Best Entertainment One (eOne Podcasts (2026)

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Ep. #1056: ‘Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg’ with Sohrab Habibion & Johnny Temple 1:28:22

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Sohrab Habibion and Johnny Temple are here to discuss the book, Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg, how they each met and got to know Rick and how this book came to be, the role the late Rich Jacobs played in this project, how this book and the zine that’s part of the deluxe edition might surprise Rick’s fans, the story of Akashic Books and wh…

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Ep. #1055: Pullman 1:29:34

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Chris Brokaw, Ken “Bundy K.” Brown, Curtis Harvey, and Doug McCombs are here to discuss III, the first album by Pullman in 25 years, what inspired Pullman to explore acoustic guitar sounds in the late 1990s, the positive but also harsh critical reception their first two albums, 1998’s Turnstyles & Junkpiles and 2001’s Viewfinder received, how Tim B…

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"I Woke Up With No Hands" | The Reality of "Flesh-Eating Disease" 59:41

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You know that irrational fear that a simple sore throat or a gym injury might actually be something way worse? Well, for Scott, that nightmare became a reality in the most terrifying way possible. At 35, Scott was living the dream as an elite, nationally ranked college soccer coach. He was unstoppable—until he wasn't. After feeling under the weathe…

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Ep. #1054: Mark Medley 29:30

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Mark Medley is here to discuss his remarkable new book, Live to See the Day - Impossible Goals, Unimaginable Futures, and the Pursuit of Things That May Never Be, our experiences at writers’ festivals, questions I have about how book publicity works and whether or not some publishers promote their authors and books, what inspired him to write this …

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Ep. #1053: Mint Mile 1:13:38

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Tim Midyett from Mint Mile returns to discuss andwhichstray, what recent Silkworm reunion shows have been like, the throughlines between songs he wrote in that band about mortality, connection, and community and his most recent Mint Mile material, how fortune enabled him to make one more record with his late friend Steve Albini, who engineered andw…

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All Things Konsidered: The Best Albums of 2025 59:17

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My son, who is 14, and I discuss our top 10 albums of 2025, along with several honourable mentions. Each of us mostly highlighted records the other wasn’t all that familiar with, and other members of our family make background or brief appearances on this episode as well. All in all, these are some eclectic lists, so we hope our music recommendatio…

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Giddy Up: How To Love A Parent Who Is Living In A Different Reality 50:31

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It’s been eight years since Marnie first sat down with the fellas, and let’s just say… things haven’t exactly slowed down. Back in 2018, Marnie was a 23-year-old trying to navigate her mother’s sudden and terrifying diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Now, at 31, she’s back in the studio to give us the raw, unfiltered update on what happens after …

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Ep. #1052: Sleepytime Trio 29:11

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Dave NeSmith and Drew Ringo from Sleepytime Trio are here to discuss Memory Minus Plus Minus, their current music community involvement, the Guelph house show they played and the ice cream tricycle Drew rode around on that day, the significance of bands like Hoover, Shotmaker, Fugazi, Slint, and Drive Like Jehu, making hip-hop music and getting int…

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Something's Wrong With Mom - Paranoid Schizophrenia 1:10:01

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This week on Sickboy, we go way back to an episode we originally aired in 2018. We chat with Marnie about an experience that isn't her own but one that has changed her life forever. Paranoid Schizophrenia. She grew up in a household where mom and dad don't get along. They fall into a devastating divorce, and soon after mom begins to believe that dr…

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Ep. #1051: Friendly Rich 1:20:48

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Friendly Rich returns to discuss his latest album, The Birds of Marsville, his Brampton, Ontario pride, completing his PhD in music education and becoming a doctor, what having a giant beard might mean, playing the artistic and comedic long game, learning more about Marsville, the eighteenth-century researcher C. Smalloochi, and the orchestrion’s c…

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Ep. #1050: Jimmie Kilpatrick 1:21:58

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Jimmie Kilpatrick returns to discuss his excellent album Jimmie, the heartening experience of living in Manitoba, Canada these days and concentrating on his community, why he retired his Shotgun Jimmie name, bringing his sound sculpture work into his indie-rock aesthetic, collaborating with Ladyhawk’s Ryan Peters and messing around with tape loops,…

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Shitting Your Pants at Work (And Other Career Tips) | Crohn's Disease 1:11:47

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You’re in a high-stakes meeting. You’re wearing a power suit. And you just shit your ankle socks. What do you do? This week, we sit down with Meg, a lawyer who is navigating the high-pressure corporate world while battling Crohn’s Disease. We dive deep into the messy side of chronic illness that LinkedIn doesn't tell you about: The shame of "potty …

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Ep. #1049: Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes 29:21

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Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes are here to discuss their debut album, Reverie, studying at Princeton, their family dynamic and their respective early forays in classical music, how much formal music education can inform improvisation and punk rock, Rebecca’s work on the Lost River Music Festival and the Pathway to Paris initiative, how their…

