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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Gord Downie - Canada's Rock Poet
Description: It was Tuesday, May 24, 2016...you know how when you land the flight attendant says it’s now permissible to “use transmitting and receiving functions your portable devices” while you’re taxiing to the gate?...I’d just landed on a 14-hour flight from Hong Kong...and as soon as I flicked my phone out of airplane mode, it blew up...emails and texts all about one thing: The Tragically Hip had just announced that their singer, Gord Downie, had brain cancer...At first, this didn’t make sense...had the jet lag kicked in already?...was this som...