Where Putin’s calendar reads 1936 we asked Political Science professor from the University Of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Doctor Chris Cook to come on and help try to make sense of a world that refuses to make any sense. Dr. Cook and Jacques cross paths years before in college … which Jacques has apologized for which Dr. Cook graciously accepted. This is a supersized sideshow that has us wanting to see if we can zoom in to Professor Cooks classes the rest of this semester. He’s wicket smaht dude. W...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 244
Looking for a podcast chatting Starfox 64 and Rogue Squadron 64 … look no forward. Owner of Boom Boom Games in Billerica MA, Benny – chats flee market finds as a kid and as a young adult that built his love of gaming … and inventory to start his store!! Ben, Joey and the crew from Boom Boom Games are helping Jacques (and Joe) host the next Mill # 5 Retro Video Game (Joe’s Basement Night) this Thursday May 3, 2022 (it’s a fund raiser for the Lowell city wide Jr High program Arts In The Afternoon!...
Feb 28, 2022•42 min•Ep. 243
Jacques talks how AST is a good person and a good friend as he suggests the BBC show “The IT Crowd” and his 1981 Minnesota State Hockey playoff game on YouTube … and how Joe is a bad person who suggest he watch the (also a BBC show) Derek, because he knows it will make Jacques relentlessly cry … Niagara Falls Frankie! Both agree SB halftime show was AMAZING … the Rams SB parade … um … Not so much. Queen Elizabeth AND Beiber got Covid … just in time to stop testing and wearing masks at Jacques ki...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 242
Nothing says happy Valentine’s day then listening to a podcast about Paul Lynde … I THINK! Joe, Biff and Jacques talk about one of their all-time favorite television personalities, Paul Lynde with author Cathy Rudolph about her amazing relationship with and her book - Paul Lynde, A Biography. His Life. His Love(s). His Laughter. From the crazy way 17-year=old high school junior Cathy accidently got Paul’s home number (and his willingness to chat with aa stranger for hours on the phone), to her (...
Feb 14, 2022•47 min•Ep. 241
BIG DAY … Duran Duran finally gets R & R HoF nom! Jacques insist all go watch Letterman on Late Night w Seth from last week but NEVER watch Mask Singer … not cause show sucks (which it does) but cause producers are D-Bags. Biff breaks down an adorable (not so much a high speed) police chase in rural Japan. Brady retires and goes out on some drama with Pats, Pats nation … totally expected and Brian Flores shining much needed light on NFL BS Rooney Rule! Biff’s watching Demonslayer S2 and Jacq...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 240
Biff lives in LA … Jacques in Boston … both fully vaxed both have taken Covid pretty seriously … BOTH run of luck has run out … not as much as Meatloaf’s has .. but both got Covid last week! They talk the passing of the great Bob Saget and Louis Anderson this past week as well. Jacques finally sees Ghost Buster Afterlife and Joe was right … 2nd best Ghostbuster movie! Jacques also binged The IT crowd upon a recommendation from their pal All Star Tommy. Jacques also loving Peacemaker on HBO Max a...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 239
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...
Jan 18, 2022•27 min•Ep. 238
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...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 237
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: @CarnivalPodca...
Jan 10, 2022•54 min•Ep. 236
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 s...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 235
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...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 234
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...
Dec 13, 2021•36 min•Ep. 233
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 (reluctant...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 232
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...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 231
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 ...
Nov 15, 2021•50 min•Ep. 230
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 (no...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 229
Jacques family IS Halloween year-round … but actually Halloween is just extra special… Special like the Paul Lynde Halloween Special that Jacques watched again with Joe post his family’s covid safe out door Halloween Party (and really EVERYONE should get to watch Ghostbusters with Joe at least once in their lives!) On sad / tragic side of life … death on a film set, passing of actor Peter Scolari and Joe Manchin is still a GOP prick. Biff talks the return of the NHL to national TV coverage and h...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 228
A staple in the New England comedy scene, comedian/host/MC Greg Boggis chats with Biff and Jacques about his years in comedy, what he did to keep the jokes coming over last year and a half of the world going sideways and how excited all are about the buzz around Greg’s Mondo Comedy live shows coming back to Mill # 5 in Lowell staring Oct. 28! https://lunalowell.com/movies/the-return-of-mondo-comedy/ Greg’s Webpage is – BoggisComedy.com Twitter and Instagram: @BoggieNews Biff on Twitter is @BiffP...
