The Bottlemen

PREVIEW

Well, it happened. Dan and Riley discuss the Ukraine invasion, Western responses (and preparations), and consider what kinds of blowback we might be setting ourselves up for. Also, we dig into the different psychologies of the Canadians who have decided to go and fight.

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*Ukraine episode coming this week*

Dan and Riley get back together with Sam Fenn and Garth Mullins of the Crackdown Podcast to talk about the ongoing persecution of the war on drugs in BC. We look at the (intentional?) fecklessnes of the NDP in the face of mass death and think about the death drive of a society that would rather not be something better.

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It's part two of our exciting two-part discussion of the Truckers with Matt Christman, we get further into our question of *why* these kinds of movements are becoming more common in the Global North. Expect talk about how politics becoming a kind of media-religion is a symptom of social breakdown, what it looks like when a state slowly loses legitimacy over time, and a discussion of the (underrated) George Romero film "Land of the Dead."

Canada's reckoning with its right wing "uprising" continues, so Riley and Dan brought on Matt Christman to talk about the meaning civil unrest takes on in an age of extreme alienation, how the Trucker became a symbol of the libertarian ideal in the (North) American consciousness, and how it came to be that the mass lumpen Canadian right will only accept Donald Trump as their Prime Minister.

In Part Two, out next week on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen , we discuss how the way we protest is a product of media consumption and "politics" as a civil religion, and what it looks like when a state slowly loses legitimacy over time. Also, the George Romero film "Land of the Dead."

New year, new Bottlemen, new weird banal Canadian TV show to torture our American friends with. This time, the Pod About List boys join Riley and Dan to watch episode one of everyone's Mom's favourite show... HEARTLAND!

Also, congratulations to Caleb Pitts on officially becoming a Canadian pundit.

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Jeremy from Big Shiny Takes and Forgotten Corner joins Dan and Riley to discuss the Freedom Convoy, which has arrived in Ottawa to get the freedom, and how our idiotic pundit class has - once again - fundamentally misunderstood what's going on.

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PREVIEW

We get back together with "Alex Dmitriev" to talk about the Ukrainian government - how it's responding to its time in the international limelight, and how this relates to domestic pressure groups... namely, hyper-nationalist right wing veterans groups that will almost certainly end up being the "moderate anti-Russian" insurgents we end up funding, if we do. Check it out!

Riley and Dan talk a little more about our two favourite topics as lenses to understand the decrepit failure of the Canadian political system: housing (Riley) and our ongoing ridiculous belligerence regarding Russia/Ukraine. Then, in the second half, we take a look at some of the finest listings on the MLS to find a new home for our friend Rylan.

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PREVIEW of our episode where Ukraine based journalist and researcher "Alex Dmitriev" joins Dan and Riley to go on the other side of our frequent discussions of Canadian-Ukrainian relations. Talking heads say it's a simple matter of solving Ukraine's problem by putting soldiers on the ground, and fighting Russia. But is it so simple in reality? We look at the history and domestic characters making Ukraine a much more complicated place than Western hawks want to admit.

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Dan and Riley welcome you into 2022 in style by talking about the Canadian substack economy and the University of Fort McMurray, as well as a spate of illnesses in New Brunswick, and finally, we read a column about rerunning the War of 1812 by a Prize Idiot.

ALSO: We announce a change to the show. Dan and Riley have come to the decision that we need to decrease the frequency of the podcast to weekly, (one week free, one week bonus). We did this because we were both at risk of burning out with the workload we had. Because you have already paid for January under a different setup, please feel free to message and ask for a refund if that's something you want to do. Otherwise, we ride on into 2022!

Much Love - D&R