Apartment Complex

Episode 25: Wax Cylinders

“Ahoy-hoy!”

The Calgary Historical Society greets Dylan with a wax cylinder from 1865, featuring a recording of his great, great-grandfather’s radio show. “Brownstone Complex” stars Horton Mansfield and a certain Shakespearean polymath with some thoughts on politics.

.Featuring Quinn Cooper (@quinn_scoop) as John Wilkes Booth and Melville Dewey.

Playlist:

• The Gruesomes - Unchain My Heart
• The Dik Van Dykes - Teenage Gumby
• Corb Lund - I Wanna Be In The Cavalry
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, TH 5, Act I: Nu, zaboltalas ya! (Live)
• César Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: Il. Lento, con molto sentimento
• Sudan Archives - DEAD
• Arthur Russell - Planted A Thought
• Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
• César Franck - Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuaco
• Josef Locke - I'll Take You Home Kathleen
• Thee Crusaders - Born in Bethleham
• Ten Commandments - Revolution Man
• The Skeptics (US) - The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln

Episode 24: The Best In The West

“February 18th to 21st!”

Dylan welcomes on the executive team of UofC Improv (@uofcimprov) to talk BOTWIF, their tenth annual improv festival! The gang talks comedy, the festival circuit, Bobby Shmurda, and Colonel Sander’s acting career.

Featuring Aidan Beatty (@bipolar._.bear), Henry Hartley (@skraxxlvi), and Nathan Severson-Baker (@mistermister1001) as themselves.

Playlist:

• Stampeders - All The Time
• 49th Parallel - The People
• David Peter and the Wilde Sect - Don't Leave Me
• The Shuttlecocks - The Birds, Bees, and Sleaze Disease
• Bonnie Jo Mason - Ringo, I Love You
• Patty Surby & The Canadian V.I.P.s - I Want A Beatle For Christmas
• Echo Tones - Low Down Guitar
• Charlie, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Bad Day
• The Vipers - Nothing's From Today
• Rheostatics - Legal Age Life at Variety Store
• Stars - Ageless Beauty
• Rah Rah - Chip Off The Heart
• Remi Wolf, Dominic Fike - Photo ID
• Modest Mouse - Fuck Your Acid Trip
• Matt Beatty - Christmas In Calgary
• Half Moon Run - You Can Let Go
• Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Native Melody)
• The Jet-Tones - Henry
• The B-52's - Private Idaho
• Injun Joe - Someone
• The Wild Tones - The Martian Band
• The Faded Blue, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Blast Off Girls Rock 'n' Roll Party

Episode 23: Jungle Brothers

“Adventure awaits!”

Art Beasly, the famous character we all know and love and remember, is back! And with him comes wisdom that brings Dylan to his wild side and out of the apartment. Also elephants.

Featuring Eric Wilkinson (@wilki_eric) as Art Beasly and Ben Goodman (@grandpashampoo) as Ben Badman.

Playlist:

• Ambient Noise - I Was There At The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Amino Acids - Fear The Future
• Dee Rangers, Don Craine - Everything I've Got To Give
• The Preachers - Chicken Papa
• The In-Sect (AU) - I Can See My Love
• The Sabres - Take Up The Slack Daddy-O
• Ray Daytona and Googoobombos - Detecto!
• Ballpark Franks - Paula
• Corb Lund - Rat Patrol
• Skeggs - High Beaming
• The Frights - You Are Going To Hate This
• Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - That Wuz Ear Me Callin’ A Horse
• Screaming Roosters - She Won't Say Maybe
• The In-Sect (U.K.) - Reelin’ and Rockin’
• The Mants - Rebel Set
• Sam Spence - Classic Battle
• Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - More Action! Less Tears!
• Makeout Videotape - SLUSH PUPPY LOVE
• The Squires, Neil Young - I’ll Love You Forever
• Puppet Wipes - No Reason
• Les Sultans - La Poupée Qui Fait Non
• The Monkees - Tapico Tundra

Episode 22: The Pink Bean

“I need you to rip off your shirt for me.”

Joey Coyote, Hardcore Welterweight Belt in the 2022 Alberta Beef Pro Wrestling Championship, bursts into Dylan’s apartment with muscles and machismo. Dylan “turns heel” and lives the life of a professional wrestler with one too many head injuries.

Featuring Geneviève Dale (@glamfries) as Joey Coyote and E Collins (@american_munich) as Billy Cannoli.

