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A blast from the past. You might call it retro. Paul and Chris discuss their introduction to video games in a ‘grand experiment’ of live streaming on Twitch. This is the audio of that show from May of 2019. Go down the 16-bit memory lane with them for a short episode.

• Paul’s first taste of games, brought to you by the number 64, it’s Astro Grover.
• Paul gets a Nintendo Entertainment System with the combo cartridge of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.
• Behold the awesomeness of 1977, Chris’ first console the Atari Stunt Cycle.
• The arcade introduction for Chris really started with the fever of the 80s, Pac-man.
• Chris’ second ever cassette tape featured the jam Pac-man Fever from Buckner & Garcia.
• Paul shares that his office has a Ms Pac-man game.
• Celebrating 80s birthdays at ShowBiz Pizza Place.
• Arcade game never mastered, but still beloved by Chris, Moon Patrol.
• Paul’s exposure to arcade games came at the roller rink of Terry Hall and the largest movie theater at the time, Studio 28.
• Cyclone The pinball machine that had a carnival barker shouting, “Hey you with the face!”
• Paul discusses some favs, The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II.
• Remembering the game magazines that helped us solve the trickier parts of games, like Nintendo Power.
• Chris remembers the fun of the Summer Games where you and seven of your friends competed in Olympic events by passing the joystick.
• Make your own racetrack, and choose the planetary gravity with Racing Destruction Set or simply Skate or Die!
• Paul’s multiplayer intro came with F-zero and Mario Cart. However, the real joy was playing Madden ‘94’ or NHL ‘94’ with friends or dad.
• Chris recalls The Northridge Earthquake of 1994 when he thinks of NHL ‘94.
• Another game never mastered, but fondly remembered, R.C. Pro Am.

As always, thanks for listening! Interested in helping us pay for the hosting of the show that brings you no ads? Check out our Patreon or get yourself a t-shirt or a sticker at one of Chris’ stores.

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Our first interview of the new season continues with Sean Tilley of We Distribute. We talk curating video via “Frown Tube,” San Francisco’s chilly weather not seen on TV, and the service industry. We also discuss how funding the things we love and keeping them going is a difficult thing when their competing with “free” centralized services.

• Sean is using Pleroma, a social network that federates with Mastodon and others using the Activity Pub protocol.
• Our guest is experimenting with FunkWhale, a social network with sharing music at its core (Also using Activity Pub).
• Peertube is a YouTube replacement from the world of open source. Sean explains how it works.
• A really great human in the fediverse, Wakest, gave Sean this list of 40+ fediverse projects in the works.
• During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation.
• Sean used to work at BackerKit.
• What’s Paul using right now? He’s been playing with Micro.blog.
• Sean brings up a topic we will cover with another guest this season, the IndieWeb.
• One of the cores of IndieWeb is Publish on your own Site, Syndicate Everywhere (POSSE).
• Manton Reece is the developer of Micro.blog.
• Paul and Jacky (in the chatroom) talk about funding issues and Sean shares how Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon is paid.
• The Patreon alternative discussed is called LibrePay.
• Apple nerd Paul likes & subscribes to sixcolors.com, Maximum Fun, and RelayFM.
• Chris is using Masto.host to have his own instance on Mastodon (You should message him and join it.) The service is maintained by the amazing Hugo.
• One of Chris’ favorite projects is PixelFed from the amazing Dansup.
• Discovery is a big discussion in the episode, and Paul mentions directory services. Mastodon has Trunk which associates people with subjects.
• Sean recommends Halt and Catch Fire despite not really liking television. He also likes Mad Men.
• Sean is currently reading The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out— the Shocking Truth about Office Life.
• Chris suggests the fiction version of Sean’s book, a series called The Laundry Files from Charles Stross.

Find Sean Tilley using that link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Thanks to our moms for listening, to our spouses for putting up with our recording and thanks to you for listening.

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We’re back! To start the new season we’re talking about decentralization, community, trust, the weird mold thing called kombucha, and more with Sean Tilley. The walled gardens of the centralized silos that treat us as a product can make communicating with people outside the service difficult. The trade-off is in how much time and energy you want to spend maintaining your own decentralized services. We discuss some of these services, the communities funding them and the algorithms that abuse us.

• Sean’s publication, We Distribute.
• His project to collect Creative Commons videos, VidCommons.
• Paul doesn’t get the Captain Marvel references.
• Everyone gets the Dead Poets Society references, right?
• The 9 year old FB competitor, Diaspora.
• The primordial ooze of the Fediverse according to Sean— IRC and Bulletin Boards, usenet.
• Watch BBS: The Documentary.
• Sean schools us on FidoNet.
• Centralized networks make profit from user data. This is also called surveillance capitalism.
• The silly world of fifth world problems on Reddit.
• Nextcloud is a great alternative to Dropbox.
• Sean and Paul get lost in Javascript, JQuery, and React.
• You must watch Demolition Man.
• Sean tries to explain Hubzilla, a way to connect various decentralized services into one mashup of a place.
• We talk about flavors of linux, like Gentoo and ubuntu.
• During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation.
• SocialHome is a grid style blogging platform that’s open source and making headway to connect to the fediverse.
• Sean really enjoyed Adventure Game Studio’s community in his early days of learning development and the power of open source.
• Paul’s early entry into online communities was TIcalc.org.
• Paul’s sexy calculator, TI-92.
• We reminisce about places like Geocities where we hosted our ‘cool’ sites. Today, we have the open source alternative, Neocities.

Thanks for listening. We really appreciate those of you that have been with us for a while and love all the new listeners sending us suggestions and comments. Stay tuned for the second part of this interview! Want to stalk Sean Tilley, click the link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon.

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The last time Paul & Chris got together to do a short show minus any guests, they talked Star Trek Discovery. How fitting that the first Sauce Packet of this year is talking about season 2 of the show. Oh, and we’re sorry that the “short” show went long, but we had a lot to say about Time Crystals. Please Red Angel, go back in time and give that MacGuffin a better name.

• The thrilling start of our episode is us trying to pronounce a name in the chat room. You can join us during our live recording via our Live page. We usually tweet, toot, and post upcoming shows on Patreon.
• What’s a chat about Star Trek with Paul without Darmok and Jalad?
• Chris shares his distaste for the actress playing Michael because of her Walking Dead days. He spent a lot of time doing recaps called Mocking Dead.
• Chris’ partner has issues with the organization structure of Starfleet. This is an issue that often comes up on Random Trek.
• We talk of the original series callback of the pilot, The Cage.

-The Masters of the Universe episode of Film Frown was too much fun and why we referenced it.

Thanks for listening! We appreciate your ear holes and your smiling face.

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Hey Sausages! It’s your friendly neighborhood podcasting delivery folk. On this surprise Halloween episode Daniel J. Hogan and Arturo Vergara join us to take a package to Spooky Manor. By the way, you now know more than we did. Thanks Paul! 😄 (Always examine your bike, kids!) On this adventure: Arturo is on a quest to make a salad, Chris loves wearing outfits, and Dan wants to stab everything. Also in the future, please tweet, email, or call Paul if you want to know where the exits are.

• The text adventure we’re playing is from Memento Mori Theatricks. This game, (like the one last year) is part of a pack from the site above that Paul purchased with our Patreon funds. Thanks patrons!
• Text adventures are a game of “”guess the verb.” Thankfully, our computer Paul isn’t as literal as the games of yesteryear, like Zork.
• We find a nice smoking jacket, but this is a scary story, not Leisure Suit Larry.
• We can’t imagine how difficult it is being bilingual, so Arturo gets a pass on not knowing what a conservatory is.
• It’s a trunk from Transylvania?
• Chris’ aunt is in the chat room during the live show telling us to get out of that cellar!
• “Dude! Did you know Wolf’s Bane cures lycanthropy?”
• Speaking of language, Arturo’s Spanish helps us translate the Spooky family motto: mors certa, hora incerta.
• As Paul says, “Cue Link cooking music!”
• Arturo is sad that our character in the text adventure doesn’t have Shazam.
• Dan and Chris are doing Inktober! You can see Dan’s work on his instagram, clattertron. Chris via PixelFed.
• Dan is selling his art on ebay and etsy if you’re interested in buying those inktober works or other artwork of his.
• Arturo has been developing a job/work cue for distributed systems called Hop with the team at Mazing Studio.

Thanks for listening! We really appreciate you joining our fun! Check out Dan’s comic Foxes & Boxes over on Clattertron.com. Support Dan on his ko-fi page and buy him a tea. Follow Arturo on Twitter or Mastodon. Psst, you can also find a track of his on soundcloud. Paul’s hanging out on his micro blog. While Paul concentrates on editing Film Frown, Chris is making mantra/meditations on his blog and working on a new mental health podcast. If you’re interested in supporting Montreal Sauce, grab a tee or check out our Patreon!

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As we consume bad movies for Film Frown, palate cleansers are very useful. Paul and Chris get together to discuss the latest incarnation of Star Trek in a short episode we like to call a Sauce Packet! SPOILERS AHEAD! In other words, don’t engage unless you are out of star dock.

• It’s the Michael Burnham Show, a.k.a Star Trek Discovery.
• Chris posits that Scott McNulty, the host of Random Trek will enjoy the serial nature of the new show.
• The joy of Riker’s Beard.
• Who doesn’t love mirror universe Michelle Yeoh?
• The Harry Mudd universe.
• That time Christopher Llyod mumbled his way through Klingon in Star Trek III.
• Why was the show delayed so many times?
• Sisko uses some questionable tactics to get the Romulans into the Dominion War In the Pale Moonlight.
• “Midi-canon,” a word proposed by Chris to refer to prequels that attempt to make new additions or changes to existing canonical material. For example, Midi-chlorians. Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more of us on media, try Film Frown, which we’re currently producing. You can find our live schedule on our Patreon page. Hit us up with your opinions on Facebook and Twitter.

Poster image from The Movie DB as added by Elizabeth Jennings and shamelessly Photoshop’d by Paul.

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What in the name of Zork? Long story fake, Paul found a genie and got his dream of being turned into a computer. Unfortunately, it was an evil genie so Paul was not turned into a gorgeous Macbook, instead he’s an Apple IIe. Join Daniel J. Hogan, Arturo Vergara, and co-host Chris as they abuse computer Paul by loading up a text adventure game that forces him to say “I do not understand ____,” over and over. Also, stick around for the bodacious surfer, brah.

• It’s time for guess-the-verb.
• Uh oh, we’re on Elm Street?
• Stay out of that storm drain!
• Let’s chew bubble gum and kick ass!
• We found a tumbler in the game! So Dan decided to update Tumblr.
• It’s a peep show!
• Previous guest, Jacob, listening in the chatroom suggests putting our zombie milk in a bag.
• No points for an Enemy Mine reference?
• Arturo helps us learn what “pixie dust” is slang for. Apparently, it is not cocaine according to urban dictionary.
• Things get creepy with references from Hobo With A Shotgun, Lost, and Animaniacs.
• Pumpkin Town is a ghostly game from Parsely Games.

Thanks for choosing to examine our Halloween special. Be sure to send love to our guests who helped make this possible, Arturo and Dan. Thanks again to our rad patrons! Their spooky support helped us get the Pumpkin Town game and some fun sound effects! You can give here.

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Our conversation with Stump Kitchen was one of those chats where we lose track of time. Guest Alexis and the hosts were sad to see the time was up. That just means we’ll have to have Alexis back or convince her to watch a bad movie for Film Frown. This episode revolves around producing the cooking show, dealing with mental health, eating a pre-dinner when you’re making risotto, sweat pant shopping and stump squeezing.

• Many of the Stump Kitchen recipes featured are vegan, gluten-free creations of Alexis. Inspiration often comes from Hot For Food, Minimalist Baker, Oh She Glows, and Thug Kitchen cookbooks.
• Cooking with guests means a lot of laughing for Alexis. She mentions this episode with Natalee as an example.
• W.C. Fields said, “Never work with children or animals.”
• A pizza sauce food fight with Ethan.
• A Mom has her 3 year old dress her for a week.
• Alexis is open to share her story, she just asks that you respect her. In one of her “Ask me anything” vids a commenter suggests that Alexis have Courtney Gilmour on Stump Kitchen. Courtney has this great read on XOjane that pairs well with our discussion of respect.
• Fidget Cube versus an Alexis belch!
• Aside from the joy of getting her stump in a lime, Alexis loves Kala namak. “Tastes like eggs,” says our friend.
• Recommended Vegan Deviled Eggs from Jazzmin Kaita.
• Alexis is distracted by Chris’ Stylophone Beatbox. The best introduction to that is probably from Brett Domino.
• Writing versus typing? Chris pitches Morning Pages again.
• We need to eat some of those smashed potatoes!
• Also, peanut butter cups for dessert, y’all!
• Some of Alexis’ recommendations are My Drunk Kitchen, Liv’s Healthy Life, Jazzmin Kaita and if you want more feel free to reach out to her with the links below. Alexis would love to hear from you.

Subscribe to Stump Kitchen and support our incredible new friend Alexis. Chris tried those peanut butter cups, and yeah, throw money at the Stump Kitchen Patreon because, delicious! Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The one stop link is stumpkitchen.com. Thanks for listening! You rock! Oh, and let’s find Alexis a gluten-free vegan hot dog!

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Five years of discussing what Montreal Sauce actually is? The steak sauce still remains a mystery, but we do have an inspiring chat with Alexis from Stump Kitchen. Our multitalented friend shares her story with us and her compassion with everyone around her. Have a listen to learn more about pronouncing Worcester sauce, STUMP CAM, challenging your palette and flammable soda pop. How do you pronounce tamari?

• This episode is no different than others, Chris scares the guest with his internet research of her. We talk of past guest Taryn, who thinks wooden bears are creepy.
• Alex grabs delicious ingredients from Earth’s General Store or even Superstore.
• Chris makes the Stump Kitchen pad thai recipe.
• Alexis left her full-time gig to do Stump Kitchen and now relies on her Patreon page. We dare you to watch an episode and not give to it. :)
• Gluten intolerance? Our guest believes that gluten wrecks her because she worked at Cobs for years and stuffed herself with bread.
• Huffing donuts from Take 5.
• So, chickpea chocolate chip cookies are a thing?
• Tasty, vegan gluten free brownies via Stump Kitchen.
• In the battle of energy balls, here is Alexis’ entry. Where is yours, Chris? Time to make a video, sir.
• The Edmonton yummy that is Padmanadi.
• Paul says, “When you need milk, tennis shoes, and a tire iron, shop Meijer.”
• Alexis loves the rad knives at Knifewear.

Over-joyed that we had the opportunity to not only speak to Alexis, but meet her as well. Alexis’ spirit and conviction is contagious as it radiates from her. Take 3 minutes to watch one of her episodes on Youtube or Stump Kitchen and you’ll see it yourself. Find Stump Kitchen on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and feel free to support Alexis to keep making fabulous shows by contributing to her Patreon. You can also find us on all those sites as well. Drop us a line any time! Thanks for listening!

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The second half of our conversation with German Villages of the Modern Manhood podcast and web site. We continue our conversation about masculinity, sports, stigmas around therapy, Super Mario World, and TRUCKS!

• Men Edmonton is a grass root group talking about violence against women, feminism and masculinity.
• One of German’s earliest interviews was with one of the founders of Men Edmonton, Ryan Valley.
• Some really amazing films mentioned by German, Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Please find them on Netflix, or wherever, and watch.
• Men Edmonton sponsored an event in April of 2017 where they screened The Mask You Live In and held a panel afterwards. German recorded the session for the Modern Manhood podcast.
• Michael Kimmel studies gender and is featured in the documentaries mentioned above.
• The Precarious Manhood Theory revolves around fear. If a man’s masculinity is challenged, he’s more likely to engage in aggressive or stereotypical male behaviors.
• Hockey is a “man’s game,” says Patrick Maroon.
• Retired goalie Corey Hirsch shares his mental health struggle with the world.
• Foul play prevented German from completing all the levels in Super Mario World.
• We love the Portlandia Battlestar Galactica episode because it highlights the dangers of binge watching.
• Paul’s crew at work is all about comparing hours in Breath of the Wild.
• German mentions how men and women tend to posture in a community of their peers. He doesn’t recommend The Game, but he said there’s a chapter on peacocking.
• How is NHL ‘94 on the Sega so beloved by all? A mystery to be solved in a future documentary.
• German’s other podcast is all about hockey, Your Team Sucks.
• Rasheed Wallace is crazy and we loved it.
• German loves, LOVES, soccer as well. He’s an Arsenal fan, but his heart is with his Chilean National team.
• Inspired by Men Edmonton, German hopes to build a community for men to share their stories on his podcast, Modern Manhood.
• The Ferdinand was another website that German had started for people to share their stories about masculinity. He’s in the process of moving it to Modern Manhood.
• The site was called The Ferdinand because it was based on The Story of Ferdinand. The story was turned into an Oscar winning short by Walt Disney.
• German is delighted that women are listening to his show as well. He was a guest on What it is with Andrea Beça of That’s So Maven! who listens and encourages others to listen to his show.
• The event at The Metro Cinema German spoke of on the show, which played the documentary The Mask You Live, In is long past but he recorded a podcast of the experience.
• Help German continue to enrich the lives of us all by giving to his Patreon. Find German’s Modern Manhood show on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Lots of wonderful things have happened since our chat with German Villages. The Modern Manhood podcast has joined GRadio.ca and the Alberta Podcast Network. German is an incredible human and his show is inspiring and absolutely needed in today’s world. Don’t hesitate to reach out to him, he’s just that kind of person. And, please remember to take care of yourselves.

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Here we have another of our patented, massive introductions of our guest German Villages, but did Chris get the research right? Oops. German hosts the amazing Modern Manhood Podcast, a show that examines male mental health and masculinity. He also has a show with some friends about hockey, Your Team Sucks. The discussion in this episode covers being vulnerable males, fronting about your Red Sox fandom, finding your tribe, challenging stereotypes and the subversion in satire.

• A book not recommended by any voice on the podcast, The Game.
• German says Mark Manson’s book Models changed his life.
• Weird coincidence, Chris was reading Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck.
• German was a guest on The Awesome Hour.
• Is Millwoods Edmonton’s Bermuda triangle?
• German’s introspection led him to Iron John and The Art of Manliness. Not finding exactly what he wanted, he created his podcast.
• Paul & German school us on the art of satire in South Park.
• There’s a difference between adding to a conversation and exploiting it for shock like Milo Yiannopoulos.
• German encourages people to look at the research of Joseph Gelfer when we talk about masculinity and manhood.
• There are no stupid questions and we just need to be open. Chris is reminded of an article he worked on, “In The Netherlands Sexuality Education Starts At Age 4”.

That’s just part one of our conversation with the empathetic and intelligent host of The Modern Manhood Podcast, German Villegas. As you wait for part two, check out his podcast with the link above or head over to German’s Patreon page and help out. It’s a great show with conversations we need at the moment. You can also find German on Twitter and Instagram.

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The Quiz surfaces once again in our second half of the conversation with writer, artist, filmmaker, podcaster & cat owner Daniel J. Hogan. We get reading recommendations, a podcast playlist, irritated eyeballs and a brief history on Who’s The Boss?

• Daniel J. Hogan is using Amazon Display ads and Amazon affiliate program on his sites.
• DJH schools us on HeroQuest.
• Has Dan ever had a fan buy him something from his Amazon Wish List? Um, here’s Chris’ Wish List & Paul’s Wish List. 😜
• Dan’s older, daily yucks are available in his archive at clattertron.com.
• Clattertron is available on tumblr and there is a tumblr version of Foxes & Boxes.
• His comic was on the tapastic app as Dan discusses during the show, but he recently left due to a change in the terms in their user agreement that he and many other artists felt uncomfortable with.
• We all despise Facebook’s image compression.
• Dan has really moved from Photoshop to Clip Studio Paint for his online work.
• Getting geeky about glasses and a prism correction.
• We got some recommendations from Dan! He says you should check out Jason Strutz, Bruce Worden, Ryan Claytor, Jay Jacot, and Dean Stahl.
• Dan does all his work minus coffee. He gave it up.
• We ask Dan about his current podcast playlist and he did a whole post on it.
• QUIZ TIME! Let’s talk celebrity comic books, like Mark Wahlberg’s Alien Bounty.
• There are great movies and then there’s Kazaam and Torque.
• Paul & Dan get nostalgic over Who’s The Boss?.
• Every now and then you can find Dan live streaming his drawing & inking process on Instagram.

Thanks for listening. Apologies for its delayed release. Be sure to check out Foxes and Boxes and you can find Dan on Twitter, danieljhogan.com and of course his Patreon. Find us on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon.

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Daniel J. Hogan was our first guest ever and he came back! In a format change we’re now a home improvement podcast as the webcomic creator tells us about roof rakes, loot crates for artists and comic mirror universes. He also shares a secret about promoting your stuff online.

• Our guest won the 2015 Space Prize in the Webcomic category for clattertron.com.
• Dan explains his middle initial to our listeners as he did on the 2nd Brain Collective podcast.
• Homeownership in Michigan means you might need a roof rake.
• Daniel J. Hogan’s cats are adjusting to their new house.
• He was inspired to do a serial by others like BONE, Strangers in Paradise and more.
• Our guest started doing Foxes & Boxes in September of 2016 after creating Clattertron for 4 years.
• The Star Trek Mirror universe.
• Foxes’ buddy, HB.
• Foxes & Boxes logo was designed by Remind Creative. The designer also runs The Lost Highway.
• Recent upgrades, Dan has started using Blambot fonts and Moo cards.
• “Loot Crate for art supplies?” It’s called Art Snack.
• Dan draws his comics with pencil, scans it in and uses Clip Studio Paint to re-draw and ink his comic.
• We talk Microsoft Surface Pro tablets. Chris got advice to look at refurbished ones.
• When you make a weekly comic, you have to be on your file management game.
• Dan also decided to try a social media diet.
• Dan is on Patreon and at the time of the recording he was paying it forward.
• Groo the Wanderer.

In another format change, in the next episode we’ll be talking exclusively ice fishing with Dan. Or not. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out Foxes and Boxes and you can find Dan on Twitter and danieljhogan.com. Find us on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon.

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Alison Hagan of the MS Society is back to tell us about a personal passion, The Edmonton Story Slam. We learn how it all started, the talented participants, prize money and Paul & Chris have a slam of their own.

