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Ep. #992: Tanya Talaga

Tanya Talaga is here to discuss her award-winning book and its complementary documentary film, The Knowing, Scarborough pride, being discouraged to learn about her Indigenous heritage as a child, her lifelong interest in storytelling, writing for the student newspaper at the University of Toronto, establishing her Makwa Creative production company and the importance of diversification for modern media workers, what justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls looks like, why governments and the Catholic Church finally acknowledged and apologized for their treatment of Indigenous people, perspectives on genocides continuing in broad daylight despite humanity’s shared history and knowledge, what’s next for Talaga and her team, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #817: Nicole Rampersaud & Off World

Nicole Rampersaud and Off World’s Sandro Perri discuss their respective new albums, Saudade and 3, how they first met in Toronto and where they each live now, barbecue liberation and Grub-a-Dub, swan songs and other bird activities, the sounds of nature and surprising people with the sounds of their instruments, being a dub bub and the role of a producer in songwriting, temporality and nostalgia, the maybe end of Off World and new solo Sandro music, touring together, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #800: Buck 65

In his first interview in nearly a decade, Buck 65 explains his self-imposed exile from hip-hop and why he’s back, incredible recent albums like 2022’s King of Drums and 2023’s Super Dope and making beats in secret, giving up space for other artists, attracting the attention of a New York Yankees scout as a kid and making a triumphant return to baseball as a middle-aged man, working with Controller 7 and asking Vincent Gallo for permission to create Billy, rapping his ass off, releasing more records, his Substack, other future plans, and much more.

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