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The Kook Jester Show
by Dustin Dickout
One day a kooky guy woke up and realized he knew very little about the world. Wanting to fix that, he started a podcast. Disclaimer - Listeners (and even the host) may not always fully agree with the content or opinions discussed on this podcast. Further, we also do not recommend taking any action without first conducting your own due diligence, or consulting with the appropriate professional.
Episodes
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Persha - Release the Pressure
Welcome Persha to the show. She produces electronic dance music and has performed for 20,000 people, all after having released her first song at 36. There are some epic anthems in her catalogue. Check it out! We chat about releasing something new to the world, the discipline you need in creative...
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Kristen Ulmer - Leave My Mind Behind
Welcome leading fear expert, Kristen Ulmer, to the show. She wrote The Art of Fear, and in a former life spent 12 years as the top ranked big mountain, extreme skier. She has spent the better part of 4 decades understanding our primal and ancient emotion - Fear: where it comes from, how it flows...
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Ben Orlin - Mathematics Salesmanship
Math • Teacher • Author Ben Orlin joins the podcast. He is a mathematician and teacher, and through his books - Math With Bad Drawings, Change is the Only Constant, and the upcoming Math for English Majors - he illuminates how math intersects with daily life. We chat about academic struggles,...
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Ameet Shukla - Cowboy Lemonade Renaissance
Welcome Ameet Shukla to the show, Head of Content at 1 Community. Beyond discussions about the wonder that is Beyonce, we hit on making impactful movies, the magic and storytelling, and things the up and coming generations do incredibly well. Thanks for listening! 1 Community RESPECT Trailer Just...
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Simone Lovell - Simone Said F#&%
Welcome Simone Lovell, founder of Total Body Transformation in Vancouver, Canada. What began as a way to earn college beer money, has morphed into 25 years of helping people transform their lives through fitness, nutrition, and wellness. Like starting your day right, any conversation that opens...
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Yasmin Gandham - Loaded for BEAR
Yasmin Gandham, reporter for CTV News in Vancouver, joins the show today. She chats about her journey into broadcasting, that began with weather forecast drops into her Mom's voicemail as a kid. We also look at how to find good people to learn from, graduating during a worldwide pandemic, and…
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Dr. Tim O'Connell - No, No, No, Life is Long
Welcome, practicing radiologist and emtelligent founder, Dr. Tim O'Connell to the show. Based in Vancouver Canada, emtelligent directs advanced AI technologies to finding key insights buried in patient medical histories. We get into this, along with solving your own problems, the breakneck speed…
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Randy Klassen - For the Exhausted, Bloodied Joy of It
Please welcome, ultrarunner and author of Perhaps Joy is the Reward, Randy Klassen to the show. Framed through hard fought victories and devastating heartbreaks out on the trails, he recounts the connected community of runners, his late start to the sport, and a solid instruction for life: just...
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Rowan Minnion - Jot Down Your Assets
Welcome Rowan Minnion to the show. In 2011, he founded the sports nutrition company Blonyx, built around real-food ingredients and committed to supporting athletic ambition. We chat about being coachable and knowing who you are as a player, his early days in the lab, and Rowan even offers some...
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Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi - Medicine was the House
Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, Second Deputy Leader to the BC Green Party, joins the show today. In our wide-ranging conversation, he reflects on a career dedicated to pediatric heart surgery, challenges in the current healthcare system, and his jump into the unfamiliar waters of provincial politics. We even...
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Vernon Joseph D'Souza - Hacking Ethically
Today's guest is ethical hacker and cyber-security expert, Vernon Joseph D'Souza. As managing partner of Forecight CyberSecurity in Vancouver, smashing firewalls, stolen pin codes, breaking into server rooms, and corporate espionage is nothing other than a typical Tuesday. We get into hacker...
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Dr. Sunny Harris - Bulls, Bears, and Chickens
Dr. Sunny Harris visits the Kook Jester Show. Mathematician, programmer, and entrepreneur, she has actively traded the capital markets for over 42 years. Author of seven books, including Trading 101 and 102, her website Money Mentor is an incredible resource for investors who want to learn the...
