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Social Animals

Alexander Hajjar

This show is about the stories that define our friendships. An interview style storytelling podcast about the friendships that shape who we are. The good, the bad and the ugly anecdotes that we share with the people we are closest to. Every episode will feature someone who is talented, entertaining and compelling.

society & culture relationships

All Episodes

55:52

Laura Hubert

Social Animals ·

2021/06/09

Laura is a Canadian vocalist who was the front woman of the Juno award winning band The Leslie Spit Treeo. The band toured Canada, released 4 albums and was managed by a dog called ‘Tag.’ Laura is now a fixture on the Toronto Jazz scene and has released 3 of her own albums. She’s enjoyed residency at Grossman’s Tavern, The Cameron House and The Rex Hotel. We talk about the genuine closeness of meeting new friends, a disaster with some fireworks and the teacher who inspired her to sing.

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59:21

Thomas R. Brooks

Social Animals ·

2021/06/02

Thomas Brooks holds a Masters of Science in psychology, he is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University Commerce and will begin a professorship at New Mexico Highlands University in Fall 2021. Thomas specializes in relationships. He has authored 8 publications and was kind enough to share his personal experiences with friendship and help describe some of the method behind the madness. You can follow Thomas here: sexography.org https://anchor.fm/psychosocialdistancing @PsychSocDistPod

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41:37

Carlo Cruz

Social Animals ·

2021/05/26

Beatmaker, producer, songwriter, guitarist, dj, videographer and film enthusiast. Carlo makes blissful pizzas and sourdough loaves in his spare time. He is an aspiring model; aiming to use it as a financial platform for charitable causes , fighting food insecurity, and would love to donate resources with musical software packages to allow kids to build on their dreams from an early age.

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51:05

Jason Cipparrone

Social Animals ·

2021/05/19

Jason is a Toronto-based photographer and director who has spent the last decade developing his approach of emotionally exposing portraits with strong contrast and a cinematic approach. Jason also directs and produces documentary films and has taken a keen interest in many social issues that effect the most vulnerable peoples.

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50:39

David Di Giovanni

Social Animals ·

2021/05/12

David is is the artistic director at Shakespeare in Action. He is a playwright, theatre director and co-founder of Madonnanera. David and I reminisce about his time in Montreal, driving across the province to find a cat and the wrong way to water a lilac bush.

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50:31

Kadeema

Social Animals ·

2021/05/05

Tal Vaisman and Jimmy Chauveau of the band Kadeema are a rock duo who write chunky, dance-y and clever songs that juxtapose the day to day malaise with the satirical. They’re genuinely decent lads with good hearts and big sounds. We talk about the end of long tour at Massey Hall, getting bad news on the battlefield, Jim’s cat banana and Tal’s rescue Chihuaua Priscilla the killah.

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48:35

Mattie Leon

Social Animals ·

2021/04/28

Mattie Leon is a Canadian singer/songwriter. He has a bright voice and clever lyrics. Skilled on guitar and piano he has just released a brand-new album “In Natural Light.” We talk about playing golf at Penn State, friends who take you in on the road and doing what you love to do.

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39:49

Alexander Pulec

Social Animals ·

2021/04/21

Alexander Pulec is a multimedia artist and performer who has composed music for film, tv and the stage. He is the lead vocalist/guitarist for alternative rock band The Nursery and we discuss the foundations of our conscious, Joseph the Technicolor Dreamcoat and his familiar, Icharus.

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48:42

Ardra Shephard

Social Animals ·

2021/04/14

Ardra Shephard is the influential Canadian writer, speaker, and advocate behind the award-winning blog Tripping On Air, about her life with MS. We talk about Europe and singing in cathedrals, she told me a time when her friends planned a party without her and how stairs are in fact, over-rated.

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36:15

Silver Variant

Social Animals ·

2021/04/07

Silver is a new friend. He tells me about the time his friend conquered their fear of flying, careening down a city street on a child’s toy and giving a human organ to a stranger.

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44:21

Brendan Halama

Social Animals ·

2021/03/31

Brendan has a masters degree in child and youth care. He is also a vivacious drag performer known as Igby Lizzard. We talk about his hometown of Edmonton, murder in Hawaii and ICQ (for those that remember what that is). Brendan is the life of every party and his infectious laugh is why I think you will enjoy spending time him.

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46:59

Angelo Praturlon

Social Animals ·

2021/03/24

Angelo and I met through my wife. We have grown as friends finding common interests and pushing each other to reach our own intellectual ambitions. We both love computers, building them and hoping they boot up. We are two old Italian men working on a Mustang GT, except our Mustang GT has a Ryzen 9 3900, Rog Strix Motherboard, NVIDEA 3090 and all the sweet RGB lights you can stuff under the hood.

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46:41

Sally Shaar

Social Animals ·

2021/03/17

Sally Shaar is the lead singer of the Canadian band Monowhales. Sally talks about her brother, we bond over our Middle Eastern heritage and she tells me how the band makes inclusivity and compassion a focal point of their song writing.

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41:59

Soren D'alimonte

Social Animals ·

2021/03/10

Soren is an old friend and my first friend who identified as transgendered. We talk about superheroes, his out and proud cat Majors and those sweet 90's playthings that no one knew what to do with, Devil Sticks.

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48:41

Kristian Noel Pedersen

Social Animals ·

2021/03/03

Kristian is Christmas music writing machine, writing and producing 15 albums in as many years. He also likes hoarding childhood memorabilia, making power point presentation about wrestling and being a genuinely good soul.

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52:49

Robin Leclerc

Social Animals ·

2021/02/24

Robin is an incredible artist, she is a painter who has been commissioned for works that are appreciated across Canada and the US. She is a mom to rad little dude and soon to be dudette.

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43:20

Angelo Bufardeci

Social Animals ·

2021/02/19

Angelo and I talk about the places we used to find to smoke weed in, how video games have allowed people to find new connections and find an answer to the question “Can you have more than one best friend?”

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49:24

Michael McDonnell

Social Animals ·

2021/02/13

We talk about Mike's first friend. A Teddy bear named 'Pete' and the loss of a dear friend.

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02:06

Social Animals Trailer

Social Animals ·

2021/02/07

An introduction to the show!

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