the Wikkid podcast

Sick of trying to sharpen iron on jello, our protagonist starts frequenting people who are smarter than he is, and crazier too. Looking for Mr. Miyagi. Poetry intended to cause offense. Too much thinking being done, in the opinion of the old folks at church. Stealth beer. Kids raised too blandly crave intensity. Scottish drinking songs. My best "fit" in a band. I don't sing the lead vocals on this one. I don't write the lyrics either. (Enjoying the wonders of collaboration.)

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As I grew up in Canada with a French-Canadian grandmother and a British one, and as Quebec is a short drive from here, as is America, there's a lot to say about that. Pretty short podcast episode, though. Stuff about all things French, having French Brethren who needed a translation other than the King James Version to read, and who were culturally fairly unBrethren. Les petit phoques suffoque sur les flocons de glace. Bleu Nuit. Cheech and Chong in French? Why I was somewhat chagrined to see Flight of the Conchords do a funny song in nonsense French about twenty years after I had. More shenanigans with my Brethren creative friends. Smurfs/Schtroumpfs. My silly songs usually go over better than my serious moody ones.

Mastering

Girls. Chickadees. Depression helped along by a double-barrelled romantic failure to launch. Meeting Brethren creatives? Trying to sing like Robert Smith? A very silly song.

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By listener request, I break down the contradictory basic theology spoon fed to use as Christian kids. Also, I talk about vows made while drunk on the mountaintop experience of youth camp and bible conferences. A case against repression and denial of flaming youth. Sometimes you need more cowbell but you don't have one. It might get loud.

In order to grow out of things, you need to change, and change is hard and can be scary. I get my first multitrack recorder and explore various things that could be done with it. Home-made smurfs. Backwards guitar solos. Does Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" really say "it's fun to smoke marijuana" when played backwards? Meeting non-Meeting musicians. Why recording a band is hard. Why working together in a band is harder. Getting drums on my stuff. Did my late uncle's voice sound surprisingly like fellow Torontonian Jordan Peterson's?

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The last episode of season one, about the last song on The Story of Peter Grey. It's about words helping, but not being enough. It has humpback whales.

Additional Musicians

Check out Mish's own work at The All Canadian Soundclash.

Coming soon: The Wikkid Podcast Season Two. Peter Grey Grows Up.

This Wikkid Wednesday, it might get loud. Why were loud music, loud clothing and other intense experiences, somehow threatening to our fundamentalist upbringing? Why did exuberance make the other folks uncomfortable? How did I find my way from Neil Diamond to White Zombie? A sad tracing of the attempts of a man with a smooth baritone voice to shred or otherwise do metal. Is it possible to do all of exactly the right things to end up single and alone? Singleness and solitude as a sentence handed down by church and mainstream society alike?

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Nowadays, Stryper is back, and still doing bibles to the wall metal, albeit of a less on-the-nose evangelical bent. http://www.stryper.com/

If you would be interested in two guys looking at the bible with an attempt to view it more as the Jewish people of its time might have viewed it, rather than how we normally do, check out Brent and Marty at The BEMA Podcast https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/episodes

If you would be interested in a Generation Xer who is an expert in collecting and repairing 70s and 80s toys and action figures, with a special interest in 80s movies and TV as well, but who isn’t simply wanting a firehose of fun from Disney nowadays, with whatever they choose to give us, check out Michael at Retroblasting on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/retroblasting

An attempt at something more akin to cinematic score, commemorating the worst place I ever lived. I get a violinist and a bass singer in. Stories of trying to connect with Christians outside the church I grew up in.

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Violins: Tanya Onysko

That special feeling when a relationship you were counting on fizzles out. Do hardships make depression worse? Layering things over a two-chord symphony. Mr. Wizard plays with dry ice into a microphone.

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This week's episode goes into the lifelong, fruitless quest to bear fruit, to be someone who doesn't accept yourself, yet find someone who accepts you. Also, endlessly, obsessively messing around with songs that sound too much like other songs. In fact, this week's episode is very music heavy.

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"Late 90s" piano and guitar: Tyler Irving and Jason King

Drum Loops from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt5r84pq7-UF7FaNKyGhZzA and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGbbvPQg5nE-b7zYwlxJ2-w and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrWJur6622W1iLZccSn06uQ