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We all celebrate the holiday season differently. That’s a good thing. On this episode Matt & Phil share their holiday traditions. From savory meat pies, to sugary cookies, to cups filled with rum and eggnog, they show how good food and good people make the holidays a special time of the year. During the second half of the show, Phil connects with friends of the podcast to talk about their holiday traditions. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. We thank Alex Diskin for kindly allowing us to play three of his songs: Heist, Outlaw, and A.A.A. Make sure to check out Alex’s music and if you’re in the central New York, USA area why not book him for a gig? We tried to think of a more perfect way to host a party over the holidays and, quite frankly, couldn’t. Get Alex playing guitar and signing and you’ll be entertained for hours. Then get him to tell zombies stories. He does that really well too. Check his art out on: Soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/alex-diskin | Twitter @IsAnyoneThere2012 | YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO_rBw7mWl8iEjXFhSTYU1w Concluding thought:  I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays ― Amy Adams ------------------------- Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie. -------------------------   If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can thank him now. https://www.downiewenjack.ca/ https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr http://secretpath.ca/   Follow us on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email us: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show! Intro Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Semi-Intellectual Musings does not own any of the songs played in this episode. Follow links above for proper attribution.  

Matt & Phil chat on a cross-country check-up this week. Phil opens up about his life as an aspiring PhD, Matt tells us how to travel with a young one, and we debate the merits and demerits of compression socks and tourists. Yup, it got a little silly. Go figure. We do settle down and put on our serious faces to discuss how we, individually and collectively, experience space and time. Seen as social aspects of our world, how we experience space and time is highly dependant on the structures that surround us. However, we also have agency to navigate space and time, allowing for seemingly endless opportunities. With a different view of space and time, is it possible to think about creativity, productivity, technological advancements, and (dis)abilities differently? We thank Matt Steady for kindly allowing us to play three of his songs: Theory of Ruins (from the new album “Theory of Ruins”) The Roamer (from the album “Blood is Thicker Than Gold”) Time (Original song written by Jeff Black) Website www.mattsteady.com | Twitter @mattstoicsteady | Facebook @mattsteadymusic | To see behind the scenes videos, get songs before everyone else, and experience the music scene first hand consider becoming a patron to support Matt’s art: https://patreon.com/mattsteady   Concluding thought:  In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ― Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can thank him now. https://www.downiewenjack.ca/ https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr http://secretpath.ca/ Follow us on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email us: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show! Intro Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Semi-Intellectual Musings does not own any of the songs played in this episode. Follow links above for proper attribution.  

Recorded outside on October 25th before the weather gets too cold. Matt & Phil decided they wanted to be current. In with the cool kids. Men of their time. In the know... So that meant, obviously, talking about one of the most anticipated movie releases this year: Blade Runner 2049 (Dir. Denis Villeneuve). Matt took one for the team and went to the cinema to see it on on the big screen. Spoiler alert: he left the overpriced popcorn scented auditorium feeling a little...muh. So how does one get excited about this new Blade Runner? By talking about Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep of course. Once you’re down that rabbit hole, why not see how it relates to the original Blade Runner released in 1982. Luckily for you, that’s what Matt & Phil did along with their signature social science, humanities and arts spin on the whole franchise. Why be current, when you could be ahead of the times. Links to audio clips in this episode: Sea Wall, from the Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NujlXgBmUoU End Titles, from the Blade Runner Soundtrack, by Vangelis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk&list=RDz_JgOlGq6i4&index=26   Concluding thought:  My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We played a promo for the Partly Political Broadcast Podcast. Connect with Tiernan on Twitter: @TiernanDouieb and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tiernandouieb. Download & Subscribe to the Partly Political Broadcast Podcast on iTunes https://t.co/paPjOTPdEZ or Non-iTunes https://t.co/xbboErjYNd. Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can think of to thank him now. https://www.downiewenjack.ca/ https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr   Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show! Intro Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Interlude Music: Song "Secret Path” on the Album “Secret Path” by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire. Availbale at: http://secretpath.ca/

This bonus episode features us, Matt & Phil, escaping a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, we end up connecting over the airwaves with Alex & Zach from the Is Anyone There podcast. After having travelled through the infested terrain of Ottawa, Ontario and made our way to a safe bunker, Alex & Zach gave us much needed survival tips: light a bunch of gas on fire to make a smoke signal, empty out all our water because it could have killed us, and cut off Matt's arm. Do we survive? Probably. Is it because of Alex & Zach? Probably not. Do we figure out how to use Doxa? "Our praxis is better than yours. Our praxis brings all the zombies to the yard"...so ya, we do. This story is our Halloween 2017 treat. We really hope you enjoy it.  Stay safe, Matt & Phil   Music & Sound Effects in this Episode: From The Tragically Hip: "Last American Exit", "At the Hundredth Meridian", "New Orleans is Sinking", "Courage", "Fight" From Notorious BIG: "Mo Money, Mo Problems" Sound effects from www.freesound.org Aditional sound effects from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0DNUj-QYq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQZZzJlE5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ip7RDFjZM&t=50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbuF2C8c9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXhHLnaXas If you enjoyed this epsisode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can think of to thank him now.  https://www.downiewenjack.ca/ https://give.umanitoba.ca/nctr ---------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!  

