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! Get it on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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! Check out our Patreon www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/...
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. We also have a Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out our Patreon, www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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
This week we're speaking with podcaster and radio host--and friend of the show!--Raina Douris ( @RahRahRaina ) about the 2021 Canadian federal election and its deeply fucked vibes. Everything about it is off somehow, no one is saying anything, but there is an alterative available! That is, a political party based solely on the principle of not busting. This is a two-part episode and the second half is available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55732589...
It comes around sooner every year. Riley and Dan reflect on how Black Ribbon Day got so commercialised - it used to be about one hundred trillion dead and no iphone, now it's just a gimmick to sell Hallmark Cards. We also do a potted history of "liberal corporate hero" Michael McCain, and the sordid history of how this Canadian Billionaire came to enjoy his fortune. Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Alberta Senatorial candidate and host of The Progress Report, Duncan Kinney, joins Dan and Riley to discuss more of the wild and wonderful artefacts of Canada's strange affiliations with right wing diasporas. Check out our Patreon, www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley and Dan unpack a report by Canadian consultancy Clairvoyance Cyber Corp. on the new domain of the military industrial complex, which is the immanent and persistent threat of getting your shit hacked by the perfidious Russians and or Chinese Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen !
Producer of this podcast, Trashfuture, and also host of Hell of a Way to Die, Nate Bethea, comes on to discuss Afghanistan in the wake of the American withdrawal from the country. We ask what it means for Canada to be "taken seriously," and why this always requires us to send men with guns abroad. We also look at the specifically Canadian roots of the "nation building" approach to warfighting.
Reprising a monthly tradition (and because Riley went on holiday), we watched the next episode of Corner Gas. This time, we spoke with the man who has claimed the mantle of our most frequent honoured guest, it's Podcast About List's very own Caleb Pitts! We delve deep into the psyche of Dog River... or should I say the psycho... Also, we get an oZone Update. Get it on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Seamus returns to join Dan and Riley to investigate the long and storied history of the MEK - an Iranian group with no real politics claiming to be a "government in exile," which provides Neocons an ideology-shaped group they can claim are the legitimate rulers of Tehran, but also gives them cheap heat and raucous cheering they never felt from their constituents back home.
We talk about calls from our parents about this hot new band "The Weezers", great orbs and mounds bursting forth from the London soil, and then (in light of a new round the sale of a new round of explosives to the Kingdom) we discuss the curious case of the Canadian arms sales moratorium to Saudi Arabia that wasn't. Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Our tradition of watching Corner Gas with non-Canadians continues, as Milo and Phoebe of the Masters of our Domain podcast (and also some other projects like Trashfuture and 10k Posts, respectively) join us to ostensibly watch a couple episodes, but mostly speculate about the Brent Butt-Ukrainian connection. This is so far the least we have discussed Corner Gas. Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out our Patreon for more at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check us out on Patreon - www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Get the full episode - www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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...
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. Don't forget, we've got a Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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! Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen and remember not to put it in your mouth.
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. Get more bonus episodes on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out the full episode at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen Check out Eat Chain at https://www.twitch.tv/eatchain
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. We also have a Patreon, where we do more of these episodes! Check it out at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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? Get the full episode! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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! Check out the our Patreon for a second episode, www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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! Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Don't forget we've got a Patreon - www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
