Sneaky Dragon

Gloria in excelsis, Sneakers! This week Ian and Dave drag out the Christmas season by: excoriating laugh tracks; celebrating the winter end times with snowmageddon and icepocalypse; opening presents from listeners; watching A Christmas Carol; agreeing that colourizing is terrible; hating on “not-gettin’-any” rock songs (well, really Dave just wanted to hate on The Eagles again); learning that time+tragedy = safe comedy; discovering Ian’s long con; going to Woodstock; enjoying school nudity; celebrating Shakespeare;  being sleepy; blocking Twitter shitters; discovering the Led Zep porn film; and bringing back chocolate Hitler.

Thanks for listening and Happy New Year!

Woodstock!

The man in the mirror from A Christmas Carol. Once you see it, you can never unsee it!

The trailer for Julie Taymor’s kooky adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus:

Best of the season, Sneakers! We continue a long running tradition of celebrating Boxing Day with Dave’s cousin Jason Dedrick dropping by for a real Dedrick Family Boxing Day! This week on the show: the Dedricks don’t like each other; we invented a new game: Is It Bones Or Castle?; our DNA heritage; the Dedrick family tree; Dave’s drink problem; Jason’s new podcast Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure; interesting drinks; a real Christmas takedown of It’s A Wonderful Life including “Nick the Bartender more like Nick the Hypocrite!”, “Why is there a stupid crow in the dumb Building and Loan?”, and “Why couldn’t they even file a copyright notice properly?”; worst Charlie Brown animated special; apparently we are old; our antiquated references in perspective; presidential buffoonery; clandestine Boxing Day celebrations; phone weirdness; a small tribute to Mike Roberds; beaver punch; new podcast idea: We Should Be Dead Now; childish repartée; seeping leg wound update; Doc Awk; let’s enjoy Twin Peaks; teen hi-jinks; and, finally, a visit to Christmas Island.

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Be sure to check out Jason’s new podcast Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure for drinks and conversation.

At about four minutes in, you can follow Jack Benny down into his vault:

Hai, Sneakers! This week Ian and Dave by surprise (well, a surprise to Ian anyway) guest Nina Matsumoto, who, despite a bad cold and suffering jetlag, was lured onto the show by Dave. This week, Ian, Dave and Nina take a look at Dave’s seeping leg wound; discuss why Nina is on the show; ooh and aw over Nina’s gift for Ian; discuss Nina’s visit to the Naoki Urasawa exhibit in Osaka; marvel over 7-11s in Japan; are shocked to discover there are no Slurpees in Japan; deride The Killing Joke film; are dismayed by the end of the movie ending; enjoy flying with Star Wars; pay some bills with our sponsors; complain about Vancouver winters; learn about ideograms; bow to Japanese decorum; reveal artistic pseudonyms; bemoan cultural gatekeepers; sort of celebrate women in comics; find undeserved success; earn unending envy; sneak in a quick Rogue One discussion; and, finally, give some drawing tips and recommend expensive sunglasses.

Somehow, we didn’t say it on the show, but Merry Christmas, everyone!!!

Apparently it’s in no way as good as the original manga:

We keep talking about it and here is some of Naoki Urosawa’s Manben:

Hola, Sneakers! This week on the show: much numbers confusion! (Yes, we know it’s Episode 263 now.) Also, Ian has returned from Ft. Lauderdale with his report on Paradise Con; Dave insults all the residents of Ft. Lauderdale; Ian learns about airport runways; Ian and Dave wonder how the f*** does their healthcare system work; Dave Dedrick – white wrapper; Ian doesn’t understand free pizza; Ian shouldn’t fleece The Odyssey; get ready for Suicide Mess 2: The Sirens of Gotham; Dave bemoans so-so movies; we can’t get behind Rogue One yet; more fucking Star Wars!!!; Ian gets robbed, insulted by lunatics and challenged to fights by young goofs, yet he is not allowed to call 2016 a sucky year. On the other hand, Dave fell down.

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Department of corections: After some research we have found that both Ian and Dave were correct in their Healthcare debate: People who earn more than $24, 000 a year are expected to pay their healthcare premiums in BC or will face the consequences. It wouldn’t be fair to other people who paid for their healthcare to have a bunch of shirkers walk into hospitals for free healthcare, would it? As to coverage when traveling in other provinces, Canada’s healthcare act has a portability criterion which requires provinces to extend coverage of their residents during absences up to three months. Dave’s daughter Mary was staying in Quebec for more than three months; hence, paying for extra coverage.

