Drums recorded in shipping containers. Jonathan Haidt says we're 90% chimps and 10% bees. Laws and rules as weaponized disgust responses. Being a different person with an entirely different set of values, priorities and ethics when part of a group, as opposed to as a private individual. The Doctrine of Separation. Taught overtly or only by example, does your group live as if other Christians are in no way connected to them? Barber Shop Quartet mentors. Eating chocolate, reading murder mysteries and staying up all night.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nAdam Cavanagh: bass and saxaphone
\nDebbie Michelin: backing vocal
In the penultimate episode: People like blaming young people for stuff, and young people sometimes blame themselves. (For parents divorcing, family vehicles needing repair, and church splits.) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition, and The New King James Revised Standard Amplified Message Version. Geoff literally causes a division before age 20. Church communities as great buckets for hiding candles under. Does this song sound like the theme to TV's The Facts of Life?
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
\nTroy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars, lead guitar
\nMason: vermin killing
In this antepenultimate episode: "Canada Bill" Jones and why he played a poker game he knew was crooked. Have you ever attended a church that openly preached that their group was the only right one, or at least the rightest one by far in the area? (Or did they just live like this was the case?) In Brethren circles, non-membership has its privileges. Sports and poker metaphors. Teaching people they can't simply go to another church intensifies the fighting over everything in the group you've made the only game in town. How many drummers does one man need? A lot of painstaking technical trickery, trying to make a blast from the past blast rather than crash. Closing in prayer as a way of forestalling an open discussion.
\n\nTroy Tuttle: guitars
\nBill Ranger: bass
\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nChris Metcalfe: drums
This week, the Wikkid Podcast gets NSFW (Not Safe For A Worship Service). Kristian Kitsch. Kristian Krap so crappy you can't decide whether you're too Christian or too cool to own it. Heathen spatulas. Should there be Christian Archie comics? What would a Christian version of The Archies band play like, Sugar, Sugar? Growing up with that sacred/secular line. A discussion of two paintings, on an audio-only podcast. Are The Carpenters too wholesome to comfortably sit on the shelf next to Neil Young and Tom Waits? A juvenile British sense of humour about sex and the body. Obscenity? It's all in your polka dot undies.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"This week, the Wikkid Podcast gets NSFW (Not Safe For A Worship Service). Kristian Kitsch. Kristian Krap so crappy you can't decide whether you're too Christian or too cool to own it. Heathen spatulas. Should there be Christian Archie comics? What would a Christian version of The Archies band play like, Sugar, Sugar? Growing up with that sacred/secular line. A discussion of two paintings, on an audio-only podcast. Are The Carpenters too wholesome to comfortably sit on the shelf next to Neil Young and Tom Waits? A juvenile British sense of humour about sex and the body. Obscenity? It's all in your polka dot undies.","date_published":"2024-07-03T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/87b8db9e-707f-4da2-93c8-15aed1fac6bb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":96039395,"duration_in_seconds":6002}]},{"id":"15706a4b-dc30-4f04-9999-0b83019e7c23","title":"Episode 67: Fade From Sight","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/67","content_text":"Sometimes, in a lot of church flocks, certain sheep just... vanish, never to be seen again. And sometimes people are kind of glad, especially if they are boring, annoying or discontented sheep. And sometimes that sheep is you.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums\nTroy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitar","content_html":"Sometimes, in a lot of church flocks, certain sheep just... vanish, never to be seen again. And sometimes people are kind of glad, especially if they are boring, annoying or discontented sheep. And sometimes that sheep is you.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nTroy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitar
Trying to get to know the Unknowable a bit without claiming to know all the right answers. Growing up with an all-inclusive Universal Belief Package, you tend to walk around acting like you have all of the right thinking about anything much that matters much. Especially eternal stuff. Some of us were champions at that. This is about the process of repenting of unearned certainty of this kind.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Trying to get to know the Unknowable a bit without claiming to know all the right answers. Growing up with an all-inclusive Universal Belief Package, you tend to walk around acting like you have all of the right thinking about anything much that matters much. Especially eternal stuff. Some of us were champions at that. This is about the process of repenting of unearned certainty of this kind.","date_published":"2024-06-05T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/981c81d3-e5c0-4824-92be-0b81e65ae6a8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":83451092,"duration_in_seconds":6954}]},{"id":"5c3678a1-229b-4067-bf31-dcd8820b9ebf","title":"Episode 65: (I Don't Know) What You'd Like","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/65","content_text":"Reaching some conclusions about worship. Realizing that, given how different various people's preferences are as to worship styles, and how opinionated they are as to what they like, I had no idea what God might or might not like. If worship is for his benefit rather than our own, then surely everything's not equally good? (He didn't much like Cain's bloodless, vegan sacrifice, did he?) Can worship be so much about us and our tribe and providing a curated emotional experience that we've left God out of his own party almost entirely?\n\nAdditional Musicians:\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Reaching some conclusions about worship. Realizing that, given how different various people's preferences are as to worship styles, and how opinionated they are as to what they like, I had no idea what God might or might not like. If worship is for his benefit rather than our own, then surely everything's not equally good? (He didn't much like Cain's bloodless, vegan sacrifice, did he?) Can worship be so much about us and our tribe and providing a curated emotional experience that we've left God out of his own party almost entirely?
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Reaching some conclusions about worship. Realizing that, given how different various people's preferences are as to worship styles, and how opinionated they are as to what they like, I had no idea what God might or might not like. If worship is for his benefit rather than our own, then surely everything's not equally good? (He didn't much like Cain's bloodless, vegan sacrifice, did he?) Can worship be so much about us and our tribe and providing a curated emotional experience that we've left God out of his own party almost entirely?","date_published":"2024-05-22T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/5c3678a1-229b-4067-bf31-dcd8820b9ebf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":87163823,"duration_in_seconds":7263}]},{"id":"7d5ac150-e6f7-46ae-99c8-f64596407b99","title":"Episode 64: No One's Right","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/64","content_text":"Why can't we just get along? Ecclesiastical war. Is all the dividedness actually worse than putting up with some guy you believe is wrong about something? Did the apostles foresee streets lined with unaffiliated churches that have little or nothing to do with one another?\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums\nTroy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars\nBill Ranger: bass guitar and backing vocals","content_html":"Why can't we just get along? Ecclesiastical war. Is all the dividedness actually worse than putting up with some guy you believe is wrong about something? Did the apostles foresee streets lined with unaffiliated churches that have little or nothing to do with one another?
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nTroy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars
\nBill Ranger: bass guitar and backing vocals
A song presenting the unpopular idea that perhaps, all too often, church attendance is more about making much of Christians rather than much of God. Working on mixing a drum kit without it blasting the whole mix full of low midrange mud. All the different musical approaches to a single religious song. Should the worship team try to outdo Lady Gaga? The vegan, bloodless sacrifice of Cain. The idea that there are basic moods trying to be achieved in modern evangelical churches: feelbad or feelgood services. Happy clappy, or smells 'n bells. That some services are about quiet, inner, meditative silence, and ones that are about jubilant, group exhuberation. And that people argue over how much their church services succeed or fail at helping them feel the way they want to be helped to feel.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nBass guitar: Tyler King
The pre-episode for the upcoming Season 5, which will deal primarily with troubles connecting to church and worship services, and also with church splits/divisions. A bunch of backlogged thought and life updates.
","summary":"The pre-episode for the upcoming Season 5, which will deal primarily with troubles connecting to church and worship services, and also with church splits/divisions. A bunch of backlogged thought and life updates.","date_published":"2024-04-10T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/6dd86efb-223c-4934-b97e-9faa6797dccb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46820940,"duration_in_seconds":3901}]},{"id":"214bad1a-f31e-41e3-b06d-01cb0084b0ec","title":"Episode 61: I Live Alone","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/61","content_text":"In the last, partly ChatGPT-scripted episode of season 4 of The Wikkid Podcast, and perhaps the last episode of the pod: Can one be happy, even when living alone without a bunch of bratty kids asking for money? Hatewatching nerd properties. Cats and car woes. Doubt. Animals who may pee on your stuff. How weird can you get, living alone in the woods? \n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nTyler King: bass guitar\n\nThanks for listening!","content_html":"In the last, partly ChatGPT-scripted episode of season 4 of The Wikkid Podcast, and perhaps the last episode of the pod: Can one be happy, even when living alone without a bunch of bratty kids asking for money? Hatewatching nerd properties. Cats and car woes. Doubt. Animals who may pee on your stuff. How weird can you get, living alone in the woods?
\n\nTyler King: bass guitar
\n\nThanks for listening!
