Jacques & Joe (in Boston) have been doing comedy stuff since 94. Jacques & Biff (LA by way of Toronto/Tokyo) been on hockey team since 96. Yap pop culture and have cool guest - comedians, respected authors, renown scientist & scholars, prominent music folks, tv/film makers and just cool friends.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
This is a Re-Posting of Sideshow 61 from Jan. 21, 2021
TODAY IS THE DAY … FINALLY, the Boston Bruins retire Willie O’Ree’s number 22!!
The NHL needs to retire his number league wide!
Biff and Jacques chat the Great Willie O’Ree. The Bruins, a little late to the dance, are finally retiring Willie’s #22 he wore in 1958 when he broke the color barrier. Biff tells of a personal interaction with Willie in Santa Monica, CA a few years back. Biff also points out while Willie’s number being retired most likely was a positive step brought on by the BLM movement, the NHL has a long way to go to make their “Hockey Is For Everyone” program a true outreach.
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Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Biff heard this fun draft concept on a hockey podcast and we gave it a try.
There were 8 categories and you can’t pick a favorite movie within a 5-year window in either direction and you can’t pick a movie if the other one had put it out there first. Confusing … a little but not really and you’ll get it within the first few picks.
TOTALLY FUN doing the homework and putting this episode together … hoping for more of these type shows in the new year!
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Watered Down by Five Head
John Hunt of Fivehead on twitter is @wykydseptyr
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Biff and Jacques, after the hilarious opening jokes, chat the passing of the legendary Sidney Poitier, the Elizabeth Holms verdict and they horribleness and heroism of Jan 6th last year. Jacques talk Spider-man movie he just watched … the 1977 one! Turns out Covid is still fck everything up … everywhere. Will Covid hurt playoffs … of course … in every sport … Djokovic is an asshole btw. Parenting tips and a song from FIVEHEAD.
Biff gives should out to @verberohockey
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Three Plus Minutes by Five Head
John Hunt of Fivehead on twitter is @wykydseptyr
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
What a perfect way to end a “everythings fine, nothing to see here” year. We WERE set to do a end of year sideshow – best of worst of list thing … BUT just before zooming in together … we hear the great Betty White past well … just did a regular show. The Ghost In The Machine really didn’t want Biff recording this week as you’ll hear if you can make it to the last part of the podcast!
Jacques chatted his (with friend Renatezky in from LA) trips to NYC and skiing in VT, chatting covid (surprise surprise surprise) wreaking havoc all over and really hitting sports world.
Biff highly suggest checking out Pui Pui Molcar and Aggretsuko on Netflix, Jacques AND Joe demand you watch the Bob Einstein special on HBO Max!
Jacques met or came within a reasonable margin of most of his 2021 goals and set his 2022 goals … like you care … like you care. No, really, don’t pretend!
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Build The Wall by Dan Cray
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Would it really be a Christmas Spectacular without Joe … NO! So, Santa worked his magic and Joe joins Biff and Jacques to chat best/worst Christmas movies, tv specials, songs and food!
We also chat the Beatles Get Back 8 hour special and need at least 8 hours to really cover it! Talk covid ravaging the sports landscape (as well as the Lowell schools and the world as a whole STILL) and Biff brings us another Japan major crime story … Bridges over troubled waters AND a car going over Niagara Falls this week.
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Laid by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
FIRST, a big thank you to Jacob, Tucker, Pat, Brady and Aiden for being rock stars and doing interviews with me at the Joe’s Basement Retro Video Game Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell (inside Coffee and Cotton) a few weeks ago.
Second, again, huge ups to Joe, Bryan from Replay’d in Allston Mass, Management (Jacques’ wife), Darcie from LLAMA and Brendan and Jim and Julia Malakie from The Lowell Sun.
In the words of Tommy Boy, “let me tell you why I suck.” Apologies to ALL. I was plagued by tech issues and stupidity recording and editing this episode … all self-inflected wounds … I lost some files ... I hit record when not talking and hit pause during other interviews … truly, one fumble after another. DOH!