Matt & Phil put on tinfoil hats, shut the curtains and prepare to free their minds. But first, they settle a debate about peameal bacon: friend or foe? Phil recounts a Facebook occurrence involving the Bombs Away podcast. Call it fate, or divine intervention, Disney’s Angels in the Outfield came back. Skip from the Skip and Josh podcast couldn’t resist getting in on the baseball movie action. Save us all, hockey season better start soon. Networks of Conspiracies - Part 1 (22:08) From government cover ups to alien encounters to covert mind control programs, conspiracies and conspiracy theories have captivated our imaginations for generations. But what can social science, humanities and arts offer us in order to make sense of enigmatic tales? By situating conspiracy theories in time and place and by focusing on the context and setting, we are provided with a unique view of socio-cultural anxieties and political uncertainties. At it’s foundation, theorizing conspiracies is a way for individuals and groups to 'locate' their anxiety about uncertainty and mistrust of forces beyond their control. By paying attention to the networks that form around conspiracies, we can then start thinking about the societal, cultural and political apprehensions of our times and bring some certainty to uncertain futures. Further reading: Operation Paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip#Similar_operations MK-Ultra http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf (1977 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-connection-between-the-CIA-MKultra-program-and-the-Unabomber https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/ http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/05/6-conspiracy-theories-that-actually-turned-out-to-be-true-5925268/ Roswell http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/774228/Roswell-UFO-Nazi-craft-US-Airforce https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3708896/roswell-ufo-crash-witness-never-before-seen-interview/ http://www.roswellufomuseum.com/incident/rdr8july1947.html http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/812435/Roswell-UFO-Conspiracy-Nick-Redfern-aliens-top-secret-tests-flying-saucer-New-Mexico Puerto Rico experiments http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-04-11/news/0404110509_1_gritty-village-pill-humacao Links to audio clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZc-fO8pHc&t=133s http://www.roswellufomuseum.com/incident.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShnkBmoe3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz4jE7huhMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990k-5Jm5aA Concluding thought:  Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. ― Jeremy Bentham -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to check out Bombs Away podcast, available on iTunes, Podbean, many other places and their website: http://www.bombsawayshow.com/ Follow #PodernFamily and #Podmosphere on Twiter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Intro Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah. Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Outro Music: Song “Clubbed to Death” appearing on “The Matrix: Music From the Motion Picture” by Rob Dougan.

