Podcast
Montreal Sauce
Hosted by Paul DeLeeuw · ENGLISH
Interviews with makers, creatives, and friends. Also, strange quizzes about 80s actors.
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Video Games
Nov 30, 202000:27:32Tap to summarizeA blast from the past. You might call it retro. Paul and Chris discuss their introduction to video games in a ‘grand experiment’ of live streaming on Twitch. This is the audio of that show from May of 2019. Go down the 16-bit memory lane with them for a short episode. Paul’s first taste of games, brought to you by the number 64, it’s Astro Grover. Paul gets a Nintendo Entertainment System with the combo cartridge of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Behold the awesomeness of 1977, Chris’ first console the Atari Stunt Cycle. The arcade introduction for Chris really started with the fever of the 80s, Pac-man. Chris’ second ever cassette tape featured the jam Pac-man Fever from Buckner & Garcia. Paul shares that his office has a Ms Pac-man game. Celebrating 80s birthdays at ShowBiz Pizza Place. Arcade game never mastered, but still beloved by Chris, Moon Patrol. Paul’s exposure to arcade games came at the roller rink of Terry Hall and the largest movie theater at the time, Studio 28. Cyclone The pinball machine that had a carnival barker shouting, “Hey you with the face!” Paul discusses some favs, The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II. Remembering the game magazines that helped us solve the trickier parts of games, like Nintendo Power. Chris remembers the fun of the Summer Games where you and seven of your friends competed in Olympic events by passing the joystick. Make your own racetrack, and choose the planetary gravity with Racing Destruction Set or simply Skate or Die! Paul’s multiplayer intro came with F-zero and Mario Cart. However, the real joy was playing Madden ‘94’ or NHL ‘94’ with friends or dad. Chris recalls The Northridge Earthquake of 1994 when he thinks of NHL ‘94. Another game never mastered, but fondly remembered, R.C. Pro Am. As always, thanks for listening! Interested in helping us pay for the hosting of the show that brings you no ads? Check out our Patreon or get yourself a t-shirt or a sticker at one of Chris’ stores. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →It's Obviously Very Expensive Soap and He Clearly Paid For It
Mar 31, 202001:02:13Tap to summarizeOur first interview of the new season continues with Sean Tilley of We Distribute. We talk curating video via “Frown Tube,” San Francisco’s chilly weather not seen on TV, and the service industry. We also discuss how funding the things we love and keeping them going is a difficult thing when their competing with “free” centralized services. Sean is using Pleroma, a social network that federates with Mastodon and others using the Activity Pub protocol. Our guest is experimenting with FunkWhale, a social network with sharing music at its core (Also using Activity Pub). Peertube is a YouTube replacement from the world of open source. Sean explains how it works. A really great human in the fediverse, Wakest, gave Sean this list of 40+ fediverse projects in the works. During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation. Sean used to work at BackerKit. What’s Paul using right now? He’s been playing with Micro.blog. Sean brings up a topic we will cover with another guest this season, the IndieWeb. One of the cores of IndieWeb is Publish on your own Site, Syndicate Everywhere (POSSE). Manton Reece is the developer of Micro.blog. Paul and Jacky (in the chatroom) talk about funding issues and Sean shares how Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon is paid. The Patreon alternative discussed is called LibrePay. Apple nerd Paul likes & subscribes to sixcolors.com, Maximum Fun, and RelayFM. Chris is using Masto.host to have his own instance on Mastodon (You should message him and join it.) The service is maintained by the amazing Hugo. One of Chris’ favorite projects is PixelFed from the amazing Dansup. Discovery is a big discussion in the episode, and Paul mentions directory services. Mastodon has Trunk which associates people with subjects. Sean recommends Halt and Catch Fire despite not really liking television. He also likes Mad Men. Sean is currently reading The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out— the Shocking Truth about Office Life. Chris suggests the fiction version of Sean’s book, a series called The Laundry Files from Charles Stross. Find Sean Tilley using that link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Thanks to our moms for listening, to our spouses for putting up with our recording and thanks to you for listening. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Sweet Mana from Heaven
