We’re there! Episode 250 and all your questions! So many questions!
In a mere four and a half hours, Ian and Dave answer one hundred and seventy-five questions from thirty two different listeners about favourite movies, books, and writers; planning another sidecast; who would win in a fight between Ian and Dave; the most influential moment in their life; tricky Beatle questions; favourite cartoon dog; the outcome of a Donald Trump win; Batman villains; killing birds; their favourite year of school; child rearing advice; unreleased albums; watching Dark Star; creativity; ethnic foods; working with sociopaths; voice acting; over-rated and underrated Canadians; dream projects; favourite marsupial; liberal politics; the origins of the Sneaky Dragon podcast; and, most importantly, where did our “fantastic” theme music come from. Answers to follow.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to our 3rd Q&A episode: including, but not limited to John Halbrooks, Dylan O’Connell, Reid Jepson, Nina Matsumoto, Layne Vee, Laurel Robertson, Connie Moreno, Heather L. Gilbraith, Ben Diebold, Paul Fransen, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Jeromy, Gavin Pitts, Maire Hook, Jay and Krista, Chris Roberts, Jamie Fong, Jason VanSlyke, Louise Moon, Sarah Walsh, Thomas Callaway, Pierce Johnson, Michael Carlton, Michael Roth, Chris, Robert, Ken Painter, Bob Evans, Jada Jackman, Trevor Lynn, Haden Parkes, and Leo Lopez. Thank you, you’re all great people!
And big thanks and a big virtual hug to Sarah Walsh for her wonderful statue of Sneaky Dragon sneaking behind a wall. I mean look at this:
Awesome, right? So thank you, Sarah! (She also provided some helpful hints on picking up the sculpture so our stupid hands don’t wreck it.)
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Do I feel bad for saying final question? Yes. Have I learned to never say final question again in an email? Yes. Sorry for the large amount of questions! Loving the episode (still not finished) To answer a few question based on answers to my questions. Yes, there are Beatles originals on The Beatles Historic Sessions (I Saw Her Standing There, and Ask Me Why). Thanks for the supporting answers on Cancer and Deprresion, I’m getting help as of now (since you sent the email before the episode about getting help). I’m very enlightened by your response to the Beatles in 73 question, your point makes a lot of sense. So, to end this and get back to the episode, sorry for all the questions!
Glad you’re doing well, Reid. Thanks for all the questions. They were all really good and thought-provoking, which was what we wanted. Don’t take Ian’s ribbing to heart.
How was the sound on that Beatles boot anyway?
The Beatles boot sounds surprisingly good actually! I’ve never heard any of them but it’s a lot of covers that you can find on later albums (Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby, Anna) I’d say If you can find it at a cheap price, pick it up. It’s a good listen for when you don’t want to listen to the same old Beatles tracks!
Hi Reid! Don’t even begin to feel bad about your questions – they were interesting and led to good answers. And geez, look at my stupidly long comment below (it really didn’t look that long when I was writing it, I swear!).
I’m intrigued by this Beatles bootleg of which you speak. I have gazillions of, uh, bonus footage, shall we say, from the Beatles, and from the tracklist I found online it looks like I have most of the stuff on this one, but there are a few titles I don’t recognize. I’ll have to dig a bit deeper and track it down.
A friend recently told me about a new(?) Beatles boot out there that is someone’s remix/interpretation of the Beatles as Japanese pop (at least that was his description). It’s called A Collection Of Beatles Oldies But Goldies. YouTube only has a few crappy samples, and as a Beatles purist I am very skeptical, but it certainly is interesting. I’m hoping to, uh, acquire my own copy soon.
Very interesting! I’ll have to look into that as it has certainly caught my curiosity!
Ever wished you could take your words back when you hear how they sound? Yeah, me too. I didn’t mean to suggest the Irrelevant show isn’t funny, and wish I’d worded that differently now – I’ll definitely keep listening!
That’s actually a pretty epic Kiss song, Dave, if somewhat obscure. It’s not their standard ‘party and sex’ stuff. The weird thing is, the musical question that gave me that idea was ‘Who is the who, telling who what to do?’ and I totally forgot to put that one in. I’ll never know your answer now.
I’m only about 50 minutes in to the episode so far. There seem to be a quite a few Sneakers living with the black dog. I’m currently getting help too, I plan to go back to that question when I pick it up again to listen to your wise words, and I’m sorry to hear that you both have struggled with it. SD is definitely a bright spot in the week for me too.
