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9ES298: The Bear Dances A Tango

by on November 16, 2023 at 3:44 pm
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I think the thing that struck me the most about the Barbie movie is that when Ken has a beach accident (despite being fully qualified for “Beach”) he receives prompt and free medical care. No long wait at the ER. No absurd medical bills after the fact. Barbie Land is a true utopia.

I probably took the wrong thing away from the Barbie movie.

We also talk about Captain Marvel and A Haunting in Venice but you can hear a million takes about those movies all over the internet.

We know why you’re here.

You want us to talk about a 40 year old comic book where the Thing gets into a boxing match with a cosmic fighter known as “The Champion” at Madison Square Garden.

It’s one of Scott’s favorite comics of all time and it’s absolutely crazy, so obviously we spend about the last 20 minutes of the show talking about Marvel Two-In-One Annual # 7. It’s a classic story of a cosmic alien boxing promoter trying arrange some card of a boxing-super card that involves making Hulk, Wonderman, Sasquatch, Doc Samson, Thor, Colossus, Namor and The Thing fight a big space man.

Comic books!

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time! On this week’s episode Jon reveals his diabolical plan to combine Expedition to the Barrier Peaks with a cult RPG from the 80s! We also talk about how Adventure Time might still be the best show in the world and then I once again try (and fail) to convince Scott to watch Andor. But he hates good television so he says no. Enjoy the show! If that sounds cool then 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!

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9ES297: Rainbow Tape

by on November 2, 2023 at 8:46 pm
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Seriously though – imagine being so uncertain of your values as an organization that you thought putting a ban on the colour of tape of hockey players were allowed to use was a good idea. What kind of out of touch garbage people were sitting around a conference room table and legitimately thinking “boy – we need to make sure none of these professional sport-boys use pride tape on their sticks.” Won’t somebody please think of the children!

 

There’s a part in this episode where Jon suggests that some of his neighbours have gone too far in their Halloween decorations. Decorations are too gruesome and intense! Something must be done. That’s right, the same person who watched Salo and Thanatomorphose multiple times is now asking his neighbours to calm down with the gory Halloween displays. Won’t somebody please think of the children!

 

The other big topic of this show has to do with the absolute garbage names the PWHL seem to have selected for their inaugural teams.We get into the whole list in the episode but let’s just say I can’t imagine Little Timmy will be too excited to wear a “Montreal Echo” jersey when he heads out to the local skating rink this winter. Won’t somebody please think of the children!

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time, Jono watched that Netflix documentary series about American Gladiators and honestly I just want to know whether or not Laser is ok or not. I’m pretty sure he’s still alive but I’m not going to look it up in case he isn’t. We also get into the age old debate of Marvel vs DC. Keith is reading a LOT of Marvel right now and while it seems to all be pretty good it certainly seems that the “highs” of DC are significantly higher. You be the judge! Enjoy! If that sounds cool then 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!

 

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9ES296: 3 of 7, ok 2 of 7

by on October 21, 2023 at 1:25 pm
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I am still shocked that Look Who’s Talking Now features the voice talents of Danny Devito…as a dog… in a movie full of pee-pee poo-poo jokes… and does not have him deliver the line “what? poop is funny.” If Look Who’s Talking Now was the origin of that iconic bit of comedy gold it would have opened up a brand new meme on the internet I’m sure of it.

 

Sadly the movie failed even delivering that possible little historical comedy nugget for Jon’s entertainment. Instead it featured a baby dunking on Charles Barkley.

 

‘Tis the season for horror movies and it seems like Jon and Scott barely understood the assignment. Jon may have started Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinnochio” but then bailed when it was too dark and scary for his baby.

 

How is the baby going to get through “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” if you’re pulling the plug on Pinnochio? Parents these days.

 

Meanwhile, Keith watched Marvel’s Werewolf by Night (in black and white because why would you want to watch it in colour) and it was… fine. Those are the kind of hot takes you can come up with when you’re getting close to 300 episodes of pop-culture podcasting.

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… listen, my show notes on the bonus episode are pretty shoddy this time around, I know we talk about Sextile and The BCASA and I remember that Scott ragged on Drew Barrymore a little, but this episode is almost 40 minutes long and I’m not sure those are the only things we talk about. We probably talk about comic books or television shows because what else do we talk about on these things? Enjoy!. If that sounds cool then 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!