Mar 23, 202000:49:22Tap to summarizeWe’re back! To start the new season we’re talking about decentralization, community, trust, the weird mold thing called kombucha, and more with Sean Tilley. The walled gardens of the centralized silos that treat us as a product can make communicating with people outside the service difficult. The trade-off is in how much time and energy you want to spend maintaining your own decentralized services. We discuss some of these services, the communities funding them and the algorithms that abuse us. Sean’s publication, We Distribute. His project to collect Creative Commons videos, VidCommons. Paul doesn’t get the Captain Marvel references. Everyone gets the Dead Poets Society references, right? The 9 year old FB competitor, Diaspora. The primordial ooze of the Fediverse according to Sean— IRC and Bulletin Boards, usenet. Watch BBS: The Documentary. Sean schools us on FidoNet. Centralized networks make profit from user data. This is also called surveillance capitalism. The silly world of fifth world problems on Reddit. Nextcloud is a great alternative to Dropbox. Sean and Paul get lost in Javascript, JQuery, and React. You must watch Demolition Man. Sean tries to explain Hubzilla, a way to connect various decentralized services into one mashup of a place. We talk about flavors of linux, like Gentoo and ubuntu. During the recording, Jacky was in the chatroom asking questions and contributing to the conversation. SocialHome is a grid style blogging platform that’s open source and making headway to connect to the fediverse. Sean really enjoyed Adventure Game Studio’s community in his early days of learning development and the power of open source. Paul’s early entry into online communities was TIcalc.org. Paul’s sexy calculator, TI-92. We reminisce about places like Geocities where we hosted our ‘cool’ sites. Today, we have the open source alternative, Neocities. Thanks for listening. We really appreciate those of you that have been with us for a while and love all the new listeners sending us suggestions and comments. Stay tuned for the second part of this interview! Want to stalk Sean Tilley, click the link. Find us on Twitter and Patreon. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Sauce Packet: Star Trek Discovery Season 2
Jun 22, 201900:37:27Tap to summarizeThe last time Paul & Chris got together to do a short show minus any guests, they talked Star Trek Discovery. How fitting that the first Sauce Packet of this year is talking about season 2 of the show. Oh, and we’re sorry that the “short” show went long, but we had a lot to say about Time Crystals. Please Red Angel, go back in time and give that MacGuffin a better name. The thrilling start of our episode is us trying to pronounce a name in the chat room. You can join us during our live recording via our Live page. We usually tweet, toot, and post upcoming shows on Patreon. What’s a chat about Star Trek with Paul without Darmok and Jalad? Chris shares his distaste for the actress playing Michael because of her Walking Dead days. He spent a lot of time doing recaps called Mocking Dead. Chris’ partner has issues with the organization structure of Starfleet. This is an issue that often comes up on Random Trek. We talk of the original series callback of the pilot, The Cage. -The Masters of the Universe episode of Film Frown was too much fun and why we referenced it. Thanks for listening! We appreciate your ear holes and your smiling face. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Spooky Manor
Oct 31, 201801:41:00Tap to summarizeHey Sausages! It’s your friendly neighborhood podcasting delivery folk. On this surprise Halloween episode Daniel J. Hogan and Arturo Vergara join us to take a package to Spooky Manor. By the way, you now know more than we did. Thanks Paul! 😄 (Always examine your bike, kids!) On this adventure: Arturo is on a quest to make a salad, Chris loves wearing outfits, and Dan wants to stab everything. Also in the future, please tweet, email, or call Paul if you want to know where the exits are. The text adventure we’re playing is from Memento Mori Theatricks. This game, (like the one last year) is part of a pack from the site above that Paul purchased with our Patreon funds. Thanks patrons! Text adventures are a game of “”guess the verb.” Thankfully, our computer Paul isn’t as literal as the games of yesteryear, like Zork. We find a nice smoking jacket, but this is a scary story, not Leisure Suit Larry. We can’t imagine how difficult it is being bilingual, so Arturo gets a pass on not knowing what a conservatory is. It’s a trunk from Transylvania? Chris’ aunt is in the chat room during the live show telling us to get out of that cellar! “Dude! Did you know Wolf’s Bane cures lycanthropy?” Speaking of language, Arturo’s Spanish helps us translate the Spooky family motto: mors certa, hora incerta. As Paul says, “Cue Link cooking music!” Arturo is sad that our character in the text adventure doesn’t have Shazam. Dan and Chris are doing Inktober! You can see Dan’s work on his instagram, clattertron. Chris via PixelFed. Dan is selling his art on ebay and etsy if you’re interested in buying those inktober works or other artwork of his. Arturo has been developing a job/work cue for distributed systems called Hop with the team at Mazing Studio. Thanks for listening! We really appreciate you joining our fun! Check out Dan’s comic Foxes & Boxes over on Clattertron.com. Support Dan on his ko-fi page and buy him a tea. Follow Arturo on Twitter or Mastodon. Psst, you can also find a track of his on soundcloud. Paul’s hanging out on his micro blog. While Paul concentrates on editing Film Frown, Chris is making mantra/meditations on his blog and working on a new mental health podcast. If you’re interested in supporting Montreal Sauce, grab a tee or check out our Patreon! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Sauce Packet: Star Trek Discovery
