WQHS: Tell us a little about your show.

Phil: Can we first talk about the award? So the award in itself...when we first joined WQHS, and we first logged onto the site, that very first time, when we saw those two beaming smiles of most recent DJs of the fortnight...that's when we knew. That's when we set our sights on it and it's been a year and a half, no, a year-long process but we finally attained our goal. They say the longer you wait the sweeter it is and it's absolutely true.

Doug: That's true, and I mean we're the most recent people since then, so it took us a year to get here but really it only took one try. I think we're naturally talented in this sort of thing...I don't know, I think the foreign roots sort of does help I mean coming from somewhere else and giving a different perspective is what I think our listeners admire about us.

WQHS: Tell us about your roots and Canadian perspective at Penn.

Phil: Okay, so we met because we were both drunk...one of us was drunk...this was like way back in NSO.

Doug: First night of NSO.

Phil: Yeah, first night of NSO. So, I was with a Canadian girl and funny enough the Canadian girl knew Doug--knew of Doug, a lot about him--and that's how we met. So we developed a Canadian posse, at one point we had...there was Malcolm, BrookeÉthere were 5 or 6, 4 or 5 solid Canadians and we hung out a lot during NSO.

Doug: But I mean, when he says solid Canadians he means all Canadians because all Canadians are solid...

Phil: Yeah exactly. So anyways, when I say I'm from Canada and they say 'oh do you know Jamie Besant or Adam Levy...of course we do, all the Canadians know each other because we stick together, because we're such solid people. So that's kind of where the root was. I think as we've been here for a year, we've become a lot more patriotic I would say...

WQHS: How do you incorporate Canada in your show? What sort of Canadian music do you play?

Phil: It's an expression of ourselves.

Doug: I think a really good example is I recently discovered this band called the Rural Alberta Advantage. Phil's from rural Alberta and it just speaks straight from his roots: you listen to the lyrics and it's like Phil could be writing this song... and then I have a band which we listen to called Pilot. I feel like the music is generically good and everyone could enjoy it.

Phil: And when you listen to our first song, our "Oh Canada" remix by Classified, there's so many Canadian allusions...is that the right word?

Doug: Yeah right word.

Phil: And it's just a very cultural thing. It's a factor of being away from home, and of course you know we love Penn, and we enjoy our friends here but there's nothing like home.

Doug: There's nothing like home.

Phil: In terms of coming up with the show, Doug actually found it and I don't know what his thought process was but I think he knew from the beginning that it was going to be a Canadian duo because that's inherently a big part of who we are.

WQHS: What about your DJ names?

Doug: So I'm DJ Full Mounty and Phil's DJ Alberta Furtrapper and we don't really go by anything else once we're in the studio. Whenever we have guests come on air they have to come up with their own Canadian DJ names (DJ Vancougar, DJ Slapshot). Our two particular names came from How I Met Your Mother. There's an episode where they're talking about Canadian sex positions, and they start throwing out Canadian sex positions and DJ Alberta Furtrapper and DJ Full Mounty are two of the sex positions...and so we just took it and ran...

Phil: Uh yeah, I don't think either of us have tried them.

Doug: Not yet, not yet...it's something that we need, I think, a couple more years to perfect and then we'll pull it out one day...something we aspire to again.

WQHS: What are your general music tastes? Favourite artists?

Phil: Yeah, [our music taste] is very different and we've converged a little bit...or rather I've converged to DJ Full Mounty's preferences because my preferences were clearly exclusive to me...

Doug: So, can I give you a good story, this is perfect. DJ Alberta Furtrapper's favourite band is Nickleback, if not favourite, one of his favourites and uh, I have...no, I despise Nickelback.

Phil: But background, background...so, I love Nickelback, but the background is they grew up like an hour and a half from where I'm from and so there's a little bit of that home connection too.

Doug: We put it on the show one day and I'm like Phil we cannot play this, I refuse and he's like Doug, just this once, I promise, just this once ...we lost 50 % of our listeners as soon as we put on Nickelback. Ever since that day we've banned Nickelback from our show.

Phil: So I don't think I've played Nickelback since then and after that I was gun-shy and I just let DJ Full mounty choose all the songs...we've kind of been experimenting a bit, it's pretty diverse but...I don't know what genre you'd call it, alternative rock? Almost, maybe?

Doug: Chill indie rock...something like that, but we're not extremely indie types of people, we're not hipsters through and through, so can't really pull that off either.

WQHS: What are some of the craziest requests or guest performances you've had?

Doug: One of my favourite things is we've had random people talk or connect with us. I had someone facebook message me and be like: look I'm a guy from Toronto, I'm the drummer for this band that's living in NY, would you please play our music. DJ Alberta Furtrapper got another one...

Phil: We got an email from a guy in NY whose band was called Food Will Win the War... he basically emailed us and said do you have an address so I can send you something and sure enough three or four days later after I replied and sent him my address he sent us his CD in the mail and we were just like shocked because occasionally there'll be some like random person who neither of us have ties to that hears about us some way or another, and you know...wants to be exposed, because of our large listenership.

Phil: Occasionally we've had a couple guest appearances, when one of us will do the show. They've been fun just to mix it up...we've had the two Canadians in that one time, we had a South African a couple times. That was interesting because he loves house music and it was a different kind of show. The station's fun as well, that was a big reason that we did it, just to get away from campus for a bit and focus on something else.

Doug: Because we both went different directions after freshman year, it was basically a really good way for us to stay connected and spend a couple hours with each other every week no matter what.

Stay Tuned for the Triumphant Return of the Crazian Canadians and their Radio Show, Spring 2011.