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Canuck is a Slur
by Pizdets Productions
A podcast about highly specific Canadian culture & history. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CanuckIsASlur Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur
Episodes
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"The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Rex Murphy for Pierre Trudeau [with The Wonderkamer] || CIAS #33
Canada is a land of contrasts. So is Pierre Trudeau: a man charismatic enough to date the likes of Barbara Streisand, Kim Cattrall, and Margot Kidder...and yet, still found himself cucked by Fidel Castro. Allegedly. In The Greatest Canadian—itself a land of contrasts—Pierre is presented by a…
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Le Plus Grand Français [with Victor Pernet] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Victor from Guys Will Be Talking helps break down France's 2005 contest to name the 102 greatest French people of all time. Are there more women or sex pests on it? Tune in to find out! MINOR CORRECTION: I have conflated current Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (with the Cybertruck and fake Ukraine...
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If Day — The Nazi Invasion of Winnipeg [with Francis Horton] || CIAS #32
Francis from What a Hell of a Way to Dad is back to learn about the time the city of Winnipeg surrendered to a decidedly small Wehrmacht unit...and other stunts they pulled in order to sell war bonds. You can watch the full "If Day" documentary on YouTube or Patreon. Please note that there is a...
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Conrad Black — Lord Black of Crossharbour [with Charles Star] || CIAS #31
Charles Star from the No Homework podcast (and more) stops by on his relentless guest tour to learn about Conrad Black, the only member of the UK's House of Lords to be deported to Canada on a private jet by ICE. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You...
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The Odyssey [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview
The Odyssey! You can't avoid it. Everyone's been talking about this lately. Not sure why, honestly...I'd never seen it before. There's a kid with a magical head injury? Children rove in gangs of librarians, rollerblading ravers, and fire-bombing terrorists? Ryan Reynolds plays a teenage Nazi...
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Emily Murphy — The Black Candle [with Jamie Loftus] || CIAS #30.2
Jamie Loftus returns to explore the life of "Janey Canuck" (the #74 Greatest Canadian) as a public figure, and all of the issues she encountered: Sexism! Racism! Temperance! Opium! Birth control! Sex work! Alimony! Eugenics! Which ones did she support or oppose? The fun part is finding out :)...
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Emily Murphy — Janey Canuck in the West [with Jamie Loftus] || CIAS #30.1
One of the biggest legal battles in Canadian feminist history was orchestrated by "The Famous Five": a group of women's rights activists in early-20th-century Alberta. Jamie Loftus, host of many podcasts and author of Raw Dog, is on the show to learn about their top dog: Emily Murphy. In Part 1:...
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"The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Evan Solomon for Alexander Graham Bell [with Failure to Launch] || CIAS #29
Alexander Graham Bell: you know him! Is he Canadian? Kinda! I guess? Not really. But the same man who made the 100 Greatest Americans list, and finished as the #57 Greatest Briton, was voted into the top 10 finalists of the Greatest Canadians in 2004...so they had no choice but to make a TV…
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Diagnosis: Normal || CIAS Bonus Preview
Healthcare is fraught. Mental healthcare is even more fraught. Few things are as illustrative of this as trying to get Alberta Health Services to assess you for ASD. As the audience insert in this episode, Nicole is here to learn about this by way of hearing me read through the most comprehensive...
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Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim — Squamish Language [with Victoria Fraser] || CIAS #28
Victoria Fraser (co-chair of the Squamish Language Commission), is here to teach us about Skwxwú7mesh sníchim—a critically endangered language of the Coast Salish family, effectively spoken by only a handful of people at present. Here is the article we discuss regarding the renaming of several BC...
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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Podcast [with Caitlin Durante] || CIAS #27
Caitlin Durante from The Bechdel Cast brings you the rare "guest's choice" episode, in order to answer the question: can two goofy white dudes truly make a good movie? The answer may surprise you! Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides+video, if you prefer. You can watch...
