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9ES263: Podcasting Geniuses

by jorn on June 16, 2022 at 9:32 pm

I wonder if the real creator of Chip n’ Dale never got his due the same way that Bob Kane ripped off Bill Finger?

If you go up to someone on the street and ask them who created Chip and Dale, they would answer “Disney.” I guess the implication would be that it was old man Walt himself.

Holy shit. They were created by another Bill. Bill Justice (how was that a real name) created Chip and Dale in 1943. From the looks of it they were his main notable creation too. Sure we worked on a bunch of other super memorable cartoons and even Disney park rides I think old Chip and Dale are the only things that he created from the ground up.

While I’m thinking about animated chipmunks I need to tip my hat to Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Saville) for really ripping off Disney and making bank off a good idea.

So as far back as their first appearance in 1943 in “Private Pluto” Chip and Dale had that “chipmunk voice.” Sure it was gibberish and not English but it 100% sets up what we think a chipmunk sounds like when it speaks.

15 years later. It’s 1958 and enter Ross Bagdasarian who then takes “chipmunk voice” and records “Witch Doctor” for which he got a Grammy nomination. Later that year he releases “The Chipmunk Song” which paves the way for the Alvin and The Chipmunks.

I feel like if that happened today there would 100% be a lawsuit from The Mouse.

Meanwhile in Garbage Time, Jon and Keith were killed in a single round of Dungeons & Dragons and they put all of the blame on the Dungeon Master. We talk about when you should kill a party in an RPG and how maybe you shouldn’t kill a whole party in an RPG.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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9ES262: High Quality Slime

by jorn on June 2, 2022 at 8:00 am

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You know, it’s kind of a bummer that it is here in episode 262 of our little podcast that we collectively realize that we’ve been wasting our time podcasting instead of producing slime like the people over at PeachyBbies.

Their website asks that you “Join the Movement”. I guess that could be a joke about how their slime wiggles but more likely it is an earnest call to action. Join the PeachyBbies movement everyone and take us to a brave new world filled with delicious smelling non-toxic slime with some plastic crap floating around in it.

We live in the future!

I guess it’s kind of a good thing that 9ES didn’t skyrocket to popularity all those years ago when we started or otherwise there would be a chance that we would have become some kind of small business. If that was the case we would maybe have to shut down our podcast since it was English because of Bill 96.

There’s a school in Kirkland that just announced they are adding a Grade 12 to their program so that students can now circumvent the new language laws governing CEGEPs and that’s kind of cool at least. When there’s a will there’s a way but the will is probably to just move to Ontario.

Keith gets a brand new movie to watch for “Best Movie Ever” and he might only be able to properly review it using the keyboard of his phone.

Meanwhile in Garbage Time, the boys talk about the magic of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl going on otherworldly runs during the Stanley Cup playoffs, AEW’s Double or Nothing (which had not happened at the time of recording) and Keith urges you all to once again watch Yellowjackets.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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9ES261: Rise From Her Grave

by jorn on May 19, 2022 at 1:17 pm

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There is nowhere else you need to go to find hot takes about Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress than a podcast from Montreal featuring 3 white dudes born in the 80s.

We are literally the only people on the planet qualified to talk about this issue.It does beg the question though: Is Napoleon’s uniform more historically important than the dress worn by Marilyn Monroe while she sang “Happy Birthday” to JFK?

Can an article of clothing even be that historically significant?

This is why you listen to this podcast.

Just because it can be written out here to increase the chances of people seeing it: Man the Toronto Maple Leafs are ridiculous.

2005-2012 = zero playoff appearances
2013 = “It was 4-1…” Leafs rally back from a 3-1 deficit in the series against the Bruins and take a 4-1 lead in Game 7… then lololol
They miss the next 3 years of playoffs
2017 = They take a 2-1 series lead against the Caps and then lose 3 games in a row to the Caps.
2018 = Here come the Bruins again! Down 3-1 in the series again, the Leafs win game 5 and 6 to push another Game 7! Oh no!
2019 = The Bruins, again? The Leafs are UP 3-2 in the series… just one more win to get out of the 1st round! Nope. Drop 2 in a row.
2020 = Honorary mention: The 8th place Leafs lose to the 9th place Blue Jackets in the 5 game qualifying round, of course they pushed it to 5 games and lost in the 5th.
2021 = The most beautiful collapse of all really… Leafs blow a 3-1 series lead and lose to the Habs in 7.
2022 = Another 1st round exit in 7 games… despite being up 3-2. Dropping 2 games in a row and still not getting out of the first round.

So if you count the play-in round of 2020… since 2013 they are an incredible 0-10 when they have the opportunity to win and send a team home.

That’s absurd.

