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9ES278: It’s All Billy

by jorn on January 27, 2023 at 11:29 am

The Montreal podcast that would easily collect an entire deck of cards in Alice in Borderland Season 2 is back with another podcast for your ears.

I’ve always had a soft spot for some deathmatch based fiction. From Running Man to Battle Royale to Death Race 2000 (to name some of my favorites). There is something immediately gripping about watching contestants face off to the death. There’s something even more compelling when the game is not just about killing your opponent but about besting them in some other game of skill or wits but someone’s life is still on the line.

Dark? Sure, but boy will it glue me to the television set.

The collective zeitgeist also apparently agrees, considering the megahit that was Squid Game.

I may be in the minority here, but I prefer the two seasons of Alice in Borderland over Squid Game. Of course Squid Game has a lot more to say about class division and the wealth gap but Alice in Borderland has cool anime style characters being cool. Somehow the challenges of Alice in Borderland (and the fact that there is no clear end game/reward for clearing the games) pulled me in. It’s a lot less bleak in that sense. They’re just stuck in there playing these games.

Speaking of games, how about that Dungeons & Dragons, eh? Boy, Hasbro must be excited that a new trailer for the movie dropped to push down all those news articles about them mucking about with their Open Game License. Hell hath no fury like a bunch of angry nerds scorned.

Let’s quickly go through the list of times a mega-corporation has meddled with something beloved and made it better.

1) …

Moving on.

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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Meanwhile over on Garbage Time, we spend most of the episode talking about Marvel Snap. Seriously, why isn’t Jon playing Marvel Snap yet? We also talk about tires and lightbulbs so you know it’s a good one.

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9ES277: There Should Be No Parties

by jorn on January 12, 2023 at 10:07 pm

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The Montreal podcast that waited until the beginning of 2023 to talk about some 2022 movies is back to bring you hot takes on films that came out last year!

Keith spent part of the holidays crossing movies off his “I should watch this” list which meant that he finally got around to seeing:

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Menu
Glass Onion

And so that is more or less what this episode is about. We don’t rank any of these films though. We’ll probably rank Glass Onion next week.

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Meanwhile over on Garbage Time Jon once again delves into the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Seriously, why were these guys so damn interested in heading to the most inhospitable places on the planet over and over again to like pick up rocks or whatever?

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9ES 276 – 2022 in Review

by keith on December 29, 2022 at 4:32 pm

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The best geek and pop culture podcast in Montreal takes a look back at the year that was 2022. It’s 2022 in Review!

We talk all about the movies, music, television shows, video games and comics that we’ve consumed this year like hungry, hungry nerd hippos.

Apparently having a very young human to take care of really slowed down Jono’s consumption of crap this year, but I guess he also read a lot of that blog about airplane crashes so who can blame him? Scott actually got to see some new movies this year so I guess after like a decade or whatever of being a dad he is finally starting to have some time to himself.

Unfortunately there is no new episode of Garbage Time this week, instead we just made the main episode of 9ES a full 90 minutes. So it’s like the normal episode AND Garbage Time all at once! If you still want to show your support just head on over to Patreon and subscribe at the 9ES Deluxe tier to listen all past episodes of Garbage Time!

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9ES275: A Business Model

by jorn 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.”

Madness indeed OKUDA. Madness indeed.

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No 9ES This Week

by keith on December 1, 2022 at 7:24 am

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Montreal’s best podcast is… not happening this week.

Sorry friends.

Due to some scheduling issues we’ll be running 3 back-to-back episodes over on Go Plug Yourself instead.

However, if you subscribe to our Patreon, there is still an episode of Garbage Time! It’s almost a full episode of 9ES, but it’s just for the Patrons. We talk about the documentary “Kings of Coke” (a film about Montreal’s West End Gang that I just got to interview the director of, Julian Sher), a little about Marvel Snap and then we run through a list of the “27 Best Canadian Bands” from Music Grotto. There are some oversights on this list and we get into that too. If you want 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. we’d really love a lot.

ALSO: 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.

If this survey is too clunky for you, just find Scott and message him your picks.

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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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9ES274: We All Are

by jorn on November 16, 2022 at 9:26 pm

Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

Montreal’s favorite financial advice podcast returns with all of the hot takes you’ve come to expect surrounding the fallout of the FTX Crash.

In the past few days we’ve had a couple of conversations about crypto.

Is crypto:

A game that someone was always going to break?
A lot like the comic book book of the 1990s?
A fancy modern pyramid scheme?
The future of currency?

Hard to say.

We don’t really get into it in this episode but the whole FTX crash thing is also rife with conspiracy. Maybe we’ll get into it next time. Or maybe we won’t.

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Meanwhile over on Garbage Time we talk about Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal”, Amazon Prime’s “Peripheral” and then we run through a few lists of the worst mutants ever in the Marvel Universe.

