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 29th, 2021.
This show’s quotes and segments:
1:15 – Doug Ford announces his support of vaccination passports and registration while eviscerating the Prime Minister in the same contemptuous breath.
4:15 – A segment from Al-Jazeera illustrating the mainstream reality and consequent normalization of how the Taliban is being portrayed across a dumbfounded and largely gobsmacked world.
11:30 – Justin Trudeau pulling an anti-climatic reveal on the true shape of modern crisis capitalism; it’s as moving as it is predictable in all its utopian and naive splendor.
15:01 – Erin O’Toole illustrating our collective failure to indigenous children while simultaneously preserving flag patriotism with equal parts hypocrisy and vanilla fudge.
17:59 – The latest federal voting preference poll culled from a recent CBC video feature demonstrating that as the more things change, the more they resemble the last time Canadians voted for their government.
22:30 – A recent NBC perspective on health care contrasting Canada’s single-payer system success even as it’s being pulled apart at the seams by over-zealous right-wing “for-profit” gospel across the continent.
Intro: Amanda Pikta – Music: “Superman Main Theme” by John Williams