Spinnin' Yarns
By Joe Amero
Spinnin' YarnsApr 01, 2024
16. ACTION!
Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero sits down for a candid chat with the one & only Kevin Smith!
They talk about all things Canada
+ they announce their new upcoming film collaboration Straight Edge!
MAD LOVE to April Fools!
(NO love for stink palms)
15. NSFWAF
SPINNIN' YARNS Season 2 continues with NSFWAF!
Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero sits down for candid chat with long time friend Andrew Fox.
They talk about some of the unbelievable events in Fox's amazing life, including:
- Dropping out of school (multiple times!)
- Punk Rock
- Stand-Up Comedy (in strip clubs)
- Being a "normal person"
- Getting married (multiple times!)
- Stand-Up Comedy (in LA)
- Being the News Desk Manager/News Editor in the adult industry for XBIZ (porn reporter!)
- Upright Citizens' Brigade
- The Groundlings
- Being the next contestant on The Price is Right (& smacking Jack Black right in the face on your birthday!)
- Losing on Jeopardy!
- Magic mushrooms & swimming with sea turtles
- All the gonzo journalism yet to come!
MAD LOVE to DMT
(NO love for Piers Morgan)
14. TOO MUCH INFORMATION
SPINNIN' YARNS is back with SEASON 2! Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero gets the ball rolling on another chapter of the program. He musters up the strength for a light-hearted chat & works passed his bad mood to shoot the breeze. Joe talks about the burning world, work-life balance, health issues, being creative & a talking cat! It's official, SPINNIN' YARNS is back with a new season of connecting with respect & respecting the connection. MAD LOVE to the listeners! (NO love for the war mongers)
Check out Rebecca Simpson!
AKA Stormpath
THANK YOU!!!
SPINNIN' YARNS celebrates a year of connections in our Season 1 Finale!
Sit down for the last candid chat of the year with your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero as he recaps the beautiful dumpster fire that was 2023.
ALL of our guests from Season 1 return for some fun & important follow-up questions + updates!
MAD love to ALL of our listeners/viewers/guests
(STILL no love for Jared Leto)
HUGE thanks to:
PUNK as FUCK!
In the SPINNIN' YARNS Season 1 penultimate episode we talk with legendary punk rock inspirational speaker Talli Osborne! Join your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero as he sits down for a candid chat with Talli about Las Vegas, CBD oil, inspirational speaking, Sir Richard Branson, acting agents, stand-up comedy, burlesque dancing, super heroes, rubbing boobs on modified cars, "love cannons", Miso the best feline companion & the empathic healing powers of cats, fate, Duolingo, wild donkeys, tarantulas, bowls with balls & getting naked with a butter tart. We spin yarns about literally everything from mohawks to TED Talks! Standing 3 feet tall & born with no arms above the elbows and no femurs or knees Talli Osborne gets up everyday and kicks the shit out of a system built to work against her; THAT's PUNK as FUCK! @TalliOsborne https://talliosborne.com/ MAD LOVE to MISO (NO love for posers)
FUCK SAFE
SPINNIN' YARNS
EPISODE 11
FUCK SAFE
with
Samantha Bitty!
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Slip into something more comfortable & cozy up with your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero as he sits down for an intimate chat with Sexy Sex & Consent Educator Drag Queen
Listen in on a heated conversation about everything from true connection, femme armour, honesty & well-being to licking honey!
Join us in Samantha's play room while we spin some deliciously sexy yarns. ------------------------
MAD LOVE to horny mischief!
(NO LOVE to missing appointments & making your body sore from too much masturbation) ------------------------
DULF
SPINNIN' YARNS Season 1 Episode 10 DULF with ERIS NYX --------------------------------------- Join your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero as he sits down with Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) cofounder Eris Nyx. Eris is a radical activist/artist working out of the Downtown East Side of Vancouver in the midst of the drug poisoning crisis. Offering viable, evidence-based solutions to the policy failures of the "government", Eris risks it all to help People Who Use Drugs, while trying to maintain their health & sanity in a living nightmare scenario. --------------------------------------- MAD LOVE to PWUD (no love for the corporation) #DULF #juice --------------------------------------- @incidental_press https://www.dulf.ca/ https://www.erisnyx.info/
https://vandu.org/ https://www.cpddw.ca/ https://chuffed.org/project/9lqyqm2i91a8eyo ---------------------------------------
ELEPHANT SHOES!
