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Hello, film fans! This week on The Fansplainers, Ian and David take a long, hard, appraising look at DC’s latest entry into the overstuffed superhero marketplace: Shazam!

David is in favour of DC’s new shotgun approach to their movies – curious to see where more independent directions will take their movies. Ian prefers the more cohesive MCU with its extraordinarily careful architecture. But what did Ian and David think of Shazam!? Well, they got some fansplaining to do!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the wonderful and frightening world of Sneaky Dragon!!!

Well…really not that wonderful…or frightening actually…so…sigh…

This week on the show: behind; backlash; Penn trivia; cheese and crackers; honky cats; honky chats; BJs; obscure 80’s sitcoms; party chickens; black crows; valuable frogs; party people; approaching disaster; disaster averted; canapé tips; that’s a Reacher; Ms. Taken; Jane Austen’s Reacher; Dave’s Jane Austen name; Question of the Week: Sneakers respond; flailing arm; shots fired; Star Wars and Star Trek; creators separated from their creations; drawing feet; Big Cowboy; and, finally, extreme tiredness.

Question of the Week: What is the hardest thing to draw?

Sub-question: For which movie – that has not had a sequel – would you like to see a sequel?

Thanks for listening.

Hello, our dear music loving listeners! This week on the show: TORTURE!

That’s right! Blame Dave for this week’s show because he decided it would be great fun to make some mixtapes of novelty songs for a friend. Sure, great fun for Dave, but what about us???

Since he made three mixtapes of novelty songs, we thought it would be an unfortunate and painful pile-on to do all three of them over the course of the six shows in a row, so we are going to intersperse these novelty song mixtapes amidst the regular mixes to make the whole process less horrible.

We blame Dave!

Just kidding! It’s all great!

But we still blame Dave.

Thanks for listening.

* Harry Nilsson – “You’re Breaking My Heart” – Son of Schmillson, 1972* Robyn Hitchcock – ‘Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl” – I Often Dream of Trains, 1986* Buzzcocks – “Noise Annoys” – Singles Going Steady, 1979* Thunderclap Newman – “Wilhelmina” – 45″ Single B-side – b/w “Something in the Air”, 1969* The Who – “Now I’m a Farmer” – Odds and Sods, 1974* Todd Rundgren – Onomatopoeia” – Hermit of Mink Hollow, 1978* The Adverts – “One Chord Wonders” –Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts, 1978* Jeffrey Frederick and the Clamtones – “Beer Shits” – Spiders in the Moonlight, 1977* Nick Lowe – “Nutted By Reality” – Jesus of Cool, 1978* Tom T. Hall – “A Week in a Country Jail” – Homecoming, 1969* Timebox – “Baked Jam Roll in Your Eye” – 45″ single “Baked Jam Roll in Your Eye” b/w “Poor Little Heartbreaker”, 1969* Brute Force – “King of Fuh” – 45″ single A-side – b/w “Nobody Knows”, 1969* Beck – “Debra” – Midnight Vultures, 1999

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to episode 385 – the most 385th Sneaky Dragon episode ever!

This week on the show: anniversaries; arguments; manliness; broken hearts; no tears formula; walking it off; child practice; school supplies; perfect people problems; Garfunkeliana; no hair stones; slow sugar fast; church strippers; not choir gossip; singing chores; dead line; out of the loop; jungle archetypes; posh mowing; mysterious gardening; our Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; Mr. Anti-Butterscotch; insect vomit and warm cow juice; sex grapes; Ian allergies; unusual sandwiches; tomato family; pissing bones; continental swapsies; surprise, surprise, and, finally, meanwhile…

Question of the Week: What movie or TV show are you looking forward to coming out?

Sub-question: Odd work rivalry you’ve had?

Thanks for listening.

This film already won an Academy Award! What else is there to say about it?

Well, maybe, why is it such a good film?

Ian and Dave take a look at Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and explain why a film that – on paper – shouldn’t have worked is so successful.

Not sure why you liked that movie so much? Let Ian and Dave fansplain it to you!

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the show that never seems.

That’s it! We’ll just leave it hanging there.

This week on the show: big ideas; drunkiness; sunstroke nation; bitten fingers; complicated blackmail; mustangs and empathy; scamps; revolving you; a little Shazam tease; Jamaiquaman; go for it, DC; where DC works; careless whispers from the universe; our Question of the Week and Sneakers respond. Scooby-Doo and the Addams Family; things to do in New York; speaking of Popeye; no butterscotch, please; European breakfast; fresh-squeezed apples; family breakfast; cucumber advocate; peanut butter and ants; and, finally, extra texture.

