Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 581 of the podcast that loves you back.

This week, redundancy; lost our shit; golden vintage; retro chocolate taste test; bananarama; cute graves; creepy haloes; Bosch bashing; horrifying Bacon; disregarded criticism; Skinamarink-a-dink-a-don’t; in defense of jump scares; word plays; Ian loves Evil; a disappointing God; Star Trek rules; Murder By Decree on the Sneaky Dragon watchlist; highest gross-out Canadian movie; Dave enjoyed M3GAN; let’s celebrate Malignant; experiencing a film; Bollywood fun; the Netflix assembly line; “Weiner on a bunn”; bad food; queue cards; easy tips for a better life; ice ratios; no variety needed; random foods; bicycle thieves; the Canadian exit; table talk; school’s out; save the senior high; perceptions; notable alumni; Slurpee-based travel; Top 5 Songs – Real Names Pt. 3; what, Dave worry; rom-com > not a rom-com; too many Dedricks; fast food fasts; sweet teeth; arts cancel; and, finally, cheese off.

Top 5 Songs – Real People Pt. 3

* Nick Lowe – Marie Provost – Jesus of Cool [Pure Pop for Now People], 1978 – 2:18:37

* Julian Cope – Bill Drummond Said – Fried, 1984 – 2:30:09

* Human Sexual Response – Jackie Onassis – Fig. 15, 1980 – 2:39:39

* The Beach Boys – Johnny Carson – Love You, 1977 – 2:46:10

* The Pernice Brothers – Jacqueline Susann – Goodbye, Killer, 2010 – 2:53:04

Question of the Week: What is something your parents told you not to do, but you did it anyway?Sub-question of the Week: How do you feel about advertising on podcasts?

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Tommy Smothers is actually Johnny Carson:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 580 of near constant calamity!

This week, Ian is not with us as this week’s original episode was somehow lost. Instead, Dave’s daughter Eve steps into the breach to talk party favours, meme translation, mumblehorror, creepy pasta, public failure, first person spectator, pride and amnesia, romantic jerks, failure to land, our Top 5 rom-coms, Questions of the Week, and, finally, passed pasts.

Question of the Week: What is some life advice you’d give someone?Sub-question of the Week: What is your favourite fast-food burger?Sub-sub-question of the Week: What is the one song you’d play to liven up the party?

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Dept. of CorectionsDave misremembered the title of one of the films we discussed. The actual title is Adventure in Manhattan.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 579 of the podcast that celebrates adversity!

This week, Eric Fell joins Ian and David for a journey into the past! You can eavesdrop while they discuss: recent ancient history; school mandated reading times; roofies; pet teacher; Canadian sex; easy tech and hard work; comedownance; the Ianiverse; pretend jerk; avatar blindness; it’s all about who you vaguely know; bumblers; born storytellers; teacher’s pedantry; I.P. men; rockin’ Robin; tracks of your Musketeers; trove of embarrassment; cheap dentist; time travel time; lazy development; driving Mr. Banks; Seascum; subparurbia; no right answers; marriage class; post-breakdown breakdown; mean girl; Jack Dylan; Batmess; Pee Wee love; hello Mabel; unconscious vanity; pledge break; and, finally, show closer.

Question of the Week: What is one toy from your childhood that you would bring back to the present?

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Daily diary comic. On the road to the Burnsview Junior High 50th anniversary with David Dedrick and Eric Fell .

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 578 of the podcast that celebrates adversity!

This week, Jason Dedrick joins Ian and David for our annual Boxing Day boxtacular! They mulled wine about: Vice-Dedrick; conversation therapy; optical belts and suspenders; repetition breeds contempt; comforting spam; Nazi adjacent; “He’s a potato”; Force hole; one-time offer; consciousness spectrum; his Wickham ways; Dave crushes on Carmilla; ride the Twitter wave; the rogues Tate gallery; paradise lost; germs get in your eyes; the old normal; cold patter; ran out of bulllshit; magic isn’t real; cunning stunts; jugglers juggle; back to Yule days; is it a Christmas movie; Hugh Grant didn’t love, actually; Dave’s Gambit; off-colour mysteries; Jason’s Christmas Nuts saga; Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers; rhymes in times; bad numbers; virtual family; cannery salmon; Santa got lost in Texas; toots sweet; take me to the pilot; and, finally, giggle, dammit.

Top 5 Songs – Phone Numbers

* Etta James – “842-3089 (Call My Name}” – Call My Name, 1966 – 2:18:31

* The Partridge Family – “Echo Valley 2-6809” – Sound Magazine, 1971 – 2:24:51

* The Marvelettes – “Beechwood 4-5789” – Please Mr. Postman, 1961 – 2:30:47

* The B-52s – “6060-842” – The B-52s, 1979 – 2:35:39

* Wilson Pickett – 634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) – Atlantic single b/w “That’s a Man’s Way”, 1966 – 2:42:43

Question of the Week: What was your first time flying on an airplane?Sub-question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution you actually kept?

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Check out Jason in the touching Danny Fenton Story:

Here is a link to Dave’s latest single-frame web series mania, Carmilla – a Canadian series that ran from 2014 to 2016. Here is the first episode:

What do you mean you weren’t a listener during Dave’s original obsession with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries? Well, if you like Pride and Prejudice, romance or just young people having fun, here is a supercut just for you:

SHOCKING!

