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

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Carmina Berbari Daou & Raquel Maestre of the Montreal Indie Comedy Collective: “If you could party on any planet, real or fictional, what would it be?” Then we ask: “Ass or titties?” (thanks for that Shosho). Those questions came to us from Serag and Shosho back in our last episode (hot top: you can still buy ticke...

Scott and Keith really like the Winter Olympics. Jono? I guess he’s probably meh on them and sports in general.   Maybe that’s why Jon has maybe like 5 minutes of talk time in an episode that is almost entirely devoted to the main sporting events of the last week (being of course the SuperBowl, the Winter Olympics and Kid Rock popping up out of a stage like a muppet in a fur coat only to lip...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks comedians Shosho Abotouk & Serag Meletian: “What’s your favorite breakfast cereal both now and as a kid?” That question asked, as always, by our previous guest Nazeer Khan . You may remember that we had Shosho on the show a few months ago to talk about the runaway success story of merging comedy with crochet. Well, she&#...

So about halfway through the recording of this podcast you will hear Scott exclaim “Fuck that guy!” and it will be revealed that he is talking about Matt Damon.   To peel back the curtain a little about our recording process we usually take a little water break around the 30 minute mark. It lets us make sure everything is going well with the recording, refill water glasses, go to the bathroom...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast Go Plug Yourself asks comedian and producer Nazeer Khan: What new grocery store item are you most excited about? That question asked in our previous episode by Dr. Tyler Lemco . It took a little bit of coordination (which is also why we’re a day late in posting this episode) but we finally managed to get Nazeer Khan on the show. If you don’...

We know that we occasionally get a little into politics news on 9ES but we also recognize that can be a huge bummer. So instead we talk about Predator: Badlands. It’s not that we don’t care about what’s going on in the world, we just care a lot more about what happens when a Yautja and a Weyland-Yutani team up on a murder planet.   Honestly, Predator: Badlands might be the “weakest” of the th...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast Go Plug Yourself welcomes back Tyler Lemco and asks the question: “Who in your life do you think is most likely a time traveler?” That question asked as always be our good friend Sarah Warren back in episode 326 . If you remember back in July we had Tyler Lemco on the show talking about Dr Lemco’s Creative Club where Tyler was hosting...

As we do most years we are taking advantage of the final episode of the year to take a look back at the year that was. 2025 was, as years go, “a bit of a year” for most of us. As we all firmly enter our mid-40’s I am pretty sure full calendar years of whimsy and fun are things of the past. At least until we start experimenting with whatever drugs they will be giving old people in the year 2060. To...

You know what the Go Plug Yourself gang got you for the holidays? A podcast a day early! Our generosity knows no bounds! It’s time for our most chaotic episode of the year! It’s the Go Plug Yourself shit show featuring too many people to mention but I’m going to try anyways – starting with my amazing co-hosts Walter J. Lyng, Lawrence Corber, Troy Stark, my wife Sarah and Ch...

We missed out on ranking Wake Up Dead Man on this one but I guess that’s fine because it gives Keith another few weeks to watch it and then all three of us can chime in on Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out mystery.   I do love that Rian Johnson committed to making three full feature length films in the style of a modern Agatha Christie character where many filmmakers would just remake Murder O...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks comedian Sarah Warren: “Which love song do you wish was written about you?” That question was asked a few episodes ago by the wonderful Lou Laurence who was promoting her debut album “ Montréal Romantic .” Listen, we know that we had Sarah Warren on the show already this year to promote her show “ My Dead Mom&#82...

Really the only thing that stops us from being just like Jesse Plemons in Begonia is that none of us are beekeepers.   Waitaminute- Jon is a beekeeper. I guess it’s time for us to kidnap a CEO. This podcast is about to really take a turn. Hit us up in the comments if you’re a CEO who would like to be kidnapped by the three of us.   Anyways, it’s hard to get out to the movies these days a...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast takes a break from our usual programming and invites Scott MacIver (from our other show 9ES ) to talk about sports! We’re a Montreal sports show now! I’ll be totally up front though, about 95% of the sports talk is hockey centric. Scott and Chris talk a little about football and baseball towards the end there but we love in Montreal and thi...

