GPYS 331: Jason Rockman & Ryan Stick

by on March 4, 2026 at 11:21 pm
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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Jason Rockman & Ryan Stick: Which Montrealers do you respect the most and the least? That question asked by Carmina Berbari Daou & Raquel Maestre.

Jason Rockman & Ryan Stick are two guys who seem to know a little bit about everything in pop-culture. Comic books, horror movies, wrestling, old school television, music and more. Sound familiar? Together they host The Rockman Power Hour which is at 147 episodes and counting featuring everyone from The Damn Truth to UFC fighter Rashad Evans to Todd McFarlane… oh I could go on. Do yourself a favour and check out The Rockman Power Hour wherever you get your podcasts (and it’s a video podcast on Youtube too!)

Jason Rockman’s latest endeavour is Morning Gory Productions a new collaboration with a few other horror nerds in Montreal to bring retro cinema experiences to our city. They’re starting off with a bang tomorrow night, March 6th at Cinéma du Muséee with a double feature of both The Omen & The Exorcist. Get your tickets here. Jason mentions some of the merch that will be available tomorrow night and let me tell you, it’s awesome.

Jason and Ryan joined Walter and I at the back of Grumpy’s to talk about the Buffalo Bills, music, fandoms and so much more, so sit back, relax and Go Plug Yourself.

You can check out more of Ryan Stick’s work over at You, Me & YTV his love letter to a little Canadian television channel that introduced so many of us to so many cool things in the 90s and early 2000s.

Keep tabs on Rockman over on Instagram @therealjasonrockman or check out his Linktree. Ryan is @ryanstickshow on Instagram and you can find him all over the place too.

Enjoy the show!

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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9ES357: Goonsy

by on March 1, 2026 at 10:28 pm
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We talked about this a lot last episode: Scott and Keith really like the Winter Olympics. Jono? He didn’t even wake up to watch the Men’s Hockey Gold Medal game against the USA. I guess not only is he not a fan of sports he also hates his country.

 

I’m not even sure Jon is Canadian at all – how much do we really know about this man we’ve recorded 357 podcasts with really?

 

Anyways, the Canadian Men and Women’s Hockey teams failed us and lost to Team USA in overtime in both games. That sucked. Then Kash Patel was somehow let into Team USA Men’s locker room after the game and that sucked even more.

 

We go over our favorite moments of this edition of the Winter Olympics that are mostly just the best memes honestly.

 

Also – if you read the blog post for episode 356 you’ll remember that I was hyped about Ski Mountaineering. Well it didn’t disappoint.

 

We wrap things up with finally getting Sinners onto “The List” and for some reason Scott made himself watch “Kraven the Hunter” while Jono made the much more reasonable decision to watch “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”.

 

Anyways, we spend this episode of Garbage Time we talk about all 6 episodes of “Heated Rivalry” which naturally leads us into trying to figure out how to put “Shoresy” and “Heated Rivalry” into a shared universe. Scott’s kid is playing Hollow Knight, Brady Tkachuk looks like Sloth from “The Goonies” and Scott gives some updates about voice work on the X-Men Audio Drama.

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GPYS 330: Carmina Berbari Daou & Raquel Maestre

by on February 19, 2026 at 6:21 am
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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Carmina Berbari Daou & Raquel Maestre of the Montreal Indie Comedy Collective: “If you could party on any planet, real or fictional, what would it be?” Then we ask: “Ass or titties?” (thanks for that Shosho). Those questions came to us from Serag and Shosho back in our last episode (hot top: you can still buy tickets for their show on February 28th).

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Go Plug Yourself Podcast – this week we welcome Carmina Barbari Daou and Raquel Maestre from the Montreal Indie Comedy Collective to talk about all of the joys of producing comedy shows in Montreal, how they got started, how they work together and so much more. They host monthlies like Thursday Stand-Up? Cool! and Queer Laughs and they are also producing a bunch of other shows too!

