Episodes

This week on Friendless, I unfriend miniature painter, Theatre tech Swiss army knife, and music impresario, Jensine Trondson. Jensine and I discuss her miniature painting series, letting art be imperfect, how to be friends wi...

This week on Friendless, I welcome Bob "The Builder" Orlando, 3D printer technician, poker wildman, and Dungeon Master extraordinaire. Bob and I talk about the intimidation factor of ghost towns, 3D printing prosthetics, Vege...

This week's guest on Friendless is competitive swimmer turned standup comedian, Victoria's own Katie-Ellen Humphries!! We talk about theatre kids only being vulnerable when drunk, the superstars of Kaleidoscope Theatre, using...

This week on a very special episode of Friendless, my sweet wife Jennica returns in our attempt at a glimmer of levity in reflecting on the past year. We chat about regrettable quarantine purchases, the traumas of travel, lev...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend Tourguide to the stars and linguistic mage Sara Tuppen Veloso! We talk about day trips in Europe, learning languages for fun, the cultural resurrection of Love, Actually, that one James Bon...

This week I unfriend playwright and producer Geoffrey Simon Brown. We discuss adopting dogs, losing theatre work, founding the Major Matt Mason collective and the inevitable legal ramifications of the name, making friend list...

This week I unfriend actor, director and Artistic Director Kaitlin Williams! We discuss quarantine theatre, the brilliant idea of recreating the success of Hamilton, how to do the work when there’s no work allowed, nihilistic...

This week I unfriend animation wizard and dear friend Chad "Wolfgang" Veinot. Chad and I discuss chosen family, disappointing old friends, the origin of the Average Mango clan, Halloween hijinks, shitty Ironman and feisty ban...

This week on Friendless I unfriend host of the Mourning Talk show, Aaron Parker. We talk all kinds of fun topics from how we met through email, sending the wrong vibes by association, cbc comment sections, the lonesome genius...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend my old Bowness High School classmate Kelsey Ledbury. Kelsey and I talk about reevaluating dreams, when the show shouldn’t go on, running away to paradise, artists with jobs, how to make fr...

This week on Friendless I interview poet, graphic designer and former co-worker of mine, Stephen Rutherford. Stephen and I talk about catch-all jobs in not-for-profits, coping in quarantine like an astronaut, what won’t go ba...

This week I unfriend Dave Smith, a scenic painter, set designer and all-around production whiz. We talk about band vs theatre in high school, black box theatres, teaching university during the pandemic, maintaining long-dista...

This week's guest is a lawyer/yoga instructor hybrid (and my older sister) Lisa Avramenko! We talk about being called to the bar, incremental social justice within systems of oppression, aggressive Zoom angles, the tradition ...

This week in a very special year-end edition of Friendlies I am once again joined by the one and only Jennica Grienke aka THE WIFE! We talk about best and worst Christmas gifts, life long regrets (but the Molson Lite kind), r...

This week I unfriend my close Saskatoon buddy, Grahame Kent (Actor, founder of Buttered Ghost Theatre and Professional Dungeon Master). We talk about echo chambers, Aaron Manke voice, short but intense friendships, All Elite ...

This week on Friendless I unfriend Megan Kent, Video Producer and former Donor Relations Coordinator. We discuss challenges in arts administration, learning to dance, missing bars, and Megan shares a harrowing account of inte...

This week on Friendless I unfriend former The Aliens director and famed gym rat, Joshua Beaudry. We discuss fighting with strangers online, seeking validation through art, creating alter egos to spark creativity, breaking imp...

This week I unfriend Hannah Wells, Lululemon Compensation Analyst and former American Eagle Co-Worker. We discuss the low stakes of making friends as a kid, the archaic way we used to write Facebook messages, how to leave big...

This week I unfriend Angus Wilson. Angus is a musician hailing from Calgary through California currently based out of Nashville. We discuss the state of Covid in the states, the kind of people who peak in high school, approac...

This week on Friendless, I unfriend Chelsea Haberlin. Chelsea is the Artistic Director of Neworld Theatre in Vancouver as well as one of the co-founders of Itsazoo, one of my all-time favourite theatre companies. We talk abo...

This week I have another friend from my deep dark high school past, Andria Campbell. We talk about the wild world of marketing, the need for transparency in corporate behaviour and leadership, emotional intimacy with friends ...

This week I interview the founder of the Saskatchewan Podcast Network, Dale Richardson. We discuss networking through podcasts, the one-way intimacy of new media, holding onto memories of old friends, and as always try to get...

In the first episode of Season 3 of Friendless, Nazneen Adrienne is our guest. Naz is a junior high school teacher and University of Victoria alum. We discuss the new systems being put in place to protect students and teacher...

On the Season 2 finale of Friendless, your host James unfriends the wizard of light and sound Anton de Groot. We talk about the magic of Community (the series), the failings of language to describe essential service, the pitf...