Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – the podcast by, for and about knobs!

This week: getting ahead; falling behind; smiling phases; Carrey on; free to fall; acronyms of comedy; TV miracle; Canuck tailcoat jumpers; Canadian who’s who are they; bald egos; Boss, baby; history bites; the Halifax confection; disco tech; feel good knob; tinted love; clit art; disputed attributions; a portrait of a lunatic as a young man; the usual spinach; a century of jokes; that’s Sahl, folks; the Warren report; Close call; babbling about Brooks; Burnett questions; Woody, won’t he; political humourless; off on the joke; joke’s on glue; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; a couple of dummies; remembering longboxes; dark lady of song; Chubby defender; gushed away; do the worm; soda jerks; and, finally, some time, some channel.

Question of the Week: What is a thing you recently learned?
Sub-question of the Week: Who is your favourite puppet?

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If you’d like to read more about The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy, you can follow this link

Neil Young gets defensive (go to 59:40):

Oscar Peterson sings the glory of coffee creamer:

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Friends help friends:

Jimmy Fallon gets bossy:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that celebrates dead ends!

This week: we need questions, not answers; back issues; Civil War enthusiast; crank shafted; bell ends; back stretch; athletic types; death disco; spinning heads; dance land; Snow fall; bad credits; Wing man; Den of iniquity; painters by number; career on hold; foaling around; jockeying for positions; sad News; baby years; must see TV; Ted TV; we’ve got notes; pipe swill; preview poster; Ghost Jedi; romantic assholes; misleading actors; classical puns; tomahtoes and potahtoes; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; up Dune; Powell vaulting to fame; Drive Away Dolls didn’t drive away Dave; Kirby stomp; silent comedian; pure tyrannical; more about weirdos; super lies me; and automated replies.

Question of the Week: Have you ever learned something from a record?
Sub-question of the Week: What was the first record you ever bought? (Other media accepted too.)

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Breakin’ news!

Thurberesque!

The amazing and amazingly neurotic Richard Lewis:

His sitcom (He and Curtis are really good!):

With Bob Costas:

Ian thought this sketch used “The Girl from Ipanema”. It doesn’t, but we’re including it anyway!

Did you know that every time you erase a file, you delete adorable digital people???

Jason Dedrick, Eric Fell and Vicky Van talk about how this horrific revelation makes them feel, as well as their memories of the 1982 Disney classic Tron.

WARNING: There will be Bruce Boxleitner anecdotes.

Video games spawned from the film will also be discussed.

The gang also created a custom cocktail for the movie: The Wreckognizer AKA The Flynn and Tronic!

Here’s how to make it:

(The producer’s wife said that it reminded her of a Negroni, a drinks she dislikes, but it was worse. Also, it tasted like a basketball.)

If you do make the The Wreckognizer or come up with one of your own, please send a picture to [email protected] by following this link! Even if you don’t, we’d still love to hear from you.

Produced by Ian Boothby
Edited by Vicky Van
Theme song by Chris Roberts

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – your favourite podcast to turn off.

This week: Oh wellness; payday bliss; side affects; crier’s remorse; damage deposition; pobody’s nerfect; fail safe; take a brake; storytelling; riff rough; no sugar tonight; cheese chatter; get lent; ladder day saints; foot fight; human grace; buckle down; March madness; Spike’s pique; Washington crossing the Elsewhere; hellscapes; false positive; singing the booze; professional crastinator; spectrum analysis; parental leave; answer: overdue fees; banned dessinée; comics research; Kirby enthusiasm; passive aggression again; whack-a-mole culture; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; presidential zeal; Byrne notice; Prada supporter; conscious coupling; holy manure; Bat and switch; and, finally, counterfeit Coen.

Question of the Week: What’s your favourite autobiography?
Sub-question of the Week: What new movie are you looking forward to?

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Sherlock Holmes eulogizes good ol’Canada – “lynchpin of the English-speaking world”!

Payday ain’t just the best day of the week!

“What’s a Payday bar?” you ask:

Man, they really gotta sell this stuff!

Man, they really gotta sell this stuff too!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that makes escalator pitches!

This week: Lent us your ear; I want an alien for Christmas; pressed corps; non-Spiderverse; character acting; memories; smugging for the camera; Dave enjoys American Fiction; the man who would be Kang; ups and Downey; Kelly girls; the Tomei show; Northern lights under a bushel; perfect pitches; a simple plaid; actin’ Jackson; cocked up; tut, tut; Cage, natch; trailer trash; Argylle socks it to us; G. I. joke; got to get a message to you; washed up; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; squirrely for Shirley; the mommy; cast off; Buddy well right; Suspect recommendation; and, finally, undersweat.

Question of the Week: Do you have a “guilty pleasure” movie which you wouldn’t normally like, but really enjoy?
Sub-question of the Week: What is your favourite fictional mystery? What is your favourite real-life mystery?

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Here is the trailer for The Mummy that was released without its soundtrack:

And here is the Superbowl footwashing ad that got the Christian right’s panties in a twist (although it was funded by Christian evangelicals like Hobby Lobby so go figure…):

The gang talks about 1984’s The Terminator, a film that promises “I’ll be back”, and then did so for five sequels and a TV series.

