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Welcome, Sneaky friends, to the show that never ends! Sneaky Dragon Episode 350 listener’s questions and hosts’ answers!

Wow, this is  a long one, folks. We don’t recommend listening to it in one session. Podcast with care!

On the show this week, Ian and Dave update listeners on Ian’s housing quandary; and then answer questions about post-Sneaky Dragon podcast projects; surviving the apocalypse; how much money Ian makes; our favourite podcasts; our favourite unusual Beatles covers; the status of Dave’s deck; the state of the Sneaky Dragon menagerie; our top 5 Canadian musical artists; the Marx Brothers and the Stooges; the origin of Sneaky Dragon; our thoughts on the film Brain Donors; inappropriate sex material; getting rid of our beloved Queen; hitting the can; our successful podcast; broadening our audience; starting a podcast; the Dragons first impressions of each other; our favourite questions; Dave for his inconsistencies; Ian and his Twitter-ing; favourite new bands; visiting Ireland; making our own film franchise; morality; making a good sports movie; breakfast carbs; best utensils; clapping hands; spinach; adult possibilities; desert island books, movies and music; space travel; Laurel and Hardy feelings; latter-day Beatles; least favourite songs; movies that are better than their reputation; being a farrier; Ian’s workflow; good James Bond acting; passion; cat butts; horse spleens; their lovely wives; the flat earth; feeling for America; and, finally, dream places to live.

Wow! Thanks for the questions everyone! You make this one heck of a show every time!

And thanks for listening.

Who won this episode’s fabulous swag [t-shirt image to come]? Listen in to find out!

Hola, Sneakers! Episode 349! That’s right! Only one more week until our fantabulous Sneaky Dragon celebratory 350th Q&A episode! And you can make it even more fantabulous with your questions! Be sure to send some in right away to win some fabulous prizes!!!

This week on the show, Ian and Dave do some bad math; talk talented dogs; get Swiss; have problems with Sodom; figure out the first lie in the Bible; ask for Biblical simplicity; have stupid answers for stupid questions; explore wiener poo; choose their favourite part of MAD magazine; make future and past connections; think CNN’s The History of Comedy is not good comedy; have trouble with fake comedy; enjoy sexy sex; maybe enjoy lurid grossness; plan a key party heist; discover Ian’s terrible news; figure the hottest week of summer is the best time for some Christmas Carol talk; pooh-pooh the living longer lie; have some writing talk; reveal the procrastinator’s excuse; reveal Ian’s secret pitch techniques; congratulate a friend; make future plans; and, finally, make a pigeon mad.

Thanks for listening.

Hey, everyone. Episode 350 is almost here! Get your questions to Ian and David by Wednesday, August 16th and help us make it the best Q&A episode yet! Here’s your chance to make them talk about something you’re actually interested in! Finally! Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your questions to [email protected]

Hello, fellow Marx Brothers fans! This week Ian and Dave turn their attention to the first film of the Marxes MGM period: A Night at the Opera. Featuring the return of ace writing team George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, and the disappearance of Zeppo, it was definitely a high point in the Marx Brothers film career, but what did Ian and Dave think of it? Well, give this week’s show a listen and all will be revealed!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 348, which means there is only one more episode left before our big-time Q&A episode. Get your ding dong questions in toot sweet!

This week on the show, Dave is the Countkeeper; Ian stops a murder of crow; they get covered in glitter and confetti; reveal when you’re not a jet; have some Top Gun talk; Dave pooh-poohs the Oscar; Ian gives some heat to Heat; let’s watch some more vintage videos; let’s list some music journalists who became rock stars; Ian discusses his surreal jobs; no one wants nightmare conference calls; Ian is the locus of Simpsons sadness; finding the will to change; bathe in the sin of anger; Dave goes swimming; avoid hydrophobia; watch Meatballs 3; get Going Great; play mind games; play a movie game; and, finally, play the Top 5 songs that suggest Canada to Dave as suggested by Pierce.

Thanks for listening.

