Putting the Squid to Bed w/ Timothy Lenko

"The Image vs The Work" w dustan j. hlady

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:00:00 GMT

dustan j hlady is a filmmaker, standup comedian, and career substitute teacher. He's the creator of SIN3055843, an avante garde television series scheduled to hit Prime Video June 2025.

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"Positive Panic" w/ Steven Morton

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Steven Morton is a singer, playwright, composer, drag performer, and more. His award nominated one-person show Drag Me to The Opera has been performed across Canada.

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"Making out with Christ's Wounds" w/ Anthony Oliveira

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Anthony Oliveira is a Canadian author, journalist and pop culture critic. He’s the winner of multiple GLAAD Media Awards and National Magazine Awards for his prose, comics, and journalism, which often focus on the intersection of queerness, religion, and culture.

He wrote the internationally best-selling novel I alluded to, Dayspring, which won the 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers and has written comics for Marvel Comics and Steven Universe, and others. He’s the creator and ongoing writer of Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices and has works published in The Washington Post, Fangoria, StarTrek.com, and many others.

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"Gold Tones, Sunshine, and Abandonment" w/ Dylan Hryciuk

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:54:26 GMT

Dylan Scott Hryciuk is a writer & director based in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Much like most filmmakers, Dylan’s obsession started at an early age when he borrowed his families camcorder to shoot live videos of his brothers’ metalcore band in the mid2000s. He’s since turned that teenage passion into a career, developing his craft to write and direct projects of all kinds. Most notably, he’s directed music videos for artists across North America, collecting over 20,000,000 views, awards and online buzz.

Dylan’s work can be described as organized chaos. He creates layered visuals that put emphasis on rich world building, thematic through-lines and emotional vulnerability. He’s a bit of a bleeding heart and his goal is to make work that an audience can see themselves in all while being deeply personal.

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"I Let Go of that 'Do More' Idea" w/ Anthony Hurd

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:43:06 GMT

Anthony Hurd is a multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Albuquerque NM. Born and raised in Kansas City Missouri, self taught artist, illustrator and designer. They worked professionally in the advertising world for 20 years while maintaining a fine art career on the side. From an early age they were starting creative businesses, sewing their own clothing and selling them through local skateboarding shops, starting local music, skateboarding and queer magazines, as well as being in a handful of straight edge hardcore bands. Now working as a full time artist, my guest has shown their work around the world and along side of the most promising of artists of our time. They now have a studio/store front in Albuquerque where they work daily, preparing for whatever the future holds.

• Anthony Hurd Website

• Anthony Hurd Instagram

• Anthony's Book: Gay Dreaming Vol. 1

• Timothy's Instagram

• Timothy's Music Instagram

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"Writing Is How I Figure Things Out" w/ Suzy Krause

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:00 GMT

Suzy Krause is an author from Saskatchewan Canada. Her debut novel Valencia & Valentine came out in 2019 with her 2020 follow-up Sorry I Missed You not far behind. And now, just two months ago, her third book I Think We’ve Been Here Before has hit shelves bringing a more high concept turn to her grounded, human stories of love, loss, and freedom found in courage.

• Suzy's Instagram

• Suzy's Website

• Tim's Instagram

• Tim's Music Instagram

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"You're Done! Stop. Touching. The Film!" w/ Sepideh Yadegar

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:09:57 GMT

Sepideh Yadegar is a filmmaker: both writer and director. She graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design and her two short films “Asal” and “From” have been celebrated at numerous national and international film festivals. Her debut feature film which she wrote and directed is called “One Must Wash Eyes” and it debuted earlier this year. It was nominated for a Leo Award and won Best Canadian Feature at the Regina International Film Festival & Awards. She grew up in Iran where her experience of free speech suppression has shaped her social and artistic sensibilities.

One Must Wash Eyes
Constant Battles, Mack Stannard Documentary.
Sepideh Yadegar Instagram
DehDeh Films Instagram

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"Everyone Has Egg on Their Face" w/ Drew Marquardt

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:00:00 GMT

Drew Marquardt is an actor, writer, and director currently based in Los Angles CA. He’s spent a decade acting in Hollywood and the UK appearing in film and tv projects including Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and has more recently increased his focus on writing and directing. His short film Act of War which is somewhere between drama and dark comedy and he has directed a sports documentary titled Leonard George and the Tigers. He also produces one my favourite podcasts, Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

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"I Think I Got Halfway through and Went– NOPE!" w/ Cydnie Trenholm

Thu, 16 May 2024 10:44:08 GMT

Cydnie Trenholm is a Canadian author set to launch her sophomore novel in Sept 2024. Listen in as we talk about plotting vs. spontaneity, the power of questions, and making time to write as a stay-at-home mom.

