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Ben Stager takes you on an inside look into the Canadian Entertainment Industry through the lens of his experience as a Canadian Entertainer.

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    • May 1, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Embracing Who You Are

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 57:16


    Hello everybody thank you for tuning back in sorry for the delay. This podcast comes out every 20 days or so due to life events.Anyways we are back for May, we were going to release another episode a few weeks ago of a spinoff podcast called The Workbench but it was scrapped due to not being in the right headspace.Anyways this episode deals with Pollen in Canada and how it effect Canadian Entertainers, embracing who you are, how the host wants to be a serious Canadian Musician (he's not joking around!), and if Justin Trudeau will now embrace acting and be willing to act in a short film with a budget of under 200 Canadian Dollars.

    Our "Tax Season For Canadian Entertainers 2025" Exclusive Coverage/Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 53:07


    Hello...sorry for the delay! Here it is. Our exclusive podcast dedicated to Canadian Entertainer's Tax Season. One of the biggest times of the years for Canadian Entertainers. You are going to fall in love with this episode. Enjoy y'all.

    Would Kingdom Hearts Canada Bring People Together?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 74:56


    Hi everybody.Yes we are aware we did a Kingdom Hearts Québec episode once but with everything going on we decided to level up and look towards Kingdom Hearts Canada.We also talk about Canada's new artistic director Mark Carney.We also talk about Jeremy Renner and forgot about what he went through recently, sorry Jeremy!All this, the NHL, Roll Up The Rim, being boring, and a few other things...Enjoy everybody.

    We are back from our 20 Day Snow Removal Break

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 64:25


    Well everybody it has been 20 days since our last episode. Hopefully you did not unsubscribe from this thing. We were removing snow and other stuff. But we are so back with a brand new episode where we talk all things Canadian Entertainment including: Snow Removal, Hockey, Living In Fear, Curling, Canadian Meditation, and Connor McDavid.

    Welcome To The Show: James Hartnett!!!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 80:58


    Wow everybody here it is a brand new episode sorry for the delay. This episode was recorded on the weekend so the world has changed a bit since recording so some of the stuff we are talking about in the Canadian Entertainment Industry is somewhat different but who knows. Anyways James Hartnett is on the show he is awesome. We talk about Due South and plenty of other things including and not limited to...Rick Mercer...Kim Mitchell. Yup. Everyone is getting mentioned in this episode. Enjoy and thank you for supporting this show.

    This Anna Menzies Episode Was Almost Lost Canadian Media

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 60:58


    Okay everybody. This episode has destructive audio! Something happened and I am not sure why but the audio...is not great. Sorry about this. Tried to mask it at moments but it is noticeable to say the very least! We salvaged what we could but it nearly became Canadian lost media in the process. Anyways today we have on Anna Menzies! This is such a fun episode minus the audio issues. Anna and I are married, this is some of our story :D. We talk a lot about her experience as a Belieber, a dental assistant, Owen Sound Ontario, and being funny in your community. Enjoy this one.

    Thinking Of Canadian Entertainment Ideas With: Chris Locke

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 88:45


    Wow this is the second episode of season 2 and today on the show we have the wonderful Chris Locke who is an amazing comedian. You are gonna just love this episode we touch on a lot of issues of the day!

    Season 2 Premiere: Victoria Pandeirada

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 62:54


    Wow everybody we are officially back can you believe it? It is season 2 time people, woohoo I can't wait. Anyways here we are people. Season 2. More Canadian Entertainment Podcasting. We talk We Day. We Talk Terry Fox. We Talk Lady Gaga performing at Canada's Wonderland. Isn't that amazing? Anyways this episode features Victoria Pandeirada. Enjoy this and happy new year.

