Sneaky Dragon

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon – the podcast with great legs!

This week: wrong name; mom and dad; Tank’s for the memories; Luann luau; disappearing ink; cameo guesswork; apologies to Troy Aiken; Playboyhood; sex cult party house; the gynecological magazine; Saint Lorne; smug hick; plumbing hi-jinx; poor planning exercise plan; awkward name calling; dads and dudes; Canadian game shows; ¿habla espanol?; inside self-destruction; funnier guy; I’m Doug; cocaine and hookers; getting it; missed connections; only a pawn in their game; my side; Deuteronomy is super important; brother’s fighter; #notmyReacher; biographical pub quiz; Top 5 Louise songs; they’re both knives; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; boozy ice cream; the sad reality of sales tax; childhood thrift; face for the bushes; jes folksy; secret music; gimme six; pleasure deferral; a chile’s garden; too much guitar; and, finally, an aural enema.

Top 5 Louise Songs:

1. Ian Gomm – Louise – The Village Voice, 1983 – 2:02:18
2. The Raymarks – Louise – Jerden Records 45 b/w “Dollar Bill”, 1965 – 2:09:48
3. Consortium – To Please Louise – Looking Back: The Pye Anthology, 2021 – 2:14:49
4. The Hollies – Louise – Russian Roulette, 1976 – 2:20:52
5. The Man from Delmonte – (Will Nobody Save) Louise? – Catholic Boys on Mobilettes, 1990 – 2:26:14

Question of the Week: What was the last thing you yelled at the podcast?
Sub-question of the Week (from Brent): If you could live in any other country, where would you live?

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the 530th episode of the highly unsuccessful podcast: Sneaky Dragon!

This week: casserole play; bringing up babies; daddy issues; waxing wrath; basting time; turkey trots; tortuous ear canals; anti-biotics; do you ear what I ear; medical mishaps month; salivation; epilogue rolling; lack patients; Dr. Love; truth in advertising; superfluous; movies by numbers; palatable horribleness; parallel lives; more film fun; wrong-headed; practical final cut; down in the valley; la-la-life; diminishing returns; Spaceballed; ground your comedy; titanic disappointment; inaccurate aging; colours didn’t matter; lesbian battle; Dork Shadows – Flowers In the Attic; Quesions of the Week – Sneakers respond; transparent tree; the fisherfolk of Fife; easy kumquat, easy go; at the zoonotic; premature Top 5; Ringo is his name-o; early daffodils; and, finally, just the P-Tip.

Question of the Week: When you were younger, what is something you saved up all your money to get?
Sub-question of the Week: What is the most surprising or unpleasant ice cream flavour you’ve ever seen?
Sub-sub-question of the Week: The Q-Tip: yes or no?

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome back to Sneaky Dragon, the podcast with wings!

This week: password giveaway; health check; scene seen; lucky bowling balls; guessing game; lockdown sleepover; inappropriately metric; tube filet mignon; snowy vistas; back to back yak; going swimmingly; a testimonial; Mister Oswald; Mutt and Jeff mania; music for weirdos; the Minnie Mouse Club; the walk of animated fame; the Geef/Goof effect; commuter blues; The Matrix Resurrections reloaded; end with possibilities; too twisty; a better movie than you’re watching; boring subtext; the original Swifty; Aussie chocolates; Top 5 Apple singles; seeing Redford; cinephilia; the walrus was Coleridge; gong show; Top 5 mea culpas; Marvel movies aren’t Cimino; and, finally, fly pie.

Top 5 Apple singles (as requested by Crystal):

1. Jackie Lomax – “Sour Milk Sea” – Apple Records single, 1968 – 1:35:38
2. The Sundown Playboys – Saturday Night Special – Apple Records single, 1972 – 1:42:04
3. Doris Troy – “Jacobs Ladder” – Apple Records single, 1970 – 1:47:07
4. Yoko Ono – “Mind Train” – Apple Records single, 1972 – 1:51:47
5. Badfinger – “Day After Day” – Apple Records single, 1971 – 2:01:29

Bonus:

• Nola York – “Purple Flowers” – Apple Records single, 1974 – 2:06:20

Question of the Week: How has Covid been for you? Have you had it? Any family members?
Sub-question of the Week: What do you grow in your garden that no one else does?

