Pokey Man: The Alola Rychu Interview

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Speaker: Thank you.

Speaker: Hi guys, it's Koggle.

Speaker: I'm on my way to the bunker to record the episode, but I had to stop at the store first to pick up some last minute demands from our guest.

Speaker: I reminded him that we do have the one and only Pure Teej, one like some other podcast hosts that can speak with an English accent, and the great co-host Dr. Kingsover DeCroft, one like Jill Biden, is a real doctor.

Speaker: But he said no, if we don't get the things on this list, he's not going to come on the show.

Speaker: So first he wants an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Speaker: Can you believe it?

Speaker: I'm not doing all that cooking.

Speaker: So I just grabbed a few things and you two can figure out what to do with it all.

Speaker: Then he wanted four pairs of aviator sunglasses, two regular pairs and two tiny pairs.

Speaker: So weird.

Speaker: And now I'm here trying to find some Friskies Party Mix cat treats.

Speaker: Am I supposed to get the Gravylicious or the Cheesy Craze Crunch?

Speaker: You know what?

Speaker: Don't worry about it.

Speaker: Never mind.

Speaker: I'm just going to grab both.

Speaker: Okay, I'm on my way to the checkout.

Speaker: Be there in a few.

Speaker: Okay, guys, we are back.

Speaker: My goodness, it's been far too long.

Speaker: When's the last time we all got together?

Speaker: I think it was with Skull Crazers back in Bebbery, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker: It has been a long time, and I think I know the person responsible for this, but I'm not going to name names, but he does not live in the States.

Speaker: That's all I'm going to say.

Speaker: I'm sorry, I'm just freezing.

Speaker: I had something I was going to say for intro and then to say hello, and then my mind just went blank.

Speaker: Krugel had to unwrap the layers of blankets around her head to be able to speak, and now her lips are turning blue.

Speaker: I can see them now, so sorry about that.

Speaker: But yeah, it's been a long time, so I'm really happy to be back.

Speaker: We have a lot to catch up on.

Speaker: Absolutely.

Speaker: Speaking of which, somebody has some really big news.

Speaker: Yeah, and it's not me.

Speaker: Well, who would that be?

Speaker: Some dude that lives in Belgium.

Speaker: Ah.

Speaker: Well, I have a new pen.

Speaker: What?

Speaker: You the pet rock?

Speaker: It's just my pen here.

Speaker: It's just a new pen.

Speaker: Oh, a new pen.

Speaker: I thought you said pen.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Is it a ballpoint?

Speaker: It is a ballpoint, yes.

Speaker: It's from the university that I go to.

Speaker: Say that in English.

Speaker: I have no idea what that says.

Speaker: It says, which means, how would you translate that?

Speaker: Hold me really tight.

Speaker: You go to the university of hold me really tight?

Speaker: But I guess that's not my big news, but I think, hey, look, I don't want to blow my own trumpet.

Speaker: Obviously, I'm really excited and very honored and still,

Speaker: pinching myself, if I'm honest.

Speaker: But I think as most people listening know, I was officially taken up into the Bees writer team earlier in at the beginning of April.

Speaker: So super excited.

Speaker: And like I say, very honored to be invited into that, into that group.

Speaker: And excited for what's gonna what's going to come from it.

Speaker: Well earned and well deserved.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: Big congratulations.

Speaker: Very excited for you.

Speaker: Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker: I have to be honest, I mean, obviously it's such a privilege and I'm so, I'm beyond excited.

Speaker: And, you know, it's like one of the most exciting things that's happened to me in a long time, but I'm, there are so many good writers in the headline forum.

Speaker: And so, you know, sometimes I do have that thing like, yeah, why me?

Speaker: It's, it's, I do believe there are other writers in the forum who are definitely worthy of

Speaker: to be to be there as well and who knows maybe uh maybe they would be in the future but um but yeah it's a great place to be and um we were just talking off the air uh that um one of the things i've i value about the writers group there is is there's a real spirit of riffing off of each other and um

Speaker: One person has an idea, somebody builds on that, somebody builds on that.

Speaker: And I think that's where some great ideas come from.

Speaker: So it would be good to see that in the headline forum as well, I think, wouldn't it, Prof and Google?

Speaker: I like that idea.

Speaker: I think that that's how creativity grows.

Speaker: I do the best when I riff off of somebody else's headline.

Speaker: I try not to copy them verbatim, obviously, but I try to take one of the themes that they have in a headline and take my own twist to that.

Speaker: So that helps me a lot.

Speaker: Sometimes if I'm stuck creatively.

Speaker: creatively, I just look at the new headlines and just go through them and try to find something that'll spark an idea for me.

Speaker: I do that quite a bit.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I think one of the most interesting things to see is when there's like a very specific topic and then everybody writes their headlines about it.

Speaker: So you get to see everyone's style of writing, everyone's point of views, everybody's different takes on the same thing.

Speaker: I think that's a lot of fun.

Speaker: Yeah, definitely.

Speaker: I mean, I've done that as well before where you've gone through the forum and you see a really funny headline.

Speaker: And it's not that you're looking to copy that, but you see it and it sparks another idea.

Speaker: And I've seen other, I've been tagged in other headlines before where people have said, oh, inspired by Pure Teach.

Speaker: And then you think, wow, that's, thanks very much.

Speaker: That's a real, a real honor.

Speaker: So yeah, it'd be good if we can try and find a way of, uh,

Speaker: encouraging that a little bit more.

Speaker: I don't know how, but if anyone's got any ideas, then leave a comment and let us know.

Speaker: That's also a very good way for traditions and characters to really take root.

Speaker: And we'll be talking about that a little bit later on, I believe.

Speaker: I won't give too much away now.

Speaker: And we do have a very special guest joining us shortly and looking forward to finding out a little bit more about his creativity and what he's brought to the headline for him.

Speaker: So we'll jump into that conversation shortly.

Speaker: But yeah, in the meantime, I thought it would be fun just to catch up briefly with the three of us.

Speaker: Man, it's been such a long time.

Speaker: And what have you guys been up to since we last spoke?

Speaker: Do you have any exciting news of your own?

Speaker: I had to endure a lot of pain.

Speaker: Like a lot?

Speaker: A lot of pain.

Speaker: And really, pain is just the word paint without the T. So we had the interior of our house repainted about everything except the bedrooms and the bathrooms.

Speaker: So that was kind of a painful process because that was about three days that they needed to do it all.

Speaker: We've got these vaulted ceilings, so it was just easier to have somebody else do it professionally rather than do it myself.

Speaker: It would have taken me forever.

Speaker: But here's the painful part.

Speaker: My wife wanted to completely redecorate.

Speaker: So everything that was on the walls came off, which obviously it had to to paint.

Speaker: But nothing went back on.

Speaker: So it was all brand new stuff.

Speaker: So, of course, she just goes and does her thing and goes to the stores that sell those things and buys them.

Speaker: And then, you know, umpteen variations later, they're hung on the wall.

Speaker: But here's the worst part.

Speaker: because we had to redo the paint and redo the wall coverings.

Speaker: Well, that trickled into new furniture.

Speaker: And so not only was it new furniture, it was where to arrange this furniture at.

Speaker: And so there were several iterations of that.

Speaker: And then it became,

Speaker: In our main level, we have wood floor and tile floor.

Speaker: We have an area rug.

Speaker: Well, now we need a new area rug.

Speaker: So it just kept going and going and going.

Speaker: And I think that was about a two-month process.

Speaker: That was most of my January and February and a little bit of March to go through that process.

Speaker: So it's over now in retrospect.

Speaker: It didn't seem so bad, but in the heat of the moment, it wasn't great.

Speaker: So if you look at some of my headlines from that time period, you'll probably pick up on what I went through.

Speaker: But yeah.

Speaker: And I should not, I'm not surprised.

Speaker: We've been together for almost 35 years.

Speaker: So it wasn't like a big surprise, but it's just like on the inside, I'm like, will this ever end?

Speaker: And it did finally after a while.

Speaker: But so I hurt my back once or twice in there.

Speaker: What else?

Speaker: I got a man cold.

Speaker: that took me out for a while.

Speaker: I don't think women appreciate how a man cold paralyzes a man.

Speaker: Like you can't do anything.

Speaker: It's women cannot understand that.

Speaker: And if they only understood,

Speaker: how much more debilitating a man cold is than childbirth.

Speaker: I wish somehow we could convey that to them, but they don't seem to get it or understand and don't appreciate.

Speaker: And the thing is, a woman can never get a man cold because she's a woman, right?

Speaker: So that's the hard part about it.

Speaker: So if they could only understand that it's worse than childbirth, I think life would be a lot easier for us men.

Speaker: What do you think, Tish?

Speaker: Well, it just reminded me of a headline you posted.

Speaker: I think it was yesterday, Prof. This is weird.

Speaker: Dylan Mulvaney has a man cold.

Speaker: I've finally recovered, but there was about a two-week period where it was pretty rough, actually.

Speaker: I rarely cancel a day of classes, but I did that.

Speaker: I was really afraid of spreading something, which I did not want to do.

Speaker: And I had a day where my voice was sore, and I was like, I just probably shouldn't talk today.

Speaker: So I canceled classes one day.

Speaker: Well, you know what you should have done?

Speaker: What?

Speaker: You should have worn a mask.

Speaker: No.

Speaker: No.

Speaker: No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker: No, you can't make me.

Speaker: Especially when you are alone in your car.

Speaker: That is the most effective time.

Speaker: Yes, driving your Prius.

Speaker: Prius drivers are more than likely to wear a mask alone.

Speaker: I think I've discovered that.

Speaker: So probably no surprise out there.

Speaker: I believe that.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Are you done complaining now?

Speaker: No, I'm not.

Speaker: I will.

Speaker: I'm going to preemptively say that I might complain down the road here.

Speaker: So I'm just gonna let everybody know.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: But that's what I've been up to lately.

Speaker: Do I sound bitter?

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Well, okay.

Speaker: That's the way it is.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: But on the upside, you have a beautiful new interior of your house.

Speaker: We do.

Speaker: It actually does look very nice.

Speaker: And not that we have a lot of company, but the folks that have come over have all said how much they really do like it.

Speaker: So my wife's felt really good about that.

Speaker: So I will give her credit for that.

Speaker: It was just really painful.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: But I still owe her a couple more things because this is the payback for my doctorate.

Speaker: So I still owe her countertops and a new sink and all that.

Speaker: But we'll have that professionally done.

Speaker: But that's the next thing on the horizon.

Speaker: But anyway, go ahead.

Speaker: You see, you're complaining how long it takes, but I do all the decorating myself and it takes even longer.

Speaker: So we...

Speaker: I think it was during the lockdown, I repainted our hall.

Speaker: And we also have, well, we have a very, very high ceiling.

Speaker: And it kind of goes all the way up from the entrance hall, together with the stairs all the way up to the top.

Speaker: So it's very, very, very, very tall.

Speaker: And when we'd first moved in, we just stripped off all the wallpaper and discovered a hideous blue and pink paint, some sort of a...

Speaker: preparation layer of paint underneath the wallpaper.

Speaker: And it was hideous, but we left it for a few years.

Speaker: And so I was very excited to finally get around to painting, but it took me weeks to do this entrance hall.

Speaker: Just all the fitting preparation work is just grueling and getting it all ready and then just slapping on

Speaker: Initially, we thought we'll just slap on an undercoat of white paint and then it looked quite nice and we thought we'll just leave it like that for now.

Speaker: But it's getting a bit tired now.

Speaker: It's definitely due for an upgrade, I think.

Speaker: So I think next time I would definitely want to get a professional in because it just goes so much faster.

Speaker: It would have taken me forever to do it.

Speaker: I don't have the ladder and the equipment to do our vaulted area.

Speaker: So I could have done some of it, but not all of it.

Speaker: But I just decided it'd be easier if I just wrote a check, which I did.

Speaker: Oh, I do have a very important question.

Speaker: What color paint did you paint your walls?

Speaker: It's one of the 50 shades of white that my wife was looking at.

Speaker: Which one?

Speaker: The one, the white one.

Speaker: I don't know the name of the white color.