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Anna Galvin - Vintage Prada
Welcome the talented, versatile, and ever-so lovely Anna Galvin to the show. Knowing what she wanted to become at 5, her career spans the theatre, commercials, multi-season series, and feature films. We chat about her favourite roles (the covers shot provides a clue), an amusing blunder from the...
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Emily Dolan Davies - That Day, The Drums Broke My Heart
Welcome Emily Dolan Davies to the show, and she absolutely loves to play the drums. She made albums with The Darkness (Last of Our Kind) and Bryan Ferry (Olympia), recently toured with Kim Wilde, is the drummer for The Voice Kids UK, and was even featured in the Netflix documentary Count Me In....
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Dan Flores - Chicky's Wild New World
Dan Flores joins the show today. Author of ten books, his works include the bestsellers American Serengeti and Coyote America. His latest, Wild New World, is a big history deep dive into the relationship between people and animals in North America. Starting at the Chicxulub Impact–the giant space...
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Raul Sanchez-Inglis - I Took My Typewriter Everywhere
Writer and director, Raul Sanchez-Inglis, joins the show today. His work includes: Vice, Transparency, American Heist, and his most recent project, crime-thriller Crimson Point. He chats about transformative movies, getting the most out of your people on set, the band Badfinger, and the game…
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Karl-Mikael Syding - Punch Your Pomodoro Clock
Today's guest is Karl-Mikael Syding, hedge fund manager at Antiloop in Sweden. He is also a writer, podcast creator (25 minuter, Future skills, Outsiders), and a seriously deep thinker. I came to know of him through his Sprezza Blog at mikaelsyding.com where he explores effortless nonchalance…
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Ben Frederick - Hard Things are Hard…and That’s OK
Ben Frederick, the 2021 National Singlespeed Cyclocross Champion, joins the show today. Back in 2016, he suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). We talk about what happened, the dark periods that followed, and coming out the other side. He has since founded The Small Monsters Project, aiming to...
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Sarah Townsend - Totoro's Tortuous Tortoise
Author and freelance copywriter Sarah Townsend joins the show today. She gets into what inspired her two bestselling books - Survival Skills for Freelancers and The Little Book of Confusables - as well as clears up any confusion about what copywriting is and what good copy should do. We also…
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Tamas Dobozy - It’s Oscar Teleki Calling
Writer and professor, Tamas Dobozy, joins me today. I had the pleasure to read two of his books. Siege 13 and Ghost Geographies are beautifully written and entertaining short story collections. His characters - complex, memorable, and sometimes despicable - struggling through the murk of being...
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Brent Disbrow - Don't Make Your Favourite Sandwich
Brent Disbrow, Game Director at BKOM Studios, joined us today. I absolutely loved our chat. He is freaking funny and I learned a ton. He opens by breaking down the Justice League movie, talks changing careers and everything video game related, and finishes with a counter take on the buzz...
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Dr. Katherine Bowers - It’s a Page Turner
Director of the Centre of European Studies at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Bowers packs a ton of learning into this interview. Among other topics, we touch on why Russia’s printing culture was slow to develop, what is meant by the Petersburg Text, and the paradoxical nature of many...
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Coach Stewart - Swim with a Smile
If you know the waters around Vancouver, BC, you will undoubtably have come across the purple swim-caps worn by the students of today's guest, Stewart Scott. Everyone calls him Coach Stewart. We chat about his early days in northern Scotland, the common mistakes self-trained athletes make…
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John Emmet Tracy - Embrace Your Stadium Moment
Today’s guest is actor, John Emmet Tracy. You will know him as Ellis Steele from Yellowstone, the modern western epic on the Paramount Network and Amazon Prime. We chat about his character’s adaptive qualities, artistic moments versus story momentum, and playing villains—aka the misunderstood. He...
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Maïa Tarassoff - Sustainable Thinking for Kids
My guest is Maïa Tarasoff. Aiming to make architecture more accessible to kids, she founded Petit Architect in 2017. Through her classes and workshops she encourages kids to ask big questions about how they live, in the hope of inspiring them to create truly beautiful spaces and buildings. We…
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Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani - You Have to Expose Kids to Science
I was happy to return to the Children’s Heart Centre for my interview with Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani, Division Head of Cardiology at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. Over the years, he and the entire heart team, took wonderful care of our family. I have long been curious about why he…
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Annika McDade - Your Dog is Reading the Newspaper
Our guest today is Annika McDade whose soul purpose in life is to create amazing relationships between people and their dogs. Her in-person dog training company is called Canine Connection Training and is based in Vancouver, Canada. However, you can access her expertise and video library wherever...
