Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver: January 2020 Picks

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Recommendations from January 2020's podcast Brunch Club Vancouver attendees.


  • 1

    Carlos Ghosn’s trial was poised to be one of the most closely watched in Japanese history — a case involving claims of corporate greed, wounded national pride and a rigged legal system. Then the forme...Show More

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    There was a time in my life when I almost worked for Carlos Ghosn's daughter unbeknownst to me who her father was and that he would be smuggling himself out of Japan in an audio box years later. I was...Show More

  • 2

    Gerald Regan was the premier of Nova Scotia, the founder of a powerful political dynasty, and one of the most prolific sexual predators in Canadian political history. Even after his death last Novembe...Show More

  • 3

    The Desmarais family is by far the most influential Canadian dynasty of the last half-century. But if you don’t live in Quebec, chances are you haven’t even heard of them. Paul Desmarais had Prime Min...Show More

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    So there was one time in my life when I partied at The Desmarais’ magnificent Power Corp office where those power political meetings were/are still held and that questionable China painting hangs. The...Show More

  • 4

    The Sahotas are Vancouver’s most notorious slumlords. For decades they’ve let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth and desolation. But the Sahotas are not like any other dynasty...Show More

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    I knew the Vancouver slumlords Sahotas were evil, but I didn’t know they were THIS evil. They want people to stay addicted to drugs so they can get cheap labour to fix their buildings and even stole b...Show More

  • 5

    A 39-year-old father of three goes to work and disappears.

  • 6

    America's Dad | 1

    Chasing Cosby

    37:55 | Jan 14th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Bill Cosby spends much of his childhood in a North Philadelphia housing project. He ends up getting his start in an unexpected way, quickly rising to fame. Decades later, one morning in January 2005, ...Show More

  • 7

    What Happened To New Vietnam?

    Underunderstood

    44:01 | Jul 23rd, 2019

    2 recommendations

    A Wikipedia stub about the worst Florida theme park idea ever sends John on a search for the reason it never opened. Show notes: 0:45 - New Vietnam on Wikipedia 1:12 - Dolly Parton's Stampede (form...Show More

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    A preacher wanted to build an actual theme park that replicated the Vietnam War. I’m not shitting you. Crazy story. 🎢

  • 8

    Asma Khan: My life in five dishes

    The Food Chain

    26:16 | Jul 16th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    When Asma Khan was born it was said her mother cried, but not tears of joy. As a second daughter born in 1960s India, Asma felt she was a disappointment, even a burden, because she could not inherit a...Show More

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    This is such a lovely episode about food, a longing for home, and woman power 💪 Asma Khan, one of popular restaurant Darjeeling Express, talks about her birth in the face of patriarchy, her drive ...Show More

  • 9

    3. A Grenfell Story

    Have You Heard George's Podcast?

    26:36 | Sep 2nd, 2019

    A young teacher's daily struggles provide the backdrop for this harrowing reflection on the Grenfell Tower tragedy. In a move from journalism to drama, George departs with the documentary-style narr...Show More

  • 10

    3.5 Grenfell II

    Have You Heard George's Podcast?

    49:35 | Sep 3rd, 2019

    George continues his Grenfell story. Written by George the Poet Original score by Benbrick Produced by Benbrick and George The Poet

  • 11

    Kara and Scott have a lot of thoughts about the Nevada debate and how the candidates should be marketing themselves. In Listener Mail, we get a question about how Warren Buffet invests his billions ve...Show More

  • 12

    The Seven Minute Rule

    Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

    45:58 | Apr 9th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    The government protects us from some dangerous products, but not from others that, over time, ruin countless lives.Michael has started a Go Fund Me campaign to help Katie finally be free of her studen...Show More

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    Eye-opening episode about student debt in the US and how a stupid 7 minute phone rule for a private corp that chases down debt ruins people's lives forever. Reminds me of Hasan Minhaj's testimony at t...Show More

  • 13

    Michael Lewis reads my mind

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing

    1:43:27 | Jun 6th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Michael Lewis needs little introduction. He’s the author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side, The Fifth Risk. He’s the host of the new podcast “Against the Rules.” He’s a master ...Show More

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    A conversation with two of the best minds in journalism, policy and politics. Loved hearing about Michael Lewis’ writing process and Ezra Klein being so vulnerable.

  • 14

    Raising Devendra

    Invisibilia

    30:15 | Dec 17th, 2019

    6 recommendations

    What happens when you treat artificial intelligence with unconditional love?

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    I had actual chills listening to this! What happens when you raise an AI bot like a child and it actually becomes intelligent with a mind of its own? Absolutely incredible.

  • 15

    383- Mini-Stories: Volume 7

    99% Invisible

    40:55 | Dec 19th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    It’s the end of the year and time for our annual mini-stories episodes. Mini-stories are fun, quick hit stories that came up in our research for another episode...or maybe it was some cool thing someo...Show More

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    I love the mini story about the Hollywood sign and how the neighbours took excessive measures to get pesky rude tourists out of their backyards. It’s pretty hilarious.

  • 16

    384- Mini-Stories: Volume 8

    99% Invisible

    50:37 | Jan 7th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    This is part 2 of the 2019- 2020 mini-stories episodes where I interview the staff about their favorite little stories from the built world that don’t quite fill out an entire episode for whatever rea...Show More

  • 17

    Data vs. Dating

    FTFY: Fixed That For You

    19:41 | Mar 25th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Should I stay or should I go? In every romantic relationship, there is a moment that you ask yourself, “Is it worth it?” Well, Rashied Amini, a NASA engineer with a broken heart, has the answer. He’s...Show More

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    What if Tinder actually wanted you to find a true match forever vs wanting you to have bad dates so you get back on their platform? Interesting episode about an engineer’s quest to quantify his love l...Show More

  • 18

    The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. Behind the system, and built into it, was the whip. ...Show More

  • 19

    Jamaica Inn: Episode 1: Meet Mary Yellan

    BBC Learning English Drama

    06:15 | Dec 20th, 2019

    When Mary's mother dies she goes to live with her aunt and uncle who run the Jamaica Inn.

  • 20

    Collateral Damage

    Kerning Cultures

    27:35 | Dec 18th, 2019

    11 recommendations

    In 1942, Lebanon’s National Museum opened in Beirut, celebrating the country’s golden age and inside, it housed some of the region’s most important artifacts. So when the Lebanese wa...Show More

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    This episode about how the Lebanon National Museum survived the civil war truly feels like one for the history books and incredibly important for the history of Lebanon and its national museum. @alex...Show More

  • 21

    The Matrix

    American Jihadi

    28:37 | Dec 2nd, 2019

    Journalist Christof Putzel gets a mysterious message from a source he believes is already dead. DoorDash: For $5 off your first order of $15 or more, download the DoorDash app and enter promo code A...Show More

  • 22

    Donors from beyond the grave

    Future Perfect

    33:05 | Jun 19th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Billions of dollars are donated every year from the fortunes of people who’ve died but are using their wills to influence our world from beyond the grave. Some of these zombie donors left instructions...Show More

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    Should philanthropists be able to have their philanthropic wishes executes forever? If a philanthropist’s wishes are bigoted like “Parks for white people only”, do executors continue to fulfill those ...Show More

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