PODCAST · history
Grant Lawrence Superfeed
by Grant Lawrence
Subscribe and listen to all of Grant Lawrence's true life adventures stories all in one place!
Episodes
-
Whale Tale - Ch 10 - Florencia
In the final chapter, you'll learn about what happened to the whales that escaped from Pedder Bay, and the legacy of both the orcas and the humans involved in the capture of these whales on Vancouver Island in 1970.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 9 - The Colbys
In this penultimate chapter, orca researcher Graeme Ellis provides clues on who let the whales out. Also, the fate of the prized Chimo the white whale and her aggressive cousin Nootka.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 8 - Escape
The two remaining orcas in the Pedder Bay net pen have been sold to an American aquarium, but with local opposition heating up, an incredible event occurs that stuns all involved: the whales escape. But who helps them?
-
Whale Tale - Ch 7 - Charlie
In this chapter, you'll hear about the desperate attempts to get the two remaining older whales - Charlie, and his mother 'Pointed Nose Cow' eating something - anything - for the first time in months. And some unlikely companionship: local children discover the orcas penned in Pedder Bay…
more -
Whale Tale - Ch 6 - Scarred Jaw Cow
In the last chapter, you heard about Chimo, the young white orca, and her cousin Nootka, being moved to their new home: Sealand of the Pacific Aquarium in Oak Bay BC, on southern Vancouver Island, where they finally starting eating after a 24 day fast in 1970. In this chapter, you'll hear about...
-
Whale Tale - Ch 5 - Haida
Transient orca Chimo, the young white whale, and her cousin Nootka, are transferred from their Pedder Bay net pen to the Sealand Aquarium in Oak Bay, BC. There, they meet Haida, a southern resident, and what follows is a profound moment in the captivity era.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 4 - Bruce Bott
Diver Bruce Bott shares what it was like to be underwater with the orcas on the chaotic night when the Pedder Bay 5 were captured, and his later experience diving down to Chimo, the prized white whale, when she got tangled in her net and was drowning.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 3 - The Pod
The white whale and the rest of her pod have been captured in Pedder Bay, Vancouver Island... but now what? The handlers quickly realize that these whales are unlike any they have ever come across.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 2 - Chimo
In this episode, Grant Lawrence takes you back to the serendipitous events of March 1, 1970, off the blustery coast of southern Vancouver Island: the capture of the one of the rarest ocean mammals of all time - a white orca whale.
-
Whale Tale - Ch 1 - Emma
In this gripping new West Coast adventure series, Grant Lawrence tries to crack a 55-year-old mystery that involves the tragedy and triumph of a unique family of orcas.
-
Dirty Windshields - Where Are They Now?
A fully updated and fascinating "where are they now" of all the main players in "Dirty Windshields", including members of the Smugglers past and present, beloved roadie Ska-T, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Larry Livermore from Lookout Records and more.
-
Dirty Windshields - Epilogue - Rock 'n' Roll Was Never This Fun (The Lookouting)
The Smugglers are pulled out of a dozen years of dormancy by a young promoter from a legendary venue: 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, for an epic event that would eventually become known as "The Lookouting." In turn, "Dirty Windshields", and the Smugglers, received a surprise happy...
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 45 - Hate To Say I Told You So
In this final chapter, the Smugglers meet the ghosts of their future at a freezing arts collective in Switzerland: the rapidly rising garage rock 'n' roll band The Hives.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 44 - Supergyration
NEW ZEALAND! The Land of the Long White Cloud! WE MADE IT!!! This was one of the Smugglers most exciting and fulfulling touring destinations in our many years on the road and in the air. Shows were packed, songs were shouted, Kiwi friends and lovers made. All this even though Beez barely made it...