No worries and no offence taken. Really appreciate your questions and your feedback.
Wow, that was epic! I should have taken notes on all the stuff I thought I’d like to comment on throughout the episode, but then this post would be as long as the episode itself. The main thing I took away from it was that I really hope there’s a 300th, because everyone asked such interesting, weird, random, poignant and fun questions that I came up with a few more of my own… which I also forgot to write down, so it’ll take me until episode 300 to remember them all.
Thank you so much for opening my gift during the recording, and the kind words about it! I may bookmark that part for when I’m in need of a good confidence boost (I also suffer from depression, that bastard). I’m actually relieved that only a horn was broken in shipping and appears to have been successfully reattached. I was worried it would arrive in pieces!
I’m even more intrigued by No Fun now. The only exposure I’ve had is via David M’s guest spots on Sneaky Dragon and Compleatly Beatles, and pretty much everything I remember him playing has been funny. I’ll have to look into them more (and I’m open to recommendations).
The ‘correct’ question to the answer “Blue and Chocolate” is “what are the two options I can never pass up when they are offered as choices?”, but of course Ian’s was much funnier than mine, so it was an answer well questioned!
Regarding Dave’s questionanswer: Everyone always raves about Elvis Costello’s Blood and Chocolate, but although I generally love him, I can’t listen to that album. I couldn’t understand why it sounded so harsh until I read somewhere that they recorded it live in a big room with everything turned way the hell up. Something about the resulting sonic texture puts me on edge, almost to the point of anxiety. Maybe I’ll give it another try one of these days.
Oh, just one other thing: the comments on dealing with cancer were right on and still managed to be helpful for me five years after I lost my grandmother to it. There was a bunch of family drama thrown into the mix that made everything exponentially worse than it already was, so there’s still a lot of residual guilt and anger all around. The stuff you said I kind of already knew, but it always helps to have someone else say it, so thanks for that.
Okay, I’m done now! :o) That wasn’t *so* long, was it? Okay it kind of was. That seems to be what I do – don’t comment for months and then drop a novel on you. In future, I’ll try to post more frequently and with shorter comments.
Give “Blue Chair” from that album a listen, Kitty. I think it’s a good entry point. He was in the midst of an emotional breakup with his wife at the time. That may explain the tension you’re picking up.
Oh, well, if it has Blue in the title… ;o)
But yes, I just listened to that one and it is a good song. I’m usually an album listener, but single songs might be the way to go in this case. It’s definitely the production that irks me, but that could have been a result of his emotional state.
Wow, the statue’s such a beautiful tribute. And the instructions were hilarious.
I just realized something. A few episodes ago you were talking about participation awards, and now that I think about it the goody bag is a participation award XD.
Uh, it’s a participation REward, Reid. >:(
Just looked up the deffinition or award and reward and you are very right. My mistake!
Happy 250th, guys. Loved every minute. Thank you especially for being so open – and wise – in addressing some pretty deep issues amid the usual goofing around.
A question I forgot to ask but was emphatically answered in the show was “Are you guys *really* only doing the show every other week or are you recording the 250th episode in chunks and using the ‘Skip week’ to answer questions as they come in?”
Props to you guys for powering through with thoughtful & funny answers (Apologies to Ian about the ‘Overrated Canadian’ question; David seems more comfortable critiquing things, so I thought it would be interesting to put Ian in that role.) Yay to everyone for great questions – and all the best to folks working through something, I’ve been there too. And wow, what a beautiful statue, KittyLugnut/SarahWalsh/earthimmigrant!
Looking forward to the next 250!
Props to you for getting Ian’s interesting John Candy take.
So many great questions! Thanks to everyone for sending them in and for you guys for answering them.
SNL had a funny game show sketch, “Dylan McDermott OR Dermot Mulroney?” At the end, the host announces that next up is “Djimon Hounsou OR Chiwetel Ejiofor?” Personally, I mix up UK actors Tim Roth, Robert Carlyle and Gary Oldman.
Paul’s question about his friend who believes the moon is hollow and inhabited by aliens really hit home. I have relatives who believe we’re living in the end times and that Biblical prophecies are coming true. I disagree, but I don’t want to waste time trying to convince them otherwise. I can only think of a couple of times I took a stand…saying that they would not find support for their anti-gay views around our house and that I wouldn’t discuss the “evils” of feminism while opening Christmas presents. Oh, and why are they bothering to watch a documentary on dinosaurs on TV at our house only to criticize it because it mentions evolution. Why not just change the channel?! They are coming to town and my prophecy is that there will be a lot of tongue-biting on my part.
