“Because our usual book club,” said Rice, “you set a date, everybody reads the book, and you get together and share.” You’re not confined to these rigid formats anymore.”Īnd it is the loosening of this rigid format that makes the podcast what the two creators intended, a book club, of sorts. “I’d have to tell myself again, dude, you can relax a little bit,” said Rice, “You can allow certain things to happen. The first episode of the podcast, Storykeepers was spent having to remind himself to let go. “I sort of found myself reverting to having been a host, I was like, “Oh, I have to steer the conversation’.” “Coming from the broadcast journalism world where everything is scripted and everything is planned down to the minute, it’s been kind of funny, breaking that mold myself,” said Rice. Though author, journalist and broadcaster Waubgeshig Rice moved on from his career with CBC to focus on his literary career, given his last role with them as host of CBC Radio Sudbury’s UpNorth, it seems natural he would continue talking on air – in one form or another.
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