• The Moth really helped to popularize the idea of story slams.
• The Edmonton Story Slam was started by Alison’s sister Susan with the help of Alison and friends.
• You’ve got to follow the Rules when you attend a slam.
• The Mercury Room hosts the Story Slam.
• Gail de Vos.
• The Storytelling Festival.
• Matthew MacKenzie is a past winner of the Story Slam and a playwright.
• The Story Slam often partners with other organizations in the area like the public library.
• The Edmonton Story Slam is a non-profit organization ran by volunteers. The Arts Council, on spec and LitFest also provide support and partnerships from time to time.
• Alison tells us about Laura Lynn Johnston’s success at Story Slam.
• Laura Lynn heads up the team of the Edmonton chapter of Creative Mornings.
• Other regular storytellers, Shariq Wani, Nick Zon, Liam Shaw, Omar Mouallem, Kelsey Beier, Alyssa Hudson and many more can be found on the Past Winners page.
• Interview with Lea Thau, formerly with The Moth.
• Paul slams Chris with his story.
• Alison reminds us to check out MS Bike & MS Walk.
• The Edmonton Story Slam is every third Wednesday of the month at The Mercury Room.

Thanks to Alison Hagan for judging our own little story slam and sharing her time! Please follow @yegstoryslam on twitter or Facebook and go out and see one! To talk to us, head over to Facebook, Twitter or Patreon.

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Alison Hagan of the MS Society shared her journey on this episode. Conversation about the importance of farm communities, the history of cutting and pasting, the state of journalism, cycling culture and much more. We also ask the question, “what is progress?”

• Alison & Paul swap 4-H stories.
• Paul tells us about founding the West Michigan Coop.
• Alison attended the University of Regina.
• Our guest recommends CBC, NPR and Common Dreams for news coverage.
• Paul likes the BBC and Aljazeera.
• Alison moved up the ranks of the MS Society from Red Deer to Edmonton.
• We learn about the support the MS Society offers.
• University of Alberta.
• Canadians, be sure to get your vitamin D!
• We learn about the popularity of the MS Bike events in Canada.
• Alison & the Canadian MS Society work closely with the National MS Society in the States.
• The BP MS 150 from Houston to Austin.
• You can also help by participating in the MS Walk. In Edmonton it is held at the Ballpark, formerly Telus Field.
• Stew Hutchings of the Devon Bicycle Association organizes a practice ride before MS Bike in Edmonton.
• The night before the podcast, Alison was at an event to raise money held by Patrycia Rzechowka.
• Alison tells us there are a number of events held by third-parties to raise money. You can find them by clicking the Events tab on mssociety.ca.
• Alison appeared on The Oilers Rig Radio during a fundraising event.
• We learn about the Partnership Group and Brent Barootes.
• Alison was asked to speak at the 2016 Western Canada Fundraising Conference.
• The Human Venture Institute.
• Recommended reading from The Human Venture Institute, A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright.
• Other readings are featured on the Book Lists page.
• Radiolab episode, From Tree to Shining Tree.

Thanks to Alison Hagan for spending her evening with us and thanks to you for listening. Please check out the MS Society in Canada or the US and see how you can help. To talk to us, head over to Facebook, Twitter or Patreon.

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The second half of our chat with Jeff Samsonow is all about his indie media production adventures. We learn about the company started by he and Sally Poulsen, The Edmontonian Media Co. Some of the things discussed: Comedy that punches up, other talented Edmontonians, and advertising in this digital age.

• Where did our guest go after AMI?
• Jeff shares his adventures with Postmedia and Capital Ideas. He also mentions gastropost.
• Karen Unland and Brittney Le Blanc started Capital Ideas according to our guest. Jeff also adds how he got to know them through McEwan and 630 CHED.
• Karen runs Seen and Heard in Edmonton, the Edmonton podcast meetups and is trying to start a podcast network.
• The Edmontonian Media Co. was born from the work Jeff & Sally Poulsen put into The Edmontonian. Their first production was called, wait for it, Sick Day.
• The first short was inspired by the cold opens they did on the 6 part series The Edmontonian Presents that aired on Shaw TV.
• Jeff tells us about Startups, another short they made featuring Karen Unland, Owen Brierley of EDAC and former guest Marty Chan.
• The Edmontonian Media Co. also produced Obstacles.
• Jeff worked with Christian Zyp during Startups.
• The most recent production from Sally & Jeff was the amazing Underdogs of Comedy.
• They were inspired by The Meltdown.
• Simon Gorsak and Brett McCrindle often host the Underdog Comedy Show.
• Dion Arnold started the show, originally.
• More comedians in the area mentioned: Clare Belford, Carina Morton & Simon Glassman.
• Speaking of places to find comedy in Edmonton, try The Underdog, The Empress Ale House and El Cortez.
• Keep your fingers crossed, Jeff & Sally have submitted The Underdogs of Comedy to AMPIA’s web series award category.
• Jeff’s newest venture is Edmonton Quotient, telling the stories of Edmonton in an online magazine.
• Chris always makes it weird and tells a story of companies reaching out to advertise in porn.
• Chris also makes a pitch for Someday in February.
• Learn more about podcasting in Edmonton at seenandheardyeg.com.

Thanks so much for listening. Really grateful that Jeff Samsonow took time to drop in at Chris’ place to do the podcast. Be sure to check out Edmonton Quotient and The Underdogs of Comedy. Questions, comments? Hit us on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon. We’d love to hear from you.

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This episode is an interview with the talented Jeff Samsonow, who wears a number of hats. He’s been a journalist, producer, writer, product strategist, content director and more. Thus, we gave him the title, Media Mogul. Jeff shares his stories about his radio days, the importance of Universal design and rock shows in basement scooter shops. We also learn about Jeff’s latest journalistic adventure and comedy productions.

• Treat yourself to some Sugru. Get yours from your not so local Amazon site.
• Jeff is a graduate of Fanshawe and did not attend Community.
• Chris & Paul learn the difference between universities and colleges in Canada with many examples: Western, Ryerson, MacEwan, NAIT, Edmonton Digital Arts College.
• Jeff spent several years with Corus at 630 CHED, AM 640 and CJOB.
• If you’re interested in the Edmonton podcast meetup Chris referenced, check out Meetup.com.
• Jeff’s very talented partner and spouse is Sally Poulsen.
• AMI is an amazing organization that produces content for the blind, deaf and Canadians with mobility issues.
• Paul mentions that one organization in Grand Rapids that also work in the accessible area is the UICA.
• Universal design is about creating inclusive things, yo.
• Jeff tells us about Blind Sighted with Kelly MacDonald, an AMI show in Toronto.
• Jeff & Sally started The Edmontonian back in 2009. Jeff adds that Sally did time as a journalist prior to their site for the Portage Daily Graphic in Manitoba.
• The two eventually started The Edmonton Media Co..
• Chris discusses the SNL sketch about Michigan accents. He managed to track it down and you can watch it at the bottom of this article.
• You can watch the 6 part series The Edmontonian Presents that aired on Shaw TV here.
• We didn’t always save everything. Hosts of the USA Up All Night show said they used to tape over the old shows to save money.
• The Maltin on Movies podcast with Gilbert Gottfried does not feature the discussion of lost episodes, it’s Gilbert’s podcast with Rhonda Shear.

Thanks for listening, you’ve just earned 32,018 MSauce points with which you can use to purchase our collection of sound effects for film editing called Mouth Foley 2: Atrocious Boogaloo. A very special thanks to Jeff Samsonow for coming to a stranger’s home to be recorded in front of a live internet audience. Be sure to bookmark The Edmontonian Media Co. or follow him on Twitter to keep up with his latest work.

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In university, Paul had a reputation for fun voices. In his head, Chris also believed he could do imitations. On this episode the truth is exposed as they briefly examine the art of impression.

• “Moose and squirrel are not going to like this.”
• Dana Carvey and Will Ferrell do the Bushes much better than us.
• Kermit on Sesame Street and Wreck It Ralph.
• Chris Rock loves Paul Giamatti.
• Kevin Spacey impersonates Christopher Walken.
• Friend & listener Arturo was in the chat room for the live episode, so we gave him much love. Arturo was also a previous guest.
• Chris learned Yoda’s voice from a Star Wars pinball machine.
• The one and only Alec Guinness.
• Wakko Warner’s voice was apparently based on John Lennon not Ringo Starr, according to the voice actor.
• Paul narrates Thomas & Friends.
• Run Forest, Run!
• Angsty Skywalker in the trash compactor.
• Unintended Fitz accent happens in our show.
• A legendary bonkers film, Basic Instinct
• Beavis, Buthead and proto Hank Hill.
• BUT MOM!
• It’s always good to have a Reagan impression.
• Did you know that Casey Kasem did the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo? Here’s Casey doing Shaggy, doing Casey?
• Rick & Morty is the show you’re not watching, why?
• Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn are making out?
• Chris’ favorite muppet.
• Get your Arianna Huffington impression on.
• We’re just trying to pump you up.
• What does Wario say?
• The voice of Batman has evolved a lot before it got to Christian Bale.
• Other heroes like Daredevil and 90’s X-Men Wolverine.

That’s all folks. A Sauce Packet of voices. Show us up on Twitter, Facebook and Patreon with your impressions. We’d love to hear them. Thanks for listening.

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Another hour with Adriean Koleric on street art, collage, podcasting from a VW and being a Detroit Pistons fan in Western Canada. You can find the first part here.

• An architect and painter that inspires Adriean is Will Alsop.
• The OCAD building can be seen in pictures on the web! Such wow! Try Flickr.
• Adriean was also inspired by Frank R. Paul. Just look at the images that pop up in a DuckDuckGo search! Gorgeous.
• Frank R. Paul illustrated a number of pulp magazines in his time like Science Wonder Stories.
• Adriean worked with Chad Kouri, with the Monster Lamp.
• Motomichi Nakamura also did a Monster Lamp.
• Keep an eye on Kijiji if you want to be a Taco Skate Co. intern.
• Meet Murphy, the amazing pug sidekick and Adriean’s dog.
• Stickerapp.com is Adriean’s goto for custom stickers.
• Adriean used to host a radio show on CJSR.
• What’chu talking ‘bout? We chat about Andre Drummond and Mr. Drummond.
• Keep an eye on the Think Item Instagram account for art giveaways like the one we talked about on the show.

Adriean can be found on Twitter, Facebook and his site thinkitem.com or over at the new Taco Skate Co. Thanks for listening! Peep our FB page, Twitter, or Patreon. Later, yo.

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We’re getting our art on with this chat with Adriean Koleric. From street art & installations to furniture & gallery shows in the States & Canada, he’s always experimenting. Adriean talks about paying the bills, clerical artist statements and how we interact with art & artists in the age of the interwebs.

• Adriean attended N.A.I.T., but he really wanted to go to A.C.A.D.
• A book on designer toys, Vinyl Will Kill!.
• Adriean’s AK-AT Figure.
• The infamous Sucklord.
• Adriean’s HERD show of Star Wars related art. Here’s his work he did for Topps & Star Wars, as well. Officially licensed gear!
• We talk A New Hope…err, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Marvel cinematic universe.
• We <3 Christopher Reeves as we discuss the DC universe and Adriean wishes Brandon Routh got another chance after Superman Returns.
• Oh wait, sorry Christopher Reeves. We have no love for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
• Adriean enjoys The Flash television show, but we have to stop this hero talk before we get into Green Lantern.
• Adriean gave a talk for Creative Mornings which you can watch here.
• Mitchell Lawler, an Edmonton hip hop artist who wanted to get in on the Think Item street art.
• Join was all about being part of the movement, or was it?
• Jay Runham interviewed Adriean on his site and then he got some “interesting” feedback.
• Anne Rice originally wanted Rutger Hauer for Interview With A Vampire and the fans wanted Julian Sands.
• Adriean’s Viper Sisters!!!

If you’re not inspired after that, you may be an inanimate object. We love you anyway because you listened. Thanks! Also, thanks to Adriean Koleric for joining us. Let us know what you thought of the show on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon. We’d love to hear from you.

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The second half of our conversation with the developer Mad Max, Aaron Clifford is here! On this episode we talk virtual noses, old school game consoles, developing for VR and positional audio. The dreaded quiz is back and we’ve got Pac-man Fever.

• Aaron got the idea for DAWT at an event for the Extra Life.
• The Extra Life event was for Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital and it started with a 4 player Tower Fall Ascension challenge.
• He decided to enter Codename Goa with DAWT as well. Aaron is featured on a video on that site.
• Aaron’s game design is Voxel based like Crossy Road.
• Redneck Rampage.
• Kingdom of Loathing.
• Some of Aaron’s favs to play are Fallout, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, DLC Quest, Binding of Isaac and “so many other indie games.”
• Chris talks about his Atari Stunt Cycle console from his youth.
• Paul thought Zelda II: The Adventure of Link had the most amazing graphics, ever! Until, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past came out.
• Aaron did a Nerd Nite presentation on death in video games. During the presentation he played a game, rather than use slides. You can check it out here. He used art from Glitch.
• He created the presentation in Construct 2.
• Aaron tells us about writing books in an MMOG, Asheron’s Call.
• You can watch Aaron game and develop on Twitch.
• We learn how to dodge throwing stars.
• Chris introduces Paul and Aaron to Buckner & Garcia in the quiz!
• Pac-man fever on American Bandstand
• What’s the better E.T. song? Neil Diamond or Buckner & Garcia?
• Now we all have to watch Wreck-It Ralph!
• Yikes! Remembering Pogs.
• Some 80s fun, WKRP in Cincinnati, BJ and The Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, and Bosom Buddies.
• Watch Aaron on TV showing off DAWT.
• If you’re in Edmonton, check out GDX Edmonton each year to discover new games.

Thanks to Aaron Clifford for taking the time to join us on the Sauce! Be sure to check out his Youtube channel or follow Aaron around the web. Also, head over to our Patreon page to get updates on guests, shows and more info. We’re using it like a blog, so join the conversation there or on Facebook.

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Put your VR headgear on and listen to the latest episode where we talk to the maker of DAWT, Mr. Aaron Clifford. The Edmonton developer schools us in his 20 years of coding, tells us how he was conceived in a tent in New Zealand and how to record your software onto a cassette tape.

• “These aren’t Fivver voice actors, people!”
• Aaron started programing on an Atari 600XL.
• Chris desperately tries to fit in, talking about his Commodore 64.
• Aaron tells us his gateway drug to programming was playing Doom.
• Aaron cut his teeth using Authorware.
• The big VR project that our guest is building is called DAWT. It’s a slick Pac-man-like VR game.
• Aaron has also started working with Unumbria Technologies. Their goal is to use VR to help athletes and people who suffer concussions.
• Like every city, Edmonton is constantly renaming their summer festival. Currently, it’s called K-days.
• Aaron’s day job is “putting a coat of paint” on a lot of people’s hard work. He’s a front end developer. His paint can be seen at alberta.ca.
• Our guest’s brief obsession with seaweed.
• Microsoft allows you to earn points as a developer. You can use the points to redeem rewards.
• Aaron’s Razer BlackWidow keyboard he earned with Microsoft points.
• GDX Edmononton is a game exhibition that typically happens in April or May.
• Aaron used Construct 2 to make many of his games.
• The adventures of developing 5 apps in one week for a challenge.
• Aaron’s game DAWT was greenlit on Steam.
• The Makerspace at the Stanley A. Milner Library is where Aaron began developing DAWT.
• Participating in Codename Goa, Aaron met the makers of an eye tracking bar that goes under your monitor called tobii.
• Montreal International Game Summit
• Aaron uses Unity to develop his 3D games. He took this course from udemy to get started.
• The very cool Edmonton Fit Finder project that Aaron worked on.

How fun was that? Stay tuned to our website, our feed, or the Patreon page to hear part two of this entertaining conversation with Aaron. Head over to our Facebook page to chat with Chris’ mom while you wait for the next episode to drop. Thanks again to Aaron Clifford and be sure to check out DAWT.

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Comics too expensive to read, blatant podcast promotion, figure skating to the Spider-man theme song and Siri’s inability to open up are all the topics covered in the second half of the conversation with Danica & Brandon of Variant Edition.

• We discuss the many different versions of a single comic book character & Brandon tells us a tale of The New 52.
• Paul challenges Brandon & Danica with a “pick 3” of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Right Stuff and The 100.
• Danica’s pick for Paul is Letter 44. Brandon’s cross section of Paul’s pick is called Red Wing.
• The difference between single issues and graphic novels? Danica tells us that single issues like Bitch Planet have really great essays in them, but the collections are missing those and the letters section.
• Sex Criminals has a hardcover version with a special section on the art process and all the covers of the single issues.
• Danica tells us that Variant Edition has a mail order service and welcomes listeners to email comics@variantedmonton.com if they’re interested or want recommendations about great comics to read!
• Brandon posts “The Retailer’s View” over at The Beat.
• Marvel allows you to subscribe to digital comics, but if you buy a Marvel hard copy you’ll receive a code to get the digital version for free.
• Danica, and the women shopping at Variant Edition enjoy books by Marguerite Bennett like Angela: Queen of Hel and Insexts.
• Danica says The Infinite Loop, a time-travel, same-sex romance story has an amazing letters section that will make you tear up.
• A listener in the chat room wonders if our guests like Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel.
• Also from the chatroom, Arturo, a former guest on the podcast, asks for suggestions for a good feminist leaning comic for a 12 year old girl. Danica & Brandon suggest Princeless and Lumberjanes.

Be sure to find Variant Edition on Twitter, Facebook or their podcast Yegs & Bacon. You can find both guests on twitter, Brandon is @soupytoasterson and Danica is @DanicaHere. You might also like Doctor Whooch, where Danica and Brandon consume alcohol and talk Doctor Who. Thanks for listening!

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Another fun one, this episode the gents are talking to the owners of Variant Edition a comic shop in Edmonton. Brandon & Danica also do a number of podcasts as well. On this show we give old TV stars new detective shows, talk about Siri’s self-image issues, sexism, inclusiveness and privileged white dudes.

• Brandon is half of the Podcast! The Comics show.
• Danica & Brandon do a podcast about comics & culture called Yegs & Bacon.
• You can also find this couple on Doctor Whooch where they have a taste of the sauce and talk Doctor Who episodes.
• Brandon is also a frequent contributor to The Beat.
• Danica wants a Taylor Swift/Batman dance off in the animated Batman: Bad Blood.
• Speaking of dance offs, Chris admits that he and his wife just saw the dash cam version of Shake it Off.
• It’s a sad, sad planet when you have to program your virtual assistant to respond to sexual harassment.
• Chris doesn’t attempt to tell this amazing story of a young boy who teaches a few parents that boys picking on girls they like shouldn’t be a socially accepted norm. Hit the link, it’s a wonderful story.
• Paul’s daughter loves the My Little Pony comic book. Well, she did at the time of recording this. 🙃 (PD - Yup, she still does. We have quite the collection.)
• Brandon suggests Princeless as a comic for younger kids. Danica says, maybe ages 14 and on.
• Danica loves the spinoff, Princeless- Raven: The Pirate Princess.
• Brandon says parents should check out Tiny Titans or anything else by Art Baltazar and Frank Aureliani.
• Also have a look at Abigail and the Snowman which is light and captures “the child-like wonder and imagination” of young children.
• Danica tells us about the events they host at their Edmonton store, like fun pajama parties and clothing swaps. More info can be found at the events page on VariantEdmonton.com.
• Chris decided to do research for this episode, so he read some comics recommended by Danica, like the amazing Bitch Planet.

• The store owners discuss some recent favorites:

  • The Beauty
  • Sex Criminals
  • Brandon tells us about his interview with artist Chip Zdarsky.
  • Brandon challenges your hosts to name 3 books, films or TV shows and he will find a comic that meets them in the middle. Paul & Chris give him The Martian & Orphan Black and Brandon’s mental database says they should read Copperhead.
  • Chris says he wants to read Hip Hop Family Tree, a recommendation from Daniel J. Hogan, a frequent guest and friend of the show.

Thanks again to the owners of Variant Edition of Edmonton for joining the guys. Of course, thanks to you for listening. Part two of this conversation with Brandon and Danica is coming up next! While you wait, be sure not to gender any dragons.

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Visual artists never fail to inspire, but we went all the way to Antwerp to talk to Midge Sinnaeve. Fine… technically we Skyped Midge. Though we’d love to go there! Especially after talking to him. We talk VR, books, 3D scanning, cycling in tunnels, scifi and SyFy. Part one of our conversation is here.

• Midge share’s his projects and work on his site, TheMantissa.net. He likes to call this open source artwork.
• Our guest told us his open source artwork was inspired by an open source demo reel he saw once.
• Midge says many architecture visualization artists are using Unreal Engine to create building renders.
• Everyone agrees that augmented reality is far superior to virtual reality. Chris recently wrote about that.
• They briefly talk Ingress & Pokémon Go by Niantic Labs.
• Speaking of VR, Midge has used the Oculus and the HTC Vive.
• Why can’t VR gear look as comfortable as Johnny Mnemonic.
• Chris recommends Ready Player One to Midge.
• In turn, Midge suggests the The Expanse book series, which the television show is based on.
• Midge has been doing some photogrammetry and of course sharing the results on his site.
• Midge mentions Jeffrey Ian Wilson, Paul Debevec as he tells us about photogrammetry.
• You can sculpt 3D objects in Zbrush and then get some textures for your 3D model at not the sponsor, episcura.com.
• Chris offers to send Midge his yet-to-be-used, ardrino for his photogrammetry rig.
• There’s a very big DIY community in photogrammetry. He mentions the 3D Scanning Users Group at Facebook.
• We learn about Antwerp and the St. Anna Tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists.
• What’s Midge watching?
  • The Expanse of course
  • Sicario
  • The Walk
  • Tron: Legacy
  • Oblivion
  • The Wire
• Chris and Midge talk about the animated Tron series, Tron: Uprising.
• Midge loves Tron: Legacy because it is eye candy. Chris’ eye candy choice is Speed Racer.
• We pour out our drinks in honor of Battlestar Galactica.
• Midge wants to know what happens in season 3 SGU Stargate Universe, but we’ll never know.
• An artificial intelligence that designs websites? The Grid.

Find Midge’s projects at TheMantissa.net or Instagram. Hire him at Daze.tv or chat with him on Twitter. Thanks for listening. Please find us on Facebook or Twitter and talk to us, we’re starved for attention. Thanks for listening.

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Or: Count Chocula Moved to Canada for Love This episode we talked to an artist, a programmer, studio owner and the visual arts education coordinator at the International Academy of Film and Television in Antwerp. Midge Sinnaeve joined the fellas to talk awkward clients, how one becomes a ‘professional’ and the Super Bowl from a European perspective.

