Sneaky Dragon

Hello, cinema savants! This week on The Fansplainers, Ian and Dave discuss director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis’ Yesterday. It’s about Dave’s worst nightmare – a world without The Beatles.

What were The ‘Splainers feelings about this film? Did they enjoy this curious mix of high concept and rom-com? Well, let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 396 – the episode that comes before Episode 397!

This week on the show: our newest podcast; forehead; tattoo suggestion; out of work; ruminations; pitiable artists; old computer vs. new computer; weird dreams; a horror of horror; deeper sleeper; nightmares; the pleasure of worry; two good sleeps; morning hate; empty gyms; fuck off, circadian rhythms; morning is just a state of mind; pet manipulation; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; fishing blues; Chinook tongue; bee sting queries; interrupting cat; professionalism personified; Under the Silver Lake and other unpaid endorsements; scary rides; and, finally, remembering Flintstones Village.

Question of the Week: What’s the best time of the day for you? Sub-question: What’s your favourite ride at the amusement park?

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Welcome again, fans of music, and fans of talking about music!

This week Mary and Dave take a listen to the final side of Rachel Gamboa’s soul/funk/R&B mixtape. There’s quite a few good songs this week and we really think you’re going to enjoy this one. This episodes selection of songs features Mary’s favourite song of these mixtapes. (I wonder which so it is.)

Meanwhile, Dave has decided to revive Sneaky Dragon’s old Top 5 lists and brings us a Top 5 favourite covers of Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”. So if you’re excited about hearing the same song five times you couldn’t have made a better choice of song.

Here is this week’s selection of songs:

Rachel Gamboa’s Mixtape 2 – Side Two:

* The Beginning of the End – “Funky Nassau Pt. 2” – Funky Nassau, 1971* The Knight Brothers – “Temptation ‘Bout to Get Me” – single b/w “Sinking Low”, 1965* Tyrone Davis – “Can I Change My Mind” – Can I Change My Mind, 1969* The Free Design – “Bubbles” – Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, 1970* Chris Farlowe – “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself” – 14 Things to Think About, 1966* The Geminis – “A Friend of Mine Told Me” – single, b-side to “You Put a Hurtin’ on Me”, 1966* Carla Thomas – “Something Good (Is Going to Happen to Me) – The Queen Alone, 1967* Labelle – “Nightbirds” – Nightbirds, 1974* Cumberland River’s – “If It Wasn’t for the Lord What Would I Do” – This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982, 2011 * Lorraine Ellison – “Stay with Me” – single, “Stay with Me” b/w “I Got My Baby Back”, 1966* Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – “Bad Luck” – To Be True, 1975

Top 5 “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” cover versions:

* Joan Baez – Farewell Angelina, 1965* Them – Them Again, 1966* Chris Farlowe – 14 Things to Think About, 1966* Graham Bonnett – Graham Bonnett, 1977* The Byrds – Version 1, Unreleased, Turn! Turn! Turn!, 1996

Additional songs played this week:

* The Friends of Distinction – Grazing in the Grass”* James Moody – “I’m in the Mood for Love” (excerpt)/ King Pleasure – “Moody’s Mood for Love”

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 395 – the episode the rhymes with “blive”!

This week: catchphrases; maidens; thank you for spikeball; there’s no rule against it; Tim Horton’s is there; the unbeaten Slurpee; frozen drinks; head injury; toenail fungus (slight return); pain management; magical thinking; pray away; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; most dangerous job; unwanted thoughts; dumb animals; rambly end; suicidal ants; the real story of Toy Story 2; and, finally, rambly end pt. 2.

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Question of the Week: Tell us about injuries you’ve received on the job. Sub-question: What was/is your most dangerous job?

And – aw yisssss! – Spikeball!

On this episode, Ian and Dave take a look at the newest installment in the X-People franchise – namely, Dark Phoenix.

Ian says it’s the X-Men story no one wanted; Dave feels the franchise hadn’t earned the emotional impact they wanted for this movie.

One of them liked it, and one of them didn’t. Let them fansplain it for you.

Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 394 of Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that aims to displease!