","summary":"In the last, partly ChatGPT-scripted episode of season 4 of The Wikkid Podcast, and perhaps the last episode of the pod: Can one be happy, even when living alone without a bunch of bratty kids asking for money? Hatewatching nerd properties. Cats and car woes. Doubt. Animals who may pee on your stuff. How weird can you get, living alone in the woods? \r\n\r\nThanks for listening!","date_published":"2023-06-07T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/214bad1a-f31e-41e3-b06d-01cb0084b0ec.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":99843242,"duration_in_seconds":6240}]},{"id":"3d885881-269e-4454-9c3d-47f5dbc8018e","title":"Episode 60: Except When We Are","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/60","content_text":"In this penultimate episode of Season 4, we address the longing, but often the folly, of wanting to get back in touch with someone, a relationship with whom is demonstrably going nowhere fast. Going back for afters? Some folks are so determined to keep reaching back out, that restraining orders are required. Trying to leave a rough recording of an old song mostly the way it was to begin with, for once.","content_html":"In this penultimate episode of Season 4, we address the longing, but often the folly, of wanting to get back in touch with someone, a relationship with whom is demonstrably going nowhere fast. Going back for afters? Some folks are so determined to keep reaching back out, that restraining orders are required. Trying to leave a rough recording of an old song mostly the way it was to begin with, for once.
","summary":"In this penultimate episode of Season 4, we address the longing, but often the folly, of wanting to get back in touch with someone, a relationship with whom is demonstrably going nowhere fast. Going back for afters? Some folks are so determined to keep reaching back out, that restraining orders are required. Trying to leave a rough recording of an old song mostly the way it was to begin with, for once.","date_published":"2023-05-24T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/3d885881-269e-4454-9c3d-47f5dbc8018e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67253397,"duration_in_seconds":3362}]},{"id":"042a259c-d27d-45ba-afe2-c2d71b1ebb35","title":"Episode 59: Three Chord Song","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/59","content_text":"Mid-life crises. Car troubles. Painter's tape as a guitar-playing aid. I can't quit you: Relationships with people who aren't over their ex. Betweeness. What hath God promised? Gloomy, doomy piano chords.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Mid-life crises. Car troubles. Painter's tape as a guitar-playing aid. I can't quit you: Relationships with people who aren't over their ex. Betweeness. What hath God promised? Gloomy, doomy piano chords.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Mid-life crises. Car troubles. Painter's tape as a guitar-playing aid. I can't quit you: Relationships with people who aren't over their ex. Betweeness. What hath God promised? Gloomy, doomy piano chords.","date_published":"2023-05-10T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/042a259c-d27d-45ba-afe2-c2d71b1ebb35.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":84340613,"duration_in_seconds":4216}]},{"id":"b88224e2-914c-4135-8aa8-11a25f6c601c","title":"Episode 58: Irrelevant","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/58","content_text":"Do our beliefs choose us, rather than the other way around? Doubt. People dumping you and getting right on with their lives like you never existed. Trying not to be superstitious as to one's belief in God. Car woes. From the darkness of future past: The return of Joel.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Do our beliefs choose us, rather than the other way around? Doubt. People dumping you and getting right on with their lives like you never existed. Trying not to be superstitious as to one's belief in God. Car woes. From the darkness of future past: The return of Joel.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Do our beliefs choose us, rather than the other way around? Doubt. People dumping you and getting right on with their lives like you never existed. Trying not to be superstitious as to one's belief in God. Car woes. From the darkness of future past: The return of Joel.","date_published":"2023-04-26T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/b88224e2-914c-4135-8aa8-11a25f6c601c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":58678442,"duration_in_seconds":2933}]},{"id":"b66cf0dd-1eed-42c6-ac63-d313fd8fd869","title":"Episode 57: Fine","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/57","content_text":"Telling people at work you're fine when you're really not. Me and Bruce Lee. Cats might be love from God when your Kung Fu and your church upbringing aren't working out for you. How not to read the bible. A song with a whole bunch of eff words in the middle, but nary a corrupt communication in sight.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Telling people at work you're fine when you're really not. Me and Bruce Lee. Cats might be love from God when your Kung Fu and your church upbringing aren't working out for you. How not to read the bible. A song with a whole bunch of eff words in the middle, but nary a corrupt communication in sight.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Telling people at work you're fine when you're really not. Me and Bruce Lee. Cats might be love from God when your Kung Fu and your church upbringing aren't working out for you. How not to read the bible. A song with a whole bunch of eff words in the middle, but nary a corrupt communication in sight.","date_published":"2023-04-12T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/b66cf0dd-1eed-42c6-ac63-d313fd8fd869.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":90089119,"duration_in_seconds":4504}]},{"id":"d18fcdef-98d3-4f7a-b2bd-c3453345d185","title":"Episode 56: Had To Be This Way","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/56","content_text":"Some stuff in your life really didn't work out. So you have to wonder: did it have to be this way? Did people and groups help make it that way? Why does God let crappy things happen to sad people? What does He have to say for Himself, if anything? Susan Isaacs tells her \"Central Park\" story from her book Angry Conversations With God. Michael talks about what happens when you try to date people the collective doesn't approve of.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums\nTroy Tuttle: space guitar beeps","content_html":"Some stuff in your life really didn't work out. So you have to wonder: did it have to be this way? Did people and groups help make it that way? Why does God let crappy things happen to sad people? What does He have to say for Himself, if anything? Susan Isaacs tells her "Central Park" story from her book Angry Conversations With God. Michael talks about what happens when you try to date people the collective doesn't approve of.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
\nTroy Tuttle: space guitar beeps
The Wikkid Podcast adds more cowbell and gets friendzoned this week. That is to say, it explores that experience of having grown very close with someone, a romantic relationship seeming to you to be starting out well, and suddenly being told you should be "just friends" instead. And then, instead of that meaning "sod off and leave me alone," it means you're around to provide the usual shoulder to cry on, the sounding board to sound on, and on and on. But you go along, right, because maybe she'll change her mind? Caryl says they never reverse this decision. Susan weighs in. Evan asks why, if men are famously bad at picking up on (female) hints, do women then communicate with men primarily in hints? Siri recommends against Emily blocking her ex who wants to be "just friends."
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"The Wikkid Podcast adds more cowbell and gets friendzoned this week. That is to say, it explores that experience of having grown very close with someone, a romantic relationship seeming to you to be starting out well, and suddenly being told you should be \"just friends\" instead. And then, instead of that meaning \"sod off and leave me alone,\" it means you're around to provide the usual shoulder to cry on, the sounding board to sound on, and on and on. But you go along, right, because maybe she'll change her mind? Caryl says they never reverse this decision. Susan weighs in. Evan asks why, if men are famously bad at picking up on (female) hints, do women then communicate with men primarily in hints? Siri recommends against Emily blocking her ex who wants to be \"just friends.\"","date_published":"2023-03-15T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/22c22c45-da6f-4f18-b730-c20f9cc25f8c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":50088127,"duration_in_seconds":3130}]},{"id":"76e856fd-88fc-4cb7-a1fd-b3ba4896b349","title":"Episode 54: Everywhere I Go","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/54","content_text":"\"I love you just the way you are. You're beautiful inside and out. Now... I was wondering if you'd mind changing a few things? I have a list.\" Dealbreakers vs. negotiables. More home drum recording. Church fashion doesn't fly in all venues. Looking for a fixer-upper?\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":""I love you just the way you are. You're beautiful inside and out. Now... I was wondering if you'd mind changing a few things? I have a list." Dealbreakers vs. negotiables. More home drum recording. Church fashion doesn't fly in all venues. Looking for a fixer-upper?
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"\"I love you just the way you are. You're beautiful inside and out. Now... I was wondering if you'd mind changing a few things? I have a list.\" Dealbreakers vs. negotiables. More home drum recording. Church fashion doesn't fly in all venues. Looking for a fixer-upper?","date_published":"2023-03-01T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/76e856fd-88fc-4cb7-a1fd-b3ba4896b349.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":78936088,"duration_in_seconds":4933}]},{"id":"8bd786f2-f681-4a69-95b7-2cfb41b1108a","title":"Episode 53: Sara Jay","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/53","content_text":"This Wikkid Wednesday, we take a serious look at humour.Teasing: key relationship tool or a terribly dangerous thing to play with? The therapeutic powers of The Doctor Demento Show. Humour as shot of whiskey. Food sensitivities and emotional sensitivities.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"This Wikkid Wednesday, we take a serious look at humour.Teasing: key relationship tool or a terribly dangerous thing to play with? The therapeutic powers of The Doctor Demento Show. Humour as shot of whiskey. Food sensitivities and emotional sensitivities.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"This Wikkid Wednesday, we take a serious look at humour. Teasing: key relationship tool or a terribly dangerous thing to play with? The therapeutic powers of The Doctor Demento Show. Humour as shot of whiskey. Food sensitivities and emotional sensitivities.","date_published":"2023-02-15T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/8bd786f2-f681-4a69-95b7-2cfb41b1108a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":62814148,"duration_in_seconds":3925}]},{"id":"bf87a687-6839-4a53-9f64-593e8daf82b4","title":"Episode 52: Would That Make You Happy?","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/52","content_text":"A short one. Silliness and sour grapes. \"Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen\"? Clockwork lupines. Do people really want what they tell Cosmopolitan they want in a relationship? George adds a lot to this song. Basing expectations for men on 80s sit-com dads. Being good at stuff men aren't supposed to be good at. Do nice guys finish?\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums, banjo, bass guitar","content_html":"A short one. Silliness and sour grapes. "Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen"? Clockwork lupines. Do people really want what they tell Cosmopolitan they want in a relationship? George adds a lot to this song. Basing expectations for men on 80s sit-com dads. Being good at stuff men aren't supposed to be good at. Do nice guys finish?