Hello, horse fans and mystery fans!

Lezah is calling this episode SHOCKING!, but we think it should be called, “What Goes Around Comes Around”!

This week, past wrongs are righted as the unexplained disappearance of an innocent woman shines the light of justice on a network of double dealing and death.

It’s a holiday miracle!

Folks, this is the end of Season Two of Horse Mysteries. Thanks so much for listening, and for all your comments! We’ll see you in the New Year with Season Three!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 577 of the podcast that jingle jangles!

This week: goosing up the show; new old classics; Muppet history; too cool to fool; Waggoner train; the existential humour of Carol Burnett; window pain; don’t break the Chan; Christmas disasters; the red-headed stepchild; children aren’t dogs; perfect parenting prevents prevaricating; tough darts; awkward Christmas tree; unfamous artists; a Clowes call; Weirdo for weirdos; sweeping up the Crumbs; diary of an older artist; snow jobs; winter of discontent; keep on gobblin’; Ian says Pinocchi-no and Dave says Pinocchi-yes; Dave looks at Looking for Her; Ian defends Brit rom coms; Dork Shadows: Big Stakes: Question of the Week – Sneakers respond: addressing dressing; Bob and Doug and Rick and Dave; box opening; saying goodbye to food; the candy challenge; and, finally, awkward Christmas greetings.

Question of the Week: What is something weird that your family did when you were growing up?Sub-question of the Week: What is a food dish that you think about all the time, but can never have again?

Thanks for listening. The happiest of happy holidays to all of you out there in Sneakerdom!

Dept. of Clarifications:

After checking on line, it has been discovered that there is now a Jackie Chan Stunt Team t-shirt available on Red Bubble! Interested? Check it out here!

Thanks again to Mick for the Christmas treats! You can see his card and a couple of bags of treats we’ll be munching on next week!

And also, thank you for the wallet, Mick!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 576 of the podcast that doesn’t mince pies!

This week: technically speaking; baffling; earwig defense system; negative negative results; secret cafeteria; the rub-it-in building; joke annotation; yolk annotation; double turkey; paying friends; the salad controversy returns; solid salads; disappointing meal; the great Cardini; competitive food; too much news; home movies; Harold heralds; comedy is serious business; banjo forewarning; miss management; the man with the black moustache; aggressively passive aggressive; dualling citizenships; submarine parents; out-out-out-outfielders; fucking up fuck ups; pain management; love connections; invisible man; excitable boy; secret life; hapless wonder; the avid listener; grumpy adulting; Harvey shit; Top 5 Songs – Bad Christmas; a Carol-ling we go again; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; interrejections; emotional touchstones; Ian bumbles; and, finally, a sound blanket of snow.

Top 5 Songs (as suggested by Louise) – Bad Christmas

* The Youngsters – “Christmas in Jail” – Empire Records single b//w “Dreamy Eyes”, 1956 – 2:29:45

* The Emotions – “What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas?” – Volt Records single, 1978 – 2:34:42

* Sufjan Stevens – “That Was the Worst Christmas Ever” – Ding! Dong! Songs for Christmas, Vol. 3, 2006 – 2:41:05

* No Fun – “No Fun at Christmas” – No Fun at Christmas, 1985 – 2:48:41

* The Sonics – “Don’t Believe in Christmas” – Etiquette Records single b/w The Wailers “Christmas Spirit?”, 1965 – 2:52:52

Question of the Week: What do you plan to do between Christmas and New Year’s?Sub-question of the Week: Who helped you along in your life?

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Horse Whisperers: Fact or Fiction?

Hello, horse fans and mystery fans!

On this episode of Horse Mysteries, Lezah asks the controversial question: Horse Whisperers: Fact or Fiction?

Let’s examine those gifted individuals and their almost magical abilities to bend horses to their will.

Or do they? Is it a real skill or a crass, commercial trick to fleece a gullible horse world?

Listen in to this week’s episode and tell us what you think about “horse whisperers”!

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 575 of Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that isn’t getting any younger!

This week: uncertainly yours; guilty chocolate; offensive Irish; happy endings; livable wounds; the unidle rich; impossibly wealthy; headstart to happiness; no apologies; boring definition; bully for you; psychologically tall; reverse learning; pitch block; transforming dynamics; robot ape; miniature physics; Schwengi!; musical clearance; Biblical epics; all about Alex Toth; bathing your cat; bubble trouble; wall of Lycra; the cream of BC; heist-capades; unfunny money; quitting time; thrills, pills and bellyaching; challenge not accepted; dope on a rope; Dork Shadows – Light My Fire; Questions of the Week – Sneakers respond; your goose is cooked, you turkey; tire songs; Marley we roll along; Christmas tape; and, finally, boobs.

Question of the Week: If you came into money, what is the first thing you’d buy for yourself?Sub-question of the Week: What bores you?

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Did we say that Tintin and the End was our final episode? Well…we lied!

Yes, David and Ian were in Belgium this fall for a comics convention in Ghent, but they couldn’t not visit the Hergé Museum – a longtime dream of David’s. Did it live up to David’s – admittedly pretty high – expectations? What did non-Tintinophile Ian think? And how many times did they get lost during the drive there?

In a wide-ranging (some might call it loosey-goosey) conversation, Ian and David discuss all their thoughts, experiences and feels about that beautiful place. (Oops! Spoilers!)