Speaker: She literally brought home 50 shades of white.

Speaker: I'm not kidding you.

Speaker: I mean, I'm like, she's trying to get my opinion.

Speaker: I'm like,

Speaker: Nope, you get no opinion from me.

Speaker: You get nothing.

Speaker: You choose.

Speaker: I want nothing to do with it.

Speaker: And she did talk to the painter.

Speaker: The painter suggested, based on our house and the lighting and whatnot, gave her some really good advice and ultimately kind of said, I think you'll be happy with these four or five.

Speaker: And she chose one of the four or five that the painter suggested.

Speaker: It sounds a little bit like a Christian version.

Speaker: Fifty Shades of White.

Speaker: Yes, exactly.

Speaker: And we went from a different color.

Speaker: We had like a mocha, which is like a tan.

Speaker: And it's called flower pot, which is kind of a maroon.

Speaker: So we had this accent wall that was maroon.

Speaker: And the rest of it was this mocha.

Speaker: And I knew that it was time, but...

Speaker: It's just painful.

Speaker: And I, I just, uh, yeah, I just knew it was going to be, but that's the way it is.

Speaker: I owe her a lot for letting me do my doctorate and spending a whole lot of time and money doing that.

Speaker: So I, I owe her.

Speaker: What better way to celebrate than painting it with a good layer of white privilege.

Speaker: There you go.

Speaker: White privilege.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: We have a white privileged house now.

Speaker: Absolutely.

Speaker: Maybe that was the color.

Speaker: White privilege.

Speaker: It's always looking down at you.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So Kuga, what's going on with you?

Speaker: I see you've got this strange thing on your face.

Speaker: Do you want to tell us about that?

Speaker: Oh, yeah.

Speaker: I told you I was getting glasses.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: And they're not trifocals, are they?

Speaker: They're bifocals.

Speaker: No, only bifocals.

Speaker: Who was it that has trifocals?

Speaker: Is that you, Prof?

Speaker: I have bifocals, but I have to have a special pair of glasses for the computer.

Speaker: So I'm wearing my computer glasses.

Speaker: These are my normal glasses.

Speaker: So I have to have a special pair of glasses for the computer.

Speaker: Otherwise, everything's fuzzy.

Speaker: And they're both bifocals.

Speaker: So I'm special.

Speaker: I have two pairs of glasses.

Speaker: So I'm the only one on this podcast at the moment without a pair of glasses.

Speaker: Don't you feel odd?

Speaker: Well, I feel left out.

Speaker: I have to confess the last few months I've noticed when I'm trying to read small letters, I'm doing what old people do and kind of, you know, holding it far away and scowling at it, which my children find hilarious.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: You're very, very close.

Speaker: I made it to about 45 before I needed bifocals.

Speaker: I've always needed glasses since I was pretty young, but I went quite a while before needing the bifocals.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well.

Speaker: Maybe your next checkup.

Speaker: I just had to have my eyes done because they thought I had glaucoma, but I don't.

Speaker: That's good.

Speaker: But I had to go through and spend like three hours at a specialty eye clinic.

Speaker: And I swear they shone every type of light in my eyes all day, dilated my eyes.

Speaker: I walked out of there.

Speaker: And like I was blind.

Speaker: I couldn't see.

Speaker: I had to sit in my vehicle for about a half an hour until I felt like I was safe enough to actually go on my own.

Speaker: It was really something.

Speaker: Man, oh man.

Speaker: Well, you had a published headline, didn't you, about your eye doctor visit some time ago now?

Speaker: I did.

Speaker: That was a while ago.

Speaker: But I did, yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: That's been a while.

Speaker: It was about the air puff test.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I remember that one.

Speaker: It was a good one.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, so yeah, it has been a while since we got together for a podcast and life has changed somewhat.

Speaker: One of the big things, I have an air fryer.

Speaker: How do you season fried air?

Speaker: What do you put on that?

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: Well, haven't you tried it yet?

Speaker: I usually put things in it other than air.

Speaker: I've been using mine wrong.

Speaker: Oh.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Now I know.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: I better read the manual.

Speaker: But yeah, I always thought all the headlines and the articles about air fryers was just hyperbole, but it's not.

Speaker: It's real.

Speaker: It is the most amazing thing.

Speaker: It's life-changing.

Speaker: So if your wives do not have an air fryer, on your way home, after work, before the day is over, buy her an air fryer.

Speaker: Let me give some of the men out there some advice first.

Speaker: They better check to see which model she wants because she probably has an opinion about that.

Speaker: Oh, also check to make sure it's not a birthday or an anniversary today.

Speaker: Well, actually, no, that's when they should exactly give them an air fryer along with the vacuum.

Speaker: I've been married for 35 years.

Speaker: I give the best advice.

Speaker: We'll take you away for it.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: You're setting yourself up for more complaining.

Speaker: What?

Speaker: Me complain.

Speaker: No.

Speaker: Never.

Speaker: Okay, so anyway, so I have my air fryer.

Speaker: It's really great.

Speaker: It's getting into May now, so I'm almost thawed out.

Speaker: Sometimes I don't even need a pair of socks.

Speaker: I'm warm enough.

Speaker: Well, the blue tinge to your face actually looks well when you're cold.

Speaker: So, I mean, it's okay.

Speaker: You look okay cold.

Speaker: I'm getting a little bit more color now.

Speaker: Also, I am hitting 5.73% fewer curbs than last time we met.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: How did you figure that out?

Speaker: How'd that happen?

Speaker: Maybe it's because I've been hitting too many potholes.

Speaker: Oh.

Speaker: Gotcha.

Speaker: So just kind of refocused my attention.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Also, I figured almost a year and a half was long enough, so I got a haircut.

Speaker: Which hair did you get cut?

Speaker: Dad joke.

Speaker: Classic.

Speaker: Oh, you beat me to it.

Speaker: I wanted to make that joke.

Speaker: This one right here.

Speaker: Yeah, right there.

Speaker: Like it?

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: How much did they charge you to cut that one here?

Speaker: About $130.

Speaker: Ouch.

Speaker: Ouch.

Speaker: You could have bought another air fryer for that amount.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: You know, I would like a second one so you can cook two things at one time.

Speaker: There you go.

Speaker: Or if you forgot to wash it and you want to cook dinner, then you have a backup and you don't have to wash it first.

Speaker: I have a confession to make.

Speaker: We bought an air fryer last year and we don't like it.

Speaker: We're actually thinking of getting rid of it.

Speaker: You don't like it?

Speaker: No.

Speaker: Does your air fire, do you have to use it on the left side of the road, though?

Speaker: Is that why?

Speaker: That would be in England.

Speaker: Well, you're English.

Speaker: Yeah, but we drive on the right-hand side of the road.

Speaker: Don't you always just drive on the left side of the road, no matter where you're at?

Speaker: Imagine that.

Speaker: Move out the way, I'm British.

Speaker: Roar!

Speaker: Is there an air issue in Europe?

Speaker: Is that why it doesn't work well?

Speaker: Is your air quality not good enough for an air fryer over there?

Speaker: Well, the thing is, I don't know how you guys, what you use them for, but we typically just use it for baking French fries.

Speaker: But yeah, people over here use, what would you call that?

Speaker: Like a fryer for frying your fries.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So you dip it in the hot oil and do it that way.

Speaker: And that takes like four or five minutes, whereas an air fryer takes like 20 minutes.

Speaker: And our kids complain and say they don't like the taste.

Speaker: And I have to be honest, I'm not so keen either.

Speaker: So we might just get rid of it.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: It's shocking on it.

Speaker: Maybe the European air fryers are just inferior.

Speaker: I think it's the European air that you're using.

Speaker: You need to import some American air for your air fryer.

Speaker: I think that's the whole issue here.

Speaker: I think it's a mix of both.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: It could be.

Speaker: I'll have to.

Speaker: Maybe just everyone on the headline forum can post me or mail me a jar of American air.

Speaker: Okay, so I have just two or three more things here.

Speaker: Later this summer, we are going to be moving to a new house.

Speaker: So that's another big change.

Speaker: Excited about that.

Speaker: We have just some repairs and remodeling we're doing.

Speaker: And so that'd be fun.

Speaker: And then also, Gizmo has a boyfriend, which is weird.

Speaker: Oh, no.

Speaker: I probably shouldn't be talking about that, though.

Speaker: But she never listens to this podcast, so really I can say anything I want.

Speaker: What?

Speaker: Yeah, she never listens.

Speaker: Oh, she's too busy texting her boyfriend.

Speaker: Here's the big question I have about this boyfriend.

Speaker: What is his stance on refrigerated versus air temperature, room temperature catch-up?

Speaker: You know, I asked her that a while back.

Speaker: So I told her, you know, this could be a game changer.

Speaker: And I said, I have a very important question.

Speaker: And she looked at me.

Speaker: She said, what?

Speaker: And I asked her and then she just rolled her eyes.

Speaker: You got the teen eye roll.

Speaker: Awesome.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So I still don't have an answer on that.

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: But, but.

Speaker: That's a big question to ask.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So I still have to find that out, but I know she's never been happier and most important, he likes board games.

Speaker: So everything's good.

Speaker: Ah, interesting.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: What does he think about air fried foods?

Speaker: Uh, I don't know that yet either.

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: Has he witnessed or seen your husband's shotgun collection yet?

Speaker: Not yet.

Speaker: Oh, this should have happened already.

Speaker: I know.

Speaker: Life is busy.

Speaker: So your husband, Mr. Kergal, used to dig a hole in the backyard, about six foot long and six foot deep, rectangular shaped, and just show it to this young man while he's holding a shotgun and say, okay, son, I'm watching you.

Speaker: That's all he's got to do.

Speaker: But that needs to happen.

Speaker: That should make the point.

Speaker: Yeah, exactly.

Speaker: And then I did have a couple weekends ago, pretty exciting afternoon.

Speaker: It was when we had all the bad storms come through.

Speaker: And so, yeah, so Gizmo's boyfriend actually came down and spent the afternoon with her.

Speaker: And it was fine here, but it was really stormy where he lives.

Speaker: So we were trying to hurry to get him back home before it got real bad.

Speaker: And so the way there, it was raining real heavy and there was some hail.

Speaker: But by the time we got to his house, the hail had kind of stopped.

Speaker: So I figured, okay, we'll just get back on the interstate and a couple miles down the road, everything will be fine.

Speaker: So when we were getting back to the interstate, Gizmo pointed out a cloud and she said, hey, is that a tornado cloud?

Speaker: And I looked and I said, no, I don't even think that could be classified as a funnel cloud.

Speaker: But I told her to keep an eye on it.

Speaker: So right before we got on the interstate, it got super, super, super windy.

Speaker: And as we went around to exit onto it, we looked back and that cloud had funneled down and touched ground.

Speaker: And there was a tornado behind us.

Speaker: So we got on the interstate and I hit the gas and we got out of there.

Speaker: Wow.

Speaker: Wow.

Speaker: I said this before on the podcast.

Speaker: I'm amazed by, fascinated with tornadoes.

Speaker: Obviously, we don't have them over here, but

Speaker: I was watching some of the videos they put on Not the Bee of people recording everything that was going on over by your way.

Speaker: And there's people who intentionally seem to be... I'm thinking if I was near a tornado, I would be going in the opposite direction like you as fast as I possibly could.

Speaker: And there's just videos of people casually cruising past this massive tornado like it's nothing, I guess.

Speaker: That's the first time I have actually ever seen a tornado because I'm usually in a basement.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, it has been a long time since we've had an episode, but I guarantee you it was worth it.

Speaker: If you are familiar with the names Gerald, Dwayne, Jeff, Mittens, and Whiskers, you know who our next guest is.

Speaker: Welcome, Alola Raichu.

Speaker: Yes, hello, everyone.

Speaker: I would just like to point out, even though this won't be seen, this is what I actually look like here, and I'll be using my human avatar for the duration of this recording.

Speaker: So later, everyone.

Speaker: Nice to see you.

Speaker: He's reverse avataring us if everybody's concerned about this or what's going on here.

Speaker: But it's amazing how this can be happening.

Speaker: Yeah, technology is wonderful.