Oct 18, 2021•50 min•Ep. 227
James Tiberius Kirk is going up to space … for real. Jeff Bas-hole in a smart PR move is taking William Shatner into space! Jacques and Biff talk giving blood and how people who put spoilers on line less then 3 hours after a show airs at 3am EST really need a good beat down (well … that’s how Jacques feels …) How dumb are these Tik Tok challenges and how dumb are the kids who knowingly break the law, tape themselves and post it just for the 8 seconds of fame. NHL and NHLPA doing something right ...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 226
The great Norm Macdonald past away a few weeks ago …Or so the German’s would have us believe. One of Joe and Jacques’ all time favorites. Biff, a big fan as well. We chat seeing Norm live in 2019, go over some of the all-time greatest late-night talk show moments – Chairmen of the Bored, The Moth Story, The Congratulations gift basket … as well as his lasting impact on SNL News and of course … Turd Ferguson. Joe also talks “Dirty Works” and the movie is could have been. Joe on Twitter is @Optigr...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 225
All it took to get Joe to come back for a couple episodes was to have one of our comedy heroes to pass away! Worth it? Maybe. With news of the great Norm MacDonald leaving this plane of existence way to soon had Joe zoom in for this week’s CP and next week’s Sideshow. Jacques tells of his Pandemic Unemployment Assistance tale of woe … with a happy(ish) ending. Friend of the podcast Renatezky was in Boston for week and Jacques and his family FINALLY did the Boston tourist stuff they’ve talked abo...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 224
Round 3 – This week Biff and Jacques debate their favorite Musical Geniuses and SHOCKINGLY they don’t have the exact same list … but there was a lot of agreement on this one. Did Bowie beat out Randy Newman? Did Prince beat out the great Dan Cray … guess you have to listen. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 Opening Song: Gomer by Dan Cray and Beyond Id Closing Song: DKNY Bag by Dan Cray (of the Suburb EP) DanCray.net...
Sep 20, 2021•31 min•Ep. 223
Jacques recaps seeing Patton Oswald kick off his new tour this week. Also, YES, Aretha Franklin was, is and always will be The Queen (highly recommend checking out the docu-movie. “Respect!”) Sussy Buka … something Jacques’ 11 year old says (from some YouTube meme from Breaking Bad) which Biff breaks down the origin of. Blues Clues turns 25, Elizabeth Holmes trial starts and on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 … Texas moves to become the US version of The Taliban. NFL season starts (Jacques says Pat...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 222
Biff and Jacques had a blast yapping favorite rhythm section players last side show they decided Round 2 … be singers and guitarist. Sure … couple obvious picks … that are total clichés … but come on … if your list doesn’t have Jimi … then you need to have a big slice of STFU sandwich. No … Jacques picks weren’t just on his list to annoy Biff … He really loves them … but yeah, annoying Biff IS a bonus. Biff on Twitter is @BiffPlaysHockey Jacques on Twitter is @TheJacques4 Opening Song: Gomer by ...
Sep 06, 2021•43 min•Ep. 221
Jacques’ wife (aka Management) went to see John Mulaney new show about his intervention at the Wilber Theater 3x last week. Does she need an intervention intervention … in her defense … her friend went 4x … sssssoooo. Biff plans on catching some of the summer movies on our list … but Jacques seen Free Guy (loved it), Jungle Cruise (LOVED they keep the corny jokes from Disney ride) and Suicide Squad. Turns out Afghanistan still sucks … as does Covid and the California recall … but at least there ...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 220
Can someone please come up with a different term then “Mt. Rushmore” that means the same thing? Please. So Jacques thought Biff meant best rhythm section (collectively from a band) but Biff wanted to list separately – Best Bassist and Best Drummer. They cover both and it was a lot of fun. Couple names won’t surprise anyone … but a couple will. The whole show is one long self-indulgent theater … but aren’t they all, really? CP: Twitter: https://twitter.com/carnivalpodcast Facebook: https://www.fa...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 219
With the Olympics wrapped up … you thought Jacques and Biff didn’t have anything to talk about … but they found a way … and they chat Jeopardy’s new (poor) choice for host, Snakes … I mean Duct Tape On A Plane, Chris Cuomo now being his mom’s favorite and hey … It’s “Infrastructure week” again … no really this time stuff COULD be happening. Siberia is on fire, covid still sucks … and there is still crime in Japan! Best tackle of the year and it wasn’t in the NFL. Parenting tips and more … not a ...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 218
Last minute scheduling hic-cup means no new Carnival Personnel Sideshow this week ... yes, we know the sadness you feel ... so this is a special REPOSTING of one of our favorite episodes ever! Enjoy! Jacques and Biff’s long-time friend Ronak zooms in to chat She-Hulk v. Wonder Woman, give advice on the best way to figure out what you want to do in “the biz” if you know you want in and aren’t sure where you should be AND she answers honestly, “does Jacques hold the record for most shows pitched t...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 217
The GREAT Norman Lear turns 99 and LeVar Burton gets his shot a hosting Jeopardy. Jacques fell down the rabbit hole that is his pal Sully’s Plex account and a youtube clip of all the theme songs to the record breaking 1979 new TV shows … oh and some shit went down at the Olympics. Simone Biles wins off the mat and Tom Hanks intros the Cleveland Guardians! This weeks Japan crime clip we (Jacques) learns you drive on the left side over there! Jan 6th terrorist attach hearing started, Biff explains...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 216
Jacques thought the passing of one of the greatest directors of the 2nd half of the last century deserves a rambling sideshow where he mis-quotes ‘facts” about his career and his undead wife (who is arguably more successful than he was.) And Biff obliged.- Donner pretty much created the big budget super hero movie with Superman The Movie (arguable one of the greatest tights and capes movies till this day!) Suspense horror legend with The Oman as well as Jacques (and maybe Joe’s) favorite Christm...
Jul 26, 2021•19 min•Ep. 215
