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Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling Canada 🪩When I saw Dropout Improv in Brooklyn, NY in January, I left with three thoughts:* This is the best audience participation show on the market* This is everything fans of streamer Dropout TV want in a live experience* Canadian audiences would eat this show upSince then the show stopped by Just for Laughs Montreal and Vancouver, and now it’s finally come home to Toronto.And a homecoming it is set to be for Vic Michaelis, host of Dropout’s viral smash-hit (and buzzy Emmys contender) Very Important People. In this interview you’ll hear Vic talk about what it means to bring this show to their hometown crowd, in the same venue that the Jonas Brothers recently caused chaos in just months ago! If you make it to the show, please get in the comments and let me know how it was. I was supposed to be there to celebrate with y’all but alas, the life of a showgirl must go on! Lots of surprises coming over the next few days so make sure you’re following in real time over on Instagram and TikTok. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Who needs a Coachella line-up when you have a podcast line-up announcement? In case you missed it on Instagram, here is the first slate of guests joining us for Season 2 of Late Night Scrolling. Episodes dropping here on Substack (and everywhere you stream your podcasts!) on Mondays and Thursdays, and more guest announcements coming soon ✨Welcome to Season 2 of Late Night Scrolling 🪩After a whirlwind two years on the road opening for acts we love including Vance Joy, Evan Honer’s highly anticipated new album Everything I Wanted finally drops September 19.He joined us backstage at SOMMO Festival in Prince Edward Island to talk about the moment in time he recorded his album in, road stories from playing arenas and bars and hitch hiking in between, and the inspirations fuelling the music including everyone’s favourite tv-turned-crooner Djo.If you get a chance to hear Evan live, you’re in for a treat. He packed the Sandbar stage at SOMMO with an electric set that was one of the highlights of the weekend. We saw more festival goers walking around in his merch than any other artist playing the weekend, even Hozier! You can listen to Evan Honer and pre-save the new album now on Spotify: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩Late Night Scrolling is a reader-supported Canadian pop culture publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I, for one, have loved seeing Conrad Fisher have a non-cousins friend this season on The Summer I Turned Pretty. And I’m even more excited that she is played by an incredible Canadian actress you know from the farm on Riverdale, chasing ghosts on Ghosting, and of course her stint on Orphan Black. Zoé De Grand Maison joins us this week to speculate if Conrad is actually in a Riverdale-style cult in Calfornia, spills the behind-the-scenes games and animal run-ins her and Chris Briney experienced between takes, and the process of bringing Agnes from page to screen.In case you missed it: I chatted with Laurel and Adam (Jackie Chung and Tom Everett Scott) about partnering The Summer I Turned Pretty teensAnd we’ve been keeping eyes on Team Conrad vs Team Jeremiah over on YouTube This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩If you relate to any of the following:* Missing the last train (or ferry if you live in Halifax) home and have to take the bus* Falling in love with someone only for them to move to Montreal* Dealing with a quarter-life crisis around responsibility and what you want to do with your lifethen you should see SHOOK, a new Canadian film in theatres this weekend!Enjoy this episode featuring a conversation with the film’s director, Amar Wala. Late Night Scrolling is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry went on a date. In Montreal. It lasted hours. Lobster and open toed shoes were involved. We’ve been saying all summer long the 2010’s are soooo back. Fantastic Four is in theatres, everyone is switching to skinny jeans, Katy Perry is on tour and Justin Trudeau is the hottest headline in Canada. And now, they’re DATING?In this episode I break down the headlines, all the details we know, and give you my best take on what a Heritage Minute Commercial capturing this moment would look like. If you manage to decipher the videos of them on the date drop your transcripts in the comments. You know as this story develops I’m all over it. Reminder: you can subscribe + rate the show on Apple Podcasts! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Subscribe + Rate this episode if you enjoyed this interview!Every week on Late Night Scrolling Canada we’ll be hearing from the newly eliminated teams from The Amazing Race Canada 🇨🇦I heard your feedback LOUD AND CLEAR after last week’s interview: So many of yall catch up on The Amazing Race over the weekend and got SPOILED by last week’s episode — my bad! Giving y’all until Monday to catch up on the previous week’s episode seems like a fair deal, but keep the feedback coming all season long!So. many. of you. reached out to say you were rooting for Osas and Esosa, AKA the Short Kings, to win this season. We are ALL sorry you are getting this interview so soon in the season. But even in their short time racing they made an iconic reputation https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.htmlfor themselves, and I see a LONG career in Reality TV ahead of them. Get in the comments with what show should cast them next! