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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.

Enjoy the show!

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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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9to5 Entertainment System 66: Scott Tells You About a Comic You Should Read

by on August 7, 2014 at 10:38 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

Sophie was around for the beginning but then she had to go to watch Space Station 76 over at Fantasia. Today is the last day of Fantasia and for that we are sad (well, sort of, hot damn I am sick of editing podcasts). Nevertheless, in order to make sure that this 9to5 Entertainment System was NOT about Fantasia (since that’s almost all we’ve been doing for the past few weeks) we enlisted our secret weapon. That’s right, Scott’s back! He didn’t go to Fantasia! So this podcast is about music and sports! Yes!9esportland

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The bed music during our advertising is Tone Commander!
The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

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9to5 Entertainment System 24: The One Where Sophie Talks About Sports

by on December 6, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

Usually, since I’m the last person to touch the podcast I take a line that makes me laugh and make it the title. This time around however, Scott Shanghai’d that privileged by creating the admittedly hilarious episode image that you see below. Yes indeed, Sophie talks about sports in this episode. Sophie’s view of sports is somewhat accurately depicted in this image. Can you find 3 things wrong with the image kids? Answers below. Enjoy the show.

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The bed music during our advertising is Tone Commander!
The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas.  Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

1) Patrick Swayze never played hockey 2) The Canadiens jersey is actually a Kings jersey 3) Wayne Gretzky was not a goaltender.
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Fuck Mondays: Why I Did I Not Take Today Off?

by on April 23, 2012 at 10:26 am
Posted In: Fuck Mondays, Keith

I’m still super exhausted from the weekend, I start work at noon today so I’ve had time to sleep in a little, choke back some disgusting instant coffee and do the dishes. I realized that it was totally my week for Fuck Mondays so I sat down a at the computer and skimmed through a few of the articles that I’ve got on the go. Mad Men, Childish Gambino, Comix Zone, all incomplete enough that making them into something whole would be too much of a pain in my ass. I’m just gonna phone this one in. Nobody reads these anyways.

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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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