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For more info about the great old comic strip Mister Oswald, check out this great article by RC Harvey from The Comics Journal that originally hipped me to it.

Hey, Ian and Dave, you nerds, who are Mutt and Jeff? Well, here is an animated Mutt and Jeff short from 1916:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the 528th episode of Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that just won’t go away!

This week: germ-free adults; we will fall; creepy feelings; in the midst of horror; excellent signs; vertiginous feelings, electroshock blues; they didn’t think of Sam; meat juice; bow tie daddy; lying liars’ lies; irrational agreement; smart idiots; short-term long-range plans; inherit the unwinding; make ’em up; leading the mudslide; Yosemite Sam for President; stop your clawing; moon innovations; Russian rockets; poisonous rock; suicide appeal; movie game; blame it on the brain; Dork Shadows – I Am Woman; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; looming problems; live or Memorex; no symphony; quackery; gourmet Columbo; magical knitting; why you cometh-ing; and, finally, a walking tea kettle.

Question of the Week: Can you connect the actors Paul Newman and John C. Reilly through their films?
Sub-question of the Week: Who is an actor that you will go to the movie theatres to see?

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the 527th episode of Sneaky Dragon – just two grown men talking about chickens.

This week: let’s just start; where’s Ian; après-ski injury; slip, sliding away; side effects; triple dosed; other head injuries; sympathetic horror stories; Penis Penispenis; institute of corrections; rabbiting on; Welker back; memorable moose; slapstick murders; vaccine and not herd; unfunny bullshit; natural cures for living; YouTube hospital; assumed reality; resurrecting The Matrix; kung fu gun porn; murder of the innocents; real bondage vs. virtual freedom; my chemo romance; I hate the ’90s; low level unpleasantness; liking Licorice Pizza; the kids are all wrong; everything is great in retrospect; not the Neo; rerunning with the Daredevil; Dave’s special algorithm; rom-com recoms; effed up; done with media; back to backs; Top 5 Captain songs; Triumvirate of Terror; Captain Lou who; international confabbers; falling forward; Magic Max XL; dangerous outdoors; deep shits; Flanagrams; sorely head; living in the past; “Santa Baby” baby; and, finally, boring your grandkids.

Top 5 Captain Songs!

1. Laura Nyro – “Captain for Dark Mornings” – New York Tendaberry, 1969 – 1:56:17
2. Grand Funk Railroad – “Closer to Home (I’m Your Captain)” – Closer to Home, 1970 – 2:03:19
3. Biff Rose – “The Captain” – Biff Rose, 1970 – 2:18:09
4. Colin Blunstone – “This Is Your Captain Calling” – Journey, 1974 – 2:22:13
5. NRBQ – “Captain Lou” – Tapdancin’ Bats, 1983 – 2:31:42

Question of the Week: What is a craft or hobby you appreciate? (Not necessarily one you do.)
Sub-question of the Week (from Brent): What is the best and/or worst concert you’ve ever been to?

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We forgot to mention it during the episode, but our friend Louise sent along this prescient comment made by Paul in The Beatles newest film – maybe you’ve heard of it – Get Back!

Happy New Year, Sneakers! Welcome to the podcast known to hog hogmanay!

A special episode this week, as Ian was unable to be on the show scheduled guest Jason Dedrick was promoted from guest to guest host! (We are hopeful that Ian will be back next week.)

David and Jason talk: sudden start; behind the scenes; no fucks given; early archival; Capp sizes; stamped tramp; mixed Peanuts; beware of fire; misleading flood; unseen footage; convincing rhetoric; reproducing garbage; stiff ducks; comics factories; Peyo check; the end of an era; high listener turnover; Dedrick revenge; the sanitarium gap; brotherly love; low rent districts; equally crazy; musical cannons; getting back to chewiness; casual resignation; old folks at home; Christams snow; self-sufficient birds; doves are overrated; back problems; scofflaws; back to back problems; rolling rock salt; your problems are behind you; anti-chiro; formal resignation; icy situation; Dork Shadows – Where There’s a Will; new segment: Dotty about Dallas; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; favourite shopping song; Tchaikovsky’s payola; moveable feast; surreal life; round virgins; rat kings; okay songs; don king cons; the Gentlemen continue; Star Wars potatoes; minute minutes minutiae; quitting xylophones; big promises; and, finally, perturbations.

