The Mezzanine Sleepover

The Mezzanine Sleepover – a.k.a. M9S – was a (kind of) weekly podcast featuring Sliiiiip, Stu and MEGAMIXDOTCOM. Over seven years and more than 170 episodes, everyone’s favourite podcasting pals covered everything from movies to music to pro wrestling with a style all their own.


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2022

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 174: WWF WrestleMania IX

In 2017, the Sleepover crew ranked the ninth WrestleMania as the absolute worst of any of the WrestleManias to that point. In 2022, MEGAMIXDOTCOM, Sliiiiip and Stu are joined by friends of the show Barry and Ted to do an in-depth review of this piece of PPV garbage from 1993.

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2020

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 165: AEW Revolution 2020

The legendary Stu joins the pals this week, as he and Sliiiiip attended this show live (while MEGAMIXDOTCOM watched at home on Pay Per View). They talk about what a great show this was, and how sad it is that it will likely be the last big wrestling event for at least a year.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 163: WWF No Way Out 2002

It’s 2002. The WWF has the strongest roster that they’ve ever had, and they are adding the New World Order to the mix. That should mean that this is an absolutely killer show, right? Well, it isn’t, but the Mezzanine Sleepover will review it for you anyway.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 161: Funko Pops

Episode 161 is the one where two 40+ year old men talk about their toy collections. The M9S crew go over some of their favourite Funko Pop figures, and discuss some figures that they would like to see be introduced in the future.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 159: The Sopranos

On this week’s episode, the M9S boys break down one of their favourite all-time television series, as they discuss The Sopranos. Your hosts Sliiiiip and MEGAMIXDOTCOM reveal their top ten episodes, and they talk a lot about this amazing show.

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2019

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 157: AEW

Your favourite podcasting pals are back! After almost eight months away, Sliiiiip and MEGAMIXDOTCOM make their triumphant return with a brand new episode of the Sleepover. They kick off the show with a celebration of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Grey Cup win before launching into a spirited discussion about the best and worst of All…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 151: WWF Royal Rumble 1991

It’s Royal Rumble season so the pals (along with the legendary Stu) go back and review a classic show – the Word Wrestling Federation’s Royal Rumble 1991 – which took place smack dab in the middle of Operation Desert Storm and features a heavy dose of action, excitement and American jingoism.

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2018

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 147: WCW Halloween Havoc 1999

It’s Halloween, and it appears the Sleepover has started a tradition of celebrating the holiday with a review of one of WCW’s Halloween Havoc shows. This year they picked a doozy, as they go back to 1999 and review what really is a terrible show, with horrible booking from the one and only Vince Russo.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 145: All In

The fellas recently got back from Chicago where they attended All In, the largest indie wrestling show to take place in the US in 25 years. Their pal Stu also made the trip, and he joins the crew to discuss the show and the entire weekend.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 133: 2006 Mixtapes

This episode is pretty straightforward. Your co-hosts play songs from 2006 and talk about them, all while cracking really bad jokes. They also take some time to brag about scoring tickets to All In, so make sure to give this one a listen.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 127: WWF WrestleMania VI

It’s officially WrestleMania season, so the Sleepover is celebrating with a review of one of the classics – WrestleMania VI, which took place in 1990 at the then-brand-new Skydome in Toronto. The pals talk about the Ultimate Challenge, the end of the Perfect Winning Streak and much, much more.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 124: WCW New Blood Rising

This week, the M9S team talk at length about the Olympics before they review World Championship Wrestling’s New Blood Rising Pay Per View. This was a TERRIBLE wrestling show from the dying days of the company in 2000. It was tough to watch, but fun to talk about. 

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 123: Batman

It’s pretty simple this week, as your Sleepover pals review the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman. They may also talk about the Olympics a bit, but really this show is all about the Caped Crusader.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 121: The Wild Card Music Challenge 4

There is a lot to cover on this week’s show. First, Sliiiiip and MEGAMIXDOTCOM give an update on the Winnipeg’s Top Street Tournament, then they chat about sports media and some truly awful sports fans. All this and then they present the 4th installment of the enormously popular Wildcard Music Challenge. What a deal!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 120: WWF Royal Rumble 1994

Royal Rumble season is here again, and with it the M9S crew sit down to review the 1994 edition of the titular event. This show was terrible, yet memorable – mostly for the Undertaker’s odd Zombie Jesus act. You also get the latest update in the Winnipeg’s Top Street Tournament and the pals will set up the…

