Semi-Intellectual Musings
 

Semi-Intellectual Musings

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Podcast focusing on the social sciences, humanities and arts.

Episodes

Skip & Josh Special Part 1-Tribute to Gord Downie

Monday Nov 13, 2017

Monday Nov 13, 2017

We have yet to fully understand or realize the breadth and depth of Gord Downie’s influence. Musically, poetically, socially, personally, Gord Downie was always more than the frontman for The Tragically Hip: he was a Canadian icon. We connected with the guys over at the Skip & Josh Podcast to talk about the Hip, swap stories and have a good old fashioned tribute to a great Canadian from Kingston, Ontario.

This is part 1 of our chat. Be sure to check out the second part of our conversation, talking about politics and sports, on The Skip and Josh Podcast. You can find that episode everywhere you listen to podcasts. Follow Skip & Josh at: Website https://skipandjosh.com/ | Twitter @Skipandjosh | Facebook @skipandjosh

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Concluding thought:  Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

– Gord Downie

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If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can thank him now.
 
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Patio Session #6 - SIMply A Chat with Anthony von Dessauer

Thursday Nov 09, 2017

Thursday Nov 09, 2017

A few things have happened since our last patio session: daylight savings time kicked in, the trees got naked, some snow fell, and it started to get too cold to actually podcast outdoors. So with a slight sigh, we grabbed our gear and went inside for the winter. The good news about having to spend winter inside, which is almost 9 months of the year where we live, is that we can finally get back to our table top games. And what better way to start the gaming season than with a special guest for our very first SIMply A Chat episode. All the way from sunny California, we connected with Anthony von Dessauer the creator of The Curse of Silverlake. We talked homebrew table top games, collective storytelling and so, so much more. We even played a game of Friend or Foe that may well warn everyone of the evil that lurks among us. Or not. 

Make sure to subscribe to The Curse of Silverlake and why not leave Anthony a 5 star iTunes review while you're at it, do that here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-curse-of-silverlake-an-rpg-podcast/id989621809?mt=2

Like and follow The Curse of Silverlake on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilverlakeRPG/

For artwork, players handbook and more, go here: http://silverlake.edgeoftheweb.net/

The amazing outro music is a song called Summer of 83 by Indianapolis, Indiana's very own Mikey Mason. Geek, Fanboy, Comedy Rock Star, he does it all. Make sure to check out Mikey's work here: http://www.mikeymason.com/. And if you like this song or any others of his, buy them here...yes, I said buy. As in send him money for his damn hard work, c'on folks!!: https://mikeymason.bandcamp.com/

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Patio Sessions are where we sit down to chat with little to no prep work done. It's a way to provide updates on the show, talk about what's on our minds and connect the old fashioned way: over drinks. 

As always, make sure to follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.  

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Do Androids Dream of Blade Runner?

Sunday Nov 05, 2017

Sunday Nov 05, 2017

Recorded outside on October 25th before the weather gets too cold. Matt & Phil decided they wanted to be current. In with the cool kids. Men of their time. In the know... So that meant, obviously, talking about one of the most anticipated movie releases this year: Blade Runner 2049 (Dir. Denis Villeneuve). Matt took one for the team and went to the cinema to see it on on the big screen. Spoiler alert: he left the overpriced popcorn scented auditorium feeling a little...muh. So how does one get excited about this new Blade Runner? By talking about Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep of course. Once you’re down that rabbit hole, why not see how it relates to the original Blade Runner released in 1982. Luckily for you, that’s what Matt & Phil did along with their signature social science, humanities and arts spin on the whole franchise. Why be current, when you could be ahead of the times.

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Concluding thought:  My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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We played a promo for the Partly Political Broadcast Podcast. Connect with Tiernan on Twitter: @TiernanDouieb and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tiernandouieb. Download & Subscribe to the Partly Political Broadcast Podcast on iTunes https://t.co/paPjOTPdEZ or Non-iTunes https://t.co/xbboErjYNd.

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If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can think of to thank him now.

https://www.downiewenjack.ca/

https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr

 

Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod

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Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/

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October Bonus - Is Anyone There?

Monday Oct 30, 2017

Monday Oct 30, 2017

This bonus episode features us, Matt & Phil, escaping a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, we end up connecting over the airwaves with Alex & Zach from the Is Anyone There podcast. After having travelled through the infested terrain of Ottawa, Ontario and made our way to a safe bunker, Alex & Zach gave us much needed survival tips: light a bunch of gas on fire to make a smoke signal, empty out all our water because it could have killed us, and cut off Matt's arm. Do we survive? Probably. Is it because of Alex & Zach? Probably not. Do we figure out how to use Doxa? "Our praxis is better than yours. Our praxis brings all the zombies to the yard"...so ya, we do. This story is our Halloween 2017 treat. We really hope you enjoy it. 

Stay safe,

Matt & Phil

 

Music & Sound Effects in this Episode:

If you enjoyed this epsisode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can think of to thank him now. 

https://www.downiewenjack.ca/

https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr

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Patio Session #5

Saturday Oct 28, 2017

Saturday Oct 28, 2017

 

On this patio session Phil talks about home renovations with Matt. He's no expert, but wanted to share a thing or two about the basics. Who knew he was also good with his hands? Key takeaway: do it right the first time. Second takeaway: contract out when you have to. Third takeaway: the details are important. Sounds a lot like writing a book. Actually, it's probably nothing like writing a book. Well, maybe. Uh oh. 

