{"id":3283775,"date":"2026-10-28T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3283775"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T19:59:48","slug":"interview-chris-waddell-you-can-feel-like-st-and-still-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-chris-waddell-you-can-feel-like-st-and-still-be-happy","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Chris Waddell: “You Can Feel Like S**t and Still Be Happy”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Having a good attitude and not letting life get in the way of good living is good advice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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My guest today is Chris Waddell<\/strong>, subject of the new documentary short You Can Feel Like S**t and Still Be Happy<\/em> by local filmmaker Jared Carney. Chris has lived a fascinating life, filled with great stories, and some of these are now captured in this documentary. He joins me to reminisce a little on how this documentary came to exist, some of the things he’s done in his life, and how attitude is everything when living with chronic pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can catch this documentary as part of the upcoming Silver Wave Film Festival<\/a><\/strong>‘s Short Docs 3: Portraits<\/em> evening presentation on November 10 <\/strong>at 6pm<\/strong>, hosted at Gallery on Queen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song in this episode is <\/em>Spread Your Wings <\/em><\/strong>by The Wasteland Zombies<\/a> <\/strong>from the album <\/em>The Town Fair<\/strong><\/a>. Find it and their other music on Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Having a good attitude and not letting life get in the way of good living is good advice. My guest today is Chris Waddell, subject of the new documentary short You Can Feel Like S**t and Still Be Happy by local filmmaker Jared Carney. Chris has lived a fascinating life, filled with great stories, and<\/p>\n

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