    Portuguese Yoshi: The Exclusive Interview

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 62:24


    Okay so about a month ago the world changed. After raking a pile of leaves I found someone who changed everything for me: Portuguese Yoshi. A few days after meeting him I thought to myself: well I should make a song called Portuguese Yoshi using the music of Kim Mitchell's Patio Lanterns, so that is exactly what I did. And it just exploded from there. Some people say that this rise was faster than Chappelle Roan's meteoric rise. Part of me agrees with that in an extreme way. Anyways, many people out there were requesting a one on one interview with Portuguese Yoshi so that is exactly what we did. I hope you enjoy this one. And yes we talk about The Canadian Entertainment Industry as well!

    Noah Maloney's Tell-All

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 79:47


    Hello Canadian Entertainment Podcast fans. We are back with a brand new episode with our friend Canadian Entertainer: Noah Maloney. This is a crazy episode some may say it is incredibly raunchy and lewd! But we were just having a conversation and sometimes it can go crazy places while talking about Canadian Entertainment. Anyways enjoy this episode and thanks again for tuning into this show.

    Overwhelmed by the success of Portuguese Yoshi with Nathan Hare

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 71:56


    Okay so it is no secret that around two to three days ago the host of this show Ben Stager dropped a song about a Yoshi figurine he found wearing a Team Portugal Jersey while he was raking leaves. The song has resonated with a lot of people it is based on the Kim Mitchell song Patio Lantern btw. Well right in the middle of the success of Portuguese Yoshi Nathan Hare came on the show and we yes do discuss all things: life, love, Portuguese Yoshi, angels, ubering accross Canada and more. You will have to check this one out. Thanks for tuning into this show once again everybody.

    Solo Episode That Gets Good Around 42 Minutes In

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2024 77:48


    Well perhaps this is what they call in Canadian Show business a "slow burn". Or wait a second...wouldn't it be wiser to have said a "slow frost burn"? Hooray! Anyways. Yup we are so back. In a big and beautiful way. Say hello to a brand new episode. This one has similar vibrations to the first one. One could say it is its sister episode. Anyways…I guess just talking about life and figuring things out. Some may say this is unlistenable but we shall see.Thanks again for listening and the support!!!

    Saying Goodbye To My Wicked Witch Costume For The Season with Joel Edmiston

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 87:26


    Hello Everybody We are back with our buddy Joel Edmiston. This time he gets a full episode where we get to know him and find out what makes him tick! We discuss him being on The Truman Show. We also discuss John Candy. And yes Ben's humour has changed this episode. Say goodbye to Ben's Wicked Witch Costume in this episode right here with Joel Edmiston. Joel has a podcast called Merge Boot about Survivor and has a comedy album out called I'm The Greatest. You have to check this all out.

    Understanding Canadian Podcasting with Kattie Laur

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 79:52


    Hello everybody sorry for the delay in a new podcast you know how things get sometime...Anyways thank you The Canadian Entertainment Podcast Hosted By Ben Stager Fans we are so back with a brand new episode featuring Kattie Laur. Kattie Laur is a podcast expert from Canada and a major advocate for all Canadian Podcasts out there! She has her own podcast called Canardian which is out on various platforms. Anyways enjoy this one I get some advice and maybe you will see behind the scenes of how this podcast is made!

    Reviewing my Silent Bob Monologue from Chasing Amy that I sent to an agent three years ago with Isabella Campbell!

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 87:42


    Wow this is another entertaining episode of The Canadian Entertainment Podcasted Hosted by Ben Stager. On this episode we have amazing comedian and performer Isabella Campbell on the podcast where we discuss dreaming, Canadian Politicians making IG Reels, becoming paranoid after making TikToks that went viral 3-4 years ago and we also watch and review Ben's Silent Bob from Chasing Amy monologue he sent to an agent three years ago! 

Enjoy this one…

    Kingdom Hearts Québec! With Kyle Patan

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 86:39


    Okay so this is another massive episode. Thanks for waiting. Today on the show we have Kyle Patan who released a stand up special recently called Comin' Home. The interview starts off confrontational about Kingdom Hearts, then we talk about Quebec and make a couple of phone calls and then we have some serious conversations near the end! We also talk about SNL Quebec. You have to check this out. I hope you enjoy.