Meanwhile in Garbage Time, Keith talks about Rich Aucoin’s incredible live show at Ursa in Montreal and the Shudder Exclusive Series “Cursed Films” and Scott takes another few shots at how old Mike Smith is just for good measure. We also talk about how good that Weird Al biopic might be. 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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9ES260: 150 Million Years Of Solitude

by jorn on May 5, 2022 at 11:29 am

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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:

Ronda Rousey: 3.4 Million followers
CM Punk: 2.7 Million followers
Brock Lesnar: 1.4 Million followers
Roman Reigns: 4.6 Million followers

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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9ES259: Egg

by jorn 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.

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9ES258: How Can She

by jorn on April 7, 2022 at 9:22 am

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The Montreal podcast that would definitely flaunt a 5 million dollar Pokemon card at Wrestlemania is back with all of the hottest takes on geek and pop-culture.

It was Wrestlemania this past weekend which is the time of year where WWE tries its damnedest to gain wider cultural relevance than usual. The powers that be (aka Vince McMahon) will bend over backwards to try to get casual fans to tune in to the “Showcase of the Immortals” to watch pro wrestling. This year was no different featuring our beloved boys from Jackass and Logan Paul flaunting a 5 million dollar Pokemon card.

Let that sink in for a second, because that’s a lot to take in. That there is a Pokemon card worth over $5M USD. That Logan Paul owns it. That he wore it around his neck like bling at Wrestlemania.

More proof that we live in the dumbest timeline I guess.

Speaking of the dumbest timeline: we devote some time to talking about ‘The Slap” because this is a pop-culture show and one of the biggest celebrities slapping a comedian at The Oscars is the poppiest of pop-culture.

Was Big Willy freaking out on human growth hormones? We will certainly at least speculatethat he might be.

Meanwhile, on this this week’s episode of Garbage Time we get into some of the insane stories surrounding pre-production of Mad Max: Fury Road and we lament whether or not Wesley Snipes’ Blade is directly responsible for the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Show your support, subscriber and check out Garbage Time by subscribing on our Patreon page at the 9ES Deluxe tier.

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9ES257: The Ring

by jorn 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 jorn 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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9ES255: What Is It Good For?

by jorn on February 24, 2022 at 2:45 pm

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Montreal’s favorite geek and pop culture podcast featuring 3 white dudes returns with so much trucker talk this episode should have been recorded on CB radio.

Thankfully the trucker thing seems to be mostly petering out, although I do wonder if we will ever find out just how much of the whole fiasco was orchestrated and funded by our freedom fighting neighbours to the South.

Speaking of fighting for freedom (yooooooo-Joe!), we give you our patented half-informed take on the sparks that might one day be referred to as “The Start of World War 3” as Russia actively invades Ukraine. If you’re wondering why you’re a little “off” these days it might be that we are fully 2 years into a global pandemic AND on the eve of a major armed conflict at the same time.

Just a guess.

We’ve all watched Cowboy Bebop on Netflix now so this is probably the last episode you’ll have to hear us talk about the travesty of its cancellation. If a few thousand more people sign the (probably pointless) petition to save the show over on Change.Org it will be one of the most signed petitions ever.

Petitions!

Scott likes Vox Machina a lot more than Keith does, I guess Jon will be the tie-breaker. Meanwhile, Boba Fett is over and Robert Rodriguez should have been allowed to have more fun. Speeder Vespas forever.

We also get to find out Jon’s final ranking in the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup v.028 Tournament and he excitedly tells the tale of something involving ziggurats and orbs. .

This week’s episode of Garbage Time is all about Superbowl commercials. We don’t run through all of them don’t worry, instead we go over all the movie and television commercials that aired during “the big game” so that’s kind of fun. Check it out over on our Patreon page at the 9ES Deluxe tier.

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9ES252: There Can Be Only One (Podcast)

by jorn on January 13, 2022 at 2:50 pm

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The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that is definitely trapped in The Matrix and loves Highlander 2 returns for episode 252.

I am not sure whether or not we talk about in the main episode or as part of Garbage Time but at one point in the original Matrix Agent Smith says that 1999 was the last time that humans were still thinking for themselves. It was before the machines started thinking for us.

That line is probably one of the most prescient things in the whole movie. I wonder how outlandish it was in 1999 to make a prediction that machine driven AIs and algorithms would be able to manipulate how humanity thinks. Anyhow, here we are.

We spend almost the entire first half of the episode talking about Matrix: Resurrections and man, what a frustrating film. I don’t think I’ve been so excited by a film’s first act to be so completely let down by the third. It’s maddening. Maybe I’m not in on the joke? Maybe Lilly Wachowski really wanted Warner Bros to lose 100 million dollars and that’s the point?

When we decided to subject Jon to Highlander II: The Quickening, I don’t think any of us could have predicted how much he was going to enjoy it. It honestly sounds like one of the greatest cinematic rollercoasters of all time.

2022 is full of surprises kids.

If you enjoy 9ES, do yourself a solid and check out our Patreon and subscribe to the “9ES Deluxe” level. On this week’s Garbage Time we discuss some grim Covid-19 implications for the planet and then also run through the superhero films of 2021. In the process we also find Scott’s next assignment for Best Movie Ever!

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