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2021 Cult MTL Best of Montreal Cheat Sheet (by 9to5.cc)

by keith on May 8, 2021 at 2:27 pm

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So obviously I want you to vote for 9to5.cc as Best Website and either 9ES or Go Plug Yourself as Best Podcast in Montreal over at Cult MTL’s Best of Montreal reader poll but you have to vote for a minimum of 25 categories for your ballot to be counted.

Now, if you have 25 amazing things to vote for in Montreal then good on you, but if you don’t I will happily share my picks with you and let you cheat off my test.

I’m cool like that.

Is this mostly a list of previous guests of Go Plug Yourself? Sure it is.

People & Places

Hottest Montrealer: Plastik Patrik

One time at a Montreal Roller Derby game I overheard a drunken fan proclaim “wow, that announcer is hot… I don’t know if it’s a guy or a girl but damn.”

Coolest Montreal Company: Scorpion Masqué

I play a lot of board games and Montreal based Scorpion Masqué produced a game literally called “Stay Cool” so they win. Coolest company.

Best Weirdo: Hollywood

Hollywood used to be a mainstay on many an old episode of Go Plug Yourself, just popping by to sing into the microphone mid interview. Haven’t seen him in a while. Hope he’s ok. He’s got my vote forever in this category.

Best Politician: Tyler Lemco

If enough of us vote for Tyler as the best politician in Montreal he will basically HAVE to run for mayor again.

Media

Best Radio Show: The Pressure Drop

Danny Payne hosts The Pressure Drop over on CJLO, so you should vote for that.

Best Radio Host: Sean Campbell

The Voice of the Rocket! Sean Campbell!

Best Podcast: Go Plug Yourself or 9ES (pick your favorite)

What are you even doing reading this list if you’re not voting for one of my shows? Come on now.

Best Website: 9to5.cc

Duh.

Nightlife

Best Bartender: Ram Krishnan

When all of this pandemic nonsense is over the very first thing you should do is head on down to Grumpy’s and spend a bunch of money there.

Best Bar and Best Sleazy Bar: Grumpy’s

They let us record a podcast there man, give them all the votes you can.

Best Wine Bar: LOIC

They haven’t been on the podcast, yet, but still my favorite place for wine in the city.

Best Live Music Venue: Turbo Haus

Sergio let us record a podcast there like we were real rockstars.

Best Promoter: I LOVE NEON

When we start being able to go out again I will be clearing my calendar and going to every party I LOVE NEON throws.

Best Terasse: Also Turbo Haus.

Last summer I spent a lot of time looking at Instagram posts of terraces in the city and cringed at the lack of safe social distancing. Not so with Turbo Haus. They kept that shit safe.

Best Comedy Club: Comedy Nest

Again, when they were allowed to do shows, they did them safely. That counts for a lot and it’s an important step in bringing live comedy back to this city.

Best Comedy Night: Battle of Wits

Elspeth Wright’s comedy gameshow that has been converted into an online format is the best. Bonus: Elspeth is raising money for AMI-Quebec all month long.

Best Cocktail Bar: Milky Way

Haven’t had these guys on the podcast yet but they’re in my neighborhood and they make good cocktails.

Music

Best Band: We Are Monroe

We had these guys on the podcast to promote their 2019 appearance at Osheaga and they were really cool. They’ve got some new stuff coming out you should check out.

Heaviest Act: Great Sabatini

The guys from Great Sabatini are the best, and still have one of the all time best stories ever shared on their episode of GPYS. You should check that episode (and all the episodes) out.

Best Hip Hop: Urban Science Brass Band

It was a while ago but we had Josh Clarke aka Scynical on the show and he talked up Urban Science Brass Band, if you haven’t checked them out you’re missing out.

Best Singer-songwriter: Johnny Griffin (John Jacob Magistry)

Best Label: Stomp Records

I don’t think we’ve had more artists from a single record label than from Stomp records. BCASA, Boids, Kingpins, Planet Smashers have all called Stomp Records home.

Cinema & Arts

Best Actor: Michael Mando

The fact that Michael Mando has been a guest on GPYS three times speaks volumes to the fact that we are in fact, quite likeable.

Best Film Screening Series: Fantasia

A lot of festivals took some time off last year, but Fantasia was able to pivot to being an online festival and it was great. One of the high points of the year honestly.

Best Play: Malunderstood

In early 2020, Kenny Streule brought his one person show “Malunderstood” to Mainline, and in early 2021, he brought a digital adaptation of that show to the internet. Heartwarming.

