38: Conspiracies against gay soap characters, Obama, Dora and Goodman?

We've decided -- well, wait, "decided" hints at actual preparation -- that the podcast should be cut in two and run on consecutive days each week. At least that was the plan for about five minutes, and then the plan was to run Part 1 on Tuesday and Part 2 on Thursday, because Benny said we should "keep them wanting more." To which Joe Garofoli, admirably playing Question Boy, and I both said, "They don't want any of it, much less more." So that was the plan. We taped on Tuesday because of the Monday President's Day holiday. But then Part 1 got put up on the shiny new SFGate.com website, which was a nice placement, but probably gave too wide of an audience a peek at our rampant stupidity and lame call-back jokes (not to mention the impressions). Then, uh, we sort of forgot to post Part 2. Until today -- Friday. See? Planning just isn't our thing. But here they are, Part 1 and Part 2. Both awful. And Benny, who is actually supposed to know something about producing, has promised next week not to wave frantically at us somewhere in the middle, telling us to wrap it up. Because that just ruined our narrative flow. And, of course, ruined our "plans." We told him to stick to "manning the knobs."