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Goon Shot: A Comparative Analysis || CIAS Bonus Preview
Goon (2011) is a bad movie that I decided wasn't worth subjecting an upcoming guest to. However, my partner had already sat through it...so I decided to double down and make her watch Slap Shot (1977), on the promise that it was a markedly better film. Here's how that went. Support us on Patreon...
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Jacques Cartier — The Kingdom of Saguenay [with Billy Wayne Davis] || CIAS #26.2
Billy Wayne Davis is back for the second half of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, amidst the increasingly absurd promises of a wonderland of riches and mythical creatures...somewhere up the Saguenay River. Will they find it this time? Will they kidnap anyone else? Will people die from more than…
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Jacques Cartier — The Land God Gave to Cain [with Billy Wayne Davis] || CIAS #26.1
Comedian Billy Wayne Davis brings his expertise to the age-old question: "What if El Dorado was in Québec?" This proposition will carry us through two episodes covering the three 16th-century voyages of the Breton ship captain Jakez Karter—better known to history as "Jacques Cartier." Please note...
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Uh-Oh! [with Failure to Launch] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Chris, Chris and the Goo Gimp from Failure to Launch all enter the sick, twisted world of Twink Yahoo and come out slimier at the end of it. Topics include the Canadian/American goo gap, whether the Goo Gimp was complicit in 9/11, and what the Slime Master is up to today. Support us on Patreon…
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History Bitten [with Rick Green] || CIAS #25
Comedian Rick Green (The Frantics), co-creator of The Red Green Show and the creator of History Bites, is on the show to share his experience of trying to make pop history for television. We also talk a little Red Green, a little neo-fascism, and a little neurodivergence. We think one of those...
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Canadian Bacon (1995) [with A.J. Ditty] || CIAS #24
A.J. Ditty from The Worst of All Possible Worlds brings his media analysis to the only fictional feature written and directed by American activist filmmaker Michael Moore: Canadian Bacon, in which an unpopular U.S. president (Alan Alda) flirts with waging war against Canada—as an intrepid…
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Marshall McLuhan [with Jordan Mandel] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Musician & writer Jordan Mandel facilitates a crash course on Marshall McLuhan, the 62nd Greatest Canadian. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials:...
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Decoy Ops — Fighting Street Crime Undercover || CIAS #23
Nicole (noted friend-, host-, and Nicole-of-the-show) is back for another round of punishment. This time, it's to read a book Kelly found in a trash bag: "Decoy Ops: Fighting Street Crime Undercover", which is about what happens when imaginative kids aren't allowed to join theatre groups and are...
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"The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Sook-Yin Lee for Terry Fox [with Our Stories And Our Selves] || CIAS #22
In 1980, Terry Fox tried to run across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research. Can we take this unproblematic, universally beloved, unequivocal hero and still extract a downer episode out of it? Tune in to find out! Watch the TV episode we're discussing here:...
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Cybercrime 1977 [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Cariad finishes the story of the first computer crime in Canada, and we discuss its effects on the subsequent evolution of the theft of ones and zeros. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow…
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Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (Part 1) [with Australian Gothic] || CIAS #21
Before Shoresy, before even Letterkenny, Jared Keeso was just some unknown hockey-player turned actor...portraying friend-of-the-show Don Cherry in a TV-movie series. And he's looking GOOD doing it, folks. I mean, REALLY hot. Jules and Lucas, our Australian subject matter experts, return to the...
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A Brief History of Computer [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Cariad returns to the show to explain computers to Kelly like he's an idiot (because he is), and answer his questions on why they're evil. This is all to explain how the first-ever computer crime took place at the University of Alberta—which will be discussed in further detail in Part 2. Support…
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The Albanian Bunker Episode — Një Episod në Bunker || CIAS #20
It's the Albanian Bunker Episode! It's an episode recorded in a bunker in Albania. Topics include: bunkers, tourism, and animal welfare. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here. Support us on Patreon:...
