Podcasts about french canada

Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada, written by Louis Hémon in 1913, is one of the most widely read works of fiction ever written in French. Yet today, the book remains far less known in English Canada and the English-speaking world. It is the world's highest-selling French book, and has been translated into over 20 languages. The book has inspired four film versions, several plays, an opera, and even a pop song. Contributor Catherine Annau examines the many lives that Maria Chapdelaine has lived, and continues to live.

Dans cet épisode, Alexandre Baril, professeur agrégé de travail social à l'Université d'Ottawa, me rejoint pour discuter de son nouveau livre, Défaire le Suicidisme. Vous pouvez accéder gratuitement à la version anglaise du livre ci-dessous. Cet épisode aborde des sujets délicats tels que le suicide, l'automutilation et la violence systémique. Veuillez l'écouter avec précaution. Vous trouverez également ci-dessous des ressources en santé mentale en anglais et en français, au cas où vous en auriez besoin. [Anglais] Défaire le Suicidisme (gratuit): https://temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/undoing-suicidism Lignes téléphoniques d'urgence et groupes de soutien en ligne (French and English): -Trans LifeLine (trans/non-binary people): 1-877-330-6366 (Canada), 1-877-565-8860 (USA) -Autisme Soutien: Online support for autistic people (French Canada): https://autismesoutien.ca/ -BlackLine (BIPOC): 1-800-604-5841 (USA + Canada) Lignes téléphoniques d'urgence régulières (qui peuvent tracer votre appel et contacter les services d'urgence) : -Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 -Suicide.ca (Québec): 1-866-APPELLE -The Hope for Wellness Helpline (Indigenous people in Canada): 1-855-242-3310 -The Samaritains (USA): 1-212-673-3000

In this episode, I'm joined by Alexandre Baril, Associate professor of Social Work at the University of Ottawa to discuss his book, Undoing Suicidism. You can access the English version of the book for free below. This episode discusses sensitive subject matter including suicide, self harm, and systemic violence. Please listen with care. You will also find English and French Canadian mental health resources below in case you require them. Undoing Suicidism (Free Access): https://temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/undoing-suicidism Safe Hotlines and Online Support Groups (French and English): -Trans LifeLine (trans/non-binary people): 1-877-330-6366 (Canada), 1-877-565-8860 (USA) -Autisme Soutien: Online support for autistic people (French Canada): https://autismesoutien.ca/ -BlackLine (BIPOC): 1-800-604-5841 (USA + Canada)  Regular Hotlines (might trace your call and contact emergency services): -Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 -Suicide.ca (Québec): 1-866-APPELLE -The Hope for Wellness Helpline (Indigenous people in Canada): 1-855-242-3310 -The Samaritains (USA): 1-212-673-3000

Jeopardy! recaps from the week of March 17th, 2025. Kyle pontificates about the far-superior Zune, we throw a small amount of shade at French Canada, and Emily dives into the Epic of Gilgamesh. Find us on Facebook (Potent Podables) and Twitter (@potentpodables1). Check out our Patreon (patreon.com/potentpodables). Email us at potentpodablescast@gmail.com. Continue to support social justice movements in your community and our world. www.communityjusticeexchange.org www.rescue.org  www.therebelsproject.org www.abortionfunds.org  https://wck.org/  https://womenswilderness.org/support/#ways-to-give  https://www.pcrf.net/   https://www.givedirectly.org/ 

Charles returns from AZ with his sunbaked buds, and Zach gets 2 inches deep in shwarma before getting in a fight in French Canada.   Instagram: @overshadowed_podcast @charles_engle @zachrussellcomedy   Check out the Patreon for bonus content, standup comedy sets, and more.  https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast   Check out other places to listen here: https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast   Recorded Feb 2025    Produced by Zach Russell Intro/Outro music by Mokka!

Winslow Yerxa joins me on episode 126.Winslow is originally from Canada, now living in San Francisco. He started out playing blues harmonica before becoming interested in the traditional music of French Canada and British origins, among others. Winslow plays in harmonica ensembles and produces his own compositions using a wide variety of harmonicas, including the diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, the Pentaharp, XB40 and the recent Gamechanger harmonica.Winslow created the Harmonica Information Publication (HIP) magazine in the 1990s, with much of the publishing and writing done by himself. This led on to him writing Harmonica For Dummies and Blues Harmonica For Dummies.Winslow was also the President of SPAH from 2012 to 2015.Links:Winslow's website:https://winslowyerxa.com/Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/WinslowYerxaHarmonica/Bandcamp:https://winslowyerxa.bandcamp.com/The HIP magazine:https://winslowyerxa.com/articles/hip-the-harmonica-information-publication/Videos:Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/@winslowyerxa8505Tommy Reilly playing Chez Helene TV theme:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6dW7aV7D0The Rounder's Rag:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKZmcSAanc4Spanish Changes with Tuula Tossavainen Cotter:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BatYKOOC0JDR Trochilus / Bushman Gamechanger harmonica:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0NM1mxtzHwPodcast website:https://www.harmonicahappyhour.comDonations:If you want to make a voluntary donation to help support the running costs of the podcast then please use this link (or visit the podcast website link above):https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour?locale.x=en_GBSpotify Playlist: Also check out the Spotify Playlist, which contains most of the songs discussed in the podcast:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QC6RF2VTfs4iPuasJBqwT?si=M-j3IkiISeefhR7ybm9qIQPodcast sponsors:This podcast is sponsored by SEYDEL harmonicas - visit the oldest harmonica factory in the world at www.seydel1847.com  or on Facebook or Instagram at SEYDEL HARMONICAS--------------------------------Blue Moon Harmonicas: https://bluemoonharmonicas.comSupport the show

In this episode, Reginald D welcomes six-time Emmy Award winner Steph Carse, a multifaceted music artist, writer, television producer, filmmaker and director. Steph shares his journey from growing up in French Canada to finding his passion for music at a young age. Steph discusses the roller coaster of his career and the evolving understanding of his relationship with spirituality.Steph has a new music video called Almighty, a song that he wrote, performed, and co-produced with Grammy winner Omar Maldonado, which has just been released. His latest movie musical “The True Miracle Of Christmas” is now available on Amazon Prime and has been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian.He is also the founder of the anti-bullying ministry Y i Count, blending his passion for music with a powerful mission to combat bullying.Steph is currently directing and producing the movie "UNDONE" based on the life of Sherry Damron. Steph has sold 500K albums in the general market and garnered a Juno Award Nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year. Tune in for an insightful inspirational conversation about creativity, faith, and the ups and downs of a career in the arts.Steph's Links:Website: https://www.StephCarse.com Anti-bullying ministry/cause Y i Count: https://www.YiCount.orgSend us a textSupport the showFor daily motivation and inspiration, subscribe and follow Real Talk With Reginald D on social media:Instagram: realtalkwithreginaldd TikTok: @realtalkregd Youtube: @realtalkwithreginald Facebook: realtalkwithreginaldd Twitter Real Talk With Reginald D (@realtalkRegD) / TwitterWebsite: Real Talk With Reginald D https://www.realtalkwithreginaldd.com Real Talk With Reginald D - Merchandise

This week we have a new story, a listener suggestion from Liz Spiva from "The Talking Cat and other tales of French Canada". Liz, I hope you enjoy the story!   Book: The talking cat, and other stories of French Canada Host: Dan Scholz Support The Folktale Project by becoming a supporter on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/folktaleproject or buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/thefolktaleproject.

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Send us a Text Message.Can energy-based healing truly make a difference for those with advanced dementia? Our guest, Dr. Etel Lord, a trailblazer in dementia care, is here to share her profound insights and pioneering work that suggest it can. From her journey from French Canada to becoming the founding president of the International Caregivers Association (ICA), Dr. Lord's story is one of resilience, innovation, and personal growth. She opens up about her academic background, her challenging yet inspiring caregiving experience for her late husband, and how it all fueled her mission to revolutionize dementia care.Explore the promising Good Shepherd Healing System with us, as explained by a practitioner trained by Dr. Rankin. This energy-based healing method has shown remarkable benefits for individuals with advanced dementia, as evidenced by a successful 2015 study. We also discuss the ICA's global impact on improving dementia care practices and tackling workforce burnout through rigorous assessments and tailored training programs. Discover how consistency in care and the nurturing of potential leaders play pivotal roles in providing high-quality dementia care.Finally, we delve into the transformative power of Transactional Dementia Intelligence (TDI) and the importance of coaching in dementia care. Dr. Lord's innovative ideas on consistent, hospitality-driven care and the significance of influence in leadership offer a fresh perspective on improving dementia care facilities. We wrap up by reflecting on Dr. Lord's inspiring legacy and ongoing impact on the field, leaving listeners with a sense of hope and a deeper understanding of the challenges and breakthroughs in dementia care. This episode is not to be missed for anyone invested in the future of dementia care. Be sure to check out our website SCA with additional Senior Care Resources, and our exclusive offer to Senior Care Companies, and book a demo with one of our product specialists. https://seniorcareacademy.comSupport the Show.

It's Wednesday Night, and You Know What That Means. It's a brand new episode of the Mark Order Podcast! Kate, Ryan, and Joe are here to cover all things All Elite Wrestling by reviewing Dynamite, discussing the past week in AEW, and having a whole lot of fun doing it. Along with their regular review, the gang talks about opening day in baseball and Ryan's top 5 favorite Creed songs.... The post Mark Order 157: There's No Canada Like French Canada appeared first on Shining Wizards Network.

It's Wednesday Night, and You Know What That Means. It's a brand new episode of the Mark Order Podcast! Kate, Ryan, and Joe are here to cover all things All Elite Wrestling by reviewing Dynamite, discussing the past week in AEW, and having a whole lot of fun doing it. Along with their regular review, the gang talks about opening day in baseball and Ryan's top 5 favorite Creed songs. This is a must-listen show if you're a fan of AEW, so be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to us on YouTube!

This week we're back on our conspiracy theory ish!!!   This week is another end of the world/NWO theory .....BUT this one involves holograms and laser beams!!!   So hold on to your butts  as we explore this wacky conspiracy theory straight from the bowels of French Canada!! As always follow us on the stuff Merch Store- http://tee.pub/lic/doEoXMI_oPI Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/Artandjacobdoamerica Website- https://artandjacobdoamerica.com/ Network- https://podbelly.com/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/artandjacobdoamerica YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rT6h3N2pWtlkxaqgIvaZw?view_as=subscriber Twitter- https://twitter.com/ArtandJacobDoA1 Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/artandjacobdoamerica/   ALSO! Make sure you're checking out our sponsors  https://cavemancoffeeco.com Suiker Apparel: Graphic Statement Tees & Accessories   Use Promo code "AMERICA" for 15% off at Caveman Coffee  Use Promo code "Artandjacob" for 10% off at Suiker Apparel  

Quebec lawyer and Director of French Canada for the Justice Centre Olivier Séguin tells us about a case where a teacher is suing the provincial government to get rid of its guide on transgender issues for schools. The teacher had been ordered by her to school administration to hide a 14-year-old's female-to-male social transition from her parents. The school thought it was following the law, but the Ministry of Education's guide appears to be misleading. Mr. Séguin gives some context as to how this case fits into the province's politics as Quebec parents wake up to the woke agenda.Justice Centre, Feb 20, 2024: Quebec teacher challenges Education Minister's gender transition policyThe Canadian Press via CTV News, Sep 1, 2023: Quebec police probe threats after school says nonbinary teacher prefers Mx. pronounThe National Post, Jan 17, 2024: Montreal doctor suspended for three months after argument over patient's pronounsThe Canadian Press via Global News, Sep 12, 2023: No to mixed-gender bathrooms in Quebec schools, says education ministerRebel News, Mar 1, 2024: Une enseignante conteste la directive de l'école concernant la divulgation de l'identité de genreTheme Music "Carpay Diem" by Dave StevensSupport the show

Two weeks in a row we're covering another ALL AMERICAN CRYPTID! This time we take a trip down to Louisiana and explore the legend of the ROUGAROU! Immigrating from France (and/or French Canada) , The Rougarou is the Cajun's answer to the old fashioned werewolf tale. Don't skip lent or he's gonna Getcha!!! So strap in once more as we take a look at this fanatic beast ...and try to tame it. As always follow us on the stuff Merch Store- http://tee.pub/lic/doEoXMI_oPI Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/Artandjacobdoamerica Website- https://artandjacobdoamerica.com/ Network- https://podbelly.com/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/artandjacobdoamerica YouTube Channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0rT6h3N2pWtlkxaqgIvaZw?view_as=subscriber Twitter- https://twitter.com/ArtandJacobDoA1 Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/artandjacobdoamerica/   ALSO! Make sure you're checking out our sponsors  https://cavemancoffeeco.com Suiker Apparel: Graphic Statement Tees & Accessories  