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Nomeansno (2011) 14:39

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On a recent Kreative Kontrol episode, Mark Molnar mentioned his fondness for a radio interview I once conducted with Tom Holliston, John Wright, and Rob Wright from Canada’s greatest band, Nomeansno. And so, here’s that interview, which occurred over breakfast at the By the Way Café in Toronto, Ontario on April 5, 2011. It’s one of my most cherishe…

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Ep. #1048: Mark Molnar 1:25:20

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Mark Molnar is here to discuss his new album EXO, being made to take classical music lessons at three years old over pursuing sports, key figures in his life who exposed him to music, musicians, and ways to approach your musical instrument, the death of arts funding and risk aversion in the cultural sector, his engagement with my music journalism a…

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"I Identify As Blind" | Blind, Black, and Badass 50:23

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Lachi thinks the way we talk about disability is boring, so she’s here to make it glam, loud, and impossible to ignore. This week, the boys are joined by recording artist, Grammy Trustee, and CEO of RAMPD, Lachi. She breaks down why she went from throwing her white cane into traffic as a kid to turning it into a high-fashion statement today. We div…

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Ep. #1047: Lonnie Holley 31:46

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Lonnie Holley is here to discuss his 2025 album Tonky, his view of and appreciation for Canada, the role the country played for African-American slaves and the evolution of terms ascribed to Black people in America, growing up in juke joints, whiskey houses, and slave camps in Alabama in the 1950s, his interest in salvaging objects to make art, his…

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Buck 65 on Bike For Three! (2009) 11:20

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Sometime this past November, a Patreon subscriber named Brian asked me if I might have any older interviews with Buck 65 in my archives. So, I took a look and sure enough, I do, including a 2009 talk about his Bike For Three! collaboration with Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê. Then, on December 4, 2025, Mr. 65 released a Deluxe Edition of More Heart Than Bra…

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Ep. #1046: Jim White and Guy Picciotto 1:10:45

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Jim White and Guy Picciotto return to discuss Jim’s new album Inner Day, the beginning of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani era, Jim’s recent shows with Ed Kuepper, Jim’s decision to write lyrics and sing them, his relationship with words and their power, Jim briefly singing on a Hard Quartet song, my favourite song of the year, “I Don’t Do / Grand Ce…

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Is Your Mental Illness Real? A Psychiatrist Says... Maybe Not. 1:05:22

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Dr. Sami Timimi is a psychiatrist with a bone to pick with his own profession: he thinks we’ve fallen down a diagnostic rabbit hole, and he’s here to help us climb back out. This week, the boys sit down with the child psychiatrist who is effectively flipping the table on his own profession. We live in an era where everyone and their dog seems to ha…

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Ep. #1045: The Beths 32:37

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Elizabeth Stokes and Jonathan Pearce from the Beths are back to discuss their new album, Straight Line Was a Lie, NBA basketball, cricket, and baseball, overcoming writer’s block by reading a book by Stephen King, Liz’s health challenges and her current state of mind, how Jonathan and his bandmates have supported and worked with her in recent years…

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Ep. #1044: Steve Albini (2008) 53:14

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On Saturday, November 29, 2025, the annual Letters to Santa Holiday Gala is taking place at the Chop Shop in Chicago. This year’s event is headlined by Fred Armisen and Jeff Tweedy and if you can’t make it to Chicago, you can learn how to livestream it and donate money to this remarkable and life-affirming and live-saving poverty alleviation initia…

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Ep. #1043: Hélène Barbier 59:28

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Hélène Barbier is here to discuss her excellent new record Panorama, difficulties an untrained musician might have playing music publicly in France compared to Montreal, being drawn to the low notes, imposter syndrome and loving low-key rock stars, being something of a homebody, dealing with a health diagnosis with some measure of humour, avoiding …

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Targeted: Why We Treat Gun Owners Like They’re Sick 54:17

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Welp... Jer bought a gun. And let's just say his progressive friend group had some thoughts. This week, the boys are joined by Noah Schwartz, author of Targeted, to figure out why the topic of firearms immediately feels like a diagnosis. We dive into Jer's journey to getting his PAL (for the love of ethical moose meat, not a zombie apocalypse... pr…

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Ep. #1042: Liam Kazar 31:33

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Liam Kazar is here to discuss his lovely new album Pilot Light, parts of Canada, living in Brooklyn but missing Chicago, being in Jeff Tweedy’s solo band and working on his recent triple album, Twilight Override, performing on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert so soon after its impending cancellation announcement, constantly touring with Jeff, Wax…

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All Things Konsidered: JID, Sloan, Julianna Riolino, Live shows 1:09:48

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My son, who is 14, and I have been to a couple of shows together recently, including taking a trip to Vancouver to see JID and more recently, a drive to nearby Sherwood Park to see Sloan, just ahead of us heading to the Aviary in Edmonton to see Julianna Riolino on November 23. And so, we decided to record a pod about these experiences and people, …

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Ep. #1041: Ryan Davis 1:17:11