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums, banjo, bass guitar
","summary":"A short one. Silliness and sour grapes. \"Treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen\"? Clockwork lupines. Do people really want what they tell Cosmopolitan they want in a relationship? George adds a lot to this song. Basing expectations for men on 80s sit-com dads. Being good at stuff men around supposed to be good at. Do nice guys finish?","date_published":"2023-02-01T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/bf87a687-6839-4a53-9f64-593e8daf82b4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":84933175,"duration_in_seconds":3538}]},{"id":"441ba619-94ce-40f1-9652-5733b4a62164","title":"Episode 51: Almost Never","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/51","content_text":"Santa brings Covid for Christmas. Drums recorded in absentia. Barns burn down. Friends in neglectful, controlling and abusive relationships. The possibility of helping these friends with being drawn in too much. Is partner abuse something only men do? Trying to play guitar like Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums","content_html":"Santa brings Covid for Christmas. Drums recorded in absentia. Barns burn down. Friends in neglectful, controlling and abusive relationships. The possibility of helping these friends with being drawn in too much. Is partner abuse something only men do? Trying to play guitar like Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
","summary":"Santa brings Covid for Christmas. Drums recorded in absentia. Barns burn down. Friends in neglectful, controlling and abusive relationships. The possibility of helping these friends with being drawn in too much. Is partner abuse something only men do? Trying to play guitar like Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols.","date_published":"2023-01-18T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/441ba619-94ce-40f1-9652-5733b4a62164.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":81843307,"duration_in_seconds":6820}]},{"id":"5d59c0bd-f2c7-4f03-bb1b-1d5b8a70a81d","title":"Episode 50: (What To Do) With An Angel","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/50","content_text":"Kissing and telling. Michael Vedder and I discuss what it is to be a fundamentalist lad trying to navigate hookup culture without exactly hooking up. Wife application forms. Meghan tells us how things ended up with her Brethren paramour. Anson and I talk about being in the same room as people, but with your attention in cyberspace. Trucks get stuck in snowy laneways. It gets a little country in here.\n\nAdditional Instruments\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Kissing and telling. Michael Vedder and I discuss what it is to be a fundamentalist lad trying to navigate hookup culture without exactly hooking up. Wife application forms. Meghan tells us how things ended up with her Brethren paramour. Anson and I talk about being in the same room as people, but with your attention in cyberspace. Trucks get stuck in snowy laneways. It gets a little country in here.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
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\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
","summary":"Warning: the following program contains frank discussion of people trying to find sexual gratification in both church and hookup culture, within, and outside, the bounds of wedlocks both holy and infernal. Viewers are advised to thank me later. Meghan talks about sexual chemistry, and whether hookup culture serves dudes better than dames. Evan gives an economist's perspective on investing in a future with a good woman vs. short overnight transactions/evening deposits. Anson talks with his son about the birds and bees. George beats the hell out of his drums for me, to great effect. Real men sing standing up. I re-envision a song I wrote in the 90s for a girl who didn't like me.","date_published":"2022-12-21T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/07d5a2e2-79d3-4b15-a697-43ba8ffc25c3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":80351193,"duration_in_seconds":6695}]},{"id":"76c3c1cd-ee60-4d2c-a85e-9e4dfb7c7b0c","title":"Episode 48: Nortel Love Song","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/48","content_text":"Trying to date irreligious or only semi-religious women without getting kicked out of one's church. A song written for a high tech honey, which was fairly well received. I turn my guitar amp all the way up to three (its highest setting is six). Meghan spills the tea on her secret trysts with a member of the mysterious Plymouth Brethren Christian Church/Cult. Susan and Anson weight in on workplace romances. Evan views bible conference dating as a flawed social system. Michael talks about his first kiss, which occurred a couple of years after his first serious relationship.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Trying to date irreligious or only semi-religious women without getting kicked out of one's church. A song written for a high tech honey, which was fairly well received. I turn my guitar amp all the way up to three (its highest setting is six). Meghan spills the tea on her secret trysts with a member of the mysterious Plymouth Brethren Christian Church/Cult. Susan and Anson weight in on workplace romances. Evan views bible conference dating as a flawed social system. Michael talks about his first kiss, which occurred a couple of years after his first serious relationship.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Trying to date irreligious or only semi-religious women without getting kicked out of one's church. A song written for a high tech honey, which was fairly well received. I turn my guitar amp all the way up to three (its highest setting is six). Meghan spills the tea on her secret trysts with a member of the mysterious Plymouth Brethren Christian Church/Cult. Susan and Anson weight in on workplace romances. Evan views bible conference dating as a flawed social system. Michael talks about his first kiss, which occurred a couple of years after his first serious relationship.","date_published":"2022-12-07T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/76c3c1cd-ee60-4d2c-a85e-9e4dfb7c7b0c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":89561550,"duration_in_seconds":7463}]},{"id":"9b6b4607-3183-4c6e-9a4f-e1424fcd839b","title":"Episode 47: Stranger Lady","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/47","content_text":"Flirting. With Christian girls? Can you win a woman's heart with a song? Michael Vedder shares some firsts, including first (church) girlfriend, and first dumping of a committed church girl so he could be free to get his feet dirty enough from walking around in the actual world to possibly need to wash them. Harold talks about how a man who was the only survivor of a car accident when he was five, and who grew up without a mother, grew up to be someone who goes around hugging and complimenting everyone he meets. Meghan talks more about being a \"worldlie\" having a secret relationship with a young Plymouth Brethren Christian Church guy.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nEvan Sauve: drums","content_html":"Flirting. With Christian girls? Can you win a woman's heart with a song? Michael Vedder shares some firsts, including first (church) girlfriend, and first dumping of a committed church girl so he could be free to get his feet dirty enough from walking around in the actual world to possibly need to wash them. Harold talks about how a man who was the only survivor of a car accident when he was five, and who grew up without a mother, grew up to be someone who goes around hugging and complimenting everyone he meets. Meghan talks more about being a "worldlie" having a secret relationship with a young Plymouth Brethren Christian Church guy.
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
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\n\nIf you're 30 and you don't think you're ever going to have a bridal shower or any baby showers, can you just throw yourself a Spinster Party? Keren did...
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
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\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
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\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
\nBill Ranger: bass guitar
\nAdam Puddington: banjo
The entire host of Wikkid commenters weighs in about pointless arguments, and about whether they ever speak with, or listen to, people with whom they RILLY, RILLY disagree. Groupthink. George Carlin, Larry Norman and Faust are mentioned. Jam at George's new place. I get an electric piano. Jenny speaks Chinese for us. The huge, sprawling Death in Tiny Spoonfuls album is brought to an eerie, atmospheric close.
