I'm making a show about the last tour. I need your story.


Yer Hipstories

Reflections From The Final Tour

Hey, it's jD here.

Ten years ago this summer, The Tragically Hip did something no band had ever done quite like that before. They announced a diagnosis, got in a van, and played every corner of this country one last time. Fifty-six days. Fifteen cities. Millions of people who showed up knowing, on some level, that this was it.

You Might Have Been One Of Them!

I've been thinking about that tour for a long time. What it felt like to be in those arenas. What it meant to drive eight hours to get there, or to stand in the crowd next to strangers who were crying and laughing at the same time, or to watch Gord Downie hold an entire nation together from a stage in Kingston on a Saturday night in August.

"Those stories deserve to be told properly. So I'm telling them."

Yer Hipstories: Reflections From The Final Tour is a brand new show from the TTH Podcast Series — a 15-episode oral history of the Man Machine Poem Tour, told city by city. One episode per show. Fan voices, writer voices, musician voices, and the people who were just there because they had to be.

If you were at any of those fifteen shows, I want to hear from you.

Not every submission becomes an episode guest. But every story gets read. And if your story fits an episode, I'll be in touch.

Fill out the form by clicking the button below and completing the quick form.

It takes about three minutes. There's a spot for the show you attended, a place to tell me what that night meant to you, and nothing too complicated beyond that.

This community exists because of people who feel The Hip the way you do. This show is for you.

Let's do this one right.

-jD

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About jD Hey, it's jD. I'm a Toronto-based podcaster, creative producer, and lifelong Tragically Hip superfan who's been building The Tragically Hip Podcast Series since 2018. What started as a track-by-track deep dive into the band's catalogue has grown into a six-show network that's raised over $35,000 for the Downie Wenjack Fund, The Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research, and CAMH. I'm not a journalist, I'm not a critic — I'm a fan who loves this band as much as you do, and everything I make comes from that place. About Yer Letter Yer Letter is the monthly newsletter for the TTH Pods community — written for fans, by a fan. It's where I share what's happening across the network, what's coming up, and the kind of Hip conversation that doesn't fit anywhere else. No fluff, no filler — just the stuff worth reading. If you've found your way here, you already know why the Hip matters. This is just another place we get to talk about it.

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