Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
Did Mark and Jesse create Smells Like Yukon as a write-off for alcohol expenses?
Do you know what time Burning Away the Winter Blues starts?
What the hell is the Flipper Lunch Club?
Do Mark and Jesse make money from this stuff?
How come you've never used that James Blunt song "You're Beautiful?
Did Brent Bambury really phone Mark about some outtake on the SLY site?

Who?
Jesse Devost, Mark Koepke and a growing list of co-conspirators.

What?
As in, “What the hell is all this?” It started as an idea for an irregular regular CBC North radio segment about contemporary Yukon life. It has since grown into a website that may eventually devour its creators, if not the world.

When?
Sorry, you’ll have to be more specific. If you mean when does the radio segment air, you’ll find that information here. If you mean when is the web site updated, there’s no formal schedule—but new stuff is usually posted on the day a segment airs. If you mean when did all this get started, that would be sometime in the fall of 2006 when Jesse and Mark got together to discuss ways to follow-up their 2005 radio piece “Shop Coffee.” If you mean when did Mark and Jesse meet and fall in love, that’s none of your damn business.

Where?
Yukon, duh.

Why?
The truth is, Mark and Jesse ask themselves this question quite a lot. But other people occasionally ask it, too, especially when Mark calls up an unlikely potential interview subject with an introduction that goes something like this: “Doctor, we’re doing a story on how Yukon smokers are adapting to habitat loss and we’re wondering if you’d like to comment….”

The answer is simple. Because they can.

How?
Any which way but loose.

Is it true that the real reason Mark and Jesse created Smells Like Yukon was to write off their alcohol expenses?
That really depends on who’s asking.

Do you know what time Burning Away the Winter Blues starts?
In 2007, it started at 8:30 p.m. No idea when it will start in future years, but Smells Like Yukon will do its best to pass that info on when the time comes.

What the hell is the Flipper Lunch Club?
Founded in the fall of 2003, the Flipper Lunch Club is a Whitehorse-based fraternal gambling organization that meets every Wednesday at noon in a local restaurant or lounge. The Club began with five original members and shortly expanded to six, all of whom remain members in good standing. (Membership is now closed). The Club has survived two federally-funded junkets to Paris, one federally-funded junket to Central America, and the attempted resignation of one member during a rancorous period when the Club's sole topic of discussion was its own ever-expanding list of rules and related punishments. Each Club meeting consists of a consumption phase, followed by a gambling phase in which coins are repeatedly tossed until some loser has to pay for everyone's lunch. That loser is then upgraded to "host" the following week when he eats for free in the establishment of his choice. For less information about the Flipper Lunch Club, visit www.flipperlunch.com

Do Mark and Jesse make money from all this stuff?
Yes. If you'd like to know how much, meet them on their yacht in Saint-Tropez. It'll be the big one beside Rising Sun.

How come you've never used that James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" in one of your segments?
Good question. After all, everyone else has used it. The answer is, Mark keeps asking, Jesse keeps saying James Blunt sucks.

Did Brent Bambury really phone Mark about some outtake on the SLY site?
No. If the related question "Does the outtake actually exist?" is now formulating in your little mind, the answer is "Yes." If, as we expect, you're working up the courage to ask if you may hear it... we'll think about it.