Hotel Pacifico
by Air Quotes Media
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Triple ChaOs
Sep 1, 2026
56m 13s
Emergency Pod: Conservative Chaos
Aug 28, 2026
55m 21s
"Mission Critical" with Andrew Percy
Aug 27, 2026
54m 27s
"The Middle Man" with Peter Milobar
Aug 19, 2026
1h 19m 58s
"By the Book" with Howard White
Aug 13, 2026
1h 30m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 9/1/26 | Triple ChaOs | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Fresh off their recent Emergency Pod, Geoff and Mike review the latest on which MLAs have exited the KLF train. As of the time of the recording (August 31st), seven MLAs have left the BC Conservative caucus in the past few weeks, with more expected to leave in September. Geoff and Mike review the backroom meetings taking place at White Spot and other undisclosed locations,... | 56m 13s | ||||||
| 8/28/26 | Emergency Pod: Conservative Chaos | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Mike & Geoff rush to their screens to record an Emergency Podcast on the BC Conservative chaos unfolding this week: 5 MLAs leaving caucus, a bumpy byelection announcement, leaked audio and a senior staff firing, and a 'Triple O Summit' of political operatives seeking to find their way forward. Add to that political meal - a side of DRIPA for good measure. 🏨🌄 Chec... | 55m 21s | ||||||
| 8/27/26 | "Mission Critical" with Andrew Percy | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Former UK Conservative MP and newly minted Vancouver resident Andrew Percy returns to Hotel Pacifico. Mike, Geoff and Andrew discuss the 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 trade dispute with Andrew bringing a UK / Euro perspective and relating the Brexit debate to the current trade war. Andrew also notes the parallels between BC Conservative turmoil and friction in other Conservative coalitions. 🏨🌄 Ch... | 54m 27s | ||||||
| 8/19/26 | "The Middle Man" with Peter Milobar | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Newly independent, Kamloops-Centre MLA Peter Milobar joins Geoff and Mike to discuss his decision to leave the BC Conservative caucus. Milobar discusses his decision, the tumultuous path he’s travelled since 2017 when he was first elected - having served under 8 leaders - and what’s next. A new party? More MLAs to follow? Mike and Geoff breeze through other to... | 1h 19m 58s | ||||||
| 8/13/26 | "By the Book" with Howard White | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome Howard White, owner of Harbour Publishing, BC’s most prolific publisher. White discusses the appetite of British Columbians for regional stories and the array of titles Harbour has published over the years. Geoff raises the question about which BC political books are yet to be written (Mike?). In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike are swamped... | 1h 30m 03s | ||||||
| 8/5/26 | "Cold industry, hot forests" with Kim Haakstad | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Mike and Geoff welcome Kim Haakstad, CEO of the Council of Forest Industries, to discuss the struggling forest industry, the top 3 actions that would bring relief, and the impact of fire season. In the Strategy Suite, the hosts discuss a clipping of the week on ranching, the state of the BC Conservatives, dissent within David Eby’s cabinet on LNG, and Mark Carney’s BC blit... | 1h 17m 38s | ||||||
| 7/30/26 | “BC Unpacked” with Terry Glavin | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Mike & Geoff welcome the inimitable Terry Glavin for a BC Day interview. Terry is a National Post writer, author of ‘The Real Story’ substack, and an award-winning author with a lifetime of accomplishment. His early books - A Death Feast in Dimlahamid and Nemiah: the Unconquered Country - addressed Indigenous land rights issues. He has written about t... | 1h 03m 37s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 | "The Smell of Money" with Thomas Seal, Bloomberg’s Vancouver Bureau Chief | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome Thomas Seal, Bloomberg’s Vancouver bureau chief, to Hotel Pacifico. Thomas discusses the stories he’s been covering on the west coast and what’s gaining the attention of Bloomberg readers, including industries on the rise and industries under stress. They also discuss parallels between Brexit and the Alberta separatism debate, the joy of seapla... | 1h 06m 35s | ||||||
| 7/15/26 | "Proof is in the pudding" with Jarryd Jäger + Leah Holoiday and Carling Dick | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Mike is home alone at the Hotel this week and has hired temps to come in to keep the discussing going. He’s joined by Sitka Media’s Jarryd Jäger, formerly of the Western Standard. Jäger discusses the vision for the fledgling news service and where it fits between the echo chambers. The Maple Ridge product also discusses his advocacy for free speech and how gene... | 1h 05m 25s | ||||||
| 7/9/26 | “All In” with Emily Lowan, Leader of the BC Green Party | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome BC Green Party leader Emily Lowan to Hotel Pacifico. The trio sustain a busy discussion touching on Oligarchs!, her critique of the Eby government, her admiration for Avi Lewis, her support of DRIPA, her poker face when Geoff and Mike put forward their guesses which seat she will contest in the next general election - if a byelection doesn’t ha... | 1h 15m 16s | ||||||
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| 7/1/26 | "Policy Dead Man Walking" with Dimitri Pantazopoulos + Kate returns! | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. A jam packed agenda on the pod this week for an extended Strategy Suite. Joining Geoff back at Hotel Pacifico is Dimitri Pantazopoulos! Dimitri is a politico vet and widely-respected Conservative organizer and pollster whose most recent project was the BC Conservative leadership campaign of Iain Black. Plus ... Kate Hammer returns to give us a reality check on the policy files w... | 52m 53s | ||||||
| 6/25/26 | "8 is Enough" (including the Carney Condo bailout) | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Mike and Geoff are home alone this week and convene a full-length Strategy Suite covering eight (8!) topics including: Fire in the Canyon, the Carney Condo bailout, Eby's trip to China, the Massey 'Deas'-aster, Vancouver's World Cup branding win, Red Chris and what it means for DRIPA, nurses on the march, and what's KLF up to? 🏨🌄 Check into Hotel Pacifico for insights and interv... | 56m 00s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | "Labouring over Economics" with Jim Stanford | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome economist Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future Work, a think tank in Vancouver. For twenty years, Jim was chief economist and policy director for Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, as well as a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Jim, Geoff, and Mike tour through the turbulent economic landscape... | 1h 17m 31s | ||||||
