64 – Top 5 Chrises

Merry Chris-list to All!

Inspired by last year’s Top 5 Ryans episode, the gang at Ranked decided to finally tackle the hottest question the universe has been asking: “Who is the Best Chris?”. Now the fine folks of the PodCavern did not want to provide you with your typical internet Chris List (because BORING), so we put on a fun twist that cracks open the “Doorway of Chrises” that is sure to stir the pot. This week join Tuong La and Chris-tal Clear Rankers Kristine Shadid, Victoria Luloff, and Marc Quintaneiro as they go off the rails and rank a not-so-typical Top 5 Chrises List!

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Ground Rules

  • If they have the word “Chris” in the name it counts as a nomination (ie Christina, Chrissy, etc.)
  • If  “Chris” is phonetically in the name it counts as a nomination  (ie Kristopher, etc.)
  • First name, last name, middle name Chrises count
  • If they identify as a “Chris” it counts as a nomination (if their original name was something else but they are now called Chris)
  • Fictional Chrises also count

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered  lists.

Group Top 5

5. Kristine Shadid

4. Christopher Lee

3. Jesus Christ

2. Chris Evans

1. Hans Christian Anderson

Tuong’s List

  • Chris Evans
  • Christopher Lee
  • Chris Rock
  • Chris Pine
  • Chris Hemsworth
  • Chris Pratt
  • Christopher Walken
  • Christina Aguilera
  • Christina Applegate
  • Chris Farley
  • Chrissy Teigen
  • Christopher Robin
  • Christopher Pike (Star Trek)
  • Chris Traegar (Parks & Rec)
  • Chris Redfield (Resident Evil)

Kristine’s List

  • Jesus Christ
  • Kris Kringle
  • Kristine Shadid (herself)
  • Criss Angel
  • Chris Delia
  • Topher Grace (Christopher)
  • Christine the Car (Steven King Book)
  • Tina Fey (Christina)
  • Chris Griffen (Family Guy)
  • Chris Kattan
  • Christopher Turk (Scrubs)

Victoria’s List

  • Kris Jenner
  • Hans Christian Anderson
  • Christine Jorgensen
  • Kristen Bell
  • Christina Applegate
  • Kristen Davis
  • Kristin Chenoweth
  • Kristen Wiig
  • Christine Baranksi

Marc’s List

  • Christopher Columbus
  • Christina Hendricks
  • Mr.Christie
  • Crisco the Cooking Fat Lard
  • Christian Bale

E44 – “Feels Like Today” Plays Softly (Smallville, Ben Konop, The Matrix)

On this episode of The Improv Punch Up, we have the Valiant Vinny Francois! This week we see a romantically tense race between Superman and The Flash, we learn that sometimes the people booing you are the ones supporting you the most, and we see why The Matrix should have been set in a high school.

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Smallville – Superman vs. The Flash

Source: Flashback FM

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: David Barrett

Written by: Steven S. DeKnight

Starring: Tom Welling & Kyle Gallner

 

Ben Konop – Boooo!

Source: toledoisawesome

 

CREDITS:

Footage from the political campaign of Ben Konop.

The Matrix – Morpheus explains The Matrix

Source: usiaoboh

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: The Wachowskis

Written by: The Wachowskis

Produced by: Joel Silver

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano

Production Company: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Groucho II Film Partnership & Silver Pictures.

Distributed by: Warner Bros. & Roadshow Entertainment

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63 – Top 5 Songs from Canadian Artists

Oh the good ol’ Ranking Game!

Sorry, it’s that time of the year again where the folks at Ranked break out their toques and sip their Timmies on their chesterfields as they discuss some more great things about Canada! Canada is the land of many things. It’s the land of overly polite people, beautiful scenery, but also the land some of the best god damn music on the planet! This year join Tuong La and Moose Riding Mounties Keish Saunders, Shannon Godelie, and Laura Gordon as they talk aboot and celebrate the Top 5 Songs from Canadian Artists!