This week: measurements; lowest price law; dumb joke; comics nerd paradise; scary place visiting advice; podcast meta podcast; semi-annual The Great Eastern recommendation; we really like Kids in the Hall and Paul Myer’s new book about them, One Dumb Guy; the wackiness of the CBC; Soles man; Sesame Street on vacation; Grouch recycling policy; melancholy frog; more Muppets; Mandy; weight loss drama; asshole brain; panty lines; which Avenger would you be; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; existential fantasy dread; and, finally, unwittingly drunk.

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Question of the Week: Tell us something that has worked for you to get you to a happy place with your health. Sub-question: Which Avenger would you be?

Believe Dave when he says The Great Eastern is great! You can give it a listen here. Give it a chance. The humour may be a little weird (a little Newfoundland-ish) at first – a little too “foreground”, as the CBC said – but your patience will pay off!

Welcome back to Musictown, all you wonderful music fans! Please join Dave and Mary in the Listening Party rumpus room where you can always find a comfortable chair and a soft, warm blanket.

David and Mary boogie down to side one of listener Rachel Gamboa’s second disc of soul, funk and R&B. There’s something funky for everyone this week!

* Arthur Conley – “Sweet Soul Music” – Sweet Soul Music, 1967* The Soul Clan – “That’s How It Feels” – single B-side b/w “Soul Meeting”, 1969* James Brown – “I’m a Greedy Man Pts. 1 & 2” – There It Is, 1972* The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Bag of Bones” – Meat + Bone, 2012* Jimmy Norman – “Gangster of Love Pts. 1 & 2” – single, 1968* The Friends of Distinction – “Love Can Make It Easier” = Love Can Make It Easier, 1973* Marsha Gee – “Peanut Duck” – One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost and Found, 2005* Leon Haywood, “It’s Got to Be Mellow” – It’s Got to Be Easier, 1967* The Joe Jeffrey Group – “My Pledge of Love” – single A-side b/w “Margie”, 1969* Freda Payne – “Band of Gold” – Band of Gold, 1970* Eddie Holman – “Hey There Lonely Girl” – I Love You, 1970* The Persuaders – “Thin Line Between Love and Hate” – Thin Line Between Love and Hate, 1972

And we played a lot of additional songs this week – including:

* Sam Cooke – “Yeah Man”* Barbara Lewis – “Hello Stranger”* Johnny “Guitar” Watson – “Gangster of Love”* Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers – “Does Your Mother Know About Me?”* Ruby and the Romantics – “Hey There Lonely Boy”

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Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 393 of Sneaky Dragon – the podcast that never quits except when we’re tired. And even then, we never quit quitting!

This week on the show: no thanks to non-listeners; podcast inundation; technology unfair to fogeys; the tech trap; the Netflix problem; cable and me; superhero channels; eat your friends; dressing your friend; visible meat; inappropriate music choices; take the buyout; daily deli doings; fixing the 7-layer dip; basketballed; Ronald McDonal’d; Ian’s birthday; virtual enthusiasm; virtual sound; the Virtual Generation; bundts and other cakes; the secret life of pies; our dazzling food; first pedicure; foot shame; irregular check-ups; the diagnosis is in: we’re old; boobs; actors should get plastic surgery; seeing Dep Red; rated X-Men; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; blame it on a dance step; and, finally, making yourself like music.

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Dario Argento’s Deep Red. The trailer leaves out the sense of humour that runs through the film.

We might talk about this on The Fansplainers!

Hello, film fans! Welcome to Episode 6 of The Fansplainers! This week Ian and Dave take a somewhat critical look at the third movie in the John Wick series, and celebrate, well, Dave anyway, Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart.

Ian and Dave wonder if the John Wick series is starting to suffer from the dreaded sequelitis – a swelling of the sequels. They have some ideas.

Booksmart has not caught fire at the box office, and Ian and Dave offer some reasons why and maybe some solutions.

Not sure what to think of these movies? Let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you!

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 392! Only eight more episodes until we have to change the filter in our filtered water jug.

This week: the importance of being asleep; drug of choice; addictive personality addictions; manly stuff; ghost weekend; beer there; washers and other games; time travel tips; non-creative gym time; the mechanics of writing; creepy baby; get our heads out of our asses; Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth; mad at sports; forget your past; generation X-Men; killing powerful women; also, you should fear mutants; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; cowardly phantom; and, finally, cowardly Dave.

Question of the Week; If you could travel in time into the past or into the future (without interference of consequences), where would you go?

Sub-question of the Week: If you could do a drug without consequences, which drug would you try?

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