Sneaky Dragon

Hola, Sneakers! Bienvenudo a Sneaky Dragon! This week we welcome Ian back from Spain by annoying him while recording his voice!

On the show, Ian and Dave talk: sleepy times; tired interview; improviser’s brain; irresponsible travellers; airplane etiquette; airline grumperoos; travel scams; no hablo español; infoporns; soup is a dish best served warm; artistic Bosch up; the gallery of missing bits; wall art; cheap travel; Wakandough; passé sidekicks; leave-ah Las Vegas; wolf packs; going too far; a Martin Scorcese sitcom; something about Chevy Chase; 23 complex emotions: overwhelming realizations; bittersweet wistfulness; self-destructive thoughts; ineffective frustration; self-willed indifference and others; and, finally, Ed Draganski’s Top 10 list:

* The Empire Strikes Back

* A Night at the Opera

* The Avengers (2012)

* The Great Race (1965)

* Star Trek II

* Heaven Can Wait (1978)

* Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

* 1941

* Only Lovers Left Alive

* The Godfather Pt. 2

Thanks for listening!

Want to get in on the fun? Would you like to send in your Top 10 movies list for Ian and Dave to peruse, abuse and enthuse? Well, feel free to contact Ian and Dave through the usual channels: Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your lists to [email protected]

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to episode 355 of the fabulous world-famous podcast that everyone on earth loves: Sneaky Dragon! The shows just keep on coming.

This week on the show, Ian and Dave talk: dishonest listeners; propositioning the landlord; easy money; Fraidy Cat; scammy scammers; Miley ball; memorial hero; everlasting Dagwood; gross balloons; Ian is en España; jet lag cures; the king’s speech impediment; fickle fame and negative attention; our Ted Danson projects; amorous bananas; the more the Harrier; how to reunion (a skit); awkward re-encounters; forgive yourself; change is hard; a re-visit to Gallipoli; and, finally, Maire’s Top 10 Movies list:

* Primer

* Shutter Island

* The Party

* 10 Cloverfield Lane

* Old Boy

* Mulholland Drive

* Arrival

* Cube

* Donnie Darko

* Ex Machina

Thanks for listening.

Want to get in on the fun? Would you like to send in your Top 10 movies list for Ian and Dave to peruse, abuse and enthuse? Well, feel free to contact Ian and Dave through the usual channels: Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your lists to [email protected]

I enjoy this review of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which justifiably calls it a superhero origin story:

This week, Ian and Dave discuss the Marxes’ ninth film: At the Circus – commonly felt to be the first signs of the cracks in the foundation of the Marx Brothers movies. What do Ian and Dave think? Do they agree with the critical consensus or wend their own merry way? Listen and learn!

Hola, Sneakers! This week on Sneaky Dragon we have movies, movies, movies! That’s right! Our call out to listeners for Top Ten lists has gotten quite the response so we’ll be spending the next few shows talking about the moving pictures!

This week, Ian and Dave admit the show stays the same; are house breakers, visit the little town I used to live in; get moving day; find that everything is gone; miss wang on and wang off; enjoy some defenestration; listen to some community complaints; explore low quality rentals; feel the coldest bathroom; have some good cat news; give out a Full Marx sampler; dig deep into Norm MacDonald; are routinely inappropriate; marvel at David Letterman’s narrow escape; tackle the tricky sexual predator defense; wonder if there are any more comedy sacred cows; jealously kick This Hour Has 22 Minutes when it’s up; enjoy violence and boobage; and, finally, Dave’s wife Lezah sends in her Top Ten list of movies (and many more!):

* The Royal Tenenbaums

* Fargo

* Peewee’s Big Adventure

* The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

* Kiki’s Delivery Service

* Arrival

* My Life as a Dog

* Lean on Pete

* The Tree of Life

* The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann)

* Boyhood

* Sleeper

* My Neighbor Totoro

* Three Days of the Condor

* The Shining

* Reservoir Dogs

* Gallipoli

* Bambi

* Juno

* Boogie Nights

* Edward Scissorhands

* Fight Club

* The Birds

* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

* Mad Max 2

* The Rocky Horror Picture Show

* Monty Python and The Holy Grail

* Shaun of the Dead

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! We’re a little late today, but that’s okay because it’s a really good show you had to wait way too long to listen to!

This week, Ian and Dave start backwards; sing novel summaries; need a Sparks theme song; go to New York City; hear Dave’s opinions; have a long walk spoiled; hear more of Dave’s opinions; discover who’s the bass; hear maybe too much of Dave’s opinions; find out they’re fired; let it go; normalize the bad; listen to lying liars; overthink and overfocus; diss Malcolm Gladwell; pit talent against hard work; receive a nice phone call; listen to Mr. Rogers; ask who is fast, good or easy to work with; do an unsponsored ad for Shake Shack; taste some food from the past; do an unsponsored ad for Nathan’s Hot Dogs; learn all about the New Yorker offices; see some New Yorker cartoonists; have an uncertain creative life; slog through their art; give the Oscars some tips; and, finally, investigate, venerate, and excoriate Liam’s Top Ten Movies list:

1. North by Northwest

2. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

3. The Birds

4. His Girl Friday

5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

6. Finding Dory

7. Horse Feathers

8. Inglorious Basterds

9. Mother!

10. The Florida Project

Thanks for listening.