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Saba Marzara - I Was The First Delivery Driver
Saba Marzara co-founded FedFedFed, which delivers dietician curated meals right to your door. Endlessly fascinated by the food we eat, Saba looks to impact our health and nutrition on a larger scale. We look at the ever-growing problem of diet related diseases along with what first piqued her...
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Marcus Paladino - Never Forget the Squeegee
Our guest today is surf photographer Marcus Paladino. His book is called Cold Comfort, and his work captures the raw and wild essence of Vancouver Island’s west coast. He kicks off the interview by sharing the best piece of career advice he received - get paid for what you love to do. Living…
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Tiffany DaSilva - I’m in Tech, but What’s SEO?
Tiffany DaSilva, founder of flowjo, is our guest today. Irritated by peoples’ relationship with their phones, she decided to something about it. Creating card decks full of bucket list activities for couples, dads, and self-care, Flowjo’s mission is to help people build long-lasting and…
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Lee Rodgers - Racing to Save My Gran From Terrorists
Lee Rodgers is our guest today. Our chat always came back to limitations, as in, your true capabilities are far beyond what you actually believe them to be. Case in Point. Returning to cycling in his mid-30's, Lee turned professional at the age of 37. The stories he shares are incredible. To give...
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Amanda Hemmaway - The Madness Makes it Absolutely Beautiful
Our guest is Amanda Hemmaway. She is the owner and director of iDance Vancouver, whose mission is to encourage and empower the dancer in all of us. Amanda dug into many aspects of her journey that include: bringing childhood dreams to life, lessons learned from buying a business, and building a...
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Dan John - Weirdly Famous
Dan John is my guest today, a leading voice on all things related to strength and lifting. Having followed Dan’s work for about 6 years, it was exciting to have him on the show. Some highlights from our conversation include: the importance of failing publically, how parents should encourage their...
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Dr. John Byrne - What Fires Your Jets?
John and I get right to it, digging into the Leadville 100, the 100 mile running race across the sky, which he has completed 4 times. Other highlights include breaking big challenges into the smallest manageable pieces, and learning how to not reinvent the wheel when learning something new. Case…
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Steve Moss - Padam, Padam, Padam
Today’s guest is Steve Moss, frontman and founding member of the The Midnight Ghost Train. Powered with a thick and heavy sound, they are one of my all-time favorite bands. On June 18th, TMGT kick off their 10-date European reunion tour at the Freak Valley Festival in Netphen, Germany. Steve…
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Felix Böck - Something Small and Simple Like a Chopstick
Felix Böck is our guest today, the founder and CEO of Chop Value in Vancouver, BC. Chop Value's mission is simple - harvest single use chopsticks from the urban environment and then, transform them into beautiful home décor pieces, like cutting boards, tabletops, and light sconces. Using Chop...
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Ania Wysocka - The 'Why' Behind Why You're Doing Something Can Give You Courage
Today, I get to speak with Ania Wysocka, the founder and creator of Rootd. Rootd is an incredible app that helps people to manage anxiety and panic attacks in the moment. With over 1.25 million downloads to date, the app has been featured in publications like Women’s Health, Healthline, and Time...
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Manuel Bernaschek - Well, There are Italians and Everyone Else Who Wants to be Italian
Today’s episode features Manuel Bernaschek. He brought two world brands at the pinnacle of quality to Vancouver, those being Fazioli Pianos and Stefano Ricci luxurious menswear. In our chat, he shares details from his early conversations with Mr. Fazioli and Mr. Ricci along with the piece of…
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Kai Mallari - Not the Greatest at Math, but I Do Love Data
Kai is the founder of Highlighter Creative, a commercial photography and design thinking studio, based in Richmond BC. Take a moment to check out his projects, especially his post-production work. He has an inherent knack of breaking down complex ideas - the blockchain, NFTs, and the Metaverse -...
