Sneaky Dragon

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 585 of the podcast that thinks you’re interesting!

This week: esrever ni; Questions of the Week – Sneakers respond; step up; A.I. generations; Sim-ilar; stop arting; skip to Liu; identity crisis; Top 5 Songs – Chickens; missed signals; no punchline; no wizards; opening spoilers; humanised; feeble villains; witty deaths; that darn cat; there will be blood; old timers; broomba; surprising competencies; good timing; what the “L”; insulting; the surprise beginning of Simon and Garfunkel; annual general service; holy ghosted; dumb meetings; casual pitch; and, finally, pay up, pal.

Top 5 Songs -Chickens

Bonus song

Question of the Week: If you could have a wild animal as a pet, what animal would it be?
Sub-question of the Week: Reincarnation is real, but you screwed up and you have to come back as an animal. As which animal would you return?

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Department of Corections:
This week was a landslide of misspeaks as Dave somehow forgot about the album Mingus Plays Piano – a solo piano album that came out in 1964 on Impulse! Records. The producer of Simon and Garfunkel’s career-defining single of “Sounds of Silence” was Tom Wilson – a name that often slips Dave’s mind – who also produced early Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground and The Mothers of Invention (so a pretty important dude in modern music). Also, the first Simon and Garfunkel album was Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M..

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 584 of the internet’s most irrelevant podcast!

This week: alias Smith and Smith; patch the mike; the filmography of Payne; sugar, sugar; doctor, doctor; on many levels; my aim is true; Hard-Boiled Smurf; that’s repackaging; Crystal clear; pro found; yes-s-s-s; Howard’s end; yuck yuks; House of Half-An-Idea; Hanna Barberian; the labours of Herculoids; a man of the Toth; art storage; our angle on the centrefold; Fawlty logic; rebel rebel; monking around; women’s studies; worth the trouble; change of life; Dave eyes Marry Me; bog walk; slice of life; memory holes; on your side characters; swole bookworm; graphic problems; teeming team up; the poop defense; light comedy dearth; goodest times; more laughter; your money in another pocket; Social Safety Net Rock; AI yai yai; draft away; theft art; bad influences; and, finally, our semi-guarantee.

Question of the Week: What is your favourite thing that has an element of theft in it?
Sub-question of the Week: Who do you think is a good up-and-coming light comedy actor?

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Could this be any more Canadian? Burton Cummings imitating Gordon Lightfoot!

Remember That’s Hollywood? Of course you don’t!!!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 583 of the podcast that advertisers are paying not to advertise on!

This week: back off; paper tigers; love isn’t; untitled video game; flailing arms; defending grave robbing; body snatching iterations; dino-ghosts; unimpressive T. Rex; daddy snatchers; top pops; gulping gourmet; meow for Christ; dead parents; Ian and David howl for ; Tolstoy’s gun; speed writing; o solo mio; lucky breaks; the Steve Smith mystery; Red Green blues; the fishing Fisher; monster Hunter; bizarre Canadian broadcasting; cinematic desert fare; in praise of Dick and Beaver; automatic food; crawfish fiesta; Top 5 Songs – Laughter; loving Poker Face tangent; Little Lord Fauntlecroz; anxiety pen; the college age; boning up; shit-coms; Wordle world; wacky White Spot; nothing TV; on Chesterton; dance on, dance off, streaming life; and, finally, madness.

Top 5 Songs – Laughter

Question of the Week: What is your Jeopardy weak spot?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your complaint?

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Dept. of Corections:
David, of course, meant “Eight Miles High”, not five miles high, the dum-dum.

The theme song to Steve and Morag Smith’s sitcom Me and Max, which we didn’t realize also featured their two sons!

God help us, there is a complete episode of Smith & Smith on the YouTube! Watch out here! (I mean, watch it here.)

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 581 of the podcast that means “fudge” in Romanian!

This week: what price Coke; expensive munchables; shrinking food; disappearing chicken; morale building turkeys; paint it blackface; too straight; building to a laugh; obecting to subjectivity; Brit-coms; use the farce; chasing Chevy; hair today; bicycle therapy; collegedly; immature students; curiously safe; heroin and laughter; brain drains; wrecked it; judgementally correct; jumbled; complaints department; ineffectual idiots abroad; politically motivated; ruin it in the editing; sketch mind; stretch it out; vines of the times; oh no, Bono; the devil toupée; Dork Shadows – Light My Fire; that’s a lot of situations; beaver hours; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; boobage daydream; unscary movie; patty time; keep on trine; point counter point; sleepless in Seattle; and, finally, the competitive arts.

Question of the Week: In your opinion, what is the worst TV series?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your favourite mystery?

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We’ve played it before, but let’s play it again – Ian’s Spacehole sketch:

The pickings are thin (i.e., this is the only episode of Complaint Department we could find online), but, just for a yawn, here’s an episode from 1988.

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

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 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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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

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:

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!