Best Comedian: Take your pick

There are a million great comedians in this city, so take your pick. Ok, maybe there are about 20. I’m obviously biased in favor of the ones who co-host podcasts with me so if you need a pick choose between: Walter Lyng, Lawrence Corber, Inés Anaya and Chris Venditto, because they’re all the best.

Best Festival: Osheaga

I don’t think there is one thing that Sarah talks about missing on a regular basis than Osheaga weekend. This is literally the first time since the festival began that two years will have passed without it being a part of our summer.

Goods & Services

Best Barbershop: Monthly

One of the boys from Monthly has been cutting my hair for what feels like forever. Best shop in town I say.

Best Tattoo Parlour: DFA

I used to work at a call center with Mel back when she was a tattoo apprentice. Now she’s a world renowned tattoo artist and the whole gang at DFA Tattoos is the best.

Best Tattoo Artist: Sean Arsenian

One of those tattoo artists is Sean, who has been on the show to promote Great Sabatini, Sweetheart Grip and also played our live show back before the pandemic. He also tattooed my leg.

Best Used CD/Vinyl Store: Cheap Thrills

Go there on Thursdays and Jason will tell you what jazz records belong in your collection.

Best Jewellry: Chokitem

Daian (also from Aller Retour) came on the show last year to talk about some of her time in fashion and also to rep some of the amazing pieces available at Chokitem.

Food & Drink

Best Sandwich: Clarke

It’s got coffee and makes great sandwiches and is like a 5 minute walk from my house, what’s not to love?

Best Coffee: Tunnel

One of the main things I miss about going to work downtown was daily coffee breaks at Tunnel Espresso.

Best Ice Cream: Florence

You know what I wrote about Clarke Café up there? Replace “great sandwiches” with “great ice cream and gelato” and the same thing is true.

So yeah, voting ends next Sunday, May 16th @ 11:59 PM so do it. Be somebody.

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 blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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Big Fish D&D: The Time We Found Treasure Island

by keith on December 9, 2019 at 4:43 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where, once again, the Rogue has convinced the party to follow a treasure map.

Everyone laughed at how silly it was that nobody questioned the treasure map in the first one, I felt like it would be doubly on-brand to do it again.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue, Brubax the Goliath Barbarian and Tidus the Triton Cleric. Absent: L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock.

I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game. You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page. And if you’re enjoying our little GameTale Adventure Blog, please tell your friends on whatever platform you interact with them. If you think Jon and I are at all entertaining please consider checking out the geek-centric podcast we do every two weeks “9ES” right here.

If you have happened to diligently read that prologue post from way back in the past, you will know that each of our characters have, at one point in their backstory, developed a sort of nemesis.

Jon mostly uses these as placeholders for the “villain” of a session, and sometimes ties it all back into the Glacius Rex character who is kind of the (woefully inept) bad guy of the campaign.

Yeah, I had really planned to lean on them more, but in the first season I got so wrapped up figuring out the process and timing for these sessions that I let the nemesis slide. If I ever run another Big Fish style campaign the nemesis will play a larger role. Missed opportunity there.

Anyhow, my (I play Jim Clocks the Rogue) nemesis is a Kenku. With most of the player character’s relationship with their nemesis, it is the nemesis who is the bad guy. It’s kind of a running joke that with Jim, he is most certainly not the good guy and by all accounts the Kenku really did nothing wrong. Jim just thinks Kenku are weird and creepy and just kind of singled out the poor birdman for cruelty.

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The Real Captain of the Ship of Horror – An Interview With Anne K. Brown (Part 2)

by keith on July 28, 2019 at 4:37 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Keith

Welcome back to Part 2 of our interview with Anne K. Brown, author and game designer. Part 2 focuses on her time with TSR, being a woman in game development and more. To read about Anne’s thoughts on working on Ship of Horror click here.

If you’ve been keeping up with Big Fish D&D, you know that we recently did a playthrough of the 1991 “Official Ravenloft Game Adventure” that was Ship of Horror. At one particular moment of the session (namely when we began the encounter with Meredoth the Necromancer) one of us loudly proclaimed: “Who designed this?”

Anne Brown did.

About Anne and Her Career:

(Keith): How did you get into game design? It looks like you worked on Dragon magazine for just a few months before moving into the Game Division. Is that where you wanted to be? How different is the writing process between penning a novel or short stories and writing a game module?

