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9ES293: Of Course It Was Always All Real

by on September 9, 2023 at 4:26 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

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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9ES260: 150 Million Years Of Solitude

by on May 5, 2022 at 11:29 am
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that takes a little bit longer to figure out when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus were alive than you might expect is back. Dinosaur facts!

 

(More dinosaur facts: I misspelled both “Tyrannosaurus” and “Stegosaurus” while typing them! Feel free to guess how.)

 

At a certain point in this episode Scott posits that CM Punk is one of the most recognizable wrestlers currently actively wrestling. Listen, Keith owns 4 pieces of wrestling merch and 3 of them are CM Punk branded so you would think he would be ready to avidly agree, but he does not.

 

Let’s turn to Twitter to measure the global reach of currently active wrestlers even though, as we discuss in this episode, many of these followers might be fake. The Top 4 that we posit have global recognition of active wrestlers are: Ronda Rousey, Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns and CM Punk. Let’s see how many followers they have:

 

 

Brock is probably hurting since he hasn’t tweeted since 2020 but that’s still a pretty big case for Roman Reigns. A picture of him that he tweeted on April 30th holding the belts had 500 comments, 2000 retweets and 17,000 likes. Nobody else on that list gets close to those numbers.

 

Then again, he works for a company that his piped in cheers over stadium speakers to try to make it look like people were actually cheering for him a few years ago so maybe this entire exercise has been pointless.

 

I think it’s also worth noting that Ronda is an absolute abysmal follow on Twitter.

 

Garbage Time returns this week since we’re all healthy and we reward you for your patience with an extra-long edition of it! A meandering conversation that includes Scott’s takes on “The Batman” and trying to figure out just who “El Muerto” is in the Marvel Universe. No, not the one in the DC Universe. Not sure who we’re talking about? He’s getting a Sony produced movie starring Bad Bunny so you will find out soon! If all that sounds like the best (because it is), 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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9ES242: It’s On The Internet It Must Be True

by on August 26, 2021 at 8:00 am
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting
The Montreal podcast that knows your anger, and knows your dreams is back. It’s the podcast that has been everything you want to be.
That’s right, CM Punk is back in professional wrestling and that’s pretty cool for about two-thirds of us. We also talk about Scarlett Johansson going toe-to-toe with the House of Mouse and question Netflix’s business model. We also get into obesity. Like we get into it. We are all obese now. We live what we talk about.
Not really, but what we do dig into is some of the science (or lack of science) that seems to be tied to human weight gain in the last few years as we look a little at the research going on at Slime Mold Time Mold which I will admit is a weird name for a website.
Finally we wrap things up with a little bit of talk about The Masters of the Universe.
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9ES118: Pugilist Prime Ministers

by on September 15, 2016 at 8:00 am
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

 

9es 118

 

 

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The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!

The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

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9to5 Entertainment System 75: Get to the Intimacy

by on December 11, 2014 at 12:23 pm
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These new microphones bring about a whole different swarm of hurdles for me, the science dog of audio recording, to overcome. There’s something fishy about this recording. It sounds fine at regular volume, but if you turn it up too loud it gets really weird. I’m gonna do some tests. I guess, just don’t turn us up too loud? I mean, who the hell would just crank up a podcast? “Oh man, is that Episode 75 of 9es? THAT IS MY JAM! TURN THAT SHIT UP!!” Not likely. Another milestone achieved! 75 episodes! We ain’t, going no-where, we ain’t, going nowhere, we’re bad boys for life.9es 75

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The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!
The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

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Wrestlemania 29 Match Reviews That Would Fit in a Tweet

by on April 8, 2013 at 11:45 am
Posted In: Fuck Mondays, Keith, Sports

I know, I know, I’m supposed to be reviewing Tomb of Horrors right now but a few things have come up. One, I need to get some paperwork in order for my new job and two, we didn’t actually complete the tomb. Part 1 of the Tomb of Horrors article should be ready next Monday. So, here are my quick impressions for all the matches of Wrestlemania 29.

The Miz defeated Wade Barrett (c) via submission for the Intercontinental Title
Miz locked a well executed figure-four to make Barrett tap. A move that an old man gave to him by magic. I remember that this match was ok.

The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns) defeated Sheamus, Randy Orton, and Big Show
Shield looked great. Glad they beat the Justice League clean and Big Show’s “turn” on Orton and Sheamus wasn’t actually during the match.

Mark Henry defeated Ryback
Boring big man match. At least we all got to go “ooooh” when Ryback marched around with Henry on his shoulders at the end. Also: Bear Hug!

Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler and Big E Langston (with AJ Lee) for the Tag Team Championships
Enjoyed the match, Zigg, Kane and Bryan looked good, not much out of Big E. Sort of sad that Bryan and Kane can’t get singles stories yet.

Fandango defeated Chris Jericho
Sleeper match of the show, Fandango looked nervous but still delivered and Jericho sold new talent well. Maybe shouldn’t have been at ‘mania.

Alberto Del Rio (with Ricardo Rodriguez) (c) defeated Jack Swagger (with Zeb Colter) via Submission for the World Heavyweight Championship
Del Rio carried the match in my opinion, not a fan of Swagger’s in ring inability to put over his opponent. Sad that Ziggler didn’t cash in.

The Undertaker defeated CM Punk (with Paul Heyman)
An entire era separates Punk and Taker and they deliver the match of the night. Streak intact means maybe one more ‘Mania for the Dead Man.

Triple H (with Shawn Michaels) defeated Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman)
HBK added nothing to this match, a little slow and it almost looked like Brock was carrying HHH and not vice-versa.

John Cena defeated The Rock (c) for the WWE Championship
Better than last year but still a boring spot-fest with either possible result somehow seeming lame and predictable. Fans were really quiet.

Final Impressions:
So, how was it on the whole? I think it was honestly one of the better Wrestlemania PPVs I’ve seen in the past few years. The fact that they were running rushed meant cutting the almost always terrible comedic interludes which gave it a real fast-paced UFC style feel (even if it was completely unintentional) and there weren’t any real “dud” matches (even Rock/Cena would’ve gone over pretty well if this was a few years ago and the fans bought into spot-fests the way they used to).

I am terrified that John Cena will end the Streak next year at XXX.

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Fuck Mondays: One Line Review of Every Match at Elimination Chamber (Spoilers)

by on February 18, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Posted In: Keith, Sports

If you were following the 9to5 (twitter)account last night, you probably realized that I was watching the latest WWE Pay-Per-View, Elimination Chamber. I drank a lot of beer and had terrible service from an awful waitress at PJ’s but otherwise it was a pretty decent (in my opinion) PPV. Here’s what I remember about the matches.

None of these men were actually in the Elimination Chamber

None of these men were actually in the Elimination Chamber

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9to5 Entertainment System 28: Bravest Little Hobbit of Them All

by on January 31, 2013 at 9:47 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

You know, with a title like that, you’d probably think we talk a lot about The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit and you know, we do talk about those things. However, we talk a lot more about wrestling. We talk about it a whole bunch. Seriously gang, the first 30 minutes or so of this episode are dedicated almost entirely to the last few days worth of wrestling news, CM Punk vs The Rock at Royal Rumble, Cena winning the Royal Rumble, Ryder, Ziggler, man, we talk about wrestling for a long time. Then we talk about other stuff.

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The bed music during our advertising is Tone Commander!
The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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