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

Osheaga 2025 is 62 days away! Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2025! As always, we’re kicking things off chronologically (it just seems the best way to go) so this is our second look at Friday’s lineup! (More or less) every two weeks Sarah and I will be digging into the entire lineup of this year’s Osheaga to give you music recommendations all summer long. We pick ten acts from each day,...

The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks Amy Blackmore: What was the worst injury you’ve ever had? That question asked by Shosho Abotouk back in episode 316 . It’s that time of year again! The Montreal Fringe Festival is back! As we so often are, Sarah and I were joined by Amy Blackmore aka the “Queen of Fringe to talk about this year’s edition of the Fringe Fe...

It seems that every single year around this time we get to have an episode devoted to the postseason demise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It also seems like there is always a fun new statistic available to dunk on the Maple Leafs in whole new ways.   This year? It’s that Brad Marchand is hilariously 5-0 against the Maple Leaf in Game 7. That doesn’t seem possible. But it’s the Maple Leafs, so o...

The Montreal arts and entertainment podcast that asks co-creator of the Montreal Crochet Club Shosho Abotouk: “What is your favourite niche soda?” That question asked in episode 315 by the wonderful James McGee . Sorry James, Shosho didn’t grow up with RC Cola so she has no fond memories of that slice of Canadiana. Our guest this week is none other than Shosho Abotouk who runs an...

Osheaga 2025 is 79 days away! Our Unofficial Osheaga Podcast is back for 2025! As always, we’re kicking things off chronologically (it just seems the best way to go) and starting with Friday’s lineup! (More or less) every two weeks Sarah and I will be digging into the entire lineup of this year’s Osheaga to give you music recommendations all summer long. We pick ten acts from each day, we talk abo...

It’s wild to me that after years and years of terrible vampire movies we’ve been treated to two great ones in the last few months. First “Nosferatu” in December and now Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”. Is this the renaissance that vampire aficionados like the three of us have been waiting for? Let’s hope so.   So yeah, “Sinners” is great and I very much love the idea that ownership of the movie will...

Hey there Montreal – we’ve had to re-arrange our recording schedule a little bit so that means that we are alternating which weeks publish Go Plug Yourself and which weeks publish 9to5 Entertainment System. That means that Go Plug Yourself will return next week   and there’s a new 9ES  this week. So do yourself a favour and check out the 9to5 Entertainment System and we’ll...

Who would have thought that electing the party lead by a 60 year old white banker-dude was the result I would be happiest with?   How far we have fallen. As predicted the NDP now have less than 10 seats which I only found out today is the lowest number of seats they’ve ever had since they became a party. Tommy Douglas is rolling in his grave.   All three of us probably enjoyed the 2007 f...

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 improvi...

Montreal’s favorite geek and pop culture podcast 9ES is back to talk about the Chicken Jockey trend, the stupid AI Studio Ghibli trend, the Canadian election, Daredevil: Born Again and so much more. Of course it’s only natural that we start the episode off about how my brother now kind of sounds like Kieran Culkin after he recovered from Covid. Topical! I really can’t express eno...

The Montreal podcast that asks Inés Anaya: “What is the best advice you’ve ever received, and who gave it to you?” That question asked by the one and only Dave Kaufman back in episode 313 . It’s been a few long months since Inés Anaya has graced the Go Plug Yourself airwaves so we thought it was high time she came back on the podcast to let us know how she was doing. So we...

We know why you listen to the 9to5 Entertainment System – you want to know what we think about the Oscar Best Picture winner Anora and whether or not you can watch it with your mom. Just kidding, we kick off the show by talking about how Pierre Polievre looks like Ditto from Detective Pikachu trying to look like a human: I’m now pretty convinced that the leader of the Conservative party is a...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Montreal writer, broadcaster and political commentator Dave Kaufman: What is the one live performance that you would willingly see every time you went out over and over again? That question was asked by Sarah Warren in our last episode which you should also totally check out . A couple of weeks ago we shared an episode from a few years ago th...