• Chris met today’s guest when he interviewed him for episcura.
• The confusion of time zones and what is Central European Time?
• Midge was bitten by the 3D bug during a science competition in Ireland. He was using Strata 3D.
• Midge worked in web design for a while, and then someone handed him Maya so he could try to get back into 3D.
• Midge has used a number of 3D software packages. At this point in the podcast he mentioned Cinema 4D.
• Correction: Chris mentioned that a BMX rider died, it was Dave Mirra. We apologize that Chris said Matt Hoffman. Live long and prosper, Mr. Hoffman.
• What’s an animatic?
• Midge’s company is called Daze.
• Midge said sending clients rough 3D or animatics can frighten them. He said it’s comparable to the Uncanny valley. If he sends something really rough, they’re scared, too polished and they’ll ask for changes not permissible within the time table.
• Chris mentions his recent viewing of Mad Max: Fury Road.
• Chris tells Midge & Paul about the Canadian super bowl, The Grey Cup.
• Dramatic Chipmunk vs. Johnny Carson.
• Midge got his own 3D department at International Academy of Film and Television in Antwerp by walking down the street?

• A few of the artists that inspired Midge:

  • Alex Roman and his The Third & The Seventh.
  • GMUNK.
  • Ash Thorp.
  • Midge prefers to show students the “how & why” of the process, rather than teaching the software. So he teaches them how to do the same thing in 3DS Max and Blender.

Thanks to Midge for joining us all the way from the land of delicious beer. Hey, we should probably have him on again. In person! At a Belgian pub! You should give us a single dollar over on Patreon to make that happen. Thanks for listening. Talk to us on Twitter or Facebook, we’re desperate for attention.

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Director & animator Jamil Lahham joined us in part 1 of this conversation where we discussed winning an Oscar, working on Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and what is a bad film? In the second part of our live show, Jamil tells us about his attempt at stand-up comedy, his award winning animation and the attitude needed to complete those personal projects.

• Jamil tells about his short Dirty Laundry Day which recently won Best Animation at the Filmmaker International Film Festival in Spain.
• Chris was inspired by Jamil’s blog about his short especially, “Do ANYTHING a day.”
• Jamil says you have to struggle with your brain. You have to stop yourself from quitting sometimes. For example, seeing student animations from the French schools of Supinfocom or Gobelins should be inspiring, not a deterrent.
• Paul quotes Merlin Mann about setting priorities and being who you want to be.
• Paul loves the sound design in Dirty Laundry Day and Jamil shares that it was done by Chris Kukla.
• Jamil was incredibly happy with Christina Ellis, who did amazing work with the color of Dirty Laundry Day.
• Some of Jamil’s CG inspiration comes from Pocoyo, a Spanish-British animated series.
• Jamil suggests that we watch Anomalisa, a gorgeous stop-motion film.

There you have it! You can find the award-winning animator and all around inspiring dude, Jamil Lahham on Twitter or at his personal blog. For updates about our show and the new season, stop by our Patreon blog.Thanks for listening!

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“You go to school to learn a craft in some sense, but more than anything else, you’re learning about yourself.” The Michigan-Edmonton duo of Paul & Chris were lucky enough to chat with animator & director Jamil Lahham who shared those words about university. Jamil tells us about the organic nature of traditional animation, animating cycles for iPads and the weight of an Oscar.

• Jamil was a part of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the Academy award winning The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and his wonderful short Dirty Laundry Day.
• If you want to learn even more about Jamil, have a look at this interview at episcura.
• Jamil went to Ringling College of Art + Design and has mentored students in the animation department for the last 3 years.
• While in Syria, Jamil attended Damascus University to study interior design.
• Jamil did his internship at EA.
• Artist William Salazar explains how he prefers to draw 2D over his 3D work to get the movement right.
• Andy Serkis (Golem) waged war animators back in 2014, saying he did all the work.
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won an Oscar. Jamil said he got to carry it around the studio briefly, and that it is ‘heavy as s**t!”
• Paul has downloaded The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore app for his daughters and they love it.
• The movie and the app are based on a story by WIlliam Joyce.
• Jamil is learning Python because it works in Maya.
• Jamil challenges the idea of “bad” movies on our Film Frown podcast. “What is good and bad?”
• Jamil and hosts agree that you need to seek your own happiness and not compare yourself to others. Chris says former guest Sally Ann is a perfect example of making your own way.

Stay tuned for part 2 where we learn about Jamil’s animated short and how one stays focused. Thanks to you for listening. A very special thanks to our patrons and of course Jamil Lahham.

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Or: “You’re on Camera Whether You Like It or Not” This is part deux of our conversation with Carolyn Fung & Paul Juricic who were grad students at The Centre for Digital Media. Their final project at the CDM was Project ACME, a personal archiving tool to collect and sort your digital data. We start off talking about the amazing physical archives they visited. For the sake of your sanity in the following notes, “Paul” is our guest. “Host Paul” is the co-host who says he loves pop music.

• Carolyn tells us about the treasures of The Museum of Vancouver and the Planitarium. Organizations like the institutions mentioned above don’t have the funds to create a digital archive for their treasures.
• Chris mentions the amazing Storycorps project as an example of a successful archive project.
• Carolyn shares that part of her work with NGX Interactive is about making an interpretive design. How do you make things relevant to people?
• It turns out that many TV shows in the late 80s and 90s reused tapes so there is no official record of the show USA Up All Night.
• Paul suggests we seek out Mél Hogan to learn more about the opportunities in archived data.
• Chris shares a fiction book that deals with digitizing books in a unique way, Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End.
• We talk about the volume of pictures we take these days versus the past when we used film. Carolyn mentioned that she recently did a hike at Deep Cove and when they reached the top everyone pulled out their phones instead of enjoying the view.
• Paul says that he wishes the criticism around twitter wasn’t focused on the stream of conscience, or somewhat silly posts and concentrated on the broadcast or spam of companies that get in the way of communication.
• Paul uses BBM with a group of friends to stay in touch. There’s less corporate distractions and therefore it is a better tool than twitter for him.
• Paul tells the story of a This American Life episode where two friends were exchanging old pictures of themselves and one noticed his grandmother was in the background of his friend’s picture.
• Chris wants a Mr. Show with Bob & David sketch about people looking at old photos recalling the documentation process of the picture and not the subject matter.
• Paul wonders if there is any inch of Grandville Island that hasn’t been documented by people’s pictures.
• Paul discusses the future of Project ACME.
• Paul uses his traditional podcast plug time to tell us all that we should watch Fargo.
• Carolyn tells us to all go out to our local spaces that are trying to teach us about the local history, no matter the scale. They need our support and input.
• Host Paul is very happy that we had a tremendous number of live listeners during this show. Listen live at 7pm MST or 9pm EST on Thursday evenings.

Find Carolyn on twitter, @carofung and Paul says you can find him on a sidewalk in East Vancouver. (Or Linkedin.) Thanks to both of them for joining us and patiently waiting for the release of this episode. Help us release more episodes, learn more over at patreon.com/msauce. Or yell at us at facebook.com/montrealsauce.

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On this episode the gents talk about preserving memories, archiving, data and private interests. The guests are graduate students from The Centre for Digital Media, Paul Juricic and Carolyn Fung. For the sake of your sanity in the following notes, “Paul” is our guest. “Host Paul” is your Trill podcast host, not a symbiont.

• Previously on Montreal Sauce…Carolyn has been on before so she updates us on the project she was involved in before, True North.
• Paul tells us about the previous team he worked with Altru.City.
• Carolyn is now working with NGX Interactive.
• Paul tells us about Archinodes and the graduate project, Project ACME.
• Archinodes design lab was started by Paul Juricic, Mél Hogan and Jeff Traynor.
• The graduate project was a prototype built on an an earlier idea, Arc.
• Paul said they explored various services like Delicious and Pocket.
• Dig Paul’s ride.
• Carolyn and the team played with physical objects to get an idea of how people handle things before building their interface.
• Is Evernote useful or just a “dumping ground?”
• Permissions and sharing were interesting challenges. For example, Apps like Slack want to make your entire workflow easily accessible. However, Google Drive wants you to use their service, so Slack had to come up with a workaround to get your Google Docs into their app.
• The prototype app the team worked on is for analyzing and exploring your data, not making content. Paul says it’s similar to Hootsuite, which is a tool to manage your other social media accounts.
• Chris shares his new fascination indiewebcamp, which is about syndicating your data to other services and keeping control of it.

Really fascinating conversation with Paul and Carolyn about telling stories about the past versus controlling data. The next episode will be part 2 of the live chat and we’ll continue the conversation about the various methods organizations use to archive information. Be sure to check out Carolyn’s Twitter account or stalk Paul on LinkedIn. If you want to follow the production of the show, check out our blog on Patreon.

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This is our first Sauce Packet, a short show on a single topic. The inaugural topic is “that album that always finds its way into your playlist.”

• What is a Shadoe Stevens? Sorry Film Frown fans, Traxx is just bad, not so bad it is good.
• Who was the announcer in the $10,000 Pyramid?
• Paul’s pick, “The album that they handed out in the streets of the suburbs,” Green Day’s Dookie.
• Chris married his music to his wife’s in Subsonic. He loves it, she misses her free singles from Starbucks on iTunes.
• Chris’ pick, New Radicals - Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too.
• Pick two from the Paul, pandering to the Canadian listeners, Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle.
• Chris drops a cover album as his second pick, If I Were a Carpenter. The grunge bands of the 90s sing Carpenter hits.
• Chris’ oldies favorite is the Greatest Hits from Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Paul enjoys singing the Sounds of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel to his girls. Thus, it is his final pick.

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We go deep into programming languages and their history with our guest Tierney Coren. There’s a sprinkling of tech recommendations, some Rooster Teeth and a discussion on the popularity of Let’s Play videos.

• Chris asks the tough question, “What is Node.js?”
• Learn more about javascript with Douglas Crockford.
• Syntax can make things difficult when it comes to languages. Paul says jQuery really helped in the case of popularizing Javascript.
• Tierney discusses Gulp.js and Electron, web kits for Node.
• Our guest is using a Razer mouse and headset. He found this gear thanks to the company sponsoring his favorite content producer, Rooster Teeth.
• Chris uses a Logitech Performance Mouse MX. He wore one out in 3-4 years, but bought another because he couldn’t find the rad gaming mice that people really enjoy.
• Our younger guest uses his iPhone 6+ for all his media viewing rather than a TV or computer. Paul’s testing out an iPad Pro, maybe it’s an all-in-one solution?
• Paul likes Sleep++ to monitor his sleep.
• Tierney uses CodeHub to connect to Github on his phone.
• The many text editors in Tierney’s life, Brackets, Atom and Visual Studio Code.
• Flavors of linux discussed, Elementary OS, ubuntu, kubuntu, CrunchBang and Arch.
• Chris like this windows manager for Linux, OpenBox.
• We discuss the popularity of Let’s Plays.
• Pewdiepie has built an empire by just making Let’s Play videos.
• Tierney asks that you please visit the Node.js Github and join the community. Everyone is welcome.
• Chris thanks Tunabelly software for giving him a copy of Temperature Gauge Pro to test on his Mac. Guess what? It works great and is making his computer less noisy during the podcast!
• Thanks to Arturo and Brandon for joining us in the chat channel.

Special thanks to Tierney for joining us at the last minute! Of course, thank you for listening to the show. Find Tierney on Cupcake or his site bnb.im. If you want to know what’s happening with Montreal Sauce, check the posts on Patreon. You can also support the show there. There’s also a Facebook page now.

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This episode features discussions of cities in New York that aren’t New York City, succeeding in university and it turns out there are people who love candy corn. No. Really! Our guest Tierney Coren is part of the Node.js Evangelism Work Group, a web developer, designer, writer and student.

• The glorious reputation of Utica.
• Tierney teaches us that the origin point of the grid system in Salt Lake is the Mormon Temple.
• Chris has been using Here.com to replace Google Maps.
• Tierney & Paul have issues using Duck Duck Go for search. However, Paul does love the !bangs.
• Chris defends DDG, but shares an option given to him on the Cupcake.io community, Startpage.com.
• Tierney is doing an accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s program at SUNY Poly.
• We previously did a show with a professor of information design, part 1 & part 2.
• Let’s talk about our dark future with 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
• More books? How about Snow Crash, Ready Player One, Wuthering Heights & The Prince.
• Tierney thinks previous guest Arturo could be the protagonist from Snow Crash.
• Paul & guest review the Twilight Saga films.
• Tierney’s instructor is obsessed with TiddlyWiki, so he’s learned a lot about it.
• Let’s Encrypt is in beta.
• Tierney teaches Chris about Coursera.
• SuperCard Suite wants to be your HyperCard replacement.
• Tierney was using ghost for his site. He tried Jekyll and Hexo. He settled on Metalsmith, a static site generator.
• Paul says the Montreal Sauce & Film Frown sites are also created with a static site generator, PieCrust. The setup is documented on his blog, A Podcaster is Me.
• Chris mentions that he’s going to take a stab at joining the IndieWebCamp movement with a new site using Known. He was inspired by Jeena.net and our chat with Jen Montes, part 1, part 2.
• A really great way to connect with Webmentions is to use brid.gy.

Thanks for listening to the episode & thanks to &! (@bitandbang), Tierney, for chatting on the Sauce. Want to learn more about our podcast or read more about the production, check our Patreon.

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Too lazy to write a blog post on the Patreon page, Paul & Chris meet to discuss exciting new updates to the show. Promotional swag, sauce packets and secretive episodes are coming your way. Not to mention our tremendous backlog of live episodes to publish for downloads.

• This special episode is brought to you be quantum mechanics.
• Remember when we had a t-shirt drive? (You can request Cotton Bureau print more, if you wish.)
• Paul goes searching for domains for the insanely long iTunes link on hover. Should we get dot soy?
• You want shorter content? Yeah. We can do that. We’re going to start doing sauce packets.
• When the ventilation goes out at work, Paul plays clips from Anchorman.
• Chris says a future episode in April will feature a discussion about developing VR with Aaron Clifford.
• Modeled on the Chicago Podcast Cooperative, Edmonton media superstar Karen Unland is busy putting together the Seen and Heard Podcast Network.

Thanks for attending our general meeting? Check us out on Twitter and Facebook. Feeling generous, throw some love at us on Patreon or review the show on iTunes.

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In part dos of the discussion with Arturo Vergara we discuss the value of a college education, the importance of agriculture, the false idea of a post-scarcity society and rapping, yo!

• During the education rant, Paul refers to an earlier show we did at The Centre for Digital Media. Here’s part 1 and part 2.
• Do we really have a Post-scarcity economy?
• Chris discusses a story from That Sugar Film.
• Internet for everyone is not altruistic. It simply means more customers. That’s why Google has balloons & Facebook is making drones.
• Arturo loves performing music. (Psst, he once posted something to his soundcloud.)
• Paul tries to convince Arturo to compose us a song for the show. Arturo says maybe he can collaborate with Jonathan Killearn.
• Arturo has a gorgeous jarana and plays it for us on the show!
• Paul’s Russian teacher wanted him to learn to play the Balalaika. Instead, he learned to play this song on guitar.
• The Swedish Chef performing Rapper’s Delight.
• Chris recommends Hush Tours for a unique view of New York. Much love to Grandmaster Caz, his tour guide.

If you want more Arturo, (of course you do!) hit him up on twitter, github or his site arturovm.me. Thanks a lot for listening! And thank you Arturo. As always favorite us in your podcatcher, tell your friends and get more information about upcoming shows at Patreon.

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This episode your favorite bosom buddies are conversing with developer, musician & writer Arturo Vergara about language, influential authors & thinkers, cyberpunk and the value of art criticism.

• We met Arturo on Cupcake.io.
• Interactive fiction games? Design your own using the awkward R.A.G.S. or the HTML-based Twine.
• Arturo encourages everyone to check out Rudy Mancuso.
• Learning about Mexico City.
• Where there hell does Halloween come from, anyway?
• Arturo’s pond project is for synchronizing RSS and Atom feeds. Soon to be renamed so it won’t be mistaken for the other Pond.
• His other project is a self-hosted email server, Postage.
• He was inspired to make Postage in part because of arkOS.
• We talk about the T.P.P. and jkillearn shot us a link in the chat channel. Here it is.
• Arturo suggests searching for David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report on Youtube.
• Paul suggests searching for George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman.
• Chris chimes in with Kevin Nealon with News From 10 Feet Away. Of course, he and Arturo can’t watch that clip because of lame copyright laws.
• Austin Kleon presents at SXSW in 2014.
• What’s with that weird hinge on the Surface Book?
• Arturo digs the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack.
• Other cyberpunk movies discussed: The Matrix, Tron & Blade Runner.
• Some other books of note we discussed, cyberpunk & drama flavored:
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  • Neuromancer
  • Snowcrash
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Ready Player One.
• Arturo suggests Android: Netrunner The Card Game.
• The bizarre history The Catcher in the Rye in pop culture.
• Arturo doesn’t like the notion of art critics as “nobody gets to decide what’s good and what’s bad in art.” Chris & Paul discuss ArtPrize.
• Arturo is a part of a reading group that discusses Heidegger and Sartre.
• Wine-tasting: it’s junk science.
• Arturo says Albert Camus was very influential to him.

Thanks to Arturo for joining us at the last minute! It was a pleasure to chat with him. Be sure to check out his site, arturovm.me to find his work and where to stalk him online. Thank you for listening! For more information about the podcast & upcoming shows, check out our Patreon page. You can throw money at us there as well.

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Joe Veix is back! We talk giant, square tube TVs, human suffering, the Publik Facebook™ and of course, Truck Nutz.

• Candlebox as reviewed by an angry fan.
• Joe tells us Creed was sued for sucking.
• Joe says we’re doing voicemail wrong and we think he’s right. Misconnected: A Personal History of Voicemail.
• Our guest thinks It’s interesting how gChat (Hangouts), Instant Messenger & Facebook Messenger are similar forms of communication but we use and behave on them differently.
• Badwords the project created by Joe that replaced your cookies with those of bizarre characters. A great way to protect your privacy.
• The weirdness that is geriatric manikins?
• The logic of Truck Nutz?
• Chris dares you to put CarLashes on any trucks you find with nuts.
• What the heck is Tony the Tiger up to now?
• Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.
• Molleindustria makes activist type games to educate folks about our diabolical world. Check out Phone Story to learn where your phone comes from.
• Joe’s Publik Facebook™ project.
• Paul & Joe discuss the issues of online abuse and Twitter.
• Joe gives some great advice for creators/writers near the end of the show. “Do your thing. Don’t chase an audience or fame.”
• Joe mentions that many punk musicians never believed they were part of a revolution or movement. They were just making music they liked.
• Need a space to talk all things horses? Dig Horsechat, yo!

Thanks for listening to the episode! Check out joeveix.com or his twitter account, @joeveix to learn more about our guest. Please peek at our Patreon page and support the podcast for like $1!

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Paul & Chris were joined by writer and artist with a last name that people always pronounce wrong, Joe Veix. He discusses his career, joke writing and of course Matthew McConaughey.

• Trade secret from the gas station - OPEC doesn’t set gas prices. In college, Chris’ sister worked at a gas station and was obviously in charge of the price at the pump.
• Writing about K-Pop? Youtube examples.
• System Shock 2, a horror video game.
• Brandacted, a Chrome extension by our guest that blocks brand names.
• Similar to Brandacted, Joe also made Name Swap that gives political candidates a gross name.
• Joe was inspired by the Redskins Web Skin extension.
• Joe says he started out writing “really bad Jack Handy rip-off jokes.”
• Chris and Joe are both fans of Adbusters’ spoofs.
• The gents discuss the over commercialization of Back to the Future Day.
• Chris reviews his Back to the Future Blu-ray set.
• Robert Zemeckis films include: Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Romancing the Stone.
• Joe wonders if Contact is as bad as people say it is. Bad like Ishtar perhaps?
• Paul points out Matthew McConaughey is in both Contact and Interstellar.
• Joe thinks there are actors who do very similar characters in every movie and yet you still love to watch them. Like Steve Zahn or Peter Lorre.
• Chris says there are others that do that and he can’t stand them, like Joe Pesci.
• Joe’s amazing acting reel.
• The truck commercial genre is full of tropes and Denis Leary.
• A Transformers show with only trucks that can’t transform. A new kids show we pitch. Oh look, there’s a game already.
• Paul educates us on a dirty secret, fake engine noises playing in your car speakers.
• Writing apps for the Mac, Byword or Pages.
• Joe prefers to change the contrast settings and make Pages dark and less distracting.
• Markdown is the way Chris likes to write now.

Thanks for listening to the show and reading these handcrafted notes. Thanks to Joe for taking the time to join us. Be sure to check out his stories on Death and Taxes and his site. Also, please check out our Patreon page and throw money at us. No applause please.

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Surprise! Did we kidnap the Larry Bird of podcasting in a bizarre re-enacting of the bad movie, Celtic Pride? Of course not. We’re too lazy. Dan Benjamin joined us to chat about his love of radio, setting the right expectations for your podcast and making better podcasts for listeners.

• Dan thinks Paul sounds really great. It must be that DBX pre-amp & the Onyx 1620i Paul purchased from multiple 5by5 network garage sales.
• Dan usually shares his experience with gear and production on his show Podcast Method.
• Dan loves the surprise of live shows, as in his show with Merlin Mann, Back to Work.
• Our guest remembers reading that Leo Laporte was making a million dollars podcasting and thought, “Surely I can make enough to pay my bills if I work really, really hard.”
• Advice from Dan to us & someone he met at the 2015 Podcast Movement, Make one really good show, first. Then, maybe try another. No need to start a network from the get-go.
• Celebrity podcasts are going to be the moneymakers and have the largest audiences. If you’re not Tim Ferriss or Bill Simmons, do what you love and find a niche.
• Even though Dan Patrick has been very successful, would he be where he is today without getting exposure & connections at ESPN?
• The best model to grow your audience? Here you go.
• Product Hunt is now curating podcasts.
• Speaking of discovery of podcasts, Spotify has a podcast section and Google Play Music will be hosting as well.
• Human curated lists work well, see Apple Music (just for curation, the interface is terrible).
• We’re very thankful Dan made time to talk to us. We were able to catch him before he did episode #151 of Amplified with Jim Dalrymple.

So grateful we had the chance to talk to Dan Benjamin. Thanks Dan! Thanks to you for listening and be sure to check out Dan on twitter, his network 5by5 and all the cool things he makes. Feel like supporting the show? Tell a friend and have a look at our sexy rewards on Patreon.

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It’s part deux with Taryn Arnold from Patreon! As the conversation continues from the last show they discuss educational videos, the art of interviewing, Ace of Base, Tamagotchi, and bad accents.

