Sneaky Dragon

Hola, Sneakers! And welcome to Episode 375! Only 25 weeks to Episode 400. Let’s start the countdown now!

This week on the show: overheards; comedy colds; they’re still at at it; wild birds; not a triangular sign; short films forced watch; effective car ads; mid-life crisis mall; Skytrain’s a sell-out; Ian enjoyed Stan and Ollie; keeping up with the medias; personas; giving conversational space; tax troubles and big bullies; Y the TV series moves forward; was Lou Costello a jerk; modern monster meet up; Liam Neeson’s cold career; Hellblazer pitch; Flasho; Dave enjoyed Bohemian Rhapsody; Ian’s Supernatural-a-thon; Brian May’s guitar; Dave’s “We Are the Champions” mantra; bio-pic singing; Dave enjoyed The Favourite – Ian not so much; Dave also liked Revenge; more Polar; they heartily recommend Russian Doll; more about film trilogies with listener’s picks; immature mature comics; Dave is not a monkey person; boring CGI battles versus practical fight scenes; and, finally, personas in action.

Ian’s question deserves your answer: Has there been a TV series better than the movie that inspired it?

Thanks for listening and sorry about the sniffling.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 374!

This week: hear plugs; lire en français; wishless; fear of God; love of God; hellish concepts; miracles; prayer power; ecumenical power; ladder day saints; altar porn; the ten commandments; the two recommendations; Hall and Oates are wrong; polite surnames; eternal sufferings; fight, fight, fight; Ian’s Bumblee gripes; Ian’s Polar bugbear; Dave follows Ian’s recommendation; the problem with movie trilogies; Ian’s writing riddle; and, finally, they run out of gas.

Thanks for listening.

Hello, musical friends, welcome to Episode 7 of our little party podcast. We have good news! Mary is back in “Stu-stu-studio” to talk more music with us this week. Also, a big controversy this week. Tune in to the end of the show and listen to the fuss!

In other news, we have made Disc 2 of Nick Pond’s mix tape available for downloading. Follow this link to a zip file and you can listen to the mixtape as it was meant to be heard – in other words, no interruptions from Dave or Mary.

If you enjoyed Karen Dalton’s track on this week’s mixtape, you may enjoy listening to this BBC radio documentary about her. Fascinating stuff! And what a talent!

This week’s episode features Side 1 of Thomas Callaway’s first mix tape (of three) featuring:

* Felt – “Grey Streets” – Forever Breathes the Lonely Word, 1986* The New Pornographers – “Mutiny, I Promise You” – Challengers, 2008* Field Music – “All You’d Ever Need to Say” – Field Music, 2010* Sufjan Stevens – “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross” – Carrie and Lowell, 2015* Local Rabbits – “The Deal” – Basic Concept, 1998* Belle and Sebastian – “If You Find Yourself Caught in Love” – Dear Catastrophe Waitress, 2006* Michael Hurley – “O My Stars” – Snockgrass, 1980* Karen Dalton – “Something on Your Mind” – In My Own Time, 1971* Destroyer – “The Sublimation Hour” – Streethawk: A SeductionI, 2001* Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – “1% of One” – Pig Lib, 2003

We also played some supplementary tracks this week, such as:

* Television – “Venus” – Marquee Moon, 1978* Papa Too Sweet and Harry Jones – “(Honey) It’s Tight Like That” – Roots’n’Blues – The Retrospective, 1925-1950, 1992* Jo Ann Kelly (with John Fahey) – “Shave ‘Em Dry” – Retrospective, 1990

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 373 of Sneaky Dragon – the sneakiest, dragonest podcast around!

This week on the show, Ian and Dave have an opening with bounce; find that things are looking down; announce a surprise bonus for Listening Party…er…listeners; let us know that ironing is dead; feed us a clothes line; talk crow; don’t make a death curse; value the tragedy of comedy; discover a book mystery; hear about Bud Nips; enjoy their youth; do some de-aging; discuss is some detail Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man; celebrate those little movie moments; delineate the Clark Kent dilemma; do a Superman re-watch; hate comic book movies that don’t know comics; see through Glass; admire Green Hornet’s bachelor pad; use commonly misused phrases; admit to being a grammar coward; humiliate the humiliation killer; tell you how to be the greatest hero; hate on the Netflix Synopsis; and, finally, go back to Back to the Future.

Thanks for listening.

Hey, everyone. Don’t forget to take part in our Netflix Synopsis contest! You can contact us via Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your synopses to [email protected]

Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 372 with the third Dragon, Nina Matsumoto, returning for a little visit!

This week: enlightened Dave; high school hierarchies; uninformed Dave; somebody else’s nostalgia; living on borrowed WiFi; helpful Dave; useless space; useless handymen; boarding house rules; beer talk; remembering Clone High; behind-the-scenes at Sparks; curvy love; unseasonable warmth; lucky and unlucky moves; moving your junk; defending Marie Kondo; gift garbage; memory garbage; collecting garbage; what do we need; losing your Chiclets; Nina is short; unpaid IKEA ad; meeting Conan; making friends; Nina is funny; collecting versus hoarding; intermission; saucy ladies; prickly characters; Disney afternoons; after 372 episodes – St. Elsewhere (finally!); meditation versus prayer; death purges; English is great; Sneaky Dragon emoji; and, finally, fingernailed!

Thanks for listening.

