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The Bottlemen

The Bottlemen

A News, Politics and Comedy podcast featuring Riley Quinn and Dan Boeckner
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The Bottlemen

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The Bottlemen

A News, Politics and Comedy podcast featuring Riley Quinn and Dan Boeckner
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Apologies for the late episode - both Dan and Riley have been on tour, but we've got this one for you (recorded a while back). Contained herein: ideas for new recipes, Nazi statue watch, and the Tory leader "uniting the country" with a very th
Chuka Ejeckam joins Dan and Riley to discuss "The Freeland Doctrine," friendshoring, and the mysterious professor of mealtimes.
Will "Movie Mindset" Menaker joins Dan and Riley to discuss the 1964 Cansploitation B-movie classic, "The Naked Flame."Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/dabottlemen 
The PAL boys join Dan and Riley to watch another episode of Canada's favourite show... Robocop, the Robot Cop!
Dan and Riley discuss, inter alia, the new Quebec premier, the inability of the centrist party to fight the lurch to the right, and the British firm cutting down old growth forests named after a Bond villain.Get the full episode on Patreon! ww
Dan and Riley remember Canadian politics keeps happening. Queen's Dead, Pierre's in Charge, and our allies abroad are as cool headed as ever.We have a Patreon! It's www.patreon.com/dabottlemen 
Riley and Dan were in the Trashfuture studios last week, and we spoke to certified indie superfan and sometime producer Nate Bethea about synthesisers, what it means to like music others find offputting, and (according to Riley) definitely maki
Well, the mad lad did it: Canada's oldest young conservative Pierre Poilievre is head of the Conservative Party. We talk about what makes him a particular threat to Canada's comfortable governing consensus, which is essentially that he has matc
Dan and Riley are recording together in Montreal for the first time (temporally) and the second time (as far as you know). We discuss the emerging scene around the happening "Donald Duck Tavern Quadrilateral," and how all of Montreal's coo
Note: this one is mentioned as the premium but we decided to make it a free one!Peter Korotaev (known by an alias on previous episodes, while he was in Kyiv) rejoins us to talk about the strange war economy that Ukraine has found itself with.
The War Nerd is back to discuss why Canada can't seem to learn to stop buying the F35, and why the boring bureaucracy of military spending bloat is the "banality" to the "evil" of the world bestriding colossus.Get the full episode on Patreon!
Riley and Dan speak about the history and politics of fertiliser with Matt Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War.But first, we review the strange world of the Pacific Northwest that Dan saw on tour. Long story short, a lot more shantyto
Dan is off being a rock star, so Riley and Tech Won't Save Us's Paris Marx take a look at That Rogers Outage and question how "more competition" could have stopped this, but first - a few developments in the mad world of self driving cars,
With Bitcoin done, Canada's putative conservative leader becomes absorbed by the forest, and emerges as an esoteric log-o-crat. Also, we look at the emergence of "UltraFast" delivery in Canada - a business model that never made any money or se
It's a Canada Day Bonus! Dan and Riley talk about Canada's cheerleading of further escalation in Eastern Europe, as well as going back to the Trucker Protests, who have now identified some war heroes who are going to go and tactically cry at t
Dan and Riley reflect on what the crypto crash means for Canadian bitcoin maxi's like Pierre Poilievre, as well as other scurrilous programmes designed to part musicians from their worthless fiat currency and art in exchange for valuable datab
PREVIEW!John Dolan aka The War Nerd joins Dan and Riley to talk about Canada's army -  what does it do, what is it for, and what is it REALLY for? We go into the post-Cold War era, procurement shenanigans, and our obsession with "being taken
On this rare Riley-less episode Dan is joined by Michael Barclay, Arlen Thompson and Tim Kingsbury to discuss Michaels new book on the rise (and rise!) of Canadian Indie Rock 2000-2006. Why do these bands have so many members? Did Fugazi brain
It's in the title, folks - as the Ontario election comes to a close, Dan and Riley reflect on the musical highlights of the campaign, specifically the Doug Ford campaign song Get It Done. Then, we go West to investigate police forces in BC's l
Bye bye to the very nasty Jason Kenney! Sorry the base of hooting suburbanite fascists you created slipped out of your control! Bad luck! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Dan and Riley reflect on the life and career of Alberta's forme
Riley, Dan, and Liv all got nickel poisoning from our deep dive into Pierre Poilievre's long, strange history on youtube. Come for the giant novelty nickel, stay for the giant novelty penny.Get the full episode on Patreon! www.patreon.c
In case you didn't know, there's an election coming up in the very heart of Downtown Canada. Jacobin magazine contributor and Michael and Us co-host Luke Savage joins Riley and Dan to discuss the state of play in Ontario politics, a reflection
Will Menaker rejoins Dan and Riley to enjoy yet another film set in the "Toronto Standing In For Detroit" cinematic universe... the inexplicable, Canadian-made Robocop TV show that aired for twenty one glorious episodes in the 1990s.Che
It's a rare all-in-person Bottlemen episode! Dan and Riley are in the trashfuture podcast studio with Milo and Nate to talk about some Canadian goings-on, but mostly to recount our trip to the British Museum where we were hoping to touch the m
We've talked a lot about the information environment in the West, as it pertains to support for the War and its uncomplicated nature. Yasha and Evgenia of The Russians podcast join Riley and Dan to talk about the other side of that information
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