*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. Check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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." Check out the full episode! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen...
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...
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. Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out our patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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 th...
Palma from Seeking Derangements joins Dan and Riley for this month's CORNER GAS. Check it out on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Bryce Rudyk, director of the climate programme at NYU Law, talks with Dan and Riley about deep sea mining, and the strange startups and friendly regulatory environments that make it possible. And, of course, how it all ties back to Canada. Check out our patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Our friend singer, songwriter, and host of the acclaimed ClayneCast Nate Ruess rejoins Dan and Riley to discuss his life in the music industry, what to do when a melody springs fully formed from your head, and to define exactly what's up with musician brains that makes them all "like that." Also: tour stories about food, and we get to the bottom of which of the other two members of ClayneCast are evil. Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen...
Dan and Riley look into Spotify's new "own your ears" strategy, which - shock horror - doesn't involve paying artists any more. If anything, less! Also, we return to our investigation of the Canadian state's love affair with Ukrainian fascists, looking at the conferences, think tanks, and articles where it all began (this wave, anyway!) in 2014/15. Check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
PREVIEW! Rylan aka @neonwario joins Riley and Dan for a review of the local papers from our home towns. Included for your enjoyment are some strange Nova Scotian names, plans to make a forty storey obelisk to the Royal Canadian Legion in Cowichan Lake, and a heated exchange of letters regarding the use of Bird Cannons in Niagara on the Lake. Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley and Dan reflect on the contours of Canada's response to ongoing climate and ecological collapse happening in its West, and how through all its activities it is encouraging more of the same. Including sending $4m worth of gear strapped across 20 hot dog neck RCMP guys to a disaster area... primarily to make sure the pipelines get built! Check out our patreon www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley, Dan, and Junk Filter Pod's Jesse Hawken sit back and relax for a watch-through of David Cronenberg's fabulous VIDEODROME. We reflect on God Cronenberg's keen foresight into what media would become in the decades ahead. Check out the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley and Dan speak with political scientist of the environment, Dr. Jess Green all about Canada's COP26 plans, and why things like Carbon Markets suit the economic interests of a country that's just three oil companies in a trench coat. Check out our Patreon as well! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
UNLOCKED! 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. This was on our Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Streamer and internet personality SexJ joins the boys for another venture into the wild, swinging world of Dog River. Get the full episode on Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen NOTE: Dan is very nearly done working on the album in the studio in New York, but because he's in the final stretch, this week we're unlocking a premium for the free feed instead of doing a free episode. Thank you for bearing with us, and normal service will resume this week!...
In this preview, Nika Danilova aka Zola Jesus joins Dan and Riley to talk about live music, experimenting with alternative forms of ownership, and why "content creation" and "artist" are concepts that *really* don't go together if you're actually doing the work. Get it on Patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Dan and Riley look into the psychology behind the MLI and our addiction to war boosterism. Also, we look into how the Globe and Mail talks about labour issues and the "right to disconnect," while getting their wallet inspected by the heartland institute. Screw up your own damn country, American thinktankers! Check out our patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley, Dan, and Will have watched another Canada-for-America action blockbuster... Steven Seagal's 2001 action classic, EXIT WOUNDS. They break the record for managing to include obvious Canadian landmarks and brands in nearly every shot of Seagal oafishly muttering and stumbling through his last big studio movie before decamping to Eastern Europe. It's a deranged joyride. Check it out on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
We get Patrick Wyman on to discuss the phenomenon in the history profession of "claiming" to have been the first people from the near east or Europe to sail to the Americas, how these are historiographically ludicrous, and frequently just serve to reinforce whatever ideology you want to promote. But first, we hear a VoC update and trial a strange new format for Tides of History. Check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen for more!...
PREVIEW! It's another fine day for this podcast-within-a-podcast where Dan and other musicians tell stories about touring and the music industry, revealing its underlying truths to a credulous Riley! Cindy Li AKA Ciel rejoins our heroes to talk about touring, publishing, mixing, and all around ünts. Check out this mix she did recently for Resident Advisor! We love you! Mwah! Check out our patreon for the full episode! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen...
Dan and Riley discuss, among other things, the emerging euphoric consensus among our wretched media class that Chrystia Freeland should be the next prime minister, not only despite her obvious intelligence links, but somehow because of them? Check out our patreon! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Riley and Dan talk to author Catherine Fatima about one of Canada's literary greats, Douglas Coupland. Also under discussion: generational politics, OK Soda, and what good art about the internet looks like. Get the full episode! www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
Matt Christman returns to talk about great Canadians of history, and reflect on the economic and social circumstances surrounded the formation of Canada and America. This time, we talk about the drunkard with the controversial statues: John A Macdonald! Check out our patreon, at www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
In light of... certain articles praising the anti-soviet gumption of a certain politician, we have UNLOCKED the second part of Dan, Riley, and Yasha's exploration of Ukrainian Nationalism in Canada, this time looking more closely at the life and career of our fearless Deputy Prime Minister.
Preview: We watched the spookiest episodes of Corner Gas with the lovable scamps from Episode 1. Included in this was us pitching a new kind of porno for women for men, starring Brent Ass. Check out the full version of www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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. Check out our bonus episodes on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen...
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. Check it out www.patreon.com/dabottlemen
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 o...
