Brother Sister The Podcast

It's still Olympic time and the Siblings agree that the Olympics are dumb and we don't need 'em. Sister is rip roaring mad about a couple of situations happening at the Olympics and though they start on the same page...they don't stay there. A full scale battle ensues, with Brother and Sister at each other's throats. Honestly, be careful with volume because there's a couple of times when your eard...

BIG NEWS - The Sibs have a website! ANNNNNNDDDD you can leave us a voicemail! If you go to  brothersisterpod.com there's a button to record a message, and in this episode Brother & Sister list a bunch of options for what you could share. Olympic fever is going around, and both Jon and Allison have stories they've barely looked into to share. A creative spark ignites, and they come up with the grea...

*Trigger warning: The word penis gets said WAY too many times in this episode. After Jon's spends the weekend at the RNC, polictics threates to tear the Sibs apart as they discuss the President dropping out of the race. Brother accuses Sister of being too passionate, Sister accuses him of being too flippant.  In an attempt to start fresh, they replay the jingle, but the resentments persist.  A sto...

Unce...tice...fee times a conspiracy!  It was an eventful weekend and Brother is feeling very serious about it. Sister has the nerve to bring up Shannen Doherty. What starts as two idiots discussing the attempted assassination of a former/potential future president ends up in airline complaints and favourite conspiracies. Did Barbara Bush get sucked out a plane window? Who shot JFK? Is the earth f...

Brother finally tells the story of the possible crime he committed in what may or may not have been the 8th grade. But is he a reliable narrator? Was it attempted murder? A childish prank? Will his accomplice break down and confess? Sister talks about having to lock herself in the bathroom afterschool for safety, with only The Babysitter's Club to comfort her until their parents got home.  

In an attempt to be more professional, the Sibs start with some promotions. Sister's comedy label Howl & Roar sponsors The Grindstone Comedy Festival happening July 3-7 in Edmonton https://www.grindstonecomedyfest.com and Brother is performing in Milwaukee July 19 & 20 and is doing a cross Canada tour in the fall. http://jondore.com Allison also fixes a big oversight from the previous episode, in...

Brother has sunstroke, Sister is tired from working all day, and they've both been drinking…how could this go wrong? Allison can't stop laughing for the beginning of the episode, and Jon tells listeners about the filth in her garage. There's a bit of a lull as they talk about furniture, and which countries the pod has been downloaded in, and they disagree over whether they should cut it out. But S...

Once again in their childhood home, Brother is drinking an alleged beer and Sister is   having a coffee. The Sibs are finding items to reminisce about, including another cassette tape, some of Jon's earliest stand up material, and why the FBI might be after their dad. Then - a competition arises, the outcome of which will definitively decide once and for all who the smartest member of the family i...

Right out of the gate Brother triggers Sister by talking about Canadian Idol, but she calms down and he tells some stories about his big job on television. A behind the scenes story leads to another disagreement about food. Recording from their childhood home offers examples of their family dynamic, plus a lot of nostalgia and the reality of being out and about in their hometown now that they're f...

Brother is sleep deprived once again, as he is on tour and travelling all over the place. Sister is on top of the world as they do emotional inventory and trying to figure out what words mean.   A discussion of Miami Vice, The Insider, their love of actor Bruce McGill, and Edgar Allan Poe leads to the story of when their house was burglarized as kids. As Jon goes to verify what items were stolen w...

This episode starts with Brother and Sister taking emotional inventory to see where they're at. After Jon's baby falls in a ditch, they discuss the purposes of ditches, both official and clandestine. Brother is on a journey to quit smoking but apparently Sister is taking it too seriously and isn't any fun, which leads her to discuss her epiphany that she did her life wrong. This leads to a discuss...

We've got another guest! Ed Macdonald is an author, auteur and was the showrunner of The Jon Dore Television Show! First Ed paints a picture of his hometown and current residence Cape Breton (so many goddamn musicians!), then we step into the past to find out how Ed first met Brother, and how he helped birth The Jon Dore Television Show into existence.  In addition to behind the scenes talk about...

