You’re not wrong about the terrible way dolphins and porpoises are captured and then used for ‘swim with dolphins!’ programs - but the animals in the Dirtbag video are sharks.

The kayak woman was attacked by a river otter. River otters can be found in lakes, rivers and the ocean, but they usually nest on land. We have some river otters that hang out in the sea near our house; they’re cute from a distance, but intimidating up close.

Are the thousands of recalled Volkswagons still there? We visited in the summer, and the rows and rows of cars were as haunting as the cooling towers...

“How is the Ob pressed?”

Counterpoint: breaststroke is the best stroke for ocean swimming because you keep your mouth above the waves and you can see the seaweed/jellyfish before you get tangled in it.

You will be in the ‘Inside Passage’ between Vancouver Island and the Mainland for part of the trip, and it’s quite sheltered - you will be hugging the coastline north of that, so you won’t have to worry about big swells for most of the trip.

I made one last week; the weighted beads are surprisingly expensive. The best price I could get was two pounds of beads for $15.95 (Canadian dollars) plus tax. Seven packs of beads at that price, plus fabric plus thread plus special needles for canvas plus labour, (it’s hard to keep the little beads in place when…

I made one last week; the weighted beads are surprisingly expensive. The best price I could get was two pounds of…

“They weren’t allowed to do surgery on someone over 72.”

... Or the Bundys running their cattle on federal land without paying?

Oooh - ooooh! Don’t forget Mike Birbiglia... unless - have you heard something?

I think the border is ‘the shimmer’, not all of Area X. Still a bad name, though.

High-tension power lines were featured in My Neighbour Totoro - the Catbus even travels along them at one point.

“...those killer whales moving up to the Arctic Ocean are apparently freaking out narwhals.”

There’s a name for it: immanizing the eschaton. Basically, it’s a bunch of people trying to force God’s hand - and it’s hapened enough over the millennia that the Catholic church actually has a policy statement online. (They’re against it)

Took me a moment ... Rand Paul would have a new roommate... In the hospital.

Do you mean the mass-killing rates? After the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, much-tougher gun laws were introduced in the UK.

Caesars don’t have olives, though. For some reason, a clam/tomato based beverage is okay to me, but olives and tomato juice are just too weird.

There is a law that every radio station in Canada, no matter the format, has to play Crabbuckit by k-os at least once every four hours.

I’m pretty sure he stole all of that from The Six Million Dollar Man’s intro.  

There is a flavour hierarchy for salmon - Sockeye, with its red hue and firm flesh, is considered the tastiest commercially-fished salmon and is priced accordingly.