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The Montreal podcast that deep dives into very particular eras of X-Men comics has returned with your bi-weekly dose of nerdy ass shenanigans.

We kicked off with my festival marathon: Osheaga and ÎleSoniq back-to-back, five days of crowds, dancing, and metro hell. Pro tip: alternate shoes and insoles, or your feet will revolt after 100k steps (dancing not included).

No Jono around means there’s nobody to stop Scott and I from talking a LOT about comics. We geeked out on X-Men tropes, mutant madness, and the Krakoa era: resurrection drama, timey-wimey futures and that bonkers “X of Swords” tournament scattering across titles. Weirdly Scott decides to ship Jean Grey and Steve Rogers and I don’t hate it.

Scott also starts fancasting Excalibur mostly from the Ted Lasso cast: Phil Dunster as Captain Britain, Juno Temple as Meggan and Heather Waddingham as Saturnyne.

I told you this was a nerdy one.

Meanwhile: ChatGPT-5 dropped unannounced, killing old models and your “clanker” buddies. It’s drier, sloppier, sacrifices accuracy for speed—devastating if you’re using it for therapy, RPGs, or brainstorming like Scott.

Finally, presumably out of fear that we were going to make him watch it for a “Best Movie Ever” – Scott watched Amazon’s “War of the Worlds”—Ice Cube as a solo analyst fighting data-eating aliens via socials and drones. Is it as bad as the internet says? Yes and no.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time, Scott and I dig into some of the worst powers in Marvel comics sticking with our comic book theme. I genuinely feel like we might have done this before but I don’t remember some of the characters were spoke about so maybe it was a different list? Who knows, man? If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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Well, The Fantastic Four: First Steps movie is out, and it’s the most comic-accurate yet. Reed Richards is scribbling on chalkboards, tackling cosmic problems like it’s Oppenheimer with spandex. Sue’s stubborn, Ben’s mopey, Johnny’s a hothead. Honestly it’s pretty much straight out of the comics. But it’s a lot of talking heads and some folks (like Keith’s wife) dozed off. Galactus is massive and rocks the Kirby helmet, and they skip the origin story.

Skipping the origin story is kind of our favorite thing in superhero movies these days.

Ironheart reveals that Sacha Baron Cohen is the MCU Mephisto. Feels like they’re testing the waters of introducing Marvel Hell.

Scott pitches a few casting choices for Mr. Sinister: Tom Ellis (Lucifer) or Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy) as the fabulous mutant. Both would kill it.

On a heavier note (GET IT?), Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan are dead.

Since we are jaded assholes we end up ranking them out of 10 on scumbag scale. Ozzy, allegedly shot 17 pets in a drug-fueled haze. That ain’t great. But he’s a rock star so maybe a 4/10 on the scumbag scale.

Hogan, though? Terry Bollea’s a pretty big scumbag. He and Vince McMahon built modern wrestling. But his union-busting, steroid cover-ups, and MAGA-adjacent nonsense peg him at a 7/10 scumbag. Hulk Hogan was a living superhero, Terry Bollea pretty much sucked.

Meanwhile on a brand new episode of Garbage Time! Scott once again has whipped up a quiz for Jon and Keith and this time it’s “Sports Movies”. The rules are simple, Scott gives us the name of a fictional sports team and if we can’t guess the movie he will then tell us the star player of the team. Jon and Keith are not big sports guys but you may be surprised by some of the right answers they manage to land on (and infuriated at some of the ones they miss).

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One has to wonder if there’s the possibility of a Wu-Tang Clan crossover with the Predator franchise. In Predator: Killer of Killers they explore the idea that if you manage to kill a Yautja they come for you and bring you back to their home planet. Would a Predator be able to survive The 36 Chambers?

I remember a time in this podcast where conspiracy theories were kind of like a fun little thought experiment where we would all go “yeah, wouldn’t THAT be crazy” but these days it’s hard to get excited about tinfoil hats when every crackpot idea seems not only plausible but downright likely.

Don’t go falling out of any windows.

We wrap the show up by talking a little about the staged but very real violence that Hangman Adam Page and Jox Moxley engaged in over the weekend at AEW All-In. From Bleacher Report:

“Page drew first blood by repeatedly stabbing Moxley in the head with a fork. It was a brutal scene because you could see the wound opening up as it happened. There was no hiding it. It’s not like they showed some hits and then Mox had time to use a blade. It was the fork doing all the damage.”

ART.

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, Scott prepared a list of obscure aliens to quiz Jon and Keith about their knowledge of aliens. It’s a good time. We also talk about the upcoming films Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps. Honestly you should at least head over to the Patreon just to take a look at the episode image Scott whipped up for this one, it’s dope. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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Does it say something about the current political climate that we would much rather devote a good chunk of our time talking about the Hundred Years’ War of the late Middle-Ages than current events?

