70 – Top 5 Thanksgiving Foods

Gobble Gobble!

It’s that time of year again where friends and family gather around and give thanks to the Turkey/Tofurkey gods! But whether you like Turkey or not, there is no denying that Thanksgiving has turned into a tradition where families bring out their A-game for dinner. This week join Tuong La  and Food pilgrims Geoff McBride, Jesse Preece, and Desiree Connors Warmington as they brace their stomachs for turkey-itis and rank Top 5 Thanksgiving Foods!

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Ground Rules

  • Including Food and Beverages
  • Don’t have to nominate a specific recipe, however mentioning can support your argument
  • Acknowledge that one person’s Thanksgiving meal might be different than another. As long as its food that they have during Thanksgiving then it’s fair game to nominate.
  • Topping or sauces are separate nominations.
  • Making the food is not part of the consideration. We are more trying to think about if it’s something we would want to eat.
  • Each food nominated is nominated as if it is in the best prepared state. (ie: the perfect way to cook a Turkey)

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

Group Top 5

5. Turkey

4. Brussel Sprouts

3. Gravy

2. Stuffing

1. Pumpkin Pie

 

Tuong’s List

  • Turkey
  • Double stuffed baked potatoes
  • Dumplings (Xiu Mai)
  • Scalloped Potatoes
  • Clam Chowder
  • Corn Bread
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • Corn on the Cob
  • Pecan Pie
  • Roast Beef
  • Apple Pie Crumble
  • Roasted Vegetables
  • Green Bean Casserole
  • Wheat Beer

Geoff’s List

  • Butter
  • Gravy
  • Tin Peas
  • Cranberry Relish
  • Creamed Onions
  • Roasted Root Vegetables
  • Green Beans
  • Oysters or Oyster Stuffing

Jess’s List

  • Yorkshire Pudding
  • Lasagna
  • Pumpkin Pie
  • Gords or Squash
  • Bubble and Squeak
  • Baked beans
  • Mac and Cheese
  • …the blood of the innocent. (because pilgrims y’know?)

Des’s List

  • Apple Cider Mimosa
  • Stuffing
  • Brussel Sprouts
  • Fluffy Bun or Buttered Buns
  • Apple Pie
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Meat Pie

 

 

E50 – The Last Punch Up ??? (Armageddon, Geostorm, Walking with Dinosaurs)

On this episode of The Improv Punch Up Tuong La is back! Alas, when the boys are about to record their no doubt hilarious episode, the podcast feed is interrupted and hijacked by the Punch Up of the FUTURE! Instead of Leslie, Angus and Tuong listen as Skywalker Cserepy, Bloodflap and Tuong La Punch Up disastrous movies while they wait for the Sun to explode!

All joking aside The Improv Punch Up has been an absolute joy to produce for 50 EPISODES! We are so grateful to all of the people who joined us on the show and all of the people who gave it a listen along the way. Since we started the show we have had to move to different cities to pursue our passions. Because of this, it pains us to say that The Improv Punch Up will no longer be a regularly scheduled show. But fear not Punch Up fans, there are still many more Punch Ups to come! They will come when we are able to reunite and record together again.

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Below are the video clips we used in the show (these clips are not our own and were used for creative purposes) All the Rights in This Content Belong to Their Respective Owner/s.
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Geostorm – Heat Wave

Source: Vejai

CREDITS:

Directed by: Dean Devlin
Written by: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot
Produced by: David Ellison, Dean Devlin, Dana Goldberg
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, Daniel Wu, Eugenio Derbez, Amr Waked, Adepero Oduye, Robert Sheehan, Richard Schiff, Ed Harris & Andy Garcia
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Skydance Media, Electric Entertainment & RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Armageddon – Funny Shotgun Scene

Source: Hey, It’s Mr. V

CREDITS:

Directed by: Michael Bay
Written by: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams & Robert Roy Pool
Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer, Gale Anne Hurd & Michael Bay
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David & Steve Buscemi
Production Company: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films & Valhalla Motion Pictures
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures

Walking with Dinosaurs – End of the dinosaurs

Source: gunner9365

CREDITS:

Directed by: Neil Nightingale & Barry Cox
Written by: John Collee
Produced by: Mike Devlin, Luke Hetherington, Amanda Hill & Deepak Nayar
Starring: John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar & Skyler Stone
Production Company: Reliance Entertainment, IM Global & BBC Earth
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Ep 18 – Ad Astra, IT: Chapter 2, Between Two Ferns: The Movie

No live stream for this month’s edition of Talkin’ Tuong but the show still must go on! For this month’s episode, Tuong gathers up all the juicy news from September and also gets talkin’ about Brad Pitt in space with Ad Astra, seeing if the second chapter of IT floats as high as the first, and placing himself in the middle beside Zach Galifianakis in Netflix’s Between Two Ferns: The Movie!