","summary":"The entire host of Wikkid commenters weighs in about pointless arguments, and about whether they ever speak with, or listen to, people with whom they RILLY, RILLY disagree. Groupthink. George Carlin, Larry Norman and Faust are mentioned. Jam at George's new place. I get an electric piano. Jenny speaks Chinese for us. The huge, sprawling Death in Tiny Spoonfuls album is brought to an eerie, atmospheric close.","date_published":"2022-06-22T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/b7428da0-92bb-495c-a24c-015311771ea8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":76538256,"duration_in_seconds":9567}]},{"id":"8907cf23-4d91-473d-9003-180f1639cd4e","title":"Episode 42: The Talking Dead","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/42","content_text":"Church zombies. Staff meetings and other endless sermons. Melody, Ruth and Emilee talk about what made these unceasing dronings so tedious. Michael remembers what it was like to speak up in bible study, and talk about talking about talking about the bible. Johann talks about how staff meetings should be run. Kim talks about what being a preacher's daughter was like (spoilers: it sucked) and what her preacher dad was like as a dad (spoilers: he sucked). I talk about the difference between educating people and indoctrinating them. Kim uses bible passages to write a punk song. Excerpt from \"The Grunge Song\" by The Vestibules.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums","content_html":"Church zombies. Staff meetings and other endless sermons. Melody, Ruth and Emilee talk about what made these unceasing dronings so tedious. Michael remembers what it was like to speak up in bible study, and talk about talking about talking about the bible. Johann talks about how staff meetings should be run. Kim talks about what being a preacher's daughter was like (spoilers: it sucked) and what her preacher dad was like as a dad (spoilers: he sucked). I talk about the difference between educating people and indoctrinating them. Kim uses bible passages to write a punk song. Excerpt from "The Grunge Song" by The Vestibules.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
","summary":"Church zombies. Staff meetings and other endless sermons. Melody, Ruth and Emilee talk about what made these unceasing dronings so tedious. Michael remembers what it was like to speak up in bible study, and talk about talking about talking about the bible. Johann talks about how staff meetings should be run. Kim talks about what being a preacher's daughter was like (spoilers: it sucked) and what her preacher dad was like as a dad (spoilers: he sucked). I talk about the difference between educating people and indoctrinating them. Kim uses bible passages to write a punk song. Excerpt from \"The Grunge Song\" by The Vestibules.","date_published":"2022-06-08T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/8907cf23-4d91-473d-9003-180f1639cd4e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":71000714,"duration_in_seconds":8874}]},{"id":"38cca478-4a9e-4f44-963b-9fb60cd8fd68","title":"Episode 41: The Dingo Song","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/41","content_text":"They're everywhere. You want to do your day, and they want to pull you in, online or uptown, into some kind of lecture, sermon or talk. Putting on the full armour of God and then claiming to be as thin-skinned as the princess from The Princess and the Pea. Friends: The One Where Ross Does Something Problematic. The shameless use of describing one's self in \"light\" (vs. \"dark\") and \"awakened\" (vs. \"still asleep\") terms. Fellowship: it's all about coffee, somehow, isn't it? (I don't like coffee.) Do digital or organic chipmunks sing better?","content_html":"They're everywhere. You want to do your day, and they want to pull you in, online or uptown, into some kind of lecture, sermon or talk. Putting on the full armour of God and then claiming to be as thin-skinned as the princess from The Princess and the Pea. Friends: The One Where Ross Does Something Problematic. The shameless use of describing one's self in "light" (vs. "dark") and "awakened" (vs. "still asleep") terms. Fellowship: it's all about coffee, somehow, isn't it? (I don't like coffee.) Do digital or organic chipmunks sing better?
","summary":"They're everywhere. You want to do your day, and they want to pull you in, online or uptown, into some kind of lecture, sermon or talk. Putting on the full armour of God and then claiming to be as thin-skinned as the princess from The Princess and the Pea. Friends: The One Where Ross Does Something Problematic. The shameless use of describing one's self in \"light\" (vs. \"dark\") and \"awakened\" (vs. \"still asleep\") terms. Fellowship: it's all about coffee, somehow, isn't it? (I don't like coffee.) Do digital or organic chipmunks sing better?","date_published":"2022-05-25T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/38cca478-4a9e-4f44-963b-9fb60cd8fd68.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":73395934,"duration_in_seconds":6116}]},{"id":"5f5f0b14-32e7-4c6a-8c87-6e7e3e1fb16c","title":"Episode 40: Beware the Cripple (part 2)","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/40","content_text":"Recording cello. With fireworks. An in-depth interview with John, raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, the extremist offshoot of my own birth culture, which I have no real trouble calling an outright cult. Also much insight into the Mormon experience, from Natalie. South Park. Emailed drums. Spiritual cripples looking to hobble everyone nearby.","content_html":"Recording cello. With fireworks. An in-depth interview with John, raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, the extremist offshoot of my own birth culture, which I have no real trouble calling an outright cult. Also much insight into the Mormon experience, from Natalie. South Park. Emailed drums. Spiritual cripples looking to hobble everyone nearby.
","summary":"Recording cello. With fireworks. An in-depth interview with John, raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, the extremist offshoot of my own birth culture, which I have no real trouble calling an outright cult. Also much insight into the Mormon experience, from Natalie. South Park. Emailed drums. Spiritual cripples looking to hobble everyone nearby.","date_published":"2022-05-11T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/5f5f0b14-32e7-4c6a-8c87-6e7e3e1fb16c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":78168819,"duration_in_seconds":6513}]},{"id":"1a972edf-c703-4216-801a-6e9357180c31","title":"Episode 39: Beware the Cripple (part 1)","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/39","content_text":"It's pretty hard to talk to people when they've got you cast in a different story from the one you feel you're living. Religious groups that split up family relationships. Trying to interact with family and friends from a group that's kicked you out of it. The difference between getting kicked out and leaving voluntarily. Playing with Plato. Narcissism and gnosticism. ","content_html":"It's pretty hard to talk to people when they've got you cast in a different story from the one you feel you're living. Religious groups that split up family relationships. Trying to interact with family and friends from a group that's kicked you out of it. The difference between getting kicked out and leaving voluntarily. Playing with Plato. Narcissism and gnosticism.
","summary":"It's pretty hard to talk to people when they've got you cast in a different story from the one you feel you're living. Religious groups that split up family relationships. Trying to interact with family and friends from a group that's kicked you out of it. The difference between getting kicked out and leaving voluntarily. ","date_published":"2022-04-27T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/1a972edf-c703-4216-801a-6e9357180c31.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69670768,"duration_in_seconds":8708}]},{"id":"94e08a90-3d25-45d3-98ad-e05970f5b65f","title":"Episode 38: Friday Night","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/38","content_text":"If you had a chance to sit down of an evening and have a chat with the residents of a community graveyard, what would you ask them? The Guy Code. GenXers sorry to get everything we always wanted. People who will move heaven and earth to avoid having conversations that need to be had.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums","content_html":"If you had a chance to sit down of an evening and have a chat with the residents of a community graveyard, what would you ask them? The Guy Code. GenXers sorry to get everything we always wanted. People who will move heaven and earth to avoid having conversations that need to be had.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
","summary":"If you had a chance to sit down of an evening and have a chat with the residents of a community graveyard, what would you ask them? The Guy Code. GenXers sorry to get everything we always wanted. People who will move heaven and earth to avoid having conversations that need to be had.","date_published":"2022-04-13T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/94e08a90-3d25-45d3-98ad-e05970f5b65f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":78470063,"duration_in_seconds":6539}]},{"id":"50c5b1b8-e2dc-4a99-a7e7-3ae42b9610ac","title":"Episode 37: Disappointed","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/37","content_text":"What makes you really feel alive? What makes you feel like you're sleepwalking through a living death? The importance of play. What works when you feel like crap? Where does inspiration come from?","content_html":"What makes you really feel alive? What makes you feel like you're sleepwalking through a living death? The importance of play. What works when you feel like crap? Where does inspiration come from?
","summary":"What makes you really feel alive? What makes you feel like you're sleepwalking through a living death? The importance of play. What works when you feel like crap? Where does inspiration come from?","date_published":"2022-03-30T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/50c5b1b8-e2dc-4a99-a7e7-3ae42b9610ac.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":81887506,"duration_in_seconds":6823}]},{"id":"0a954b4e-716b-4665-89f7-9afacd0a336b","title":"Episode 36: Why Not?","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/36","content_text":"What's it like to experience suicidal ideation? Many people do. Finding a good answer to the question \"Why not?\" Why does writing and singing and recording about dark thoughts help them go away? Everyone needs to deal with death in some form, from time to time. What works? Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes and I go over songs he's written that tell \"a pretty dark story, but with a happy tune.\" Where was all the bliss supposed to come from, in Christianity? Troy reveals his favourite jokey stuff I've recorded. I record George playing drums in my living room. Singing into the corner of a room. I strum guitars with a razorblade for a pick. \n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums","content_html":"What's it like to experience suicidal ideation? Many people do. Finding a good answer to the question "Why not?" Why does writing and singing and recording about dark thoughts help them go away? Everyone needs to deal with death in some form, from time to time. What works? Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes and I go over songs he's written that tell "a pretty dark story, but with a happy tune." Where was all the bliss supposed to come from, in Christianity? Troy reveals his favourite jokey stuff I've recorded. I record George playing drums in my living room. Singing into the corner of a room. I strum guitars with a razorblade for a pick.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
","summary":"What's it like to experience suicidal ideation? Many people do. Finding a good answer to the question \"Why not?\" Why does writing and singing and recording about dark thoughts help them go away? Everyone needs to deal with death in some form, from time to time. What works? Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes and I go over songs he's written that tell \"a pretty dark story, but with a happy tune.\" Where was all the bliss supposed to come from, in Christianity? Troy reveals his favourite jokey stuff I've recorded. I record George playing drums in my living room. Singing into the corner of a room. I strum guitars with a razorblade for a pick. ","date_published":"2022-03-16T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/0a954b4e-716b-4665-89f7-9afacd0a336b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70358311,"duration_in_seconds":8794}]},{"id":"41c08c3d-75ed-4d02-9c61-dc3541b072dc","title":"Episode 35: Please Come With Us","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/35","content_text":"Getting the boot or walking away from one's birth culture. Doesn't matter whether you're fundamentalist Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Sikh or Mormon... it's quite the mind effword. A bunch of stories, including people who were excommunicated and shunned for being gay. An elaborate music collaboration manages to get the song done two hours before the podcast airs...\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nGuitar and riffwriting: Troy Tuttle\nDrums: George Turcotte (YouTube music channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYyXQ7ItRMjEN8FNn9LrPw )","content_html":"Getting the boot or walking away from one's birth culture. Doesn't matter whether you're fundamentalist Christian, Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Sikh or Mormon... it's quite the mind effword. A bunch of stories, including people who were excommunicated and shunned for being gay. An elaborate music collaboration manages to get the song done two hours before the podcast airs...