    Discussing The Canadian Clue and Mystery Industry with Jordanne Brown

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 88:46


    Wow so this is a big one. Jordanne Brown the comedian is here!!! We have a big discussion about Clue and Mystery Industry in Canada. We develop a plan to start a Clue and Mystery company called: The Canadian Clue Masters. We talk about this for around an hour! You are going to love this! We also reflect on other things, but it is mainly focused on Clue and Mystery Entertainment and how we can develop this industry in Canada and then the world. We have a couple technical issues and a somewhat abrupt ending...but isn't that fun!

    Let's Talk About The Canadian Film Industry With Conrad Osei

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 67:47


    Wow the Canadian Entertainment Podcast Hosted by Ben Stager is back with a brand new conversation with a brand new guest, filmmaker and comedian: Conrad Osei! Yes we talk about The Wizard Of Oz, The Toronto International Film Festival, David Cronenberg being interesting and frightening! We talk about Grimsby Ontario Canada oh and yes...we talk about The Alien from Alien getting his start at a Catholic School in Cambridge Ontario Canada!

    Our Canadian Entertainment Podcast Dedication To Margaret Hamilton

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 61:50


    Okay hello again Canadian Entertainment Podcast Fans! This is a very special episode. We are back with a solo episode and we talk a lot about what is going on in The Canadian Entertainment Podcast Industry but we also talk a lot about Margaret Hamilton, and if she has possible Canadian Connections. We also talk about Canadian-British band Oasis getting back together (We share the same King rule). We also talk about opening up our own University! You are going to love this. This is a super episode and we are so excited to share it with you, this was a favourite of ours to record!

    Hilarity Strikes Takeover!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2024 80:17


    Well thank you for the wait everybody... It is official Hilarity Strikes took over the podcast this week. I was feeling a little ill, I recorded one podcast that I really thought was bad so I invited Hilarity Strikes to takeover the show this week! Hilarity Strikes are a veteran group of Canadian Sketch Comedians: Shadow O'Neill, Tilley Walker, and Hiker Mcginley. Well some may also know them as: Nathan Hare, Sam Burns and Ben Stager. They have a deep talk about comedy, technology, and well...life and love. You are going to love it. Yes sometimes they go crass and blue, but what can you do. I hope you enjoy this one. Thanks for tuning in!

    The Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll Interview/Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2024 63:19


    Wow so I cannot believe to say that this is my third time writing this description because when filling this form out multiple times it deleted all my progress two times before this and I believe I had great episode descriptions both times. This is deeply sad. Anyways hello Canadian Entertainment Podcast Hosted By Ben Stager Fans. I am so sorry this episode is so late...life got in the way last week...okay so let me guess I am grounded now? Well I have a treat for you. On today's episode of the podcast we have an incredibly captivating interview and conversation with Comedian and Actor Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll. We discuss his work on Star Trek and what Jurrassic Park Newfoundland would look like. You may just love this episode. Also we did a lot of fact checking and the fact checking was performed by Alistair Ogden who was hanging out in The Canadian Entertainment Podcast Hosted By Ben Stager Studios!

    The Canadian Beach Boys Featuring Joel Edmiston

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2024 58:31


    Okay so this is a massive one... We started recording this episode and we of course began talking about The Apparently Kid and his video being ten years old, the recent John Krasinski Commercial in Canada that we cover probably badly (sorry)...but then we start talking about The Canadian Beach Boys and the episode takes a turn... Off camera we had Joel Edmiston (Comedian, Actor, Writer) silent-producing and he came on camera and on mic and gave his take on the Canadian Beach Boys. It truly was a beautiful thing to watch you'll have to check it out yourself. Enjoy this episode this was a lot of fun for us all. And sorry that I covered that John Krasinski commercial horribly.

    Visiting One Of The Major Epicentres of Canadian Entertainment

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 59:02


    Sorry for the lateness...our apologies... So in this episode Ben discusses his incredible experience visiting one of the major epicentres of Canadian Entertainment: Canada's Wonderland. He also touches upon three impressions he could do in high school (Arnold S., The Wicked Witch of The West/Miss Gulch and you guessed it Smeagol/Gollum!) He also touches upon the 1800s, and you guessed it he discusses his defining new laugh!

