Joe Pera Talks with You

Episode 1

Joe Pera, a middle school choir teacher, presents to viewers the importance of northern Michigan geology, especially iron. Also copper, azurite, tourmaline, and Lake Superior agate.

Episode 2

Joe Pera takes viewers for Saturday morning breakfast at his favourite family restaurant.

Episode 3

Joe Pera takes viewers along on his 'Fall Loop', the drive he does every year on the Saturday following Halloween.

Episode 4

Joe Pera attempts to show viewers how to properly dance by yourself at a colleague's wedding.

Episode 5

Joe Pera attempts to talk viewers back to sleep on a rainy night.

Episode 6

Joe Pera reads the announcements at church (second Sunday of Advent).

Episode 7

Joe Pera attempts to present a spirited New Year's Eve celebration to viewers as well as his neighbour's five-year-old daughter, whom he is babysitting.

Episode 8

Joe Pera and the school's band teacher, Sarah Conner, put together a musical based on the Alberta Rat Control Program that has kept the Canadian province rat-free since 1950.

Episode 9

Joe Pera answers viewers' questions about cold weather sports such as ice hockey, downhill skiing, snowmobiling and luge.