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James McGee Returns – GPYS 315

by on April 24, 2025 at 8:10 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that asks wrestling promoter and professional improv star James McGee: “What question do you hate being asked?” – That question asked as always by our very own Inés Anaya back in our last episode.

James McGee lives a life on the fringe man. A double life full of moonsaults, yes-ands, powerbombs and audience suggestions. James McGee is the epicentre of improvisational artistry taking his talents to the squared circle and the improv stage with equal measures of grace and wit.

James joins Walter J. Lyng and I at the back of Grumpy’s Bar to talk about this past weekend’s WrestleMania, Jake the Snake Roberts, Survivor Series, Sami Zayn’s comedy and much, much more!

If wrestling is your thing you can catch the next BATTLEWAR this Sunday at Foufounes Electriques (and you should probably follow the BATTLEWAR Facebook page as well to keep tabs on their upcoming events). If improv is more your style you should check out Mile End Improv where James performs and teaches.

With all that out of the way you should sit back, relax and Go Plug Yourself. We’ve had James on this show a bunch and you should probably do yourself a favour and dig into the archives to listen to all the episodes going all the way back to 2014. This is his 7th time on the show!

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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 sometimes 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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Green Phantom Returns – GPYS 306

by on November 20, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that asks The Green Phantom (Hardcore Hero, Canadian Table Breaker, Wrestling Legend): Did you ever shoplift as a kid? That question asked by Coolopolis Montreal’s Kristian Gravenor back in episode 304.

It’s been a few years since we’ve had Green Phantom (or “Phantom” to his friends) on the show but the door is always open for him to return. It has to be, otherwise he will just kick it down. As always this episode is a must if you’re an indie wrestling fan. Green Phantom shoots on greedy promoters, shares stories about wrestling legends and gives us a run-down of his tour of wrestling in Japan! He teamed up with Violent J from the Insane Clown Posse!

Walter J. Lyng returns again to co-host and as tends to happen Troy Stark comes along for the ride.

You can catch The Green Phantom in wrestling action next month celebrating his own very special, very violent holiday tradition: The Hardcore Holidaze Match! That will be a part of “Seasons Beatings” on December 21st at MTELUS presented by the IWS. Check out the event page on Facebook and get your tickets here.

Also, if you’re a fan of trivia: Green Phantom hosts trivia night at Brutopia every Monday – sometimes you get to meet his dog!

A true legend of Montreal. So sit back, relax, enjoy the show and try not to get thrown through a Christmas Tree.

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Credit Where Credit is Due

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 sometimes 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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The Go Plug Yourself Where We Talk About Wrestling (Again)

by on February 1, 2024 at 11:27 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

Sometimes even the best laid plans don’t come to fruition.

Our plan this week was to reunite my cohosts Inés Anaya, Chris Venditto and Lawrence Corber so that we could have a roundtable catchup discussion and come up with a few new questions for our “5 Questions” segment. The plan even involved Lawrence taking the train from Missassauga into Toronto (armed with a USB microphone that I lent him over the weekend) to go to Inés’ house for better sound quality. It was a perfect plan spanning two provinces.

Alas – it was not meant to be. Due to a vetrinary medical emergency we had to scramble for a backup plan. Lawrence could only record from his phone (which is why he sounds like he is recording from a phone) and we were missing a co-host. So we did what we always do: talk about wrestling.

A lot has happened in wrestling over the last few weeks (do not look up why Vince McMahon is a bad man and just trust me that he is) but we decide to focus on actual in-ring discussions. If you want our hot-takes on the Vince McMahon allegations we will set up a very expense Patreon paywall because we don’t want to talk about it (but obviously will if you pay us a bunch of money, let’s not kid ourselves).

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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.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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James “Twiggy” McGee Returns! – GPYS 287

by on October 25, 2023 at 11:48 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that asks Montreal wrestler, improvisor and man-about-town James McGee: “What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to get out of a test/work/commitment?” That question asked by Kenny Streule and Cat Preston from Mainline Theatre’s Rocky Horror Show back in episode 286.

We’ve had James McGee on the show before. We’ll have James McGee on the show again. When you find yourself at the crossroads of talk show host, wrestling promoter and improvisor you are just bound to wind up on this show repeatedly. That’s just how things go around here.

I realized it has been about 3 years since we’ve had James on the show and that the last time was in 2020 and was what we now lovingly refer to as “peak pandemic” – man, time flies.  Let’s never do that again.

You can find James – quite literally – all over town. You can find him in the ring (occasionally) at BATTLEWAR, on stage at Mile End Improv (among many other stages) and probably other places too. Oh – did we mention that none other than The Dark Order’s Evil Uno will be at BATTLEWAR this Sunday at Foufs? Well we mentioned it now.

Enjoy the show!

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Credit Where Credit is Due

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 sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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Pat Laprade Returns! – GPYS 251

by on March 18, 2022 at 12:23 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Pat on the Mat, Podcast, Podcasting

FINALLY! Quebec wrestling historian, commentator and podcaster Pat Laprade returns! Long time listeners of Go Plug Yourself are no doubt extremely familiar with Pat Laprade. We had him on as a guest a few times on the main show and so much fun with him we actually created whole other podcast called “Pat on the Mat” which was a (more or less) monthly take on the world of pro-wrestling.

So yes, this is a lot more of a Pat on the Mat episode than it is a Go Plug Yourself episode (we don’t even do 5 Questions!) but it is what it is and what it is is podcasting greatness.

Also, we returned to recording at Grumpy’s! We’re playing all the hits baby!