Part 2 of our conversation with Marc about the French speaking part Canada!If you'd like to tell us about your culture, contact us on Instagram or email!Emailalifeindublin@gmail.comOur Instagram Pageinstagram.com/a_life_in_dublin/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inspired by the diversity of cultures we can see here in Ireland, Mark and Eoin, are going to explore the cultures of the world, celebrating our differences and uncovering our similarities.One lovely listener, Marc, got in touch with us about his culture, French Canada We make a terrible attempt to learn more about the Canadian culture and have a bit of a laugh at the same time.If you'd like to tell us about your culture, contact us on Instagram or email!Emailalifeindublin@gmail.comOur Instagram Pageinstagram.com/a_life_in_dublin/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we share Chris and Rachel's interview with Rémi Morin, father of a daughter who uses AAC user full time, a daughter who uses AAC part time, and a daughter who does not use AAC. He shares some of his many insights gained as the parent of an AAC user, including how he came across AAC as an option of this daughters, and, when he couldn't find a Canadian French version of LAMP Words for Life, he created his own!   Before the interview, Chris shares about a recent experience he had as moderator for a panel of students to talk about their disabilities for the State Educational Technology Director's Association, including the standing ovation at the end for the students!   Sometimes, Rémi's daughter who uses AAC full time needs a lot of modeling of a word before she will use it, and she often needs to see it in multiple contexts. Rémi says he must be “tenacious” when teaching her words.   Key ideas this week:  

Brian chats with serial entrepreneur, social innovator, and author Miki Agrawal. As the founder of disruptive ventures Tushy, Thinx, and Wild, Miki is known for challenging the status quo and driving cultural change. She is also the author of best-selling books Do Cool Sh*t and Disrupt-Her. On the episode, Miki dives deep into her experience building multiple 100-million-dollar businesses. She also shares the questions she asks before starting a new business and opens up about how some of her hardest times have led to growth. Episode Highlights Mission-driven businesses do well and good. Miki defines a mission-driven business as a company that does good and well at the same time. As a member of a board on conscious capitalism, she's witnessed how companies that create socially conscious business models perform better financially, too. “It's a company that looks at the stakeholders versus just the shareholders,” Miki said. “Having not just a revenue-focused target but also an impact target is important.” Three questions to ask before starting a business. Before she starts a new business, Miki asks herself three questions: What sucks in my world? Does it suck for a lot of people? Can I be passionate about it for a really long time? “There's a saying that it takes 10 years to be an overnight success,” Miki said. “When I think about starting Tushy or Thinx or Wild, they are all things I could be really passionate about for a really long time.” 90% of success is action. Miki likes the saying that 90% of working out is putting on your running shoes and walking out the door. She attributes a similar action-first mindset to success in business, too. If you're inspired and take action, you may end up somewhere miraculous. “If you have an idea in your head, take the first step,” she said. “Talk is cheap. Action speaks louder than words.” Question everything. Miki attributes her success to her desire to creatively solve problems to the best of her ability. She also credits her culturally diverse upbringing in French Canada, where she grew up with a Japanese mother and Indian father in a Hindu-Buddhist household. “We got a chance to not conform,” she said. “When you don't conform, you get to really question everything. And when you get to question everything, you invent new possibilities.” Resources + Links Miki Agrawal: Website, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest Books: Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman, Do Cool Sh*t Tushy: Website, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Threads, YouTube  Thinx: Website, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter Wild: Website, Instagram, Facebook  Brian Thompson Financial: Website, Newsletter, Podcast Follow Brian Online: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Forbes About Brian and the Mission Driven Business Podcast Brian Thompson, JD/CFP, is a tax attorney and certified financial planner who specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning to LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs who run mission-driven businesses. The Mission Driven Business podcast was born out of his passion for helping social entrepreneurs create businesses with purpose and profit. On the podcast, Brian talks with diverse entrepreneurs and the people who support them. Listeners hear stories of experiences, strength, and hope and get practical advice to help them build businesses that might just change the world, too.

We will detail final battles defending Quebec from French Canada's last-ditch offensive and the surrender at Montréal.   

Unreasonable POC attacks! Spoiled counter-productive students, unions, and nurses! Need more atheists, not God, in America! The Hake Report, Thursday, October 5, 2023 AD Hake on Modern-Day Debate tonight 5 PM PT (8 ET): Are Men Ignored by Society? (MDD YouTube) — also see Hake's Blog Post for the appearance. TIME STAMPS * (0:00:00) Start (stream works today!)* (0:00:29) Topics: blacks, Muslims, news, atheists in America* (0:01:50) Hey, guys! The Big Stick (USS Iowa) tee* (0:03:07) Are men ignored by society? Hake on MDD today!* (0:04:52) Muslims hit a white young man in French Canada?* (0:13:50) Black gal caught stealing, "Walmart is racist!"* (0:17:03) CVS employee called cops on shoplifters, gal protests* (0:20:47) NY AG Letitia James: "The Donald Trump Show is over."* (0:26:36) Anti-2A prop: 1300 children goners this year!* (0:32:25) Chester Bennington family pic before self-harm* (0:40:30) ALEXIS, IL: Should I work on the airport tarmac??* (0:50:03) Hottest year 2023: "Gobsmackingly bananas!" - climate scientist* (0:53:07) Student loan "forgiveness" by Biden* (0:57:55) "Have" - Okay (2005, High Road)* (1:01:38) Supers: N-word, MDD snake pit, fellowship, drag queen* (1:10:29) Drew Barrymore and union strikes (Kaiser hospitals)* (1:21:42) ART, OH: Airport women, Chicago, Jamaal Bowman* (1:31:11) JAIME, MN: Trump speech to auto union, electric cars* (1:40:09) Street preacher signs: God's conditional love, dressing immodestly* (1:41:59) We need more atheists, not God, in America (Wash Post, Kate Cohen)* (1:52:25) RICK, VA: Trump as Speaker of the House?* (1:56:19) "Matilda the Gorilla" - Mary Rice HopkinsBLOG https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2023/10/5/the-hake-report-thu-10-5-23 PODCAST by HAKE SubstackLive M-F 9-11 AM PT (11-1 CT / 12-2 ET) Call-in 1-888-775-3773 – thehakereport.com  VIDEO  YouTube  |  Rumble*  |  Facebook  |  X  |  BitChute  |  Odysee*  PODCAST  Apple  |  Spotify  |  Castbox  |  Substack  (RSS)  *SUPER CHAT on asterisked above, or  BuyMeACoffee  |  Streamlabs  |  Ko-fi  SUPPORT HAKE  Substack  |  SubscribeStar  |  Locals  ||  SHOP  Teespring  ALSO SEE  Hake News on The JLP Show  |  Appearances (other shows, etc.)  JLP Network:  JLP  |  Church  |  TFS  |  Hake  |  Nick  |  Joel  |  Hassan   Get full access to HAKE at thehakereport.substack.com/subscribe

Celebrity chef and cookbook author Ricardo Larrivée has been called the Martha Stewart of French Canada. We revisit his conversation with Matt Galloway from April, when Larrivée left his TV kitchen after 21 seasons and nearly 3,000 episodes.

Life isn't always ideal—there are seasons where we wonder how we can do it all. Annik Boily, a Platinum from French Canada, shares uplifting and encouraging advice for those who are building their business during the times of life that they didn't plan on happening. According to Annik, personal development and having a vision can get you anywhere. And even miracles take a little time.

This week is all about showing Leiann another film that she has not seen.  It's the 2008 French/Canada co production from 2008, Martyrs written and directed by Pascal Laugier.   Martyrs is a movie that I have been wanting to cover for quite some time and since Leiann had never seen it....what better time than now.  We do spoil this movie so if you haven't seen it, you can watch it before or watch along as you listen to us.   #skewereduniversepodcast #skewereduniverse #podcast #horror #horrorpodcast #horrormovies #movies #martyrsmovie #frenchhorror #pascallaugier #frenchhorrormovies Want to connect with Skewered Universe on Social Media? Head on over to Facebook and check out our page @ https://www.facebook.com/SkeweredUniverse Or join the Facebook group @ facebook.com/groups/skewereduniversepodcast Find us on the Threads app: Skewered Universe Podcast or check us out on Instagram: skewered_universe_podcast You can email the show @ skewereduniversepodcast@gmail.com  Get the show directly on your web browser or mobile device @ https://skewereduniversepodcast.podbean.com/ or download the free Podbean app in the App Store or Google Play and seach Skewered Universe Podcast Skewered Universe Podcast can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, Listen Notes,  TuneIn.com, Podcaast Addict, ListenNotes, Pandora and PlayerFM Audio only episodes are also available on our YouTube channel Official Skewered Universe Podcast For all the links in one easy to digest place, check out www.skeweredhead.com where you can also listen to the podcast right in your browser and easily contact the show too!   Want to support the show?  You can join our Patreon @ patreon.com/skewereduniversepodcast  Become a patron and enjoy exclusive transmissions episodes and bonus commentary tracks are coming soon! Looking to start your own podcast?  Skewered Universe is a proud affiliate of Podbean! Click the link to get started and get a month of podcast hosting FREE with a paid plan! https://www.podbean.com/skeweredufree Intro and outro created using: Take the Lead by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4458-take-the-lead License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Celebration by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/5051-celebration License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  

We will look at French Canada and the growing rivals in north America. then we will detail the first 2 years of the King William's War

An extra voice on the pod this week and one, that as you will find out, is normally banished to a darkened room to labour away on his near-never-ending task.A bit like TCD (sorry Lucy) it must have seemed like such a good idea at the time, I mean what could be better than getting to listening to, and then catalogue, all the bits of music that your favourite band has ever committed to tape...other than perhaps the sheer bloody scale of it.Anyway James kindly gave of his time to explain how his side-hustle came about, and what an important little cog he has become when it comes to both the 'remasters' and 'making-of' projects.No prizes for guessing how well I compete with catalogued hard facts. I wouldn't call me as a defence witness...Enjoy the coronation - I'm off to French Canada to swear allegiance to Quebec!hTCD Merch StoreBecome Purple and support the showThe Invisible Man Volume 1: 1991-1997The Invisible Man Volume2: 1998-2014FacebookInstagramWebsite

Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon audiobook. Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in the city; the second, Paul Junior, tougher and down-to-earth, continues life on the farm. The story deals with troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships. Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that no one has heard of. It was well received in both its English and French editions, but is today hard to find, especially in the original English. Silenced Sextet (1993), a study of 19th-century Canadian women authors whose works were initially popular but later slipped into obscurity, offers this assessment: “it is a mature novel, valuable f Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadians of Old by Philippe Aubert de Gaspe audiobook. In his mid-70s, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé took on the project of recording the culture and heritage of French Canada, especially that of the late 1700s, the world of his youth. The result, published in French in 1863, was the historical fiction "Les Anciens Canadiens (literally, “The Canadians of Old”). In this book, inspired by the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott, Aubert de Gaspé collects the customs, traditions, folk tales, superstitions, and songs of the Quebec people, weaves in memories of life in his own ancestral home, and sets all this within the momentous historical events that transformed Canada in the 18th century. Much of the book is historically accurate, based sometimes on the author's own experiences and sometimes on memories passed on to him by eyewitnesses. For example, the account of being sent to debtor's prison came from the author's own experience. The fantastic ghost story of “La Corriveau” was based on the true story of a murderess whose body was on public display in iron chains (a “cage”) for weeks after her execution. That initial incident had already blossomed into material for lurid legend; Aubert de Gaspé was the first to incorporate this legend into a work of literature. The book's storyline hinges on the British Conquest of Quebec in 1759 and the ensuing trauma caused to French Canada. Fictional characters are intertwined with historical figures such as a famous shipwreck survivor and specific military officers. This book is an engaging window on cultural history and one of the first great works of French Canadian literature. The English translator of this edition, Charles G. D. Roberts, was himself a distinguished author. He has been called “the father of Canadian poetry.” - Summary by Bruce Pirie *Warning: Listeners may be offended by some of the racial labels and depictions. Words that were considered acceptable in the nineteenth century may be offensive today.

Mary Dunn (St. Louis University) discusses her recent book on disease, illness and religion in French Canada over the 17th and 18th centuries. Mary begins with some background on Canada in the period, then moves to discuss some of the main sources from the period and their authors - the Jesuits. The main part of the interview examines some of the illness narratives Mary found in the sources and some of the stories they told about healing. Mary also shares some of her thoughts of how disability studies can contribute to our thinking about the past, and about her personal connection with her sources based on her own life experiences.