A good contemporary Canadian TV show which just wrapped up after four seasons is “Motive.” It’s a Columbo-esque police procedural. At the top of the episode, you meet characters in two different scenes…with the graphics “the victim” and “the killer” coming up to tell you whodunit and to whom. The rest of the show connects the dots with investigation and flashbacks until you know WHYdunit (hence the title.) I suggest it because it’s set in Vancouver, is well-written, acted and shot (with good lighting!) and has characters from all ages, backgrounds, economic levels, ethnicities and professions. So if you want to know what Canadians are like, this series shows you a wide cross-section of society — not just the stereotypical plaid-wearing ski-doo-riding beer drinker. The show also roams all around the city: coffee shops, night clubs, ocean-side parks, scummy back alleys, riding stables, schools, high tech labs, blue collar businesses, rehearsal studios, office towers, slum hotels and posh high-rise condos…so you see a whole range of locations.
Great sculpture! You nailed it, Sarah.
Motive is still showing West Coast life – not reflecting Prairie or Maritime life. You should just say, “I like Motive. You should watch it.”
Whoops! Totally. Yup, I meant “Motive” has a range of urban-British Columbian Canadian characters (as opposed to Bob and Doug/Red Green-style Ontario rural.) Yeah, you’d need a region-by-region spreadsheet of TV series to show the whole range of cultures and lifestyles in Canada. I liked “Arctic Air” for the northern territories (even if interiors were shot in southern BC!) I know a lot of people thought it was terribly old-fashioned (dare I say Beachcomber-esque?) with its “mid-air crisis of the week” format but I’m a big Adam Beach fan. Unfortunately it’s still rare to see First Nations actors in leading roles outside of Canada’s Aboriginal People’s Television Network but Arctic Air had several portraying multi-dimensional characters. Despite the mixed reviews from critics, I used to like watching “Little Mosque on the Prairie” with my mom because she really enjoyed the intercultural small town prairie humour. I appreciated that the show’s Muslim-Canadian characters depicted a range of views on family and religion and gender issues. The squabbling between the mosque’s members reminded me a lot of the United Church of Canada that I was brought up in.
For a good representation of Torontonian clone culture, I’d recommend Tatiana Maslany’s Emmy-winning performances in “Orphan Black!”
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Thanks for answering my Kickboxing question. Respect to David for looking in to the rule-sets.
I think David would be the better technical fighter, someone who would respect the martial arts path and become very proficient via physically and mentally dedication. Especially with the spirituality attached to Thai style fighting. I did think Ian might have been the type while not super technical, could turn into a shit-eating wildman when backed into a corner and attack like a furious berserker. But that was before I learned he takes his cat out in public on a leash.
That about sums it up!
Hey guys, epic show with funny, insightful, and honest answers all around. Sushiyama is also one of my local faves (for sushi + the best/cheap salmon kama AKA BBQ salmon collar). I’ll have to check out Martini’s and Slickety Jim’s one of these days. Thanks for answering my food-themed questions! The past couple months I’ve been working at the library steps away from your studio and I often wonder when listening to recent episodes if I’m re-hearing sirens I already heard in-person…
I agree with all of these fans of the show…the 250th episode was fantastic! I thought everyone sent in such interesting questions! I was impressed over and over again with the deep thought others gave to this endeavor. Amazing! And really… David and Ian, did you take NO breaks during that entire show??
David, you said the movie you’d take with you to an island would be “Moonrise Kingdom”. I love that one, too! But the movie I always think of to take to that mythical island and the one I would want everyone in the world to watch is another Wes Anderson: The Darjeeling Limited. It’s a film I can watch over and over; always makes me smile!
I am also smiling hugely ’cause I won the T-shirt in the big drawing! I am so delighted and I’m emailing my choice of shirts to you gentlemen today! Thank you, Iam and David, so much!…for the shirt (in advance!) and the show!
When I mentioned “It’s four and a half hours!” last night before the critical hit show, what I meant to say was “It’s four and a half hours! They should all be that long!”
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Great show so far. I am about three quarters of the way through and you haven’t scared me off yet.