Episode 29: Escaped Velocity Radio
Well dear listeners, this is it – the final episode of Escape Velocity Radio (for the foreseeable future anyway). And it’s not e...
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Escape Velocity Radio was a monthly podcast hosted by Chris Hannah and Derek Hogue which journeyed into the depths of ethics, politics, culture, music, science, philosophy, professional hock...
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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 disconnect between viewing racism a...
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 reflecting on the dissonance between our discussion...
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 long history of violent sexual assault...
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 of Anishinaabe/Metis comedian and po...
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 just how little we know about games and gamin...
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 privilege, followed by a debunking of prom...
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 into how animal agriculture is the primary s...
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 sojourn, including their introduction to the...
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 corporate chain movie theatre to watch bette...
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 the continued dearth of female voices o...
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 – author of Celebration Capitalism an...
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 interview teacher, researcher, and author of Za...
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 chattel slavery, we recount some of the...
Episode 15: Interview with Chris Hedges
This month we bring you our conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. Recorded during his late-2013 visit...
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 house, we spend the hour with activis...
Episode 13: Informants and infiltrators
This month, we take time out from exposing each other as undercover operatives working for the corporate state to discuss Jamie Meltzer̵...
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 discussion of the BDS movement against Israe...
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 discussion of the Boycott, Divestment and S...
Episode 10: Interview with Dave Zirin on sports and politics
Derek backpedals on calling Jared Diamond “douchebaggy”, we give wildly divergent recommendations of who to follow on Twitter, a...