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Subscribe + Rate this episode if you enjoyed this interview!Every week on Late Night Scrolling Canada we’ll be hearing from the newly eliminated teams from The Amazing Race Canada 🇨🇦Starting with a SHOCKING elimination from two-time racers Sam and Brendan 😱 After a dominating performance in Leg 1 of the race, they just couldn’t get past Smurfs and Snowshoes.What did their former race partners think of their sudden elimination? And did their romance last beyond the race? They spilled all the tea on their Amazing Race experience and relationship in this conversation.We’ll be back after the next leg of the Amazing Race with the next eliminated team! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone subscribing to the paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me run this independent Canadian pop culture podcast and blog, I couldn’t do this without you!To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Surprise! A special interview drop that Late Night Scrolling subscribers get first 🪩Bart Bass, Lorelai Gilmore, Hiram Lodge — what’s a teen television drama without a parent sub-plot? I love the drama parents bring to the silver screen, so sitting down with THE iconic parents of Jeremiah, Conrad and Belly from The Summer I Turned Pretty? Oh, a TREAT.I never thought I’d say this, but Adam gives Bart Bass a run for his money. Make sure to stay to the end of the interview to hear why.More new interviews on the way soon! ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone subscribing to the paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me cover events like TIFF50, and we have tons of special coverage being planned just for you this festival season.To become a paid subscriber of Late Night Scrolling, head to latenightscrolling.substack.comWelcome to Late Night Scrolling’s TIFF50 Coverage 🎬The 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival is just a few weeks away, and we’re kicking off our coverage of the festival this week with a bombshell 6 films entering the villa World Premieres lineup.Articles referenced in this episode:* https://tiff.net/press/news/tiff-announces-first-wave-of-world-premieres?utm_source=TIFF&utm_campaign=884d5b0353-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_05_01_56_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2912e037fc-288742973&mc_cid=884d5b0353&mc_eid=e09c9e8aa9* https://deadline.com/2025/06/tiff-steven-soderbergh-nia-dacosta-1236443178/While we don’t have an exact timeline for when TIFF announcements are dropping, you’ll get the headlines right here on Late Night Scrolling. Plus, we’re planning some special episodes from the festival just for those of you who back the paid subscription tiers here on Substack!Make sure to hang out with us on Instagram for more BTS of the show: https://instagram.com/latenightscrollingpodSee you soon,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Surprise! A special interview drop that Late Night Scrolling subscribers get first 🪩Warning: minor spoilers for We Were Liars in this interviewNova Scotia has NEVER been so back. One of the most highly anticipated shows of the year, We Were Liars, premieres tomorrow in all her Nova Scotia glory. I got to chat all-things filming in NS with the iconic trio who brought the series to life: Executive Producers Julie Plec, Carina Adly MacKenzie, and Executive Producer and author of the series E. Lockhart. We Were Liars drops all episodes on Prime Video tomorrow, June 18 — and yes, we’re throwing a watch party! Details coming to the Late Night Scrolling Instagram account: https://instagram.com/latenightscrollingpodCan’t Wait for the Next Episode?I stopped by CBC’s COMMOTION Podcast to chat about Call Her Alex, the new documentary about Alex Cooper’s rise as the host and brains behind Call Her Daddy. You can stream it everywhere you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube here:Chat soon,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone subscribing to the paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me run this independent Canadian pop culture podcast and blog, I couldn’t do this without you!To support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber on Substack: https://latenightscrolling.substack.com/Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩This week it’s an East Coast Kitchen Party with Adam Wylde & Jax! Of Halifax and Toronto radio fame, Canada’s favourite radio duo now has their own weekly podcast breaking down pop culture headlines.Subscribe to the Adam Wylde & Jax Podcast everywhere you get podcasts, or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDMaS7E_HxyLLhof5ZDA-3wTikTok: http://tiktok.com/@adamwyldeandjaxFollow Jax’s Calling Random East Coast Numbers series on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jaxonairFollow Adam Wylde on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adamwyldeNext Episode 🌊I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thrilled about the next episode coming your way about one of my most anticipated shows of the year. Drop your guesses in the comments!Make sure to hang out with us on Instagram for more BTS of the show: https://instagram.com/latenightscrollingpodSee you soon,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Surprise! A special interview drop that Late Night Scrolling subscribers get first 🪩Warning: minor spoilers for Materialists in this interviewIf y’all have followed my Canadian pop culture coverage over the years, you know how much I admire and respect Canadian Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director Celine Song. Getting the chance to chat with her about her new film Materialists was a challenge in narrowing down a long kept list of questions!In this special interview we chat about her philosophical approach to writing, her relationship with shooting on 35mm and once sequence in the film that blew me away, and she reacts to Dakota Johnson’s interview on Good Hang with Amy Poehler.Materialists is in theatres across Canada this weekend distributed by VVS Films. My review is also live on Substack:Next Week 🌊Would you believe