Sneaky Dragon

By Ian Boothby and David DedrickComedy TV & Film Music Improv

Sneaky Dragon episodes

July 05, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Episode 448
Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 448 – the countdown continues! Only one more show until Episode 450!!!
This week: white talk; literal-mindedness; original Disneyland rides; Fairy Tale Theater; Dave recommends Kiss Me, Stupid; Mr. Mixerfixer; the United American Way; quarantine brain effects; Ian recommends The Floor Is Lava; at the alien zoo; Dave the softie; scary pools; replaceable; spolied shoppers; unstructured; 80s duos; various Dexys; Listening Party taster; suffering for your art; party baby; millennial math; metric mayhem; party like it’s 1983; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; Sneaky slogans; too much hot dog; big books; fantasticking the Four; masterkitsch; blow job for the family; things go better with morphine; how many cigars; Dave has lost his mind; and, finally, a couple of jingle cats.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: What was your never miss TV show?
Sub-question: What is your favourite year? (Excepting 2020)
Sub-sub-question: What was a lie you told as a kid? And did you get caught?
And don’t forget!!!
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN!!!
That’s right! Our 450th episode is only one more episode away and then we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to [email protected]. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
An actual image of actual prizes from our last Listeners’s Questions episode!!!
2 hr 33 min
July 02, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 44

Hello, partygoers! Welcome to another fabulous episode of Sneaky Dragon Listening Party

This week we present a collection of Dave’s famous “Top 5 Songs” lists as we emulate in podcast time the four month break Dave took as a breather before tackling the next set of mix tapes and just have some good, dumb fun.

So join Dave and an “over-song-ed” Mary as they spin some loosely themed songs in the always welcoming rumpus room. Come on in !!!

Top 5 “I’m So Mad at My Label” Songs:

* Nick Lowe – “I Love My Label” – A Bunch of Stiffs, 1977 – 13:08* Graham Parker – “Mercury Poisoning” – Squeezing Out Sparks/Live Sparks, 1979 – 22:58* Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Working for MCA” – Second Helping, 1974 – 29:37* Mojo Nixon – “Bring Me the Head of David Geffen” – Gadzooks! The Homemade Bootleg, 1997 – 43:51* Sex Pistols – “EMI” – Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, 1977 – 52:17

Top 5 Christian-Psych Songs:

* The Advocates – “Blind Eyes” – The Advocates, 1973 – 1:14:23* Vindication – “Money Window” – Vindication, 1974 – 1:23:30* The Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9 – “Magnificat 70” – The Torchbearers, 1969 – 1:31:03* Lora Lee & Jana Lyn Stewart – “So Far to Go” – Have You Heard the News?, 1972 – 1:43:51* Wilson McKinley – “It’s Up to You” – Spirit of Elijah, 1971 – 1:53:45

Top 5 Satan Songs:

* Black Widow – “Come to the Sabbat” – Sacrifice, 1970 – 2:02:43* Bonzo Doo-Dah Band – “11 Mustachioed Daughters” – The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse, 1968 – 2:20:17* The Louvin Brothers – “Satan Lied to Me” – The Family Who Prays, 1956 – 2:25:46* Morrissey – “Satan Has Rejected My Soul” – Maladjusted, 1997 – 2:30:37* Butthole Surfers – “Sweat Loaf” – Locust Abortion Technician, 1987 – 2:35:50

Top 5 Oscure-ish Prog Songs:

* Wigwam – “Fairyport” – Fairyport, 1971 – 2:49:26* Stackridge – “Everyman” – B-side of 7” single “Dora the Female Explorer”, 1971 – 3:00:33* Egg – “Wring Out the Ground (Loosely Now)” – The Civil Surface, 1974 – 3:06:09* Pete Brown & Piblokto! – “Broken Magic” – B-side to “Can’t Get Off the Planet”, 1970 – 3:18:59* Caravan – “In the Land of the Grey and Pink” – In the Land of the Grey and Pink, 1971 – 3:30:14

