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

The Montreal podcast that devotes most of its runtime to breaking down “Movie 43” returns in all of its glory. The loyal 9ES listener will notice that Scott and I are holding down the fort alone on this one and they may suspect that once again Jon is having computer issues. They would be wrong though. Jon has just entered the world of active fatherhood so we decided he deserves at leas...

The Montreal podcast that will forever and always hold Walter J. Lyng near and dear to its heart returns! Just like live shows! It was 10 years ago in 2011 that Walter first brought Pitching Knife Fight to the Montreal Fringe Festival, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that later that same summer he would decide to start a podcast with me. I’m not sure exactly what the connect...

The Montreal podcast that knew deep down the Leafs would blow it returns to bring you musings upon the world of sport, television and comic books. Disclaimer: This podcast was recorded a day before Game 7 of the Habs vs Leafs Playoffs series, we moved the recording date so that we could watch said game and boy did it not disappoint. Also, there is a point of contention here about the over/under on...

The Montreal podcast that asks Alexis Diamond: “Where can you find the best ice cream in Montreal?” (asked by Montreal guitarist Pierre-Luc Rioux in episode 232 ). Alexis Diamond is bringing a definite air of class to Go Plug Yourself this week. After all, it’s not every day you speak to someone nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award. I suppose it’s not eve...

The best geek podcast in Montreal (if you ask our moms) is back with your bi-weekly dose of very relevant hot takes. How hot are these takes? They’re as hot as flaming arrow fired by none other than John Rambo that causes an entire building to explode. With all the Rambo movies currently on Netflix, Jon has been working his way through the series. What started as maybe an examination of the...

The Montreal podcast that asks guitarist Pierre-Luc Rioux: What would you wish for? (asked by Kayla de Leon and Tyler Lemco in GPYS 231 ). Pierre-Luc Rioux is Montreal guitarist who you have almost certainly heard at one point or another. Whether it was featuring on tracks from the likes of David Guetta, Justin Bieber and Katie Perry (just to name drop a few of the artists he’s worked with)...

There are a lot of podcasts that are out there that make it their business to be up to date on the latest movies that are being released. We are not one of those podcasts. We’re just as likely to spend a good 20 minutes talking about Mad Max: Fury Road (again) as we are to talk about anything that is currently in cinemas. Not so this week! Scott AND Keith have both seen Godzilla vs Kong and...

The Montreal podcast that asks the host of “11:11 Make a Wish” Kayla de Leon and Tyler Lemco: If you were a spicy mayonnaise, what would you be? (Asked by Amy Blackmore back in episode 229 ). Tyler Lemco and Kayla De Leon are two of the funniest people in Montreal. So it’s only fitting that they now have a podcast together. It’s called “11:11 Make a Wish” and yo...

The Montreal podcast that brings you all of the hottest takes on the new skate park in Verdun is ready for you with episode 233. Seriously though, Keith tries to reminisce about skate parks and that was apparently just not a part of Scott and Jon’s childhood so the conversation just kind of ends right there. Should you invest in NFTs? Probably. We were like a week ahead of the curve on the G...

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...

The Montreal podcast that dares to slide down a concrete tube going way too fast for your amusement. I can’t be entirely certain if we’re the only podcast in the world that talks about the very dangerous rides of New Jersey’s infamous Action Park, the Egyptian Mummy Parade and the WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony but I am pretty confident that we are the only podcast that does so in the...

Amy Blackmore joins the Montreal podcast that asks the question: “Who have you thought about recently from your past that you realized you had forgotten about?” (asked by Tim Riel back in episode 227 ). Amy Blackmore has had a hell of year. We’ve all had a hell of year but Amy’s might have taken the cake. From having Mainline Theater shut down due to the pandemic (followed...

We finally talk about the Snyder Cut! I saw it! Pandemic is over I saw the Snyder Cut! The Montreal podcast that talks about the great sport of tag and how a young child will always best a grown man in his forties. Jon sits this one out because his home computer is like Fort Knox, there’s a quote kicking around in the old comics somewhere about his impenetrable defenses but I couldn’t...

The Montreal podcast that existed long before the Covid-19 pandemic takes a look back at the last year of isolation and social distancing. It’s been one full year since Go Plug Yourself transformed into Go Quarantine Yourself during the initial lockdown. How have we grown and changed over that time? Has anything changed? Have we grown at all? Did we learn anything? Probably not. Lawrence, Ch...

After 230 are we completely replaceable by algorithms?  Almost certainly.  Of course the bots that would be generated by the 9ES dataset would be our public ‘podcastey’ selves.  There’s no question we, as children, learn to speak with different voices, right?  Our ‘in front of the parents’ voice and our ‘flexing in front of friends’ voice etc.  We must eac...

Tim Riel joins the Montreal podcast that asks: If you had to give yourself a nickname, what would it be? Asked by none other than Elspeth Wright back in episode 226 . Tim Riel is our guest this week as we creep ever closer to the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown here in Canada. We continue to put our spotlight on many of the creative ways funny people are finding ways to be funny with...

Your favorite nerd podcast from Montreal is Alive and kicking and we’re back One More Time. Texas ran out of power but hopefully the power grid comes back Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Since Television Rules the Nation we also talk about the latest episode of WandaVision and what it might mean for the MCU and you would need to go Around the World to find a movie worse than Glenn Danzig&#...

Elspeth Wright (comedian and host of “Battle of Wits”) joins the Montreal podcast that asks: If the week was 10 days long, would you still only house clean once a week? That question asked by Christian and Matthew from Scorpion Masqué in Episode 225 . Back when the pandemic hit, Elspeth Wright was hosting her own comedy gameshow at The Diving Bell Social Club called “Battle of Wi...

Terrible terrible missed opportunities.  Terrible terrible haunting misses.  Distract me!         [POWERPRESS]   The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by OKU-DA and our intro song is a brand new jam he cooked up just for us (note: both songs do not really reflect his usual style, but do yourself a favour and  check out his SoundCloud The post 9ES228: Not Bold...

The Montreal podcast that asks board game makers Christian & Matthew from Scorpion Masqué: What is the best and worst vegetable? Asked by Vance Gillis in Episode 224 . Christian Lemay and Matthew Legault join us from Scorpion Masqué this week to talk about something that a LOT of people might have been rediscovering during lockdown: board games. Le Scorpion Masqué is one of the few board game...

It’s a constant struggle to remain open minded when World War 3 is being fought on the battlefield of ideas over the internet.  The sophistication of propaganda cannot be understated.  The brightest minds of my generation have spent their lives learning how to manipulate us using colored dots and between 1970 and now the world population doubled.  There are a lot of minds working on this. Th...

Montreal Improv is alive and well! Well, it is alive, and with the help and support of all of us it will be well. Vance Gillis joins us on the latest episode of Go Plug Yourself to answer the question: “What object in your life brings you a strong memory, good or bad?” (as asked by Kenny Streule in the last episode ). As was mentioned a few times on this very podcast the great city of...

The Montreal pop-culture podcast that is a day late, but still free, so please don’t complain. In this episode we get into it about the Proud Boys and are they really that bad? Spoilers: They absolutely are. I watched Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse and read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two and both Scott and I watched Wonder Woman 84 so those are all things we end up talking about t...

The Montreal podcast that asks Kenny Streule: What was your worst experience with the media? (Asked by Simon and Pascal from Total Crap back in Go Plug Yourself 222 ). Back in the beginning of 2020 (which might have occurred either last week or in another lifetime, I’m not sure) Kenny Streule put together a very popular run of a one man show called “Malunderstood” at Montreal&#82...

The annual 9ES Year in Review! It’s time for the greatest tradition of the greatest geek podcast in Montreal! I promise you that we try to just stick to pop culture nonsense for this one but there is the mandatory bummer news about Covid-19 right off the top. This year has been an absolute shit show and it occurred to me the other day that I’ve seen Jon all of once since all this start...