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We all do it - compare ourselves to others...and we've all probably felt like a failure at some point. But what do those words mean? Really... What are the measuring sticks for failure? What is actually going on with the Joneses, and why does it all matter so darn much? All this and a guitar journey where mistakes are encouraged  - enjoy!

Songs featured in this episode:

Mistake - Blue October

Putting Up With the Joneses - Spirit of the West

Pinball Wizard - The Who

That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain

Try Everything - Shakira

Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

Make Your Own Kind of Music - Cass Elliot

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Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

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I know I said there would be no more episodes about the Beatles, and it's not. It's actually about George Martin, who I think is amazing and I wanted to do a song by song review of how I think he did choosing different people to cover select songs. It may be controversial - but I had a lot of fun listening and thinking about each of the renditions, and as a total sucker for covers, what better choice than to listen to  the genius behind the band that has caused me so much angst. I would love to know your opinion of this album! And apologies to my penpal if I misrepresented your opinions in any way!

All songs as heard on "In My Life" - George Martin. Go by the CD and forget about the streaming platforms for this one time:)

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Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

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Sometimes something happens that makes you realize that you need to change it up a bit...and that something was the realization that I had shifted without officially shifting the podcast. So that change starts now - introducing Walking the Walk where I still look at perspective but with an eye towards change for the better. Hope you enjoy the change in direction and be sure to follow so you hear all the wild and wacky things that are sure to be encountered along the way.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!

When you think about control, what do you think about? How much you control? How little you control? How you wish you had more control? Well, if that's the case, welcome to the club! In this episode I take a look at what control is in theory and how chasing it when we should or shouldn't will determine how stressed you feel, how satisfied you feel or more appropriately, how crappy you might be feeling because you are choosing poorly, to quote the knight in that episode of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - more on that in the episode. Changing that is really at the heart of this and hopefully you'll be able to relate. 

Songs featured in this episode:

Control - Janet Jackson

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel

Shake it Out - Florence and the Machine

Dog Days are Over - Florence and the Machine

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

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First of all - Happy Canada Day and to our American friends, early, happy 4th of July!

Second of all - how often do you think about time? All the time? Never? Well, here's my take on time and how while it isn't something we should obsess over, it is probably something that we should take as good care of as we do our investments or our pensions. It's a pretty valuable resource, so it should be stewarded as such. 

Songs featured in this episode:

Time - Hootie and the Blowfish

Every Breath You Take - The Police

Time Canon - Triumph

Mr. Roboto - Styx

Time - Pink Floyd

Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 - Pink Floyd (don't know why Spotify doesn't have a not live one...)

Holiday (Slow it Down) - The Watchmen

Gold Dust - Tori Amos

Let the Good Times Roll - Ben Rector

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

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Certain songs are just iconic and their messages timeless - and that was the impetus for this episode. I talk a lot about change and how it's inevitable, and not always what we want, but that we need to accept it. But we can also impact it - we can push for the right and good things and fight agains oppression or cruelty or yes - stupidity. I bring in thoughts from a number of previous episodes but also wonder why things are the way they are (old habits die hard). 

What are your thoughts on the state of the world and the changes that are happening?

The Ecological Model - Primer

Songs featured in this episode are:

Fight the Power - Public Enemy

Mercy, Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye

Talkin' About a Revolution - Tracy Chapman

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

Redemption Song - Bob Marley and the Wailers

American Idiot - Green Day

The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!

We are back with part two and this is Todd's version of the episode - hope you listen to both for funnsies:)

We are celebrating and describing the last couple of months of the process and some of the other fun (and not so fun) things that have happened along the way. 

It's been a process and now we are in a different stage that will be equally stressful but in a different way. 

Songs featured in Todd's episode:

Glue of the World - Four tet

Harmony One - Four Tet

Feel it all Around - Washed Out

Work To Do - Average White Band

Darkwing Duck Theme Song (great minds think alike - we didn't talk about what songs we were going to use at all!)

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!

We are back with part two and this is my (Charissa's) version of the episode. We are celebrating and describing the last couple of months of the process and some of the other fun (and not so fun) things that have happened along the way. 

It's been a process and now we are in a different stage that will be equally stressful but in a different way. 

Songs featured in this episode are: 

Chain Gang - Sam Cooke

Look Back in Anger - David Bowie

The Waiting - Tom Petty

Get This Party Started - P!nk

I'd Do Anything - Simple Plan

Darkwing Duck Theme Song (who knew that we would each put this in - shouldn't come as a huge surprise, great minds and all that...)

Trying to Get to You - Elvis

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!

My pal Jeremy is back to give us his takes (hot or otherwise) on the State of our Nation(s) and if that wasn't enough we're diving into AI and Daylight Savings Time as well, with a perspective that only Jeremy can provide. We have a flying insect situation and it's all just perfectly in keeping with what happens when I invite him onto the show! Songs featured in this episode are: 

Killer Bees - Scooter

Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young

American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Robot Rock - Daft Punk

Teacher Teacher - .38 Special

Survival of the Fittest - Mobb Deep

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great. 

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!

Out with the old, in with the new. Everyone has heard that saying. And there are merits to it for sure. It's good to go through things, make sure that you have what you want and need and not a lot of extraneous stuff. But how do you get there? What's the process? Three boxes: keep, donate, toss? How often do you do it? And is there such a thing as mental spring cleaning? What kinds of junk in the attic between our ears should be regularly disposed of? As a result of a weird kind of writer's block...these were the questions being pondered. Can you relate to any of it? How do you tackle spring cleaning?

Songs featured in this episode:

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - the Hollies

Memories - Maroon 5

Changes - David Bowie

If you want to sign the petition to save the Casavant Pipe-organ you can do that here Please sign and share...it's a rare and wonderful instrument and deserves to continue to grace Convocation Hall!

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Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home. 

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks