9to5.cc Podcasts: Including Go Plug Yourself (GPYS) & 9to5 Entertainment System (9ES)

The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that dares to ask comedian Elspeth Wright: “What are your thoughts on two-way mirrors?” – that question of course asked by none other than Mike Carrozza in episode 253 . Elspeth Wright is one of those comedians who has made her presence felt in a big way in the Montreal comedy. Not only featuring on shows all over town but also producin...

The Montreal podcast that revels in the celebration of a man-sized bunny stashing eggs around the house is back for episode 259.   We speculate a little here that Easter Bunny might be a pagan thing, but nope, it’s rooted in one of the weird corners of Christianity after all::   “ The hare was a popular motif in medieval church art. In ancient times, it was widely believed (as by Pliny ,...

Mike Carrozza (Montreal comedy’s favorite son) returns to the back of Grumpy’s to record an in person episode of Go Plug Yourself! Oh, and he also answers Angus’s question from episode 252 : What is the first thing you read that really stuck with you? Mike Carrozza has a number of shows that involve his name either following or preceding the show title and Figure It Out with Mike...

The Montreal podcast that would definitely flaunt a 5 million dollar Pokemon card at Wrestlemania is back with all of the hottest takes on geek and pop-culture.   It was Wrestlemania this past weekend which is the time of year where WWE tries its damnedest to gain wider cultural relevance than usual. The powers that be (aka Vince McMahon) will bend over backwards to try to get casual fans to tune...

The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks Angus Byers of The Hypnophonics: “What is your favourite picture of yourself?” That question asked back in episode 250 from Confabulation’s Matt Goldberg . Spoiler alert: the answer to Matt’s question is right there in the episode image (shoutout to Marisa Parisella Photography ). As Angus Byers tells it, his entire life...

  The Montreal podcast that is doing its best not to get Covid-19 is back! Jon was off in last episode due to illness that was not Covid-19 but felt like it, Scott conveniently timed contracting the virus with the off-week for podcasting and Keith is currently living in his home office while he tries not to catch Covid from his wife! Happy 2nd Pandemic-versary everyone!   So yeah, after...

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-wrestlin...

  It’s probably for the best that we spend most of this episode talking about Spiderman and AEW Revolution because no matter how strong our opinions might be about the Russian invasion of Ukraine we are almost certainly among the worst people to listen to about this particular ongoing tragedy.   I have been doing mental gymnastics to not kind of go into a spiral about the impending possibility of...

The Montreal podcast that asks improvisor and storyteller Matt Goldberg: “Given the hard evidence that there is a God, would you have sex with God?” – asked of course by the incomparable Tyler Lemco in episode 249 . As I mention in the show it is absolutely  insane to me that Matt Goldberg has never been a guest on this show before. I first met Matt back in college, which some li...

Montreal’s favorite geek and pop culture podcast featuring 3 white dudes returns with so much trucker talk this episode should have been recorded on CB radio.   Thankfully the trucker thing seems to be mostly petering out, although I do wonder if we will ever find out just how much of the whole fiasco was orchestrated and funded by our freedom fighting neighbours to the South.   Speaking...

Montreal’s favorite arts, entertainment and comedy podcast is back and asks Tyler Lemco: If you could go back in time and tell yourself to purposefully make a mistake, what would it be? That question was asked by Esteban Vargas back in episode 248 . Tyler Lemco is a Montreal icon. Tyler Lemco is a Montreal icon  in Mexico. Tyler is down in Mexico for the next little while since he heard that...

The Montreal based geek and pop culture podcast that loves driving trucks and playing women’s hockey is back with episode 254. Oh hey, the Olympics are happening.   (For the record, we do neither of those two things).   If I could go on a tangent for a moment here (and despite Jon posting, this is Keith writing) I would like to re-iterate how much fun I have recording these dumb podcasts.   Work h...

