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

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/

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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Hey there Montreal – we’ve had to re-arrange our recording schedule a little bit so that means that we are alternating which weeks publish Go Plug Yourself and which weeks publish 9to5 Entertainment System. That means that Go Plug Yourself will return next week and there’s a new 9ES this week. So do yourself a favour and check out the 9to5 Entertainment System and we’ll see you back here in a week from now.

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

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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.

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 podcast that asks wrestling promoter and professional improv star James McGee: “What question do you hate being asked?” – That question asked as always by our very own Inés Anaya back in our last episode.

James McGee lives a life on the fringe man. A double life full of moonsaults, yes-ands, powerbombs and audience suggestions. James McGee is the epicentre of improvisational artistry taking his talents to the squared circle and the improv stage with equal measures of grace and wit.

James joins Walter J. Lyng and I at the back of Grumpy’s Bar to talk about this past weekend’s WrestleMania, Jake the Snake Roberts, Survivor Series, Sami Zayn’s comedy and much, much more!

If wrestling is your thing you can catch the next BATTLEWAR this Sunday at Foufounes Electriques (and you should probably follow the BATTLEWAR Facebook page as well to keep tabs on their upcoming events). If improv is more your style you should check out Mile End Improv where James performs and teaches.

With all that out of the way you should sit back, relax and Go Plug Yourself. We’ve had James on this show a bunch and you should probably do yourself a favour and dig into the archives to listen to all the episodes going all the way back to 2014. This is his 7th time on the show!

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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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)!

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 podcast that asks Inés Anaya: “What is the best advice you’ve ever received, and who gave it to you?” That question asked by the one and only Dave Kaufman back in episode 313.

It’s been a few long months since Inés Anaya has graced the Go Plug Yourself airwaves so we thought it was high time she came back on the podcast to let us know how she was doing. So we dipped into the Go Plug Yourself slush fund to get Inés back to Montreal exclusively to record this podcast and catch up.

We talk about movies, underground fires, Russian oligarchs and Inés’ future forays into the behind-the-scenes movie magic world of special effects and props – all at the back of the legendary Grumpy’s Bar on Bishop Street.

Walter J. Lyng and Troy Stark join me for this episode so it’s time to kick back, relax and Go Plug Yourself with Inés Anaya. Enjoy the show!

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.

Inés Anaya never stops finding ways to be funny: writing for Hindwing Press and The Beaverton, running shows like Stand Up Story Slam and getting on the mic at comedy shows all over the city when it is legally possible to do so. The best way to keep track of what she’s up to next is on Instagram @clout__atlas

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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We know why you listen to the 9to5 Entertainment System – you want to know what we think about the Oscar Best Picture winner Anora and whether or not you can watch it with your mom.

Just kidding, we kick off the show by talking about how Pierre Polievre looks like Ditto from Detective Pikachu trying to look like a human:

I’m now pretty convinced that the leader of the Conservative party is a Pokémom trying to infiltrate our government.

The answer to the first question is probably a no, by the way. The first hour or so of Anora has a lot of sex. Like, more than you think. Ask yourself “Do I want to watch the son of a Russian oligarch and an exotic dancer do a lot of drugs and have a lot of sex with my mom?” and then make that decision for yourself.

From now on my own personal measure of success will be based on Jim Carrey getting the script for Sonic 3 printed on gold. Someone will be like “hey, we want you to play in our Dungeons & Dragons game” and I will say “only if you give me a character sheet made of real gold.” And then THEY WILL.

Anyways – over on Garbage Time, Scott talks about the challenges of writing a script for an audio drama that hopefully sees the light of day one of these days (hopefully he edits it himself). We also talk about how the future of war should definitely be more like Robot Jox and less like tariffs. Then we talk about the Olsen sisters for much longer than you expect. 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 & entertainment podcast that asks Montreal writer, broadcaster and political commentator Dave Kaufman: What is the one live performance that you would willingly see every time you went out over and over again? That question was asked by Sarah Warren in our last episode which you should also totally check out.

A couple of weeks ago we shared an episode from a few years ago that we did with Dave Kaufman – Dave’s a political expert and has recently been turning his attention to writing about politics with a few recent articles over at The Progressive Magazine. In case you haven’t noticed – it’s kind of a spicy time politically these days with the Trump presidency down South and the Canadian election just a few weeks away. So it was high time that we had Dave Kaufman back on the show proper.

It’s not all doom and gloom – we talk about music, baseball and if we’re being totally honest – quite a bit of doom and gloom. The rise of fascism kind of does that, doesn’t it? We hope you enjoy the show anyways and hopefully it provides a little clarity of what’s going in the world. It was cathartic for Chris and I at least.

Be sure to follow Dave over on BlueSky and friendly reminder that you should probably be on BlueSky.

Enjoy the show!

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

Chris Venditto is another funny person in Montreal who you can see all over the place and if you don’t want to miss him take the stage you should follow him on all the socials. He’s @chrisvenditto on Twitter and Instagram so you should follow him on those two things. He also produces shows with the guys at Perfect Bite Productions who you should also follow on Instagram and on Facebook.

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.

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9ES is back at full strength to talk about comics, movies and video games old and new like Mickey 17, Dune 2, Street Fighter 2: Turbo, Mortal Kombat 2 and of course the appointment of our new Prime Minister Mark Carney.

♪”One of these things is not like the other…”♫

Politics and pop culture combine! Form of podcast!

I think we talk about The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl once every 10 episodes or so and with good reason. She’s such a weird part of the Marvel Universe that is pretty much delightful every time. Honestly if you’re a fan of Marvel weirdness you should do yourself a favour and check out Marvel’s Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show! It’s only a handful of episodes and well worth your time.

You know what’s maybe not worth your time? The latest from Bong Joon-Ho “Mickey 17”. Mickey 17, frankly, is a movie with too many ideas. I will always have time for people making weird movies and even more so when they’re high profile. A recent Oscar winning director and Batman himself teaming up to make a weird movie about space exploration and printing out expendable humans should be my jam but it fell a little flat. Apparently it’s coming out as early as next week on streaming so maybe you’ll have the chance to judge for yourself sooner than later.

Anyways – over on Garbage Time, the gang reminisces about what it was like to wake up hungover in unfamiliar parts of Montreal and figuring out how to get home on public transport in the era before smartphones. We’ve also watched a couple of indie horror flicks like One Cut of the Dead and Companion and a few podcast recommendations for sleepytime listening. 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 & entertainment podcast that asks comedian Sarah Warren: “What was the one meal you ate that made you want to die (in a good way)?” That question asked, as always, by Marc-Anthony Senigoga back in episode 311.

Sarah Warren’s mom passed away, so she did what we all do: go through your dead mom’s cookbook and make a bunch of the recipes with other comedians. Grief can be funny like that. Walter J. Lyng and Troy Stark join me for this episode with Sarah Warren and we talk about grief, moms, recipes, handwriting, music and how Troy lived down the street from one of the guys from 54-40. Listen, I had no idea who 54-40 was until I found out they were the guys who did “Ocean Pearl”, “I Go Blind” AND “One Day In Your Life.” All of those songs are very familiar to me but until we recorded this episode I would have never been able to tell you that they were by the same band and that band was called 54-40.

You learn something new every day on Go Plug Yourself.

If you want to check out Sarah Warren on “My Dead Mom’s Cookbook” you can do so on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok and if you like what you see than you should 100% support her over on her GoFundMe where she’s currently raising money to keep the showing going. You can also follow Sarah directly on Instagram @sarahisfamous.

Sit back and enjoy the show and hey… call your mom.

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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