Luke Doucet has plenty of videos on youtube (along with live footage shot by fans). This song is from his album Broken (and other Rogue States).  Luke’s bands include Luke Doucet and the White Falcon, Acoustically Inclined and Veal. The song that played at the beginning of the interview is Another Woman from Aloha, Manitoba. At the end it’s Blood’s Too Rich, from the album Blood’s Too Rich.

Check out this raw footage of Jay Nowicki with his band The Perpetrators, playing their song Crappy Job - in Luke’s words - the best piece of electric blues since Stevie Ray Vaughn. The song is from their self-titled debut album. Their other albums include The Gas and the Clutch and Tow Truck.

For the first couple minutes of this youtube clip, Miriam  Toews (pronounced “Taves”) reads from her novel The Flying Troutmans. The book which generated Luke’s massive intellectual crush on her is

A Complicated Kindness, which won the Governor General’s Award and was read by the entire country as part of Canada Reads 2006.

Table thumping atheist Christopher Hitchens discusses his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and his ideas on religion and its role in modern life. There are plenty of links to his various articles on his website.

Noam Chomsky briefly goes through some of his views on taxes in this interview clip. His website contains links to roughly a hundred articles, on issues ranging from linguistics to politics. There are about as many interviews there too, not to mention bios, letters, debates, audio and video, and writings about him and his work.

That bit of Sarah McLachlan’s music in the interview was from this song - Hold On, from the live album Mirrorball.