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Patio Sessions are where we sit down to chat with little to no prep work done. It's a way to provide updates on the show, talk about what's on our minds and connect the old fashioned way: over drinks. 

As always, make sure to follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.  

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Governing Censorship

Sunday Oct 22, 2017

Sunday Oct 22, 2017

This episode started out as solely Banned Books week themed. As it happens, it got out of hand. So instead, here’s a social science take on the censorship, banning, restriction and outright prohibition of works of art and speech. From Stan Cohen to Michel Foucault, we offer a few frameworks and examples to help make sense of how we govern censorship. Music abounds in this one. Fitting to play songs that some folks fought for us never to hear again.

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Concluding thought:  Any book worth banning is a book worth reading

― Isaac Asimov

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Check out the Braintrust Bros Podcast Network and help raise awareness for breast cancer. Find all the info on their website: http://www.braintrustbros.com/podcasts/the-braintrust-bros/

Get good and bad zombie survival tips from Alex Diskin and Zach Brockway in Is Anyone There podcast. Check them out at: https://soundcloud.com/is-anyone-there-podcast and on their Twitter: https://twitter.com/isanyonethere12?lang=en

Follow Perry and Lindsay, co-host-partners-in-crime and creators of the Hello Life, WTF podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellolifewtf on FaceBook: fb.me/hellolifewtf and on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hellolifewtf

If you like to laugh, join Adam Nutter and Greg Trout from the Nerds with Words podcast, found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdswithwords1?lang=en on their website: http://nerdswithwordspodcast.com/

We played Man of a Different Time by The Elders. Find their great music on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS8EaHxRk9QagqJiJ1U7WTQ

Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.

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Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com

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iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V

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Patio Session #4

Wednesday Oct 11, 2017

Wednesday Oct 11, 2017

Already our fourth patio session of the season. Whoop! Whoop! Matt tells us about his recent visit to the MOSAÏCANADA 150 exhibit (www.mosaicanada.ca). What better way is there to properlu end the summer season than walking around giant horticultural scuptures? Yah, what we thought too. 

We then dive into a very tasty grapefruit radler from Perth Brewery (http://www.perthbrewery.ca/). A great suggestion from our friends over at Nerdy by Nature (http://www.letusgetnerdy.com/). 

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Patio Sessions are where we sit down to chat with little to no prep work done. It's a way to provide updates on the show, talk about what's on our minds and connect the old fashioned way: over drinks. 

As always, make sure to follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.  

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September Bonus - A Week in the Life of Podcasters

Sunday Oct 01, 2017

Sunday Oct 01, 2017

This September bonus episode is our way of celebrating International Podcasting Day. We spent the week audio journalling our adventures and mishaps, recording on handheld devices on the fly - often while driving it seemed. We ended up talking a lot about other great podcasts too, so make sure to check them out. We hope this behind the scenes episode sheds some light on what it's like being a podcaster. Hopefully, somehow, it can help bring us all a little closer together. 

Music in this episode:

  • Chill Beat by Frank Nora
  • Anjou by Kevin MacLeod
  • Jethro on the Run by Unknown
  • A Wormhole in the Top of the World by Magdalen
  • Monster by White Flag Agenda
  • Prefunk Loop by Kevin MacLeod
  • Sloppy Bossa Loop by Kevin MacLeod
  • Pulling the Plug on Kindness by Kevin MacLeod
  • Funkereffic by Kevin MacLeod
  • All in a Silver Line by statusq
  • All You Need is Noise by Alpha Hydrae
  • Taboom by Kevin MacLeod
  • Sabre and Spurs by The US Marine Band
  • Heaven Is Free by Kevin MacLeod
  • Firsts Theme by Kevin MacLeod
  • Shaving Mirror by Kevin MacLeod

Concluding thought:  

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

-Franz Kafka

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Patio Session #3

Saturday Sep 30, 2017

Saturday Sep 30, 2017

It's a hat trick: our third Patio Session. We sat down in the woods to chat about Banned Books week. Matt tells the story of a few challenged books from British Columbia, Canada while Phil provides a brief overview of what Banned Books week is all about. 

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Patio Sessions are where we sit down to chat with little to no prep work done. It's a way to provide updates on the show, talk about what's on our minds and connect the old fashioned way: over drinks. 

As always, make sure to follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.  

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Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!

Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah. Available at:http://www.cullah.com. Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Patio Session #2

Friday Sep 29, 2017

Friday Sep 29, 2017

We took our second Patio Session to the forest. No really, we like literally went and sat in the forest next to Phil's property. It was fitting as we talked about one of Matt's recent golf games, then got bantering about etiquette in sports and life in general.  

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Patio Sessions are where we sit down to chat with little to no prep work done. It's a way to provide updates on the show, talk about what's on our minds and connect the old fashioned way: over drinks. 

As always, make sure to follow #PodernFamily, #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.  

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Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!

Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah. Available at:http://www.cullah.com. Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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