Playlist:

• The Red Devils - Queen Bee
• The Von Zippers - Hot Rod Monkey
• Dixie Buzzards - Brand New Routine
• The Forty-Fives - Get Out
• Jimmy Keith & His Shocky Horrors - Hooker or King
• Jackie And The Cedrics - Scorpion Stroll
• Johnny & The Hurricanes - Sand Storm
• Herschel Gordon Lewis, The Faded Blue - Noise
• Max Frost and the Troopers - Children Of The Night
• Pluto - Failure
• Immaculate Machine - Dear Confessor
• Huevos Rancheros - Crowchild Trail
• The Smugglers - B.A.B.E.
• Doutang - The Hedonists Collide
• New Town Animals - Three Steps Backwards
• Personal And The Pizzas - Brass Knuckles
• The White Wires - Did You Forget My Name
• The Mandates - Wastin' Time
• Bad Sports - Washed Up
• The Coneheads - I Used To Be A Cheese Puff

Episode 21: Pirate Radio

“Please stop saying things with “R” in it.”

Abandoned by his “mateys” in the Pacific Northwest, a tiny, albeit gruff, pirate washes ashore in Dylan’s apartment. More like ARRRR-partment Complex, amiright fellas? Fellas? Hello??

Featuring Devon Hittel (@d3v._.on) as Captain Flakey Joe and Katrina Lahey (@katrina4evaa) as Samuel Buckles.

Playlist:

• Farmers Market - Surfin’ USSR (Pt. 1-2)
• Wolf Willow - Lovers Lane
• Bloodshot Bill - Peeling
• Ray Condo and His Hard Rock Goners - Mister Who
• The Squires, Neil Young - Mustang
• The Beatles - Cry For A Shadow
• The Ventures - Perfirdia
• Martin Circus - Mon petit hold-up
• The Belles - Melvin
• Thee Headcoats - Davey Crockett
• Itchy and the Nits - Nudie Beach
• The Milkshakes - Pretty Baby
• Thee Mighty Caesars - Despite All This
• The Buff Medways - Evidence Against Myself
• k.d. lang - Pullin' Back the Reins - Live
• Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet
• Minnie Riperton - Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down
• The Friendlys - Hallucinogenic Pumpkin
• Thee Primitive Sound - Oblivion
• The S’quires - Green Surf

Episode 20: Chend Thy Neighbor

“What an amazing question, and thank you so much for asking.”

Following a nasty roof leak, Dylan finds his inner peace with the help of Chend, an unflappable enlightened spirit who teaches surfing in the landlocked prairies. Chend’s empathy (and conspicuous wealth) keep Dylan warm and his walls damp.

Featuring Brian Gashgarian (@briguyandhisguitbox, @thestarsarentalright) as Chend.

Playlist:

• The Vendettas - Can’t Stop
• Itchy and the Nits - I'm Not Listening
• The Campus Tramps - All I Want
• Young Canadians - Automan
• Dee Rangers - Something That I Said
• Suburban Slag - Piss On You
• Antler Joe and The Accidents - Words
• The Mops - Yo Si Bi Ba
• The Golden Calgarians - Vladivostok Rock
• The James T. Kirks - Deadwood
• The Barbwires - Walk The Rail
• The Aquabats! - Radiation Song
• Glass Animals - The Other Side of Paradise
• Deadmau5 - The Veldt
• Dan Daly - My Name is Man
• The Telefones - Stop Rudy Stop
• Brain Bent - No Single
• The Split Knee Loons - Theme From Mr. and Mrs
• The Tandoori Knights - Bucketful
• Bloodshot Bill - Kissing Underwater
• Skrillex, Sirah - Bangarang (feat. Sirah)

Episode 19: Copyright Is No Laughing Matter

“This was supposed to be the best episode ever...”

The Apartment Complex New Year’s Special is put on hold due to a so-called “breach of copyright”. Dylan teams up with his lawyer, Howe, to keep the show on the road and out of legal trouble.

Featuring Linden Kohut (@lindenkohut, @handsomebevel) as Howe Rowing, Esq.

Playlist:

• The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
• The 5.6.7.8.'s - Guitar Date
• The Iguanas - Again & Again
• The Outcast - Everything's Alright
• Go Sailor - Long Distance
• Tricky Woo - Fly The Orient
• Bangs - Maggie The Cat
• Maurice and The Cliches - Veronika
• Les Dragueurs - Lunettes de Soleil
• The Shuttlecocks - Hot Rod Hoodlum
• The One Way Streets - Some Kinda Fun
• The One Way Streets - Wildman
• Dennis Burnside - The Greatest Band
• Dennis Burnside - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
• Dennis Burnside - Chim Chim Cher-ee
• The Stonemen - In The Evening
• Dead Man's Bones - Lose your Soul
• Evinha - Esperar Pra Ver
• Villagers - A Trick of the Light
• The Gruesomes - Dementia 13
• The Smugglers - Calgarians Don't Dance
• Demon's Claw - Trip To The Clinic
• Peter Stampfel, The Bottle Caps - Impossible Groove

Episode 18: Ernie Saves Christmas

“I’ve been a real Scrinch — that’s short for Scrooge plus Grinch.”

