the Semi-Retired podcast
Each Tuesday, hosts Richard and Dave offer insightful and humourous takes on topics including media, technology, music, culture, and photography. Join in for a tasty brew that’s guaranteed to hit the spot.
Podcasting since 2022 • 53 episodes
the Semi-Retired podcast
Latest Episodes
52 | We turned 50 into an 11
According to industry statistics, only 11% of podcasts make it to fifty episodes, and 90% never publish more than three episodes before drowning in a raging torrent of abject shame, humiliation, and self-abuse. (We may have made up the part abo...
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51 | AI is coming. Anybody got a spare swimsuit?
Not a day goes by without news about AI making the headlines. From last summer's actor's strike, to AI-assisted documentary film-making, to a recent AI beauty pageant, even AI podcast co-hosts (take note, Richard), there's no telling where this...
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50 | Eclipse 2024: Random notes from under the Path of Totality
On the eighth day of April 2024, Montreal found itself in an extremely unusual and fortunate position. For the first time in ninety-two years, and the last time for another eighty-two, its citizens were directly underneath the tiny shadow cast ...
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49 | This week: We boldly go where many have gone before
Is it even possible to imagine a cultural vocabulary that doesn't include phasers, photon torpedoes, communicators, the bridge, the transporter room, sickbay, beaming down, beaming up, the Enterprise, shuttlecraft, warp engines, dilithium cryst...
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