On this episode we speak to Kerry Chaput, the author of the historical fiction novel Daughter of the King. Kerry has done tons of research about the late 17th-century practice of young French girls moving to French Canada as “daughters of the king” (filles du roi) to marry settlers. Over 800 girls and women moved to the French colony between 1663-1673, with King Louis XIV as their official sponsor. These girls came from all walks of life and faced both unique privileges and challenges by enlisting as daughters of the king. Kerry talks about their lives as well as the lives of the indigenous people the settlers encountered. She also gives us a glimpse into the world of her novel, which revolves around a young Protestant girl who converts to Catholicism and moves to Canada in order to survive. We hope you find this story as fascinating and exciting as we did! Stay tuned at the end for a sneak peak of her upcoming novel, Chasing Eleanor, about First Lady, civil rights activist, and all-around baddie Eleanor Roosevelt!

  Welcome to the My Food Job Rocks Podcast, a podcast where we interview experts in the food industry and learn what they do, how they got there, and insights on the future of food. I'm your host and food scientist Adam Yee.  Today we're interviewing Jake Karls, Chief Rainmaker and Co-Founder of Mid-Day Squares a Canadian chocolate company that is killing it with its viral marketing techniques and innovative product Fun fact, my first job was for a Canadian candy company. In fact, there are several candy and bar companies over there so Mid-Day Squares is in good hands in terms of the talented canucks in French Canada.  Ok, so Jake has a super magnetic, charismatic personality and instantly, you will be captured by his tone and message. He's also flattering!   Jake pours his heart out here and talks about how he joined his sister's and brother-in-law's company after his second business failed. I think what most people miss in a lot of interviews is digging deep into Jake's past businesses and how that set him up for success for Mid-Day Squares. A lot of it is a great team and what better team than family? Authenticity is a big part of this interview and in my opinion, the most powerful way to be authentic is to talk about your past, because the way you talk about your path shows how you've reflected and grown. You'll hear a lot about what makes Jake, Jake. A big chunk of this interview is therapy and walking through tough situations. Especially as entrepreneurs, where you have the majority of the issues pile onto you, takes a toll. I burned out in my last startup, and I have some trauma whenever I think about how alone I felt.  I have to thank the Chief of Staff Jordainne Erichson, who's a fan of this podcast. That's right, the fans make this podcast sing. As I look back at all of the interviews, recently, the majority of these amazing interviews were because of the fans. So thank you!

This week we hear from Heather - Corney Scoop! We talk about her work within the gaming industry, moving to French Canada, and her experiences playing the french horn.  Heather, you've led a very interesting life.

In this episode, host Dr. JPB Gerald speaks with old friend Nadia Helal, a language teacher in French Canada, about her career and the axes of oppression that run rampant throughout the field. Buy Dr. Gerald's book here.

They were raised among French speaking families. Their ancestry traced through Nova Scotia and the maritime provinces. They were teased by Anglo troops when they went to war. They became of enormous value in France as translators. Louisiana Life Executive Editor Errol Laborde, along with podcast producer Kelly Massicot, talk with Jason Theriot, a Lafayette-based historian whose upcoming book "Frenchies" profiled Cajuns who went to war and whose work inspired an exhibit at the National World War II Museum. Now he has expanded his base by studying troops from French Canada. Were there any similarities to their war experience? Oh yes, we will also hear about common last names such as LeBlanc heard in both areas.

