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9ES340: Charles VII

by on July 4, 2025 at 11:23 pm
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Does it say something about the current political climate that we would much rather devote a good chunk of our time talking about the Hundred Years’ War of the late Middle-Ages than current events?

 

I think it does. Anyways, war has always been crazy and we’re always getting better at it, fun!

 

Scott really, really wants you to watch “Alligator” from 1980 and he’s probably in the right for doing so. Honestly, I watched the trailer and I kind of wish I hadn’t on account of the spoilers. Going into such a triumphant looking creature feature blind is probably the way to go.

 

Also, when we talk about the scene in Batman Forever where Robin does his laundry with kung-fu or whatever it really must be seen to be believed. Trust me.

 

I still think Batman Forever is a lot of fun and I’m honestly considering revisiting Batman and Robin to find out if it actually swings so far into being terrible that might it come out the other side as actually fun and good. It probably doesn’t but maybe time has been kind to it?

 

Time will not be kind to that Snow White remake though. It’s awful.

 

Meanwhile  – over on Garbage Time, we talk about how important soundtracks can be for movies and how the late 90s and early 2000s were a golden age of movie soundtracks. Obviously that gets us talking about the Spawn movie. We talk about shifting heroes around in the Marvel and DC Comics universe and close it off with some podcast recommendations. 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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9ES339: DSFSFD Alumni

by on June 19, 2025 at 6:31 pm
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After months of teasing the subject we finally have all gotten on the same page and watched Hot Rod. Will this bring an end to the Hot Rod content that has been creeping into almost every episode for what feels like months? Maybe.

 

Maybe not.

 

Of course since we all watched it we also get to put it on The List and its ranking may surprise you.That is if you are capable of being surprised.

 

Talking about Hot Rod makes us all pretty nostalgic so we also talk about things that are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. REJECTED by Don Hertzfeldt is incredibly 25 years old next month and Yacht Rock celebrates its 20th Anniversary this month. Yes we talked about Yacht Rock last week on Garbage Time but now we talk about it on the main show. I swear we say different things about it.

 

In case you were wondering – we are old and we like old things. None of us know what cheugy means and my wife stared at me blankly when I yelled “Chicken Jockey” and lit our house on fire.

 

If you’re actually reading this, it means you care enough to read the show notes. If you care that much then please take another 30 seconds and leave a rating and review of 9ES wherever you listen to us. We’d appreciate it. Apparently it helps.

 

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the shocking re-hiring of of R-Truth by WWE, Keith started Last of Us Season 2 and saw Justice at Place Bell. Scott is fed up with zombies but he’ll still probably watch 28 Years Later. Oh and there’s a new Knives Out movie coming out. 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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9ES338: TB:EU

by on June 6, 2025 at 7:52 pm
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First of all let’s get the most important thing out of the way shall we? Listen to Scott as “The Thing” in Fantastic Four: Super Skrull right now on YouTube!

 

Do it – go on, we’ll still be here when you get back I promise.

 

Let’s get the record straight since maybe it wasn’t clear – The Birds and Birdemic are not the same. Part of me is actually deeply worried that the creator of Birdemic (whose name I will not be looking up) really does think he made the spiritual sequel to “The Birds” and it’s deeply upsetting.

 

I’m not sure how or why exactly but we get into the fact that Indiana Jones is a little like Drake. He “likes ‘em young”. Indy’s pushing 40 in Temple of Doom, and he’s got eyes for Willie Scott, who’s barely out of her 20s. Then there’s Marion in Raiders—she was *checks notes* a teenager when they first hooked up, and he was, what, late 20s? Why did George Lucas want to keep that in the script so badly?

 

So I did a little digging thanks to the Wayback Machine and apparently this oral history was published in issue 208 of a magazine called “Empire” and it was actually Karen Allen who had a whole story in mind for when Marion was 15 years old. Still pretty fucking weird.

“Allen: I had a whole history for the character from the time she was born. What happened to her mother, how long she’d been in Nepal and her romance with Indy when she was 15 or 16. I remember showing it to Steven who said, “That’s an entirely different movie.“

 

Anyways, Scott and Keith watched Captain America: Brave New World and it pretty damn bland but also kind of fine.

 

Keith is making his way through the Final Destination franchise – he’s watched the first 3 so it’s downhill from here! (At least until Bloodlines which is apparently actually amazing).

 

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the special place that Yacht Rock has in our hearts and souls, the shocking release of R-Truth from WWE and of course language laws that our bonkers in our beautiful home province of Quenec. 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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9ES337: Determined Nondeterminism

by on May 22, 2025 at 11:08 pm
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It seems that every single year around this time we get to have an episode devoted to the postseason demise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It also seems like there is always a fun new statistic available to dunk on the Maple Leafs in whole new ways.

