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Social Animals

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.

Stories Society & Culture Friends Relationships Comedy
Update frequency
every 14 days
Average duration
48 minutes
Episodes
97
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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Rachel Phan

Rachel Phan

✨ This week on Social Animals, I’m hanging out with Rachel Phan — author of Restaurant Kid! Rachel and I dive into what it means to be a third culture kid (a term I only discovered through her book…
00:51:38  |   Wed 10 Sep 2025
Manfred Sittman

Manfred Sittman

This week I am hanging out with Manfred Sittman

Manfred is the frontman for Toronto rock n’ roll band Elephants and Stars, and he has generously spent some of his time to talk to me about a special…

01:07:21  |   Wed 13 Aug 2025
Tommy Dillon

Tommy Dillon

This week, I’m hanging out with Tommy Dillon, the lead singer of Toronto’s Holy Hell (@holyhellmusic).

Tommy’s an old friend, and we caught up about tattoos, married life, and old stories where the s…

01:00:49  |   Wed 02 Jul 2025
Tarek Kabbani

Tarek Kabbani

Today I’m hanging out with Tarek Kabbani — a Lebanese-Canadian senior graphic designer, musician, and event organizer based in Toronto. Born in Kuwait, Tarek studied graphic design at George Brown C…

00:55:33  |   Wed 04 Jun 2025
Foad HP

Foad HP

This week I am hanging out with Foad HP

Today’s guest is the incredibly sharp and hilarious Foad HP — actor, writer, and stand-up straight outta Toronto. You might’ve seen him on Just For Laughs, JF…

00:49:55  |   Wed 07 May 2025
Stephen Stohn

Stephen Stohn

Episode 88 Available Now!

Today I’m hanging out with Stephen Stohn. Ontario-based, semi-retired entertainment lawyer and co-producer of the Degrassi television series. Stephen takes me on a wonderful…

00:57:55  |   Wed 02 Apr 2025
Gene Champagne

Gene Champagne

This week I am hanging out with Gene Champagne

Gene is the Drummer for seminal Canadian punk band ‘Teenage Head’ and a founding member of the Killjoys, a foundational indie band in the 90s music sc…

00:30:47  |   Wed 05 Mar 2025
Rozhen Asrani

Rozhen Asrani

Episode 86 Available Now!

This week I am hanging out with Rozhen Asrani

Rozhen is the candidate for the Ontario NDP Party in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. She’s bringing Provincial Politics into this centu…

01:00:33  |   Wed 29 Jan 2025
Chris MacDonald

Chris MacDonald

This week I am hanging out with Chris MacDonald.

Chris is the author of a new book called Days and Days A story about Sunderland’s Leatherface and the Ties that Bind, published by ECW Press. Chris …

00:56:33  |   Wed 30 Oct 2024
Najla Said

Najla Said

This week I am hanging out with Najla Said. I read Nejla’s book “Looking for Palestine” and it struck a chord as a story of representation and struggle about identity growing up with an eminent acad…

01:02:25  |   Wed 02 Oct 2024
Beatlalipos aka Elie Nakhle

Beatlalipos aka Elie Nakhle

This week I am hanging out with Beatlalipos aka Elie Nakhle

Elie is a Lebanese Producer, Rapper and sound Engineer who lives in Montreal.  We talk about Lebanese food, politics and what brought Eli…

01:18:11  |   Wed 31 Jul 2024
Jay Sparrow

Jay Sparrow

This week I am hanging out with Jay Sparrow

Jay is a singer/songwriter based in Alberta, Canada. Jay is a career musician having played in ‘Murder City Sparrows’ and taken his solo act to great heig…

01:00:52  |   Wed 22 May 2024
Bilal Nasser

Bilal Nasser

This week I am hanging out with Bilal Nasser

Bilal is a Windsor, ON based musician who takes a foundation of classical guitar, elements of shoegaze, post-punk and drone and distills them into a cas…

01:05:38  |   Wed 17 Apr 2024
Simon Head

Simon Head

This week I am hanging out with Simon Head

Simon is a Simon is a Canadian musician, documentarian, tour manager and dad. Simon found Social Animals because he just finished a documentary called ‘Sub…

01:16:47  |   Wed 20 Mar 2024
Tez Ilyas

Tez Ilyas

Today I’m hanging out with Tez Ilyas.

Tez is a UK based comedian, actor, writer and author who has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Live at The Apollo, and co-starred on the Netflix Seri…

00:42:20  |   Wed 06 Mar 2024
Katelynne Roland

Katelynne Roland

This week I am hanging out with Katelynne Roland

They are an author and have generously spent some of their time to talk to me about being gifted live animals, getting dumped in a mall and Denmark.

00:29:02  |   Wed 07 Feb 2024
Stephen Stanley

Stephen Stanley

This week I am hanging out with Stephen Stanley

Today I’m hanging out with Stephen Stanley. Stephen is a musician who helped found the Canadian Alternative Rock Pioneers Lowest of the Low and pilot t…

00:49:02  |   Wed 24 Jan 2024
Tracy Hamilton

Tracy Hamilton

This week I am hanging out with Tracy Hamilton

We talk about overcoming social anxiety, her retired Pomeranian Evie and meeting the love of your life in a plague.  We also discuss books and a new ap…

00:57:37  |   Wed 10 Jan 2024
Zane Banyan Pt. 2

Zane Banyan Pt. 2

This week is a continuation of my conversation with Zane Banyan

Zane is a vocalist and model and has generously spent some of her time to talk to me about cat homies, losing a friend and ADHD.

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00:17:25  |   Wed 13 Sep 2023
Zane Banyan

Zane Banyan

This week I am hanging out with Zane Banyan

Zane is a vocalist and model and has generously spent some of her time to talk to me about cottage weekends, epic musical journeys and books You can fo…

00:38:49  |   Wed 06 Sep 2023
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