Shed Dogs

When you were young you played Snakes and Ladders, right? Well, this episode isn’t that. Here we get gritty insights from KJ and RJ on solving rat problems, and have to recover with the palate-cleansing pleasure of reading Listener Mail. Maybe it was all that talk about nasty smelly rodents that led us to it, but we end up talking about the movie “Terminator: Dark Fate” (spoiler alert: just say no) and what makes actors do bad movies. There are no real shockers here, but a lot of good mostly clean fun, so sit down, face off, and listen up! 

Note: RJ says a couple of times that Beeple’s NFT sold for $600,000. It was actually $69 million. He was off by a bit.

Links: Shed Dogs; roof rats; a better rat trap; Face/Off critical response (Wikipedia); Princess Bride; No more rhymes!; first impressions of Web3 (cryptography expert on current challenges with NFTs).

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Here we find reflective, philosophical Shed Dogs pondering the path to great art and good parking spots through visualization at the same time as they provide solid, practical information on important day-to-day challenges, like how to pronounce that fast moving COVID-19 strain name. From these dizzying mental heights we return to mere mortal levels and talk about what’s good on the streaming services these days. You’ll certainly feel embiggened after this 39-minute visit, ready to plunge whole-heartedly into your day, secure in your new knowledge in these important areas. It’s just what we do.

Links: Shed Dogs; Omicron after being double-vaxxed and boosted; pronouncing Omicron; boosting after Omicron; stent removal pain and drugs; percocet (oxycocet); hearing music in one’s head; aphantasia (inability to visualize); on being humbled after an accomplishment; Being the Ricardos; Don’t Look Up; Rick Beato on the tracks nominated for Best Song on the Grammys; Harry Nilsson documentary; Italy’s massive triple tri-plane (YouTube); the Brooklyn Bridge.

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When Kirkland Body Wash is labeled 100% All Natural, think twice. When we tell you we are 100% all natural, take it to the bank. It won’t be worth much to all the newly created billionaires out there, maybe, but to you? Solid gold. In this episode, speaking of the nouveau riche, we discover what the Internet thinks KJ is worth, we hear about a CBC gig he has coming that should increase that yet more, we learn that Cromer of Duncan is very pleased with his new dentures but that KJ is unmoved by beautification efforts involving surgery. Pity. It’s a lemon-scented potpourri of opinion and information, and we invite you to just breathe it allllll in.

Links: Shed Dogs; an unauthorized biography; Costco Body Wash; not your grandpa’s dentures; plastic surgery addiction.

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Whether this reaches you before, during, or after December 25, and whether you celebrate it or not, the Shed Dogs wish you and yours a very merry Christmas with the promise of a great New Year to come! In this episode RJ pulls back the curtain on the surprisingly opulent lifestyles of certain foosball players, while KJ lets us in on the real highlights of going to a Canucks game. PJ drops some left-handed compliments and we promote some twitter accounts. We even manage to work in some more beloved Listener Mail, so have a listen while the video fire crackles on the screen, and slide right into the season with us.

Some edits may confound, but, hey, it’s waves from the shore baby.

Links: Shed Dogs; opening video for Canucks home games this year; a brief video illustrating why you shouldn’t ride a bicycle over a longitudinal board bridge; are left-handers smarter?; penthouse apartments; follow on Twitter: Bowinn Ma, Lori Idlout, and Tyler Olsen.

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Way back in Episode 113 we blundered our way through a non-explanation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Friend of the show Jesse of Montreal heard the call and sent the best-ever explanation and you get to hear it! Leigh of Courtenay heard us recommending a podcast whose ultimate author may have some credibility problems, and she responds, too. From handling bananas to NFTs to Canadaland to garburators and beyond, our listeners get involved in this episode and it’s great! We also get a nice helping of KJ’s quick snappers and spend some time on a bunch of movies and TV shows and stars, like Ted Lasso and Steve McQueen (and yes, it’s only here that such strange bedfellows make any sense). Have a listen, form your opinions, and keep sending those notes!

Links: Shed Dogs; Me to We and Kellogg’s (from Canadaland’s perspective); ME to WE; Canadaland; Jesse Brown, prosumer; Spokane River; Ted Lasso; Observational Learning & advertising; The Morning Show; The Princess Bride; Free Guy; Young Frankenstein; First Blood; The Mission; Bullitt; The Blob; Steve McQueen.

