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Ep154 - "After Dark" with Brian Rideout (Preview) Aug 01, 2025

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We're back with our weekly one on one pod but this time we're joined with Brian Rideout. After recording his episode, Brian decided to stick around and chime in while we recounted last weekends festivities. In this episode we discuss sneaking into open bar parties, the Portland Square restaurant opening, King Taps, Danny's Next Door, vodka martini's, The Keating Channel, 'shirt off summer', finally going to a public pool, Josh's Blog House party, Yves Jarvis, Cafe Polonez, Billy's Souvlaki, Bellwoods Diner (RIP), the Justin Trudeau / Katy Perry dating rumours and more!

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Ep153 - "The Zone" with Brian Rideout Jul 31, 2025

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Brian Rideout is a Toronto based artist, best know for his ongoing "American Collection Series" paintings. His work has been shown in galleries across North America and Europe. Brian sat down with us to discuss therapy, the lack of studios in Toronto, getting renovicted, hosting group art shows in his garage, bad lawyers, summer in Toronto, being 'over' New York, 'Trasheteria', his 'American Collection Series', people who don't take the TTC, abstract art, republishing his book, traveling through Europe, Ronnies, never going west of Dufferin, Kent Monkman, every studio becoming a dress rental shop, his very first art show, Saturday afternoon art openings and more!

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Ep152 - "Scammers" (Preview) Jul 22, 2025

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We're back with our weekly one on one pod to discuss uber eats scams, Taco Bell, our new sponsor Madri Excepcional, On The Way Festival, Pink Pantheress, SARSfest, getting snubbed by people on the street, The Garrison after 2am, Crocodile Rock and more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep151 - "Immigrant Hustle" with Ludovic Bacs Jul 18, 2025

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Ludovic Bacs is a Toronto based DJ and music programmer at the club Sounds Good. Ludo sat down with us to discuss Romania becoming too expensive, DJjing on a Wednesday afternoon, PBR&B, spending summers in Romania as a kid, whether or not Tony Price goes to the gym in a suit, learning to DJ in high school, Facebook events, throwing his first party in a condo party room in North York, getting truckers to smuggle discount booze over the border, Deadmau5, having a sense of humour about party fliers, his first time going to Detroit, Montreal dance floors, knowing how to read a crowd, winter parties, Acute Pizza, the best Cevapi in Toronto, Mexico City, cost vs value and much more!

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Ep150 - "Iceman" Jul 10, 2025

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To celebrate 150 episodes, this weeks one on one pod is free on all streaming platforms!

In this episode we discuss whether or not a restaurant can be 'good' if the food isn't, Allens on the Danforth, Favorites Thai BBQ, the Ideal patio on Ossington, Nick's trip up north, defending Drake as a Torontonian, The Ice Man, Bernardino Femminielli live at Bambi's, filling in on guitar for WEBB at Cafeteria, Do Flame, party hopping, retiring from moshing, Los Compas Tacos, F1 The Movie and much more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep149 - "The Longest Weekend" (Preview) Jul 02, 2025

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We're back with our weekly one on one pod to discuss Pride weekend, patio's, fear of flying, Sangria, being banned from establishments, shoplifters, Dotty's, Dads Breakfast sandwiches, Bar Raval, food being too saucy these days, hating fireworks, Webb, Tonstartssbandht and much more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep148 - "The Lord Of Flavour" with David Zilber Jun 27, 2025

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David Zilber is a chef, fermenter, food scientist, and judge on Top Chef Canada. From 2016-2020 Zilber was the head of fermentation at Noma in Copenhagen and wrote the NY Times bestseller 'The Noma Guide To Fermentation". David sat down with us during his trip to Toronto to discuss filming the new season of Top Chef, living abroad longer than he lived here, hearing Drake for the first time, working at the Healthy Butcher, coming of age in the blog house era, American Apparel, being featured in the 'Look At That Fucking Hipster' book, living at Queen and Bathurst in 2008, working his first 200 cover restaurant, the loss of the editor, cultural shifts, his infamous Noma cover letter, moving from the kitchen to the lab at Noma, becoming a food personality after his first book tour, Harvey's, growing 3 inches taller after back surgery, fatherhood, the ever changing Toronto restaurant scene and much more!

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Ep147 - "Heat Wave" (Preview) Jun 25, 2025

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We're back with our weekly one on one pod to discuss the Toronto heat wave, pool hopping, needing a break from the city, Toronto island beaches, 28 Years Later, a chair building activation and more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep146 - "Food Wars" (Preview) Jun 17, 2025

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We're back with our weekly one on one pod to discuss Coffee Time, Dannys Next Door, Long Island Iced Teas, getting into a fight with a beer rep, The Cure, engagement parties, wildfires, chicken caesar wraps, tuna sandwiches, Toronto being late to food trends, Olde English 40's, Last Temptation, 90s Pad Thai and much more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep145 - "Lists Don't Matter Unless You're #1" with Jen Agg Jun 12, 2025

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Jen Agg is a Toronto-based restaurateur and author of the national best seller "I Hear She's A Real Bitch". Her newest restaurant General Public was recently ranked #1 on Toronto Life's Best New Restaurants 2025 list. Jen returned to the pod to discuss cultural shifts, her haters having to see her face every time they go to Shoppers Drug Mart, getting snubbed by publications for years, the 2017 Grey Gardens review, the next generation of media, her article about Michelin coming to Toronto, whether lists are important or not, Ontario Wine, Utah drinking laws, food critics, perimenopause, her workout routine, spending winters in LA, California produce, the General Public burger, TikTok food reviewers, Keith McNally, Holt Renfrew, changing the title of her second book, writing in New York, 50/50 Martinis, her secret love of DJing and much more!

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