• Paul works with the creator of Graphtreon, a tool to track the progress of creators on Patreon. Taryn says it is a fav around the office.
• Taryn loves so many things on Patreon. She mentions Crash Course, In a Nutshell, and How To Adult shows.
• We review Taryn’s test Patreon page.
• California is great! Well, except for the Earthquakes. Taryn is not a fan of those. San Andreas is real, yo!
• Montreal Sauce is no This American Life, but we do enjoy a good story.
• I like juice, the progenitor podcast.
• Chris asks a loaded question, “Please tell me you are playing Neko Atsume?”
• Now you miss your Tamagotchi, don’t you?
• Time to do a reno? You need Holmes on Homes.

QUIZ TIME! Let’s learn about Sweden!

• The Swedish Chef makes poutine in Montreal.
• It’s The Final Countdown so take a Joyride because It’s All That She Wants.
• Godzilla rocks with Green Day. Remix!
• Lingonberry is your jam.
• Taryn thinks Chris sounds like Goofy in the first part. This episode he’s doing Wreck-it Ralph.
• Flavor Flav!

Thanks so much to Taryn Arnold for chatting and laughing with us! Thank you for listening. Don’t forget to check out Calling All Creators with Taryn, and the amazing Patreon site. Go hire OldManSteve at fiverr! You can support us at patreon.com/msauce.

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In a very fun show, Paul & Chris get chat with the hilarious and enthusiastic Taryn Arnold from Patreon. She joins the show to talk the art of mouth foley, the right amount of internet stalking, teen crushes and Patreon page success.

• Nobody likes candy corn.
• Taryn hosts Patreon’s Calling All Creators.
• Taryn went to university at ASU.
• Our guest worked in marketing before moving to bop & Tiger beat magazines to report on entertainment.
• The gauntlet has been thrown. Taryn says there’s no better place to live than California.
• Paul thinks he may become a Snowbird.
• Justin Hall stops in the chat room during the live show and Chris shares how he met his wife thanks to a game Justin created.
• Taryn loves OLDMANSTEVE on fiverr. “It’s good stuff!”
• How in the world do you navigate reddit?
• Chris wonders if there are free Pomplamoose concerts in the Patreon office.
• Taryn hopes to have her own podcast someday, but for now she enjoys hanging out with Jack Conte at work because he’s incredibly passionate about creators.
• Ten minutes is a real challenging goal for her podcast, Calling All Creators.
• Goodstuff.fm has a show called Daily(ish) that is a very short podcast as well.
• Always around the 40-50 min mark is Random Trek.
• Chris talks about Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcastso much, he must be on the take.
• Taryn admits that she has an addiction to Spotify.
• Teen Taryn loved *NSYNC and Paul Walker, so she warns Paul to get ready to deal with his daughter’s crushes.
• Taryn is frustrated with Apple changing their chargers all the time! Proprietary cables be like…
• Paul asks Taryn how we can be successful with our Patreon page and she gives us some great tips. Also she becomes our first patron!
• Chris ruins his laptop by throwing a Toonie at it.
• Paul mentions how amazing Zardoz is and Taryn actually does an image search. She survives.
• The Guy Who Designed Twitter’s Logo Only Made About $3.

Just. Plain. Fun. Hope you didn’t scroll past this episode because Taryn is hilariously cool. And, we’re not just saying that because she’s our first patron. Be sure to check out Thetarynarnold on twitter, Calling All Creators and Patreon. Thanks to Taryn for hanging out with the guys! Of course, thank you for listening.

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It’s part 2 with Jonathan Killearn, a classically trained musician navigating the competitive new music distribution world of the Internet. Is it crazy to pursue a career in creative arts? The conversation is about audience building, talking to nobody, and music communities online; quiz time teaches us all about Gary Busey & Nick Nolte. Part 1 can be found here.

• Jonathan is sharing his music via lead sheets in LilyPond format on GitHub.
• Podcast Method, a show by Dan Benjamin.
• Jonathan mentions a subreddit for musicians, We Are The Music Makers.
• You should follow Jonathan’s Instagram account.
• Jonathan likes his Android phone because he can quickly switch from his personal account to his stage name when he interacts with fans.
• Jonathan uses SoundCloud because he believes it is the “Youtube of audio.”
• Another musician interviewed on a past show used Reverb Nation. You can hear his story here and part 2.
• Jonathan found a love of music when first heard Cloudburst by Mannheim Steamroller in 4th grade. Later, in 1996 Jonathan attended the North American New Music Festival.
• Music Jonathan enjoys The Strokes, Belle and Sebastian, Benjamin Thigpen, Pronto Mama & Randolph’s Leap.
• John Roderick is a musician who does the Roderick on the Line and Road Work podcasts.
• Jonathan enjoys Hypercritical & Accidental Tech podcasts and has written a song inspired by them. He hopes to start producing it next. He also has a song about diver Tom Daley.

QUIZ TIME! Chris gives Paul & Jonathan a test on who’s who in Hollywood. Is it Nick Nolte or Gary Busey?.

• Who fits in a nutty used car TV ad? Gary Busey, of course.

Thanks for listening! Thanks to Jonathan for joining us! Be sure to find Jonathan Killearn on SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub, Cupcake and the Freenode room #minix. Check out our Patreon page to support the show!

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The talented clog dancers, Chris & Paul chat with producer, arranger, composer & performer Jonathan Killearn. It’s a battle of dueling microphones & cheap Korean guitars.

• Jonathan did the “Advice with Dawn” music on the The Dawn And Drew Show.
• “It May Not Be An Apple Watch, But It’s Still Pretty Cool” is Jonathan’s latest track. The lyrics are about drum & bugle corps enthusiast, Jdfuncorps.
• Jonathan made his rough prototype with Reason and then recorded his acoustic instruments.
• Jonathan’s gorgeous beastly bass guitar.
• Music as a Healing Bridge from TedxBuffalo.
• You can study Music Therapy at Jonathan’s alma mater, Ohio University.
• Struck by lightning & then compelled to compose music?
• Tiny houses have no room for drum sets. Pitch shifting to the rescue!
• Everyone needs a suitcase kick drum.
• Put on your nice shoes & tap out the beat Montreal style.
• Process is important but everyone finds their way if they’re passionate enough. Mike Judge recently discussed the various ways he made his animations in a recent Nerdist Podcast.
• Chris remembers Eddie and the Cruisers during a discussion about tempo.
• I Dream of Wires is a documentary about the electronic modular synthesizer.
• Jonathan believes you do need limits to be creative. He’s not the only one.
• Jonathan’s vocal mic, Studio Projects C4.
• Our guest originally wanted an Earthworks mic, but he didn’t want to drop two grand on a microphone.
• Inspiration in the form of Jonathan Coulton.
• Jack Conte at XOXO Festival.
• Does your city have a nerd nite?

Thank you so much for listening and thanks to Jonathan Killearn for taking the time to chat with us! Find him on SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub and even Cupcake.

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The new season has started and the guys are dropping science! Well, actually they’re catching up with each other and you. Listen to learn how Val Kilmer could have saved the world from evil cable bundles if his Amtrak train hadn’t been delayed.

• Home internet in Canada is just like mobile data, they charge per usage! What the hell? Look out US. Telus Internet Plans or Shaw.
• Coming soon, Paul will be fortunate enough to get with a surviving local telco for internet, AcenTek.
• If you want to support local Internet companies in Canada, see if TekSavvy is in your area.
• Curse of the cable bundles!
• Paul discusses the plus/minus of the Shedd Aquarium.
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s song.
• Blackfish trailer, a documentary about Seaworld.
• The Fortress of Solitude is neither secret, nor is it heated for guests.
• Will you go see Batman V Superman?
• To ignore the previous question, Daredevil on Netflix is good.
• The gents review Jurassic World.
• Paul talks Ant-Man and CGI Michael Douglas.
• Chris says, “Stop listening and watch Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau.” Currently on Netflix.
• A tale about Val Kilmer from the set of The Steam Experiment.
• Highly recommended film from 1966, How to Steal a Million
• Paul worries about all the new characters in the new Star Wars film. Chris thinks Disney will play the “safe game”.
• Attack the Block is amazing. Currently on Netflix as well.
• Chris & Paul both enjoyed The Martian book.
• Paul is reading Packing For Mars a non-fiction book.
• Other suggested non-fiction authors, Bill Bryson and Michio Kaku.
• Chris was not a fan of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
• Support Alan Tudyk & Nathan Fillion and rent Con Man on Vimeo. It looks amazing.
• Chris shares the moment he and his wife experienced at Edmonton Folk Fest. Watch the bands jam together here. Fast forward to 41:57 for the moment.
• Check out Star Trek Renegades! It’s highly recommended by Paul.

Thanks again for listening and extra special congrats if you read all of this. If you enjoy the show (or even just the notes) why not give us a little monthly tip over at Patreon? You rock.

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Paul & Chris are back! They’re kicking it old school. Join them as they go to warp speed. Well, just as soon as they can remove all the Google bloatware from the engineering software and find a cool external hard drive.

• Here’s a new season of the Sauce but what about Film Frown?
• Where is our lost episode featuring Marty Chan? Right here and here, smart ass.
• “What browser are you using these days?” Chris answers in a blog post.
• How to “Remove Uninvited Google Apps from Launchpad” on Macs.
• Chris used Homebrew & the Cask to install all his applications on his Mac during his clean install. Lifehacker has a decent guide.
• Little Snitch is a great firewall to tell you which applications are trying to connect to the web. For example, Apple location services on want to connect to the internet every 10 seconds. That seems wasteful on a desktop.
• Chris reviews his experience with MailPile. Then he shares that he moved to Airmail.
• Checking system stats on your Mac? iStat Menus is great or there’s GeekTool. Less expensive Monity is another option, but it doesn’t do temperature. If you are just concerned with temperature, there’s TG Pro.
• Paul has Automatic connected to his OBD-II port in his vehicle. He can track his car’s health with his Apple Watch or his phone.
• You need Shia LaBeouf freestyle rapping. Just do it.
• External hard drives? Lacie makes decent drives, but Chris & Paul prefer enclosures with fans, if it is a rotating drive and not an SSD. Chris has Vantec cases for his externals. Paul recommends buying in pairs for your backup.
• What’s on your external? Chris has some work resources like Death To The Stock Photo images. We interviewed one of the minds behind that site once.
• Paul & Chris really like their TP-link gigabit switches.

You rock. Thanks for listening and let us know on twitter if you have any feedback.

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This is the second half of our discussion with writer Marty Chan. The first half is here. Topics are writing for the stage vs. novels, favorite authors, Houdini and the cleverly named new insulin.

• Authors mentioned: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross and Kenneth Oppel.
• Warning, Mad Men finalé spoilers. Once you hear “Spoiler Alert,” fast forward 1 minute.
• Old Coke vs. New Coke, Soylent Green and eating right.
• Marty had The Hardy Boys growing up and Chris was obsessed with Encyclopedia Brown.
• The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher (Marty Chan Mystery Series 3) deals with discrimination against a girl because of diabetes.
• Vertical integration and the popular song, “I’d like to buy the world some insulin.”
• Marty’s steampunk, young adult series, The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles begins with Demon Gate and Infinity Coil was recently released!
• Marty was a fan of the Marvel What If series and it somewhat inspired his alternate history in The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles.
• Mentors A time travel TV show that also inspired Marty.
• The publisher of Marty’s latest series is Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
• Chris and Marty agree that the Houdini miniseries was awful. Episode one fact checked and episode two.
• Chris recommends Make Believe. Marty says one of the students in the film, Krystyn Lambert went on to join Criss Angel’s reality show.
• Sheldon Casavant is a magician who Marty hired for his book party.
• What’s Marty reading? The Hunchback Assignments and The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu.
• Make Something Edmonton is the home for Edmonton made projects.

Find Marty on twitter or Facebook and buy Infinity Coil or get started in the series with Demon Gate. Thanks again for listening! Special thanks to Marty Chan for joining us!

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The gents were incredibly lucky to talk to author Marty Chan. His works include books, plays, radio and television scripts & hilarious tweets. Discussion topics include actors who overdub Hollywood star’s in films shown in other countries, prejudice, the Chinese word to describe “your life is going terribly wrong” and of course cats.

• The Batusi.
• Chris plugs the chat room we have for the live show that you can find on the live page. Can’t make it at 6pm PDT, 7 MTN, 8 CDT or 9pm EDT? Tweet comments and questions to @MontrealSauce.
• Marty was enrolled in university in a subject he really wasn’t interested in so he earned the Dean’s Vacation.
• Chris majored in Euchre during his first attempt at college. Thus, he understands the concept of Dean’s Vacation.
• Memories of the dot matrix printer (and Rocky).
• Edmonton is insanely in love with theater. Come join us at Edmonton Fringe Festival.
• Marty auditioned for Jake and the Kid in hopes to get into television writing. It worked!
• Marty did some time with the improv group, Rapid Fire Theatre.
• The Incredible Story Studio which Marty worked on, was a great concept for a show.
• Marty’s books include selections for children and young adults.
• Our guest was obsessed with The Hardy Boys books as a child. Young Marty pursued a detective career in his parents grocery store thanks to The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook.
• Mom, Dad, I’m Living With A White Girl.
• Chris wishes Marty would have joined them to review Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon.
• The Young Alberta Book Society helps schools & authors connect. Marty enjoys presenting to schools and loves YABS.
• The library?

Thanks to Marty for taking the time to join us. Subscribe on MontrealSauce.com or iTunes so you don’t miss part 2 with Marty and thanks for listening.

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Paul & Chris sit down and chat about central vacuum and avocados! What more could you want from a host-full show? Well, surprise guest Tina pops in to talk delicious cookies & not-so delicious undercooked cheeseburgers.

• Chris is excited for the next episode with author Marty Chan.
• A last minute shot in the dark, Chris attempted to get Adam Dachis from Supercharched as this episode’s guest. However, he’s hoping to schedule Adam and Darren Herczeg for a future Film Frown.
• Paul asks about Chris’ latest writing gig, Lost Highway.
• Chris was also lucky enough to have an article posted on the arkOS blog.
• Glen Fleishman’s The New Disruptors is an excellent podcast. In particular, they discuss the episode featuring Nicole Dieker where she talked briefly about working for CrowdSource.
• Discussing the terror of possibly offending a movie star hero during your bad movie podcast. Here’s the show in question. Here’s a recap.
• Panasonic, why you no have Ernie Reyes Jr. kick your Toughbook & Toughpad around in commercials? We’d buy one then. IF IT COULD SURVIVE HIS MARTIAL ARTS!
• The ridiculous 3D music video for Edmonton’s Brewery District development. (Turn off your speakers unless you want to hear synth trombones. In fact, do not watch this at all.)
• Paul enjoys listening to the podcast Core Intuition.
• Paul wants to incorporate Searchpath into the new site to hosts our podcasts. He currently bakes pies when he uploads these notes and podcasts? WHA? A backstage look at how Paul publishes and hosts the podcasts.
• Chris has been editing images for episcura.com. So, if you need seamless textures or HDRI, check it out.
• The fellas discuss using tags and how John Gruber uses tags.
• Patent trolls 101 and The Temple of Gloom.
• Chris shares a review of Sony’s Powers. Only available on PS4? REALLY?
• Rory from Doctor Who is in CW’s new Legends of Tomorrow.
• The kids need a GyroBowl!
• Paul loves the “fabulous central vacuum.”
• Skype boxes built from Raspberry Pis? Why not. The Wolfson Audio Card might be a decent audio solution.
• Paul’s audio mixer used for the show, Mackie Onyx 1640i. Dan Benjamin now suggests some Focusrite products for podcasting in his show Podcast Method.

Thanks for listening to our host-full show. It was a lot of fun for us to catch up with each other instead of getting to know a rad guest. It’s a bit of a throwback episode; we hope you enjoyed it.

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Jacob Cook from arkOS is with the guys for part 2 of the discussion on privacy. Jacob says we should trust the investigation techniques we’ve used for years rather than collect everyone’s data. Meanwhile, Paul has a great metaphor for online privacy, the front door of your home.

• We mentioned it in the show notes for the last episode, but we talked about the Last Weeek Tonight video on Edward Snowden in this part. (NSFW)
• Jacob recommends Citizenfour, the Oscar winning documentary about the Snowden leak while Chris is not as impressed. Watch it on iTunes.
• Chris recommends The Internet’s Own Boy which you can also watch on iTunes.
• Trusting websites and companies with our data online is one thing. We also have to trust our friends with whom we share. You send them pictures & information all the time. They could get hacked or use gmail and your data is at risk.
• Diaspora is a social network that is decentralized.
• GNUSocial is another decentralized social network.
• Chris asks Jacob about IndieWebCamp. Suggested examples are jeena.net and brennannovak.com.
• The government wants a backdoor into every system out there. This would make encryption pointless.
• Legal or not, many are being forced to unlock phones and decrypt laptops at borders.
• Legally you can be forced to unlock your phone with touch ID.
• Nothing leaves the web. You post it. Forever it shall be.
• “I don’t have anything to hide.” Jacob suggests that you watch Why Privacy Matters.
• Jacob gives a quick overview on how to get started protecting your privacy. Start with hosting your email somewhere else beside these large data collection companies.
• A brief discussion of the robot in Starcrash. Or is he the chicken lawyer from Futurama?
• Your Samsung SmartTV is spying on you?
• Meanwhile, Barbie is spying on your kids.
• Lenovo Responds to Superfish issue.
• Jacob tells us about the new arkOS Connect service.

Once again thanks for listening and thanks to our guest for the chat. Be sure to check out Jacob’s arkOS. If you want to hear more from Jacob, have a listen to the Film Frown podcast he was on.

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This week Chris wanted to talk about privacy so he and Paul invited Jacob Cook the father of arkOS to talk about the importance of confidentiality and better ways to protect yourself online.

Subtle Reminder: We have a chat channel on the freenode IRC network you can join during live shows on Thursday nights to interact with us. Or jump in on other days and maybe you run into Chris or Paul. Look for #montrealsauce on freenode or hit the live page on our site.

• We discuss the spotted history of online payments where Elon Musk’s Paypal was the only choice. Paul & Jacob prefer using stripe when they are developing.
• Edward Snowden has exposed a number of things about government data collection. The truth is that they cannot provide one case where mass surveillance has stopped an actual terrorist act. Last Week Tonight has an excellnt video on the subject. It’s NSFW.
• Jacob’s arkOS has a number of ways for you to host your own data.
• Jacob tells us there are great alternatives out there for every popular app and service, but there’s a learning curve. arkOS is his answer to having an easy solution for everyone, like apps on the app store.
• Speaking of alternatives, Chris and Paul have had success with Baïkal for syncing contacts and calendars.
• Chris is excited to try Mumble as an alternative to Skype.
• Jacob had a Jolla phone to increase his privacy, but recently moved to a new carrier where it wasn’t supported.
• Jacob & Chris use apps from Open Whisper Systems for encrypted communication on their devices. You can get TextSecure for Android or Signal for iPhone in the various app stores.
• Encrypting e-mail sounds complex, but there are tutorials everywhere. Read more on ars technia.
• Chris & Jacob chat a bit about using xdadevelopers forum to try new ROMs on Android and the “hackable nature” of the ecosystem vs. iOS.
• MightyText Allows you to text from your computer or tablet after syncing with your Android phone.
• iMessage and WhatsApp are other messaging alternatives they discussed.
• HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension/add-on to protect you online.
• Jacob also uses Ghostery to block all the trackers following you online.
• Chris cautions that Ghostery will send data to advertisers. Thus, he uses Disconnect. Wait, what do these do?
• Is Adblock Plus any good or are companies paying ABP not to block?
• Homeland Security is setting up an office in Silicon Valley.
• The gents talk SSL encryption.
• To secure your own sites you can make SSL certificates, but browsers only recognize certificates from a “trusted” authority (in other words a company that takes your money for the certificate). Let’s encrypt is a free service coming in September.
• arkOS is about being decentralized, your data on your hardware without having to trust some data center. However, ISPs don’t want you to host your own services and some do not give you a static IP address. So, Skylark was born. arkOS on centralized connection.
• There are now data centers using the micro boards like the Raspberry Pi. You can host things on these microservers. Mininodes is one such service.

Special thanks to Jacob for once again coming on to share his time and genius with Paul & Chris. Next episode will be the continuation of the conversation about privacy, sausage and your dXXk pics.

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This is the second half our conversation with artist & developer, Jen Montes. We discuss being multilingual, Puerto Rico, Python, GitHub, and poutine. Jen currently works on the TV show Archer.

• Chris tries to show off, saying he learned Spanish from watching, Home Alone in Mexico.
• Jen wonders what the difference between European French and Quebec French is? Jacob, who is in the chatroom, chimes in to share his experience in Quebec.
• Jen grew up in Puerto Rico which reminds Chris of a recent Last Week Tonight video on voting rights in U.S. Territories.
• The Insular Cases are the awkward Supreme Court documents that surmise people in territories under the control of America do not receive all the rights guaranteed in the constitution.
• Paul is reminded of the videos by CPG Grey, American Empire and The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained.
• Paul explores Jen’s GitHub page and we talk Python.
• Jacob is looking forward to ES6 Harmony the sixth edition of Javascript.
• Jen is interested in the way Tent and the Indie Web movement are working. She hopes to build a personal site that interacts with other networks, but all her data is in one central place.
• One project Jen is working on is a file browser for the nifty, dropbox-like Syncthing.
• Remembering PaintShop Pro and 3D Studio Max, which are still made!
• Jen tells us that you can still get The Print Shop! That’s more exciting than baseball.
• Jeena’s site is a great example of indieweb ideas in the real world. He explains it in a blog post, IndieWeb Join us!
• Known is a service using the indieweb principles. Without having programing knowledge you can jump right in and begin publishing your own site.
• Jen is not a tremendous TV show junky but she does appreciate watching shows as a social activity. She watches The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and of course Archer with groups of friends.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this episode with Jen Montes. It’s fairly obvious that we had a good time. Up next, a topical show on privacy.

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Jen Montes currently works on the animated show Archer. She started out as an illustrator and now develops tools to assist the artists & animators. We talk about federating the web, cats, electrical engineering and jazz hands.

