Mic Warning

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Could we actually survive a horror movie? Derek, Keelan, and Ashley get into Halloween by figuring out which horror villains we'd stand a chance against. From Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees to Freddy Krueger, Ghostface, and Pennywise, we're pretty confident we could outrun some of them. Others? Not so much. We also get into paranormal experiences, being afraid...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Remember when you had to print MapQuest directions, circle Christmas gifts in a Sears catalogue, or wait for the TV guide to scroll all the way around? Derek, Keelan, and Ashley take a trip back to the 90s and 2000s to talk about all the things we grew up with that somehow disappeared. We revisit Canadian classics like BodyBreak, Heritage Minutes, and the legendary House...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Would you vote for Alberta to separate from Canada, even if you wanted the country to stay together? Derek, Keelan, and Ali get into Alberta independence, equalization payments, the upcoming referendum, and why Western Canadians feel like their voices aren't being heard. We also argue about golfers hitting houses, hear Ali's nightmare airport experience in Dubai,...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Is GTA 6 about to become a second full-time job? Derek, Keelan, and returning guest Allie get into the rumours, new features, and ridiculous possibilities surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6. From realistic driving and relationships to in-game money and massive open worlds, we wonder how much realism is actually too much. We also get into why Call of Duty Zombies isn't as...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Did we actually land on the moon, or is someone buying into one too many conspiracy theories? This week, Derek and Keelan are joined by Ali and Riley as a conversation about globes turns into an argument about the moon landing, flat Earth, Antarctica and why the world map doesn't look quite right. Before that, there's a story of a $1,000 bet to quit vaping, under...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Apparently a safety vest, hard hat and clipboard are enough to make almost anyone look like they belong somewhere. Derek and Keelan get way too deep into how easily someone can look official just by dressing the part and realize they probably would've fallen for it themselves. Then we get into Black Friday “deals,” terrible Christmas pet decisions, whether your cat w...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Would a zombie apocalypse even work in Canada? Derek, Keelan and Riley somehow end up seriously debating whether zombies would survive a Canadian winter, whether they could even function without blood and oxygen, and why The Last of Us might be one of the more believable versions of the idea. Before and after that, we question how planets work, argue over The Matrix and...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! Apparently Winnie-the-Pooh has a much more Canadian origin story than either of us remembered. We go from confidently insisting Winnipeg had something to do with Pooh to discovering the real bear behind the name — and then somehow find out Pizza Pops were invented in Winnipeg too. Season 2 starts with a heated Lindsay Clancy discussion, O.J./Suge Knight/Keefe D confusion...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! It was a brutal couple of days: Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen the legendary voice of Optimus Prime were all gone within roughly 48 hours. We get into their careers, the stuff we remembered them from, and somehow end up arguing about Eeyore, VHS movie trailers and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers. It's also Mic Warning's one-year anniversary and Episode...

🎙️ Welcome to Mic Warning! We’re trying to figure out what to do for the Mic Warning anniversary, and apparently reasonable ideas are completely off the table. Roman candles get rejected, confetti means too much cleanup, and somehow we eventually land on covering someone in peanut butter and sending them toward a deer. Riley is back as we also get into smelling salts, bald eagles, ADD vs ADHD, hor...

Derek, Keelan and Riley go down a childhood-toy rabbit hole involving Furbies, Wuv Luv, Creepy Crawlers and Kinder Surprise — including the bizarre true story of why the NSA once banned Furbies from its buildings. Then we get pissed off about streaming services charging us to rent ancient movies, argue about commercials, and finish things off with Riley putting Derek and Keelan through a 20-questi...

Remember LimeWire, Napster, six-disc CD changers and rewinding cassette tapes with a pencil? This week on Mic Warning, Derek and Keelan look back at the technology we grew up with — and somehow end up asking whether streaming services like Netflix and Prime Video have just reinvented cable. LimeWire viruses, dial-up internet, buying an entire album for one song, CDs in the car, lost digital photos...

Are aliens already here and could they look exactly like us? Episode 48 immediately goes off the rails as we argue about CERN, time travel, parallel universes, dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, dragons coming out of hibernation, and whether humanity could possibly be the smartest life in the universe. Then we move into some potentially unforgivable movie opinions. We discuss James Bond, Happy Gilm...

