The Jack and Marc Show: Recent Episodes
Jack van Brunschot and Marc Opie
Jack and Marc delve into the ancient biblical craft of magic.
Listen to how Hannibal made Elephants disappear. (Or wait, maybe that's in part 2).
They also use Gorilla Masks to escape the law.
Jack and Marc try to figure out how to clean the shit out of diapers for money.
Failing that, they transform into Sanford & Son.
Jack and Marc struggle in their latest business endeavour. owning a junk yard. They simply can't get the lingo down.
Jack and Marc tell the story of Jack and Marc, who open a Junk Yard. They are at a disadvantage because they don't know the proper lingo!!!
Jack and Marc give the real story of Hannibal, and his trick of making elephants disappear.
Jack and Marc give an accurate account of the Battle of the Old South.
Song - Mother Earth, You Shook Me, You Gotta Move, Air on a Tape Loop
Jack and Marc give the history of one of the most famous pairs of sleuths, Head Cheese and Cheese Head Bronchitis, and their rivals, Dr. Maybe and Might Be, Anvil Head Browser,
Jack and Marc give the REAL history of fire fighting, introducing such well known characters as Astro Plebis, Placenta Frank. Astro Thesis, Astro Clevis (the man who felt women's breasts should be separated), Archie Medes, lesser known brother of Acrhimedes, and the five Victors - who came up with the phrase "To the Victor goes the Spoils". (Of course they always argued about who invented it). Then there's Arstawdle - (lesser known brother of Aristotle), who came up with the notion that every thing was made of Adams.
Interspersed with this history of Fire, it's the history of Viking Conquest, and the cultural legacy they left, Viking Poetry - Poetry than can kill. They introduce such characters as Eric Red Bottom, aka Big Fuck Eric, Marmalade Scraper
Jack and Marc give a TRUE account of the alternate legend of King Arthur - King Carl, a two dimensional man living in a three dimensional world. There's a little known connection between King Carl and Robin Hood - not that Robin Hood.
It's Carlian Legend.
Jack and Marc discuss the history of Jack's uncle, a hermit living in an abandoned Uniroyal Tire Manufacturing Plant.
They discuss the history of the Bible as written by Hutenberg, and the connected history of the Hill Billies, Hill Larries, Hill Barries and their cousins the Hill Berries.
Jack and Marc decipher unearthed scrolls to reveal the first detective of Ancient Egypt Foot Laurentian. Surprisingly, the scrolls were packed with jokes.
Coming off this hard work, they return from a well deserved vacation in Northern Manitoba. It's action packed, and they come back with new friends - Big Barnaby Wet Legs (aka Slosh Legs Fuck Head), his old girlfriend Effigy, and his new girlfriend, Big Ethel Moosehead Monsoon (aka Big Ether Shit Storm).
Returning to ancient Egypt, we hear the story of the other Christ - and the lesser known resurrection.
Coming to North America, we hear the real story of the American South and yet another religion, the Cavalry Calvinist Religion, their Three Commandments and their Winnebago. We hear about Ruby Faced Little Man and Hickory Sticks Burness (whose legs were replaced with the hickory spokes from a wagon wheel after a piranha accident.
Jack and Marc discuss their job moving things for the Hydro Carbon Mafia Family, how to get funding for science, and the demise of the Neanderthals because of a lack of knowledge of economics.
Jack and Marc give a how to lesson.
How to get science funding.
In the second part, Jack and Marc discuss this history of computing, and the discovery of the Panama Canal.
Jack and Marc discuss the ancient history of public service announcements, from Jack's search for employment and his use of PSA's to find job (as a bank robber), back to the Neanderthals / homosapien Wars.
Jack and Marc give and account of how the ancient Greeks created advertising, then, using that knowledge, figure out how to get funding of biblical science research, from Bill Gates!
Jack and Marc discuss the history of the modern monetary system, and how advertising keeps the big banks in power.
Jack and Marc explore the fall of Communism as more and more countries escape the clutches of Soviet Russia.
Jack and Marc learn the vernacular of Junk Yard dealers, following which they pay a visit to Cold Lake and discuss the rise of Lloyd and the Automotive Mafia.
Jack and Marc discuss the tragic history of Sparky T Dreamer. (Don't call him Sparko), from the loss of his vocal cords to the development of the "Pants on Fire" wonder weapon.
Jack gives Marc a history of how medicine evolved.
In part 2, Jack and Marc explore and Egyptian Tomb.