The Top 5 Songs That Suggest Canada as chosen by Dave:

1) “Green Gardens, Cold Montreal” by Sloan from the 2011 album The Double Cross

2) “Mississauga Goddam” by The Hidden Cameras from their 2006 album Mississauga Goddam

3) “Bobcaygeon” by The Tragically Hip from the 1998 album Phantom Power

4) “One Great City” by The Weakerthans from the 2003 album Reconstruction Site

5) “SaSKAtchewan” by No Fun from the 1984 album Snivel

6) “Alberta Bound” by Gordon Lightfoot from the 1972 album Don Quixote

7) “Flies in the Bottle” by Great Speckled Bird from the 1970 album Great Speckled Bird

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Meatballs 3 trailer – it sure looks GREAT!!! (Ugh…)

Everything is Going Great:

The documentary Hookers on Davie for a taste of old Vancouver:

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 347 – only two more shows until our (hopefully) big question show!

This week on Sneaky Dragon, Ian and Dave read out the minutes and table the agenda of: vomit; cell phones and eye rolls; questionable nuts; heat treatments; graphic books; stunned fans; the end of Bongo; words are fun; trip decompression chambers; an impossible burger; farewell, hockey hero; hacks vs fans; fantasy novels; no need to repeat yourself; leader of the Volturi; whyyyyyyyyy???; shared universes; tricky discussion: James Gunn’s firing, Chris Hardwick’s alleged abuse, the Woody Allen problem, and forgiveness and redemption; and, finally, a long overdue and sad Chick Talk™.

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It’s a tricky subject, but we’re glad people are talking about this stuff:

On the power of forgiveness:

Hello, Marx Brothers fans! This week is our most controversial episode yet!

Ian and Dave take a look at the Marx Brothers final Paramount picture, Duck Soup. Directed by the very talented Leo McCarey, with great songs by Kalmar and Ruby. What could go wrong?

Well, here’s the thing: one of the fellas is not a fan of what must be the Marx Brothers most zany picture. Who loved it? Who was left cold? You’ll just have to listen to the episode to find out!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 346 with our special guest Jason Dedrick! Jason came by to celebrate Christmas in July on the hottest day of the year in the hottest office in Vancouver.

This week on the show, a new – perhaps life-threatening – challenge; our ancestors; family secrets; amateur 1980’s music videos; wot!; grave boxing; the lonely shepherd vs. the swinging shepherd; whale tormentors; Jason;s official thanks; dense continuity; Justice League opinions; money-spinning failures; dead supermen; unfair advantages; the extroduction of Jimmy Olsen; don’t mess with Charles Schultz; comparative high school reading lists; reading Vonnegut; BJ and the Bear facts; disturbing books for little minds; naïveté; a Suite Life controversy; the Treasury of Wit and Wisdom; and, finally, the Top 5 cover songs that are better than the orginal as subjectively chosen by Dave.

Thanks for listening.

This week’s Top 5 Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Original as chosen by Dave:

1) “Hounds of Love” by Kate Bush from the 1980 album Hounds of Love and from the eponymous 1998 album by The Futureheads

2) “Morning Morgantown” by Joni Mitchell from the 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon and the originally unreleased version by Jude, which is currently available on the anthology Milk Of The Tree: Female Vocal Folk & Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973

3) “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga from the 2008 album The Fame and the Glee Cast (Lea Michele and Idina Menzel) from the 2010 album Glee: The Music, Vol. 3 – Showstoppers

4) “The French Girl” by Ian and Sylvia from the 1966 album Play One for Me and the originally unreleased Gene Clark 1966 single “Only Colombe”b/w”The French Girl” from the 1991 collection Echoes

5) “I Don’t Know Why” by Stevie Wonder from the 1968 album For Once in My Life and The Rolling Stones from the 1989 box set Singles Collection: The London Years

Please take a moment to check out our guests fantastic podcast The Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure. You want to elegantly leisure, don’t you???