• Jen wanted to join us sooner, however the entire team that creates Archer gets together to watch each episode on Thursday nights.
• We fall into Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt recaps because we all enjoy the jokes.
• Illustrators build Archer characters in Adobe Illustrator and they animate in After Effects.
• Jen created the video for the arkOS fundraising campaign.
• In the chat room, Jacob wonders if the people who make Archer also made Frisky Dingo.
• Adam Reed & Matt Thompson are the minds behind Frisky Dingo, Sealab 2021 and Archer.
• Chris and Jen have both listened to the Nerdist Writer’s Panel podcast about Archer.
• Growing up Jen had a rad Tandy computer.
• Jen learned Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, was accepted to the Georgia Tech PHD robotics program and built satellites for Boeing. Of course, she never stopped pursuing her creative and artistic passions.
• Chris recommends Iron Sky because it was not only crowd funded, but crowdsourced.
• HitRecordTV is another collaborative production.
• Where is our art collaboration website? Jen imagines a GitHub-like network for artists.
• We learn that Electrical engineering field is huge.
• A Tribe Called Quest lied to us about the pronunciation of El Segundo.
• Jen says she left Boeing because she was only “pushing desks.” Chris relates that the recent TV show Halt and Catch Fire illustrates her point. Be an intern & fetch coffee at IBM or work at a small firm and get your hands dirty writing BIOS.
• Chris proposes re-scripting Archer as a Spanish soap opera, like it’s creator did with Sealab2021.

Thanks to Jen Montes and her cat for taking time in the evening to gab with us. Stay tuned for the next episode to her more from the artist and developer.

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Chris is on the road interviewing students in the Master of Digital Media program at The Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver. In addition to the school and projects, we discuss how technology has changed the concept of ownership and we collectively miss the days of buying physical media.

• Armin Mortazavi stuck around from part one as we chatted with Carolyn Fung and Marina Lúcio.
• Carolyn was part of the True North team which put together 2 interactive experiences for the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
• Marina and team Maneki Neko developed a game for a company that we cannot disclose. Read more by clicking the team name.
• Chris wonders if there’s a cheat code to get the Miami Vice speed boat in the museum simulator.
• Armin shares that there are lots of cell phone cheats in Grand Theft Auto.
• All three guests discuss the program at the CDM.
• Collaboration, even between student teams is a huge part of the school. In contrast, Marina shares that her team’s client was on the other side of the world communicating voice-only through Skype.
• Since Marina never met the voice on the line Armin wonders, could the client be the Inspector Gadget’s nemesis?
• Carolyn was on the fence about leaving her career path to return to school, but she recommends you do it if you’re thinking about it. Do it in a flash!
• We discuss how fast technology moves and are curious how many people know what a floppy disk is?
• Carolyn tells us that there’s a movement of folks who are ant-technology. The documentary Deluged by Data features Camp Grounded where you can disconnect.
• We discuss the Oculus Rift and substituting a virtual reality for, well reality.
• Is the touch screen a good interface? It’s not exactly a tool.
• Armin is a spy and has no fingerprints which made it difficult for him to take the MCAT.
• Wait what? You can instantly print your iPhone pictures with a device strapped to your phone? Prynt case. Or you can try the Polaroid Zip.
• Arturo chimes in from the chat room to mention that USB seems to be disappearing as well.
• Since we don’t own anything, we can’t let people borrow things very easily. Marina tells us about the awkward Steam sharing.
• XBox One made sharing games difficut but changed their idea after consumers reacted negatively and PS4 made fun of them.
• Zip disks are evil as discussed on Film Frown.
• Be sure to check out Armin’s website biasedcat.blogspot.ca for his comics.
• Carolyn is on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• Look for Easter eggs in future games created by Marina Lúcio.
• Once again, the team blogs are True North, Maneki Neko and The Six.

Special thanks to Mark, Josh, Jeannette, Director Dr. Richard Smith and the entire staff at the CDM for making this remote show possible.

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As they used to say in the days of radio, this week we’re on a live remote from The Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver. We chat with the students about the unique program and school. These talented individuals share their experience in the amazing Master program, their ridiculously cool projects and future aspirations. Listening to the altruistic men & women in this Master’s program will give you hope for the future.

• We’re joined by Arushi Nagar, Gandhar Tannu and Armin Mortazavi.
• More information on this digital media graduate program is available here. The MDM at the CDM is made possible through a partnership with The University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
• Gandhar briefly describes the courses & semesters.
• Gandhar also shares that the school encourages entrepreneurship so students can pitch their own projects to real world investors like on Dragon’s Den or Shark Tank.
• Arushi mentioned that one of the keys to the school’s success is the diversity of the students. They are from different cultures & different professional disciplines. They are Agile.
• Our guests really enjoy their approachable and fun professors. They love the staff as well.
• How are you greeted at the school? By “a giant Pac-Man” Armin tells us.
• There’s a lot of game development happening at the school, so naturally they have game systems from Intellivision and Atari 2600 to the current generation of XBox One and PS4.
• Even if game design is not their focus, each of our guests enjoyed the game design class taught by Dr. Kimberly Voll.
• Gandhar was part of the Out of the Box team during the semester. The client he was working with was founded by former CDM students.
• When Chris watched the demo of the Magic Box he was reminded of Sega’s Time Traveler Hologame from the 90s.
• There are past graduates at EA, Microsoft, Google, CapCom, Apple, and many others.
• 12 companies have come out of the school in 6 years!
• Project team Eagle Eye included our guest Arushi and they were working on a marketing automation campaign for the ad agency Elevator Strategy.
• Armin was on a team called The Six. Their goal was to create a brain training game. Without breaking the non-disclosure agreement, he describes the project as “similar to Lumosity.”
• Finding a common interest is a key to a successful team. For example, get off the phone it’s beer Friday!
• Gandhar was mostly acting as a project manager for the project, but he does write on his site, gandharwrites.com.
• While Arushi hopes to find work at an augmented reality agency and Gandhar wants to create his own startup, Armin would like to teach science through his art.

Special thanks to Mark, Josh, Jeannette, Director Dr. Richard Smith and the entire staff at the CDM for making this remote show possible.

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Welcome to part two of the conversation with Alan Henry of Lifehacker. He shares some kitchen advice and his joy of traveling to various Gawker Media hubs. You’ll learn that anime has a flavor for everyone and Spider-Man has a giant mech.

• Why is LeVar Burton in the Cameo “Word Up” video?
• A young Gilbert Gottfried has the “Gas Face” and child-like Penn & Teller get “Tricky”.
• Alan says you need to have a great chef’s knife in the kitchen. Chris thinks we should probably know how to use it as well.
• The under used item in your kitchen may be your broiler. Save some counter space and ditch the toaster oven.
• Alan also loves the slow cooker and recommends the America’s Test Kitchen book Healthy Slow Cooker Revolution.
• Which slow cooker is for you? America’s Test Kitchen has an equipment reviews for just such a question.
• Alan enjoys his crunchyroll subscription to fuel his love of anime.
• Everyone on the show is pro Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• Alan briefly reviews the anime series Noir.
• “One man’s trash is another man’s…”
• Chris learns the difference between the two Fullmetal Alchemist series.
• What is Marvel Disk Wars?
• Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore is an interesting mix of story & culture.
• Japanese Spiderman, Episode 1 via Marvel.
• Kamen Rider is the original gangsta of Japanese live action masked hero goodness.
• Gritty reboot of the Power Rangers is unauthorized, filled with cursing and gore.
• Alan is thinking about trying Sling TV because cut the cable!
• Chris tries his hand at providing a life hack to Alan who said he didn’t enjoy grocery shopping on a recent Supercharged episode.

Paul & Chris were delighted to chat with Alan and thankful he could join them. You can find Alan Henry on twitter, or of course on Lifehacker.com.

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Chris & Paul are joined by Alan Henry to chat about former lives, science, college radio, and Alan’s journey on the way to writing for Lifehacker.

• Writing articles on his own blogs, Gears and Widgets and The Classy Geek, eventually led to someone saying, “Hey Alan, you should write for us and we’ll pay you!”
• Alan put together the science guidelines at Lifehacker.
• How I Work is a useful series on Lifehacker to learn some excellent tips from people in different fields. You can even learn more about Alan and how he works.
• An old blog of Chris’ with very bad jpegs about Canadian internet shopping.
• Alan suggested NCIX for Canadian internet shoppers. Win for Canuck listeners!
• Chris thought he was going to stay in a Radisson Hotel, not the town of Radisson. (It looked much scarier in the dark of 1am.)
• Alan is now experimenting with Zipcar and Car2Go services.
• Edmonton finally has a car sharing service, Pogo.
• Alan loves the DC circulator bus.
• Spaces or no Spaces?
• Headphone roll call! Alan was wearing a pair of Blue MoFi. He almost wore his Sennheiser Momentum. Paul was modeling Sony MDR-7506 during the show. Chris sported the audio-technica ATH-M30.
• Chris and Paul also have spare sets of Sennheiser HD 202s for in studio guests.
• Chris bought some Marley earbuds because of a recommendation from the Boing Boing Gadgets Podcast.
• Alan, Chris, and Paul regale each other with stories of working in college radio, or in Paul’s case public access television.

Join us again next week for another great hour with Alan Henry!

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A production coordinator from Hollywood, Jil Szewski talks to Paul and Chris about working shows, unions, the long hours, and practical jokes on imdb.

• Chris has learned “What do you do?” is a bad question thanks to reading our last guest, Nicole Bélanger.
• Jil is currently working on Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (Content not available in Canada, peep this instead.)
• GVSU Alumni reunion for those cats interested.
• Experimental film featuring bug parts, Mothlight. You can probably find it on Youtube.
• Maya Deren’s rad experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon. Again, you can probably find it on Youtube.
• Jil had the awkward task of finding Christmas decorations in the summer when she worked on A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
• We learn that web series are very big right now in Hollywood.
• Chris recommends Chef, but Jil who worked on the film, warns that it will make you very hungry.
• Paul is currently watching Arrow and The 100.
• Chris is watching Helix, Supernatural, 12 Monkeys and he’s waiting for Orphan Black and Silicon Valley to start up again.
• Jil went to the wrap party for season 2 of Silicon Valley where they showed a gag reel and she said it looks really good!
• Aren’t 5 stars better than 1?
• Michigan had a film incentive (you can read more about it here), but then it ended and now some folks are trying to get it going again.
• Jil’s fiance worked on HBO’s True Detective which is a very good show.
• Jil schools Chris & Paul on the various unions and the requirements to join. Chris admits his only understanding of Hollywood unions comes from Full Tilt Boogie.
• Resident bad movie lover Chris is sad when Jil reveals that her uncredited acting credit for Avalanche Sharks on imdb.com is a joke played on her by some friends.
• Jil loves Elvis! Chris wishes she was on the Harum Scarum episode of Film Frown to recommend some decent Elvis films.

Thanks again to our guest Jil! Be sure to check out her current show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway? And thanks to you for listening.

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As our podcast enters its 3rd year, Saturday Night Live celebrates its 40th year. Paul & Chris discuss Raspberry Pi projects, SNL, and regional film distribution.

• Hey look! The Raspberry Pi 2 is out. Corrections: It’s a quad core.
• arkOS is a slick way to host your own photos, sites and more.
• Raspberry Pi 2 benchmarks.
• Chris is hoping to experiment with RetroPie on his RPi(Raspberry Pi).
• Raspian is the original OS developed for the RPi.
• Chris’ new thumb drive looks like Ravage.
• Paul is using XBian on his RPi to stream films & media to his TV.
• XBian supports AirPlay and Chromecast. It also supports BTSync.
• Subsonic and MPD are server-side applications to stream your music from home.
• Did Chris say Jeena is from Germany? Oops. Sorry, sir!
• Chris wants to replace his Melting iMac with a new RPi 2.
• Are we talking Doctor Who again? Nope. The spinoff, Torchwood.
• Where does “pony up” come from?
• Join us on Thursday evenings in the chatroom. You can find it on the live page or using IRC. We’re on Freenode, and the room is #montrealsauce.
• Netflix is after ye geo-pirates.
• Chris takes a stab at explaining DVD region codes.
• The big scare in the 1980s was globalization. We’re here, but things aren’t very global.
• Chris tries to make the audience smaller by discussing Canadian phonology.
• Paul makes an effort to save Chris by complimenting frequent Canadian guest Colette.
• Dear Canada, we apologize for Chris.
• Remembering back to Chris’ SUV rant.
• Saturday Night Live had their 40th Anniversary Special recently.
• Our hosts miss Phil Hartman. Sorry this link doesn’t work in Canada. :(
• Jon Lovitz appearance on the Nerdist Podcast.
• Discussing actors who play themselves like Joe Pesci or Danny McBride.
• Our hosts learned a lot about acting when they interviewed Andy Luther. Part 2 is here.

Thanks for listening to one of our more informative episodes. No applause please, just throw money so we can buy more Pi! Besides, we can’t here your applause. You could rate us on iTunes, if you wish.

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Chris & Paul are left to their own devices, whatever that means. The two share what they did on the break between seasons and discuss Gene Roddenberry & Dan Harmon shows.

• Chris promotes his made-up holiday Someday if February, the 3rd Saturday in February in which you prioritize something from your Someday list instead of your To-do list.
• Built on the Tent protocol which places your data in your control rather than a service, Cupcake.io is a twitter-like place for conversation that Chris enjoys using.
• Paul talks about his involvement in West Michigan’s Online Cooperative and his exit from version two, West Michigan FarmLink.
• Pay someone else to do your chores? Check out TaskRabbit.
• Be good. Don’t make waves.
• There was a new Venture Bros special recently that you may be able to watch here for a limited time (and if you’re lucky enough to be surfing from the States).
• Speaking of cartoons, Chris says you should check out Rick & Morty if you are a fan of Community.
• What the heck is Heat Vision and Jack? A hilarious show you never got to see.
• Paul mentions that Amazon Prime Instant Video has the remastered Star Trek: The Next Generation. Netflix does not.
• The Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra tee missing from your closet.
• What other projects had Roddenberry at the helm? Chris has recently watched Genesis II and Planet Earth featuring the Hyperloop?
• Roddenberry’s Andromeda was meh, but Earth: Final Conflict was well enjoyed by a younger Chris.
• Chris & Paul talk Film Frown & the LL Cool J film Deep Blue Sea.
• Podcast apps like Overcast (iPhone) & Podcast Addict (Android) have recommend/share buttons so you can share your favorite shows with friends! If only you had a favorite show. Hmm.

Got questions for us or our guests? Tweet your questions to @MontrealSauce or using the hashtag #asksauce.

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Season 3 begins with the talented and inspiring Nicole Belanger. We discuss the power of stories, the glorification of busy and the lack of diversity in our films, books and entertainment in general.

• Don’t be mean to your stories! Nicole basically tells us we’re all too hard on ourselves. Chris agrees, citing the stories featured on Radiolab and This American Life.
• Nicole tells us that she misses writing because lately she’s been updating her website instead of sharing. Check out the new nicole-belanger.com and add it to your reading list.
• Nicole doesn’t want a work-life balance. She believes in a work-life blend.
• Stop glorifying that you’re so busy that you don’t have time to sleep? You’re not a martyr, it’s bad for business.
• Nicole says she was born and raised in Ottawa when Chris accuses her of being a British Columbian.
• Of course, Chris & Nicole won’t say anything disparaging about B.C. Chris digs Kelowna and Nicole really enjoyed time in Victoria.
• Actor Michael Ironside shared his thoughts on B.C. on a Nerdist podcast.
• Nicole says passion is a moving target, so she’s taking Elizabeth Gilbert’s advice and following her curiosity.
• Wild is a book by Cheryl Strayed that inspires Nicole.
• The Reese Witherspoon film based on the book Wild, gets a very positive review as well.
• Nicole tells us that actress Reese Witherspoon produced Wild as well as Gone Girl in an effort to bring complex female characters to the screen.
• Chris agrees that films are full of white males and cites an old blog post, R.I.P.D.:Just How White & Sexist Is Hollywood?
• The Bechdel test will depress you when you apply it to Hollywood movies.
• Paul reminds us that films are not the only media where women are not equally portrayed. #Gamergate
• Of course, the best place to start with equality is children’s books. Check out WeNeedDiverseBooks.org.
• Chris & Nicole talk about another wild book, Into the Wild and its film.
• Nicole offers some great tips for writing, like emailing yourself notes and approaching your own story from the outside as an investigative journalist.
• Nicole makes the case for meditation and suggests the buddhify app.

Nicole would like to remind us to be kinder to ourselves. “If we talked to others how we talk to ourselves, we’d have negative friends.” Find more inspiration from Nicole at nicole-belanger.com and follow Nicole on twitter.

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Dr. Rick Kopak stuck around for a second episode to discuss the power of highlighting in digital text, urban fantasy, cyberpunk and the staying power of iconic books. Rick is an educator & researcher at the iSchool at the University of British of Columbia.

• e-readers like the Kindle offer some good tools to highlight and make notes about the information we’re consuming. However, copyright and other legal issues may be limiting usability. Copyright is a funny thing.
• Rick tells us about the Open Journal Project.
• Paul reminds us that Amazon and Netflix used to be the alternate business models and now they are the established norm.
• There are loads of reading recommendations in this show:
  • Cory Doctorow often offers his books for free at Craphound.
  • William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
  • Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Anathem, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle).
  • Charles Stross (The Atrocity Archives, Saturn’s Children).
  • Asimov
  • Heinlein
  • Larry Corriea, Monster Hunters International.
• William Dufris is a voice actor who has narrated several audio books from the authors above.
• Scribd now offers a subscription service to audio books & ebooks. It’s like the Netflix for books. $8.99 for as many books as you can read in a month.
• The 007 Reloaded audio books are a series of James Bond audio books read by famous British actors like Hugh Bonneville & David Tennant.
• Hachette vs. Amazon.
• Rick recommends Roam Mobility an inexpensive way to use your mobile phone when traveling.

Thanks again to Rick for making the time to join us! If your interested in learning more about information design, check out the iSchool at UBC.

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On this show the fellows were joined by Dr. Rick Kopak from iSchool at the University of British of Columbia. There he researches information design and human computer interaction. Paul & Chris get schooled on the interesting concepts behind information design and how much the field is changing thanks to all our handheld digital devices.

• An example of structuring information might be Hypertext.
• Making information more useful might be as simple as laying it out with CSS, adding interactivity with JavaScript or perhaps ratings, a comment system or a way to monitor social capital.
• Schemas are at the core of information design. From there designers can create Personas and shape the information presented in a document to make it more usable.
• Rick is currently researching On The Measurability of Information Quality.
• Paul & Rick reminisce about HyperCard, an Apple app that predates the World Wide Web.
• Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project started in 1960 and continued development even after the creation & adoption of the World Wide Web.
• iOS Design Guidelines create consistency in the way information is presented and may be responsible for their popularity.
• Flat vs. Realism, an interactive exploration of digital design.
• We discuss the complexity & expectations of Facebook vs. the simplicity of Twitter.
• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is often used in business & academic worlds.
• The perils of social networks, How I Became Amazon’s Pitchman For a 55-Gallon Drum of Personal Lubricant on Facebook.
• The blue light from your digital devices may affect your sleep. In fact, there’s loads of information on getting a good night’s sleep. Rick is curious to try some amber glasses to block the blue light.
• Is the Jawbone collecting useful data or just a nag? Depends on your personality.

Thanks to Rick for sharing his time and knowledge with us all. He’ll be back in the final show of next season to talk fiction and audio books.

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Part 2 of our chat with 3D Generalist, Christian. We relax and chat television and movies. Could the budget for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. be $5? Would you lose your British accent after 200 years?

• Podcasters & guest all agree Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is more like Agents of Sleep.
• Christian & Chris are still trying to like Constantine.
• For whatever reason, we all love Forever.
• Paul says Lucas from Forever is playing the same part he played in Bones. While Chris compares him to Johnny from Airplane!
• Christian digs The Flash, the newest superhero TV show because of the main villain who was the lead in a past TV show called, ED.
• The crew lament the scripts, dialogue and drama of Arrow.
• Christian recommends The Killing.
• Paul and Christian talk about Gracepoint which is based on a british show called Broadchurch. Both shows have the same star and previous Doctor Who, David Tennant.
• Chris recalls that an actor from The Killing was a topic of conversation in a recent Flophouse podcast episode.
• Christian says we should all check out Manhattan.
• Paul’s wife chooses to watch Salem over our bad movies on the other podcast, FilmFrown.
• Christian is happy with the Marvel films, but not big on the other studios with Marvel products, like The Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men films which are currently owned by Sony & Fox.
• Chris, Paul and Christian agree the first Captain America film is a Marvel misfire. They don’t even begin to discuss the awful that is the Wolverine films.
• When Gwen Stacy died, Marvel comics went from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age and it was a big deal.
• Christian & Paul talk Ultimate Spider-Man while Chris risks getting political to wish a listener in Mexico well.

Thanks again to Christian for joining us. You can see samples of his work from his “old site” at christianday.net. Thanks for listening, we hope you’re in the Pole Position this week.

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Our guest on this show is a 3D generalist. That’s a fancy term meaning Christian can do it all: modeling, texturing, rendering, lighting, animation, FX, effects and whatever else they throw at him. On the show we chat about the harsh realities of working in 3D, a rebel 1968 Dodge Charger from Hazzard County and get lost in the math of rendering.

• Evernote would like to update during the show. Oh noes!
• What is this 3 on the tree Chris speaks of? Dig the pic.
• Reminiscing about Christian’s first computer, maybe this and the Avid hardware that looked something like this.
• Christian says if you’re passionate enough you should be able to learn 3D on your own, though he studied at the Savannah College of Art & Design, SCAD.
• 3D tools & platforms mentioned by Christian, Maya, Unity & Oculus Rift.
• The conversation turns to Life of Pi and the effects company that made it, Rhythm & Hues. There’s a free, short documentary called Life After Pi, telling the story about how that successful movie bankrupted and shut down the company.
• Another large 3D company, Digital Domain has had similar problems to Rhythm & Hues.
• Chris has used the free & open source 3D application, Blender.
• Paul remembers using POV-ray many years ago to code his own 3D Enterprise.
• TinkerCAD is a 3D application you can use in your browser.
• Amazon’s failed Fire phone with 3D?
• Christian has been listening to podcasts from Sam Altman on How to Start a Startup.
• Silicon Valley reference! Montreal Sauce hasn’t had one of those in a while.

Thanks to Christian for sharing his story and teaching us about the world of 3D animation.

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Dan Hogan briefly re-joins us to discuss his process, the workflow of his webcomic and why being weird is winning. Tina, Chris & Paul review TV shows and create a new line of products for bald men called Pauld.