\n\nGuitar and riffwriting: Troy Tuttle
\nDrums: George Turcotte (YouTube music channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsYyXQ7ItRMjEN8FNn9LrPw )
Is evil a thing? Are some people, and do some people do, evil? (What did John Douglas, the man who invented the profiling of serial killers for the FBI think?) When you realize your fear and disgust, respect and acceptance responses are programmed into you.
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums and "alright!"
\nDave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage
Kids these days! Having your perspectives and concerns invalidated in a church circle if you were in your 20s, hadn't got married and had kids. Have modern kids been coddled? (yes). Can we do anything about that? (probably not.) The importance of bike rides. Boredom as the mother of invention, and if there's insufficient boredom?
\n\nDebbie Michelin: singing bowl and vocalizations
\nEvan Sauve: drums
Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and "correction"? Why? Is enjoying a thing "idolatry" and cheating on God?
\n\nIs getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Do we all have an inner Grinch? (we do.)
\n\nPop music, Harry Potter, gym selfies, TV, comic books and pants... the things we gave up to keep our church status. If it makes you happy, it can't be that good, right?
\n\nEconomist, Season 3 interview contributor Evan emails drum parts played on a digital kit to be used on this week's song! (This week, I go as Pink Floyd as I possibly can...)
\n\nEvan Sauve: drums
","summary":"Pleasure, joy and happiness. Targets for offense, shame and \"correction\"? Why? Is getting annoyed about anything that brings other people joy, but not you, more common than we want to admit? Idols.","date_published":"2022-01-19T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/3d8bab8d-dbb8-41c1-a940-3d2360afff4c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":83624127,"duration_in_seconds":6968}]},{"id":"b7f6c0f7-cf58-4089-b235-aae421fccfed","title":"Episode 31: Red Sweater","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/31","content_text":"A silly little song, a violent bible reading and a very unfunny revisiting of messed up church attitudes about sex, with Angel DeSantis talking in detail in the middle of the episode about being born into and growing up in The Children of God/The Family, a pedophile sex cult. (warning, this episode contains a trigger warning, and trigger warnings in and of themselves are found to increase stress and alarm.)\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nMy Washing Machine: percussion\nGeorge Turcotte: drums and additional percussion","content_html":"A silly little song, a violent bible reading and a very unfunny revisiting of messed up church attitudes about sex, with Angel DeSantis talking in detail in the middle of the episode about being born into and growing up in The Children of God/The Family, a pedophile sex cult. (warning, this episode contains a trigger warning, and trigger warnings in and of themselves are found to increase stress and alarm.)
\n\nMy Washing Machine: percussion
\nGeorge Turcotte: drums and additional percussion
A fun one about high school, and what was cool, and why we weren't. Popped collars, Ralph Lauren rugby shirts, boat shoes, depression and all the rest of it. I got a real live professional punk bass player/Plymouth Brethren missionary's daughter to play on this one!
\n\nGeorge Turcotte: drums
\nKim "Like A Motorcycle" Carson: bass
Do you have a problem with rules, especially ones that have never been put into words? Is Christianity about hiding one's self away in a church to keep spiritually safe? What would Frank Zappa have to say?
\n\nJoel D'amour: additional voices
","summary":"Do you have a problem with rules, especially ones that have never been put into words? Is Christianity about hiding one's self away in a church to keep spiritually safe? What would Frank Zappa have to say?","date_published":"2021-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/02847fb1-581b-430e-97d1-c93aac09ff36.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":74230390,"duration_in_seconds":6185}]},{"id":"bfc70242-34fe-40d5-bbdb-bbf9f8b824e9","title":"Episode 27: The Walking Dead","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/27","content_text":"A whole bunch of musings on alcohol, from people who sell it, to rock stars who drank too much of it, to people who grew up in farm country where some people applied it internally, hourly.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\ndrums: George Turcotte","content_html":"A whole bunch of musings on alcohol, from people who sell it, to rock stars who drank too much of it, to people who grew up in farm country where some people applied it internally, hourly.
\n\ndrums: George Turcotte
","summary":"A whole bunch of musings on alcohol, from people who sell it, to rock stars who drank too much of it, to people who grew up in farm country where some people applied it internally, hourly.","date_published":"2021-11-24T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/bfc70242-34fe-40d5-bbdb-bbf9f8b824e9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":85536603,"duration_in_seconds":7127}]},{"id":"67b00b9c-ebfa-4199-85d3-4c57a6238f9d","title":"Episode 28: Vultures In The Sky","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/28","content_text":"Death In Tiny Spoonfuls: An album/novel concept that centers around entropy, death and impermanence. The value of an outside perspective from someone new. How would your church have seemed to an outsider wandering in? Music production discussion with Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\ndrums: George Turcotte\nslide guitar: Tim Ellis","content_html":"Death In Tiny Spoonfuls: An album/novel concept that centers around entropy, death and impermanence. The value of an outside perspective from someone new. How would your church have seemed to an outsider wandering in? Music production discussion with Jay Semko of The Northern Pikes.
\n\ndrums: George Turcotte
\nslide guitar: Tim Ellis
An influx of new voices into the podcast is announced, including my elusive sister, my old bandmate Troy, and Jay Semko, singer, songwriter and bass player for The Northern Pikes, and a host of others. Three ways people tend to deal with conflict. Writing songs. A revisiting of what's been asserted by the podcast thus far.
","summary":"An influx of new voices into the podcast is announced, including my elusive sister, my old bandmate Troy, and Jay Semko, singer, songwriter and bass player for The Northern Pikes, and a host of others. Three ways people tend to deal with conflict. Writing songs. A revisiting of what's been asserted by the podcast thus far.","date_published":"2021-11-10T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/ac816224-a161-43ab-9cd3-2e877dd11d7f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":98707229,"duration_in_seconds":3084}]},{"id":"27294355-edf6-4f08-b73e-d37167479a8a","title":"Episode 25: How Long?","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/25","content_text":"Last episode of Season Two. I've always had a deep and abiding interest in evil. (Not in doing it. In how it's depicted one way in the bible, and a very different way everywhere else). Making self-fulfilling prophecies about other people. Homer, Virgil, Dante, Goethe, Milton and so on. All the guys. Spitting in the eye of despair.\n\nAdditional Musicians\nAdam Cavanaugh: saxaphone sample\nTyler Irving: keyboard saxaphone","content_html":"Last episode of Season Two. I've always had a deep and abiding interest in evil. (Not in doing it. In how it's depicted one way in the bible, and a very different way everywhere else). Making self-fulfilling prophecies about other people. Homer, Virgil, Dante, Goethe, Milton and so on. All the guys. Spitting in the eye of despair.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nAdam Cavanaugh: saxaphone sample
\nTyler Irving: keyboard saxaphone
Cars rusting in fields. Gene Simmons of KISS action figures. Bass players and pretty girls who alike don't show up. Being told you're laid off work. Again. Did I write this song or did Martin Luther, Fanny Crosby or Thom Yorke? Tyler uses whatever he's got lying around the house. Two main kinds of churches selling two main kinds of product. What suited me about my own church, in retrospect. When are you making things better, and when you gilding the lily? My most-requested (noncomedic) song.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nTyler King: upright bass, mandolin, piano
I get some help to attempt an country song, sung by the Almighty. Life advice for me from an 80s hair metal shredder lead guitarist. Neon pink, bubblegum-flavoured church icing on your steak and mashed potatoes. Why doesn't Michael Sweet age? How much of Stryper is, as he claims, mainly just him? The Christian answer to everything (besides "go to church") is "surrender all to God." (Let go and let God.) Let God make all your life's decisions, essentially. Well, two problems: 1) if you grew up with your life entirely bound to church expectations, you have no say over your "all" to begin with. You can't surrender something you're not in possession of. 2) What if God refuses to make your life decisions for you? Bill tells us what Christians do. Teenagers wandering the street at night, drunk and looking for trouble, benefit from more rules, expectations and structure. Teenagers raised with no freedom are all full up. The Almighty covers Cheap Trick.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nGeorge Turcotte: drums, mandolin, pedal steel
\nTyler Irving: piano
What if your church took everything, leaving you nothing to "surrender all" to God? If God's real, are we cool with Him being a person with a personality? If so, what kind of personality? What does He want? Some lions are "Born Free" (by Andy Williams) and others aren't. Slipping restraining bolts, dwarf-following and joining Starfleet through the wardrobe. People can make texts appear to have only one possible interpretation, but that's simple-minded. Attempting a wikkid groove.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\ndrums: George Turcotte
Drunks who get saved into churchified sobriety have to ensure they don't backslide into the gutter, the misery and the puke. But people like me? We had to ensure we didn't backslide into that grey, bland, paranoid, controlled, muted, competitive piety thing. The "everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you." culture, with people dying inside. Why you don't need to buy a 12-string guitar to get a 12-string sound. The rise and fall of Kevin Smith. Kids know EXACTLY what their parents are getting wrong, but will most likely repeat the same mistakes or invent ones of their own when it's their turn. Neil Gaiman says "make good art." Deer hunting with toothpaste. Making sure that, like a shark, I keep moving forward, keep making stuff, to keep alive, even if people think it's amateurish, vain, negative or casts certain people and groups in a bad light.