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Khalil Jiwa - Dear Friend and Companion
To say my chat with Khalil covers a lot of ground would be an huge understatement. Geographically, we bounce from Kenya to Toronto, back to Kenya, down to Tanzania, and end in Vancouver. He talks about the difficulties he faced after immigrating to Canada in 1989. From direct personal experience,...
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Rob Thompson - I Think One of Them Was Poutine
Rob and I chat about his most recent athletic challenge, Everesting. I'll let him tell the story, but, in order to complete ‘an Everest’, a cyclist must climb the vertical elevation of Mount Everest - 8848 vertical meters - in one ride within 24 hours. Its grueling. Rob gets into his training…
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Roger Nairn - Have a Conversation With Just One Person
Roger Nairn joins me for this episode, co-founder and CEO of JAR Audio in Vancouver, Canada. We do a podcast about podcasts. JAR Audio constructs podcasts for brands in order to accelerate their impact and build meaningful connections with their audiences. Their client base is deep and wide....
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Catherine McCourt - Finding Your Soul Purpose
Catherine is a certified transformational life and business coach and founder of Fearless Future in Vancouver, British Columbia. She leads with a mission to help people find their soul purpose. In addition to one-on-one coaching, Catherine also hosts the Fearless Future podcast. Her workshops -...
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Paul Brassard - Giving People a Bright Moment in Their Day is Very Underrated
In episode 11, I chat with Paul Brassard, co-founder of Deville Coffee. Founded in 2008, Deville has grown from its first café in downtown Calgary to 10 locations across the city with five new spots slated to open in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Kelowna by 2022. From the outset, Deville has created a...
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Dan Nelken - Give Creatives a Problem To Solve
Dan Nelken wrote a book, and a really useful one at that, titled A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters. Punctuated with personal, and often, very funny observations from the Advertising world, his objective is to de-mystify the creative process. He delivers. In our chat, Dan speaks about wanting to...
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Anita Modha - Maybe You Should Wear Water Wings
The title for this episode is lifted from a story Anita shares about picking up a new (life) skill as an adult. A talented designer, deep thinker, and simply amazing human, she is partner and head of user experience at Seeds and Growth, the strategy and insights agency centered in Los Angeles…
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Tom Christmann - Just Give it a Reason
I met Tom when I took his Next Level Copy class through AdHouse. Tom pours his vast advertising experience - seriously, he's worked on some amazing campaigns - into his current passion as co-dean of AdHouse, the home for aspiring AdNerds. Also, as host of the A-List Podcast, he discovers how…
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Kyle Matheson - Out to the Orange Buoys
Here is my interview with Kyle Matheson, franchise owner of Expedia Cruises - www.expediacruises.ca - in Richmond, Canada. Kyle talks about guiding a travel agency through the pandemic, the future of curated travel experiences, and what pulled him towards open water swimming.
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Miranda Deis - What's the Worst that Can Happen?
Every once in awhile you meet a person who is perfectly suited to do what they do. Miranda Deis is the founder of Curiosity Corner Preschool in Vancouver, Canada. On a whim seven(ish) years ago, we called the contact number printed on a vinyl banner hung from a fence. It advertised a newly opened...
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Lisa van Hemert - Are You My Mentor?
Lisa comes strong in part 2 of back-to-back van Hemert episodes. As founder of both the Van Hemert Group and Women Working in Calgary, Lisa offers up an interesting perspective on the energy industry, mentorship, and problem solving. Her ability to quickly understand the multiple viewpoints on…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
One day a kooky guy woke up and realized he knew very little about the world. Wanting to fix that, he started a podcast. Disclaimer - Listeners (and even the host) may not always fully agree with the content or opinions discussed on this podcast. Further, we also do not recommend taking any action without first conducting your own due diligence, or consulting with the appropriate professional.
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Dustin Dickout
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One day a kooky guy woke up and realized he knew very little about the world. Wanting to fix that, he started a podcast. Disclaimer - Listeners (and even the host) may not always fully agree with the content or opinions discussed on this podcast. Further, we also do not recommend taking any action...
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