The Bottlemen

We got back together with Caleb, Cameron, and Patrick to run through the list of wild and wonderful characters vying to be mayor of Calgary in 2021, and we even award the coveted Bottlemen/PAL "Good For Business, Good For Decorum" endorsement to one lucky snowmobile impresario in the offing to take the top job.

We sat down with Clinton from Alberta Advantage to discuss the wild and wonderful plans for Calgary's bustling downtown. What some see as a catastrophic 30% vacancy rate and a decaying future patched over with a few subsidies for landlords and fake businesses, we see a fantastic 70% occupancy rate and an exciting new round of projects and innovative entrepreneurial ventures.

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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.

Aaron (@Bertovo) from Chapo FYM returns to discuss the theory and practice of what makes a "Facebook Guy," and we look at some of the knee-jerk reactions of American dummies posturing about Canadian politics in groups like Swingers Club Tallahassee. We then think a little bit more about the relationship between columnists and the oaf opinions they cultivate, and how that's politically useful for a country that wants nothing more than to ensure the extractive economy flows. But first, we consider the curious case of the MP who worked so hard that he pissed on a Zoom call in parliament.

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Justin from Well There's Your Problem joins Dan and Riley to discuss all things New Brunswick, and how they've very intelligently integrated more or less their entire economy in the hands of K.C. Irving and his family of grasping Scots Presbyterian sociopaths.

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PREVIEW of our exploration of the weird and wonderful and mainly weird world of Canadian children's PSA's, and the strange self congratulatory incestuous media organisation that launched them. Joining us is Nate Reuss from the band fun!

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Riley's on holiday, so we're unlocking an episode from our bonus feed this week!

This is the second of our two-part investigation in Peter Nygard with Brace and Liz from TrueAnon, focusing this time on the political elements of his tenure in the Bahamas, corruption, and his bizarre obsession with immortality.

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We've subjected another American to Corner Gas! Eat Chain's CJ joins Dan and Riley for the next three episodes of the pinnacle of Canadian comedy.

Raina Douris joins Dan and Riley to discuss Bill C-10 - or, how Justin Trudeau is going to censor what our uncles post on the internet. It's a poorly drafted law, trying to make the internet media universe operate like it's 1991 again.

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Peter Watts, author of Rifters, Blindsight, Echopraxia, and other books Riley and Dan will not shut up about, joins us to talk about hard science fiction, marine biology, and sentience. We also try to account for our eternal question: just what *is* Canada, and how should we think about it?