We discuss the story of the Canadian live show platform "where every space is a venue" called Side Door, from the company's founding to its coming end, as announced on Nov. 4.

Correction: at about 53 minutes, we say Arlene invested out of Dragon's Den, and we later say that Side Door didn't raise again afterward. Per Simpson's comment on the YouTube version of this episode (Nov. 25), it fell through like many of those DD offers do, but Side Door did raise once more afterward: "Arlene did not actually invest...that's a long story, but just to say Dragon's Den is entertainment first. We did get further investment after this from BDC instead."

(0:00) The World Series, the Grey Cup, & JP Saxe sang the anthem

(3:28) Side Door Access is winding down on Dec. 31

(10:53) Act I: founding to pandemic

(32:08) Act II: covid momentum

(55:13) Act III: end of the runway

(1:04:01) Aftermath & discussion

(1:17:59) Outro & recommendations

Recommendations:

Will – Check out the New Feeling Co-Op of Canadian music journalists

Carson – listen to Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 by Chris Thile

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Hosted by Carson Tworow & Will Chernoff. Edited and mixed by Will Chernoff. A Chernoff Music podcast. Theme music by Carson Tworow.