This is the second half of our discussion with writer Marty Chan. The first half is here. Topics are writing for the stage vs. novels, favorite authors, Houdini and the cleverly named new insulin.

• Authors mentioned: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross and Kenneth Oppel.

• Warning, Mad Men finalé spoilers. Once you hear “Spoiler Alert,” fast forward 1 minute.

• Old Coke vs. New Coke, Soylent Green and eating right.

• Marty had The Hardy Boys growing up and Chris was obsessed with Encyclopedia Brown.

• The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher (Marty Chan Mystery Series 3) deals with discrimination against a girl because of diabetes.

• Vertical integration and the popular song, “I’d like to buy the world some insulin.”

• Marty’s steampunk, young adult series, The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles begins with Demon Gate and Infinity Coil was recently released!

• Marty was a fan of the Marvel What If series and it somewhat inspired his alternate history in The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles.

• Mentors A time travel TV show that also inspired Marty.

• The publisher of Marty’s latest series is Fitzhenry & Whiteside.

• Chris and Marty agree that the Houdini miniseries was awful. Episode one fact checked and episode two.

• Chris recommends Make Believe. Marty says one of the students in the film, Krystyn Lambert went on to join Criss Angel’s reality show.

• Sheldon Casavant is a magician who Marty hired for his book party.

• What’s Marty reading? The Hunchback Assignments and The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu.

• Make Something Edmonton is the home for Edmonton made projects.

Find Marty on twitter or Facebook and buy Infinity Coil or get started in the series with Demon Gate. Thanks again for listening! Special thanks to Marty Chan for joining us!

The gents were incredibly lucky to talk to author Marty Chan. His works include books, plays, radio and television scripts & hilarious tweets. Discussion topics include actors who overdub Hollywood star’s in films shown in other countries, prejudice, the Chinese word to describe “your life is going terribly wrong” and of course cats.

• The Batusi.

• Chris plugs the chat room we have for the live show that you can find on the live page. Can’t make it at 6pm PDT, 7 MTN, 8 CDT or 9pm EDT? Tweet comments and questions to @MontrealSauce.

• Marty was enrolled in university in a subject he really wasn’t interested in so he earned the Dean’s Vacation.

• Chris majored in Euchre during his first attempt at college. Thus, he understands the concept of Dean’s Vacation.

• Memories of the dot matrix printer (and Rocky).

• Edmonton is insanely in love with theater. Come join us at Edmonton Fringe Festival.

• Marty auditioned for Jake and the Kid in hopes to get into television writing. It worked!

• Marty did some time with the improv group, Rapid Fire Theatre.

• The Incredible Story Studio which Marty worked on, was a great concept for a show.

• Marty’s books include selections for children and young adults.

• Our guest was obsessed with The Hardy Boys books as a child. Young Marty pursued a detective career in his parents grocery store thanks to The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook.

• Mom, Dad, I’m Living With A White Girl.

• Chris wishes Marty would have joined them to review Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon.

• The Young Alberta Book Society helps schools & authors connect. Marty enjoys presenting to schools and loves YABS.

• The library?

Thanks to Marty for taking the time to join us. Subscribe on MontrealSauce.com or iTunes so you don’t miss part 2 with Marty and thanks for listening.

Paul & Chris sit down and chat about central vacuum and avocados! What more could you want from a host-full show? Well, surprise guest Tina pops in to talk delicious cookies & not-so delicious undercooked cheeseburgers.

• Chris is excited for the next episode with author Marty Chan.
• A last minute shot in the dark, Chris attempted to get Adam Dachis from Supercharched as this episode’s guest. However, he’s hoping to schedule Adam and Darren Herczeg for a future Film Frown.
• Paul asks about Chris’ latest writing gig, Lost Highway.
• Chris was also lucky enough to have an article posted on the arkOS blog.
• Glen Fleishman’s The New Disruptors is an excellent podcast. In particular, they discuss the episode featuring Nicole Dieker where she talked briefly about working for CrowdSource.
• Discussing the terror of possibly offending a movie star hero during your bad movie podcast. Here’s the show in question. Here’s a recap.
• Panasonic, why you no have Ernie Reyes Jr. kick your Toughbook & Toughpad around in commercials? We’d buy one then. IF IT COULD SURVIVE HIS MARTIAL ARTS!
• The ridiculous 3D music video for Edmonton’s Brewery District development. (Turn off your speakers unless you want to hear synth trombones. In fact, do not watch this at all.)
• Paul enjoys listening to the podcast Core Intuition.
• Paul wants to incorporate Searchpath into the new site to hosts our podcasts. He currently bakes pies when he uploads these notes and podcasts? WHA? A backstage look at how Paul publishes and hosts the podcasts.
• Chris has been editing images for episcura.com. So, if you need seamless textures or HDRI, check it out.
• The fellas discuss using tags and how John Gruber uses tags.
• Patent trolls 101 and The Temple of Gloom.
• Chris shares a review of Sony’s Powers. Only available on PS4? REALLY?
• Rory from Doctor Who is in CW’s new Legends of Tomorrow.
• The kids need a GyroBowl!
• Paul loves the “fabulous central vacuum.”
• Skype boxes built from Raspberry Pis? Why not. The Wolfson Audio Card might be a decent audio solution.
• Paul’s audio mixer used for the show, Mackie Onyx 1640i. Dan Benjamin now suggests some Focusrite products for podcasting in his show Podcast Method.

