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A blast from the past. You might call it retro. Paul and Chris discuss their introduction to video games in a ‘grand experiment’ of live streaming on Twitch. This is the audio of that show from May of 2019. Go down the 16-bit memory lane with them for a short episode. Paul’s first taste of games, brought to you by the number 64, it’s Astro Grover. Paul gets a Nintendo Entertainment System with the combo cartridge of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Behold the awesomeness of 1977, Chris’ first console the Atari Stunt Cycle. The arcade introduction for Chris really started with the fever of the 80s, Pac-man. Chris’ second ever cassette tape featured the jam Pac-man Fever from Buckner & Garcia. Paul shares that his office has a Ms Pac-man game. Celebrating 80s birthdays at ShowBiz Pizza Place. Arcade game never mastered, but still beloved by Chris, Moon Patrol. Paul’s exposure to arcade games came at the roller rink of Terry Hall and the largest movie theater at the time, Studio 28. Cyclone The pinball machine that had a carnival barker shouting, “Hey you with the face!” Paul discusses some favs, The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II. Remembering the game magazines that helped us solve the trickier parts of games, like Nintendo Power. Chris remembers the fun of the Summer Games where you and seven of your friends competed in Olympic events by passing the joystick. Make your own racetrack, and choose the planetary gravity with Racing Destruction Set or simply Skate or Die! Paul’s multiplayer intro came with F-zero and Mario Cart. However, the real joy was playing Madden ‘94’ or NHL ‘94’ with friends or dad. Chris recalls The Northridge Earthquake of 1994 when he thinks of NHL ‘94. Another game never mastered, but fondly remembered, R.C. Pro Am. As always, thanks for listening! Interested in helping us pay for the hosting of the show that brings you no ads? Check out our Patreon or get yourself a t-shirt or a sticker at one of Chris’ stores. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Our first interview of the new season continues with Sean Tilley of We Distribute. We talk curating video via “Frown Tube,” San Francisco’s chilly weather not seen on TV, and the service industry. We also discuss how funding the things we love and keeping them going is a difficult thing when their competing with “free” centralized services. Sean is using Pleroma, a social network that federates with Mastodon and others using the Activity Pub protocol. Our guest is experimenting with FunkWhale, a social network with sharing music at its core (Also using Activity Pub). Peertube is a YouTube replacement from the world of open source. Sean explains how it works. A really great human in the fediverse, Wakest, gave Sean this list of 40+ fediverse projects in the works. During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation. Sean used to work at BackerKit. What’s Paul using right now? He’s been playing with Micro.blog. Sean brings up a topic we will cover with another guest this season, the IndieWeb. One of the cores of IndieWeb is Publish on your own Site, Syndicate Everywhere (POSSE). Manton Reece is the developer of Micro.blog. Paul and Jacky (in the chatroom) talk about funding issues and Sean shares how Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon is paid. The Patreon alternative discussed is called LibrePay. Apple nerd Paul likes & subscribes to sixcolors.com, Maximum Fun, and RelayFM. Chris is using Masto.host to have his own instance on Mastodon (You should message him and join it.) The service is maintained by the amazing Hugo. One of Chris’ favorite projects is PixelFed from the amazing Dansup. Discovery is a big discussion in the episode, and Paul mentions directory services. Mastodon has Trunk which associates people with subjects. Sean recommends Halt and Catch Fire despite not really liking television. He also likes Mad Men. Sean is currently reading The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out— the Shocking Truth about Office Life. Chris suggests the fiction version of Sean’s book, a series called The Laundry Files from Charles Stross. Find Sean Tilley using that link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Thanks to our moms for listening, to our spouses for putting up with our recording and thanks to you for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

We’re back! To start the new season we’re talking about decentralization, community, trust, the weird mold thing called kombucha, and more with Sean Tilley. The walled gardens of the centralized silos that treat us as a product can make communicating with people outside the service difficult. The trade-off is in how much time and energy you want to spend maintaining your own decentralized services. We discuss some of these services, the communities funding them and the algorithms that abuse us. Sean’s publication, We Distribute. His project to collect Creative Commons videos, VidCommons. Paul doesn’t get the Captain Marvel references. Everyone gets the Dead Poets Society references, right? The 9 year old FB competitor, Diaspora. The primordial ooze of the Fediverse according to Sean— IRC and Bulletin Boards, usenet. Watch BBS: The Documentary. Sean schools us on FidoNet. Centralized networks make profit from user data. This is also called surveillance capitalism. The silly world of fifth world problems on Reddit. Nextcloud is a great alternative to Dropbox. Sean and Paul get lost in Javascript, JQuery, and React. You must watch Demolition Man. Sean tries to explain Hubzilla, a way to connect various decentralized services into one mashup of a place. We talk about flavors of linux, like Gentoo and ubuntu. During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation. SocialHome is a grid style blogging platform that’s open source and making headway to connect to the fediverse. Sean really enjoyed Adventure Game Studio’s community in his early days of learning development and the power of open source. Paul’s early entry into online communities was TIcalc.org. Paul’s sexy calculator, TI-92. We reminisce about places like Geocities where we hosted our ‘cool’ sites. Today, we have the open source alternative, Neocities. Thanks for listening. We really appreciate those of you that have been with us for a while and love all the new listeners sending us suggestions and comments. Stay tuned for the second part of this interview! Want to stalk Sean Tilley, click the link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The last time Paul & Chris got together to do a short show minus any guests, they talked Star Trek Discovery. How fitting that the first Sauce Packet of this year is talking about season 2 of the show. Oh, and we’re sorry that the “short” show went long, but we had a lot to say about Time Crystals. Please Red Angel, go back in time and give that MacGuffin a better name. The thrilling start of our episode is us trying to pronounce a name in the chat room. You can join us during our live recording via our Live page. We usually tweet, toot, and post upcoming shows on Patreon. What’s a chat about Star Trek with Paul without Darmok and Jalad? Chris shares his distaste for the actress playing Michael because of her Walking Dead days. He spent a lot of time doing recaps called Mocking Dead. Chris’ partner has issues with the organization structure of Starfleet. This is an issue that often comes up on Random Trek. We talk of the original series callback of the pilot, The Cage. -The Masters of the Universe episode of Film Frown was too much fun and why we referenced it. Thanks for listening! We appreciate your ear holes and your smiling face. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Hey Sausages! It’s your friendly neighborhood podcasting delivery folk. On this surprise Halloween episode Daniel J. Hogan and Arturo Vergara join us to take a package to Spooky Manor. By the way, you now know more than we did. Thanks Paul!

As we consume bad movies for Film Frown, palate cleansers are very useful. Paul and Chris get together to discuss the latest incarnation of Star Trek in a short episode we like to call a Sauce Packet! SPOILERS AHEAD! In other words, don’t engage unless you are out of star dock. It’s the Michael Burnham Show, a.k.a Star Trek Discovery. Chris posits that Scott McNulty, the host of Random Trek will enjoy the serial nature of the new show. The joy of Riker’s Beard. Who doesn’t love mirror universe Michelle Yeoh? The Harry Mudd universe. That time Christopher Llyod mumbled his way through Klingon in Star Trek III. Why was the show delayed so many times? Sisko uses some questionable tactics to get the Romulans into the Dominion War In the Pale Moonlight. “Midi-canon,” a word proposed by Chris to refer to prequels that attempt to make new additions or changes to existing canonical material. For example, Midi-chlorians. Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more of us on media, try Film Frown, which we’re currently producing. You can find our live schedule on our Patreon page. Hit us up with your opinions on Facebook and Twitter. Poster image from The Movie DB as added by Elizabeth Jennings and shamelessly Photoshop’d by Paul. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