 

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9ES295: D&D AIN’T

by on October 6, 2023 at 8:00 am
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We talk a lot about institutions in this episode of 9ES. Dungeons & Dragons and Wu-Tang Clan are definitely institutions of their established mediums. But where the Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ to Fuck Wit – perhaps it is time that we start fucking with D&D.

 

You have no idea how proud I am of writing that intro.

 

Dungeons & Dragons does seem to exist in a weird intersection of conflicting demands from the players. On the one hand it has over 40 years of hardcore players that demand that each edition is “just so” full of monsters, spells and abilities that they are familiar with and this multi-layered system that is a hodge-podge mess of four decades of rubber bands and glue holding a “game system” together. They never really get to start fresh since they are somehow obligated to transfer over whole chunks of each previous iteration.

 

On the other hand, it’s the most mainstream RPG there is. It’s basically synonymous with the term “role playing game” and if there is someone out there who is just interested in playing their first RPG they will almost certainly pick up a D&D book to do so.

 

They’re trying please people who are diehard fans of the hobby for decades and people that just picked up their first player’s handbook because the kids in Stranger Things looked like they were having fun at the same time.

Impossible.

 

I guess the good news is that they have a pretty decent history of listening to player feedback (possibly to their detriment). So if you care about this as much as we do maybe head over to dndbeyond and start telling them their new stuff sucks.

 

Tell them to be more like Wu Tang Clan. For the children.

 

Over on Garbage Time Scott and I talk a little bit about (what else) Marvel Snap (Scott hit Infinite everyone!) before we talk about some movies we’ve been watching recently. The 90s are alive in Garbage Time as we talk about Army of Darkness and Deep Rising. Keith also watched Shudder Exclusive “Who Invited Them?” and that was cool too. If that sounds cool then 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!

 

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9ES294: Brad Bramish Is IN

by on September 21, 2023 at 9:00 am
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Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake is one of those rare shows that actually assumes its audience has grown up with the show. It assumes that if you were like 9 or 10 when Adventure Time started, you’re now a person in your 20s. So Fionna and Cake treats you like an adult. Not in a “now we can cuss and show violence” kind of way (although there is more graphic violence than in the original run) – but more in a “let’s deal with some complex issues like depression, anxiety and misplaced guilt while still somehow (mostly) taking place in the Candy Kingdom.

 

If you ask me, that’s dope.

 

For those of you know us personally you know that 9ES is basically an extension of the endless hours Jon, Scott and Keith spent either at a bar or at the Dawson Sci-Fi club just shooting the shit about comics, movies and whatever else we happened to be into at a given moment.

 

The first half of this episode really taps into that vibe in a way that the show doesn’t always manage to perfectly capture. It’s just the three of us taking a meandering talk about somewhat obscure comic book characters who have spun off into somewhat obscure television shows.

 

If you had to take a wild guess what we would talk about in this week’s episode I would challenge any of you to say: “They’re going to talk an awful lot about Shadow King.”

 

I challenge all of you.

 

Unrelated but we really need to figure out who is next up to watch a really bad movie – if only to make Jon watch The Eternals.

 

Over on Garbage Time Scott and I talk a little bit about (what else) Marvel Snap before Jon shows back up. We also get into the origin of the phrase “You’re Toast” before we spend a good chunk of time talking about Indiana Jones. If that sounds cool then 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!

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9ES293: Of Course It Was Always All Real

by on September 9, 2023 at 4:26 pm
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CM Punk is my favorite wrestler.

As a bit of a “smart” mark wrestling fan I became aware of him initially in his run with Ring of Honor. I vaguely remember some ROH stuff online in the mid-2000s but it was still pretty obscure and hard to follow along with. From what I saw I dug the character and his wrestling and was genuinely excited when he started popping up in WWE enough that I could actually follow along with.

Anyhow – it’s hard to be a fan of a guy who apparently choked a guy nearly half his age because the younger guy really wanted to do a stupid stunt. Stupid stunts are a part of wrestling and even if Old Man CM Punk thinks it’s a dumb idea it’s pretty shitty to get real-world violent because of it.

