The Bottlemen

PREVIEW: Which Way Weston Man?

In this bonus episode, Riley and Dan discuss the definitive history of Canada's royal family of groceries: the Westons! Come to learn that strike breaking and price fixing has been in their DNA for over a century, stay for an exploration of their strange planned community in Northern Florida.

Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen

The Black Book of Canada's Newspaper Editorial Boards ft. Davide Mastracci

Journalist Davide Mastracci joins Dan and Riley to discuss Canadian editorial boards' desperate desire to rack up a body count and long history of promoting every opportunity to send our army abroad, from the Boer War to Syria today; and how consent manufacturing in Canada remains a family affair. Check it out!

Check out www.patreon.com/dabottlemen for our most recent premium episode about Canada's many casual eateries with guys from Episode 1!

PREVIEW: The Burger Ballad of Billy Miner ft. Episode 1

Andrew, Charles, and Branson from Episode 1 (https://soundcloud.com/episode-one-868768631) join Dan and Riley for a rundown of Canada's many fabulous mid-priced chain restaurants! Montana's! Earl's! Boston Pizza! Mr. Mike's Steakhouse! Jack Astor's! And many more!

Get the full episode on https://www.patreon.com/posts/49039349 

Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood ft. Paris Marx

This week, Riley and Dan are joined by Paris Marx of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast to discuss the Rogers-Shaw merger. We get to the bottom of just how the Canadian telecom industry got quite so concentrated and monopolistic, and identify the barriers to all Canadians having high quality, affordable internet (hint: it's politics!).

On Patreon this week, we talked to Charles, Branson, and Andrew from Episode 1 all about the real jewels in Canada's crown: mid-priced casual dining chain restaurants.

PREVIEW: Vicious ft. Jamie Peck

The Antifada's Jamie Peck joins Dan and Riley to discuss the early history of Vice, explore the nihilistic flattening that pervaded its culture and coverage, and how that relates to working conditions therein. Additionally, early Riley and Dan lore is explored!

Get the full episode on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen 

Liam Neeson in: Token ft. Jessica Eaton

Dan and Riley are joined by our artist, photographer, and friend of the show Jessica Eaton to discuss art, labour, and why Non Fungible Tokens are just more of the same shit for a deeply unequal art market that has always been more interested in creating assets and inflating their value over anything else.

Also, check out our bonus episode, where we discuss the history and culture of Vice Magazine with The Antifada's Jamie Peck! https://www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen 

PREVIEW: Can Con Q-Anon (ft. Q-Anon Anonymous)

Firstly: say the name of the episode in tune with the song "Playground Bangaround" from the Paedogeddon episode of Brass Eye.

Secondly: Julian, Jake, and Liv from the Q-Anon Anonymous podcast stopped by for an exploration of the Q-Anon movement, its most colourful adherents, and what's happening to this coterie of kooks and kranks up North in the post-Trump era. Not only do we discuss the effects of Q-Anon in Canada as a political movement and the fecklessness of our elites' response to it,, but also how Q-Anon has some of its deepest conceptual roots in a very Canadian panic...

Thirdly: Get the full episode on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen

The SNCpranos ft. Well There's Your Problem

Dan and Riley are joined by Alice, Liam, and Justin from Well There's Your Problem (a podcast about engineering disasters with slides), to talk about the huge amounts of corruption that crop up in public sector contracts, the chequered history of Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin, various white elephant projects built in Montreal and around the world, and to idly wonder why, whenever there's an opportunity for Quebec-related wrongdoing, the Canadian Liberal Party always seems unable to resist.

Don't forget to check out www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen for more episodes at the low, low price of $7 CAD/month. Our most recent premium involved a deep dive into some Netflix trash about Ukraine with Jesse Hawken, and our next premium is an exploration of the wild and wonderful world of Canadian Q-Anon with the lovable scamps from QAnon Anonymous!

PREVIEW: Forget it Jake, it's Verdansktown ft. Jesse Hawken

 

@Raaleh and @DanBoeckner are joined by the Jesse Hawken (@JesseHawken) of the Junk Filter podcast (https://twitter.com/junkfilterpod) to watch a good old fashioned bit of consent manufacturing with a Netflix production landfill twist... Outside The Wire! It's a film about a "criminal mastermind" who is forcing the US to militarily occupy Ukraine with robots. It's a film that asks "what does it mean to be human?" by having characters frequently ask one another "what does it mean to be human?"

Get the full episode on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/forget-it-jake-48010327

CANDEMIC ft. Nora Loreto

Riley and Dan talk to researcher, journalist, and author Nora Loreto (@NoLoreto) about her research into Canada's (mis)handling of the Covid pandemic. Did you know that long term care facilities, in many cases, basically don't count deaths? Did you know that Doug Ford is being rehabilitated by brainless journalists for being nice to Chrystia Freeland? All this and more in this episode of the Bottlemen!

Nora's got a book out, "Take Back the Fight: Organising Feminism for the Digital Age," so give that a peruse.

Don't forget to check out www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen for more episodes at the low, low price of $7 CAD/month. Our most recent premium involved a discussion of the life and work of David Frum with journalist Andray Domise, and our next premium episode is a deep dive into some Netflix trash with Jesse Hawken!