9to5.cc Podcasts: Including Go Plug Yourself (GPYS) & 9to5 Entertainment System (9ES)

Sarah and Keith checked out 3 more shows this week at the Montreal Fringe Festival

We saw (click the link for tickets and showtimes):

All three of these shows have showings TONIGHT and on Sunday so what are you waiting for? Go FRINGE YOURSELF.

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Sarah is somehow still @femalewalter on Instagram. Follow her for pictures of our dogs and sometimes she remembers to post about all the arts and entertainment we take in all year long.

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Osheaga 2025 is 51 days away!

Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2025! As always, we’re kicking things off chronologically (it just seems the best way to go) so this is our second look at Friday’s lineup!

(More or less) every two weeks Sarah and I will be digging into the entire lineup of this year’s Osheaga to give you music recommendations all summer long. We pick ten acts from each day, we talk about them, play clips of their tunes to give you a feel for their music and tell you why we think they’re worth checking.

We’re having fun and talking about music all summer long, won’t you join us?

But wait – you don’t need us to tell you why you should probably check out Tyler, the Creator now do you? So (for the purposes of this show) we ruled out the entire top line of each day of the lineup. So yes, that means you will need to decide for yourself if you’re going to see the likes of The Chainsmokers or not.

Trust us, if you listen to all of these episodes you might find yourself running back and forth between stages all weekend and discovering your new favourite artist.

Here is our second batch of 5 “non-headline” acts we think are worth checking out for Friday !

Osheaga runs from August 1st to August 3rd at Parc Jean Drapeau. Check out osheaga.com for more info and tickets.

All audio clips are copyright of their respective owners and used solely with the intention of promoting and editorial previewing Osheaga.

Our intro song is Paradise Engineering (instrumental) by YACHT and is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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Sarah and Keith checked out 4 shows this weekend at the Montreal Fringe Festival

We saw (click the link for tickets and showtimes):

All of these shows have 3-4 showings left so you’ve still got time to check them out!

Go Fringe Yourself!

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Sarah is somehow still @femalewalter on Instagram. Follow her for pictures of our dogs and sometimes she remembers to post about all the arts and entertainment we take in all year long.

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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.

Our intro song is a brand new jam cooked up by OKU-DA just for us, do yourself a favour and check out his SoundCloud).

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Welcome to our annual Montreal Fringe Festival special episode: Go Fringe Yourself!

The Montreal Fringe Festival is well underway and runs straight until June 15th and is jam packed with theater, music and good times.

For tickets and showtimes for all the shows that we talk about on this episode and ALL THE OTHER SHOWS make sure to got to FringeMTL and start buying your tickets soon because some shows are already selling fast.

Oh also, do yourself a favour and check out last week’s episode with Amy Blackmore if you can’t get enough Montreal Fringe content for your ear-holes.

We’ve got amazing artists talking about 3 amazing shows for you today from all over the map creatively-speaking:

So sit back, relax – and GO FRINGE YOURSELF!

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Sarah is somehow still @femalewalter on Instagram. Follow her for pictures of our dogs and sometimes she remembers to post about all the arts and entertainment we take in all year long.

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Osheaga 2025 is 62 days away!

Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2025! As always, we’re kicking things off chronologically (it just seems the best way to go) so this is our second look at Friday’s lineup!

(More or less) every two weeks Sarah and I will be digging into the entire lineup of this year’s Osheaga to give you music recommendations all summer long. We pick ten acts from each day, we talk about them, play clips of their tunes to give you a feel for their music and tell you why we think they’re worth checking.

We’re having fun and talking about music all summer long, won’t you join us?

But wait – you don’t need us to tell you why you should probably check out The Killers now do you? So (for the purposes of this show) we ruled out the entire top line of each day of the lineup. So yes, that means you will need to decide for yourself if you’re going to see the likes of Dominic Fike or not.

Trust us, if you listen to all of these episodes you might find yourself running back and forth between stages all weekend and discovering your new favourite artist.

