The Life Is Sweet Podcast

Episode 20 - Looney Tunes Backgrounds

Talking About Our Grand Circle Road Trip - Feb/March 2023

Arches/Canyonlands/Capitol Reef/Bryce Canyon/Zion/Vegas/Death Valley/Grand Canyon/Monument Valley/Moab area (again)/Colorado National Monument and places in between

//Road Tripping With A Baby//The Weather//Chain Hotels > AirBnB//Southern Utah Is Very Mormony//Scenic Byway 12//Baby Carrier > Stroller//Hiking As An Older Regular Person//Essential Equipment: Micro Spikes//Elevation Is An Issue//Vegas Is An Unavoidable Giant Mall//Sunset In Death Valley//Hoover Dam Is Cool//The Grand Canyon Is Skippable//Meeting Friends On The Navajo Nation//Things We'd Do If We Went Back//Newspaper Rock//Sego Canyon//Philosophy & Ethics Of Travel//

//Exiting Nugget Mode//Desert Skulking//Life Is Sweet Bingo Card//Baby High//Adventures In Sleep, Or Lack Thereof//Feeding Foibles//C Section Healing//Road Trip Baby//Itinerary//Film, Physical Media & Memory//Nobody Should Like Spreadsheets//Instagram Is Not The Point//Backpack Full Of Cameras//Prep Reading//Trying Not To Collect Stuff//What Is A Cyanotype//Always Making New Skeletons//

FInishing our mini series on The Red River Resistance.

Recap//Schultz Plots A Coup//Riel Arrests The Schultz Gang//Charles Mair: Forgotten Grifter//Thomas Scott Raises A Mob//Martyr vs Murderer//Canada First Puts Out A Bounty//Delegation To Ottawa//Birth Of Manitoba//Wolesely Arrives, Riel Flees//O'Donoghue's Failed Revolution//Riel Returns, Flees Again//Louis Riel, MP//Barred From Parliament//A Pardon For Lepine//Riel Is Committed//Exile To Montana//Canada Betrays The Metis//Metis Forced To The Fringe//Conclusions And Takeaways//

//Podcast Themes//Gary Lyndon//The Story Of How Liz Was Born//Breastfeeding Adventures//Baby Formula Should Be Free//Actually The Cutest Baby In The History Of The World//How Do You Live With A Newborn?//Post Partum Depression But For Dads//Families & Economics//Night Shifts//Things The Baby Likes So Far//Dr. Spock & Attachment Parenting etc.//Labour, Birth & Immeditately Afterwards//Instagram Parenting//2022 Spooky Season Movie Recs//

Youtube Prenatal Class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7YucfJuziU

Jon's Current Top 5 Spooky-ish Movies As Of Right Now:

The Shining

The Witch

Mandy

The Wicker Man (original)

The Thing

We Got A New Couch!

//New Used Couch//Leaky Roof Saga//Rebranding As A Handyman//Manitoba's Foremost Natural Dyeing Podcast//Feelings On C Sections//Packing Your Baby Bag//Placenta Talk//Natural Birth//Being Aware Of Risks//Please Buy Jon Noise Cancelling Headphones//The Waiting Game//Manitoba's Fine Beaches//Maternity Media//

Note: The baby arrived 3 days after the recording of this episode. Baby and Mama are both healthy and happy and we're very excited to have everyone here! Jill likely won't appear on an episode in September but we'll check back once everyone is settled in.

Red River Resistance, Part 1

Taking a detour from our Clearing The Plains read through to look more closely at key events taking place during the period of Chapter 6: 1869-1876.

*All content warnings apply*

//Resistance or Rebellion?//HBC vs Canada: Feudalism or Capitalism. Why Not Both?//Revenge For Seven Oaks//Oppression As Corporate Policy//Cross Racial Solidarity//Metis Rally For Guillaume Sayer//Monopoly Breaks//Scramble For The Northwest//Red River People Left Out//Metis Concerns & River Lots//A Plague Of Wasps//The Original Orange Men//The Fenians//William McDougall & Manitoulin Island//Military Surveyors Trespass//Riel Stares Down Canada//Lepine Turns Back McDougall//Napkin Tacked To A Fencepost//J.S. Dennis: Head Dispossessor//How Canada Steals Your Land//J. C. Schultz: Fake Doctor//Canada First//Thomas Scott: Erratic Thug//HBC: Just Minding The Store//William MacTavish: Loyalty To Family Or Employer?//Metis Invited To Fort Garry//Declaration Of The People Of Rupert's Land//Provisional Government Established//

Map: Rough Diagram, Based on Hinds Map intended to illustrate Report on Townships Surveys--Red River Territory, Ottawa, February 12th, 1870, J. Stoughton Dennis, P.L.S. Scale: 1 inch to 6 miles.

Source: PAC, National Map Collection, H12/740/Red River

Good Apocalypse Humour//A Wall-e But For Podcasts//Summer Holidays//Gestational Diabetes//Overenthusiastic Placenta//Looking Very Buddha//Summoning The Baby//Notorious Snorer//Star Trek Is Too Disturbing For Fetuses//Feeling Neutral About Being Pregnant//Uterus Coming Through//Feminine Knowledge Pipeline//Hormones In Play//Circle Of Support//Birth Is Traumatic//Parental Leave//Prepping For B Day//Little Hungry Nugget//Buying A Pack Of Baby Suits//Bookpile//Finding The Mother Tree//Matrix//Beeswing vs Bee's Wing//Richard Thompson//Fairport//Not Being One Of The Cool Music Kids//Graham Nash Is A Dunce//Pretending You're Mysterious Makes You Look Like An Idiot//Art Builds Communities//A Band Is A Way To Practice Friendship//Yurts Are Good//Manitoba: Cursed By God, Blessed By Water//

Jon Reads Clearing The Plains: Chapter 6, Part 1

Canada, The Northwest, And The Treaty Period, 1869-76

Look out Red River, here comes Canada.

Episode 15: Garden Babies

Mennonites And Pride//More Baby Stuff//Middle Class Mindset vs Sharing Economy//Community Baby Supply Pool//Parental Leave For All//Having Babies During Worsening Economic & Climatic Conditions//Cold Weather People//Summer Toodles//We Live In A Forest//"I Saw A Cat And I Didn't Like It"//Inflation In Vet Bills//Looking For Birds To Watch//Coot Enthusiast//Gas Rationing//Garden Time//Former Cecil Rhodes School Renaming Story//The Northman Is Good//

Our technology glitched out around 19:20, so you'll hear a weird edit, please don't be alarmed.

Cover photo: Pinball Wizard Alium

Cecil Rhodes School Renaming Links:

Jill's original petition

https://www.change.org/p/winnipeg-school-division-board-and-trustees-rename-cecil-rhodes-school-in-winnipeg-manitoba

Despite what the headline says, the name wasn't "stripped." The community democratically decided to change the name of their school, and the Winnipeg School Division board voted to approve it. The main body of the article has good info though.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/keewatin-community-prairie-school-cecil-rhodes-new-name-1.6441093

Jon's Teleharmonium music:

https://teleharmonium.bandcamp.com/album/serpent-of-the-sea-ep

Clearing The Plains Chapter 5: Expansion Of Settlement And Erosion Of Health During The HBC Monopoly 1821-1869