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Ryan Davis is here to discuss the new Roadhouse Band double-album, New Threats From the Soul, Indiana/Kentucky cultural and college sport rivalries, his parents’ musical interests and what led him, as a boy, to write songs for Michael Jackson and mail them to him to sing, pondering songs as puzzle pieces on his albums, Will Oldham and musical multi…

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Patreon Subscriber Drive 2025! Target: 700 Subs! 11:47

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We did something like this successfully last year, and we’re doing it again: it’s the 2025 Kreative Kontrol Patreon subscriber drive! From November 21 to 28, we’re aiming to reach 700 paid Patreon subscribers and we can do this! Also, a new gift will be announced daily and awarded via random draws among eligible paid subs! I will publicly announce …

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Childhood Trauma Caused a 'Software Glitch' in my Brain | Functional Neurological Disorder 58:39

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Imagine your brain’s hardware is perfect, but the software is glitching so badly your body stops working. We sit down with Erum, a biochemist who navigates the world with a rare and often misunderstood condition: Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). We Raw Dog into the fascinating science behind the diagnosis. Basically her brain has a "software…

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Ep. #1040: The Replacements' 'Let It Be (Deluxe Edition)' with Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones & Elizabeth Nelson 30:34

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Peter Jesperson, Jason Jones, and Elizabeth Nelson are here to discuss their work on Let It Be (Deluxe Edition) by the Replacements, Peter’s fondness for Elizabeth’s writing and her excellent liner notes for this edition, Bob Mehr’s decision to step away from the Replacements reissue campaign for now and its impact on this project, the ‘Mats’ pench…

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Ep. #1039: Austra 1:17:09

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Katie Stelmanis from Austra is here to discuss her new album, Chin Up Buttercup, food-related music interviews and relatable human beings, settling back in Toronto after living elsewhere, delving into heartbreak and the stages of grief to compose songs, diaristic writing about personal cataclysms and not being a words person, pandemic isolation, bu…

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Self-Help is Bullsh*t (But I Still Feel Fat) 1:00:07

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This week, we're joined by legendary filmmaker and noted curmudgeon Alan Zweig. He’s spent his career being unflinchingly honest about every insecurity in the book; loneliness, obsession, failure, but he’s always avoided the one thing he admits he thinks about most: his weight. Now, he's finally forcing himself to talk about it with his new podcast…

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Ep. #1038: Hallelujah The Hills 30:06

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Ryan H. Walsh from Hallelujah The Hills is here to discuss Deck, the band’s new star-studded 52-song, four-record set and its playing card themes, our shared love for and interactions with the late David Berman, the Toronto Silver Jews show I saw, which the Hills opened, Berman’s generosity as a mentor and a friend, his “google purity” measure, and…

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Ep. #1037: Sloan 1:37:06

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Jay Ferguson and Chris Murphy from Sloan return to discuss their album, Based on the Bestseller, how their own bandmates inspire them to write better songs, why Chris’ “Open Your Umbrellas” reminds me of Dick Van Dyke and how Jay’s “Capitol Cooler” has its own whimsical yet pointed motif, connecting music, books, and movies, trying to have a fun al…

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Ep. #1036: Overnight 31:00

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Carla and Lynette Gillis from Overnight are here to discuss their new album, Put Me In Your Light, being so close, they’ve followed each other around North America, loving fashion and heavy metal, whether or not the androgyny of hair metal was more subversive than we tend to think, escapism and separation anxiety, loss, grief, and therapy, the surp…

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His Kidney, Her Cancer - Ain't that a kick in the head? 1:06:30

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"My husband had a kidney transplant... I just got breast cancer. Ain't that a kick in the head?" This week, we're joined by Kacy and Thomas, a couple who knows what "in sickness and in health" really means. First, Thomas went through kidney failure, dialysis , and a life-saving transplant from his childhood best friend. Just as life found its new n…

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Ep. #1035: Ed Kuepper and Jim White 1:10:29

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Ed Kuepper and Jim White return to discuss their remarkable debut album, After the Flood, their recent Australian tour, when Ed played a show with Dirty Three in 1994 and became enamoured with Jim’s playing, the massive role Ed’s bands played in Jim’s development as a young drummer, revisiting and recording some of Ed’s songs in the Saints, Laughin…

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Ep. #1034: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan's 'Through The Open Window' 31:30

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Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety…

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Ep. #1033: Shad 1:12:50

2M ago1:12:50

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Shad returns to discuss his new album Start Anew, the connections between its title and his 2005 debut, When This is Over, and a Hayden song, persona, the person, and ego death, yearning for challenges in life and creative work, conquering the fear of stories ending, anti-capitalism, technocracy, and the fact that the inventor of A.I. believes ther…

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The Homicide Detective with Cystic Fibrosis 1:01:25

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What's it like getting pepper-sprayed when you have a chronic lung disease? A homicide detective knows what’s up. This week, we sit down with a guest who defies expectations: Jeremy, a homicide detective living with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). We dive into the unique challenges and surprising advantages of managing a demanding, high-stress career alongsi…