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Ground Rules

  • Songs are from Canadian Artists (duh!)
  • How “Canadian” a song is can factor in as a tie breaker, but we are ranking them purely on enjoyment for the most part (episode is not MOST Canadian song)
  • Doesn’t matter when the song came out
  • Can nominate from different genres
  • size of the hit can also be a factor (ie winning awards) but it’s up to the table if they enjoy it
  • Try to get a variety of songs from different genres

Playlist

We compiled a nifty playlist of all the songs that we nominated and in our honourable mentions for your listening pleasure! Check it out and enjoy!

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered  lists.

Group Top 5

5. Baby – Justin Bieber

4. Home for a Rest – Spirit of the West

3. Tom Sawyer – Rush

2. Man I Feel Like a Woman – Shania Twain

1. Bobcaygeon – The Tragically Hip

Tuong’s List

  • Bobcaygeon – The Tragically Hip
  • Complicated – Avril Lavigne
  • Sk8ter Boi – Avril Lavigne
  • Tom Sawyer – Rush
  • Heart of Gold – Neil Young
  • My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
  • In Too Deep, Fat Lip, Pieces – Sum 41
  • We’re All in this Together – Sam Roberts Band
  • The Girl – City and Colour
  • Wicked Games – The Weekend
  • Careless Whisper – George Michael
  • Everything I do I do it for You – Bryan ADams
  • Everything is Awesome – Tegan and Sara
  • Leather Jacket – Arkells
  • Viking Death March – Billy Talent
  • Feeling Good – Sheep Dogs
  • Old Train, The Lion, Seven Seas Blues – Monster Truck

Keish’s List

  • All Coming Back to Me – Celine Dion
  • Man I Feel Like a Woman – Shania Twain
  • Ironic – Alanis Morisette
  • Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
  • Starboy – The Weekend
  • Man I used to be – K-OS
  • Closer to the Heart – Rush
  • I’m like a Bird – Nelly Furtado

Shannon’s List

  • Bobcaygeon – The Tragically Hip
  • Accidents – Alexisonfire
  • Stompin’ Tom Connors – The Hockey Song
  • Spirit of the West – Home for a Rest
  • Joel Plaskett Emergency – A Million Dollars
  • Nearly any other AOF track
  • Oh Canada
  • Arcade Fire – Wake Up
  • The Glorious Sons – Gordie
  • City and Colour – Comin’ Home
  • Rush – Tom Sawyer
  • Dan Mangan – Robots
  • July Talk – Summer Dress
  • Metric – Help I’m Alive
  • Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My
  • Hey Ocean – If I Were A Ship
  • Shania Twain – That Don’t Impress Me Much
  • Billy Talent – River Below
  • Tom Cochrane – Life is a Highway
  • Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights
  • Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
  • Japadroids – The House That Heaven Built
  • Alanis Morisette – You Oughta Know
  • Bruce Cockburn & Barenaked Ladies – Lovers in a Dangerous Time
  • Blue Rodeo – Try
  • Serena Ryder – What I Wouldn’t Do
  • Tegan & Sara – Closer

Laura’s List

  • Baby – Justin Bieber
  • Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Power of Love – Celine Dion
  • Best I Ever Had – Drake
  • Everything I Do – Bryan Adams
  • Complicated – Avril Lavigne
  • Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
  • Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
  • Angel – Sarah McLachlan
  • Ordinary Day – Great Big Sea
  • Good Mother – Jann Arden
  • Home for a Rest – Spirit of the West
  • Patio Lanterns – Kim Mitchell
  • You Oughta Know – Alanis Morisette
  • Lost Together – Blue Rodeo
  • Save Your Scissors – City and Colour
  • Neil Young – Heart of Gold
  • Mistletoe Album – Justin Bieber
  • Leather Jacket – Arkells

 

 

 

Ep 15 – The No Episode June Episode

SAD NEWS.

In a PodCavern first, there will be no live-stream episode of Talkin’ Tuong this month. Don’t worry we’ll all be okay, there there. *group hug* BUT FEAR NOT! Tuong still felt compelled to record an offline episode as the show must go on! Listen as he gives a quick and dirty round up of June of what he would have talked about including life stuff, E3 2019, Dark Phoenix, MIB: International,  and Toy Story 4! We’ll be back next month with a new LIVE episode!

