Zod & Shapiro are Neil Waytowich and Ari Shapiro.

After many failed attempts earlier in the year, we’ve finally combined forces to address the chronic and existential imbalance of societal lies, government misinformation and political hypocrisy that’s permeated our world endlessly.

We welcome our shared glorious followers, recent admirers, and fellow soothsayers interested in our philosophical musings on life, the universe and everything.

This episode was recorded on August 21st, 2021.

This show’s quotes and segments:

1:01 – Ontario MPP Rick Nicholls opens his mouth on a national stage and what flies out leaves us both wondering when sanity jumped the shark in Canadian politics.

5:21 – Fund-raising deception , CPC style; Doug Ford’s donors get their rude awakening through snake oil style shenanigans at their doorstep and in their mailboxes. 

7:40 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gambles on an early election that’s high on political opportunism and completely bereft of any sensible consideration to the fact that we’re about to enjoy another crippling wave of anxiety, self-loathing and mostly small businesses dying.

16:12 – Provincial politics and the awesome perks of governance with little accountability or oversight (aka raiding the coffers); when does it end?

19:51 – Will Trudeau’s scandals come back to haunt him during the campaign? The NDP and Conservatives still remember the WE Charity, Libya and SNC-Lavalin, the Two Michaels stranded in China, and a history of oddly timed Blackface appearances.

22:35 – Spavor and Kovrig are in the Phantom Zone, literally; what’s to be done when it comes to defending the significance of being a Canadian on the international stage? 

24:48 – Erin O’Toole’s mantra still sounds as if it should have been Peter MacKay as the chosen one.

Music: “Superman Main Theme” by John Williams