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2017

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 116: Ask M9S

Hay everyone, it’s Christmas . . . and what better way to celebrate than with your cherished podcasting pals! So grab a cup of eggnog, curl up by the fireplace and jingle bell rock with the Sleepover as they answer YOUR questions in a very special “Ask M9S” episode!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 112: WWF Survivor Series 1996

This week, the pals celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend by reviewing a Survivor Series Pay Per View. This time around, they go back to 1996, which features the debut of the Rock, a fantastic Bret Hart / Steve Austin match, an interesting main event, and a whole lot of junk.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 111: Happy Gilmore

The pals talk about Sliiiiip’s recent trip to Ottawa and his experience at a Gatineau Olympiques hockey game while MEGAMIXDOTCOM discusses a Canadian television tournament currently taking place online. Then they review Happy Gilmore, a mediocre comedy from 1996 that they enjoyed way too much at the time. 

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 110: The Grab Bag Music Challenge III

The pals talk about Sliiiiip’s recent trip to Ottawa and his experience at a Gatineau Olympiques hockey game while MEGAMIXDOTCOM discusses a Canadian television tournament currently taking place online. Then they review Happy Gilmore, a mediocre comedy from 1996 that they enjoyed way too much at the time. 

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 109: WWF SNME – March 11, 1989

This week, the M9S crew reviews yet another episode of the WWF’s Saturday Night’s Main Event. This time, they review a pivotal show from March 11, 1989. They also spend some time before the review talking about ComiCon and Halloween, so make sure to enjoy some tasty candy while listening!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 108: WWF SNME – October 31, 1985

The pals had planned on reviewing two episodes of Saturday Night’s Main Event on this week’s show, but they talked so much at the start of the show about John Dunsworth, Gord Downie and the Winnipeg Jets that they ended up only reviewing one episode. Take a listen as they break down a special Halloween…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 107: WCW Halloween Havoc 1998

The Halloween madness continues, this time with one of the worst Pay Per Views of all-time, WCW’s atrocious Halloween Havoc 1998. The unbelievably awful Hogan / Warrior II match is just the icing on this shit flavoured cake. It’s three hours of total garbage and your podcasting pals are reviewing every second!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 102: By The Numbers

This is a very creative episode where your co-hosts made mixtapes with the order of the tracks matching the track number where they appeared on their original album. Amazing! They also talk about some other nonsense at the start of the show, as usual.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 101: WWF SummerSlam 1989

With SummerSlam 2017 happening this week, the M9S crew decide to go back and review yet another old SummerSlam show. Tune in and hear all about the CAULDRON OF MADNESS, along with a bunch of other nonsense. And for those expecting a show about music videos, that one is coming in two weeks.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 100: WWF SummerSlam 1988

It’s the 100th episode of the Sleepover, so this week your co-hosts decided to celebrate by talking about the first ever SummerSlam Pay Per View. This show is famous for its bad wrestling and even worse commentary, but the pals had a good time reviewing it.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 098: 1977-1978

It’s a rock-and-roll-disco-new-wave-punk-funk party on the Sleepover and you’re all invited! You co-hosts both have July birthdays, so this week they go back and talk about music from their respective birth years.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 097: Camp Cucamonga

It’s another episode of the Mezzanine Sleepover where they review a bad movie so that you never have to watch it. This week, it’s Camp Cucamonga, a 1990 TV movie starring a bunch of 80s and 90s child stars. Spoiler alert – it’s really, really bad. Even worse is the Wikipedia entry for the movie,…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 094: 2003 Mixtapes

The Sleepover crew keeps it simple this week as they talk about songs from 2003. Of course, they go way too long and rush through the last part of their lists, but they had fun doing it. Hopefully you’ll have as much fun listening to it. Or not. Whatever.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 093: Ghostwriter

Get your casebooks ready, because your podcasting pals are going to solve mysteries this week with the Ghostwriter gang! If you don’t know what the hell this is about, then you have even more reason to listen this week. Rally M9S!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 087: Rogue One

You’ve all been waiting for this one! The Sleepover crew breaks down the movie Rogue One in a continuation of their hugely popular series of Star Wars reviews. No Phil for this one unfortunately, but it was still a good time.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 085: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

This week, your Sleepover pals jump right into an in-depth review of the 1982 classic E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Did you know that MEGAMIXDOTCOM was afraid of the titular goblin while simultaneously loving him with all of his little heart? Learn about this and more on a raucous episode of the cast.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 081: WWF WrestleMania III