Sarah jumps on for this episode and honestly we don’t talk enough about the fact that Carmina found a perfect used copy of Travel Scrabble. For a minute there was a very real chance this podcast was just going to be the four of us playing Scrabble.

Do yourself a favour and check out their LinkTree, Instagram and Facebook pages to stay up to date on everything they’ve got coming up!

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Sarah is somehow still @femalewalter on Instagram. Follow her for pictures of our dogs and sometimes she remembers to post about all the arts and entertainment we take in all year long.

 

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9ES356: Ice Level Angle

by on February 15, 2026 at 10:51 pm
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Scott and Keith really like the Winter Olympics. Jono? I guess he’s probably meh on them and sports in general.

 

Maybe that’s why Jon has maybe like 5 minutes of talk time in an episode that is almost entirely devoted to the main sporting events of the last week (being of course the SuperBowl, the Winter Olympics and Kid Rock popping up out of a stage like a muppet in a fur coat only to lip synch his way through “Bawitaba”).

 

The Winter Olympics have always been more compelling to me than the Summer edition. Is it because we have snow and ice in Canada and that’s the main ingredient of basically every sport at the Winter Olympics? Maybe. But also it’s because the sports themselves are just so much more hard core.

 

Take a look at the winter biathlon. It’s a cross country ski race where you have to randomly stop and shoot targets with a rifle. Why did they randomly inject shooting a gun into a race?

 

Let’s take a look at the debuting sports in the last Summer and Winter Olympics, shall we? Paris 2024 decided to show the world “breakdancing”. Neat. Making its debut in Italy this week? “Ski Mountaineering” That’s right, a sport about skiing and climbing uphill before racing back down it. See what I’m saying? HARDCORE.

 

Also, Keith mistakenly stated that there were no new cards coming out in Hearthstone and boy was he wrong. Cards apparently rotate out of the game after 2 years and new packs of 100+ cards rotate in 3 times a year. There are about 1500 cards at any given point in “Standard” format and the 4500 other cards that have rotated out are all still available to play in “Wild” format.

 

Wowowow.

 

Anyways, we spend this episode of Garbage Time talking about the films of Christopher Guest, The Rip on Netflix and Keith’s first thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077. Scott also marathoned all of Delicious in Dungeon. I know Scott says the trailer doesn’t do the show justice, but I just watched it and it seems to be exactly what he described. And I’m still not interested in watching it at all. Scott also watched Sinners but we’ll hold off on ranking it until we talk about it in the main episode. Hopefully we remember in 2 weeks.

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GPYS 329: Shosho Abotouk & Serag Meletian

by on February 5, 2026 at 8:30 am
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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks comedians Shosho Abotouk & Serag Meletian: “What’s your favorite breakfast cereal both now and as a kid?” That question asked, as always, by our previous guest Nazeer Khan.

You may remember that we had Shosho on the show a few months ago to talk about the runaway success story of merging comedy with crochet. Well, she’s at it again and this time she’s got our own Walter J. Lyng and longtime friend of the show Serag Meletian bringing the laughs as The Crochet & Comedy show takes over historic Café Cleopatra for The Yarn Ball on February 28th. There will even be prizes!

Things go off the rails as they so often do and we end up talking with Shosho and Serag about Devon Sawa, telegrams, payphones and Bad Bunny. What else did you expect? We’re back at Grumpy’s for this one and fully embody the spirit of the chaotic safespace that is this wacky little podcast. Remember to subscribe and tell your friends on Tiktok and Instagram or whatever it is you kids do these days when you like something.

Oh yeah – Chris Venditto shows up at the end of the show too!

Get your tickets to the Yarn Ball on February 28th, enjoy the show, and Go Plug Yourself.

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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9ES355: Those Guys

by on January 31, 2026 at 10:15 pm
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So about halfway through the recording of this podcast you will hear Scott exclaim “Fuck that guy!” and it will be revealed that he is talking about Matt Damon.