Join Jason Dedrick, Eric Fell and Vicky Van as they go over this tale of artificial intelligence threatening to take over humanity. A topic thankfully irrelevant today. Also learn how to tell if you have a quality version of the movie with a simple trick involving a Schwarzenegger body part.

Planet Hollywood’s classic Terminator drink is enjoyed. Here’s the secret recipe using every liquor known to humanity:

There was also a lot of talk about the Captain Crunch chicken fingers. So there’s that recipe too…

As always a new drink is invented based on the film called Storm’s Coming In. Want to make it? Here’s how:

If you make the Storm’s Coming In or The Terminator, or make up your own, please send a picture to [email protected] by following this link! Even if you don’t, we’d still love to hear from you. Also let us know what you think of the show and if you have any suggestions for future films.

Produced by Ian Boothby
Edited by Vicky Van
Theme song by Chris Roberts

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon, the internet’s patsy!

This week: diet water; hot dog fascists; keepin’ it klassy; no sex; Alpha bits; elf abuse; Moore about comics; full of Dredd; looking back at the future; Rat tales; past present tense; magic mirror; Sangster squad; maze balls; plod outline; the job interview; no claws; dazzling queen; childhood monsters; Dave turns over A New Leaf; May daze; Ishtar, baby; exotic locale heroes; Beatty’d down; theatre training; sun upping; maybe it was “phat”; warm welcomes; tough love; abuse ain’t just a river in Egypt; brawl in the family; no girls allowed; show runner; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; Pike’s peak; time travail; share the Blaine; tech it out; hug-o-meter; and, finally, Dave celebrates The Winning Season.

Question of the Week: How does your family get to you?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your favourite invention?
Sub-sub-question of the Week: What’s a little known movie you might recommend?

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Dept. of Esprit d’Escalier
The city where Alan Moore lives (lived?) was Northhampton.
The actor who appeared in We’re the Millers, THe Maze Runner and the “Jabberwock” episode of Black Mirror, and has fantastic eyebrows is Will Poulter.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – the first podcast to feature AI hosts*!

This week: pro-bionics; a dash of exuberance; dog tales; dialectical material; terrible Canada; skeetering on the edge; his smell; uncomfortable cooking; take your Glicks; Short cuts; social studies; test department; the cheater; elementary questions; map whiz; sweet Marie; bullpen and ink; the talented schlockmeister; health cares; car woes; shit happens; singles going steady; records break; virtually funny; do the robot; RIP Guy MacPherson; it’s Ron Livingstone, ya ding-dongs; RIP Carl Weathers; trivia time; impersonating an officer; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; for the ages; Trimpe the light fantastic; mentor as anything; and, finally, Aussie rules love.

Question of the Week: If you could live in another time, what decade would you choose?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your favourite spin-off?

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*Please note: “AI” stands for “almost interesting”.

Here is the link to David and Ian’s appearance on Guy MacPherson’s excellent podcast What’s So Funny?

David wasn’t lying! Here is the 45 put out by Ian and David’s high school socials teachers!

Time for the show that makes your phone say to your pod application, “Get your podcast off of me you damn dirty app!”

Jason Dedrick, Eric Fell and Vicky Van talk about the classic 1968 film of monkey see, monkey doom Planet of the Apes. Yes we know the apes aren’t monkeys. Let’s just move on.

This episode, the hosts enjoy some banana daiquiris. Here’s a video on how to make one.

They also invent The Forbidden Zone.

Want to make it? Here’s the recipe:

The producer’s wife was surprised by the warm pleasant aftertaste. (Unlike the aftermath of a doomed civilization.)

If you do make the The Forbidden Zone or come up with one of your own, please send a picture to [email protected] by following this link! Even if you don’t, we’d still love to hear from you.

Eric was kind enough to bring along his Dr. Zaius action figure.

Which led up to finding some other rare action figures:

He also directed us to Hanging with Dr. Z by Dana Gould:

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Produced by Ian Boothby
Edited by Vicky Van
Theme song by Chris Roberts

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast that constantly lowers its standards!

This week: hand-me-down witticisms; osmosis bones; Birbiglia trivia; grovin’; untameable fruit; toss salad; a remembrance of things pasta; comfort junk; decision to sleeve; limbo line; holy itinerary; thank you for your service; praying madness; tyrannosaurus sex; hard bore; saturated X; thinking about Rome; added attractions; no time for comedy; Top 5 films; passing gas; trivial dead end; Trimpe cocktail; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; raunch hands; Queen killer; brain capers; critical wits; inside man; and, finally, giving up giving up.

Question of the Week: What relative was a big influence on you?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a documentary you’d recommend?

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If you’d like to see the Hergé documentary discussed in the show, then follow this link.

Here is the trailer for Penthouse’s production of Caligula. (We’ve never seen the film, but the trailer uses Prokofiev’s score from the ballet Romeo and Juliet, which we can’t imagine was used in the actual movie!):

It’s hard to find a good representation of They Call Her One-Eye online, but this testimonial from Trailers from Hell gives a good sense of the film:

If you’re interested in the Herb Trimpe documentary that was discussed on the show, then cast your eyes on this: