The Bottlemen

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

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!

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!

Dan and Riley are joined by Andray Domise to discuss the life and work of Canada's favourite war booster and "Axis of Evil" impresario, David Frum.

Get the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/original-never-47713525

Michael Judge (@corpseinorbit) from Death is Around the Corner joins Dan and Riley to explore a uniquely maple-flavoured bit of espionage history and parapolitics. We discuss Canada's role in the MKULTRA programme, and how spies and doctors helped engineer what was ultimately to be a takeover of the human mind.

The Bottlemen is on Patreon! For $7 CAD per month you too can check out our lovely bonus content! Look out for a new bonus episode dropping later this week.

Alberta boy Aaron (@Bertovo) from Chapo FYM (@ChapoFYM) joins us for a deep dive into WEXIT.  Can the Wild Rose of Canada achieve its goal of becoming landlocked white Saudi Arabia or is it all just a PIPE dream?

The Bottlemen is a podcast by Riley (@raaleh) and Dan (@DanBoeckner) where we talk about Canada. In this episode we do a little table setting and discuss "Canadian Exceptionalism" with Luke Savage (@LukeWSavage) of Jacobin and the Michael and Us podcast (@MichaelAndUs)!

Also, check out our Patreon for just $7CAD/month. In our first bonus, we talk Wexit with @Bertovo from @ChapoFYM