Stories for the Soul: Recent Episodes
John Gardiner
John Gardiner paints vivid emotional images with words…. hear from the Canadian short story author as he reads some of his favourite unpublished work from over the years.
A big, ugly oaf of a man, who is despised by society, finds worth in his life….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man who has spent many years in the depths of despair over the loss of a child learns to feel and live again through an interaction with another child….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man meets a daughter he didn’t know he had and resolves to try to get his life back together…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A serious life event causes a major change in the lives of two young guys just coming of age….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man is caught in a life crisis as he prepares to sell the home he and his wife built to raise their family - somehow a trophy case comes to represent what the house means to him….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An old man makes a close connection with his granddaughter….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A chance encounter with a young woman seems to awaken something in an older man who discovers he has lost sight of himself in life…
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A homeless man finds himself faced with questions he has no answers for…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An older man, whose brother was killed in the war, flies across an ocean bring his older sibling home….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The story of a man who is broken when his marriage falls apart, as told through the eyes of his young daughter….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An old man has to re-awaken his feelings so that winter will arrive….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man watches some teens disrespect a senior and wonders if his generation perhaps started it happening….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A short story that deals with the stuff of death….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A young man fails to win the girl of his dreams and never quite recovers…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
About a guy who just can’t seem to catch the breaks in life, leading to tragic consequences….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
After getting together with some lifelong friends, an old guy gains new appreciation for the way he’s lived his life…
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A down-and-out drunk gets a chance to run the world for a while…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
In this coming of age story, a young guy finds out what life can be like when you grow up….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The messiah does finally show up with some unexpected results for the folks on planet earth….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man who is sort of unhappy with his life has something happen that changes his whole perspective on things….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man reflects back on a special relationship he had when he was a young guy…….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A young guy hitchhiking to Ottawa in the old days gets a couple of interesting rides…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An old man near the end of his life imparts what he feels is important knowledge to his young granddaughter….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A captain of industry who somehow feels he’s wasted his life has an awakening that comes in an unusual way…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man comes home for a high school reunion - he’s sort of dreading the event but promised his sister he’d come…..see what happens when he meets a woman who helped shape his life in unexpected ways…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
After an argument with his wife, a man ends up in a bar where he gets fairly drunk and has a couple of unusual things happen to him…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A guy learns early on in life that you gotta be a survivor - even if you are a loser….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A middle-aged man suddenly becomes aware of his mortality and has trouble coming to grips with it.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A story told from the perspective of woman who is trapped in an abusive relationship, and who is forced to suddenly and abruptly end it.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The bass player in a rock band is starting to show his age and wonder where the time and the dreams have gone…..living the life is getting harder and harder…then something happens he isn’t expecting and everything changes…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The title story from the Memories for Sale literary collection…..an old man watches while people exchange cold, hard cash for a lifetime of his memories……
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A captain of industry is faced with difficult decisions about his future and the future of those around him….a chance encounter helps him decide which path to take….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A middle-aged man suffers a heart attack and it makes him re-think some parts of his life - sometimes when bad things happen, they can still have a positive outcome……
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
I am born….life at the lake…..my life in music begins……
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A young would-be hunter gets a lesson in life from a most unusual source…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
When a boy finally gets his first bike, it’s not quite the bike he’d hoped for, but he still manages to get himself into the “race of the century” at the town’s fairgrounds. How will things work out for our young lad?
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Join me as I meet new friends, get involved in a little criminal activity and learn that spending money is more fun than saving it……
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A look at going to the drive-in and the show back in another time when things somehow seemed simpler and less complicated…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Excerpt from John's upcoming memoir, My Ordinary Life…..roller skating and old cars….growing up in a small town in the olden days…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Put a few drug-crazed hippies in a car with no brakes as they race to make last call at the hotel and the results are fairly funny…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The story of a young man who thinks he lives where absolutely nothing ever happens - then one night he goes to a party - and something happens….
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A middle-aged man finds himself overmatched by life and finds an interesting way to deal with it.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Is Howard crazy? Has he lost it? Or is it really the rest of us? Listen along and see what you think……
Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A Sense of Death
An old women, who is nearing the end of her life, worries about what will become of her precious family recipes until an unexpected solution presents itself.
Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Two bored young guys discover a unique way to raise a little cash, then have a really bad situation involving some older teenagers turn out sort of okay……
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A man, who had a bad falling out with his father when he was younger, and has not been back to his home for two decades, finally makes that trip. He finds his father is the midst of a life and death health crisis, complicating the emotional homecoming.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A down-on-his-luck, but self-affirmed bum gets into an argument with an old woman over a spot to watch society pass by….she curses him with a unique and interesting curse….hope you’ll have a listen…..
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
Merry Christmas! On this episode John reads some poetry and a great Christmas story.
POEM: Hear a fictitious account of a one-time real event from way back in the Decade of Love... police and hippies battle for road hockey supremacy in this piece of spoken word poetry.
STORY: A man's most precious possession, his daughter, has died and his wife has left him so he volunteers to drive the county snow plow on Christmas Eve feeling he has no reason to celebrate... a series of events happen while he drives into the teeth of a major Midwestern Ontario snow storm that helps change his life and give him a reason to keep on living...
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An old man is spending his first Christmas alone after losing the love of his life to cancer... just when he's feeling most sorry for himself, he befriends a young man in trouble with the law and reclaims his own sense of hope.....
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
The advent of rock and roll music, drugs and alcohol dramatically changes the lives of two close boyhood friends - who head in opposite directions in life with tragic results for one of them.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A small-town newspaperman gets involved in a Little Theatre production of Antony and Cleopatra with sometimes hilarious results... during his adventure as a thespian, he meets a Kafka-reading, poetry-writing carpenter and falls under the spell of the Queen of the Nile...
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
A wizened, old standardbred horseman, who is feeling very aware of his mortality, gets the chance to drive and feel the wind on his face one more time. Fast-paced race action highlights this story.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel
An old man, who has recently lost his wife, revisits his past when he gets involved with a bunch of boys playing sandlot baseball. When he helps one of the boys deal with grief, he is able to overcome some of his own feelings about the loss of his wife.
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Original Story by: John Gardiner
Produced by: Mitch Graszat
Original Music by: Richard Knechtel