Cooped up in his apartment on Christmas Eve, Dylan forgets the true meaning of the holidays, and it’s up to his old pal Ernie to tell him that life’s worth living.

Featuring Aidan Beatty (@bipolar._.bear) as Ernie Mechanic, Devon Hittel (@d3v._.0n) as Santa, and Holden Sheppard (@grainstew) as #13.

Playlist:

• The Belairs - Three Blind Mice
• The Spotnicks - Sleigh Ride
• Jackie And The Cedrics - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• The Trashmen - Real Life Doll
• Hasil Adkins - Santa Claus Boogie
• Deja Voodoo - Bugs For Christmas
• Man Or Astro- Man? - Frosty The Snowman
• The Untamed Youth - Santa’s Gonna Shut ‘Em Down
• Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Faster, Santa Claus, Ho Ho Ho
• Flat Duo Jets - I’ll Have A Merry Christmas Without You
• The Kung-Fu Monkeys - Santa, Please Bring Me A Surfboard
• Thee Dundrells - Green Christmas
• The Evaporators - Who Are You?
• Dave 'n' Megan - I Wanna Kiss You This Christmas
• Doutang - Old Man Davie’s Christmas Kingdom
• Mark Johnson, Luis Tovar - Little Drummer Boy
• Freak Motif - Skanukkah
• Carolyn Mark & Her Room-Mates - Christmas Song
• Julian Casablancas - Christmas Treat
• The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo
• Matt Beatty - Christmas In Calgary
• Carl Stalling - There They Go-Go-Go (1956)

Episode 17: Hey, It’s Adam Tiller!

“We should get Bake Chef while you’re in town.”

From the sunny city of Seattle, Dylan speaks to comedian Adam Tiller, who is touring Calgary from December 31st, 2025, to January 3rd, 2026! Dylan and Adam talk comedy writing, mathematics, and the strange, strange world of doing standup at a prison. Also, Dylan does his taxes.

Featuring Adam Tiller (@atill55) as himself and Henry Hartley (@skraxx) as Clyde the accountant.

Playlist:

• The Contrarians - Bad Little Women
• Scat Rag Boosters - What You Do
• The Dundrells - Still, I Run
• The Purple Toads - 40 Pounder Blues
• Thee Primitive Sound - The great space race
• The James T. Kirks - Paper Bags Got A Little More Soul - Live at CJSW, 06/24/11
• The Cars - Moving In Stereo
• Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
• The Beach Boys - California Dreamin'
• The Razorbacks - All I Need
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend
• Ray Condo & His Hardrock Goners - Great Shakin' Fever
• Justin Curtis and the Outerlimits - I Wanna Rob Trains

Episode 16: Bring Me The Hood Of Federico Bugatti

“[excessive car horn sounds].”

A-CAR-tment CAR-plex welcomes Federico Bugatti, local Italian superstud who is definitely a human and nothing else. Bugatti teaches Dylan the joys of motor oil and the trials that come with burning rubber on 17th Ave. Beep beep.

Featuring Devin Kotani (@devinkotani) as Federico Bugatti.

Playlist:

• Leather Uppers - Purple Nurple
• Platon Et Les Caves - Les Mauvais Garcons
• Fortune & Maltese And The Phabulous Pallbearers - Genie In The Lamp
• The Angry Dragons - Love You Tonight
• The Dinks - Lame Brain
• The Amazing Larrys - Bad Metal
• Color Me Psycho - Thirteen Is My Lucky Number
• The Monsters - Get On The Right Track Baby
• The Mono Men - Swampland
• The Barbwires - Chicken Race
• Ichi-Bons - Get Away
• Mexican Moustache - Rubia Siniestra
• Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time
• Prince - Little Red Corvette
• Dave Rogers - Déjà Vu
• The Phantom Surfers - Klingons vs. Daleks
• The Stonemen - Faded Colors
• Satya Sai Maitreya Kali, Craig Smith - Voodoo Spell
• DEVO - Mech-A-Mania Boy
• The B-52's - There's A Moon In The Sky (Called The Moon)
• The Ventures - Soul Breeze
• Chubby Checker - Twenty Miles