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Ep. #985: PUP

Post author By vish
Post date June 10, 2025
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Steve Sladkowski discusses PUP and Who Will Look After the Dogs?, sports and loud, boastful sportscasting’s Canadian connection, Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster, The Beatles’ Get Back, and dysfunctional band communication, working closely with producer John Congleton, Steve’s background in jazz and improvised guitar, PUP’s ambitious, sentimental six-date Mega-City Madness Tour of Toronto, conjuring Marc Ribot and Joel Plaskett for a new song, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #825: Dave Hill

Post author By vish
Post date November 30, 2023

Dave Hill discusses his endearingly insightful, heartwarming, and hilarious book, The Awesome Game – One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey, the state of hockey and reasons why basketball might be more popular, performing national anthems on electric guitars, a funny story about seeing Fugazi in Cleveland, knowing Dick Cavett, the artful awfulness of sports interviews, whether Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and LeBron James are funny people, future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #816: Roy Wood Jr.

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Roy Wood Jr. discusses headlining a coast-to-coast Just for Laughs tour across Canada in November, the World Series, being on the road and learning a lot about Canada, why he left his correspondent role on The Daily Show and whether he’s still interested in hosting it, the fragile state of late night TV and other ways comedians thrive these days, his work on Better Call Saul, performing at the 2023 White House Correspondents Dinner and what President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said to him afterwards, the CFL, talking to regular people, other future plans, and much more.

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