9ES is back at full strength to talk about comics, movies and video games old and new like Mickey 17, Dune 2, Street Fighter 2: Turbo, Mortal Kombat 2 and of course the appointment of our new Prime Minister Mark Carney.   ♪”One of these things is not like the other…”♫   Politics and pop culture combine! Form of podcast!   I think we talk about The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl once every...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks comedian Sarah Warren: “What was the one meal you ate that made you want to die (in a good way)?” That question asked, as always, by Marc-Anthony Senigoga back in episode 311 . Sarah Warren’s mom passed away, so she did what we all do: go through your dead mom’s cookbook and make a bunch of the recipes with other comed...

Once again we manage to mostly avoid talking about the madness going on as Trump flails wildly, lashing out in every direction like an old man losing his marbles and yelling at clouds even as he clutches the nuclear football like a Teddy Ruxpin while he sleeps. Instead we talk about the Oscars! But wait, have we seen any of the movies celebrated at the Oscars? Well, we’ve seen some so there’s that...

Go Plug Yourself is the Montreal podcast that asks comedian Marc-Anthony Sinagoga: “How did you celebrate Black History Monthy?” That question asked by our buddy Vance Michel back in episode 310. Welcome back to a brand new episode of Go Plug Yourself, our very special guest this week is Marc-Anthony Sinagoga. You know him from @notmarcanthony on Instagram (and @not_marcanthony on TikT...

Well we did it, we pretty much made it through a full episode without getting tempted to talk about whatever the hell Trump is up to this second. And we do it the most Canadian way possible: by talking about hockey! It’s the “4 Nations Face-Off” and what started as a glorified extension of the All-Star Game has become a pretty interesting tournament.   Let’s ignore the fact that the 4 Nations...

So this week our intended guest AND our co-host were feeling under the weather so as we do we are digging into our archives to share one of our favorite episodes – we’re going back to November 2020 to our episode that we recorded with Dave Kaufman – 2020 seems almost quaint these days doesn’t it? We spent the episode talking about the political landscape at the time and the...

I hate that once again we find ourselves talking about the same thing as the whole world when we spend a good chunk of time talking about Trump Tariffs but honestly it was all anyone was talking about at the beginning of the week. Now that the Trump Tariffs aren’t supposed to kick in for another 30 days we just all moved onto the next thing which is *checks notes* permanently taking over Gaza ? No...

The Montreal arts & entertainment podcast that asks Vance Michel: “What are three things that you’re grateful for today?” That question was asked by Eva Alexopoulos back in episode 309. If Go Plug Yourself had the budget of Saturday Night Live maybe we would invest in a 5 Timer jacket. Vance Michel probably would’ve gotten that jacket a while ago since he’s been a guest several times, been a p...

Hey California, wanna join Canada? That’d be fun, right? We could be on fire together.   Speaking of irredeemable villains – Jono finished watching The Penguin so we dive into what might make a case for being the best comic book television adaptation of all time. That leads into us talking about Joker: Folie A Deux which might be one of the worst comic book film adaptations of all time....

The Montreal podcast that asks founder of Kickback Comedy Eva Alexopoulos “What is something that you’ve forgiven yourself for?” returns for episode 309. That question was the final question of 2024 asked by Christopher Curtis of therover.ca back in episode 308 . That’s right, it’s another brand new episode of the Go Plug Yourself podcast. This week we are proud to si...

I just realized that after Trudeau resigns there will be a new Prime Minister and said Prime Minister will only be the third Prime Minister governing this country since we started the podcast back in 2011. Since 2005 it has only been Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau running this great nation that we call Canada.   20 years and only two leaders kind of feels wrong. As if 2025 needed more poli...

It’s time once again for that most hallowed Montreal podcasting holiday tradition: The Go Plug Yourself Sh!t Show! As we do every year we gather up the extended Go Plug Yourself family, have a few drinks and turn our unforgiving gaze back upon the year that was. This year it was Walter J. Lyng, Chris Venditto, Lawrence Corber, Sarah and myself (with a brief guest appearance by Vance Michel) upstai...