Speaker: Absolutely.

Speaker: And it's amazing how in real life you actually do look like your avatar.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: And I'm even wearing sunglasses too, which don't get any ideas.

Speaker: They're not aviator sunglasses.

Speaker: So I'm not an FBI plant.

Speaker: I was wondering at first, but yeah, they were white frames.

Speaker: They weren't aviators.

Speaker: So I figured we were probably pretty safe.

Speaker: They're actually Nintendo sunglasses.

Speaker: We got them from the state.

Speaker: Oh, cool.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I was trying to get the cool Nintendo switch bag, but then it was one of those things where you, you know, you complete a challenge and then raffle something.

Speaker: And then, then I got the Luigi sunglasses.

Speaker: So it's a little disappointing.

Speaker: They can't even fit my human avatar space.

Speaker: So that's why I have to wear them.

Speaker: Oh, okay.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, it's great to have you on the podcast, Mr. Righty.

Speaker: Thanks so much for joining us and having patience.

Speaker: I think we've been talking about this.

Speaker: I think we first invited you on back in, I want to say March.

Speaker: It might've even been earlier than that.

Speaker: It might've been February.

Speaker: Yeah, it was probably late February, early March.

Speaker: Yeah, something like that.

Speaker: I was in Hawaii at the time, so I anticipated coming back from Hawaii and then, uh,

Speaker: using one of my set of days I had taken off already to record, but that's okay.

Speaker: I was probably sleeping anyways, to be honest.

Speaker: It wouldn't have been much use.

Speaker: And then, yeah, just, you know, life gets in the way and everything.

Speaker: And well, here we are finally.

Speaker: I remember you posting about Hawaii because apparently a lot of cats appeared.

Speaker: Yes, there are a lot of cats there.

Speaker: As the headlines indicate, in the most random places, I think the first one, we went to the Dole Pineapple Plantation, where you see all things pineapple and all sorts of native plants to Hawaii and all that and everything.

Speaker: Among the, I guess, what are they called?

Speaker: Bromeliads?

Speaker: By the concession stand, there he was.

Speaker: It's a nice cow cat peeking out and everyone was paying attention to him.

Speaker: Not just me.

Speaker: I'm not all about cats, but let's be honest.

Speaker: Once a cat does appear, it tends to be less lame.

Speaker: And I'll have you know that is a common saying in our house now.

Speaker: Uh, that's great.

Speaker: Well, how does that work though?

Speaker: It's just, you guys are like sitting around in the living room and then suddenly, uh, either Glurk or, uh, your other cat walks in and you're like, Oh, there we go.

Speaker: Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Glurk will do something.

Speaker: And then, yeah, well, uh, that was lame until the cat appeared.

Speaker: You know what?

Speaker: Something that's still lame when a cat appears.

Speaker: What's that?

Speaker: Tax accounting class.

Speaker: It's still lame when a cat appears.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: You can try it.

Speaker: I should try it.

Speaker: I was just going to say.

Speaker: I should try it, but I'm just going to go out on a limb and go, still lame.

Speaker: It'll have to improve it somewhat.

Speaker: It would.

Speaker: It would distract people, which is good.

Speaker: It's easy to distract somebody when you're teaching them tax stuff.

Speaker: So why are all the cats in Hawaii?

Speaker: Do they have a cat plantation there?

Speaker: When is the harvest for cats?

Speaker: What time of year is that?

Speaker: I don't know if it's due to that.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: It's actually a good question.

Speaker: I guess just a lot of, I don't know.

Speaker: It's a mystery.

Speaker: Let's leave it at, let's leave it as a mystery.

Speaker: So did you see any mice or rats when you're in Hawaii?

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: You know, now that I think about it, I didn't.

Speaker: So there we go.

Speaker: I think I know why.

Speaker: But there are a lot of chickens.

Speaker: So apparently they're not going after the chickens.

Speaker: The deal is there.

Speaker: I'd really have a chicken and a cat if it was me.

Speaker: Wait, do you mean to eat or as a pet?

Speaker: Both.

Speaker: Oh, okay.

Speaker: You know, some people like to eat chickens.

Speaker: Definitely.

Speaker: Yeah, that's all.

Speaker: Definitely.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: They are very tasty.

Speaker: We're thinking about getting a couple of chickens just to, you know,

Speaker: I think there was a headline from SDH quite a long time ago about a man spending thousands of dollars on a chicken coop to save a few cents on eggs.

Speaker: Yes, absolutely.

Speaker: Wait, chickens can lay eggs?

Speaker: They can.

Speaker: Are we still talking about chickens?

Speaker: I've heard that birds aren't real, so I can't confirm anything because I've heard birds aren't real.

Speaker: So chickens aren't real, but cats are.

Speaker: That's all I know.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Now is Glerk a chicken or a cat?

Speaker: I think I've mixed something up here.

Speaker: Were you talking about chickens as like a euphemism for cats?

Speaker: Yes, that's what I meant the whole time.

Speaker: Okay, cool, yeah.

Speaker: What were you talking about, Teej?

Speaker: I was just talking about chickens.

Speaker: Yeah, he was talking about real chickens.

Speaker: I was going to say, if you do get a couple of chickens, remember, don't let your kids name them because then it could bring tears later when you eat them.

Speaker: Oh, mom, what's for dinner?

Speaker: Clucky.

Speaker: This turned dark fast.

Speaker: I wouldn't mind it.

Speaker: I wouldn't mind a cat, actually.

Speaker: I'm kind of I'm a I'm definitely an animal person, but my my wife's not so keen on cats.

Speaker: She doesn't mind dogs so much, but she allergic to cats.

Speaker: No, she just doesn't like them.

Speaker: Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker: It's just that thing they have about them, maybe, I don't know, the unpredictability, the lack of, yeah, I don't know, the independence, the look they give you like they're plotting to take it over the world or something.

Speaker: Tige, would she like them better if they could lay eggs?

Speaker: That would be an interesting idea.

Speaker: Then they have some utility potentially, right?

Speaker: I mean, then they can kind of earn their keep.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Kind of come downstairs in the morning, cats having its milk and then plop, out comes an egg.

Speaker: They can have breakfast.

Speaker: Oh, what I was going to include is if you want a cat, you have to get your wife one when they're a new little kitten, as cute as they can be.

Speaker: And then she'll just fall in love with that little face.

Speaker: And then by the time it grows into an actual cat, well, it's too late.

Speaker: It's too late to get rid of that.

Speaker: If we were going to get one, now is the time because we're thinking next year of updating our couch.

Speaker: Oh.

Speaker: We still got the couch that we had when we got married.

Speaker: So it's like 20 years old now.

Speaker: And it's on its last legs.

Speaker: And so we've been thinking about investing in a new one.

Speaker: So it would be a good training couch.

Speaker: Well, this is the thing.

Speaker: I have very little experience with cats, but I am led to believe that they do like to scratch things rather excessively.

Speaker: So a new sofa and a new cat might not be such a good combination.

Speaker: Well, but that's why, yeah, you train it on the old couch.

Speaker: And so then by the time it's done scratching things up so much, then you can get a new one.

Speaker: Yeah, or keep the old one as the decoy couch.

Speaker: Decoy couch.

Speaker: Decoy couch.

Speaker: Is that how you go cat hunting?

Speaker: You use a decoy couch?

Speaker: Ooh, there's an idea.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I like the way when we get together on the podcast, everyone's stroking their beards or apart from my lack of a beard.

Speaker: My lack of a beard.

Speaker: It's like, hmm, headline material.

Speaker: You can see the cogs turning.

Speaker: I have a cat question for the cat experts here.

Speaker: Does any cat in the world know its name?

Speaker: Ours do.

Speaker: Is that right?

Speaker: They just don't care, do they?

Speaker: Well, that's because they gave them the name Glurk.

Speaker: It sounds like Glurp or Flurp.

Speaker: But no, they both know their names.

Speaker: When we say their names, they turn.

Speaker: Is that right?

Speaker: Interesting.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I used to think maybe that's the case, but we have two cats at homes and we will call the name of one and the other will show up.

Speaker: So I don't know if it's like they think they're going to trick us.

Speaker: They don't look anything alike, by the way.

Speaker: Or maybe they've...

Speaker: learned that anytime, you know, any one of these sounds are made, that means it's time for food.

Speaker: Yeah, that's some of it too.

Speaker: Our cats do know each other's names.

Speaker: I know though, because sometimes it'd be time to feed them and Penn will be out here wanting food, but Glurk's out in some other room.

Speaker: And so I tell her, well, go get Glurk and then you can get some food.

Speaker: And so she'll walk, she'll go and halfway down the hallway and meow and then Glurk will come out.

Speaker: But as far as other things, I think it's all tone of voice because-

Speaker: When you repeatedly say the same thing, like, are you hungry or this or that, you tend to say it the same way.

Speaker: So I've tried it sometimes.

Speaker: You can say the same amount of syllables, the same tone of voice, but completely insult them or say something nonsensical.

Speaker: And they think you're saying the same thing as, well, are you hungry?

Speaker: Do you want some food?

Speaker: Maybe they're not as smart as I thought.

Speaker: I was going to say, did you just call your cat dumb?

Speaker: Is that what I just heard?

Speaker: They get called stupid quite a bit.

Speaker: Of course.

Speaker: Maybe they think stupid means smart.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: Or food.

Speaker: Could be.

Speaker: Could be.

Speaker: Here's a follow-up question.

Speaker: Do you think cats call each other by the names we give them?

Speaker: Or do they have their own names that they use for each other?

Speaker: Oh, I don't want to even know what they're calling each other.

Speaker: Not glerk.

Speaker: It would not be good.

Speaker: It's not glerk.

Speaker: Yeah, no.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Asking the real questions.

Speaker: Well, now we're going to get into some behind the scenes, some origin stories of some of the famous characters Alola Raichu has either created or created.

Speaker: help make really big in the forum.

Speaker: So before we get into any of the others, I think probably the biggest character ever is the one and only Gerald Hemsworth.

Speaker: Okay, so I was doing just some research to kind of refresh myself last night, all the background.

Speaker: And I realized that if it was not for Beed Live, there would be no Gerald Hemsworth.

Speaker: Yeah, it's true.

Speaker: Because where Gerald originated, after BeLive, I posted my headline for everybody to post pictures.

Speaker: And it was a conversation between you and Stanky Stankiewicz.

Speaker: And you posted a picture of Liam Hemsworth.

Speaker: And went back and forth.

Speaker: And you finally said, well, yeah, I'm the fourth Hemsworth brother, Earl.

Speaker: And Stanky said he thought Gerald sounded like it'd be more of the name.

Speaker: And he said, okay, it's Gerald.

Speaker: And then we have Gerald Hemsworth.

Speaker: Yep, that's pretty much it.

Speaker: I think the only thing I'll add is that it would have died there if not for Skull Crazes, which I think you covered on the last episode.

Speaker: You decided to just throw them into a headline and it all just kind of exploded from there.

Speaker: Yeah, and I have his first headline here.

Speaker: The first ever Gerald Hemsworth one is, Lesser No Hemsworth Brother Gerald stars in Journey to Golden Corral.

Speaker: And that was by Skull Crazes.

Speaker: Legendary.

Speaker: It's not even that long ago either.

Speaker: Only probably like a year or so.

Speaker: Well, yeah, because BeLive was in February.

Speaker: Yeah, it totally makes sense.

Speaker: It's just weird to think about that, you know.

Speaker: I mean, I don't want to be presumptuous, but I feel like by now, Gerald Hemsworth is like a household name.

Speaker: You know, he's been in all these movies and everything, and he only surfaced maybe like a year ago.

Speaker: He's only one year old.

Speaker: He's a household name here.

Speaker: Yeah, that's true.

Speaker: He is an entire household name.

Speaker: Oh, and yeah, I have my Gerald Hemsworth movies here.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: Let's name the movies.

Speaker: In a world where speed is everything, one man will step off to the plate.

Speaker: And ask for seconds.

Speaker: Good night, mates.

Speaker: It's a dog's breakfast in here.

Speaker: Where's Ben and Dwayne?

Speaker: This summer, past the muckers.