And I promise this IS the last time I’ll mention the November event … because over next month plus we’ll be plugging our next Joe’s Basement Retro Video Game Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell on Thursday January 27, 2022 (wow … 2022) to benefit Afternoon In The Arts in Lowell. Thanks again for putting up with me and these boo boos and thanks again to the rock stars who made the night a success and did kick ass interviews.
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Sober by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Jacques 11 year-old son (Eggzy Boi) learns how to manipulate the media (aka the Lowell Sun) and Jacques for better or worse founds Joe and his 1995 sketch portfolio they sent to SNL, Conan ... ect … SHOCKING they weren’t hired!
On the light side of the force, we chat Sesame Street’s FIRST Asian puppet, CP single handedly bringing live back to Hammer Films and how Jacques watched Tommy Boy together with Joe (and how Biff plans to watch UHF with Joe his next visit here!) On the Darkside (reluctantly) we chat another school shooting, Row v Wade (and how it really just effects poor folks) and how Lowell schools are #1 in state with Covid rates.
Also chatted … Bruins Marchy and the slewfoot double standard, MLB lock out and us not caring and … are we fans of the TampaBucs (off the field?)
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Recess by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
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After weeks of talking about it ... Jacques’ first event at Mill # 5 (Joe’s Basement – Retro Video Game Night) happened… and it 1000% wouldn’t of happen or gone nearly as well without Joe playing super hero and making so much happen! It’s Thanksgiving this week … Not a favorite of Biff or Jacques .. but both do plan on eating stupid amounts of food over the holiday weekend! Japan Princes Mako maybes NYC her home, Joe’s NEW Craiglist finds and Jacques hasn’t climbed out of the horror Hammer Films rabbit hole he now calls home. Yes, we touch a bit on the unthinkable horrible court ruling in WI that broke just before we record … I guess murder is legal in WI now (note: only if your white is it legal.) All this and … a tad bit more … CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Sober by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Our new best friend Bryan from the retro video store REPLAY’D (Allston MA), chats with Joe (yes, Joe) and Jacques (sadly … Biff has a real job and couldn’t join the geek fest) about this Wednesday Retro Gaming Night at Mill # 5 in Lowell, THIS Wednesday (event is called .. you guessed it, “Joe’s Basement”!)
Fun chat about how and why Bryan started a retro store 12 years ago and how this is one of the few industries that sky rocketed over covid (and how some scumbags are … being scumbags jacking prices to stupid levels).
We recap last week’s Retro World in Hartford Joe and Jacques (and their wives kids) went to.
If you’re in the Boston area … you gotta go to Replay’d and say hello to Bryan … if you’re NOT and you have ANY gaming needs … hit Bryan up at:
https://www.facebook.com/Replayd/
https://www.instagram.com/replaydallston/
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast
Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey
Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber
Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
Closing Song: Super Mario Bros. Theme
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
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Did I lie to Joe and say we had a retro game store owner zooming in to talk Retro World in Hartford this past weekend … NO … that was really the plan … did it work out where Biff and I got Joe for the whole show and our lives AND the podcast are much better for it … survey says YES. Big week as Joe found Jacques a “vader model” 2600 Atari WITH 12 games for FREE for Jacques on Craigslist, which Jacques will use on Nov. 17th at Mill 5 in Lowell for his retro gaming event, called Joe’s Basement (nope, not kidding)… Joe, Jacques and their wive’s kids all drove the 2 hours to Hartford for Retro World… Jacques 1st time … Joe’s … 10th(?) … totally awesome. The all chatted Joe and Jacques taking in recent guest Greg Boggis’ first live show in 20 months, Mondo Comedy (at Luna Theater inside Mill 5 in Lowell) and yes, Jacques “borrowed” a joke from that show to open the podcast this week. Biff… had a sort of scary, real crime, clip to break down from the home land this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKfAWAdS8I
Biff also talks his covid booster shot and just how awful the NHL can be when it puts its mind to it!
Parenting tips, Only Murders In Building, Baby Metal … and more. Oh… much … much much more.
CP on Twitter: @CarnivalPodcast Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Joe on Twitter is: @Optigrabber Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4
Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: Mark by Dan Cray and Beyond Id
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