What in the name of Zork? Long story fake, Paul found a genie and got his dream of being turned into a computer. Unfortunately, it was an evil genie so Paul was not turned into a gorgeous Macbook, instead he’s an Apple IIe. Join Daniel J. Hogan, Arturo Vergara, and co-host Chris as they abuse computer Paul by loading up a text adventure game that forces him to say “I do not understand ____,” over and over. Also, stick around for the bodacious surfer, brah. It’s time for guess-the-verb. Uh oh, we’re on Elm Street? Stay out of that storm drain! Let’s chew bubble gum and kick ass! We found a tumbler in the game! So Dan decided to update Tumblr. It’s a peep show! Previous guest, Jacob, listening in the chatroom suggests putting our zombie milk in a bag. No points for an Enemy Mine reference? Arturo helps us learn what “pixie dust” is slang for. Apparently, it is not cocaine according to urban dictionary. Things get creepy with references from Hobo With A Shotgun, Lost, and Animaniacs. Pumpkin Town is a ghostly game from Parsely Games. Thanks for choosing to examine our Halloween special. Be sure to send love to our guests who helped make this possible, Arturo and Dan. Thanks again to our rad patrons! Their spooky support helped us get the Pumpkin Town game and some fun sound effects! You can give here. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Our conversation with Stump Kitchen was one of those chats where we lose track of time. Guest Alexis and the hosts were sad to see the time was up. That just means we’ll have to have Alexis back or convince her to watch a bad movie for Film Frown. This episode revolves around producing the cooking show, dealing with mental health, eating a pre-dinner when you’re making risotto, sweat pant shopping and stump squeezing. Many of the Stump Kitchen recipes featured are vegan, gluten-free creations of Alexis. Inspiration often comes from Hot For Food, Minimalist Baker, Oh She Glows, and Thug Kitchen cookbooks. Cooking with guests means a lot of laughing for Alexis. She mentions this episode with Natalee as an example. W.C. Fields said, “Never work with children or animals.” A pizza sauce food fight with Ethan. A Mom has her 3 year old dress her for a week. Alexis is open to share her story, she just asks that you respect her. In one of her “Ask me anything” vids a commenter suggests that Alexis have Courtney Gilmour on Stump Kitchen. Courtney has this great read on XOjane that pairs well with our discussion of respect. Fidget Cube versus an Alexis belch! Aside from the joy of getting her stump in a lime, Alexis loves Kala namak. “Tastes like eggs,” says our friend. Recommended Vegan Deviled Eggs from Jazzmin Kaita. Alexis is distracted by Chris’ Stylophone Beatbox. The best introduction to that is probably from Brett Domino. Writing versus typing? Chris pitches Morning Pages again. We need to eat some of those smashed potatoes! Also, peanut butter cups for dessert, y’all! Some of Alexis’ recommendations are My Drunk Kitchen, Liv’s Healthy Life, Jazzmin Kaita and if you want more feel free to reach out to her with the links below. Alexis would love to hear from you. Subscribe to Stump Kitchen and support our incredible new friend Alexis. Chris tried those peanut butter cups, and yeah, throw money at the Stump Kitchen Patreon because, delicious! Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The one stop link is stumpkitchen.com. Thanks for listening! You rock! Oh, and let’s find Alexis a gluten-free vegan hot dog! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Five years of discussing what Montreal Sauce actually is? The steak sauce still remains a mystery, but we do have an inspiring chat with Alexis from Stump Kitchen. Our multitalented friend shares her story with us and her compassion with everyone around her. Have a listen to learn more about pronouncing Worcester sauce, STUMP CAM, challenging your palette and flammable soda pop. How do you pronounce tamari? This episode is no different than others, Chris scares the guest with his internet research of her. We talk of past guest Taryn, who thinks wooden bears are creepy. Alex grabs delicious ingredients from Earth’s General Store or even Superstore. Chris makes the Stump Kitchen pad thai recipe. Alexis left her full-time gig to do Stump Kitchen and now relies on her Patreon page. We dare you to watch an episode and not give to it. :) Gluten intolerance? Our guest believes that gluten wrecks her because she worked at Cobs for years and stuffed herself with bread. Huffing donuts from Take 5. So, chickpea chocolate chip cookies are a thing? Tasty, vegan gluten free brownies via Stump Kitchen. In the battle of energy balls, here is Alexis’ entry. Where is yours, Chris? Time to make a video, sir. The Edmonton yummy that is Padmanadi. Paul says, “When you need milk, tennis shoes, and a tire iron, shop Meijer.” Alexis loves the rad knives at Knifewear. Over-joyed that we had the opportunity to not only speak to Alexis, but meet her as well. Alexis’ spirit and conviction is contagious as it radiates from her. Take 3 minutes to watch one of her episodes on Youtube or Stump Kitchen and you’ll see it yourself. Find Stump Kitchen on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and feel free to support Alexis to keep making fabulous shows by contributing to her Patreon. You can also find us on all those sites as well. Drop us a line any time! Thanks for listening! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The second half of our conversation with German Villages of the Modern Manhood podcast and web site. We continue our conversation about masculinity, sports, stigmas around therapy, Super Mario World, and TRUCKS! Men Edmonton is a grass root group talking about violence against women, feminism and masculinity. One of German’s earliest interviews was with one of the founders of Men Edmonton, Ryan Valley. Some really amazing films mentioned by German, Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Please find them on Netflix, or wherever, and watch. Men Edmonton sponsored an event in April of 2017 where they screened The Mask You Live In and held a panel afterwards. German recorded the session for the Modern Manhood podcast. Michael Kimmel studies gender and is featured in the documentaries mentioned above. The Precarious Manhood Theory revolves around fear. If a man’s masculinity is challenged, he’s more likely to engage in aggressive or stereotypical male behaviors. Hockey is a “man’s game,” says Patrick Maroon. Retired goalie Corey Hirsch shares his mental health struggle with the world. Foul play prevented German from completing all the levels in Super Mario World. We love the Portlandia Battlestar Galactica episode because it highlights the dangers of binge watching. Paul’s crew at work is all about comparing hours in Breath of the Wild. German mentions how men and women tend to posture in a community of their peers. He doesn’t recommend The Game, but he said there’s a chapter on peacocking. How is NHL ‘94 on the Sega so beloved by all? A mystery to be solved in a future documentary. German’s other podcast is all about hockey, Your Team Sucks. Rasheed Wallace is crazy and we loved it. German loves, LOVES, soccer as well. He’s an Arsenal fan, but his heart is with his Chilean National team. Inspired by Men Edmonton, German hopes to build a community for men to share their stories on his podcast, Modern Manhood. The Ferdinand was another website that German had started for people to share their stories about masculinity. He’s in the process of moving it to Modern Manhood. The site was called The Ferdinand because it was based on The Story of Ferdinand. The story was turned into an Oscar winning short by Walt Disney. German is delighted that women are listening to his show as well. He was a guest on What it is with Andrea Beça of That’s So Maven! who listens and encourages others to listen to his show. The event at The Metro Cinema German spoke of on the show, which played the documentary The Mask You Live, In is long past but he recorded a podcast of the experience. Help German continue to enrich the lives of us all by giving to his Patreon. Find German’s Modern Manhood show on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Lots of wonderful things have happened since our chat with German Villages. The Modern Manhood podcast has joined GRadio.ca and the Alberta Podcast Network. German is an incredible human and his show is inspiring and absolutely needed in today’s world. Don’t hesitate to reach out to him, he’s just that kind of person. And, please remember to take care of yourselves. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Here we have another of our patented, massive introductions of our guest German Villages, but did Chris get the research right? Oops. German hosts the amazing Modern Manhood Podcast, a show that examines male mental health and masculinity. He also has a show with some friends about hockey, Your Team Sucks. The discussion in this episode covers being vulnerable males, fronting about your Red Sox fandom, finding your tribe, challenging stereotypes and the subversion in satire. A book not recommended by any voice on the podcast, The Game. German says Mark Manson’s book Models changed his life. Weird coincidence, Chris was reading Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck. German was a guest on The Awesome Hour. Is Millwoods Edmonton’s Bermuda triangle? German’s introspection led him to Iron John and The Art of Manliness. Not finding exactly what he wanted, he created his podcast. Paul & German school us on the art of satire in South Park. There’s a difference between adding to a conversation and exploiting it for shock like Milo Yiannopoulos. German encourages people to look at the research of Joseph Gelfer when we talk about masculinity and manhood. There are no stupid questions and we just need to be open. Chris is reminded of an article he worked on, “In The Netherlands Sexuality Education Starts At Age 4”. That’s just part one of our conversation with the empathetic and intelligent host of The Modern Manhood Podcast, German Villegas. As you wait for part two, check out his podcast with the link above or head over to German’s Patreon page and help out. It’s a great show with conversations we need at the moment. You can also find German on Twitter and Instagram. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The Quiz surfaces once again in our second half of the conversation with writer, artist, filmmaker, podcaster & cat owner Daniel J. Hogan. We get reading recommendations, a podcast playlist, irritated eyeballs and a brief history on Who’s The Boss? Daniel J. Hogan is using Amazon Display ads and Amazon affiliate program on his sites. DJH schools us on HeroQuest. Has Dan ever had a fan buy him something from his Amazon Wish List? Um, here’s Chris’ Wish List & Paul’s Wish List.

Daniel J. Hogan was our first guest ever and he came back! In a format change we’re now a home improvement podcast as the webcomic creator tells us about roof rakes, loot crates for artists and comic mirror universes. He also shares a secret about promoting your stuff online. Our guest won the 2015 Space Prize in the Webcomic category for clattertron.com. Dan explains his middle initial to our listeners as he did on the 2nd Brain Collective podcast. Homeownership in Michigan means you might need a roof rake. Daniel J. Hogan’s cats are adjusting to their new house. He was inspired to do a serial by others like BONE, Strangers in Paradise and more. Our guest started doing Foxes & Boxes in September of 2016 after creating Clattertron for 4 years. The Star Trek Mirror universe. Foxes’ buddy, HB. Foxes & Boxes logo was designed by Remind Creative. The designer also runs The Lost Highway. Recent upgrades, Dan has started using Blambot fonts and Moo cards. “Loot Crate for art supplies?” It’s called Art Snack. Dan draws his comics with pencil, scans it in and uses Clip Studio Paint to re-draw and ink his comic. We talk Microsoft Surface Pro tablets. Chris got advice to look at refurbished ones. When you make a weekly comic, you have to be on your file management game. Dan also decided to try a social media diet. Dan is on Patreon and at the time of the recording he was paying it forward. Groo the Wanderer. In another format change, in the next episode we’ll be talking exclusively ice fishing with Dan. Or not. Thanks for listening. Be sure to check out Foxes and Boxes and you can find Dan on Twitter and danieljhogan.com. Find us on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Alison Hagan of the MS Society is back to tell us about a personal passion, The Edmonton Story Slam. We learn how it all started, the talented participants, prize money and Paul & Chris have a slam of their own. The Moth really helped to popularize the idea of story slams. The Edmonton Story Slam was started by Alison’s sister Susan with the help of Alison and friends. You’ve got to follow the Rules when you attend a slam. The Mercury Room hosts the Story Slam. Gail de Vos. The Storytelling Festival. Matthew MacKenzie is a past winner of the Story Slam and a playwright. The Story Slam often partners with other organizations in the area like the public library. The Edmonton Story Slam is a non-profit organization ran by volunteers. The Arts Council, on spec and LitFest also provide support and partnerships from time to time. Alison tells us about Laura Lynn Johnston’s success at Story Slam. Laura Lynn heads up the team of the Edmonton chapter of Creative Mornings. Other regular storytellers, Shariq Wani, Nick Zon, Liam Shaw, Omar Mouallem, Kelsey Beier, Alyssa Hudson and many more can be found on the Past Winners page. Interview with Lea Thau, formerly with The Moth. Paul slams Chris with his story. Alison reminds us to check out MS Bike & MS Walk. The Edmonton Story Slam is every third Wednesday of the month at The Mercury Room. Thanks to Alison Hagan for judging our own little story slam and sharing her time! Please follow @yegstoryslam on twitter or Facebook and go out and see one! To talk to us, head over to Facebook, Twitter or Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Alison Hagan of the MS Society shared her journey on this episode. Conversation about the importance of farm communities, the history of cutting and pasting, the state of journalism, cycling culture and much more. We also ask the question, “what is progress?” Alison & Paul swap 4-H stories. Paul tells us about founding the West Michigan Coop. Alison attended the University of Regina. Our guest recommends CBC, NPR and Common Dreams for news coverage. Paul likes the BBC and Aljazeera. Alison moved up the ranks of the MS Society from Red Deer to Edmonton. We learn about the support the MS Society offers. University of Alberta. Canadians, be sure to get your vitamin D! We learn about the popularity of the MS Bike events in Canada. Alison & the Canadian MS Society work closely with the National MS Society in the States. The BP MS 150 from Houston to Austin. You can also help by participating in the MS Walk. In Edmonton it is held at the Ballpark, formerly Telus Field. Stew Hutchings of the Devon Bicycle Association organizes a practice ride before MS Bike in Edmonton. The night before the podcast, Alison was at an event to raise money held by Patrycia Rzechowka. Alison tells us there are a number of events held by third-parties to raise money. You can find them by clicking the Events tab on mssociety.ca. Alison appeared on The Oilers Rig Radio during a fundraising event. We learn about the Partnership Group and Brent Barootes. Alison was asked to speak at the 2016 Western Canada Fundraising Conference. The Human Venture Institute. Recommended reading from The Human Venture Institute, A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. Other readings are featured on the Book Lists page. Radiolab episode, From Tree to Shining Tree. Thanks to Alison Hagan for spending her evening with us and thanks to you for listening. Please check out the MS Society in Canada or the US and see how you can help. To talk to us, head over to Facebook, Twitter or Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The second half of our chat with Jeff Samsonow is all about his indie media production adventures. We learn about the company started by he and Sally Poulsen, The Edmontonian Media Co. Some of the things discussed: Comedy that punches up, other talented Edmontonians, and advertising in this digital age. Where did our guest go after AMI? Jeff shares his adventures with Postmedia and Capital Ideas. He also mentions gastropost. Karen Unland and Brittney Le Blanc started Capital Ideas according to our guest. Jeff also adds how he got to know them through McEwan and 630 CHED. Karen runs Seen and Heard in Edmonton, the Edmonton podcast meetups and is trying to start a podcast network. The Edmontonian Media Co. was born from the work Jeff & Sally Poulsen put into The Edmontonian. Their first production was called, wait for it, Sick Day. The first short was inspired by the cold opens they did on the 6 part series The Edmontonian Presents that aired on Shaw TV. Jeff tells us about Startups, another short they made featuring Karen Unland, Owen Brierley of EDAC and former guest Marty Chan. The Edmontonian Media Co. also produced Obstacles. Jeff worked with Christian Zyp during Startups. The most recent production from Sally & Jeff was the amazing Underdogs of Comedy. They were inspired by The Meltdown. Simon Gorsak and Brett McCrindle often host the Underdog Comedy Show. Dion Arnold started the show, originally. More comedians in the area mentioned: Clare Belford, Carina Morton & Simon Glassman. Speaking of places to find comedy in Edmonton, try The Underdog, The Empress Ale House and El Cortez. Keep your fingers crossed, Jeff & Sally have submitted The Underdogs of Comedy to AMPIA’s web series award category. Jeff’s newest venture is Edmonton Quotient, telling the stories of Edmonton in an online magazine. Chris always makes it weird and tells a story of companies reaching out to advertise in porn. Chris also makes a pitch for Someday in February. Learn more about podcasting in Edmonton at seenandheardyeg.com. Thanks so much for listening. Really grateful that Jeff Samsonow took time to drop in at Chris’ place to do the podcast. Be sure to check out Edmonton Quotient and The Underdogs of Comedy. Questions, comments? Hit us on Twitter, Facebook or Patreon. We’d love to hear from you. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This episode is an interview with the talented Jeff Samsonow, who wears a number of hats. He’s been a journalist, producer, writer, product strategist, content director and more. Thus, we gave him the title, Media Mogul. Jeff shares his stories about his radio days, the importance of Universal design and rock shows in basement scooter shops. We also learn about Jeff’s latest journalistic adventure and comedy productions. Treat yourself to some Sugru. Get yours from your not so local Amazon site. Jeff is a graduate of Fanshawe and did not attend Community. Chris & Paul learn the difference between universities and colleges in Canada with many examples: Western, Ryerson, MacEwan, NAIT, Edmonton Digital Arts College. Jeff spent several years with Corus at 630 CHED, AM 640 and CJOB. If you’re interested in the Edmonton podcast meetup Chris referenced, check out Meetup.com. Jeff’s very talented partner and spouse is Sally Poulsen. AMI is an amazing organization that produces content for the blind, deaf and Canadians with mobility issues. Paul mentions that one organization in Grand Rapids that also work in the accessible area is the UICA. Universal design is about creating inclusive things, yo. Jeff tells us about Blind Sighted with Kelly MacDonald, an AMI show in Toronto. Jeff & Sally started The Edmontonian back in 2009. Jeff adds that Sally did time as a journalist prior to their site for the Portage Daily Graphic in Manitoba. The two eventually started The Edmonton Media Co.. Chris discusses the SNL sketch about Michigan accents. He managed to track it down and you can watch it at the bottom of this article. You can watch the 6 part series The Edmontonian Presents that aired on Shaw TV here. We didn’t always save everything. Hosts of the USA Up All Night show said they used to tape over the old shows to save money. The Maltin on Movies podcast with Gilbert Gottfried does not feature the discussion of lost episodes, it’s Gilbert’s podcast with Rhonda Shear. Thanks for listening, you’ve just earned 32,018 MSauce points with which you can use to purchase our collection of sound effects for film editing called Mouth Foley 2: Atrocious Boogaloo. A very special thanks to Jeff Samsonow for coming to a stranger’s home to be recorded in front of a live internet audience. Be sure to bookmark The Edmontonian Media Co. or follow him on Twitter to keep up with his latest work. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

In university, Paul had a reputation for fun voices. In his head, Chris also believed he could do imitations. On this episode the truth is exposed as they briefly examine the art of impression. “Moose and squirrel are not going to like this.” Dana Carvey and Will Ferrell do the Bushes much better than us. Kermit on Sesame Street and Wreck It Ralph. Chris Rock loves Paul Giamatti. Kevin Spacey impersonates Christopher Walken. Friend & listener Arturo was in the chat room for the live episode, so we gave him much love. Arturo was also a previous guest. Chris learned Yoda’s voice from a Star Wars pinball machine. The one and only Alec Guinness. Wakko Warner’s voice was apparently based on John Lennon not Ringo Starr, according to the voice actor. Paul narrates Thomas & Friends. Run Forest, Run! Angsty Skywalker in the trash compactor. Unintended Fitz accent happens in our show. A legendary bonkers film, Basic Instinct Beavis, Buthead and proto Hank Hill. BUT MOM! It’s always good to have a Reagan impression. Did you know that Casey Kasem did the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo? Here’s Casey doing Shaggy, doing Casey? Rick & Morty is the show you’re not watching, why? Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn are making out? Chris’ favorite muppet. Get your Arianna Huffington impression on. We’re just trying to pump you up. What does Wario say? The voice of Batman has evolved a lot before it got to Christian Bale. Other heroes like Daredevil and 90’s X-Men Wolverine. That’s all folks. A Sauce Packet of voices. Show us up on Twitter, Facebook and Patreon with your impressions. We’d love to hear them. Thanks for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Another hour with Adriean Koleric on street art, collage, podcasting from a VW and being a Detroit Pistons fan in Western Canada. You can find the first part here. An architect and painter that inspires Adriean is Will Alsop. The OCAD building can be seen in pictures on the web! Such wow! Try Flickr. Adriean was also inspired by Frank R. Paul. Just look at the images that pop up in a DuckDuckGo search! Gorgeous. Frank R. Paul illustrated a number of pulp magazines in his time like Science Wonder Stories. Adriean worked with Chad Kouri, with the Monster Lamp. Motomichi Nakamura also did a Monster Lamp. Keep an eye on Kijiji if you want to be a Taco Skate Co. intern. Meet Murphy, the amazing pug sidekick and Adriean’s dog. Stickerapp.com is Adriean’s goto for custom stickers. Adriean used to host a radio show on CJSR. What’chu talking ‘bout? We chat about Andre Drummond and Mr. Drummond. Keep an eye on the Think Item Instagram account for art giveaways like the one we talked about on the show. Adriean can be found on Twitter, Facebook and his site thinkitem.com or over at the new Taco Skate Co. Thanks for listening! Peep our FB page, Twitter, or Patreon. Later, yo. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

We’re getting our art on with this chat with Adriean Koleric. From street art & installations to furniture & gallery shows in the States & Canada, he’s always experimenting. Adriean talks about paying the bills, clerical artist statements and how we interact with art & artists in the age of the interwebs. Adriean attended N.A.I.T., but he really wanted to go to A.C.A.D. A book on designer toys, Vinyl Will Kill!. Adriean’s AK-AT Figure. The infamous Sucklord. Adriean’s HERD show of Star Wars related art. Here’s his work he did for Topps & Star Wars, as well. Officially licensed gear! We talk A New Hope…err, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Marvel cinematic universe. We

The second half of our conversation with the developer Mad Max, Aaron Clifford is here! On this episode we talk virtual noses, old school game consoles, developing for VR and positional audio. The dreaded quiz is back and we’ve got Pac-man Fever. Aaron got the idea for DAWT at an event for the Extra Life. The Extra Life event was for Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital and it started with a 4 player Tower Fall Ascension challenge. He decided to enter Codename Goa with DAWT as well. Aaron is featured on a video on that site. Aaron’s game design is Voxel based like Crossy Road. Redneck Rampage. Kingdom of Loathing. Some of Aaron’s favs to play are Fallout, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, DLC Quest, Binding of Isaac and “so many other indie games.” Chris talks about his Atari Stunt Cycle console from his youth. Paul thought Zelda II: The Adventure of Link had the most amazing graphics, ever! Until, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past came out. Aaron did a Nerd Nite presentation on death in video games. During the presentation he played a game, rather than use slides. You can check it out here. He used art from Glitch. He created the presentation in Construct 2. Aaron tells us about writing books in an MMOG, Asheron’s Call. You can watch Aaron game and develop on Twitch. We learn how to dodge throwing stars. Chris introduces Paul and Aaron to Buckner & Garcia in the quiz! Pac-man fever on American Bandstand What’s the better E.T. song? Neil Diamond or Buckner & Garcia? Now we all have to watch Wreck-It Ralph! Yikes! Remembering Pogs. Some 80s fun, WKRP in Cincinnati, BJ and The Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, and Bosom Buddies. Watch Aaron on TV showing off DAWT. If you’re in Edmonton, check out GDX Edmonton each year to discover new games. Thanks to Aaron Clifford for taking the time to join us on the Sauce! Be sure to check out his Youtube channel or follow Aaron around the web. Also, head over to our Patreon page to get updates on guests, shows and more info. We’re using it like a blog, so join the conversation there or on Facebook. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Put your VR headgear on and listen to the latest episode where we talk to the maker of DAWT, Mr. Aaron Clifford. The Edmonton developer schools us in his 20 years of coding, tells us how he was conceived in a tent in New Zealand and how to record your software onto a cassette tape. “These aren’t Fivver voice actors, people!” Aaron started programing on an Atari 600XL. Chris desperately tries to fit in, talking about his Commodore 64. Aaron tells us his gateway drug to programming was playing Doom. Aaron cut his teeth using Authorware. The big VR project that our guest is building is called DAWT. It’s a slick Pac-man-like VR game. Aaron has also started working with Unumbria Technologies. Their goal is to use VR to help athletes and people who suffer concussions. Like every city, Edmonton is constantly renaming their summer festival. Currently, it’s called K-days. Aaron’s day job is “putting a coat of paint” on a lot of people’s hard work. He’s a front end developer. His paint can be seen at alberta.ca. Our guest’s brief obsession with seaweed. Microsoft allows you to earn points as a developer. You can use the points to redeem rewards. Aaron’s Razer BlackWidow keyboard he earned with Microsoft points. GDX Edmononton is a game exhibition that typically happens in April or May. Aaron used Construct 2 to make many of his games. The adventures of developing 5 apps in one week for a challenge. Aaron’s game DAWT was greenlit on Steam. The Makerspace at the Stanley A. Milner Library is where Aaron began developing DAWT. Participating in Codename Goa, Aaron met the makers of an eye tracking bar that goes under your monitor called tobii. Montreal International Game Summit Aaron uses Unity to develop his 3D games. He took this course from udemy to get started. The very cool Edmonton Fit Finder project that Aaron worked on. How fun was that? Stay tuned to our website, our feed, or the Patreon page to hear part two of this entertaining conversation with Aaron. Head over to our Facebook page to chat with Chris’ mom while you wait for the next episode to drop. Thanks again to Aaron Clifford and be sure to check out DAWT. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Comics too expensive to read, blatant podcast promotion, figure skating to the Spider-man theme song and Siri’s inability to open up are all the topics covered in the second half of the conversation with Danica & Brandon of Variant Edition. We discuss the many different versions of a single comic book character & Brandon tells us a tale of The New 52. Paul challenges Brandon & Danica with a “pick 3” of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Right Stuff and The 100. Danica’s pick for Paul is Letter 44. Brandon’s cross section of Paul’s pick is called Red Wing. The difference between single issues and graphic novels? Danica tells us that single issues like Bitch Planet have really great essays in them, but the collections are missing those and the letters section. Sex Criminals has a hardcover version with a special section on the art process and all the covers of the single issues. Danica tells us that Variant Edition has a mail order service and welcomes listeners to email comics@variantedmonton.com if they’re interested or want recommendations about great comics to read! Brandon posts “The Retailer’s View” over at The Beat. Marvel allows you to subscribe to digital comics, but if you buy a Marvel hard copy you’ll receive a code to get the digital version for free. Danica, and the women shopping at Variant Edition enjoy books by Marguerite Bennett like Angela: Queen of Hel and Insexts. Danica says The Infinite Loop, a time-travel, same-sex romance story has an amazing letters section that will make you tear up. A listener in the chat room wonders if our guests like Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel. Also from the chatroom, Arturo, a former guest on the podcast, asks for suggestions for a good feminist leaning comic for a 12 year old girl. Danica & Brandon suggest Princeless and Lumberjanes. Be sure to find Variant Edition on Twitter, Facebook or their podcast Yegs & Bacon. You can find both guests on twitter, Brandon is @soupytoasterson and Danica is @DanicaHere. You might also like Doctor Whooch, where Danica and Brandon consume alcohol and talk Doctor Who. Thanks for listening! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Another fun one, this episode the gents are talking to the owners of Variant Edition a comic shop in Edmonton. Brandon & Danica also do a number of podcasts as well. On this show we give old TV stars new detective shows, talk about Siri’s self-image issues, sexism, inclusiveness and privileged white dudes. Brandon is half of the Podcast! The Comics show. Danica & Brandon do a podcast about comics & culture called Yegs & Bacon. You can also find this couple on Doctor Whooch where they have a taste of the sauce and talk Doctor Who episodes. Brandon is also a frequent contributor to The Beat. Danica wants a Taylor Swift/Batman dance off in the animated Batman: Bad Blood. Speaking of dance offs, Chris admits that he and his wife just saw the dash cam version of Shake it Off. It’s a sad, sad planet when you have to program your virtual assistant to respond to sexual harassment. Chris doesn’t attempt to tell this amazing story of a young boy who teaches a few parents that boys picking on girls they like shouldn’t be a socially accepted norm. Hit the link, it’s a wonderful story. Paul’s daughter loves the My Little Pony comic book. Well, she did at the time of recording this.

Visual artists never fail to inspire, but we went all the way to Antwerp to talk to Midge Sinnaeve. Fine… technically we Skyped Midge. Though we’d love to go there! Especially after talking to him. We talk VR, books, 3D scanning, cycling in tunnels, scifi and SyFy. Part one of our conversation is here. Midge share’s his projects and work on his site, TheMantissa.net. He likes to call this open source artwork. Our guest told us his open source artwork was inspired by an open source demo reel he saw once. Midge says many architecture visualization artists are using Unreal Engine to create building renders. Everyone agrees that augmented reality is far superior to virtual reality. Chris recently wrote about that. They briefly talk Ingress & Pokémon Go by Niantic Labs. Speaking of VR, Midge has used the Oculus and the HTC Vive. Why can’t VR gear look as comfortable as Johnny Mnemonic. Chris recommends Ready Player One to Midge. In turn, Midge suggests the The Expanse book series, which the television show is based on. Midge has been doing some photogrammetry and of course sharing the results on his site. Midge mentions Jeffrey Ian Wilson, Paul Debevec as he tells us about photogrammetry. You can sculpt 3D objects in Zbrush and then get some textures for your 3D model at not the sponsor, episcura.com. Chris offers to send Midge his yet-to-be-used, ardrino for his photogrammetry rig. There’s a very big DIY community in photogrammetry. He mentions the 3D Scanning Users Group at Facebook. We learn about Antwerp and the St. Anna Tunnel for pedestrians and cyclists. What’s Midge watching? The Expanse of course Sicario The Walk Tron: Legacy Oblivion The Wire Chris and Midge talk about the animated Tron series, Tron: Uprising. Midge loves Tron: Legacy because it is eye candy. Chris’ eye candy choice is Speed Racer. We pour out our drinks in honor of Battlestar Galactica. Midge wants to know what happens in season 3 SGU Stargate Universe, but we’ll never know. An artificial intelligence that designs websites? The Grid. Find Midge’s projects at TheMantissa.net or Instagram. Hire him at Daze.tv or chat with him on Twitter. Thanks for listening. Please find us on Facebook or Twitter and talk to us, we’re starved for attention. Thanks for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Or: Count Chocula Moved to Canada for Love This episode we talked to an artist, a programmer, studio owner and the visual arts education coordinator at the International Academy of Film and Television in Antwerp. Midge Sinnaeve joined the fellas to talk awkward clients, how one becomes a ‘professional’ and the Super Bowl from a European perspective. Chris met today’s guest when he interviewed him for episcura. The confusion of time zones and what is Central European Time? Midge was bitten by the 3D bug during a science competition in Ireland. He was using Strata 3D. Midge worked in web design for a while, and then someone handed him Maya so he could try to get back into 3D. Midge has used a number of 3D software packages. At this point in the podcast he mentioned Cinema 4D. Correction: Chris mentioned that a BMX rider died, it was Dave Mirra. We apologize that Chris said Matt Hoffman. Live long and prosper, Mr. Hoffman. What’s an animatic? Midge’s company is called Daze. Midge said sending clients rough 3D or animatics can frighten them. He said it’s comparable to the Uncanny valley. If he sends something really rough, they’re scared, too polished and they’ll ask for changes not permissible within the time table. Chris mentions his recent viewing of Mad Max: Fury Road. Chris tells Midge & Paul about the Canadian super bowl, The Grey Cup. Dramatic Chipmunk vs. Johnny Carson. Midge got his own 3D department at International Academy of Film and Television in Antwerp by walking down the street? A few of the artists that inspired Midge: Alex Roman and his The Third & The Seventh. GMUNK. Ash Thorp. Midge prefers to show students the “how & why” of the process, rather than teaching the software. So he teaches them how to do the same thing in 3DS Max and Blender. Thanks to Midge for joining us all the way from the land of delicious beer. Hey, we should probably have him on again. In person! At a Belgian pub! You should give us a single dollar over on Patreon to make that happen. Thanks for listening. Talk to us on Twitter or Facebook, we’re desperate for attention. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Director & animator Jamil Lahham joined us in part 1 of this conversation where we discussed winning an Oscar, working on Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and what is a bad film? In the second part of our live show, Jamil tells us about his attempt at stand-up comedy, his award winning animation and the attitude needed to complete those personal projects. Jamil tells about his short Dirty Laundry Day which recently won Best Animation at the Filmmaker International Film Festival in Spain. Chris was inspired by Jamil’s blog about his short especially, “Do ANYTHING a day.” Jamil says you have to struggle with your brain. You have to stop yourself from quitting sometimes. For example, seeing student animations from the French schools of Supinfocom or Gobelins should be inspiring, not a deterrent. Paul quotes Merlin Mann about setting priorities and being who you want to be. Paul loves the sound design in Dirty Laundry Day and Jamil shares that it was done by Chris Kukla. Jamil was incredibly happy with Christina Ellis, who did amazing work with the color of Dirty Laundry Day. Some of Jamil’s CG inspiration comes from Pocoyo, a Spanish-British animated series. Jamil suggests that we watch Anomalisa, a gorgeous stop-motion film. There you have it! You can find the award-winning animator and all around inspiring dude, Jamil Lahham on Twitter or at his personal blog. For updates about our show and the new season, stop by our Patreon blog.Thanks for listening! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