Speaker: Gerald, we're not going to make it.

Speaker: How much crispy.

Speaker: And throw a shrimp on the barbie.

Speaker: Liz?

Speaker: Fat and the Furious 13 Downhill Drip Streaming only on B+.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: That one was from Surf Duck.

Speaker: Way downhill.

Speaker: Rolling, rolling, rolling downhill.

Speaker: Star Wars The Empire Likes Snacks.

Speaker: Here we go.

Speaker: I believe you pitched that one, Kurgle.

Speaker: Yeah, that was mine.

Speaker: And that's actually, that still is, that picture is still the wallpaper on my phone still.

Speaker: Then we have 007, live and let pie.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: There's any James Bond ones from me, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker: I'm the only one I remember doing the 007 ones.

Speaker: I apologize if I am missing anyone though.

Speaker: 007, this plate is not enough.

Speaker: And then we have the good, the bad, and the hungry.

Speaker: Oh, man.

Speaker: What a collection.

Speaker: Although, you know, there's plenty more where that came from, Kurgle.

Speaker: I know.

Speaker: I need more time to make more.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I need more time to make more, too.

Speaker: I think there's probably...

Speaker: Man, there are probably only a couple more Photoshop.

Speaker: So I think most of the movies that he's been in don't have movie posters, actually.

Speaker: So I need to get on that.

Speaker: Can he fit on a movie poster?

Speaker: Is that the issue?

Speaker: Like, is he too big to fit on the poster?

Speaker: Yeah, I think that's part of it.

Speaker: Is that the reason for it?

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: You know, I got to, you know, do like the zoom out filter.

Speaker: Gotcha.

Speaker: Was he the inventor of the wide angle lens?

Speaker: Or the inspiration.

Speaker: Inspiration for it.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Necessity.

Speaker: Necessity.

Speaker: Right.

Speaker: That's how inventions are made.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: What would happen if Gerald Hemsworth, Lizzo, Stacey Abrams all went to a buffet together at the same time?

Speaker: What would happen?

Speaker: There would be lots, lots of goats, lots of goat screaming.

Speaker: You can't put Gerald in their company.

Speaker: Would he eat them?

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I think he has standards.

Speaker: I don't think he'd eat them.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: However, I think they might leave hungry and have to go somewhere else.

Speaker: That'd be a first, wouldn't it?

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: They would probably never left a restaurant hungry before, I would guess.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I'm just here to ask the broad questions that we have to ponder on and that make us all go,

Speaker: Why is he asking those kinds of questions?

Speaker: So, but that's why I'm here.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I would say one of the things that I really like about Gerald Hemsworth is yes, he is huge and fat and he loves to eat, but his character has never gotten gross.

Speaker: That's true.

Speaker: Yes, that's true.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: That's a good point.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Probably the grossest thing that's happened is the time where he, you know, use the, what is it?

Speaker: The teleport machine from the fly.

Speaker: And then turned himself into a donut.

Speaker: But I mean, you know, the concept of that's horrifying, but I mean, it's a donut on the other hand.

Speaker: That was so funny.

Speaker: I'm just looking on the headline forum now to see how many headlines have been submitted with the words Gerald Hemsworth.

Speaker: There's pages, pages and pages.

Speaker: But it's taking a very long time to load.

Speaker: Oh, my.

Speaker: It's because you're in Belgium and the servers are in the States.

Speaker: Yeah, that's true.

Speaker: Everything has to go through that bad air.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Throwback to, yeah, anyway.

Speaker: Yeah, there's too many to count.

Speaker: And there's also some very disturbing Photoshop's in some of these headlines as well.

Speaker: So Alola, are you a bit of a Photoshop whiz or is it AI that you're taking advantage of?

Speaker: What's in your skill set?

Speaker: Sure, yeah.

Speaker: I can do Photoshop.

Speaker: I'm probably much more of a novice.

Speaker: I try to get a little advanced and maybe I'll throw in a drop shadow or something like that.

Speaker: But I don't think I'm quite to the level of...

Speaker: like Babraham Lincoln, for instance, or ShowQuest.

Speaker: I could maybe do some of the ShowQuest photoshops, but those are good too.

Speaker: And then who does the photoshops for the B?

Speaker: I'm not that good, for sure.

Speaker: Yeah, they've got a few different people, I think.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: But I found the best combination is I'll use AI to, I guess, generate the asset and then, you know, maybe get a three or four different elements going on and then kind of pull it together in one Photoshop.

Speaker: That seems to be, I guess, the right intersection of my skill set, typing in letters into a prompt and then hitting click and then, you know, making them look good together.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I really like how you came up with the image of Gerald.

Speaker: Would you explain how you did that?

Speaker: Oh, sure.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So there is an app you can get.

Speaker: It's called the Face app.

Speaker: I can't remember how I found out about it originally.

Speaker: I think it started off as one of those controversial apps where people were getting really upset about it because it was billed as an app that could take off women's makeup.

Speaker: So yeah, kind of weird, but in some circles, like people were like, Oh, this is, this is so violating and everything.

Speaker: And it's not like I'm going around, you know, being like, I wonder what that woman looks like without makeup.

Speaker: Can I make a, can I make a point here?

Speaker: Sure.

Speaker: You would not want to use that on Dylan Mulvaney.

Speaker: Oh boy.

Speaker: Very true.

Speaker: Anyways, I was curious about it because I'm like, okay, what are they doing here?

Speaker: Cause like,

Speaker: I have a bit of a background in tech.

Speaker: And when you have these apps, it's not really removing the makeup.

Speaker: What it does is, this is where things get into AI.

Speaker: It will take images of other people, essentially, and kind of build the same face, but as if it were not wearing any makeup.

Speaker: So what you're seeing is not actually...

Speaker: the woman not wearing makeup.

Speaker: It's a like artistic rendition of, you know, that woman's face, but not wearing makeup.

Speaker: Anyways, I just realized how weird this explanation is sounding.

Speaker: Anyways, I forgot about the app because, you know, it has like pretty, pretty low, like novelty to it.

Speaker: But then I was, I don't know, messing around on my phone sometime later.

Speaker: And I found that they updated and added all these different features.

Speaker: So you can like, you can take a picture of someone and put sunglasses on them, make their nose bigger, give them a different haircut and everything.

Speaker: Oh, wow, that's pretty cool.

Speaker: but I think what prompted me to use it in Gerald's case is, so I had a picture of Liam Hemsworth on my phone because there was a, a fantasy show starring a particular actor and he had been fired from that role.

Speaker: They were going to replace him with Liam Hemsworth.

Speaker: So I go, Oh, that'd be interesting.

Speaker: I could take a picture of the old actor and then have them like face swap.

Speaker: And then I, you know, see what,

Speaker: the new character would look like.

Speaker: So that's why I had that picture of Liam Hemsworth on my phone.

Speaker: And then when it came to be live and then just, yeah, everyone was posting their pictures and all that.

Speaker: I figured, oh, I know, I know what I could do to be cheeky.

Speaker: I'll post a picture of,

Speaker: Liam Hemsworth, you know, and try to pass it off as me.

Speaker: Obviously, no one will believe me.

Speaker: I realized that if there's going to be a fourth Hemsworth brother, I should make like a weird conglomeration of them all.

Speaker: So I got Liam Hemsworth, Chris, and then the lesser known up until now, Luke Hemsworth, and basically ran through the app a few times doing the face swap.

Speaker: And then I got kind of the Gerald Hemsworth look and that was my source image there.

Speaker: And I believe that's in that thread.

Speaker: So from there, anytime you have an image of someone who's a little heftier or morbidly, you know, obese, I can basically run it through that app, reference the source Gerald Hemsworth face photo, and then

Speaker: I mean, pretty much 99% of the time it will pop out what you end up seeing as the final result.

Speaker: So did that actually answer the question or did I just rant for like five minutes?

Speaker: No, no, you did.

Speaker: And, and I know now even more than I did before, I didn't even know about FaceApp until you explained Gerald.

Speaker: So, so that was all real interesting.

Speaker: And I don't know how many people know this, but you made that little short video clip of Gerald.

Speaker: Oh yeah.

Speaker: And so we're, we're, we're getting closer and closer in technology to having an actual Gerald Hemsworth.

Speaker: So for anyone who has not seen it, when this episode is posted, would you add that to the comments?

Speaker: Yeah, I can throw it in there.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: That was so cool.

Speaker: When I first saw that I was amazed.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Technology is getting crazy.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: There's a whole load of other characters as well, I think, that we can talk about as well, hey?

Speaker: We really should bring up Jeff Larson and Dwayne Bentley.

Speaker: Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: The origin of Jeff Larson was, so when I joined the forum, I, well, a lot of different motivations for why I was joining the forum, but my, one of the goals I set early on was to say four funny things a day.

Speaker: So I've been trying to

Speaker: really keep up with that four headlines a day as a goal.

Speaker: Not necessarily to get published, but to, I guess, keep my mind fresh, right?

Speaker: And to, I guess, practice being funny, if you will.

Speaker: And kind of like all of us, we hit our dry spells where we just can't really think of anything funny.

Speaker: At least I have.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: Maybe you guys are just always funny.

Speaker: Certainly seems to be the case.

Speaker: But I had hit a dry spell and I was...

Speaker: You would appreciate this, Teej.

Speaker: I was relying on puns, essentially.

Speaker: I was trying to cleverly construct my puns.

Speaker: And for some reason, it came to mind.

Speaker: I'm like, Jeff B.I., that's a thing.

Speaker: What could I do from that?

Speaker: Like, I can't just post that as a headline.

Speaker: Maybe I'll reverse engineer that and post a series of headlines so that at least people know what

Speaker: what the Jeff bi is or what it would be.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Maybe there could be a, an FBI agent, Jeff.

Speaker: What's the most generic last name you can think of Larson.

Speaker: Sure.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: And I believe the first, first headline was around the time of the Twitter files.

Speaker: So like, Oh, okay.

Speaker: I'll post about that.

Speaker: So basically I workshopped the Jeff BI headlines long enough that actual content came through and then I was like, oh, might as well follow through on it anyways.

Speaker: And yeah, so three of them and then the fourth for that day was the Jeff BI and

Speaker: I think it was worded in such a way that if you were to just search Jeff Larson, you wouldn't really even find that headline.

Speaker: So that's kind of funny.

Speaker: Yes, because I remember because I was reviewing everything last night and I looked at the the showcase that I did for Jeff Larson.

Speaker: And what I thought was the first headline and then you popped in and said, or is it?

Speaker: And so that's what I did because when I searched, I searched Jeff Larson.

Speaker: But I have the very first one here that you were talking about.

Speaker: It says, FBI stats show 99% of non-shady work was done by internal entities known simply as the Jeff BI.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: And then the first headline with Jeff Larson in it, rookie FBI agent Jeff Larson forgets to bribe Twitter on his first day.

Speaker: Oh, that's right.

Speaker: It used to be that it was the entire phrase, rookie FBI agent Jeff Larson.

Speaker: But I think I've gotten a little bit more lax on that because, I mean, we all know.

Speaker: Yeah, everybody knows.

Speaker: Rookie FBI agent.

Speaker: Yeah, if you say Jeff, everybody knows who you're talking about.

Speaker: Yeah, totally.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I do enjoy the, I presume it's AI art of all the cats with the aviator glasses.

Speaker: It's so funny.

Speaker: I love, those are my favorite pictures.

Speaker: But still, before we get to the cats, there's Dwayne Bentley.

Speaker: That one was actually by Skull Crazes.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Wasn't it?

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: You have, it's too bad you already had him on the podcast.

Speaker: You should have asked him about it, but I don't know.

Speaker: I don't know why Dwayne Bentley necessarily.

Speaker: I mean, I get it.

Speaker: Right.

Speaker: Cause you need a counterpart to Jeff Larson, but I don't know what prompted him to, I guess, come up with Dwayne.

Speaker: You should ask him.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I had to go back and look through the origin story.

Speaker: I don't remember what all was in there, but yeah.

Speaker: But yeah.

Speaker: So, so you have Jeff and Dwayne household names.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: Of course.