• Dan describes his process for creating a webcomic digitally using a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Clip Studio Paint Pro.
• Ryan Estrada has a few posts on Medium that can help you get your webcomic workflow together. Dan especially recommends Speed Comicking.
• Dan shares a self help book that he enjoyed, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles.
• Chris butchers a quote from Nicole Belanger’s blog.
• Dan reviews his Microsoft Surface Pro 3.
• Hit the Clattertron Store and support our friend Dan Hogan.
• Tina shares her love of The Oatmeal.
• Chris is still waiting to like the Constantine TV show.
• Imagine that, we chat about Doctor Who and companions of companions.
• Tina enjoys Continuum because of its camp.
• Time travel is a fun plot device to completely change your television show like Eureka.
• Chris talks about his recent experience in 3D printing. He printed a Pizza Cutter Display Stand for his Enterprise.
• The printer he used at the Edmonton Public Library was made in Edmonton by Machina.
• Paul reviews Lincoln, at least the last half.
• Chris recommends Was It Something I Said, a hilarious game show.

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Artist & author Dan Hogan returns to chat Redshirts, webcomics, cartoons, and Tim Hortons. Also joining the conversation is the always hilarious Tina who shares podcast recommendations and laughter with us.

• Allergies, yo!
• New Equipment is rad.
• This is Dan’s second visit to the show. Last season he was on the show and he was a recent guest on Film Frown.
• Don’t click this, Thicke of the Night.
• Chris giggles like a teen girl about South Park’s Go Fund Yourself and Freemium Isn’t Free.
• We talk Kickstarter, pluses/minuses.
• Dan reminds us of Dinosaur Comics, talks Ryan North’s book, To Be or Not To Be and the podcast he heard the story on, MakeItThenTellEverybody.
• The happy podcasters review John Scalzi’s Redshirts, a parody of Star Trek. Honestly, you can enjoy the book without any prior Star Trek knowledge. In fact, you can read the first few chapters here.
• Secret of the Lizard People (Star Trek: The Next Generation - Starfleet Academy #7) & Full House: That’s the Way It Crumbles, Cookie are recent book finds by Dan.
• Tina is reading the The Daily Mail because she’s heard enough about Star Trek.
• Burger King wants to buy Tim Hortons to be closer to Chris. Well, that and to move their HQ to Canada and pay less in taxes.
• Dan found Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom very interesting and from there Chris & Dan whirl down the Cory Doctorow rabbit hole, talking Little Brother and Rapture of the Nerds.
• While Dan & Tina lament the size of the GVSU campus, Chris shares important advice about avalanches.
• Dan suggests that you participate in NANOWRIMO and check out his new shirt design.
• The Saturday Morning preview with Scott Baio?
• Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince, Hammer Man, Little Rosey and Gravedale High.
• We discuss the first episode of Film Frown.
• Podcast recommendation: Dads Being Dads.
• Webcomic recommendation: The Molebashes.

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Andy Luther is back in part two of our interview with the actor. We discuss his movie roles, triple threats, and working for The Onion. Part one can be found here.

• Andy tells us stories from his time on the set of Rory’s First Kiss, aka The Dark Knight.
• Andy is currently in We Three over at the side project theatre company in Chicago.
• Another recent project is a feature film still in production, Thrill Ride. There’s a touching story behind the making of the movie and a gallery of photos of the scenes that Andy talked about.
• Noises Off, apple boxes, The Hobbit and other fine subjects to ogle.

QUIZ TIME

• Paul and Andy learn about another Michigander, Sam Raimi.
• Dig this Sam Raimi cameo in this 80’s film.
• Sam Raimi’s 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 has appeared in most of his films.
• “This is my boom stick!”

Are you sitting down? Paul wins!

• Andy & Chris reminisce about Amber Waves and amazing actresses they worked with back in the day.
• Cherry County Playhouse brought big Hollywood names to Chris & Andy’s home town.
• Our guest rubs elbows with Gary Sinise. And by “rub elbows,” we mean that he practically knocked him over once back stage.
• We discuss the Star System from the golden age of Hollywood, Robert Osborne and his appearance on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.
• Andy thinks Gene Kelly is the definition of a triple threat and he cites, Singing in the Rain.
• Lasco Remodeling & Painting is Andy’s Chicago area business. He hires his fellow actors to help them make a living & teach them an additional trade.
• Andy recently appeared in a Clickhole video, Man Locks Himself In Hot Car To Prove That Babies And Dogs Are Cowards.

Thanks again to Andy Luther for joining us and sharing. Andy can be found through the Paonessa Talent Agency, his amazing agent. Put him in your show, viral video, play or magical lantern. Be sure to contact Paul & Chris by clicking their names. Don’t write them letters, letters are made of trees!

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We have the awesome pleasure to chat with Andy Luther, an actor in Chicago. Andy studied in New York, he’s appeared in films and television but his passion is theater. When he’s not working, he has a contracting business and hires actors to give them a viable skill to support their art. We chat about acting, attending university as older students,

• Is this a family show? Andy likes bleep noises as much as Paul. He cites the bleeped out Count as one of the funniest things he’s seen.
• Keyboard background noises brought to you by our new foley artists, Colette.
• Aside from university training, Andy attended The Acting Studio in New York.
• We learn about Stanislavski and the Meisner technique.
• Chris and Andy remember their director, Jack Rice and Muskegon Community College.
• Paul and Chris suggest Orphan Black.
• The guys discuss Newsroom & House of Cards.
• Andy appeared in The Comedy of Errors at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
• We open a pizza parlor, but it’s trademarked. Do not steal it.
• Andy answer a question from our previous episode’s guest, Seth.
• We discuss the late night show hosts, the 2010 conflict and improv versus sketch comedy.
• Andy mourns the loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams and discusses how well comedians perform drama.
• We cover the difference between theater and film acting. Andy shares that the auditions are also different, recounting a recent Fargo audition.

Thanks to Andy Luther for chatting us up, like a boss. Here’s hoping he is one day immortalized in cartoon. If you’d like to make that happen or hire this talented actor contact his agency, Paonessa Talent Agency. Next episode, we’ll chat with Andy some more.

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Continuing the show from last week, we’re chatting with our musician friend, Seth. The gang discusses the evolution of business on the web and changing technology over the last 10 years. Should you cultivate your passion as a hobby or as a profession?

• When Seth was working in news broadcasting, he totally dug using a Ross Video Switcher.
• Recent guest Justin Hall spoke at the xoxo festival recently. See his appearance here.
• Paul has a love-hate relationship with javascript.
• Paul argues that these days employers aren’t hiring people in technology for what they know and what they can do. Instead people are hired for how fast they can learn and for what they will be doing in two years. His advice, have a portfolio.
• Seth remembers the Real Genius days when folks interested in technology went to university to learn lasers.
• Living without human contact for 27 years? Check out the North Pond Hermit.
• Seth enjoys podcasts by Joe Rogan and Marc Maron.
• Paul says collaboration is the key to not getting stuck in the artistic loop — over thinking your work or being too critical of yourself.
• Seth is excited to see how Elon Musk and Tesla Motors change the world of business.
• Chris & Paul suggest people check out the community of developers on cupcake.io.

Check out Seth’s music on Reverb Nation. Remember to hitch a ride on your dream balloon and pursue your art! Make sure it’s your dream balloon and not one of those sadistic balloons.

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On this episode we talk with Seth, who just made the leap from a career in television production to pursuing the starving artist lifestyle of musician. We talk interview skills, taming the creative brain and connectivity in the age of the smartphone.

• Edmonton has its own version of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the form of a live show called Turkey Shoot. Of course we have another podcast called Film Frown where you can hear Paul & Chris make fun of bad movies.
• All the guys chat about Grand Valley State University and it’s robotic retrieval system. You can watch live for some reason.
• Seth collaborated with guitarist Brooks to make an album which is available to listen for free, Ravenous Magnet.
• The entire planet wears bluetooth ear pieces to get their daily advertising via this Doctor Who episode.
• Seth likes Akai products, but lately beat production has moved to computers instead of standalone machines.
• Chris suggests Jack Conte, part of Pomplamoose and maker of awesome music of all kinds including this video with robots.
• You could try some art hop from Big Ben and Edmonton local.

Be sure to check out the album Seth collaborated on, Ravenous Magnet, and tune in for the next episode of our show which will be part two with Seth.

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Paul and Chris, left to their own devices nerd out about Doctor Who and review some of this fall’s new TV shows.

• This episode brought to you by iRig.
• Paul’s internet fails - splat - and we reconnect again.
• Supercharged episode featuring router discussion.
• An Adventure in Space & Time is a fictional BBC original film about the early history of Doctor Who. The film was written by Mycroft!
• Rowan Atkinson plays The Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death.
• Michael Sheen said he would love to be Doctor Who for less than an episode in a recent Nerdist Podcast.
• Romanadvoratrelundar is an incredibly long name to have to say.
• Nothing is not a great film says Chris.
• Paul & Chris review Mr. Nobody.
• The current series of Doctor Who will not be split in half.
• Forever is part Sherlock and part Highlander.
• Scorpion is another Sherlock wannabe. Most ridiculous hack ever.
• Random Trek recently watched The Original Series: I Mudd.
• Star Trek The Original Series in Cinerama?
• Chris recommends that you let Black Jesus into your life.
• Paul & Chris have both been using Baïkal.
• Paul put his new Baïkal calendar on a Digital Ocean server. Their service was suggested to us by former guest Jacob in a past episode, Stroker Ace: The Perplexing Mustache of Burt Reynolds.
• A PSA from Paul, “Exercise caution when using terminal.”
• Chris was testing Mailpile on his arkOS box.
• Once again Paul tries to explain PGP encryption to Chris. What? Email encryption.
• Paul’s newest domain is sexy.
• Drive carefully, kids.

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The saucy specimen who joined us this episode via phone is David Sherry. If he was a James Bond character he would be Dr. Gold List. David and his mastermind partner, Allie want to bring Death to the Stock Photo.

• David was traveling to the Global Instameet in D.C.
• David & Allie’s approach to the business: create unique content, experiences and sharing those stories. So far they have funded road trips and interviewed other makers.
• We discuss numbers/analytics vs authentic interaction. How do you measure success?
• Speaking of authentic interaction, what would happen if you called your friends & family instead of Facebook-ing at them?
• A discussion of trying to stay connected to all the different social networks brings up the tent project again. You can find Chris & Paul on Cupcake.io, the first tent host.
• Paul compares social networks to cable channels. ello is a new social network on your dial.
• David thinks podcasting is a fascinating genre of media, but is it too crowded? Like his approach to his own projects, he suggests unique content. All of us share examples:
  • Hardcore History
  • Random Trek
  • Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee & Coffee Run (Deadmau5 takes people to Tim Hortons) .
• We talk about the popular use of comedy in brand building. While it works, as the old saying goes, “everyone is a comedian.” David thinks contrasting all that humor with emotional content is a better strategy. Of course, you can do uniquely humorous things. For example, listen to the “ad” at the beginning of this episode (around 1:42) of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast!
• David recommends Buffer and MailChimp. While they sound like spammy tools, both products have influenced his strategy to directly phone users/customers and build real relationships & interactions.

Check out Death to the Stock Photo, follow their twitter account for upcoming events and contact David Sherry because he loves interaction and being given a chance to help others create.

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Part deux of our chat with Tony Sarkees, an attorney in Chicago who loves making things at the local hackerspace as much as he loves gaming. We play This is Your Life, compete in a quiz about C64 games and talk gadgets.

• Tony is the ultimate mobile consumer, switching his SIM card between Android & iPhone for many years. It all started with jailbreaking an iPod Touch.
• Chris remembers Tony’s many tweets about his Chumby, a cuddly, user-friendly device that our guest believes has no counterpart.
• Not too long ago, our guest’s friend Newman passed away and Chris is touched by Tony’s tribute to his cat.

Quiz Time

• The Commodore 64 game Agent USA.
• The Lucas Arts games company used a programming language called SCUMM.
• SCUMM stands for Scripting Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion.
• Another terrific Lucas Arts game was Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

Once again our guest defeats Paul!

• Paul says, “Yo dawg, do you remember Napster?” We discuss piracy and the maker community.
• Chris suggests the Stuff You Should Know Podcast about TV ratings.
• Paul suggests checking out the C.G.P. Grey youtube channel, because learning!
• Chris’ next project is rebuilding his subwoofer. Did you know you could build your own and probably get something better and less expensive? Everything you need is at Parts Express.
• Paul is hoping to build a gnarly workspace in his office for all this podcast gear. He’s learning Google Sketch Up to create something.
• He’s starting the center of the sweet desktop with a rackmount equipment stand.
• Chris shares a very cool site with open designs, OpenDesk.
• Thanks to all the listeners who bought one of our Tees! Unfortunately, they are no longer for sale, but you can always request a reprint.

You can find Tony on twitter, his site, the electro bureau or grab some of the things he makes at his shop.

Today’s cartoon goodbye is cool beans. Later, Sausages.

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On this episode we chat with attorney, gamer and maker Tony Sarkees. He teaches us that copyright laws were actually created to “propagate ideas, encourage creation of new works, inform the public and build a common culture.”

• Tony is modding his old school Game Boy. Dissected, Painted and let’s get biverted.
• We talk about the now defunct PMOG/Nethernet and Tony suggests reading Justin’s essay on building online social games.
• We all bond over the gorgeous gem known as Saugatuck, MI.
• Pumping Station: One is the Chicago area hackerspace of choice for Tony when he’s making and creating.
• Tony taught himself CSS to publish a zine online where people can share how gaming and games have affected their lives. Be sure to check out the excellent design and the memoirs featured on electro bureau.
• Parallax scrolling was the bread & butter of the startup, Scrollkit who got into some legal trouble for showing people how to use their service to create pages like Snow Fall.
• Chris was looking at about.me and flavors.me in order to build a personal landing page. Tony convinces him otherwise.
• Our guest recommends hosting a website using Google App Engine instead of purchasing hosting. Let me Duck Duck Go That for you.
• Tony gives us a lecture on copyright because “it touches every single one of us.” Pay attention! There’s a quiz later. Copyright is actually much more fascinating than you might think.
• The Statute of Anne was the first copyright law.
• Moral rights allow creators to control the association of their work in the EU or Canada. That is, “”you can’t use my song in your commercial for your diabolical political party commercials.”“
• Fan fiction, fan sites and fan art are all actually copyright infringement.
• Tony talks Android: Netrunner, a Living Card Game by Fantasy Flight Games. Unfortunately, one of the best communities for the game was shut down.
• Disney has gone from sue happy to relaxed when it comes to copyright infringement.
• Our guest doesn’t purchase items from Sony because of their rootkit scandal.
• All of us are confused by the #gamergate situation.
• Ridiculous Fishing is a game for iOS suggested by our guest.
• Paul & Tony really like Threes! which has been cloned many, many times because you can’t copyright game rules and mechanics.

You can find Tony on twitter, his site, the electro bureau or grab some of the things he makes at his shop.

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Whovian In-law? This Is An Example of Why I Don’t Listen To The Podcast?

Paul & Chris continue to talk to the Wonder Woman of education and technology, Colette Mondor. They switch gears from teaching & technology to movies, books and of course Doctor Who.

• Chris & guest Colette review The Giver. Hooray for stock video?
• Paul reviews Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Colette shares that she’s not as big of a fan of The Last Starfighter as Chris is.
• Chris wants a Cray Super Computer for his entryway. Colette says, “No.”
• Colette decided to do a “40 at 40” list this summer.
• Our guest reviews the books Night by Elie Wiesel and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
• Time to talk about the new Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi. Colette is leery, Paul is cautiously excited and Chris is Chris.
• Speaking of grumpydays Chris, he thinks Martha Jones married 2 guys creating a continuity error, but it turns out she only got engaged to Tom Milligan. Guess he wasn’t timey wimey enough for?
• Chris decides to watch Dusk ‘til Dawn, the TV series. He says it suffers from ridiculous back-story-itus.
• Let’s talk tech, Colette is using a Jawbone Up24 fitness tracker.
• Chris is excited about the new arkOS update with the File Sync plugin based on syncthing.
• arkOS will soon be available on a VPS through a new service called Skylark.
• Thanks again to Colette for joining us on the show. You can find her on twitter, G+ (or G+ ) and instagram.
• And remember, Don’t be ashamed! Tell someone if you’ve been touched in a bad way.

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This week is our back to school special. Our guest is Colette Mondor, an educator in Canada. We talk using devices, app stores and security with students. Further discussion includes the importance of teaching empathy, and the value of ensuring that your children know how to find trustworthy information online.

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• Recently, on our Twitter account we asked what fans would like to be called. Welcome Sausages!
• Colette recently presented at the GAFE Summit in Calgary. G.A.F.E. stands for Google Apps for Education.
• Colette owns a brand new Chromebook with an Intel Core i3 chip.
• Gamification is a big movement in education to get students more engaged. Therefore, the EdTech Team chose to gamify the summit.
• Read & Write for Google helps students who have a difficulty reading. Colette suggests using this extension for math story problems for those students.
• Colette believes one of the things that often gets missed when teaching with technology is digital citizenship. Of course, we all agree that many adults could use that same lesson.
• Many schools are going one to one with devices, assigning students iPads or tablets from kindergarten on. Using tablets and iPads as shared devices, with multiple classes/students, is difficult because they are meant for individuals.
• Schools can secure Google tablets & with Google Apps Device Policy but added security becomes troublesome with younger students.
• Android tablets do have multiple users but backing up user apps & data is difficult and doesn’t work well at all.
• Chris talks about volunteering in the classroom, and Colette corrects him by inventing a great new word. Chris is voluntold to go to school and help.
• Chris and guest Colette slip into their old podcast, The Sexy Back Tour while discussing this summer’s travels.
• Chris went to many weddings this summer including one featured on national news because it was on ice. The hockey wedding (more pics if you are one of those wedding lovers) took place in Michigan, not Canada. WAIT. WHAT?
• During the road trip to multiple weddings Chris went to the ER. He was the lucky winner of Bell’s palsy. Also, Chris wants a summer home in Nelson, B.C.
• Paul shares theories on digital identities from Jeff Jarvis who can be found on This Week in Google podcast.
• Chris adds that he recently finished a book by Howard Rheingold called Net Smart: How to Thrive Online.
• We learned why “zee” replaced “zed” in America English thanks to masteraramil in the chatroom.
• We get into the metric system vs. the Imperial units. Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin.
• Don’t forget about the Montreal Sauce tee available for a limited time! Thanks to our friend at nocturnal for the suggestion of Cotton Bureau.

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Chris & Paul are holding hands & recording a show in the same studio? They talk asian cinema, the new global Hollywood and taking orders from dolphin commanders.

• In Chris’ day people had pocket protectors. In Paul’s day they have Pocket projectors.
• We rewrite The Hulk as a diabetic.
• Chris reviews Lucy using Star Trek references.
• If Lucy doesn’t give you enough Morgan Freeman you can always watch Transcendence.
• Those super smart movies remind Paul of Limitless and Chris of Johnny Mnemonic.
• While we’re talking films, Chris reviews Guardians of the Galaxy.
• The Olsen Twins love pizza and it’s creepy.
• Neil Degrasse Tyson stoned via The Wil Wheaton Project.
• Chris & Paul want you to watch UHF while luna in the chatroom recommends a Rolling Stone interview with Weird Al.
• Chris suggests you listen to the Jon Favreau episode of the Nerdist. Favreau’s most recent film is Chef.

• We talk cultural references & computers from older films.

  • Aladin
  • Hackers
  • Sneakers
  • War Games
  • Jurrasic Park
  • Crazy Manga based film GANTZ caught Chris’ attention a while ago. The trailer isn’t great, but the concept is out there and imaginative.
  • Chris talks about USA Network’s Night Flight and the ridiculous overdubbed asian shows & movies, like Dynaman.

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Paul and Chris talk user agents, curry super powers, bizarre sports stats and they name your promising garage band. Wait? Chris and Paul are in the same room?

• Origins? We explore the fact that our show is a spinoff. The Fraiser to Cheers, if you will. Originally, Paul had a dinner time show called I Like Juice, which you can find on iTunes, or the Blog of the Lion.
• Paul loves the band name of Garfunkel & Oats, who recently got their own show.
• Rikki Lindhome (Garfunkel), hosts a podcast on the Nerdist network called Making It. Chris critiques Colin Hanks’ appearance on the show. You may remember him from Dexter.
• Weird Al released some great tunes recently and the guys take a trip down Jurassic Park memory lane. Paul sings his favorite cassette jam.
• Chris wonders what happened to West Michigan radio? It’s 100% classic rock.
• Why is Kai Ryssdal and NPR’s Marketplace doing a Sharknado story?
• Movie 43 is not recommended. Watch Robot Chicken instead.
• The guys feel like Delicious Dish because they’re actually in the same studio for once and talking in hushed voices.
• Chris’ journey away from big data has started nicely with the addition of Baikal. It’s on his server hosting his calendar for all his devices.
• Chris is using DashClock on his phone with a Word of the Day extension.
• Time to synchronize your smellfies?
• Chris used a new Android app to edit the Markdown for show notes. It’s called JotterPad. However, he really found Dillinger.io to be a better tool if you have internet access.
• Check out the Futility Closet podcast to learn about amusing curiosities.
• The Great Race was loosely based on a real event.
• We may have a new USB connector in the future.
• Paul shares his extensive knowledge of the milk preferences of the Crips & Bloods.
• Chris & his wife battle on Qcast, a Chromecast quiz game. It’s similar to those bar trivia games except you play with your Android phones.
• We geek on Apple TV and Chromecast.
• Paul recommends Cordkillers podcast for your viewing pleasure.

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We continue our chat from the last episode with designer Sally Ann. If Sally was in the Transformers universe she would be a Junkion. It’s a compliment! Stop thinking Michael Bay and think the very first animated movie. The Junkions are expert mechanics that can repair anything with spare parts and they love Earth broadcasting. Alright, nobody is getting this reference.

Sally Ann designs clothing & accessories using ONLY recycled fabric. She sells her wares at markets and festivals with the help of her mobile boutique. You can also find her items for sale online at shopsallyann.com.

• Sally answers the tough questions, “Hey! How can I be successful on Etsy?” She says product photography, create your own traffic, streamline your product/price/labor and get a domain name to point to your store.
• Sally’s sister Rachael is also in the handmade goods game! Her store is Curiously Clever found on Storenvy.
• Want to sell your designs? Aside from etsy & Storenvy, you could also try bigcartel.
• Sally’s friend does vintage jewelry, Cribbledy Goodness.
• Sally’s beau is @MattPittmanFTU and he’s Matt about Jax (Jacksonville).
• Sally is all about sustainability. If the fabric is smaller than the palm of her hand, maybe, maybe it can be thrown out. Aside from Sally, where can you get sustainable apparel? Try Threads 4 Thought.
• Sally is trying to watch the Eleventh Doctor Who series while she works, but her favorite is Downton Abbey. She also suggests Boardwalk Empire.
• Her guilty pleasure is Vampire Diaries because she can concentrate on work and not have to pay attention to the show.
• Sally listens to All Songs Considered & Mark Maron when she is working as well.
• Our guest self identifies as a Lord of the Rings nerd.
• Chris & Sally critique True Blood.

