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SlugisDoug episode 126: Wrecked No. 2

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:13:27 +0000

Recorded back in early November of 2023. I forgot about it, or never bothered to release it… whatever. Happy new year. Here’s an episode for you.

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SlugisDoug episode 125: Wrecked no. 1

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:49:01 +0000

Once in a while, something wrecks me, but in a good way.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 124: Whisky, Stamps and Ovens

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:05:08 +0000

Some clips made over the last month or so with a bit of a shaggy dog story at the end. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening.

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SlugisDoug episode 123: The Poison of Nostalgia

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 05:53:48 +0000

A late night discussion about Wang Chung and why I can’t get back to sleep.

enjoy. please don’t sue me.

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SlugisDoug episode 122: 53rd May 25

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:40:51 +0000

It’s my birthday. Go shorty!

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SlugisDoug episode 121: Worthy

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 01 May 2023 15:41:09 +0000

An update on me feeling good about myself and the work I did on the set for Ben’s Chili.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 120: Downs and Ups

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:19:20 +0000

An almost forgotten clip from back in February that almost didn’t make the cut. But then I heard a plea from none other than Scarborough Dude for more. So here it is. Blame him.

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SlugisDoug episode 119: 4 episodes this year!!!!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:47:56 +0000

Wow… aren’t you lucky? 4 full episodes of me this year. Count yourself as one of the lucky ones.

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SlugisDoug episode 118: She’s 12!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:57:28 +0000

It’s been a while. Here you go. Enjoy.

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I did it!: Windsor Pizza

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:50:29 +0000

Listeners to the podcast will know that I have been on a journey of Pizza Discovery over that last few years, with a recent realization as to the true meaning of this search. Well, friends, I have to say that I think that I have finally achieved what I believe to be the pizza that I was searching for all these years. Below is an edited and expanded Facebook post from the other night celebrating that fact by sharing my recipe for my pizza sauce, pizza dough and the special topping off sauce inspired by the Riverside Tavern in the Riverside area of Windsor, Ontario.

I am happy to share my photos and my recipes. Feel free to try them out and ask questions if you have them. I love talking pizza, especially Windsor Pizza!

Toppings of choice for me: Galati Uniondale Mozzarella Cheese; Shredded Pepperoni; canned mushrooms; green olives. With tavern style sauce drizzled on top.

Washed down with beer.

Doug’s Pizza Dough

–_{based on Tom Lehmann’s recipe}

Baker’s Percentages:

Flour 100%
Water 60%
Yeast 0.5%
Salt 2%
Oil 1.25%

For 3 dough balls at 320g each. This makes 3 nice 10–12” pizza with a puffy cornicione just like I remember from my youth. The crust itself is a decent thickness. Thick enough to handle sauce, cheese and toppings.

Ingredients:

587 g bread flour
352 g water
3 g yeast
11 g salt
11 g sugar (optional)
7 g oil

Method:

Add water, salt, sugar in mixer.
Give a quick stir to dissolve.
Add flour and yeast on low speed a bit at a time to the point of hydration of all the flour.
Turn off mixer and allow the mixture to sit for about 10 minutes.
Turn machine on again this time at a higher speed. Allow to mix for about 4 minutes.
Turn back down to low.
Add oil slowly a bit at a time until it is all worked in.
Turn back up to 3 or 4 let knead for 8–10 minutes.
Remove dough from bowl.
Cut into 320 g parts.
Shape into a ball, pat with oil and store in container(s) for 24 hours or so.
Remove from fridge and allow to sit at room temp for 2–3 hours before you want to make pizza
shape and top as you like. Cook at max temp on a stone 10 –12 minutes.

*** Update: after a brief text conversation with the master of Windsor Pizza, himself, Prof. Zaa (Dean Litster) of Armando’s Pizza in Amherstburg, he suggests trying a dough ball weighing 368 g. So the new weights for the above dough recipe would be as follows for 3 balls:

Flour 675.5 g
Water 405.3 g
Salt 13.5 g
Yeast 3.4 g
Oil 8.4 g
Single Ball 368.7g

Doug’s Pizza Sauce

Enough for 6 x 10” to 12” pizzas. This is a simple, no cooksauce. Herb and spice measurements are approximate. Let’s just say that each of the teaspoons that I used were “generous”. Make this your own, but this is a good place to start, I feel.

