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In the United States 1 out 3 young people are arrested at least once by age 23 - this could be as high as 41% research reveals. “Getting arrested is much more complicated than just showing up” Julio Briones tell us in Surviving Arrest: The Complete Guide. Julio hosts An Ounce of Prevention podcast, he is also a Personal Crisis Manager, Coach, and is the founder and CEO of AnswerMan Speciality Services. Julio has an inspirational story; he embodies the advice and life lessons he offers. On this episode we explore the potential crises that can result from being arrested and incarcerated. From initial contact with the criminal justice system, through to spending time behind bars, Julio tells us of the importance of having a plan and support systems in place. We also talk about life after incarceration, the issues that offenders face and how reintegration in the labour market could be made easier.   We also have a Pop-Culture Check-in with Paul. Just in time for halloween, this one is all about the horror genre. Find Paul Combs on Twitter: @combspaul   Music on this episode is from Dayton, Ohio’s own The 1984 Draft, a band who channels American rock sensibilities through a ‘90s tinted punk and indie lens. Listen to the band’s new album “Make Good Choices” and follow their tour dates at: www.the1984draft.com | www.facebook.com/the1984draft | www.poptek.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere, #UnderDogPods, and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.   Cast is a podcasting platform that makes it easy to record, edit and publish a podcast without leaving your browser. Connect with your next big guest today and start your free month of Cast with our referral link: cast.rocks/chronicity   Get your rocket fuel to your life’s journey with Alexander Laurin, certified life coach and the world’s first authentic podcaster’s coach. Find Alexander at: podcasterscoach.com   Want to join the “IMDB for podcasts”? Find new shows, rate the shows you love and do what the cool kids do at podchaser.com. For news & updates: @Podchaser on Twitter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------   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/   Connect with us on: Twitter: @The_SIM_Pod | Facebook: @thesimpod | Email: 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   Please leave us a rating and a review, it really helps the show!   Intro Music: Song "Social Kapital" appearing on "Wonder Under" by Glad Rags at: http://freemusicarchive.org/ Under CC BY SA license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/   Other music available at http://www.smilingcynic.com/   Semi-Intellectual Musings does not own any of the songs played in this episode. Follow links above for proper attribution.

On this episode Matt continues a chat with Kristaps Andrejsons from the Eastern Border Podcast about the Soviet Union’s mass athletics program. We also hear from Chris Osborne, our fearless comrade over at Play Comics Podcast. History, politics, performance enhancing drugs for curlers. This episode goes far and wide.    Our ears are graced once more with a few tunes - Bāliņš jāja kara taku and Vēja vārdi - from the Latvian symphonic, melodic, gothic, folk, metal, rock band Oceanpath. Find Oceanpath on Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.   Did you know Kristaps also fences? You can learn more about our comrade and hear his show on iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, and make sure to check out his Patreon page.  Citations: Sport, Politics, and Communism by James Riordan. Manchester University Press, 1991. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/Olympika/Olympika_1993/olympika0201c.pdf   Sport as a Soviet Tool by John N. Washburn. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Apr., 1956), pp. 490-499.   Sport, Politics, and Communism by James Riordan. Manchester University Press, 1991.   Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR by James Riordan. CUP Archive, Jun. 30, 1980.   Rewriting Soviet Sports History by Jim Riordan. Journal of Sports History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Winter 1993).   The Role of Sport in Soviet Foreign Policy by Jim Riordan. International Journal (Sport in World Politics), Vol. 43, No. 4, (Autumn, 1988), pp. 569-595.   The video from Part 1 of the chat can be found here.   The SIMpod wants to continue to support Perry and Lindsay Johnson. Check out the GoFundMe page and help #FightCancer with Perry & Lindsay. #HelloCancerWTF #TeamPerry -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere, #UnderDogPods, and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.   Cast is a podcasting platform that makes it easy to record, edit and publish a podcast without leaving your browser. Connect with your next big guest today and start your free month of Cast with our referral link: cast.rocks/chronicity   Get your rocket fuel to your life’s journey with Alexander Laurin, certified life coach and the world’s first authentic podcaster’s coach. Find Alexander at: podcasterscoach.com   Want to join the “IMDB for podcasts”? Find new shows, rate the shows you love and do what the cool kids do at podchaser.com. For news & updates: @Podchaser on Twitter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------   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.

