Episodes

  • This is That Introduces | Split Screen: Thrill Seekers

    This is That Introduces | Split Screen: Thrill Seekers
    Oct 1 2024

    A TV crew offers 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime. But there’s a catch. The audience knows everything but the contestants are kept in the dark. As the cameras roll, no questions are allowed. Split Screen: Thrill Seekers is a new 6 part series that exposes how a TV show left contestants struggling to trust what’s actually real.


    Host Nick van der Kolk (Love + Radio) asks: does reality TV only succeed when it exploits those involved? He talks to the set designers, crew, and the contestants themselves to learn what it took to permanently distort their sense of reality.


    Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV’s carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted.


    More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/wKQvd4Do
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    35 mins
  • EP 10: A password expert and Canada’s first male doula

    EP 10: A password expert and Canada’s first male doula
    Aug 21 2023
    A federal employee initiative promises to be inclusive to all employees and offensive to none, the world’s first and only not-for-profit McDonalds, an expert on passwords, a round of Puzzler, and meet Canada’s first male doula.
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    29 mins
  • EP 9: Military mountain bikes and a literal office pool

    EP 9: Military mountain bikes and a literal office pool
    Aug 14 2023
    The Canadian Armed Forces acquire a set of mountain bikes to be more environmentally friendly, an international festival celebrates the humble pen, and we visit an office that decided to turn their workspace into a swimming pool. Plus, Alberta a 2000-lb bison housepet and meet an elopement planner.
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    27 mins
  • EP 8: Gordie the unmanned spacecraft and invisible art

    EP 8: Gordie the unmanned spacecraft and invisible art
    Aug 7 2023
    Project Gordie returns to earth from space after being lost in the 1970s, we hear about a recently discovered dinosaur nicknamed Mr. Big Head, and we meet two rival professional game show contestants competing to be the winningest contestant of all time. Plus, a new app to help people converse with each other in real life and an up-and-coming artist making invisible art.
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    30 mins
  • EP 7: Brad Pitt’s Manitoba endorsement and researching Ogopogo

    EP 7: Brad Pitt’s Manitoba endorsement and researching Ogopogo
    Jul 31 2023
    Manitoba hopes a little star power from Brad Pitt can impress, new research on the Ogopogo, and an interview with an inspirational Bingo caller. Plus, we feature a brand new game taking family board game night by storm, and visit with glam rock pioneer Lou RocketShip.
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    28 mins
  • EP 6: Mannequin police force and freeway food truck

    EP 6: Mannequin police force and freeway food truck
    Jul 24 2023
    A Nova Scotian police force turns to mannequins to help with policing, we interview Karachi, Canada’s greatest hypnotist, and hear about High Prairie’s linguistic efforts to attract new tourists. Plus, a food truck serving customers on the freeway and an earworm that refuses to go away.
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    30 mins
  • EP 5: Kill the kiss cam and climbing Niagara Falls

    EP 5: Kill the kiss cam and climbing Niagara Falls
    Jul 17 2023
    An interview with a mother who wants kiss cams banned at sporting events, a set of quints grows up, and a man tries to do the impossible on Niagara Falls. Plus, the harrowing tale of nearly 60 people trapped in a corn maze.
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    27 mins
  • EP 4: Bathroom-less condo and Wilderness birth

    EP 4: Bathroom-less condo and Wilderness birth
    Jul 10 2023
    A group suggests a bold alternative to earth hour, we meet a traveling internet provider in northern Saskatchewan, a lawsuit against a condo developer who neglected to put bathrooms in a 35-storey development, and an interview with a survivor who was trapped for 50 hours in a ride called the Drop-ocalypse. Plus, the rising popularity of wilderness births.
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    27 mins