 

To peel back the curtain a little about our recording process we usually take a little water break around the 30 minute mark. It lets us make sure everything is going well with the recording, refill water glasses, go to the bathroom, etc.  Sometimes we have a little chit chat that isn’t necessarily relevant to the podcast then we reset, hit record and get on with the show.

 

Scott hates Matt Damon so much that he could not contain himself during this little break. Well, Matt Damon was in the news recently talking about how Netflix wants filmmakers to constantly recap the plot of their movies since they assume people are only paying half attention. That’s pretty good podcast talk so we decide to jump into it as our next topic.

 

I say, “I’ll hit record and you tee this one up Scott” and he proceeded to tee it up by saying “Fuck that guy!”

 

So that’s why we end up with a silky smooth transition like “Oh I want to see Marty Supreme” directly into “Fuck that guy!”

 

It kind of sounds like Scott hates Marty Supreme but no, he hates Matt Damon.

 

Anyways, two of us have watched Bugonia so we talk about that a little and put it on The List.

 

Some other stuff happens too.

 

We once again spend most of this episode of Garbage Time talking about Keith’s experience with the endgame of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. We get deep into spoilers of the twists and endings of the game so listener discretion is advised if you’re planning on playing it (and you should be). We also share some stories of public transportation and talk about Kanye’s apology letter.

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GPYS 328: Nazeer Khan

by on January 23, 2026 at 4:52 pm
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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast Go Plug Yourself asks comedian and producer Nazeer Khan: What new grocery store item are you most excited about? That question asked in our previous episode by Dr. Tyler Lemco.

It took a little bit of coordination (which is also why we’re a day late in posting this episode) but we finally managed to get Nazeer Khan on the show. If you don’t know, Nazeer Khan is one of Montreal’s finest comedy producers and is producing shows all over the Greater Montreal area. From the West Island, to Downtown, to the Plateau (allegedly) and all the way up to Deux Montagnes.

Want to know more? Of course you do. If you’re in the West Island, do yourself a favour and follow the West Island Comedy Night (@westislandcomedynight on Instagram) and for the rest of the city check out Comedy Cave MTL (@comedycavemtl on Instagram).

Nazeer Khan joins Walter J. Lyng and I to talk about mixed-martial arts and comedy and then Zak Kik shows up for the back half of the show and we end up talking a LOT about cereal. Would you expect anything less of Go Plug Yourself? Of course not.

Enjoy the show!

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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9ES354: The Jig Is Up

by on January 18, 2026 at 9:48 pm
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We know that we occasionally get a little into politics news on 9ES but we also recognize that can be a huge bummer. So instead we talk about Predator: Badlands. It’s not that we don’t care about what’s going on in the world, we just care a lot more about what happens when a Yautja and a Weyland-Yutani team up on a murder planet.

 

Honestly, Predator: Badlands might be the “weakest” of the three Predator projects helmed to date by Dan Trachtenberg. I use quotations there because while it’s not as good as Prey or Killer of Killers it’s probably the most fun a Predator movie has been since the original. Is it fan service to see a Yautja go toe-to-toe with absurd deadly monsters and synths for 100 minutes? Sure. But it’s fan service done right. The fact that it kind of ties in with Alien: Earth really seems like they’re building a pathway to an Alien vs Predator movie that isn’t complete shit and that’s way more exciting than global politics.

 

We even manage to talk about One Battle After Another without getting too bummed out.

 

But then Scott watched Tron: Ares and Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins and that pretty much bummed us all out.

 

We spend most of this episode of Garbage Time talking about Keith’s experience so far playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. You might not believe this but it’s actually pretty good. Somehow the most awarded video game in the history of The Game Awards really stands out as a good video game. But this is 9ES so Keith manages to nitpick it anyways. You know what was a perfect game though? Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. The game that we vaguely mention about being an RPG that you play on console via your phone is (I think) Sunderfolk.

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