I just found out my favourite radio show, Wiretap isn’t
going to continue this season after 11 years and I’m pretty heart broken about
it. I used to have CBC on all the
time when I wasn’t working in the studio and I still remember the first time I
heard it 11 years ago. I was going
into the fridge getting something as I turned the radio on and I heard this
weird and funny conversation about someone who was watching their lobby
security camera instead of an actual tv channel. I’m not going to say I fell in love with the show that day
but I was intrigued and a seed was planted. It wasn’t long before I was trying
to make sure I could tune in every Sunday to hear what was going to happen next. As time progressed the different
personalities started poking out a bit more and I completely fell in love with
the show.
After 11 years of listening to something you amass so many
memories of where you were in life while listening to different episodes. Here are some of mine…
I remember a new girlfriend and I driving around Friday
night and me sneaking the show on hoping she wouldn’t mind. Both of us ended up laughing like crazy at a conversation Jonathan and Gregor were having.
Years later I remember listening to old and new podcasts
many late nights building my studio in a house a different girlfriend and I had
bought. The one that stands out the most during that period was the Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong episode.
I remember listening when that relationship soured and I
needed a distraction from what was a year long crisis called, “what am I going
to do with my life now?”.
I also remember many long walks listening with earphones
laughing out loud or tearing up while looking around making sure no one was
watching me.
Wiretap had a way of approaching the most mundane and the
most profound subjects with an intelligence and humor that is rarely done. I’m sure I’m not the only listener that
felt a kinship while listening, a sense that there’s others that see the world
a bit like I do. It was a great
feeling.
The problem when a show like this stops running is that
there’s nothing to replace it.
It’s not like a TV drama or something that you can replace with another
show in its absence. There truly
wasn’t anything out there like it.
Instead of being sad that it’s over though I’m going to try and be happy
that it existed at all. Thank you
to everyone who was a part of Wiretap who entertained and touched so many of
us. Your show was dearly loved and
meant a lot to a lot of us. Good
luck with your future projects.
So glad that my son and I got to participate in what ended
up being the farewell video. It
was great to be a part of it.
Here's a link to the Wiretap webpage:
