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Ep134 - "The Queen of Ossington" with Chloe Li-Chapman Apr 11, 2025

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Chloe Li-Chapman is the manager of Toronto hot spots Bowie and the newly opened Bonitos. Chloe sat down with us to discuss karaoke bars, shot towers, Badiali on a weekend, content creators disrupting service, people who refer to Bowie as a 'Speakeasy', apothecary bars, obnoxious cocktails, Instagram read receipts, people who try to bypass the line by DMing her, The Beaconsfield, industry night, late night food, A&W, Hip-Hop Omakase, Korean BBQ, Nobu, clothes smelling like the restaurant you just ate at, learning to love brunch, Frankies Diner, Queen Star restaurant, the death of Queen West, classic Toronto restaurants, Imanishi, being 'over dinners', Prime Seafood Palace, Foxley, eating alone, Dufferin Mall, Mr Greenjeans and more!

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Ep133 - "Jazzman" with Harrison Apr 04, 2025

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Harrison is a Juno nominated musician and producer based in Toronto. His most recent album 'The Birds the Bee's the Clouds and the Tree's' was released in 2023, with a follow up planned for later this year. Harrison returned to the pod to discuss trying to sell his car, learning to leave the east end, Lake Inez, loving his neighbourhood, briefly working as a contractor, writing jingles for Hasbro, appliance music, finding time to create, going viral on TikTok, daily routine content, charcuterie boards, AI Studio Ghibli, rage bait, 'The Harrison Progression', autotune, getting a DM from a famous artist thinking it was about music (they wanted to smash), Jay Versace, Ashton Hall, ice water facials, Othership, Jaleel Shaw, his unreleased house album, learning piano to avoid clearing samples, Toronto as a cliquey city, his upcoming album and more!

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Ep132 - "Door Girl" with Rhea Singh (PREVIEW) Mar 28, 2025

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We're back with a new recurring guest, Rhea Singh! In this episode we discuss private Instagram accounts, not following people back, Tony Price's post about DJing not being art, the return of fun, Rhea as a Sex and the City character, DJ's taking themselves too seriously, Nick blending drinks behind the booth, happy hour, Cafe Diplomatico, sangria, food poisoning, Bistro 422, viral tweets, iPad DJ's, Cafeteria, doing door, "I know the owner", getting banned from places, faking stamps to get into parties, WEBB, the bleachers at Loveless, the Bowie mouse not being a mouse, cooking live lobsters, Woody Allen, Prince, Lana Del Rey 2016 Walmart-core, milk, showering with your phone, raves vs parties, owning animals as a form of oppression, reverse cancelations, cultural appropriation in food, Wingstop and more!

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Ep131 - "The Aughts" with Mikey Apples Mar 21, 2025

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Mikey Apples is a Toronto based DJ, promoter and owner of the iconic club, Bambis. Mikey sat down with us to discuss Mexico City, Indie Sleaze revisionist history, The Klaxons, Nu Rave, Hype Machine, burning cds every week, 'Montreal Brunch House', 56 Kensington / Club 56, gallery parties, Xspace, electroclash, noise shows, Napster, The Manhattan Club, open format parties, skinheads, Yonge St, youth gangs, Focus nightclub, Brendan Canning stealing his old band, managing Crystal Castles, Shack Up, The Queenshead, Nick sneaking into Mikey's parties as a teenager, MySpace, Merok Records, Kevin Shields, weekly parties, the early days of Bambis, James Murphy, Toronto architecture and more!

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Ep130 - "Fear And Loathing In Toronto" Mar 14, 2025

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We're back with another solo pod! In this episode we discuss the return of super spreader events, long movies, making elaborate dinners alone, trying to buy vegetables on Dundas, Bernhardt's, Imanishi never changing their menu, waiting for friends to text first, Charlotte Day Wilson at Holt Renfrew, partying in Yorkville, Bay Street Video, dressing down, signature cocktails, everyone at the bar being employed by Drake in some capacity, Nick's days working on the set of Degrassi, the American booze ban, auditioning for commercials, living in an alternate timeline, fear of flying, possums, daylight saving, Toronto's 'Bohemian Grove', Mickey 17, Walton Goggins and more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep129 - "Backstage Raver" with HVN Feb 28, 2025

