Assorted Goods

Dan has risen from the podcasting dead to let you know about his new podcast, Hard Know, made in collaboration with his brother David and many members of the wonderful podcasting community. Hard Know is a narrative-driven, satirical, and creative dive into the many scams, cons, schemes, and deceptions that make up our world. Filled with original music, great writing, insight and in

Well this is it, after 3 1/2 years, about 70 episodes, hundreds of thousands of words researched and written, it's time to wrap up the Assorted Goods Podcast. Joining Dan to look back on the podcast is fellow podcaster and producer Jeff Feightner, who has heard Dan waffle over the decision to move on, or keep going about 50 times. Thank you to the guests who have stopped by and of

Back at the start of Covid, I had teacher, football coach, and a good friend of mine Carlo Trentadue on the podcast to talk about the challenges of teaching at a time like this. Now, 2 years later and as we return to a "new normal", Carlo has come back to talk more about digital literacy, having a keen eye for quality information, navigating 'social norms' online, and so much more.

Scientific studies have revealed that microplastics aren't just in our oceans and trash dumps, they're in our food and hanging around the inside of our bodies. Figuring out how we got to live on a planet overrun with plastic and why after half a century of knowing we'd get here, the forecast for the future? More plastic! Source List: https://www.disinformed.ca/ag-sources/plastic-wo

Our history textbooks and classes have never told us the full story of our own history, and when it comes to the stories of Black America, those stories are often never told at all. This episode I'm joined by Michael Motley of the OneMic Black History Podcast, as we get into what it's like to tell the stories of history that people either haven't heard, or don't want to. We also ta

When a war breaks out, a government has to build and deploy its lies as much as its military. As Russia carries out a violent campaign of terror in Ukraine, we're taking a look at the narrative web of lies that President Vladimir Putin has spun, and how his tactics are part of a long pattern of leaders misleading their own people, and the world as a whole. Source List: https://www.

Coke vs Pepsi, Marvel vs DC, Republicans vs Democrats, Anything vs Damn-Near Anything. No matter where we go, every issue, big or small, gets boiled down to one side against another side. "Us vs Them". This episode of Assorted Goods, we're taking a look at how "Binary Thinking" is part of who we are as people, and how it gets easily exploited. Source List: https://www.disinformed.c

Something else may be brewing at your local Starbucks, and it's not overpriced coffee with complicated names. A union movement is spreading across Starbucks locations, and it may be a sign of the times ahead. A big company vs its own workers, a classic matchup. Source List: https://www.disinformed.ca/ag-sources/starbucks-venti-unionization-movement-february-15th-2022 Show Notes: ht

Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs have boomed in the past year, becoming a iconic piece of internet culture, a lucrative economic force, and yet another advancement in technology that people are simply confused by. But are NFTs just going through the 'growing pains' of being a new technology? Or are they as suspicious as they seem to be? Getting to know NFTs from the beginning, and what

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... a government drone spying on you? 5 years ago Peter McIndoe thought up a conspiracy theory on a whim, and now, the Birds Aren't Real movement has hundreds of thousands of social media followers, branches in multiple cities, and a presence that is still confusing the major news networks. But how does a satirical conspiracy theory fit into the moder