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Sep 22, 2026
Mary Maxim, the Most Influential Knitwear Designer of Post-War America, Vintage Shopping in Maine, and the Most Influential Movies for Fashion | Season 14, Episode 9
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38:01Saul ThompsonHOST
It was some guys who used to work in the Department of the Interior.
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38:05Saul ThompsonHOST
And he texts back immediately, Mary Maxim pattern number 415 totem pole.
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38:10Saul ThompsonHOST
And I was like, what the fuck? Jesus.
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38:12Michael SmithHOST
Oh, those kind of, yeah.
Bonus Episode: David Wilkie | Andy Stefanovich
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16:05Andy StefanovichHOST
That was one.
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16:06Andy StefanovichHOST
You have something called the totem pole, right? The totem pole.
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16:09Andy StefanovichHOST
This has helped me think about Yeah,
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16:11David WilkieHOST
I rank ordered all my, the ways I could spend my time personally and I ranked ordered them all the way I could spend my time professionally.
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17:02Andy StefanovichHOST
We're looking for entry points.
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17:04Andy StefanovichHOST
easy kind of constructs and ideas that help us frame and organize our thinking.
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17:09Andy StefanovichHOST
And so the Totem Pole, Devin Matthews' Big Ass Calendar, we have another member who has more of an algorithmic kind of spreadsheet approach to it.
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17:17Andy StefanovichHOST
But they really helped me think about how to think about orienting to my busyness.
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26:19Kayla HounsellCORRESPONDENT
Kayla Hounsell, CBC News, Halifax.
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26:22Salimah ShivjiHOST
And finally, it was the world's tallest totem pole, recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records, but now it lies flat in the community of Alert Bay, just north of Vancouver Island, a victim of time and decay.
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26:36speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The simple or sad reality was that at some point it was gonna fall, or portions of it were gonna fall, and, uh, potentially injure s- in- injure somebody or injure things, you know? Or that was something that, uh, we couldn't let that happen.
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26:52Salimah ShivjiHOST
That's Dan Svanvik, hereditary chief and elected chief counselor of the Namgis First Nation.
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27:40speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So this was a time when that was all coming back, coming back into the forefront of things.
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27:46Salimah ShivjiHOST
William Wasden Jr. is another Namgis hereditary chief.
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27:49Salimah ShivjiHOST
He says many people were emotional watching the totem pole being dismantled, but he sees it another way.
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27:56speaker_25SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That cedar t- totem pole, it, it's had its day.
1964 07 04 Twins at Yankees Game 1 of DH Baseball Classic Radio
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106:42Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That won't happen again.
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106:43Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The next time you shop, you look for the special Totem Pole display and Totem Home Plenty Ballantyne beer.
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106:47Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's right.
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106:47Mel AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Totem Home Plenty and Smile.