So the Trump administration has reversed their decision on not releasing the Epstein Files despite the possibility of a photo of… checks notes… “Trump blowing Bubba.” I can’t really be excited by any of this since I’m pretty sure if they’re releasing the files they’ve already scorched any ties that the orange man might have had with the pervert anyways.   I guess we shall see.   So Paul...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks singer-songwriter Lou Laurence: “What makes baseball so romantic?” That question asked by Pascal Girard back in our last episode . Lou Laurence is an incredibly talented (and funny) performer who you may even recognize from her last appearance on this podcast promoting her Fringe Show “ Love, Sharks & Frenching “....

Two out of three of us are dads here on 9ES. When is it ok to show Zach Cregger’s Weapons to your kid? 12? 13 years old? When is it ok to show Thanatomorphose to your kid? Probably never? Weapons was pretty great and I can’t wait for Jono to watch Barbarian so we can dutifully compare and contrast. If Zach Cregger was a recording artist, Weapons would be an excellent second album. Which we know fr...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks comic book artist Pascal Girard: “What’s your positive vision for the future?” That question was asked in our last episode by Annie and Scout from CULT PLAY . Chris Venditto and I were excited to host cartoonist Pascal Girard on this week’s episode of Go Plug Yourself. Pow Pow is bringing the English translation of Pascal Girard’s latest book...

Tron is a weird franchise and Tron: Ares just continues the weirdness. From what I’ve read, none of the three movies were considered hits for Disney. But somehow three of them have been made and they made a really expensive roller coaster to celebrate the franchise in Disneyworld. Hard to figure out the actual numbers but allegedly it was in the same price range as the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cos...

The Montreal podcast that asks playwright Scout Rexe and director Annie Valentina from CULT PLAY: What is the biggest hurdle in your creative process? That question asked back in episode 321 by Lucie Gee and Costs Tsimiklis from  Le Grand Yes And festival. CULT PLAY from Imago Theatre is having its world premiere at the Segal Center next week (tickets and showtimes here ) and honestly it sounds li...

Credit where credit is due: We did not cook up the “firewatch challenge” but rather Scott listened to them do it over on the Confused Breakfast podcast and thought it was a good idea. And guess what, it was!   I went into the exercise thinking I might make a few bold choices here and there but at the end the day I think we all more or less decided to stick to comfort food. Movies we’ve watche...

Interviewing Mick Foley back in 2012 was crazy. We had been doing this show for less than a year at the time and the circumstances of sitting down with the Hardcore Legend at 3:00 in the morning still blow my mind. But we did it. The fact that in the ensuing 13 years Walter would go on to hang out with Mick Foley multiple times, including opening for him a few years back at the Montreal Comiccon i...

I guess we’ll never know whether or not Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel just to make some noise and piss people off or something but boy is it a wild time for free speech.   You know you’re getting pretty crazy when Joe Rogan looks at what you’re doing and is like “ yeah – this is a little crazy .” Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan being voices of reason is a pretty clear sign you’ve done something...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks two of the founders of the new improv festival in Montreal “Le Grand Yes And!” Lucie Gee and Costa Tsimiklis: “What would your last meal on earth be?” That question was asked by Julie Santini back in episode 320 . Le Grand Yes And! is the latest festival in a city famed for its festivals. Festival organizers Lucie Gee...

Jon and Keith played the heck out the original Hollow Knight when it came out and even if they haven’t been full blown participants of the Silksong hype they both were excited enough to get Silksong on launch day. It’s great. If you’re bad at it then get good and you shall be rewarded.   This is a pretty “tight” episode by our standards. We talk about the biggest video game release of the yea...

Welcome to a brand new episode of Go Plug Yourself! Montreal’s best podcast if you ask me. On this week’s episode Lawrence Corber and I are joined by actor, comedian, improviser and all around rule follower Julie Santini. We asked her Pat Guay’s question from a few episodes ago : What annoys you most in your day-to-day life? Julie Santini is one of Montreal’s exciting up and comi...