Deekast

Alex Kazam is a professional performance artist. He performs magic and comedy in and around the Niagara-GTA area. He has also been an actor, stuntman, and is known to occasionally breathe fire. Alex hosts a podcast called 'Get Out of Your Head' that can be found on SoundCloud, YouTube and other podcast apps. Visit him online at www.thealexkazam.com, on twitter he is @wittymagic --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #44 Kevin M. Folta is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he helped lead the project to sequence the strawberry genome, and continues to research photomorphogenesis in plants and compounds responsible for flavor in strawberries. Dr. Folta hosts the Talking Biotech podcast: A weekly podcast about genetic improvements in plants, animals, microbes and medicine. Available on your favourite podcast app. His blog can be found at kfolta.blogspot.com. On twitter he is @kevinfolta --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #43 David Robert Grimes is a physicist and cancer researcher at the University of Oxford. He also writes for The Irish Times and The Guardian. In 2014, he was a joint winner of the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. In 2016 he wrote a paper showing how unlikely conspiracy theories are to be true based on the amount of people involved and how long it would take before a secret would get out. His twitter account is @drg1985 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #42 Rob Burke is Co-founder of Something Something Productions, a theatre company based in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He is Youth Program Director at Playhouse Theatre Group. Rob, myself and my co-host Mike Soltys sat down to talk theatre, niagara, highschool memories and more. Visit www.somethingsomethingproductions.ca. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #41 Marty Allen is a Niagara born recording artist. Marty writes original honky-tonk and rockabilly music and also performs Johnny Cash cover tunes in and around the Niagara Region. His music and show dates can be found at www.martyallenband.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #40 James Townsend is a rap artist who goes by the name of Jack $%#&&. He has many rap battles under his belt in KOTD and has been working on an album for some time. His latest video 'The Screening' by PaperCutsRock (one of his groups) can be found on YouTube. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #39 DDS is a hip-hop producer who is best known for his billboard charting song with artist Dej Loaf entitled 'Try Me'. He offers information and feedback to producers and artists through his YouTube channel and often makes use of livestreams when making beats. DDS can be found on twitter and instagram at @DDS825. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #38 In this special mid-week episode, I share some DEEKAST stats, review a recent Hip-Hop show in St. Catharines, and Nick Carr and I discuss Sean Spicer's comments today about Hitler, as well as the general Syria picture. Nick Carr says the Trump administration is George Bush term 5. Is he right? Has the deep serpentine state gotten to Trump? Also we talk about Kendrick Lamar meeting with the Honourable Minister Farrakhan, and other stuff. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #37 The DEEKAST took to the stage at Local Media Matters 2017 fundraiser hosted by the Niagara Podcasters Network. You can visit them at www.niagarapodcasters.org --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #36 Pete Voynavich is a professor of graphic design at Niagara College. He was slightly abusive to me during my time under his rule but it was my fault for using red and black colour schemes too often. Pete likes 90s hip-hop, baseball, and illustration. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #35 St. Catharines Collegiate and Sir Winston Churchill high school students will tell you Bill Huizer is a legend of a teacher. He is also referred to as Mr. Huizer Jr. out of respect for and so not to be confused with Mr. Huizer Sr. Mr. Huizer Jr taught me english in gr 11 and 12. He also teaches math. I asked him about the goods and bads of the Ontario education system. Doesn't all that memorization and testing numb our brains or something? Mr. Huizer Jr lets us know, and cautions us about using Ted Talks as a magic pill for education. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #34 James M. is a rap artist from Welland, Ontario. James is featured on my last album DER!US. James is the lead of the band Donny Yonder, check their album 'Over There' on Spotify or YouTube. Visit www.donnyyonder.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #33 Esteemed colleague Nicholas Carr joins us again for the 5 time, 5 time, 5 time. We talk Trump (bing bong), Sweden, North Korea, China, PewdiePie and Pokemon Go generation 2! Also we debunk a Nick Carr generated conspiracy theory about a Knife sharpening service that drives around St. Catharines in a Ice Cream truck playing music. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #32 My friend Jennica has some radical views, man—and we discuss them. In the first part we got a bit too heavy so we added a part 2 at the end of some lighter topics we forgot about. Shalom. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #31 Chavis Chandler is a Hip-Hop/Soul artist from east side 7mile Detroit. He is a tough artist to describe without listening to his music. Versatility is one word that comes to mind. A soulful voice with gritty overtones, and a rap skill beyond what we're used to within the last 5 years of Hip-Hop. I was lucky to collaborate on a couple of tracks with him "CB4 ft. Lo Sport and Earlly Mac" and "Let You Go ft. Supakaine". I called up Chav to ask him about Detroit life, his influences, the music 'industry' in Detroit and what's next for his tunes. CHOPPP!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #30 DJ Frank Vinatra is a DJ from Toronto who DJs from the 416 to the 905. He can be heard every long weekend on 93.5 WBLK. He's worked with artists such as French Montana, Akon, Beenie Man, PartyNextDoor and Tory Lanez. He has been a staple of St. Catharines party life for some years and is my favourite DJ to turn UP to. Check out his website at www.thisisfrankvinatra.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #29 E.U.Afool AKA Ev8r is a rap artist from St. Catharines and part of the Choom Gang. Visit homeofmusicexpression.com or search The Choom Room on YouTube. E.U.Afool just released an album entitled The Cacophony of Christ Conciousness. We break down over 2.5 hours what the album means, if 911 was an inside job, why Trump sucks, how the Choom Gang started and what the concept of TimeSpace is. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #28 Rebel Mehari is a St. Catharines rap artist and a part of the Choom Gang. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #27 Thoby G is a talented rap artist from St. Catharines, Ontario born in Brooklyn NYC. Thoby and I collaborated on the 2014 song "Dance" available on YouTube. Thoby is my spirit animal. We talk about the rap game, growing up in Brooklyn and the possibility that The Annunaki are just rappers from another planet who need bling. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support

DEEKAST #26 St. Catharines resident, graphic designer, artist, costume design hobbyist and "Squirrel Mom" Lisa Mancini (@lisa.mancinerh) discusses the gifts and curses bestowed upon her by squirrel mother nature. Lisa recently had a video of her and her adopted squirrel go viral on the internet receiving 16 million hits. It all started in Montabello Park. Lisa also designs and sells clothing and other artwork on Etsy (SaltyMermaidDesign). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deekast/support