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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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9ES275: A Business Model

by on December 15, 2022 at 8:41 pm
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Montreal’s kooky and spooky podcast makes like Wednesday Addams on Netflix and rehashes some of our greatest hits for your entertainment.

That means we talk about crypto stuff again as Jon brings us up to date with the whole SBF/FTX thing. Between the time we recorded this episode and now it’s been revealed that SBF faces something like 165 years in prison.

That’s what I call “a sticky situation.”

What’s crazier? That BitCoin is actually trending UP. To quote OKUDA (who provides our theme song):

“Crazy, I wonder what the logic is…some kinda hedge against these stablecoins that are about to become un-pegged? Or because Binance needs to sell a bunch of its assets to cover the USDC withdrawals that it paused? It’s madness no matter how you slice it.”

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Madness indeed OKUDA. Madness indeed.

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9ES273: Still Waiting For The DVD Money

by on November 2, 2022 at 8:35 pm
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Montreal’s best podcast talks about what it might mean that Elon Musk now owns Twitter.

 

Imagine having enough money to buy something for $44 billion dollars. Man, something costing $44 billion dollars should be illegal. 

 

Avengers: Endgame made a little under $3 billion. Is Twitter like 15 times more valuable than Avengers: Endgame? I know which one I’d rather own.

 

We get pretty into DVD releases vs streaming releases and what kind of a second life a film can get once it leaves the cinema. Honestly one of our liveliest debates of the show in recent memory.

 

Because we love cinema.

 

So much so that we rank it.

 

There’s still plenty of time to let us know what movies you want to see get re-ranked on The List so please let us know your picks using this handy little survey. Since we’re too cheap to buy the premium survey features we are making due with what we’ve got so that means you have to pick at least 1 movie from each question, and at most 5 from each. So you need to pick 2 to 10 movies we should consider re-ranking. Use the comment boxes to explain yourself.

 

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Over on Garbage Time Scott talks about his racoon onesie, which is not unlike a Tanooki suit, which in turn leads to us talking about the Netflix series “High Score” about the history of video games. Then for some reason Scott decides that Age of Ultron is his favorite Marvel movie. He doesn’t read these blurbs so this statement will never be rebutted.. 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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9ES265: Victims Of Bad Sound

by on July 14, 2022 at 8:00 am
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The Montreal podcast that is sitting around wondering whether the number of positive Covid-19 cases will spike following the Montreal Jazz Fest continues to record remotely.

Are we scared of the virus or are we just really into doing this podcast from the comfort of our own homes?

We’ll never tell.

The Jazz Fest, despite probably being a super-spreading event, was amazing and Keith went to it a bunch anyhow.

I wonder if, when 9ES is eventually taken off the air, we will remember this episode and replace every single episode with just a one-hour long loop of “Killing in the Name Of”?

You should be thanking your lucky stars that there even is a new episode out because the Rogers outage happened and maybe all the podcasts were going to get deleted too because of it.

I’m sure this won’t be the last time we talk about Stranger Things 4, since we will almost certainly circle back and dissect it once all of us have finished the season but we talk about it a little anyhow because it’s 9ES and that’s what we do. It’s a sci-fi horror show, set in the 80s with strong ties to D&D… what podcast do you think you’re listening to here?

 

Meanwhile in Garbage Time, we talk about how Warren Ellis is very rightfully canceled now (even though Keith read his take on Moon Knight), Umbrella Academy and whether or not they’re going to remake Superbad..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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9ES259: Egg

by on April 23, 2022 at 4:28 pm
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The Montreal podcast that revels in the celebration of a man-sized bunny stashing eggs around the house is back for episode 259.

 

We speculate a little here that Easter Bunny might be a pagan thing, but nope, it’s rooted in one of the weird corners of Christianity after all::

 

“The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times, it was widely believed (as by Pliny, Plutarch, Philostratus, and Aelian) that the hare was a hermaphrodite. The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.”

 

Speaking of figures of legend, Keith found out about “Let Me Solo Her” over the weekend so we spend a little bit of time talking about Elden Ring and the strange tradition of brave players in their underwear fighting bosses by themselves.

 

We do a pretty good job of explaining why this player is a huge badass but so does this guy on YouTube.

 

I find the idea of these video game based tiny folk heroes kind of fascinating, and unlike the staged variety (Leeroy Jenkins), Let Me Solo Her is an honest to goodness (video game) hero. Showing up in other people’s games with a pot on his head and helping players defeat the hardest boss in the game.

 

That shit’s cool man.

 

Unfortunately, there is no Garbage Time this week. As you can probably tell during the episode Jono is feeling a little below the weather and Scott is just all the way not on the show. We’ll think of something to make it up to you. If you still want to show your support and check out past episodes of Garbage Time then head over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier.

 

9ES259

 

 

 

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9ES170: Courting Disaster With The BCLTA

by on November 8, 2018 at 8:00 am
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Boy I get so excited talking about Dune I forget what I wanted to say and run over my own ideas.

It’s rare that an art enters your life at a critical period, is in fact widely regarded as great, and then grows with age, so that one doesn’t have to regret the nostalgia tainted love.  Like, I was way into Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness: it was my first CD; it got a lot of rotation, but listening back to Billy Corgan’s whines as an adult I cannot but be certain: there is the music of a teenage boy.  Sorry Billy.

Not so with Dune.  On this last reread I think I have absorbed some of the more structural aspects of the work.  Where before the complexity overwhelmed maybe now I see the basic scaffold the sci-fi is clinging to.  I use basic here not in the pejorative sense, but more to imply the fundamental Vonnegut-“all stories follow the same basic shape” shape.  This isn’t a bad thing, more of a broadening sense of appreciation for the storytelling devices.  Like I failed to clearly say in the podcast there’s a core story that’s approachable and recognizable hiding behind the sandworms and witches and time piercing space Jesus.  Rare that a book still presents undiscovered country after a half-dozen rereads.

I hope that wasn’t too pretentious.

Anyway, maybe there will come a time when I will look back on the titanic cynicism of the book, the venom directed at the modern institutions of governance (and messiahs!), and remind myself that cynicism is an expression of naivete and I will be past it like the Litany says.  Or maybe I’ll actually enjoy the 3rd book?

Probably not on both counts.

 

 

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9ES167: Thanos Can Fix Hollywood

by on September 27, 2018 at 8:00 am
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As long as he kills the half who pee on unwilling people and not by making another movie.

Think about what a nice trade that would be.  The end of Infinity War would forever remain a mystery, unless you wanted to read the books or more likely don’t care, and in exchange the bad half of Hollywood is gone.  Not too shabby.  Unless of course being a sexual predator is somehow linked to the quality of your artistic output.  I doubt it, but I guess I only ever listened to like 3 of the trapped in the closet jibberjabbers.

There’s a temptation there, treading into the genius->madness Rubicon, where you might imagine that the tides of suffering vomited by the villains of the world has a net positive impact.  A unified Europe without Hitler?  Somewhere Over The Rainbow without barbiturates and amphetamines?

Yeah fuck that.  All that is nonsense.  We never see what could have been.

 

 

 

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