Tangential Convergence

Tangential Convergence

Dave Brodbeck and Ken Hernden

Episodes 25
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Since May 2018
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Every 2 Months
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About This Podcast

Two guys start out with a tech or news story, and end up through discussions of history and science fiction, somewhere else.

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Recent Episodes

Rifles Make Ready Episode 2 - Sharpe's Eagle

Dec 01, 2025

Now that we've established who Sharpe is we can get him into all kinds of fun.Fun like dealing with Sir Henry Simmerson.Simmerson is played expertly by Michael Cochrane.  As an aside, Michael…

Rifles Make Ready - Episode 1 - Sharpe's Rifles

Sep 11, 2025

Yes, I know on 200 a Day, and Six Million and Black Sheep I try to come up with a clever title.  It's harder here... They're all named 'Sharpe's something or other'...'Eyes down'.The fact that the…

Rifles Make Ready! - Episode 0, You Know Who I am, My Name is Sharpe

Aug 10, 2025

Ken and I are taking a break from our usual tech/history/sci fi ben and doing a deep dive into the historical fiction tv series Sharpe.We're going to watch all 18 episodes and talk about them, you…

Episode 60 - Limited Brutality is Still Brutality

Feb 25, 2023

It's been a year since Putin started his illegal invasion of Ukraine.We here at TC are staunchly pro democracy and pro Ukraine.I wonder how people feel about this in Russia?We could ask Russian.  So…

Episode 59 - Unrepresentative Yahoos

Dec 01, 2022

It's Canadian National Day of Podcasting!It's also me and Ken.Hey, remember the occupation of Ottawa?  Remember the Emergencies Act?  Well  the EA requires a commission be struck to look into the use…

Episode 58 - For the Glory of the Empire

Oct 23, 2022

We're back.Well, Ken was for a bit, then there was a LIBRARY EMERGENCY!!Gee, what'll we talk about?  How about Putin's war of choice in Ukraine?Putin knows little of the operational. art.Deception is…

Episode 57 - Gorby, We Hardly Knew Ye

Sep 11, 2022

It's been a heck of a few days.The Queen died.The Russians are rushin' away (sorry...)But a couple of weeks ago Mikhail Gorbachev died.Hey wait, now that's TC material. You know what else?  I KNOW AN…

Episode 56 - This Book Represents a Weapon

Apr 24, 2022

It's another in our ongoing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine.Lots of weapons are coming in.Lots of war crimes are happening.We talked a bit about the history of war crimes.How can you get someone…

Episode 55 - The Ken and Dave Greater Co Prosperity Sphere

Mar 19, 2022

This one is all about propaganda.Of course we've been both thinking about the topic ever since Russia invaded Ukraine.Does Putin actually believe his own propaganda?Are we swayed by propaganda (of…

Episode 54 - Слава Україні! Героям слава!

Feb 27, 2022

Hey it's us!Gee, what's been in the news?  Maybe the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine?Is this a reboot of 1918 or 1938?  (With credit to @docpinko).  We think it's more like 1918.What is Russia's…

Episode 53 - Decision 2020 Pre Game Show or Whatever

Nov 04, 2020

We recorded this one at around 7pm EST.  Some polls are closed, some are open, some people are still in line.  I conducted a completely (scientifically) useless twitter poll.  Many of our US friends…

Episode 52 - The All New Honda Freebee

Jun 04, 2020

Originally Ken and I were going to hop on Skype and talk about reopening economies. Then, the murder of George Floyd happened. So, we couldn't not talk about that.  So we did.  Though, really, we…

Episode 51 - Chock Full of Plagues

Apr 10, 2020

Actual t shirt that I'm wearing as I type this We're back, and better than ever.  Oh and there's a plague and we're all working from home. Also, Ken is now in entirely different city, so we're…

Episode 50 - Timely, Topical, Terrifying and Tom

Jul 07, 2019

Live from MMPR 2019, it's Tangential Convergence! Yeah, so I'm typing this up on the Sunday before we all meetup for the goodbye breakfast of MMPR. It was good fun. It was Ken's first TC, and Tom's…

Episode 49 - I Can't Even Throw Away Paint

May 28, 2019

Hey look, it's us! Also, we streamed this one live.  Sorta cool right?  Of course we peaked at three listeners, still... Evil Bond villain Elon Musk launched a bunch of satellites.  It's pretty…

Episode 48 - You Need Three People For Propaganda

Apr 09, 2019

OK, we're back after a long hiatus. Ken has merged with a new kidney, and he's doing much better thank you. We started out by talking about the SNC Lavalin affair here in Canada at the request of…

Episode 47 - Ward Cleaver Was Really Into Cock Fighting

Sep 18, 2018

Hey, we're back! If anything gets us back to talking it is overreach by a company with a bit of copyright! I'm using too many exclamation points! So, a guy who had bought a movie from Apple went…

Episode 46 - A Warehouse Full of Minitel Terminals

Jul 20, 2018

Yup, we're back.  Don't worry, we just took a little break. So, today is Isabelle's birthday, so there's that. Our topic though, is not birthdays, but, the recent fine the European Union has…

Episode 45 - Sending Your Scribe to John Grisham's Place

Jun 29, 2018

Everyone sing along.  It's Tom Merritt's birthday. Today, or tonight really, we're tackling a topic we've spoken of before, cloud computing.  Yeah, that was back in episode 12, that file is long…

Episode 44 - Churchill as a Service

Jun 22, 2018

Look, another episode! Look, another episode about copyrights! Look, the EU is being silly again!  Is it censorship?  I dunno.  I'm sure Ken will know much more about this than I, because of his…

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