On the things that Matt & Phil enjoy: the long lunch during a round of golf, classic SNES games, poutine and late night walks that include other podcasts talking about the show. Matt’s baby can recognize faces, so she’ll quickly figure out what the fed-up face from buying diapers from Walmart is. Bye-Bye Markov and hello to hockey talk. Afterall, it is already the end of July.   Generations & Kinship Ties (15:35) The concept of generations has provided a convenient way to group people together. Which generation do you fall in and, what happens if you don’t feel like you fit with the rest of the group? We explore the social and cultural contours of the concept and take aim at making it feel strange. Who says generations also says family, so we take the opportunity to explore the ins and outs of kinship. Suggested Reading Dan Woodman on the xennial generation: http://www.mamamia.com.au/xennial-generation/ & http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/28/xennials_a_23006562/ Generational theory from Strauss & Howe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory#Works On the Sixtiers generation from Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixtiers Herbert Spencer on kinship: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spencer-the-principles-of-sociology-3-vols-1898 Recommendations (56:28) Matt recommends Mao: The Untold Story by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday (2006, Anchor Books) Phil recommends white clover seed from Gloco. Concluding thought: "The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurent. Every table had an argument going" -George Carlin  Check out @JuiceInTheAM @NerdWithWords1 and follow #PodernFamily and #Podmosphere for the best in podcasts. Want to join the “IMDB for podcasts”? Find new shows, rate the shows you love and do what the cool kids do. Use promo code SIMPOD for your exclusive beta account at podchaser.com today. For news & beta updates: @Podchaser -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod and on Facebook @thesimpod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Matt is back for this episode. The black flies are gone. The clover is growing slowly. Matt offers us an update on the little Sanderson. Phil is working from home full-time now and admits he may be procrastinating. He’ll tell us later about that. The intro gets real when Phil decides to talk ontology and epistemology. Apologies in advance for a few annoying glitches in the audio. We fixed it up for the main section. So take a peek-a-poo before you protest too much. Protest & Political Music - Part 1 (15:34) Matt & Phil take a look at music from the 1920’s to the 1970’s that had strong political themes. This isn’t a comprehensive exploration of the genre, but rather a selection of tunes and artists that had a significant social and cultural impact. Sometimes, as in the case of Lead Belly, the artists focused on have influenced generations of musicians. There’s no Dylan, but there’s some Dr. Martin Luther King.   A list of songs & artists discussed/played during in this episode: Lead Belly - Ain’t Gonna Study War No More (Down by the Riverside) (1940) Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues (1920) Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues (1935) Ma Rainey - Trust no Man (1926) Ma Rainey - See See Blue (1924) Elizabeth Cotten - Washington Blues and I’m Going Away (1965) Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (1956) Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (1939) Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come (1964) Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (1963) Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth (1966) Lesley Gore - You Don’t Own Me (1963) Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions - People Get Ready (1965) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (1969) Recommendations (1:11:41) Matt & Phil both recommend brews from Sleeman. It's Silver Creek for Matt, and Railside Session Ale for Phil. Both are low alcohol, loaded with just the right amount flavour and hops. Perfect for a warm summer afternoon after some heavy lifting (or a day of heavy podcasting). Cheers! Concluding thought: “Rebel, rebel and yell ’cause our people still dwell in hell!” – Rage Against the Machine, Township Rebellion  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Corrections & Additions webpage: http://thesim.podbean.com/p/corrections-additional-stuff/ Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Bad drivers beware: Phil & Matt say to stay home on rainy or snowy days. Phil starts his work-at-home life and gets Matt to provide some guidance on what not to do. Even though Matt was sick, we are committed to getting these episodes out! Academics & The Changing Nature of Work (13:34) As a way to open an ongoing discussion on academic careers, Matt & Phil talk about their schooling and career trajectories. What it takes to be a professor in today’s academic environment has changed from what were the historical benchmarks. H-Indexes are an example of what seems to count these days. The university hasn’t been the only field to be forced into altering their practices. Phil brings in Richard Sennett’s “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism” (2000, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) as a guide to start to understand how the structural changes to the nature of work have also changed our identities and sense of self. Entrepreneurship, just-in-time labour tactics, the need to market transferable skills and the need to adapt to the rhythms and flows of changing employment all play a role in how we experience new arrangements of our working life. It was a fragmented conversation about an increasingly fragmented aspect of our modern world. The show will pick-up and expand on these themes in future episodes. In the meantime, keep on 'trucking.      Recommendations (1:05:15) Matt recommends Pete Seeger’s Little Boxes and Bob Seger’s Turn the Page Phil recommends the TV series Fargo (FX Network) Concluding thought: In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category - Noam Chomsky   Semi Intellectual Musings is officially one month old!! A huge thanks to all our listeners. It really has been a fun time, and we are looking forward to many, many more episodes of the show. Stay tuned. June 1, 2017 Matt & Phil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ For full show notes: https://thesim.podbean.com/e/Academics_The_Changing_Nature_of_Work iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Phil & Matt start this episode by talking about their favorite writing implement: pens. Phil is reminded of the West Wing, again. While retelling the story of how we got our first unsolicited podcast advice, we had to do our first content edit after Phil told the listener to !@#$ off... Fortunately, the show moved on to things that actually matter. Conferences & Making SSH Matter (16:10) As academic conference season gets off to a start, Matt & Phil talk about how and why academics share their goods in public. If you’re looking for a large academic gathering of SSH like-minded folks, check out Congress 2017 organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Phil makes the claim that academics go to conferences to network, receive and and offer feedback on work, and contribute to publicizing SSH. Respect the time limit allotted, and practice before you present. It’ll make for better conferences all around. Conferences are also great places to network across disciplines. Matt & Phil start to talk about relevance, and how SSH can be made to matter. Phil discusses Bent Flyvbjerg’s “Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again” (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Matt get’s going on the inability of fully understanding how biases impact our observations. Phil tries to tie Flyvbjerg’s approach back to conferences, arguing that speaking publicly about values, power relations and biases is important work.  Recommendations (59:50) Matt recommends NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. If you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, Phil recommends the podcast Sleep with Me. And, Matt & Phil both recommend to be nice to one another.    Concluding thought: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” -Maya Angelou -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ For full show notes: https://thesim.podbean.com/e/Conferences-Making-SSH-Matter iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq   Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Phil & Matt talk about their recent landscaping adventure, sharing their annoyance of black flies. Phil talks about lawn grass and an easier option: a clover lawn. They show that two social scientists can indeed do manual work--but neither could everyday! Hockey Cards - Part 1 (17:56)  Matt & Phil are joined by a collection of hockey cards from Phil’s past. They crack open a few binders and boxes of cards from the 1990’s. The story goes that it all started with a convenience store-owning uncle, but turned into a collection of life and hockey memories. From Manon Rhéaume to Patrick Roy, and (Captain) Kirk McLean to Martin Brodeur, Matt & Phil talk about their favorite goaltenders. Take a trip down memory lane with this episode all about cards. Recommendations (1:02:14) Matt recommends to watch the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs. Phil recommends a few books from Lee Gutkind: “Keep it Real”, “The Art of Creative Nonfiction”, “At the End of Life” and one by Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard “Writing Creative Nonfiction” Concluding thought: The gum from packs of hockey cards always got chewed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ For full show notes: https://thesim.podbean.com/e/Hockey-Cards-Part-1 iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Phil & Matt talk about how the little Sanderson will soon be coming into the world. Matt recounts his most recent parenting class and shares his birthing plans. From that, Phil is reminded of his bachelor party and realizes that Matt has a deep-rooted shady Surrey side. The move is called the Surrey Shuffle, according to Matt. Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (18:24) Matt & Phil deep dive into Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of a world obsessed with suppressing books. No spoiler alerts here, Matt & Phil tell all and reveal that Fahrenheit 451 is possibly more a tale about life than censorship of books. To follow along, read a few synopses of the book here and here. If you haven't read the book, don’t worry about it. Sit back, listen then tell us your thoughts on Bradbury’s oeuvre. Ray Bradbury narrated the book, which is fantastic! The audiobook can be found on YouTube, here. Recommendations Matt & Phil recommend to keep on reading! Concluding thought: If books could be seen as dangerous, podcasts must be incendiary.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ For full show notes: https://thesim.podbean.com/e/Ray-Bradburys-Fahrenheit-451 iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  