I think it does. Anyways, war has always been crazy and we’re always getting better at it, fun!

Scott really, really wants you to watch “Alligator” from 1980 and he’s probably in the right for doing so. Honestly, I watched the trailer and I kind of wish I hadn’t on account of the spoilers. Going into such a triumphant looking creature feature blind is probably the way to go.

Also, when we talk about the scene in Batman Forever where Robin does his laundry with kung-fu or whatever it really must be seen to be believed. Trust me.

I still think Batman Forever is a lot of fun and I’m honestly considering revisiting Batman and Robin to find out if it actually swings so far into being terrible that might it come out the other side as actually fun and good. It probably doesn’t but maybe time has been kind to it?

Time will not be kind to that Snow White remake though. It’s awful.

Meanwhile  – over on Garbage Time, we talk about how important soundtracks can be for movies and how the late 90s and early 2000s were a golden age of movie soundtracks. Obviously that gets us talking about the Spawn movie. We talk about shifting heroes around in the Marvel and DC Comics universe and close it off with some podcast recommendations. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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After months of teasing the subject we finally have all gotten on the same page and watched Hot Rod. Will this bring an end to the Hot Rod content that has been creeping into almost every episode for what feels like months? Maybe.

Maybe not.

Of course since we all watched it we also get to put it on The List and its ranking may surprise you.That is if you are capable of being surprised.

Talking about Hot Rod makes us all pretty nostalgic so we also talk about things that are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. REJECTED by Don Hertzfeldt is incredibly 25 years old next month and Yacht Rock celebrates its 20th Anniversary this month. Yes we talked about Yacht Rock last week on Garbage Time but now we talk about it on the main show. I swear we say different things about it.

In case you were wondering – we are old and we like old things. None of us know what cheugy means and my wife stared at me blankly when I yelled “Chicken Jockey” and lit our house on fire.

If you’re actually reading this, it means you care enough to read the show notes. If you care that much then please take another 30 seconds and leave a rating and review of 9ES wherever you listen to us. We’d appreciate it. Apparently it helps.

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the shocking re-hiring of of R-Truth by WWE, Keith started Last of Us Season 2 and saw Justice at Place Bell. Scott is fed up with zombies but he’ll still probably watch 28 Years Later. Oh and there’s a new Knives Out movie coming out. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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First of all let’s get the most important thing out of the way shall we? Listen to Scott as “The Thing” in Fantastic Four: Super Skrull right now on YouTube!

Do it – go on, we’ll still be here when you get back I promise.

Let’s get the record straight since maybe it wasn’t clear – The Birds and Birdemic are not the same. Part of me is actually deeply worried that the creator of Birdemic (whose name I will not be looking up) really does think he made the spiritual sequel to “The Birds” and it’s deeply upsetting.

I’m not sure how or why exactly but we get into the fact that Indiana Jones is a little like Drake. He “likes ‘em young”. Indy’s pushing 40 in Temple of Doom, and he’s got eyes for Willie Scott, who’s barely out of her 20s. Then there’s Marion in Raiders—she was *checks notes* a teenager when they first hooked up, and he was, what, late 20s? Why did George Lucas want to keep that in the script so badly?

So I did a little digging thanks to the Wayback Machine and apparently this oral history was published in issue 208 of a magazine called “Empire” and it was actually Karen Allen who had a whole story in mind for when Marion was 15 years old. Still pretty fucking weird.

“Allen: I had a whole history for the character from the time she was born. What happened to her mother, how long she’d been in Nepal and her romance with Indy when she was 15 or 16. I remember showing it to Steven who said, “That’s an entirely different movie.“

Anyways, Scott and Keith watched Captain America: Brave New World and it pretty damn bland but also kind of fine.

Keith is making his way through the Final Destination franchise – he’s watched the first 3 so it’s downhill from here! (At least until Bloodlines which is apparently actually amazing).

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the special place that Yacht Rock has in our hearts and souls, the shocking release of R-Truth from WWE and of course language laws that our bonkers in our beautiful home province of Quenec. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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It seems that every single year around this time we get to have an episode devoted to the postseason demise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It also seems like there is always a fun new statistic available to dunk on the Maple Leafs in whole new ways.

This year? It’s that Brad Marchand is hilariously 5-0 against the Maple Leaf in Game 7. That doesn’t seem possible. But it’s the Maple Leafs, so of course it is. Or how about how there is now talk of blowing up the team and “retooling” or whatever but they have ZERO first round draft picks until 2028? That’s right, for the next three drafts the Maple Leafs will not have a first round pick. They went all in on this team and this team cannot get the job done.