Quiz Time!! Sally & Paul try to answer question about a Shatner film called Kingdom of Spiders. Who will win?

• From tarantulas to bugs. Sally says the bugs are bigger in the South.
• Sally’s favorite Doctor is David Tennant.
• Chris recommends that Sally watch Firefly.
• Special thanks to you for listening and to @MattPittmanFTU for letting us chat with Sally Ann during their vacation.

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This week we are lucky to speak to Sally Ann, a clothing and accessories designer who crafts everything from recycled materials. You can find her blog, designs and tutorials or check out her shop at shopsallyann.com. She has a rad mobile boutique named Shelby that she takes out to markets around Florida — and hopefully across the country in the future.

• Every Saturday Sally & Shelby take a trip to the Riverside Arts Market in Jacksonville Florida.
• Sally joined us to chat despite being on vacation in Pensacola!
• Chris & Sally discuss the confusion of time zones, Canada and their home town, Muskegon.
• Paul & Sally humor old man Chris and talk about the weather. Michigan had a lot of snow this year which reminds Sally of stories she heard about the Great Blizzard of ‘78.
• Canadian Chris & Floridian Sally agree that there is nothing like Lake Michigan.
• Sally has sold her designs to over 20 countries and 30 of the states through her etsy store front.
• A typical week for Sally: sewing all week, sell at the market and whatever doesn’t sell she puts on the etsy page.
• Our guest also hopes to inspire and help others recycle clothing. She offers tutorials and gives away sewing machines that have been donated to her.
• Recently Sally competed in OneSpark, a crowdfunding festival. You can see her entry page here.
• Paul and Sally bond over smoke monster infested, multi-dimensional desert islands.
• Shelby, the mobile boutique, just had a birthday! You can also see the transformation of the Shasta Compact on Sally Ann’s blog.
• Our guest drops a few mobile boutique blogs on us, Clueless Girl, Honeybean, Coast to Coast Vintage and Oh So Lovely from Winnipeg.
• Chris spotted a mobile boutique at the Edmonton Art Walk.
• Moral of today’s story? Paul & Sally say, sustain your business and grow your life.

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Last week’s guest, Jacob Cook sticks around for another show. You know what that means, quiz time! Jacob is the Mad Max of the Information Highway, who supports open source and decentralization with his amazing projects. Keep reading or listen for more on our guest from Montreal!

• Chris is inspired by Jacob’s passion for his projects, arkOS and CitizenWeb Project so he asks the tough questions, what’s in Jacob’s future? And, the old man question, what about retirement?
• Fearing the loss of Net Neutrality and crying in his toque, Chris wonders if Jacob has used any of the mesh networks that are popping up. For example, Hyperboria which is part of Project Meshnet.
• By the way, you should probably click that Net Neutrality link above. John Oliver will have you in tears.
• Check out GNU Social or use Quitter to check out a decentralized social network. It’s just as amazing as Twitter. Have a look at Diaspora as well.
• Paul & Jacob geek out about VPS providers, DigitalOcean and Linode.
• The greatest random quiz to date on Montreal Sauce: What do they know about Burt Reynolds’ mustache? Who will win? Paul or Jacob?
• Everyone has a Sean Connery impression.
• All the Burt Reynolds research led to an awful find, Skullduggery.
• The world needs more Dom Deluise. Enjoy some bloopers from Cannonball Run.
• We all fasten on our nerd badges and talk Battlestar Galactica.
• Intel will be selling a 3D printable robot soon.
• We need to have Jacob back on the show in the future so we can talk poutine. Find him at arkOS or on twitter, look for peakwinter.

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This episode we chat with Jacob Cook who puts the Montreal in Montreal Sauce as he was actually in the city at the time of the recording. Jacob is the handsome brain behind arkOS and CitizenWeb Project. We talk the importance of open source, crowd funding and Big Brother’s sneaky mistress, Big Data.

• Jacob occasionally uses Tor so obviously he’s under surveillance by the NSA.
• Jacob suggests an open source real-time communications alternative Talky.io, which is based on the open WebRTC.
• Google says Hangouts will only support Chrome. Chris grumbles while Jacob warns it is only the beginning. He cites Google dropping the open XMMP protocol which has affected Chris in Canada land.
• Jacob shares a review on his new Jolla phone.
• The other alternatives are BlackPhone or the Android ROM Replicant.
• We discuss the evolution of developers from Nick Burns computer nerd to savvy designers & entrepreneurs building user friendly software and apps.
• Ease of use trumps privacy concerns every time. Thus, Jacob is working hard to make hosting your own websites, cloud and data very easy with arkOS.
• DRM does not move us forward. Jacob asks why wouldn’t we want the freedom to read an e-book, listen to a song or watch a film on any device? Open source collaboration means the creation of software we can all use regardless of our system.
• Jacob vows to never sell out arkOS as he never wants to take power from the users. Chris imagines Jacob starring in HBO’s Silicon Valley.
• Jacob has a great page called Free the Cloud and Chris asks how Jacob argues against the opposition.
• We all agree, every success is due to hard work. Kids, work hard and some day you can meet David Hasselhoff and have success like Angie Harmon.
• Paul and Jacob talk about Jono Bacon’s The Art of Community and the importance of building a community around an open source project.
• Advice from Jacob & Paul: Less is more, do one thing well and don’t insult people’s intelligence. Be at one with your time traveling hipster.
• Jacob & Chris talk about a recent survey of arkOS users and the idea of an arkOS data center for folks who have a poor internet speeds or are crippled by Comcast or another evil ISP.
• Jacob says arkOS will now have a SyncThing plugin as an alternative to OwnCloud.
• Jacob & Chris contemplate raising more money for arkOS with potato salad.

We’ll return next week with Part 2 of our Jacob Cook episode, and Burt Reynolds… mustache?

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Montreal Sauce is not recommended by any number out of any other number of doctors.

• Paul and Chris discuss the previous episode with Justin Hall.
• Chris suggests the podcast, Supercharged by Adam Dachis and Len Peralta’s Geek a Week.
• Chris is using Podcast Addict on Android to catch podcasts, which he likes because it has Chromecast support.
• Paul has used Downcast and Castro on the iPhone for podcasts. Not released as of this recording, though, is his new favorite Overcast.
• Paul wants to be at podcast zero, like inbox zero. Thus, he shies away from the Nerdist network because they release new episodes daily!
• Paul is unsure about SoundCloud as he’s worried about losing the rights to his audio. (Though it seems he wouldn’t.) Chris empathizes, which is why he’s never posted his videos on Youtube.
• Chris is mad as a sleepy diabetic can be about filmmakers using Standard Definition instead of black & white to indicate something happened in the past. Recently, he witnessed this in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
• The Lego Movie gets Paul’s approval.
• Star Trek Into Darkness gets a Blu-Ray release.
• We giggle about Google’s Cardboard.
• Chris laments over Android Wear. He and Paul invent charging pants and redesign the classic Mickey Mouse watch into Disney’s Wolverine Watch.
• Remembering Chris’ kinetic (auto-winding) watch.
• Let’s talk Apple CarPlay vs. Android Auto.
• Paul and Chris share ideas about Raspberry Pi projects. Intel has a project board called Galileo.
• We grumble over Netflix’s catalog and interface.
• Paul wants to see The Aviator, The Big Lebowski and The Wolverine.
• Paul wants to buy .sexy URLs. So he can get too.sexy. Right Said Fred was recently on John Oliver’s show.

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Justin Hall joins the show to talk about sharing our lives on the web. Others may know Justin from his legendary site links.net, various publications he has worked for or The Nethernet. Justin currently produces thought provoking videos as “The Justin Hall Show” that you can find on Youtube.

Better yet, you can stay up to date & contribute to his work via the awesome service Patreon. In true Montreal Sauce fashion, we jump into conversation and don’t get around to introducing Justin until 49 minutes into the show. Being an amazing guest, Justin interviews us just as much as we interview him.

• We all quickly agree that we have no idea if the 300 sequel Rise of an Empire is historically accurate, but Wikipedia is the way to find out. Justin encourages us to edit, not just lurk on the free encyclopedia.
• Chris pledges allegiance to After Effects comparing it to a tool rather than service or box of filters like Instagram. Similarly, this week Chris shares that the way we interact with our phones/tablets isn’t necessarily intuitive according to some.
• Justin prefers using Final Cut & Motion for developing The Justin Hall Show.
• We discuss the age of the camera phone and sharing on the Internet. While Chris wonders if some folks are sharing because they’re self-absorbed, Justin rightly points out that “authenticity cannot be measured.” Paul introduces pre-parent Paul’s thoughts on Internet sharing vs. parent Paul’s opinion.
• We discuss digital identity and “Internet fame” and briefly talk about “This is Phil Fish.”
• Paul talks games, Directional episode titled “E4” and twitch.tv, the video sharing site focused on gaming.
• We discuss promoting the podcast, creating brands, marketing on the web and the level of engagement of the brands online.
• Paul reminisces about the Grand Valley Summer Film Program.
• Justin talks about a recent read, When The Shooting Stops, The Cutting Begins.
• Chris suggest A Complete History of My Sexual Failures, a personal documentary that was an emotional roller coaster.
• We talk San Francisco, Google and Detroit. Plus the awesome power of communities.
• As Chris shares his joy for PMOG, Justin hopes to attend Montreal Sauce Con in 3 years.
• Justin’s goal is to premier his film about 20 years of web sharing at XOXO Festival & Conference in September.

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Tina (Twitter, Website) joins us again to talk Orphan Black.

• We all love Helena.
• Though, Orphan Black isn’t a BBC show, Chris still included it in his blog, Why You Should Be Watching Brit TV Shows.
• Tina does foley of the Montreal Sauce splat when we talk Ben Affleck in Daredevil. The only clip that shows the Affleck scene Chris shares is from Cinema Sins. What a lovely coincidence.
• Chris says he was unimpressed with Marvel’s wanna be anime style animated films. Marvel’s Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher and Iron Man: Rise of Technovore.
• Paul & Tina keep attempting to watch Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows.
• Chris has yet to catch up with OITNB, but Tina & Paul just finished the new season of Orange is the New Black.
• Torchwood continues to torture Chris who gets revenge by confusing Mekhi Phifer with Omar Epps.
• Paul sings the chorus of Rockwell’s jam, Somebody’s Watching Me.
• Looking for a calendar to share across devices without being spied on by Big Data? Chris is trying Baïkal. It’s free & open source.
• Arturo was in the live chat during the show so we volunteered him to host the show in his tropical paradise next winter.
• Pedestrian bridge to Canada? That’s some not safe for work ridiculousness from Frisky Dingo.
• Speaking of NSFW or just plain weird, Paul is part of Machete Squad.
• The Xtacles was a lackluster spinoff from Frisky Dingo.
• For good measure, try the new ant farm keyboard because “We can’t ever go back to Arizona!”
• OwnCloud is a real dog on the RPi, but Raspian seems to work well.
• We talk Amazon’s fantastic new FIRE PHONE! Flame on?
• The creepy Facebook app on your phone listens to you and your environment.
• Paul wants the Master Chief Collection, so he’s contemplating an Xbox One.
• The guys talk Kingdom of Loathing again. If you’re interested in joining Chris’ sad clan in the game, find him on twitter.
• Word Realms is a fun RPG/word game by the same developers of KoL.

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This week we’re joined by Paul’s wife Tina (Twitter, Website) & we talk body functions, children and Weight Watchers.

• While Tina & Chris discuss medication side effects, Chris admits his sugar substitutes don’t rise to the occasion of baking.
• Paul asks Chris about his new avatar which was created by Len Peralta. You can get your own from FlipFace.me and check out Len’s podcast, Geek a Week.
• Oops, the conversation boiled down to arkOS, Raspberry Pi and SeaFile yet again.
• Troubles with installing beta software leads to lots of learning. Chris has learned much about Linux and sampled a few distros. Yet, he still has much more to learn.
• OpenBox is the amazing desktop environment/windows management for linux that has won Chris’ heart.
• Macbook battery cycling is supposedly serious business if you want your battery to last. A lesson learned the hard way.
• Weight Watchers points will not allow you to purchase a Behringer Ultragain Pro Mic2200. Fortunately, Paul was able to get one as a birthday gift.
• Chris has found a way for a diabetic, and most likely a healthy mammal to commit suicide. Simply eat this pie from Red Robin.

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Resuming our half-and-half episode format, it’s Season 2, Episode 6.

• Chris talks about a previous show with Jonah, where he learned about Tom Cruise’s middle tooth!
• Paul thinks Tom Cruise’s middle tooth could be the Silence.
• Chris recommends Teeth if you’re into… you know what, don’t watch this.
• Paul says his children are really enjoying the Hopscotch and Paper apps on the iPad.
• Spellbounders is a iPad game recommended by a listener in the chat room.
• Chris is using Privacy Badger, a plugin for browsers from the EFF that blocks ad trackers.
• Want to chat without cell service? Check out FireChat.
• ProtonMail boasts security and encryption for the average user. It’s an email service started by some CERN scientists.
• We talk iMessage difficulties.
• Chris uses FolderSync to sync his photos with OwnCloud. While Paul used ScannerPro to copy receipts to OwnCloud.
• Is NFC coming to Apple? Rumor!
• Chris admits he’s a closet reality show fan because he watches MasterChef.
• Paul’s watching The Wil Wheaton Project.
• Montreal Sauce has no sponsors, but they talk about all the commercials on television, OnDemand and product placement.
• From the chat room to Paul & Chris, the world thinks Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. went from bad to decent.
• Meanwhile, Paul is concerned with Samuel L. Jackson’s health.
• Paul & Chris explore the Montreal Sauce history of foley sounds made with the mouth. Paul talks an awesome Star Wars parody he did & Chris talks about a parody he made of a Maya Deren film.

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It’s time to get back on the Sauce. This week, we’re back to Paul and Chris, Canadiéno-e-Americáno.

• Chris vents about using PixPlant, an app to make seamless textures and maps.
• These Futurama references to the reptilian space Pope & zombie Jesus are so quick it will take the links longer to load than to play. play.
• SeaFile is a self-hosted drobox-like service that Paul is trying out because OwnCloud is a bit slow on the Raspberry Pi.
• Turn your Raspberry Pi into a router? Why not, Chris is already pushing his routers with the open source dd-wrt installed on them.
• Paul tells Chris not to worry about his routers because Samba sharing isn’t the greatest anyway.
• As night falls in the Midwest, Paul’s picture fades to black in Skype which brings back memories of bad school portraits to Chris. Remember those reflection style portraits?
• Chris wonders why anyone would buy a Macbook Air, but Paul thinks mobility is the reason. Who wants to lug around a 17 inch laptop these days? Here’s a Macworld article featuring one idea.
• Chris and Paul talk screen size for working and mobile.
• Kingdom of Loathing, a hilarious parody of RPG games that is multiplayer fun.
• Constantine is coming to NBC in the Fall.

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Once again, Jonah Bailey pops in as our guest. He is a designer, comic book fan, and Trekkie. You can find him @jonahbailey on twitter or at his own site jonahbailey.com. He also blogs at Mutually Human.

• Jonah says we have to Google “Tom Cruise middle tooth.”
• Clerks The Animated Series hilarious Korean animation bit.

The Canada Quiz! * Montreal Sauce Pro Tip: Don’t Go to Kansas and Say That * Chris randomly quizes Jonah & Paul because that’s what classy radio shows do. Who will win the coveted prize of choosing a tattoo for our imaginary sound engineer? * One of the quiz questions featured this Pauly Shore music video. * Another Paul de Leeuw hits on someone and gives out his phone number during a live broadcast. * The binary joke from Futurama in Spanish because our interns are lazy. * Special thanks to @peakwinter from #arkOS for the assist with an additional trivia question live from our chat room.

Despecialized Star Wars * Jonah watches the Harmy Star Wars Despecialized Edition. The original theatrical cuts painstakingly restored. * Paul thinks there are 2 George Lucases? THX1138 George and Jabba “The Marketing Hut” George who sells action figures. * Chris wonder’s if lightsabers will ever be replaced with walkie talkies like E.T. * Jonah says Alec Guinness was Obi Wan. Guinness is an incredible actor and was honored as such. * Jonah compares Star Wars to other movies that came out in 1977. Smokey & The Bandit, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Saturday Night Fever, For the Love of Benji, and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Everything Else * Everything Wrong with Captain America and Everything Wrong with Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. * We talk about the troubles with young adult fiction, Harry Potter and Richard Harris and Michael Gambon. * Chris recommends the Fright Night remake featuring David Tennant & the new Chekov from the Star Trek reboot. * Jonah convinces us to watch the original Fright Night because Roddy McDowall. * Paul thinks Samuel L. Jackson looks bad in recent commercials. * The comedian Gallagher invented the muscle coat. Surely this is what Ben Affleck will be wearing in the new Batman movie.

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This is the first live episode. Well, it was live. We’re now recording every other Thursday and posting the recorded episodes every Friday night. Follow @montrealsauce, @pauld, or @sikkdays, to find out when we’re broadcasting or click the live button on the montrealsauce.com.

Jonah Bailey is a designer, comic book fan and our guest this episode. You can find him on twitter, @jonahbailey or at his own site jonahbailey.com. (Which, he admits, is sorely in need of an update. Don’t go there. WHY AM I EVEN LINKING THIS?)

• We discuss Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Jonah reminds us that Chris Evans is both Captain America and Johnny Storm from Fantastic Four films. How does that work? Maybe like this?
• DC comics did a reboot of all their characters in the DC universe and Jonah recommends you take a look. The New 52.
• A live listener in the chat room, peakwinter reminds us that Chris Evans was also in Not Another Teen Movie.
• The Bucky Clause says nobody in comics stays dead except for 3 characters.
• The Batman villain, The Red Hood.
• Chris recommends Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox because of its amazing alternate history story.
• Paul is watching Justice League on Netflix because he remembers being a fan of Batman: The Animated Series
• In a recent interview with Seth Meyers on Fresh Air, he talks about doing a show every single day.
• Jonah loves the universe books that list details of comic characters & worlds. Take your pick, Marvel or DC.
• Jonah is excited for Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Jonah gives The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, cred for Pain & Gain.
• Chris remembers Dwayne wasn’t very The Rock-like in Be Cool.
• The guys talk Planet Hulk, the only good Marvel Animated film.
• Chris schools Jonah & Paul on a very strange character, Beta Ray Bill, from the Planet Hulk animated movie.
• All of us swoon for Start Trek: Into Darkness.
• Chris & Jonah agree that the CW show Arrow is terribly uninteresting.
• In a similar vein, a “before he was Batman” show is coming out called Gotham.
• Jonah talks Nightwing and Chris talks Moonlighting?
• Paul talks Doctor Who and Jonah praises Tom Baker.

Special thanks to @peakwinter from #arkOS for joining us in our chat room, live during the podcast. Click the live button and join the chat on the bottom of the page.

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In episode 2 we talk security. Forget password services and secure websites, you need Liam Neeson. Paul hacks apart Star Wars with a machete on air.

• Chris is looking at Chromebooks for his wife.
• Paul’s iMac has a recall because of… graphics card. It all sounds too familiar to Chris.
• Chris has realized that his phone contains a lot of delicate information and maybe it is time to put a password on it. Check how secure your password is here. Paul’s phone confirms he’s been doing this for a while as we hear the lock sound during the show.
• Advice from a web comic for password security? Put a password following this advice in the link above. Crazy secure, but hard to remember.
• The idea of Last Pass is to only remember one password. This web service will store all your other passwords so you don’t have to recall them.
• Prior to Last Pass emerging, Chris purchased 1Password to store passwords. Paul is the Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes so he remembers all his passwords.
• Speaking of passwords, make sure to enable Two-factor authentication everywhere you can. You can use FreeOTP on Android devices to serve up the authentication codes.
• Check out the new Cosmos and get your science fix.
• Chris took in a classic recently, The Maltese Falcon.
• Paul brings Liam Neeson on to the show. Chris hopes he becomes a regular to record messages for our listeners’ voicemails.
• Chris plugs The Flop House podcast which spurs on some Star Wars rants.
• Paul suggests the Machete Order as a way to watch Star Wars films.
• Last episode we talked a bit on SSL, or secure websites. Chris wondered if we should explain how that works a bit more.
• And if you understood any of our explanation, you can also look into web of trust certificates.
• Paul uses the Charles Web Proxy to debug the apps he builds.
• One of Chris’ friends shared a very long video featuring people getting freaked out by the virtual reality system, Oculus Rift. Careful, NSFW language because that thing is scary.
• Chris recounts his experience using Google Glass.
• Chris wants to use his Raspberry Pi to screen calls because he’s tired of telemarketing calls from charities. More advice on the subject can be found here.

Show Note: We’ve started live streaming the show! Tune in live every other Thursday. You can also chat with us on Freenode IRC at #montrealsauce.

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Welcome back to the Sauce. Glad you fell off the wagon. Paul & Chris were on hiatus globetrotting on the hunt for crystal skulls.

• Chris learned all about the crystal skulls thanks to the Stuff You Should Know Podcast via this episode.
• Paul learned about the crystal skulls from the 4th Indiana Jones movie which he’s trying to forget. Or at least imagine it ended differently
• Chris & Paul discuss the problem with TV seasons in the age of Netflix. Our rant is partially spurred on by this blog post.

In the discussion we talk:

+ Agents of Shield
+ Orphan Black
+ Doctor Who No spoilers! We wouldn’t do that to you.
+ Torchwood
+ Sherlock
+ In The Flesh

• Chris thinks child care would be easier if we could just perfect cryogenics after watching the short documentary online We Will Live Again. Paul thinks the tech could be used as a theft deterrent.
• Paul references Murphy Brown & Chris tries to one up him with a Street Hawk reference.
• Paul & Chris lose the audience talking arkOS.
• Chris is watching the new comedy from Mike Judge Silicon Valley.
• Paul’s recent date nights have included the new Captain America and Divergent. Chris eludes that Captain America: Winter Soldier has a different title in Canada.
• Dynamic IP address at home? Chris was trying no-ip and switched to freedns when he had issues.

Show note: This is the start of Season 2. We’re trying a slightly updated format where we split our 2-hour recording into two 1-hour episodes. So there will be a new episode a week from now! Horray! — Koy

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How is The Walking Dead like Dukes of Hazard? How many impressions can Chris do? Are we podcasting in diapers? Find out in Episode 11 of Montreal Sauce!