The early bird gets the incoherent rambling! It's 6 am, Brother is getting ready to go to the airport and Sister is trying to turn on her brain.   After some sound effects to warm up, and secrets are kept, they talk the joy of some comedy festivals and how Dylan Mandlsohn owes Jon $4,700. Another brief fight over the therapy in the box cards leads to Jon doing a deodorant application tutorial, and...

We're back in the shed as Brother and Sister talk confronting home invaders (who fights and who freezes?), what is the pural of Kit Kat, and their mutual hatred of parades.  In remembering their father's friend Ted, the Sibs freaky friday with predictable results. And of course, murder comes up yet again because there is something wrong with these two. From a potential political run to a near deat...

The devil is in the details, which Brother and Sister prove by arguing about very insignificant details. This episode the Sibs play with fire by drawing cards from "Unpack That: Therapy in a Box". What starts out very sweetly quickly devolves into various arguments about the CFL, grammar, and what they picked up from who, when.  After a week of being a married single parent, Jon is operating on li...

This week Brother and Sister are reminiscing about their grandfather, a genius botanist who was also a real odd duck. From a fixation with belly buttons to accidentally setting things on fire to watching videos of surgery while eating dinner, growing up with Grandpa Dore was jam packed with unique moments.  Why did Allison have to hide her stuffed animals when he came over? Were the Sibs allowed t...

Is touching a hot Pop Tart the same as the pain of childbirth? Answering more listener questions has the Sibs madly off in all directions! Trying to explain their father and uncle's secret language (the word Sister is looking for is REBUS), the origins of their childhood nicknames, hanging out with a Scottish con man, and Jon almost ruining a gold medal hockey game are just a few of the stories in...

Brother and Sister are answering your questions! Well, some of them...they get off track pretty easily.   In this one the sibs figure out what to do with psychopaths, go behind the scenes at The Jon Dore Television Show, talk dreams for the future, and tell a story involving Kiefer Sutherland that embarasses both of them. Plus they definitively answer the question: can you keep a fart in a jar? Th...

Well Sister finally knows where she is, and Brother thinks she's too negative. Their mom makes a brief appearance before Allison realizes Jon is trying to crap on her when she can't hear him.  Jon names his favourite cousin, Allison recounts her trip to Newfoundland (including when Mary Walsh called her out in front of her crush), and they both admit they wouldn't do well in jail. But would Brothe...

Uh oh...this episode almost didn't happen. Could this podcast be the thing that breaks the bond between Brother and Sister?  Before the recording, a phone call turns angry and snarky, and Jon hangs up on Allison. Who started it? Who overreacted? Who is the busier of the two??? With Sister on the East Coast and Brother going from North to South to North again, the Sibs are geographically and emotio...

The Sibs have another guest! Sister's therapist Sherry is here to talk about family dynamics and mediate some feuds. Is Brother an instigating attention seeker? Does Sister owe him money? Will they every come to terms about that disgusting blanket? Does Sherry actually have any credentials? IS SHE IN THE WITNESS RELOCATION PROGRAM?!? FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @brothersisterpod Jon @tvsjondore Allison...

For two smart people Brother and Sister are real dummies, so they're going back to their school days, but first Sister goes to church - doesn't find God but leaves with a Pepsi and a beef patty so it worked out pretty well.  Stories of teachers losing control of the classroom, the teacher they both loved inspite of him being a "playful tyrant", Allison ending up in the Nerd Herd, and Jon getting a...

Sister's back from vacation, Brother is done babysitting his kids, and they go on a stroll down memory lane to some of the trouble they got up to in high school. Do they have regrets? Did Brother commit a felony? How many drugs is too many?

Thanks to travel and technical issues, the sibs many attemps at a fresh episode failed. But with months of test episodes in the rearview mirror, there was lots of great moments to share! Will Brother's training as a peer counsellor in college help Sister's attitude? Will Sister accept she's not an authority on vasectomies? Why did she get pushed out of that car???? You never know what to expect wi...

Brother and Sister welcome their first guest, the legendary Tim Bader! Jon describes Tim as "the personalities of all 5 members of Motley Crue fused inside the charming persona of Ferris Buller".  Actor, musician, bon vivant, and gambler - Tim grew up outside Philly with SEVEN sibings (way too many) and went west to follow his dreams. It's impossible to describe the magic of Tim, but truly to know...