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HVN is a Toronto based DJ, promoter and co-founder of the party Dancing For Heaven. Their upcoming party with Bassvictim is happening in Toronto this Saturday at Cafeteria. HVN sat down with us to discuss Twisted Iced Tea, Toronto yachts, new age polyamory, Kleinburg Ontario, suburban swingers, post-Brat, being authentically inauthentic, pandemic raves, throwing parties at the Chinatown Mall, hunting for new spaces to throw parties, clubs vs DIY spaces, Hyperclub, evolving out of scenes, main character syndrome, the greenroom as a sanctuary, getting banned from Pep Rally, cellphones on the dancefloor, never getting pigeonholed, CD booklets, Sade, girls with gay boyfriends, Tony Price selling records out of his trunk, charades at the afters and more!

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Ep128 - "Fast Food Nation" with Lauren Armstrong Feb 21, 2025

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We're back with everyones favourite recurring guest Lauren Armstrong! In this episode we discuss getting shadow banned, soup vs chowder, serving smoked fish at parties, Nick visiting Montreal for the first time in ten years, Dic Annes, the Tom Green documentary, Cinnamon Bun Oreos, the return of McDonalds, Quiznos, Panera Bread, fast food vs fast casual, Tim Hortons 'Hot Smoothies', vegetarians who love Taco Bell, getting bullied for ordering a Filet-O-Fish, Long John Silvers, 'Charged Lemonade', Burger King's Whopper, Wendy's salads, In N Out, Waffle House, The White Lotus season 3 and more!

We also cold call Lisette Dunin-Markiewicz, Justin Leon, Brittany Shepherd, Eric Farber and Lauren's parents.

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Ep127 - "Valentines Day" with Noelle Perdue Feb 14, 2025

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Noelle Perdue is a writer, artist and porn historian who's work has been featured in Wired, The Washington Post, Pornhub and Brazzers. Noelle sat down with us to discuss living in a converted shed, condos, Montreal, writing porn scripts, parody porn, 'The Pizza Guy' and 'The Plumber', comedians working in porn, not trusting Only Fans, Tumblr banning explicit content, tech companies profiting off of sex workers, studio ownership of porn, AI porn, chat bots, food mess fetish content, 'gooning', creators not realizing they're participating in fetish content, 'trad wives', candy addiction, the shame of pleasure without purpose, lack of porn education, obscenity law, 'Bridgerton', and more!

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Ep126 - "Cold Calling" Jan 31, 2025

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We're back with another solo pod with full time co-host Nick Marian! In this episode we discuss 'The Alberta Clipper', GT Snow Racers, shopping carts (CKY), 'Urban Cow Tipping', east end guys with goatee's, hockey bros, asking for salt at a Jamaican restaurant, charbroiled burgers, The Museum Tavern, The Oscars, the final stretch of Dry January, hating New Years, Super Bowl parties, we cold call our friends Uma and Kontravoid to find out their celebrity crushes, Jon Hamm's dick imprint, not following your friends on social media, bus-limo hybrids, 'The Rusty Knot', food photography, Donna's, Shazam, shooters vs shots, MGMT and more!

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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Ep125 - "The Blue Girl" with Tamara "Solem" Al-Issa (Preview) Jan 24, 2025

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Tamara "Solem" Al-Issa is a Toronto based artist and ceramicist who's upcoming show "The Character Series" opens January 29th at Cry Baby Gallery. Tamara sat down with us to discuss bar hopping with 22 year olds, seasonal depression, seeing Toronto through someone else's eyes, gin shots, the Wade lofts, home renovations, landlords installing speakers into walls to evict tenants, living with a rat for eight months, working from home, her studio doubling as a showroom, her 'blue period', quitting her day job, selling out, micro celebrities, navigating brand partnerships as an artist, light sculptures, the stick-and-poke to ceramicist pipeline, her 14 foot tall Christmas tree, going viral on YouTube in 2008, never deleting things off the internet, her unreleased album, the comments section and more!

Tamara "Solem" Al-Issa

Josh McIntyre

Nick Marian

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