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Big Joe Goes to Little Oakville (ft. Scott Martin)
Big Shiny Takes - June 10, 2024 03:00 - 1 hourOakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters? Freelance journalist Scott Martin (@YouCaughtScott) helps u...
In Defence of Galen Weston (ft. Luke Savage)
Big Shiny Takes - May 26, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutesStop being mean to grocer oligarchs. Stop it! We're warning you. You should be thanking them, they stock your treats and only gouge you a to a moderate degree. Everybody's gotta make a living, and besides, they're probably creating your job anyway. Toronto-based writer Luke Savage (@LukewSavage...
My Name Is Joe Roberts, I Work for the State (Ft. Noah Kulwin)
Big Shiny Takes - May 18, 2024 02:00 - 1 hourAmerican icon Noah Kulwin (@nkulw) joins the pod to talk about one of the most obnoxious Twitter personalities of the past several months, Joe Roberts. Roberts, co-founder of the Democratic Socialists of America - Canada and former co-host of New Left Radio, has gone full neocon since Oct. 7. ...
The Birthrate Episode (ft. Stephen Magusiak)
Big Shiny Takes - May 08, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutesWe 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 Ibbit...
The Death of Woke (ft. Fae Johnstone)
Big Shiny Takes - April 17, 2024 22:00 - 1 hourExecutive 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 appare...
It Begins at the End of the Beginning (ft. Euan Thomson)
Big Shiny Takes - February 24, 2024 20:00 - 1 hourThe 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 ...
Existential Glee (ft. NiceMangos)
Big Shiny Takes - January 25, 2024 16:00 - 1 hourPolite 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. H...
Scabs for Israel (ft. Muhannad Ayyash)
Big Shiny Takes - December 22, 2023 17:00 - 1 hourMount 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 tha...
Forces of Light and Darkness™ (ft. Chuka Ejeckam)
Big Shiny Takes - November 16, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourChuka 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 D...
Cop Worship with the Nightscrawler
Big Shiny Takes - October 21, 2023 14:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned after the editor (Eric) spent the last month traveling the world in search of the shiniest takes. It turns out they were all right here in Canada. This week we return to an old favourite, the people's champion Joe Warmington, for a column about remembe...
The 18th Brumaire of Carson Jerema (ft. Emma Paling)
Big Shiny Takes - August 23, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourJeremy and Marino are joined by The Breach co-ordinating editor Emma Paling (@emmapaling) to discuss a column from Carson Jerema, the National Post's comment editor, who in accordance with Post traditions doesn't seem to do much editing. According to Jerema, Pierre Poilievre's shrieking about ...
Childcare Conscription (ft. Hunter Crowther)
Big Shiny Takes - July 08, 2023 16:00 - 1 hourThings are so good in Canadian media. There's layoffs nearly every week. There's talk of the Toronto Star merging with Postmedia. The Online News Act was passed and as a result Google and Facebook are pulling Canadian news content from their platforms. (The Act isn't great and doesn't help indep...
Andrew Coyne, Wannabe Scab (ft. Abdul Malik)
Big Shiny Takes - May 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourWhat do opinion columnists in this country think about strikes? Nothing worth reading on your own. In this episode the Big Shiny Takes Institute takes a look at an awful column on the PSAC strike that took place near the end of April and extended into May. The conventional wisdom of punditry w...
Crackin’ a Cold One (ft. James Wilt and Kevin Taghabon)
Big Shiny Takes - April 17, 2023 23:00 - 1 hourThe unthinkable has happened in Canada. A public body has offered new health recommendations and people are overreacting. How will society even function on two drinks a week? According to some, not at all. This week we are joined by author James Wilt (Drinking Up the Revolution, Do Androids Dr...
Boat Tax (ft. Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue from Pullback)
Big Shiny Takes - March 26, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned! This episode, while Jeremy is in his self-imposed book-writing exile, Eric and Marino are joined by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson of the Pullback podcast to read a baffling column by Jesse Kline. Jesse spends valuable column space concern-trolling abou...
Cowards and Stigma (ft. Abdul Malik)
Big Shiny Takes - February 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourOur old pal Abdul (@MarxGasol) joins us for a public policy thought experiment courtesy of UBC business lecturer Adam Pankratz in the National Post: Should we destigmatize stigma? Maybe if drug users and unhoused people simply understood that what they were doing is bad and they should feel bad,...
Social Media Re-Education Camp (ft. Evan Macdonald)
Big Shiny Takes - January 18, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourThe last Kino standing, Evan Macdonald, joins us to talk about Dr. Jordan Bernt Peterson's latest made up scandal. The College of Psychiatrists of Ontario is asking him to take social media training, because he sucks at posting. The National Post's opinion page says this the greatest injustice...
