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Go Plug Yourself Sh!t Show 2025!

by on January 2, 2025 at 4:08 pm
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It’s time once again for that most hallowed Montreal podcasting holiday tradition: The Go Plug Yourself Sh!t Show!

As we do every year we gather up the extended Go Plug Yourself family, have a few drinks and turn our unforgiving gaze back upon the year that was.

This year it was Walter J. Lyng, Chris Venditto, Lawrence Corber, Sarah and myself (with a brief guest appearance by Vance Michel) upstairs at Hurley’s (aka the home of the World’s Smallest Comedy Night) to talk about shellfish, who had a good year and who had a bad year (copyright of one Christopher Venditto) and make a few New Year’s resolutions for good measure.

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

Chris Venditto is another funny person in Montreal who you can see all over the place and if you don’t want to miss him take the stage you should follow him on all the socials. He’s @chrisvenditto on Twitter and Instagram so you should follow him on those two things. He also produces shows with the guys at Perfect Bite Productions who you should also follow on Instagram and on Facebook.

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.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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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9ES316: Laughing At Professionals

by on August 8, 2024 at 9:59 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

I guess it’s an election year so politics is going to creep into our podcast more and more until November. This time we talk about the Right Wing getting really mad that France did “The Last Supper” in drag and how “Republicans are Weird” is now a trend.

 

Let’s see if we can look at a quote and determine if it was spoken by a sitting Senator or a 5th Grader:

“They called us weird so I’ll call them weirder.”

 

Of course it’s a Senator – that would be Marco Rubio. Both side pointing fingers at each other and going “you’re weird” is where we’re at in politics I guess.

 

Anyhow, Jon finally watched The Flash which means for some reason that I can’t really explain we have now all watched The Flash. That means it’s time to rank that bad boy on the list!

 

Finally we close things off talking about how Marvel has pivoted away from Kong towards Doctor Doom by casting Rober Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom. Will it work? Who knows? Does anyone care? Yes. Lots of people. The people who listen to this podcast.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… we talk a LOT about Star Wars. In all of its many Star Shapes and Star Sizes. Keith watched all 4 hours and change of Jenny Nicholson’s take down of “Galactic Starcruise” (aka The Star Wars Hotel), Scott watched The Acolyte and there’s probably some other Star Wars stuff in there too. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES315: Dysfunctional Insanity

by on July 25, 2024 at 9:25 pm
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Honestly all of the news surrounding the 2024 election cycle is equal parts exhausting and terrifying.

 

The pop-culture movie nerd in me kind of feels like in the trilogy of Trump running for president, the 2024 election is where the series is really going off the rails. It’s kind of like the Fast and the Furious, where so much crazy shit has gone down in the first two outings that they’re stuck sending characters into space at a certain point.

 

Is that where we’re headed? Are the presidential nominees going to fly into space in their cars? Would it really be that surprising if that happened?

 

Now that I’ve written about the 2024 election a little in this blurb maybe this episode will get censored by the algorithm. True story, if you do a Google search for “Kamala Harris” (at least here in Canada) you will see “Some results may have been delisted consistent with local laws.” at the bottom of the page. That’s a little weird, right?

 

Anyways, we talk a bunch about nerdy shit and movies and the Fantasia International Film Festival for the second half so if all this political stuff gets to you just move right along to the part where we start talking about Deadpool & Wolverine.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… Jon watched Batman Returns and that gets us all uppity about which of the first 4 Batman movies is the best. The answers may shock you! Also somehow Jono hasn’t watched “The Batman” yet so he should really get on that. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES314: Also Never Reviewed On RT

by on July 12, 2024 at 11:04 pm
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What can we say about Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars that hasn’t already been said? Apparently a whole lot.

 

Avengers of Justice literally does not have any ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. I am pretty sure that means it doesn’t actually exist.

 

It’s possible that we’ve all had a collective fever dream and somehow it manifested Avengers of Justice.

 

I can’t even find any news articles or anything about it beyond the casting announcement. The guy who produced it (Shaun Sanghani) seems to have produced legitimate films (you will notice on that list that Avengers of Justice doesn’t have its own Wikipedia page). Why did he produce this?

 

How did they get genuine actors to star in this? Steve Rannazzisi and Amy Smart are real actors you’ve seen in real films and television shows! We may never know how this got made, but Scott watched it so there’s that.