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Join KJ as he takes a full-glam trip to New York City to join in on a Screen Actors Guild panel for Schmigadoon!, hobnobs with other famous people, sees several Broadway productions, and dazzles his daughter Lucy with the full weight of his fame and personality. He really does go where everybody knows his name, even in der Grosser Apfel! Bonus: dog medical procedures and waterproofing Gore-Tex.

Links: Shed Dogs; Screen Actors Guild; Come From Away; Hadestown; The Lehman Trilogy; Moulin Rouge; review of Fairycakes (the show KJ’s castmate was in); Broadway theatres, Off-Broadway, Off-off-Broadway; photos of Walter’s Bar; Manhattan; are medical procedures on your dog worth it?; is GoreTex® a giant scam?

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Okay, look, we’ll level with you: sometimes we don’t plan out every minute of our content. Here in Episode 126 we have may actually workshopped some stuff for about a minute. Somehow, we got lost in KJ’s Short Snappers, which ended up covering everything from molecular weight to CB radio codes to strange sport sayings. We did manage to squeeze in useful counsel about credit cards and rewards programs and we ginned up some material on Costco-ing responsibly, but really… there is an abundance, nay, a plethora of odds and ends in here that will hopefully serve you well going forward… We just can’t say where it all came from.

Links: Shed Dogs; Ten codes, sticky wicket, fanny pack, The Closer (Chapelle)

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This episode sees the mighty Shed Dogs preparing to break out onto the global stage at last. RJ reveals his quest to make the Canadian Senior Foosball team and represent Canada at the ITSF World Cup next year, while KJ prepares to jet off to the Big Apple on someone else’s dime to help represent Schmigadoon! at the Screen Actors Guild nomination process. We get another round of fun listener mail, and RJ makes a compelling pitch to one-up those Tesla owners by donating to a charity dedicated to reducing global carbon emissions. Meanwhile PJ continues to pitch dubious get rich quick schemes…

Links: Shed Dogs; speed limiter; Foosball World Cup; World Cup play from 2019; cheap foosball tables (not recommended); it looks like Costco tables are of a higher standard—RJ offers his apologies to Costco and Costco table owners); tournament quality tables are best and can be viewed (and purchased) here (contact us for a discount code); Cam and Jordan on Shed Dogs: part one and part two; Schmigadoon! on Apple TV+; SAG Awards; Lucy’s short; will there be a second season of Schmigadoon!?; New York City tourism; The Tyee on the 2021 federal election recast with proportional representation; rubber boa in BC; The Coalition for Rainforest Nations; click here to donate to the Coalition, achieving a surprisingly high reduction in atmospheric carbon, and get a Canadian tax receipt; meteor crashes onto pillow! (watch the video to learn the odds); Patrón tequila.

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This week’s episode opens with some more excellent listener mail before taking a look at the charitable and not-so-charitable aspects of “We”, the organization which has given the Trudeau family and the Liberal Party fits. By fun contrast, we also have KJ’s fabulous Snappers, and as a bonus, Al Franken. We (and by that we mean us, not the Great White Saviors) have some sad tales of changing driving habits in our demographic, which are then redeemed by a story of great detailing services, which we heartily endorse. It’s an emotional rollercoaster with the proverbial happy ending. Okay, maybe not the proverbial one.

Links: Shed Dogs; Cardston, AB; Fay Wray; the Fay Wray King Kong fountain; Value Village; the venerable church key; Argo; Stripes; the Western Hemlock Looper Moths are back in town; Unique Detailing (the company that polished RJ’s car); Rolls Royce Vancouver; garburators; the Al Franken podcast; The White Saviors podcast; red snapper, Skotty Kilmer’s YouTube channel.

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Not only do your Dogs spill the beans about “The White Lotus”, but we also have a good look at what happens when mercury is spilled these days—believe us, it’s not like Mr. Fodor’s Chem 11 class any more. We get to hear about RJ’s and Sue of Burnaby’s new Prius Prime, and in case their happy experience there whets your shopping appetite we also touch upon the coming wave of Chinese-made EVs. Warning: if you dislike spoilers and are planning to watch “The White Lotus”, maybe just accept our enthusiastic thumbs up and skip the last half hour or so here. We were very excited about that series…

Links: Shed Dogs; Mercury hijinks; build your Prius Prime!; the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV; The White Lotus.

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