“You go to school to learn a craft in some sense, but more than anything else, you’re learning about yourself.” The Michigan-Edmonton duo of Paul & Chris were lucky enough to chat with animator & director Jamil Lahham who shared those words about university. Jamil tells us about the organic nature of traditional animation, animating cycles for iPads and the weight of an Oscar. Jamil was a part of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the Academy award winning The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and his wonderful short Dirty Laundry Day. If you want to learn even more about Jamil, have a look at this interview at episcura. Jamil went to Ringling College of Art + Design and has mentored students in the animation department for the last 3 years. While in Syria, Jamil attended Damascus University to study interior design. Jamil did his internship at EA. Artist William Salazar explains how he prefers to draw 2D over his 3D work to get the movement right. Andy Serkis (Golem) waged war animators back in 2014, saying he did all the work. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won an Oscar. Jamil said he got to carry it around the studio briefly, and that it is ‘heavy as s**t!” Paul has downloaded The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore app for his daughters and they love it. The movie and the app are based on a story by WIlliam Joyce. Jamil is learning Python because it works in Maya. Jamil challenges the idea of “bad” movies on our Film Frown podcast. “What is good and bad?” Jamil and hosts agree that you need to seek your own happiness and not compare yourself to others. Chris says former guest Sally Ann is a perfect example of making your own way. Stay tuned for part 2 where we learn about Jamil’s animated short and how one stays focused. Thanks to you for listening. A very special thanks to our patrons and of course Jamil Lahham. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Or: “You’re on Camera Whether You Like It or Not” This is part deux of our conversation with Carolyn Fung & Paul Juricic who were grad students at The Centre for Digital Media. Their final project at the CDM was Project ACME, a personal archiving tool to collect and sort your digital data. We start off talking about the amazing physical archives they visited. For the sake of your sanity in the following notes, “Paul” is our guest. “Host Paul” is the co-host who says he loves pop music. Carolyn tells us about the treasures of The Museum of Vancouver and the Planitarium. Organizations like the institutions mentioned above don’t have the funds to create a digital archive for their treasures. Chris mentions the amazing Storycorps project as an example of a successful archive project. Carolyn shares that part of her work with NGX Interactive is about making an interpretive design. How do you make things relevant to people? It turns out that many TV shows in the late 80s and 90s reused tapes so there is no official record of the show USA Up All Night. Paul suggests we seek out Mél Hogan to learn more about the opportunities in archived data. Chris shares a fiction book that deals with digitizing books in a unique way, Vernor Vinge’s Rainbow’s End. We talk about the volume of pictures we take these days versus the past when we used film. Carolyn mentioned that she recently did a hike at Deep Cove and when they reached the top everyone pulled out their phones instead of enjoying the view. Paul says that he wishes the criticism around twitter wasn’t focused on the stream of conscience, or somewhat silly posts and concentrated on the broadcast or spam of companies that get in the way of communication. Paul uses BBM with a group of friends to stay in touch. There’s less corporate distractions and therefore it is a better tool than twitter for him. Paul tells the story of a This American Life episode where two friends were exchanging old pictures of themselves and one noticed his grandmother was in the background of his friend’s picture. Chris wants a Mr. Show with Bob & David sketch about people looking at old photos recalling the documentation process of the picture and not the subject matter. Paul wonders if there is any inch of Grandville Island that hasn’t been documented by people’s pictures. Paul discusses the future of Project ACME. Paul uses his traditional podcast plug time to tell us all that we should watch Fargo. Carolyn tells us to all go out to our local spaces that are trying to teach us about the local history, no matter the scale. They need our support and input. Host Paul is very happy that we had a tremendous number of live listeners during this show. Listen live at 7pm MST or 9pm EST on Thursday evenings. Find Carolyn on twitter, @carofung and Paul says you can find him on a sidewalk in East Vancouver. (Or Linkedin.) Thanks to both of them for joining us and patiently waiting for the release of this episode. Help us release more episodes, learn more over at patreon.com/msauce. Or yell at us at facebook.com/montrealsauce. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

On this episode the gents talk about preserving memories, archiving, data and private interests. The guests are graduate students from The Centre for Digital Media, Paul Juricic and Carolyn Fung. For the sake of your sanity in the following notes, “Paul” is our guest. “Host Paul” is your Trill podcast host, not a symbiont. Previously on Montreal Sauce…Carolyn has been on before so she updates us on the project she was involved in before, True North. Paul tells us about the previous team he worked with Altru.City. Carolyn is now working with NGX Interactive. Paul tells us about Archinodes and the graduate project, Project ACME. Archinodes design lab was started by Paul Juricic, Mél Hogan and Jeff Traynor. The graduate project was a prototype built on an an earlier idea, Arc. Paul said they explored various services like Delicious and Pocket. Dig Paul’s ride. Carolyn and the team played with physical objects to get an idea of how people handle things before building their interface. Is Evernote useful or just a “dumping ground?” Permissions and sharing were interesting challenges. For example, Apps like Slack want to make your entire workflow easily accessible. However, Google Drive wants you to use their service, so Slack had to come up with a workaround to get your Google Docs into their app. The prototype app the team worked on is for analyzing and exploring your data, not making content. Paul says it’s similar to Hootsuite, which is a tool to manage your other social media accounts. Chris shares his new fascination indiewebcamp, which is about syndicating your data to other services and keeping control of it. Really fascinating conversation with Paul and Carolyn about telling stories about the past versus controlling data. The next episode will be part 2 of the live chat and we’ll continue the conversation about the various methods organizations use to archive information. Be sure to check out Carolyn’s Twitter account or stalk Paul on LinkedIn. If you want to follow the production of the show, check out our blog on Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This is our first Sauce Packet, a short show on a single topic. The inaugural topic is “that album that always finds its way into your playlist.” What is a Shadoe Stevens? Sorry Film Frown fans, Traxx is just bad, not so bad it is good. Who was the announcer in the $10,000 Pyramid? Paul’s pick, “The album that they handed out in the streets of the suburbs,” Green Day’s Dookie. Chris married his music to his wife’s in Subsonic. He loves it, she misses her free singles from Starbucks on iTunes. Chris’ pick, New Radicals - Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too. Pick two from the Paul, pandering to the Canadian listeners, Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle. Chris drops a cover album as his second pick, If I Were a Carpenter. The grunge bands of the 90s sing Carpenter hits. Chris’ oldies favorite is the Greatest Hits from Blood, Sweat & Tears Paul enjoys singing the Sounds of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel to his girls. Thus, it is his final pick. Thanks for listening! Friend us on Facebook, Twitter or Patreon and subscribe in your podcatcher app, iTunes or Google Play. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

We go deep into programming languages and their history with our guest Tierney Coren. There’s a sprinkling of tech recommendations, some Rooster Teeth and a discussion on the popularity of Let’s Play videos. Chris asks the tough question, “What is Node.js?” Learn more about javascript with Douglas Crockford. Syntax can make things difficult when it comes to languages. Paul says jQuery really helped in the case of popularizing Javascript. Tierney discusses Gulp.js and Electron, web kits for Node. Our guest is using a Razer mouse and headset. He found this gear thanks to the company sponsoring his favorite content producer, Rooster Teeth. Chris uses a Logitech Performance Mouse MX. He wore one out in 3-4 years, but bought another because he couldn’t find the rad gaming mice that people really enjoy. Our younger guest uses his iPhone 6+ for all his media viewing rather than a TV or computer. Paul’s testing out an iPad Pro, maybe it’s an all-in-one solution? Paul likes Sleep++ to monitor his sleep. Tierney uses CodeHub to connect to Github on his phone. The many text editors in Tierney’s life, Brackets, Atom and Visual Studio Code. Flavors of linux discussed, Elementary OS, ubuntu, kubuntu, CrunchBang and Arch. Chris like this windows manager for Linux, OpenBox. We discuss the popularity of Let’s Plays. Pewdiepie has built an empire by just making Let’s Play videos. Tierney asks that you please visit the Node.js Github and join the community. Everyone is welcome. Chris thanks Tunabelly software for giving him a copy of Temperature Gauge Pro to test on his Mac. Guess what? It works great and is making his computer less noisy during the podcast! Thanks to Arturo and Brandon for joining us in the chat channel. Special thanks to Tierney for joining us at the last minute! Of course, thank you for listening to the show. Find Tierney on Cupcake or his site bnb.im. If you want to know what’s happening with Montreal Sauce, check the posts on Patreon. You can also support the show there. There’s also a Facebook page now. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This episode features discussions of cities in New York that aren’t New York City, succeeding in university and it turns out there are people who love candy corn. No. Really! Our guest Tierney Coren is part of the Node.js Evangelism Work Group, a web developer, designer, writer and student. The glorious reputation of Utica. Tierney teaches us that the origin point of the grid system in Salt Lake is the Mormon Temple. Chris has been using Here.com to replace Google Maps. Tierney & Paul have issues using Duck Duck Go for search. However, Paul does love the !bangs. Chris defends DDG, but shares an option given to him on the Cupcake.io community, Startpage.com. Tierney is doing an accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s program at SUNY Poly. We previously did a show with a professor of information design, part 1 & part 2. Let’s talk about our dark future with 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. More books? How about Snow Crash, Ready Player One, Wuthering Heights & The Prince. Tierney thinks previous guest Arturo could be the protagonist from Snow Crash. Paul & guest review the Twilight Saga films. Tierney’s instructor is obsessed with TiddlyWiki, so he’s learned a lot about it. Let’s Encrypt is in beta. Tierney teaches Chris about Coursera. SuperCard Suite wants to be your HyperCard replacement. Tierney was using ghost for his site. He tried Jekyll and Hexo. He settled on Metalsmith, a static site generator. Paul says the Montreal Sauce & Film Frown sites are also created with a static site generator, PieCrust. The setup is documented on his blog, A Podcaster is Me. Chris mentions that he’s going to take a stab at joining the IndieWebCamp movement with a new site using Known. He was inspired by Jeena.net and our chat with Jen Montes, part 1, part 2. A really great way to connect with Webmentions is to use brid.gy. Thanks for listening to the episode & thanks to &! (@bitandbang), Tierney, for chatting on the Sauce. Want to learn more about our podcast or read more about the production, check our Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Too lazy to write a blog post on the Patreon page, Paul & Chris meet to discuss exciting new updates to the show. Promotional swag, sauce packets and secretive episodes are coming your way. Not to mention our tremendous backlog of live episodes to publish for downloads. This special episode is brought to you be quantum mechanics. Remember when we had a t-shirt drive? (You can request Cotton Bureau print more, if you wish.) Paul goes searching for domains for the insanely long iTunes link on hover. Should we get dot soy? You want shorter content? Yeah. We can do that. We’re going to start doing sauce packets. When the ventilation goes out at work, Paul plays clips from Anchorman. Chris says a future episode in April will feature a discussion about developing VR with Aaron Clifford. Modeled on the Chicago Podcast Cooperative, Edmonton media superstar Karen Unland is busy putting together the Seen and Heard Podcast Network. Thanks for attending our general meeting? Check us out on Twitter and Facebook. Feeling generous, throw some love at us on Patreon or review the show on iTunes. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