me if I said there’s more special interviews dropping? Working on the edits of them right now — and you know I’m bringing them to you first ❤️‍🔥See you sooner than you think,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone subscribing to the paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me run this independent Canadian pop culture podcast and blog, I couldn’t do this without you!To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber below:Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩There’s a lot of debate about what the song of the summer 2025 might be — but when it comes to the country song of the summer, I think we have a strong contender in Devin Cooper’s new single MEMORIES THAT MADE US.And I swear I’m not biased just because he’s this week’s guest! The lyrics really nail the whole rural-Canadian-summer life that most of us have lived. I asked him to tell us what really happened with some of the lyrics in this song, and of course how he’s thinking of adapting it into his summer tour and Calgary Stampede shows.Now don’t skip this episode if you don’t consider yourself a country music fan! One of Cooper’s greatest strengths as an artist is his rock influences and absolutely killer songwriting. Check out some of his acoustic sessions on streaming or live show versions of his singles — he really knows how to turn it up for a live audience.Next Week 🌊Yall, summer in Canada is peak pop culture season. Every streamer is releasing new Canadian shows and films, or filming new seasons, or planning fall shoots, and of course we’re counting down to the mega blockbuster TIFF50 happening in September — there is so much for us to talk about and catch up on. At the end of this episode I spill some secrets of what’s coming up, but let’s just say, time to beg the TV gods to lift the embargo on some of the interviews I’m holding back for ya! As soon as I can release these, they’ll be yours!Catch the behind the scenes in real time on Instagram and get ready for tell-all behind the scenes episodes coming as fast as we can get them recorded for ya next week!See you then,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling! 🪩Margaret Atwood is very funny, Jeanne Beker loved our outfits, and the PWHL is thriving. What even was today??From Prime Video exclusives to red carpet madness, here’s everything that we remember from Day 2/5 covering Canada’s biggest week in film and television (and we’re editing this at 2am soooo maybe more details tomorrow night, ya??)❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone who subscribes to the monthly and annual paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! You directly fund coverage like thisTHIS WEEK ONLY! Subscribe to an annual plan while Liz is covering Canada’s biggest awards week and get 1 month free!That’s day 2/5 wrapped! See you tomorrow for another recap This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling! 🪩We got back from prom with Chad Michael Murray, cracked open a cold Crush Zero Sugar, and immediately turned on the mics to record this LATE night special episode to tell y’all all about it.❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone who subscribes to the monthly and annual paid tiers of Late Night Scrolling! You directly fund coverage like thisTHIS WEEK ONLY! Subscribe to an annual plan while Liz is covering Canada’s biggest awards week and get 1 month free!Behind the Scenes of This Episode 📸You’ll be hearing a LOT from my co-host of this episode this week. Meet Gracie Lowes, an incredible pop culture reviewer and interviewer based here in Toronto That’s a wrap on Day 1/5! See you for the next recap ❤️‍🔥 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 THANK YOU ❤️‍🔥 to everyone subscribing to the Paid subscription tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me run this independent Canadian pop culture podcast and blog, I couldn’t do this without your support.Late Night Scrolling is a reader-supported Canadian pop culture publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩Grab your tissues, AMPLIFY Season 3 on APTN is a guaranteed tearjerker. Producer Shane Belcourt dropped by LATE NIGHT SCROLLING to chat about all-things AMPLIFY Season 3, including the behind the scenes of Tia Wood's incredibly vulnerable episode recording new song ONIHCIKISKWAPIWINIHK. PS: Video for this interview is available on YouTube!AMPLIFY airs Tuesdays on APTN, watch and learn more here: https://www.aptntv.ca/amplify/Next Week, we’re BACK at Canadian Screen Awards 💃It’s Canada’s Oscars, Emmys and Webbys all wrapped into one weekend, and I’m taking you along on all the red carpet and press adventures (plus a few more surprises I have up my sleeve that you won’t want to miss!)Catch the behind the scenes in real time on Instagram and get ready for tell-all behind the scenes episodes coming as fast as we can get them recorded for ya next week!See you then,ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling’s Canadian Screen Awards Coverage! 🪩Nominated for Adapted Screenplay at the Canadian Screen Awards this year, Nova Scotia film Sharp Corner stars Emmy-award nominated actor Ben Foster (The Survivor, The Punisher, X-Men: The Last Stand) and Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother, The Avengers)The best part about having a director on the podcast? I get to ask all my burning questions about how they shot the film — and when it comes to Sharp Corner, there’s no shortage of technical questions I had for director Jason Buxton. Sharp Corner is a masterclass in action choreography and technical set design, and he stopped by the Late Night Scrolling podcast to share all the behind-the-scenes of bringing this shocking film to life.Support Canadian cinema by seeing Sharp Corner in theatres! Playing now across Canada. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

