Special Guests

  • CAMINO CONFESSIONS: Nico Kornhass
    One of the most fascinating people Drew met during his 1000 KM pilgrimage on The Camino de Santiago was a German man named Nico. The first time he saw him, Drew thought Nico was drunk. So he did what Drew does best. He judged Nico and avoided him. Then this drunk man started talking with Drew and during the conversation, Drew discovered that the drunk man he judged wasn’t actually drunk. Nico has ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). They said goodbye and Nico went on his way. Bothered by his unfair judgment, Drew chased Nico down on The Way and both of them walked the rest of the day together. Turns out that this Camino legend (who had to ask Drew to help do up his pants because his hands weren’t working properly) used to be a world champion kickboxer. Turns out Nico was a walking lesson plan for Drew.
    www.caminoconfessions.com
    Listen ← 32m:08s – 22.07 MB → Download

  • Larry W. Hurtado — Author of Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in The Roman World
    "Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in "Destroyer Of The Gods," Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. Christianity’s novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as "Destroyer Of The Gods" demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.
    www.larryhurtado.wordpress.com
    Listen ← 15m:47s – 10.85 MB → Download

  • Steph Jagger — Author of UNBOUND: Finding Myself On Top Of The World
    In the tradition of Wild and Eat, Pray, Love comes an epic new story about one woman’s triumph of spirit. After a lifetime of checking all the right boxes, Steph Jagger decided to leave her paint-by-numbers life and follow winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey. In the process, she tests the mettle of her body, breaks a world record for the most vertical feet skied in a year, falls in love, and learns to live a truly authentic life. Steph Jagger had seen the ski lift sign thousands of times before—”Raise Restraining Device”—but one day she took it personally: a rallying cry to shake off the life she had for the life she wanted. Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women as she was growing up, Steph emulated the men in her life—chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, ticking the boxes, playing by the rules. She was accomplished. She was living “The Dream.” But it wasn’t her dream. In a moment, the sign on the ski lift became her mantra, and she knew she had to change her life. So Steph walked away from the success and security she had worked long and hard to obtain. She quit her job, took a second mortgage on her house, sold everything except her ski equipment and her laptop, and bought a bundle of plane tickets. For the next year, she followed winter across North and South America, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand – and up and down the mountains of nine countries on a mission to ski more than four million feet in a year. What hiking was for Cheryl Strayed, skiing became for Steph: a crucible in which to crack open her life, melt it down to its elements, and get to the very center of herself. But she would have to break herself down – first physically, then emotionally – before she could start to rebuild. And it was through this journey that she came to understand how to be a woman, how to love, and how to live authentically.
    Sponsored by HarperCollins Canada
    www.stephjagger.com
    Listen ← 25m:23s – 17.43 MB → Download

Journey

  • JOURNEY TO THE SHACK
    In Theatres March 3rd
    During the month of February (the month of love) we will speak with people whose lives have been deeply and profoundly impacted by the international bestselling book, The Shack. In Drew’s opinion, one of the best love stories he’s ever read. Coming to a theatre near you on March 3rd, is the major motion picture The Shack! Starring Academy Award winner, Octavia Spencer (The Help) & Sam Worthington (Hacksaw Ridge, Clash Of The Titans, Avatar) This film will take you on a father’s uplifting spiritual journey. After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips [Sam Worthington] spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa [Octavia Spencer]. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.
    www.theshackmovie.ca

    TODAY'S JOURNEY: Pastor Kevelin Jones
    On May 1st 2004, Pastor Jones was asked by his daughter, 28 year old Alicea, to help her move apartments that day. But he was hosting a seminar at his church so he suggested they move her the next day. He had no idea that a man his church had invited into their midst would end up being the cause of Pastor Jones’ great sadness - while he was at church. They found Alicea’s body hung by handcuffs in the closet. She had been raped and murdered, then bleach was poured all over her body in an attempt to remove any DNA evidence. “If I had helped her move that day, this wouldn’t have happened.” Find out how watching The Shack released him of a guilt he had been carrying for almost 13 years.
    Listen ← 31m:16s – 21.47 MB → Download

LIVE! on TDMS - Devoted Souly to the Art of Music

  • The Vaudevillian
    Roaring tunes from a 1920's band, The Vaudevillian will make you get off your doggone caboose & do the lindy hop! The old fashioned gentleman, Jitterbug James, the mouthy Norah Spades & the Southerner Piedmont Johnson bring you dancing numbers from the prohibition period! Get ready to shine your shoes to do the skoodle um skoo!
    *The Vaudevillian is playing at The Grand Trunk Saloon in Kitchener on Wednesday February 22nd @ 7:30 PM and at The Dakota Tavern in Toronto on Thursday March 16th @ 9:00 PM.

    Become a NEW TDMS Facebook LIKER during Saturday’s performance & win a CD!
    We will randomly pick a new page liker during today's performance, then contact them for shipping details.
    (You must be from Canada to win eh!)

    AND Check out our DrewTube page to see some of our previous LIVE recording artists!

    CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT! THE VAUDEVILLIAN - LIVE on The Drew Marshall Show
    www.thevaudevillian.bandcamp.com
    Listen ← 39m:45s – 27.30 MB → Download

Pub Crawl

  • Drew & His Mates Crack Open A Few!
    Current affairs, pop culture, even touchy-feely-relational stuff. Listen in OR call and join us, as we crawl from topic to topic! (Got a topic you want the gang from the pub to crack open? CLICK HERE)

    This Week on The Pub Crawl:

    #1 Is Bill Maher onto something with this rant about the how thin skinned our liberal society seems to be these days? Why is everyone offended so easily? And should people of faith be the least easily offended because they’re “above” it? Or should persecuted parishioners fight for their right to PARTY publicly about their beliefs? (CAUTION: If you are offended by bad words, then please watch this! PLEASE!
    CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

    #2 Should “spiritual leaders” be older? Not that being older makes you smarter, but shouldn’t spiritual leaders have a little more life experience under their belt before they are put into positions of leadership? Would you be okay with sitting under the “guidance” of a 25-35 year old “guru”? Surely this attention seeking pastor’s church is now rethinking their decision to make this 29 year old man a pastor after he live streamed his vulgarity laden suicidal rant? Obviously, anyone can get to a dark place of thinking they want to end their life and we hope he gets some help. But it’s hard to imagine a spiritual leader over 50 wanting to live stream their suicide.
    VIDEO 1 & VIDEO 2

    LAST CALL ON THE PUB CRAWL
    Got something to say about today's Pub Crawl topics? Call 877-569-1250 (toll free in Canada & The States) OR Tweet us your thoughts on @tdms OR post your thoughts on our Drew Marshall Show Facebook Page OR send us a message or voicemail through our website www.drewmarshall.ca OR just mutter to yourself like an angry octogenarian!
    Listen ← 19m:44s – 13.56 MB → Download