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"Purpose" w/ Noemi Weis

Thu, 02 May 2024 10:30:47 GMT

Don't miss this incredibly special conversation with world class documentarian Noemi Weis.

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"Let the Song Carry You" w/ Jeffery Straker

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:00:48 GMT

Listen to my conversation with Folks/Roots singer-songwriter Jeffery Straker.

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"It's Kinda Like Magic!" w/ Michael Leali

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:00:56 GMT

Listen to my conversation with middle grade author Michael Leali about the magic of story telling!

Michael's Website
Michael on Instagram
Tim on Instagram
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy (2022)
Matteo (2023)
PREORDER The Truth About Triangles! Available May 21, 2024!

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"He Literally Ripped it up in My Face!" w/ Kyla Wiebe Art

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:50:22 GMT

Kyla Wiebe is a visual artist, writer, and performer based in Manitoba, Canada.

• Kyla on IG

• Kyla's Website

• Tim on IG

• Timothy Lenko Music on IG

• Tim's Website

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"Honestly... That's a Good Word" w/ Tim Ryan

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:56:20 GMT

Listen to my conversation with author, Tim Ryan.

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"Let Life Speak" w/ Troy Lydiate

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:40:25 GMT

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Season One Finale! w/ Jonathan Berry

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:03:32 GMT

It's been a wild few months! Thank you to those of you who've tuned in for it.

Today, my final conversation of the season is musician and friend Jonathan Berry, a sing-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who joined me recently in a challenge where we posted music content for 30 days (we ended up taking breaks between some days to preserve our sanity!).

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"Take That, Bad Thing That Happened!" w/ Stephan Nance (AKA Sparkbird)

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Stephan Nance is a singer-songwriter and writer based in Portland. They make music under the name Sparkbird and has toured all over Japan, Europe, the US and beyond. They also write young adult fiction and are an Oregon LIterary Fellow and mentee under H.E. Edgemond through “We Need Diverse Books.” They are an avid birder, are Jewish, and lives with their partner Adam and two parrots, Fred and Georgie.

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"A Sense of Connection" w/ Braden David

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:19:45 GMT

Braden David is a worship singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Calgary Alberta. His first single unexpectedly took off online and was rerecorded by Jaye Thomas from International House of Prayer Kansas City. He collaborates regularly with Tehillah Worship at his church First Assembly writing, recording, and playing live for the worship life of the church within and beyond their walls. I’m interested to hear about his life as an artist and how it’s both distinct from and massively overlapping with his Christian ministry.

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"The Pit of Despair" w/ John Hendrix

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:17:15 GMT

John Hendrix is a New York Times Bestselling illustrator and author of many children's books, including The Holy Ghost: A Spirited Comic, Shooting at the Stars, Drawing is Magic, Miracle Man: The Story of Jesus, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler. His art is also published in a bunch of other authors’ work like the Ronan Boyle Series by Thomas Lennon. He lives in St. Louis MO where he is still drawing and writing and teaches illustration as a Professor of Art and Chair at the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University.

• John on Instagram

• John on Threads

• John's website

• Tim on Instagram

• Tim's website

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"The Time Between" w/ Matt Froese

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:49:15 GMT

Matt Froese a singer-songwriter, producer, and session musician (among many other things) and someone I’ve loved making music with. He put out his album Trees in 2019, produced half a dozen albums for other artist, engineered a bunch more, and played on more than I can count including Kyle Church, Jon Bryan, and Sykamore. His sound is indie folk pop and loves creating looping covers of pop songs.

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"Only an Inch in Front of My Face" w/ Kim Fu

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:03:17 GMT

Kim Fu is a Canadian-born writer, currently living in Seattle. She studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She’s now the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, a short story collection titled Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century. That collection won of the Pacific Northwest Book Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Awards.

• Kim's Website.

• Tim on Instagram.

