Whiskey & Cream Podcast with Ari Shapiro

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It's the official Whiskey & Cream audio podcast with Ari Shapiro - a digital news-magazine style offering featuring endless interviews with compelling luminaries on sports, music, politics, cinema and philosophy which aspires to keep you intellectually engaged and reasonably challenged with every listen. Subscribe today and be sure to visit arishapiro.ca for the latest episode available.

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Whiskey & Cream: Episode XXIII

Aug 08 2021 54 mins

Whiskey & Cream for August 9th, 2021Host: Ari Shapiro0:40-16:48: "An ounce of perception is worth a pound of obscure" To the average human being living under the relentless scourge of a variant-multiplying pandemic, understanding and absorbing what mRNA, spike proteins and lipid nanoparticles are can be a most daunting and bewildering experience. From the outset, this modern day gl

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XXII

Jul 25 2021 54 mins

Whiskey & Cream for July 25th, 2021Host: Ari Shapiro0:38-16:20: "No one loves Marineland" It's very possible that at some point during the long history of a profoundly greedy private company whose sole purpose was to showcase extremely rare mammals to the masses for sheer profit, some Canadians actually thought fondly of Marineland. But when a deeper dive of modern technology mixed

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XXI

Jul 14 2021 36 mins

Whiskey & Cream for July 14th, 2021Host: Ari Shapiro0:40-10:05: "We have to remember to stop because we have to stop to remember" There was a time before the days of pandemic entropy and woe where the celebration of a traditional monotheistic reason to gather at the end of the week and drink wine while surrounded by loving friends and family was considered to be as symbolically cel

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XX

Jun 19 2021 28 mins

Whiskey & Cream for June 19th, 2021Host: Ari Shapiro0:38-8:15: ""Canada and Islamophobia: Hypocrisy lives here" How quickly so many have forgotten that a deranged, hate-filled gunman stormed a Quebec City mosque back in January 2017 and brutally murdered six men while injuring 19 others, splintering a close-knit Muslim-Canadian community already grappling with xenophobic prejudice

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XIX

Apr 30 2021 63 mins

Whiskey & Cream for April 30th, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:38-27:49: "Dignity with pride divided by equity" Imagine having all the talent, vision and ambition in the world - only to have it scuttled by forces you have no control over. In some respects, I've just described a typical employee working for a digital media company today. You know, that realm which has been pillaged and exp

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XVIII

Apr 19 2021 77 mins

Whiskey & Cream for April 19th, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:34-24:53: "Pragmatic Truths over Ideological Lies" There are 124 seats in the Ontario legislature comprised of an incredibly unpopular and short-sighted Conservative majority government and a smattering of largely ineffective opposition. This, of course, is left over from the remnants of a slightly less unpopular Liberal regim

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XVII

Apr 11 2021 62 mins

Whiskey & Cream for April 11th, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:34-32:35: "When we don't heed the distant early warnings" It's a terrible thing to be confronted with a reality where your freedoms are restricted, your children are at home and growing up without a proper education, and your small business and general livelihood is going down the tubes. But what's especially unnerving for so

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XVI

Apr 07 2021 40 mins

Whiskey & Cream for April 7th, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:34-11:21: "Peanuts, crackerjacks and COVID-19"Major League Baseball has returned...and with a mighty vengeance. First, it was all about bringing back a 162-game extravaganza season in the midst of the worst that a pandemic has to offer. Then, it involved confronting the state of Georgia and rescinding an All-Star game promise t

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XV

Apr 02 2021 48 mins

Whiskey & Cream for April 2nd, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:35-12:21: "Raconteur Troubadour"It never fails that during times of real trouble, we tend to lose perspective about a great many things that are important to us in life. But what always seems to remain is that aching need to feel inspired that, deep down inside, the human condition comes with a seemingly indomitable spirit and

Whiskey & Cream: Episode XIV

Mar 27 2021 40 mins

Whiskey & Cream for March 27th, 2021.Host: Ari Shapiro0:39-9:35: "When a strong minority silences a weak majority"Oh, the glorious absurdity that remains Israeli politics. And now with their fourth election in two years, the world's most genuine version of participatory democracy once again finds itself rudderless and at cross purposes. Benjamin Netanyahu remains the quintessential