Radio Free Ortona

You join us in the middle of a conversation about the repercussions of COVID and it's handling by governments. We move onto whether or not Gord Downey's ghost is disappointed in Justin Trudeau. Then we branch of onto Tucker Carlson's recent visit to our province. We hope you enjoy. Please send questions, comments and concerns to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Cre...

In today's final episode of 2023, we try to turn to the lighter side of things. Paddy talks about the difficulty of buying makeup. Trent reminisces about an awkward conversation with his grandmother. We talk about the greatness of Queen, food that hurts and soccer among other subjects. We hope you enjoy. As always, questions, comments and concerns can go to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from...

In today's episode we try to come up with some useful advice to give people who are coming of age now. We spend a lot of time talking about work and education, as well we try to come up with some advice about life outside of career. This seems like something that we'll be revisiting in the future, so rest assured, or be warned, that there will probably be some more of this in the future. P...

Today we spend some time catching up on the Israeli Hamas conflict and then somehow segway into immigration. Please send questions, comments and concerns to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/yeti-music/casa-vega License code: RZY4IEWYAJ0P19B2 Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/mojo/rebel License code: 0HLFO6L8RFLSVSTA

We showed up without a topic today and this is the result. We start off in the middle of a conversation about the recent expansion to our hometown's light rail network, and how crappy it is. From there we transition to how media using anger to gin up engagement is really starting to effect us negatively. Please send questions, comments and concerns to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbea...

The regular scheduled episode of Radio Free Ortona had to postponed this week do to illness. In its place we present another of our behind the scenes clips episodes. Topics include a rehash of our not at all confusing nautically themed political spectrum. Why some countries drive on the wrong side of the road. Left handed presidents. Why do all tyrants seem to come from the middle class. All that...

Today we're talking about the recent events in Israel and Gaza with a focus on reactions to it in the west. We ponder where all the open antisemites came from, and whether they seem to be clustered on one side of the ideological divide. We talk a little bit about whether the impetus for this attack came from within or outside of Gaza, and who benefits from it, because frankly, we don't see...

Today we're talking about the massive shift in demographics of the developed world. Simply put, we're not having enough kids and our societies are threatened as a result. Shrinking populations means serious economic woes ahead as smaller generations of children will be unable to support the benefits promised to their parents, and this problem gets worse as subsequent generations become sma...

We just kind of jump into it in this one with no introduction. Topics include...well I'm not really sure. Hopefully it's more illuminating to you than it is to me. As always, please send questions, comments and concerns to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/yeti-music/casa-vega License code: RZY4IEWYAJ0P19B2 Music from Uppbeat (free for Cr...

We're finally back for another live episode. It's a typically wide ranging episode, where we start with the what seems to be the latest front in the culture war, that being Oliver Anthony's song Rich Men North of Richmond. We move from there to a Substack article by N.S. Lyons where he talks about the current social upheaval (also the name of his Substack) as a war between Physicals an...

Welcome to another cynical attempt to remind the algorithm that we exist. In this episode of previously unreleased clips we have some year old Ukrainian hot takes that may or may not have weathered the passage of time. There are some musings on counter insurgency, followed by a little bit conversation on the culture war which moves into political accountability and legacy. Please send comments to...

Today on Radio Free Ortona, we try and possibly succeed to analyze the results of the, somewhat, recent Alberta provincial election. It's a pretty wide ranging conversation, and our collective ADHD took us down some pretty deep rabbit holes. We hope you find it interesting. As always, please send questions, comments and concerns to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators...

Today we have another discussion on the current state of the Ukraine war, with someone who actually has a clue about the subject matter. Our first ever guest John has a backround in military intelligence, particularly in large mechanized formations. He's particularly well suited to comment on the issues today. We hope you enjoy the episode, and as always please send comments and concerns to co...

In this episode we talk about the campaign for the 2023 Alberta general election. We look at the use of legacy and new media by the campaigns. We prognosticate on the potential results. Also Steve articulates his idea of appropriate labor relations with government employees, and confirms that he should never be put in charge of anything. As always, please send questions, comments and concerns to c...

For our 1st anniversary, we decided to challenge ourselves to figure out what we're actually happy about. We mostly succeed. Thanks to everyone who's been hanging with us for the last year. We hope we can keep getting better and keep growing the podcast. As always questions, comments and concerns can be directed to complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://up...

In this episode, we talk about potential improvements to Canada's version of the Westminster system. Then we somehow segway into the pitiable state of the Canadian military. Then we moved onto why the Laurentian elites want to keep western Canada down. We breeze through some cultural appropriation before ending with with and easy pass on how to solve the problems of First Nations in Canada. So...

We weren't really sure what we were going to talk about when we started, so we jump right into the middle of a conversation about learning French, move on to the dating habits of Zoomers, then log our complaints about traffic.  We conclude with a discussion about whether or not you can really trust experts.  It's basically a clips show in one shot.  Hope you enjoy. Please send comme...

Today is a Paddy-centric episode as we take a look at where the war in Ukraine is and where we think it's heading.  We talk about what lessons we think we can take from this conflict and apply to near peer conflicts in the furture. As always please drop us a line at complicatedpod@gmail.com Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/yeti-music/casa-vega License code: RZY4IEW...

Today Paddy and Steve try to convince Trent that the popular conception of Nazism and Fascism, as right wing ideological movements, was in fact a dastardly rewriting of history by apologists of Communism and Socialism.  We hope you enjoy the episode. Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/yeti-music/casa-vega License code: RZY4IEWYAJ0P19B2 Music from Uppbeat (free for Creator...

Hello everyone.  It's been a longer hiatus than we'd have liked, but Radio Free Ortona is back with a continuation of our discussion on the utility of the conceptual models of the political spectrum.  Paddy starts off by completely discarding our well thought out and not at all confusing 2 axis nautical model that we gifted the world with in our previous discussion.  Instead we real...

Sorry for the delay between podcasts folks, but podcasting seems to have been preempted by the World Cup, Craft Sales, and the general business of the lead up to Christmas.  We're hoping to get together and record another episode before Christmas, but we can make no guarantees.  In our stead is another of our cynical attempts to feed the algorithm, in the form of an assemblage of our pre...

Thanks for tuning in to our 10th episode of Radio Free Ortona.  As the title says, this is another glossary episode where we just try to figure out what we mean when we talk about the right or left wings of the political spectrum.  In the process we invent an entirely new and not at all confusing nautical model of the political spectrum, in an attempt to separate the concepts from potent...

Thanks for tuning in to Episode 9 of Radio Free Ortona.  First off, apologies for the length of time it took to get this episode out.  And apologies for jumping right into it.  Paddy walked into the room and started in on the topic before your intrepid producer had pushed the record button, so it starts mid sentence. In this episode, we continue our discussion of why capitalism seem...

In this episode, we talk about the Queen, and what she means to us.  How hard it is going to be to adapt referring to the King, when it's been the Queen for all ours and our parents lives.  After that we move onto a meandering discussion of why kids these days don't like capitalism, despite it being responsible for their standard of living. Here's a link to Katherine Mangu-Ward's TedTalk...

Soon after we started this thing, I started hitting the record button as soon as everyone was in the room.  This episode is an assemblage of clips from conversations we had before and after the actual podcast. Some of these conversations are preparatory to future episodes and some of them are completely unrelated to anything else. I hope you find them as interesting as I think they are.  Because w...