The Bottlemen

Will Menaker from Chapo Trap House joins Dan and Riley to explore the history of Canada's role as American cinema's backlot... and how it was not ever thus! In the process of discussing our history, we watched both David Cronenberg's Scanners and Eddy Matalon's Blackout!

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Paris Marx from Tech Won't Save us returns to discuss the hip, exciting new set of structural reforms that are going to bring Newfoundland and Labrador kicking and screaming into the 1990s, led by none other than the Mr. Bean of privatisation - Dame Moya Greene!

Kai Nagata, Energy and Democracy Director at the Dogwood Initiative, joins Dan and Riley to discuss the methods by which the Canadian government systematically works to deprive indigenous people of their land for the benefit of mining, gas, and timber companies, and the hollowness of appeals to "Rule of Law" from mainstream politicians.

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Dan and Riley look at how Canada's Residential Schools have been represented by the different corners of our political spectrum, and why Canada, as a fake country that's actually three mining companies in a trench coat, will always have a difficult time coming to terms with this shameful chapter of our national past.

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Séamus Malekafzali joins Dan and Riley to discuss the rise and fall of the West Edmonton Mall, and the secretive family behind some of North America's dumbest adult playpens.

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Preview of part two of Dan, Riley, and Yasha's exploration of Ukrainian Nationalism in Canada, this time looking more closely at the life and career of our fearless Deputy Prime Minister.

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We're joined by journalist Yasha Levine for part one of a deep dive into the roots of Ukrainian nationalism in Canada

In this preview, Charles of Episode 1 and Fortune Kit joins Dan and Riley to watch the first two episodes of Corner Gas - a show none of us really watch or understand, but is a frequent reference point for us nevertheless. We tangle with how Canadian-ness is and is not reflected in our most bafflingly popular show, and come to the conclusion that we'd rather have more than less state funding for media... even if that means we're "filling up" on Corner Gas.

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Dan and Riley spoke with Jordan Kinder, an academic studying the culture and ideology around Canada's push to brand its petrochemical industry as "ethical" and/or "lib triggering," and also that one time they sent a guy with oil all over his face to talk to Parliament about how the "real" working class loves to drill, baby drill!

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Riley and Dan turn our attention on another Canadian media founder - a man who lives life in airport lounges from Helsinki to Buenos Aires, stopping over in Kyoto... It's The Hinoki Wood Hustler, Tyler Brûlé! Founder of Monocle and *formerly* of the most annoying column in the Financial Times, we look into another media empire driven by a Canadian's desire to be accepted as something greater.

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