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For decades, America’s Hot 100 pop chart has been regularly invaded by Canadian artists like Paul Anka, the Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Céline Dion, Justin Bieber, and Drake. Yet in Canada, some of these Canucks’ biggest hits aren’t considered fully “Canadian.”

Join Chris Molanphy for a look at how the country’s requirements for Canadian content, or CanCon, on radio, television, and other cultural outlets has influenced the music industry and entire careers on both sides of the border. From Kon Kan’s “I Beg Your Pardon” to Tate McRae’s recent “Housewife,” Chris explores how much credit, or blame, Canada’s radio rules deserve for what Americans hear on the pop charts.

For more chart history for the Great White North, check out Hit Parade’s recent episode on Celine Dion.

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One of the internet’s top fanfiction platforms, Archive Of Our Own, is down and could stay that way for weeks. Devoted readers have been rushing to save their favorite fics in the event that AO3 might not return. But now scammers are coming in to try to take advantage of the moment, and some users are trying to access stories in problematic ways. We invite culture video essayist and friend-of-the-show Princess Weekes to discuss the impact of AO3's shutdown and how fanfiction readers of different generations are handling the fallout.

This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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A welfare caseworker first told Ms. Pat she had a knack for turning painful stories into comedy. She was 20, fresh out of prison for selling drugs, and already in charge of six kids–some hers, some the children of family members who needed a safe place to stay. It would take 10 more years for Ms. Pat to get on stage at an open mic, but once she started, she didn’t stop. She now sells out shows and has starred in a BET+ sitcom based on her life for five seasons.
In this episode, Ms. Pat talks about moving between economic classes and the lies she told to blend in, learning to manage money from her husband, and building the big, full house she never had growing up.
Ms. Pat’s latest memoir is called Ms. American Dream: A Memoir of Making It, No Matter What.
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On one of the biggest political nights of the year, audiences weren’t turning into traditional networks for their news. Instead, they were on YouTube and Twitch, where streamers like Hasan Piker dominated with up to over 200,000 concurrent viewers at once. While broadcasters like NBC, CBS, and CNN were also streaming their coverage online, they were fighting for attention amongst new media livestreamers—a shift that’s been happening for some time. On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Semafor Media editor and Mixed Signals co-host Max Tani to talk about how livestreaming is beginning to eclipse cable news, and how both are having to adapt.

This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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A major vulnerability is threatening the entire internet as we know it. Should we let it? As talk of an internet apocalypse looms, some users can’t help but feel it’s high time to turn the whole thing off and on again. On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by senior tech editor Tony Ho Tran to talk about what is actually happening to the internet, how nervous we should be, and why the nightmare scenario of the entire internet shutting down actually sounds like…a dream?

This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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