We finally have a "producer", and she immediately realized what she signed up for. In Episode 47, we welcome Rachel behind the camera before spiralling into Halloween in August, overpriced Spirit Halloween costumes, whether Value Village is still actually a thrift store, Canadian ghost costumes, Costco chocolate almonds, terrible childhood haircuts, and the struggle of trying to grow a p...

How much coffee is too much… and is ordering a Tim Hortons Quad Quad actually a red flag? In this episode of Mic Warning , Derek and Keelan spiral from caffeine limits and energy drinks into Canada’s fast-food coffee rankings, whether Tim Hortons has fallen off , if coffee cream is actually oil , and why some Dairy Queen treats don’t seem to melt . Along the way, they derail into Hafthor Bjornsson...

Keelan came closer to a hole-in-one than most golfers ever will—until the ball bounced out of the cup and his son immediately knocked it off the green. Does it still count? Absolutely not. Is he going to argue about it anyway? Absolutely. From there, the episode completely falls apart. Derek and Keelan tackle an impossible cake-versus-dick hypothetical, debate what they could survive on Fear Facto...

Waymo drove over fireworks and kept going, so we did the responsible thing and turned it into a robot-car panic spiral. We also missed Canada Day and the Fourth of July like professionals, complained about 11:30 fireworks, and tried to figure out what happens if an electric self-driving taxi eats an explosion. Then the episode wandered into our first YouTube Shorts, Spotify doing nothing for us, V...

June monsoon showed up in Alberta and the mosquitoes started acting like they own the place. We talk lawn-cutting in DEET, the kind of thunderstorm that shakes the house at 1 a.m., a dog needing emotional support, and our second video episode making us forget what hands are for. Then it turns into river-flood flashbacks, a guy leaning on a guardrail who may or may not be okay, fireworks going side...

After 40+ episodes, Mic Warning finally lands Video on YouTube. This week we're talking Cybertrucks, why AI still feels like it's missing the point, Austin Powers 4, Shrek 5 backlash, gaming sponsors we'd actually want, 90s cartoons, and why Moose the boxer insists on joining the show. We also talk about launching our Patreon, making the jump from audio to video, and trying to build something with...

Derek and Keelan are back with last meal debates, a 90s trivia game that completely falls apart, creepy ice cream truck theories, weird animal facts, golf chaos, storm talk, Google Earth, bad cell service, and the beginning of Mic Warning’s move to YouTube. It’s loose, dumb, occasionally educational by accident, and somehow includes platypuses, bumblebee bats, giraffe fights, and a serious questio...

This week on Mic Warning, we're talking about something that doesn't get enough attention: men's mental health. From the pressure to "man up" to why so many guys keep everything bottled up, we discuss the reality facing men today and why reaching out matters more than ever. We also take a trip down memory lane, revisiting the glory days of Sylvan Lake, old bars, concerts, sne...

This week we're talking Alberta separation, equalization payments, Canada's economy, gas prices, strange Olympic events, celebrity trivia, Harry Potter casting controversies, Toy Story 5, and a major update on the future of Mic Warning Podcast. Plus, a discussion about time zones leads to one of the dumbest discoveries we've ever made. New branding. New logo. YouTube coming soon. New e...

This week starts with Clarkson's Farm and somehow spirals into social media growth, podcasting struggles, lawn care, childhood toys, aliens, conspiracy theories, and Canada's greatest contribution to humanity: Pizza Pops. We talk about why some creators seem to grow overnight, the reality of building a podcast from scratch, and whether the modern world has completely destroyed people's...

This week’s episode dives into everything from crow stories and backyard wildlife to Hawaii travel stories, jet lag, and giant oilfield bugs. What starts as a misunderstanding about feeding crows quickly turns into conversations about birds bringing gifts, training deer in Alberta, and surviving Canadian wildlife during May Long weekend. The guys also get into royal family conspiracy theories, Vic...

This week the guys catch up after Keelan’s trip to Hawaii, covering everything from North Shore coffee shops and massive American food portions to Pearl Harbor tours, candy hauls, and questionable vacation spending habits. What starts as a laid-back recap quickly turns into the story of a tiny flash tattoo that somehow became an $900 financial crisis. Along the way there’s sushi candy taste tests,...