• Years ago, I got the idea for a book about an authoritarian state that uses a semi-sentient AI to control its citizens. I published it exactly one year ago and did NOT count on it becoming nonfiction so quickly.
  • Known Order Girls
• Earlier this year, I wrote about how I feel about AI being used for creative purposes.
• The song recommendation for this episode is Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
• For the video edition of this, I wore a t-shirt from Stevie's Safe Spaces. It's the one that reads "You Will Have To Go Through Me" in trans colours

This week, I have the pleasure of talking with writer Gordon Bonnet. Gordon and I have been friends for a long time, and it was great to spend some time catching up and chatting about writing, creativity, impostor syndrome, and more!

• Check out this video of Gordon and me being sexy beasts
• The song recommendation for this episode is Oh Yeah by Yello
• Arc of the Oracles trilogy by Gordon Bonnet
• Known Order Girls by Andrew Butters

• My “Kiss Me You Fool” by The Northern Pikes a cappella cover
• 54-40
  • I Go Blind covered by Hootie & The Blowfish and used on the Friends soundtrack
  • Nice to Luv You LIVE from Moncton
  • Other great songs: Baby Ran, One Day In Your Life, One Gun (sang by me and my now retired coffee shop band Argyle Speedo), Miss You, Baby Have Some Faith, She La, Ocean Pearl, Nice To Luv You, Lies to Me, Crossing a Canyon
• The Northern Pikes
  • In the She Ain’t Pretty video, “she” was a counsellor at the summer camp I went to
  • She Ain’t Pretty LIVE from Moncton
  • Other great songs: Teenland, Hopes Go Astray, Girl With A Problem, Kiss Me You Fool, Dream Away, Believe
• Other Bands Discussed
  • hHead
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Kane & Potvin