If you’re a fan of the hit reality show, The Amazing Race like I am then you know about Phil Keoghan. For 11 seasons now he’s been leading teams all over the world, to over 70 countries, in massive adventure race – introducing us to the various cities, explaining tasks and greeting sweaty, stinky teams at the mat to check them in at the end of each leg.
Canadians have long wanted to participate on the show but you need an American passport, so local races such as The Amazing Hunt will have to keep people like me going, for now. Phil’s actually moving his new show “NOW” over to the CBC and the good news is this time – Canadians are more than welcome.
If your life were to end at 3pm tomorrow what would you regret not doing? And why haven’t you done it? Does fear stand in your way? Or are you stuck in the same routine day after day?
Taking on a NOW Challenge is about accomplishing in 72 hours something you have never thought possible and probably taken every measure to avoid. It’s about turning thought into action and your fears inside out. There’s no more woulda, coulda, shoulda. It’s time to live life NOW.
In search of participants, Phil is touring around various Canadian cities so that means of course, that means he’s coming to Vancouver, making it one of 8 stops across the nation (for more dates, visit Inside The CBC blog).
“[Phil brings] his spin-off show No Opportunity Wasted to the CBC in October — and casting has begun for that series. In each half-hour episode, two people get challenged to set aside fears to achieve a specific task. Keoghan says he came up with the idea for the series’ philosophy after a near-fatal scuba diving accident in his native New Zealand when he was 19 years old. [NOW]”
The local search for show participants occurs: May 16, 7 pm to 9 pm at Chapters, 788 Robson, Vancouver
They start out in Newfoundland on May 8th and Vancouver will be the last stop. Although I’d love to go, just to meet Phil but I don’t think I’d want to get in the way of those trying out for the show. For some inspiration, read the blog on the NOW website and see the personal stories that have been shared thus far. Also, you can also pick up the book that started this all, I suppose while you’re in Chapters on May 16th, “No Opportunity Wasted: 8 Ways to Create a List for the Life You Want” by Phil Keoghan.
*Special thanks to Kevin who tipped me off about NOW via the Contact Form, and on the Amazing Race blog.
John and I lead off this episode live from Robson street with follow up audio from Alanah. She calls up JJ who is at GM Place for game 7 of the Conference Quarter Finals. Meanwhile, Dave was over in live video streaming Canucks Outsider land. All in all, a CRAZY night.
It was a nervous first round, but the Canucks pulled it off in game seven to win the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Dallas Stars. Rebecca and John lead off this episode, stepping on their balcony to capture the atmosphere of the downtown celebration going on in Vancouver. After that, Alanah phones J.J. just a few minutes after he left GM Place where he had tickets for this amazing game seven. He has some great reports of the atmosphere from inside and outside of the garage, and hopefully you can make out what he’s saying from all the noise of celebrating fans in the background. [thecrazycanucks]
Update early 2009: If you’re looking for the Canucks “live stream” you can probably find it here – availability not guaranteed.
Our co-host Dave, on The Crazy Canucks Podcast is currently streaming live on his site, The Canucks Outsider. They’re sitting on a couch, surrounded by Canucks memorabilia, talking hockey, and are fully interactive with their live audience. If you cannot get the game on TV (or even if you can) tune in now.
Here’s how to play along: IRC: #canucks-outsider on irc.freenode.net
ustream chat: ustream.tv/canucksoutsider (requires Java)
I’ve logged onto the live chat and we also just received a phone call from Dave (sporting his Don Cherry hat). This is pretty darn fun, and geeky.
Update: Living off Robson street we are experiencing how NUTS this city gets about their team – especially now that we’ve made it past the quarter finals and will meet Anaheim on Wednesday for the conference semi-finals. WOOOOOOOOOO!!
Update: 9:51pm The crowds haven’t ceased their honking and cheering on Robson, audio will be up tomorrow on the podcast.
Update: 10:47pm It’s still noisy as anything outside. Revving engines, horns, people cheering. I forgot to mention that today I received my ‘major prize’ from the Kukla’s Korner contest a while back [ms604]. I’ll never wear another shirt for a game this season.
Update: 10:48pm One more thing, enough with being smug and calling out the bandwagon jumpers. We did it, we all love this team, let’s move on.
Update: 7:52am Robson is finally quiet – can’t wait for round two. Who didn’t dream of Linden last night, eh?
Remember when McDonald’s used to have Pizza? It took about 12 minutes, was pretty cardboard-like in texture, and the novelty wore off pretty soon. Regardless, it was a pretty fun notion when it first came about.
A line of personal sized pizzas were sold in the early 90s. In Ontario, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia (c. 1992-1995) the pizza originally began as a family sized pizza that was brought out to the table by an employee and placed on a raised rack in the centre of the table. Later it was scaled down to a personal sized pizza when the larger version did not sell well. [wiki]
McDonald’s Pizza
The logo for the McDonald’s Pizza’s was the word pizza but the “Z’s” were two golden arches on a slant – hence the reason I always call it “Pimma” (which I believe my brother first started).
You can’t find many remnants of the McPizzas anymore, the big custom ovens have been shipped out and there’s barely a trace of evidence on the internets. I was only able to find an online petition calling for their return. John and I don’t eat at McDonald’s often – or at all, really – but whenever we’re in the mood to call Flying Wedge, we do enjoy us some good pimma.
John, JJ, Dave, Alanah and I hit the “big time” in this special TV episode of The Crazy Canucks Podcast that aired on CTV earlier tonight. FYI – even though our names were never mentioned on the spot, Dave and I *are* in fact co-hosts of the podcast too 😛
And if you’re looking for stellar playoff coverage, head to JJ’s blog (Canucks Hockey Blog). I also have to mention that my ongoing secret girl crush on Alanah (fellow Crazy Canucks podcast co-host) is alive and well with her recent fiesty playoff blogging, check out her site (Canucks and Beyond).
