Surviving Life with Les Stroud

This is part two of my interview and morning coffee and jam session with the artist known as Aradia.  And again – it’s really more or a chill morning with coffee and a couple musicians kind of moment – not so much an interview.

Aradia is a self-produced multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter that brings something with originality and depth to the world of alternative pop. Her progressive, building arrangements echo elements of Robyn, Marina, Blondie and Roosevelt—artfully blending nu disco, 80s guitar rock and modern electronica.

Born in the New York City metropolitan area & studying music from early childhood, she is after a sojourn to Seattle & Los Angeles where she fine-tuned her craft and her sound, went back to NYC to focus on live performances & to release a string of anthemic singles. She now continues to do so from Long Island Sound in Connecticut.

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This is Part One of my interview - well, mostly morning coffee and jam session with the artist known as Aradia.

Aradia is a self-produced multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter that brings something with originality and depth to the world of alternative pop. Her progressive building arrangements echo elements of Robyn, Marina, Blondie and Roosevelt - artfully blending nu disco, 80s guitar rock and modern electronica.

Born in the New York city metropolitan area and studying music from early childhood, she is after a sojourn to Seattle and Los Angeles where she fine-tuned her craft and her sound, went back to NYC, to focus on live performances and to release a string of anthemic singles. She now continues to do so from Long Island Sound in Connecticut.

Music:

Car; Aradia

M Class Planet; Aradia

Arctic Mistress; Les Stroud, Bryan Potvin

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In this episode of Surviving life Les sits down, - guitars in hand - with singer-songwriter Peirson Ross for part two of their artists' conversation. They go deep into music and activism along with the writer's process.

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In this episode of Surviving life, Les sits down with guitars in hand with singer songwriter Peirson Ross for part one of two parts. They go deep into music and activism along with the writer's process.

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Hap Wilson - the legend of Temagami, Ontario. An incredibly talented artist, author and outdoor adventure guide. But everything he does is rooted in his love of the natural world and his desire to protect it. Les and Hap sit sipping scotch and talk activism and canoeing.

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Through the podcast Under The Influence, host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly.

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Through the podcast Under The Influence host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly.

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Through the podcast Under The Influence, host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly.

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Through the podcast Under The Influence host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly’s life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly.

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Through the podcast Under The Influence host and advertising guru Terry O'Reilly gives you a backstage pass into the intriguing, often insane, baffling and always surprising world of advertising and how it shapes all of our lives. Sitting outside by a fire with Les Stroud and Terry, we get a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes, with our backstage pass to Terry O'Reilly's life itself and to what led him into a vast world, filled with unbelievable stories that have affected us all profoundly.

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Now going strong into his 28th year as keyboardist and musical director for none other than Billy Joel, Dave Rosenthal is and will always be pure musician. There has never been something for Dave to be – to aspire to. He’s a musician that’s it. But of course that kind of focus combined with no small amount of talent has seen him on stage and in the studios with everyone from Paul McCartney, Steve Miller and Peter Frampton to Cindy Lauper, Steve Vai, Itzhak Perlman and Bruce Springsteen. His life in rock and roll is filled with the stories that so many of us  musicians envy. Dave is in the full meaning of the phrase: a musician’s musician. 

In this part two of my chat with Dave we go onstage with some of the greatest artists of all time.

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Now going strong into his 28th year as keyboardist and musical director for none other than Billy Joel, Dave Rosenthal is and will always be pure musician. There has never been something for Dave to be – to aspire to. He’s a musician that’s it. But of course that kind of focus combined with no small amount of talent has seen him on stage and in the studios with everyone from Paul McCartney, Steve Miller and Peter Frampton to Cindy Lauper, Steve Vai, Itzhak Perlman and Bruce Springsteen. His life in rock and roll is filled with the stories that so many of us musicians envy. Dave is in the full meaning of the phrase: a musician’s musician. 

Chatting with Dave gave me an opportunity to ask him about a genre of music that will always hold a special place in my own musical heart; progressive rock. 

