614. Gordon Lightfoot | Background to Brita

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Use code trashy at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan: ⁠incogni.com/trashy There are few artists as iconically Canadian as Gordon Lightfoot, whose eight decades on Earth produced some of the most recognizable music there is. In this first episode of his story, Alicia gets into his formative years, his time in California, his first marriage, and Canada's then-most expensive divorce ever, from Brita Olaisson. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:06.4	My name is Stacey and Alicia, you're taking us to the Great White North now, yeah.
0:10.8	I am the Great White North. We are continuing on our international ride to include in a little
0:16.7	bit of an arc. The story turned out to be way more exciting than I thought it was going to be
0:21.0	the long-requested, much-loved, trashy divorces saga of Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot.
0:30.6	A few times married, a few times divorced, lots of talent, lots of trash baggery. I'm going to give you all the heads up.
0:38.4	This really does become a redemption story.
0:40.5	I know y'all like those, but not quite yet.
0:43.9	We got to get through the trash first.
0:45.5	In this episode, we're going to meet Gordon, talk about how he starts out, and make it through the rise and the fall of Britta, his first wife.
0:54.9	Sure. We're also going to introduce a pretty interesting lady, one of Gordon's mistresses,
1:01.4	who is named in that divorce. Her name is Kathy Smith. The story only gets more wild and crazy
1:08.0	as we go along. I love that. It is a good one. This is Rabbit Hole City. I can't even
1:15.1	wait to begin this. Pull out your guitar and strum along and letnful tunes and good lyrics and sweet melodies,
1:37.5	because it is Gordon Lightfoot.
1:39.3	Some boats.
1:40.5	Boats, little boat action, little troubadour action.
1:44.1	Gordon Lightfoot, fascinating story. Let's go
1:46.5	ahead and back him up into the beginning before all the trashy divorces stuff happens. Sure, yeah,
1:51.6	yeah, yeah, that's where we like to start. Gordon Lightfoot, born November 17th, 1938. He's a Scorpio man
1:58.5	in Orilla, Ontario.
2:03.1	Gordon, not really a city kid.
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