Juno News - November 14, 2019


Help us bring back The Andrew Lawton Show!

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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

187.45

Word count

690

Sentence count

39


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The Andrew Lawton Show is coming back thanks to True North. The show was a radio show, a talk show that I hosted in southwestern Ontario for nearly five years. It brought my voice to an audience that I was so grateful for. It was a pure, unfiltered medium that let me talk about the real issues and the real stories that matter.

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00:00:00.000 Hello there, True North Nation. I've got a bit of an exciting announcement for you.
00:00:09.080 At least I hope it's as exciting for you as it is for me.
00:00:12.280 The Andrew Lawton Show is coming back thanks to True North.
00:00:16.360 The Andrew Lawton Show was a radio show, a talk program that I hosted in southwestern Ontario
00:00:21.480 for nearly five years. It brought my voice to an audience that I was so grateful for.
00:00:26.160 I even had the opportunity at my former employer to guest host in Toronto, in Calgary,
00:00:32.180 even nationally from time to time. And for years, it was my absolute favorite thing to do
00:00:38.320 because talk radio has just such an energy that you can't replace anywhere else.
00:00:43.060 You get to go in-depth on stories, you get to talk to people from all walks of life,
00:00:47.640 and more importantly, it's just a pure, unfiltered medium that lets you talk about the real issues
00:00:53.840 and the real stories that matter. When Candice Malcolm first came to me about a year and a half
00:00:58.100 ago and asked me to come aboard with True North, she asked if I would ever consider bringing back
00:01:03.000 the Andrew Lawton Show, but on the True North platform. It was definitely something I was
00:01:08.060 interested in. We talked about it, but we agreed that if we were going to do it, it had to be done
00:01:12.900 right. It needed to look, sound, and feel like the professional product it's always been.
00:01:18.440 And remember, I had a lot of fun on this show, but it did a lot of good as well.
00:01:22.220 I broke stories on that show that ended up changing government policy. I had in-depth
00:01:27.140 interviews with people like Maya Angelou, Florence Henderson, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau.
00:01:32.860 Not all at the same time, although not going to lie, that would have been a more interesting show.
00:01:37.220 I moderated leadership debates, interviewed premiers. We did all of these things that you
00:01:42.360 need an independent, transparent, and accountable news and media platform to do. That's what True
00:01:49.300 North is doing now, and that's what it's going to happen when the Andrew Lawton Show comes back.
00:01:54.360 But we can't do this alone. I've got some radio equipment from my old podcasting days,
00:01:59.640 but the times have changed a bit. We need to be able to have a professionally produced,
00:02:04.680 attractive product, myself notwithstanding, that is going to allow us to talk about the stories we've
00:02:11.060 always been talking about, but do it in a way that expands our audience beyond what it currently is.
00:02:16.480 That's why we're appealing to you. We've started a crowdfunding campaign to basically build an
00:02:22.520 Andrew Lawton Show studio. Now, we're not doing this in some downtown Toronto condo. I'm doing
00:02:28.440 this in my own home, and we actually have an itemized list on TNC.News about what equipment
00:02:34.280 we're looking for. You can see it's modest. We need a video camera because let's face it,
00:02:38.860 this is a multimedia era where we need to produce content in audio and video form,
00:02:43.980 like a lot of the really well-regarded and much-listened-to podcasts that are in the market
00:02:48.540 now. We have to get things like acoustic foam panels, so apparently I don't make too much noise
00:02:53.560 when I'm yelling about whatever's riling me up that day. We need to get a couple of other little
00:02:58.000 fixtures and features to, in some cases, actually have the sound work and have things operate the
00:03:04.220 way they're supposed to, and in other cases, just little features that will make it a unique
00:03:08.860 and special product. You can see the complete itemized list of what we're looking for here,
00:03:13.860 but the whole point of this is that if you value this form of content, things that we aren't getting
00:03:19.480 anywhere else, we need you to dig into your pockets and give us a hand. True North is able
00:03:24.800 to issue charitable tax receipts. Head on over to TNC.News, and there's a link in the description
00:03:30.800 box below to the specific crowdfunding campaign, and give us a hand. For True North, I'm Andrew Lawton.
00:03:38.860 Thank you.
00:03:39.860 Thank you.