Phil & Matt talk about cooking. Matt tells us his secret ingredient to making a killer bechamel sauce and Phil gives us his take on sweet n’spicy BBQ chicken and homemade turkey stock. Warning: this intro will make you hungry! Admittedly, it was a meat heavy conversation. Phil’s pasta sauce can be made vegan, which is how he normally likes it.    Logical Fallacies & Fantasy Politics (15:09) Mel settles in to talk about logical fallacies, truth tables & syllogisms. Matt & Phil find out that they could either be a podcast, be on the internet or are the internet. It got a bit confusing to the non-initiated, but Mel does a good job at walking us through the details of logically sound v.s. empirically false arguments. Our baseball team fandom differences are put aside as we go off the rocker and talk fantasy fiction and politics in the era of Trump. Mel brings up The West Wing episode titled Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc as we go down the rabbit hole on this one. Aye yai yai! Mel’s favorite fallacy is Ad hominem (Tu quoque), which is the “you too” argument. Matt goes meta on us, Phil wants to see more civility in arguments and Mel simmers us down, bringing the conversation back on point. We make connections around emotions, oratory and politics, revealing the shortcomings and limits of truth tables and logical expressions. Mel makes a strong argument that all undergraduates should take a course in philosophy to hone critical reasoning and argumentation skills. Stronger writing will result. Matt & Phil couldn’t agree more, especially in the current political climate. We end on a connection between works of fiction and logic. Phil asks how logic can operate in a fantasy world. Mel sheds light on how the world building that is done in fantasy (and high fantasy) needs to create the conditions for logical arguments, while not being factually or empirically true according to our earthly world. Sarah J. Maas’s ‘Throne of Glass’ series is an excellent example of this, according to Mel. Phil realizes that Plato and Aristotle had creativity and the arts in mind the whole time. Mel’s tips: find a passion, discuss a counter point, debate openly and follow a sound structure. This, especially in writing and arguing, is a good thing. Trust us. Links Purdue OWL has a good primer on fallacies: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/03/ “Brief” description from Stanford on Syllogisms: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/#SubLogSyl There is so much about truth tables on so many places. This Wikibooks page is the most succinct, if you accept that: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Formal_Logic/Sentential_Logic/Truth_Tables Recommendations (1:07:43) Delhi2Dublin, the song we played was Apples (They’re Canadian too, ey!): http://www.delhi2dublin.com/ Riverdale, a show based on the Archie comics that Mel loved as a youngin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverdale_(2017_TV_series) Sarah J. Maas’s ‘Throne of Glass’ series: http://sarahjmaas.com/throneofglass/ Girl Guides Canada: https://www.girlguides.ca/web/ International Organizations: https://www.wagggs.org/en/ Bath & Body Works lotion: http://www.bathandbodyworks.com/p/eucalyptus-tea-body-lotion-021720066.html Concluding thought: Slippery slopes are greased with logical fallacies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Semi-Intellectual Musings on Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod Email Matt & Phil: semiintellectual@gmail.com Subscribe to the podcast: https://thesim.podbean.com/feed/ For full show notes: https://thesim.podbean.com/e/Logical-Fallacies-Fantasy-Politics iTunes: https://goo.gl/gkAb6V Stitcher: https://goo.gl/PfiVWJ GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/uFszFq Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Music: Song "Soul Challenger" appearing on "Cullahnary School" by Cullah Available at: http://www.cullah.com Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

