Guests
Judy Perly. Owner of Toronto's Free Times Café, which has been serving authentic Jewish and Middle Eastern food for over 40 years, while also functioning as a hub for folk music in the city, with live shows during the week and a songwriter open stage that's been running for decades.
Judy's playlist
- Leonard Cohen: Dance Me to the End of Love from Various Positions (1984)
- Willie P. Bennett: The Lucky Ones from The Lucky Ones (1989)
- Norm Hacking: Love at the Free Times Cafe from Skysongs (2001)
- The Waterboys: The Whole of the Moon from This Is the Sea (1985)
- Kellie Loder: Molded Like a Monster from Benefit of the Doubt (2018)
Sections
(* available in the extended version.)
00:00 Intro
00:57 Welcome
03:28 * Food is a soul thing
04:08 Recipes and expertise
06:14 Food as therapy
07:52 * Small acts for the soul
09:29 * Feeling free
13:04 * Food waste
14:45 * Normalizing poor health
17:27 * Free spirits
22:27 * Marriage like mortgage
23:48 Older generations and technology
25:27 Being a Vine star
27:02 * Sitting and thinking
27:45 * What's real?
29:57 Giving people characters
33:17 * On one's own
36:10 Talking to scammers
38:00 * Matriarchy
39:58 Creative funerals
41:40 * The deep man and the deep woman
44:51 Not locking the door
46:57 * Chips in our fingers
49:39 * Three-prong approach to problem solving
50:07 Conclusion
Musical sketches
Also available on Bandcamp.