Ciao, Sneakeroos! This week Ian and Dave had a lot of nothing to talk about. This week on the show: a little feces; Ian is going to Florida; gators to the rescue; dad jokes/bad jokes; global Trumpism; it’s nice to share; family secrets; gross salads; inhospitality; good tippers and bad restaurants; The Hateful Eight; Kevin Smith vs. Quentin Tarantino; crossing the border; honesty is not the best policy; apropos of nothing: best Tom Cruise movie; short actors; jean suits; and, finally, Ian’s Jay Leno theory. Plus behind-the-scenes “hidden track”.

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Dave slightly misremembered this ad, but to be fair, it’s about fifty years old.

Economist Mark Blyth on the rise of nationalism and Trumpism:

Company is coming:

Hello, Sneakers! This week on Episode 261 of Sneaky Dragon, Dave gets off to a hasty start and does some bad rapping; Ian reveals that Victorian times will kill you; they talk wedding blues, marriage bliss and divorce blahs; notice that Christmas is coming; expose scolds, nags and carpers; see fantastic beasts; have another dumb debate: Is the Empire the good? Ian argues for, Dave can’t believe they’re arguing about it (This argument has it all – Dave’s bombastic claims, Ian’s weird idea of heroism, too much Star Wars prequel talk and much, much more.); Ian has another animal fights question; Ian wears George Lucas’ beard; and, finally, kill the Sarlaccs!

Well, you heard Ian’s questions: Is the Empire the force for good in Star Wars? What would win in a fight: a penguin or a bat? And, what are your particular Christmas traditions?

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Here is that sketch by Ian that Dave loves:

The Jedi ARE evil!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 260 of Sneaky Dragon! Hooray!

This week Ian and Dave get down to brass tacks and make some voodoo dolls; discuss glossaries and appendices; get a pain in the back; go to the Sneaky Dragon book club; see Good Cop/Bon Cop/Film Terrible; go to the Sneaky Dragon film club to talk about Arrival; dislike foreign domestic food; hear about Tiny Turkey; remember MST3K; debate lions vs. cowboys; romance the past; rate John Carpenter’s films; wonder if it’s recording (it was); marvel at slugs in the movies; improve porn; really like The Rockford Files; marvel at Ian’s great beard; name the perfect family film; and, finally, debate the psychological mind games of Donald Trump.

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Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 159 of Sneaky Dragon! This week on the show: confusion; a tribute to Aaron Eckhart; time to re-visit Repo Man and some Alex Cox appreciation; a rain of shit on 90’s Batman; super questions; Dr. Strange opinions; where the film John Wicks falls apart; in defense of Guardians of the Galaxy; downward trending: Agents of SHIELD vs Teen Wolf; more super stuff; Ian gets schooled; Ian plans his epic war epic; Dave explains the “Cliffhanger” Effect; Is Krypton future Earth; Dave the superfan; the Woody Allen test; and, finally, Ian comes to praise Ash vs. Evil Dead.

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Our thanks to Heather L. Gilbreath for the wonderful Sneaky Dragon “snowflake” or mandala pattern.

If you’d like to print out and colour your own Sneaky Mandala, please download your own copy here and get out your DoodleArt felts!

Please leave your movie comments below: a film overwhelmed by its beginning or a film saved by an unexpectedly great ending. Also, a film you’d like to fix by changing one thing about that film.

With Nina Matsumoto! Yes, Nina drops by to join Ian and Dave to test beer; make food judgements and discover Ian and Nina are food snobs while Dave is a food schlub; see many emergency vehicles; spend Canadian Tire money; eat mayonnaise around the world; talk Nina’s new book; read literal Japanese titles; talk Naoki Urasawa’s Manben; process art; work through pain; march together as a band of brothers; and, finally, play trivia cards with Bill Murray, snikt, Mighty Mouse and the Phantom Zone making an appearance.

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Terrible dubbing:

Terrible animating:

Hi all you Sneakers out there! This week on Sneaky Dragon, Ian and Dave talk nonsense; juggernauts and blobs; the great Steve Ditko; Ayn Rand (approximately); the lottery effect; more about Steve Ditko; why The Amazing Spiderman 2 is a terrible movie; how all the Marvel heroes are actually villains; some movies Dave has seen recently, including: the crazy, but great Japanese horror flick House, the violent and bloody Lady Snowblood, and the creepy and slightly gross Nothing But the Night; eating babies; and, finally, axes to grind with Marvel comics.

Thanks for listening.

Dave forgot to mention the 1970s rock band soundtrack that adds even more to the generally uneven tone of this wacky movie:

The bloody and beautiful Lady Snowblood:

Director Joe Dante tells us about Christopher Lee’s Nothing But the Night:

Here is Steve Ditko, reading an essay explaining the Rand-inspired ideas in his comics work (this is probably the closest we’ll ever get to a Steve Ditko interview, by the way):