This Night Will Change Your Life

This one gets a bit hot and heavy, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Sit down with Cathy Petch: spoken word poet, master of the musical saw, playwright, and co-founder of Hot Damn It's A Queer Slam in Toronto. She's from Peterborough (and that comes up here with an unexpected connection to a very famous Canadian rawk band), but she now calls Toronto home - a very epic move indeed. This was recorded in the midst of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, which had Cathy in a coach role for the Toronto Poetry Slam team, so we were both burning our respective candles from their respective two ends. The result is a study in banter that will one day be taught in universities. If you haven't yet subscribed to the show on iTunes, you should go ahead and do that.