\n\n\n\nhttp://www.teenagepharisee.com/
","summary":"Drunks who get saved into churchified sobriety have to ensure they don't backslide into the gutter, the misery and the puke. But people like me? We had to ensure we didn't backslide into that grey, bland, paranoid, controlled, muted, competitive piety thing. The \"everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.\" culture, with people dying inside. Why you don't need to buy a 12-string guitar to get a 12-string sound. The rise and fall of Kevin Smith. Kids know EXACTLY what their parents are getting wrong, but will most likely repeat the same mistakes or invent ones of their own when it's their turn. Neil Gaiman says \"make good art.\" Deer hunting with toothpaste. Making sure that, like a shark, I keep moving forward, keep making stuff, to keep alive, even if people think it's amateurish, vain, negative or casts certain people and groups in a bad light.","date_published":"2021-07-07T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/e9ecd638-ebfd-40e0-9e49-a5470cdda8cb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":62774024,"duration_in_seconds":2615}]},{"id":"0be1ac9e-18a1-48e6-a4c8-9af6a64a750b","title":"Episode 19: The End","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/19","content_text":"What happens when people are \"raised on rails,\" like locomotives on tracks that take them to church and nowhere else, and they jump out of the groove and start heading up the road at speed? How bad can things get? Was the Lord speaking? (If trigger warnings worked, this ep would surely have one.)\n\nAdditional Musicians\nbacking vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin\nkeyboards: Harold Satomayor\n\npainting on map: Michael Vedder","content_html":"What happens when people are "raised on rails," like locomotives on tracks that take them to church and nowhere else, and they jump out of the groove and start heading up the road at speed? How bad can things get? Was the Lord speaking? (If trigger warnings worked, this ep would surely have one.)
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nbacking vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin
\nkeyboards: Harold Satomayor
painting on map: Michael Vedder
","summary":"What happens when people are \"raised on rails,\" like locomotives on tracks that take them to church and nowhere else, and they jump out of the groove and start heading up the road at speed? How bad can things get? Was the Lord speaking? (If trigger warnings worked, this ep would surely have one.)","date_published":"2021-06-30T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/0be1ac9e-18a1-48e6-a4c8-9af6a64a750b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":83721302,"duration_in_seconds":3488}]},{"id":"e819dc0e-9f60-4881-8342-a7d4e5791b3f","title":"Episode 18: Proud Someday","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/18","content_text":"Excommunicated! Shunned for Life! Unintentional fundamentalist outreach porn. \n(The winner of last week's Retro 90s Trivia Contest is Evan Sauve, who wasn't born yet in the 90s, with Troy Tuttle being disqualified due to having been at most of the same concerts I was at, giving him, I felt, an unfair advantage. ) \nThis week: Failing to meet parental fundamentalist expectations, and trying to maintain a relationship with them anyway. Having one's birth culture/a global Christian community excommunicate shun one worldwide, and for life. There's nothing spiritual in laughing at people. Not even the children of Israel, St. Peter and St. Thomas. Worldly people and other churches either. Mocking: what Gen Xers, the 90s, and our Christian community, were all about. South Park. Tarantino formula = violence + pop culture + style. Twitter bans.","content_html":"Excommunicated! Shunned for Life! Unintentional fundamentalist outreach porn.
\n(The winner of last week's Retro 90s Trivia Contest is Evan Sauve, who wasn't born yet in the 90s, with Troy Tuttle being disqualified due to having been at most of the same concerts I was at, giving him, I felt, an unfair advantage. )
\nThis week: Failing to meet parental fundamentalist expectations, and trying to maintain a relationship with them anyway. Having one's birth culture/a global Christian community excommunicate shun one worldwide, and for life. There's nothing spiritual in laughing at people. Not even the children of Israel, St. Peter and St. Thomas. Worldly people and other churches either. Mocking: what Gen Xers, the 90s, and our Christian community, were all about. South Park. Tarantino formula = violence + pop culture + style. Twitter bans.
A Wikkid Contest: There's a 90s pop culture game in this week's podcast! Email me at wikkidperson@gmail.com with your best identification of the many 90s computer and video game sounds, standup comics and live bands in the montage that starts around 20min in. Winners will be mentioned by name (unless they request otherwise) in future podcast episodes.
\n Exploring the idea that The World, rather than being only a horrible, toxic trap for Christians, might also be a safe place to have some healthy fun.
Additional Musicians
\nvocals: Mindy Amelotte
\ntechno beats/programming: Derek Leonard
The giant killer conscience, created in the lab/church, goes on a rampage, stamping on pool halls, arcades, video rental stores, Dungeons & Dragons and other random things. Our church divides in two, and I try my first beer, movie at the theatre, and live musical act, at age 21.
","summary":"The giant killer conscience, created in the lab/church, goes on a rampage, stamping on pool halls, arcades, video rental stores, Dungeons & Dragons and other random things. Our church divides in two, and I try my first beer, movie at the theatre, and live musical act, at age 21.","date_published":"2021-06-09T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/72d586ee-461d-4e79-9500-fe48a7c5ba48.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61645116,"duration_in_seconds":1926}]},{"id":"f55ad464-504f-4ea7-9e1c-b8ca2699ffb7","title":"Episode 15: Eugene's Poem","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/15","content_text":"Sick of trying to sharpen iron on jello, our protagonist starts frequenting people who are smarter than he is, and crazier too. Looking for Mr. Miyagi. Poetry intended to cause offense. Too much thinking being done, in the opinion of the old folks at church. Stealth beer. Kids raised too blandly crave intensity. Scottish drinking songs. My best \"fit\" in a band. I don't sing the lead vocals on this one. I don't write the lyrics either. (Enjoying the wonders of collaboration.)\n\nAdditional Musicians\nTyler King: lead vocal\nDanielle Leplante: backing vocals\nGeorge Turcotte: drums and mandolin","content_html":"Sick of trying to sharpen iron on jello, our protagonist starts frequenting people who are smarter than he is, and crazier too. Looking for Mr. Miyagi. Poetry intended to cause offense. Too much thinking being done, in the opinion of the old folks at church. Stealth beer. Kids raised too blandly crave intensity. Scottish drinking songs. My best "fit" in a band. I don't sing the lead vocals on this one. I don't write the lyrics either. (Enjoying the wonders of collaboration.)
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nTyler King: lead vocal
\nDanielle Leplante: backing vocals
\nGeorge Turcotte: drums and mandolin
As I grew up in Canada with a French-Canadian grandmother and a British one, and as Quebec is a short drive from here, as is America, there's a lot to say about that. Pretty short podcast episode, though. Stuff about all things French, having French Brethren who needed a translation other than the King James Version to read, and who were culturally fairly unBrethren. Les petit phoques suffoque sur les flocons de glace. Bleu Nuit. Cheech and Chong in French? Why I was somewhat chagrined to see Flight of the Conchords do a funny song in nonsense French about twenty years after I had. More shenanigans with my Brethren creative friends. Smurfs/Schtroumpfs. My silly songs usually go over better than my serious moody ones.
\n\nMastering
\nTy Tabor
Girls. Chickadees. Depression helped along by a double-barrelled romantic failure to launch. Meeting Brethren creatives? Trying to sing like Robert Smith? A very silly song.