    Looking Back With Sam Burns

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 73:01


    Well today we look back with Sam Burns, one of my oldest friends in Canadian Show Business. Sam just recently released a comedy special called LMNOP on YouTube and other streaming platforms that you simply must check out. We mainly spend most of the episode talking about our childhoods in Kitchener-Waterloo and Barrie and we also talk about Jackass quite a bit as well.

    Canadian Hipster...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 57:37


    Warning: This episode contains around 5-10 seconds of dead air around 2/5ths or halfway through the episode due to a technical error which becomes a major plot point in this episode we left it in to show what actually happened! Anyways... This episode your host Ben Stager discusses: Robert Munsch Whether or not he is a Canadian Hipster How he was listening to the Beach Boys in 2023 How Charli XCX is techinically Canadian Entertainment and Atlantis!!! and much...MUCH more...you will just have to tune in and find out. The episode picture is when Ben dressed up as a Canadian Hipster for Halloween a couple years ago.

    The Whistleblower/We perform our cover of Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2024 65:52


    Surprise massively early podcast...we have some things to do this weekend and instead of releasing this on Saturday we have decided to release it now just so it is the most relevant it could ever be. In this episode Ben whistleblows the theory that we are living in a videogame and it is potentially Canadian. He talks about his picture with the Mayor of Waterloo that broke the internet. He asks for Canadian Celiac Lawyers to reveal themselves. Ben also discusses losing another precious item of his...HINT it is his clip-ons. He also does his own rendition of Murder Most Fowl by Bob Dylan during the final 20 minutes of the podcast and almost backs out a number of times. Enjoy this one. Everything discussed in this podcast is all through the lens of The Canadian Entertainment Industry.

    Canadian Entertainment Summer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 56:05


    In this episode Ben talks about Arnold Schwarzenegger spending his summer in Canada, Bed Bugs and their relation to Canadian Entertainment, and his experiences performing at the July 1st Picnic in Waterloo Ontario. He has been feeling a bit under the weather still from last week from a potential Canadian Celiac flare up and he addresses that as well. He also talks about the possibilities of a Canadian Entertainment Summer. Thank you for listening to this podcast again we appreciate it with all of our heart.

    Let's Talk Canadian Celiac Entertainment...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 60:21


    So it would only be a matter of time before Canadian Celiac Entertainment was brought up on this podcast and today is finally the day today. We are actually shocked that we didn't bring it up in previous episodes because Celiac Disease is part of the three cornerstones of the host Ben Stager's personality. Anyways Ben thinks he might have come in contact with gluten or something he has felt somewhat turbulent this week and he discusses how it could be related to Celiac Disease and how he needs to meet up and join forces with the other Canadian Celiac Entertainers in the country. We also talk about his experiences at Waterloo Busker Camp as a kid. We also talk about his experiences as a Bingo host and where Bingo may go in the next few years. This episode is a little crazy but we are incredibly proud of it.

    Back For Round 2...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 57:48


    Ben Stager of The Canadian Entertainment Podcast is back with some adjustments to the podcast and a brand new attitude and outlook. There is way less exposition on this episode and just a lot more Canadian Entertainment discussions. We discuss: Entertainment Tonight Canada and this meme Ben made, Star Trek holding the Canadian Entertainment Industry together, The Bruins Trekkie Movement and the issues in the movement right now, hockey and how that is the meat of The Canadian Entertainment Umbrella, and we also discuss of course: April Wine. This one is better than the previous one in our opinion. Thank you for listening.

    The Inaugural/Pilot Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2024 56:43


    This is the very first episode of The Canadian Entertainment Podcast. I took a few years off of podcasting after the conclusion of my successful podcast The Tim's Talkline. But we are back now with a new direction and that direction is the world of Canadian Entertainment and navigating your way through the Canadian Entertainment world from the perspective of a Canadian Entertainer! This is just a solo episode but who knows what comes next. Enjoy this podcast.

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