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Canuxploitation [with Bring Me The Axe] || UNLOCKED BONUS
Like many podcasts, we decided to give the public a free bonus episode for the holidays—and there's no holiday more important in the annals of Canuck is a Slur than Orthodox Christmas! Or, more accurately, Christmas according to the Julian calendar. By popular vote in the Discord server, the…
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Glyphosate [with Seedpod] || CIAS Bonus Preview
The hosts of SeedPod are here to explain the ins and outs of herbicides, including glyphosate—the main target of the "Stop Spraying New Brunswick" campaign. Check out SeedPod wherever you get your podcasts! Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur…
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History of Football — The Horse With No Name [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.9
Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill you???" We also ask the question: "How many CFL franchises do you get a…
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History of Football — Hot & Dry Posse [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.8
Eight episodes in, we finally directly address the question of "how did Canadian football come to be different from American football?" before skipping straight to the early 1990s to get to the good part! Namely, the time the CFL—on the brink of financial ruin—threw a Hail Mary by trying to…
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History of Football — A Dainty Uppercut [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.7
We begin the home stretch of this series with a look at the very deliberate creation of modern Gaelic football, which has managed to escape our attention thus far...then we move on to an era of American football so violent that the President gets involved. No, way more "violent" than how you'd…
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About a Couch [with Andrew Grant] || CIAS Bonus Preview
Andrew Grant—an Ontario-born, Vancouver-based comedian with a master's in linguistics—is on the show to help present an overview of general Canadian English, as well as some of the specifics of various Anglo-Canadian accents & dialects. We also cover some regional phrasing and terminology, from...
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History of Football — Barbarians, Gentlemen, and Leprechaun Tigers [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.6
There's no getting around it: we shot our wad early with all the jokes about balls and busting...and now we have to catch up on history. The 1870s through the 1890s brought an eruption of rule changes that moved the Rugby game away from the Association game, and shaped the other five codes we…
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History of Football — Rough Riders vs. Roughriders [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.5
In this installment, we track the progression from the heady college days of Canadian and American football, to the groups that would go on to form the Canadian Football League. Come along and find out, from among these many schools and clubs: which team names were the exact same, which ones were...
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History of Football — Foot-ball, Freshie! [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.4
This is an episode all about institutionalized bullying: from the halls of Eton and Rugby, as fictionalized in a transatlantic hit of a novel; to the fields of Harvard and Dartmouth, as materialized in the genocide of innumerable people and cultures. In Part 4, we track the continued evolution of...
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History of Football — Stagger for the Dagger [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.3
Now that we've finally finished with the ball jokes (mostly), we can set aside our three horrid little fancy-boy schools and get on to the important business of talking about...well, another fancy-boy school that the first three turn their noses up at: Rugby. In this episode, come learn about:...
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History of Football — Dribbling and Busting From the Hot-men's Behinds [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.2
In the pursuit of covering the history of Canadian football, we've accidentally found ourselves covering the history of all football. Now that we've finally gotten out of our "ball-play" jokes out of the way, there shouldn't be any double entendres going forward. Right? In this episode, we...
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History of Football — An Incompleat Historye of Baule-pleyenge Passetymes [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.1
It's time we covered one of the absolute cornerstones of "Canadian sports," and for that, we have to begin with the logical starting point: England in the 14th century! It's going to be a long series. In Part 1, we investigate: whether you can be killed by a tennis ball, whether knives or…
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The Rocket (2005) || CIAS Bonus Preview
Nicole is back to discuss the 2005 Québécois film The Rocket, about the life and career of Maurice Richard, up to the point of the 1955 Richard Riot. It also contains another recurring figure from the show. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur…
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Nasty Bizness || CIAS #18.4
After a bleak ending to Part 3, we cleanse the palate with the question: what if dril was a professional athlete tweeting under his own name? And got a lucrative media career out of it? And that's what leads us to our final Hockey Guy of the series: Paul "BizNasty" Bissonnette. Links I promised…
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Sloppy Seconds || CIAS #18.3
Fresh on the heels of the worst-landed bit of all time, we explore the fallout from this incident, as well as the rest of Sean Avery's career. Then we get into his post-retirement activities...including his legal troubles. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you...
