Episode 10: The Best Of

It’s the director’s cut of ReVision Quest! On this final episode of the season, host Darrell Dennis shares the comedy sketches and songs that had our test audiences rolling in the aisle. It’s your chance to hear some of the funny you may have missed, or might just want to hear again. But wait, there’s more! You’ll also get to hear select outtakes and bonus show extras.

Episode 10: Finale

In the final episode of Alien Nation, host and mother Judith Mackin describes where the journey into teenage worlds has taken her. Is she any closer to her son? Does she have a better grip on the teenage world he lives in? In this show, many teens speak out about why they believe their generation will do better. And the series concludes with a moving and intimate conversation between Judith and her son Robyn confronting the need to change or live apart.

Featuring music from:
RACONTEURS: Carolina Drama
SAM ROBERTS: Hard Road
SLOAN: The Rest of My Life
KILLERS: Exitlude

Episode 9: Language

We Canadians are learning Aboriginal words all the time. Words like Canada, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Trickster. On Revision Quest, host Darrell Dennis talks with language experts, and Sesame Street’s Grover, and travels through time, to find out if Aboriginal languages have any application in the modern world. Along the way he discovers interesting uses for the languages of First Nations Peoples. And he learns some useful new phrases; like what to say when you run into trouble with the law!

Episode 9: Feeding Your Soul

In this episode, teens talk about their search for meaning, their attitudes toward spirituality in a consumer-based, secular culture.. Some have strong relationships with their church and their god. Others don’t know, don’t care and don’t want any part of organized religion. We also meet Fareeda who very much defines herself in terms of a religious upbringing that sustains her body and soul. Host and mother Judith Mackin will also describe her desire to pass along to her teenage son Robyn the spirit if not the letter of the values she learned from her devout Christian parents.

Featuring music from:
CANNIBAL CORPSE: I Will Kill You
LEONARD COHEN: Future
BOB DYLAN: Highway 61 Revisited
SAMI YUSUF: Who is the Loved One
CAROL WOODS: Let It Be
XTC: Dear God
BETA BAND: Dry the Rain

Episode 8: Free Stuff

Native Canadians get everything for free. Or, so the myth goes. This week on ReVision Quest, host Darrell Dennis puts that theory to the test. Can he really get free glasses, free tuition, or even a free truck just for being Aboriginal. And if not, where did people get the idea in the first place? Tune in to find out.

Episode 8: Does Parenting Matter?

In this episode Host and Mother Judith Mackin asks herself and other parents how much responsibility they can take for the successes and failures of their teens. We hear from parents who’ve done everything in their power to help their children succeed. And while some of those teens find their way easily, others are inexplicably lost. Teens talk about what it’s like to long for an absent parent and what it’s like to find a parental substitute when real moms and dads aren’t always able to do the job.

Featuring music from:
WHITE STRIPES: Hardest Button to Button
EMINEM: Cleaning Out My Closet
AMERICAN BEAUTY SOUNDTRACK: Dead Already
GORILLAZ: Kids with Guns
CANNED HEAT: Going Up the Country
VERVE: Bittersweet Symphony

Episode 7: Hunting & Fishing

Aboriginal people enjoy special hunting and fishing rights, based on their traditional practices. Have they exploited those rights, or have they had to fight to protect them? With the help of a guide (okay, a lawyer), host Darrell Dennis hunts through history and fishes for facts. He revisits a notorious fishing feud and learns Arctic etiquette from an Inuit hunter. The results both surprising and, occasionally, hilarious.

Episode 7: Starting Over

Host and mother Judith Mackin and her teenage son start their lives over in a new house with Judith’s new partner. They hope to avoid the problems that broke up their last blended family but they are well aware that the new arrangement comes with no guarantees. Listeners also meet Shaun, a teenager who reinvents himself in the image of a musical icon. Ultimately, he finds his strategy for popularity and success is flawed … and nearly fatally flawed, at that. Starting over comes with a price.

Do This Or Die

Broadcast Date: Aug 2, 2008 (Originally Aired June 21, 2007)