This week we ask the question: Is Room Service a Marx Brothers movie? Does it quack like a duck? Does it walk like a duck? Why a duck? Viaduct!

Exactly!

So even if it isn’t quite a Marx Brothers film, it does have the three Marx Brothers in it so…what did Dave and Ian make of it? Listen and you will know all.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 352 aka the third episode of a podcast Ian and David recorded that night. Oof! (Please be kind.)

This week on the show a befuddled Ian and Dave discuss New York stories; memory maps; book cats; creepy cryptocurrencies; misremembered gold standards; dogs in the cradle; the movie Suspiria – great dumbness; the movie Danger Diabolik – dumb greatness; slow sci-fi; the horror of early horror; the silent film divide; a felt penis; the return of the return of The Book of Wit and Merriment; made up on the spot jokes; the Marx Brothers favourite jokes; prisoners of time; work flow and time management; working methods; treating yourself like a friend; and, finally, being disagreeable.

Thanks for listening.

The original trailer for Suspiria in all its corny glory:

And the new Suspiria:

Hola, Sneakers! It’s the post Episode 350 hangover episode! Please enjoy the PTSD!

This week, Ian and Dave talk: robot uprising; the rigged system; the worst air; fetish masks and bananas; NEW YORK CITY!!!; beatin’ the heat; The Book of Wit;; Muh-ree-ahhh; when people had cocaine; more Seeing Things; the return of free-range kids; finding your way; new Lord of the Rings; pace Tom Bombadil; bad faith Batman vs. role model Superman; the mystery of Martin Campbell; and, finally, a return to our first year of the podcast when listeners would send in their Top 10 movies for Ian and Dave to comment on, complain about, and compliment their fine taste. This episode, Brittany Porter’s Top 10 movies:

* Eighth Grade

* Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

* Some Like It Hot

* Sunset Boulevard

* The Dark Knight Rises

* Beginners

* Grease

* The Little Mermaid

* Shawshank Redemption

* Little Miss Sunshine

Thanks for listening.

Missed out on our first year of podcasting? Feeling nostalgic? Would you like to send in your Top 10 movies list for Ian and Dave to peruse, abuse and enthuse? Well, feel free to contact Ian and Dave through the usual channels: Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your lists to [email protected]

On this episode of Full Marx, Ian and David take a long look at A Day at the Races – a really long movie that took a long time to make! It was their most popular film that made a lot of money for them, but is it any good? Ian and David will tell you.

Thanks for listening.

Groucho sings “Dr. Hackenbush”, the Kalmar and Ruby song that was cut out of A Day at the Races:

Hola, Sneakers!

Well, Dave threatened it and he did it: a whole bonus episode dedicated to all the music requests made as part of Episode 350’s questions show. And, in order to make it less monotonously Dave-filled, he has dragged his poor daughter Mary away from Call the Midwife to join him out in the Sneaky Dragon auxiliary studio – also known as The Shop. And, yes, this is crazy long and that’s why it’s not at the end of the original Episode 350. Who the heck wants a six-hour long podcast??? Anyway…

Dave and Mary listened to and discussed the following songs:

Top 5 Unusual Beatles Covers as requested by Louise:

1) “Strawberry Fields Forever/Something” by The Pozo-Seco Singers from the 1970 album Spend Some Time with Me

2) “Things We Said Today” by Bob Evans from the 2007 album 4 on 6

3) “You Can’t Do That” by Nilsson from the 1967 album Pandemonium Shadow Show

4) “Minha Vida (In My Life)” by Rita Lee from the 2001 album Aqui, Ali, Em Qualquer Luger (or Bossa’n Beatles)

5) “Hey Jude” by The Overton Berry Trio from the 1970 album At the Double Tree Inn

Top 5 Canadian Groups as requested by Greg:

1) “She Says What She Means” by Sloan from the 1996 album Navy Blues

2) “For Agent 13” by The Besnard Lakes from the 2007 album Are the Dark Horse

3) “One Ring Jane” by Mother Tucker’s Yellow Duck from the 1968 single “One Ring Jane” b/w “Kill the Pig” (fuckin’ Sixties, man)

4) “Welcome to Tinseltown” by No Fun from the 1982 cassette Ghost Paperboy in Robin’s Gay Trailer Park

5) “Sally Ann’s (Style Denial)” by Local Rabbits from the 1996 album You Can’t Touch This

Top 3 Favourite Early British Psychedelic Songs as requested by Thomas:

1) “Mr. Small the Watch Repairman” by Kaleidoscope from the 1967 album Tangerine Dream

2) “Walking Through My Dreams” by The Pretty Things from the 1968 single “Talkin’ About the Good Times” b/w “Walking Through My Dreams”

3) “Light of Your Mind” by David from the 1969 single “Light of Your Mind” b/w “Please Mr. Policeman” (fuckin’ Sixties, man)

and, finally, Nigel asked if Dave listens to much new music and this is Dave’s favourite album from last year and his favourite cut from the album:

“Ogre” by Richard Dawson from the 2017 album Peasant

Thanks for listening.