In part dos of the discussion with Arturo Vergara we discuss the value of a college education, the importance of agriculture, the false idea of a post-scarcity society and rapping, yo! During the education rant, Paul refers to an earlier show we did at The Centre for Digital Media. Here’s part 1 and part 2. Do we really have a Post-scarcity economy? Chris discusses a story from That Sugar Film. Internet for everyone is not altruistic. It simply means more customers. That’s why Google has balloons & Facebook is making drones. Arturo loves performing music. (Psst, he once posted something to his soundcloud.) Paul tries to convince Arturo to compose us a song for the show. Arturo says maybe he can collaborate with Jonathan Killearn. Arturo has a gorgeous jarana and plays it for us on the show! Paul’s Russian teacher wanted him to learn to play the Balalaika. Instead, he learned to play this song on guitar. The Swedish Chef performing Rapper’s Delight. Chris recommends Hush Tours for a unique view of New York. Much love to Grandmaster Caz, his tour guide. If you want more Arturo, (of course you do!) hit him up on twitter, github or his site arturovm.me. Thanks a lot for listening! And thank you Arturo. As always favorite us in your podcatcher, tell your friends and get more information about upcoming shows at Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This episode your favorite bosom buddies are conversing with developer, musician & writer Arturo Vergara about language, influential authors & thinkers, cyberpunk and the value of art criticism. We met Arturo on Cupcake.io. Interactive fiction games? Design your own using the awkward R.A.G.S. or the HTML-based Twine. Arturo encourages everyone to check out Rudy Mancuso. Learning about Mexico City. Where there hell does Halloween come from, anyway? Arturo’s pond project is for synchronizing RSS and Atom feeds. Soon to be renamed so it won’t be mistaken for the other Pond. His other project is a self-hosted email server, Postage. He was inspired to make Postage in part because of arkOS. We talk about the T.P.P. and jkillearn shot us a link in the chat channel. Here it is. Arturo suggests searching for David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report on Youtube. Paul suggests searching for George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman. Chris chimes in with Kevin Nealon with News From 10 Feet Away. Of course, he and Arturo can’t watch that clip because of lame copyright laws. Austin Kleon presents at SXSW in 2014. What’s with that weird hinge on the Surface Book? Arturo digs the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Other cyberpunk movies discussed: The Matrix, Tron & Blade Runner. Some other books of note we discussed, cyberpunk & drama flavored: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Neuromancer Snowcrash The Catcher in the Rye The Perks of Being a Wallflower Ready Player One. Arturo suggests Android: Netrunner The Card Game. The bizarre history The Catcher in the Rye in pop culture. Arturo doesn’t like the notion of art critics as “nobody gets to decide what’s good and what’s bad in art.” Chris & Paul discuss ArtPrize. Arturo is a part of a reading group that discusses Heidegger and Sartre. Wine-tasting: it’s junk science. Arturo says Albert Camus was very influential to him. Thanks to Arturo for joining us at the last minute! It was a pleasure to chat with him. Be sure to check out his site, arturovm.me to find his work and where to stalk him online. Thank you for listening! For more information about the podcast & upcoming shows, check out our Patreon page. You can throw money at us there as well. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Joe Veix is back! We talk giant, square tube TVs, human suffering, the Publik Facebook™ and of course, Truck Nutz. Candlebox as reviewed by an angry fan. Joe tells us Creed was sued for sucking. Joe says we’re doing voicemail wrong and we think he’s right. Misconnected: A Personal History of Voicemail. Our guest thinks It’s interesting how gChat (Hangouts), Instant Messenger & Facebook Messenger are similar forms of communication but we use and behave on them differently. Badwords the project created by Joe that replaced your cookies with those of bizarre characters. A great way to protect your privacy. The weirdness that is geriatric manikins? The logic of Truck Nutz? Chris dares you to put CarLashes on any trucks you find with nuts. What the heck is Tony the Tiger up to now? Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. Molleindustria makes activist type games to educate folks about our diabolical world. Check out Phone Story to learn where your phone comes from. Joe’s Publik Facebook™ project. Paul & Joe discuss the issues of online abuse and Twitter. Joe gives some great advice for creators/writers near the end of the show. “Do your thing. Don’t chase an audience or fame.” Joe mentions that many punk musicians never believed they were part of a revolution or movement. They were just making music they liked. Need a space to talk all things horses? Dig Horsechat, yo! Thanks for listening to the episode! Check out joeveix.com or his twitter account, @joeveix to learn more about our guest. Please peek at our Patreon page and support the podcast for like $1! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Paul & Chris were joined by writer and artist with a last name that people always pronounce wrong, Joe Veix. He discusses his career, joke writing and of course Matthew McConaughey. Trade secret from the gas station - OPEC doesn’t set gas prices. In college, Chris’ sister worked at a gas station and was obviously in charge of the price at the pump. Writing about K-Pop? Youtube examples. System Shock 2, a horror video game. Brandacted, a Chrome extension by our guest that blocks brand names. Similar to Brandacted, Joe also made Name Swap that gives political candidates a gross name. Joe was inspired by the Redskins Web Skin extension. Joe says he started out writing “really bad Jack Handy rip-off jokes.” Chris and Joe are both fans of Adbusters’ spoofs. The gents discuss the over commercialization of Back to the Future Day. Chris reviews his Back to the Future Blu-ray set. Robert Zemeckis films include: Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Romancing the Stone. Joe wonders if Contact is as bad as people say it is. Bad like Ishtar perhaps? Paul points out Matthew McConaughey is in both Contact and Interstellar. Joe thinks there are actors who do very similar characters in every movie and yet you still love to watch them. Like Steve Zahn or Peter Lorre. Chris says there are others that do that and he can’t stand them, like Joe Pesci. Joe’s amazing acting reel. The truck commercial genre is full of tropes and Denis Leary. A Transformers show with only trucks that can’t transform. A new kids show we pitch. Oh look, there’s a game already. Paul educates us on a dirty secret, fake engine noises playing in your car speakers. Writing apps for the Mac, Byword or Pages. Joe prefers to change the contrast settings and make Pages dark and less distracting. Markdown is the way Chris likes to write now. Thanks for listening to the show and reading these handcrafted notes. Thanks to Joe for taking the time to join us. Be sure to check out his stories on Death and Taxes and his site. Also, please check out our Patreon page and throw money at us. No applause please. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Surprise! Did we kidnap the Larry Bird of podcasting in a bizarre re-enacting of the bad movie, Celtic Pride? Of course not. We’re too lazy. Dan Benjamin joined us to chat about his love of radio, setting the right expectations for your podcast and making better podcasts for listeners. Dan thinks Paul sounds really great. It must be that DBX pre-amp & the Onyx 1620i Paul purchased from multiple 5by5 network garage sales. Dan usually shares his experience with gear and production on his show Podcast Method. Dan loves the surprise of live shows, as in his show with Merlin Mann, Back to Work. Our guest remembers reading that Leo Laporte was making a million dollars podcasting and thought, “Surely I can make enough to pay my bills if I work really, really hard.” Advice from Dan to us & someone he met at the 2015 Podcast Movement, Make one really good show, first. Then, maybe try another. No need to start a network from the get-go. Celebrity podcasts are going to be the moneymakers and have the largest audiences. If you’re not Tim Ferriss or Bill Simmons, do what you love and find a niche. Even though Dan Patrick has been very successful, would he be where he is today without getting exposure & connections at ESPN? The best model to grow your audience? Here you go. Product Hunt is now curating podcasts. Speaking of discovery of podcasts, Spotify has a podcast section and Google Play Music will be hosting as well. Human curated lists work well, see Apple Music (just for curation, the interface is terrible). We’re very thankful Dan made time to talk to us. We were able to catch him before he did episode #151 of Amplified with Jim Dalrymple. So grateful we had the chance to talk to Dan Benjamin. Thanks Dan! Thanks to you for listening and be sure to check out Dan on twitter, his network 5by5 and all the cool things he makes. Feel like supporting the show? Tell a friend and have a look at our sexy rewards on Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

It’s part deux with Taryn Arnold from Patreon! As the conversation continues from the last show they discuss educational videos, the art of interviewing, Ace of Base, Tamagotchi, and bad accents. Paul works with the creator of Graphtreon, a tool to track the progress of creators on Patreon. Taryn says it is a fav around the office. Taryn loves so many things on Patreon. She mentions Crash Course, In a Nutshell, and How To Adult shows. We review Taryn’s test Patreon page. California is great! Well, except for the Earthquakes. Taryn is not a fan of those. San Andreas is real, yo! Montreal Sauce is no This American Life, but we do enjoy a good story. I like juice, the progenitor podcast. Chris asks a loaded question, “Please tell me you are playing Neko Atsume?” Now you miss your Tamagotchi, don’t you? Time to do a reno? You need Holmes on Homes. QUIZ TIME! Let’s learn about Sweden! The Swedish Chef makes poutine in Montreal. It’s The Final Countdown so take a Joyride because It’s All That She Wants. Godzilla rocks with Green Day. Remix! Lingonberry is your jam. Taryn thinks Chris sounds like Goofy in the first part. This episode he’s doing Wreck-it Ralph. Flavor Flav! Thanks so much to Taryn Arnold for chatting and laughing with us! Thank you for listening. Don’t forget to check out Calling All Creators with Taryn, and the amazing Patreon site. Go hire OldManSteve at fiverr! You can support us at patreon.com/msauce. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