 

Guest co-host Anthony Von Dessauer, creator of the popular podcast The Curse of Silverlake, joins Phil to discuss music preservation, art, the potential impacts of technology, and the stratified character of our society. How art gets commercially made and distributed is a contested domain. Luckily for us avid music lovers, an Archive.org project seeks to digitize and democratize some of the greatest music ever made. Join us as we explore the fuzzy boundaries of who produces, who consumes, and who profits when art becomes more widely available. Somehow we managed to also talk about driverless trucks, peeing in a bottle, and a fantastic metal band Cyborg Octopus. We intended to talk about a 78rpm record project, we swear.   Links to songs we played, which are all repositoried at http://great78.archive.org:

• https://archive.org/details/78_la-bamba_marga-llergo-rafael-mendez---his-trumpet-and-pan-american-orchestra_gbia0008140a
• https://archive.org/details/78_mack-the-knife_louis-armstrong-his-all-stars-louis-armstrong-blitzstein-weill-t_gbia0030848b
• https://archive.org/details/78_minnie-the-moocher-theme-song_cab-calloway-and-his-orch.-cab-calloway-c.-calloway_gbia0003944a
• https://archive.org/details/78_house-of-the-rising-sun_josh-white-and-his-guitar_gbia0001628b

 

Concluding thought: Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ― Confucius

 

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• 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.

This week we deep dive into the world of resilience. From Francis Bacon’s musings of how sound bounces off walls, to the proposal that colouring can help block the nasty world around us: we explore the etymology, the history, and some implications of the resilience turn. Even our game of ‘What Do You Hate More’ was (unintentionally) inspired by the notions of risk, vulnerability, and recovery. So do what you do, ‘cuz we’re all just trying to cope.   The book Phil mentioned is titled ‘The Resilience Divident: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong’ by Judith Rosin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23545528-the-resilience-dividend   We thank Bonjay for kindly allowing us to play their songs: Ingenue, Stumble, Creepin, Shotta. Check out Bonjay on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bonjaymusic/ | Website http://bonjay.net/main/| Bandcamp https://bonjay.bandcamp.com/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/bonjaymusic/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bonjaymusic/ | YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bonjaymusic   Concluding thought:  Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow #PodernFamily #Podmosphere and #2PodsADay on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie.   If you enjoy podcasts and need a better way to find, review, and share shows you love check-out Podknife at https://podknife.com. For updates on the new shows added to the Podknife database and for a featured podcast of the day, follow https://twitter.com/podknife. Podknife: Podcast reviews for everyone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------   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.

 

Who is Rob Kristoffersen? Do we really know? Can we say with any certainty? Is he a Canadia-phile (someone who loves Canada)? Does he actually live in the woods (probably, but maybe not)? Many, many questions. We do know some things, so lets connect the dots.   Make sure to check out Rob's podcast Our Strange Skies: https://audioboom.com/channels/4938828 Join the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourstrangeskies/ And probe Twitter for clues: https://twitter.com/yerufoguy   -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

We get all up in the art on this episode. Matt visited the National Art Gallery in beautiful Ottawa, ON. We get a walkthrough, you get one of our most cynical takes yet. From First Nations, Métis & Cree artwork, to the paintings of the iconic group of seven, we just can’t wrap our heads around the colonial couplings found in the gallery. Luckily, Emily Carr saved us from total despair. That is, until we try to make sense of postmodern art. It’s like finding lost money in your jacket pocket: confusing. Really confusing.   To follow along as we dissect some art, check-out the pics Matt took while on his tour: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j_AY8KzuF8S5u1rruQovVQsuA-Gl1s2T?usp=sharing   We thank Evil Can Evil for kindly allowing us to play their songs: Winter Rider, Power, Love & Hate, and I’m Alive. Blues filtered through a 1970s' distortion, with a hint of 1960s' rock. A voice full of blues and smoke. Drums that smash the permafrost. A bass that moves snowdrifts. Guitars that lash stronger than a boreal wind. The strength of the North, with the soul of blues and the energy of rock. Evil Can Evil, the nordic rock's ambassadors. Evil Can Evil is a Quebec City quartet founded in 2007. The band is made up of: JF, vocalist and guitarist, Math, drummer, Manuel, bassist and Seb, rhythm guitar. Through stories of dangerous women, broken hearts, identity crises, territorial dispossession and courageous snow plows, Evil Can Evil builds a universe breathing a new life into the tired stoner rock genre. Stoner rock is dead, hail nordic rock. If Evil Can Evil doesn't make you want to dance, then you're more frozen than a mammoth prisoner of the Siberian soil. Evil Can Evil can be found on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/evilcanevilband/ | Website www.evilcanevil.com | Bandcamp https://evilcanevil.bandcamp.com/album/evil-can-evil | iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/evil-can-evil/781711591   If you enjoy podcasts and need a better way to find, review and share shows you love check-out Podknife at https://podknife.com. For updates on the new shows added to the Podknife database and for a featured podcast of the day, follow https://twitter.com/podknife. Podknife: Podcast reviews for everyone.