TRUTH to POWER
SPINNIN' YARNS SEASON 1/EPISODE 9 TRUTH to POWER (A True Story)
---------------------------------------------------------------- Join your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero for a true story about corruption and resistance as he speaks TRUTH to POWER in honour of International Overdose Awareness Day 2023. MAD LOVE to (HARM REDUCTION) (NO LOVE for the SHIT PIGS) #weseeyou
AROUND the WORLD
SPINNIN' YARNS SEASON 1
Episode 7 AROUND the WORLD with Jenine Daubney! Join your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero (mid-burnout breakdown) as he pops across the pond to merry old England for a candid, unscripted chat with his dear friend Jenine Daubney. Jenine is thriving in Lancaster instead of just surviving in Canada. Dive down multiple rabbit holes as they discuss everything from stachybotrys exposure and leaky-gut syndrome from toxic black mold to experiencing a full kundalini awakening through yoga! They reminisce about Homelessness and nomadic status and touch on managing restaurants and the love/hate relationship that comes with working in the hospitality industry. Of course addiction and recovery makes its' way into the conversation and we hear about Jenine's plan to pen a book. + an old yarn about the time a few people came very close to losing their lives; on mushrooms! Pip pip & away we go! MAD LOVE to Street Cats YYC https://www.streetcatsyyc.com/ (no love to Owen Sound)
TALENT on TOAST!
SEASON 1
Episode 6
TALENT on TOAST!
with Ajahnis Charley!Ajahnis Charley can be seen literally everywhere; BIG screens, little screens, stages, science labs! And now they can be seen here too! Join your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero as he catches up with his old (young) friend AJ in this unscripted candid chat about improv theatre, improv theatre online in the Twilight Zone, Aquaculture in delta areas of the Netherlands AND the Untitled Black Sketch Project! We introduce a new segment called 'Ajahnis Charley's MIND MELD' (where we end up discussing margarine in great detail.) & Ask/answer/pass on Joe Bill's/Kevin Whalen's important comedy question: OK, so you're funny, BUT what else are you?!
MAD LOVE to the Bad Dog Theatre (No love for COVID 19)
#yarnspinnin #spinninyarns #joeamero #ajahnischrley #torontocomedy #podcasts #canadianpodcast #talent #toast #margarine
TOUGH LOVE
Back to our regularly scheduled program: Did you ever just want to sell your El Camino, pack up everything you own & fly to the other side of the world? That's exactly what our next guest did! Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero reaches all the way into the future to speak with longtime friend Trish Dribnenki! They talk about all things New Zealand, nursing culture, vikings, competitive bodybuilding, Yellowstone, getting older, the REAL great restart, 7UP, kiwis & the run-a-muckness of youth in this unscripted candid chat. #punchintheface MAD LOVE to 64 Shirts (Alida Jepkemboi)
Donate to the DULF's Sustainer Donor Program today!
(no love for cold beans) #hfu #spinninyarns #yarnspinnin
#HarmReductionSavesLives
a CELEBRATION of LIFE
SEASON 1
EPISODE 4
a CELEBRATION of LIFE
for
GYPSY JAMES!
Join host Joe Amero for a special departure from the developing format in a special memorial edition episode.
He explores a journalistic approach that reports the facts, however, the tone is neither impartial or neutral as he shares something
extremely difficult, deeply personal & incredibly important.
Joe searches for healing & closure as he honours his dearly departed Brother
James Brydges.
CULTIVATE LOVE
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BUN THE COLONIZER
SPINNIN' YARNS
SEASON 1
EPISODE 3
BUN THE COLONIZER with King Mizo Madeit! Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero reaches out to the west coast of Canada for an entertaining and informative conversation with his homie King Mizo (& HIS homies Wet Water Miz & the Guru Gajah Raja!) They talk about the old days, touring Europe, Social Work, mental health, racism & Michelle Pfeiffer in this unscripted candid chat. #colortheblockchain MAD LOVE to the builders (no love for bulldozers) #hfu #spinninyarns #yarnspinnin #kingmizomadeit #kingmizo
FOGGY MEMORY LANE
SEASON 1
EPISODE 2
FOGGY MEMORY LANE
with Star Gale!
Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero keeps the conversation going with one of his longest-living best friends!
They talk about a crazy hitchhiking adventure they took through America in a perfect storm before cell phones & methadones in this unscripted candid chat.
Shout out to Vlasic Pickles (& Canadian women 35-44!)
#harmreductionsaveslives
MAD LOVE to Molly Shannon!
(no love for Geraldo Rivera)
#pickles #cougars
#hfu #spinninyarns #yarnspinnin
@Joeamero @yarnspinnin
(ALMOST) FULL DISCLOSURE!
SEASON 1
EPISODE 1
(ALMOST) FULL DISCLOSURE!
with Joe Amero
Your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero breaks the ice & (over) shares a bit (a lot) about himself in the premier episode of SPINNIN' YARNS!
He talks about where he came from, where he's going & where he's at in this unscripted candid chat.
Shout out to DULF & STREET CATS YYC
#harmreductionsaveslives
MAD LOVE to Terry FOX!
(no love for Jared Leto)
#catpiss
#hfu #spinninyarns #yarnspinnin
SPINNIN' YARNS "TRAILER"!
SPINNIN' YARNS is COMMIN' SOON!
Hosted by your friendly neighbourhood Joe Amero, Spinnin' Yarns is a shit-talkin' podcast with heart!
We'll have revealing interviews with fascinating guests, storytelling from captivating yarn-spinners, investigative journalism on interesting and curious topics and a million laughs along the way.
Real talk from real people.
Life is short; let's talk about it!