{"id":1995,"date":"2017-02-25T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2017-02-28T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:26:00","slug":"episode-eighty-seven-canadian-mind-beams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/2017\/02\/episode-eighty-seven-canadian-mind-beams\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode Eighty Seven &#8211; Canadian Mind Beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1586\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1995-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=1995-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_Images\/87-CanadianMindBeams.jpg\" alt=\"Episode Eighty Seven - Canadian Mind Beams\" width=\"614\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is episode is sponsored by the collective socialist consciousness known to your puny human minds as &#8220;Canada&#8221;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sorry if you haven&#8217;t been assimilated yet, we are all out shoveling \u00a0snow, eh.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a bilingual country with a dashingly handsome Prime Minister, super heroics must include a strict Francophone quota.<\/p>\n<p>Your gritty cyber-punk cabal is poised for immediate action &#8211; if they could just stop apologising to one another.<\/p>\n<p>The ur-Canuck is waiting. The ur-Canuck is watching. The ur-Canuck is insistently, politely unstoppable. And it&#8217;s knitted you mittens.<\/p>\n<p>Striking north from your crumbling society, you and your group push towards salvation through dangers both real and imagined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Apologies. \u00a0Genuine inhabitants of &#8220;The Canadia&#8221; were hard to come by, so we we had to settle for a lost, stair-well dwelling geographer, a travel-shy antipodean, and the finest quisling that Her Majesty could spare. \u00a0The wild generalisations and stereotypes abound, but at least we didn&#8217;t do the &#8220;aboot&#8221; joke. \u00a0Small mercies and all that.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFilm &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2763304\/\">T2 Trainspotting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"T2 Trainspotting - Official Trailer - Now Available on Digital Download\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EsozpEE543w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video Games &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StarCraft\">StarCraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwal.net\/\">Operation CWAL<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; and it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/starcraft.wikia.com\/wiki\/Operation_CWAL\">in-game reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillermo_del_Toro\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Canadianism#United_States\">Soviet Canuckistan<\/a> &#8211; a reference by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Buchanan\">Pat Buchanan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poetry &#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/the-press\/news\/88778653\/Scathing-Donald-Trump-poem-wins-New-Zealand-competition\">&#8216;A Scot&#8217;s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0 Lorna Wallace<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers\">Mighty Morphin Power Rangers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maritimer&#8221; \u00a0 (\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m pretty sure this was a jab at the fine and upstanding inhabitants of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Maritimes\">Eastern Provinces<\/a> ~ T. Jones<\/em> )<\/p>\n<p>Comics &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_Flight\">Alpha Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_language\">Francophone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quebec\">Quebec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mindbeams\">Mind Beams<\/a> from Seattle \u00a0&#8211; &#8220;Explosive psychedelic prog magic&#8221;. In your own tempo, everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serge_Monast\">Serge Monast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/project-blue-beam-conspiracy-theory-suggests-nasa-has-secret-plans-to-create-new-world-order\/news-story\/25266f2c57e89e139f0fa9daddeb0953\">Project Blue Beam<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program\">High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/GirlfriendInCanada\">&#8220;Canadian Girlfriend&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RPG &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhatdesigns.com\/?project=head-space\">Headspace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Stand_On_Guard\">We Stand on Guard<\/a> &#8211; by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_K._Vaughan\">Brian K. Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RPG &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edenstudios.net\/allflesh.html\">All Flesh must Be Eaten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Movie &#8211; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049366\/\">1956<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077745\/\">1978<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>RPG &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/zombiecinema\">Zombie Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novel &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Santaroga_Barrier\">The Santaroga Barrier<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Herbert\">Frank Herbert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Movie &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0178868\/\">Ringu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novel &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_King_in_Yellow\">The King in Yellow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001842\/\">Adam West<\/a><\/p>\n<p>( Hmmm,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Kinnear\">Greg Kinnear<\/a>\u00a0wasn&#8217;t \u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1122770\/\">The Middleman<\/a>&#8230; \u00a0 &#8230;but \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0444832\/\">Matt Keeslar<\/a>\u00a0and would say thngs likt this! \u00a0~ T. Jones )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Middleman Sayings!\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/StG2a1vjC4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RPG &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatlandgames.com\/btw\/\">Beyond the Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Apparently unrelated to, but not a million miles from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TV &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3718778\/\">Over the Garden Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over the Garden Wall - Official Trailer\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/36mAsVSH_-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Movie &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1790864\/\">The Maze Runner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poem &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavafy.com\/poems\/content.asp?cat=1&amp;id=74\">Ithaka<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0C.P. Cavafy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>As you set out for Ithaka<\/em><br \/>\n<em>hope the voyage is a long one,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>full of adventure, full of discovery.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Laistrygonians and Cyclops,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>angry Poseidon\u2014don\u2019t be afraid of them:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>you\u2019ll never find things like that on your way<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as long as a rare excitement<\/em><br \/>\n<em>stirs your spirit and your body.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Laistrygonians and Cyclops,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>wild Poseidon\u2014you won\u2019t encounter them<\/em><br \/>\n<em>unless you bring them along inside your soul,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>unless your soul sets them up in front of you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hope the voyage is a long one.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May there be many a summer morning when,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>with what pleasure, what joy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>you come into harbors seen for the first time;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>may you stop at Phoenician trading stations<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to buy fine things,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sensual perfume of every kind\u2014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>as many sensual perfumes as you can;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and may you visit many Egyptian cities<\/em><br \/>\n<em>to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Keep Ithaka always in your mind.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Arriving there is what you are destined for.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But do not hurry the journey at all.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Better if it lasts for years,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>so you are old by the time you reach the island,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>wealthy with all you have gained on the way,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Without her you would not have set out.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She has nothing left to give you now.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And if you find her poor, Ithaka won\u2019t have fooled you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poem &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antigonish_(poem)\">Antigonish<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Hughes_Mearns\">William Hughes Mearns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>As I was going up the stair<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I met a man who wasn&#8217;t there!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> He wasn&#8217;t there again today,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I wish, I wish he&#8217;d stay away!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>When I came home last night at three,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The man was waiting there for me<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But when I looked around the hall,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I couldn&#8217;t see him there at all!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Go away, go away, don&#8217;t you come back any more!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Go away, go away, and please don&#8217;t slam the door&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Last night I saw upon the stair,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A little man who wasn&#8217;t there,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> He wasn&#8217;t there again today<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oh, how I wish he&#8217;d go away&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antigonish,_Nova_Scotia\">Antigonish, Nova_Scotia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comics &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northstar\">Northstar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Web Comic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/satwcomic.com\/\">Scandinavia And the World<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/satwcomic.com\/entrepreneur\">The comic in question.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RPG &#8211; Poutine by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+AdamRobichaud\">Adam Robichaud<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; It&#8217;s yet to be release into the wild, but there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/jankcast.com\/archives\/3369\">Actual Play<\/a> by the Jank Cast.<\/p>\n<p>Comics &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/universe\/Kiwi_Black\">Kiwi Black<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; a Marvel Super from their version of <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.wikia.com\/wiki\/New_Zealand\">New Zealand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_Lawless\">Lucy Lawless<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1588\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1995-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=1995-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-87-CanadianMindBeams.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS &nbsp; 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Sorry if you haven&#8217;t been assimilated yet, we are all out shoveling \u00a0snow, eh. &nbsp; In a bilingual country with a dashingly handsome Prime Minister, super heroics must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}