Anne: My path into game design was fairly long. I interviewed for Dragon magazine in May, 1986, literally the day after my last college final exam. I didn’t get that job, but Roger Moore (then assistant editor) suggested that I talk to some of the Games Department staff about freelance work. I got some freelance writing and editing, which kept me connected to TSR.

Roger Moore (then editor-in-chief) hired me for Dragon magazine in May, 1989. By September, the Games Department (formally known as Research & Development) was preparing to expand. Jim Ward told me he wanted to pull me over into Games, and after some negotiating, I moved to Games. I loved working on the magazines, and working at TSR was so awesome that it didn’t really matter to me what department I was in. I stayed until August 1997, when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and moved it to Seattle.

The writing process for a novel, short story, or game module is really different. With a game module, the first task is to develop the story arc and figure out what the players should accomplish. Then it’s a matter of breaking the story into encounters and developing them, and also developing the nonplayer characters, villains, and monsters. Finally, the actual writing comes, which is mostly instructional passages for the dungeon master plus the read-aloud text. The writing for a game module is drastically different from fiction, and you’re trying to help the DM guide the players through the adventure, offer advice to the DM, and maintain choices for the players (not just lead them by the nose) so they feel that they have a chance to influence the outcome of the adventure.

Novels and short stories share the same development of a story arc and breaking down into scenes, but of course, the actual writing is drastically different. With fiction, the goal is to produce some really great prose that tells the story, develops the characters, and artfully explores the setting. With fiction, the author has complete control over every decision made by the characters, and is much more of a puppet master than with game design.

I do find writing game modules to be easier than fiction. In a game module, you’re pretty much dictating instructions to the DM, whereas with fiction, I’m working much harder on the narrative. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Girls Gotta Eat Set to Bring Dating Advice to Canada (JFL 2019)

by keith on July 22, 2019 at 8:30 pm

Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Homepage, Just for Laughs, Keith, Montreal, Podcast, Podcasting

My wife described “Girls Gotta Eat” like “My Favorite Murderer” but about dating.

That’s not bad company for Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine to be keeping (MFM does nearly 20 million downloads a month). The girls are bringing their dating expertise (ie: plenty of first hand experience) to Montreal and Toronto in the next few days for a live version of their podcast.

The live experience promises up-to-the-minute updates regarding their current dating situations (so fans of the show will have early insights) and, as the girls put it: “the best letters” are saved for the live shows. There is also audience participation, so if you desperately want Ashley and Rayna to be your personal relationship gurus you should make sure you’re at the show.

I was lucky enough to grab a quick phone interview with the girls today and now you are lucky enough to listen to it. It’s fun how that works.

Listen now and check out Girls Gotta Eat July 23rd at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto or July 24th at Place des Arts in Montreal. More info and tickets here.

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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 blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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Cameron Esposito Is Not Where She Thought She’d Be – Separately (JFL 2019)

by keith on July 22, 2019 at 7:45 pm

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Not pictured: Blonde hair.

The moment Cameron Esposito took to the stage in Montreal her fans immediately knew that something was different.

Still present was her trademark look of stylish coif and motorcycle jacket, but that coif? It’s blonde now.

As Esposito puts it, this is her “divorce hair.”

As Esposito works through the new hour of material that she is calling Separately , she talks us through the struggles of being on the forefront of something “new” for the LGBTQ community: divorce. The United States only made the right to marriage universal across all 50 States in 2015 (although it had been legal in some States since as early as 2004). Therefore, with only 4 to 15 years of legally binding unions in the bank, Esposito is definitely a pioneer in the world of ending a same-sex marriage.

All that to say, there is very little in culture to prepare her for the realities of the last year.

There are no pop songs to play on repeat.

No movies that will safely comfort her.

Instead, Esposito has been left to figure things out on her own, with varying degree of success.

From making questionable food choices, to binging hundreds of hours of sappy network dramas. From having to travel alone, to trying to figure out what her hobbies might be. Separately seems most interested in finding out just who Cameron Esposito is in 2019.

As much as she might joke about not being relatable (and honestly, who can relate to someone who pronounces “gif” that way?), Esposito’s experiences are extremely accessible. You don’t need to be queer, married, female or even a talented stand up comedian to find something in Separately that might strike a chord. Esposito’s latest hour is an honest look at what happens to a person’s life when they suddenly find themselves alone when they didn’t expect to be. And if you’ve ever experienced that, you’ll find yourself sympathetic to Esposito’s new material.