Ingredients:

2 (398ml) cans San Marzano tomatoes
2 tsp dried oregano
1 1/2 tsp dried basil
1 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp sugar
4 tsp olive oil
1 to 2 tsp franks red hot

Method:

Take tomatoes out of the cans leaving majority of the juice in the can. Put in blender, food processor or bowl.
Add rest of ingredients and pulse or mash/ stick blend to a smooth-ish sauce.
Let stand for however long you can to let the flavours meld. 1 hour minimum.
I use 3 to 4 soup spoons worth of sauce per 10” – 12”pizza.

Riverside Tavern Style sauce

–_{from Brian Friedrich}

The Riverside Tavern is a Bar/Restaurant in the Riverside area of Windsor, Ontario. It is located at the corner of Wyandotte and Lauzon Rd. I used to go there often as a teen and in my early 20s for pizza and beer. The best part of a visit here was the special “BBQ” sauce that was ever present on the table. It is a brown sauce, very similar in texture to Ketchup (and for good reason) always in what was clearly an old glass ketchup bottle. A drizzle of this magical sauce on your pepperoni (shredded, of course), mushroom and green pepper pizza was going to take it to the next level! And this was in the days before dipping sauces were available from the big chain pizza parlours. Years ago, an old high school friend of mine, Brian Friedrich, and I were texting back and forth on Facebook about Windsor pizza and I mentioned how I loved the Tavern Sauce and wished that I had it. He had happened to worked on a recipe of it with his friends and was kind enough to share it with me. It is perfect. I don’t know if it is an EXACT copy. I have not tried a side by side comparison yet. I need to get a bottle of the original sometime, if indeed the Tavern is still open, and do a blind taste test. Regardless, this sauce does what I need it to do now and that is elevate the flavours of an already delicious pizza with a vinegary sweet, sightly tangy and slightly spicy boost. Yeah baby! Thanks, Brian!!!!!

Makes 3 3/4 cups

Ingredients:

1 ½ Cup – Ketchup
¾ Cup – Mustard
1 Cup – White Vinegar
½ Cup – White Sugar
1 tsp – Black Pepper
½ tsp – Kosher Salt
½ tsp – Cayenne Pepper
½ tsp – Chili Powder
1 tsp – Garlic Powder

Method:

Mix together and Seal in a jar or squeeze bottles. For best results let it rest for a couple of days to blend.

SlugisDoug episode 117: It’s a long one!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:17:00 +0000

The title says it all! This one clocks in at over 1hr and 45minutes. Take is slow! Don’t listen to it all at once. You might hurt yourself. Recorded in 2 sessions. The first ends around the 45 minute mark. There is some Formula 1 talk and, to be honest I don’t remember what else in there is in the first section…. but I am sure it is top notch content or I wouldn’t have put it here! In section 2, there is lots of pizza talk and a fair share of personal introspection. I remember this one better… and the payoff is worth the wait, in my view. Until next time, take care!

Doug

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SlugisDoug episode 116: Zapengotia Rises

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:03:32 +0000

I am back after some time of not being….. back. This is a longer than usual episode. It starts off normal and ends with some fun world building. Join me as I drive to work on Monday and Friday morning this week.

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SlugisDoug episode 115: Message from Edith and Charlie

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 01:27:12 +0000

Hello. This is SAM, I am a sentient singing computer robot created by my friend Charlie… here is a recoding of Charlie and his lovely wife, Edith, featuring yours truly, me SAM, the sentient singing computer robot. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

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SlugisDoug episode 114: Wonderbone

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:42:33 +0000

A podcast captured as I streamed on Twitch. Exploring a new piece of software that has tickled my fancy (VCV Rack 2 https://vcvrack.com/ ) and has me spending time making “music”. Also some further discussion on my issues involving focusing and completing projects.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 113: Welcome to my therapy session.

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:00:36 +0000

I seemingly have left the recorder on as I talk through some stuff. Beware!!! Wordy Dirds are within.

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SlugisDoug 112: Book ’em Douggo

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:04:54 +0000

Where have you been? You never call. I talk about some books I read.

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SlugisDoug episode 111: Lap 51 begins!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 27 May 2021 14:47:53 +0000

Join me as I begin my 51st lap around the sun. First corner, you guessed it, a trip to the office for my weekly COVID test.

Enjoy

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SlugisDoug episode 110: I’m back?

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 18 May 2021 20:12:55 +0000

It has been a very, very long time. Probably not worth the wait, but here you go.