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"Speaking from Their Soul" w/ Jessica Gares

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:10:46 GMT

Jessica Gares is a director, actor, and writer known for her innovative devised play “lift/break” currently streaming on Broadway On Demand and her ubiquity on the Saskatchewan film scene. She’s working on indie and network projects for CBC and grassroots creatives both in Canada and across the pond in the UK.

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"The Sh*tty Clock Ticks" w/ Pamela Rae Schuller

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Pamela Rae Schuller is an internationally known stand-up comedian and disability and mental health advocate based in New York City. She lives with Tourettes Syndrome, has navigated pretty serious mental health challenges, and takes what she’s discovered in her experience and uses comedy and storytelling to promote inclusion and belonging for individuals with disabilities and mental health struggles. She’s collaborated with other online personalities like Doctor Mike and Buzzfeed and appeared in the season one finale of Netflix’s “Jewish Matchmaking.”

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"Just Say It" w/ Anna Paddock

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Anna Paddock is a Canadian born, Brooklyn NY-based musician. She is one half of The Lay Awakes, a husband-wife duo making really beautiful, diaristic indie folk pop. She is about to release a brand new solo EP “Cara,” an exploration of the birth of her daughter.

Anna has a background in classical piano and earned a Masters of Music in Composition from New York University. NYU is where she first started songwriting and composing which has since taken her around the world to collaborate with dancers, film directors, artists, and fellow songwriters.

IG: @annapaddockmusic

Anna Paddock on Apple Music

Anna Paddock on Spotify

Timothy Lenko

IG: @timothylenko & @timothylenkomusic

Timothy Lenko Website

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Music Therapy w/ Tinaya Entz

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Tinaya Entz works as a music therapist with the Healing Arts Department at St Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon SK where she provides music therapy to hemodialysis patients and community outreach groups.

She’s a guitarist, pianist, a gorgeous soprano, and did her training at Capilano University in North Vancouver. She’s currently conducting graduate studies at St. Mary of the Woods College in Indiana and recently co-authored a chapter in a forthcoming book published through University of Saskatchewan’s publishing house. And much of this has happened as she’s navigated the recent birth of her beautiful son!

Host IG: @timothylenko & @timothylenkomusic

Website: timothylenko.com

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"That Deeper Level" w/ Bradley Somer

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT

Bradley Somer is an author from Alberta Canada. He holds degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology, where his studies focused on paleoenvironments and human prehistory in North America.

His third novel, EXTINCTION, is available from HarperCollins UK & Blackstone Publishing. His two previous novels, IMPERFECTIONS (2012) and FISHBOWL (2015) are have been described as deliciously different while similarly satisfying.

Bradley lives with his husband at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, enjoys snowshoeing and hiking, and spent many years working in wilds of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan as an archaeologist. Despite having yearly ‘bear awareness’ training and countless bear encounters, he once still managed to bear spray himself!

Follow Bradley on Instagram @TheBradleySomer and keep up with his newest news at www.bradleysomer.com.

Follow Tim on Instagram @timothylenko and @timothylenkomusic.

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"They Rushed the Stage!" w/ Luke McMaster

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:40:11 GMT

Luke McMaster was once half of the famed Canadian heartthrob duo, McMaster & James. He's opened for acts like Christina Aguilera and N'Sync and written music for Rihanna and Nick Lachey. Today, his journey to celebrate and advance Motown and Soul music has brought him new friendships with Smokey Robinson and the late, great Lamont Dozier.

Don't miss this inaugural episode of Putting the Squid to bed where Luke shares his musical origins and current creative pursuits.

Presave his upcoming single "Some Summertime" a perfect bop for your summer BBQ playlist dropping June 30th!

Listen to "Cherry Blossoms" the first single from his upcoming LP "Seasons."

Luke McMaster

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Putting the Squid to Bed Trailer

Thu, 25 May 2023 16:37:39 GMT

Putting the Squid to Bed is a podcast about creative people and their craft.

Projects are rarely finished as much as they are surrendered. They can be like trying to tuck a squid into its bed. Just when you get two or three arms under the covers another four or five have popped back out! And that journey of discovery, creation, and surrender is what this show is about.

Subscribe to Putting The Squid to Bed wherever you get your podcasts and join me as we talk about that journey together.

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