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Montreal Roller Derby – Artoo & Why So Sirius – GPYS 154

by on April 19, 2018 at 6:44 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

Two of the members  of Montreal Roller Derby and part of the coaching staff of the 2017 Beast of the East champions, La Racaille, join Walter and I in preparation for next week’s Beast of the East roller derby tournament. Both Artoo and Sirius are members of Montreal’s WFTDA A team the New Skids on the Block in addition to their coaching duties of one of MTLRD’s home teams. We talk about how they came to play in Montreal and a whole lot of roller derby. For more information about the Beast of the East tournament, go here. And for tickets, go here. La Racaille will be looking to win their third consecutive Beast of the East championship (and fourth overall) next weekend, April 27-29th at Arena Mont Royal, 4365 Cartier St, Montreal QC, Canada.

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Little side note, I’m still getting the hang of the new audio interface and laptop setup, so Artoo and Sirius end up a lot louder than me. Which is fine, they’re the reason you’re listening anyways.

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Leighland Beckman and Aural Turpitude!

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 blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

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Montreal Roller Derby Where are they Now: Lyn-Dah Kicks

by on June 3, 2016 at 6:22 am
Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Scott, Sports

As an announcer for Montreal Roller Derby, I was fortunate enough to meet a huge number of awesome people. As Montreal Roller Derby is celebrating their 10th anniversary, I wanted to talk to some of my favorites about what derby was to them, and what it’s like to move on from it.

Lynn “Lyn-Dah Kicks” Poulin was a member of La Racaille, the Sexpos and the New Skids on the Block, won multiple Montreal City Championships and competed in the WFTDA championship tournaments with the Montreal All-Star team, the New Skids. She is the bomb.

 

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Tell me a little bit about your Roller Derby Career. How did you start? What are your highlights?

To be honest, since I was a little girl growing up across from Detroit Rock city I used to watch roller derby on TV. When I read up in a magazine talking about a league in Montreal starting up, it occurred to me that this was my chance to finally just go out there and do it. So I did.

The magazine mentioned they were looking for some new blood, it was some kind of recruitment except it ain’t what it is today. I had nothing to lose. The group that showed up became the third Montreal team and it later became “La Racaille” as they needed a third team in order to play bouts at home games.

As for highlights, well I think we were kinda a rookie team that no one ever expected us to do as well as we did. To have won a Beast of the East trophy was probably my biggest highlight ever, as no one expected us to do pull through and we gave it our best.

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Go Plug Yourself 34: Slavic Slayer and Magnum PEI (Montreal Roller Derby)

by on April 18, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting, Uncategorized

Are you aware that Montreal has it’s very own bonafide roller derby league? Ok, you probably did. Scott and I are both announcers for MTLRD so there’s a good chance you at least know it exists. Well, this week the Captains of Les Filles du Roi and La Racaille (Magnum PEI and Slavic Slayer respectively). These ladies not only tear it up on the track (which of course we talk about) but also have great stories from their pasts that include field parties and pudding parties. Not kidding about either one of those. If you haven’t already, you should probably get your Beast of the East tickets right now and see both of these ladies (and their teams, and about a zillion more teams) compete for the full blown derby extravaganza that is Beast of the East on April 27-28th. It’s a whole weekend thing.

I’m going to give you about five seconds to figure out what I’m going to say next. Ok, time’s up. Here’s what happened: Magnum PEI has a teeny tiny little voice, which is weird because she is a teacher. In the process of doing audio correction I ended up messing up just about everyone else’s voices. I normalized as much of it as I could but it gets a little hairy towards the end, I guess you’ll just have to listen to the whole episode to get what I’m talking about.

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As always,  a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: Aural Turpitude!

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9to5 Entertainment System 13: Remember That Time With Those People?

by on June 28, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

It’s time for another episode of 9ES! Woo! After the flood of Fringe related Go Plug Yourselves this is surely a breath of fresh water. That doesn’t make any sense. Forget it.

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Fuck Mondays 18: Black Tie, Zine Convention, and Shaming

by on November 28, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Fuck Mondays, Scott, Sports, Videogames

Keith and I co-hosted the annual Montreal Roller Derby Awards Banquet this weekend. Fancy dress, so I got to break out my white tuxedo and party with the the ladies and gents of the league. The awards went by quickly, but were lots of fun, and the dance party that followed was a good time. I get back on the mic on Thursday, as I’m traveling to Toronto Ontario for the first ever Roller Derby World Cup, where 13 countries are sending national teams to compete for, uh, global dominance. Don’t forget to check it out on DNN. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Montreal Roller Derby Finals

by on August 10, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Posted In: Scott, Sports

Montreal Roller Derby has just completed their 5th season. Five years of great roller derby action done, with no signs of slowing down.

photo courtosy of mtlrollerderby.comThe city championships took place this past weekend on August the 6th, where the Contrabanditas beat the reigning champs Les Filles Du Roi by a score of 99-80. The ‘Ditas dethroned the back-to-back champs and won their first ever city championships in front of a sell out crowd at Arena St-Louis.

The ‘Ditas were scrappy, going undefeated in the season and looking for their first taste of the gold. FDR had done well all year long, starting the season with a very green group of skaters, but showing great progress and really making a game of it. Early predictions were for a win by the Contrabanditas by a large margin, but Les Filles made a great run, and fought all game long.

Congrats to the Contrabanditas for their great year, and special congrats to skater Charlotte Bruise-A-Lot, the only member of the team to have skated with the team for all five years of their existence.

The 2012 season will begin next spring.

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