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9ES364: Beef Producers

by on June 7, 2026 at 12:03 am
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There’s more than a few photos kicking around of Brendan Gallagher, Andrei Markov and Tomas Plekanec all together on the Habs. They were all on the team from 2012 when Gallagher got called up to Markov’s departure at the end of the 2016-2017 season. All three of those guys played over 900 games for the bleu-blanc-rouge. I feel like only Markov has a real chance of having his number up in the rafters and even then I wouldn’t consider it a lock.

 

All the same Brendan Gallagher is certainly a player who I think most Habs fans will remember fondly for a very long time.

 

Pretty sure it’s the right time to move on, the team is younger and poor Gally is just not going to be a part of whatever the final form of this roster looks like. Still I can be a little sad about a guy who has often been described as “the heart and soul” of the team no longer wearing the CH.

 

Plus during the pandemic he did some genuinely funny tiktok videos. Even if they’re just lip-synching to scenes from TV shows that’s still more personally than we see from 99% of hockey players.

 

He posted one when they were going into the weird hockey bubble set to the Hunger Games theme song that I can’t find and that was extremely funny.

 

Anyways, apparently screw worms are coming to America this summer. I guess look it up on the internet if you want to get extra grossed out.

 

Scott and Jon both watched Ron Howard’s 2015 movie about Moby Dick In The Heart of the Sea and it seemed that they both were pretty mixed on the whole thing.

 

Finally, Scott still really, really hates Andor. You’d think it starred Matt Damon or something.

 

Over on Garbage Time we talk about how crazy it is that Marvel and DC still work month to month and pay artists and writers by the page when they’re now controlled by monstrous entities like Disney and Warner Bros. We then discover that there is SO MUCH MORE Walking Dead than you think there is.

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9ES363: Nimble And It’s Weird

by on May 24, 2026 at 11:35 pm
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It’s a pretty big shame that we didn’t fantasy book how Ronda Rousey would fare in the Mortal Kombat tournament. There was such an obvious throughline between the MMA talk, Brock Lesnar and Mortal Kombat II and it was right there in front of us.

 

Shame.

 

Would Ronda Rousey last more than 17 seconds against Baraka or Goro? Of course not. She essentially only has one move and good luck catching a guy with knife-hands in an armbar. Would Goro even care if you caught one of his four beefy arms in an armbar? Probably not.

 

You know who might do well in Mortal Kombat? Victor Wembanyama. We talk a little about “The Alien”, who is 7’4″ with a nearly 8 foot wingspan from fingertip to fingertip. If you’ve got 20 minutes you can watch the full video of 60 highlights but I’ve timestamped number 9 to give you an idea of how weird this guy moves compared to just about anybody else who’s ever played basketball.

 

Anyways, all that to say Scott saw Mortal Kombat II over the weekend and we’re pleased to report that it continues and maybe even improves upon 2021’s excellent reboot of the series. Injecting Carl Urban into any franchise is a surefire winner I always say.

 

Finally, we’ve got a very special episode of Garbage Time for you this week where we talk a LOT about 2007’s Ghost Rider starring Nicholas Cage. This movie is basically everything you could possibly want from a film where Nicholas Cage plays a stuntman who’s head catches on fire who rides a motorcycle and hunts down demons and bad guys. Oh and he also drinks jellybeans out of a martini glass. There is just no way that was in the script. That’s pure Cage baby. Enjoy.

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9ES362: False Prophets

by on May 11, 2026 at 11:41 pm
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If you have not been following hilarious drama surrounding The Onion’s attempt to purchase InfoWars then you’re missing out. Look, it’s even being reported on the BBC.

Something that I did not actually know about InfoWars is that Alex Jones thinks of himself as a kind of prophet. Well, at least Tucker Carlson thinks so.

“He’s channeling something, I’ve asked him about it. ‘How did you do that?’ At length, during dinner on my barn recently. We’re talking about this. ‘How’d you do that?’ ‘I don’t know. It just came to me.’ And that’s real. That is real. The supernatural is real and I don’t know why it’s hard for for the modern mind, I guess because it’s a materialist mind to accept that.”

“That’s not a new phenomenon. It’s happened throughout history. There are people called prophets, and there are people who were prophets who weren’t called prophets, but there are people who have information or parts of information, bits of information, visions of information come to them and then they relay it.”

We’re in the wrong business, kids.

Anyways, we talk a little about some upcoming horror flicks, namely Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil and Mike Flanagan’s Clayface, both of which have trailers that are out now.

We kick things off by talking about the unlikely Game 7 victory of the Montreal Canadiens over the Tampa Bay Lightning but I promise you we get good and nerdy after that’s out of the way.