Vibes-based Journalism (ft. Andrew Neville)
Big Shiny Takes - December 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 hourEsteemed Twitter user and Dog Island alum Andrew Neville joins us to mock one of, and I'm not mincing words here, the worst pieces we have read. The culprit? None other than our old pal, Adam Zivo. In this piece (published in the Daily Hive lol) Zivo tries to use statistics to argue that crime ...
The Unions Hate Your Kid (ft. Chuka Ejeckam)
Big Shiny Takes - November 19, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute is back! We're joined by political researcher and new Friend of the Institute Chuka Ejeckam to read a very anti-union piece by the one and only Jesse Kline. Kline, the author of galaxy-brained takes about privatizing parks, is back and trying to frame striking wor...
Jason Kenney's Populist Edge (ft. David Khan)
Big Shiny Takes - October 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourEnvironmental lawyer and former Liberal Party of Alberta leader David Khan joins the Institute to talk about the ongoing rehabilitation of Jason Kenney's image. National Post pundit John Ivison writes that the reason Kenney failed as Alberta premier wasn't because he was a total slimeball who ...
The Dead Center (ft. Luke Savage)
Big Shiny Takes - September 29, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutesLuke Savage, author of the new book The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and co-host of the Michael and Us podcast , joins us to read a column from ur-smug centrist and National Observer "lead columnist" Max Fawcett. In this piece, Fawcett outlines how he thinks Pierre Poilievre is attem...
Lilley Unmasked (ft. Megan Linton)
Big Shiny Takes - September 19, 2022 22:00 - 1 hourThe gang invites Megan Linton of the Harbinger Media Network podcast Invisible Institutions to slog through an incredibly lazy piece by Brian Lilley. It's a column that contains much hand-wringing about masks and requirements to have them. It's also basically the same as the column he wrote the ...
National Post is a TERF rag (ft. Fae Johnstone)
Big Shiny Takes - September 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned! This week, Eric, Marino and Jeremy are joined by Fae Johnstone (Executive Director of Wisdom2Action, writer and activist) to read some absolutely horrendous transphobia published in the National Post. The National Post, seemingly taking their cues fr...
The War on Climate (ft. Mitchell Thompson)
Big Shiny Takes - August 11, 2022 03:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute is reporting live from the frontlines of the climate war (Eric's living room). This episode we are joined by Mitchell Thompson from PressProgress to take apart an incoherent screed written by a senior fellow of the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Jamil Jivani. The c...
They said sorry though (ft. Alex from Haus of Decline)
Big Shiny Takes - July 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hourThe boys are back with another terrible column! This week they are joined by Alex from Haus of Decline to read another awful piece by Adam Zivo in which he makes the argument to let the police march in the Toronto Pride Parade. I say he makes the argument, but really what he does is list all t...
Not Alright Alright Alright (ft. Gordon Katic)
Big Shiny Takes - June 20, 2022 12:00 - 1 hourThe Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned! Joined by Friend of the Institute Gordon Katic the boys read a particularly awful column by Vinay Menon about the aftermath of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde. Instead of having something useful to say, Vinay decided to write a column about Matt...
Sorry Grandma (ft. Scott Schmidt)
Big Shiny Takes - May 07, 2022 02:00 - 1 hourJeremy’s Forgotten Corner co-host Scott Schmidt joins BST this week to talk about pensions and starving seniors to buy shitty fighter jets. Plugs and Recs Listen to The Forgotten Corner Go see Peace by Chocolate Jeremy - Canada’s Noxious Conservatives Are Duking It Out for Party Leadership ...
Socialist Fantasyland (ft. David Moscrop)
Big Shiny Takes - April 08, 2022 03:00 - 1 hourIf you read the latest IPCC report, you know it's time for the latest episode of Big Shiny Takes. This week, the Big Shiny Takes Institute is joined by columnist and writer David Moscrop to read an insufferably bad column from Conrad Black. Yes, we are aware that doesn't narrow it down. This t...
Trudeau? More like LIE-deau (ft. Mitchell Thompson)
Big Shiny Takes - March 11, 2022 06:00 - 1 hourGood news everyone, the pandemic is over because the government said so! Everything is great! Of course, like all responsible adults, we know better than to let ourselves get tired of winning so much so we are punishing ourselves with another insipid Jon Kay column. This one was published in the...
Legalize Freedom (ft. Arshy Mann)
Big Shiny Takes - February 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourDo you hear that horrible honking sound? No my friends, that is not the sound of freedom. It's the sound of another episode of Big Shiny Takes! This week, Canadaland Commons host Arshy Mann joined us to talk about the dumbest political action in the entire world: the Trucker Convoy. This convoy...
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