the Wikkid podcast
church upbringing gone wrong, depression... and music
We found 10 episodes of the Wikkid podcast with the tag “music production”.
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Episode 51: Almost Never
January 18th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 53 mins
bible, christianity, depression, domestic violence, fundamentalism, gilette, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, spousal abuse, susan isaacs, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 50: (What To Do) With An Angel
January 4th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 38 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, neal brennan, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, susan isaacs, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 49: Moonlight
December 21st, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 51 mins
bible, chastity, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, hookup culture, louise perry, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, purity culture, rapture, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 48: Nortel Love Song
December 7th, 2022 | Season 4 | 2 hrs 4 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, louise perry, music, music production, neal brennan, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, susan isaacs, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 47: Stranger Lady
November 23rd, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 57 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, louise perry, music, music production, neal brennan, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, susan isaacs, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 46: Too Much For Marriage
November 9th, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 26 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, louise perry, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
This week’s episode takes a frank, uncomfortable look at the mechanics of sexual attraction and mate selection, particularly in church communities, and an equally frank, uncomfortable look at the mechanics of trying to have spirituality despite the objections of… well… religious people.
If 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... -
Episode 45: Vacuuming
October 26th, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 47 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 44: I Just Might
October 12th, 2022 | Season 4 | 1 hr 21 mins
angry conversations with god, bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, marriage, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, romantic relationships, susan isaacs, therapeutic
For season 4 of The Wikkid Podcast, love is in the air, as things tend to be when they blow up. This episode explores that thing we tell young people that "there's someone for everyone," or in the Christian circles "the Lord has someone picked out for you to spend the rest of you life with." Author and actress Susan Isaacs (Angry Conversations With God) contributes to this season.
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Episode 43: Vultures in the Belfry
June 22nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 39 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 42: The Talking Dead
June 8th, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 27 mins
bible, christianity, depression, exclusive brethren, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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.