\n\nAddtional Musicians:
\nUkelele: Mindy Amelotte
\nTuba: Paul Norris
\nMichael Vedder vocals: Michael Vedder
\nMastering: Ty Tabor
By listener request, I break down the contradictory basic theology spoon fed to use as Christian kids. Also, I talk about vows made while drunk on the mountaintop experience of youth camp and bible conferences. A case against repression and denial of flaming youth. Sometimes you need more cowbell but you don't have one. It might get loud.
","summary":"By listener request, I break down the contradictory basic theology spoon fed to use as Christian kids. Also, I talk about vows made while drunk on the mountaintop experience of youth camp and bible conferences. A case against repression and denial of flaming youth. Sometimes you need more cowbell but you don't have one. It might get loud.","date_published":"2021-05-12T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/97b65ace-2a23-4c87-86f8-75923ad347a1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":76823722,"duration_in_seconds":2400}]},{"id":"994cb5b8-7251-4b99-a338-cac8db4aaed2","title":"Episode 11: Bigger Frame","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/11","content_text":"In order to grow out of things, you need to change, and change is hard and can be scary. I get my first multitrack recorder and explore various things that could be done with it. Home-made smurfs. Backwards guitar solos. Does Queen's \"Another One Bites the Dust\" really say \"it's fun to smoke marijuana\" when played backwards? Meeting non-Meeting musicians. Why recording a band is hard. Why working together in a band is harder. Getting drums on my stuff. Did my late uncle's voice sound surprisingly like fellow Torontonian Jordan Peterson's?\n\nAdditional Musician\ndrums: George Turcotte","content_html":"In order to grow out of things, you need to change, and change is hard and can be scary. I get my first multitrack recorder and explore various things that could be done with it. Home-made smurfs. Backwards guitar solos. Does Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" really say "it's fun to smoke marijuana" when played backwards? Meeting non-Meeting musicians. Why recording a band is hard. Why working together in a band is harder. Getting drums on my stuff. Did my late uncle's voice sound surprisingly like fellow Torontonian Jordan Peterson's?
\n\nAdditional Musician
\ndrums: George Turcotte
The last episode of season one, about the last song on The Story of Peter Grey. It's about words helping, but not being enough. It has humpback whales.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\nOriginal Drums: Tim Searles
\nNew Drums: Chris Metcalfe
\nRotoVibe Bass, electric guitar and backing vocals: Bill Ranger
\nFeatured Guitar solo and Edge-work: Troy Tuttle
\nChoir: Debbie Moore-Michelin, Andrew "Mish" Michelin, Michael Vedder, Bethany Rule-Vedder, Bill Ranger, Cedar Knebel
Check out Mish's own work at The All Canadian Soundclash.
\n\nComing soon: The Wikkid Podcast Season Two. Peter Grey Grows Up.
","summary":"The last episode of season one, about the last song on The Story of Peter Grey. It's about words helping, but not being enough. It has humpback whales.\r\n\r\nComing soon: The Wikkid Podcast Season Two. Peter Grey Grows Up.","date_published":"2021-04-21T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/39c05f04-d48c-458d-a21b-8958333203f5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47585142,"duration_in_seconds":1922}]},{"id":"212a5120-720e-49cd-84b3-0aa3a22db423","title":"Episode 9: Solitary","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/9","content_text":"This Wikkid Wednesday, it might get loud. Why were loud music, loud clothing and other intense experiences, somehow threatening to our fundamentalist upbringing? Why did exuberance make the other folks uncomfortable? How did I find my way from Neil Diamond to White Zombie? A sad tracing of the attempts of a man with a smooth baritone voice to shred or otherwise do metal. Is it possible to do all of exactly the right things to end up single and alone? Singleness and solitude as a sentence handed down by church and mainstream society alike?\n\nAdditional Musicians:\nOriginal Drums: Tim Searles\nDrums: Chris Metcalfe\nBass guitar: Adam Fogo\nGuitar soloing: Troy Tuttle\nBacking harmonies: Debbie Moore-Michelin\n\nNowadays, Stryper is back, and still doing bibles to the wall metal, albeit of a less on-the-nose evangelical bent. http://www.stryper.com/\nKing’s X still puts out albums from time to time. Ty Tabor does online mastering here: http://alienbeansstudio.com/ \n\nIf you would be interested in two guys looking at the bible with an attempt to view it more as the Jewish people of its time might have viewed it, rather than how we normally do, check out Brent and Marty at The BEMA Podcast https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/episodes \n\nIf you would be interested in a Generation Xer who is an expert in collecting and repairing 70s and 80s toys and action figures, with a special interest in 80s movies and TV as well, but who isn’t simply wanting a firehose of fun from Disney nowadays, with whatever they choose to give us, check out Michael at Retroblasting on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/retroblasting ","content_html":"This Wikkid Wednesday, it might get loud. Why were loud music, loud clothing and other intense experiences, somehow threatening to our fundamentalist upbringing? Why did exuberance make the other folks uncomfortable? How did I find my way from Neil Diamond to White Zombie? A sad tracing of the attempts of a man with a smooth baritone voice to shred or otherwise do metal. Is it possible to do all of exactly the right things to end up single and alone? Singleness and solitude as a sentence handed down by church and mainstream society alike?
\n\nAdditional Musicians:
\nOriginal Drums: Tim Searles
\nDrums: Chris Metcalfe
\nBass guitar: Adam Fogo
\nGuitar soloing: Troy Tuttle
\nBacking harmonies: Debbie Moore-Michelin
Nowadays, Stryper is back, and still doing bibles to the wall metal, albeit of a less on-the-nose evangelical bent. http://www.stryper.com/
\nKing’s X still puts out albums from time to time. Ty Tabor does online mastering here: http://alienbeansstudio.com/
If you would be interested in two guys looking at the bible with an attempt to view it more as the Jewish people of its time might have viewed it, rather than how we normally do, check out Brent and Marty at The BEMA Podcast https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/episodes
\n\nIf you would be interested in a Generation Xer who is an expert in collecting and repairing 70s and 80s toys and action figures, with a special interest in 80s movies and TV as well, but who isn’t simply wanting a firehose of fun from Disney nowadays, with whatever they choose to give us, check out Michael at Retroblasting on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/retroblasting
","summary":"This Wikkid Wednesday, it might get loud. Why were loud music, loud clothing and other intense experiences, somehow threatening to our fundamentalist upbringing? Why did exuberance make the other folks uncomfortable? How did I find my way from Neil Diamond to White Zombie? A sad tracing of the attempts of a man with a smooth baritone voice to shred or otherwise do metal. Is it possible to do all of exactly the right things to end up single and alone? Singleness and solitude as a sentence handed down by church and mainstream society alike?\r\n\r\nAdditional Musicians:\r\nOriginal Drums: Tim Searles\r\nDrums: Chris Metcalfe\r\nBass guitar: Adam Fogo\r\nGuitar soloing: Troy Tuttle\r\nBacking harmonies: Debbie Moore-Michelin\r\n\r\nStryper is back, and still doing metal, albeit of a less on-the-nose evangelical bent.\r\nKing’s X still puts out albums from time to time. Ty Tabor does online mastering here: http://alienbeansstudio.com/ \r\nIf you would be interested in two guys looking at the bible with an attempt to view it as the Jewish people of its time might have viewed it, taking a step back from how we normally do, check out Brett and Marty at The BEMA Podcast https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/episodes \r\nIf you would be interested in a Generation Xer who is an expert in collecting and repairing 70s and 80s toys and action figures, with a special interest in 80s movies and TV as well, but who isn’t simply wanting a firehose of fun from Disney nowadays, with whatever they choose to give us, check out Michael at Retroblasting on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/retroblasting \r\n","date_published":"2021-04-14T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/212a5120-720e-49cd-84b3-0aa3a22db423.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69523219,"duration_in_seconds":3411}]},{"id":"75c10759-69d5-4824-81fc-74ab9b122247","title":"Episode 8: In the Hole","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/8","content_text":"An attempt at something more akin to cinematic score, commemorating the worst place I ever lived. I get a violinist and a bass singer in. Stories of trying to connect with Christians outside the church I grew up in.\n\nAdditional Musicians\n\nViolins: Tanya Onysko\nBass vocal: Julian Kolbaiev\nFeatured Bridge vocal: Debbie Moore-Michelin\nBlood-curdling scream: Bill Ranger","content_html":"An attempt at something more akin to cinematic score, commemorating the worst place I ever lived. I get a violinist and a bass singer in. Stories of trying to connect with Christians outside the church I grew up in.
\n\nAdditional Musicians
\n\nViolins: Tanya Onysko
\nBass vocal: Julian Kolbaiev
\nFeatured Bridge vocal: Debbie Moore-Michelin
\nBlood-curdling scream: Bill Ranger
That special feeling when a relationship you were counting on fizzles out. Do hardships make depression worse? Layering things over a two-chord symphony. Mr. Wizard plays with dry ice into a microphone.