In fact, there was a woman behind me who was audibly agreeing and going “mmm hmm” throughout the set that perhaps had a parallel life to Cameron Esposito. Who knew there where so many people who had to endure the social awkwardness of mingling with older women in a country club following their lesbian divorces?

Someone should create a Facebook Group for that.

If reading this has given you the impression that Separately is a downer well, I wish I could say it wasn’t, but it kind of is.

But that’s not to say it’s not funny.

Hearing Esposito navigate through all these different situations is almost continuously hilarious (although there are a handful of genuine emotional gut shots in the set). The reason you might feel a little down is wholly attributable to Esposito’s sincerity. She is so genuinely earnest and open on stage that as an audience member, you just want the best for her.

You don’t want Cameron Esposito to be alone witnessing bizarre hotel celebrity signings, you want her to be able to share that experience with someone else who makes her happy.

If you’re ready to laugh along with the trials and tribulations of being on your own when you didn’t expect to be, check out Separately July 22 to 24 at Katacombes. Tickets and info here.

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Big Fish D&D: The Time We Joined the Crew of The Ship of Horror (Part 2)

by keith on July 10, 2019 at 11:26 am

Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where our heroes are still in the goth infused majesty of to 1991 when vampires were the absolute coolest. They are on a ghost ship, not any ghost ship: The Ship of Horrors.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue, Brubax the Goliath Barbarian, Tidus the Triton Cleric and L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock.

I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

How To Get Off The Ship of Horror

One of the issues that creeps up in this game is the fact that this group has faced a lot of nonsense scenarios and come out of them relatively unscathed. The Expedition to Barrier Peaks alone would be enough for most parties to become unflappable heroes. Throw in being trapped in The Underdark, sailing through space in SpellJammer and occasionally squaring off against high level Demons and Beholders and you have a crew that has absolutely no problem with marching up to the Captain and telling him a thing or two.

It takes a lot to phase this group of adventurers.

I’m guessing the fact that Jon didn’t want to drag this module out for more than two sessions helped a little two with the pace of discovery.

Time for lightning round part 2, as before Jon, your comments are a treasure.

We basically mean mug the Captain into revealing that he used to ferry corpses for the Grabben Family for a lich
- Actually not a lich. Boring old Necromancer. Would have been great to tie his background into Grabben Island and had a few clues about him to earn there.
When he suddenly developed a conscience, the Captain threw the corpses overboard and tried to break his deal with the family, thereby invoking the wrath and curse of a lich.
The ghosts want their bodies laid to rest, so we need to find their bodies under the ocean and bring them back to Grabben Island to bury them.
Again, this would probably be pretty tricky but we’ve all got swim speeds and some of us straight up breathe under water.
The lady and Madeline want to be buried, but Jacob wants vengeance.
- Tidus decides to give into the demand and accepts a creepy ghost hug.
- Jacob is now a set of glowing eyes in a sack that Tidus carries and to try to reason with him is to possibly be consumed by the darkness of the wraith.
  - Man I hope none of this comes back to mess with Tidus later.
  - I just liked the imagery from Hellboy, obvs, plus I had some lingering desire to mess with Eric after letting the sword go.
Superior Ranger and tracking abilities allow us to nope the hell out of encounters with:
- A Monstrous Sea-Star
- Some Vodyanoi, aka, Aquatic Umberhulks.
The heroes head to Grabben Island to bury the bodies and track down the lich that started all this nonsense.

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The Real Captain of the Ship of Horror – An Interview With Anne K. Brown (Part 1)

by keith on July 10, 2019 at 11:03 am

Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Anne K. Brown started with TSR officially in 1989 (she had freelanced there before) and in 1991 she was given the task of writing Ship of Horror for the relatively new Ravenloft setting.

To read more about Anne’s career check out Part 2 of our interview here.

So, if you’ve been keeping up with Big Fish D&D, you know that we recently did a playthrough of the 1991 “Official Ravenloft Game Adventure” that was Ship of Horror. At one particular moment of the session (namely when we began the encounter with Meredoth the Necromancer) one of loudly proclaimed: “Who designed this?”

Well, one of the good things about running a moderately successful geek-centric website is that after the session, we tracked down the designer and asked her “What was the deal with Meredoth?”… among many other questions.

This is actually just Part 1 of the interview and deals pretty much exclusively with Ship of Horror. Come back next week for Part 2 where we asked Anne about game design, writing fiction and non-fiction and what it was like to work at TSR in the late 80’s right up until TSR’s purchase by Wizards of the Coast.

