Bonjour, Sneakers! Ian and Dave have a big announcement this week, that they don’t make, but apparently they have a new podcast in the works called Totally Tintin! (Details will follow, I suppose.) They want you to help friend of the show, Branwyn Bigglestone (three time guest!), with her campaign to raise money to help homeless youth. Branwyn is one of our favourite people so if you can donate, that would be great. Also this week, Ian’s renoviction saga continues; Dave discusses the dangers of cats; they remember an empty world (take a drink); talk about old-time Vancouver (take a another drink); dream of winning it big, but not winning it dumb; wonder if it’s possible to be rich and happy (Dave’s answer: Yes); and speaking of rich folk, Ian is a victim of creeping wealth; and, finally, stay tuned for some bonus material after the show: Ian and Dave finally answer a guest’s question!
Thanks for listening!
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We tagged on a discussion about Santa to end of the show after the end song, here’s another viewpoint on it…
http://www.pbs.org/parents/holidays/is-it-okay-lie-about-santa/
Hey guys – can’t wait for ‘Totally Tintin’! Those books have been a love of mine for years – I have all the albums, and a bunch of books about Hergé and the history of the stories.
I found SD via Completely Beatles, but am now hooked. Working through your back issues at the moment and have found I’m going to have to curtail my bedtime listening ; my snorts of suppressed laughter are disturbing my wife. She wouldn’t get why I find ‘Standard K’ (ep 12) so funny… she doesn’t get the Tintin thing either…
Thanks, Dylan! Totally Tintin will be available very soon.
I’ll have to make my daughter listen to Episode 12 and let me know what “Standard K” was!
Very soon? How about right now!
And if I remember correctly, Standard K is for people who can’t afford Special K cereal.
Yes, it’s the off-brand version, after ‘Regular K’! And now I can’t be sure if it was Ep. 12, but it was thereabouts. Listening to Tintin now!
Santa isn’t real, but Sneaks the Sneaky Dragon mascot is, right?
You wouldn’t lie to me about Sneaks, would you?
Thomas, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Thomas, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Thomas, there is a Sneaks. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion and podcasting exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Sneaky D! It would be as dreary as if there were no Thomases. There would be no Sneaky Dragon then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.
We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which Sneaky Dragon fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Sneaky D! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to listen to all the podcasts on Christmas Eve to catch Sneaks, but even if you did not see Sneaky D, what would that prove? Nobody sees Sneaks, but that is no sign that there is no Sneaky D. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the podcasting world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory of podcasting. Is it all real? Ah, Thomas, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Sneaks! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Thomas, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of podcast listeners.
Only a 412 word response! What do I have to do to get a proper 1,000 word response?