❤️‍🔥 A huge THANK YOU to those of you generously backing the monthly + yearly paid subscription tiers of Late Night Scrolling! Your support helps me continue to cover Canadian pop culture — ESPECIALLY this month as I head back to Toronto to bring yall coverage from the Canadian Screen Awards! ❤️‍🔥Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩What happens when two giggly Canadian pop culture girliepops grab their mics and talk shop for an hour? Well, apparently this episode, which includes:* An argument in favour of giving Jack Quaid and Chad Michael Murray Canadian citizenship* Stories from the red carpet we’ve NEVER shared on the internet * Exposing our longstanding crushes on Jay Baruchel, and Becca using her theme park expertise (literally) to expllain how his voice came to be in the How to Train Your Dragon theme parksBecca aka the FilmTripper is such an original creator, with a twist on pop culture that I SO respect and admire. She’s the real deal, and I know if you don’t already know her you’ll adore her as much as I do by the end of this episode!You can follow along on her adventures:* Here on Substack! https://substack.com/@thefilmtripper* On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thefilmtripper/* On TikTok http://tiktok.com/@thefilmtripperNext Week on Late Night Scrolling 💃It’s Canadian Screen Awards month! We’re getting ready for Canada’s biggest night in film & television with a MONTH of special interviews bringing you closer to the stars of the season. And at the end of the month? Yall… get ready to eat. We’re cooking up some SPECIAL coverage that has me losing sleep — and the behind the scenes to bring it all to life starts now:Late Night Scrolling is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling!Icon of stage and screen Wayne Burns joins me this week to, first and foremost, celebrate Aries season. The first time we met in person was at TIFF, at the premiere of SHARP CORNER which is now coming to theatres May 9. In this episode you’ll hear all about our crazy worlds-colliding red carpet moment, but you can watch it hereWhen I tell you Wayne is iconic, I mean Wayne is iconic. Two of his projects made waves at Canadian film fest, his new short EEL in post production, and film FAST LOVE soon to announce Toronto premieres and of course, SHARP CORNER.We got real about how our Nova Scotian roots inform our work as producers and our province’s cinematic language — and no matter where you’re from, I think you’ll find the conversation cathartic. Everyone knows their hometown better than its misconceptions and headlines, and the beauty of film is that it captures those nuances and preserves them in time so we never forget what we’ve gone through. I loved this conversation and I know you will too!Wayne’s gofundme for EEL is still live, you can check it out here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/eel-short-film-fundraiser?attribution_id=sl:95db8035-b10a-4fd8-863b-1dca4f2fb5a5⟨=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1-amp14_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link and check out all of Wayne’s work at wayneburns.ca (we love a Canadian website domain!)May is around the corner, and yall… we’re taking this show on the road. That’s right — we’re heading back to Toronto at the end of the month to meet up with friends and cook up some very special interviews ahead of the Canadian Screen Awards. I can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking, get ready to EAT this month!We’ll see you back next week!ProducerLiz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back to Late Night Scrolling 🪩And welcome back to our first returning guest Anna Lambe! After Season 1 of North of North finished airing on CBC and APTN, Anna and I reunited to chat about the twists of the season and bringing the North to the world with (at the time of recording) it’s upcoming Netflix release.Plus: on Instagram you wrote in your messiest stories for a game of What Would Siaja Do? and y’all, Anna did not disappoint with her advice.Heads up: Anna and I picked up right where we left off from our last conversation. If you haven’t listened to that episode yet check it out first — it’s the very first episode of this pod! If you somehow haven’t binged the show yet, spoilers ahead. Canadians, we can still stream it for free on CBC Gem — and for the rest of the world, scroll to the Global Top 10 list on Netflix and you’ll find it!Same Pod, New Updates ✨I’m at the fun part of making this podcast where y’all have told me exactly how you want to tune in every week (shoutout to our group chat on Instagram!) — so here are some updates on what to expect next + how to support Late Night Scrolling:* New episodes just like this are now dropping every Saturday at 12:00pm ET!* New show Instagram and TikTok have soft-launched! I’ll be sharing more interview clips, breaking news, memes and behind-the-scenes throughout the week on these accounts, so make sure to follow along:* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latenightscrollingpod/* TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latenightscrollingpod* Keep streaming on Apple Podcasts to help keep this show charting in Canada and around the world! You can keep receiving Late Night Scrolling in your inbox by subscribing here!❤️‍🔥 A huge shoutout and thank you to those of you generously backing the monthly + yearly paid subscription tiers! Your contributions help me continue to do this work! ❤️‍🔥 Next Week on Late Night Scrolling 💃We have such a fun interview coming with one of my fave Nova Scotian creatives — you know him from iconic Canadian television shows, theatre, and films including Sharp Corner coming to theatres May 9. Can you guess who it is?See you then!Liz This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit latenightscrolling.substack.com/subscribe