78: Back by popular demand

A lonely nation turns its ears to the TVTM and we respond by filling those ears with nothing -- precisely the remedy that will get us through these tough times. After administrative machinations deprived the world of the TVTM, cooler heads have prevailed as international negotiators working around the clock in Geneva and also, simultaneously, in a small, secret space inside the United Nations, have reconciled who will "work the knobs" to end this crisis. That would be Manny, aka Benny Evangelista. Despite overwhelming protests from around the globe that Question Boy (aka Joe Garofoli) be dumped "for someone who can read" or, roughly translated from French newspaper accounts, "someone not so ridiculously insipid," QB has somehow held his job. He also got a golden parachute executive package that was apparently part of the $700 billion bailout package. We are back. We come to you unprepared but feeling positive. And positively giddy. Also positively Waltonish. That said, we recorded two podcasts for this week and then Manny said he was going to cut and splice the genius of the two in various ways, so we don't actually know what content is in either podcast. Ha. "Content." Just seeing if you were paying attention. Thank you for voting!