Chris & Paul are joined by Alan Henry to chat about former lives, science, college radio, and Alan’s journey on the way to writing for Lifehacker.

• Writing articles on his own blogs, Gears and Widgets and The Classy Geek, eventually led to someone saying, “Hey Alan, you should write for us and we’ll pay you!”
• Alan put together the science guidelines at Lifehacker.
• How I Work is a useful series on Lifehacker to learn some excellent tips from people in different fields. You can even learn more about Alan and how he works.
• An old blog of Chris’ with very bad jpegs about Canadian internet shopping.
• Alan suggested NCIX for Canadian internet shoppers. Win for Canuck listeners!
• Chris thought he was going to stay in a Radisson Hotel, not the town of Radisson. (It looked much scarier in the dark of 1am.)
• Alan is now experimenting with Zipcar and Car2Go services.
• Edmonton finally has a car sharing service, Pogo.
• Alan loves the DC circulator bus.
• Spaces or no Spaces?
• Headphone roll call! Alan was wearing a pair of Blue MoFi. He almost wore his Sennheiser Momentum. Paul was modeling Sony MDR-7506 during the show. Chris sported the audio-technica ATH-M30.
• Chris and Paul also have spare sets of Sennheiser HD 202s for in studio guests.
• Chris bought some Marley earbuds because of a recommendation from the Boing Boing Gadgets Podcast.
• Alan, Chris, and Paul regale each other with stories of working in college radio, or in Paul’s case public access television.

Join us again next week for another great hour with Alan Henry!

A production coordinator from Hollywood, Jil Szewski talks to Paul and Chris about working shows, unions, the long hours, and practical jokes on imdb.

• Chris has learned “What do you do?” is a bad question thanks to reading our last guest, Nicole Bélanger.
• Jil is currently working on Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (Content not available in Canada, peep this instead.)
• GVSU Alumni reunion for those cats interested.
• Experimental film featuring bug parts, Mothlight. You can probably find it on Youtube.
• Maya Deren’s rad experimental film, Meshes of the Afternoon. Again, you can probably find it on Youtube.
• Jil had the awkward task of finding Christmas decorations in the summer when she worked on A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
• We learn that web series are very big right now in Hollywood.
• Chris recommends Chef, but Jil who worked on the film, warns that it will make you very hungry.
• Paul is currently watching Arrow and The 100.
• Chris is watching Helix, Supernatural, 12 Monkeys and he’s waiting for Orphan Black and Silicon Valley to start up again.
• Jil went to the wrap party for season 2 of Silicon Valley where they showed a gag reel and she said it looks really good!
• Aren’t 5 stars better than 1?
• Michigan had a film incentive (you can read more about it here), but then it ended and now some folks are trying to get it going again.
• Jil’s fiance worked on HBO’s True Detective which is a very good show.
• Jil schools Chris & Paul on the various unions and the requirements to join. Chris admits his only understanding of Hollywood unions comes from Full Tilt Boogie.
• Resident bad movie lover Chris is sad when Jil reveals that her uncredited acting credit for Avalanche Sharks on imdb.com is a joke played on her by some friends.
• Jil loves Elvis! Chris wishes she was on the Harum Scarum episode of Film Frown to recommend some decent Elvis films.

Thanks again to our guest Jil! Be sure to check out her current show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway? And thanks to you for listening.

As our podcast enters its 3rd year, Saturday Night Live celebrates its 40th year. Paul & Chris discuss Raspberry Pi projects, SNL, and regional film distribution.

• Hey look! The Raspberry Pi 2 is out. Corrections: It’s a quad core.
• arkOS is a slick way to host your own photos, sites and more.
• Raspberry Pi 2 benchmarks.
• Chris is hoping to experiment with RetroPie on his RPi(Raspberry Pi).
• Raspian is the original OS developed for the RPi.
• Chris’ new thumb drive looks like Ravage.
• Paul is using XBian on his RPi to stream films & media to his TV.
• XBian supports AirPlay and Chromecast. It also supports BTSync.
• Subsonic and MPD are server-side applications to stream your music from home.
• Did Chris say Jeena is from Germany? Oops. Sorry, sir!
• Chris wants to replace his Melting iMac with a new RPi 2.
• Are we talking Doctor Who again? Nope. The spinoff, Torchwood.
• Where does “pony up” come from?
• Join us on Thursday evenings in the chatroom. You can find it on the live page or using IRC. We’re on Freenode, and the room is #montrealsauce.
• Netflix is after ye geo-pirates.
• Chris takes a stab at explaining DVD region codes.
• The big scare in the 1980s was globalization. We’re here, but things aren’t very global.
• Chris tries to make the audience smaller by discussing Canadian phonology.
• Paul makes an effort to save Chris by complimenting frequent Canadian guest Colette.
• Dear Canada, we apologize for Chris.
• Remembering back to Chris’ SUV rant.
• Saturday Night Live had their 40th Anniversary Special recently.
• Our hosts miss Phil Hartman. Sorry this link doesn’t work in Canada. :(
• Jon Lovitz appearance on the Nerdist Podcast.
• Discussing actors who play themselves like Joe Pesci or Danny McBride.
• Our hosts learned a lot about acting when they interviewed Andy Luther. Part 2 is here.

