the Wikkid podcast

Episode 19: The End

June 30th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  58 mins 8 secs

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, john gorka, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, stryper, therapeutic

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.)

Episode 18: Proud Someday

June 23rd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 11 secs

bible, bible truth publishers, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic

Excommunicated! Shunned for life! Unintentional fundamentalist outreach porn. (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. ) This 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 and shun one worldwide, and for life. Unintentional fundamentalist outreach porn. 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.

Episode 17: Headfirst Into the World

June 16th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  52 mins 42 secs

90s, bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, mindy amelotte, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic

A Wikkid Contest: There's a 90s pop culture game in this week's podcast! Email me at [email protected] 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.

Episode 16: Killer Qualms From Inner Space

June 9th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 6 secs

bible, bryan potvin, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, john gorka, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic

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.

Episode 15: Eugene's Poem

June 2nd, 2021  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 37 secs

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic

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 to 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.)

Episode 14: Hippipotame

May 26th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  21 mins 58 secs

bible, bleu nuit, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, schtroumpfs, therapeutic

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.

Episode 13: Hello, Down There!

May 19th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 42 secs

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, robert smith, the cure, therapeutic

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.

Episode 12: Intentions/Leathery Wings

May 12th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  40 mins

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, maranatha, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic

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.

Episode 11: Bigger Frame

May 5th, 2021  |  Season 2  |  39 mins 19 secs

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, george turcotte, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic, yamaha mt120

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?

Episode 10: Words Cannot Express

April 21st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 2 secs

bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic

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.

Coming soon: The Wikkid Podcast Season Two. Peter Grey Grows Up.