Jack relates the story of his uncle, who became a wiseman, a hermit, entombed in an old, abandoned Uniroyal Tire Manufacturing Plant.
In Part two Jean Steinbeck, John's more famous brother, pays a visit, or rather his book, "The Wrathful Grapes" does.
Jack and Marc reenact the Viking Voyage to North America.
You'll here from Big Fuck Eric and Marmalade Scrapper
In Part II, Jack and Marc hide in the showing of God Father Part 38 to escape the ethanol family mobsters.
Jack and Marc explore the history of Eastovia, Eastakovia and Eastavia, and how they left the USSR.
Jack and Marc explore this history of comedy, as it emerged from the Egyptian Empire. Also, how to get science funding.
Jack and Marc relate the history of the South Western US, from the construction of the Huever Dam to the Winnebago based Calvary Calvinist Church, followed by a brief history their time working at a Casino.
Jack relates the story of his uncle, a chicken farmer who unleashed on the world the greatest chicken known to man.
A look at how public service announcements evolved from simple word of mouth transmission, (with the inherent dangers of confusing 'um' to 'the flat ass of a fat women') to heavy head hernia.
Jack and Marc try their hand at running an automobile junkyard.
Jack and Marc discuss the history of the chesterfield.
Jack and Marc tell us the story of King Carl and the Knights of the Coffee Table as well as the story Sparko T. Dreamer and the history of fighting fires.
Once again, the Greeks, the Phoenicians and the Egyptians play a prominent role in the history of awards.
Jack and Marc explore a brief history of magic from chimpanzees to Hannibal, and the history of money laundering and the prestegeous Lesser Know Economic Award.
Jack gives a brief history of his life from ordinary man to genius, and the story of the Peterborough Jail.
Jack and Marc visit Jack's Uncle who's been holed up in an abandoned Tire Factory for three decades. They look at the development of the Hutenberg Bible and the history of Hill Billies, Hill Larrys, Hill Barries and Hill Berries.
Jack and Marc discuss the influence of the Neanderthals and the Greeks in the history of news reporting.
They explore a few scandalous political events.
Jack and Marc, discuss the history of computing and the history of communism. Marc returns to the family vineyard after a year.
Jack and Marc conclude their study on how weather forecasting has changed throughout history and have a look at one of their former careers, bank robbery.
Jack and Marc explore the history of Weather Forecasting as their Lethargy Club Project.
Introduction Lloyd Automotive - head of the Automotive Mafia and a history of Dilly Dally (Salvador's Brother), and the Hill Larrys.
Jack and Marc try their hand at running a junk yard. Failing that, they try to secure some science funding.
Jack and Marc give the true account of the Periodic Table of the Elements, Light, and the Uncertainty Principle.
Oh, and Chandra Pasma gives a good drilling to Plantation Steve Lecce.
Jack and Marc continue with their discussion of Bad Viking Poetry.
Also included is an account of Plantation Steve Lecce's lies in Queen's Park.
In the theoretical part of the show, Jack and Marc give a history of the art of persuasion, from the Greeks to Present Day. In the application, how to sell a car.
Jack and Marc carry on with the story of the development of the weapon of mass destruction - Bad Viking Poetry
Jack and Marc analyze some of the great unknown explorers, including the Vikings - who used poetry as a weapon of war.
Jack explains to Marc how news gathering evolved from simple daily reports of lawn care to the introduction by the Greeks of the patent office and the Woodward / Bernstein connection to Narrow Throad.
Jack and Marc continue with a discussion of Sparky / Sparko, his sister Aquifina and how the Greeks influenced Fire Fighting.
Jack and Marc discuss the unknown history of King Carl - a two dimensional man, living in the three dimensional world.
Jack and Marc discuss the history of ancient advertising, bad Viking poetry, and sleuthing.
Jack and Marc explore the history of Public Service announcements and Physics. You'll meet a variety of historical figures, including Frederick Flipper, discovered of the elements Mule Piss and Fuck You and Werner Heisenberg who's insecurity of everything lead to the uncertainty principle.
Jack and Marc open a new baby diaper cleaning service. But first they explore the history of shit.
Jack and Marc recount the history of Democracy part 1, 130,000 years ago in the time of the Neanderthals. The History of Democracy part 2 begins several years later.
Jack and Marc discuss the more obscure and little known history of Weather Forecasters.
Jack and Marc discuss the more obscure and little known history of Weather Forecasters.