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E43 – Bulgaria (Shark Attack 3, Police Academy, The Concorde Plane)

On this episode we have not one guest but TWO! Improvising with us is the Wondrous Woody McCadden (Blackbox Comedy) and, in a Punch Up first, all clips were curated by the Learned Lee Demarbre (Mayfair Theatre). Join us as a lowly servant on a Bulgarian party yacht stands up for himself with Pinocchio-like consequences, we find out how the Bulgarian police academy dean’s office gets it’s lovely furniture, and after 40 years of service, the world’s most professional Bulgarian flight attendant has a crisis of faith.

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Shark Attack 3: Megalodon – Yacht Attack

Source: VK Cinemas Hindi

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: David Worth

Written by: Scott Devine & William Hooke

Starring: John Barrowman, Ryan Cutrona, Jenny McShane, Bashar Rahal & George Stanchev

 

POLICE ACADEMY – Blowjob

Source: Balssa Kascelan

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: Hugh Wilson

Written by: Neal Israel, Pat Proft & Hugh Wilson

Produced by: Paul Maslansky

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattral, Bubba Smith & George Gaynes

Production Company: The Ladd Company

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures & The Ladd Company

The Concorde Plane – Evasive Maneuver

Source: ZITARGANE E.I. CHANNEL

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: David Lowell Rich

Written by: Eric Roth & Jennings Lang

Produced by: Jennings Lang

Starring: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner & George Kennedy

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

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62 – Top 5 Fictional Worlds to Live In PREDUX

Wait a sec…haven’t we done this episode already?

All the way hidden in the shadowy depths of the PodCavern, there was an episode that was sealed away due to it’s over-complicated ground rules that ultimately created a list which did not represent the original spirit of the topic! This week we finally release that episode from it’s year long shackles and bring you Top 5 Fictional Worlds to live In PREDUX featuring your host Tuong La and the A-Team Leslie Cserepy, Angus MacDonald, and Samantha Leggatt!

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Ground Rules

  • Has to be a defined fictional world
  • Nominations can be pulled from any fiction (ie books, movies, tv, board games, etc.)
  • You will be transporting yourself as you are with the knowledge that you have of that universe right now
  • You will be transported as a human or the closest thing to a human
  • Fictionalized versions of the real world still count
  • You get to choose where in the timeline of that world you get transported to

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered  lists.

Group Top 5

5. The World of Harry Potter

4. The World of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (specifically at the end of the movie where Wonka opens up the Factory to everyone)

3. Dungeons and Dragons (Specifically version 3.5)

2. Pokémon

1. Futurama

Tuong’s List

  • PokĂ©mon
  • Ready Player One
  • The Lego Movie
  • Harry Potter
  • Mushroom Kingdom
  • Dragon Ball Z
  • Animal Crossing
  • Naruto
  • Magic School Bus
  • Shrek
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Muppets
  • Narnia
  • Simpsons

Leslie’s List

  • Harry Potter
  • Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory
  • Westworld
  • Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy
  • Ratatouille
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
  • A Judd Apatow movie
  • Anchorman Universe

Angus’s List

  • Futurama
  • Dungeons and Dragons
  • Infomercial Universe
  • PokĂ©mon
  • Mass Effect
  • Mushroom Kingdom
  • Magic School Bus
  • Pawnee (Parks and Rec)
  • Altered Carbon
  • Grand Theft Auto (Single Player not Online)
  • Marvel Universe

Sam’s List

  • Glee
  • PokĂ©mon
  • Star Wars
  • Greendale Community College
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • Moana
  • Bikini Bottom (Spongebob)
  • Wreck it Ralph
  • Jurassic Park

 

E42 – The Boys Punch Up Blackfish! (Blackfish)

On this week’s Improv Punch Up Leslie and Angus attempt something that has never been done before…they Punch Up an ENTIRE MOVIE! Listen as the boys try to improve the 2013 documentary Blackfish! Will they take this movie and make something less boring? Probably. Will it be at the expense of an impactful message? You better believe it!

