Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver: February 2020 Picks

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


  • 1

    Des and Woody try to unpack the concept of manifestation in terms of art and music.

  • 2

    Please Save the Space Bees - Episode One (explicit version)

    Dark Matter Podcasts

    37:17 | Jan 13th, 2020

    Please Save the Space Bees is a three-part science fiction epic podcast! PART ONE: In the future, the universe is ruled by the Omni-Corporation and their cheerful but evil mascot Wiggles. Meanwhile ba...Show More

  • 3

    Is the Tree of Life Practical? Tree Q+R 2

    BibleProject

    1:04:40 | Mar 9th, 2020

    We are concluding our Tree of Life series with a question and response episode. In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to audience questions on the theme of the Tree of Life in the Bible. Thank you to e...Show More

  • 4

    Drug users are the experts. We’ve survived. We know policy better than policy-makers. We know law better than lawmakers. We know pharmaceuticals better than pharmacists. We know nobody’s coming to sav...Show More

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    Really well produced podcast series by drug users about the dire and urgent situation they’re facing.

  • 5

    Today we discuss the work of Hannah Arendt.

  • 6

    Cortico

    The Vancouver Mixtape

    58:42 | Feb 6th, 2020

    Instrumental rockers Cortico join Jesse and Jamie in the studio to discuss their new record Aeolia, the challenges and freedoms of writing outside of traditional rock song structures, and bringing the...Show More

  • 7

    Dear White People started as a 2014 American comedy-drama indie film, written, directed and co-produced by Justin Simien. The film focuses on escalating racial tensions at a fictitious, prestigious Iv...Show More

  • 8

    Pilot

    Blackout

    25:38 | Mar 19th, 2019

    4 recommendations

    Local radio DJ Simon Itani survives a run-in with a shadowy gunman as a mysterious blackout rocks his isolated community.BLACKOUT is presented by Sonos.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...Show More

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    What happens when a city blacks out? The voice acting by Remi Malek towards the end of the episode was terrific. Maybe because I know what he looks like so you can also imagine him too as you hear him...Show More

  • 9

    Chapter I

    S-Town

    51:22 | Mar 28th, 2017

    66 recommendations

    “If you keep your mouth shut, you’ll be surprised what you can learn.”

    mm recommended:

    I finally listened to this (don't @ me). Though the storytelling and podcast was beautifully produced to illustrate the complexity of the human condition, I'm going to super controversial and say that...Show More

  • 10

    For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the industry, and, according to some, even the government. So how does a single family c...Show More

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    Corporations blackmailing politicians threatening to takeaway jobs if they don’t give them tax breaks, resulting in regulatory capture — sounds familiar. I do feel for young Irving’s depression and ex...Show More

  • 11

    Ep 1. Fake Heiress

    Fake Heiress

    27:22 | Dec 16th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million...Show More

    mm recommended:

    I binged on this entire series. It was really interesting and innovative, because it's 30% investigative reporting with testimonials and 70% audio fiction (re-enactments). Lots of new information I ha...Show More

  • 12

    Episode 1: The Spy

    The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

    35:35 | Nov 26th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Igor Ostrovskiy is a private investigator in New York. In 2017, he was contracted to surveil Ronan Farrow on behalf of a secret client. Igor would eventually learn that the secret client was Black Cub...Show More

  • 13

    If there's one thing that sets people apart from machines, it's creativity, right? Automation may take over certain jobs, but what happens when algorithms start to learn from our work to create their ...Show More

    mm recommended:

    One of my favourite podcast episodes of all time. A favorite party question of mine is: "If the world was going to implode and all the books in the world are going to burn down, would you save the S...Show More

  • 14

    My mother's murder - episode 1

    The Slow Newscast

    31:54 | Feb 10th, 2020

    3 recommendations

    Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta's pre-eminent investigative journalist. She exposed corruption at the highest levels of politics and business in the country until, in October 2017, she was murdered b...Show More

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    The podcast host investigates the murder of his own mother in Malta. This was an incredible mini-series that looks into the corruption of Malta, how an extraordinary journalist who held the politician...Show More

  • 15

    This week, we talk to the world’s most obsessive tracker of politicians' secret online lives. And ask for help on a very spooky mission. Further Reading: Ashley's article on James Comey's secret twi...Show More

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    Have you wondered if public figures and politicians have secret social media accounts and what they do with them? Hilarious episode. Also gives a good character assessment of Buttigieg.

