Podcasts

Awesome Ottawa has awarded this month’s cheque to Jason and Lindsay Machinski, the duo behind the podcast Did You Know? Uncovering Urban Creatives.

Joys and Splendors is a thriller audio drama that follows the story of a soldier and a spy caught up in the fallout of a total war with the United States. Playwright Kate Werneburg spoke more about this piece and why she chose to set it in Ottawa.

The latest season of the podcast To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive launches today for any ears willing to listen. From protest action to generating creative community spaces to celebrating queer and trans Black communities, these discussions are about Ottawa-based Black, Indigenous, people of colour, diasporic and queer archives of longing, memory and inheritance in arts-based practices.

Hi friends! We are Tyler and Steph, the hosts of the Ottawa Pizza Podcast — a show in which two friends try pizza from Ottawa pizza places to determine whether the pizza is, as we say, “good”, just okay, or downright bad.

Ottawa Pizza Podcast covers hidden gems and the unique Ottawa-style pizza with hosts Steph and Tyler.

We can shop local and eat local, so why not listen local? More and more Ottawans have been producing podcasts since the pandemic began, on everything from bike polo to Canada’s healthcare system. Audiophiles now have endless hours of locally-made storytelling at their fingertips. Christina Vietinghoff explores the scene.

Rebecca Gibbons explores the importance of Strathcona Park in this audio documentary, talking to five parkgoers about what makes Strathcona important to them.

Sean Botti meets up with John Westhaver, longtime owner of Birdman Sound, to chat about his new project, Friday Afternoon Cartunes.

“I’ve wanted to have him on since the inception of this show, but he can be a bit tricky to get a hold of.”

January’s Awesome Ottawa award goes to Christine Malec and J.J. Hunt to support Talk Description to Me, a podcast in which the visuals of current events and the world around us are discussed in description-rich conversations.

Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney are the curators of To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, an exhibition that looks at Ottawa’s local histories and genealogies of queerness.

Ottawa is known among major Canadian cities for having a very tight-knit restaurant community. Everybody seems to know everybody else and there’s a real sense of respect and admiration between restaurants. The warring camps that other cities have are nowhere present here. Acting as a spokesperson for this community is chef Adam Vettorel. He’s already well known as chef-owner of North & Navy, as well as the brand-new Cantina Gia. But did you know he has his own podcast?

Nathan, Jack, and Ben have been attracting celebrities and “people with interesting jobs” for their podcast The Interview Dudes since its inception in June 2019. They’ve produced four seasons since then. What sets this podcast apart from others like it? Well, the Dudes in question are all finishing up Grade 6.

The Ottawa-made podcast has recorded more than 50 episodes.