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The Herle Burly

The Herle Burly

Air Quotes Media 414 Episodes Oct 15, 2026

The Herle Burly podcast is a commotion of insights, arguments, opinions, and an impossibly loud laugh or two, hosted by David Herle.

Episodes

The Chiefs: A Country Spoiling for a Fight
The Chiefs: A Country Spoiling for a Fight Oct 15, 2026 4626 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! The Chiefs are back. This franchise has spawned more sequels than The Fast and the Furious, but unlike Vin Diesel, these three bring something new every time. David is joined by Brian Topp, Ia
Andrew MacDougall: Can Democracy Survive the Attention Economy?
Andrew MacDougall: Can Democracy Survive the Attention Economy? Oct 12, 2026 4283 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! When Ukrainian drones hit the Russian internet giant Yandex this week, bot traffic and propaganda posts reportedly fell off a cliff. That tells you something about how manufactured and pollute
Steven MacKinnon: Building Canada Strong—did the slogan just get teeth?
Steven MacKinnon: Building Canada Strong—did the slogan just get teeth? Sep 27, 2026 4185 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! David sits down with his old friend who's now at the centre of the federal government’s policy agenda: The Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Canada’s Minister of Transport and Government House
Anthony Scaramucci: All the Wrong Moves that led to Trump & Why Carney leads the West
Anthony Scaramucci: All the Wrong Moves that led to Trump & Why Carney leads the West Sep 22, 2026 3729 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! This week David sits down with Anthony Scaramucci. The man immortalized in the dictionary as a unit of time.From Wall Street to the White House to fellow podcaster on The Rest Is Politics: US,
2026 Ontario Liberal Leadership Debate
2026 Ontario Liberal Leadership Debate Sep 17, 2026 6719 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, OECTA, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Three years ago, David convened our second Ontario Liberal leadership debate in studio, no podiums, no clock, just candidates talking. Now, with the party searching again for its way ba
McDonald & Meggs: The Conservative Civil War Nobody in Ottawa Is Watching
McDonald & Meggs: The Conservative Civil War Nobody in Ottawa Is Watching Sep 12, 2026 3415 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail, and the Canadian Climate Institute.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! This week, we indulge in a little podcast inbreeding here at Air Quotes Media with our colleagues Mike McDonald and Geoff Meggs – hosts of Hotel Pacifico and two of the sharpest political stra
Canada's New Foreign Policy Moment: Jennifer Welsh & Colin Robertson
Canada's New Foreign Policy Moment: Jennifer Welsh & Colin Robertson Sep 5, 2026 4403 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Back in July, the Wall Street Journal ran a striking series on how Europe is quietly rethinking its arrangements with the world to counter a changing, increasingly predatory United States. And surprisingly, named Mark Carney as
Canada's Policy Path Forward with Meredith, Robson, and Roth
Canada's Policy Path Forward with Meredith, Robson, and Roth Aug 29, 2026 5511 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! This one's for anyone tired of the heat-with-no-light that passes for policy debate on Twitter. David brings together three super smart policy minds who understand government — spanning different ideologies and varying degr
Trade War with The Chiefs: Brodie, Murphy & Topp
Trade War with The Chiefs: Brodie, Murphy & Topp Aug 24, 2026 4643 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! David spent the weekend, like a lot of Canadians, trying to process the breakdown in Canada-US trade talks and the unusually sharp statement Mark Carney delivered to the country the day before. So he called in The Chiefs: three
Trevor Tombe: The Permanent Cost of Trump's Tariffs
Trevor Tombe: The Permanent Cost of Trump's Tariffs Aug 20, 2026 4860 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Back on the show for a third time... Trevor Tombe: a truth-telling economist who's never afraid to take a view that's five or six canoe lengths out of the mainstream. Trevor's a professor of economics at the Unive
Frank Graves: Inside Canada's New Political Fault Lines
Frank Graves: Inside Canada's New Political Fault Lines Aug 10, 2026 3561 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! David's old friend Frank Graves, founder and president of EKOS Research and known online as the unmistakable "Voice of Franky" on Twitter, is never shy about speaking his mind. But unlike most loud voices online,
Armine Yalnizyan: What's actually happening to the Canadian standard of living?
Armine Yalnizyan: What's actually happening to the Canadian standard of living? Aug 1, 2026 3875 The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail.Greetings, you curiouser and curiouser Herle Burly-ites! Today's episode takes on one big, hairy question: what's actually happening to the Canadian standard of living? To help sort it out, we have one of our all-time favourite economists – or as Maclean's calls her – &

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