Thanks for listening to our host-full show. It was a lot of fun for us to catch up with each other instead of getting to know a rad guest. It’s a bit of a throwback episode; we hope you enjoyed it.

Jacob Cook from arkOS is with the guys for part 2 of the discussion on privacy. Jacob says we should trust the investigation techniques we’ve used for years rather than collect everyone’s data. Meanwhile, Paul has a great metaphor for online privacy, the front door of your home.

• We mentioned it in the show notes for the last episode, but we talked about the Last Weeek Tonight video on Edward Snowden in this part. (NSFW)
• Jacob recommends Citizenfour, the Oscar winning documentary about the Snowden leak while Chris is not as impressed. Watch it on iTunes.
• Chris recommends The Internet’s Own Boy which you can also watch on iTunes.
• Trusting websites and companies with our data online is one thing. We also have to trust our friends with whom we share. You send them pictures & information all the time. They could get hacked or use gmail and your data is at risk.
• Diaspora is a social network that is decentralized.
• GNUSocial is another decentralized social network.
• Chris asks Jacob about IndieWebCamp. Suggested examples are jeena.net and brennannovak.com.
• The government wants a backdoor into every system out there. This would make encryption pointless.
• Legal or not, many are being forced to unlock phones and decrypt laptops at borders.
• Legally you can be forced to unlock your phone with touch ID.
• Nothing leaves the web. You post it. Forever it shall be.
• “I don’t have anything to hide.” Jacob suggests that you watch Why Privacy Matters.
• Jacob gives a quick overview on how to get started protecting your privacy. Start with hosting your email somewhere else beside these large data collection companies.
• A brief discussion of the robot in Starcrash. Or is he the chicken lawyer from Futurama?
• Your Samsung SmartTV is spying on you?
• Meanwhile, Barbie is spying on your kids.
• Lenovo Responds to Superfish issue.
• Jacob tells us about the new arkOS Connect service.

Once again thanks for listening and thanks to our guest for the chat. Be sure to check out Jacob’s arkOS. If you want to hear more from Jacob, have a listen to the Film Frown podcast he was on.

This week Chris wanted to talk about privacy so he and Paul invited Jacob Cook the father of arkOS to talk about the importance of confidentiality and better ways to protect yourself online.

Subtle Reminder: We have a chat channel on the freenode IRC network you can join during live shows on Thursday nights to interact with us. Or jump in on other days and maybe you run into Chris or Paul. Look for #montrealsauce on freenode or hit the live page on our site.

• We discuss the spotted history of online payments where Elon Musk’s Paypal was the only choice. Paul & Jacob prefer using stripe when they are developing.
• Edward Snowden has exposed a number of things about government data collection. The truth is that they cannot provide one case where mass surveillance has stopped an actual terrorist act. Last Week Tonight has an excellnt video on the subject. It’s NSFW.
• Jacob’s arkOS has a number of ways for you to host your own data.
• Jacob tells us there are great alternatives out there for every popular app and service, but there’s a learning curve. arkOS is his answer to having an easy solution for everyone, like apps on the app store.
• Speaking of alternatives, Chris and Paul have had success with Baïkal for syncing contacts and calendars.
• Chris is excited to try Mumble as an alternative to Skype.
• Jacob had a Jolla phone to increase his privacy, but recently moved to a new carrier where it wasn’t supported.
• Jacob & Chris use apps from Open Whisper Systems for encrypted communication on their devices. You can get TextSecure for Android or Signal for iPhone in the various app stores.
• Encrypting e-mail sounds complex, but there are tutorials everywhere. Read more on ars technia.
• Chris & Jacob chat a bit about using xdadevelopers forum to try new ROMs on Android and the “hackable nature” of the ecosystem vs. iOS.
• MightyText Allows you to text from your computer or tablet after syncing with your Android phone.
• iMessage and WhatsApp are other messaging alternatives they discussed.
• HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension/add-on to protect you online.
• Jacob also uses Ghostery to block all the trackers following you online.
• Chris cautions that Ghostery will send data to advertisers. Thus, he uses Disconnect. Wait, what do these do?
• Is Adblock Plus any good or are companies paying ABP not to block?
• Homeland Security is setting up an office in Silicon Valley.
• The gents talk SSL encryption.
• To secure your own sites you can make SSL certificates, but browsers only recognize certificates from a “trusted” authority (in other words a company that takes your money for the certificate). Let’s encrypt is a free service coming in September.
• arkOS is about being decentralized, your data on your hardware without having to trust some data center. However, ISPs don’t want you to host your own services and some do not give you a static IP address. So, Skylark was born. arkOS on centralized connection.
• There are now data centers using the micro boards like the Raspberry Pi. You can host things on these microservers. Mininodes is one such service.

Special thanks to Jacob for once again coming on to share his time and genius with Paul & Chris. Next episode will be the continuation of the conversation about privacy, sausage and your dXXk pics.