Escape Velocity Radio

Episode 29: Escaped Velocity Radio

Well dear listeners, this is it – the final episode of Escape Velocity Radio (for the foreseeable...

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Episode 28: Canadian Museum for Human Rights review; Winnipeg’s colonialism problem; G7 Radio 006

After celebrating Winnipeg’s triumphant victory as Canada’s most racist city, we look at the...

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Episode 27: Critical feedback; extra-judicial police murder; Interstellar and human triumphalism

This month we get into the copious feedback we received from last episode, specifically...

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Episode 26: Jian Ghomeshi, consent, assault, and justice with Melissa Martin; G7 Radio 003

In the wake of widespread allegations detailing disgraced CBC Radio personality Jian Ghomeshi’s...

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Episode 25: Ryan McMahon on comedy, decolonization, and podcasting; G7 Radio 002

Boo! It’s October, which means another terrifying Halloween episode! This month we visit the home...

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Episode 24: Tropes vs Women in video games, museums vs human rights in Canada, G7 Radio 001

This month we delve (very-shallowly) into our personal video game histories in order to reveal...

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Episode 23: Nora Barrows-Friedman on Israel/Palestine; debunking Sam Harris’ defense of Israel

We return from our summer travels (and travails) with stories of colonial homesteads and colonial...

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Episode 22: Jean Kilbourne on women in advertising and rape culture; Cowspiracy documentary

We start by discussing the new documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, which delves...

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Episode 21: Australia, plagiarism, addiction, and the end of food

As we return from our extended absence, Chris brings us tales of Propagandhi’s Australian...

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Episode 20: Noah, Cosmos, #sealfies, and Leigh Phillips with a left defence of GMOs

In this month’s extended installment of the podcast, we begin by taking a field trip to a...

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Episode 19: Media sausage parties; Canada Reads; decolonial veganism

To celebrate the vernal equinox in the tradition of Chris’ ancestors, we at once lamely lament...

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Episode 18: Jules Boykoff on the Olympics and “Celebration Capitalism”

With the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia just winding down, we sit down with Jules Boykoff...

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Episode 17: The Zapatistas 20 Years On with Alex Khasnabish

We take the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico to...

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Episode 16: We Steal Secrets: The (Unpaid) Story of Antibiotic Resistance

While on a short break from our clandestine preparations for liberating Santa’s reindeer from...

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Episode 15: Interview with Chris Hedges

This month we bring you our conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Chris...

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Episode 14: Interview with Robin Hahnel on Participatory Economics

On this month’s terrifying episode, which may or may not have been recorded in an actual haunted...

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Episode 13: Informants and infiltrators

This month, we take time out from exposing each other as undercover operatives working for the...

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Episode 12: Ethical life under capitalism; speculative futures; alternative economies; cultured meat

Come, sit by the lake and eavesdrop while we review your copious feedback to episode 11’s...

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Episode 11: The BDS movement and Israel; Stefan Christoff on the Quebéc student strike

Derek barely reviews World War Z (the shitty movie, not the excellent book), which segues into a...

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Episode 10: Interview with Dave Zirin on sports and politics

Derek backpedals on calling Jared Diamond “douchebaggy”, we give wildly divergent recommendations...

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