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

It’s the 507th annual Montreal Fringe Festival! That number may be slightly exaggerated by when it comes to festivals thriving in this city I am here for the Fringe. We’ve already had a couple of great episodes with the likes of Raquel Maestre, Amy and Kenny and Iris Bahr talking about the Montreal Fringe Festival but this episode is our annual “Go Fringe Yourself” Montreal Fringe special!

That means we are playing host to artists from not just one… not just two… but three great shows for you this week!

We’ve got Clara and Annie from “Are You Listening?”, Shelby and Lucy from “Late in Life Lesbian” and Lou Laurence from “Love, Sharks & Frenching: a hot date with Lou Laurence.”

All three of these shows seem like surefire bets for all of your Montreal Fringe Festival schedules so get on that.

Listen now and enjoy the show and more importantly get out there an enjoy the Montreal Fringe Festival! The Fringe Park (on the corner of Rachel and St-Laurent) opens up today June 6th so check that out and don’t hesitate from diving into the massive amount of shows taking place over the next two weeks in the Plateau of Montreal.

And hey – with JFL not happening this year, doesn’t that also kind of make the Fringe one of the funniest festivals in Montreal too?

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.

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I know that we’ve talked about “Late Night With The Devil” before on this show but it’s a rare thing that all three hosts manage to see the same movie within like 2 months of its release date. So here we are, your one stop shop for news and reviews of “Late Night With The Devil”.

It’s been well documented that Keith and Jon are pretty big horror fans, but as has been discussed a bunch during this 311 episode run is that Scott has very different tastes for his spooky delights. Late Night With The Devil impossibly checks boxes for all of us and honestly might be one of those rare horror movies that you can recommend to just about anyone.

Except maybe people who think you should burn your copies of any Dungeons & Dragons books. Those people will not enjoy it.

Anyhow – we’re about two months away from Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson and we really needed to talk about the crazy shit that came out of Tyson’s mouth this week. This is the man who once said he wanted to eat another man’s children so why are we all acting surprised?

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – Keith runs through a list of famous people who are banned from buying fancy Italian sports cars and Jon watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar so we deep dive into Roald Dahl a little bit. Keith and Jon are firmly Team Roald, but Scott needs some convincing.  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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67 Days Until Osheaga 2024!

Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2024! We keep it rolling with our second look at Friday’s lineup!

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’ll be picking ten acts from each day, talking about them and playing clips of their songs to give you a feel for their music and why we think they’ll be an amazing show.

But wait – you don’t need us to tell you why you should probably check out Green Day 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 SZA 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 favorite artist.

Here are our first 5 “non-headline” acts we think are worth checking out for Friday’s festivities and a song we love from the artist:

Osheaga runs from August 2nd to August 4th 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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The Montreal podcast that asks the multi-talented Iris Bahr: “What are you doing to cope with climate anxiety?” That question asked by Montreal Fringe Executive and Artistic Director Amy Blackmore and Montreal Fringe Artistic Producer Kenny Streule in episode 296.

When I was telling people that we were going to be having Iris Bahr on the show, it only took mentioning “the chairlift scene” from Curb Your Enthusiasm to illicit an immediate reaction. Add the fact that Iris Bahr has published multiple books, performed in multiple films and television shows (including one of my favorites ‘Hacks’), performs stand-up, one woman shows, podcasts… well let’s just say that it can honestly be a little daunting as someone who by and large does just one thing.

Chris Venditto steps up to co-host this one (in the middle of a thunderstorm) and we talk about performing, doing comedy, mean old ladies and more. Iris Bahr’s one-woman show “Stories from the Brink – My Festive Near Death Adventures” comes to this year’s edition of the Montreal Fringe Festival from June 8th to 16th. Tickets and info here.

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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Regardless of where you stand on the actual ethics and claims made in the various diss tracks during the Kendrick vs Drake beef – I would be hard-pressed to come up with a rapper this side of MF Doom (RIP) that I would want to face off in a rap-battle with less than Kendrick Lamar. Like, if I got into an argument with Mike Tyson, I would not choose “boxing” as the agreed upon method of conflict resolution.

Keith would try to beat him at Power Stone.

2024 also marked the first time (I think) that any of us watched an entire Grand Final of Eurovision. The musical competition that has such strict participation rules that Celine Dion once won the competition on behalf of Switzerland. Perhaps that perplexing win was what inspired the genius that is Windows95Man to compose their hit “No Rules” at this year’s edition?

Do yourself a favor and watch the performance right now.

Finally, we also talk about the Fallout television series and Keith makes some vague references to how it might tie in to the video game series. They probably do a better job of cataloging that sort of thing over on more reputable websites.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – Jon and Keith get into some of the weirdest magic items in Dungeons & Dragons 5e – we based ourselves on the excellent YouTube video from TheD&DLogs that you should probably check out as well. We are such lucky boys that we’ve even encountered a few of these weirdos “in the wild” of our campaigns.  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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Osheaga 2024 is 82 days away!

Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2024! We’re kicking things off with our first look at Friday’s lineup!

