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Joe Planta, Dale McGladdery and Roland Tanglao on Kingsway in Vancouver just east of Analog Coffee at an outdoor pseudo-patio. Covered! Joe is holding up a marketing postcard for kapé which is a social venture promoting ethically sourced, farmer-first, direct trade coffee from Philippine Indigenous growers and batch roasted on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, Canada).

#101 Special Guest: Joe Planta, BC’s best podcaster, 2200+ podcasts but who’s counting :-)

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026
by Roland
Comment on #101 Special Guest: Joe Planta, BC’s best podcaster, 2200+ podcasts but who’s counting :-)

OK, maybe not the best in BC but certainly one of the most erudite and perhaps the most prolific. Check Joe’s podcast at thecommentary.ca

  • 10 Pulitzer Prize winners have been on 🙂 Joe’s podcast
  • Dale and I were on Joe’s
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Booya Magic Microphone, truffle fries at Forecast Coffee Slocan and Hastings, Vancouver, Canada

#100 – Retrospective part 1 – We started 10 years ago back on January 2015

December 31, 2025January 1, 2026
by Roland
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  • Microphones and wireless microphones have greatly improved. We started with the Roland Duo Capture EX USB  interface 4 XLR interface with 2 USB Audio mics: the Audio -Technica ATR2100
  • We now record with a Boya Magic wireless system with fantastic
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#99 – Pluribus S1E9 Finale Carol’s grief rebound and big bang theory :-)

December 29, 2025
by Roland
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  • The Carol / Zosia affair is “just” grief rebound, right?
  • Will the nuke be used in season 2? Probably not in a way Dale or I can imagine it.
  • The clock is ticking. With the DNA from Carol’s frozen eggs,
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ayana, kevin and Roland at Revolver coffee in Gastown Vancouver posing with the V sign :-)

#98 – Charm offensive Pluribus episode 8

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025
by Roland
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  • Gratuitous shout out to Allen Pike 🙂 !
  • The hive minds are bored? So super excited for anything new like a new chapter in a book from Carol?!?!? I like this theory from Dale but we’ll see 🙂 .
  • Manousos’s
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#97 – Come Back Pluribus Episode 7 (recorded 2025-12-13)

December 14, 2025December 16, 2025
by Roland
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  • The character’s name is: “Manousos”. Full name: Manousos Oviedo. My apologies for getting it wrong in the podcast!
  • We recorded on a fine, non rainy but cloudy day at the Riley Park Winter Farmers Market which Barb and Roland have
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The rooster logo at Commercial Street Cafe, East Vancouver, Canada taken with a Nikon FE2 film camesra in 2016

#96 – HDP Pluribus Episode 6 (recorded 2025-12-07)

December 10, 2025December 12, 2025
by Roland
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  • Our usual podcast recording location is: Commercial Street Cafe and their muffins and many other things are great!
  • We both loved the John Cena cameo in Episode 6. William Goodman:: Vince Gilligan Explains John Cena’s Surprise Pluribus Episode 6 Cameo
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#95-Bicycling on a rare dry, sunny Vancouver day (2025-11-30)

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025
by Roland
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  • Dress in layers.
  • Don’t wear cotton. Cotton is great in the summer if you are not sweating. In the winter, cotton results in cold sweet when exercising.
  • The race was the Vancouver Historical Half marathon. Go runners in a wiener
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Dale and Roland at Go Fish, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada after eating fish and chips :-)

#94 – Pluribus Episode 5

November 28, 2025November 29, 2025
by Roland
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  • The wolf has been re-introduced to Arizona according to Wikipedia.
  • There is a large population of coyotes in Arizona according to Wikipedia: “The NHL team in Arizona (1996–2024) was named the Arizona Coyotes to pay tribute to the large population
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Roland's funny pink outfit a pink onesie from onepiece.com from Norway at Commercial Street Cafe, East Vancouver, Canada

#93-Episodes 3 and 4 of Apple TV’s Pluribus

November 25, 2025November 26, 2025
by Roland
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  • Dale mentioned: Ken Liu: QUOTE from: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories: Wikipedia: “The Paper Menagerie”, a fantastical short story written by Ken Liu, follows Jack, a first-generation American son of a white American father and a Chinese
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Dale and Roland hold a shepherd's pie at Commercial Street Cafe, Vancouver, Canada after podcasting about Episode 1 and 2 of Apple TV's Pluribus

#92 Apple TV’s Pluribus – The first two episodes

November 9, 2025
by Roland
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  • Apple TV Do the right thing, give Marina Antunes of the After the Credits Podcast early access to future episodes 🙂
  • Pluribus (Wikipedia) on Apple TV

 

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