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SlugisDoug episode 109: Testing, testing

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:43:36 +0000

Come with me as I drive in to the office that I don’t work in to get a COVID test, just in case I want to go in to the office, which I don’t. Sorry for the bad audio. So many problems with it. I did my best to fix it, I hope it doesn’t drive you mad, though all the Sketchup talk might do that all by itself. Enjoy?

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SlugisDoug episode 108: Stuff Happens

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:27:47 +0000

I took another walk to the park with Lily and spoke a bit about what has been going on around here.

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SlugisDoug episode 107: More park talk

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:42:50 +0000

A shorter episode. Talking in the park on Fathers Day.

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SlugisDoug episode 106: Dog Walkin’

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:58:41 +0000

I finally got around to bringing the recorder with me on a walk with the dog to the park. A bit of a catch-all, catch-up episode.

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SlugisDoug episode 105: Slight return

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:44:06 +0000

hi.

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SlugisDoug episode 104: Thoughts on a Glass Life

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:46:03 +0000

I started thinking about Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, thanks to Scarborough Dude’s recent DicksnJanes Podcast #767. I decided to try to tease out these thoughts, that came to me while showering, in to some sort of coherent form and I thought I would bring you along. I am just going off the cuff from my understanding of these works…. I may be very wrong but this is where I am at the moment.

Background audio from here.

Enjoy

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SlugisDoug episode 103: Twelve!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:13:20 +0000

And suddenly here we are at the 12th Day of Podcasting Leading up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas. See you next year? Maybe.

Enjoy

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SlugisDoug episode 102: Experiment 8

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:20:43 +0000

For the 8th day of the 12 Days of Podcasting Leading up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas, I tried to do a quick audio experiment. It turned out to take longer than expected and may not actually be any good. I wasn’t going to release it. I slept on it. Now here it is.

skip it if you like…. I won’t be offended.

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SlugDaily 20191201: 2019 CNDOP

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:17:09 +0000

The 9th Anniversary of the first Canadian National Day of Podcasting. My 2 cents.

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SlugisDoug episode 101: Seven

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:30:28 +0000

The Seventh episode of the 12 Days of Podcasting Leading Up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas. Seven.

Enjoy

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SlugisDoug episode 100: 5, no, 6!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:50:48 +0000

no comment.

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SlugisDoug episode 99: Streets of NYC

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:12:14 +0000

I’m at a loss for something to put out today, the 4th Day of the 12 Days of Podcasting Leading Up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas, so I play you a clip, the only clip I recorded, from my trip to NYC.

enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 98: Jingle the Elf

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:32:37 +0000

Another huge score for the ever increasingly popular series of podcasts known as The Twelve Days of Podcasting Leading Up to the Twelve Podcasting Days of Christmas. This episode features an exclusive interview with Elf on the Shelf Supervisor Jingle. Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er!

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Background music by Lee Rosevere can be found here.

SlugisDoug episode 97: Day 2 of 12 – Edith and Charlie

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:55:43 +0000

This is episode 2 of the 12 Days of Podcasting Leading up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas. Today, I had the opportunity to meet face to face with Edith and Charlie and have a chat with them about their lives as well as answer some questions put forth by the SlugisDoug community.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 96: Day One… again.

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:21:05 +0000

This is the 1st day of the 2019 Twelve Days of Podcasting Leading Up to the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas. Until tomorrow.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 95: Like it or Not

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:44:47 +0000

This morning I was thinking about how there are some songs that I like and do not like. There are also things that I have no idea if I like them or not. I try to explore why and what this is and generally waste your time with my stream of consciousness thinking aloud.

enjoy

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SlugisDoug episode 94: PodSeed4 – Fear

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:01:27 +0000

The 4th installment in the PodSeed Project. This time the topic is fear. I go in to what some of my fears are as well as explore fear as a driving force.

The tweet that I mention by @JennaACY on Twitter.

The #PodSeed4 tag on Twitter…. not much there but, who knows, others may follow…… right?

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 93: pollynotdolly

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:25:22 +0000

A quick check in on a Monday morning drive after listening to Upinthisbrain.

enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 92

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:19:33 +0000

I’m driving to work (and getting a little bit goofy). Sorry.

enjoy.

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Side note: Alan Almond’s sign off from Pillow Talk every night at midnight. Still brings back old memories and feelings.

SlugisDoug episode 91: In the Clouds

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:54:11 +0000

Driving to work again. This time thinking about events at MMPR 2019 and having my head In the Clouds while In The Crowd.
Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 90: moreofthesame

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:45:17 +0000

More thoughts from me while I drive to work. This time it’s about a couple of songs that I “discovered” in my first year of university that seemed to harbour the secrets of the universe within them.

Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 89: School is out

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:35 +0000

Here we go again! Another episode leading up to MMPR 2019.

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SlugisDoug episode 88

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:57:50 +0000

Episode 88 and another drive to work and talking about stuff….

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SlugisDoug episode 87: Day 3 of 12 to MMPR?

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:16:05 +0000

Apparently I am now doing the 12 Podcasting days to the Marshall Mcluhan Podcasters Roundtable. This will be the 3rd instalment.
I continue my exploration on the secrets of the Universe as revealed through art. Actually, it’s more me rambling on saying stuff that comes to mind. Just putting that first stroke on the canvas.

Until tomorrow, enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 86: A Dark Night of the Soul

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:04:50 +0000

I had trouble falling asleep last night. And may have had a small existential crisis or “Dark Night of the Soul.” It sounds worse than it was. The result; I’m tired today, didn’t get much sleep. And you get a new episode to listen to. It takes some time to warm up and get to the point, but I think it eventually gets there.

Enjoy.
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Some of the things I get wrong in this episode or am unable to remember:
1. The musical artist that I was trying to remember the last name of is Michael Kiwanuka
2. Etienne-Louis Boulee lived in the late 1700s
3. Boulee’s Cenotaph design was for Sir Isaac Newton, not Gallileo.
4. I believe the quote regarding the contemplation of the sublime is from Immanuel Kant: “Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
5. Picasso painted his Las Meninas in 1957, 50 years after painting Les Desmoiselles D’Avignon. His exploration of Velazquez’s work (painted 301 years before in 1656) is rooted in much more than I explain and much more that I didn’t learn until I just recently searched it up on the internet. I clearly have some reading to do.

SlugisDoug episode 85: Commuting with Doug

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:58:00 +0000

Recorded on a drive to work and a drive home. Also Clara and I play a duet on the piano.

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SlugisDoug episode 84: Consequences

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:37:41 +0000

Better late than never.

My contribution to the 3rd installment of the Podcast Seed Project. The seed this time around was “Consequences”.
Enjoy.

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SlugisDoug episode 83: The Storyteller, The Listener and The Eavesdropper.

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:26:09 +0000

This week I sat down and reread and recorded a piece of writing from 1996. This was my first semester so-called “research thesis” at Carleton University’s School of Architecture. More of an exploration of creative writing, and narrative building than a treatise on a type of architecture. It was, I think, an attempt to try to develop a way of creating something that might eventually, somehow, turn itself into an architecture. It is clearly very flawed as a “research thesis” but as a piece of art it is something that I am pretty proud of. If anything, it was interesting to me to revisit this work and try to breathe new life into it by creating something new from it.

I hope you enjoy it.

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Some Credits.

The music is all from the Free Music Archive by an artist named Lee Rosevere

The tracks that appear are:

There is also a recording of rain from Freesound.org by user sonitusetaudio.

SlugisDoug episode 82: The move begins!

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:36:39 +0000

A few clips from over the past week or two and I play some piano.

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SlugisDoug episode 81: Integrity?

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:00:16 +0000

The first of the Podcast Seed project. Better late than never.

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SlugisDoug episode 80: 1 Day until the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:13:05 +0000

It`s finally here folks! Less than 24 hours away. Jason over at UpinthisBrain is going to release episode 400 of the UpinthisBrain podcast and it will mark the beginning of the 5th installment of the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas. Something that I know that we have ALL been waiting for.

So. This is the last that you will here from me here, for now. I turn the next 12 days of podcasting over to my esteemed colleague (Armpit) Jason and I know that he will do better than me for the next 12 podcasting days.

Thank you for bearing with me and my crazy idea. Thanks to everyone who contributed and to everyone who bothered to listen. If I don`t speak to you before Christmas or the New Year, I hope that you have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year. Thank you for your friendship, camaraderie, understanding and patience. I love you all and I bid you Peace, Joy and Happiness this season and for all seasons to follow.

Take care and take care of each other,

Doug

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SlugisDoug episode 79: 2 Days left ’til the 12 Podcasting Days of Christmas

slugisdoug@gmail.com (SlugisDoug) — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:21:19 +0000

2 days left folks!

Thank you to Dr. Steve Cloutier for the clip, in all its glory.

Steve’s Podcast: Stories From Sackville
Steve on Twitter: DocPinko
Spit and Twitches episode 13
Dave’s Solo Thing
MPP (I don’t know where this is anymore.)
Chub Creek

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