{"id":16934,"date":"2019-01-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16934"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:00:42","slug":"podcast-hosts-taggart-and-torrens-bring-show-to-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/01\/07\/podcast-hosts-taggart-and-torrens-bring-show-to-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast hosts Taggart and Torrens bring show to Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeremy Taggart and Jonathan Torrens are taking their wildly popular Taggart and Torrens <\/em>podcast on the road. The podcast\u2014which has almost 4 million downloads and has been awarded the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Audio Show or Series\u2014is a musical and comedic celebration of Canadian media and culture in which Taggart and Torrens share stories from their unique experiences in the music and film industries, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two have such a strong connection with their country and what it means to be Canadian that they even created a new term for it: \u201cCanadianity.\u201d While the in-depth definition of this term can be found in their recently published novel, Canadianity: The True North Strong and Freezing<\/em>, Taggart decribes Canadianity as including Canadians\u2019 stereotypical identity as a happy, nice, and easygoing population. However, Canadianity also refers to the strong, veiled confidence of Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are a very forgiving nation, but at the same time we are also understanding of what we have and the great things that make this country one on the best on the planet,\u201d says Taggart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taggart is the former drummer of Our Lady Peace, a Canadian rock band who sold millions of albums worldwide and won the most Much Music Video Awards ever awarded to a group or artist. Torrens is most well known for playing the character J-Roc in Trailer Park Boys<\/em>. The two met through mutual friends who were Torrens\u2019 castmates in the Trailer Park Boys <\/em>and stayed connected through the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jonathan Torrens (left) and Jeremy Taggart are the duo behind the Taggart and Torrens podcast (photo by Chris Malloy).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe decided that our conversations back and forth every week just as friends were making us laugh so much that we figured, \u2018Why don\u2019t we record this?\u2019 and that would be the podcast,\u201d says Taggart.\u201cThat really is what the podcast is\u2014it\u2019s just kind of our weekly conversations and I think that people buy into it just by virtue of our personalities and just the kind of stupid stuff that we come up with to fill the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dine Alone Records has recently signed the duo, and their next undertaking will be an album expected to be released in fall of 2019. Each song will be based on a character from their podcast; the two proud Canadians are excited for a new creative outlet to reach fans. Of course, the creation of an album is not unknown territory for Taggart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe kind of funny thing is that by [Our Lady Peace] happening at such a young age, at 17, 18, \u2018normal\u2019 wasn\u2019t really normal for me,\u201d says Taggart. \u201cI was very lucky to be very successful with OLP at an early age; that was kind of my college or university. That era of my life was spent on the road and touring and learning life that way. My perspective from there was kind of that hopefully I\u2019ll still be doing this in some regard later in life. It\u2019s actually pretty cool that OLP did get to the level that it did and it was pretty big that I was able to be there for it all… To see where TnT<\/em> has gone now and the amount of people who come out to the shows and who are connected with it, it\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s been a beautiful thing to have so many Canadians feel like they\u2019re just sitting there chatting with us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taggart and Torrens<\/em>
7 pm Thursday, January 17
$22.50, Capital Ballroom
thecapitalballroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Taggart and Jonathan Torrens are taking their wildly popular Taggart and Torrens podcast on the road. The podcast\u2014which has almost 4 million downloads and has been awarded the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Audio Show or Series\u2014is a musical and comedic celebration of Canadian media and culture in which Taggart and Torrens share stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-7-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16962,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions\/16962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}