Last time we spoke the reluctant Lord Elgin took up the job as the new emissary to China. Alongside his french counterpart Baron Gross, both men would overlook their military coalitions expedition in China to force the Qing emperor to abide by their treaty and some new demands. They began with a bombardment and occupation of the grand city of Canton and then Ye Mingchen was hunted down and arrested. Ye was replaced with a puppet named Pih-Kwei who would be nominally controlled by the European forces. Now the coalition would fight their way to Beijing to force an audience with Emperor Xianfeng, but something lied in their way, the famous Taku forts at the mouth of the Bei He River. Could the coalition fight past these legendary forts and strangle Beijing  enough to get their demands met?   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. #21 This episode is Part 3 of the Second Opium War: battles for the Taku Forts At high tide the Taku Forts were surrounded by water, the Bei He River became something like a natural moat. The entrance to the Bei He River was 200 yards in width, forcing the British and French warships into a bottleneck gauntlet with each shore holding 137 pieces of antiquated artillery. When the invaders arrived, the Qing forces quickly went to work creating earthwork walls with sandbags to bolster the defenses. The Qing forces presumed the European gunboats hulls were too deep and thus they would not risk entering the river until it was very high tide to avoid going aground. That presumption was a grave error as Seymour and Rigault were willing to risk it and mounted a surprise attack at 10am on May 20th. Elgin made one last ditch effort to get Tan to surrender peacefully, but Tan did not even bother to respond to Elgins message. Now in a similar fashion to the first opium war, as you might remember a large problem for the Qing was their outdated artillery. Their cannons were usually immobile, unable to aim at all degrees and angles. The Taku Fort cannons were aimed in such a way to hit warships at high tide, but the British-French force was going to attack during low tide. Alongside the Taku Forts cannons another defensive obstacle was a 7 inch thick boom made out of bamboo. The Europeans opened fire unleashed pure hell upon the forts and when the forts unleashed their own volley, literally all of their shots went over the European masts. To add insult to injury, the British sacrificed one of their ships, the Coromandel to ram into the boom which broke with ease. The Coromandal received a nasty gash in her hull, but the job had been done. As pieces of the boom floated away, the rest of the European armada began to steam through the gap while the Qing helplessly fired their cannons straight over their masts. The French ships Mitraille and Fusee alongside the British Cormorant fired upon 2 of the Taku Forts on the left bank while the French Avalance, Dragonne and British Nimrod fired upon the 3 forts on the right. The Chinese manning Gingalls had much better luck than the cannons, though it also came at the price of making the Europeans laugh watching men fall over from firing each shot. However not all was funny as Gingalls could be properly aimed unlike the cannons and managed to kill 5 British and 6 French while wounding another 61. Then tragedy happened when a gunpowder cache in one of the Taku forts accidentally exploded killing 100 Chinese. Alongside the invaders maelstrom of gunfire and the defenders despair at the futility of their cannons many began to panic. Even before many of the British and French forces began to land ashore, countless Qing forces were deserting the earthen parapet en masse. In desperation seeing his men flee, the Qing commander launched 50 fireboats stuffed with straw at the barbarian ships, only to see the fireships crash into the bank at the bend in the river. Not a single fireship was able to cause damage to the invaders. With the last ditch effort a complete failure, the commander of the Taku Forts went to the Temple of the Sea God and slashed his jugular vein with his sword killing himself.  The Viceroy of Zhili province was banished to the desolate border territory with Russia in the north. As he packed his bags, Emperor Xianfeng condemned the Viceroy's mismanagement of the Taku Fort defense as being “without plan or resource”. Elgin after witnessing the victory over the Taku Forts had a really interesting thing to say “Twenty-four determined men with revolvers, and a sufficient number of cartridges, might walk through China from one end to another.”  Back home in Britain Elgin was being praised and was rewarded likewise with carte blanche for all further military actions and negotiations. The new Prime Minister, Lord Derby, haha looks like those grand speeches worked out for him, well he sent Elgin a congratulatory dispatch “giving me latitude to do anything I choose, if only I will finish the affair.” The very same man who condemned British imperialism the year prior was now a warhawk. Lord Malmesbury became the new foreign minister replacing Lord Clarendon. Back in China, the European gunboats made their way up the Bei He River triumphantly towards the next Qing stronghold, Tianjin. Tianjin was around 30 miles away from Beijing. The 3 Plenipotentiaries stayed further behind at the Taku Forts for their own safety as Seymour and Rigault took the lead. As they steamed up the Bei He River, both the Fusee and Cormorant ran aground numerous time, but the Europeans found some very unlikely allies to help, the local Chinese. Turns out a lot of the populace absolutely hated their Manchu overlords and volunteered their tugboats free of charge to help the Europeans. Apparently when the Europeans tried to pay them many refused if it is to be believed.  On June 4th the European armada arrived at Tianjin without any resistance along the way. The Qing defenders at Tianjin morale was so low they were at the point of surrender. There was also a rumor spreading around that Emperor Xianfeng had been overthrown and replaced by a new dynasty who was willing to simply sign a new treaty with the Europeans. Seymour and Rigault advised Elgin he should stay at the Taku Forts for security, but he disregarded this and came up to the war party on May 26th. Elgin wrote in his diary as he made his way up the river. “Through the night watches, when no Chinaman moves, when the junks cast anchor, we laboured on, cutting ruthlessly and recklessly through that glancing and startled river which, until the last few weeks, no stranger keel had ever furrowed. Whose work are we engaged in, when we burst thus with hideous violence and brutal energy into these darkest and most mysterious recesses of the traditions of the past? I wish I could answer that question in a manner satisfactory to myself. At the same time there is certainly not much to regret in the old civilisation which we are thus scattering to the winds. A dense population, timorous and pauperised, such would seem to be its chief product. “ The Plenipotentiaries were quite surprised when they were met outside Tianjin by a detachment of local Qing officials and merchants who came looking for opium. Yes these were those types of middle men folks who were used to bribes and the lucrative business of moving opium. Despite the rumors, Emperor Xianfeng had not been overthrown, but he was willing to negotiate with the Europeans. Emperor Xianfeng sent commissioners to Tianjin in the hope of stopping the European advance to Beijing. Meanwhile with Tianjin not putting up a fight, Elgin wrote in his diary “[I have] complete military command of the capital of China, without having broken off relations with the neutral powers, and without having interrupted, for a single day, our trade at the different ports of the Empire.” The Europeans were treated with the utmost respect and the lavish temple known as the Supreme Felicity was used as headquarters for the Europeans. The Europeans transformed the temple by creating a bowling alley, they used its myriad of altars for washbasins and placed vanity mirrors in front of statues of the gods. This cultural vandalized would be an appetizer for events in the future. Two emissaries were sent by Emperor Xianfeng, both were commissioners, the first was the 74 year old Guiliang, a senior military officer. The other was a 53 year old Mongolian military officer. They met with the Europeans at the Temple of Oceanic Influences southwest of Tianjin. Elgin arrived on June 4th alongside 50 Royal marines and a band from the warship Calcutta to add some muscle.  The first meeting went…terribly. The commissioners had the authority to negotiate, but lacked carte blanche to finalize any deal. Elgin stormed out of the first meeting, completely blowing off this lavish buffet the Qing had set for the party to celebrate the new peace treaty. Elgin was well known to be courtes, but after spending 6 months in China had quickly learnt the only way to get Qing officials to act was to show some bravado. Elgin even wrote to his wife at the time “I have made up my mind, disgusting as the part is to me, to act the role of the ‘uncontrollably fierce barbarian.'” As Elgin stomped his feet walking off he made a threat that he would soon march upon Beijing, even though in truth the Europeans did not have the land forces to do so. Elgin left his brother to continue negotiations, Lord Frederick Bruce. One of Fredericks interpreters, Horatio Lay decided it was a good idea to use some Sturm und Drang and began to literally scream at the Qing commissioners whenever they talked about clauses in the new treaty. Lay even threatened to lay waste to Beijing and would slap the Emperor himself, this guy had some balls. Lay's abuse of the two commissioners became so bad, the men went around his head to speak to Putiatin and the American envoy William Reed. Reed sent a letter to Elgin asking him to help rein in the tyrannical Lay, but Elgin ignored the letter, wow. Putiatin asked Gros whom he knew had grown very close to Elgin, to intercede, but Gros declined to do so as he feared it would alienate his friendship to Elgin. The Qing then resorted to bribery, they tried to give Lay a horse, but Lay did not change his aggressive stance.  The negotiations were taking very long, it was the typical Chinese strategy of procrastination. Elgin was becoming livid and wrote in his diary about Reed and Putiatin “These sneaking scoundrels do what they can to thwart me and then while affecting to support the Chinese act as their own worst enemies.” Elgin also felt British parliament had failed to back him up. Elgin received a letter from the new Foriegn minister Lord Malmesbury on April the 9th, berating him for not concluding the peace treaty in due time. “A Cabinet has been held today and it is our anxious wish to see this Chinese business settled if it can be done without loss of honour and commercial interests as at present enjoyed. Our reputation is sufficiently vindicated at Canton and we do not look at the chance of a war with the Chinese Empire without much apprehension. I trust therefore that you will not engage us in a contest of this sort if you can possibly avoid it.” The negotiations over the terms of the new treaty stretched for 3 weeks and the Qing were rejecting two clauses the British absolutely wanted: free passage throughout China and for a permanent British and French embassy at the Qing imperial court. The two commissioners stated that accepting either of these would cost the men their lives. Gros and Putiatin began arguing that the permanent embassy point was not critical as long as their ministers had access to Beijing in some form. After much arguing the commissioners conceded to the two points and thus the Treaty of Tianjin was formed. The Europeans made sure to add a clause they henceforth they would no longer be called barbarians in official communications and treaties, though it should be noted the term used by the Chinese literally just meant “those who don't speak Chinese”.  The Treaty of Tianjin opened new ports for trade: Tianjin, Hangzhou and Nanjing. It should be noted the Qing were all too happy to toss Nanjing into the treaty as the Taiping were occupying it as their own capital. Perhaps if they were lucky, the Europeans would go to Nanjing, run into some trouble and attack the Taiping for them! Baron Gros raised concerns over the clauses as he argued Britain would have to bear even more military might to enforce the treaty. As Gros pointed out to Elgin, the Confucious principle, a promise made under duress does not need to be kept. Another item on the treaty clauses was the payment of 2 million taels of silver to Britain for the damage to their factories at Canton and another 2 million in general reparation. The French were to receive 2 million taels as well. Now the warnings Gros made concerned Elgin and he was having second thoughts. One major concern was the idea of extracting he enormous sums of money from what seemed to be an Empire on the verge of Bankruptcy. Elgin wrote back to the foreign minister, concerned that extracting the large sums of money would lead to the toppling of the Manchu rule “Everything we saw around us indicated the penury of the Treasury. To despair, by putting forward pecuniary claims which it could satisfy only by measures that would increase its unpopularity and extend the area of rebellion.” Elgin ended by saying the humiliating treaty would be a large beacon for the Taiping Rebels. William Reed recommended legalizing opium as a clause, arguing the tax revenue from it would benefit the Qing Empire. The British wanted a tariff of only 30 taels and the Cohong merchants supported this. Jardine & Matheson & co released a statement “The use of opium is not a curse, but a comfort and benefit to the hard-working Chinese.” Boy you can't get any more gross than that one. The French for their part performed a study of the opium problem in China. Baron Gros found that users who smoked upto 8 pipes per day had a life expectancy of only 6 years. Casual consumers could expect around 20 years after starting to smoke it, many died around the age of 50 or so. Opium addicts were found to be spending 2/3 ‘s of their income to feed their addiction. The Russians and Americans agreed with the French that the opium trade was horrible. The French however have little to nothing to say about another form of trade they took part in with China, the “pig trade”, that being the enslavement of coolies. Now you have to hear this one, this is so symbolic of the event as a whole. The translator for the treaty took forever because he was an opium addict. You just can't make this stuff up folks. The Russians agreed to the terms first on June 18th Putiantian signed off, making Elgin feel betrayed and abandoned because he still had qualms. What was really important to Russia was the border they shared with the Qing, it had been a source of much conflict. Thus Russia settled with a visiting ambassador to Beijing with no permanent status. Christianity received a formal toleration and the Russians got access to 2 more ports on Taiwan and Hainan. Five days later the Americans signed off on a similar agreement to the Russians. Both the Americans and Russians made sure to include the most favored nations clause in their treaties, which meant that whatever further concessions went to the British and French, they too would enjoy them. Thus the 2 nations who brought zero military aid and did basically nothing reaped the same benefits as the 2 nations shouldering everything, ain't that nice? Putiatin sent Elgin and Gros a copy of Russia's treaty urging them not to topple the manchu rule with too many humiliating concessions. Reed made a similar appeal. Gros reached an agreement on june 23rd and did not hesitate to sign the treaty because he did not want to undercut Elgin's negotiators, preferring to let them finish the job. The French also sought much less than Britain from the Chinese. A week after and the British had still not come to an agreement, Gros became impatient and sent Elgin a letter, that if the British did not sign soon the French would simply sail off. The British were stuck on two key issue; to have a permanent ambassador in Beijing and freedom to travel anywhere in China. The Chinese commissioners desperately sought the aid of Gros and Putiatin, indicating to them the Emperor was going to have them killed if they agreed to the two clauses. Elgin threatened to march on Beijing and it seems the commissioners were forced to give in. On June 26th the British Treaty of Tianjin was ratified. The Chinese would pay 5 million in war reparations, Christian missionaries would be allowed to work unhindered throughout China and 11 ports would be opened for trade. Taxes on imported goods would be set on a follow up meeting at Shanghai, and there 5% was agreed upon. Taxables goods would be silk, brocades and of course opium. The taxation agreement basically made opium legal in China, but without bringing the subject up. The Commissioners signed the treaty, but when they got back to Beijing, take a wild guess, the Emperor rejected the humiliating terms. Now Elgin failed to bring up the issue of the opium trade and its official legalization as were his instructions from Clarendon. Elgin probably felt since Clarendon lost his position he no longer had to respect the order. Clarendons successor Lord Malmesbury did not give a similar order. On July 3rd, 400 men and a naval band serenaded Elgin signing the Treaty of Tianjin at the Temple of Oceanic Influences under some paper lanterns. And despite the fact the commissioners, as they said it, were soon to be beheaded, they invited Elgin to a lavish dinner at the temple after the signing. At the dinner one of the commissioners, Hua Shan gave Elgin copies of some famous poetry. The next day, Baron Gross signed the French treaty but cheekily added some new demands that the commissioners were forced to abide by. He demanded the release of all Chinese christians imprisoned for their faith. Gros sent a triumphant report back home stating “Je suis heureux de pouvoir annoncer aujord-hui à Votre Excellence que la Chine s'ouvre enfin au Christianisme, source réelle de toute civilisation, et au commerce et à l'industrie des nations occidentales.” (“I am happy to be able to announce today to Your Excellence that China has at last opened itself to Christianity, the real source of all civilization, and to trade and the manufactures of the nations of the West.)” Back in Britain Elgins triumph was met with mixed reviews, though most were favorable. Elgins private secretary Laurence Oliphant, noted the impressive cost/benefit ratio of the casualties in his 1860 account of the campaign, ‘Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan': “Hostilities with the Empire of China had terminated with a loss to the British arms of about twenty men killed in action...and a treaty had been signed far more intensive in its scope, and more subversive of imperial prejudices than that concluded fifteen years before, after a bloody and expensive war, which had been protracted over a period of two years.” Karl Marx, yes the Karl Marx, was working at the time as the European correspondent of the New York Tribune wrote a letter to his writing partner Friedrich Engels on some thoughts towards the conflict  “The present Anglo-Chinese Treaty which in my opinion was worked out by Palmerston in conjunction with the Petersburg Cabinet and given to Lord Elgin to take with him on his journey is a mockery from beginning to end.” Karl Marx would have a lot more to say about the Taiping Rebellion, which is quite interesting given the rebellion is considered a proto marxist one. Elgin himself was quite depressed over the ordeal, he wrote this in his diary “I have an instinct in me which loves righteousness and hates iniquity and all this keeps me in a perpetual boil. Though I have been forced to act almost brutally I am China's friend in almost all this.” To try and raise the celebration somewhat, Elgin decided to take 5 ships up the Yangtze River as a demonstration of Britain's naval power and to discourage the Chinese from going back on the new treaty. However news of some raids against Canton forced him to pull be short. The new Viceroy of Canton named Huang had incited a rebellion rallying Canton residents to quote “Go forth in your myriads, then, and take vengeance on the enemies of your Sovereign, imbued with public spirit and fertile in expedients.” In July a group of Cantonese got their hands on some artillery and began to shell the British resident at Whampoa. The Cantonese mob followed this up by performing a raid after they heard about the humiliating terms of the treaty of Tianjin. During a short conference in Shanghai, Elgin demanded Viceroy Huang be removed. On top of the Canton problem, the two commissioners, Guiling and Hua Shan had reneged on the treaty clauses about allowing British ambassadors in Beijing. They sent a letter to Elgin stating that had agreed to such clauses under duress and suggested that future British ambassadors visit Beijing from time to time as diplomatic business warranted. They argued that because of large scale xenophobia in Beijing, they feared for the lives of any British dwelling there. Then 4 days later they added another excuse; they said that to allow British ambassadors to live in Beijing would generate fear and a loss of respect for the Qing government. Such further humiliation might very well topple the Manchu and allow the Taiping to take over. Elgin was somewhat swayed by the Taiping excuse and said he would pass their message onto his foreign officer. Elgin was also in a tough position as the fact a rebellion was occurring in Canton made it seem clear that guaranteeing the safety of British ambassadors in Beijing would not be an easy task. The French concurred with Elgin, that to have ambassadors in Beijing would be dangerous now. In the meantime Elgin had set up a 2 month survey of the Yangtze River using 2 gunboats to demonstrate Britains new right of travel throughout China. The idea had been to see if the local Chinese would obey the treaty clauses. Elgins tour wound up going past the Taiping capital of Nanjing and it is alleged a single cannon perched on a Nanjing wall fired upon Elgin's ships. Elgin's reprisal was pretty brutal, he sent a volley knocking out the Taiping cannon then ordered a 99 minute naval bombardment of Nanjing before sailing on. Eglin had planned to finish the trip by meeting with the Emperor and giving him a letter from Queen Victoria, but the worsening of the Canton situation forced him to pull back south. In February of 1859 Cantonese rebels ambushed and massacred 700 British marines around the countryside of Canton. In retaliation, General van Straubenzee, the military commander of 3000 troops in Canton, hunted down the headquarters of the rebels which they found at Shektsing a few miles south of the city and completely annihilated all those there and razed everything to the ground. The destruction of the rebel camp seems to have worked quite well as suddenly the Emperor sent word to ratify the treaty of Tianjin's clauses and had Huang removed from power and demanded the rebels disband. While Elgin dealt with the renewed China problem, his brother Frederick Bruce returned to Britain with the signed Treaty of Tianjin. Lord Malmesbury rewarded Bruce by naming him the first ambassador to China, a post Elgin would have received, but he was too wary of the post given the circumstances now. Elgin left China in March of 1859, taking the chance to link up and meet his brother in Sri Lanka in April as Bruce was on his way back to China. Now Bruce was not lets say, as great as his brother. He had recently been the Lt-governor of Newfoundland, then the Colonial secretary of Hong Kong. In all honestly a lot of his appointments were merely a result of him being Elgin's brother. But Bruce did have working knowledge of Chinese customs. Bruce arrived back at the mouth of the Bei He River on June 18th of 1859 alongside a force of 16 warships. Admiral Seymour had returned to London and was replaced by Rear-admiral James Hope. Unfortunately it seems Hope was even more racist and hated the Chinese more than Seymour. 3 days later the new American ambassador showed up John E Ward aboard a steamer, the Powhatan. The French representative, Anton de Bourbelon brought 2 warships with him as the French fleet had remained close by in Indo-China. Now Emperor Xianfeng wanted above all else to keep the Europeans the hell out of Beijing. The Emperor suggested right away that they ratify the new treaty at Shanghai, but all 3 of the European powers declined this. Many of the Emperors close advisors wanted to resist the foreigners taking up residence in Beijing. Some of these high ranking officials gave orders for 3 large bamboo booms, 3 feet thick to be strung across the Bei He river to block the foreigners advance. It looked like war was back on the menu and in a vain attempt Bruce tried writing a letter to Beijing politely asking the booms be removed. Well Bruce got no reply and this prompted Admiral Hope to ask permission to blow the booms apart. On June 21st, Hope sent captain Willes aboard a steamer to break through the first boom which went successfully, but the other 2 proved unbreakable. The British tried using some gunpowder but it just couldn't do the job, then to add insult to injury during the night the Qing repaired the first boom.  On June 25th Bruce received a letter from the Viceroy of Zhili, Heng Fu. Heng suggested the ambassadors lodge at Beitang, around 8 miles north of Beijing, basically it was a face saving gesture. The British however were armed to the teeth and had just undergone 3 annoying and long years of negotiations and war and had no patience. Bruce told Admiral Hope to attack the booms again. That afternoon Hope took his flagship Plover and attempted ramming the boom, but this time hit ship was stopped cold. The Qing had learnt a lesson from the previous conflict and this time had made the 2nd and 3rd booms out of full sized tree trunks sling together with heavy chains. As the Plover staled and the other European gunships had to stop just before it, all of a sudden the forts portholes were cast aside to reveal a full complement of 40 cannons and they opened fire. The first salvo took the head right off Plovers bow gunner and 3 other sailors fell wounded. For 3 hours Plover was pulverized. Hope unwisely stood on his deck wearing a gold braid basically showing the Chinese he was a high ranking official. A Qing sharpshooter landed a shot hitting Hope in his thigh. Hope fell on deck and was bound up by a surgeon as the Qing retaliated. For a rather surprising change, the Qing cannons, though still immobile were better aimed and managed to blow Hope's second in command and 8 other sailors to pieces, 22 others were wounded. Plovers hull eventually burst sinking the ship into the mud and this would lead to the deaths of countless crew. Hope believe it or not got up and rowed over to another ship, the Opossum and began standing on its deck in plain sight. Because of his thigh wound he had to hold onto a railing to hold himself upright and that said railing was hit by a Qing cannonball. The railing collapsed and Hope fell breaking several ribs, ouch. This prompted him to turn command over to Captain Shadwell. The Qing volleys managed to disable 5 of the invaders frontal gunships prompting Bruce to order 7 more which were 8 miles away to come forward and replace the damaged ones. By the evening, 5 British warships had been immobilized and 2 had run aground and one was a sitting duck for fort cannons.  The fort guns went silent in the early evening and the British officers took it to mean that the forts garrisons had fled like they had in the previous year. The landing parties surged ahead as planned and that was when disaster struck again. It turned out to be a ruse to entice the landing parties to storm the beach. The landing party soon found out to their horror 2 trenches were dug in front of the walls, filled with water and mud and some large iron spikes behind them. That was bad, but immediately when the marines got off their barges the muddy banks seized their feet leaving them helpless as the forts unleashed carnage upon them. Those lucky enough to make it to the trenches found the muddy water was too thick to swim. Many men in despair clambered beside the base of a fort wall to escape the trenches and gunfire. The Qing began setting off fireworks to illuminate the trapped marines as they fired upon them. Although America said it would remain neutral, Commodore Josiah Tattnall aboard the USS Powhatan was trying to get past the booms as well when he ran into the conflict. Tattnal was a veteran of the war of 1812 and like pretty much any American at the time disliked the British. Tattnal received word that Hope had been shot and upon witnessing the horror show he suddenly cast neutrality to the wind. Tattnal was from Georgia, a loyal southerner with a lets say, strong sense of racial pride…yeah we will call it that. Whatever hate he held for the British was cast aside as he suddenly screamed out “blood is thicker than water, I'd be damned if I stood by and watched white men butchered before my eyes!”. Tattnals charge forward hardly turned the tide of battle, it amount mostly to him towing more British marines forward to their horrific death. Some of his men grabbed and operated some British guns firing at the fort while Tattnall personally tended to Hope. A single american died and the breach of neutrality could have caused a catastrophe, but one thing it did do was set a new tone for British-American friendship. As the London times wrote “Whatever may be the result of the fight, England will never forget the day when the deeds and words of kindly Americans sustained and comforted her stricken warriors on the waters of the Bei He.” Around 7pm, as the Qing set off fireworks to illuminate the area, Captain Shadwell with 50 royal marines and French seamen led by the French commander Tricault landed on some muddy flats outside one of the Taku forts. They clamored through knee deep mud as the defenders rained Gingall fire down upon them at short range. The British-Franco force found themselves literally stuck in the mud, unable to use their wall scaling ladders to get over the fort. Shadwell sent word back to his superior that he and his men were pinned down and requested reinforcements to storm the Taku walls. There was no more fighting men available however, he was eventually order to limp back to the ships. The British and French suffered high casualties. Shadwell was wounded, Tricault was dead, and of the 1000 men who took part in the battle around half were killed or wounded, 29 of them officers. Many men dragged themselves or limped through mud to get back to their ships. A lot of these men were veterans of the Crimean war and had never tasted such defeat. One veteran of the battle of Balaclava said he would rather have relived that battle three times over than suffer the Taku Forts again. The gunboats, Lee, Plover and Cormorant were disabled, the Kestrel sank.  Admiral Hope sent a dispatch to the Admiralty showing his shock at how the Qing performed “Had the opposition they expected been that as usual in Chinese warfare, there is little doubt that the place would have been successfully carried at the point of the bayonet.” To try and save face, Bruce reported back to Britain that the sudden military prowess of the Qing forces at the Taku forts was because Russians were helping them. He alleged based on eyewitness testimony that some men in fur hats and European dress had been seen directing operations atop a Taku fort, it was mere bullshit. The real reason for the Qing victory was because of Prince Senggelinqin. Senggelinqin was a mongol cavalry commander that had helped the Qing crush a large army of Taiping rebels. He was a member of the Borjigin clan and the 26th generation descendant of Qasar, a brother to Genghis Khan. He led Qing forces to smash the Taiping during the Northern Expedition in the southern suburbs of Tianjin. When the Second Opium War broke out he was appointed Imperial commissioner in charge of the defense of Tianjin. Seng rejoiced in his well earned victory. He wrote back to the emperor acknowledging the British and French might return with more ships, but asserted confidently he would thrash them again and again “the pride and vainglory of the barbarians, already under severe trial, will immediately disappear. When that happens, China can then enjoy some decades of peace. The barbarians, already somewhat disillusioned and repentant, may lend themselves to persuasion and be brought under control. If they of their own accord should wholeheartedly become obedient, then peace would be secure and permanent.” The Emperor responded with caution “the foreigners may harbor secret designs and hide themselves around nearby islands, waiting for the arrival of more soldiers and ships for a surprise attack in the night or in a storm” Emperor Xianfeng still shared a sense of relief and expressed hope the foreigners needs for Chinese goods would mean that they could sort out their problems in Shanghai and that there would be no need for ambassadors in Beijing nor new treaties. Seng also pointed out during the battle the Americans got involved. “Although the starting of hostilities was by the English barbarians, France and America's cooperation in the melee is also inescapable.” Seng based his claim off intelligence extracted from a Canadian POW named John Powers. John claimed to be a neutral American in an attempt to escape imprisonment. The Chinese did not free him and instead used him as proof the Americans had abandoned neutrality. Seng much like most Chinese at the time were weak on Western Geography and assumed Canada was part of the United States, sad Canadian noises. At one point an American missionary who spoke Chinese tried to explain to Seng the difference between English and French Canada and the United States, Seng described the experience in a letter to the Qing imperial court. “[The missionary] stated that America contained Englishmen and Frenchmen, and when there was fighting, the flag was the only criterion.” Eventually John was released after a month, the Qing simply did not want to add America to a list of growing enemies. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me.  The battle for the Taku Fort was an absolute catastrophe resulting in humiliation for the Europeans for once. Prince Seng had a grand victory, perhaps now the foreign barbarians would learn their lesson and stop their war. Or perhaps the Europeans would like their wounds and come right back.  

