NewsFriends

Maybe not gone forever, but in the meantime, thanks for listening.

A political cartoonist gets let go over a scathing commentary on Trump, European heat way sheds some clothes and an unfortunate situation of sex education in a BC school.

It’s E3 week, so let’s talk about video games while going on various tangents. Tagents like sports, and Zuckerberg and hey what’s this about Cyberpunk 2077 controversy?

In a world where news podcasts are all the rage, our is the one that decides to change it up a bit. After 4 years of doing this silly little thing, we ask ourselves “What if we went about it differently?” This was the result. So put on your sweatpants and lean back in your chair. We’re going on a mild ride.

The sky is filled with wonders. Clouds, The sun, the moon, the Northern lights. Penises. But who has time to look up to the sky when you have a Riot walk out, game of thrones and Amber Alerts to worry about. It’s just a regular News Friends podcast.

I’m sure everyone watched a movie this weekend. We wouldn’t want to bore you with tales of Gay ghosts, people dying from counting votes and being rude to reporters. Who has time for any of that?

It’s time for Michael to do another Quiz episode. by using the show he wrote out 4 weeks ago. HOW WELL DOES IT GO? I guess you’ll have to fiiiind out.

It’s that time again! April Fools! you know what that means? Let’s talk about all the lame jokes because it sure as hell beats talking about what’s going on in the world. What, this is a news podcast?

Sometimes we have to take a break from the terrible news of the week to scrutinize mega tech companies and their decisions to being part of an industry in the confines of their bubble. Oh, and what kind of mac n cheese is your favourite?

Rich Parents are in trouble for bribing their kids through college, A Documentary attacks Michael Jackson long after he’s dead, A Doughnut shop gets customers thanks to social media, BUT WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS FOX NEWS?!

Another week for Politics to go off the rails a little. We’re right here to talk about it! We read an email, mock the news briefs and then gaze at the slow dismantling of the Liberal party. What a time to be alive.

You COULD listen to a professional news broadcast that recounts the events of the day in perfect detail, OR you could listen to two people enthusiastically try to make sense of it all.

As you know, the Newsfriends podcast never shy’s away from serious topics: like selling snow huts as a topical real estate joke, getting a zombie outbreak by way of deer and Discussing what to do about people that ‘defect’ from ISIS… wait, is that right? we’re tackling that one?

Well, since we recorded the podcast much earlier this week, not too much has happened since the last one. But one thing that certainly did happen was the most boring Super Bowl ever. Talking about Advertisements and Adam Levine’s nipples were a far more interesting conversation than the buzz that didn’t happen about the game itself.So that’s where we’re at this week.

It’s that time again, where we use the beginning of the year to assess our mental health. But before we even talk about what ails. We chat about furries, killers and advertisements. So really, what is there to even rant about? clearly everything is fine and it’s routine as usual.

WHAT A WEEK HUH!? It seems like it was a non stop new cycle about a little boy and old man staring at each other to a beating drum. Then the left had their time to shine for being something that we only ever see the right be. What can I say, people are weird. I mean look at our Host, he complains about a shitty t-shirts that people shouldn’t buy.But aside from shitty t-shirts, and threatening children, we can all agree that people are JUST TERRIBLE.

It’s the first NewsFriends podcast of 2019, and what better way to get into it then playing catchup in the form of a Q&A. A very short Q&A, like 4 questions, and then a longer discussion about millennials. It’s almost like a regular podcast, BUT NOT QUITE!

It’s that time again for the last NewsFriends podcast of the year, where Michael does his best to look into all the stories that were pretty significant in 2018. Which is probably tell why it’s a bit on the short side this year. OH WELL, 2018 is done, let’s look forward to the new year with a new outlook on the news we gotta report on.

It’s word of the year time as we get through sexting donations, money thieving nuns, and the start of Kevin Hart’s career decline. Or something like that. Also video games snuck into the podcast this week.

What do you do when you’re a super popular blogging site that has a pornography problem? create bots to get rid of it while jeopardizing your entire user base in the process. But it’s not all bad, we talk about vaping, hockey pucks as defense against shooters and everyone’s favourite christmas song.

It’s seems like only yesterday the podcast was away for two weeks, well Michael’s not busy this time, and neither was Melissa so they chat about Call centres, curling and gender before getting into the gritty and ever loving conversation that is Journalism criticism.

Look at this! an Episode of the NewsFriends podcast is uploaded EXACTLY on Halloween day. Do you know what that means? SCARY STORES! OOOoOoooOoOoOO!

Cannabis is now legal in Canada, so what better way to talk about it than a couple of days later, and not having any time to talk about the thing that’s happening in Metro Vancouver that is probably more important. Voting.

Now that Michael is back in BC, it’s time for a podcast! Though it’s not quite back to being a regular show just yet. Melissa joins him this week to catch up on all the things that matter: BC fires, the end of the world, eSports tournaments and that guy that really likes beer.

There was one last week, supposedly. but the bad internet kind of screwed up the recording. BUT here's a new one, JUST FOR YOU. We talk about the latest game news, because it's news worthy and we also talk about what Michael has been up to in Flin Flon. SPOILERS: a lot of work.

Slow news day, and slow Doc week. Michael has been working and had no time to do anything, but he grabbed Kira again and did another short podcast! WOWZA!

Yes, your host of the NewsFriends podcast is working on a project in sunny Flin Flon, Manitoba. What is he doing and why is he doing it? What is the sunless city? Those questions answered AND MORE if you can actually make out what he's saying.