I think CM Punk maybe not wrestling anymore and retiring might be best – it will certainly make it easier to stay being a fan of him. I can be like “yeah he messed up at the end there a little, but maybe he’s got CTE” and just sort of remember the good times he brought me as a performer.

Meanwhile – while the wrestling world was buzzing about CM Punk getting fired, 70,000 people at Burning Man were getting bogged down in the mud and Steve Harwell from Smash Mouth died. Here’s something I found out while recording this episode: Steve Harwell retired from the band but the band still plays shows. There’s a new guy singing. His name is Zach Goode and let’s be real – he’s not as good as Steve Harwell. Seriously.

Over on Garbage Time we talk about Baldur’s Gate 3 because Jono decided to restart the entire game. Keith is also getting into the show Silo (based on the novel “Wool” if that helps) and Scott watched Season 2 of Good Omens so that is pretty nice. If that sounds cool then 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!

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9ES292: Venture Fourth

by on August 26, 2023 at 12:26 pm
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is here and it kind of feels like the current “biggest game in the world” at the moment. I mean, it’s not. That will always be Fortnite probably. Or maybe Minecraft.

 

Anyways, I overheard people at work talking about Baldur’s Gate 3. People. At work. That’s the zeitgeist in action everyone.

 

I find it crazy that Dungeons & Dragons is simultaneously one of the biggest intellectual properties there is and also somehow constantly in financial danger. How much money do you think Hasbro makes off of Baldur’s Gate 3? I should consider looking that up.

 

Keeping on the “everything old is new again” path I still cannot fathom who greenlit Twisted Metal to be a television show. I’m enjoying the show well enough but honestly I would have much rather a new Twisted Metal video game instead of a live-action adaptation over a decade removed from the latest entry in the series. We live in wild times.

 

Finally, we all should all make a mental note to watch Deep Rising. I love it when things get new life breathed into them and they have a renaissance moment as cult classics. I hope that happens one day to this podcast.

 

Over on Garbage Time we talk about a dream that I had about unwittingly stealing a van from someone I haven’t really seen in nearly 20 years. We also talk about Scott auditioning to be a voice actor which leads into some comic talk which obviously ends off with talking about Marvel Snap.. If that sounds cool then 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!

 

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9ES290: A Woman Looks At Him Angrily

by on July 28, 2023 at 11:08 pm
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So a while ago they renamed the famous Montreal venue ‘Metropolis’ to the MTelus, because Telus bought the venue. A few things on that. First of all, I mostly just still call the venue “Metropolis” and when I don’t I call it “mmmmm… Telus…” as though I just ate Telus and it was delicious. I feel much the same way about “Elon Musk X” or “Elon Musk says Twitter is X now.” Or whatever.

 

Like sure, maybe if I had kids they would eventually call Twitter “X” in the same way that I call… I don’t know, what’s something that had a name and then was renamed to something else and our parents still call it something else.

 

DORCHESTER.

 

Ok, so maybe that only makes sense if you live in Montreal. René Levesque Boulevard used to be called Dorchester (and it still is in Westmount). The street was renamed in 1987, and now if anyone calls it Dorchester you look at them funny. I went to college in 2000 and only ever knew the street as “René Levesque” – so let’s say that Papa Elon has a good 10 to 12 years before “X” overtakes “Twitter” in the parlance of the common chum.

 

Will Twitter be around in 12 years? Let’s find out together. I’ll wait.

 

Keith got to see the Foo Fighters to a crowd of about 3700 people at the Verdun Auditorium. He sang “Everlong” with his high school band and his wife walked down the aisle to an acoustic version of the song. Either you know why seeing that band in that venue is a “big deal” or you don’t care.

 

Moving on.

 

Over on Garbage Time we take a look at the Rolling Stones’ setlist from “Voodoo Lounge” only to realize that none of us are really big fans of the Rolling Stones. Jon debates whether or not he should convert Dragon Mountain to 5e (and maybe just settles on converting White Plume Mountain instead). Finally, Keith tries to stump the boys with some of the best riddles The Riddler has tried to stump Batman with. If that sounds cool then 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!