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The Avery Rule || CIAS #18.2
In the first full, proper episode of this series, Nicole finally gets to discover who Sean Avery is—and why she's being forced to learn about him. We explore the whole continuum of Hockey Decorum, including: how quickly you can alienate 28 teams in a 30-team league, how to navigate situations of...
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The Most Hated Man in Hockey || CIAS #18.1
Less than a year after getting out of the Tim Horton dungeon, Nicole is once again locked in a room to forcibly learn about the intersection of hockey guys, bad vibes, and questionable decisions. But first, we have to take a little time to thank each and every one of the show's wonderful, lovely...
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Unsere Besten || CIAS Bonus Preview
Kelly sits down with "Mao," a pseudonymous German doctor, to discuss the German TV program Unsere Besten ("Our Best"), which predates The Greatest Canadian by a year. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord:...
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Paskwâw Nehîyawewin ᐸᐢᒁᐤ ᓀᐦᐄᔭᐍᐏᐣ [with Lisa Auger] || CIAS #17
Plains Cree teacher Lisa Auger is on the show to tell us about: Plains Cree! Bush Cree! Other dialects of Cree! We talk about the forces that have tried to put indigenous languages down, the forces that have been trying to lift indigenous languages up, and of course: we learn how to say "dick."...
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"The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Deborah Grey for Wayne Gretzky [with Emily Turner] || CIAS #16
Kelly reunites with Emily, an old co-worker from many years back, to reminisce about Edmonton and talk about how Wayne Gretzky sucks. Also there's some stuff in there from a right-wing politician about how much she loves Gretzky, but who cares? Watch the TV episode we're discussing here:...
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Franco-Alberta || CIAS Bonus Preview
Kelly sits down with Nicole, his partially Britishized cousin, to talk about their shared Franco-Albertan heritage. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Follow our various socials:...
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FUBAR (2002) [with See Podcast] || CIAS #15
Jack & Sam from "See Podcast" (formerly "Bee Podcast") are here from the UK and US, respectively, to understand the province of Alberta by way of its defining artwork: the 2002 low-budget indie film FUBAR. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can…
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"The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Strombo for Tommy Douglas [with Shawinigan Moments] || CIAS #14
Tamarack & Cariad from "Shawinigan moments" are here to tackle the pitch for the eventual winner of "The Greatest Canadian," Tommy Douglas—as pitched by Canada's Boyfriend, former MuchMusic VJ George Stroumboulopoulos. Watch the TV episode we're discussing on its own: https://youtu.be/o9Yv6IXmvZE...
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A Parallel History || CIAS Bonus Preview
Wade, my BeWelcome host and collections manager at The Rooms in St. John's, recorded with me in his living room to share his knowledge of the history and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador—and how it evolved distinctly alongside Canada before joining the country in 1949. Support us on Patreon…
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Maurice Richard — Le Riot [with Joe Kassabian] || CIAS #13.3
Kelly is joined by Joe from "Lions Led By Donkeys" to tell the story of the Richard Riot in an extremely roundabout way. In Part 3, we cover the events directly before, during, and after the riot. Please note that this is an audio version of a podcast intended for slides + video. You can watch…
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Maurice Richard — Les Habs [with Joe Kassabian] || CIAS #13.2
Kelly is joined by Joe from "Lions Led By Donkeys" to tell the story of the Richard Riot in an extremely roundabout way. In Part 2, we cover the early history of the Montréal Canadiens from their founding to the beginning of the Rocket's career. Please note that this is an audio version of a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about highly specific Canadian culture & history.
Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28
Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CanuckIsASlur
Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur
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