The Montreal comedy and culture podcast returns (for now) to speak with CHOM’s Esteban Vargas! We ask Esteban (among other things): If you had to fight a horse sized duck, or a horse’s weight worth of regular sized ducks, who would you rather fight? This question asked to him WAY back in November by the incomparable Professor H. Shayne Hawke in episode 245 . Esteban has worked at CHOM...

The Montreal based geek and pop culture podcast that definitely knows more about The Eternals than we do about football is back with episode 253.   Besides Scott, it is fair to say that the 9to5 Entertainment System is not really “dialed in” to the world of the NFL. That said, the Buffalo Bills being kind of a tragic team is one of those things that seems to have made its way into general pop...

We never wanted to win a Golden Globe anyways. It is very difficult to do a show that was established as a vehicle to promote other people’s stuff when there is very little stuff happening due to that pesky global pandemic. I feel like this time around in the lockdown is hitting everyone a little harder. There are less restaurants doing unique delivery menus, virtual shows and concerts are m...

The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that is definitely trapped in The Matrix and loves Highlander 2 returns for episode 252. I am not sure whether or not we talk about in the main episode or as part of Garbage Time but at one point in the original Matrix Agent Smith says that 1999 was the last time that humans were still thinking for themselves. It was before the machines started thinking fo...

For 2021 we kept things a little more low key than usual for our annual shit show. I think 4 people is tied with our smallest previous shit show but I’m too lazy to go back into the expansive GPYS archives to verify that claim. Why? Well, if you haven’t noticed the entire province (nay country, nay planet) is a bit of shit show right now so in a way, maybe this is  the biggest shit sho...

2021 is over and the Montreal geek podcast that isn’t going to say something cheesy like “at least the year is over” because we are afraid of what 2022 might have in store for us is back to review 2021! Spoiler alert: It more or less sucked! However, we do manage to find some positivity and we try to lift your mood a little as we run down our favorite movies, tv shows and news st...

The Montreal podcast that is back in isolation returns to talk about sports. As Chris Venditto continues his mission to work his way into sports talk radio we bring back “Go Quarantine Yourself” to talk about sports and Succession. This is a fun, free wheeling conversation between myself and Venditto that spans the wide world of sports during a pandemic. We talk (obviously) about the r...

The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that should probably own more tigers if we want to be featured on Tiger King season 3 is back! Not enough podcasts own enough tigers man. When I first heard that they were releasing a second season of Tiger King, a lot of people probably wondered: “but why?” I, on the other hand, thought that it made perfect sense. When absolutely everyone invo...

It’s 9ES249 we talk about ultra marathons, green party of canada, democracy, omicron variant, nhl, montreal canadiens, lol, league of legends, 737 max crash, boeing, cowboy bebop netflix, wheel of time prime, conan and he-man!     Our intro song is a brand new jam cooked up by OKU-DA just for us, do yourself a favour and check out his SoundCloud ). The post 9ES249: Angle of Attack!...

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 chan...

The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that thinks Dune’s giant sand worms are cooler than Shang-Chi’s big giant dragons is back another episode. Trust the science. So by all accounts Lowtax was not a great person, probably not even a “good” person. But in a lot of ways that is pretty emblematic of the internet on the whole. It’s filled with not good people. It’s filled with shitty people. Or p...

The Montreal podcast that asks comic creator Francois Vigneault: How well do you sleep? That question asked by Seth Galina back in episode 243 . We’ve always loved comics here at Go Plug Yourself. In fact, comic artist Yanick Paquette was on our 6th episode ever to talk about Swamp Thing an incredible 10 years ago. And I’ve had a special place in my heart for indie comics since I was i...

The Montreal geek and pop culture podcast that isn’t quite done with Halloween yet talks about spooky stuff for another episode. You know, spooky stuff like the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google ? The Google antitrust stuff is interesting. Whenever Google (or Amazon… or Facebook… or Apple) get outed for doing sketchy shit I think most of us see it coming from a mile away. Oh, Google has bee...