Directed by Les Stroud

Starring Les Stroud, Dave Rosenthal

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Part Two of my wonderfully insightful interview with Canadian comedian and author Ron James. Ron has just released his first book: All Over The Map; Rambles and Ruminations From The Canadian Road.

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Part One of my wonderfully insightful interview with Canadian comedian and author, Ron James. Ron has just released his first book: All Over The Map; Rambles and Ruminations From The Canadian Road.

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Les closes out his discussion with music production legend Mike Clink, known for his work with Guns N Roses. Mike digs in deeper to his own perspectives on today's music and the state of the industry itself.

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In this part two of Les’ interview with Mike Clink we travel to the land of rock and roll royalty at The Record Plant studios where history was made throughout the mid to late 70’s and early 80’s. And Mike Clink was there for it all.

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In this part two of Les’ intriguing chat with author and journalist John Zada, fresh after the release of his book In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond about his search for Bigfoot in Indigenous communities, Les and John go deeper into existence - not of Bigfoot but of humans. They cover truth or bullshit and the decline of the western civilization as well as being blissfully ignorant. 

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Les Stroud is back with another season of his podcast. Les, a multi-award winning documentary producer and musician has interviewed key creative and intelligent artists and innovators. He is back with another packed season of insightful, powerful interviews guaranteed to inspire you. Let's figure this out together.

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In this season one finale of Surviving Life with Les Stroud, Les takes a stab an an entirely new tack and delivers an interesting and compelling monologue, his IMO as he says, about how to handle and deal with trolls and haters on the social media platforms Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. He draws an interesting parallel between the platforms and how they should sit within every day life through analogies that make a lot of sense. 

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In a feisty and sometimes angry mood, David Suzuki shares with Les his frustration on getting the public and the politicians to understand what is at stake environmentally; Clean air, clean water and clean soil. Sitting in David’s backyard along side the NW Pacific coastline Les probes David for understanding of how to move forward in part two of their discussion. 

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The poet, the singer songwriter, the philosopher, the artist Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian Legend. Yet he broke past the international borders to continue as one of the most respected creators in the world. Les and Bruce sit down at Les’ house and talk songwriting, the impact of Bruce’s music and his spiritual motivation. This is part 2 of that discussion.

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I had the pleasure of meeting John Zada out on the west coast of Canada in the wilderness. He emerged from the little cabin he was staying in to greet me and to talk about Bigfoot. A while later he released his fantastic bookIn The Valleys of the Noble Beyond. It is a book like no other when it comes to the subject matter as he doesn't waste time on the trivialities of ‘looking for bigfoot’ but rather digs deep into the larger more existential questions. My interview with him took the same trajectory as we sat looking out over a lake with a glass of scotch in hand. This is part 1 of my talk with John Zada.

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I met Lisa Fenton at the Alberta Bushcraft symposium and was able to pull her aside for an in-depth chat on primitive earth skills/bushcraft skills and life itself. Dr. Lisa Fenton is a lecturer in Outdoor studies at the University of Cumbria, UK. With a background in Ethnobotany, Anthropology and Ethnobiology she wrote her PhD thesis in Bushcraft and its relationship to Indigenous Knowledges. 

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I met Lisa Fenton at the Alberta Bushcraft symposium and was able to pull her aside for an in depth chat on primitive earth skills/bushcraft skills and life itself. Dr. Lisa Fenton. Is a lecturer in Outdoor studies at the University of Cumbria, UK. With a background in Ethnobotany, Anthropology and Ethnobiology she wrote her PhD thesis in Bushcraft and its relationship to Indigenous Knowledges. 

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Les Stroud produced a ten part documentary series called Survivorman Bigfoot, now available on his youtube channel Survivorman – Les Stroud. The series itself has gotten a lot of respect over the years because it was an actual documentary series not a reality show. 

In the third part of this three part monologue you’ll get a chance to listen in on a private discussion about one of the most befuddling topics North American society has entertained in many years.

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Les Stroud produced a ten part documentary series called Survivorman Bigfoot, now available on his youtube channel Survivorman – Les Stroud. The series itself has gotten a lot of respect over the years because it was an actual documentary series not a reality show. 