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9ES273: Still Waiting For The DVD Money

by jorn 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.

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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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9ES272: Chips

by jorn on October 20, 2022 at 8:42 pm

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Montreal’s best podcast remembers that technically this is our Halloween 2022 episode so we kind of talk mostly about spooky movies.

And also spooky international trade wars between the United States and China.

SpooOoOOooky.

Last episode, we talked about the upcoming Re-Rank of some movies on the list, this episode we talk about it again. We will probably talk about it for the next few episodes and get around to the whole re-rank thing around the winter holidays.

If you, yes you, want some movies to get re-ranked 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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Right. Spooky stuff.

“My Bloody Valentine” is criminally underrated. I think it has worked it’s way into the annals of horror cult cinema but it should probably be propped up a lot closer to the Last House on the Left and Friday the 13ths of this world than it currently is. The fact that it is a Canadian film that is plainly filmed in Nova Scotia is just a delightful bonus. Bottles of Moosehead… everywhere.

There was a lot of backlash surrounding “Hocus Pocus 2” (The Hocus Pocusing) but honestly, it was fine. The original was not that great, and nothing in the sequel seemed that out of touch with the campiness of the original. That said “Hocus Pocus” was never really one of my childhood movies. To some people maybe this feels like the Star Wars prequels. I dunno.

We keep the spookiness rolling in this week’s episode of Garbage Time. We go over some of our Spooky Season go-tos and talk about what movies and TV shows we tend to gravitate too every October. We also have some killer (*dramatic organ music*) podcast recommendations like The Old Gods of Appalachia and The White Vault. 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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9ES271: I Don’t Have To Make It For An Audience

by jorn on October 6, 2022 at 8:54 pm

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Montreal’s best podcast reviews Clerks 3 and returns to our roots so this episode of 9ES is filmed entirely in grainy black and white film.

The original Clerks holds a very near and dear place in the heart of all 3 9ES podcaststers. I say with very little exaggeration that Clerks changed my perception of movies. Clerks came out in 1994 – I’m not sure when I first saw it but I’m guessing it was probably 1997. At that point I was about 14 years old and the concept of “independent film” was pretty foreign. Indie flicks were all (in my mind) artsy snooze fests.

Then this black and white movie came around about slackers talking about Star Wars.

I was a slacker.

I loved Star Wars.

Somehow, despite the fact that Kevin Smith has arguably lost his way as a filmmaker in the last 15-20 years, he manages to do right by Randall and Dante and give them a pretty heartfelt send-off in Clerks 3. It’s a fun flick.

We also talk about World War 1 Canadian flying aces.

Important: We are hatching a plan to re-rank some of the mistakes of The List – and we want you to be a part of it! If helping us re-rank some movies seems fun to you, please stay tuned here and on our socials for instructions how we best figure out how to get you involved. Love U.

While we did conquer our overall audio issues from last week we were not entirely without technical failures this week. Scott’s computer decided it needed to update itself right fucking now and the result is that we had a little less time than usual for Garbage Time.

That doesn’t mean we didn’t dig up some high quality Garbage Time content for you though. We go over 14 Totally Bonkers Moments From Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Universe compiled by T.W. Mitchell over at Ranker.Com for hot takes on Frank Miller’s horrible take on the Caped Crusader. It’s goddamned Garbage Time. 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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9ES270: We Fired The Sound Guy

by jorn on September 21, 2022 at 9:09 pm

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Montreal’s best podcast has the worst sound quality!

Seriously, before we kick things off we would obviously like to take a moment to acknowledge the abysmal sound quality of this episode. What is this, 2012? Basically we lost some of the “good” sound files and are forced to present you with some mutant Frankenstein backup version of the recording.

The content is still there though. We have to believe in the content.

There is so much content.

The theme of the show this week is drama.

Drama about shipping people in planes from Texas to Massachusetts, drama about chess Grand Masters possibly getting chess tips over the air via remote controlled anal beads in their butt and drama about one of hip-hop’s highest selling artists getting into a beef with an internet music critic.

Also Queen Elizabeth II died. We speculate whether or not Canada should cut ties with the UK and Scott brings up the idea that as a Canadian citizen you can go to a British embassy when you’re traveling abroad as a fun perk.

According to VisaPlace Canada has about 145 embassies and 185 Consulates across the world. The UK has 162 embassies and 185 consulates and 33 “other representations”.

Not a bad perk to more than double the number of places you can go to if you are proper fucked in another country.

This week’s episode of Garbage Time is yet another ultra special garbage spectacular! This week we take a look at the wonder that was Burt Sugarman’s “Midnight Special” before talking about some television shows that we’ve been watching like Sandman, Hacks and Harley Quinn, we also talk a little about BrightBurn. 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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