Speaker: So now tell us about the FBI cats.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So that one was from anything else.

Speaker: She had posted a headline about cat feds, I think was the term that she used.

Speaker: And I mean, that's pretty funny, right?

Speaker: Cats are pretty shifty.

Speaker: Generally speaking, I don't know what compelled me to think of it, but I like, you know, it'd be funny if I just like, everyone knows Jeff Larson.

Speaker: Let's just like,

Speaker: turn him, not turn him into a cat, but like basically back to, you know, the origin of Jeff Larson, what's a cat agent name?

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: Mittens.

Speaker: That's the most generic cat name I can think of.

Speaker: And then I'll like, Oh, you know what?

Speaker: But it'd be super funny if I just gave him a last name, first of all, but then it was also just the same last name as, uh, as Jeff Larson.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I have a thing about either brothers having rhyming names, but different last names and like insisting that they're brothers, because that's how that works.

Speaker: Right.

Speaker: Or things that shouldn't have the same last name, having the same last name, even though, you know, one's a cat and one's a human.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: That's just funny to me.

Speaker: But I believe the first headline was just something simple.

Speaker: Like I'm sure you have it there, Kurgle, but you know,

Speaker: Yes, I do.

Speaker: What is it?

Speaker: Go ahead and read it.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Well, the one from anything else was 10 signs your cat is a fed.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: So the first Mittens headline, rookie FBI cat Mittens Larson pushes spy camera off the table.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: The classic cat cliche, right?

Speaker: Always pushing stuff off tables.

Speaker: And then, I mean-

Speaker: cat cliches are all over the place.

Speaker: So it just became a thing of like, Oh, he should do this.

Speaker: Oh, he should do this.

Speaker: He should have zoomies and run out of the surveillance van.

Speaker: You should have, um, you should sit on your laptop or whatever.

Speaker: Um, what else has he done?

Speaker: Has he laid any eggs?

Speaker: Yeah, that could be one.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I was going to say not yet, but I have a feeling he will.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: And then since Mittens Larson was now a thing, it only seemed natural to then go, well, what's the second most generic cat name?

Speaker: Whiskers.

Speaker: There you go.

Speaker: Whiskers Bentley.

Speaker: And then as time went on, it was less about each individual cat and more of like them doing team ups, kind of like Avengers style.

Speaker: So trying to think what they have done.

Speaker: Oh, they've spied on Ossie Obama's dogs.

Speaker: They auditioned for the Daily Wire podcast.

Speaker: Oh, they auditioned.

Speaker: They do a lot of audition tapes, I guess.

Speaker: They're auditioning to be Boeing pilots, I think.

Speaker: qualified oh yeah yeah wasn't that when they were like sitting in a cardboard airplane box yeah yep there we go um oh and we can't forget the uh spectacular i guess that was more fbi cats generally but that became a a christmas carol that was pretty good

Speaker: Oh, yeah.

Speaker: And I have the first whisker ones.

Speaker: I believe it was by Truddle.

Speaker: Veteran FBI cat Whiskers Bentley denies planting cocaine dead mouse outside Republican man's bedroom.

Speaker: Yeah, that's right.

Speaker: Truddle came up with it.

Speaker: So, yeah, I can't I can't claim creating whiskers, but I guess in my head it makes sense.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: What's the next most generic cat name you can think of?

Speaker: Whiskers.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: We were, we, I mean, just listening to you, uh, talking about all this, there's a lot of collaboration here and we were talking about this just before you, you joined us, um, Mr. Right.

Speaker: You that that's just the beauty of creativity and especially for the B, you know, it's, uh, it's so much collaboration that goes on.

Speaker: And, uh,

Speaker: it's just nice to hear that reaffirmed with, with what you're saying, you know, it's, it's in collaboration with other people.

Speaker: And you mentioned that you've gone through a bit of a dry spell where you've struggled and come on, I think everyone's, I think all of us go through that on the best of days.

Speaker: And, um, it's, uh, that's, that's when it's nice that you have each other and you can,

Speaker: I think that's definitely something in the forum we should embrace and not be afraid of doing is looking at each other and riffing off of each other and getting ideas and helping each other out, especially in the times when our creativity is taking a bit of a dip.

Speaker: Amen.

Speaker: I'll just add to that.

Speaker: I remember when I joined the forum originally, I was thinking, you know, I'm sure a lot of people have this same thought.

Speaker: They're like, oh man, I got lots of funny things to say.

Speaker: I'll, you know, join and...

Speaker: submit my headlines and then I'll get published straight away.

Speaker: And, and, you know, I kind of had this, uh, lone wolf, uh, kind of sensibility thing and I can do it all by myself, but I think once I let go of that sentiment and just started, um, as you were saying, T's just,

Speaker: you know, talking to people more and riffing on other people's ideas a little bit.

Speaker: Not only did it help and create lots more funny headlines, but it also gave me other ideas that I can riff on there.

Speaker: So it definitely, definitely better to collaborate with folks than go at all alone for sure.

Speaker: Definitely.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: If we didn't, if we weren't able to do that, we wouldn't have all these characters that we love so much.

Speaker: It just wouldn't be possible if we couldn't go back and forth.

Speaker: And that's another one of the big reasons I am so against ever having fewer than four headlines.

Speaker: Because if we had fewer, if you could only post one or two, that would stifle creativity.

Speaker: You wouldn't have the opportunity to go back and forth so much.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Do you think if we remove the four limit that that would stifle it in a different way?

Speaker: Possibly.

Speaker: I don't think I would ever want, you know, think it needs to be higher, but I think four is a good number, but yeah, I don't, I've thought about that before.

Speaker: I don't really know what it would be like if, if you could do more than four, I think it'd just get crazy, but yeah, I would never be for reducing it.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: My, my thought with that is if you had unlimited,

Speaker: Well, I know for sure I would just start posting first thing that came to mind there and not really think about what I'm posting.

Speaker: The goal generally is you want to make people laugh, but if you're just kind of posting to be filling air, it doesn't always...

Speaker: get laughs.

Speaker: So I think it helps to have to think about what you're posting.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I think four is a good balance because you don't have to use four if you don't want them, but they give you enough that you can really think about what you're, what you want to post and you have the opportunity to, to post more.

Speaker: If you, you know, later in the day, some, something comes up, you can post it.

Speaker: Yeah, I'd agree with that.

Speaker: And I mean, I've mentioned this before on the podcast, I think.

Speaker: Shout out to Beltz Botto.

Speaker: God rest his soul.

Speaker: But one of the best pieces of advice I got since my time on the B was just in a passing comment from him.

Speaker: It's just...

Speaker: when he was on our podcast, he said, you know, just take your time to think about a headline and just try and punch it up.

Speaker: And I think if you, I'd agree with you, Alola, I think if you do remove the limit,

Speaker: I know Little Jedi has mentioned before he's not such a big fan of four headlines.

Speaker: Maybe he thinks it should be less.

Speaker: I'd agree with Kurgel.

Speaker: I think four is a good number.

Speaker: But I think, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker: If you do have no limit at all, you are just going to be posting...

Speaker: everything and anything.

Speaker: And if you know, I've only got four headlines, okay.

Speaker: It kind of forces you to maybe just think a little bit more critically, take your time, not just post the first thing that comes into your mind and to use your headline submissions wisely, as it were.

Speaker: So as Kurgle mentioned, you know, lots of forum characters and everything, but they can't all be winners.

Speaker: And I've definitely tried, maybe without intentionally trying to create characters in the past, but they never gained any traction for some reason.

Speaker: I figure...

Speaker: Maybe this is the chance to give them a second life here, but they may need some improvement.

Speaker: Would you guys be open to helping me workshop these characters here?

Speaker: Let's do it.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: I'd love to hear it.

Speaker: Go for it.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Here we go.

Speaker: Here's an old one I have.

Speaker: called Devout Atheist Bo Jiden.

Speaker: And the idea behind Devout Atheist Bo Jiden is that he has all the positions of Joe Biden, but they're the opposite.

Speaker: So, you know, we all know Devout Catholic Joe Biden, abortion is a human rights issue, but Devout Atheist Bo Jiden believes abortion is a human rights violation.

Speaker: Do you see a potential in there?

Speaker: Maybe we can, you know, expand it out.

Speaker: Is it a little bit too on the nose in terms of a little too political?

Speaker: Maybe.

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: I see potential.

Speaker: I would probably give him his own name instead of something that sounds like Joe Biden.

Speaker: That's true.

Speaker: I guess my original idea was that he's like Joe Biden's dark mirror.

Speaker: He's like his evil twin or I guess good twin.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: And I don't know, just kind of thinking about the ironies of that.

Speaker: I've run into some pro-life atheists out there, which on the surface, it's kind of the opposite of what you would think.

Speaker: But I don't know.

Speaker: It was just it was one of those things where it's like, gosh, this is so this is so backwards from what you'd expect, you know?

Speaker: Yeah, that's my that's kind of mind blowing, actually, a pro-life atheist.

Speaker: For some reason, that's mind blowing to me.

Speaker: Yeah, for sure.

Speaker: OK, so maybe we'll sit on devout atheist Bo Jiden.

Speaker: Second character I have, I was trying for something here.

Speaker: You probably will see when I tell you the headline.

Speaker: But Uncle Brad.

Speaker: So headline originally pitched was gas shortage.

Speaker: I've got plenty of gas for you.

Speaker: Why Uncle Brad is not the answer to the gas prices.

Speaker: So you can kind of guess his gimmick there.

Speaker: You think it has potential or maybe let's move on.

Speaker: Uncle Steve.

Speaker: Uncle Steve.

Speaker: Uncle Steve.

Speaker: I was going to say Brad doesn't seem like quite the right fit for a name.

Speaker: I guess that's true.

Speaker: Uncle Chad.

Speaker: That's true.

Speaker: That could work.

Speaker: But Chad already has the like in the meme world.

Speaker: That's like the, you know, true.

Speaker: The really buff.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Like man's man.

Speaker: Oh, yeah.

Speaker: Uncle Todd.

Speaker: Uncle Todd.

Speaker: Uncle Todd.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Because I'm picturing like the the the odd uncle at Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker: Uncle Todd from Taco Bell.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Oh, that's the other thing I thought, too, is that maybe the gimmick is too narrow in that he kind of only has one joke.

Speaker: Whereas, I mean, we all know the like you said, the weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker: There's way more to explore there than just like, you know, pull my finger jokes.

Speaker: So maybe that's why that didn't really launch off.

Speaker: Okay, third one.

Speaker: This one I feel was supplanted by Dwayne Bentley, but at one time I was thinking I would give Jeff Larson a partner, Tim Breckett.

Speaker: I don't know, I guess that's more of a fun fact.

Speaker: And then, oh, my list is a little shorter than I thought.

Speaker: This is more of a fun fact, but for those who know, one year for April Fool's, not this last year, one year I adopted the persona of Dan Gerton, who was just like a normal news reporter, and I posted four normal headlines for the day, and then deleted them, and then posted four of the headlines

Speaker: most basic form character-y headlines.

Speaker: I thought it would land a bit better, but no one seemed to notice what I was doing.

Speaker: So like, okay, well, there we go.

Speaker: Dan Gerton.

Speaker: I think that one's the most interesting of the four to me.

Speaker: I would work on that one some more.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: A reporter?

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Just the guy that posts like normal local news.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, first of all, a normal reporter is kind of a mystery thing too, right?

Speaker: I mean, that's a pretty good read.

Speaker: I guess that's true.

Speaker: Maybe a better way to phrase it would be since he works for the local newspaper, the damage is minimal.

Speaker: Rookie, what's his name again?

Speaker: Dan.

Speaker: Dan Gerton.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Rookie reporter Dan Gerton actually reports the news.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: I think that could work.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: It has potential.

Speaker: Cool.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: That's all.

Speaker: That's all I got.

Speaker: Well, I'll bring these back to my secret workshop and see if I can come up with more headlines.

Speaker: If a prof doesn't post his first.

Speaker: No, I won't take any of those.

Speaker: I will not.

Speaker: Well, I got a note.

Speaker: So it's that time to ask Alola Raichu the questions from all of you subscribers.

Speaker: So Kurgle posted a headline saying that we're going to have Alola on.

Speaker: And so many of you gave us a lot of great questions to ask.

Speaker: And we're going to dive into that right now.

Speaker: And I'm going to pivot and I'm going to just ask my own question first before I actually choose one from the group here because I know absolutely nothing about anything Pokemon besides that it exists.

Speaker: I probably didn't even say that right.

Speaker: So I would like to know what is the origin story for your username?

Speaker: Oh, sure.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, first of all, Prof, it's Pokeyman.

Speaker: Got it.

Speaker: Here we go.

Speaker: So feel free to call it Pokey Man.

Speaker: Very large emphasis on the E and the man part.

Speaker: We know it's a man.

Speaker: Are we certain of this?

Speaker: Is there a trained biologist figured that out yet?

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: And he's very Pokey.

Speaker: Just making sure we know.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: All right.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: Okay, cool.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So the origin of my username.

Speaker: So you all know Pikachu to some extent, right?

Speaker: Probably the most famous Pokemon.

Speaker: Pokemon.

Speaker: Sorry.

Speaker: My Minnesota accent.

Speaker: Uh, so you know that I do know what that is.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: So, um, uh,

Speaker: There is an evolved form.

Speaker: Don't worry, this is not a Darwin evolution form, but like a level up evolution.

Speaker: Ken Ham just raised an eyebrow somewhere in Kentucky.

Speaker: Yeah, exactly.

Speaker: So Pikachu essentially levels up into Raichu, which, you know, he gets like a cooler tail and different ears and all that and everything.

Speaker: For the uninitiated, the Pokemon come in a bunch of different generations.

Speaker: So back in the 90s, there was 150 of them that they rolled out.

Speaker: And then pretty much after that, I lost track.

Speaker: But there's about nine different generations at this point.

Speaker: You know, you can only come up with so many different creative characters.

Speaker: So they started getting goofy.

Speaker: Like there's one that's an ice cream cone, basically.

Speaker: There's one that's...

Speaker: literally just a giraffe called giraffe rig.

Speaker: Like, yeah, you're like, Oh gee, I wonder what, what do what animal that's supposed to be.

Speaker: But then the other thing they started doing was they would like make variations of existing Pokemon.

Speaker: So a Raichu, which is, you know, the,

Speaker: leveled up Pikachu, they made what they call an Alolan Raichu, which Alola is kind of their in-universe stand-in for Hawaii.

Speaker: It kind of makes sense, right?

Speaker: Alola, Aloha.

Speaker: I mean, that's kind of it.

Speaker: I switched out the AI with a Y because it fits more my actual name, which is Reinold Regan.

Speaker: But I'm just...

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: And yeah, that's how I got the username.

Speaker: Okay, very good.

Speaker: Well, I'm not going to use this platform to ask my own questions like Prof just did.

Speaker: I asked a question that people would want to know the answer to.

Speaker: There's people out there that probably have no idea what his username is.

Speaker: And now they know, thanks to me, asking.

Speaker: Well, this is true.

Speaker: Well, I've got quite a number of questions here, actually, from the reader.

Speaker: But...

Speaker: One of them, I can't remember if this was on air or not.

Speaker: We talked about pizza already, and you mentioned, Alola, that you are.

Speaker: Am I allowed to say this on air?

Speaker: Are you okay coming out with your pineapple and pizza preference?

Speaker: Oh, yeah.

Speaker: Go for it.

Speaker: So you've already shared with us that you like pineapple on pizza.

Speaker: Mm-hmm.

Speaker: So you are welcome here.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I'm going to just go back on what I said.

Speaker: I'm going to actually sneak in a quick question.

Speaker: And then I'll ask the one from the reader.

Speaker: Are you ketchup in fridge or in the pantry person?

Speaker: Oh, I put it in the fridge.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Welcome to the club.

Speaker: I still like you, but I'm sad.

Speaker: Do you want me to tell a quick ketchup story?

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Go on then.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: So we had the whole thing about fridge or the pantry and,

Speaker: And Gizmo, she was very sure she says, no, it says on the label, it goes in the refrigerator.

Speaker: But I like my ketchup actually room temperature.

Speaker: So I did one day, I took the ketchup, I put it in the cupboard, but we don't have ketchup every day.

Speaker: And so it was like a week or two was the next time Gizmo had ketchup on something.

Speaker: And so I set the table.

Speaker: I took the ketchup out of the cupboard and put it on the table.

Speaker: She didn't even say anything.

Speaker: She didn't notice she used the ketchup.

Speaker: And then when she cleared the table, she put it back in the refrigerator.

Speaker: So she had room temperature ketchup.

Speaker: Was that life altering for her?

Speaker: She didn't even know.

Speaker: Yeah, she didn't even know.

Speaker: Kids nowadays don't appreciate anything.

Speaker: It didn't make a difference.

Speaker: No, no difference.

Speaker: Okay, so I'll get back to the question that the Raider was originally wanting to ask, or one of the many questions.

Speaker: And he asks, Alola, do you have a favourite standalone movie?

Speaker: Yeah, it's sad because I was looking through these questions earlier thinking, oh, I'll do a little bit of advanced research.

Speaker: And I didn't come with an answer.

Speaker: I don't have like a top, top favorite.

Speaker: I found that over the years it kind of changes a lot.

Speaker: But I'll say a consistent favorite is Pacific Rim.

Speaker: For those who don't know, it's a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters.

Speaker: It's about as non-political as you can guess it.

Speaker: It's still on my list, but I still have not seen it.

Speaker: Doesn't that have one of the Hemsworth brothers in it?

Speaker: No, it doesn't.

Speaker: It has Charlie Hunnam, but I guess they fall into the generic white guy hero category, I guess, which I'm not knocking.

Speaker: I like generic white guys.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: It was probably about two or three weeks ago now.

Speaker: I don't even remember what movie it was, but it was some movie, an older one that had Chris Hemsworth in it.

Speaker: And I was watching it for a couple of minutes and I told Mr. Kirgel, you know, I cannot watch any movie now with a Hemsworth brother in it without picturing Gerald in the role.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I suppose the closest you could get is the last Avengers movie.

Speaker: With Thor?

Speaker: With Fat Thor, yeah.

Speaker: That's the closest you can get.

Speaker: You mean that wasn't Gerald?

Speaker: That was Gerald standing in for his brother.

Speaker: I was going to say, it's probably one of those things where they have a double, and they just don't say anything.

Speaker: Okay, before my question, I am going to rescue Prof a little bit here.

Speaker: I was noticed in the questions that Gen X Ambassador asked pretty much the same thing.

Speaker: He wants to know what exactly is Nalola Raichu.

Speaker: So there you go.

Speaker: So you did not ask your own question.

Speaker: Thank you, Kurgle.

Speaker: All right.

Speaker: See, I did zero show prep.

Speaker: Was it show prep?

Speaker: Okay, so my question is from Chicken Farmer.

Speaker: You went through all the characters quite a bit.

Speaker: So out of the characters, or I guess maybe not even necessarily your characters, what is your favorite forum character?

Speaker: It's got to be a toss-up between Buzzy Boy's Atomic Fart Weasel and Ruby's Mayor McFluffin's Stuffer.

Speaker: Those are both good ones.

Speaker: Yeah, obviously I'm a little biased, right, because I was the campaign manager for...

Speaker: Mayor McFluff and stuffer, but that was probably the same level of fun as it was posting the FBI cat headlines.

Speaker: Maybe it's the cats involved, right?

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I just like the ridiculous political theater that you could just basically spin anything any way you want and just completely slander the opposition.

Speaker: All in good fun, of course, but...

Speaker: I guess I don't want to be too presumptuous, but I'm sure there's some deeper truths there about political warfare if you were to look closely at the Henry versus McFluff and Stenker headline.

Speaker: That was such a fun campaign to kind of follow.

Speaker: I wasn't able to get involved in it as much as I would have liked to, but it was a lot of fun.

Speaker: I would point out, too, you were the one that was behind AFW's birthday anniversary celebration.

Speaker: That's right.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: In January.

Speaker: So, so everybody has you to thank for that.

Speaker: You're welcome.

Speaker: Oh, I shouldn't say that.

Speaker: Some people might not say thank you, but they might say, no, you're more to blame.

Speaker: Fair enough.

Speaker: But, but yeah, if I can go into that a little bit, that was, I think the atomic fart weasel.

Speaker: Um, that was, I guess when my mind changed about forum inside jokes, if you, if you believe it even, cause I remember, I mean, Buzzy boys, original headline is fantastic.

Speaker: Um, probably one of the best we have to offer, but then I,

Speaker: you know, just everyone started posting atomic fart weasel, right.

Speaker: You know, turned away the first seven times he tried to go on Noah's Ark.

Speaker: And I started seeing atomic fart weasel.

Speaker: I, I, I have to admit originally I was a bit annoyed.

Speaker: I'm like, why do they, why do they keep posting about this atomic fart weasel?

Speaker: They're beating the joke to death.

Speaker: That's not funny.

Speaker: But then I, maybe in a bit of a snarky way, I was like, Oh, I know I'll make up my own character.

Speaker: That's like a,

Speaker: not quite the atomic fart weasel.

Speaker: But then I think when I took time to sit back and think about it, I go, Oh, actually I get the ridiculousness behind it.

Speaker: And to me, it's about, it's almost like a parody of ourselves in that we're pitching all these headlines all the time.

Speaker: And we just arbitrarily decided, Oh, we believe in the atomic fart weasel.

Speaker: Like this is comedy gold.

Speaker: We're going to pitch this to death until it gets published.

Speaker: And

Speaker: And once I realized that, I was like, okay, I get it now.

Speaker: So then that's when I leaned into it.

Speaker: And I think probably one of the funnier parts of that is maybe trolling Kyle a little bit.

Speaker: One day, one day, we'll get that published.

Speaker: There's always hope.

Speaker: I don't think that's going to happen, sadly.

Speaker: Based on his reactions when they used to read the headlines on the podcast.

Speaker: That's it.

Speaker: We can hope.

Speaker: We can dream, right?

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: I have a question for you.

Speaker: This is from 10 Ton BP.

Speaker: If you could spend a day with Gerald Hemsworth, what Midwestern restaurant would you choose for lunch?

Speaker: And what would be your order at said establishment?

Speaker: Well, there wouldn't be an order because it's a buffet and it's called Pizza Ranch.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: I do know what Pizza Ranch is.

Speaker: Absolutely.

Speaker: We ate there last week.

Speaker: Yeah, I did too.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I've never eaten there.

Speaker: I'm not surprised.

Speaker: Yeah, I'm not surprised either.

Speaker: It's pizza, chicken, salad bar, dessert pizza, ice cream.

Speaker: I'm missing a few things.

Speaker: They usually have a big arcade, typically at a lot of the stores, a lot of the restaurants.

Speaker: It's a Midwest restaurant for sure.

Speaker: It started in Iowa and a lot of the bordering states around Iowa.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: They have not cracked the Belgian code yet.

Speaker: Not yet.

Speaker: Maybe they will.

Speaker: Maybe they will.

Speaker: I believe Pizza Ranch too, that's one of the companies that's owned by a Christian guy, right?

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: It seems like it, yeah.

Speaker: They play Christian music and have some Christian themed art and whatnot in the restaurants.

Speaker: That's cool.

Speaker: Correct.

Speaker: So I've got a question here from Strike Engineer.

Speaker: When are we going to hang out?

Speaker: Whenever you answer my email.

Speaker: Ooh, shots fired.

Speaker: Ooh.

Speaker: No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker: I think I sent an email.

Speaker: Who knows?

Speaker: Maybe this is my fault.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I'll find you, Strike Engineer.

Speaker: He gets all around, right?

Speaker: I wonder how many people he's from the forum.

Speaker: I think he's definitely winning some sort of a, if there is any competition for the person, the subscriber that's met the most subscribers.

Speaker: I think it's probably Strike Engineer.

Speaker: I'm sure, yeah.

Speaker: He's got to be up there.

Speaker: Mm-hmm.

Speaker: Due to my current situation, it probably would be whenever you're in my state, I guess.

