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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Sir Winston Churchill (not the guy who ran the Crescent Street pub) described the United States and his own country as being two nations "divided by the same language." The same could be said of the generations, each of which develops its own s...

Ah, the wretched excesses of late-70s English rock bands with roots in the kaleidoscopic, Swinging London days of the UFO Club, Carnaby Street, Twiggy, Vidal Sassoon, and Sgt. Pepperland. Rob Reiner's first-of-a-kind 1984 'mockumentary' follows...

After being stuck in heavy traffic on the outbound T-Can for close to six months, Richard and Dave regrouped to complete production on this fond look at a milestone album in the first installment of a new series titled Albums That Left a Mark.&...

While trying not to jump any metaphorical sharks themselves (see below), the guys return for the second part of their investigation into this irritating cultural phenomenon. Along the way they identify the one popular movie franchise that jumpe...

After a long and largely unplanned summer vacation, the guys are back with an apex predator of a two-parter.On September 20, 1977, something momentous happened. On that last day of the third summer of disco and the second summer of the ...

With the recent release of Apple’s technologically astounding and eye-wateringly expensive Vision Pro virtual reality headset and the threatened release of its far cheaper competitor, Facebook’s Oculus Quest 3, VR may have finally reached early...

Q: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?A: That depends on which measurement system he/she prefers.Measurements, i.e. specified quantities of a wide variety of 'somethings', are so ingr...

Our parents said our eyes would turn square. We feared the mundanity of household chores would interrupt the magic of the moment. By Richard's own admission, his eyesight was weak and blurred as he crept upstairs and into the light like a stunn...

Richard (now re-christened a Templar-esque 'Ranchard de Valois') and Dave (still just Dave) reveal what kept them from publishing an episode last week before seguing into this week's topic: musical genres they love and musical genres they love ...

It was Canada's 100th birthday year. In January, Timothy Leary told the world's youth that it was time to "tune in, turn on, and drop out." Across the Atlantic in Swinging London, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Ba...

Dear Semi-Retired listeners,My humblest apologies for not being here for you last week. Dave was so emotionally fragile over the nightmare surrounding his Crave TV account scrub, that he couldn't hold himself together long enough to rec...

In our humble opinion, popular culture often gives actual culture a bad name. Certain oeuvres and oeuvrists ooze onto the cultural landscape and proceed to suck up an ungodly amount amount of praise and attention that we feel is richly undeserv...

Codes, passwords, PINs, logins, credentials, two-factor authentication, encryption and decryption, keychains and resets, are among the more irritating features of modern life. Who would have thought that it all started with the concealment of s...

Back behind the microphones after the week-that-became-a-month off, the guys get their podcasting groove on by talking about what they did on vacation, complete with hyperlinking to topics that have varying degrees of relationship to each other...

In the concluding episode of our first three-parter, we delve into issues like good and evil, the existence (or lack thereof) of Satan, the relationship (or lack thereof) between science and faith, and what it would take to convince each of us ...

The existential voyage continues as Richard, Dave, and their guest Sam Piazza, wrestle with some of life's most enduring and controversial questions. Valiant attempts to breach various walls of belief and conviction are made, but no breakthroug...

Our sincere apologies for the late release of this episode. Real life gave our finely tuned production schedule a small kick in the ankle. All is well now, and we think it'll have been worth the wait.Two weeks ago we sat down to talk wi...

Is AI coming to recommend our next vegan lunch? Or eat it?This week, Richard and Dave satisfy their simmering hunger for knowledge by cozying up to ChatGPT, the headline-dominating AI language model developed by a company called OpenAI ...

Our two-parter on the creative impulse behind photography concludes with a discussion that ranges from photographers who've influenced us, to favourite photographs we've taken, our thoughts on and approaches to post-processing, the thorny quest...

These days almost everybody's packing a very capable high-resolution camera, and nearly two trillion photographs are taken every year. (Note: we still don't have a decent shot of a UFO.)Join the guys as they get back to their photograph...

Someday something's coming From way out beyond the stars To kill us while we stand here It'll store our brains in mason jars.— The Mountain Goats | Lovecraft in Brooklyn 2008No one would have believed in the last ...