Though it's often believed to be a myth or simple folklore, there are many people who believe that sasquatch exist and are more common than you may think. Todd Standing has filed a lawsuit against the BC government to have one of their biologists go out into the field so he can prove the existence of Sasquatch as a species. Do you think that he will be able to prove their existence? Guest: Todd Standing, Sasquatch Tracker and Researcher - The final game of the Tiger-Cats' 2017 season will be pla...
Nov 03, 2017•58 min
Distracted driving is a problem but what about distracted walking? An Ontario MPP has proposed that police begin fining people for crossing the street while looking at their phone. Do you think this will be enforced any more than jay walking? - Red Green is a beloved Canadian show about every any handyman should know and the man himself, Steve Smith, has written another book. Entitled "The Woulda Coulda Shoulda Guide To Canadian Inventions" Smith recalls many of Canada's greatest inventions, wor...
Nov 02, 2017•1 hr 11 min
A Halloween trademark is the headstone; but what happens when headstones fall over and get buried over time? Good thing we've got taphophiles like Mike Brown in Hamilton! Mike's unusual hobby of uncovering headstones helps families find the long lost graves of family members which prompted Scott to catch up with him to find out more about both himself and his hobby. Guest: Mike Brown, Headstone Uncoverer - Getting hit in the head isn't anything new in football but when a player hits another play...
Nov 01, 2017•56 min
Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys chat about what's going on in the world of sports, including the World Series and brutal injuries in sports. - Over the weekend, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was in Toronto and made a comment about Canadian health care being "free". But it's not really free, is it? Guest: Bacchus Barua, Associate Director, Health Policy Studies, Fraser Institute
Oct 31, 2017•51 min
The Brightest Panel in Hamilton has reconvened but it is bittersweet because this may be the last time Sandy Shaw joins in as a panelist, at least for some time. Listen to tonight’s podcast to find out why, for more fun and intense discussion. Guests: Sandy Shaw Mike Fortune, Television host, interviewer and professional Master of Ceremonies
Oct 28, 2017•1 hr 12 min
How can you appreciate a painting without being able to see it? It's an interesting question but believe it or not, it is possible and you can experience it at the Art Gallery of Hamilton through what they call "Touch Tours". Lori Kilgour-Walsh is behind these tours and joins Scott to talk about how these tours work, how you paint a picture for a blind person and much more. Have you been on a Touch Tour before? Guest: Lori Kilgour-Walsh, Senior Manager of Education at Art Gallery of Hamilton - P...
Oct 27, 2017•55 min
The world has lost its mind! First off, a math professor at the University of Illinois has published a paper saying that math is inherently racist and promotes white priviledge. Second, people are trying to raise $1.6 million dollars to buy a pig-friendly MRI device to diagnose a 650 pound pig. Lastly, the first of six pre-tournament games between Canada and the USA's women's hockey teams started off with Canada being beaten 5-2. Team Canada's head coach described the loss as "an embarassment to...
Oct 26, 2017•52 min
238 cities are putting in a bid to have the new Amazon HQ built in their cities. That's a lot of competition for Hamilton to go up against but the most interesting thing about this bidding war is that so many of these cities are willing to do some rather unusual things to win Amazon over. What do you think is the weirdest thing a city is willing to do for a company? - Could this finally be the end of the JFK assassination? Within the next few days, the papers about JFK's assassination will be re...
Oct 25, 2017•43 min
Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys talk about the Ticats' domination of Montreal over the weekend and a bewildering choice involving Collaros, overpowered teams in sports and more. - A school district in Mississippi has decided to pull "To Kill A Mockingbird" from its curriculum because it "makes people uncomfortable". But isn't the entire purpose of the book to tackle the "uncomfortable" topic of racism?
Oct 24, 2017•56 min
Tonight, Scott thinks that "Brightest Panel in Hamilton" might not accurately describe how brilliant the panel’s members are. Panel: Brad Clarke, Principal Consultant for Maple Leaf Strategies and former Hamilton City Councillor and Ontario's Minister of Labour and Minister of Transportation Doug Faraway, former Director of Development at Neighbour to Neighbour Centre, broadcaster, writer, and host of City Matters on Cable 14.