Also on the old Victrola – a bonus prog song (!):

* Genesis – “Stagnation” – Trespass, 1970 – 3:40:38

Thanks for listening.
3 hr 56 min
June 28, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Episode 447
Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 447 – the countdown continues! Only three more shows until Episode 450!!!
But anyway, this week Ian and David are all: thanking God; feeling confident; making reviews; realizing it isn’t Saturday; feeling complacent; wiping out; cold to the bone; meeting Terry Austin; bidding farewell to Joe Sinnott; figuring out the Fantastic Four; hobo sea kings; talking about synthezoids; engaging in complicated nerdery; avoiding the parking lot; outing the GI Bill; just buying a house; chewing bad gum; liking it stale; learning school rules; tying their shoes; shooing swipers; talking about their first time; watching imaginary octopus; budgeting at school; making a good recovery; about Jane Wiedlin; Disney + and its so-so movies; doing a psychiatrist bit; marvelling at Florida people; enjoying quarantine theatre; discovering Dr. Pepper’s hometown; dramatically retelling; doing a MacDonald’s slogans rundown; and, finally, shambling psychics.
Thanks for listening.
Task of the Week: Come up with a good slogan for Sneaky Dragon!
Sub-question: What’s something you’re looking forward to doing when the plague has ended?
Sub-sub-question: What do you usually wear when you listen to the show?
And don’t forget!!!
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN
That’s right! Our 450th episode is fast approaching and we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to [email protected]. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
Here is Barry Manilow singing a medley of his jingles. (And people have called him gauche!)
2 hr 24 min
June 24, 2020 The Fansplainers – John Carter

Ciao, cinemaphiles!

Guess what? You voted and you voted right! This week Ian and Dave watched the flopperoo John Carter, and had some thoughts. Why didn’t it succeed? Was it any good? Could it be better? Why can’t Disney do a better job marketing their films? (Yes, that’s right, we’re looking at you too, Lone Ranger!)

Have you asked yourself these questions too? Well, let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you.

Thanks for listening.

2 hr
June 21, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Episode 446
Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 446 – only four more shows until our whopping big Episode 450!
This week: we’ve got notes; free range; reciprocity; Canadian vuvuzelas; hierarchical empathy; sensitive; true lies; alligator pie; junior readers; best review ever; ex-change; big pennies; pod covered; stand-in peppers; purity boobs; seasonal beaches; be a big jerk; original flavours; stubbies; Old Style; no molestation guaranteed; what? no beer; adrenaline related injuries; improv improvement; bad grooming; what Christopher Hitchens really meant; men kissing on stage; lesbian watchers; same old, dame old; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; and much, much more! (It was a really long show this week!)
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: If you had a sibling, what was the most common thing you fought about?
Sub-question: Tell us about a childhood injury.
AND REMEMBER!!!
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN
That’s right! Our 450th episode is fast approaching and we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to [email protected]. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
Here is a sweet pic of a stubby beer bottle with the Old Style beer label that is so dear to Dave’s heart.
Muhammad Ali vs. a straw.
Not just peanut-flavoured peanut butter!
2 hr 54 min
June 18, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 43

Hello, partygoers! Welcome to another fabulous episode of Sneaky Dragon Listening Party

You know, the Listening Party is a special place for us. Mary and her dad don’t get to see each other as much as they used to, so every episode is a special joy, and we hope you enjoy it as much as they do.

Remember, you’re part of our Listening Party family too and we love to hear from you, and even when we don’t, we hope your time in the Rumpus Room is time well spent.

