Big Shiny Takes

About Big Shiny Takes

The world's first and only anti-free speech podcast. Big Shiny Takes looks at the terrible columns written by the "thought-leaders" in Canada and goes through why some of these pieces should have never been published in a place where people can read them.

Publisher

Big Shiny Takes

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2020

Latest episode

16 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

85 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Mar 2025

   A Big Shiny Goodbye

   It's been an incredible run and we've read some truly terrible columns, but the time has come to say goodbye. After five years of covering the worst opinions Canadian media has to offer, Eric, Marino and Jeremy are moving on to greener pastures – hopefully there aren't any copies of the National Post lying around. Thanks to all of our guests, listeners and supporters. You made this show so much fun to do over the years. We're not going to read a column this episode, which makes t...

2. 

   27 Jan 2025

   Campus Manliness Crisis (ft. Dani Paradis)

   Are Canada's universities being feminized? It's a topic that's been consuming Leigh Revers – so much so that he wrote about it at length in the bad takes newspaper of record, the National Post Men are foregoing higher education and instead chopping wood in the forest and spending all their money on beard oil. This leads to an imbalance in education levels, which fuels the ongoing birth rate epidemic. Or something like that.Edmonton-based writer and educator Dani Paradis (@DaniParadis) joins u...

3. 

   11 Jan 2025

   Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Jews (ft. NiceMangos)

   Dr. Jordan Peterson shares his 12 Rules for Jews with NiceMangos, but Polite Conversations host Eiynah critiques his advice for perpetuating antisemitic tropes and misunderstandings of Jewish liturgy.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

2.8 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

31 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

89

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