{"id":2468,"date":"2014-10-26T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T17:56:15","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e63-mementos-mori-with-keith-mcnally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E63: Mementos Mori with Keith McNally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2469\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/keithmcnally.jpg\" alt=\"keithmcnally\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/keithmcnally.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/keithmcnally-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Out with the raccoons on the closed second-floor balcony of a Toronto bar, Colin Marshall talks with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\">Keith McNally<\/a>, the podcast auteur behind the shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/xo\/\"><i>XO<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/hamradio\/\"><em>I Have a Ham Radio<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/vinylcountdown\/\"><em>The\u00a0Vinyl Countdown<\/em><\/a>. They discuss the function and imminent disappearance of Honest Ed&#8217;s; podcasting as a 21st-century means of hanging out with &#8220;friends&#8221; and having man-to-man conversations; why he felt such elation at leaving New York, and how a combination of <em>Keith and the Girl<\/em> and Ayn Rand drove him there in the first place; how he felt\/feels that, in Canada, &#8220;we&#8217;re just not driven&#8221;; what forms ambition does take in Toronto; his discovery of the disorder known as misophonia, his own probable misophonia, what misophonia does to urban life, and how he came to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/xo\/2013\/10\/19\/misophonia\/\">an elaborate podcast about it<\/a>; Toronto as a 20-percent Japanified New York; his hometown of Frederickton, New Brunswick, how it now looks like a disused movie set, and what it means when you start calling it &#8220;Fredeekton&#8221;; how his projects run the gamut of podcast production, from tossed-off to made like a watch;<i>\u00a0<\/i>which of his fixations have become\u00a0<em>XO\u00a0<\/em>episodes; the lowbrow manner in which he discovered the tragic tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/xo\/2010\/04\/13\/rodger-swan\/\">Roger Swan<\/a>, an American in Japan; how and why he turned <a href=\"http:\/\/adamcadre.ac\/if.html\">Adam Cadre&#8217;s piece of interactive fiction<\/a>\u00a0<em>Photopia\u00a0<\/em>into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithcourage.com\/xo\/2009\/11\/28\/photopia\/\">an\u00a0<em>XO<\/em><\/a>; his attraction to extremely personal works that he can convert into his own, even more personal works; Youtube bodybuilder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/elliottsaidwhat\">Eliot Hulse<\/a>&#8216;s advice about getting over a breakup;\u00a0the Canadian secret about Nickelback; how &#8220;there&#8217;s no shortcut&#8221; out of hard work, so you &#8220;might as well do what you want to do&#8221;; and the search for mementos mori that keeps on drawing him to the stories of those who die young.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E63_Keith_McNally.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out with the raccoons on the closed second-floor balcony of a Toronto bar, Colin Marshall talks with Keith McNally, the podcast auteur behind the shows XO,\u00a0I Have a Ham Radio, and\u00a0The\u00a0Vinyl Countdown. 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