Question of the Week: What is a New Year’s resolution that you failed to keep? What is a New Year’s resolution that you successfully kept?
Sub-question of the Week: Soon, if not already, we will have the technology to make new movies with old actors who have been dead for years. What are some of the remakes of classic movies using dead actors you’d like to see? (For example, Humphrey Bogart playing the lead in Raiders of the Lost Ark or the Marx Brothers playing the gang in Ghostbusters.)

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Here is a list of everyone’s favourite Christmas songs:

From John:

From Louise:

From Ed:

From Chris and Louise:

From Chris:

From Peter (Petey):

From Joseph:

Thanks to everyone who sent in a favourite song. It was a real pleasure to listen to them while compiling the list!

Merry Christmas, Sneakers. Welcome to the podcast that was as good a friend, good a master, and as good a podcast as the good old internet knew!

This week: a closeted Christmas; drinking and fucking; numerically interesting; Christmas is now; oily boids; special delivery; eccentric restaurants; unusual orderer guy; grinchy thoughts; loose Suess; coo-coo kids classic; shut down volume two; tired of the bear; Xmas workout; surprise nuts; ding-dongs at the wheel; hoarding turn signals; too much pressure; forced family; big fan of adultery; hermit dads; controlled truth; debonding moments; director’s commentary; Kubrick glare; you need the suffering; it’s a gift; no abhorring wombs; no to Gnostics; Top 5 Christmas songs; jingle bell blechh!; The Little Drummer Boy trivia; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; drinking snowballs; eggno; renumberation; putting off reading emails; Parmesan theme; pinball wizard; cumbersome, obscure and convoluted sentences; best at yakking; and, finally, unboxing day.

Top 5 Christmas Songs!

1. Louis Armstrong & the Commanders – “Cool Yule” – Brunswick Records single b-side to “The Gypsy”, 1953 – 2:07:43
2. The Flirtations – “Christmas Time is Here Again” – Deram Records single b-side to “Nothing But a Heartache”, 1968 – 2:14:59
3. Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva – “I Wish You a Merry Christmas” – Dimension Records single b/w “The Christmas Song”, 1963 – 2:19:38
4. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass – “Jingle Bell Rock” – ¡Something Festive!, 1968 – 2:28:53
5. The Tokens – “The Little Drummer Boy” – The Ultimate Christmas Album, Vol. 5, 2000 – 2:35:28

Question of the Week: What is something good that has a terrible name?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s your favourite Christmas [or winter] song?

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The bounteous pile of bounty courtesy Mick Elliott and Jonathon Bampton. Thanks, guys!!!

The story of Régis’ life! (Featuring Penn and Teller!)

This week: this week is dirt; calendarically speaking; don’t party with strangers; gravity, entropy, sriracha with mayo; you can do it; beetles and pythons; the Chapman report; Gilliamesque; the first time; my favourite Martin; Goon squad; use the clapper; to Halifax and back; people love an explosion; an upside-down “O”; TV vets again; the farrier side; indifferent work; strong lap; post-Creatures; TRADITION!: the podcasting potato; Dork Shadows – Run the Jewels; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; back to Get Back; anglo-gourmand; zeugmania; reverse dragon; simply Marvel-ous; awkward eavesdropping; carnitine angels; Colonial smells; tide waits for no man; bagged milk; happy times; and, finally, ho-ho-ho!

Question of the Week: What is a word that you pronounced wrong for a very long time before you were corrected?
Sub-question of the Week: Egg nog: yes or no?

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Listener Joseph (Joe?) Boylan has some thoughts about Get Back and you can read them here.