Speaker: Most likely, he will show up by jumping out of an airplane and landing in your house.

Speaker: This is possible.

Speaker: I'll be sure to put out the pad.

Speaker: Yes, you should.

Speaker: Put a giant Pokemon on your roof so he knows where to land.

Speaker: Oh, true.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: That's a good idea.

Speaker: There's the house right there.

Speaker: I'm sure that won't raise any alarms for the neighbors.

Speaker: None at all.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: I have a question from Dorley that, you know, I never would have thought to ask this.

Speaker: Are you on a church bowling team?

Speaker: No.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: The confidence of that question made me wonder, am I on a church bowling team?

Speaker: I don't think I am.

Speaker: Are you sure?

Speaker: I'm not sure anymore.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I have had that.

Speaker: Well, okay.

Speaker: So you know what it is?

Speaker: I processed it as...

Speaker: as if someone came up to me in real life and asked if I was on a church bowling team, which made me think maybe Dorley knows someone who looks like me, but then I thought about it.

Speaker: And I mean, there's hundreds of them.

Speaker: There's hundreds of, of, uh, right shoes out there that look like me.

Speaker: So long story short, it's probably, you're probably a different right.

Speaker: You're thinking next Sunday, you better check the signup list just to be sure.

Speaker: True, yeah.

Speaker: We have another question.

Speaker: This one also from 10tonbp.

Speaker: If you could have any Pokemon as a house pet, what would it be?

Speaker: Realistically, you'd probably want one that's not too... that doesn't have too many crazy powers.

Speaker: For instance, there's a pony that has fire for the main.

Speaker: That'd probably be not good to have as a pet indoors.

Speaker: Um, even Pikachu probably wouldn't be that great.

Speaker: I mean, well, I don't know.

Speaker: They get free electricity, but then I don't know.

Speaker: They might burn the rug or something.

Speaker: Is it weird that this has become a harder question than originally anticipated?

Speaker: You could make something up, but I would never know.

Speaker: So just that's true.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I could do the ice cream.

Speaker: I could do that ice cream one, but then that would feel weird because then I would eat the ice cream.

Speaker: This is real tricky.

Speaker: Yeah, no worries.

Speaker: Take your time.

Speaker: Ah, whatever.

Speaker: It's Pikachu.

Speaker: Like I said, maybe I can get some free electricity out of him.

Speaker: You know, when we're forced to all go green and they shut down all the coal plants and nuclear plants and everything, we have to use solar panels or wind panels and we get brownouts and everything.

Speaker: I'm sure Pikachu would probably come in handy.

Speaker: Power my laptop a little bit longer.

Speaker: Stick it to the man.

Speaker: Sounds like a plan.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: There we go.

Speaker: So I've got a question here from Murph.

Speaker: In layman's terms that Murph can comprehend, can you tell us what your job entails?

Speaker: So I'm a mobile app developer.

Speaker: So that means I make iPhone and Android apps.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: Are there any apps that you've worked on that we would all be aware of?

Speaker: Or can you let us know that or not?

Speaker: Is that secret?

Speaker: There might be.

Speaker: It might probably not be in the circles that the bee tends to frequent.

Speaker: Have you, well, have you heard of Tasty?

Speaker: No.

Speaker: No.

Speaker: No?

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Wrong crowd.

Speaker: Wrong crowd, yeah.

Speaker: Have you heard of Kenmore?

Speaker: Sears?

Speaker: The brand, yes.

Speaker: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, okay.

Speaker: Yeah, so I worked on their app for a little bit.

Speaker: They made an app that

Speaker: connects to a smart fridge so you can like check all the temperature and on it and, you know, turn the ice maker on, uh, such and such.

Speaker: I have a question about that app.

Speaker: Could you use that app to store your ketchup in the refrigerator, but keep it at pantry temperature?

Speaker: I knew that's where you were going.

Speaker: No, that's maybe a feature that should add.

Speaker: That'd be interesting.

Speaker: There's an untapped market there.

Speaker: I think that would make millions of dollars for you.

Speaker: That's true.

Speaker: And you know money.

Speaker: I do know money.

Speaker: Because it was my idea, I get 10%.

Speaker: 10% for the big guy.

Speaker: Yep, exactly.

Speaker: I'm the big guy in this scenario.

Speaker: I am Bo Jiden in this particular scenario.

Speaker: That's great.

Speaker: Yeah, beyond that, that's probably the biggest one that I've worked on.

Speaker: Otherwise, it's kind of a lot of smaller apps that... So if Dan Dillon needs help with the Bee app or the not-to-be app, would you step up and help out?

Speaker: Oh, yes.

Speaker: 100% absolutely.

Speaker: I would.

Speaker: Please, Dan, give me a job at the Babylon Bee.

Speaker: I would love to work on the mobile app for the Babylon Bee.

Speaker: Hit me up.

Speaker: See if I can make it happen.

Speaker: Hey, Dan, let's do this, Dan.

Speaker: Come on, Dan.

Speaker: Okay, so my final question, this one is from MJJA.

Speaker: Can you give us some tips and tricks for using AI image generators?

Speaker: Says he's had very little success, even with fairly simple requests.

Speaker: I mean, to some extent, it does depend on which service you use, because some will, you know, turn your images woke, like the whole Google fiasco.

Speaker: There's that.

Speaker: That was that I read.

Speaker: so the one I use is the Bing image creator.

Speaker: You do have to sign up for a Microsoft account, which there is that trade off there.

Speaker: But I mean, if you already have one, you might as well take advantage of the AI.

Speaker: Uh, and as far as, uh, constructing a prompt, fun fact, there is such a thing as prompt engineering in the AI world.

Speaker: So there's a whole science behind putting in the right words to get the right things out of, uh,

Speaker: the AI bot, whether it's chat GPT or, you know, an art generator.

Speaker: But funny enough, Kurgle, I think probably has the best way of going about it in that she uses a complete sentences.

Speaker: I'm more like apostle Paul where I will write super run on,

Speaker: sentences.

Speaker: It'll be something like a dark gray, short hair cat wearing aviator sunglasses, typing on a keyboard.

Speaker: And on the laptop screen, there is a four way split on a video call.

Speaker: And as you can imagine, that ends up being a little too much for the AI to handle.

Speaker: But if you take Kurgle's method, it would be something along the lines of, and feel free to correct me here, Kurgle, a photo of a cat.

Speaker: The cat is a dark gray, short hair wearing aviator sunglasses.

Speaker: Dot.

Speaker: He is using a laptop or maybe like he is using Zoom on a laptop.

Speaker: And you probably still have to run that through a few times to get one that you're really satisfied with, but you will have much more success doing the Kurgle method as opposed to the my method or the Apostle Paul method.

Speaker: Yeah, I usually have at least three or four sentences in my prompts.

Speaker: And one thing I found, sometimes instead of saying what it is, you have to describe what it is.

Speaker: And little details I found also make a big difference, like with the aviator sunglasses.

Speaker: I always put dark aviator sunglasses because then you can't see the eyeballs usually.

Speaker: And a lot of times you kind of like find a balance between too little and too much information.

Speaker: So I'll keep going and adding stuff to where it just can't handle it.

Speaker: And then I'll start kind of cutting back stuff and to find just the right spot.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: Patience goes a lot, a long way too.

Speaker: just get ready to reenter it a bunch of times and just wait till you get the right thing.

Speaker: Or sometimes I'll,

Speaker: get a little impatient and then go, I mean, this one's close enough to the headline I'm trying to pitch.

Speaker: So maybe I'll just rework it a little bit.

Speaker: And I've actually had some good results doing it that way.

Speaker: In a way, I guess it's kind of like having the collaboration, right?

Speaker: But I guess, well, in this case, you'd be collaborating with the AI, but...

Speaker: Yeah, it just helps to bounce ideas back and forth, even if it is not really a person.

Speaker: I think it is about just experimenting, isn't it?

Speaker: And trying and seeing what works and learning from a prompt.

Speaker: And then you, I mean, I use ChatGPT quite a lot to help.

Speaker: with the various content ideas and stuff and, or just to spell check things or, you know, and yeah, I've used Bing as well for on the headline forum mostly.

Speaker: And yeah, you just kind of, I think after a while of using it, you just trial and error, you just figure out what, what works and what doesn't and what generates the best results.

Speaker: Well, as usual, we don't have time for all of the questions, unfortunately.

Speaker: I did notice, Alola, you commented here that whichever of these isn't asked on the podcast, I'll answer here.

Speaker: So yeah, thanks very much to all the subscribers that took time out of their day to ask a question.

Speaker: And I think some of them as well have been answered in our conversation and backwards and forwards.

Speaker: So there we are.

Speaker: Who would cross the Beeple Bridge must answer nigh these questions five.

Speaker: Air into the golden bathtub he dives.

Speaker: Well, as this wonderful podcast draws to a close, we want to end it, as we always do, with the famous five questions.

Speaker: And it's been a long time since we asked these to a guest, so we're all on the edge of our seat and itching to get some fresh and new inspiration to the beloved podcast.

Speaker: five questions that we have here.

Speaker: So the first one for you, Alola Raichu, when did you receive the Babylon Bee into your heart?

Speaker: So in other words, what is your bee origin story?

Speaker: Which I don't think we've covered yet, have we?

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I was thinking about it and, you know,

Speaker: listening to other people's B origin stories.

Speaker: And I think I'm among the crowd who probably ran into the B on Facebook, probably back in like 2016.

Speaker: I don't really remember, to be honest.

Speaker: I just remember...

Speaker: Finding a funny headline or two and then going, oh, that's that's funny.

Speaker: I like that.

Speaker: So then, you know, you tend to go on Facebook, you subscribe or whatever the term is for Facebook.

Speaker: And the headline started rolling in and.

Speaker: I might be totally deluding myself here, but I feel like I've been around long enough to remember a time before the podcast started.

Speaker: I feel like I remember hearing about a podcast starting and then going, oh, wow, they're really ramping things up.

Speaker: Maybe I'll check that out at some point.

Speaker: But then I became a subscriber probably much later, probably when Kyle and that bear guy, they moved out of their garage and then had finally gotten into an actual studio.

Speaker: I think that's probably when I jumped on.

Speaker: Yeah, that's very early on.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: But then I don't know how they calculate the signup date because I'm sure at some point I was like, oh yeah, I'll sign up for the email, like newsletter and everything.

Speaker: Like, give me more of this.

Speaker: Maybe that was like 2019 or something like that.

Speaker: But then...

Speaker: I didn't post my first headline until like 2021, which I think so anyways, which just seems like, I don't know why I would have waited so long to do that.

Speaker: I have trouble piecing it together because it's been such a long time.

Speaker: But I remember when I posted my first headline, it was, I'm sure around, I think it was around the time when we got our current president.

Speaker: And I just remember feeling, I wouldn't say despondent, but maybe discouraged.

Speaker: Right.

Speaker: I mean, ultimately, right.

Speaker: We're not putting our faith in politics, but I just, it was real bummed, you know?

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: And I was like, well, you know, maybe I could put my energy into the Babylon Bee, right.

Speaker: Just kind of joke around and meme out on, on the president and everything, which I think for all the things we got from Trump, the memes around the time were fantastic.

Speaker: This is true.

Speaker: So anyways, yeah, I posted my first headline around then.

Speaker: And then I just started just trying to be funny four times a day.

Speaker: Well, I was looking on your stats on the website here.

Speaker: It says you joined the headline forum on my birthday, August 23rd, 2019.

Speaker: Does that sound about right?

Speaker: We were only four?

Speaker: Adam.

Speaker: No, I would be five or going on five.

Speaker: You will be five.

Speaker: You're four right now.

Speaker: Yeah, no.

Speaker: That's quite the beard for a four-year-old you're sporting there.

Speaker: This is more.

Speaker: Good job.

Speaker: This is more stubble than a beard.

Speaker: That does sound about right.

Speaker: I noticed as well.

Speaker: And your first headline matches with what you were saying.

Speaker: Sesame Street casts Joe Biden as series regular.

Speaker: Mm-hmm.

Speaker: And you commented to, well, Murph actually commented on your headline a year ago.