Sad story this week: Dave ran out of steam, but here’s what we heard anyway:

* Nick Lowe – “Switchboard Susan” – Labour of Lust, 1979 – 20:46* Emitt Rhodes – “Fresh as a Daisy” – Emitt Rhodes, 1970 – 56:22* Rita Lee – “De Novo Aqui Mue Bom José” – Hoje E o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida, 1972 – 1:09:14* Simon Warner – “Moody” – Waiting Rooms, 1997 – 1:35:14* The Hollies – “Everything is Sunshine” – the b-side to “King Midas in Reverse”, 1967 – 1:57:02* Jackie Ross – “Selfish One” – 7” single b/w “Everything But Love”, 1964 – 2:00:57* Belle and Sebastian – “The Model” – Fold Your Hands, Child; You Walk Like a Peasant, 1999 – 2:07:05* Lene Lovich – “Lucky Number” – Stateless, 1978 – 2:20:15* The Afex – “She’s Got the Time” – King Records, 7” single b/w “I Never Knew Love Was Like This”, 1967 – 2:36:45* Papas Fritas – “We’ve Got All Night” – Helioself, 1997 – 2:45:37* Mystery Jets – “The Tale” – Flotsam and Jetsam EP, 2006 – 2:54:03* The Shins – “Saint Simon” – Chutes Too Narrow, 2003 – 3:02:30

Also on the old Victrola:

* Mickey Jupp – “School” – Juppanese, 1979 – 52:20* Simon Warner – “The Wrong Girl” – Waiting Rooms, 1997 – 1:50:38* The Poor – “She’s Got the Time (She’s Got the Changes)” – 7” single b/w “Love Is Real”, 1967 – 2:42:57* Chilliwack – “Far Side of the Sun (Suite) i. Far Side of the Sun ii. Secrets iii. Drifting” – Riding High, 1974 – 3:11:45

Thanks for listening.
3 hr 25 min
June 14, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Episode 445
Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 445 – the somewhat less cool episode than Episode 444.
This week: figured out; rolling balls; fowl balls; not a Ken fan; viscerally live; know your Branagh; community TV crimes; Henry V fan edit; everybody’s hat talking; hairy situation; shitty nature; disturbing bears; hooray for MAD magazine (R.I.P.); text nerds; The Harvey Girls; three million calories; horrifying Little Dot; slow jokes; so long Denny O’Neil (R.I.P.); Magnus Robot Fighter; novelty ads; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; and, finally, Thoroughly Thorl.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: Did you ever order anything off TV or from a comic or magazine?
Sub-question: Who is your favourite advertising mascot?
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN!!!
That’s right! Our 450th episode is fast approaching and we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to [email protected]. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
Here are some sweet pics of some of the items we discussed today!
Not sure what Magnus is doing? Throwing something? Tai chi?
Disturbing!
Don’t worry, everyone! They don’t actually work!
Not to scale. Or working, for that matter.
Noting like a “bowl full of happiness”.
You know what? I still want one.
What exactly was Oscar Goldman’s briefcase?
2 hr 36 min
June 11, 2020 The Fansplainers – The Princess Bride

Ciao, cinemaphiles!

This week on Fansplainers, Ian and Dave wash the taste of The Emoji Movie out of their mouths with an enjoyable re-view of the sparkling and wonderful The Princess Bride – a film that found its legs in home video and thus lives in the rosy glow of childhood nostalgia.

Is it as good as we all remember it? Well, let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you.

Thanks for listening.

1 hr 49 min
June 07, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Episode 444
Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 444, which is one hundred and eleven more exciting then Episode 333!
This week: Off-season awards; Dave’s controversial tweets; acceptance; unfunny groove; our Return of the King; Peter Jackson ruined; Hobbit forming; Core values; immersive nostalgia; terrifying old ladies; mean machines; Pixar horror; It’s the pits; viewer as the victim; Top 10 Stephen King films; hobbling minority; the Big Ben of America; throwing money at an invisible wall; 30-year old high school graduate; don’t wait for retirement; past self/future self; joyless excess; future self/past self; socially distant socializing; hair roulette; K-Tel klassics; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; clunkers; On Her Majesty’s Point Counter-Point; impostor syndrome; fantastic forts; overheards; Deck Talk; Chick Talk; and, finally, end on poop.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: What’s something that your pet does that’s weird?
Sub-question: Who was your favourite author as a teenager? (Comics fans, we’ll count a team if necessary!)
DON’T FORGET!!!
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN
That’s right! Our 450th episode is fast approaching and we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to [email protected]. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
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Ian mentioned some K-Tel gizmos from our faraway youths. Here is a link to a bunch of ads, but we’ll post a couple of choice ones below:
And for some reason the article missed this gizmo, which seemed so magical when we were kids:
2 hr 27 min
June 04, 2020 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 42

Hello, partygoers! Things get exciting this week and also very, very wrong.