In a very fun show, Paul & Chris get chat with the hilarious and enthusiastic Taryn Arnold from Patreon. She joins the show to talk the art of mouth foley, the right amount of internet stalking, teen crushes and Patreon page success. Nobody likes candy corn. Taryn hosts Patreon’s Calling All Creators. Taryn went to university at ASU. Our guest worked in marketing before moving to bop & Tiger beat magazines to report on entertainment. The gauntlet has been thrown. Taryn says there’s no better place to live than California. Paul thinks he may become a Snowbird. Justin Hall stops in the chat room during the live show and Chris shares how he met his wife thanks to a game Justin created. Taryn loves OLDMANSTEVE on fiverr. “It’s good stuff!” How in the world do you navigate reddit? Chris wonders if there are free Pomplamoose concerts in the Patreon office. Taryn hopes to have her own podcast someday, but for now she enjoys hanging out with Jack Conte at work because he’s incredibly passionate about creators. Ten minutes is a real challenging goal for her podcast, Calling All Creators. Goodstuff.fm has a show called Daily(ish) that is a very short podcast as well. Always around the 40-50 min mark is Random Trek. Chris talks about Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcastso much, he must be on the take. Taryn admits that she has an addiction to Spotify. Teen Taryn loved *NSYNC and Paul Walker, so she warns Paul to get ready to deal with his daughter’s crushes. Taryn is frustrated with Apple changing their chargers all the time! Proprietary cables be like… Paul asks Taryn how we can be successful with our Patreon page and she gives us some great tips. Also she becomes our first patron! Chris ruins his laptop by throwing a Toonie at it. Paul mentions how amazing Zardoz is and Taryn actually does an image search. She survives. The Guy Who Designed Twitter’s Logo Only Made About $3. Just. Plain. Fun. Hope you didn’t scroll past this episode because Taryn is hilariously cool. And, we’re not just saying that because she’s our first patron. Be sure to check out Thetarynarnold on twitter, Calling All Creators and Patreon. Thanks to Taryn for hanging out with the guys! Of course, thank you for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

It’s part 2 with Jonathan Killearn, a classically trained musician navigating the competitive new music distribution world of the Internet. Is it crazy to pursue a career in creative arts? The conversation is about audience building, talking to nobody, and music communities online; quiz time teaches us all about Gary Busey & Nick Nolte. Part 1 can be found here. Jonathan is sharing his music via lead sheets in LilyPond format on GitHub. Podcast Method, a show by Dan Benjamin. Jonathan mentions a subreddit for musicians, We Are The Music Makers. You should follow Jonathan’s Instagram account. Jonathan likes his Android phone because he can quickly switch from his personal account to his stage name when he interacts with fans. Jonathan uses SoundCloud because he believes it is the “Youtube of audio.” Another musician interviewed on a past show used Reverb Nation. You can hear his story here and part 2. Jonathan found a love of music when first heard Cloudburst by Mannheim Steamroller in 4th grade. Later, in 1996 Jonathan attended the North American New Music Festival. Music Jonathan enjoys The Strokes, Belle and Sebastian, Benjamin Thigpen, Pronto Mama & Randolph’s Leap. John Roderick is a musician who does the Roderick on the Line and Road Work podcasts. Jonathan enjoys Hypercritical & Accidental Tech podcasts and has written a song inspired by them. He hopes to start producing it next. He also has a song about diver Tom Daley. QUIZ TIME! Chris gives Paul & Jonathan a test on who’s who in Hollywood. Is it Nick Nolte or Gary Busey?. Who fits in a nutty used car TV ad? Gary Busey, of course. Thanks for listening! Thanks to Jonathan for joining us! Be sure to find Jonathan Killearn on SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub, Cupcake and the Freenode room #minix. Check out our Patreon page to support the show! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The talented clog dancers, Chris & Paul chat with producer, arranger, composer & performer Jonathan Killearn. It’s a battle of dueling microphones & cheap Korean guitars. Jonathan did the “Advice with Dawn” music on the The Dawn And Drew Show. “It May Not Be An Apple Watch, But It’s Still Pretty Cool” is Jonathan’s latest track. The lyrics are about drum & bugle corps enthusiast, Jdfuncorps. Jonathan made his rough prototype with Reason and then recorded his acoustic instruments. Jonathan’s gorgeous beastly bass guitar. Music as a Healing Bridge from TedxBuffalo. You can study Music Therapy at Jonathan’s alma mater, Ohio University. Struck by lightning & then compelled to compose music? Tiny houses have no room for drum sets. Pitch shifting to the rescue! Everyone needs a suitcase kick drum. Put on your nice shoes & tap out the beat Montreal style. Process is important but everyone finds their way if they’re passionate enough. Mike Judge recently discussed the various ways he made his animations in a recent Nerdist Podcast. Chris remembers Eddie and the Cruisers during a discussion about tempo. I Dream of Wires is a documentary about the electronic modular synthesizer. Jonathan believes you do need limits to be creative. He’s not the only one. Jonathan’s vocal mic, Studio Projects C4. Our guest originally wanted an Earthworks mic, but he didn’t want to drop two grand on a microphone. Inspiration in the form of Jonathan Coulton. Jack Conte at XOXO Festival. Does your city have a nerd nite? Thank you so much for listening and thanks to Jonathan Killearn for taking the time to chat with us! Find him on SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, GitHub and even Cupcake. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The new season has started and the guys are dropping science! Well, actually they’re catching up with each other and you. Listen to learn how Val Kilmer could have saved the world from evil cable bundles if his Amtrak train hadn’t been delayed. Home internet in Canada is just like mobile data, they charge per usage! What the hell? Look out US. Telus Internet Plans or Shaw. Coming soon, Paul will be fortunate enough to get with a surviving local telco for internet, AcenTek. If you want to support local Internet companies in Canada, see if TekSavvy is in your area. Curse of the cable bundles! Paul discusses the plus/minus of the Shedd Aquarium. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s song. Blackfish trailer, a documentary about Seaworld. The Fortress of Solitude is neither secret, nor is it heated for guests. Will you go see Batman V Superman? To ignore the previous question, Daredevil on Netflix is good. The gents review Jurassic World. Paul talks Ant-Man and CGI Michael Douglas. Chris says, “Stop listening and watch Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau.” Currently on Netflix. A tale about Val Kilmer from the set of The Steam Experiment. Highly recommended film from 1966, How to Steal a Million Paul worries about all the new characters in the new Star Wars film. Chris thinks Disney will play the “safe game”. Attack the Block is amazing. Currently on Netflix as well. Chris & Paul both enjoyed The Martian book. Paul is reading Packing For Mars a non-fiction book. Other suggested non-fiction authors, Bill Bryson and Michio Kaku. Chris was not a fan of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Support Alan Tudyk & Nathan Fillion and rent Con Man on Vimeo. It looks amazing. Chris shares the moment he and his wife experienced at Edmonton Folk Fest. Watch the bands jam together here. Fast forward to 41:57 for the moment. Check out Star Trek Renegades! It’s highly recommended by Paul. Thanks again for listening and extra special congrats if you read all of this. If you enjoy the show (or even just the notes) why not give us a little monthly tip over at Patreon? You rock. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Paul & Chris are back! They’re kicking it old school. Join them as they go to warp speed. Well, just as soon as they can remove all the Google bloatware from the engineering software and find a cool external hard drive. Here’s a new season of the Sauce but what about Film Frown? Where is our lost episode featuring Marty Chan? Right here and here, smart ass. “What browser are you using these days?” Chris answers in a blog post. How to “Remove Uninvited Google Apps from Launchpad” on Macs. Chris used Homebrew & the Cask to install all his applications on his Mac during his clean install. Lifehacker has a decent guide. Little Snitch is a great firewall to tell you which applications are trying to connect to the web. For example, Apple location services on want to connect to the internet every 10 seconds. That seems wasteful on a desktop. Chris reviews his experience with MailPile. Then he shares that he moved to Airmail. Checking system stats on your Mac? iStat Menus is great or there’s GeekTool. Less expensive Monity is another option, but it doesn’t do temperature. If you are just concerned with temperature, there’s TG Pro. Paul has Automatic connected to his OBD-II port in his vehicle. He can track his car’s health with his Apple Watch or his phone. You need Shia LaBeouf freestyle rapping. Just do it. External hard drives? Lacie makes decent drives, but Chris & Paul prefer enclosures with fans, if it is a rotating drive and not an SSD. Chris has Vantec cases for his externals. Paul recommends buying in pairs for your backup. What’s on your external? Chris has some work resources like Death To The Stock Photo images. We interviewed one of the minds behind that site once. Paul & Chris really like their TP-link gigabit switches. You rock. Thanks for listening and let us know on twitter if you have any feedback. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This is the second half of our discussion with writer Marty Chan. The first half is here. Topics are writing for the stage vs. novels, favorite authors, Houdini and the cleverly named new insulin. Authors mentioned: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross and Kenneth Oppel. Warning, Mad Men finalé spoilers. Once you hear “Spoiler Alert,” fast forward 1 minute. Old Coke vs. New Coke, Soylent Green and eating right. Marty had The Hardy Boys growing up and Chris was obsessed with Encyclopedia Brown. The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher (Marty Chan Mystery Series 3) deals with discrimination against a girl because of diabetes. Vertical integration and the popular song, “I’d like to buy the world some insulin.” Marty’s steampunk, young adult series, The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles begins with Demon Gate and Infinity Coil was recently released! Marty was a fan of the Marvel What If series and it somewhat inspired his alternate history in The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles. Mentors A time travel TV show that also inspired Marty. The publisher of Marty’s latest series is Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Chris and Marty agree that the Houdini miniseries was awful. Episode one fact checked and episode two. Chris recommends Make Believe. Marty says one of the students in the film, Krystyn Lambert went on to join Criss Angel’s reality show. Sheldon Casavant is a magician who Marty hired for his book party. What’s Marty reading? The Hunchback Assignments and The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. Make Something Edmonton is the home for Edmonton made projects. Find Marty on twitter or Facebook and buy Infinity Coil or get started in the series with Demon Gate. Thanks again for listening! Special thanks to Marty Chan for joining us! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

