A trivia Friday is coming up!

This is Adam Walsh. He hosts (and produces) The Signal on CBC Radio in Newfoundland and Labrador, and I’m going to be his guest on Friday for a trivia show.

My job: to make him snicker. Or giggle. Or guffaw.

Will I succeed? You will need to tune in and find out. The show starts at noon NT (11:30 a.m. in most of Labrador), and runs an hour. We’re on CBC Radio One on your, well, radio, and you can listen online via the CBC Listen app. (From anywhere, too!) (And each episode is posted to CBC Listen for on-demand playback later, although I would not recommend phoning in with answers after the fact, lol.)

A little background. I’ve been guesting on CBC Radio’s midday radio show for a few decades, and through several incarnations, from Radio Noon through CrossTalk and now The Signal. I also guest-hosted the show through the years.

I got a kick when people would remark that it must be nice to have a job where you have to do a trivia show. I wish! This was a bonus or a perk, depending on how you look at it. When I was working in the newsroom, stepping into the studio for an hour-long call-in show was a brain sorbet, a respite from the deadlines, edits, story meetings and whatnot.

I cracked Adam up once when I told him that I had been asked how long it took he and I to write the script for a trivia show.

Hard laughs at that one: there never is a script. While I do come in with a list of questions to throw out, the best shows are always right on the edge, and questions often come on the fly as we banter with a caller. There’s nothing like live radio.

Hope you can have a listen.