Ed the Sock (and Friends)
Podcasts that run the gamut of topics, all with their own signature personality.
Episodes
Artificial Intelligence meets the absence of intelligence in a Conservative MP; while the Right looks after its own, The Left tears each other apart; the 'progressive' political group that doesn't believe Black Lives Matter; is it truly genocide in Gaza?; the problem with*some* White people and more Ed & Red jibber-jab to set your hair on fire!
Ed launches the show angry at an 80s earworm song he can't get rid of, identity online ID verification and lost pages of his autobiography. Also, Ed sings a classic TV theme song to get Sherry to pipe down, Billy the Kidd isn't dead, Elecia fails to understand the concept of "accident", Mike from North Carolina spends the day with a baby and Moose makes his first call to the show! Plus, peer counselor Liana Kerzner (It's Not Therap...
Remember Orbitz drinks? Gooey liquid with 'flavour bits' suspended in it? Liana doesn't, but she will remember Ed's description of it. Also, why Ed hates touchscreens, why we don't even know that we're playing The Hunger Games for real and Heather, the saran wrap ninja. All this and more on this week's episode!
As Americans notch their country's 250th birthday, is there much for them to celebrate? Whereas in Canada, our 159th birthday rides a wave of Canadian pride. Plus Stephen and Steven discuss CUSMA, the Gordie Howe Bridge (to nowhere, thanks to Trump) and other issues in the news
Stephen Lautens and Steven Kerzner do a deep-dive into the lesser-talked-about impacts of online and social media and why the future with artificial intelligence isn't looking any better.
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Social media bans for kids under 16, solution or distraction? Plus other bits and bobs and Ed & Red weave through the week's news and general trends contributing to the world's dumpster fire!
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Listen to Ed the Sock on The All-Night Show, weeknights LIVE midnight - 5am (ET) on 94.9 The Rock, the rock.fm or 949TheRock app.
Genetically-engineered Korean boybands, lonely people talking to KITT knockoffs, the tedium of self-appointed internet superheroes, eating the rich, Ed saves a cat from her owner's stupidity, the surprising Pixar movie Hoppers and Ed and Liana share their chilling experience watching a movie in a theatre full of overstimulated Gen Alphas.
Fear of the antics of pro-Palestinian protesters have caused events in schools and public places to be canceled - should these intimidation tactics go unchallenged?
Neither Steven nor Stephen are welcoming FIFA to Toronto with open arms. They explain why!
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Ed and Red cover the worlds of politics, pop culture and the theology of Star Wars in this week's episode.
Listen to Liana's solo podcast It's Not Therapy wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to Ed weeknights from midnight - 5AM (ET) on The All-Night Show Live on 94.9 The Rock/therock.fm
Alberta is the new angsty teenager of Canada, but no matter how much they whine and slam doors, their referendum on separation from Canada is an exercise in futility.
The messaging from Trump seems to have changed from seeding hints of a possible coup to talk of who will succeed him in the Oval Office at the next election. Though the overt planning to disrupt the US midterm elections continues unabated.
Steven speaks as a Canadian Jew about the video of Israeli cabinet minister Itamar Ben-Gvir abusing Pro-Palestinian captives, how The Right eats The Left's lunch in American electoral politics, China's leader owns Trump at their press conference, Mark Carney's record and lots more on the table in this episode.
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Revealed - why Ed smokes cigars; are boys really falling behind girls in school, or is that more alarmist crap?; Kid Rock, Muchmusic and strippers; what to tell your kids if you want them to become abject failures and more!
Listen to Liana on her podcast It's Not Therapy at nottherapyshow.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to Ed on his All-Night Show Live weeknights from midnight to 5AM (ET) on 94.9 The Rock (therock.fm ...
Americans outside the MAGA cult have been warning that the country's democracy is in danger...but has the danger passed and moved full steam into dictatorship? Also, why the war with Iran isn't likely to end soon.
WOKE - where the term originated and what it really meant before modern politics twisted it into a pretzel; is Canada going to ban social media for kids under 16, and if so, will it even work?; a man claims that a dead girlfriend made his car levitate, God sat on his bed to talk, Satan made him pour out his last drinking water on a long hot hike and more...is he receiving mental health counseling? No, he's a senior official in the ...
Trump's blunders and bedwetting puts world safety at risk...another TACO moment or will someone finally put him in a Hormuz straitsjacket? Plus, Avi Lewis wins the NDP leadership, which is like being elected the new bandleader after the Titanic hit the iceberg and another Conversative crosses the floor to the Carney government - but this one has a stink on her, and the Liberals can likely form a majority without her, so why take he...
Today on Ed & Red: Rating the lethality of Nerf guns; how Knight Rider shaped Ed's psyche; why standardized school testing and IQ tests don't really map intelligence; a quadraplegic cornhole player shoots his passenger while driving the car...yup, for real. Oh, America.
Steven thinks the Notwithstanding Clause is absurd and Stephen brings his legal experience to the fore to explain why the federal government's court challenge will FAIL; why Quebec's 'secularization' law is really a war against non-Christians under a less honest name; Pierre Poilievre is in a political straitjacket of his own making; how Doug Ford avoids accountability by ignoring problems and blaming the feds; the founders of West...
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