Thanks for listening to one of our more informative episodes. No applause please, just throw money so we can buy more Pi! Besides, we can’t here your applause. You could rate us on iTunes, if you wish.

Chris & Paul are left to their own devices, whatever that means. The two share what they did on the break between seasons and discuss Gene Roddenberry & Dan Harmon shows.

• Chris promotes his made-up holiday Someday if February, the 3rd Saturday in February in which you prioritize something from your Someday list instead of your To-do list.
• Built on the Tent protocol which places your data in your control rather than a service, Cupcake.io is a twitter-like place for conversation that Chris enjoys using.
• Paul talks about his involvement in West Michigan’s Online Cooperative and his exit from version two, West Michigan FarmLink.
• Pay someone else to do your chores? Check out TaskRabbit.
• Be good. Don’t make waves.
• There was a new Venture Bros special recently that you may be able to watch here for a limited time (and if you’re lucky enough to be surfing from the States).
• Speaking of cartoons, Chris says you should check out Rick & Morty if you are a fan of Community.
• What the heck is Heat Vision and Jack? A hilarious show you never got to see.
• Paul mentions that Amazon Prime Instant Video has the remastered Star Trek: The Next Generation. Netflix does not.
• The Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra tee missing from your closet.
• What other projects had Roddenberry at the helm? Chris has recently watched Genesis II and Planet Earth featuring the Hyperloop?
• Roddenberry’s Andromeda was meh, but Earth: Final Conflict was well enjoyed by a younger Chris.
• Chris & Paul talk Film Frown & the LL Cool J film Deep Blue Sea.
• Podcast apps like Overcast (iPhone) & Podcast Addict (Android) have recommend/share buttons so you can share your favorite shows with friends! If only you had a favorite show. Hmm.

Got questions for us or our guests? Tweet your questions to @MontrealSauce or using the hashtag #asksauce.

Season 3 begins with the talented and inspiring Nicole Belanger. We discuss the power of stories, the glorification of busy and the lack of diversity in our films, books and entertainment in general.

• Don’t be mean to your stories! Nicole basically tells us we’re all too hard on ourselves. Chris agrees, citing the stories featured on Radiolab and This American Life.
• Nicole tells us that she misses writing because lately she’s been updating her website instead of sharing. Check out the new nicole-belanger.com and add it to your reading list.
• Nicole doesn’t want a work-life balance. She believes in a work-life blend.
• Stop glorifying that you’re so busy that you don’t have time to sleep? You’re not a martyr, it’s bad for business.
• Nicole says she was born and raised in Ottawa when Chris accuses her of being a British Columbian.
• Of course, Chris & Nicole won’t say anything disparaging about B.C. Chris digs Kelowna and Nicole really enjoyed time in Victoria.
• Actor Michael Ironside shared his thoughts on B.C. on a Nerdist podcast.
• Nicole says passion is a moving target, so she’s taking Elizabeth Gilbert’s advice and following her curiosity.
• Wild is a book by Cheryl Strayed that inspires Nicole.
• The Reese Witherspoon film based on the book Wild, gets a very positive review as well.
• Nicole tells us that actress Reese Witherspoon produced Wild as well as Gone Girl in an effort to bring complex female characters to the screen.
• Chris agrees that films are full of white males and cites an old blog post, R.I.P.D.:Just How White & Sexist Is Hollywood?
• The Bechdel test will depress you when you apply it to Hollywood movies.
• Paul reminds us that films are not the only media where women are not equally portrayed. #Gamergate
• Of course, the best place to start with equality is children’s books. Check out WeNeedDiverseBooks.org.
• Chris & Nicole talk about another wild book, Into the Wild and its film.
• Nicole offers some great tips for writing, like emailing yourself notes and approaching your own story from the outside as an investigative journalist.
• Nicole makes the case for meditation and suggests the buddhify app.

Nicole would like to remind us to be kinder to ourselves. “If we talked to others how we talk to ourselves, we’d have negative friends.” Find more inspiration from Nicole at nicole-belanger.com and follow Nicole on twitter.