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178 – Top 5 Time Travels

Great Scott!

Time travel is a storytelling device that has been used in countless pieces of fiction, pop culture, movies, and more that has always added an extra wrinkle to a story for better or worse. Who among us hasn’t wished they could turn back the clock, face off with a dark gritty version of our future self, ride in the DeLorean, or be stuck in a time loop for all eternity until we learned a valuable lesson?! So join Tuong La and Future Cassie Pyatt, Present Gill Manchee, and Past Justin Otto as they get take a trip through time to rank Top 5 Time Travels!

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Best Of Season 1 – Volume 2

Dare you enter the Cocktagon?! Please enjoy another collection of some of Paul’s favourite stories from the first season of The Pen Is Mightier – featuring performances by Clare Blackwood, Maddox Campbell, Kat Letwin, Matt McCready, Rebecca Reeds, and Velvet Wells.

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Best Of Season 1 – Volume 1

Dare you enter the Cocktagon?! Please enjoy a collection of some of Paul’s favourite stories from the first season of The Pen Is Mightier – featuring performances by Jon Blair, Andrew Bushell, Bridget Cann, Taylor Davis, Erin Pim, and Carley Thorne.

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Season 2, Episode 3 – The Christmas Special

Featuring Antony Hall (CBC’s Ming’s Dynasty, Book It Vince!), Simon McCamus (The Second City, Fake Cops), and Brie Watson (The Second City, Improv Niagara). It’s our Christmas Special! This week the panel discusses whether Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie, gets treated to a startlingly clever rundown of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s filmography, and learns about the true meaning of Jizzmas from Ebenezer Splooge.

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Ep 66 – Raya and The Last Dragon (2021) with Kalvin Nhan

“It may feel impossible, but sometimes, you just have to take the first step”

Over the last couple of films, Disney Princesses have started to move away from the formula of being the damsel in distress and having to have big sweeping romantic love stories. With Disney’s latest film, we (finally) get another capable female warrior princess set in a beautiful South-Eastern inspired backdrop with gorgeous action scenes and dragons! So is it any good? This week join Tuong La and Real Life Dragon Kalvin Nhan (Trà Time) as they discuss Disney’s latest animated adventure – Raya and The Last Dragon!

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Ep 61 – MacGruber (2010) with Brie Watson

“Time to go pound some Cunth!”

These days when you say Saturday Night Live we often think about the weekly sketch show featuring a famous Hollywood guest host and some popular music artist. But Saturday Night Live is far more than a bunch of sketches. Over the years, SNL has put out a ton of original movies based on it’s sketches, among other things, and put these ideas on the big screen. This week on Talkin’ Tuong, Tuong and Improv Niagara/The Constant Struggle’s Brie Watson take a look at Will Forte’s third-rate MacGyver, mullet loving, throat ripping action hero – MacGruber (2010)!

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Episode 15 – Past

Featuring Korri Birch (Good News Toronto), Emilie Overton (Blood Relations), and Brie Watson (The Second City, Improv Niagara). This week, the panel debates who would win a rap battle in the Shrek universe, which Game of Thrones characters are “attainable,” and the most dramatic voting round yet.

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Episode 11 – Holly Jolly (Christmas Special)

Featuring Glenys Marshall (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Erin Pim (The Bed Post Podcast), and Christopher Seeney (Cookie Biscuits, Jack Computer). On the holiday special – and the last episode of 2020 before a seasonal break – the panel discusses which is the sexiest Christmas carol, how many boners Wolverine would have hidden in his hands, and the worst thing to hear in Rudolph’s voice.

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Episode 5 – Loss

  Featuring Geoffrey Cork (The Beaverton, Partytown), Kat Letwin (CBC’s The Amazing Gayl Pile, Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons) and CJ (Canadian Comedy Award-winner). The panel discusses the existence of a hypothetical “Waluigi’s Mansion,”…

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Episode 3 – Secrets

Featuring Andrea Marston (The Second City, Great Callback), Chris Middleton (Parton & Pearl, Riverdale Rude Dudes), and Carley Thorne (Uber & Klonk, I Be Like). The panel discusses dating during quarantine and taking pride in…

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