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Time Stamp

Intro 0:00 -16:33

Ad Astra

16:33-25:34

IT: Chapter 2

25:34-31:18

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

31:18-36:39

END

36:39 -END

69 – Top 5 Fruits

Mmm nature’s candy…

Nothing beats that sweet delicious flavor you get from snacking on your favourite fruit. Not only do they have a mouth watering unbeatable taste to them but they also contain a wide variety of vitamins and minerals to keep your body healthy! You can juice em up, you can put them in a pie, you can make a kick ass cocktail with them –  they got versatility for days! Join Tuong La and Fruity Patootie’s Colleen Wang, Victoria Luloff, and Leslie Cserepy as they take a nice long juicy bite into making a Top 5 Fruits list!

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Ground Rules

  • Wikipedia Definition:
    In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate seeds.
  • Can bring samples to the table to make arguments
  • We take into consider the fruit in it’s peak ripeness. However, we also take into consideration how seasonal it is.
  • Must specify the type of fruit (ie What kind of Apples)
  • You don’t necessarily have to “eat” the fruit. Some fruits are used mainly for it’s juices in other meals.

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

Group Top 5

5. Peaches

4. Gala Apples

3. Cherries

2. Raspberries

1. Banana

Tuong’s List

  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries
  • Pineapple
  • Oranges
  • Blackberries
  • Dragon Fruit
  • Green Grapes
  • Pineapple
  • Avocado
  • Watermelon
  • Granny Smith Apple
  • Cantaloupe
  • Olives
  • Cucumber
  • Pumpkin
  • Lemon

Colleen’s List

  • Any Apples really (Gala Apples)
  • Green Grapes
  • Red Mango
  • Lychee
  • Cocoa Beans
  • Star Fruit
  • Papaya
  • Coconut

Victoria’s List

  • Peach
  • Tomato
  • Raspberries
  • Kiwi
  • Ground Cherries
  • Passion Fruit

Leslie’s List

  • Cherries
  • Banana
  • Clementine
  • Blood Orange
  • Nectarine
  • White Flesh Nectarines
  • Lime
  • Honey Dew
  • Pomegranate
  • Chili Peppers
  • Bell Peppers
  • Golden Delicious Apple
  • Rainier Cherries

E49 – The Practice Punch Up Supreme Supercut Stravaganza!

This time on The Improv Punch Up we decided to show you the fans a peek behind the curtain!  When we have a guest on we usually do a practice scene or “Practice Punch Up” to get the creative  juices flowing. We tell the guests these won’t appear on the podcast but guess what…we lied! Because they are just too fun to keep locked away. Is this a shameless attempt to scrape together another episode or an inspiring look at our guests before the episode has begun? You decide!

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Special thanks to:

Nicole Bedford, Laura Hall, Rich Hillborn, Jordan Moffatt, Chelsea Fahey, Sachin Sinha, Krystal Merrells, Joel Garrow, Patrice-Ann Forbes, Al Connors, Vinny Francois, Victoria Luloff, Sam Leggatt.

68 – Top 5 Interesting People You’ve Never Heard About

History may have forgotten them, but we haven’t.

Thanks to the internet and some high school classes, there have been historical people and their accomplishments that have stood the test of time. However, most of the time there are amazing individuals who slip through the cracks and are forgotten forever….until now! This week join Tuong La and Wikipedia Wizards Sarah Finn, Catherine Ballachey, and Axandre Lemours who put their Googling skills to the test as they research and rank Top 5 Interesting People You’ve Never Heard About.

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Ground Rules

  • No fictional people

  • They can be alive or dead
  • It’s people who the most part have never heard about
  • If they are sort of known it’s okay, they just have to be mostly unknown for the greater public
  • If a person nominated is known to the entire group, barring research for this podcast, then the table can reject the nomination and that person can nominate again

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

Group Top 5

5. Michael Malloy (“Iron Mike”)

4. Mary Anning (“Lightning Paleontologist”)

3. Haing S. Ngor (“Cambodian Doctor and Movie Star”)

2. Ching Shih (“Pirate Queen”)

1.Rose Valland (“Undercover Art Saviour – Fuck Nazis”)

Tuong’s List

Sarah’s List

Catherine’s List

Ax’s List (Note: Ax kind of forgot the part of “people you’ve never heard about” so..ya)

 

E48 – The Beast from Mars (A Short Story by Leslie Cserepy)

This week on The Improv Punch Up we have no guests so you know what that means…it’s time for a weird gimmick episode! This time the boys read a short story written by our very own Leslie Cserepy. In this version the boys tell the story of the brave Captain Thundercock and his crew as they land on Mars and are accosted by a strange and terrible creature. This story has more heart and shit than you’d expect!