On this week’s Garbage Time we talk about how and why Eurotrip practically killed an entire film genre (and here’s the link the video that I reference), Jon watched Crank: High Voltage which leads to a deep dive into Jason Statham’s career and we wrap things up with, you guessed it, more hockey talk because the Habs are still in the playoffs and 66% of us love ourselves some hockey!

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Go Plug Yourself 325: “Sports!”

by on November 27, 2025 at 6:29 am
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The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast takes a break from our usual programming and invites Scott MacIver (from our other show 9ES) to talk about sports! We’re a Montreal sports show now! I’ll be totally up front though, about 95% of the sports talk is hockey centric. Scott and Chris talk a little about football and baseball towards the end there but we love in Montreal and this is a hockey town so this is kind of a hockey podcast.

Deal with it!

The three of us break down the first 25% of the season for our beloved Montreal Canadiens who are quickly becoming one of the most exciting iterations of this team that we’ve had in recent memory. We also spend a good chunk of time celebrating the woes of the Toronto Maple Leafs. We all knew the wheels were going to come off but so far it’s been even more dramatic than even my wildest predictions.

We talk about Team Canada, which Habs might make the cut for not only Team Canada but who else will be heading to Milan for their respective countries and Scott pretty much fixes the All-Star game.

We close things off talking about the Milwaukee Brewers and Chris proclaims the MLB playoffs and World Series to be the most entertaining post-season in sports.

Sports!

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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.

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9ES 323: There Is So Much Batman

by on November 16, 2024 at 2:03 pm
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If you’re into horror movies (and if you’re a devout 9ES listening you just might be) I don’t mind telling you that ‘The Substance’ might be my favorite horror movie of 2024.

I think the shortlist here includes Longlegs and maybe Cuckoo but The Substance is an easy pick over both of those films if only because it is more interesting to look at it and sticks with you in a much, much more visceral way. The Substance also has a lot more to actually “say” than those other films and that counts for a lot too.

Donald Trump is going to be President again and there was kind of no way we weren’t going to talk about it a little, but I promise we try not to wallow too much and keep it as light as we can. Also, we recorded this on Monday so when Keith was like “Elon Musk might definitely be a part of this government”, it hadn’t happened yet. Womp womp. He gets his own whole new department of the government! What a fun and cool turn of events!

Meanwhile over on Garbage Time… we finally finish off going over Rolling Stone’s “Top 150 Best Science Fiction Movies” list that came out earlier this year. That means we finally get through the Top 10! Honestly we were pretty sure of a lot of these before we went further into the list but there were still a few surprises. Hot take – we have hot takes. 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.

PS: Sorry this episode is a little late – Jono has strep throat so has been down for the count this week.

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9ES257: The Ring

by on March 24, 2022 at 4:26 pm
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The Montreal podcast that is doing its best not to get Covid-19 is back! Jon was off in last episode due to illness that was not Covid-19 but felt like it, Scott conveniently timed contracting the virus with the off-week for podcasting and Keith is currently living in his home office while he tries not to catch Covid from his wife! Happy 2nd Pandemic-versary everyone!

 

So yeah, after two years of recording remotely and always talking about the pandemic one of us finally gets to experience it and share their experience with you, the loyal listener.

 

Keith watched “The Batman” and navigates his way through a mostly spoiler-free appraisal of the latest big screen Caped Crusader, Jono is 150 hours into the latest epic from From Software Elden Ring and because Keith enjoyed Spiderman No Way Home so much he played through the Spiderman game on PS4.

 

Scott talks about his latest mobile obsession a cool 1st person shooter phone game called “Frag” and Keith once again recommends Ridley Scott and Aaron Guzikowski’s Raised by Wolves which just completed its second season.


Watch it if you want some bizarro hard sci-fi android milk blooded wonderment.

 

Finally, since we recorded this on NHL Trade Deadline Day we talk a little about the moves made by our beleaguered but beloved Montreal Canadiens.

 

Meanwhile, this week’s episode of Garbage Time is a topic that Jon had researched for the main episode but forgot to mention it since he was having so much fun recording the main deal. Of course we are talking about Ernest Shackleton’s failed expedition to Antarctica, listen now by subscribing on our Patreon page at the 9ES Deluxe tier.

 

 

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9ES256: No Impact

by on March 10, 2022 at 9:37 am
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It’s probably for the best that we spend most of this episode talking about Spiderman and AEW Revolution because no matter how strong our opinions might be about the Russian invasion of Ukraine we are almost certainly among the worst people to listen to about this particular ongoing tragedy.