Please enjoy this glimpse into the creation of what has become somewhat of a cult classic module from D&D’s past.

How To Make a Ship of Horror

(Jon): Just to let you know I’ve run it twice (and played it once!) and had a great time with all three groups.

(Keith): What was the starting point for Ship of Horror? Did you have any specific direction (ie: write a ghost ship story) or was it more wide open (ie: write a Ravenloft story)?

Anne: I’m glad you enjoyed it! Writing can be a very insecure business. Most writers finish a project and then have that moment of panic, wondering if it was any good. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Big Fish D&D: The Time We Joined The Crew of The Ship of Horror (Part 1)

by keith on June 26, 2019 at 9:14 pm

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Where our heroes travel back in time to 1991 when TSR was frantically trying to get all grimdark on our asses to compete with Vampire: The Masquerade.

As Jon has done several times before, our heroes find themselves stuck in an old school D&D module from the past. This time around they unwittingly join the crew of The Ship of Horror.

I think there was some kind of nostalgia here for you?

Very much so. The first major campaign I ran was a 2nd edition Ravenloft game, and its 4th chapter was the Ship of Horror. Took most of highschool, started with 2 players and grew to 4. There were 6 adventures, from level 1 to 13 or so. If for some inexplicable reason you could survive the end of Ship of Horror, that is.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue, Brubax the Goliath Barbarian, Tidus the Triton Cleric and L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock.

I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

Point of order, in my brief little dive into the history of this module I found that it was written by Anne K. Brown. A few things here. One, big props to her for being a lady in what was certainly a male dominated industry in the late 80s and early 90s and going from Assistant Editor of Dragon Magazine to designing modules in like a couple of months. Two, she was apparently a big fan of Greyhawk but wrote for Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance so that is cool. In fact, Ship of Horror was the first module supporting Ravenloft which I am assuming is kind of a big deal and shows that the company had a lot of faith in her. Three, she had a bit of a renaissance in the 2000s as an author of non-fiction aimed at middle-school aged kids. Wait, what? That’s right, you can read Anne K. Brown’s take on the lives of Katy Perry, Gwen Stefani, Roger Federer or her takes on “Staying Safe Online” and “Migraines”. Weird.

Now that the history lesson is out of the way, let’s get started. We actually took two sessions to get through this little adventure, but I seriously took like 20 little pages of notes. That said, we’re going to be skipping through some of the narrative and just focusing only on the best bits. You’ll thank me later.

Dealing with Those Githyanki

The session started off with us onboard The Clepsydra, the fast little sloop owned by Jim Clocks. We were on our way to a treasure island, which in fact will be our next adventure. While stopped at a port city, the Ne’er Do Well Cads are pulled away from the important business of drinking by the sounds of a ruckus in the town square.

If you’ve been keeping tabs on our little foray into Spelljammer, you might remember that in the very first adventure we kind of happened upon a +3 Vorpal Sword that has since been wielded by our Cleric, Tidus. Small problem: the sword belonged to someone called The Lich Queen and every so often we are kind of ambushed by Red Dragons and Githyanki. I think this session marked the third such encounter.

But anyways it wasn’t an encounter, Tidus just gave the Githyanki back the +3 Vorpal Sword without a fight. Womp womp.

Almost certainly the first time in the history of DnD that someone gave back a silver sword. Color me a little disappointed. See, yeah, red dragon/githyanki wizard battle in populated area is no good, innocent bystanders and all. But I wanted that stolen silver sword to connect Tidus’ divine destiny into having to go to war with the Githyanki. Womp womp indeed. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Big Fish D&D: The Time We Had a Wizard Battle

by keith on June 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Gaming, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

The story of a wizard battle, theme and setting 100% original and in no way stolen from Thor: Ragnarok.

An adventure starring Jaxxo the Lizardfolk Monk, Jim Clocks the Half-Aquatic Elf Rogue, Brubax the Goliath Barbarian, Tidus the Triton Cleric and L’Eau D’ur the Genasi Warlock. Featuring: A big blue crab man named Miek.

I’m in black and Jon (the DM) is in blue.

I suppose it is only fair that we point out that this session took place in the midst of Eric’s (the player of Tidus) bachelor party. Substances were in various degrees of abuse. My notes are only a few little pages and are largely incomprehensible. Eric’s real-world brother was along for the ride and he played Meek, a big blue crab man. Dungeons & Dragons!