Aug 7, 201800:33:05Tap to summarizeAs we consume bad movies for Film Frown, palate cleansers are very useful. Paul and Chris get together to discuss the latest incarnation of Star Trek in a short episode we like to call a Sauce Packet! SPOILERS AHEAD! In other words, don’t engage unless you are out of star dock. It’s the Michael Burnham Show, a.k.a Star Trek Discovery. Chris posits that Scott McNulty, the host of Random Trek will enjoy the serial nature of the new show. The joy of Riker’s Beard. Who doesn’t love mirror universe Michelle Yeoh? The Harry Mudd universe. That time Christopher Llyod mumbled his way through Klingon in Star Trek III. Why was the show delayed so many times? Sisko uses some questionable tactics to get the Romulans into the Dominion War In the Pale Moonlight. “Midi-canon,” a word proposed by Chris to refer to prequels that attempt to make new additions or changes to existing canonical material. For example, Midi-chlorians. Thanks for listening! If you want to hear more of us on media, try Film Frown, which we’re currently producing. You can find our live schedule on our Patreon page. Hit us up with your opinions on Facebook and Twitter. Poster image from The Movie DB as added by Elizabeth Jennings and shamelessly Photoshop’d by Paul. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Pumpkin Town
Oct 30, 201701:11:34Tap to summarizeWhat in the name of Zork? Long story fake, Paul found a genie and got his dream of being turned into a computer. Unfortunately, it was an evil genie so Paul was not turned into a gorgeous Macbook, instead he’s an Apple IIe. Join Daniel J. Hogan, Arturo Vergara, and co-host Chris as they abuse computer Paul by loading up a text adventure game that forces him to say “I do not understand ____,” over and over. Also, stick around for the bodacious surfer, brah. It’s time for guess-the-verb. Uh oh, we’re on Elm Street? Stay out of that storm drain! Let’s chew bubble gum and kick ass! We found a tumbler in the game! So Dan decided to update Tumblr. It’s a peep show! Previous guest, Jacob, listening in the chatroom suggests putting our zombie milk in a bag. No points for an Enemy Mine reference? Arturo helps us learn what “pixie dust” is slang for. Apparently, it is not cocaine according to urban dictionary. Things get creepy with references from Hobo With A Shotgun, Lost, and Animaniacs. Pumpkin Town is a ghostly game from Parsely Games. Thanks for choosing to examine our Halloween special. Be sure to send love to our guests who helped make this possible, Arturo and Dan. Thanks again to our rad patrons! Their spooky support helped us get the Pumpkin Town game and some fun sound effects! You can give here. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Thor's Skillet
Oct 21, 201700:55:40Tap to summarizeOur conversation with Stump Kitchen was one of those chats where we lose track of time. Guest Alexis and the hosts were sad to see the time was up. That just means we’ll have to have Alexis back or convince her to watch a bad movie for Film Frown. This episode revolves around producing the cooking show, dealing with mental health, eating a pre-dinner when you’re making risotto, sweat pant shopping and stump squeezing. Many of the Stump Kitchen recipes featured are vegan, gluten-free creations of Alexis. Inspiration often comes from Hot For Food, Minimalist Baker, Oh She Glows, and Thug Kitchen cookbooks. Cooking with guests means a lot of laughing for Alexis. She mentions this episode with Natalee as an example. W.C. Fields said, “Never work with children or animals.” A pizza sauce food fight with Ethan. A Mom has her 3 year old dress her for a week. Alexis is open to share her story, she just asks that you respect her. In one of her “Ask me anything” vids a commenter suggests that Alexis have Courtney Gilmour on Stump Kitchen. Courtney has this great read on XOjane that pairs well with our discussion of respect. Fidget Cube versus an Alexis belch! Aside from the joy of getting her stump in a lime, Alexis loves Kala namak. “Tastes like eggs,” says our friend. Recommended Vegan Deviled Eggs from Jazzmin Kaita. Alexis is distracted by Chris’ Stylophone Beatbox. The best introduction to that is probably from Brett Domino. Writing versus typing? Chris pitches Morning Pages again. We need to eat some of those smashed potatoes! Also, peanut butter cups for dessert, y’all! Some of Alexis’ recommendations are My Drunk Kitchen, Liv’s Healthy Life, Jazzmin Kaita and if you want more feel free to reach out to her with the links below. Alexis would love to hear from you. Subscribe to Stump Kitchen and support our incredible new friend Alexis. Chris tried those peanut butter cups, and yeah, throw money at the Stump Kitchen Patreon because, delicious! Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The one stop link is stumpkitchen.com. Thanks for listening! You rock! Oh, and let’s find Alexis a gluten-free vegan hot dog! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →Huffing Donuts with Stump Kitchen
