Broken Area

It's our Christmas episode!

So Maddie is back home for the holidays which is excellent. She and Ross drove their new car here, which is a decent little Ford Focus. Snow tires of course. It is a good thing they have snows, because, well, because it finally snowed, and it is quite cold today, -7C.

This cold temperature led to a couple of interesting incidents that I won't spoil for you.

From all of us in the Michaud-Brodbeck family, Merry Christmas.

Join us on this mini episode wherein we go get a Christmas tree and we come up with our new catchphrase.

Who is George Madden? You will have to listen to find out.

I didn't swear nearly as much as I normally do when getting a Christmas tree, so that's a plus.

We started by talking about a strange hoax that I and about 5 other wikipedia editors have uncovered. Well, hoax might be a tad strong, but it is close. So there's this dude, and there is a wikipedia article about him that makes him sound like the most important filmmaker and psychologists and businessman ever. Yeah not so much. Indeed, we're pretty sure one of the shows was made up, literally made up.

What would make someone do such a thing? I dunno. Isabelle is a better person than I and she feels kind of sorry for the dude. I am not much on people taking credit for others' work (to be fair neither i Isabelle, but she is just nicer than I am).

We then went on to talk about Isabelle's program and some of the people who are in it, including a person from Saskatchewan and a person from China.

Join us again in another instalment of 'Dave and Isabelle do things".

Isabelle talked some about what it is like doing art in front of people. Like it is some sort of spectator sport. This was followed by a discussion of an art show she saw last night where she recorded some audio for the 'That's Not Art' podcast.

Then, in Bob Goyetche, Jason Reese and Anthony Marco fashion, we stopped by the A and W drive through. We waited a Pope's age until Isabelle got her burger..

Well, it is that time of year again, Canadian National Day of Podcasting, or #CNDOP for you hashtaggy people.

Much of this is a standard shopping cast. We talked a bit about commercialism at Christmas time, then Isabelle told a story.....

We talked a bit about Black Friday and how people always want to be above everything.

Then travel with us to find the right kind of cartridge for Isabelle's pen!

We ended on a serious note, talking about this article in the Atlantic.

Some good stuff today. We talked a bit about magazines, and then about Scientific American Mind, which Isabelle just picked up. There is an article about the genetics of autism in it which looks pretty good. Maddie and I wrote a paper! It is a bit snarky, but it makes some good points (so the editors said) and I'm pretty happy with it. Looks like Maddie may be getting a car, a pretty big step that is.

Well, on our way home from Toronto we of course, recorded again. The first half is from the trip, right around Barrie, ON.

Then we got home and had to go grocery shopping, so you still got some grocery action. We talked a bit about the whole Paris thing again, and then, frankly, we had had enough and got home....

Hope you liked our little weekend travelogue.

So we are here in Toronto and we saw the Turner exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

I think the three of us all got something out of the exhibit. Jon and I particularly liked looking at his work really close up, and then backing off a bit and seeing something different depending upon how far away we were.

Jon, Isabelle and I are on our way to Toronto to go to an exhibit of JMW Turner's works at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Oh and this episode starts with a message from an Australian listener!

So we drove down and we talked about Turner, art and the idea of going to Toronto and thinking back to our early 20s when we first met in Toronto.

We talked a bit about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which Isabelle is thinking about in her painting. It is a pretty much discredited idea nowadays in psychology.

We then talked a bit about our new government, specifically the cabinet. They seem, oh, qualified or something. Interestingly a large number of them did not 'swear to God' but instead affirmed that they would do their duties. Plus, half are women, plus there are monitories and everything!

Oh part 2 is recorded on my Zoom H2, there might be a couple of audio problems, for that I apologize.