Here is the tour of Don Rosa’s house Dave mentioned during the show. It’s in four parts, but here is the first:

Hello, music lovers! A little bit of a change this week as Mary was away on recording day so-o-o-o-o…Dave’s younger daughter Eve steps in for Mary!

So please join Dave and Eve in the Listening Lounge. Bring a blanket and your favourite cuppa, then curl up in a comfy chair as we listen to Side 2 of Nick Pond’s second mixtape

* The Luv’d Ones – “Up Down Sue” – single b/w “Yeah, I’m Feeling Fine”, 1966* Paul Stookey – “The Wedding Song (There Is Love)” – Paul and…, 1971* Lavender Diamond – “Oh No” – Imagine Our Love, 2007* The Merry-Go-Round – “Live” – The Merry-Go-Round, 1967* Belle and Sebastian – “Wrapped Up in Books” – Dear Catastrophe Waitress, 2006* Local Rabbits – “(Sally Ann’s) Style Denial” – You Can’t Touch This, 1995* Spoon – “My Mathematical Mind” – Gimme Fiction, 2005* Nick Drake – “Place to Be” – Pink Moon, 1972* Terry Manning – “Rocks” – Thank You Friends – The Ardent Records Story, 2008* Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – “Elmo Delmo” – Real Emotional Trash, 2008

(Please note: Eve was feeling shy this episode and we had a heck of a time keeping her on mike. Our apologies for the occasional quiet mumble!)

Update!

Here is a link to a zip file of Nick Pond’s second mixtape. Dave was lazy and has put the songs together in two bunches – side one and side two – rather than individually so you can’t skip tracks. Sorry! This also includes the artwork if you want to make your own CD.

If you need any help figuring out how to use compressed files, please write us at [email protected] for a quick tutorial.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 371 – the next episode after Episode 370!

This week on show, Ian and Dave have gummy troubles; cry over spilled water; re-visit Dave’s Christmas story; make spawn talk; discuss Ian’s Robin Hood fan fic; hear of a new Hellboy; have a comic book nerd out; have an open door policy; have thoughts about Sherlock Holmes; honour King Arthur; celebrate public domain; bite their nails at small yet dangerous stunts; become disgruntled; dig Austeniana; try to explain Logan Paul; learn about strange cat skills; drink in Aquaman; elaborate on Dave’s problems with Black Panther; learn Ian’s cat-based religious beliefs; find out about a bad dog film; deny Christian films; destroy with one little fact; have controversial opinions; are haunted by The Conjuring questions; face faith in the face of certainty; lack social graces; have prayer envy; meditate over It’s a Wonderful Life; don’t make elaborate punches; further destroy with one little fact; and, finally, ask are there mom jokes.

Thanks for listening.

This person sums up Dave’s feelings about Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur better than Dave could:

Hola, Sneakers! This week Ian and Dave are joined by one of our most popular guests, Dave’s cousin Jason!

This week Ian, Dave and Jason get off to a low-key start; have guest relations; do some border business; suffer tummy troubles; get all legally diddly-widdly-bop; return to the moving blues; buy appliances; listen to Dave’s Christmas stories; get all-star podcast ideas; re-explain Meatballs 3 for Jason’s benefit; don’t watch movies for girls; bring out the good old Book of Wit; vamp to Sonny and Cher; and, finally, discuss Bob Olsen’s Top 10 list of movies featuring:

* The Wild Bunch

* The Godfather

* Red River

* Outlaw Josie Wales

* The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

* Field of Dreams

* My Cousin Vinny

* My Favourite Year

* The Road Warrior

* Shadow of the Vampire

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 369 of Sneaky Dragon – the three hundredth sexiest episode!

This week on the show, Ian and Dave celebrate Victorian Christmas; think Holmes and Watson is okay; think Wayne and Shuster is not okay; agree it’s simple, but not easy; give out Dave’s recipe for bernaise sauce; reveal some cooking tips; talk turkey cooking; go bread on bread; confess their odd food faves; get caught up in family dynamics; receive the gift of Pandora’s box; get taken advantage of by the movies; get proven right; have trenchant thoughts on Bird Box; get ripped off by Amazon; leave their babies outside; and, finally, discuss Nigel Gregoire’s Top 10 movie list, featuring:

* Groundhog Day/The Princess Bride

* The Fifth Element

* Casablanca

* Jackie Brown

* Ever After

* Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

* Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

* Serenity

* Mad Max: Fury Road

* Children of Men

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to episode 368 of Sneaky Dragon! And the best of the season to you all!

This week on Sneaky Dragon, Ian and Dave talk not blazing it; pop downs; gestures and crinkles; spin-off info; the ethics of tray jamming; the joys of smallness; the X-Men in short; when Beast becomes Beast; disgusting theme song food; invisible characters; the Peanuts parents and the Pigpen problem; old-time religious culture; how to make friends; getting browbeaten by Peter Lorre; the great Buster Keaton; stuntwork; Ian’s Indiana Jones cartoon; windy weather; fun with magic; the fix is in; playing around with franchise characters; death of a chocolatier; and, finally, and we mean finally, we get around to Sarah Walsh’s Top 10 movie list, which features:

* All Quiet on the Western Front

* A Hard Day’s Night

* Robocop

* Penn & Teller Get Killed

* The Great Dictator

* Major League

* Wag the Dog

* This Is Spinal Tap

* Clue

* Harry Potter (All eight of ’em – but if I had to choose, I choose either The Order of the Phoenix or The Half-Blood Prince)

Thanks for listening.