the Wikkid podcast
church upbringing gone wrong, depression... and music
Displaying items 41-50 of 75 in total of the Wikkid podcast with the tag "plymouth brethren".
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Episode 36: Why Not?
March 16th, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 26 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 35: Please Come With Us
March 2nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 28 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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...
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Episode 34: Get 'Em Out
February 16th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 35 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, john douglas, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 33: Just A Kid
February 2nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 21 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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?
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Episode 32: The Voice of Death
January 19th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 56 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 31: Red Sweater
December 15th, 2021 | Season 3 | 2 hrs 19 mins
angel desantis, bible, children of god, christianity, cults, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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.)
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Episode 30: What You Want
December 8th, 2021 | Season 3 | 1 hr 52 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, kim carson, like a motorcycle, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northen pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 29: The Magic Castle
December 1st, 2021 | Season 3 | 1 hr 43 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, therapeutic
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?
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Episode 28: Vultures In The Sky
November 17th, 2021 | Season 3 | 1 hr 26 mins
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, like a motorcycle, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.
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Episode 26: A Coming Together of Lives
November 10th, 2021 | Season 3 | 51 mins 24 secs
bible, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, guitar, hell, home recording, jay semko, lam, like a motorcycle, music, music production, parents, plymouth brethren, rapture, the northern pikes, therapeutic
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.