Jon paints the following word picture for us: Our heroes are in an arena, surrounded by easily over 30,000 spectators. In the sky above, a loose ring of spaceships are docked low in the atmosphere. Each of the heroes is collared and chained to another in pairs. Except Jim Clocks, he is chained to a big blue crab man.

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Some Podcasts About Wrestling

by keith on April 7, 2019 at 1:00 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith

It’s WrestleMania Sunday!

To celebrate, why not take a trip into our podcast archives and listen to some of our favorite wrestling related episodes?

Pat on the Mat: Episode 20 – WrestleMania 35 Preview

It’s WrestleMania (and all of the other events that go with it) weekend so this is the last episode of Montreal’s favorite English language wrestling podcast: Pat on the Mat! Walter was below the weather so Pat and I hold it down like PCO and Brody King while we run through everything we know (and speculate about a lot of things we don’t kn0w) about the 35th edition of the biggest wrestling event of the year, enjoy the show!

And be sure to keep tabs on Pat’s page over at TVA Sports to keep track of all of his French language coverage of WrestleMania.

Go Plug Yourself 179: Giant Tiger Returns!

If you only watch the WWE brand of pro-wrestling, you’re doing yourself a massive disservice. There is amazing, local, affordable indie wrestling promotions in Montreal and one of the best of those is the one and only BATTLEWAR and they will be celebrating their 7th Anniversary on April 14th at Foufounes Electrique. Giant Tiger is one of the mad geniuses behind the magic of BATTLEWAR and we welcome him back to the show to talk about learning to wrestle in the back of a porn studio, wrecking people’s cars with a moving truck (transporting a wrestling ring of course) and having his jaw wired shut after working a stiff match. It’s a good one.

Go Plug Yourself 152: Big Magic and Twiggy

One of NXT’s latest signings used to be the champion of Montreal’s favorite indie wrestling promotions! In preparation for their upcoming 6th Anniversary spectacular last year at Foufounes Electriques Walter and I are joined by not only Talent Relations Coordinator Twiggy, but the BATTLEWAR Champion himself, Big Magic! We talk about the history of the promotion, including Kevin Owens’ (as Kevin Steen) last match in Quebec in the BATTLEWAR ring with Big Magic himself as well as what WWE Talent Twiggy would like to have make a BATTLWAR appearance.

Go Plug Yourself 101: Speedball Mike Bailey

Back in 2016 we were lucky enough to sit down with up and coming indie wrestler Speedball Mike Bailey, back in town after some successful runs in PWG and AAA. Mike was about to be defending his IWS World Title against former WWE Heavyweight Champion Rey Mysterio Jr., March 5th 2016 at Metropolis. Fair warning, the audio levels are a little off-balanced for the first few minutes, but it normalizes pretty quickly.

Mike just recently fought another former WWE star a few weeks ago in Montreal for IWS: Tajiri!

Go Plug Yourself 56: SeXXXy Eddy

Eddy has been all over New York this past weekend, at Joey Ryan’s Penis Party, wrestling for IWS and even doing a naked moonsault at Joey Janela’s Spring Break!

I would probably be doing him some sort of a disservice if I didn’t refer to him by his full title “Triple X Sex Express SeXXXy Eddy”. You will note that not all the letters are capitalized, he wouldn’t want to go crazy. Internationally traveled pro-wrestler SeXXXy Eddy joins Walter and I for an amazing journey into the world of having sex and wrestling all the time. This is one of our all time greatest episodes guys, I’m not even kidding. Also, I cannot stress enough that you Google “SeXXXy Eddy CZW”. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

So We Got To Meet Jake the Snake

Back in 2016, we were lucky enough to sit down with WWE Hall of Famer Jake the Snake.

I’ve always had a fondness for Jake the Snake Roberts.

He had stopped by ComedyWorks to perform his spoken word show “Unspoken Word: Tales from the Road” and Walter and I were lucky enough to hang out with him for a bit and record it.

Go Plug Yourself Just for Laughs Special: Mick Foley!

WAY back in 2012 Walter and I set up our microphones at Just for Laughs and spoke to anyone who was willing to sit down with us.

One of those people? The Hardcore Legend, Cactus Jack himself, Mrs Foley’s baby boy: Mick Foley!

If you’re still itching for more wrestling podcasts, check out the archives. We’ve got 19 episodes of Pat on the Mat for you to get through, Green Phantom has been a frequent guest on Go Plug Yourself, indie wrestler (and Sami Zayn’s improv friend) Twiggy has been on the show at least 5 times, IWS Owner PCP Manny has been on the show too!

Enjoy WrestleMania!

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