Jack and Marc recount the story of a very little known Circus created by an inspired Dry Cleaner called Joe.
Jack and Marc discuss the ancient history of product development, the story of both Head Cheese Bronchitis and Cheese Head Bronchitis and the consequences of Vikings reading poetry.
Jack and Marc explore the perils of false public service announcements and the unknown history of physics and the town of Lipshitz.
Jack and Marc discuss the history of the lesser know King, King Carl and the land of two dimensions as well as the history of Sparky, fire fighter extraordinaire.
Jack and Marc explore the history of auto surgery, bakeries and awards and selling cars using cats.
Jack and Marc continue to discuss how bad Viking poetry, during its heyday, caused injuries to all who were subjected to it.
Jack and Marc discuss the myth of bad viking poetry. Poetry so bad that no one knows it existed.
Jack and Marc speculate on the history of Magicians from the time of Hannibal and his Elephants to Biblical Times.
Jack and Marc speculate on the history of Magicians from ancient times to an even more recent time.
Jack and Marc give a detailed account of the origins of public service announcements, science, the word "Ummm", limericks, haiku and, as usual, neanderthals, homosapiens and the hominid family.
Listen to an account of the musical heist and the events leading to Jack's incarceration.
Jack and Marc discuss the long lost book King Carl that inspired the King Arthur tale. A book that is long lost for a reason.
Join Jack and Marc as they correct many of the errors found in history text books.
Learn about Ancient Greece, Science, Athletics and Commerce.
You'll meet Lloyd, from Lloyd's Automotive Mafia
Pythagoras Barrel BiPlane Theorem, one of the first aviators.
Gustav Carl, the First Commercial Banker and Horst Owful - the inventor of the Back Scratcher.
Jack and Marc collaboratively write the story of the contributions of ancient Greece to the development of fire fighting.
Learn about some lesser known Greeks
Archie Medes, Reggieamoeba, Placenta Frank, and the brothers five, Victor Radish.
Learn about the lev 'er and the leave'er, the fire hose and the huge clay water reservoir.
Learn about how the Island of Crete received more historical attention than it should have, the concept of cleavage and Airs Toddle's Adamic Theory.
The story of Sparky continues. We follow him into the Army, and the actions which saved the Americans from the Russians.
Sparky coins the phrase "Fight Fire with Fire", but soon realizes that it's not meant to be taken literally.
In addition to fighting fires, he worked for the USO entertaining the troops.
Jack astounds Marc with the story of his father, "Sparky", and his mother the T.E.A. drinker.
Learn about the phrase "Liar Liar Pants on Fire".
Jack and Marc discuss the history of flight. Meet some of the lesser known aviation pioneers like Bob Barrel Biplane Pendulum, (not to be confused with Bob Barrel Biplane Rooster), and learn why using roosters as powering engines on a biplane ultimately failed.
Of course no history is complete without an examination of the Greeks' contribution, including Pythagoras Theorem, (not the one who discovered Pythagoras' Theorem, but Pythagoras Barrel Theorem), and Icarus.
Learn about early efforts at money transferring including Mango Kleinhardt and his use of Rats.
Of course evolution is discussed at length and the history of cleaning the shit from baby diapers is analyzed.
Jack and Marc explore one of the most misunderstood battles of history, which arose because of the similarity of the words Calvary and Cavalry, and which lead to the founding of a new church.
As usual they provide a history of the evolution of man, and the rise of the mafia.
Jack and Marc discuss the history of detective work, the history of comedy, including a detailed analysis of the "Knock knock" and "Three [insert organism here] walk into a bar" and religion as it existed in ancient Egypt. A trip up North gives us the origin story of Sloshleg Fuckhead and Big Ether Shit Storm.
Having been abandoned by the scuba diving touring company, Jack and Marc pass the time discussing the story of aquatics as invented by the Greeks. They make a passing reference to the evolution of man, as seen through the eyes of the neanderthals and the homo sapiens. It's not well known, but the the neanderthals have an excellent milk delivery service.
Jack discusses his lesser known economic award, the LKEA Award, bestowed because of his ground breaking work comparing the relationship between the neanderthals and homo sapiens (as well as Cro-magnon, Peking, Peaking and Peeping Man) to that between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Jack and Marc get a visit from history's most famous chicken. This chicken was really famous. Really really famous. No chicken in the history of humanity has ever been as famous as this chicken. Some people said this chicken was so famous it couldn't possibly be a chicken. A surprise twist at the end reveals that they were right. No chicken from Earth can lay ten eggs a minutes. That's an egg every six seconds.