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Ep 17 – Hobbs & Shaw, The Boys, Good Boys

It’s a classic episode where it’s just Tuong spitting off nonsense into a mic on this August’s Edition of Talkin’ Tuong! This month, Tuong gets Fast and Furious while talking about Hobbs & Shaw, gets geeky talking about ‘superheroes gone bad’ in The Boys, and laughs at children doing incredibly inappropriate things in Good Boys! Also things get raunchy in the PodCavern as the folks on the live chat want to Tuong to take off his shirt? Did he do it? Do people understand that this is mostly an audio medium? Listen and find out!

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Time Stamp

Intro 0:00 -18:45

Hobbs & Shaw

18:45 – 31:25

The Boys

31:25 – 42:56

Good Boys

42:56 – 51:52

67 – Top 5 Soft Drinks

Tsck…pshh…fwshhhhhhhhh..fizzzzz

Hear that? That’s the satisfying sound you get when you pop open a fizzy drink of goodness that’s about to be chugged down. Over the years, there has been a plethora of flavoured, syrupy, sugary, carbonated/uncarbonated soft drinks that has hit the shelves – some great and some that make you question your life.  BUT as always there can be only five that reign supreme! Join Tuong La and Unhealthy Human Beings Angus MacDonald, Matt Barrow, and Leslie Cserepy as they bring drink samples to the table and make themselves nauseous as they rank Top 5 Soft Drinks!

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Ground Rules

  • Must specify the brand AND the flavour

  • This is a samples episode. If you didn’t bring the sample then making your case will be exponentially harder

  • Definition for “soft drink” we are going for is as follows (credit to the Internet):  “Soft drink, any of a class of nonalcoholic beverages, usually but not necessarily carbonated, normally containing a natural or artificial sweetening agent, edible acids, natural or artificial flavours, and sometimes juice. Natural flavours are derived from fruits, nuts, berries, roots, herbs, and other plant sources. Coffee, tea, milk, cocoa, and undiluted fruit and vegetable juices are not considered soft drinks.”
  • If the drink is more “juice” than what the group is considered more of a “soft drink” than it does not count and that person has to renominate

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

Group Top 5

5. Canada Dry Original

4. The Pop Shoppe Black Cherry

3. Sprite

2. Cherry Coke

1.  A&W Root Beer

Tuong’s List

  • Canada Dry
  • Orange Crush
  • GT Kombucha Gingerade
  • Perrier – Strawberry
  • 7-Up
  • Vanilla Coke
  • Coca Cola
  • Mug
  • Cream Soda Crush
  • NEstea
  • Full Throttle

Angus’s List

  • Rock Star – Pure Zero Fruit Punch
  • Mountain Dew – Code Red
  • Cherry Coke
  • Jarritos – Strawberry Soda
  • Crush – Lime
  • Rockstar -Sour Apple
  • Rockstar -Sugar free Watermelon
  • Rockstar – Strawberry
  • Barqs
  • Some Japanese soda that’s melon flavoured (can’t remember the brand)

Matt’s List

  • A&W’s Root Beer
  • Jarritos – Mexican Cola
  • Stewart’s – Orange Cream Soda
  • Dr.Pepper
  • Stewart’s – Root Beer
  • Pepsi – Lime
  • Stewart’s Cream Soda
  • Kool-Aid Grape
  • Grape Crush

Leslie’s List

  • Sprite
  • Arizona – Arnold Palmer
  • The Pop Shoppe – Black Cherry
  • The Pop Shoppe – Bubble Gum (maybe not anymore though)
  • Coke
  • White Gatorade?
  • Minute Maid from a Can??
  • Rockets
  • BAWLS Energy Drink
  • Clearly Canadian Peach Flavour

E47 – Big Pond Improv Festival 2019 Road Trip!

On this week’s Improv Punch Up, it’s just Tuong and Angus (Twong & Agnes) punching up various things to do and see in Vermont on their way to The Big Pond Improv Festival! Listen while the boys dive into the thrilling new field of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Scream, they figure out exactly how many Keanus are needed in Neo Vermont, and an unlikely friendship forms between two men in the solitude of the morning beach.

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Special thanks to The Vermont Comedy Club and The Big Pond Improv Festival 2019!

As well as Ben and Jerry’s and those two guys on the beach.