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Department of Corections:

Whoops! Dave misspoke when he said the Kat Bush song “Hounds of Love” was from the album The Kick Inside. It was actually from the album of the exact same name, Dave, you dummy!Hounds of Love! Oof! We blame the heat and also Dave.

And a simple bit of research revealed that “I Don’t Know Why aka I Don’t Know Why I Love You” was in fact on the 1975 collection of off-cuts and unreleased tracks Metamorphosis! Sigh…

(Dave really should do more research for this segment rather than talking out of his bum.)

Preston Sturges’ Christmas in July!

(Did we say with Barbara Stanwyck? Oh, the heat!)

Jason as the Lonely Shepherd on the 1991 Pacific Profiles Christmas Special:

David mixed up his shepherd songs! This is “The Lonely Shepherd”:

(You heard it in Kill Bill if you saw Kill Bill)

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 345 of Sneaky Dragon, the sneakiest dragon of a podcast on the Internet!

This week Ian and Dave sweat, slurp their Slurpees™ and say stuff about children and their questions; correct names; strong Slurpee™ opinions; Dave’s daytrip to the flophouse; shame heat; Gods and planets; “sarcasm”; the comedy scale; the human equivalent of the overflowing bathtub; the inevitable knockdown, drag out School of Rock fight; watching Jumanji; Welcome to the Jungle; Ian’s thoughts on Tag; the pretty all right, kinda meh Ant-Man and the Wasp; the most important movie coming out: Mission Impossible; Fallout; Timeplay outrage; too many cars at the movie theatre; credit where credit is due; and, finally, real hair.

Thanks for listening.

As we mentioned during the show, Nina Matsumoto, the Third Dragon, was a guest on the Talking Simpsons podcast. Hear her here!

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Here is that Mission Impossible video essay that agrees with Dave so it’s right:

This week on Full Marx, we take a long and slightly confused look at the weird, wild and wacky Horse Feathers.

Their fourth Paramount picture; their second original screenplay; their second directed by a perhaps tired Norman Z. McLeod. What will Ian and Dave make of it?

During our Monkey Business episode, there were some who wished for less plot and more Marx Brothers madness. Well, be careful what you wish for…

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 344 of your favourite podcast Sneaky Dragon.

This week it’s: breach of trust; strong feelings about pranks; thoughts about Seinfeld; awkward hugs; overgiving celebrity; unrevealing truthfulness; social survival tool: nerdar; horror gorror; how to avoid monsters; fraud ghost; It; no-see-ums; cave clowns; Stranger Its; Harold Ramis’ Marx Brothers film; San Diego Comicon; British internet; care home prank; chess pressure; Twelve-Cent Archie; “How Well Does Bart Speak French?” and other no one cares continuity questions; comic strips tips; sirens; writing sequels; hating The Last Jedi; problems with the Ant-Man trailer; chat lines chat; teen years = dumb years; the Top 5 satirical sports songs as requested by Thomas; and, finally (and it’s about time) Mallarmé facts.

Thanks for listening.

The Top 5 (somewhat) Satirical Sports Songs as chosen by Dave:

1) “Kicker Conspiracy” by The Fall from the 1983 gatefold single “Kicker Conspiracy” b/w “Wings” /”Container Drivers” b/w “New Puritan”

2) “Van Lingle Mungo” by Dave Frishberg from the 1970 album Oklahoma Toad

3) “Fireworks” by The Tragically Hip from the 1998 album Phantom Power

4) “I Don’t Want to Play Football” and “The Stars of Track and Field” by Belle and Sebastian from the 2002 soundtrack album Storytelling and the 1996 album If You’re Feeling Sinister respectively

5) Golfin’ Blues” by Loudon Wainwright III from the 1978 album Final Exam

and, just bubbling under, the more on-the-nose:

6) “Sport (The Odd Boy)” by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band from the 1969 album Keynsham

Hey, everyone. Episode 350 is coming up fast. Get your questions to Ian and David. Here’s your chance to make them talk about something you’re actually interested in! Finally! Tweet, Facebook, comment down below or email your questions to [email protected]