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There’s a lot of ground to make up’: Indigenous radio host Karl Dockstader hopes to hear more stories – Welland Tribune

June 5, 2023

‘One Dish One Mic’ started as a podcast before moving to AM radio

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Karl Dockstader said he feels fortunate to have found a career in radio.

Dockstader, a member of Oneida Nation, Bear Clan, started “One Dish, One Mic” as a podcast with Sean Vanderklis about six years ago.

The pair were acquaintances initially, and after starting the show, they hit it off.

“That went pretty well,” he recalled. “Especially because there wasn’t really anything like it and we didn’t realize that we were sort of paving new ground with that. There are great Indigenous podcasters … but something in the conversational tone that Sean and I have made it distinctive.”

A few years later, 610 CKTB, a local newstalk radio station, was looking to fill a two-hour segment on the weekends, and a radio phenomenon was born.

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