• Podcast tech Chris wants for x-mas. Please reptillian Space Pope, please!
• Of course, Chris doesn’t need it because Paul has nabbed a Mackie Onyx 820i to mix the show and produce all the fart noise we need.
• Why are the boys talking about Dogecoin again? The hip new thing is Solarcoin!
• Oops, Mt. Gox has had some issues with Bitcoin.
• Jonathan has given Chris a foolproof way to purchase things anonymously.
• Netflix & Comcast striking a deal and you’ve surely seen the cries of foul. You can read more technical and legal jargon at the eff.org.
• Silicon Valley wants to be its own state?
• U.S. Olympic hockey did not bring home the gold and Paul thinks it is time to go back to the amateur competitors. It’s a great segue to a documentary about college sports called Schooled.
• Chris decided to try StarTrekonline.com and quickly became a Lieutenant. By quickly, he means after hours of downloads and updates.
• Helix is all about asking questions. Will they ever be answered or are we Lost?
• The fellows are let down by the fact that Agent Coulson is simply Agent Coulson in Disney’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
• Torchwood “Miracle Day” is season 4 of the Doctor Who spin off that both Chris & Paul missed.
• Forget analyzing shows using the characters from the original Star Trek. Chris is now going to use the characters from The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Paul hints that the Doctor Who creators may try to explain why we’ve seen the 12th Doctor’s face (the same actor) in a 10th Doctor episode and Torchwood.
• Guardians of the Galaxy trailer is out and Chris & Paul don’t know a thing about it.
• Godzilla trailer has premiered as well. Here comes the fade to blacks and ominous music.
• Make Believe is a fun documentary following some teens aspiring to become magicians.
• If you like magic, Deceptive Practices covers some of its history. Unfortunately, Ricky Jay really likes himself and Chris wasn’t impressed.
• Orphan Black returns on April 19th. Paul hopes to watch season 1 and catch up.
• Hey! My screen went to sleep! WiggleMouse to the rescue.
• Raising money to buy a burrito via Kickstarter.
• Chris defiles the show with a discussion on gas. Here’s some more Fart Facts.

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The fabled 10th episode, as handsome as the 10th doctor. And this is the 2nd Episode of March Montreal Madness!

• Is this Paul’s dream mixer?
• Squarespace is not a sponsor.
• Looking for a podcast to rival our own? Check out Huffduffer. Subscribe to Paul’s Huffduffer stream.
• SNL’s clownpenis.fart sketch Chris found on a questionable site.
• Redshirts is going to be a TV series on FX.
• The trailer for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.
• Much coin! Such wow!
• More adventures in Linux with Chris, so you don’t have to! Or if you’re feeling plucky, have a go with Arch Linux or CrunchBang. Most Linux install discs are LiveCDs, meaning you can run the OS from the disc and try it out before installing.
• arkOS is awesome, just like it’s lead developer.
• Smart credit cards are finally coming to the US. Finally.
• Chris’ post that touches on smart credit cards.
• Paul has contributed to Coin, one card to rule them all. As in all your credit cards.
• Online banking in other countries is quite secure thanks to two-factor authentication. Here’s an example from HSBC and one from not a bank, but World of Warcraft.
• All Canadian radio hosts must go to the Stuart McLean school of broadcasting. Chris lasted a whole 1:28 before he closed this clip. Good luck.
• Listening to Fresh Air, Chris learned that the US is a third world country compared to other developed nations when it comes to high-speed internet.
• The trailer for Her.
• The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret with Spike Jonze playing the character in the glasses.
• Dallas Buyers Club trailer.
• American On Purpose by Craig Ferguson.
• Did you know Craig Ferguson was in a punk band with the next Doctor, Peter Capaldi? Peep the photo.
• The new Doctor in his new duds.
• Doctor Who: Legacy game for Android and iPhone.
• Brian Williams from Doctor Who or from Tekken? Nope, Chris is mistaken. The character’s name is Bryan Fury and the move is the fisherman’s slam.
• The Grand Rapids Fish Ladder, an amusement park for vacationing salmon and steelhead.
• Keanu Reeves’ Man of Tai Chi.
• Bill & Ted vs. Death from Bogus Journey.
• Chris’ T-shirt this episode was Flux Capacitor from 6dollarshirts.com

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iMacs overheat, people. That’s why we record this podcast on a lovely 27” iMac! Special guest this week, Mr. Sippy Straw. Also, Jeff Goldblum, Robot Chicken, cell phone companies suck, and forgetting to hit record, on Montreal Sauce.

Show Note: This is the beginning of March Montreal Madness! Because of our backlog of episodes, we’ll be releasing an episode every week in March. In April, we’ll return to our regular every-other-week schedule.

• Jurassic Park life lessons and learning chaos theory.
• He was most Goldblum in The Fly.
• Hey, you’re not perfect and sometimes you Britta things. Thanks, Community.
• Chris’ terrible George Bush impression is an impression of Robot Chicken’s Bush. Tacos rule.
• Is Jim our imaginary editor or an extreme liberal?
• Correction: The Fox skit comedy show Chris was reference was The Edge, not The News. Peep a Compilation of the 15 second “Right This Minute” fillers that aired between sketches.
• Chris’ missing beard.
• Mobile providers are going to allow corporations to sponsor your data? Sketchy.
• Your PSA from the Saucerors: Net Neutrality is a big deal. Pay attention.
• If you weren’t sufficiently bored by Chris’ iMac story or if you need pictures, more info can be found here.
• What is Mame? Emulating the old, coin-op arcade games you couldn’t afford as a child.
• Subsonic is a ridiculously easy to install music server for Windows, Mac & Linux. Ditch iTunes and listen to your music everywhere.
• Linux what now? Linux Mint & Ubuntu, two user friendly distributions to revive an old computer.
• OWC kits to install SSD drives in your Mac.
• Want to nerd out with stats on your Mac? iStat Menus is king, but there are plenty of free alternatives like MenuMeters and atMonitor.
• Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that doesn’t have enough rap songs about it, yet. YET!
• Chris has a batphone in Canada? Well, that’s what he calls the OBi110 that he uses to call his mom in the states for free. No, really! He calls his mom occasionally.
• dd-wrt Can breath new life into a router or unlock more features. There’s also the many flavors of Tomato.
• Dan, a recent guest on a previous episode, made a webcomic based on a stray tweet from Sikkdays. Check it out and all the other great comics on clattertron.com.
• Phish has a version of Gin & Juice.
• GentleMint is a “mint of manly things.” Pintrest for dudes, as it were.
• What’s an 8-track? Chris still has one.
• The Muppets sing Octopus’ Garden.
• Eddie Murphy’s bit from Delirious on Elvis Be warned, this is from the NSFW Eddie Murphy days.
• Looking for music? Perhaps you should ditch iTunes and MP3’s and try Rdio, Spotify, Pandora or Chris’ choice of Songza. Alternatively, you can keep your music and then subscribe to iTunes Radio for more as Paul suggested.
• In this week’s OPT-OUT, your heroes discuss Chrome-gate! Some great extensions for Chrome & Firefox get quietly bought out by ad companies that fill them with malware. Click this for more info. A list of the “infected” extensions is maintained here. So check your Browser!
• Paul doesn’t have the resource hog Flash installed on his computer. Instead, he uses Chrome, when necessary, because it has Flash built-in. Another Mac option is Click to Flash for Safari.
• FreeOTP is a two-factor authentication application. Say what? If you don’t know what two-factor is and don’t use it, Get on it!
• Geeksphone makes phones that are truly open source.
• How about a phone that is concerned with your privacy instead of collecting your data. Check out Blackphone.
• Listen to people eat dinner? Sign me up. The former podcast archives, I Like Juice.
• Wow many coin for Chris? DLu57vD1DWE3rJNBviKrzmWBeC4RNdw3bd
• Such profit for Paul? DUNMd3mpcggpiVV2mWFF4Eo3SFaSF3bgTp

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Livin’ it up, on the Montreal Sauce show. Talkin’ bout politics. Talkin’ ‘bout, crazy cool medalions. Talkin’ it up. On the Montreal Sauce show.

And by “politics”, I actually mean trucks, science fiction, and diabetes diets. You know, stuff!

• Zoidberg from Futurarma doing woop woop woop for 11 minutes. Just because.
• The very entertaining William Shatner’s audio book Shatner Rules.
• Paul’s cough mute switch.
• The massive GMC Arcadia and the Chevy Equinox.
• Grumpy old man, we liked him. We love him!
• Chris has been reading The Laundry Files series buy Charles Stross.
• 2013 Doctor Who Christmas special trailer.
• Sherlock series 3 trailer goodness.
• Chris thinks George Lucas is wipe crazy! Someone please stop him.
• The Book of Dave, a book set in far away future where religion is based on a London cabbie’s diary. Chris has yet to finish it thanks to the language created by the author and the additional British slang.
• Helix trailer, a new show by Ronald D. Moore.
• Paul talks about his first impression of the Raspberry Pi and the arkOS.
• Scanner Pro, the app that “scans” with your camera and can upload over WebDAV.
• Chris laments about his old iMac. More boring info about it can be found on his blog.
• The D-Box gimmick featured in many theaters.
• Movie palace brief history on Wikipedia or a decent history lesson on the movie palace can be found here.
• Ishtar. Some call it the Big Lebowski of the 80s and others call it the worst comedy ever.
• Remember the Wendy’s Superbar? Here’s a quick link supplied by Google.
• MyFitnessPal, the current calorie monitoring web app Chris uses to monitor his sugars.
• Stevia is the recent sugar substitute Chris is trying. It’s actually a plant, but there still may be some issues.
• Netflix documentaries recommened by Chris, Chasing Ice and Glow: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
• The Neutral podcast.
• Chris has recently played Diablo III and he has stinky pants.
• A free, and fun RPG parody game, Kingdom of Loathing.
• From the makers of the above KOL is another fun game called Word Realms.
• Chris’ tee shirt in this episode was another on from the Venture Bros. collection.

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Chris and Paul are back, mano-a-mano to talk more about Canadian health care, Godzilla, code, Doctor Who, and KFC. It’s Montreal Sauce! Yum!

• The Flophouse podcast reviews bad, bad movies.
• Idiocracy trailer.
• Get the Gringo trailer.
• Pepe the King Prawn on The Late Late Show.
• The trailer for the latest reboot of Godzilla.
• The Godzilla cupholder Chris received free from Taco Bell back in the day.
• Green Day’s unfortunate movie tie in with the 1998 Godzilla movie uses the simple theory that anything can be improved with Godzilla’s roar.
• Chris imagines Godzilla playing Walter opposite of the Dude in The Big Lebowski. Totally NSFW.
• The Making of Batman & Robin is an interesting look at the awfulness with the actors, producers and director.
• Hercules in New York trailer.
• GVSU removes a sculpture that was used to parody Miley’s wrecking ball video.
• The Double Robotics office robot for remote workers reviewed on The Colbert Report. Sorry Canadian users, you’ll have to get creative to watch this because of outdated copywright laws.
• Real Genius Montage scene featuring tape recorders, or boom boxes, to take notes. Excellent film, you’re missing out if you haven’t seen it.
• Knitted Graffiti or knitfitti or yarn bombing is the cute way to art up your city.
• OpenXC An API for your car? Make your own apps and develop for your ride.
• Cellcontrol Negate the ability to use a cell phone in your car.
• No, my car is not a bong. It’s an Ignition Interlock Device.
• A sampling of Canadian programming. In other news, I don’t think Chris’ wife is talking to him now.
• A dog with an eye patch? That’s bad ass. Here’s the opening credits for Tales of the Golden Monkey.
• Not at all related, if you have both eyes closed. Tailspin
• Get your art on and find some patrons. Use Patreon to donate to your favorite internet artists.
• Getting started with Square Cash
• Github vs. BitBucket
• Code Week recently inspired millions of students & President Obama to embrace coding.
• IT guy pick up lines.
• Paul’s Five Star Trek Pickup Lines
• Star Trek review with kids in mind thinks “I’d like to get my hands on her ample nacelles,” is too suggestive when talking about a spaceship.
• Beards save lives It’s medically proven.
• Day of the Doctor trailer. The pre-webisode if you wish to partake.
• How to Watch Doctor Who, a good guide for New Who beginners.
• Now That’s What I Call a Doctor Who Quote! album preview.
• American Psycho trailer.
• Matt Smith in the American Psycho musical in London.
• Ping Pong trailer. Ping Pong championships for folks over 80.
• Law & Order Canada? Um, cluck no. Here’s Law & Order: KFC which is every Law & Order episode ever.
• Murdoch Mysteries trailer.
• The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is an awful, awful game. This cheesy review spares you from seeing the terribly scary animated children.
• Don’t swear while playing your shiny new PS4 or XBox One because you’ll be punished.
• Star Fox Do a barrel roll!
• The NBA Jam announcer has his own Twitter account
• Why does Chris apologize for using the Imperial system in Canada? It’s decently accurate

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Our guest this episode is writer & cartoonist Daniel J. Hogan. Listen to the podcast to learn a bit about self-publishing, comedy & ad revenue.

Introductions * Daniel’s book, Magic of Eyri. * Daniel’s cartooning on Clattertron.

On Content Making * Blues Brothers train scene. * As mentioned by Daniel, Rory’s Story Cubes. * The comedy of Mitch Hedberg. * SlushPile Hell “One grumpy literary agent, a sea of query fails, and other publishing nonsense.” * Game Dev Tycoon, an unwinnable game if you pirated it from the web instead of paying for it. Hilarious but sad story. * Lulu.com A company helping people self-publish that our guest has used in the past. * Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up * Square Cash An interesting way to pay people online quickly without the hassle of signing up for yet another service. Make yourself a link! * Also mentioned by Daniel, Commission Junction. Another option aside from Google Ad Words or Amazon to make some money with your website. * Amazon.ca vs Amazon.com a Sikkdays.com blog post. * Disney’s Epcot has a Canada section?. Who knew? * Cory Doctorow’s Makers * Cory Doctorow’s Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom * Gilbert Gottfried’s Powerful Right Arm and his masturbation controversy during the 1991 Emmys.

Feeling like some time travel films? * Timecrimes * Primer * Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel * From the director of Primer, here’s his new (non time travel) film that we have yet to watch but is on Netflix, Upstream Color. * In reference to Chirs killing time with politeness as he finds a chirp, it’s SNL’s take on NPR’s Delicious Dish.

Errata Paul mentions not getting a payout from Apple yet. Having checked the Financial Reports, Paul actually had received a payout from Apple (Direct deposit?!?), putting Apple ahead of Square Cash in the total revenue bucket. Mind on my money, money on my mind.

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So Paul’s been sick, and that’s why we haven’t been recording. But it’s OK - we managed to put together a great show about whales, colds, and Cory Doctorow.

We also cover lots of great movies and stuff. Oh, and we talk about arkOS some more, because it looks awesome.

• The Venture Bros. T-shirt club.
• Chris’s current T-Shirt this episode, Commodore.
• Car Talk.
• Redshirts Our first Montreal Sauce book club book? Why not? Find it and read it. Then, you can nod your head or shout at your listening device while we review it. Fun?
• Calibre upload books to your Kindle.
• Cory Doctorow’s Books.
• Bye bye open source Google Apps. Hello evil Google closed source.
• Android Dev interested in AROMA? Here’s more info.
• Official They Might Be Giants Youtube channel.
• I heart Crazy Eyes from Orange is the New Black.
• Saving Silverman, the Jason Biggs film Paul was thinking of.
• It was not a good movie, so Chris doesn’t know why he’s adding the link. Here’s the trailer for Heckler.
• Schneider v. Ebert.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer.
• VHX.tv Distribute your short films and get paid in a world without DVDs.
• Yo-yo boy? Hilarious wire work with Jet Li.
• Chewbacca Impression from Benedict Cumberbatch (AKA Benjamin Lumberjack) while Harrison Ford looks lost in old age.
• That said, he and Chewbacca don’t get along well anymore.
• Attack the Block trailer of awesome sauce.
• Joe Cornish, may be the director for Star Trek 3.
• Star Wars Ep. VII gets new writers
• Justin Hall’s interview with Jamie Wilkinson.
• arkOS, check out this awesome project. Host your own cloud.
• Frenzy A Dropbox powered social network. Interesting.
• Amazon Glacier as a cheap backup solution & some other options.
• One Thing Well A simple site featuring simple solutions.
• Fargo, an outliner from Small Picture.
• A Tumblr application for the Mac, Tubl.me.
• Silly Twitter accoutns, SeinfeldToday & TNG_S8 or Star Trek The Next Generation season 8.
• Not to plug Chirp again, but hey we do play it during the podcast.
• The Indiegogo Kickstarter Campaign.
• How Google coders work.
• What’s a Boss key?

See you in a few weeks when we’ll have a special surprise for your ears!

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Here we go again! Your best pals Paul and Chris Coy and Vance are back and ready to race in the General Lee! Also, we talk about Asians of S.H.I.E.L.D., as well as a great discussion of Canadian Thanksgiving. You may not know what’s real in this one, because of all the alternate historical factifying.

Here’s a little more about today’s adventure:

• The Star Trek Soundboard
• Coy and Vance of The Dukes of Hazzard
• “Oh that Dukes of Hazzard Power Cycle!”
• “What a ride!” The Green Machine
• Is Agent Molson a Life Model Decoy?
• The Mocking Dead Chris’ recaps & bad Photoshopping.
• Redshirts
• Keremeos & Hedley British Columbia. The few pics Chris took It’s official, Chris is an old person forcing you to look at the slides from his vacation!
• For those of you interested in football, American & Canadian Football
• Canadian Thanksgiving
• Canadian Black Friday
• Being a new Canadian, Chris forgot to mention that they do have Boxing Day
• Iron Sky
• Iron Sky Pick up lines
• Pie Crust
• Heroes Recaps via io9.com
• Max Headroom is interviewed by Letterman.
• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
• FDR American Badass
• Canadians and the myth of Eh?
• Equilibrium
• Gun Kata clip
• Wanted trailer. Note the top commentor on the Youtube page is Morgan Freeman.
• Blacklist TV show trailer.
• The Dresden Files
• 30 Minutes or Less
• What’s that noise during the podcast? Get Chrip and find out.
• No More Buckyballs The company’s last plea that was not answered.

Just the good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm… YEEE-HAAWW!

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Episode 3 is here at last so that you can listen to Paul and Chris slaughter the younglings. Wait! No, we didn’t do that. Anakin, you’re hurting me!

What we did proceed to talk about, actually, was a mini-review of Agents of Shield, and its similarity to the TV / Movie Star Trek crossover stories: Michael Dorn probably has more money from Star Trek than the Roddenberry estate.

We also touch on lots of other fun stuff:

• The Chirp app. Download now, open it up on your phone/tablet and listen to the show for silly surprises.
• Even the Beard was bad in the Dexter Finalé
• Breaking Bad
• Paul’s Agent Moulson is one part Agent Coulson & one part Molson Canadian.
• Worf
• Transformers The Movie from 1986 had a potty mouth.
• Transformers’ Tomb episode, because why not?
• G.I Joe: The Movie intro because I couldn’t find a proper trailer. Um, what’s with the musical beginning?
• TMNT “I love being a turtle!”
• Go Ninja Go Ninja Go?
• The Vanilla Ice Project Even posting this, it feels like an SNL skit and unreal.
• House of Cards
• The American President
• Wag The Dog
• Portlandia’s Battlestar Galactica sketch.
• Orange is the New Black trailer. Explicit, like Disney’s copyright on Mickey. Err, I mean profane like a chicken. Nevermind, you get it.
• Teaser from Chris’ fav BSG moment.
• The Editing Room: Abriged Scripts for movies. The Avatar script.
• Not mentioned, but required at any mention of Avatar: Abadah.
• Onkyo + PS3 = Magic or how to control your PS3 with an Onkyo remote through HDMI.
• Buy a wacky remote like Chris used to own? No, it’s a century old. He wouldn’t recommend it. This is just a visual aid.
• But you could buy a remote like Paul’s. Yes, that’s an affiliate link. It’s OK if you support the show.
• Einstein’s Time Dilation
• Cupcake is mobile-friendly despite the lack of updated apps now that Tent has been updated. Find the Paul or the Chris.
• The future is your own private cloud. Check out arkOS.
• Not Jason Statham. This is another Transporter.
• This is Jason Statham as the Transporter Two words: Bicycle pedals.
• Canada’s government is still functioning & they’re talking about making O Canada gender-neutral.
• Rather than paying Robert Downey Jr to show up on Agents of Shield, why not use a clip from one of his many movies.
• Paul’s luxurious SVHS Editing Suite?
• Know your meme: Steve Buscemeyes.

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In Episode 2 (or should we call it “Season 2 Episode 1?”) Chris and Paul talk again about movies, and mobile devices. We also touch on our friends at the NSA, cloud computing, privacy, and cops. The people, not the TV series.

Also, this is the debut episode for the latest game that’s sweeping the nation: “How Dutch is Your Mom?”

Here’s some more info on our topics:

• 2015 Movies
• Terms and Conditions May Apply, comments about British TV episode length, CFAA, and the Sexy Back Tour podcast can all be found on sikkdays.com
• The NSA data center
• Firefox OS
• Ubuntu Phones
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek The Motion Picture
• Star Trek: Phase II
• The Captains
• Star Trek The Animated Series
• Drunk Hulk
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• iPhone 5s explained by Conan
• Rasberry Pi
• The Atrocity Archives
• The Dresden Files
• Grand Rapids, MI is Beer City
• Fauxgyptian’s iPhone tweet
• Family Guy’s Dingo & the Baby clip couldn’t be found, but here’s something close enough.
• Tent.io
• Cupcake.io

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In this, the inaugural episode of Montreal Sauce, Chris and Paul discuss a variety of movies and TV shows, followed by a small fanboy-v-fanboy discussion of iOS and Android.

Frankly, this is probably the description of every episode. But with practice, we’ll come up with great new ways of putting those words together.

Also, there’s already a Montreal Sauce drinking game: take a shot every time Paul says “Right, Exactly.” But you don’t have to play by taking shots of actual Montreal Sauce - you can use any liquor you have handy.

A few links you may find helpful, if you’d like more information:

• Foley
• Dave Foley
• Handbrake
• CD-ROM Drives
• AOL
• MacBook Air Reviews on Amazon
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Benjamin Luberjack
• Chekov
• J.J. Abrams
• Peter Jackson
• Kings of Summer
• Residence vs Citizenship in Canada
• Doctor Who
• Orphan Black
• Fringe
• Lost
• Hemlock Grove
• Continuum
• Ingress
• Field Trip
• Android Developer Options
• Android Fragmentation
• iOS 7
• New Coke
• Classic Mode
• Ubuntu Touch
• I Like Montreal Sauce

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