Montreal Sauce

Paul DeLeeuw

Interviews with makers, creatives, and friends. Also, strange quizzes about 80s actors.

  1. 11/30/2020

    Video Games

    A 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

    28 min

  2. 03/31/2020

    It's Obviously Very Expensive Soap and He Clearly Paid For It

    Our 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

    1h 2m

  3. 03/23/2020

    Sweet Mana from Heaven

    We’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

    49 min

  4. 06/22/2019

    Sauce Packet: Star Trek Discovery Season 2

    The 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

    37 min

  5. 10/31/2018

    Spooky Manor

    Hey 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

    1h 41m

  6. 08/07/2018

    Sauce Packet: Star Trek Discovery

    As 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

    33 min

  7. 10/30/2017

    Pumpkin Town

    What 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

    1h 12m

  8. 10/21/2017

    Thor's Skillet

    Our 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

    56 min
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About

Interviews with makers, creatives, and friends. Also, strange quizzes about 80s actors.

Information

  • Creator
    Paul DeLeeuw
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2020
  • Episodes
    103
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Montreal Sauce