\n\nAdditional Musicians:
\nBacking vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin, Mindy Amelotte
\nDrums: Chris Metcalfe
\nHarmony: Chris Pasely
\nAdditional electric guitar textures: Troy Tuttle
\nPlaying the part of "Syd" Barrett the Cat: Nick "Mason" the Cat.
This week's episode goes into the lifelong, fruitless quest to bear fruit, to be someone who doesn't accept yourself, yet find someone who accepts you. Also, endlessly, obsessively messing around with songs that sound too much like other songs. In fact, this week's episode is very music heavy.
\n\nAdditional Artists:
\nFeatured Female Vocal: Mindy Amelotte
\nFemale Backing Vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin
\nSpoken Vocal samples: Anna Isley, Evan Sauve, Don Billosolly
"Late 90s" piano and guitar: Tyler Irving and Jason King
\nBass Guitar on final version: Bill Ranger
Drum Loops from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt5r84pq7-UF7FaNKyGhZzA and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGbbvPQg5nE-b7zYwlxJ2-w and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWJur6622W1iLZccSn06uQ
","summary":"How do you safely ascertain if a girl you've noticed has noticed you, and in a good way? Is it really just a status-establishing mating dance after all? What do you do when your song keeps sounding like \"Knocking on Heaven's Door\" nor matter how many ways you rejig it and record it?","date_published":"2021-03-24T00:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/7a75d35f-60f0-4817-941f-ae3c73f9d297.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":89906294,"duration_in_seconds":2747}]},{"id":"25a25dc1-3285-4aef-bb18-b4366585a3d9","title":"Episode 5: Woman (As Concept)","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/5","content_text":"Trying to start something with a woman seemed on a level with attempting a trip to the moon. \nJohn Brereton holds forth on the evils of teaching contraception in sex ed class at school, all without uttering the words “sex” or “contraception.” Paul Washer insists that it’s definitely not poetry. Kris Priestap sings in 1989. \nI discover that theremins are the most fretless instruments I have attempted (besides drums, of course). Can you tell whether my sister is singing backward or forward? Will all the spacey, beepy, funky stuff blend? Can I Barry White?\n\nPersonnel\nBass: Adam Fogo\nKeyboard: Mike Dubue\nBacking Vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin\nElectric Guitar Beeps: Troy Tuttle","content_html":"Trying to start something with a woman seemed on a level with attempting a trip to the moon.
\nJohn Brereton holds forth on the evils of teaching contraception in sex ed class at school, all without uttering the words “sex” or “contraception.” Paul Washer insists that it’s definitely not poetry. Kris Priestap sings in 1989.
\nI discover that theremins are the most fretless instruments I have attempted (besides drums, of course). Can you tell whether my sister is singing backward or forward? Will all the spacey, beepy, funky stuff blend? Can I Barry White?
Personnel
\nBass: Adam Fogo
\nKeyboard: Mike Dubue
\nBacking Vocals: Debbie Moore-Michelin
\nElectric Guitar Beeps: Troy Tuttle
Bitterness: like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die? A serious look at suicidal ideation, youthful resentment and a mania for bladed weapons. A church culture in which there were few worse sins than being resentful if they mistreated you, and "forgiveness" was your job, not theirs.
\n\nI was delighted to score a session player who could do Spanish guitar. Had to play conga drums myself. Had a teacher colleague add some chimey electric and soloing to my mudslide/ocean surf rhythm guitar sound. Tinkered with recordings of my sister doing horror movie style screams to make them sound more disturbing. Stuff like that.
\n\nPersonnel
\nDrums: Gloria Haslan-Garbuio
\nBass: Andy Graham
\nFancy Acoustic: Chris Lochner
\nAdditional Chimey and Solo Electric Guitars: Jason King
\nAdditional Chorus Vocals: Jason King and Bill Ranger
\nScreams/Wolves: Debbie Moore-Michelin
\nAlexander Scourby stand-in: Dave Whelen
A bit of an irate response to cheery folks who don't want the rest of us to bring them down. "Don't Worry Be Happy" was not my favourite song in the 80s.
\nPersonnel:
Replacement Drums: Chris Metcalfe
\nBass: Adam Fogo
\nSlide Guitar: Trevor Finlay
\nJohnny Rotten stand-in: Bill Ranger
\nSean Connery stand-in: Dave Whelen
...with Mike Dubue and Suki Akemi Wellman playing the parts of "Ken" and "Jen."
","summary":"Overdoing adolescent depression. What helped me (a bit.) Adults didn't seem to be able to help at all. Working on my music with other people, both real and imagined. Being a bit of a post-John Yoko Ono in the recording studio? A recently unearthed, long-lost interstitial intro!","date_published":"2021-03-03T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/3f620908-7e7b-4362-8f0a-c3b2c5393a21.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":77722195,"duration_in_seconds":2366}]},{"id":"af746b6e-5ec0-4285-92e7-248dcdb8e1b2","title":"Episode 2: Turning Black","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/2","content_text":"What was adolescent depression like? How did school and youth group make it much worse? How to turn abject misery into something rhythmic and melodic. Learning about vintage tube amps, doubled tracks and odd percussion choices. \n(Note, although seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is certainly a huge problem at Christmas time because it's December, many mental health professionals do not believe that suicide is actually any more likely during that month than any other. I can simply stand behind the idea that I associate Christmas with loneliness, darkness, cold and socially complicated and upsetting mandatory extroversion work and family situations, and that little else depresses me as profoundly as people pressuring me to be merry and festive and into the music and sweaters if I can't muster that up. Also, the fact that this \"Suicide in December\" idea is so prevalent makes the Christmas season seem dangerous and fraught.)","content_html":"What was adolescent depression like? How did school and youth group make it much worse? How to turn abject misery into something rhythmic and melodic. Learning about vintage tube amps, doubled tracks and odd percussion choices.
\n(Note, although seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is certainly a huge problem at Christmas time because it's December, many mental health professionals do not believe that suicide is actually any more likely during that month than any other. I can simply stand behind the idea that I associate Christmas with loneliness, darkness, cold and socially complicated and upsetting mandatory extroversion work and family situations, and that little else depresses me as profoundly as people pressuring me to be merry and festive and into the music and sweaters if I can't muster that up. Also, the fact that this "Suicide in December" idea is so prevalent makes the Christmas season seem dangerous and fraught.)
This episode is the "church background" one, making it the longest of this whole podcast series. I'm trying out the "chapters" function so people can skip bits if they like.
\n\nThis one has to go into it all: Church intrigue. Weaponized bible. Personal and family sacrifice. Tradition vs. change. Competitive piety pageants. Does God really hate fun as much as we were led to believe?
\n\nAdditional musicians: Debbie Moore-Michelin (backing vocals), Chris Metcalfe (drums and jaw harp), Andy Graham (bass guitar), Chris Carriere (electric rhythm guitar and initial recording engineering), Trevor Finlay (solo slide guitar), Chuck Hendricks (sermon about breaking sheep's legs to stop them from straying from the flock).
\n\nPlease let me know what you thought at wikkidperson@gmail.com
","summary":"This episode sets the stage for the album The Story of Peter Grey, outlining the nature of our Plymouth Brethren Christian group, our strict church upbringing within it, and my father's over-enthusiastic involvement in it, following the direct mentorship of a key voice of tradition in a time when change was in the wind. It includes soundbites of the actual 70s and 80s preachers preaching what they preached. It goes into what happened to our family when my dad ended up on the wrong side of church politics. It ends with the song written afterward to deal mentally and psychologically with all of it.","date_published":"2021-02-17T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/24351304-c4d2-4ebd-9c69-0a0d24daa3bb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":90697139,"duration_in_seconds":3752}]},{"id":"b6422343-4a68-48d2-93ee-110021f2956c","title":"Episode 0: Preamble","url":"https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/0","content_text":"Each episode of The Wikkid Podcast is me explaining what was going on in my adolescent life that occasioned the writing of a song from my unreleased concept album The Story of Peter Grey. I never released it as an album, but I wrote it as a book, and I guess, now it’s kind of a podcast. So, this is about church upbringing gone wrong, adolescent depression, and writing and recording music about it to try to make some sense of it all.","content_html":"Each episode of The Wikkid Podcast is me explaining what was going on in my adolescent life that occasioned the writing of a song from my unreleased concept album The Story of Peter Grey. I never released it as an album, but I wrote it as a book, and I guess, now it’s kind of a podcast. So, this is about church upbringing gone wrong, adolescent depression, and writing and recording music about it to try to make some sense of it all.
","summary":"The second to first episode of The Wikkid Podcast. Before we get started in earnest, this will establish content, structure and intent.","date_published":"2021-02-10T00:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/547e5593-41eb-4a4a-99b2-d611965f9bea/b6422343-4a68-48d2-93ee-110021f2956c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":6995281,"duration_in_seconds":437}]}]}