Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 449! Who cares! Next week is our 450th episode!!!
This week (yawn…): make mine music; let’s start with confusion; clarification; we’ve got big bikes; boneshakers; we are not a number; no money television; Mary the elderly man; jazz dads; word stumping; pursued by bears; gift wine; challenge to Louise; plague songs; justifiable bumping; music theory; ending at the beginning; a really long Schoolhouse Rocks; numbers are confusing; the Greasy Beaver Act; burning down the house; controversial bowling alley; Lee Daniel’s The Pinboy; movie theatres are your home; sodium bomb; hot Caesar; egg bonanza; silent rollercoasters; heartbreaking Mormons; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; and, finally, bad co-hosting.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: What was your favourite TV show with a band?
Sub-question: Do you eat grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup in your part of the world?
Task of the Week: Help out Louise with some bear-based Shakespeare puns!
And don’t forget!!!
Don’t miss out on your chance to WIN WIN WIN
That’s right! Our 450th episode is next week when we will be hosting our traditional Listeners’ Questions Episode! Every question gives you a chance in our GRAND PRIZE DRAW. The more questions you ask, the better your chances to win! So get to asking!
Send your list of questions by email to sneakyd@sneakydragon.com. If you’d like, record your questions, send us an audio file, and we’ll play it during the show. Fun, right???
Here is that wine Ian would like very much to drink look at!
And that offending day planner that caused Dave so much trouble! (And that he didn’t write in himself! *blush*)
And, yes, The Prisoner is available on YouTube directly from Shout! Factory:
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I have been unusually dumb the last few months of shows and I’m blaming it entirely on the Covid-19 blues, but how could I forget the ultimate pandemic song: “The Black Plague” by Eric Burdon and the Animals!
Here they are performing on CBC’s Let’s Go! in 1967 (filmed right here in Vancouver):
I have regularly performed this with David M. at many live shows – first as narrator, but often in the much harder role of “bell ringer”!
Antony and Cleopawtra
Two Grizzlymen of Furona
Polarcles, Prints of Tyre
The Clawmedy of Grrers
Maul’s Well That Ends Well
Two Gentleben of Veroarrrrrna!
…this and a new title card??? Best 449th podcast ever!
Antony and Cleopanda
Measure fur measure
As you bite it
The merry wives of Windsor Safari Park
A midsummer night’s pic-a-nic basket
And let’s not forget Mark Antony’s moving speech from Julius Caesar:
‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your bears.’
And let’s also not forget when Hamlet asked, “Who would furdels bear, to growl and swat under a beary life?” The Merry Wives of Windsor Safari Park?! I had to look that up as Canada also has a Windsor, but with no safari park. Bard on the Beach, our local Shakespeare company, once staged “The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ontario)” set in Canada in the 1960s. Come to think of it, my cousin used to work at an attraction called African Lion Safari but it’s near Cambridge…Cambridge, Ontario that is.
Just wanted to say the importing and exporting of alcohol via mail in Canada is strictly regulated and you aren’t allowed to do it unless you have a business permit. That’s why alcohol makes for a great cross-border gift or souvenir! When I visit the US I usually bring a bottle of something from here, and then pick up a bottle to bring home, because that stuff can’t be shipped.
Was wondering if you’ve heard of “Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks,” the 1995 album with a bunch of 90s artists covering Schoolhouse Rock songs. I bought it back then thinking it was the original songs but I actually ended up liking the covers better (it helps that I wasn’t familiar with a large majority of the songs to begin with…). I put on Dropbox if anyone’s interested in listening.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yf4divx1y65zsaw/AAAurmA__GK-qF7cgb6gbuOVa?dl=0
Cool! Thanks, Nina!
A recent TV series I watched that had a band was Nashville created by Callie Khouri (screenwriter of Thelma and Louise). Like the Partridge Family, it also featured a family involved in the music industry. But this time all the actors performed their own vocals on songs written for the show by established songwriters. The characters ran the gamut from struggling musicians playing small bar gigs to megastars doing big stadium tours to washed-up performers on a downward spiral. Along with the usual backstage tropes of professional rivalries, affairs, substance abuse, band member squabbles and record labels screwing you over…the series also took on current issues like the impact of social media, post-partum depression, cults, sexual harassment, and homophobia in country music.
The Comedy of Bearers
Ursus Andronicus
Julius Caebear
And, in Japan: Kumacbeth
Hard to go past The Monkees which set the standard for goofy, music based sitcoms.
Nickelodeon tried to replicate it with Big Time Rush around 10 years ago. It wasn’t bad, but the budget clearly didn’t extend to having a new song for every episode so they really stretched the available songs across too many episodes.
But the best music sitcom in more recent years has to be Flight of the Concords, doesn’t it?
Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup definitely only exist as separate meals here in Australia probably due to the hot climate.
Finally to Shakesbear:
Loves Labour’s Lost in the woods
Macbearth
The taming of the Pooh (bear)
Cubs labour’s lost
The merchant of Bear-nice
Titus Andonicubs
Ruxpin and Juliet (okay, that one is a stretch.)
Hi Fellas,
Been awhile since I checked in. (Ian’s rants about Trump were getting tiresome- so I took a break to listen to a few great Beatles podcasts) I’m back -I loved the show , and wanted to let you know that “The Prisoner” is currently available on Amazon Prime.
Looking forward to 450!! Congratulations!
Danny
Seems a good time to mention my wife’s book Me The People is still available. https://www.amazon.com/Me-People-Pia-Guerra/dp/1534310223/
I suck at puns, so I’m not touching the Shakespeare bear titles. ????
My Grandma Bunny used to make very basic but very awesome grilled cheese sandwiches, which I would dip in ketchup (my weird affection for ketchup is well documented by now). Not exactly tomato soup, but close? I guess grilled cheese and tomato product go well together in any form.
I watched The Monkees when it reran on PBS (I think) in the 80s. I would have been late single digit aged at the time. I recently acquired (ahem) the entire series online and watched most of it over the course of a few weeks, then got distracted and never finished. It was fun, though, so I’ll go with that for now.