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Blackfish Official Trailer #1 (2013) – Documentary Movie HD

Source: Movieclips Trailers

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Written by: Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Elis Despres & Tim Zimmermann

Produced by: Gabriela Cowperthwaite & Manuel V. Oteyza

Production Company: CNN Films & Manny O. Productions

Distributed by: Magnolia Pictures

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61 – Top 5 Best Things about Summer

Summer Loving, Summer Dreaming, Summer Ranking

We’re finally almost here! Summer is upon us and we could not be more excited to finally enjoy all the joys that this season brings us. So get off your beach butts & grab your limed-up Coronas and join Tuong La and Rays of Sunshine Evelyn Barbr, Hayley Kellett, and Jesse Bergen as they cap off our quartet of seasons episodes and rank a list of the Top 5 Best Things about Summer!

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Ground Rules

  • Nominations have to be specific
  • Nominations can’t be concepts (ie the idea of being comfortable)
  • The nomination is stronger if it’s most prevalent in the Summer

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered  lists.

Group Top 5

5. Wearing Light Clothing

4. Summer Treats

3. Backyard Hangouts

2. Going Out on the Water

1. Clear Skies

Tuong’ List

  • Beach days
  • Summer Hikes
  • Going Out on the Water
  • Going to the Cottage
  • Car Windows Down while Driving
  • Jumping in Lakes
  • Hiking
  • Walking a dog outside
  • Camping
  • Frisbee
  • Gardening
  • Bike Rides
  • Backyard BBQ
  • Thunderstorms
  • Cold Treats
  • Kayaking, Boating, etc.
  • Camping
  • Music Festivals
  • Summer Blockbuster films

 

Evelyn’s List

  • Clear Skies
  • Light Clothing
  • Backyard Party
  • Outdoor Sports
  • Birkinstocks Tan
  • Food You Can Find on a Hike
  • Reading All Afternoon
  • Exploring a City at Night
  • Street Festivals
  • Freshly Cut Grass

Hayley’s List

  • Seasonal Food/Summer Treats
  • Day Drunk with Mom
  • Camp Fires and Smores
  • Pawn Shop CD Hunting
  • The Summer Callous for being Barefoot for So Long
  • Summer Camp
  • Frozen Yogurt
  • Theatre in the Park
  • Vacations
  • Sleeping Outside
  • Camping

Jesse’s List

  • Longer Days
  • Patio Hangouts
  • Summer Jams (2013’s Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”)
  • Tennis & Golf
  • Blockbuster Movies
  • Drive-in Movies
  • The Winnipeg Fringe Festival
  • Kite Battles
  • Road Trips

 

 

 

Ep 14 – Detective Pikachu, John Wick 3, Aladdin

On this month’s edition of Talkin’ Tuong, join Tuong La and special guest Esther Freeman as they solve the mystery of Detective Pikachu, triple the body-count in the ever so joyously violent John Wick 3, and get taken on a magic carpet ride through Disney’s new Aladdin film!

Also it’s Talkin’ Tuong’s One Year Anniversary! (WOOT) Thanks so much for sticking around with us on this experimental live-stream show! It’s been such a blast interacting with the audience and learning the challenges of live editing. Here’s to another year!

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Time Stamp

Intro 0:00 -12:20

Detective Pikachu

12:20 -22:52

John Wick 3

22:52 – 35:30

Aladdin

35:30 – 53:12

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E41 – Mr Gorbachev: Remember the Avengers! (Customer Service Training, Ronald Raegan Speech, Italian Spider-Man)

On this episode of The Improv Punch Up we have the Astounding Al Connors in the PodCavern! Listen as Al and the boys figure out what the fall of the Berlin Wall would be like with more genies, a man’s whole life is a customer service nightmare, and the Avengers become a little more international!

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“Remember Me” Customer Service Training, Employee Customer Service Training Video

Source: CRM Learning

 

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! | The Heritage Foundation

Source: The Heritage Foundation

CREDITS:

 

Speech Delivered by: Ronald Reagan

 

Italian Spiderman – Trailer

Source: dariotown

CREDITS:

 

Directed by: Alrugo Entertainment

Written by: Alrugo Entertainment

Produced by: Alrugo Entertainment

Starring: “Franco Franchetti” (David Ashby)

“Leombruno Tosca”

CREDITS:

Produced by: CRM Learning

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