Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver: December 2019 Picks

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Recommendations from December 2019 Podcast Brunch Club Vancouver attendees.


  • 1

    Sad Ass Songs

    Dolly Parton's America

    57:23 | Oct 15th, 2019

    12 recommendations

    We begin with a simple question: How did the queen of the boob joke become a feminist icon? Helen Morales, author of “Pilgrimage to Dollywood,” gave us a stern directive – look at the lyrics! So we di...Show More

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    Finally listened to this because I was feeling a bit FOMO. I didn’t know much about Dolly other than people treat her as a joke and she’s larger than life especially with Dollywood. But wow, this woma...Show More

  • 2

    #30 The Marshes

    Heavyweight

    56:12 | Dec 12th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    After a drunken slip of the tongue, Steve Marsh and his siblings discover a secret their mother has been keeping for almost 40 years. Now, Steve wants to help his mom take action. Credits Heavyweight ...Show More

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    Lovely family with a secret of their lives they have to navigate together. Jonathan Goldstein is the interloper brought in to keep them accountable. I want some of that mixed berry pie...

  • 3

    S3 [14] Anna Delvey, “The Heiress”

    What Really Happened?

    51:05 | Dec 11th, 2019

    5 recommendations

    Rachel DeLoache Williams made a new friend named Anna Delvey. Anna came from a wealthy German family, lived in a New York City hotel, and was starting an ambitious foundation. But when a trip abroad g...Show More

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    About the faux NYC socialite con artist Anna Delvey, directly narrated by her Vogue photographer friend who got scammed. Raises good questions about how we celebrate glamorous scammers and other crimi...Show More

  • 4

    What’s up Con-gregation & welcome Scam Goddess, the #1 pod dedicated to all things fraud! In this initial episode comedian, actor, and podcast papi Paul F. Tompkins joins host Laci Mosley for a deep d...Show More

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    I didn’t just lol for this episode, I roflmao all the way to the end for the Anna Delvey/Sorokin portion. I don’t remember laughing this much for a podcast. There is a portion about a dog scam in the ...Show More

  • 5

    Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker

    Hunting Warhead

    54:24 | Nov 4th, 2019

    20 recommendations

    Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins f...Show More

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    Finally listened and the end to this first episode was 👀

  • 6

    Dolly goes wild for Rod's railway, whilst Pandora decides to spend her upcoming maternity leave at the world's first vagina museum. Plus: Gregg's diet donut, the cassette tape revival and Nan Goldin's...Show More

  • 7

    I. The Missing Neurologist

    FINDING VAN GOGH (English Version)

    44:48 | Sep 12th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Johannes and the curator Alexander Eiling are standing in the Städel Museum’ storage room – in front of an empty picture frame. It is the frame that once held the “Portrait of Dr Gachet”, which was in...Show More

  • 8

    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

  • 9

    Jordan talks to Joanna Fried, a psychiatrist at Janian Medical Care who works with the street outreach team. It’s Joanna’s job to conduct the psychiatric evaluations that are part of the packet someon...Show More

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    Fascinating episode about how a psychiatrist who cares for the homeless in NYC does her job. You can tell she loves and is very good at what she does. It's heartbreaking when she says that she's afrai...Show More

  • 10

    #41: The Heroin Clinic

    Cited Podcast

    49:14 | Mar 9th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harm...Show More

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    This episode takes a scientific and human look into why prescribing clean heroin treats heroin users with addiction. The story is set in Vancouver. Powerful behind-the-scenes look at when and where th...Show More

  • 11

    2. Plaid

    Articles of Interest

    18:55 | Dec 7th, 2018

    3 recommendations

    Lumberjacks wore plaid. Punks wore plaid mini skirts. The Beach Boys used to be called the Pendletones, and they wore plaid with their surfboards. Lots of different groups have adopted the pattern ove...Show More

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    This is a funny and fascinating episode about the origins of plaid. It's more than just a print, but is a symbol to so many different groups today. But does it belong to lumberjacks or lesbians or wor...Show More

  • 12

    After 18 months of consultation, Google sister company Sidewalk Labs has released its master draft proposal to develop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. The proposal includes everything from an affor...Show More

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    Good overview on what's happening with Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Appreciated David Skok's reflection on the larger geopolitical views on data privacy. Will Torontonians want to trade-off privacy and a...Show More

  • 13

    Are smart cities dumb?

    The Inquiry

    24:12 | Mar 7th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Driverless cars powered by renewable energy whisking their healthy and happy citizens between gleaming skyscrapers, criss-crossing efficient roads. That’s the dream of many so called smart cities. ...Show More

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    Great exploration of smart cities around the world including Google's Sidewalk Labs. Interesting how smart city technology that is supposed to "democratize" complaints for example, actually result in ...Show More

  • 14

    There are a few hurdles that need to be cleared before a prime piece of real estate on Toronto’s waterfront is turned into what could be the first of many smart city developments. Financial Post repor...Show More

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    Didn’t know the “urban data trust” that Sidewalk Labs is setting up to address the data privacy issues is actually just a Trojan horse because they are addressing the issues by giving “everyone has eq...Show More

  • 15

    Since 2016, Andrew Marantz has been reporting on how the extremist right has harnessed the Internet and social media to gain a startling prominence in American politics. One day, he was contacted by a...Show More

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    Wow. Wow. Wow. This was an incredible episode about one woman's journey to becoming a Neo-Nazi. Loved this episode for both the content and storytelling.

  • 16

    Christian Picciolini is the author of “White American Youth: My Descent Into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement – And How I Got Out.” His story helps the rest of us understand what leads an ordinary...Show More

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    Fascinating interview about the head of a Neo-Nazi group Skinheads, how he found himself there and how he got out through a record store that specialized in racist music (yes, you read that right). He...Show More

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