It’s time once again for that most hallowed Montreal podcasting holiday tradition: The Go Plug Yourself Sh!t Show!

As we do every year we gather up the extended Go Plug Yourself family, have a few drinks and turn our unforgiving gaze back upon the year that was.

This year it was Walter J. Lyng, Chris Venditto, Lawrence Corber, Sarah and myself (with a brief guest appearance by Vance Michel) upstairs at Hurley’s (aka the home of the World’s Smallest Comedy Night) to talk about shellfish, who had a good year and who had a bad year (copyright of one Christopher Venditto) and make a few New Year’s resolutions for good measure.

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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.

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.

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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The Montreal podcast that asks the founder of therover.ca Christopher Curtis: “Who was the artist that got you into the particular art form that you love?” – that question asked by Jared Wilder back in episode 307.

I think it’s no surprise that both Sarah and I are pretty big fans of investigative journalism in one form or another. From my college years poring over exposés in VICE to our more recent obsessions with deep-dive audio investigations we’ve been avid supporters of journalism that uncovers hard to-tell (and sometimes hard to read) stories and contextualizes them in meaningful ways. All that to say – we’ve been fans of The Rover for some time now and we’re thrilled to finally have Christopher Curtis on the show.

If you’re not familiar The Rover is a Montreal based investigative journalism project that focuses on Montreal and Quebec but also turns towards Canada and the rest of the world from time to time. Honestly, they do some of the best investigative journalism you’ll read on the internet and the fact that it is local and mostly focuses on Montreal and Quebec is a nice bonus if you’re the average Go Plug Yourself listener. Anyways, it’s fundraising time for The Rover so I urge you to head over to therover.ca, read a few articles and if you like what you’re reading consider hitting that “Support Us” button in the top right corner of the page if you’ve got the means. At the time of writing they’re about 50% of their way to their $10,000 goal for this year.

Anyhow – Chris joins Sarah and I to talk about the rover, the state of Canadian politics and so much more. Enjoy the show!

Oh and by the way – the defunct journalism website that Sarah and I could not remember the name of was The Correspondent – which sadly stopped publishing in January 0f 2021.

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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The Montreal podcast that asks New York comedian Jared Wilder: “Which of your friend’s parents did you want to hook up with?” returns for another chaotic freewheeling round of podcasting gold. That question asked of course by none other than the Hardcore Hero – The Green Phantom back in episode 306 (the views and opinions of The Green Phantom do not represent those of this podcast or its hosts).

So breaking slightly from tradition I must first admit that Jared Wilder is not from Montreal. However, he co-hosts a football show over on YouTube called “In the Trenches” with our very own Chris Venditto so we’re going to consider him an honorary Montrealer for the purposes of this show.

Jared Wilder has been all over the place in New York City and Los Angeles, performing with The Groundlings and Second City and having studied and performed at some of New York’s finest acting schools. *cough cough Stella Adler cough cough*

Obviously with a classy guest like that we spend a bunch of time talking about pro-wrestling and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. That’s how we roll!

You should definitely check out “In the Trenches” to support our boy Venditto and Jared and you can keep up to date with Jared on Instagram and Facebook too.

Go Plug Yourself! Be somebody!

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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The Montreal podcast that asks The Green Phantom (Hardcore Hero, Canadian Table Breaker, Wrestling Legend): Did you ever shoplift as a kid? That question asked by Coolopolis Montreal’s Kristian Gravenor back in episode 304.

It’s been a few years since we’ve had Green Phantom (or “Phantom” to his friends) on the show but the door is always open for him to return. It has to be, otherwise he will just kick it down. As always this episode is a must if you’re an indie wrestling fan. Green Phantom shoots on greedy promoters, shares stories about wrestling legends and gives us a run-down of his tour of wrestling in Japan! He teamed up with Violent J from the Insane Clown Posse!

Walter J. Lyng returns again to co-host and as tends to happen Troy Stark comes along for the ride.

You can catch The Green Phantom in wrestling action next month celebrating his own very special, very violent holiday tradition: The Hardcore Holidaze Match! That will be a part of “Seasons Beatings” on December 21st at MTELUS presented by the IWS. Check out the event page on Facebook and get your tickets here.

Also, if you’re a fan of trivia: Green Phantom hosts trivia night at Brutopia every Monday – sometimes you get to meet his dog!

A true legend of Montreal. So sit back, relax, enjoy the show and try not to get thrown through a Christmas Tree.

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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The Montreal podcast that is proud to plug our own Lawrence Corber’s upcoming album recording “Lully” is giving you a free master class in recording a comedy album!

Walter J. Lyng, Troy Stark and now Lawrence Corber (Lully to his friends) have all been working on comedy albums in 2024 and we’re lucky enough to have all three of them on this show to (mostly) talk about just that. Honestly if you’re a fan of comedy at all you owe it to yourself to listen to this episode. It’s one part round-table discussion and one part shooting the shit by three of Montreal’s best comedians so it doesn’t get much better than that.

If you want to check out Lawrence Corber’s live album recording of “Lully” you can still get tickets! He’s recording for two nights at Montreal’s historic Comedy Nest on November 12th and 13th and tickets are available over at eventbrite.ca so get yours right now and then sit back and listen to this episode..

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.

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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Don’t call it a comeback! Loyal Go Plug Yourself listeners have noted that we haven’t had Chris Venditto on the show in a couple of months. He’s been on our Long Term Injured Reserve list for the last few months while he took care of a few things but guess what?

Chris Venditto is back, baby!

Tell your friends (and book him)!

In all seriousness it was extremely special for me to be able to have Chris back with us at the back of Grumpy’s and I thought we should celebrate his return by not having a “usual” guest and instead getting Walter J. Lyng and Troy Stark to come out and just have a free-form roundtable discussion about whatever nonsense happens to come to mind.

It was great. If it’s not for you – well, I dunno, listen to it anyways and leave a 5-star review on whatever platform you listen on. What do you want me to say?

You should be hearing more from Chris Venditto on this very podcast and you should also being seeing more of Chris around town lighting up microphones as one of this city’s finest comedians. So what are you waiting for? Listen to the show already, let’s go!

Go Plug Yourself!

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.

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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The Montreal podcast that asks journalist, author and creator of “Coolopolis Montreal” Kristian Gravenor: What is your most unexpected fear? That question asked by Hellgirl Productions (Emelia Hellman & Nancy Webb) back in GPYS 303.

It’s pretty well documented throughout over 300 episodes of this podcast that I love getting into some of the strange and wonderful stories of Montreal’s past. So it was with great excitement that we booked Kristian Gravenor from the popular “Coolopolis Montreal” TikTok channel for the show. Kristian (and Coolopolis by extension) is a veritable treasure trove of Montreal history. From the seedy side of things like corrupt mayors and violent gangsters to the almost whimsical like Montreal’s “Bus to Nowhere” we could have easily spent hours at the back of Grumpy’s just getting into the historical curiosities of our great city.

None other than Walter J. Lyng joins me as co-host for this episode and we talk about Montreal history, Kristian’s work as a journalist for the Montreal Mirror and how to flip an island for fun and profit and much, much more. So sit back, relax, enjoy the show and Go Plug Yourself.

You can pick up Kristian’s book “Montreal: 375 Tales of Eating, Drinking, Living and Loving” in either physical or Kindle editions. Follow Coolopolis Montreal on TikTok for amazing, bite-sized stories and videos about Montreal.

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

Image of Kristian Gravenor from the “Who Killed Theresa?” website www.theresaallore.com.

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As occasionally happens when you’ve been podcasting for over a decade – sometimes a guest drops off the face of the planet (or the island of Montreal) and you’re left on a Wednesday night before a long weekend without a new episode of Go Plug Yourself.

Fortunately though we’ve got over 300 episodes in our back catalogue that we can dig up and re-share with you.

So we’re setting the clock back to 2018 for our 150th episode which was a live recording at the legendary Mainline Theater! Enjoy!

Here it is, the episode you’ve all been waiting for! Montreal’s longest running English language podcast is celebrating its 150th episode in style! Recorded live at Mainline Theatre on St-Laurent Boulevard, Walter and I welcomed a parade of some of the most talented Montrealers ever to grace a single episode of a podcast!

Joining us for the whole episode is none other than our resident musically talented friend (and provider of our theme song) Leighland Beckman!

The first guest on our show is none other than our French language podcast counterpart Yannick Belzil from 3 Bières!

Check out Yannick Belzil’s podcast “Les voyeurs de vues”

Follow Green Phantom on Facebook and keep an eye on IWS Hardcore for his no doubt triumphant comeback in the coming months.

Mike Paterson is the busiest man on the planet, he’s on TV twice a day!

Big thanks to Scott for this ultra special episode image.

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 blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Emelia Hellman & Nancy Webb of Hellgirl Productions: What compliment would you give yourself? That question asked by Abby Stonehouse and Alo Azimov back in episode 302.

It’s no secret that we love Fantasia here at 9to5.cc – we do a whole show about it – so imagine our excitement when Inés pitched the idea of having Emelia and Nancy from Hellgirl Productions on the show to talk (in part) about their short film “Bangs” that premiered at this year’s festival! Did we mention it features Andi McQueen who is also the best?

We talk about “Bangs”, making movies, our biggest fears and so much more. Emelia and Nancy will be launching a podcast very soon that is literally just about people’s biggest fears so – stay tuned for that. How will you stay tuned? Well – you should probably give them a follow on Instagram for now: @hellgirlproductions and check in on their respective websites as well. Those are probably the best ways to see “Bangs” when it becomes possible to do so (maybe you will be lucky and they’ll be screening the film in your hometown!):

Meanwhile if you want to talk about one the films we talked about “Becca” you can watch that right now (which also features Andi!).

More info about some of the other films we mention can be found below:

Anyways – listen to this podcast and track down these films!

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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The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks Abby Stonehouse and Alo Azimov of Ladyfest: What is a quote that inspires you? That question asked by Sloan Kooshan and Dawn McSweeney back in episode 301.

First of all, once again I need to mention that we recorded this episode remotely. So apologies if the audio levels are a little all over the place.

Ladyfest is returning to Montreal once again in 2024 and once again there is almost an entire week of Ladyfestivities for you to enjoy! Abby Stonehouse and Alo Azimov join Walter and I to talk about all things Ladyfest, tornadoes and finding your audience. For more information about the entire Ladyfest lineup do yourself a favour and check out Ladyfest.ca.

Abby Stonehouse does a million things around town and online (like the House of Stone Podcast) and is currently one of the head ladies of Ladyfest. Alo Azimov performs and produces all over Montreal as well and has been a part of Ladyfest since the very start. Both Abby and Alo are Ladyfest and comedy veterans and are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the shows going down next week.

So sit back, relax and enjoy the show and be sure to check out Ladyfest 2024! Go Plug Ladyfest everyone!

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

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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