This week’s Question of the Week: What is your forbidden flavour?

Sub-question: What do you have for breakfast?

Thanks for listening.

Hello, our music loving friends, and welcome to Episode 12 of Sneaky Dragon Listening Party. We hope you’re ready to curl up in your favourite chair with your favourite drink at hand and listen to some great music.

This episode we finish up Thomas Callaway’s three-disc set of mixtapes with side 2 of disc three, featuring such fabulous songs as:

* Marshall Crenshaw – “Mary Anne” – Marshall Crenshaw, 1982* Rockpile – “Play That Fast Thing One More Time” – Seconds of Pleasure, 1980* Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 – “Scarborough Hill” – The Fool on the Hill, 1968* Knife in the Water – “Sent You Up” – Plays One Sound and Others, 1997* Jeffrey Frederick and the Clamtones – “Stolen Guitar” – Spiders in the Moonlight, 1977* Love – “The Castle” – Da Capo, 1966* Laura Viers – “Icebound Stream” – Carbon Glacier, 2004* Sparklehorse – “Hammering the Cramps” – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, 1995* Illinois Speed Press – “Here Today” – Illinois Speed Press, 1969* Sufjan Stevens – “The Transfiguration” – Seven Swans, 2004

Thanks for listening.

And as always, when we finish up a mixtape I like to post a downloadable version of it so listeners can listen at home if they want. Please follow this link here.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 383 of Sneaky Dragon – the perfect podcast to listen to podcasts to!

This week on the show: errant nonsense; excuses; favourites; kiddie mints; parental podcast approval; true crimes; tomato juice doesn’t work; gold flake scam; grizzled; edible brick; the “It” girl; the Bumblefucks; what a twist; best songs; terrible rap; self-argument; radio rock; revolting; true crimes (slight return); Siri-al; great puns don’t travel; Sneakers respond to last week’s Question of the Week; Dave is firestarter; adult frolics; forces of chaos; repetition; the empty streets of our town; memories; church jokes; cartoon scares; satanic powers; and, finally, power initials.

Thanks for listening.

Question of the Week: What is your favourite representation of the devil in pop culture?

Sub- question: What are your superpowers based on your initials?

Some of Ian and Dave’s favourite pop culture devils.

The Louvin Brothers from their album Satan Is Real:

Hello, film fans, and welcome to the pilot episode of The Fansplainers Film Cast. Of course, since it is our pilot episode, it only makes sense for us to talk about Captain Marvel or, as she’s also known, jet fighter pilot (geddit?) Carol Danvers!

Although Ian and David enjoyed Captain Marvel, they did have some issues with some of the characterization and plotting. But they don’t just criticize! What’s the fun in that? No, they also offer some solutions for some of the film’s problems. (Something we’re sure the directors have been waiting for!)

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

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 382 of the only working-class podcast on the internet! We normally only apologize for our so-so content, but this week we must apologize for a raw-throated Ian and a weary Dave.

We also should apologize for: our money-back guarantee; our terrible self-promotion; Australian compliments; insulted nations; too local papers; Miao-cDonalds; microwaved burgers; slow fast food; Ian the con man; the agony and the ecstasy of DoodleArt;

An actual DoodleArt poster that Dave attempted to colour as a child. He only got through about one third of it before the felts dried out.

The nostalgically evocative Laurentien pencil crayon box – despite the creeping Americanisms of “colored pencils”. Ugh!

Canadianisms; making Sneakers respond to questions about influential comic strips and cartoons including Peanuts, B.C., The Far Side, Battle of the Planets, Robotech, Warner Brothers cartoons, The Flinstones, Doonesbury, The Beatles cartoon show, Kimba the White Lion; Hi and Lois; and Josie and the Pussycats; parental avoidance; no underdogs allowed; jocks in the media; lonely children; our new world; squalid teenage sex; corporal punishment; Snoopy’s alter-egos; Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck’s bad comics; unfunny reverence; lack of new ideas; Pixar’s magic napkin; boring water; choir rivals; and, finally, the devil’s fiddling.

This week’s Question of the Week: What sort of discipline did your school practice growing up? Was your school progressive, proactive or pro-hitting? Let us know!!!