Oct 21, 2017•1 hr 16 min
On this day in 1987, a major thing happened to the stock market... it crashed! We now refer to that day as Black Monday and it caused big problems but what if it happened now? Market crashes are inevitable but what if it happened today? How do you think it would affect the world? Guest: Dr. Ronald Balvers, Professor at DeGroote School of Business - McMaster University has had one of the best volleyball programs in Canada for a long time but that hasn't stopped them from going to Poland to play a...
Oct 20, 2017•50 min
Should students get their money back for every day the teachers of OPSEU are on strike for? If you didn’t already know, the OPSEU strike has taken not only every teacher, professor and instructor out of the classroom but has also taken out every student from the classroom too! Students are paying thousands of dollars to be educated but when they're not being taught, where is their money going? Guest: Amir Allana, Co-author of petition for students’ tuition refunds Gordon Hayward was a member of ...
Oct 19, 2017•50 min
The LRT has been debated from nearly every possible angle which has slowed things down and it's happened again! This time, the LRT hasn't been delayed by City Council but by the Government of Ontario! Is the LRT ever going to be completed? - This time of year is wonderful for sports fans in Hamilton. The Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame has announced the class of 2017 and among them is former NHL defenceman, Ric Nattress. Scott caught up with Ric to get an idea of what it's like to be inducted into ...
Oct 18, 2017•47 min
Scott has brought together returning favourites, for tonight's Brightest Panel in Hamilton. Guests: Sandy Shaw, Organizational Strategist, and Director with the Hamilton Port Authority Mike Fortune, television host and professional Master of Ceremonies
Oct 14, 2017•1 hr 8 min
There has been no shortage of big headlines in the business and political worlds. The first is about these "bombshell" demands that the US is supposedly laying down as we're going into the 4th round of NAFTA negotiations and the second is that the Sears collapse is going to ripple through the economy.The final headline says that Hamilton is the second best place for jobs in Canada. What are your thoughts on these headlines? Guest: Marvin Ryder, Professor of Marketing at the DeGroote School of Bu...
Oct 13, 2017•54 min
Scott opened today's show with not one but three unusual and simply disappointing stories. There was a guy who dyed his hair and painted the Maple Leafs' logo on his face with a cigarette in his mouth at a Maple Leafs game who became known as "Dart Guy". Well Dart Guy has been given a two hour radio show in Toronto! You might ask why this was done, because he's Dart Guy! That's the only reason! The Toronto District School Board is removing the word "chief" from any job title that possesses the w...
Oct 12, 2017•55 min
Famous people seem to be running into trouble with the law all the time these days and yet another example of this is Harvey Weinstein. The public's attention was turned to him ever since he's been accused of sexual assault and rape and similar to other cases like this, people aren't taking it as seriously as they should. Do you agree? Are sexual crimes are being treated seriously enough? Guest: Lenore Lukasic-Foss, Director of the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton - The Maple Leafs are dominati...
Oct 11, 2017•55 min
Scott assembles the Brightest Panel in Hamilton, to wrap up this week before the long weekend. Guests: Loren Leiberman, co-host of The O Show on Cable 14 Ron Foxcroft, Chairman, Founder & CEO of Fox 40 International
Oct 07, 2017•1 hr 11 min
According to a Toronto Star article, three nursing homes have been told that they're no longer allowed to accept new residents due to sub-standard care. Sometimes this happens because of people turning a blind-eye and sometimes it's because of budgetary concerns. Whatever the reason, you don't want your parents or relatives to suffer, do you? Guest: Sivan Tumarkin, Head of Personal Injury and Insurance Law practice group at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP - The Ticats are facing the Winnigpeg Blue Bombers ...
Oct 06, 2017•54 min
John Higgins is said to be the most travelled and recognized referee in the world of NCAA basketball. He had a target put on his back to Kentucky fans everywhere after being blamed for Kentucky being knocked out of last year's March Madness by their head coach. Criticizing officials isn't unheard of and in some cases, it's merited but when is it too much? Guest: Barry Mano, Founder and President of the National Association of Sports Officials - After the rampage that went on in Las Vegas, everyo...
