Big Shiny Takes
The world's first and only anti-free speech podcast. Big Shiny Takes looks at the terrible columns written by the "thought-leaders" in Canada and goes through why some of these pieces should have never been published in a place where people can read them.
Episodes
81 episodes since 2020
We Might Have Committed Some Light Treason (Ft. Nora Loreto)
Fancying himself some sort of Judge Dredd of protecting Canadian culture, Christopher Dummitt writes in a special to the National Post how such actions as land acknowledgments or taking a plaque down in an art gallery are giving China ...
August 08, 2024
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58:50
Full Bisexual Panic! (Ft. Sarah Rieger)
"Are all these bisexuals for real? Or is this 'el gee bee tee cue' stuff just a fashionable trend? I'm just asking questions." That is about the extent of the analysis in this week's column from the Phoebe Maltz Bovy in Globe and Mail. ...
July 10, 2024
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1:21:28
Big Joe Goes to Little Oakville (ft. Scott Martin)
Oakville Town Hall is under siege from a red scourge and Sun journalist Joe Warmington is on the case after a hot tip. Can the People's Champion make sense of the situation? Will anyone talk some sense into these misguided youngsters? F...
June 09, 2024
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1:03:31
In Defence of Galen Weston (ft. Luke Savage)
Stop being mean to grocer oligarchs. Stop it! We're warning you. You should be thanking them, they stock your treats and only gouge you a to a moderate degree. Everybody's gotta make a living, and besides, they're probably creating you...
May 26, 2024
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48:22
My Name Is Joe Roberts, I Work for the State (Ft. Noah Kulwin)
American icon Noah Kulwin (@nkulw) joins the pod to talk about one of the most obnoxious Twitter personalities of the past several months, Joe Roberts. Roberts, co-founder of the Democratic Socialists of America - Canada and former co-h...
May 17, 2024
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1:06:01
The Birthrate Episode (ft. Stephen Magusiak)
We love whinging about the fertility rate, don't we folks? The implications are grave, lowered birth rates could mean fewer DoorDash employees to bring columnists treats. BST Institute fellow Stephen
May 08, 2024
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56:58
The Death of Woke (ft. Fae Johnstone)
Executive Director of @Wisdom2Action and @QueerMomentum and unstoppable dynamo @FaeJohnstone joins us...
April 17, 2024
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1:10:48
It Begins at the End of the Beginning (ft. Euan Thomson)
The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned to read a real stinker of a column by Rick Bell. Rick, a traditional dumb guy with a column, seems a little upset about how mean people are being to Calgary Chief of Police Mark Neufeld. We dig...
February 24, 2024
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1:51:49
Existential Glee (ft. NiceMangos)
Polite Conversations host and leading Intellectual Dark Web scholar Eiynah, a/k/a @NiceMangos, joins us to scrape the bottom of the IDW barrel. Gad Saad, who is now a National Post columnist, is a marketing professor w...
January 25, 2024
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1:41:11
Scabs for Israel (ft. Muhannad Ayyash)
Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah. Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back ou...
December 22, 2023
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1:42:55
Forces of Light and Darkness™ (ft. Chuka Ejeckam)
Chuka Ejeckam joins us again, this time to discuss the ongoing horror in Gaza and how Canadian pundits have assumed the role of IDF spokespeople.There’s no better example of this trend than Andrew Coyne, who wrote a column boasting of h...
November 16, 2023
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1:41:57
Cop Worship with the Nightscrawler
The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned after the editor (Eric) spent the last month traveling the world in search of the shiniest takes. It turns out they were all right here in Canada.This week we return to an old favourite, the pe...
October 21, 2023
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1:00:54
The 18th Brumaire of Carson Jerema (ft. Emma Paling)
Jeremy and Marino are joined by The Breach co-ordinating editor Emma Paling (@emmapaling) to discuss a column from Carson Jerema, the National Post's comment editor, who in accordance with Post traditions doe...
August 23, 2023
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1:10:35
Childcare Conscription (ft. Hunter Crowther)
Things are so good in Canadian media. There's layoffs nearly every week. There's talk of the Toronto Star merging with Postmedia. The Online News Act was passed and as a result Google and Facebook are pulling Canadian news content from their pl...
July 08, 2023
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1:47:10
Andrew Coyne, Wannabe Scab (ft. Abdul Malik)
What do opinion columnists in this country think about strikes? Nothing worth reading on your own. In this episode the Big Shiny Takes Institute takes a look at an awful column on the PSAC strike that took place near the end of April and extend...
May 17, 2023
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1:23:13
Crackin’ a Cold One (ft. James Wilt and Kevin Taghabon)
The unthinkable has happened in Canada. A public body has offered new health recommendations and people are overreacting. How will society even function on two drinks a week? According to some, not at all. This week we are joined by aut...
April 17, 2023
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1:36:03
Boat Tax (ft. Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue from Pullback)
The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned! This episode, while Jeremy is in his self-imposed book-writing exile, Eric and Marino are joined by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson of the Pullback podcast to read a baffling column by Jesse Kline.
March 26, 2023
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1:15:18
Cowards and Stigma (ft. Abdul Malik)
Our old pal Abdul (@MarxGasol) joins us for a public policy thought experiment courtesy of UBC business lecturer Adam Pankratz in the National Post: Should we destigmatize stigma? Maybe if drug users ...
February 24, 2023
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1:10:01
Social Media Re-Education Camp (ft. Evan Macdonald)
The last Kino standing, Evan Macdonald, joins us to talk about Dr. Jordan Bernt Peterson's latest made up scandal. The College of Psychiatrists of Ontario is asking him to take social media training, because he sucks at posting. Th...
January 18, 2023
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1:32:56
Vibes-based Journalism (ft. Andrew Neville)
Esteemed Twitter user and Dog Island alum Andrew Neville joins us to mock one of, and I'm not mincing words here, the worst pieces we have read. The culprit? None other than our old pal, Adam Zivo.In this piece (published in the Daily H...
December 10, 2022
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1:10:03
The Unions Hate Your Kid (ft. Chuka Ejeckam)
The Big Shiny Takes Institute is back! We're joined by political researcher and new Friend of the Institute Chuka Ejeckam to read a very anti-union piece by the one and only Jesse Kline. Kline, the author of galaxy-brained takes about p...
November 19, 2022
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1:05:14
Jason Kenney's Populist Edge (ft. David Khan)
Environmental lawyer and former Liberal Party of Alberta leader David Khan joins the Institute to talk about the ongoing rehabilitation of Jason Kenney's image. National Post pundit John Ivison writes that the reason Kenney fai...
October 20, 2022
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1:17:21
The Dead Center (ft. Luke Savage)
Luke Savage, author of the new book The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and co-host of the Michael and ...
September 29, 2022
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59:12
Lilley Unmasked (ft. Megan Linton)
The gang invites Megan Linton of the Harbinger Media Network podcast Invisible Institutions to slog through an incredi...
September 19, 2022
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1:12:01
National Post is a TERF rag (ft. Fae Johnstone)
The Big Shiny Takes Institute has returned! This week, Eric, Marino and Jeremy are joined by Fae Johnstone (Executive Director of Wisdom2Action, writer and activist) to read some absolutely horrendous transphobia published in the National Post....
September 01, 2022
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