After discussing Biblical plagues, Jack and Marc figure out this whole chicken thing.
Jack and Marc visit the old Uniroyal Tire factory in search of Jack's uncle.
This episode includes an exploration of the small pore riots, and the Hutenberg/Gutenberg Bible.
Julia Roberts makes a surprise visit.
Jack and Marc use the great Ray Array to get their space business off the ground. In doing so they reveal the truth about the Russian Revolution and attempt to capitalize on their nature.
Jack and Marc learn the language of the junk yard business, meet Lloyd of Lloyd's Automotive Mafia and discuss the distinction between couches, sofas and chesterfields.
The esteemed Marc Opie interviews an obscure/ hoarder historian about his collection of backscratchers.
One year ago part 2 was posted. Part one was lost. Does anyone care? We don't know, but just in case someone does, here part 1 for that special somebody.
Jack and Marc conclude the Masterpiece Library Tall Tale, Chicken from Another Planet, then stop.
The Jack and Marc Show presents one of their most ambitious ventures to date. A podcast in three parts starting with part one. Later there will be part two followed by part three.
The Jack and Marc show presents: The Tale of the Recluse who Haunted an Abandoned Tire Plant
After failing yet again, Jack and Marc commiserate about their lives and reminisce about their past - after all no one reminisces about their future.
Jack and Marc receive an unexpected inheritance of land and head up North to investigate.
Jack and Marc use Whats App to commiserate with each other from their respective jail cells.
Jack and Marc perform a public service announcement concerning the possibility of not getting what you want from an inheritance.
Jack and Marc illuminate the trials and tribulations of getting proper funding for science.
Ever wonder what historical event you may know nothing about? Well this is the show for you.
Jack and Marc make a film, but can't afford a camera or cinematographer, so do the audio and sound effects only.
Jack and Marc buy an abandoned gas station with no questions asked in the middle of nowhere. Realizing no one will come to buy gas, they concoct the story of a great battle that occurred on the very spot the gas station now resides. This, they think, will attract tourists.
Jack and Marc's first day of opening a gardening store specializing in the sale of cacti, hits an unforseen snag when they realize they want to make a movie instead.
Jack and Marc are abandoned in the middle of the sea. Facing impending doom, they strategize to remain calm by contemplating the invention of the fishing rod, swimming, and the scuba tank, of which they know nothing about.
Jack and Marc buy an automobile junk yard, no questions asked. On their first day they arrive ready to work but then deicide not to.
Jack is facing incarceration due to ten years of unpaid parking tickets. Instead of spending any money for a lawyer Jack hires Marc whose fee is nothing.
Jack and Marc embark on yet another audacious enterprise, by purchasing a fleet of industrial size washing machines.
While a terrible snow storm approaches, Jack and Marc attempt to install a thermostat but get sidetracked when they speculate on the history of screws, thermostats, and other things they know nothing about.
Jack and Marc buy a chicken farm. To avoid doing work they pass the time discussing the history of chicken farming which neither of them know anything about.
Jack and Marc buy a sheep farm located in the outback when suddenly they realize it requires alot of work.
Jack and Marc are hired by Richard Branson to prepare his new lunar dome for the arrival of its first astronaut guests. When things go wrong Jack and Marc spring into action and talk about other things.
In the Nevada desert, Jack and Marc continue strategizing their ambitious space program but then get hungry and have to go for lunch.
Jack and Marc are flummoxed by how to increase sales so decide to talk about other things instead.
Jack and Marc win tickets for a day at a spa. Having never been to a spa they decide to make a studied critique of their experience for future reference.
[Marc's Great Great Great Grand Father] Jack and [Jack's Great Great Great Grand Father] Marc strategize on how to become the most successful millers in the burgh.
Jack and Marc open their new jewelry store only to find that their sales strategy is fraught with fundamental flaws.
Jack and Marc discover that they are in denial about the real reason they find themselves stranded in an abandoned Antartica outpost.
Marc visits Jack who is running a coffee shop in a nuclear disaster zone where it always rains. marcgwopie@gmail.com
Jack and Marc must come up with an ingenious plan to escape their membership in the insidious Lethargy Club.
A father returns after a one year absence to discover how his son has handled running the family vineyard.
In the 1200's Jack and Marc improv what it may have been like to be a Barber in the 1200's, and how did you go about improving your lot in life.