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

Montreal’s kooky and spooky podcast makes like Wednesday Addams on Netflix and rehashes some of our greatest hits for your entertainment.

That means we talk about crypto stuff again as Jon brings us up to date with the whole SBF/FTX thing. Between the time we recorded this episode and now it’s been revealed that SBF faces something like 165 years in prison.

That’s what I call “a sticky situation.”

What’s crazier? That BitCoin is actually trending UP. To quote OKUDA (who provides our theme song):

“Crazy, I wonder what the logic is…some kinda hedge against these stablecoins that are about to become un-pegged? Or because Binance needs to sell a bunch of its assets to cover the USDC withdrawals that it paused? It’s madness no matter how you slice it.”

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Madness indeed OKUDA. Madness indeed.

There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

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The Montreal podcast that asks comedian Serag Meletian: “What is a choice you made in your life that you wish you could change?” That question asked by Julian Sher, journalist and documentarian back in episode 268 (which you can listen to here).

In 269 episodes it is shocking to me that we have never had Serag Meletian on the show as a “main guest”. Do you know how respected he is in the Montreal comedy scene? Very.

And I don’t think it was a Walter thing, I saw Serag over at Walter’s house just a couple of weeks ago. But no – somehow the only time we’ve ever had him on the show was back in 2019 where he was one “and Friends” in our “Scott Carter and Friends” episode.  That was nearly 100 episodes ago!

This injustice must come to an end! And so it has. We welcome Serag Melatian to the show for the very first time as a main guest and we welcome the conversation that ensues, even if it’s about patricide, Gundams and wrestling.

Also – Chris Venditto is back baby! He’s on the mend! It’s a Christmas miracle!

Follow Serag on Instagram: meletian_falcon on Twitter @MeletianFalcon and I’m sure almost everywhere else too if you just search for some combination of “Meletian Falcon” because it’s an absolutely killer user name.

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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Montreal’s best podcast is… not happening this week.

Sorry friends.

Due to some scheduling issues we’ll be running 3 back-to-back episodes over on Go Plug Yourself instead.

However, if you subscribe to our Patreon, there is still an episode of Garbage Time! It’s almost a full episode of 9ES, but it’s just for the Patrons. We talk about the documentary “Kings of Coke” (a film about Montreal’s West End Gang that I just got to interview the director of, Julian Sher), a little about Marvel Snap and then we run through a list of the “27 Best Canadian Bands” from Music Grotto. There are some oversights on this list and we get into that too. If you want 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. we’d really love a lot.

ALSO: There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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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The Montreal podcast that asks journalist, authour and documentarian Julian Sher: “What makes your dad rad?” – that question asked by the Rad Dad himself, Walter J. Lyng

I’ll be honest – I was a little worried about having Julian Sher on the podcast. Go Plug Yourself is a show that by and large keeps things light. All of my co-hosts are comedians. Meanwhile, Julian Sher has made a career of investigating murders, organized crime, child abuse, terrorists, drug dealers and even the Ku Klux Klan.

Would the show be too serious?

My fears were unfounded – even if Julian literally just released a documentary about drugs and violence that occurred in Montreal’s history literally down the street from where I currently live. Julian’s latest documentary Kings of Coke on Crave delves into Montreal’s notorious West End Gang, a dark part of Montreal’s history. We talk about the broad notes of the documentary (don’t worry, there are plenty of surprises still in store for you when you check it out), touch on Julian’s journey as a journalist and wax philosophical about what it means to make big choices.

The documentary is fantastic and you should definitely watch it with your mother-in-law when she tells you that things are so much more violent now than they used to be in the good old days. Just me? Kings of Coke is streaming exclusively now on Crave.

Enjoy the show!

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

Photo of Julien Sher by John Mahoney.

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

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The Montreal podcast that welcomes back Walter J. Lyng and asks him: “Who among your loved ones is the most annoying on social media?” – that question asked by Troy Stark back in episode 266.

So we always have an open door policy for Walter. He can come on the podcast whenever he wants to. That apparently means he can just show up at my house and make my wife and I interview him before we watch wrestling. I should get better locks.

Walter has really turned the Rad Dad brand into something of a cult hit at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival so it’s a special treat for all of us that he is bringing the Dads together one more time just before the holidays. Reunited with his original Dad-Team partner Reese Turner they’re going to be challenging for the Dad-trios championship alongside Lawrence Corber for one night only (with other special dads as well like Walter’s future personal professional advisor Paul Kasner).

Listen man, tickets are only $15 and that gets you all the dad you can handle. It’s all you can dad buffet of laughs I tell ya.

So do yourself a solid and get your tickets now and head over to the Diving Bell Social Club (3956 Saint Laurent Boulevard,#Étage 3) this Sunday November 27th at 8 o’clock.

No discount for dads.

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 financial advice podcast returns with all of the hot takes you’ve come to expect surrounding the fallout of the FTX Crash.

In the past few days we’ve had a couple of conversations about crypto.

Is crypto:

A game that someone was always going to break?

A lot like the comic book book of the 1990s?

A fancy modern pyramid scheme?

The future of currency?

Hard to say.

We don’t really get into it in this episode but the whole FTX crash thing is also rife with conspiracy. Maybe we’ll get into it next time. Or maybe we won’t.

There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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Meanwhile over on Garbage Time we talk about Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal”, Amazon Prime’s “Peripheral” and then we run through a few lists of the worst mutants ever in the Marvel Universe.

If all that sounds like the best (because it is), 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!

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 the founder of the Montreal Grand Comedy Competition Troy Stark: Leather or lace? And also: What is your favorite horror movie? These questions brought to you by the wonderful and talented people behind The Terrors of Misery’s Grove: Jason Grimmer and Jess Fildes back in episode 265.

Troy Stark is once again award $1000 cold hard Canadian dollars to one of Montreal’s comedians. Over 100 comedians participated but we’re down to the last few rounds of competition. This Sunday November 13th and next Wednesday November 16th at The Diving Bell Social Club are the last two semi-final rounds of competition and then the grand finale will be December 11th featuring all the finalists and none other than our house-band Auril Turpitude! Be sure to keep tabs of #MTLGrand on Facebook on Instagram for updates and make sure to be there in person for when Troy hands some talented comedian a (presumably actually huge) big ole’ check!

Some of you might know Troy Stark from The Nerdy Show and Lawrence Corber is co-hosting this episode with me so… spoilers, it gets pretty nerdy up in this podcast. We talk about Witcher, Dark Souls, Super Meat Boy, comic books, other video games and a bunch of other nerdy shit. You should still listen, but I just thought I would put that out there for you.

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.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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Montreal’s best podcast talks about what it might mean that Elon Musk now owns Twitter.

Imagine having enough money to buy something for $44 billion dollars. Man, something costing $44 billion dollars should be illegal. 

Avengers: Endgame made a little under $3 billion. Is Twitter like 15 times more valuable than Avengers: Endgame? I know which one I’d rather own.

We get pretty into DVD releases vs streaming releases and what kind of a second life a film can get once it leaves the cinema. Honestly one of our liveliest debates of the show in recent memory.

Because we love cinema.

So much so that we rank it.

There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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Over on Garbage Time Scott talks about his racoon onesie, which is not unlike a Tanooki suit, which in turn leads to us talking about the Netflix series “High Score” about the history of video games. Then for some reason Scott decides that Age of Ultron is his favorite Marvel movie. He doesn’t read these blurbs so this statement will never be rebutted.. If all that sounds like the best (because it is), 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! 

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 Jason Grimmer and Jess Fildes (of Terrors of Misery’s Grove): “Deep Space or Deep Sea?” – asked by the most electrifying man in Montreal entertainment: Mike Paterson.

We had Jason Grimmer on the show before talking about the injustices facing Montreal record shops back before that pesky pandemic – but this time we’ve got him talking about his other passion: improv. Pretty sure we talked about improv last time too, just roll with me here.

Jason Grimmer and Jess Fildes are taking on the unenviable task of mixing a veritable witches brew of improvisation, horror and podcasting in their latest endeavor: The Terrors of Misery’s Grove. Taking the form of an improvised folk-horror radio play that will be performed live in front of audience (the first episode is TONIGHT: October 27th at Variations Mile End) and then transforming it into a podcast to live on forever… on the internet!

We talk with Jason and Jess about developing the show, the challenges of improvising horror and of course a million other things (mostly horror related in spite of Inés’ attempts to the contrary) because this is the show that it is.

Inés Anaya steps in on co-hosting duties once again (how many more does she got left folks?) and we have a jolly good time recording this one at the back of our home away from home: Grumpy’s.

The Terrors of Misery’s Grove debuts October 27th at Variations Mile End, 5337 Saint Laurent Blvd. Find the podcast wherever you find podcasts.

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

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Montreal’s best podcast remembers that technically this is our Halloween 2022 episode so we kind of talk mostly about spooky movies.

And also spooky international trade wars between the United States and China.

SpooOoOOooky.

Last episode, we talked about the upcoming Re-Rank of some movies on the list, this episode we talk about it again. We will probably talk about it for the next few episodes and get around to the whole re-rank thing around the winter holidays.

If you, yes you, want some movies to get re-ranked please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

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Right. Spooky stuff.

“My Bloody Valentine” is criminally underrated. I think it has worked it’s way into the annals of horror cult cinema but it should probably be propped up a lot closer to the Last House on the Left and Friday the 13ths of this world than it currently is. The fact that it is a Canadian film that is plainly filmed in Nova Scotia is just a delightful bonus. Bottles of Moosehead… everywhere.

There was a lot of backlash surrounding “Hocus Pocus 2” (The Hocus Pocusing) but honestly, it was fine. The original was not that great, and nothing in the sequel seemed that out of touch with the campiness of the original. That said “Hocus Pocus” was never really one of my childhood movies. To some people maybe this feels like the Star Wars prequels. I dunno.

We keep the spookiness rolling in this week’s episode of Garbage Time. We go over some of our Spooky Season go-tos and talk about what movies and TV shows we tend to gravitate too every October. We also have some killer (*dramatic organ music*) podcast recommendations like The Old Gods of Appalachia and The White Vault. If all that sounds like the best (because it is), 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!

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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