"I am a sucker for unconventional formats and improv comedy, so I was overjoyed to discover the Can of Cola debut episode of Everything Is Alive. It has fun with podcast interviewing conventions, making them so obvious because they are applied to inanimate objects. And it's played straight, which makes it even better."

- Steve Pratt, Pacific Content/CBC

Everything Is Alive is a gently surreal marvel—an interview show where inanimate objects speak, and somehow, reveal more humanity than many humans do. Created by Ian Chillag, the podcast features improvisational conversations with things like a can of soda, a lamppost, or a bar of soap, each voiced by a performer who brings deadpan wit and unexpected emotional depth.

What begins as a whimsical conceit quickly deepens into something quietly profound. These objects—curious about their own purpose, anxious about their limitations, sometimes proud, sometimes lonely—become reflections of our own existential questions. Chillag’s interviews are deceptively simple: he listens with patience, asks with warmth, and lets the absurdity settle into something surprisingly poignant.

Everything Is Alive doesn’t chase laughs or force meaning; it trusts its audience to sit in the silence between a paper towel’s quiet pride and a pillow’s confession of exhaustion. It’s a podcast of small wonders, odd beauty, and rare empathy—a show that feels both otherworldly and deeply, deeply human.