Here is our second batch of 5 “non-headline” acts we think are worth checking out for Friday !

Osheaga runs from August 1st to August 3rd at Parc Jean Drapeau. Check out osheaga.com for more info and tickets.

All audio clips are copyright of their respective owners and used solely with the intention of promoting and editorial previewing Osheaga.

Our intro song is Paradise Engineering (instrumental) by YACHT and is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks Amy Blackmore: What was the worst injury you’ve ever had? That question asked by Shosho Abotouk back in episode 316.

It’s that time of year again! The Montreal Fringe Festival is back! As we so often are, Sarah and I were joined by Amy Blackmore aka the “Queen of Fringe to talk about this year’s edition of the Fringe Festival. We also reminiscence a little about the fact that this will be the last year where the Fringe calls Mainline Theatre it’s home.

The current incarnation of Mainline will be shutting it’s doors at the end of the festival and maybe we get a little emotional about it ok? Don’t judge us. Amy Blackmore tells us some of her favorite stories about the space over the last 20 years and they’re really amazing. So much of English theatre in Montreal seems to orbit around the Mainline Theatre, it’s a little crazy to think what life will be like without it around (but don’t worry – it will be back and better than ever sooner than you think).

Anyways, there are a few fringe shows already underway with the main programming starting next week – head to montrealfringe.ca to check out the calendar and Go Fringe Yourself!

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Sarah is somehow still @femalewalter on Instagram. Follow her for pictures of our dogs and sometimes she remembers to post about all the arts and entertainment we take in all year long.

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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.

Our intro song is a brand new jam cooked up by OKU-DA just for us, do yourself a favour and check out his SoundCloud).

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The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks co-creator of the Montreal Crochet Club Shosho Abotouk: “What is your favourite niche soda?” That question asked in episode 315 by the wonderful James McGee. Sorry James, Shosho didn’t grow up with RC Cola so she has no fond memories of that slice of Canadiana.

Our guest this week is none other than Shosho Abotouk who runs an amazing night of comedy that combines crochet, knitting and comedy. For more info on the next event check out Montreal Crochet Club on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and basically every where else too. Shosho joined Walter, Troy and I at Grumpy’s to talk about combining your passions, the difference between crocheting and knitting and how hard it is to get a learner’s permit in Montreal. If you’re looking for a fun night of comedy where you can also bring your knitting and not get dirty looks from everyone around you then look no further, you’ve found your people.

Oh and during this episode that obviously focuses a lot on crocheting and knitting we do talk about Walter’s sister Katia who is also extremely talented, do yourself a favour and check out Katia’s page on Facebook as well at “Season of the Stitch”.

Enjoy the show and Go Plug Yourself.

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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Osheaga 2025 is 79 days away!

Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2025! As always, we’re kicking things off chronologically (it just seems the best way to go) and starting with Friday’s lineup!

(More or less) every two weeks Sarah and I will be digging into the entire lineup of this year’s Osheaga to give you music recommendations all summer long. We pick ten acts from each day, we talk about them, play clips of their tunes to give you a feel for their music and tell you why we think they’re worth checking.

We’re having fun and talking about music all summer long, won’t you join us?

But wait – you don’t need us to tell you why you should probably check out The Killers now do you? So (for the purposes of this show) we ruled out the entire top line of each day of the lineup. So yes, that means you will need to decide for yourself if you’re going to see the likes of The Chainsmokers or not.

Trust us, if you listen to all of these episodes you might find yourself running back and forth between stages all weekend and discovering your new favourite artist.

Here is our first batch of 5 “non-headline” acts we think are worth checking out for Friday !

Osheaga runs from August 1st to August 3rd at Parc Jean Drapeau. Check out osheaga.com for more info and tickets.

All audio clips are copyright of their respective owners and used solely with the intention of promoting Osheaga.

Our intro song is Paradise Engineering (instrumental) by YACHT and is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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