 

Concluding thought:  Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. - Robert Hewison

 

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• 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.

 

In this episode we offer up our resolutions and predictions for 2018. Matt is determined to make this year his most focused ever and Phil doesn’t think the world will end, yet. With a heartfelt round of confessions, we agree that being warm is worse than cold. Typical. We decided to end things with a long overdue round of thank-you’s to all those who have graced us with iTunes and Facebook reviews. Kicking off the year sayin’, Thanks!

We thank David Wagner for kindly allowing us to play a few songs. Computer Hash is the brainchild of David from the tiny town of Fenwick, Michigan. Computer Hash creates techno and experimental electronic music littered with a variety of original audio samples recorded on cassette tape, many over a decade ago. Most of these audio samples are from various parties that David attended with cassette recorder in hand, ready to capture interesting drunken rants for future use in music. Recently, David has been working to promote and create new music under the Computer Hash umbrella. You can find Computer Hash on: Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/user-629368065 | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/computerhash/

We ended the show with “All Kinds of Crazy” by Codie Prevost. Codie is a four time Canadian Country Music Association nominee and a six time Saskatchewan Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year winner. He releases music on his own label, Good Spirit Records. He has recently released a new studio album entitled Radio. Find Codie’s work on: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/codieprevostmusic/ | Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/codieprevost | YouTube http://www.youtube.com/CodiePrevost | "All Kinds Of Crazy" is available on: ITUNES: USA- http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/codie-prevost/id111761108 Canada- http://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/codie-prevost/id111761108 | Autographed CD available worldwide http://www.codieprevost.com/

Concluding thought:  Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future — Oscar Wilde -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

 

On this episode we review 2017, a year punctuated with the bad, the ugly & the awkward. From Trump and #MeToo to the Phoenix pay system catastrophe and no more Sears holiday catalogues, we talk about key moments in politics and science, showing how 2017 was another year with far reaching impacts for all of us. 2017 was also Canada’s 150th birthday. As Canadians, we think back on what that meant to us and provide some advice for those of you looking to build a $4.3M outdoor hockey rink. 2017 also brought two births: Matt’s baby girl, Violet and, this podcast! In what will become a yearly tradition, we close the episode by talking about all our 2017 podcast appearances, the interviews we did throughout the year, and the great folks we had the chance to meet. Here’s to a wonderful 2018. Happy New Year everyone. Be kind.

Some links worth checking out:

• Canada Day art: http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/stephen-wilkes-day-to-night-photograph-documents-historic-canada-day-2017-celebration
• Hockey rink: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-latest-wrinkle-in-the-4-3-million-canada-150-rink-its-too-cold-to-play-hockey-there
• Sears closures: https://globalnews.ca/news/3796103/map-sears-canada-locations-closing/
• Science news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/top-10-science-1.4458365
• 2017 Canadian headlines: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/10-weird-and-wonderful-reasons-canada-made-headlines-in-2017-1.3723428
• 2017 CanLit review: https://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/8003125-2017-the-year-canlit-courted-controversy/
• USA Paris Climate deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/07/as-syria-embraces-paris-climate-deal-its-the-united-states-against-the-world/?utm_term=.ba4daf8b2bb1
• CWHL-NWHL merger: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/sports/hockey/cwhl-nwhl-merger.html
• #MeToo: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/beyond-metoo-can-times-up-effect-real-change/549482/

Phil highly recommended checking out APTN’s Mohawk Girls, find that show here: http://aptn.ca/mohawkgirls/   We thank Slammerkin for kindly allowing us to play three of their songs: I am so Evil, Xanadu & Two Worlds. From Toronto, ON, Canada, the sister act of Slammerkin combines electronic lo-fi synth waves, dreamy soundscapes, catchy bass riffs, and melodic vocals to paint sonic images that lead us on epic journeys. If you have an imagination and a pair of ears, you won’t be disappointed by Slammerkin’s debut album ‘All The Lasers Are Mine’. Make sure to check out and support Liza & Sam’s music. Slammerkin can be found on: Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/slammerkingdom | Twitter https://twitter.com/slammerkingdom | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/slammerkingdom/ | Website http://slammerkin.ca/ | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7pjR0rYTLycc0y3MTdtbS2

 

Concluding thought:  Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ― Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

 

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)

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