 

This year? It’s that Brad Marchand is hilariously 5-0 against the Maple Leaf in Game 7. That doesn’t seem possible. But it’s the Maple Leafs, so of course it is. Or how about how there is now talk of blowing up the team and “retooling” or whatever but they have ZERO first round draft picks until 2028? That’s right, for the next three drafts the Maple Leafs will not have a first round pick. They went all in on this team and this team cannot get the job done.

 

Anyways, since we were having too much fun dunking on the Maple Leafs we decided to take things down a notch by talking about Kanye West being a Nazi, P Diddy being a disgusting human being and the Hockey Canada Trial that is also pretty disgusting. Can’t be having too much fun out there.

 

Keith also saw Thunderbolts* and it was pretty good.

 

Meanwhile  – over on Garbage Time, we talk about Daredevil: Born Again, the Krakoan Age comics and the “Three Body Problem” on Netflix. This naturally leads to Jono proving that free will exists by virtue of physics. Bet you weren’t expecting that now were you? Finally, we fantasy cast the FaceOff sequel that we all so desperately need. 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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9ES336: Hot Rods Plot

by on May 8, 2025 at 9:55 pm
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It’s wild to me that after years and years of terrible vampire movies we’ve been treated to two great ones in the last few months. First “Nosferatu” in December and now Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”. Is this the renaissance that vampire aficionados like the three of us have been waiting for? Let’s hope so.

 

So yeah, “Sinners” is great and I very much love the idea that ownership of the movie will revert back to Ryan Coogler in 20 years. Honestly that should be normalized. I know studios will hate it but screw that. Coogler wrote, produced and directed “Sinners” – he deserves to eventually own it. More of that please.

 

Speaking of “Sinners”, we take a look at the movies coming out this summer and boy oh boy is that a pile of remakes and sequels. I guess I should be happy that we got one great brand new movie to kick off blockbuster season because for the next few months it’s remake and sequel after reboot.

 

Also – minor correction for those of you who read the show notes: Constantine 2 isn’t coming out until 2026. Sorry to get your (and my) hopes up for the one sequel I truly care about.

 

Meanwhile – over on Garbage Time, we talk about the NHL Playoffs and get into the dark, dark place of the Hockey Canada trial. We lighten things up a little afterwards by talking about the Bad Lieutenant movies and the Jono teaches us all about conquistadors! And how awesome the Aztecs are:  https://mattlakeman.org/2020/06/25/polygamy-human-sacrifices-and-steel-why-the-aztecs-were-awesome/

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9ES335: Bringing Quaid Back

by on May 2, 2025 at 10:04 pm
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Who would have thought that electing the party lead by a 60 year old white banker-dude was the result I would be happiest with?

 

How far we have fallen. As predicted the NDP now have less than 10 seats which I only found out today is the lowest number of seats they’ve ever had since they became a party. Tommy Douglas is rolling in his grave.

 

All three of us probably enjoyed the 2007 film “Hot Rod” more than most people. I was an OG Lonely Island fan so I’m one of the few people who even saw it in theaters (I may have even been at an advance screening if I remember correctly). It’s certainly not for everyone, but it is certainly for us.

 

Honestly that’s most of what we talk about in this episode. Hot Rod and the Canadian Election. The Canadian Election and Hot Rod. Perhaps those two things are not so different? Now I want to see Mark Carney punch dance.

 

Anyways – over on Garbage Time, we play a game of “Fuck, Marry, Kill” with the main-event wrestlers of Night 1 of WrestleMania Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and CM Punk. Our answers will shock you! Maybe. We then discuss how we should make meme movies and finally we get into the NHL Playoffs and the Montreal Canadiens. 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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9ES 333: The Big Sweepy Sweep

by on April 4, 2025 at 9:53 am
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We know why you listen to the 9to5 Entertainment System – you want to know what we think about the Oscar Best Picture winner Anora and whether or not you can watch it with your mom.

Just kidding, we kick off the show by talking about how Pierre Polievre looks like Ditto from Detective Pikachu trying to look like a human:

I’m now pretty convinced that the leader of the Conservative party is a Pokémom trying to infiltrate our government.

The answer to the first question is probably a no, by the way. The first hour or so of Anora has a lot of sex. Like, more than you think. Ask yourself “Do I want to watch the son of a Russian oligarch and an exotic dancer do a lot of drugs and have a lot of sex with my mom?” and then make that decision for yourself.

From now on my own personal measure of success will be based on Jim Carrey getting the script for Sonic 3 printed on gold. Someone will be like “hey, we want you to play in our Dungeons & Dragons game” and I will say “only if you give me a character sheet made of real gold.” And then THEY WILL.

Anyways – over on Garbage Time, Scott talks about the challenges of writing a script for an audio drama that hopefully sees the light of day one of these days (hopefully he edits it himself). We also talk about how the future of war should definitely be more like Robot Jox and less like tariffs. Then we talk about the Olsen sisters for much longer than you expect. 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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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
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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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