Spend an hour and change with erstwhile Young Drunk Punk Bruce McCulloch (Kids in the Hall) as he class-clowns, competitive-weightlifts, and rock-and-rolls his way through his teens in Calgary and Edmonton. Yes, those are both places in Canada. C’mon guys. We knew that.
Episode 113:
The JV Club
Boys of Summer: Bruce McCulloch
Boys of Summer: Bruce McCulloch
This is one of my new favorite episodes. What a lovely, genuine conversation. One of those episodes that just felt like a hug the whole way through. GREAT choice with Miranda Lambert, by the way. Her new album is killer. Also I’m now imagining a duet between Pink and Miranda Lambert and it’s kind of blowing my mind.
I’ve been to Edmonton once but not yet to Calgary. But because of the two solitudes, Kids in the Hall is not part of my culture. I heard of them long after the show went off the air.
As an Anglo kid growing up in Quebec without cable, the CBC was one of the two or three channels I actually watched, but I still managed to miss the show. I guess I was just a little bit too young to get what was happening. It still feels like I picked up a lot through osmosis, but I don’t think I saw a single episode while it was on the air.