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9ES 289 – You A Whole Billionaire

by on June 29, 2023 at 10:48 am
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I still maintain that my favorite part of the whole Titan submersible disaster was when Cardi B had a hot take about one of the billionaires’ stepson going to a Blink-182 concert.

Read that sentence again. Soak it in. Bask in it.

I think we say everything that needs to be said about this news event and we can all pretty much move on. Before recording this episode I (Keith) said “yeah, but billionaires aren’t people.” I didn’t mean that they were not human beings or anything, but that nothing in their lives is like our own. They might as well be aliens.

I saw a thing the other day that really drove home just how much a billion was and why being a billionaire is just fundamentally different from a millionaire. It used seconds.

1 million seconds = 11.6 days

1 billion seconds = 31.7 years

That’s a huge difference. Connor McDavid signed a $100,000,000 dollar contract, one of the highest payouts in NHL history. Even at 100 million dollars, if he started spending a dollar a second he would still run out of money in 3 years.

A billion dollars is so much fucking money.

Is it enough money to start a coup in Russia? You know, it just might be. Meanwhile, I’m very happy that apparently that Flash movie isn’t very good. I now don’t want to see it and that’s a nice feeling.

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time Scott continues his crusade against Mario. Scott is a true follower of the yellow electric rat. You know, I knew a girl in high-school that repeatedly said she wanted to “learn the Pikachu language”. What a strange aspiration. If that sounds coo  then 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!

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9ES288: Studio Meddling

by on June 15, 2023 at 9:34 pm
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We talk a lot about a lot of things in this episode of 9to5 Entertainment System. We break down the reddit blackout news, Conor McGregor knocking out a mascot and we maybe even figure out why Ridley Scott movies suck after a certain point.

But we also talk about whether or not Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 might be a metaphor for James Gunn’s relationship with Marvel/Disney.

But don’t take my word for it, here is chatgpt once again to explain:

Rocket’s storyline in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 can be interpreted as a metaphor for James Gunn’s relationship with Disney, with Disney represented by the character of the High Evolutionary. This metaphor emphasizes the power dynamics, conflicts, and challenges that Gunn may have encountered while working with the studio.

The High Evolutionary, a character known for his desire to control and manipulate genetic structures, represents Disney in this metaphorical interpretation. Just as the High Evolutionary seeks to shape and control lifeforms, Disney, as a powerful studio, has a vested interest in maintaining control over its intellectual properties and maintaining a specific brand image.

Rocket, a genetically modified and rebellious creature, symbolizes James Gunn. Rocket’s nature reflects Gunn’s unique artistic vision and his willingness to challenge established norms. Gunn, like Rocket, brings his distinct voice and creativity to the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

Throughout the storyline, the High Evolutionary attempts to exert control over Rocket, dictating his actions and imposing limitations on his freedom. This mirrors the potential struggles Gunn may have faced with Disney’s influence and restrictions on his creative choices. Gunn’s desire for artistic freedom and his willingness to push boundaries could have clashed with Disney’s desire for control and adherence to their established brand.

Rocket’s journey of self-discovery and defiance against the High Evolutionary’s control represents Gunn’s own resistance and quest for creative autonomy. Just as Rocket rebels against the High Evolutionary’s manipulation, Gunn may have pushed back against Disney’s attempts to restrict his artistic expression.

Ultimately, Rocket’s triumph over the High Evolutionary can be seen as a metaphor for Gunn’s ability to navigate the power dynamics and find a balance in his relationship with Disney. It suggests that Gunn may have successfully asserted his creative vision and secured a level of autonomy within the collaboration.

In summary, Rocket’s storyline in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 can be interpreted as a metaphor for James Gunn’s relationship with Disney, with Disney represented by the High Evolutionary. This metaphor highlights the potential struggles and power dynamics that Gunn may have faced while working with a powerful studio, emphasizing his quest for creative freedom and the importance of finding a balance between artistic expression and studio control.

Not bad robot. Not bad at all…

 

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time we talk once again about the League of Legends North American pro walkout that may or may not be happening. Scott also saves his hot take about Citadel for Garbage Time and Keith watched a movie that was nominated for a bunch of Academy Awards. If that sounds cool then 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!

 

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