Welcome to Episode 28 of Nooks and Crannies!

Halloween Spectacular: Self Immolating Sens Fans, Floppy Disked ICQ chatting, Making Bread with Cod Baskets.  

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

(4:37) Evan immediately breaks his promise of a “no rant” episode by absolutely loosing it on Ottawa Senator’s owner Eugene Melnyk. Folks this is the best rant in Nooks and Crannies history! In solidarity with my valiant co host, here are just a few stories that support his vitriol; Gambling Debts, apparently he is trying to get his private jet back (sad really), how he literally guilt tripped a diehard Sens fan into giving him a chunk of their liver! and of course, rumors continue to swirl about him selling the team but he won’t because he is likes this shit. Oh, and we also talk about the Canucks, who are going to be okay going forward, Poor Evan.   

(18:13) Hold onto your Cod Basket’s folks, cuz its time for another Canadian Heritage Moment! This week we are discussing the fake-Italian not quite British ‘explorer’ John, don’t you dare call me Giovanni, Cabot, and the “discovery” of cod off the coast of Newfoundland! Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!

(22:25) Get your floppy disks out folks, we are taking the time machine back to like I dunno, lets say 1989…Its another addition of “Dimming 90’s Memories with Mamoo”. Matty explains to Evan what the eff DOS is, how to download shareware games from a Surrey Library database, stealing AOL CD’s, and the glorious world of ICQ *Uh..uooo! (Side Note: First Google suggestion on ICQ was “Is ICQ still a thing?” Apparently it is!!

Then Evan turns the tables, talking about the quite frightening sounding Omegle… :( According to their still existing website, they see things a little differently: The Internet is full of cool people; Omegle lets you meet them. When you use Omegle, we pick someone else at random so you can have a one-on-one chat.

(35:50) Then for no reason whatsoever, Matty decided to explain to Epen how to make bread from hand (by hand?). Two notes that I forgot to mention, for egg wash; add a small splash of water and whip that up a bit with a fork, secondly; when baking with milk add no more than half what the recipe calls for, for liquid (this recipe calls for 2 cups of water, sub 1 of those for milk), and you will want to microwave that milk first (like 20-30 seconds). Enjoy! Even though your first loaf will suck…

(44:55) And to wrap things up, the fella’s felt obliged to talk about their least favorite holiday, Halloween *We also hate Thanksgiving, which happens in October in Canada, not really sure why…Anyway, we keep it rather non-ranty, we talk about our favorite childhood costumes, trick or treat strategies (including Matty’s full sized chocolate bar recon schemes), teenage hijinx *including Matty’s near nard loss due to a hammered down screetch-a-roo, and why we both hate adult Halloween, but also why we need to get Evan back into that cape and bejeweled crown!

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Episode 28 Links:

Fun Eugene Melnyk Story’s:

https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/did-eugene-melnyk-jump-the-queue-for-a-new-liver/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-senators-owner-eugene-takes-legal-action-to-get-private-jet-back-1.5287642

https://thehockeywriters.com/ottawa-senators-ownership-problem-an-nhl-problem/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/casino-cash-chips-melnyk-1.5304618

James Beard bread book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545911.Beard_on_Bread

Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything: http://www.howtocookeverything.com/

John Cabot, Canadian Heritage Minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds8G9sFOK5w

 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

N&C Links

All The Episodes

Drop us a line: [email protected]

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/nooksandcranniespodcast

Ponder Evan’s Blurry Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/nooks_and_crannies_pod/

Find Nooks and Crannies on Spotify

Graphics by Donna Hume

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Theme Music Attribution:

Cullah - "Neurosis of the Liver" on "Cullah The Wild" https://www.cullah.com/discography/cullah-the-wild/neurosis-of-the-liver Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/