 

We close off the back half of the show by talking about a quote that I believe originated in this article.

 

“Software developers are the wizards and shamans of the modern age. We ought to use our powers with the austerity and integrity such power implies.”

 

How do you feel about that statement? Well, we will tell you how we feel about in this episode.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… by some happy accident both Scott and Keith watched Total Recall in the last two weeks and Jon has watched it pretty recently. So this episode of Garbage Time is really mostly about Total Recall. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES313: A Thing

by on June 28, 2024 at 4:16 pm
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I’m really happy that Godzilla Minus One won an Academy Award. We take the piss out of the Oscars almost every year. There’s something wrong with a system that takes a look at hundreds of movies a year and then goes “these are the best 10” and eventually “this is the best one.” So much of it is subjective and it’s well documented that the Academy has a “type” of movie that it rewards.

 

Sure it won in a special effects category but there’s something refreshing about Godzilla Minus One winning an Oscar all the same. Godzilla movies don’t win Oscars man. That’s crazy. Anyhow it did and that’s awesome. Scott watched it and loved it.

 

Keith played a round of Atmosfear over the weekend and that was wild in its own way. The game came out in 1991 and it certainly feels like a 33 year old game. You roll dice and move forward and pick up “Chance” and “Fate” cards. Sounds like Monopoly in a lot of ways and in a lot of ways it is.

 

Except there’s a weird old guy screaming at you on your television while you play.

 

That’s the game!

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – we talk about the disappointing (to some) ending of the NHL Playoffs and the excellent BlackBerry series on CBC Gem. Jon also tries to figure out if we can reverse engineer free internet over your cellphone but not the way you think. Finally we talk about some old HBO shows like The Sopranos, The Wire and Oz. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES312: PLAY FIGHT CLUB

by on June 13, 2024 at 9:39 pm
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It is no surprise that at least one of us saw Furiosa pretty close to it’s release. You need only look at “The List” and see Fury Road proudly sitting in the #2 spot to know that at least some of us on this show would happily check out Furiosa on the biggest screen possible in a movie theater.

 

I don’t know why Scott hates Mad Max movies.

 

Furiosa is a peculiar beast of a movie – it’s certainly no Fury Road and it probably isn’t even The Road Warrior. Maybe the 5 chapters of the film would have been better served by being a 5 part prestige television series on HBO or something. The “Stowaway to Nowhere” action scene may still be one of the greatest action sequences in cinematic history though.

 

There’s something a little bittersweet about going to see Cat Power, Modest Mouse and The Pixies all perform on the same stage. Cat Power started releasing music in 1992, Modest Mouse in 1993 and the Pixies started in 1986. That’s over a century of music making and a lot of the music is stuff I associate with high-school and college. Aging sucks man.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – Keith discusses 10 Things that Made No Sense In The Predator (1987).This inevitably leads to the boys just talking a bunch about The Predator. Keith also listened to Random Access Memories by Daft Punk in the very high-tech listening room at the Phi Center in Montreal, which is something you can do until August 11 if you’re interested. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES311: Trash Talking 5.0

by on May 31, 2024 at 12:52 pm
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I know that we’ve talked about “Late Night With The Devil” before on this show but it’s a rare thing that all three hosts manage to see the same movie within like 2 months of its release date. So here we are, your one stop shop for news and reviews of “Late Night With The Devil”.

 

It’s been well documented that Keith and Jon are pretty big horror fans, but as has been discussed a bunch during this 311 episode run is that Scott has very different tastes for his spooky delights. Late Night With The Devil impossibly checks boxes for all of us and honestly might be one of those rare horror movies that you can recommend to just about anyone.

 

Except maybe people who think you should burn your copies of any Dungeons & Dragons books. Those people will not enjoy it.

 

Anyhow – we’re about two months away from Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson and we really needed to talk about the crazy shit that came out of Tyson’s mouth this week. This is the man who once said he wanted to eat another man’s children so why are we all acting surprised?