On this episode, Mary and Dave record the Listening Party in the dark as a windstorm causes a power outage in good old rural Aldergrove. So, bring a flashlight and a blanket, and join the pair in the crepuscular rumpus room for some music fun!

Let’s peer into the gloom and listen to:

* The Nerves – “Hanging of the Telephone” – DIY: Come Out and Play – American Power Pop I (1975-1978), 1993 – 8:55* Fire – “Father’s Name is Dad” –Decca single b/w “Treacle Toffee World”, 1968 – 29:57* Idina Menzel and Lea Michelle (Glee) – “Poker Face” – Glee: The Music, Volume 3 – Showstoppers, 2010 – 1:07:58* Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” – Telephone Free Landslide Victory, 1985 – 1:27:04* The Act – “The Remedies of Doctor Brohnicoy” – Columbia single “Just a Little Bit” b/w “The Remedies of Doctor Brohnicoy”, 1968 – 1:34:58* Jane Aire and the Belvederes – “Yankee Wheels” –Stiff records single b/w “Nasty Nice”, 1978 – 1:46:40* The Thrills – “Til the Tide Creeps In”- So Much for the City, 2003 – 2:06:43* Caroline Peyton – “Engram” – Mock Up, 2009 – 2:15:41* The Everly Brothers – “Talking to the Flowers” – Mono single version B-side to “Mary Jane”, 1967 – 2:24:29* Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks) – “Mama” – Face the Truth, 2005 – 2:35:22* Gwen McCrae – ‘Rockin’ Chair” – Rockin’ Chair, 1975 – 2:40:24* Chilliwack – “Fly at Night” – Dreams, Dreams, Dreams, 1976 – 3:00:46

Also on the old Victrola:

* Fire – “I’ll Tell You a Story” – The Magic Shoemaker, 1970 – 58:51* Felt – Jewel Sky” – Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death, 1986 [Intermission Music] – 1:30:54* The Act – “Just a Little Bit” – b/w “The Remedies of Dr. Brohnicoy”, 1968 – 1:42:55

Department of Corections:A major correction this bi-week as Dave got hold of the completely wrong end of the Chilliwack stick. In a major case of “maybe don’t trust your faulty memory and look at the track listing, dum dum”, Dave assigned “Fly at Night” to the wrong Chilliwack album. It was not 1978’s Lights from the Valley, but 1976’s Dreams, Dreams, Dreams – a real comeback after 1975’s disappointing Rockerbox – that “Fly at Night” is on. As Dave mentioned during the show, Chilliwack at this point was Bill Henderson on vocals and guitar, Glenn Miller on bass and vocals, Ross Turney on drums, and new(-ish) member Howard Froese on guitar, keyboards and vocals. Additionally, both Henderson and Froese are credited with playing the Solina String Ensemble – a polyphonic synthesizer from the Netherlands that incorporated violin, viola, trumpet, horn, cello, and contrabass with a built in chorus effect. This was marketed as the ARP String Ensemble in the States – after the company that distribute it there. While making Dreams, Dreams, Dreams, all the members of Chilliwack were involved with Scientology (dumb hippies) and there is a thank you to L. Ron Hubbard on the sleeve of the original LP.

Not a correction, but a clarification: The Everly Brother’s version of “Talking to the Flowers” was the mono single mix – not the album mix, which puts some of the background vocals a little too high in the mix for our tastes.

Thanks for listening.

Here is Caroline Peyton at nineteen, performing an acoustic set live, and then, some years later, performing as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance :

3 hr 20 min