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The world's first and only anti-free speech podcast. Big Shiny Takes looks at the terrible columns written by the "thought-leaders" in Canada and goes through why some of these pieces should have never been published in a place where people can read them.
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The Birthrate Episode (ft. Stephen Magusiak)
We love whinging about the fertility rate, don't we folks? The implications are grave, lowered birth rates could mean fewer DoorDash employees to bring columnists treats.
BST Institute fellow Stephen @Magusiak of @pressprogress returns to pick apart a Globe and Mail opinion piece by John Ibbitson. According to Ibby, the ever-dwindling number of babies Canada produces threatens to tear the country apart. Scary stuff!
Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)
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Columbia Professor Shai Davidai's Family Tied to Weapons Manufacturing - CounterPunch.org
Violent Crackdown at Land Day March - The Grind Magazine
Dozens of International Students Are Dying in Canada. The Federal Government Isn’t Doing Anything. (pressprogress.ca)
Check out Unrigged
The Hoser's Grocery Tracker
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The Death of Woke (ft. Fae Johnstone)
Executive Director of @Wisdom2Action and @QueerMomentum and unstoppable dynamo @FaeJohnstone joins us to discuss how Sydney Sweeney's breasts fortell the death of wokeness – according to the National Post.
In a column that reads like a horny Looney Tunes cartoon, Amy Hamm, who is a nurse apparently, brings the bizarre discourse around the young actress to a crescendo.
Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)
Read The new generation of gay Conservative sellouts by Fae Johnstone
Go to +972 Magazine for news from Israel & Palestine
Buy Kenneyism by Jeremy Appel
Check out Unrigged
The Hoser's Grocery Tracker
Go read Dragon Ball, One Piece and Berserk
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It Begins at the End of the Beginning (ft. Euan Thomson)
The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned to read a real stinker of a column by Rick Bell. Rick, a traditional dumb guy with a column, seems a little upset about how mean people are being to Calgary Chief of Police Mark Neufeld.
We dig into this column (a glorified vanity piece about how the police are good, homeless people are super-criminals and everyone needs to shut up) with friend of the Institute, Drug Data Decoded's Euan Thomson.
Plugs and Recs
Kenneyism - Jeremy Appel
Unrigged
Drug Data Decoded
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Existential Glee (ft. NiceMangos)
Polite Conversations host and leading Intellectual Dark Web scholar Eiynah, a/k/a @NiceMangos, joins us to scrape the bottom of the IDW barrel.
Gad Saad, who is now a National Post columnist, is a marketing professor who fashions himself as an expert in the defence of Western Civilization.
He wrote a piece in the Post about how happy conservatives are, in which he informs the reader that he is very much not mad about the woke left.
Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)
Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations, part 1
Listen to Jeremy on Polite Conversations, part 2
Pre-order Jeremy's book, Kenneyism
Eiynah's Woking Up series
Check out Unrigged
The Hoser's Grocery Tracker
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Scabs for Israel (ft. Muhannad Ayyash)
Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah.
Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back out of at a totally apolitical menorah lighting ceremony that was billed as an opportunity to demonstrate "SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL." And according to reporting from Aryn Toombs at LiveWire Calgary, it didn't disappoint.
Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, who joined the paper as a filthy scab in 2000, went as far as to say the mayor isn't fit for office because of her disloyalty to Israel.
Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)
Decolonize Palestine reading list
Read some of Muhannad's Al Jazeera columns
Emma Paling - CBC featured more Israelis even as Palestinian casualties rose, data shows
Vincent Bevins - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Tareq Baconi - Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
The Deprogram - Free Palestine (ft. Decolonize Palestine)
James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
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Forces of Light and Darkness™ (ft. Chuka Ejeckam)
Chuka Ejeckam joins us again, this time to discuss the ongoing horror in Gaza and how Canadian pundits have assumed the role of IDF spokespeople.
There’s no better example of this trend than Andrew Coyne, who wrote a column boasting of how little he’s learned since 9/11.
Plugs and Recs
UN Director for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Resignation Letter
The Hoser Grocery Tracker
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Tech Won't Save Us - Elon Musk Unmasked, Ep. 1
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Customer Reviews
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Yellow peril from Canada
Ayyy shout out to all the radlibs out there in anti-China land spreading misinformation for some to hear! I say some bc there don’t appear to be many listeners, but hey, that’s what happens to bigots who spread CIA propaganda about other countries. We'll get those Iraqi WMDs someday don’t give up fellows the hosts of this podcast certainly won’t give up that ghost