Canada's riverside city of Windsor and the concept of Duality is the center of the following episode.The Spirit Drink: Pike Creek Canadian WhiskyThe Supernatural Spirit: The CemeteryThe Lyrics: "Lost" by Pat Robitaille
WINDSOR, ONTARIO
- [00:01] Intro
- [00:40] Windsor, Canada
- [07:26] Windsor's connection to the underground railroad
- [11:37] Prohibition: WhiskeyTown, Canada
- [15:48] Windsor fun facts: Pizza, the Windsor hum,
- [21:21] Crissi Cochrane and the Windsor music scene
THE DRINK SPIRIT: PIKE CREEK CANADIAN WHISKY
- [24:19] Rum Finish by Pike Creek
- [28:32] Hiram Walker Distillery
- [29:41] The release of Pike Creek and import into the U.S
- [30:33] The Maturation process: Uncontrolled climates
- [34:49] Temperature fluctuations and the extraction process
- [39:50] Finishing
- [43:41] Description and taste test
- [48:54] Rye and Canadian whiskey
- [52:14] Best setting for this type of setting
- [53:22] Price point
- [53:55] Head nod rating
THE SUPERNATURAL SPIRIT: THE CEMETERY
- [56:46] Life and death
- [58:45] Speculation: Nature, culture and the cemetery
- [1:04:18] Valhalla
- [1:06:10] Cemetery, graveyards and the birth of next of kin
- [1:14:19] Canadian cemeteries
- [1:15:23] Freedmen and forgotten cemeteries
- [1:18:39] Capitalism and classism's
- [1:23:18] Alternatives to burials
THE LYRICS: "LOST" BY PAT ROBITAILLE
- [1:31:00] How Pat Robitaille learned to play music through TV and church
- [1:32:43] How growing up learning music in the church is similar to musicians and the communal learning in the Black American musical experience
- [1:35:28] Gaining inspiration from soul music in the neighboring city of Detroit
- [1:36:30] Beginning his professional music career at a young age
- [1:38:00] Canadian cultural centers and comparison with the US
- [1:40:53] Returning to Windsor and forming The Walkervilles and Hiram Walker's cultural impact in Windsor
- [1:42:36] Our personal experience of the name of the album, "The Basement Takes"
- [1:46:04] The Dragging Ghost of Mackenzie Hall and the hall's use now
- [1:48:24] Start of the song, "Lost"
- [1:49:11] The Duality of man, Full Metal Jacket and duality of individual and collective consciousness
- [1:51:13] Manufactured performance of reality and its trappings in social media
- [1:52:28] Getting realization of not living to a particular standard, play of words changing between past and present. Carl Jung's theory of repressed memories and complexes.
- [1:55:56] Talking about love versus envy and envy versus jealousy.
- [2:02:30] The Duality of needing to be lost to truly find yourself and different parts of your life that duality relates to.
- [2:08:05] Eerie, unfinished, changing state of how the song ends and what I could mean.
- [2:09:37] Outro
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