The Bottlemen

Cindy Li (who DJ's under the name Ciel) joins Dan and Riley to talk about the strange tensions that have made electronic music what it is today, stuck between culture, community, and commodity. Cindy also offers a spirited defence of Tech House!

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Sam and Garth from the Crackdown Podcast join Riley and Dan to discuss the history, politics, and sociology of Canada's War on Drugs, and how the whole enterprise began in 1908 when Prime-Minister-To-Be and part time mystic William Lyon Mackenzie King filled in some forms. It's an extra big topic so it's an extra long episode!

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As part of making this show, Dan and Riley talk on the phone a lot, and Dan frequently ends up segueing into wild and wonderful tales of touring the world as an indie rock musician! As such, we're now doing an occasional "series within a series" of Dan's tour tales, and what it's really like to be an indie darling.

This week, we learn all about tips and tricks for when you need to sleep with all your gear on a "cargo ferry" from Italy to Croatia.

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Dan and Riley discuss Canada's stubborn resistance to admitting that our sweet, precious, lovely little Michaels imprisoned in China may just actually be have been spies. We also stack up a few People's Party of Canada wackos against one another, to find who between Dan and Riley was able to find the biggest wacko.

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Our sweet precious lads were joined by our friend LivPosting to *notionally* continue our monthly journey to the centre of Corner Gas, but mainly we reflect on what it was like to be different kind of teens in Western and Eastern Canada.

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We've unlocked an episode because Riley went on holiday! Enjoy!

Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman joins Dan and Riley to look at the strange, occult life of William Lyon Mackenzie King - Canada's most spiritual Prime Minister. Come learn of Astor the Greek ghost, his seances, and propensity for asking the ghost of his mother what he should do as PM.

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Yes, we saved the best for last--the Liberal Party, all its extremely helpful ways to definitely reduce Canada's CO2 emissions (we promise! we didn't cut and paste this from last time!) and some small parties of note... especially to the NoFap community. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can get it on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55732589

 

This week we're speaking with podcaster and radio host--and friend of the show!--Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina) about the 2021 Canadian federal election and its deeply fucked vibes. Everything about it is off somehow, no one is saying anything, but there is an alterative available! That is, a political party based solely on the principle of not busting. 

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It comes around sooner every year. Riley and Dan reflect on how Black Ribbon Day got so commercialised - it used to be about one hundred trillion dead and no iphone, now it's just a gimmick to sell Hallmark Cards. We also do a potted history of "liberal corporate hero" Michael McCain, and the sordid history of how this Canadian Billionaire came to enjoy his fortune.

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Alberta Senatorial candidate and host of The Progress Report, Duncan Kinney, joins Dan and Riley to discuss more of the wild and wonderful artefacts of Canada's strange affiliations with right wing diasporas.

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