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’ll be picking ten acts from each day, talking about them and playing clips of their songs to give you a feel for their music and why we think they’ll be an amazing show.

But wait – you don’t need us to tell you why you should probably check out Green Day 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 SZA 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 favorite artist.

Here are our first 5 “non-headline” acts we think are worth checking out for Friday’s festivities and a song we love from the artist:

Osheaga runs from August 2nd to August 4th 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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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Amy Blackmore and Kenny Streule from the Montreal Fringe Festival: What is it that makes you want to do one project over another? That question asked by our previous guest Boum (the comic book artist and creator of The Jellyfish) back in episode 295.

We’ve spoken a lot on this show about the loss of one our city’s wonderful festivals, but now it’s time to celebrate one of the festivals that we can still be proud of: The Montreal Fringe Festival.

Longtime listeners of the show know that I’ve been a fan of the Montreal Fringe Festival since high-school and “since high-school” has gotten progressively further and further away (somewhere to the tune of 24 years ago but who’s counting?).

It’s one of Sarah’s and my favourite festivals and we love to kick summer off with the joy of independent theatre that ranges from improv to clowns to dance to puppets and so much more. And guess what? We talk about all that stuff with none other than Amy Blackmore and Kenny Streule who, as far as I understand it, are Montreal Fringe Overlords. We talk about some of our favourite shows from Fringes gone by and look ahead to some of the shows that might catch our attention this year.

So sit back, relax, and get ready to Fringe! The Montreal Fringe kicks off with the Fringe For All on May 27 and shows start as of May 29th – tickets are already on sale y’all!

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.

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Zack Snyder scargiveth and Zack Snyder scartaketh away. That sentence is apropos of nothing other than fun wordplay with the very dumb title that is Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver. Also I’m wondering just how deep the Scargiver marketing goes because as of writing this in Google Docs both “scargiveth” and “scargiver” are not showing up as spelling mistakes.

Is Scargiver a real word?

It might not be, but Scargiver is a real movie and apparently, if Jon is to be believed, is an improvement on whatever the hell the first one was called. Snyder tells a simpler story and the film is better for it. Meanwhile, our suspicions that all of these characters had stupid generic backstories are fully confirmed in the second outing into the Snyder Wars universe.

Seriously though, Scott ranks all of the major sports trophies. This discussion was the natural evolution of the PWHL unveiling their “Walter Cup” a few weeks ago. It’s pretty terrible, but might not be the worst. Major League Baseball, we’re looking in your direction. We close the show off as we have been every episode recently: by Scott and Keith catching up about X-Men ‘97 while Jon continues to have not seen a single episode.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – it’s more comic talk! Honestly, with Keith just blasting through heaps of Marvel comics this might be the trend for a while. This time we get into the lackluster “Fear Itself” run and we educate Jon about the glory of Red Hulk and how he definitely should not have lasted beyond that initial Jeph Loeb run. 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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Every now and then Chris Venditto and I like to take an episode to catch up and talk mostly about the Montreal Canadiens and wrestling. What a better way to kick off Cowboy Summer than talking about hockey?

Well this episode is that but also includes us branching out into talking about the Montreal PWHL team and Chris shares his thoughts on the absence of the Just for Laughs festival this summer in Montreal now that we’re nearly two months removed from the news and he has had a little more time to ruminate.

Chris has declared the summer of 2024 to be “Cowboy Summer” (I may be paraphrasing) but when Beyoncé has released a country album and apparently everyone is listening to “A Bar Song” by Shaboozey it’s hard to deny that he might be on to something.

I actually wonder if country music festivals will do better this year than the “normal” music festivals.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

So if you haven’t seen Chris lately, this is your perfect chance to catch up with Venditto while listening to a conversation where you’re not allowed to say anything- aka a podcast!

Enjoy!

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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This episode of the 9to5 Entertainment System is steeped in nostalgia and it’s almost entirely unintentional. I guess the new season of X-Men ‘97 has us all thinking about simpler times.

Simpler times like when Brian Mulroney was in charge of the country. Was he all bad? I guses people can be bad and good.

Like Magneto from X-Men 97. Yes, we talk about Episode 5 like the rest of the internet this week so if you’re watching the series and aren’t up to date this is your spoiler warning (in writing) that we close off the show diving deep into spoiler-town USA.

We also talk quite a bit about the exploits of Matt from Dinosaur Dracula (and formerly of X-Entertainment). All about nostalgia! 1000 years of nostalgia! It’s not even an exaggeration to say that there’s a good chance that 9to5.cc doesn’t exist if it wasn’t for Scott and Keith being really into X-Entertainment in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sadly, I can’t seem to find the X-E archives anymore so maybe it’s gone forever. Womp womp.

Oh – and we assign Scott a new Best Movie Ever and boy oh boy is it a beauty.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – it’s basically a whole hour long extra episode of 9ES! We get pretty heavy into comic books talk with Keith having wrapped up 2015’s Secret Wars (just in time for Deadpool & Wolverine this summer) which leads us into the kind of free-wheeling comic book talk you know and love. Scott’s also watching Dr. Who so we talk about that too! What a treat for your ears for the price of a cup of coffee! 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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