Oct 05, 2017•49 min
Hamilton has hit the $1 billion mark in building permits and has done so in the fastest time in Hamilton's history, just 9 months into the year! The question we need to start asking now is how sustainable is this? Will we be able to keep doing this every year and grow even more? Guest: Glen Norton, Director of Hamilton Economic Development - The Hudson Bay Company has released what Team Canada will be wearing during the opening ceremony in South Korea for the Winter Olympic Games. Lumberjack jac...
Oct 04, 2017•52 min
Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys talk about the latest from the world of sports, including the Hamilton Tiger-Cats trading running back C.J. Gable to the Edmonton Eskimos. - Scott discusses the Las Vegas mass shooting and how it seems as though there's no end to the horrific incidents that happen globally these days.
Oct 03, 2017•49 min
Tonight, Scott brings a dynamic duo to the Brightest Panel in Hamilton. Panel: Jen Watson, afternoon anchor at AM900 CHML Jay McQueen, AM/PM Weather for AM900 CHML
Sep 30, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Hamilton is continuing it's effort to land Amazon's second North American headquarters. Guest: Fred Eisenberger, mayor of Hamilton - Researchers are close to a test that could determine if an athlete is beginning to show signs of CTE. Guest: Bubba O'Neill, sports anchor with CHCH - Hugh Hefner passed away today at the age of 91. Scott asks callers whether or not Hefner's legacy has been overwhelmingly negative in its impact on women....
Sep 29, 2017•56 min
One of the biggest questions surrounding the Las Vegas Golden Knights is whether or not Vegas is a good market to try and build a hockey franchise especially when you consider the fact that Vegas has never been home to a professional sports team. Could a surge of NHL fans be too much for Vegas and its new franchise to handle? Guest: Gary Lawless, Las Vegas Golden Knights Insider - The Olympics are still 5 months away but if you're on the list to join Team Canada for Women's Ice Hockey, it's righ...
Sep 28, 2017•1 hr
Today is CHML's 90th birthday so Scott thought that he'd celebrate in his own way with the man who runs it all at CHML, Jeff Storey. Jeff recalls some of the great memories he's acquired from the years of working here and what it's like to be catching up with some of CHML's greatest announcers ever. Guest: Jeff Storey, Program Director & News Director at AM900 CHML - NAFTA is something that affects each and every Canadian, American and Mexican whether we want to accept it or not. Marvin Ryde...
Sep 27, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys discuss the controversy between the NFL and U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as whether or not there ought to be criteria when a team retires a jersey number. - How do you possibly narrow down your choices when you're shopping for a new cell phone? Guest: Adam Oldfield, of Tech Talk with Bill Kelly and President & CEO of FPM Marketing
Sep 26, 2017•51 min
Tonight Scott brings together two of this city's finest broadcasters, for the Brightest Panel in Hamilton. Panel: Jamie West, Radio and TV host, Media and Advertising Consultant Sue Prestedge, Broadcasting legend, recently retired from her positon as Program Coordinator for Journalism, and Pre-Media and Entertainment, at Mohawk College ,
Sep 23, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Aaron Hernandez was a man who played college football alongside Tim Tebow and then went on to become one of the best players in the NFL until he was arrested for murder. Upon examination, his brain showed a lot of damage from football which must have been the reason for what he did. Do you think Hernandez is a victim and the NFL is to blame for its players' health or since Aaron Hernandez had every option to leave the sport and protect his health, is it his fault and players should be accountabl...
Sep 22, 2017•52 min
There is a report on a study about why standing for too long is no better than sitting for too long. If standing isn't the opposite of sitting, then what is? Dr. Peter Smith joins Scott to talk about the science behind this study and more. Guest: Dr. Peter Smith, Chiropractor - Can we declare 2017 the worst season in Hamilton Tiger-Cats history? The 60-1 game, the Art Briles disaster, the Jones suspension and that's just the surface! There hasn't been much good this year for the Ticats. Rick Zam...
Sep 21, 2017•53 min