The British and French face off in a battle over Montreal for nothing less than the survival of French Canada.

In 1776 a massive British fleet of more than 400 ships carrying tens of thousands of soldiers arrived outside New York Harbor. Many of these soldiers were German, hired from their princes by the British government. Americans then and now have called them Hessians. For the next seven years, these German soldiers marched, fought, and suffered seemingly everywhere in eastern North America, from the walls of Quebec City to the sandy beaches of Pensacola Bay. When the British army left, many Germans were left behind–both the living, deserters who had found new lives or others who settled with Loyalists in Canada, and the dead. Just this summer, on the battlefield of Fort Mercer, across from Philadelphia, an archaeological dig discovered a grave with the remains of thirteen German soldiers–and that just a fraction of the Germans who died in that place on October 22nd, 1777.  With me to describe the Hessians and their American odyssey is Friederike Baer, Associate Professor of History  at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College, and author of the new book Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War.      For Further Investigation Friederike writes, "for those interested in researching their Hessian ancestors, try this database of records at Hessian State Archives, Marburg, Germany and the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association (which also publishes an annual journal) A digitized collection of maps related to the Revolutionary war in the Hessian State Archives Marburg, Germany (collections 28 and 29)  "A classic to read is" Edward J. Lowell, The Hessians and the other Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. Port Washington, 1965; orig. publ. 1884. "A study with focus on troops from Hessen-Kassel is" Rodney Atwood, The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. "On German prisoners of war see" Daniel Krebs, A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013 and Kenneth Miller, Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. "Stephen Conway has published extensively about Britain's use of foreign troops more broadly." Read Stephen Conway. Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. See also Mark Wishon, German Forces in the British Army: Interactions and Perceptions, 1742-1815. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. And here's a list of particularly informative published primary records:  Marvin L. Brown and Marta Huth. Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution: Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783. University of North Carolina Press, 1965. Helga Doblin, ed. An Eyewitness Account of the American Revolution and New England Life: The Journal of J.F. Wasmus, German Company Surgeon, 1776-1783. New York: Greenwood, 1990.  Helga Doblin and Mary C. Lynn, eds. The American Revolution, Garrison Life in French Canada and New York: Journal of an Officer in the Prinz Friedrich Regiment, 1776-1783. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. Helga Doblin and Mary C. Lynn, eds. The Specht Journal: A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. Charlotte S. J. Epping, ed. Journal of Du Roi the Elder, Lieutenant and Adjutant, in the Service of the Duke of Brunswick, 1776-1778. Americana Germanica 15. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania, 1911. Bernhard A. Uhlendorf, ed. Revolution in America: Confidential Letters and Journals 1776 -1784 of Adjutant General Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957.

After 34 years in the printing industry, Patrick Grenier needed a new challenge, so he joined the PreRoll-ER company, and since then, it's been a blast! The cannabis world is full of opportunities and so active ... not a day passes without a smile here. Discussed this week: living in French Canada, a smattering of French vocab, PTSD and CBD, having a kick-ass wife, ten pills a day, potato chips, disappointing subway sandwiches, winter squash, Botch, alcoholic confectionaries, dos leche, bubblegum icecream, niche markets, compaction, that milkshake-sucking feeling, flat-tops and dust crowns, the anxiety of barbeque-side joint rolling, the universal dog walk excuse, Loom Busters, replacing an entire soccer team worth of people with a machine, and more! PreRollER: https://preroll-er.com/ Patrick: pgrenier@procepack.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/potluckypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/potluckypodcast/support

September 27: Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest1581–1660Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of all charitable societies, hospitals, and leprosy victimsA powerhouse priest organizes multitudes for charity and renews priestly formationToday's saint was one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of saintly men and women whose light rejuvenated Catholicism in seventeenth-century France. Saint Vincent de Paul established charitable societies that have endured to this day. He also founded male and female religious orders that still thrive in the twenty-first century. He was a trusted counselor to bishops, cardinals, and royalty. His ideas reformed how seminarians and priests were trained so fundamentally that this vision became normative for the world-wide Church. He was the hub of many spokes: a close friend of Saint Francis de Sales, his own co-founder Saint Louise de Marillac, and the almost-saint Pierre de Bérulle. Saint Vincent had a great influence over Jean-Jacques Olier, the founder of the Sulpician Order and a prime mover behind the group of French Catholics who risked everything to found Ville-Marie de Montreal, the explicitly Catholic settlement at the farthest edge of French Canada. Our saint also inspired Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, the lay intellectual who established the Saint Vincent de Paul Societies so commonly found in parishes throughout the world.Few saints achieved as much as Vincent de Paul. He stood at the core of an evolving group of similarly minded French saints who left an impact like a meteor on the face of the Church. So, although he cannot be understood apart from the charitable Society that bears his name, neither can his achievements be confined to that Society alone. Saint Vincent tried to use his education and personal charm to correct the errors of Jansenism, an overly rigorous spiritual and moral approach to the Christian life that infected wide swaths of the French faithful. When his personal efforts were unproductive, he became more polemical and was instrumental in procuring a papal denunciation of Jansenism.Our Saint's contributions to the renewal of the life of the clergy were notable. He was a proponent and founder, along with de Bérulle, of the so-called French school of spirituality, which has been so universally adopted in priestly formation that there is, in reality, no other approach. This spirituality combines asceticism, practical and active concern for the poor, a missionary drive to the unconverted, a sophisticated theological education, simple and direct preaching, and a total reliance on the Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity in seeking to do the will of God. These high ideals, this total approach, also inspired Vincent's near contemporaries Saints John Eudes, Louis de Montfort, and Jean-Baptiste de La Salle to become who they were. To be a man of action and contemplation. To be educated but able to discourse with the simple. To focus on the salvation of souls but also on the material concerns of the needy. To be fully a priest but to have wide circles of lay friends and followers. This was the vision of Saint Vincent de Paul for all priests, and the vision he himself put into action in his own life. He was a force of nature who stormed through life for the glory of Christ alone. Devotion to Saint Vincent followed soon after his death. He was canonized in 1737. His remains are displayed for veneration in a glass coffin above the altar in the ornate chapel of the Vincentian Fathers in central Paris, not far from the chapel of the Miraculous Medal. A partially concealed staircase allows access for the faithful to see the great man up close.Saint Vincent de Paul, you worked tirelessly for the poor, orphans, and widows. You gathered around yourself numerous helpers. Your primary motivation was not social justice but the pure will of God. Inspire us to be so committed, so dedicated, and so faithful.

