is better, whether they're any good at all, and where they rank among the historically…
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Kate Kelton - A Compulsion to Create
Actor, painter, photographer - Kate Kelton's an artist with a creative lineage stretching back generations, and a cv that ranges from movies like Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and a decade as the "Tic Tac Girl" to exhibitions in galleries from Los Angeles to New York to the UK. Her "Sentry"...
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Darlene Tonelli - "I Like to Build Things"
Darlene Tonelli started Inter Alia Law, a unique legal advisory firm, and co-hosts the Lawyer Life Podcast where she and co-host Mike Anderson help lawyers navigate their days with a little less stress and, ideally, a lot more fulfillment. Darlene and I talk about getting her foot in the door at…
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Peter Henein - The Funny One
What can lawyers learn from stand-up and improv comedy? Are comedians just engaging in "therapy, but with an audience" when they're on stage? What the hell was the "skin baby" joke? Learn the answers to these questions - and more! - in this conversation with Peter Henein, litigator and procurer…
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Anne Driscoll - Embracing Agency
To me, it's no surprise that Anne Driscoll is where she is: the CEO of Launch Pad - a company on a mission to catalyze the growth of entrepreneurship ecosystems in cities across the United States - and a veteran of Silicon Valley who has embraced a life of accomplishment, risk-taking, and...
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Brian L. Frye - The "Hold My Beer" of Legal Scholarship
Brian L. Frye is a law professor and filmmaker - and somewhere along the way, he decided to draw on the most interesting bits of both those endeavours and come up with an entirely different approach to his engagement with the law. He describes his work as "conceptual art in the medium of legal...
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Andrew Potter - The Decline of Western Civilization (NB: Not the Metal Years)
Author and academic Andrew Potter's most recent book is On Decline - Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever. We discuss why everything seems to be going to sh*t, the casinofication of life, the seeming inversion of political left and right on issues of decline, and…
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Michael Rossi - The Importance of Self-Awareness
By any measure, Michael Rossi had a noteworthy career in the corporate world, culminating in more than five years as president of adidas Canada. In 2021, he did something perhaps even more remarkable: he decided to step off that track, and re-orient his life around one of his passions - coaching....
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Norman Bacal - "As an Author, That's What I'm After"
About a decade ago, Norman Bacal was the managing partner of one of Canada's premier law firms - but when things fell apart and the firm collapsed, he turned to writing in order to process his resulting anger. That lead to the widely read non-fiction book "Breakdown", and he's gone on to write…
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Aron Solomon - Designing A Life
Serial entrepreneur, innovation guru, observer, commentator - Aron Solomon is, as a lawyer might say, sui generis. We talk about intentionally constructing your career, leaving Berlin, the advantages of being an outsider... and the audacity of starting a watch company motivated by making…
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David Quinton Steinberg - "It's Like I Stepped Into a Different Universe"
After spending a few years in bands bouncing between Toronto and Los Angeles, in 1981 David Quinton released a solo album of punk-inflected power pop. He then spent a few decades raising a family and practising law. And then, in 2018 and 2019, he found himself playing his songs for appreciative...
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Anthony Ruttgaizer - Wrestling and Writing
He's a comic book writer, cartoonist, professional wrestler, and podcaster - among many other things. We talk about which is skeezier, independent comics or independent wrestling; the time a drunk publisher swore at him; what happened when he met Ontario premier Doug Ford; his "101 Things in 1001...
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Joe Shouldice - Boondocking, Going Stationary, Farming Crickets
Joe and his family bought an Airstream and hit the road for nearly a year - and when they were done, he became a cricket farmer. We talk about leaving, arriving, mid-life crises, whether you need a crossbow, and the wisdom of entomophagy during a climate emergency. Check out Yes Crickets at...
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