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 43 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
The Smugglers embark on their first tour Down Under, supporting Oz punk legends the Hard-Ons, but all does not go to plan due to a series of calamities involving various Australian wildlife, both human and otherwise, culminating in the Smugglers suffering their first-ever robbery on the road.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 42 - Kings of the Party
This chapter finally answers the oft-asked question: "Did any of the Smugglers ever get it on with any of the Donnas?" Also: the Smugglers make a triumphant return to Japan to begin their epic Pan-Pacific tour for "Rosie", infamously dubbed the "Pacific Rim Job Tour."
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 41 - Hot Boxin'
If you've ever wondered what it was like to tour with *The Donnas* aka the American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine, this chapter is for YOU. It was wild! It was skintight! It was non-stop party action! It was all over the U.S.A.! WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 40 - Bent On Being Bent
ROUGH PATCH! After years of slowly building up the Smugglers into something one might consider 'successful', the house of cards collapses when two members of the band quit. Upheaval at both Mint and Lookout Records doesn't help matters.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 39 - Isny
Ever heard of Isny? Neither had the Smugglers! The band comes down from the huge crowds of Italy to going up up up into the Alps for an out-of-control show at a tiny ski chalet in Bavaria... if they can find the town.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 38 - Forte Prenestino
The Smugglers arrive at the most remarkable, filthy, amazing, huge, and impossible venues the band ever played: Forte Prenestino, an apocalyptic castle-like socialist squat, on the edge of Rome.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 37 - Melee In Madrid
The Smugglers discover the smash 'em up demolition derby that is... Madrid during rush hour. Also, the band teams up with "Rock n Roll" Jimmy Garcia to help navigate Spanish clubs overflowing with elicit drugs and wild fans.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 36 - Nobody Can Tell Us
The Smugglers head to the Continent for their "Selling the Sizzle" European tour with mixed feelings. Would this tour do as poorly as their first trip to Spain a few years earlier, or would their newfound association with Lookout Records save their collective touring asses?
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 35 - Bishy Bishy!
The Smugglers misadventures in Japan with the Queers and Supersnazz rage on, with Queers lead singer Joe ever threatening to quit the highly disorganized tour at any moment.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 34 - Diode City
Dirty Windshields: the Audiobook is BACK for Part 3: "Sushi and Squats." In this chapter, the Smugglers journey to Japan for a tour with the Queers and Supersnazz, which begins on a bad note. Two members of the entourage disappear.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 10 - The Full Moon Float
Handy Candy takes a terrible tumble from her shoreline rocks on the evening of Desolation Sound's annual Full Moon Float in this final chapter of the series.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 9 - The Crawl
Handy Candy shows a physical will and sheer determination to get to her cabin that has possibly never been seen before or since in Desolation Sound.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 8 - The Fish
Handy Candy continues to improve "Camp Candy", and sees opportunities for other neighbouring properties to clean up as well, believing strongly that "how things look matters." Some neighbours don't take kindly to Candy's unsolicited opinions.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 7 - The Cabin
Handy Candy rents a broken down cabin in Desolation Sound which she discovers is already occupied.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 6 - The Inlets
Handy Candy decides it's time to buy a lot in Desolation Sound, but her husband Bob has other plans, which comes as a shock.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 5 - The Islands
Handy Candy and her husband Bob discover the ultimate sea kayaking campsite in Desolation Sound, so good that it would remain their driftwood camping kingdom for 14 straight summers. Where is it? Have a listen.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 4 - The Sound
Handy Candy and her newlywed husband Bob make their first-ever trip to Desolation Sound, in a double yellow kayak. On that trip they stumbled across a spectacular location that would serve as "Camp Candy" for the next several years.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 3 - The Early Years
Find out how Handy Candy Anderson went from a childhood of living all over the USA with a father who worked for the Pentagon, to discovering the coastal Canadian wilderness of Desolation Sound.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 2 - The Drag
With her brand new boat hung up on the rocks on a dropping tide, Handy Candy makes a big mistake: she gets out of "Tinkerbell" to give it a shove, but the outboard engine is running, and in gear. Reverse gear.