As broadcast September 21, 2022 with plenty of extra poutine for your frites.  Tonight we head to Montreal for an exploration of that culturally and musically gifted city's fare, as an amazing smattering of artists from Leonard Cohen to Men I Trust hail from the lovely island city in the middle of the St. Laurence.  Smashing stuff from indie rock to folk to that distinctive Montreal Chill awaits on this trip that is not to be missed!Tracklist (st:rt)Part I (00:00)Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)Hanorah – If Life Were A MovieLaurence-Anne – Instant ZeroAlex Burger – Sweet Montérégie TOPS – I Feel AliveBlue Material – Cosmic Thunder Part II (32:00)1969 Collective – Pleure pas pour moiLa Force – Mama PapaBaladeur – JauneLes Louanges – BoleroYoung & Sick feat MUNYA – ANGELSMen I Trust – Hard To Let GoHubert Lenoir feat Bonnie Banane - OCTEMBRE Part III (63:39)Milk & Bone – PeachesMen I Trust – Tailwhip J.A.M. – MINABLEKAYTRANADA – YOU'RE THE ONELeonard Cohen – HallelujahLeonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne Part IV (95:17)John Jacob Magistery – CarolWolf Parade – Shine a LightSimple Plan - Welcome To My Lifezouz - Auréole이하이 (LeeHi) – ONLYOOHYO - Reggae 