In this second part of this three part monologue you’ll get a chance to listen in on a private discussion about one of the most befuddling topics North American society has entertained in many years.

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Les Stroud produced a ten part documentary series called Survivorman Bigfoot, now available on his youtube channel Survivorman – Les Stroud. The series itself has gotten a lot of respect over the years because it was an actual documentary series not a reality show. 

In this first part of a three part monologue, you’ll get a chance to listen in on a private discussion about one of the most befuddling topics North American society has entertained in many years. 

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Raised in the rougher areas of Toronto, Canada Doug Adams relied on his music and art, his martial arts and the love of his mother to break free from a pathway leading to jail and instead to travel a rock and roll highway into the halls of fame producing live special effects for the biggest stars in the world. In Part 2 Doug takes us to the stages of the world with the biggest acts in the world including Michael Jackson, Metallica and Paul McCartney.

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Raised in the rougher areas of Toronto, Canada, Doug Adams relied on his music and art, his martial arts and the love of his mother to break free from a pathway leading to jail and instead to travel a rock and roll highway into the halls of fame, producing live special effects for the biggest stars in the world. In Part 1 we get insight into his beginnings and how literally playing with fire and bombs would provide his ticket out.

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In this 2nd half of Les Stroud’s epic keynote held at the Bushcraft Symposium in Alberta Canada, Les was asked to expose once and for all the truth and reality behind the inception of “Survival TV” a brand new genre of television for which Stroud is credited with creating.

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Consultant on films such as Castaway and TV series such as Survivorman, David Halladay is an unsung hero. Essentially unknown to the general public he is a legend in the world of survival skills. Not content to stick with the more simple subjects of fire starting and flint bladed knife making, David uses every outdoor skill oriented opportunity to fall right back into the world of philosophy and spiritual connectedness to nature.

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There are those TV journalists that get the story and deliver the interview. And then there are those who are artist in their own right and compel you to follow them because of their work, not necessarily because of the artist they might be interviewing. Enter Laurie Brown. With a smooth demeanor, eloquent style of speech and silky voice her insightful work will always take the listener to places they never knew they always wanted to go. We discover why she does what she does so well.

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Celebrated as one of history’s greatest rock producer/engineers, after establishing none other than Guns and Roses by producing their first five albums, Mike shares his life’s history and his seemingly singular obsession with how music is made and recorded. Sitting along side Mike in his backyard in Woodland Hills, California, the camaraderie styled relationship between Les and Mike is palpable. 

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Long before Survivorman and the plethora of books available on the subjects of survival, Mors was at the zeitgeist of presenting these skills to the public and to kids in an accessible way through his writings and teachings. Inspired by Huey, Duey and Luey from Disney, Mors set the bar for outdoor skills instruction in this, his last ever interview before passing in Dec 2019. 

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Raised by a loving Christian mother while hanging with a small group of outliers focused on punk rock, all the while adorned with satanic symbolism expressed through personal fashion, George shares the driving forces behind his productive and hugely successful career as a music interviewer.

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Les addresses over 500 people at the Alberta Bushcraft Symposium. He was asked to elaborate on the differences between survival, bushcraft and primitive earth skills but also to set the stage for what everyone was calling the ‘elephant in the room’: survival TV.

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In a feisty and sometimes angry mood, David Suzuki shares with Les his frustration on getting the public and the politicians to understand what is at stake environmentally. Sitting in David’s backyard alongside the NW Pacific coastline, Les probes David for understanding on how to move forward.

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The poet, the singer-songwriter, the philosopher, the artist, Bruce Cockburn is a Canadian Legend. Yet he broke past international borders to continue as one of the most respected creators in the world. Les and Bruce sit down at Les’ house and talk songwriting, the impact of Bruce’s music and his spiritual motivation.

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Les Stroud, a multi-award-winning documentary producer, musician, author and man who has literally travelled to the ends of the earth, sits down with key creative and intelligent artists and innovators to discover how to live well. He won’t ignore his roots as he explores the world of survival, bushcraft and primitive living skills with his peers in the world of outdoor adventure. Listen in as Les digs into the inspiring aspects of lives lived to the fullest by extraordinary individuals.

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