-
Handy Candy - Ch 1 - The New Boat
In this new series, Handy Candy, one of the most beloved characters from Grant Lawrence's books "Adventures in Solitude" and "Return to Solitude", takes centre stage for a series that charts Candy's artistic, danger-prone, off-grid lifestyle that has spanned over 40 years in the oceanic wilds of...
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 33 - Not Fade Away
The Smugglers and the Queers make a shocking discovery while searching for the Buddy Holly plane crash site in the corn fields of Iowa.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 32 - Bastards of Young
We chronicle some of the most bizarre punk rock crash pads we ever slept at, which includes one of the most infamous and disgusting tour stories in Smugglers history. You have been warned!
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 31 - Groovy Underwear
Maxwell's, the famed music venue in Hoboken, New Jersey, infamously catches fire during a Smugglers performance.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 30 - Night Shift At The Thrill Factory
The Smugglers tour with the Mr. T Experience devolves into a full-blown punk rock riot at the show in Denver.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 29 - Selling The Sizzle
The Smugglers make their most popular album with Mass Giorgini, plus the band hires infamous roadie Ska-T while embarking on the first wildly successful Lookout tour with the Mr T Experience. And Larry Livermore is everywhere.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 28 - Lookout Here Comes Tomorrow
The Smugglers meet pop-punk icon and Lookout Records co-founder Larry Livermore, learning of his fascinating history. As well, the Smugglers play a fateful show at the Purple Onion with the Ne'er Do Wells and the Groovie Ghoulies.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 27 - Don't Mess With Texas
The Smugglers take a very, very wrong turn into the scariest town in America, then figure it out to play one of the most notorious venues in Texas: "Taco Land" in San Antonio.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 26 - I'm In Love With My Knife
Grant suffers his mostly potentially deadly physical assault while on tour (which is saying a lot) and the Smugglers tour the Deep South with bands like Man... Or Astro-Man? and the heavily armed trio the Subsonics.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 25 - Go Fish
The Smugglers meet cub, an all-women twee pop band that would become a North American indie sensation... and lead to several ego-crushing moments for the Smugglers when the two bands embark on tour together.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 24 - Don't Pack It In
Hear the wild stories behind the Smugglers first-ever New York City show at punk rock mecca CBGB, their bloody Chicago show with the Dwarves, and more rock 'n' roll action!
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 23 - Big Mouth
The Smugglers enter the urban wilds of New York City for the first time, and the band gets a crash course on NYC street-smarts... or dumbs, in Grant's case.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 22 - Maniac Dragstrip
The Smugglers lead singer Grant Lawrence pulls a horrendously stupid, life-threatening stunt on the way into Washington D.C. for a Memorial Day gig with Thee Flypped Whigs.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 21 - Road to Glory
The shows are getting better, but the touring for beleaguered Smugglers drummer Bryce gets even worse in the American South.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 20 - Til The Wheels Fall Off
The Smugglers suffer through their Worst Show Of All Time in Phoenix, Arizona, one that would leave a permanent and collective mental scar.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 19 - I Wanna Riot
The Smugglers roll into a smouldering Los Angeles in the charred and shattered aftermath of the Rodney King Riots.
-
Dirty Windshields - Ch 18 - L 'n' P's Getaway
Legendary punk band NoMeansNo help out the Smugglers in finding the ultimate touring van. In Portland, the Smugglers discover the X-Ray Cafe, the 24-hour Church of Elvis, and that... their new van isn't working properly.
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Grant Lawrence Superfeed have?
Grant Lawrence Superfeed currently has 100 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Grant Lawrence Superfeed about?
Subscribe and listen to all of Grant Lawrence's true life adventures stories all in one place!
How often does Grant Lawrence Superfeed release new episodes?
Grant Lawrence Superfeed has 100 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Grant Lawrence Superfeed?
You can listen to Grant Lawrence Superfeed on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Grant Lawrence Superfeed?
Grant Lawrence Superfeed is created and hosted by Grant Lawrence.
URL copied to clipboard!