This week's episode is NOT a repeat... but it is ABOUT repeats. Why is repetition such a big part of our lives? And why do we really need it? Here's what's coming up...


Nowhere does repetition rear its multiple heads like the family story. So what's the bit of lore that's repeated... and repeated... and repeated... in your family? Sook-Yin takes her mic to the street to find out.

Why do we repeat our stories? Clare Lawlor looks into it.

"This place and these people reside in me." "5 more days, get good grades." "I am lovable and capable." Those are just some of the mantras from everyday people that artist Sherri Lynn Wood has recorded in her "Mantra Trailer." For the past two years, Sherri's been hauling her trailer across America, inviting people inside her mobile meditation space to repeat the words and phrases than inspire them. Sook-Yin will ask her what she's discovered about the power of repetition in our everyday lives.

When Habiba Nosheen was nine years old, she discovered that repeated viewing of a certain '80s television sitcom had some rather unexpected consequences. How wude!

Ever noticed how if you repeat a word, it starts to sound really strange? Diana Deutsch noticed something even stranger with a phrase she recorded while studying audio illusions. We'll ask her how repetition can change the way you hear the world.

Who says repetition is boring? Sook-Yin hits the street to find out what you love repeating.

"Read it again!" "Play it again!" If you have kids, those phrases are probably familar. So why do kids love repetition? DNTO's own Nick Purdon finds out.

1500 performances. The same lines night after night after night... how did the lead actor in Canada's longest-running theatrical production cope with the repetition? Kim O'Gorman will tell us how she survived The Mousetrap.

Imagine feeling the need to check things over and over, or endlessly repeating even the most mundane daily experiences in your head. That's what it's like to live obsessive-compulsive disorder. And Jeff Bell knows that first-hand. He's a radio host in San Francisco who lived with OCD for many years, until he sought treatment 10 years ago. He'll talk with Sook-Yin about coming to terms with it. (And for more on OCD, check out the International OCD Foundation.)

All music contains repetition - a certain melody, bass line, or repeated chorus. But in the history of hip hop music, repeating a small piece of music again and again is how it all began. Winnipeg DJs Co-op Hunnicutt will come by to give us an education on the power of repetition in hip hop.

Do you notice a certain pattern in your relationships? Or know someone who dates the wrong people again and again? Columnist Josey Vogels will explain why it happens.

Chances are that book you love to re-read, or the movie you love to re-watch, is something warm and fuzzy. For Alix Sobler... not so much. She'll tell us what book she keeps picking up, and why.

Put down that remote... you've already seen this episode of Seinfeld. Why, oh why, do we love watching TV reruns? We'll get the answer from TV lady Tara Ariano. (And if you want to see Tara's awesome "sooooo 90210" sweater, click here.)


And here's this week's playlist:

The Staple Singers - "Let's Do It Again"
Eccodek - "Silent Song"
The Slew - "It's All Over"
Joel Plaskett - "Rewind, Rewind, Rewind"
Bill Withers - "Lovely Day"
The Gruesomes - "Hip-No-Tyzed"
Hot Chip -" Over and Over"
Chantal Kreviazuk - "Na Miso"
Tano Sokolow - "Yes We Can (Lee Dorsey vs. Barack Obama)"