It's E3 week, so we try our best to talk about video games before we get into the ever looming problems of the political world. So some of the news is great some of it is terrible. and you're either here for one or the other. One thing's for sure, it's a podcast!

When Samantha Bee dropped the C-word we did everything in our power to make the last half of this podcast really hard to listen to... If you don't like the c-word.

Sure BC has some things to talk about, with it's pipeline and it's #Vanre, and yeah there's aggressive creep catchers and toddler's lives are in danger because of Pokemon Go. but who care about any of that when Roseanne is going through a real tough life lesson right now?

What this is supposed to be, is a regular podcast tackling subjects ranging from sex cults to royal weddings, but what it turned into was an hour of bad audio. Michael didn't double check every little thing before recording, so unbeknownst to him, the mic settings were completely wrong.But the show must go on, just imagine that you're listening to an AM radio station a little bit off the right setting.

We changed the format this week! Since Michael has always been a fan of quiz shows and always wanted to live the dream of hosting one himself, he asked for the help of Lauren and Jake to compete in a facts based quiz about current news. Who wins? you'll have to find out but one thing's for sure, we're all winners!

Aside from SexBnBs and Bill Gates warning us we're all going to die, there wasn't a lot to talk about that wasn't already the same stuff different day. So let's just talk about Childish Gambino

Earlier in the week, and entirely different show was planned, but then Thursday came around and things needed to change, it's entirely coincidental that Tony is on the podcast this week given the subject matter, but I might be in the minority on that one.

The podcast is now officially 3 years old! What better way to celebrate than by bringing back one of the original members for a rousing game of talk-n-stuff. But we get the pleasantries out of the way quickly and get down to the serious dirt, that is also practically old news at this point.But what can you do? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

This week Michael is joined by Lauren Boothby who is a freelance journalist based in the Metro Vancouver area. They tackle a wide variety of topics from Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Animals farting and the shifty world of Airbnbs.

Aside from the breaking news, it was pretty much a slow news day for the podcast. April fool'd us on Easter Sunday, and luckily the fake news wasn't as bad as it is every other day. But we still talked about, Alt-Right furries, Hotel disasters and the continuing tragedy of the Facebook CEO.

Jake comes to Michael's rescue and guests on the podcast this week. They talk gamers, gun violence and the never ending gong show that is Facebook's meddling in the social aspects of all of our lives.

It's nothing but news briefs and nothing but Michael. (so that means it's short)

A tiny handful of news delivered to your ears this week. Tiny tiny handful.

On this very special episode of "The world is a farce and we all just have to get through it." Jake joins Michael for a lengthy conversation about the media circus surrounding the survivors of the recent shooting at a Florida school. Yes, there is also a bunch of news briefs at the top of the show, but we burn through them and get to the important part, we have ourselves a good old fashioned conversation about gun problems.

Michael was on his own this week. So the show must go on in a very short manner. What does Canadaland call this? Short Cuts? WELL WE'RE SHORTER THAN THAT. It's all Olympics this week and a little bit of Soapboxing towards America. Like I said. Michael was on his own ;D

We support the BC Wine industry this week by drinking two bottles during the recording. Because it's wine, we have civilized discourse on Catholic schools, SuperShe island and the hot trend of penis whitening. Then we take time to discuss the Gerald Stanley trial, and why justice for Colten Boushie should matter. 

The number one podcast about free speech... Or is it free form speech? I dunno. McDonald's fries cures baldness or something. Ethan joins the podcast to talk about the Middle East, the 4/20 beach garbage and we talk about your boy JP again. but no, it's a serious podcast ;)

How do you talk impartially about a guy that has become notorious for his opinion that it feels the only way to talk about him is to talk him down. Where's the civil discourse in a conversation about a guy that calls the modern man weak, and being "forced" to use transgender pronouns goes against his freedom of speech. well we get there somehow, after we talk about flamethrowers, a female Colonel Sanders, and Barney's new sex cult?

The Vancouver Aquarium's decision to no longer display whales and dolphins, can only mean activists will leave them the hell alone now, right? At the very least, tourists now have less exciting things to look at. Maybe they should hire a lifestyle blogger to spend 5 days in an empty tank and right about how roomy it is, with all the fish you can eat.

We had three people on the podcast this week and yet we managed to get through everything a little too quickly. Edrick, Melissa and Michael get through topics of sneezing, water and Child endangerment. Then move onto the topic of Shithole countries, because shitholes are all the rage these days.

The NewsFriends podcast is back, and it's almost as if the news itself hasn't really changed. It seems like only yesterday we were talking about the President's mental stability, and stupid youtube celebrities. But the Golden Globes happened, and The Weeknd has something to say about fashion.Welcome back, news.

So much has happened this year that it was a bit difficult to fit everything into a 25 minute podcast. But once again, Michael researched and wrote for 12 hours straight to fit in what he thought was important to talk about. We probably didn't even scratch the surface because TOO MUCH WAS GOING ON.Anyway, That's it for this season of the NewsFriends podcast. Thank you so much for listening this year! We will be back for Season 5 in January!

It's 2017 and we've talked so much about Nazi's that we have to really start talking about them. Like really. So we talk at length of the New York Times piece and why people should actually be paying attention to it rather than pushing it away. We also talk about Angela Lansbury for good measure.

You may have heard about all those videos on youtube parading around as content for children? Well APPARENTLY it gets much worse. but we'll try not to dwell on horrible things this week, instead Melissa and Michael are just going to sit here and talk smack about all the dumb things out there.