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Wiener Dogs, Frozen Hair, and Bathtub Boat Races

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

Release Date: 07/28/2025

Wiener Dogs, Frozen Hair, and Bathtub Boat Races

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

Dropbear’s branding book “Brandjitsu” is available at 🥂 Thanks to Our Sponsor: Cold Garden Brewery – Serving up dog-friendly patios and dangerously delicious Ranch Water. 🎧 Listen now and let us be your batshit travel agents across Canada!

Hold Our Zipper And Other Great Canadian Inventions

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

This week on Dropbear and Panda Save Canada: Podcast of Destiny, we’re cracking open a cold one and taking a wild, hilarious ride through the Great White North’s most badass, bizarre, and world-changing inventions. From the zipper to the pacemaker, peanut butter to IMAX, we’re spilling the maple syrup on the who, what, and WTF of Canadian ingenuity. 💡 Ever heard of Reginald Fessenden? No? He invented AM radio and broadcast a violin solo from a boat on Christmas Eve. You’re welcome, Spotify. 🏀 James Naismith invented basketball so kids wouldn’t fight inside. They still did,...

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada - Introduction

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

Our previous season made a huge splash across the globe; we received numerous award nominations, distributed a lot of socks, and made a genuine effort to save the world! Now look at it!! Erm.... yeah, okay. The world is vast, and it was hard to save the entire planet. This time we thought we'd start small, like... 9.985 square kilometres small. Does Canada need saving? Not really, but it deserves a lot of love and attention, and that's what we're all about. Dropbear and Panda Save Canada. A new season powered by Canadian stuff. We love Canadian stuff. Music by Emre Chords at...

E090 - The First Dose is Thick

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…. Better yet, we’ll just tell you that we don’t know about UFOs, but if you click here we’ll explain to you what we don’t know even though we don’t know enough to know how to tell you what we do or do not know… Hint: It’s in the name.

E089 - Not Even On The Radar

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

When UFOs show up and barely make it on the radar (no pun intended) that’s definitely… something to think about. Over some good gin and a new sock jingle, of course!

E088 - Crossing Swords With Nobody Episode

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

We've got two reviews today - and we’re not angry with one, per se… just disappointed. Which (if we take any cue from our parents) is worse than being mad. Much, much worse.

E087 - Slap Your Chicken Episode

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

The most important question we have to ask ourselves - Is Panda’s no taste and smell strong enough to withstand a chicken cooked by a robotic slapping machine?

E086 - Peep Into the Bigfoot Family War Room Episode

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

We review Bigfoot Family: the most controversial, dangerous movie ever to grace our Albertan television screens. Never before have we witnessed anything so…. Wait, is that a jive-talking raccoon??

E085 - The Capo-no-you-d'int Episode

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

Thanks (?) to our knack for reviewing bad movies, we were asked to review “CAPONE”… and boy, was it ever… a thing... that we did. Sort of.

E084 - The Seven Footer Episode

Dropbear and Panda Save Canada

We’re recording at Kensington Studio this weekend but we can’t seem to escape the snowblowers outside. We think they’re stalking us. Send help. Or…. less snow.

Sponsored by Cold Garden Brewery’s Ranch Water, this jam-packed episode is your gloriously weird Canadian travel guide! From racing in hollowed-out pumpkins to sipping whiskey with a severed toe, Dropbear and Panda dig into the most bonkers festivals coast-to-coast.

🍁 In This Episode:

🧊 International Hair Freezing Contest (Whitehorse, YT) – Where frosty follicles become fine art
🐾 Wienerfest (London, ON) – A dachshund-themed day of races, costumes, and total canine chaos
🖖 Spock Days (Vulcan, AB) – Star Trek nerdvana with pancakes and parades
🎸 Penticton Elvis Festival (Penticton, BC) – The King's spirit lives on, officially endorsed by the Elvis Foundation
🛁 Nanaimo Bathtub Races (Nanaimo, BC) – Souped-up tubs take on a 58 km ocean race. Yes, really.
🧔 Yukon Rendezvous (Whitehorse, YT) – Chainsaw chucking, beard growing, and feminist leg hair pride
🚽 Lumby Outhouse Races (Lumby, BC) – Decorated latrines on skis. Golden plunger prize included.
🎿 Banff Slush Cup (Banff, AB) – Banana hammocks + pond skimming + cold slush = Mayhem
🏃‍♂️ The Canadian Death Race (Grande Cache, AB) – 125 km of mountain madness and bears (actual bears)
⛄ Carnaval de Québec (Québec City, QC) – Snow palaces, Bonhomme, and Caribou (the drink, not the animal)
🐱 Calgary Cat Festival & Market (Calgary, AB) – Featuring Panda and her poetry book “An Ode to Myself”!
🥃 Sourtoe Cocktail (Dawson City, YT) – Whiskey garnished with a real human toe (gulp)
🎃 Pumpkin Regatta (Shelburne, NS) – Hollow out a pumpkin, paddle it like a kayak. Sink or gourd.
🍟 La Poutine Week (nationwide) – Fries, curds, gravy, and every wild topping imaginable
❄️ Snowking’s Winter Festival (Yellowknife, NT) – Full-blown castle made of snow + concerts, DJs, comedy
🌲 Akadi Lumina (Bouctouche, NB) – A psychedelic, heartwarming night walk telling Acadian stories

📚 Shameless Self-Promo:

Panda’s poetry book “An Ode to Myself” is available at jennifermaclean.ca
Dropbear’s branding book “Brandjitsu” is available at brandjitsu.com

🥂 Thanks to Our Sponsor:
Cold Garden Brewery – Serving up dog-friendly patios and dangerously delicious Ranch Water.

🎧 Listen now and let us be your batshit travel agents across Canada!