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No 9ES This Week

by on December 1, 2022 at 7:24 am
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

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.

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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 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.

 

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.

 

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

 

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.

 

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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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.

 

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

 

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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 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.

 

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

 

Or DM us on Twitter, Instagram or FB:

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 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 on September 21, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

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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9ES269: Thank Goodness For Heathers

by on September 7, 2022 at 9:09 pm
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We kick this episode off by talking about the CFO of Bed Bath and Beyond throwing himself out of a window to his death and the resulting ripples of armchair investors trying to recreate the magic of GameStop and navigate just what that suicide might mean for the stonk.

 

??

 

We then move on to what’s really on people’s minds right now: The Netflix adaptation of Sandman.

 

Now listen, I enjoy most of Neil Gaiman’s work. But I never really got heavily invested into Sandman. My old roommate had most of them so I occasionally read an issue or trade here and there but it never really clicked for me. And while I can recognize its place as an important fixture in the increased popularity of “alternative” comics I’m still not sold on it’s overall quality.

 

That said, the show is pretty enjoyable.

 

A part of me is watching it to do my small part to let Netflix know that they should continue to take risky projects and I hope Sandman gets a second season and somehow it also means that Cowboy Bebop comes back too.

 

This week’s episode of Garbage Time is yet another ultra special garbage spectacular! We apply our scientifically and peer tested list-making methodology to the Saturday Night Live films and rank them from best to worst. Spoiler-alert: they are mostly all the worst. We spend a lot of time trying to determine if Coneheads is funny and whether or not Blues Brothers deserves to be so well regarded. 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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9ES268: Stop Going To See Avatar

by on August 25, 2022 at 8:00 am
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The Montreal podcast that seems to be more interested in watching bad movies than good ones is back to talk about 2 movies you probably should not watch and 1 movie that you really should.


There is something deeply wrong with the fact that Jon willingly subjected himself to the lowest ranked movie on The List and not the critically acclaimed Number 1 movie on streaming services.


I was never fully a Predator guy. I mean, the first two came out before I was a teenager and then “Predators” came out when I was in my late 20s. So during the formative years of my movie watching there were only two Predator movies. The first one which was really cool and the second one which was kind of hokey and cheesy. 


But as we discuss in this episode, the first Predator (and even it’s shitty sequels to a lesser extent) is kind of an interesting take on typical action movies. It’s one of the rare instances where the heroes need to be really smart to take down the bad guy. No amount of machismo or firepower will take out a Yautja – only a really good plan has a chance.


That’s cool.


So I’m pretty excited that the franchise finally got a really good entry that actually holds up against the original. The fact that it prominently features an indigenous cast is also delicious icing on the cake of a really well executed film.


The Emoji Movie is meh. 


Reading about the ongoing saga of T.J. Miller’s broken brain on my phone while reading the movie was probably the most engaging part. This is a brain so broken that it actually held up as a defense against federal charges.


Fascinating.


This week’s episode of Garbage Time is nearly an hour long! We talk more about Woodstock ‘99 and also run through a list published in 2004 of “The Worst Songs Ever” from the now defunct music magazine “Blender”. We also talk a little about Eric Clapton. We’re full of surprises. 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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9ES267: The Bombastic Sequel

by on August 11, 2022 at 8:00 am
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The Montreal podcast that really wants a Winnebago so that the three of them can just go on a big road trip to South Dakota is back with a brand new episode!

Sure we talk a little about some of the scary stuff going on in the world these days but do you know what we also talk about?

Prince.

Scott brings up a video of Prince suddenly popping out of the shadows during George Harrison’s posthumous induction as a solo artist into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 (he was already in as a Beatle) and emasculating Tom Petty, do yourself a favour and check it out. Prince absolutely steals the show, much to the delight of Dhani Harrison (who holy crap is the spitting image of George). While you’re doing yourself favours also look up Crazy Horse and the Crazy Horse Monument being carved in South Dakota. Both are dope. After weeks of dancing around the topic, all three of us have finally watched all of Stranger Things 4. We talk about our overall impressions, stuff we liked, didn’t like, fan theories and in a rare twist, we are (mostly) in agreement.

Meanwhile in Garbage Time, we talk about the Woodstocks that happened in the 90s and also a little bit about the latest in the Predator franchise: Prey. Both of these will certainly be more heavily spoken about in a main show in the future, so you should get yourself a sneak peak now. 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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9ES 266: Ernest Shackleton and the 25 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever Made

by on July 28, 2022 at 7:23 am
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Why hello there, you’ve caught us in a bit of a predicament.

Between the Just for Laughs specials, the Osheaga specials and my planned trip to Winnipeg it seems like we’ve simply run out of time to record a brand new episode of the 9to5 Entertainment System!

However, we don’t want to let you down.

We know that some of you might still be sitting on the fence about subscribing to the 9ES Deluxe Level over on our Patreon so we’ve decided to give you a taste of what you may be missing. We dug into the vast Garbage Time episode archives to grab two episodes that might just encourage you to subcribe:

  1. The episode where Jon gets into details about the Shackleton expedition. If you’re not familiar with Ernest Shackleton well you’re about to be. Never will you feel like an inadequate human being like you will when you hear about how he handled the adversity dealt to him.
  2. The episode where Scott and I go through a list of the Worst Superhero Movies Ever Made and to nobody’s surprise we’ve seen almost all of them.

If this wonderful content pleases you, do yourself a favor and subscribe to 9ES Deluxe. Otherwise, we still hope you enjoyed this filler episode of the show. We <3 U.

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For the record, “Ernest Shackleton and the 25 Worst Comic Book Movies Ever Made” was my favorite of the Harry Potter books.

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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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