web01.fireside.fm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:10:30 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/tags/jay%20semko Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Being raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian group in the 1980s can cause some very predictable problems. Depression can be a Christian teenager's most constant companion despite church promises to the contrary. Dark humour, and even darker music, can help. This podcast is centered around the songs I wrote to deal back then, and what happened when I then picked away at recording workable versions of them for decades. contact me with questions and comments at wikkidperson@gmail.com or on Twitter @WikkidPerson en-ca serial church upbringing gone wrong, depression... and music Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore Being raised in a strict fundamentalist Christian group in the 1980s can cause some very predictable problems. Depression can be a Christian teenager's most constant companion despite church promises to the contrary. Dark humour, and even darker music, can help. This podcast is centered around the songs I wrote to deal back then, and what happened when I then picked away at recording workable versions of them for decades. contact me with questions and comments at wikkidperson@gmail.com or on Twitter @WikkidPerson no home recording, guitar, depression, fundamentalism, plymouth brethren, wikkid, wicked, wikked Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore wikkidperson@gmail.com https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/45 cc02eed0-7217-4764-9a0d-4086a16b2cca Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 45 Vacuuming full 4 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore This week's episode is about divorce: people who've been through them, and people not allowed to have them because church, stuff like that. Some homes manage all the domestic drama and drywall damage without the divorce proceedings. 1:47:22 no This week's episode is about divorce: people who've been through them, and people not allowed to have them because church, stuff like that. Some homes manage all the domestic drama and drywall damage without the divorce proceedings. Additional Musicians Evan Sauve: drums Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Exclusive Brethren This week's episode is about divorce: people who've been through them, and people not allowed to have them because church, stuff like that. Some homes manage all the domestic drama and drywall damage without the divorce proceedings.

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

]]> This week's episode is about divorce: people who've been through them, and people not allowed to have them because church, stuff like that. Some homes manage all the domestic drama and drywall damage without the divorce proceedings.

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/43 b7428da0-92bb-495c-a24c-015311771ea8 Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 43 Vultures in the Belfry full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 2:39:27 no 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. Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/38 94e08a90-3d25-45d3-98ad-e05970f5b65f Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 38 Friday Night full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:48:59 no 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. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums

]]> 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/37 50c5b1b8-e2dc-4a99-a7e7-3ae42b9610ac Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 37 Disappointed full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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? 1:53:43 no 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? Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes, Like A Motorcycle, Kim Carson 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?

]]> 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?

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/36 0a954b4e-716b-4665-89f7-9afacd0a336b Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 36 Why Not? full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 2:26:34 no 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. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums

]]> 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/34 346c88c5-82c0-4241-922d-3d31275c1c50 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 34 Get 'Em Out full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:35:53 no 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. Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums and "alright!" Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Angel DeSantis, Children of God, cults, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes, John Douglas 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums and "alright!"
Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage

]]> 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.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums and "alright!"
Dave Whelen and Joel D'amour: voices in sound montage

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/30 2fa18831-d051-4ef1-86da-8d15591fe2b5 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 30 What You Want full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:52:10 no 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! Additional Musicians George Turcotte: drums Kim "Like A Motorcycle" Carson: bass Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes, Kim Carson, Like A Motorcycle 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!

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Kim "Like A Motorcycle" Carson: bass

]]> 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!

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Kim "Like A Motorcycle" Carson: bass

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/28 67b00b9c-ebfa-4199-85d3-4c57a6238f9d Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 28 Vultures In The Sky full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 1:26:27 no 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. Additional Musicians drums: George Turcotte slide guitar: Tim Ellis Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, Jay Semko, The Northern Pikes, Like A Motorcycle 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.

Additional Musicians

drums: George Turcotte
slide guitar: Tim Ellis

]]> 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.

Additional Musicians

drums: George Turcotte
slide guitar: Tim Ellis

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/26 ac816224-a161-43ab-9cd3-2e877dd11d7f Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 26 A Coming Together of Lives full 3 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 51:24 no 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. Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, the northern pikes, jay semko, like a motorcycle, lam 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.

]]> 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.

]]> https://purring-sanctuary-703.fireside.fm/16 72d586ee-461d-4e79-9500-fe48a7c5ba48 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 16 Killer Qualms From Inner Space full 2 Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore 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. 32:06 no 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. Plymouth brethren, fundamentalism, rapture, hell, depression, parents, music, home recording, therapeutic, Christianity, bible, guitar, music production, john gorka, the northern pikes, jay semko, bryan potvin 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.

]]> 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.

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