Phil’s Inn

Host: Brad Reed Brad Reed has been involved in campus/community radio as on-air programmer since the 1970s. These past few years he has been honoured to be appointed General Manager/Custodian of Phil’s Inn. Drop in on Saturday afternoons, pull up a chair, sit by the fireplace, and take off your thirsty boots. Stay for awhile. Requests encouraged.

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Episodes

2 hours ago

Because it is too big to ignore, Brad decides to look at America on its 250th Birthday . . . is it right to celebrate something on life support?

4 days ago

Brad decides to celebrate Canada Day the best way he knows how - by being on the air broadcasting wall-to-wall Canadian artists . . . 

Saturday Jun 27, 2026

For no reason particular, Brad decides to devote the show this afternoon to organ music . . . that's right, organ music . . . you got a problem with that? 

Saturday Jun 20, 2026

After last week's show on death, Brad went into a deep contemplation of the nature of the universe - is it random or is it determined? Is it cause and effect or a roll of the dice? You decide . . . 

Saturday Jun 13, 2026

Returning to Ernest Becker's incredible book, The Denial of Death, Brad decides to take a risk and look at songs about death through the lens of Becker's insights and proclamations  . . . 

Saturday Jun 06, 2026

After one of the most chaotic and horrid shows last week, Brad goes to a tropical beach in some undisclosed location to get centred - in spite of the bad optics !!! Does he redeem himself this week? . . . you decide . . . 
 

Saturday May 23, 2026

in the midst of the worst rainstorm in awhile, Brad visits the Auction House to declutter the flotsom and jetsam people leave at the Inn. Lava lamps, anyone? Or David Cassidy Soap-on-a-Rope? How about a plaster cast from the Plaster Casters?

Saturday May 16, 2026

Brad, realizing he hadn't programmed a show entirely of cover versions in quite a while, heads to the Senior Baseball League's season opener, leaving behind a whole gaggle of cover versions to be played by the AI Song Generator, Chat BTO,. . . requests, of course, encouraged . . . 

Saturday May 09, 2026

With unfound broken pipes flooding most of the basement boiler room, Brad dons his waders and heads downstairs. Meanwhile, wonderful singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell spends a bit of time talking with Brad about maternity, fertility, and parenting . . . plus her amazing songs . . . 

Saturday May 02, 2026

Brad, fed-up with the dark, dreary, dismal, dank, and damp weather, decides to test drive the new Holographic Room and surround himself with a virtual English countryside. As well, comedian Eric Andrews drops in for a short visit . . . 

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