The Vinyl Cafe is the
second most Canadian thing you've ever heard after you've heard this thing:
http://www.cbc.ca/thedebaters/. "The show where arguments are won with funny and with fact" and hot-button issues like "are weddings a waste of money?" and "social networks: more harm than good?" are finally given the national attention they deserve.
The completely irrational but still really strong hatred I feel for Stuart McLean is rivaled only by how inexplicably angry that fucking Denise lady on Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap makes me feel when she reads from their "mailbag." (Also, I take everything I've said back, Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap will be, if you can bring yourself to listen to it, the most Canadian thing you've ever heard.)
I still listen to all of this stuff, though! I grew up listening to Radio One and only Radio One and even now I can't stop. I could recite that stupid Dave and Morley Christmas story word for word if I had to. Denise notwithstanding, I actually even kind of like the Tap, except I think that might just be stockholm syndrome. I wish I knew how to quit you, CBC.