Hear how to make your business better, remotely It should be no surprise to you that as an anthropologist specializing in helping companies change, I loved my interview with Liam Martin. As we've all experienced, the pandemic has dramatically changed what we think of as “normal.” In particular, the meaning of work has changed and continues to, as each generation moves into the workforce with different values, beliefs and behaviors. Businesses, both small and large, are trying to recruit, retain and develop their talent pool, only to find that today's workers have very different ideas about what matters to them, reflecting fundamental societal questions about what “really matters” to each of us. Enjoy. Watch and listen to our conversation here Today's podcast contains very valuable data, information and insights about how to manage a remote or hybrid workforce Think of it as today's future way of working. But, as so many of our clients are asking, how do you manage a remote workforce, particularly since women really have embraced remote work? My guest Liam Martin, co-founder of a remote-first company which grew eight figures with people in 43 different countries and no office, says, "Remote work has been our way of working for more than 10 years. We observed that almost 99% of new remote companies during the pandemic could not figure out one thing common to all successful remote-first companies: asynchronous communication, the bedrock of every successful remote business. Here are a few of the new counterintuitive principles Liam and I discuss:  Introverts climb to the top faster in remote-first companies because their thoughtfulness is seen as an asset, not a liability. In remote-first organizations, charismatic leaders are not required; in fact, charisma is one of the biggest barriers to business growth, regardless of whether the company is remotely located or not.  Remote teams operate on autonomy, and contrary to popular belief, the more automated measurements you have within your organization, the more freedom you have.  Remote-first companies have, on average, half as many managers as on-premises companies. Management in remote first-organizations is redundant. Contact Liam via LinkedIn or his two websites: Time Doctor and Running Remote.  Enjoy our conversation. Rethink your own organization. It may be time to change. Perhaps we can help you visualize a new business model for the future—which is really today! Please contact us here.  Want to know more about successfully taking your company remote? Start here. Blog: How Are You Changing How You Work? Is It Working? Blog: The Future Of Work: 5 Most Important Trends To Watch Blog: Virtual Organizations, Hybrid Organizations, And The Most Amazing Workplaces For Tomorrow? Podcast: Teresa Douglas—Unleashing Those Secrets To Working Remotely Additional resources for you My two award-winning books: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business and On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants   {{cta('20db9f83-fb49-4483-b118-61d915909275','justifyleft')}} Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. Hi, I'm Andi Simon. As you know, I'm your host and your guide. I'm also a bit of an explorer. And I go looking for really interesting people who are going to help you see, feel and think in ways so you can soar. These are indeed fast-changing times and so the more unusual people I can bring to you, the happier I am. I'm amazed at where people are listening to our podcasts. So thank you, you've pushed us to the top 5% of podcasts across the globe and that's a pretty impressive place to be. And we're now at 327 podcasts, so we just keep going, trying to find great folks. Today I'm quite honored to have Liam Martin with me. Liam has a very interesting story to share with you about the world that we're in. And I'm going to ask him some questions about what is work, what's remote work. I have my own clients who are trying to bring their employees back into the office. And the employees are saying, "Why?" And they're saying, "Why not? We miss you." And they say, "But we don't miss the commute. And we don't mind working out of the house, and we're getting much more productive and we're actually having a life." It's a very interesting time, even as we go post-pandemic. It's hard to know what's going on and who's coming back, and how to use remote and what we've learned wisely. And I think that's the lesson to be learned today. So let me introduce you to Liam. Liam is a serial entrepreneur. He runs something called Time Doctor and staff.com, one of the most popular time-tracking and productivity software platforms in use by top brands today. He's also co-organizer of the world's largest remote work conference, Running Remote, and he'll tell you a little bit about it because it's already happened. I think you're going to wait for next year to make sure you can get there as well. Liam is an avid proponent of remote work and has published in all the major publications. He targets expansion of remote work, not because it's a gig but because it really does work for work. And I've been talking and doing research a lot about what is work, where do we work? When is the home not a home? How can we talk about life-work balance? It's sort of blended, and the pandemic was a catalytic moment for change. And I love change. But it's also been a catalytic moment for wondering about the core values we've got. Liam, thank you for joining me today. Liam Martin: Thanks for having me, Andi. I'm super excited to be able to get into this subject, because I think we're going to be able to get a little bit deeper than the average podcast. Andi Simon: Well, I think that's what I hope to do. I refuse to say: give me three things to talk about. You have a new book out called Running Remote. And it's focused on remote work methodology. And it's a revolutionary guide. And for the listener and the viewer, it is revolutionary because it isn't simply about what you ought to do, it's also how you should do it and why you should do it. But it raises those fundamental questions we're asking, like, what is work? And how do you get it done? And then how do you review the people who are working this way? And what are all the four things that we have in our company? Liam, tell us about you. Who's Liam, how'd you get here? Why is remote work so important to you? Liam Martin: So first off, I'm currently in a chalet in northern Canada. I'm from French Canada. So I'm fluent in both French and English. And I've been working remotely for almost 20 years. I definitely was doing it before everyone thought it was cool. And the reason why I was doing that was, I actually dropped out of my Ph.D. They gave me a professorship, which was a master's degree for dropping out. And I remember teaching my very first class at McGill University. I was incredibly excited about this because this is where I was going in my career. I started with 300 students and ended up with less than 150. And the worst academic reviews in the history of the department. The department had been up and running for 186 years. So pretty bad. I remember walking into my supervisor's office and looking him very squarely in the face and I said, "I don't think I'm very good at this." And he said, "No, you are not." And I said, "Okay, so what do you think I should do?" He said, "You have to get pretty good at this teaching thing over the next 10 to 20 years before you get to do anything really fun. So figure out how to get better at that or figure out how to do something else." Six weeks later, after I put a master's thesis under his door, I was out into the real world. And that's where I actually started my very first business which was an online tutoring company. And I grew that to dozens of tutors throughout North America and Europe, but I ended up actually really working for the business. I was working 18-hour days. I remember actually chipping one of my teeth. When I went to the dentist to be able to check the tooth, you sat down, you've got the big white light, the chair that goes back, and the dentist gasped. And it's never a good idea when a health professional gasps when they look at you. He said, "Liam, which tooth are you talking about? You've chipped almost all of your teeth." He felt that I had pancreatic cancer because I had had X-rays the year before in which my teeth were perfect. And it was from stress. I was grinding my teeth at night, and grinding them into chalk. So he said, "Figure out how to do this remote work thing better, figure out how to do a business better." And that's where I really started to unlock the secrets of remote work. I've now grown multiple businesses to eight figure run rates and beyond. We have team members in 44 different countries all over the world. And I'm really excited about our mission statement, which is empowering the world's transition towards remote work. Everything that we do feeds into that. Andi Simon: That is just fascinating. But I also remember teaching my first class at Queens College. I had 300 students in the room. And when I was done, my professor came up to me, Dr. Silverman said to me, "You'll do." And I wasn't quite sure what that meant other than spend 10 years as an academic and get my tenure. And I had really rave reviews, except for an occasional non-rave. But then I too left to get into business. I wasn't going to do the same thing in academia for the rest of my life, the idea of being tenured was a very high mark to achieve and then something that I didn't want to pursue. And business has been quite fascinating in terms of change. When you did this, it was early in the remote world, you could see opportunities there. And I'm curious, because as you began to build the companies around this, you learned some things that became really quite a passion of yours, and really probably the substance of your book. So before we get into your book, some of the insights that came from that early business and the remote work workplace. Liam Martin: So for me, I'm always really good at figuring out trends that are moving up into the light. The problem for me, however, is, I don't know how fast they're moving. So are we talking about the market expanding at 2% per year, 10% per year, just to kind of give you context. In February of 2020, 4% of the US workforce was working remotely. By March, 45% of the US workforce was working remotely. That's the biggest transition in work since the industrial revolution. But the industrial revolution took 80 years. And we did that in March. So a complete change of everything that we know as it applies to work. Just a month ago, the US Census actually collected a new data set with regards to remote work, and identified that 7% of the US workforce is currently working remotely. But if you include hybrid work, it's 32% of the US workforce, and less than 10% of that workforce is working remotely due to the pandemic. So over 90% are working, because they want to be able to work from home. So we're at a really interesting transition phase where a lot of people are being pushed back to the office, they're being pushed back to these hybrid work agreements, even though they don't really want to be able to do them. And I think that that feeds into the core of the big problem that we had during the pandemic, which was that instead of actually adopting remote work, we simply recreated the office at home. Andi Simon: Well, yes, we did. Because when in doubt, you know, mimic. Humans are great monkeys. And we knew what we knew. But we were very attached to it. But we may not even have liked it. And now we had something new that we had no idea about, there were no models. So we had to figure out something. There are a couple of problems that have developed. One of which is the worker at home having to navigate. I had my own clients who were trying to navigate family and work and their own self-care. You had your managers who were trying to figure out how to make sure the work got done. And they were also trying to figure out how to evaluate how the work got done and if it got done well. One gentleman said to me, "I used to go out and have coffee with my folks and I learned what they were doing. I don't know how to do that now." And I asked him, "That's the basis on which you evaluated?" And he said, "Yeah, that was pretty much how I evaluated them." I said, "Well, one wonders whether that was good, or now it's bad." So you had the managers and you had the important performance evaluation. And they were working with a group and they are lonely, but they don't want to come back to the office. And so how do you develop a community of remote workers? And how do you do it in such a way as they can begin to develop the trust they need to know who to go to for what kind of problems? So I have a hunch. These are issues that you saw happening, and maybe even have some suggestions about. Can you take me through it any which way? How do you do it at home? How do you manage it? How do you evaluate it? Or how do you build a business? What do you see happening? Liam Martin: Yeah, there's a lot to unpack there. So you're actually addressing all of the problems that we saw when we were developing this book. The first one, which I think is the most important, is, How do you measure success inside of a remote-first organization. And one of the issues that I personally had to deal with because I've come from the remote work world, I've been doing remote work for almost 20 years, I've actually never worked inside of an office. I think, technically, the last time I worked inside of an office was when I got that horrible review, in grad school teaching a first year Sociology course. And the philosophy inside of remote-first organizations, it's the third tenant of what we identify in our book, is detailed metrics. So every single individual inside of our organization has a quantifiable, longitudinal metric that is actually collected by the platform, and not necessarily by the individual. And inside of that, we have a philosophy that we like to call radical transparency, where everyone gets access to that information. So when you join an asynchronous remote organization, you actually don't just get access to what you do or what your department does, but you get access to everything in the organization. The saying is, Can we give you the same informational advantage as the CEO of the company, which is sometimes very difficult for people that live in a synchronous 20th century MBA mindset to get their heads around. But what it does provide to you is, the measurement is actually the platform's responsibility, not the managers. So you have this clear third perspective, and the conversations that happen between managers and employees are, "Your numbers are not where they need to be, I need to be able to help you to get those numbers to where they need to be because I don't control those numbers, I don't control the judgment as to whether or not you succeed or not, these numbers are actually predefined. So we need to be able to work together to be able to get you to where you need to go,' which aligns you with the manager. So you, the manager, is not judging you. It's the platform that's judging you. But more importantly, actually, the manager is also being judged, and in the same way, because the manager is saying, "Well, all your direct reports," where the person above them would say, "All of these numbers don't necessarily seem to be working out and this other department is doing better than you. You might be the problem as the manager." So qualitative versus quantitative measures. Qualitative measures don't really exist inside of asynchronous teams. And we think that that is an advantage. Andi Simon: Now clarify something for our viewers: what does it mean to be asynchronous? I want to go back to your data as data-driven performance. But asynchronous means what? Liam Martin: So fundamentally, it just means building a business without interacting with people simultaneously, or what we call synchronously. But I can give you a good example that kind of alludes to this. I don't know how old you are, but I remember when, back in the day, I would have to watch Friends every Friday at 8:30pm because I knew that if I missed Friends, on Monday I wouldn't be in the conversations that everyone was having because in that episode, you got to find out what Chandler does this week. And sometimes I'd show up at 8:40 and I missed the first 10 minutes of Friends. So I'd have to take another six months before I could check out a rerun of that particular episode. That is synchronous communication at its core. Asynchronous communication and management is more like the Netflix model. So the information is available for you, documented in a digitized platform and it's available to every employee to consume when it's most advantageous to them to consume it, not on a timetable of the manager or the organization. So you as a worker can say, "Well, I don't really want to meet at 3pm to be able to do this meeting because I'm really in a good flow state right now and I'm completing a project, so I can watch the recording or I can read the minutes of that particular meeting at 8pm when it's most advantageous for me to be able to consume that information." It's a very, very small shift in the way that you think but it creates a massive increase in overall productivity by our data. And again, I looked at approximately three dozen companies that are asynchronous at this point and some of the most successful companies in the world, by the way, are asynchronous. WordPress is asynchronous, GitLab is asynchronous, Shopify is in part asynchronous. These are massive companies that run like 30-40% of the internet and they have no zoom calls. They have no phone calls. They all are autonomous nodes in the system because they know exactly what they need to achieve and they have the information available to them through the platform and in order to be able to actually achieve those particular goals. So we see in our data that the average organization is about 33% more productive. And we define productivity by the amount of hard problems that organizations can solve. One of the big philosophical frameworks inside of the book that's been passed around inside of the remote work community for years is a book called Deep Work by Cal Newport. And so we use that at scale. And we're finding that those organizations are 33% more efficient. They cost about 50% less than their on-premise counterparts. And they're generally going to be a lot more effective as we move forward. And if you're not doing this right now, this is probably why you've had difficulty in the past actually deploying remote work at scale. Andi Simon: Now go a little deeper here because as we talk about developing talent, we talk about humans needing autonomy. They need to be in control. They need to believe that it's fair, that there's a fairness lead there. They need to protect their status, they need some certainty. And then they need the mastery, and they need the relationships. That human brain, you don't make decisions based upon what we call score. Nobody needs their status protected. I need my certainty, my autonomy, my relationships and my fairness. As you're talking, I'm saying to myself, Well, this is really fascinating because asynchronous management businesses enable people who are able to become quite autonomous, master their jobs, get the kind of fairness that they require because it's not biased. It's based on the data. You do it or you don't and then they can begin to build the relationships. They need to get their work done, as opposed to the artificial meetings of the past, where you came together, even though there was nothing to discuss, no agenda or takeaways from it. You're smiling and been in too many of those. Liam Martin: I have a saying , which is, No agenda, no agenda. That's my mindset with regards to that kind of stuff. I mean, this is so difficult for people to get their minds around. And it was very, very difficult, by the way, for me to be able to, for the first time ever, be exposed to a synchronous environment in which I would sit around with eight other people in a room. And maybe two of those people would talk for 90 minutes, and then we would leave. And I would think to myself, "Why was I here? I could have written four blog posts or done two podcasts during that time. Why am I here? This could have been an email." Andi Simon: I was an executive at a hospital, I moved from banking to healthcare, and same thing. We would come to meetings, no agenda, no takeaways or work to be done. An FYI kind of meeting I guess. But coming from the outside, which never has straight meetings, and now, it was one of those, what am I supposed to do here? Why am I spending the time? And then I watch people selectively omit the meetings, which is a whole other strategy. But they're also talking about their behavior, and I can get the job done without being synchronous. I couldn't get it done with being an autonomous individual capable of doing this. So take me through your book a little bit. I love the asynchronous part. Other parts to it that your listeners here should know about that you want to make sure they share, because I have a hunch you want them to become remote workers. Liam Martin: Yeah, so really there's three core tenants of the book and it's very simple, because we've seen so many books come out about remote work. There's actually 27 coming out this quarter, based on what my publisher is telling me. And there's no book on asynchronous work. There's no book on asynchronous management, which is a real shame because I actually think it's the core of what all of these real pioneers were doing before the pandemic and this really was a bit of a kind of qualitative journey for me. Looking at all of these different companies and identifying where the trend lines were, I was trying to identify the signal. And then we talked about asynchronous work and I realized every single company that was successful was deploying what I call asynchronous management at scale. So there's three core fundamental pieces to it. There's deliberate over-communication, democratized workflows, and detailed metrics. So over-communication of information shouldn't be easy to understand, it should be impossible to misunderstand. That's a very small switch in your mindset. But an email is not just an introduction to an asynchronous meeting, an email is where the conversation should hopefully start and end. And the less of those forms of communication that you end up having, the clearer that you can be, the extra three minutes that you spend on an email or communicating in a project management tool, as an example, the more effective you're going to be, organizationally. The second one is democratized workflows. So process documentation is at the core of every single asynchronous organization. There is a really great quote from a company called GitLab, which is a $14 billion company. They spend less than 1% of the time communicating synchronously, but they have a $14 billion valuation and are growing incredibly quickly. And they have this saying, which is, We always respond with a link. So whenever someone asks a question inside of the organization, they respond with a link to a process document that answers their question. So they're removing the manager from being the way that people get answers. And they're training them to basically figure out that the platform is really their manager. Again, reinforcing autonomy, allowing individuals to say, "Well, here's where I go to get my information. It's actually in this documentation and I want to actively use it as much as humanly possible." And then the third one, that we had touched on before, is detailed metrics. Every single person inside of an asynchronous organization has a third party, longitudinal quantifiable metric that they do not self-populate, that is populated by the platform itself. And then that information is available to everyone. So everyone knows what everyone else is doing inside of the organization. And counterintuitively, you may think that this impacts autonomy, but in reality, actually, if it were me, I would much rather be managed and measured by a platform that's at its core egalitarian, as opposed to John that says, "Hey, you know what, I don't really like the way that Liam talks to me sometimes so therefore, I'm going to give him a low rating on my three sheets to review," that type of stuff. So between those three core tenants, you can actually build any level of asynchronous organization. And it's really exciting once you get there because then you can do things like, have your employees work wherever they want. So they don't necessarily need to be in a particular location, because you're not dependent upon synchronous communication. They don't have to be located in the same city. We have employees in 44 different countries across the planet. You can have employees that are from any location and are bringing in very different perspectives. We've had one funny week where I had a meeting with someone that was talking about debating their transition from male to female. And then the very next week, I had a discussion with someone who was thinking about having a second wife in their family because in the Middle East, this person was from the Middle East, and that was legal and encouraged in their particular country. And then this other person was transitioning. Where in any organization could you have those two same people interact? Well, you can have an organization in which you don't necessarily have to have that kind of cultural homogenization that you end up having in the vast majority of synchronous organizations. So it's a really exciting time. And I see this going back to another friend of mine, Darren Murph, who was head of remote at WordPress. He said, “This is really a Model T moment where we're really seeing a new way of operating a business.” And that's why I want to kind of get this out to as many people as possible. Andi Simon: How about decision making? As I'm listening to you, you're empowering your folks to make decisions? Or do you have a different asynchronous way of evaluating options or how do you manage expenditures, empowerment, risk taking, things like that. You know, some of my clients are always concerned about, "How much risk shall I take? How do I go up for approval? Where do I manage the dollars?" But as I'm listening to you, it sounds like we're going to empower our people to make those decisions, or how do they work? Liam Martin: Yeah, so I can give you one clear example, which can kind of allude to many more. We have this concept called Silent Meetings inside of our organizations, inside of all asynchronous organizations. And to get very tactical, we use a platform called Asana, which is a task and project management system. And every single week, we have a meeting where we post issues. So the issue might be, we would like to hire 10 more engineers to work on this particular issue. Here's the pros and cons. Here's what we think. Here's why we think we'll succeed. Here's the risks if we fail. And then we debate that issue asynchronously. So we start writing comments inside of that particular issue ticket. And sometimes these issues can go 40, 50, 100 comments long. They are incredibly intense, very rich pieces of information. And if we come to a conclusion, we take that conclusion, and we put it to the top of the ticket, and we clear the ticket. And if we have less than three issues in our agenda, the platform automatically cancels the synchronous meeting. So we do this meeting every week. And we have on average one meeting a month because we don't necessarily need to address all of those issues, all the issues that you think are going to make or break the business and completely change the trajectory of what you're doing as an organization. They don't need to be discussed synchronously the vast majority of the time, they can be discussed asynchronously, and can be just as successful. And the advantage is that, #1: there's documentation. So I can go back two years and I can figure out why did I make this decision in the business. I can look at the 78 comments and the debate. So there's no undocumented conversations inside of asynchronous organizations. The second big advantage, and I don't know if you've had this situation happen to you, but it happens to me all the time. It's very difficult for me to be able to communicate in the moment. I'm much better sitting down and thinking about things, getting the information and processing it in my own time. And when I look at a boardroom, I don't even need to hear what people are saying to figure out whose ideas are going to get adopted. First, it's usually the six foot tall white guy that looks like Captain America because, generally, that person has a charismatic advantage, what I like to call a charisma bias. So we have that person pitch those ideas. Is that person's idea better than anyone else's? Probably not. But can the packaging of that person sell everyone on that idea? Absolutely. So inside of asynchronous organizations, the wallflower like me that doesn't actually want to debate those issues in the moment, because I know I will lose, I don't have that type of skill set. I can communicate in asynchronous meetings and better ideas get adopted more often inside of asynchronous organizations. And over time, that is a killer formula for much higher levels of success inside of your organization. Andi Simon: It sounds like, in your organization, this is how you run the business. So the question is, how do you then develop, attract, retain, and develop your talent? Do they just love this way of working and learn it immediately? Because it's a different way from mine. I'm guessing they've acquired skills in high school and college, about how you get things done. And, you know, a feeder system needs to be created and may actually be you that creates it, but what would you do with employees to make them happy doing it this way? Liam Martin: So the first thing that I think you need to take a look at is, there's a core assumption in there that I think the majority of synchronous organizations take into consideration which we do not, which is the concept of culture. I mean, you're really just boiling it down to, How do we build culture inside of organizations. Asynchronous organizations are more focused on the work than the people. So inside of asynchronous organizations, we do not say that we own a position, we say that we currently operate a position. So I am not the CMO of the company. I currently operate the position of CMO of the company. And at any point I have the documentation in place to be able to completely delegate that responsibility if I want to. So I want to take the year off and write a book about remote work, which I did. I can, within days, delegate all that responsibility to my direct reports, and the organization continues on. But going back to the work concept, it entirely is focused on, Are people really passionate about the problem that you're trying to solve? Our mission as a company is, we're trying to empower the world's transition towards remote work that feeds into everything that we currently do as an organization. And our measurement for new people that are coming into the organization is, "Are you as passionate about that as us? Do you have a cult-like commitment to that particular mission? If you don't, don't work here. We'll find you a job somewhere else that's way better. And will probably pay you more, but we can't pay you as much. It's going to be more difficult. But at the end of the day, we're going to try to put a dent in the universe that I think you will be fundamentally proud of because you're so incredibly passionate about this particular subject." And that's what almost the majority of people miss is, it doesn't matter how qualified someone is, are they actually excited about what they're doing? Because if they're not excited about what they're doing, then you might as well not even start. So that's where we start. And as an example, we have an ENPS rating, which is an Employee Net Promoter Score, basically, how engaged employees are in the organization. The industry average is 36. And when I studied these asynchronous organizations, I found on average, they had a score of 72. So they're much more engaged. And the two major reasons that they give for why they like working there is autonomy and access to information. So having an open organization like that allows for people to be more autonomous, enjoy what they're doing. They're not necessarily interacting with coworkers as much because asynchronous organizations just by default don't do that. But there are different ways that we interact. Like one of the companies that I studied in the book is a company called Todoist, which is a task management app that has millions of users all over the world. And they play a kind of version of Dungeons and Dragons on their instant messaging platform. And as a group, they all have a little community and they say, Well, do we go left or we do we go right? And some of them are wizards and rogues and warriors, and they fight a fight. And they have this actually through text. So it's a really fun kind of experience. And they'll say, Hey, within the next 24 hours, everyone's got to log in. And you've got to make your decision as to what you do because we're going to be moving our party forward. And that's a very nerdy example. But that's just some of the ways that we interact asynchronously. Andi Simon: Liam, I'm enjoying our conversation and I'm also watching our time. And when is your book coming out? Liam Martin: The book is going to be out August 16. So dependent upon when this session comes out, it may be available. And if people want to go check it out, go to runningremotebook.com. And then you can obviously pick it up at Barnes and Noble. Amazon is probably the easiest place to be able to get it. Andi Simon: But we all do want to keep Barnes and Noble happy. But to your point, this is really cool if you do consulting? And do you help people create asynchronous organizations? Is that part of your toolkit as well? Liam Martin: No, because I don't have time to be able to do that. I have to stay an operator inside of the inside of remote work. But if you go to runningremotebook.com, I actually do have a network of consultants that I can refer you to if you're really interested in deploying asynchronous itself. Andi Simon: Because the last thing I like to do is raise expectations. This is really cool. And why would I like to do this with all of my remote workers? Can I take the opportunity and turn it into something better? And then they say, But how do you do this? And you know, you can't learn to play golf without a coach and some idea of how you hit the ball. And you gotta hit it 700 times before you hit it well, so there's lots to do between the lip and the top here. But this has been so fascinating. As you are wrapping up: two or three things you might like to leave the listeners with? They often remember the end even better than your beginning. And your beginning was wonderful. Liam Martin: Well, so I think first off, to your point: I'm not trying to build a million asynchronous organizations, I'm trying to get a million organizations to be 1% more asynchronous. So if you pick up this book and you're able to pick up two or three strategies to be able to remove one or two meetings from every single individual, that is going to be a net gain to the universe, in my opinion. So it's really important to be able to check out the book see what you think. The second point that I'll leave you with is: If you think that this is not going to be the norm moving forward, you are unfortunately not understanding how history works. We're at 30% of the US workforce working remotely. I believe that within the next five years, we're going to be back up to 50% of the US workforce working remotely in part. And this is a permanent civilizational shift. So you can either stick your head in the sand, and think that the old way is the way to be able to do it, going back to the horse and buggy concept, or you can jump onto those Model Ts and right into the future. So it's up to you. But I would highly suggest that if you think that this is a trend, or just kind of a speed bump in history, definitely pick up the book, because you need to be able to adapt for those changes. Andi Simon: Well, you know, the comment that this is the Model T for work is a very interesting metaphor. I'm sure you've read that Henry Ford invented the modern age. And now we have electronic vehicles, electric vehicles coming out, transforming the car from a combustible engine to basically a computer with a battery. And so there are lots of great transformations happening at this moment. And I think that work, and I love catalytic moments, which the pandemic did create a crisis and I preach, Don't waste a crisis, because you learned a lot. And I do a tremendous amount of virtual workshops and speaking engagements. And people say, "We want you to come." And I'm trying really hard to tell them that that's a waste of my time, and not probably more valuable for them. Because I'm not there to entertain you with my charismatic life. I mean, I'm there to inform you and educate you, perhaps with a little edutainment. But if we can do it remotely, it's really cool for me and for you. And it's cheaper for you too, and so I did 49 of them this year with great reviews. I have them starting to book up for next year. And I'm saying to myself, I don't really need to do it in person. It's a little asynchronous in a sense, but it's not too far for what you're talking about. That's a great transformation, we learned a lot. And boy, you can listen in and find yourself coming away transformed, like our listeners are going to be after listening to you. This has been such fun. Thank you for joining me today. I know you're doing a lot of podcasts. I hope this has been a fun one for you. Because part of it is really fun taking your ideas and sharing it. So you don't have to tell me if it was fun or not. You can just smile for our viewers. Liam Martin: It was actually very enjoyable. And thank you so much for having me. Andi Simon: Well, and thank you, both viewers and listeners for coming today. Now remember, my job is to help you see, feel and think in new ways so that you can do things better. My job is to get you off the brink so you can soar. And the times, they're changing, you often become stuck in the mud. You're the deer in the headlight, you stand still, you're attached to your shiny object. And until you see something new, you don't know how to change. And that's because your body protects you from the unfamiliar or the unknown. And so today, we've been hearing a lot about the changing nature of work. It's happened. And now you can sustain it, but also turn it into a better way to do business, because quite frankly, your customers are looking to do it as well. And it's not just inside, but it's outside, which is what we love to do. My books are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business has been doing really well and won an award for the 2022 best business book for women in business. And my On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights has been hustling along. They're showing you how a little anthropology can help your business grow. And remember my job is to help you change. You hate change but the times are changing. So come along and let's have some fun. You can reach me of course at info@Andisimon.com or info@Simonassociates.net and our new Simon Associates website is out, which is www.simonassociates.net. Come take a look and see what you can learn about how to change. Bye for now. And thank you again for coming. Bye-bye.

