• This Is That

  • By: CBC
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This Is That

By: CBC
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  • Summary

  • The world is changing every day. Completely fabricated nonsense matters now more than ever. Hosted by veteran comedians Peter Oldring and Pat Kelly, This is That uses the same serious audio techniques for comedy as others do for journalism: phone interviews, narrative documentary, archival news clips, witnesses on location, found footage, and so on. But on this podcast, everything is fabricated: this is a completely fake in-depth look at the issues, culture and personalities shaping our world today.
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Episodes
  • This is That Introduces | Split Screen: Thrill Seekers

    This is That Introduces | Split Screen: Thrill Seekers
    Oct 1 2024

    A TV crew offers 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime. But there’s a catch. The audience knows everything but the contestants are kept in the dark. As the cameras roll, no questions are allowed. Split Screen: Thrill Seekers is a new 6 part series that exposes how a TV show left contestants struggling to trust what’s actually real.


    Host Nick van der Kolk (Love + Radio) asks: does reality TV only succeed when it exploits those involved? He talks to the set designers, crew, and the contestants themselves to learn what it took to permanently distort their sense of reality.


    Welcome to Split Screen, an examination of the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. From reality TV gone awry, to the cult of celebrity, each season of Split Screen takes listeners on an evocative journey inside the world of showbiz. Ex-contestants, producers, and cultural critics uncover complicated truths behind TV’s carefully curated facades, and question what our entertainment reveals about us. Split Screen: sometimes reality is twisted.


    More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/wKQvd4Do
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    35 mins
  • EP 10: A password expert and Canada’s first male doula

    EP 10: A password expert and Canada’s first male doula
    Aug 21 2023
    A federal employee initiative promises to be inclusive to all employees and offensive to none, the world’s first and only not-for-profit McDonalds, an expert on passwords, a round of Puzzler, and meet Canada’s first male doula.
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    29 mins
  • EP 9: Military mountain bikes and a literal office pool

    EP 9: Military mountain bikes and a literal office pool
    Aug 14 2023
    The Canadian Armed Forces acquire a set of mountain bikes to be more environmentally friendly, an international festival celebrates the humble pen, and we visit an office that decided to turn their workspace into a swimming pool. Plus, Alberta a 2000-lb bison housepet and meet an elopement planner.
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    27 mins
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