“Why must we be so serious about what divide us and trivialize what bring us together?”

If you find yourself agreeing with William Stryker, Cameron Hodge and other popular mutant haters then 2018 is gonna suck for you!

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Last day of CMW. (The hint is in the festival name…Canadian Music Week! Man I’d so clean up on a American game shows). But before you rip off your wristband and expose the pale skin underneath to the light there are 3 final #Pantsworthy shows that you should check out:

Genius: Season 1 – Albert Einstein (9pm / National Geographic Channel) – Premiering on April 25, 2017 at 9pm National Geographic will air its first scripted event: Genius a 10 part mini-series on the inspiring and troubling life of Albert Einstein. So In!

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Because last night’s CMW activities required mucho rolling in the deep (don’t feel like I am using that phrase correctly) tonight is just 1 show recommendation.

Superheroes Decoded: Docuseries (9pm / History Channel) – #SetTheVCR!! The History channel will air a two-part documentary on superheroes titled Superheroes Decoded on April 30 and May 1.

It’s produced by Morgan Spurlock but the doc ain’t about his visiting comic book stores every day for 30 days.

Superheroes Decoded uncovers how the rise of the superhero parallels America’s rise as a superpower in the 20th century…huh…guess that explains Hydra Captain America.

#OhSnap! Too Soon?

The docuseries is narrated by Kevin Conroy, the actor who has voiced Bruce Wayne / Batman in Batman: The Animated Series.

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Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

This is the Biggest Day at CMW!! So much amazing is happening; as it’s 2017 if you can use a home cloning kit to make party-duplicates of yourself, I strong advise it. Even at Girth Radio we’re hosting 2 bands. Visit Pacific Junction Hotel bar (234 King St E) and bring your single friends!

At 6pm Sean Sirianni takes over In Session… and hosts Cat Clyde for an acoustic performance and interview.

At 7pm I’m hanging out with Hillsburn for an acoustic performance and interview.

After my work is done I’m gonna check out what the Bucks-Raptors score is at (Game 3 starts at 8pm!) then I’m off to see what the evening has for me and my posse.

It’s all happening!

Today’s #HumbleBrag: Getting retweeted by Revenge Of The Nerds’ Booger. Another excellent Fun Fact to pad the ol eulogy. (Well really you can say whatever you want; I’m dead: nothing defines me.)

Genius: Season 1 – Albert Einstein (9pm / National Geographic Channel) – Premiering on April 25, 2017 at 9pm National Geographic will air its first scripted event: Genius a 10 part mini-series on the inspiring and troubling life of Albert Einstein. So In!

We do this dance…we have this particularly gross system in place. We meaning society…us. We. Somebody will discover a vital truth, a profound idea…a remarkable finding about the cosmos and God’s place in it and we…we push back.

That’s not how we do things around here.
You don’t gain acceptance by being different; history has revealed this pattern by now.

Remember that cheezy Apple commercial to “think” different…presenting all these great minds from history. All commonly vilified either at some point in their lives or worse all the time and sadly they couldn’t purchase a sleek and simple Apple computer to soothe their woes. (You can’t sell originality…the ad was never about originality…if everybody bought Apple computers then you wouldn’t be original; you’d be like everybody else with an Apple computer. Remember when the ipod first came out and the white ibuds were seemingly everywhere? That’s not originality; it’s certainly not individuality. If you’re like everybody than you can’t be somebody which makes you a nobody.) Point is…if you tell people to think different…eventually some will comply.

Albert Einstein did think different; he was highly original and complex and glimpsed a fraction of what makes our Universe so compelling. And true to our established dance he was often rejected, toiling away as a patent clerk for many years; the scientific community pushed back, outright rejected his ideas…even sometimes based on the offensive premise that he’s a Jew. How frustrating and worse guilty of the crime of predictability. Small men do small things.

There’s a lot of life for producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to mine (Howard directed the first episode) from Walter Isaacson’s biography Einstein: His Life and Universe (which bring us full circle back to Steve Jobs. Link yourself with Einstein and you get ego satisfying click-bait for life.)

And not just science…Einstein had a number of side-pieces; eventually marrying his first cousin. That like much of his work doesn’t make sense to me. But so be it…Albert typically had a number of Valentine’s Cards to hand out. Apparently that hair and that cardigan was enough to impress the ladies.

The series will wrap on June 20, 2017. Geoffrey Rush is elder Albert Einstein (good casting!), Johnny Flynn as young Albert Einstein and before it’s all done I’m sure we’ll run into J. Edgar Hoover, The Curies (“It’s the Curies! We must flee!”), Carl Jung and more all set in the backdrop of World War 1 and 2. Surreal.

That’s a life…of work and achievement, of adventure and romance, of selfishness and beauty.

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Sammy Younan is the affable host of My Summer Lair: think NPR’s Fresh Air meets Kevin Smith: interviews & impressions on Pop Culture.

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Oh man…you hafta, you must, you really should see The Balconies live. If I had their dense sonic energy oh the things I could accomplish. Good Gravy! Also on tonight’s CMW 2017 bill is Ivory Hours: yo a fantastic double bill. If that’s not your cup of tea there is also Look Vibrant. CMW is always about choices.