It’s WrestleMania season and the Sleepover kicks things off with a review of arguably the biggest one of them all – WrestleMania III. Hogan vs Andre! Savage vs Steamboat! Ware vs Reed! Okay, maybe not that last one so much, but it was still a very noteworthy show.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 080: Rap Traxx

The pals kind of phoned it in for this one. Connection issues and a lack of planning resulted in what you’ll hear this week, but they did get a nice conversation in about a series of rap compilations that were released in the late 80s and early 90s.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 077: Home Alone

This week the fellas review Home Alone and talk about how bad the whole situation would be in the real world. Because this fictitious movie made for kids really needed to be put in its place. They also spend the first 15 or so minutes bitching about the Winnipeg Jets and Donald Trump.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 076: WCW Souled Out 1997

The Sleepover crew review more wrestling this week, and this time, it’s a really, really bad show. Sliiiiip and MEGAMIXDOTCOM made themselves watch WCW Souled Out 1997, knowing that it was one of the worst shows of all time – and this episode confirms as much.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 073: Instrumentals

On this week’s show, Sliiiiip and MEGAMIXDOTCOM share some of their favourite instrumental songs. You know the drill – they each chose 15 tracks and then talk about them. Thankfully there are no vocals for them to talk over.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 072: WAWF Promos

On this very special New Year’s episode of the Sleepover, the pals give their early opinions on Rogue One, and then listen to some of the best (worst?) promos that they cut when they had their own backyard wrestling federation. So if you like movie spoilers and terrible wrestling promos with a lot of really…

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2016

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 070: WWF SummerSlam 1992

This week, the pals were joined by friend of the show Stu, who actually was in attendance at the WWF’s SummerSlam way back in 1992. It’s pretty much a two-match show, but those two matches fucking delivered! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear an account of what it was like to be at this epic…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 066: 2000 Mixtapes

To commemorate the election of an orange man-baby with early onset dementia as President of the United States, the fellas jump into their cyber time machine and head back to the last time a dunderheaded fuckbag smarmed his way into the White House – the year 2000.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 064: Spooky Songs

It’s Halloween, and your pals are celebrating by eating piles of candy and talking about some of the spookiest songs out there. So put on your goblin costume and have a listen to the Sleepover, because it’s gonna be scary!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 063: The Music Genre Challenge

Your favourite podcast pals are back in the studio together for the first time in months, and what better way to kick off a three-show taping than with a music challenge? This time the fellas explore tracks from 17 different music genres in one of their most eclectic podcasts yet.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 062: Showstoppin’ (Part 2)

This week, the Sleepover crew continues their look at the career of arguably one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Shawn Michaels. In Part Two they focus on his return to the ring in 2002 after a four-year retirement and the amazing matches that followed.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 061: Showstoppin’ (Part 1)

This week, your pals pay tribute to one of their favorite wrestlers of all time – “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels. Listen as they talk about the first part of his career and review some of his best matches. There was so much material that they actually had to cut this up into two episodes.…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 059: The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Sleepover’s resident Star Wars expert Phil joins the cast to talk about the Star Wars Holiday Special. Please be aware that this is one of the worst things that has ever happened in the world of entertainment. Everything about to be discussed about is 100% an actual thing that was put on television in…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 055: WWF SummerSlam 1991

First off, apologies for the audio quality of the episode. There were technical issues, and they weren’t fixed until after recording. If you can deal with the poor sound, come and listen to the Sleepover’s review of the WWF’s classic SummerSlam 91 show.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 054: The Wild Card Music Challenge II

You asked for it, so the Sleepover delivered! Okay, you didn’t really ask for it, but you’re getting it anyway. It’s the second installment of the Wildcard Music Challenge, where the pals each sent a list of 15 artists for the other to choose songs from. Then, as usual, they play and talk over the tracks.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 049: A New Hope

Friend of the show Phil joins the M9S crew once again to talk about a little movie that originally was simply titled “Star Wars.” Take a listen as the fellas take a deep dive into the magical film that would kick off a franchise.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 044: Road Trip

The fellas are back after taking a week off, and do they have have some treats for you! First, they go over the results from the first round of The Tournament: 80s Edition, and set the matchups for Round 2. Then they review Road Trip, a sort of popular movie from 2000, just because.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 041: Random Tracks