| 6/14/26 | RACE TO REPLACE: “Winner's Podium” with Chris Dyson | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from BC Dairy and the Energy Futures Institute. Welcome to our bonus episode of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race, which concluded on May 30. Mike McDonald is joined by the campaign manager for Kerry-Lynne Findlay's winning campaign, Chris Dyson. 🏨🌄 Check into Hotel Pacifico for insights and interviews covering the latest in B.C. politics. Thank you f... | 42m 50s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | "25 and 34" with former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome the 34th Premier of BC, Gordon Campbell, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his government taking power in 2001. His ’New Era’ government ran the rockpile on Belleville Street for the next 16 years. Campbell reflects on some lessons learned, but not too much, as he weighs in on the politics and issues of today. In the Strategy S... | 1h 16m 23s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | "KLF WTFFF!" with James Moore | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC. Geoff and Mike welcome the Hon. James Moore to dissect the BC Conservative leadership results and the insurgent victory of Kerry-Lynne Findlay. In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike discuss the wrap up of the spring sitting, the latest on an oil pipeline, the latest on BC Hydro firing up gas plants, a PMO to North Van Liberal candidate, and the outlook for David Eby. Final... | 1h 10m 14s | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | "Photo Finish" with Dylan Kruger + Richard Zussman | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC, and BC Dairy. Mike, Geoff, and Dylan Kruger convene a special joint session of Hotel Pacifico and Race to Replace to preview the BC Conservative leadership results taking place May 30th. Dylan outlines the track conditions, the trio review the major storylines that took place during the course of the campaign, and they discuss the issues that weren’t discussed by the candi... | 1h 00m 48s | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | RACE TO REPLACE: “Down the Stretch” with Angelo Isidorou | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from BC Dairy and the Energy Futures Institute. Mike McDonald and Dylan Kruger co-host episode seven of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race which concludes on May 30. The hosts discuss track conditions, how the candidates are jockeying for position, the running order of the candidates over the past week (who had a good week, who didn’t), and the h... | 36m 08s | ||||||
| 5/21/26 | "The Rocky Mountain Divide" with Erika Barootes and Shannon Phillips | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC, and Wild First. Geoff and Mike cast their gaze across the mighty Rockies toward guests Erika Barootes (co-host of the Discourse podcast) and Shannon Phillips (former minister in Notley government) who report on the push for an oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s coast and the excitable state of the federation in the Wild Rose province. In Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike discuss... | 1h 17m 13s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | RACE TO REPLACE: “Rounding the Turn" | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from BC Dairy and the Energy Futures Institute. Mike McDonald and Dylan Kruger co-host episode six of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race which concludes on May 30. The hosts discuss track conditions, how the candidates are jockeying for position, the running order of the candidates over the past week (who had a good week, who didn’t), and the hos... | 33m 51s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | "Club Z" with Brad Zubyk | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC, Wild First, and British Columbia School Trustees Association. Mike & Geoff welcome Brad Zubyk, former chief of staff to BC Conservative leader John Rustad, for a full-length Strategy Suite discussion. The trio dig deep into the BC Conservative leadership race, including the latest conflagration involving Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Peter Milobar, and Iain Black; the Eby gover... | 56m 27s | ||||||
| 5/10/26 | RACE TO REPLACE: “Making the Move” | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from BC Dairy and the Energy Futures Institute. Mike McDonald and Dylan Kruger co-host episode five of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race which concludes on May 30. The hosts discuss track conditions, how the candidates are jockeying for position, the running order of the candidates over the past week (who had a good week, who didn’t), and the ho... | 37m 57s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | "War Zones to Question Period" with Ben O’Hara-Byrne | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC, and Wild First. Mike and Geoff welcome Global News BC Legislative reporter Ben O’Hara-Byrne to Hotel Pacifico. Relatively new to the Press Gallery, Ben discusses covering stories in Ukraine, Beijing and other hot spots, his impressions of BC politics, the trajectory of journalism, and his upcoming role as moderator at final B.C. Conservative debate on Global News BC1 on Ma... | 1h 03m 52s | ||||||
| 5/3/26 | RACE TO REPLACE: “The Backstretch” | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from BC Dairy and the Energy Futures Institute. Mike McDonald and Dylan Kruger co-host episode four of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race which concludes on May 30. The hosts discuss track conditions, how the candidates are jockeying for position, the running order of the candidates over the past week (who had a good week, who didn’t), and the ho... | 35m 18s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 | “How we got to DRIPA” with Don Bain | Hotel Pacifico was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as FortisBC, and Wild First. Geoff and Mike welcome Don Bain, former Deputy Chief of Staff to John Horgan and former Executive Director of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. They discuss the back story to DRIPA and what happens next. In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike tackle the DRIPA drama, Conservative leadership twice, Freedom of Information, and a pipeline expansion that isn’t about... | 1h 03m 34s | ||||||
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Chart history for Hotel Pacifico
Peaked at #86 in Canada, currently #86 in Canada.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | — | #86 | #86 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.