The Bottlemen

Dan and Riley reflect on what changes the election hath wrought now that the dust has settled (basically nothing, business as usual), and how the Michaels are back (but not because we actually did anything). This episode is, if anything, a series of case studies on the inability of Canadian Politics to Do Things in a world where the Doing of Things is increasingly necessary.

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Now we've gone and done it!

In this preview, Caleb, Cameron, and Patrick return for a deep dive into the lives, biographies, names, and photos of the People's Party of Canada prospective parliamentary candidates. None of them have been seated in Ottawa, this coterie of multi-level-marketers, cops, and small business tyrants, live on in our hearts.

We welcome back Liv and Julian from Q-Anon Anonymous for a retrospective on the People's Party of Canada, which increased its vote share but still got no seats - how much of that vote share is due to a Canadian mass media that doesn't know how to cover them properly? How much is due to electoral politics decaying as a concept? Find out within!

Part two, where we investigate the individual bios of PPC candidates with Caleb, Cameron, and Patrick from Podcast About List is coming in a couple days on patreon.com/dabottlemen 

Cindy Li (who DJ's under the name Ciel) joins Dan and Riley to talk about the strange tensions that have made electronic music what it is today, stuck between culture, community, and commodity. Cindy also offers a spirited defence of Tech House!

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Sam and Garth from the Crackdown Podcast join Riley and Dan to discuss the history, politics, and sociology of Canada's War on Drugs, and how the whole enterprise began in 1908 when Prime-Minister-To-Be and part time mystic William Lyon Mackenzie King filled in some forms. It's an extra big topic so it's an extra long episode!

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As part of making this show, Dan and Riley talk on the phone a lot, and Dan frequently ends up segueing into wild and wonderful tales of touring the world as an indie rock musician! As such, we're now doing an occasional "series within a series" of Dan's tour tales, and what it's really like to be an indie darling.

This week, we learn all about tips and tricks for when you need to sleep with all your gear on a "cargo ferry" from Italy to Croatia.

Dan and Riley discuss Canada's stubborn resistance to admitting that our sweet, precious, lovely little Michaels imprisoned in China may just actually be have been spies. We also stack up a few People's Party of Canada wackos against one another, to find who between Dan and Riley was able to find the biggest wacko.

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Our sweet precious lads were joined by our friend LivPosting to *notionally* continue our monthly journey to the centre of Corner Gas, but mainly we reflect on what it was like to be different kind of teens in Western and Eastern Canada.

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We've unlocked an episode because Riley went on holiday! Enjoy!

Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman joins Dan and Riley to look at the strange, occult life of William Lyon Mackenzie King - Canada's most spiritual Prime Minister. Come learn of Astor the Greek ghost, his seances, and propensity for asking the ghost of his mother what he should do as PM.

Yes, we saved the best for last--the Liberal Party, all its extremely helpful ways to definitely reduce Canada's CO2 emissions (we promise! we didn't cut and paste this from last time!) and some small parties of note... especially to the NoFap community. If you want to hear the whole thing, you can get it on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55732589