During Sliiiiip’s last week in Winnipeg, he and MEGAMIXDOTCOM got lazy and decided to do an episode where they talk about random tracks that play on their iPads. The tunes ended up being pretty decent, and they somehow managed to get an hour out of it. Reward their half-assed effort by giving this episode a listen now!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 036: WWF WrestleMania XV

The M9S crew decided to squeeze in one more WrestleMania review before this year’s show takes place next weekend – and man they picked a BAD one. This is Vince Russo at his (terrible) peak, and you’ll see why when they run through this shitty show.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 033: Hot Sundae

This week, the pals review two TV shows. First, they talk about the first episode of Fuller House. SPOILER ALERT: It was bad. Then, they talk about one of the more famous episodes of Saved By The Bell. It’s the one where JESSIE DOES DRUGS. Enjoy!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 031: Classic Concerts

Your co-hosts have both been to a lot of concerts, so this week decided to talk about some of their most memorable ones. Come hear about recommended live acts, as well as when they think the best time would have been to have seen their top five bands in concert.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 030: Sportz Moments

This week, the fellas review some of their favourite sports moments by playing some of the best play-by-play calls that they could scrounge up. In the end, they were able to cover a lot of ground, so if you’re a sports fan, this is a show worth checking out!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 028: Attack Of The Clones

This week, the pals are joined by special guest Phil as they review Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. This is seriously the worst movie of the franchise and maybe an all-time terrible film as well. It sucked to watch it again, but it was fun to talk about how bad it is!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 026: Brainstormin’

SPOILER ALERT: the Sleepover crew is going to talk about the new Star Wars movie in the second half of the show. So if you mess up and hear something you didn’t want to hear, tough shit! The pals also talk about the Winnipeg Jets and one of the worst rap albums of all time.

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2015

Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 015: AM Gold

Sliiiiip started doing a radio show on a Toronto station that will be on the AM dial in the new year. To celebrate, the fellas each did list of 10 awesome AM radio tracks from the 70s for this week’s show.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 011: WWF WrestleMania X8

The Sleepover is back and their first Skype podcast worked out well enough, with only a few kinks. This week, the pals talk about a show that they attended back in 2002 – WrestleMania X8. This was a BAD show with one amazing match. Tune in and hear all about it now!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 009: Hott Traxx Volume 1

The second installment of a three-part MEGACAST, Episode 9 is all about the music, brother. Your pals bust open their vaults to explore their favourite tracks year-by-year, beginning in 1990. They get to 2002 before packing it in, so look for them to wrap it up next week!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 008: So Cherry, It Hurts

The first installment of a three-part MEGACAST, Episode 8 features a little bit of banter before the Sleepover crew spends the rest of their time reviewing the low-budget 1994 comedy The Stöned Age. So grab a couple of talls and kick back with your favourite podcasting pals!

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 006: Musical Mark Out Moments

So your pals recorded for well over two hours and then decided to cut the show in half. So here’s the first part, where they talk about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hulk Hogan, and review their top musical mark out moments. They may reference other stuff during the show with no follow up, but that…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 005: The Price Of Gold

Poops (MEGAMIXDOTCOM) made an intro for this week’s show that generates some discussion. The pals pontificate on littering in Winnipeg, Poops talks about his #366Tunes Project and Sliiiiip LOVES the ESPN documentary that is reviewed this week. It all wraps up with a look at your co-hosts favourite musical discoveries. 

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 004: It’s Beats Time

Holy shit! Old pal Ali Au Gratin joins Sliiiiip and Poops (MEGAMIXDOTCOM) for this week’s episode. The fellas talk about the original Mezzanine Sleepover, backyard wrestling and late 90s shenanigans. Plus, they review Don Cherry’s Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Part II and list albums from the 90s that they would take with them to a…

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 003: Getting Lucky On Manada Day

Celebrate Canada Day with Poops (MEGAMIXDOTCOM) and Sliiiiip! The pals talk about the Winnipeg Jets draft and their love for American hockey players. Sliiiiip talks about how he was banned from band camp. They review a terrible episode of ALF, and then they reveal songs that are guilty pleasures.

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Mezzanine Sleepover Episode 002: Poops And Sliiiiip Are Cold Men

The pals recorded another episode, and it’s a dandy. Poops (MEGAMIXDOTCOM) runs down his first season playing hockey on an 1-11 team, and is inspired to look at some Winnipeg Jets history. Sliiiiip bought a cartwall app and wants to show off some cheesy sound drops. They review a movie so bad that Poops couldn’t…

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