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – Keith runs through a list of famous people who are banned from buying fancy Italian sports cars and Jon watched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar so we deep dive into Roald Dahl a little bit. Keith and Jon are firmly Team Roald, but Scott needs some convincing.  If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES310: Enormously Wealthy

by on May 17, 2024 at 4:40 pm
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Regardless of where you stand on the actual ethics and claims made in the various diss tracks during the Kendrick vs Drake beef – I would be hard-pressed to come up with a rapper this side of MF Doom (RIP) that I would want to face off in a rap-battle with less than Kendrick Lamar. Like, if I got into an argument with Mike Tyson, I would not choose “boxing” as the agreed upon method of conflict resolution.

 

Keith would try to beat him at Power Stone.

 

2024 also marked the first time (I think) that any of us watched an entire Grand Final of Eurovision. The musical competition that has such strict participation rules that Celine Dion once won the competition on behalf of Switzerland. Perhaps that perplexing win was what inspired the genius that is Windows95Man to compose their hit “No Rules” at this year’s edition?

 

Do yourself a favor and watch the performance right now.

 

Finally, we also talk about the Fallout television series and Keith makes some vague references to how it might tie in to the video game series. They probably do a better job of cataloging that sort of thing over on more reputable websites.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – Jon and Keith get into some of the weirdest magic items in Dungeons & Dragons 5e – we based ourselves on the excellent YouTube video from TheD&DLogs that you should probably check out as well. We are such lucky boys that we’ve even encountered a few of these weirdos “in the wild” of our campaigns.  If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES309: Antiauteur Afficianados

by on May 3, 2024 at 9:59 pm
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Zack Snyder scargiveth and Zack Snyder scartaketh away. That sentence is apropos of nothing other than fun wordplay with the very dumb title that is Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver. Also I’m wondering just how deep the Scargiver marketing goes because as of writing this in Google Docs both “scargiveth” and “scargiver” are not showing up as spelling mistakes.

 

Is Scargiver a real word?

 

It might not be, but Scargiver is a real movie and apparently, if Jon is to be believed, is an improvement on whatever the hell the first one was called. Snyder tells a simpler story and the film is better for it. Meanwhile, our suspicions that all of these characters had stupid generic backstories are fully confirmed in the second outing into the Snyder Wars universe.

 

Seriously though, Scott ranks all of the major sports trophies. This discussion was the natural evolution of the PWHL unveiling their “Walter Cup” a few weeks ago. It’s pretty terrible, but might not be the worst. Major League Baseball, we’re looking in your direction. We close the show off as we have been every episode recently: by Scott and Keith catching up about X-Men ‘97 while Jon continues to have not seen a single episode.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – it’s more comic talk! Honestly, with Keith just blasting through heaps of Marvel comics this might be the trend for a while. This time we get into the lackluster “Fear Itself” run and we educate Jon about the glory of Red Hulk and how he definitely should not have lasted beyond that initial Jeph Loeb run. If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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9ES308: Desert Storm to Dino Dracula

by on April 18, 2024 at 9:57 pm
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This episode of the 9to5 Entertainment System is steeped in nostalgia and it’s almost entirely unintentional. I guess the new season of X-Men ‘97 has us all thinking about simpler times.

 

Simpler times like when Brian Mulroney was in charge of the country. Was he all bad? I guses people can be bad and good.

 

Like Magneto from X-Men 97. Yes, we talk about Episode 5 like the rest of the internet this week so if you’re watching the series and aren’t up to date this is your spoiler warning (in writing) that we close off the show diving deep into spoiler-town USA.

 

We also talk quite a bit about the exploits of Matt from Dinosaur Dracula (and formerly of X-Entertainment). All about nostalgia! 1000 years of nostalgia! It’s not even an exaggeration to say that there’s a good chance that 9to5.cc doesn’t exist if it wasn’t for Scott and Keith being really into X-Entertainment in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sadly, I can’t seem to find the X-E archives anymore so maybe it’s gone forever. Womp womp.

 

Oh – and we assign Scott a new Best Movie Ever and boy oh boy is it a beauty.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time – it’s basically a whole hour long extra episode of 9ES! We get pretty heavy into comic books talk with Keith having wrapped up 2015’s Secret Wars (just in time for Deadpool & Wolverine this summer) which leads us into the kind of free-wheeling comic book talk you know and love. Scott’s also watching Dr. Who so we talk about that too! What a treat for your ears for the price of a cup of coffee! If you would like to show your support and head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen to this and all past episodes of Garbage Time that would be appreciated.

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