On this episode, we are back with new content! We talk with Beth Potter, who is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. We talk about Beth first's archaeological conference at age 13 and her experience there. Beth then describes her experience going to a small state-school called Harvard University. We delve into her experience in French Canada and what brought her there. She then deep dives into her scientific research and how one gets aDNA from stone tools. Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info. Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code RUINS. Click this message for more information. Transcripts For rough transcripts of this episode go to www.archpodnet.com/ruins/122 Literature Recommendation Lithic Analysis by George Odell Ancient DNA analysis by Orlando et. al in Nature Reviews Methods Primers The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us By Robert L. Kelly Guest Contact Instagram: @blpotter13 Twitter: @bpotz13 Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Ruins on APN: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/alifeinruins/shop ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Motion

On this episode, we are back with new content! We talk with Beth Potter, who is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. We talk about Beth first's archaeological conference at age 13 and her experience there. Beth then describes her experience going to a small state-school called Harvard University. We delve into her experience in French Canada and what brought her there. She then deep dives into her scientific research and how one gets aDNA from stone tools. Interested in sponsoring this show or podcast ads for your business? Zencastr makes it really easy! Click this message for more info. Start your own podcast with Zencastr and get 30% off your first three months with code RUINS. Click this message for more information. Transcripts For rough transcripts of this episode go to www.archpodnet.com/ruins/122 Literature Recommendation Lithic Analysis by George Odell Ancient DNA analysis by Orlando et. al in Nature Reviews Methods Primers The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us By Robert L. Kelly Guest Contact Instagram: @blpotter13 Twitter: @bpotz13 Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Ruins on APN: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/alifeinruins/shop ArchPodNet APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet Tee Public Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Motion

"Racism," oh dear! Dan Crenshaw challenged. Virus hype: brainwashed Quebec kids! Alt. Social Media censorship! The Hake Report, Friday, January 21, 2022 AD: Weird TikTok white girl worries about "digital blackface" offense. // Dan Crenshaw clips: Answering challenges about bashing MTG and not fighting for J6 political prisoners. // INTERESTING CALLS: Some nuttier than others! Do slave movies promote black victimhood? Is separatism bad? // Virus hype: "Elite" woman's mad that the people distrust them. Brainwashed French-Canadian kids promote forced vaccinations! // J6 witch hunt: Gettr under fire for censoring more than Gab. // RIP Meat Loaf! //  MUSIC: Human Television - "Sick with Redundancy Check" - All Songs Written By (2004, Gigantic) // Chris Haugen - "Easy Seas" - YouTube Audio Library (Chris selection) //  CALLERS Jeremiah from Louisiana talks about "a house divided against itself," and "God's Word." Rich from Victorville, CA extracts specious meaning from words, but stays civil.  Rick from Maine says racism doesn't exist, but separatism does, not necessarily bad.  Joe from Phoenix, AZ lauds Hamilton and slave movies as well as Mel Gibson movies.  Nathan from IL (first timer) is part "Native American" but appreciates whites and Christianity.  Maze from Dayton, OH pounces on the notion of separatism, talking taxes and crime, SMH.  Art from Ohio talks about Gab as well as more establishment organizations you can't trust!  Also check out Hake News from today.  TIME STAMPS 0:00:00 Fri, Jan 21, 2022 0:01:23 Hey, guys! 0:06:05 TikTok: digital blackface 0:09:47 Dan Crenshaw 0:23:22 JEREMIAH 0:35:35 Supers: Racism 0:38:02 RICH: WORD PLAY 0:46:02 Virus hype: Elites, French Canada kids 0:59:20 "Sick with Redundancy Check" - Human Television 1:02:02 Reading chat / Supers 1:07:09 RICK: SEPARATISM, NOT RACISM 1:09:56 JOE: SLAVE MOVIES 1:23:54 NATHAN: NATIVE AMERICANS 1:32:18 Supers: Azzmador, history 1:33:24 J6 witch hunt, alt. social media wars 1:43:17 MAZE 1:50:08 ART: CORRUPTION 1:53:47 RIP Meat Loaf 1:59:33 “Easy Seas" - Chris Haugen HAKE LINKS VIDEO ARCHIVE: YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | COMING: Odysee  AUDIO PODCAST: Apple | Spotify | Podcast Addict | Castbox | TuneIn | Stitcher | Google | iHeart | Amazon | PodBean  LIVE VIDEO: Odysee | Facebook | Twitter | DLive | YouTube* | Twitch* | NOT Trovo*  SUPER CHAT: Streamlabs | Odysee | SUPPORT: SubscribeStar | Patreon | Teespring  Call in! 888-775-3773, live Monday through Friday 9 AM - 11 AM PT (Los Angeles) https://thehakereport.com/show  Also see Hake News from JLP's show today.  *NOTE: YouTube, Twitch, and Trovo have all censored James's content on their platforms over fake "Community Guidelines" violations. (Trovo permanently blocked The Hake Report.)  BLOG POST: https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2022/1/21/012122-fri-cringe-shaw-commie-virus-kids-slave-movies 

In the latest episode of This Could Be a Podcast, Nathan and Bobby discuss Bob Saget, French Canada and Rodeos. Support the Show at:https://www.patreon.com/ThisCouldBeaPodcastPayPal:www.PayPal.com/paypalme/ThisCouldBeaPodcast

Here are some key sources on the loup-garou. I recommend Ransom and Doherty's work even though I only discovered their articles after I'd recorded the podcast. Ransom's work in particular has an outstanding literature review. Doherty's work (which is in French) is interesting because it discusses how in Louisiana a loup-garou is often a dog or other animal. I'm also including a link here to an English language version of Honore Beaugrande's la Chasse Galerie: https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/english/Beaugrand-tales.pdf Doherty, Rachel. “Le Loup-Garou En Louisiane: De La Légende à La Littérature Contemporaine.” Rabaska: Revue D'ethnologie de l'Amérique Française 17 (2019): 69–84. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/rabaska/1900-v1-n1-rabaska04985/1066008ar/abstract/. Dorson, Richard Mercer. Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula. Harvard University Press, 1978. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=pOrYOw6vR7AC. Joan Finnegan, Witches, Ghosts & Loups-Garous: Scary Tales from Canada's Ottawa Valley. Kingston, Canada: Quarry Press, 1994. Fowke, Edith. Folktales of French Canada. 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Toronto: NC Press, 1982.  Fréchette, Louis Honoré. Christmas in French Canada,. Xv, 262 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including music) plates 21 cm. Toronto: George N. Morang & Company, 1899.  Gowett, Larry. “Le Loups-Garous Dans La Tradition Religieuse Québécoise,” Master's thesis. Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 1982. Harf-Lancner, Laurence. “La Métamorphose Illusoire : Des Théories Chrétiennes de La Métamorphose Aux Images Médiévales Du Loup-Garou.” Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 40, no. 1 (February 1985): 208–26. https://doi.org/10.3406/ahess.1985.283152. Lecouteux, Claude. Fées, Sorcières et Loups-Garous au Moyen Âge. Editions Imago, 2012.  Podruchny, Carolyn. “Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition.” Ethnohistory  51, no. 4 (2004): 677–700. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-677. Ransom, Amy J. “The Changing Shape of a Shape-Shifter: The French-Canadian ‘Loup-Garou.'” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26, no. 2 (93) (January 1, 2015): 251–75.  Smallman, Shawn. Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History. Heritage House Publishing Co, 2015.  Created and recorded by Shawn Smallman Produced and edited by Paige Smallman

What was Georges St-Pierre favorite fight? What was Matt Serra's favorite fight? These questions are answered on this episode of UFC Unfiltered and the reasons may surprise you. Matt Serra and Georges St-Pierre reunite on today's episode of UFC Unfiltered alongside O2 CEO and Co-founder Rich Szasz. First, Rich tells Jim and Matt all about their newest line of masks made to be worn during full combat MMA training that Georges St-Pierre helped design. Then, after Jim and Matt ask about Georges' recent appearance as Georges Batroc in the Marvel series Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Georges and Matt discover they are both massive Star Wars fans and geek out about their favorite (and least favorite) moments and characters. They also discuss the current influence social media has in determining matchups within the UFC and how different martial arts should be utilized in the Octagon. Matt and Georges close the show by looking back at both of their fights. They relive the experience from Georges carrying a brick with Matt's name on it and throwing it in a river after advice from a mental coach, to Matt offending the entirety of French Canada by calling Georges a 'Frenchie'.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1627-1632When war breaks out in Europe, English and Scottish entrepreneurs see an opportunity in a suddenly vulnerable French Canada.

Marianna Daniels, an elementary teacher from Wisconsin, has been in Vietnam for nearly 10 years. In part 1, we talk about her transition from Madison, Wisconsin to French Canada, to Saigon; how she immerses herself in the community of Vietnam; and the changes she has seen in the rapidly developing SE Asian country. In part 2, we unpack a BBC report of Vietnam's success in managing COVID19 and Marianna's own personal experience with state-mandated quarantine.