The gents were incredibly lucky to talk to author Marty Chan. His works include books, plays, radio and television scripts & hilarious tweets. Discussion topics include actors who overdub Hollywood star’s in films shown in other countries, prejudice, the Chinese word to describe “your life is going terribly wrong” and of course cats. The Batusi. Chris plugs the chat room we have for the live show that you can find on the live page. Can’t make it at 6pm PDT, 7 MTN, 8 CDT or 9pm EDT? Tweet comments and questions to @MontrealSauce. Marty was enrolled in university in a subject he really wasn’t interested in so he earned the Dean’s Vacation. Chris majored in Euchre during his first attempt at college. Thus, he understands the concept of Dean’s Vacation. Memories of the dot matrix printer (and Rocky). Edmonton is insanely in love with theater. Come join us at Edmonton Fringe Festival. Marty auditioned for Jake and the Kid in hopes to get into television writing. It worked! Marty did some time with the improv group, Rapid Fire Theatre. The Incredible Story Studio which Marty worked on, was a great concept for a show. Marty’s books include selections for children and young adults. Our guest was obsessed with The Hardy Boys books as a child. Young Marty pursued a detective career in his parents grocery store thanks to The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook. Mom, Dad, I’m Living With A White Girl. Chris wishes Marty would have joined them to review Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon. The Young Alberta Book Society helps schools & authors connect. Marty enjoys presenting to schools and loves YABS. The library? Thanks to Marty for taking the time to join us. Subscribe on MontrealSauce.com or iTunes so you don’t miss part 2 with Marty and thanks for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Paul & Chris sit down and chat about central vacuum and avocados! What more could you want from a host-full show? Well, surprise guest Tina pops in to talk delicious cookies & not-so delicious undercooked cheeseburgers. Chris is excited for the next episode with author Marty Chan. A last minute shot in the dark, Chris attempted to get Adam Dachis from Supercharched as this episode’s guest. However, he’s hoping to schedule Adam and Darren Herczeg for a future Film Frown. Paul asks about Chris’ latest writing gig, Lost Highway. Chris was also lucky enough to have an article posted on the arkOS blog. Glen Fleishman’s The New Disruptors is an excellent podcast. In particular, they discuss the episode featuring Nicole Dieker where she talked briefly about working for CrowdSource. Discussing the terror of possibly offending a movie star hero during your bad movie podcast. Here’s the show in question. Here’s a recap. Panasonic, why you no have Ernie Reyes Jr. kick your Toughbook & Toughpad around in commercials? We’d buy one then. IF IT COULD SURVIVE HIS MARTIAL ARTS! The ridiculous 3D music video for Edmonton’s Brewery District development. (Turn off your speakers unless you want to hear synth trombones. In fact, do not watch this at all.) Paul enjoys listening to the podcast Core Intuition. Paul wants to incorporate Searchpath into the new site to hosts our podcasts. He currently bakes pies when he uploads these notes and podcasts? WHA? A backstage look at how Paul publishes and hosts the podcasts. Chris has been editing images for episcura.com. So, if you need seamless textures or HDRI, check it out. The fellas discuss using tags and how John Gruber uses tags. Patent trolls 101 and The Temple of Gloom. Chris shares a review of Sony’s Powers. Only available on PS4? REALLY? Rory from Doctor Who is in CW’s new Legends of Tomorrow. The kids need a GyroBowl! Paul loves the “fabulous central vacuum.” Skype boxes built from Raspberry Pis? Why not. The Wolfson Audio Card might be a decent audio solution. Paul’s audio mixer used for the show, Mackie Onyx 1640i. Dan Benjamin now suggests some Focusrite products for podcasting in his show Podcast Method. Thanks for listening to our host-full show. It was a lot of fun for us to catch up with each other instead of getting to know a rad guest. It’s a bit of a throwback episode; we hope you enjoyed it. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Jacob Cook from arkOS is with the guys for part 2 of the discussion on privacy. Jacob says we should trust the investigation techniques we’ve used for years rather than collect everyone’s data. Meanwhile, Paul has a great metaphor for online privacy, the front door of your home. We mentioned it in the show notes for the last episode, but we talked about the Last Weeek Tonight video on Edward Snowden in this part. (NSFW) Jacob recommends Citizenfour, the Oscar winning documentary about the Snowden leak while Chris is not as impressed. Watch it on iTunes. Chris recommends The Internet’s Own Boy which you can also watch on iTunes. Trusting websites and companies with our data online is one thing. We also have to trust our friends with whom we share. You send them pictures & information all the time. They could get hacked or use gmail and your data is at risk. Diaspora is a social network that is decentralized. GNUSocial is another decentralized social network. Chris asks Jacob about IndieWebCamp. Suggested examples are jeena.net and brennannovak.com. The government wants a backdoor into every system out there. This would make encryption pointless. Legal or not, many are being forced to unlock phones and decrypt laptops at borders. Legally you can be forced to unlock your phone with touch ID. Nothing leaves the web. You post it. Forever it shall be. “I don’t have anything to hide.” Jacob suggests that you watch Why Privacy Matters. Jacob gives a quick overview on how to get started protecting your privacy. Start with hosting your email somewhere else beside these large data collection companies. A brief discussion of the robot in Starcrash. Or is he the chicken lawyer from Futurama? Your Samsung SmartTV is spying on you? Meanwhile, Barbie is spying on your kids. Lenovo Responds to Superfish issue. Jacob tells us about the new arkOS Connect service. Once again thanks for listening and thanks to our guest for the chat. Be sure to check out Jacob’s arkOS. If you want to hear more from Jacob, have a listen to the Film Frown podcast he was on. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This week Chris wanted to talk about privacy so he and Paul invited Jacob Cook the father of arkOS to talk about the importance of confidentiality and better ways to protect yourself online. Subtle Reminder: We have a chat channel on the freenode IRC network you can join during live shows on Thursday nights to interact with us. Or jump in on other days and maybe you run into Chris or Paul. Look for #montrealsauce on freenode or hit the live page on our site. We discuss the spotted history of online payments where Elon Musk’s Paypal was the only choice. Paul & Jacob prefer using stripe when they are developing. Edward Snowden has exposed a number of things about government data collection. The truth is that they cannot provide one case where mass surveillance has stopped an actual terrorist act. Last Week Tonight has an excellnt video on the subject. It’s NSFW. Jacob’s arkOS has a number of ways for you to host your own data. Jacob tells us there are great alternatives out there for every popular app and service, but there’s a learning curve. arkOS is his answer to having an easy solution for everyone, like apps on the app store. Speaking of alternatives, Chris and Paul have had success with Baïkal for syncing contacts and calendars. Chris is excited to try Mumble as an alternative to Skype. Jacob had a Jolla phone to increase his privacy, but recently moved to a new carrier where it wasn’t supported. Jacob & Chris use apps from Open Whisper Systems for encrypted communication on their devices. You can get TextSecure for Android or Signal for iPhone in the various app stores. Encrypting e-mail sounds complex, but there are tutorials everywhere. Read more on ars technia. Chris & Jacob chat a bit about using xdadevelopers forum to try new ROMs on Android and the “hackable nature” of the ecosystem vs. iOS. MightyText Allows you to text from your computer or tablet after syncing with your Android phone. iMessage and WhatsApp are other messaging alternatives they discussed. HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension/add-on to protect you online. Jacob also uses Ghostery to block all the trackers following you online. Chris cautions that Ghostery will send data to advertisers. Thus, he uses Disconnect. Wait, what do these do? Is Adblock Plus any good or are companies paying ABP not to block? Homeland Security is setting up an office in Silicon Valley. The gents talk SSL encryption. To secure your own sites you can make SSL certificates, but browsers only recognize certificates from a “trusted” authority (in other words a company that takes your money for the certificate). Let’s encrypt is a free service coming in September. arkOS is about being decentralized, your data on your hardware without having to trust some data center. However, ISPs don’t want you to host your own services and some do not give you a static IP address. So, Skylark was born. arkOS on centralized connection. There are now data centers using the micro boards like the Raspberry Pi. You can host things on these microservers. Mininodes is one such service. Special thanks to Jacob for once again coming on to share his time and genius with Paul & Chris. Next episode will be the continuation of the conversation about privacy, sausage and your dXXk pics. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

This is the second half our conversation with artist & developer, Jen Montes. We discuss being multilingual, Puerto Rico, Python, GitHub, and poutine. Jen currently works on the TV show Archer. Chris tries to show off, saying he learned Spanish from watching, Home Alone in Mexico. Jen wonders what the difference between European French and Quebec French is? Jacob, who is in the chatroom, chimes in to share his experience in Quebec. Jen grew up in Puerto Rico which reminds Chris of a recent Last Week Tonight video on voting rights in U.S. Territories. The Insular Cases are the awkward Supreme Court documents that surmise people in territories under the control of America do not receive all the rights guaranteed in the constitution. Paul is reminded of the videos by CPG Grey, American Empire and The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained. Paul explores Jen’s GitHub page and we talk Python. Jacob is looking forward to ES6 Harmony the sixth edition of Javascript. Jen is interested in the way Tent and the Indie Web movement are working. She hopes to build a personal site that interacts with other networks, but all her data is in one central place. One project Jen is working on is a file browser for the nifty, dropbox-like Syncthing. Remembering PaintShop Pro and 3D Studio Max, which are still made! Jen tells us that you can still get The Print Shop! That’s more exciting than baseball. Jeena’s site is a great example of indieweb ideas in the real world. He explains it in a blog post, IndieWeb Join us! Known is a service using the indieweb principles. Without having programing knowledge you can jump right in and begin publishing your own site. Jen is not a tremendous TV show junky but she does appreciate watching shows as a social activity. She watches The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and of course Archer with groups of friends. We hope you’ve enjoyed this episode with Jen Montes. It’s fairly obvious that we had a good time. Up next, a topical show on privacy. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon