English & Literature Studies
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 17Sugar |
Wood notes how difficult it is to quit sugar, especially with its ubiquity in everyday life and the general lack of support when accomplishing one’s goal. Changing one’s habits was … | Alex Wood | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 19Smartphone |
Wood details many of the problems linked to cellphones, though specifically smartphones. Health afflictions, mental health, relationships, car crashes, as well as other unsettling statisitics. As … | Alex Wood | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 2Miley |
After feeling like a "grown up" after the Just for Laughs gig, Wood describes how he was "a boy again within weeks." Addiction and debt begins to interfere with his gigs and … | Alex Wood | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 23: The Second World WarCapital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45 |
This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s"The Great Darkness" |
This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 3Withdrawal |
Beginning the Alcohol segment in the throes of withdrawal, Wood takes readers through his transition to heavy drinking and the health issues he’s been encountering. He describes his … | Alex Wood | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 4Playing the Tape Out |
After losing his wallet during a trip, Wood almost falls back into the alcohol spiral. "A test of resolve." However, following an endoscopy, Wood learns he can add stomach ulcers to a … | Alex Wood | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 5Two Fighters |
Wood begins the chapter discussing his friendship with Moaiad, a past roommate. His mother suggests tea when Wood is told the quit coffee, beginning his connection with peppermint tea. Wood … | Alex Wood | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 6Wish You Were Here |
Wood’s career trajectory begins to take stronger shape. However, two weeks after a farewell bash thrown in Uncle Noel’s honour, Wood relapses. Though staying strong for his family … | Alex Wood | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 7April Fool |
Starting the segment "Alex Wood Quits Everything," Wood explains how he prepared for his podcast where he would quit the rest of his vices in one year. He describes his struggle through … | Alex Wood | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 8Weed |
Wood discusses his journey with weed, and the dangerous situations he got into to acquire it. He talks about his interview with his recovery friend Marito. "The mental hold of weed" … | Alex Wood | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 9Caffeine |
Next is Wood’s journey with coffee, or more importantly, caffeine. Being "coffee-sick" was an ongoing cycle, and with news of his ulcers, Wood tries to sever ties with caffeine. … | Alex Wood | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |





