By Two Finger Guns Club
The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.
IWS is back. MOTHER TRUCKER is back. All in all, it's a good time to be Animal Bob Anger! We've talked to Bob at length about MOTHER TRUCKER on previous episodes, and since then his sci-fi comic about a space-truckin' ass stomping wrestling goddess has come to fruition. Much like the kickstarter for book one, the crowdfunding campaign for book two "The Cut Off" was fully funded in a matter of HOURS!
But now that MOTHER TRUCKER is no longer an idea and a real book in readers' hands, now what? We talk about what's next for Bob, Lethal Comics, IWS, and more-- including the return of CONVERSATION SMARKERS on the Smark & Friends Podcast.
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Another round of pub trivia, just in time to gather with friends and enjoy a pint or two. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and Like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook.
We've been wanting to cover Money Plane for a while, and with a moniker like that of our guest, now is the perfect time. Professional wrestler Flying Frank Milano joins the show today! Frank is a second-generation wrestler who makes the Quebec wrestling scene his stomping ground. We talk a little about that but mainly, we're here to review Money Plane, starring WWE's Rated R Superstar Edge alongside Kelsey Grammer. The stakes are high - literally and figuratively - in this heist flick, and we have almost as much fun reviewing the film as Kelsey Grammer had twirling his mustache. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and Like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook.
**Disclaimer : The video in this watchalong begins with a strobe light**
It's the first episode of the summer, and in the spirit of rest and recreation, Zak welcomes his five-year-old son and return guest Buddy to Smark & Friends. This lucky kid got to watch TWO wrestling matches this week after some technical difficulties in our first attempt, but we landed on a watchalong of the enigmatic Orange Cassidy taking on Psycho Mike at Smash Wrestling - which goes exactly as you'd expect a match between Orange Cassidy and Psycho Mike to go! Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and Like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook.
We're proverbially heading back to the West Coast to speak to one of Albertan wrestling’s rising stars. Balancing books with striking good looks, we're speaking to the master of the Number Cruncher, Taryn From Accounting joins the show. Taryn’s been wrestling for 3 years and has recently gotten back into the ring as COVID-related restrictions begin to ease up out west. We talk about that, we talk about her finishing move, we talk about Dolly Parton, AND, Taryn helps us kick off a new format of Smark & Friends with Conversation Smarkers - a series of oddball questions thrown out over a couple o' beers!
Call him the punk hunk, the weirdo hero, call him Ravenous, Zak welcomes west coast’s wrestler Randy Myers to the show. Randy’s a vet, having worked for 20 years in the wrestling scene, but he’s now about a year removed from wrestling - which, admittedly, sucks, but that hasn’t stopped Randy from being busy. Down time in the wrestling scene has afforded this absolute creative force of nature the time to double down on his interest in stand-up comedy. He’s kept busy with live shows, particularly stand-up in front of a Zoom audience. We gab about stand-up, we also chat at length about his web series “The Weirdo Hero” and what drove him to creating the series, and much more. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and Like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook.
Joining the show today are two guests who are as passionate about beer as Zak is about wrestling. Robin LeBlanc and Jordan St. John, co-hosts of The Ontario Craft Beer Guide The Podcast join the show for a wrestling watchalong. Robin and Jordan have been writing and podcasting about craft beer for years. Between the two of them they have written beer columns for staples in Toronto media, as well as their own books on the subject all in the spirit of preaching good beer! We are watching a match featuring a wrestler who very much enjoys beer - as you do when you are the personification of heavy metal - as WARHORSE goes head to head with Canada's own "Speedball" Mike Bailey at Alpha-1 Wrestling. If you love a good Canaian brew, Robin & Jordan's content is the stuff you want to be checking out over at https://www.ontariocraftbeerguide.com/. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagtam @smark.mouth, and Like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook. (edited)
As he's recently kicked off the second season of Rocketman Explores, the Rocketman himself makes his three-peat appearance on Smark & Friends. We tried to find a wrestling film that would tie into RME's present theme of Artificial Intelligence, but the closest we got is Las luchadoras contre robot asesino (1969), which is exactly about what the title says; Women's wrestlers vs the Assassin Robot. Be sure to follow our guest's adventures on Rocketman Explores wherever you catch your podcasts. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook.
He loves being a wrestler, but he wants to be more than that - and his Twitch channel is just the tip of that iceberg! Shay Purser began his in-ring career by surprising Pete Dunne with a school boy to win the ATTACK! 24/7 Championship and continues his journey as a wrestler to this day seven years on. But here's the thing, Shay sees himself as more than a wrestler and wants you to see that as well! Whether it be a Twitch channel presently experiencing massive growth or building a platform to communicate his love of fashion and style, Shay wants people to know that he's more than just the master of Shay Fu. Even the glimpse of Shay's journey in this episode presents Shay for what he is - an creative force of nature, and of course, more than a wrestler. Catch Shay's daily Twitch streams at twitch.tv/sppurser. Follow us on Twitter @smarkandfriends, on Instagram @smark.mouth, and like Two Finger Guns Club on Facebook. Like what you hear? Drop us some stars at ratethispodcast.com/smarkandfriends
It’s a big week for comic book lovers in Canada as the Toronto Comic Arts Festival kicks off this weekend, running from May 8th through the 15th. Sticking to digital as they had last year, they'll be welcoming some very dynamic creative forces, including today's guest. Jason Lapidus is the talented artist behind Group of 7, a work of historical fiction about real-life Canadian legends who all served overseas at the same time. If it wasn’t crazy enough that these historical figures were fighting in World War I at the same time, Jason and Group of 7 writer Chris Sanagan made them their own unit and pit them against conspiracy and monsters and all those wonderful staples of the comic book world.
We talk all about Group of 7, Jason's anticipation for his very first TCAF, the value of alternate history in an academic setting, and much more, all before jumping into a wrestling watchalong. In fact, one of the competitors in the match we watch is very familiar with TCAF himself. Artist Andy Belanger, AKA Bob "Animal" Anger defends the Heavymania Championship against the powerhouse Max Lemire at Heavy MTL!
Quick shout out to the IWS - we are watching a match filmed by an attending fan, which we did with the blessing of IWS themselves. If you want the full IWS experience (aside from attending live, of course), you'll want to visit the official IWS YouTube channel. Catch some of the earliest matches of talents like Bob Anger, Shayne Hawke, EverRise, Kevin Owens, Brodie Lee, El Generico, and many more.
This episode was presented in affiliation with Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Tremendous thanks to TCAF Programming and Partnership Officer Irene Velentzas for putting us in contact with Jason Lapidus.
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The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.