Speaker: And you then commented and said that the Biden presidency is what made me decide to join the subscriber forum.

Speaker: So, yeah, that kind of matches with what you're saying there.

Speaker: I would say that's the only good thing that has come out of the Biden presidency.

Speaker: This is true.

Speaker: He should lead with that.

Speaker: Oh, wow.

Speaker: So, hey, this is groundbreaking.

Speaker: We found one good thing from Biden.

Speaker: Uno.

Speaker: One.

Speaker: We thought it was impossible.

Speaker: It's not.

Speaker: Dream big, people.

Speaker: You can find that one thing.

Speaker: Bidenomics in action.

Speaker: Yep.

Speaker: I'm going to pitch that as a headline.

Speaker: I'll go question two.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: What is a favorite headline that you have submitted?

Speaker: So I'm going to do my second favorite headline because my favorite headline is lost somewhere in my page and no one will find it and upvote it.

Speaker: So there's a challenge for whoever may be able to find it.

Speaker: But this one was especially funny because I pitched this when I was...

Speaker: I had gotten COVID and I was in the throes of that.

Speaker: I probably partially conscious when I submitted it.

Speaker: And the headline is fundamentalist Christian misses the old days when you had to play the record backwards to find the satanic message.

Speaker: I remember that one.

Speaker: I remember that one.

Speaker: And that's my first headline that just like shot up in terms of updates.

Speaker: I think I,

Speaker: got into like the seventies.

Speaker: So if you can imagine I'm laying there suffering in bed and, you know, just kind of open my eyes a little bit, check my phone and go, Oh, another up dude.

Speaker: And then fall asleep.

Speaker: Did the update save your life?

Speaker: Did you find a will to live because of the potential for getting up dudes when you had COVID?

Speaker: I'll put it this way.

Speaker: Maybe the Lord used the up dudes to, you know, and he worked through that to bring me back to fullness or at least whatever fullness you can get after.

Speaker: having COVID I'm convinced I've, I probably have some still lingering effects from that.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I just feel like I don't have as much lung capacity as I did back then.

Speaker: And I don't know.

Speaker: Also doesn't help that I don't exercise as much anymore and getting older though.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Preach.

Speaker: Welcome to the club, buddy.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: And I guess groundbreaking news here is that Pokemon can get COVID.

Speaker: I did not know that.

Speaker: Yeah, that's right.

Speaker: They're not immune.

Speaker: Yeah, now we know.

Speaker: Okay, question number three.

Speaker: What fast food menu item is the result of the fall?

Speaker: Oh, man.

Speaker: So I was going to say, I forget what it's called, but there's like that KFC thing.

Speaker: burger that's, instead of buns, it's like two chicken breasts.

Speaker: Chicken fetties.

Speaker: Oh, yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I was going to say that, but I'm going to change it to the Shake Shack I ate last week because I got food poisoning from that.

Speaker: Oh!

Speaker: Real bad.

Speaker: So, I mean, it was delicious.

Speaker: For a minute.

Speaker: For a minute, yeah, but I paid for it, right?

Speaker: I'm sure there's an allergy you could make there, right?

Speaker: Sin looks delicious, but then...

Speaker: you pay for it later with consequences.

Speaker: That is the Taco Bell mission statement.

Speaker: I was about to say.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I'm sure the burger itself is fine.

Speaker: For reference, I got the, at Shake Shack, they have the Korean barbecue burger, which, oh man, that's like right up my alley.

Speaker: That sounds really good, actually.

Speaker: It is really good.

Speaker: So I'm not knocking the fast food item itself, just the specific one I had, I think.

Speaker: Gotcha.

Speaker: So it's probably going to be a while before you go back there.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: I had that happen once.

Speaker: A restaurant we like to go to a lot.

Speaker: Quite a few years back.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: Something I got food poisoning there and I couldn't stand the smell of it for a long time.

Speaker: And it was just probably about six months ago that I was able to eat there again.

Speaker: And now we eat there every Sunday.

Speaker: Oh, funny.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Well, the next question, Alola, what is your favorite denomination and why is it Baptist?

Speaker: It actually is Baptist.

Speaker: I'm currently going to a Baptist church, although...

Speaker: There's, I don't know, this is like this, like rebrand around Baptists, right?

Speaker: Where churches won't put Baptist in their, the name of the church.

Speaker: I don't know.

Speaker: I find it to be kind of weird, but long story short, I'm currently going to a Baptist church and I used to go to an EFCA church, Evangelical Free Church of America.

Speaker: So I think a little Jedi have that, had that in common.

Speaker: The EFCA is basically just Baptist light.

Speaker: It's like that Midwest version of Baptist.

Speaker: Although I think it's probably changed now, but they used to not be so political.

Speaker: But, well, isn't everything political now after 2020?

Speaker: I think the most pressing question about the church you attend is, do the women wear denim skirts?

Speaker: No, no, no.

Speaker: It's a pretty lax dress code there.

Speaker: I don't think I've seen a denim skirt.

Speaker: How much ankle do they show?

Speaker: No ankle because it's all pants there generally.

Speaker: That might be because it's winter.

Speaker: Well, that could be.

Speaker: Well, we're coming out of winter, I guess is more accurate.

Speaker: These are the pressing questions of our time.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Okay, I have the final question, the most important question that you'll be asked all day.

Speaker: If the FBI readied your house, how many MyPillows would they find?

Speaker: Five.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: Wow.

Speaker: That might be a record.

Speaker: I think so, yeah.

Speaker: Wow.

Speaker: You've gone full Mike Lindell.

Speaker: Now, you live in the neighborhood of... Yep, Mike Lindell is my neighbor.

Speaker: Okay, gotcha.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: So does he have a giant pillow fort around his house?

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: Is he walking around in a robe?

Speaker: He reacted really good to that.

Speaker: What is under the robe?

Speaker: That is the.

Speaker: Oh, I didn't ask that.

Speaker: Another robe.

Speaker: Another robe.

Speaker: Oh, good.

Speaker: I'm relieved.

Speaker: Thank you.

Speaker: Or is it actually three MyPillows stacked on top of each other?

Speaker: Wearing a robe.

Speaker: With sunglasses.

Speaker: With sunglasses.

Speaker: Okay, there's a headline right there.

Speaker: Mike Lindale revealed to be three of my pillows and a robe wearing sunglasses.

Speaker: Oh, man.

Speaker: I'm thinking of the prompt for the AI generator.

Speaker: Oh, there you go.

Speaker: Oh, man.

Speaker: Okay, yeah, this needs to happen now.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: The story of how we got our MyPillows is kind of funny because we got them as a gift from my aunt.

Speaker: From my neighbor Mike.

Speaker: Yeah, from my neighbor Mike, yeah.

Speaker: No, we got them as a gift from my aunt who lives in Hawaii.

Speaker: Not something we would normally get, but she just up and decided, oh, here's some MyPillows.

Speaker: And we're like, oh, sweet, cool.

Speaker: I heard these pillows are awesome.

Speaker: And there's a lot of us in our house, so that's why we have five of them.

Speaker: All right.

Speaker: Well, good deal.

Speaker: Yeah, I think you set a record for the most MyPillows in one household.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: I think, who was it?

Speaker: Was it two plus two is chicken?

Speaker: I think he had quite a high number of MyPillows in his house.

Speaker: He's got a big family, so that could be.

Speaker: I suppose that's the key, huh?

Speaker: One, do you have a MyPillow?

Speaker: And two, do you have a big family?

Speaker: But then I suppose three...

Speaker: Does everyone in your family have their own MyPillow?

Speaker: That's how you maximize the number.

Speaker: Yep, that's what do it.

Speaker: This is true.

Speaker: Yep, this is true.

Speaker: Well, it's always fun having guests on and it's such a privilege to be able to do this podcast.

Speaker: It's been a shame that we've had to wait for so long, but as Kirgel quite rightly said at the beginning, it has been worth the wait and it's been great having you on.

Speaker: Alolo, it's been great getting to know you more than we do in the format that the forum allows.

Speaker: And yeah, really grateful that you've given up time out of your busy schedule to sit down and chat with us today.

Speaker: Yeah, thanks.

Speaker: It's been awesome to sit down and, like you said, get to know Alia a little bit better.

Speaker: I know Kurgle the forum persona, certainly, but maybe not the person so much.

Speaker: I think most of us are a lot more extroverted in our headlines than we perhaps are in real life.

Speaker: This is true.

Speaker: I think you're correct, yeah.

Speaker: I think if we, if we, maybe you can say from experience with BeLiveCov, but from my perspective, if we were all to meet in person, there'd probably be lots of staring at the floor and awkwardly shuffling our feet.

Speaker: Standing in corners, facing the corner.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: That's exactly what it would be like, but then strike engineer would be in the middle talking to everybody.

Speaker: That's true.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: We love you, Strike Engineer.

Speaker: That's right.

Speaker: That's a good thing.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: So we'll let you get on with the rest of your busy day, developing mobile apps or whatever it is you have to do and writing more awesome Gerald Hemsworth headlines.

Speaker: I'll get on those movie posters too at some point.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Nice.

Speaker: I look forward to it.

Speaker: And I'm going to be looking forward in the future too to see what new characters come up.

Speaker: Yes.

Speaker: Yeah, we'll have to see.

Speaker: Got to let it happen naturally, though.

Speaker: I found that forcing it doesn't work as much.

Speaker: I tried to get stinky Ohulahan.

Speaker: People don't like the onion.

Speaker: I think collaboration is the key.

Speaker: Maybe we should set up the staff work on a Slack channel, and that's really cool for just backwards and forwardsing

Speaker: across the miles.

Speaker: And that's a nice way of collaborating digitally.

Speaker: So yeah, maybe we should do something like that.

Speaker: I would like to see more headlines about the attractive lady cat.

Speaker: Meow.

Speaker: Meow.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: All right.

Speaker: I'll take that feedback and I'll see what my team says.

Speaker: My team of me says,

Speaker: Um, at least if I have to post another one, um, I guess I do kind of have a team now, don't I?

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: Hmm.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Anyways.

Speaker: All right, guys.

Speaker: Well, it's been a, it's been a blast.

Speaker: Hopefully the next episode won't take quite as long to come out.

Speaker: So I've got, uh, two weeks of lessons coming up and then exams.

Speaker: Um,

Speaker: which keep me going through most of June.

Speaker: And then that's it.

Speaker: Then I'm on summer break.

Speaker: Looking forward to catching up with everyone again very soon, hopefully.

Speaker: Can you drop any spoilers as to who's going to be on the next episode or do you not know yet?

Speaker: No.

Speaker: We haven't asked.

Speaker: We don't know.

Speaker: You're assuming we plan ahead.

Speaker: See, that's the wrong assumption.

Speaker: Ah, I see.

Speaker: We invite people on and then we just make it up as we go along.

Speaker: correct.

Speaker: It would be somebody from the forum.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Interesting.

Speaker: Maybe I can hint.

Speaker: There may be, I can't promise, but there may be a bit of a B celebrity who can grace us with their presence in the coming weeks, but still to be confirmed.

Speaker: B celebrity.

Speaker: Wow.

Speaker: That's all I'll say on that one.

Speaker: Interesting.

Speaker: Thanks for coming on.

Speaker: And it's been really, really great here in

Speaker: everything that went behind those characters you came up with.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Been good fun.

Speaker: It's been awesome.

Speaker: Until we meet again on the forum, wishing you all the very best and keep pumping out those great headlines.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Take care.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Thanks again.

Speaker: Yeah.

Speaker: Thanks.

Speaker: Bye.

Speaker: Bye.

Speaker: I lost the five questions.

Speaker: I'm sorry.

Speaker: I should have recopied them out of that message.

Speaker: If you don't mind putting it here, here you go.

Speaker: Oh dear.

Speaker: This is not, uh, for the, for the list.

Speaker: Got it.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: Okay.

Speaker: For the listeners at home, Kurgle is holding up a list of questions to the screen and prof is taking a photo of the screen.

Speaker: It worked.

Speaker: I got them.

Speaker: There they are.

Speaker: Right there.

Speaker: I got them.

Speaker: Yay.