Anyways, since we were having too much fun dunking on the Maple Leafs we decided to take things down a notch by talking about Kanye West being a Nazi, P Diddy being a disgusting human being and the Hockey Canada Trial that is also pretty disgusting. Can’t be having too much fun out there.

Keith also saw Thunderbolts* and it was pretty good.

Meanwhile  – over on Garbage Time, we talk about Daredevil: Born Again, the Krakoan Age comics and the “Three Body Problem” on Netflix. This naturally leads to Jono proving that free will exists by virtue of physics. Bet you weren’t expecting that now were you? Finally, we fantasy cast the FaceOff sequel that we all so desperately need. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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It’s wild to me that after years and years of terrible vampire movies we’ve been treated to two great ones in the last few months. First “Nosferatu” in December and now Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”. Is this the renaissance that vampire aficionados like the three of us have been waiting for? Let’s hope so.

So yeah, “Sinners” is great and I very much love the idea that ownership of the movie will revert back to Ryan Coogler in 20 years. Honestly that should be normalized. I know studios will hate it but screw that. Coogler wrote, produced and directed “Sinners” – he deserves to eventually own it. More of that please.

Speaking of “Sinners”, we take a look at the movies coming out this summer and boy oh boy is that a pile of remakes and sequels. I guess I should be happy that we got one great brand new movie to kick off blockbuster season because for the next few months it’s remake and sequel after reboot.

Also – minor correction for those of you who read the show notes: Constantine 2 isn’t coming out until 2026. Sorry to get your (and my) hopes up for the one sequel I truly care about.

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the NHL Playoffs and get into the dark, dark place of the Hockey Canada trial. We lighten things up a little afterwards by talking about the Bad Lieutenant movies and the Jono teaches us all about conquistadors! And how awesome the Aztecs are:  https://mattlakeman.org/2020/06/25/polygamy-human-sacrifices-and-steel-why-the-aztecs-were-awesome/

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Who would have thought that electing the party lead by a 60 year old white banker-dude was the result I would be happiest with?

How far we have fallen. As predicted the NDP now have less than 10 seats which I only found out today is the lowest number of seats they’ve ever had since they became a party. Tommy Douglas is rolling in his grave.

All three of us probably enjoyed the 2007 film “Hot Rod” more than most people. I was an OG Lonely Island fan so I’m one of the few people who even saw it in theaters (I may have even been at an advance screening if I remember correctly). It’s certainly not for everyone, but it is certainly for us.

Honestly that’s most of what we talk about in this episode. Hot Rod and the Canadian Election. The Canadian Election and Hot Rod. Perhaps those two things are not so different? Now I want to see Mark Carney punch dance.

Anyways – over on Garbage Time, we play a game of “Fuck, Marry, Kill” with the main-event wrestlers of Night 1 of WrestleMania Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and CM Punk. Our answers will shock you! Maybe. We then discuss how we should make meme movies and finally we get into the NHL Playoffs and the Montreal Canadiens. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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Montreal’s favorite geek and pop culture podcast 9ES is back to talk about the Chicken Jockey trend, the stupid AI Studio Ghibli trend, the Canadian election, Daredevil: Born Again and so much more. Of course it’s only natural that we start the episode off about how my brother now kind of sounds like Kieran Culkin after he recovered from Covid. Topical!

I really can’t express enough how happy the “Chicken Jockey” trend makes me. We talk a little bit in the episode how it seems like relatively harmless fun and pales in comparison to some of the horror stories we heard back in the day during showings of the first Jackass movie. Well, clearly the kids of today heard us trash talk their shenanigans and things have… escalated. Check this video out for clips of people sneaking in a live chicken and setting off actual fireworks in the movie theatre. Yet it still makes me happy. Why? Maybe I’m just happy these Mindcraft nerds are getting out of the house and doing something real for once in their lives, ok?

Meanwhile, the fast we move on from the AI Studio Ghibli trend the better. You know it’s a super cool fun trend when the White House is in on the trend showing a picture of a woman being deported. Fun and cool!

Finally, I’m catching up on Daredevil: Born Again over on Disney+ and I’m not really sure why it pissed people off. It’s good. You should watch it. It feels a lot like the Netflix Daredevil series which was easily one of the best Marvel things around. Maybe I’ll be finished it by the time next episode rolls around? Or maybe not.

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk quite a bit of hockey talk. From the Montreal Canadiens playoff aspirations to Alex Ovechkin now holding the NHL all time goal-scoring title. To offset all the sports talk we then talk about House of X and Powers of X and you won’t believe how you’re supposed to pronounce “Powers of X” considering it’s an X-Men book. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

Enjoy the show(s)!

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