I am VERY excited to welcome back my 'ol Co-Host of the Matt and Phil Show as well as a previous repeat guest of the Matt and Phil Show, Sara Exley to discuss the beautiful Yogananda Spiritual Teaching that he brought to the US almost 80(?) years ago. I Love Yogananda! thelivinggratitudebook.com

Matt & Phil from Project Helium Tears join us in the bunker to kick off this Sci-fi Wars series by discussing what makes a sci-fi. We've let catured Earthling slave Damien out of the dungeon too to add more perspective. This is the first in a four part podcast extra series to discover the best sci-fi TV series, book and film over the next four days. Your votes count at www.awesomeastronomy.com!

Matt & Phil from Project Helium Tears join us in the bunker in this 2nd episode in the Sci-fi Wars series to appeal for your votes for the best TV series. We've let catured Earthling slave Damien out of the dungeon too to add his favourite too. This is the second in a four part podcast extra series to discover the best sci-fi TV series, book and film over the next three days. Your votes count at www.awesomeastronomy.com/scifiwars

Matt & Phil from Project Helium Tears & captured Earthling slave Damien join us in the bunker in this 3rd episode in the Sci-fi Wars series to appeal for your votes for the best book. This is the third in a four part podcast extra series to discover the best sci-fi TV series, book and film over the next three days. Your votes count at www.awesomeastronomy.com/scifiwars

Matt & Phil from Project Helium Tears return to the bunker for this final episode in the Sci-fi Wars series to appeal for your votes for the best movie. We've let catured Earthling slave Damien out of the dungeon to add his favourite too. This is the last in a four part podcast extra series to discover the best sci-fi TV series, book and film over the next three days. Your votes count at www.awesomeastronomy.com/scifiwars

If time is an illusion, how come it feels so real - and like it's always running out? Is the past immutable? Can we actually rewrite our personal stories?  Can we improve our future by rewriting our history? Matt & Phil are going deep down the rabbit hole to make sense of the time paradox.

We ran this show some time ago but got such a great response from our community we thought it would be a great Spring Show to do a rerun as Phil is traveling this week. Keep a look out for our follow up show to this one coming up in a few weeks. Crazy Cosmic Love, Matt & Phil. This week on the Matt and Phil show, we are going down the 'rabbit whole' in a bit of a different way. Yes, we are going to talk about Sex, Sex & Spirituality, Tantra, Sex and Making Love, Sex and Feeling Good, Sex and Pleasure, Sex and guilt, Self Sex, Sexual healing, Sex and Sex and more Sex. Get over it people, we all like it, we are biologically set up to enjoy it, what would happen if we REALLY aligned with our sexiest sex vibe in the Vortex? What would happen if we opened our minds to what is possible through sex with our partners from an energetic and spiritual point of view? What if we opened up to a whole new way of thinking and feeling about sex, so much so that it changed our lives for ever... We have 3 very powerful women on our panel: 1. Jeannette Maw from http://www.GoodVibeU.com and http://www.GoodVibeCoach.com  2. Lisa Hayes from http://www.LisaMHayes.com 3. Ananda Tantra  (site to be launching soon) https://plus.google.com/u/0/105914018857063241049/about/p/pub It will be a lively discussion, and we look forward to hearing from these 3 experts!

Matt Phil interview professional intuitive Jennifer Urezzio from Know Souls Language on this important subject. When all the chips are down who do you turn to? How do you know what to do next? How do you know who you should work with next? How do you know what you are doing is working? All of these questions and more will be answered. To find out more about Jennifer go to: www.knowsoulslanguage.net