Episodes

Improviser Kai Rudell joins Mark and Ryan to talk about growing up in Vancouver playing rugby, ultimate frisbee, and “the crazy hat lady”. He opens up “Deliverance Game Store” - a board game shop that is really into the 1978 movie Deliverance. We meet a “solar punk” named Benoit LeCalre, a pair of murderous twins named Lindsey and Landsy. And we finally get another school - Sir Emmanuel Frizz.

Japanese improviser Rina Shimomura joins Mark and Ryan to tell them about growing up in Toyama, Japan, discovering improv, and her favourite words. She builds us a “kissing zone” for the youth of town to kiss without shame. We also get a tall mall, an “extra school” and we find out more about our City Hall.

Yeehaw. It’s the round-up! Get ready sheriffs, as Mark and Ryan read your letters. We get a candy store that is a shady front for the mob. We get an our very own currency “clampsh”, we get a cryptozoological create, and we even read a suggestion for The Outskirts.

Stand-up comedian Aaron Read is back on the show and talks about fancy bakeries, chaotic McDonald’s, and bagged milk. Ryan also shares that he used to be a Shakespearean busker. Aaron builds a steak house for our town that is also a country line dancing bar called Steak and Legs Coochie Coo. We find out fast casual restaurant, Taco Hat isn’t as popular as it used to be and our town finally gets a dollar store.

Director and comedian Christine Bortolin is back on the show but this time in video! She tells us more tales of growing up in Burnaby and deep Coquitlam. She builds the town’s first parking lot and an amusement park that sets up shop there. We learn all about their main attraction “The Suck Ditch”. She also builds a Historical Village for our town, a restaurant that is strictly for extra marital affairs, and Ryan reads us a poem entitled “When The Mall Was Small”.

Comedian and creator Mark Little (Gary & His Demons, Picnicface) joins Mark and Ryan to talk about growing up in New Westminster, BC. Playing Mortal Kombat, meeting 80’s NHL-er Gino Odjick, and his pet rats. Mark Little builds a burger joint for the town called 20 Guys Burger and Fries, he starts a book club, and introduces a mysterious white van that abducts citizens. He also creates two more newspapers for the town: The Daily Tenor and Boobs .

Comedian and actor Tricia Black from the new Netflix series Wayward joins us to talk about growing up in Quispamsis, New Brunswick. They tell us about getting kicked out of choir in school, being threaten the town doctor/veterinarian, and the legacy of The Irving Family. Tricia also gives us our own rich, controversial family, The Munros. Tricia also introduces the idea of a rival neighboring town known as Townover.

Co-host of the show, Ryan Beil is put in the hot seat and we learn all about his upbringing in Vancouver and find out that he didn’t attend middle school because it doesn’t exist in Vancouver! He also tells us about his skiing past and decides to build another ski hill in our town: Guy Top Mountain. He also creates an extermination group called The Owl Team.

Mark and Ryan are back with an all new edition of The Outskirts. They begin in a flashback when the Laughing Ghost Hotel was just called The Pine Wood. We get a mysterious clue about “The Minotaur”. We then pick up the story with Engel, the man who faked his own death. We meet a chamber maid named Brenanda. And we end on a shocking cliffhanger when Pete goes into the labyrinth.

By popular demand, comedian and writer Alicia Tobin is on the podcast. She tells us about growing up in Pointe Claire, Quebec. She builds the town a windmill. We meet a very anal by-law officer who tickets off leash dogs, and we take stroll down Sad Lick River, where people go and park when they are sad.