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Episodes
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
A whole episode where we talk with regular guest, singer/songwriter David, from Mr. Wu's Pigs...all about THE WICKER MAN. We all watch and chat about the 1973 folk horror cult classic directed by Robin Hardy starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. We geek out.
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Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Much movie talk! Stillwater and it's similarities, or not, to The Amanda Knox Story. The delicious VAL documentary: the original "selfie artist" Val Kilmer. And we have a contest to win a cd!
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Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Lots of fun here...we spend a whole episode with singer-songwriter Michael Phillips aka Mighty Lopez an old friend and great storyteller. Lopez even sings some songs for us and you can find them at 53 minutes in. He sings "Farewell To Nova Scotia" as well as two other songs. Mighty Lopez is the real deal. His album TALES FROM THE WOOD is available by mail.
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Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Mushrooms, serial killers, isolation and more. This week we watch "Fantastic Fungi", "Fatima", and "Jungle Cruise" with former wrestler THE ROCK. We also make plans to read two books. Please join us reading "The Big Picture" by Sean Carroll for September. Or "Indians On Vacation" by Thomas King for October.
We would love to hear what you think about the movie "Fantastic Fungi". Or what you think about anything! Email us at:
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Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
This week your Agents took a field trip to Toronto's east end - to the patio at Murphy's Law pub where we met up with the irrepressible poet and personality, Dr. K. Syinide.
Shout-outs to: Sweet Daddy Siki, Lopes, Anvy and the late great Nash the Slash.
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Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
This week:
- More on The American Plague and The Little Things
- Back to the movies: Roadrunner - the Anthony Bourdain doc
- The Basil Smash
- We do this 'Til we Free Us
- Dungeons and Dragons today
- Listener mail and more....
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Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Join us for Episode 106 (never mind Eugene who tries to tell you it's 105). This week:
- Cocktails
- Outrageous poutine + butter chicken nachos
- Is music the most high thing?
- Fiddle great Byron Berline RIP
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- How the One-armed Sister Sweeps her House
- The American Plague
- Vaccinations and a post-COVID future
- How will COVID change the way we think about sick leave?
.....and more.
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Thank you to our loyal listeners - we love you! And special thanks to our Patreon supporters for helping to pay the bills!
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Nomadland, Berries in dessert, monster movie and other stories.
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Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Special guest, Assistant Professor Cultural Studies, John Vanderheide charms the agents with his insights into pop culture.
Eugene muses about upcoming canoe trip and canoe recollections. The agents get two letters from a listener. Candy makes secret bread and is horrified not about a serial killer but about the Toronto cops failure to see through a manipulator.
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Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
What do the movies Vertigo and Mulholland Drive have in common? How do you make Nuoc mam? Does the term “totalitarian agriculture” bother you? Or do you prefer “dominant economy”? We read a letter from a listener and we contemplate the contemplative life. All that and ice cream!
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“Totalitarian agriculture dictates that we make radically more food than what we immediately need. Quinn (1996) coined the term “in order to stress the way it subordinates all life forms to the relentless, single-minded production of human food” (p. 247). The central imperative is to expand food production, nothing else. Succeeding other, more sustainable forms of food production 10,000 years ago, totalitarian agriculture quickly became the prevailing method of feeding ourselves. It continues to displace obscure holdouts of former food production methods — Afghanistan’s Kochi nomads or the Sentinelese hunter-gatherers of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, for instance. These cultures are fading away. Totalitarian agriculture transcends political ideologies and geographic boundaries, uniformly occupying East and West, Left and Right. Human wellbeing and general social progress are sometimes happy byproducts of this system and are used to justify it. But improvement of the human condition has nothing to do with totalitarian agriculture’s animating tenet of perpetual growth. We know wellbeing is not a goal of totalitarian agriculture because perpetual food expansion also inflicts tragic human suffering on a global scale, stripping most of us of leisure time, health, social contact, and dignity.
It’s important to note that agriculture is not inherently totalitarian; tribal societies have practiced sustainable forms of agriculture for millennia. These models can yield humble stores, but they do not care about growing the population or expanding into new territory. Only the modern strain of agriculture — shaped, accelerated, and purveyed to every corner of the earth over the last ten millennia — is totalitarian (Quinn, 1996, p. 253–255).” from 'A Cosmic Tragedy' by Aaron Hedge.