If you like what Pat Laprade has to say, be sure to check out any (or all!) of the books he’s written about the squared circle:

Pat Laprade is also the voice of Monday Night Raw each week on TVA Sports, be sure to keep tabs on Pat’s page over at TVA Sports to keep track of all of his French language coverage of wrestling and hockey. Pat also co-hosts a French-language wrestling podcast called Les Anti-pods de la Lutte with Kevin Raphaël.

Oh and by the way, if you’re a fan of our hosts AND a fan of pro-wrestling then have I got the event for you: It’s the WrestleMania Watch Party Weekend at Champs right here in Montreal!

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Credit Where Credit is Due

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: 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 sometimes 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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Professor H. Shayne Hawke (IWS) – GPYS 245

by on November 25, 2021 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal podcast that asks professional wrestler Shayne Hawke from IWS: “What is the thing that happened in your life that surprised you the most?” asked of course by our last guest: Francois Vigneault (TITAN, Orcs in Space) in GPYS 244.

Fun fact, we actually had Shayne on the show way back in 2014 since we love ourselves some wrestling on this here show. Times have certainly changed since then. Not only did Shayne suffer a series of injuries that looked like they were going to keep him out of the ring permanently, but he also got over those injuries and can wrestle again!

Shayne is now a mastermind over at the International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) and also runs things down at the IWS Dojo where he will teach you (yes, you) how to wrestle. You can follow Shayne on Instagram, Twitter and I’m told even Tik Tok.

Lawrence steps into the co-host this episode and also he and his fiancée Eve-Line step up to host part of Episode 186 of the Super J-Cast (a New Japan Pro Wrestling Podcast) that you can listen to here.

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Credit Where Credit is Due

As always, a big thank you to the providers of our theme song: 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 sometimes blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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Wrestling With Walter J. Lyng – GPYS 230

by on April 15, 2021 at 6:08 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

Walter J. Lyng is back on the Montreal podcast that has historically spends a lot of time talking about wrestling even though it’s not a wrestling podcast! We’re back baby!

Ladies and gentleman, our guest at this time is none other than Go Plug Yourself Hall of Famer: Walter J. Lyng!

If you are somehow tuning into the show for the first time you know that 80% of all of the hosts of Go Plug Yourself love wrestling (one guess on the 20% who doesn’t, hint, she passed on joining us for this episodes).

Considering that this past weekend was the 2nd Covid-19 edition of WrestleMania we thought it would be fun to bring back your friend and mine Walter to talk about the entire two night event and do a match by match breakdown of the festivities. It’s kind of like Pat on the Mat, minus Pat… and plus Lawrence and Chris.

Oh, it’s also the annual Cult MTL “Best of Montreal” readers poll right now and we would really appreciate it if you would kindly head over to Cult MTL and vote for Go Plug Yourself as your favorite Montreal podcast.

Enjoy the show!

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

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

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.

Lawrence Corber also produces some shows you may have heard of (you should probably check out the next Healthy Living show when you get a chance) and if you’re close with him you can call him Lully. The other way to call him “Lully” is to follow him on his socials. @Lully514 on Instagram.

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.

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Wrestling! – Go Quarantine Yourself 7 (aka GPYS 210)

by on June 25, 2020 at 10:30 pm
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that is bold enough to do yet another episode devoted entirely to the world of professional wrestling.

Walter jumps back on this episode to talk with Chris and I about our shared passion of the squared circle (Lawrence also loves wrestling but couldn’t make it, Inés does not love wrestling so obviously is not around).

You may have heard that Edge and Randy Orton had The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever recently, so we talk about that, but in the spirit of the ‘Go Quarantine Yourself’ series we pivot towards some of our early memories as blossoming wrestling fans, namely: hitting wrestling moves on your friends and siblings.

Listen now and get to know us all a little better in the process, enjoy.

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

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

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 blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

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Pat Laprade Podcast – Pat on the Mat 21 – Post WrestleMania 2019

by on May 8, 2019 at 9:11 pm
Posted In: Other podcasts, Pat on the Mat, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal wrestling podcast that you know and love is back once again (like a renegade master) to shoot the squared circle. Pat Laprade probably watched somewhere in the vicinity of 30 hours of wrestling when he went down to NYC for WrestleMania weekend and this time Walter went with him. Just kidding. Walter also went to ‘Mania but as he brings up at the top of the show, my two co-hosts did not interact once over the weekend.

That’s why we call him “Hollywood Pat”.

Enjoy the show!

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GPYS 179 – Giant Tiger Returns! (BATTLEWAR)

by on April 4, 2019 at 7:11 am
Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

With WrestleMania right around the corner, we thought it was high time to have yet another episode devoted to one of our favorite things: pro wrestling. Sure, we’ve got that OTHER show where we only talk about wrestling (and you should definitely be listening to Pat on the Mat if you aren’t already) but it’s not the same as sitting down with a wrestler and just shooting the shit.

If you only watch the WWE brand of pro-wrestling, you’re doing yourself a massive disservice. There is amazing, local, affordable indie wrestling promotions in Montreal and one of the best of those is the one and only BATTLEWAR and they will be celebrating their 7th Anniversary on April 14th at Foufounes Electrique. Giant Tiger is one of the mad geniuses behind the magic of BATTLEWAR and we welcome him back to the show to talk about learning to wrestle in the back of a porn studio, wrecking people’s cars with a moving truck (transporting a wrestling ring of course) and having his jaw wired shut after working a stiff match. It’s a good one.

Enjoy the show!

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Be there at Foufs on April 14th and surprise GT by buying one of his t-shirts.

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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