  • 16

    The CryptoQueen

    Planet Money

    33:41 | Feb 15th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Jamie Bartlett and BBC producer Georgia Catt bring us the story of OneCoin, which promised to revolutionize money, but instead led to one of the world's biggest scams.

  • 17

    Oil Shock

    The Indicator from Planet Money

    09:59 | Mar 9th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    A spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia led to a collapse in oil prices over the weekend. Stock prices followed. What happened and what it means.

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    If you were wondering what happened to the stock markets yesterday, here’s a quick <10 min episode to fill you in. It’s not just Coronavirus that’s depressing the markets. It’s also Russia and Saudi A...Show More

  • 18

    Are humans still evolving?

    The Infinite Monkey Cage

    47:09 | Jan 28th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Are humans still evolving? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian and author David Baddiel, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics Aoife McLysaght, and geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherfor...Show More

  • 19

    Episode 1: Dr Ruja

    The Missing Cryptoqueen

    22:53 | Sep 19th, 2019

    11 recommendations

    Dr Ruja promised financial revolution. And then, two years ago, she disappeared. Why? The Missing Cryptoqueen is an eight-part series for BBC Sounds, with new episodes every Thursday. Presenter: Jam...Show More

    mm recommended:

    This is an intriguing true crime podcast! This is the first time I've heard of the Crypto Queen Dr. Ruja.

  • 20

    The Coronavirus Isn't Going Away

    Deep Background with Noah Feldman

    25:58 | Feb 28th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard University, predicts that between 40 to 70 percent of adults in the world will become infected with the coronavirus.  Learn more about your ad-choices at h...Show More

    mm recommended:

    There are only two ways out of this Coronavirus outbreak: 1) there’s a vaccine and a good portion of us get inoculated; 2) 40-70% of us who are adults get infected by the virus. Very informative episo...Show More

  • 21

    How To Be Happy

    Science Rules! with Bill Nye

    47:16 | Nov 14th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    It turns out being happy, or becoming happier is possible with a bit of effort. We’re joined by happiness expert and host of The Happiness Lab, Dr. Laurie Santos to talk about her research into human ...Show More

  • 22

    How to Survive Another Chernobyl

    Science Rules! with Bill Nye

    44:45 | Aug 22nd, 2019

    If we're going to embrace nuclear energy, we want to understand the effects of radiation and how to handle them. And that’s just the sort of work Dr. Lauren Jackson does! She joins us to talk about ho...Show More

  • 23

    25. We’ll Always Have Paris – The Ritz Paris Bar

    The Land of Desire: French History and Culture

    24:25 | May 25th, 2017

    4 recommendations

    Bottoms up! We duck behind the counter to learn the antics, escapades and espionage of the Hotel Ritz Paris bar. Salut! SHOW NOTES: http://www.thelandofdesire.com/2017/05/25/episode-25-hotel-ritz-p...Show More

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    Delightful episode about the Hotel Ritz Paris and its famous bar frequented by the rich and famous. From the Nazis to the hotel staff who spied for the Allied forces, to dogs in petticoats, and boa ne...Show More

  • 24

    Nukes

    Power Corrupts

    53:28 | Jul 18th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    How did 2 guys you've never heard of save the world from nuclear apocalypse? Can nuclear weapons be hacked? What's the most consequential honeymoon in human history? Why was a British nuclear weapon d...Show More

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    Can nuclear weapons get hacked? Wacky nuclear bombing experiments. Also super interesting fact about carbon-14 dating to detect art forgery and how it relates to the period of nuclear bombing experime...Show More

  • 25

    114- Ten Thousand Years

    99% Invisible

    29:22 | May 13th, 2014

    4 recommendations

    In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They wer...Show More

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    Amazing episode about a group of top experts who were called together to figure out how to design something that will warn people living tens of thousands years from now that they should not touch nuc...Show More

  • 26

    Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans

    Stuff You Should Know

    53:30 | Aug 20th, 2019

    The nuclear waste we produce will be dangerous for a very long time. We’ve figured out how to safely store it in the earth until it’s no longer a biohazard. Now we just have to figure out how to warn ...Show More

  • 27

    Are broken arrows a problem?

    Stuff You Should Know

    49:14 | Dec 31st, 2019

    Are broken arrows are a problem? After all, they are incidents and accidents involving nuclear warheads. Like, sometimes they go missing. But it hasn't happened much since the 50s and 60s. OR HAS IT? ...Show More

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