Oct 13, 201700:54:05Tap to summarizeFive years of discussing what Montreal Sauce actually is? The steak sauce still remains a mystery, but we do have an inspiring chat with Alexis from Stump Kitchen. Our multitalented friend shares her story with us and her compassion with everyone around her. Have a listen to learn more about pronouncing Worcester sauce, STUMP CAM, challenging your palette and flammable soda pop. How do you pronounce tamari? This episode is no different than others, Chris scares the guest with his internet research of her. We talk of past guest Taryn, who thinks wooden bears are creepy. Alex grabs delicious ingredients from Earth’s General Store or even Superstore. Chris makes the Stump Kitchen pad thai recipe. Alexis left her full-time gig to do Stump Kitchen and now relies on her Patreon page. We dare you to watch an episode and not give to it. :) Gluten intolerance? Our guest believes that gluten wrecks her because she worked at Cobs for years and stuffed herself with bread. Huffing donuts from Take 5. So, chickpea chocolate chip cookies are a thing? Tasty, vegan gluten free brownies via Stump Kitchen. In the battle of energy balls, here is Alexis’ entry. Where is yours, Chris? Time to make a video, sir. The Edmonton yummy that is Padmanadi. Paul says, “When you need milk, tennis shoes, and a tire iron, shop Meijer.” Alexis loves the rad knives at Knifewear. Over-joyed that we had the opportunity to not only speak to Alexis, but meet her as well. Alexis’ spirit and conviction is contagious as it radiates from her. Take 3 minutes to watch one of her episodes on Youtube or Stump Kitchen and you’ll see it yourself. Find Stump Kitchen on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and feel free to support Alexis to keep making fabulous shows by contributing to her Patreon. You can also find us on all those sites as well. Drop us a line any time! Thanks for listening! Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
Transcribe →The Challenge of Being Inclusive Not Exclusive
Aug 26, 201700:53:40Tap to summarizeThe second half of our conversation with German Villages of the Modern Manhood podcast and web site. We continue our conversation about masculinity, sports, stigmas around therapy, Super Mario World, and TRUCKS! Men Edmonton is a grass root group talking about violence against women, feminism and masculinity. One of German’s earliest interviews was with one of the founders of Men Edmonton, Ryan Valley. Some really amazing films mentioned by German, Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In. Please find them on Netflix, or wherever, and watch. Men Edmonton sponsored an event in April of 2017 where they screened The Mask You Live In and held a panel afterwards. German recorded the session for the Modern Manhood podcast. Michael Kimmel studies gender and is featured in the documentaries mentioned above. The Precarious Manhood Theory revolves around fear. If a man’s masculinity is challenged, he’s more likely to engage in aggressive or stereotypical male behaviors. Hockey is a “man’s game,” says Patrick Maroon. Retired goalie Corey Hirsch shares his mental health struggle with the world. Foul play prevented German from completing all the levels in Super Mario World. We love the Portlandia Battlestar Galactica episode because it highlights the dangers of binge watching. Paul’s crew at work is all about comparing hours in Breath of the Wild. German mentions how men and women tend to posture in a community of their peers. He doesn’t recommend The Game, but he said there’s a chapter on peacocking. How is NHL ‘94 on the Sega so beloved by all? A mystery to be solved in a future documentary. German’s other podcast is all about hockey, Your Team Sucks. Rasheed Wallace is crazy and we loved it. German loves, LOVES, soccer as well. He’s an Arsenal fan, but his heart is with his Chilean National team. Inspired by Men Edmonton, German hopes to build a community for men to share their stories on his podcast, Modern Manhood. The Ferdinand was another website that German had started for people to share their stories about masculinity. He’s in the process of moving it to Modern Manhood. The site was called The Ferdinand because it was based on The Story of Ferdinand. The story was turned into an Oscar winning short by Walt Disney. German is delighted that women are listening to his show as well. He was a guest on What it is with Andrea Beça of That’s So Maven! who listens and encourages others to listen to his show. The event at The Metro Cinema German spoke of on the show, which played the documentary The Mask You Live, In is long past but he recorded a podcast of the experience. Help German continue to enrich the lives of us all by giving to his Patreon. Find German’s Modern Manhood show on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Lots of wonderful things have happened since our chat with German Villages. The Modern Manhood podcast has joined GRadio.ca and the Alberta Podcast Network. German is an incredible human and his show is inspiring and absolutely needed in today’s world. Don’t hesitate to reach out to him, he’s just that kind of person. And, please remember to take care of yourselves. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon
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