 

I have been doing mental gymnastics to not kind of go into a spiral about the impending possibility of World War 3. How could I possibly watch movies and wrestling and do escape rooms while we teeter on the edge of a global armed conflict?

 

Well, I try to tell myself that whether I watch Batman tonight or not my actions have nearly no impact on the situation. This isn’t like the pandemic where I maybe have people in my circle who may benefit from honest and open conversations about science. I don’t know anyone who needs convincing that this is a terrible, terrible thing that Russia is doing.

 

Of course you can (and should, if your means allow) donate to relief efforts. It can be hard to know where to donate, what charities are reputable and where your money is actually going. Charity Intelligence.ca has published a helpful list of some of the most reputable places to send your money along with guidelines about where these charities focus their efforts.

 

So yes, we do talk about Ukraine a little bit but then we spend the vast majority of the episode talking about Spiderman and the AEW Revolution Pay Per View. Jon has seen neither of those two things so his absence is barely noticeable.

 

Meanwhile, this week’s episode of Garbage Time is all about the worst comic book film adaptations ever made. We use ScreenCrush’s list as our reference. If that sounds fun, check it out over on our Patreon page at the 9ES Deluxe tier.

 

 

 

 

 

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Go Quarantine Yourself: SPORTS (and Succession) (GPYS 246)

by on December 24, 2021 at 12:26 pm
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The Montreal podcast that is back in isolation returns to talk about sports.

As Chris Venditto continues his mission to work his way into sports talk radio we bring back “Go Quarantine Yourself” to talk about sports and Succession.

This is a fun, free wheeling conversation between myself and Venditto that spans the wide world of sports during a pandemic. We talk (obviously) about the resurgence of Covid-19 that has rendered a show about plugging other shows a little useless, discuss whether or not any athletes should go to the Olympics (probably not), review what 2021 has been like for our beloved Montreal Canadiens and then dig into one of the best television shows on the air right now: Succession.

Stay tuned for our next episode which will of course be our annual holiday sh!t show. Were we looking forward to getting together in person to get drunk and ramble on mic for an hour? Of course we were. But it looks like we will probably be recording this year’s edition remotely… again.

Stay safe everyone. Support local business and local artists and all that so that we have all of those wonderful things when this thing is finally over.

*sigh*

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As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: 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.

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9ES244: Relevant

by on September 23, 2021 at 9:09 am
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The Montreal podcast that is your number one stop for Machine Gun Kelly news and current events is back with a brand new episode devoted entirely to the world of MGK.

For at least a few minutes anyways.

At the top of the episode Mr. Machine Gun’s fame and relevancy levels are called into question. His most recent album “Tickets to My Downfall” came out only a year ago and hit #1 on the USA and Canadian charts and was certified Platinum with over 126,000 in record sales and he has a new album due out any day now.

He also played Tommy Lee in that movie “Dirt” that I don’t think any of us watched.

Enough about him though, we also talk about the Montreal Canadiens because somehow the NHL season is about to start again even though it only seems to have ended a few weeks ago.

Keith finally watched Catwoman, a movie that should have been called “A Cat-Woman” as it had nothing to do with the comics, and speaking of comics we talk about The DC villain The Creeper and Marvel’s “What If…” show on Disney +.

Since we are experts in lists, we take our critical list making eye to Rolling Stones Top 500 Best Songs of All Time on this week’s episode of Garbage Time, which is available as part of the 9ES Deluxe level over on our Patreon.

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9ES 238 – Tour de Farce

by on July 1, 2021 at 6:08 am
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The Montreal podcast that always caters to all of your geeky desires discusses… *checks notes* the Tour de France and the Stanley Cup Playoffs?

I guess we are a sports podcast now so you’re just going to have to deal with it. Happy Canada Day!

Jon returns from his one show break to talk about that lady who single-handedly tried to ruin the Tour de France. Keith ran a session of the Alien RPG from Free League Press and Scott and Keith both watched Loki and share some fan theories about what is going that will almost certainly be obsolete by next week.

We also talk about how weird it is that Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is still actually a ride at Disneyland, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In The Heights” and Keith gets assigned his next movie watching assignment for Best Worst Movie Ever.

If you enjoy our brand of podcasting and also comics you should really do yourself a favor and check out the “9ES Deluxe” level over on our Patreon. Jon and I talk about the many different ways cultures begin and end their fairytales and we briefly talk about who Lloyd Alexander is.
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Our intro song is a brand new jam cooked up by OKU-DA just for us, do yourself a favour and check out his SoundCloud).

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.

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