Episode 28: Michael Jackson Screensaver

Original air date: December 27, 2017

Episode overview

The hosts explicitly begin their New Year's plans, hopes, dreams, and declarations. Bingo's serious clothing-and-dream disclosure contains the nested Robert Palmer Trick-em-Up, while Danny jokes that he needs no change. The occurrence closes before the library-story transition; no winner or prize occurs. Nested within the first New Year's Declarations occurrence, a serious plan to buy dress clothes and dream of a pale castle woman is revealed as Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love video. Later retrospective naming establishes the recurrent Trick-em-Up family; no winner or prize occurs. Bingo performs a suspicious Dayton-library story, repeatedly denies it is a joke, elaborates library and bronze-sculpture details, and lands on the ashamed-of-your-shelves punchline. A later naming exchange identifies it as a rebuttal Trick-em-Up; no winner or prize occurs. The hosts explicitly launch an experimental livestream, greet internet viewers, read and paraphrase chat, solicit feedback about future streams, and wrap before the midroll break. The platform and raw chat are unobservable; the nested All That game supplies one directly announced winner. Nested inside the livestream, viewers submit subjects or nouns and the hosts answer All That or I Don't Know About That. Caddy is directly announced as winner for the Michael Jackson screensaver story; scoring, linkage to an earlier joke prize, award, and fulfillment remain unobservable. The hosts explicitly resume New Year's declarations and state resolutions involving Chinese New Year, family, weight, promotion, a pontoon boat, Iceland, and finishing a show without irrelevant names or songs. Tangents remain within the resumed prompt; no winner or prize occurs.

Segments

• **New Year's Declarations of Intent** — 0:04:42 · citation pending — The hosts explicitly begin their New Year's plans, hopes, dreams, and declarations. Bingo's serious clothing-and-dream disclosure contains the nested Robert Palmer Trick-em-Up, while Danny jokes that he needs no change. The occurrence closes before the library-story transition; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Trick-em-Up: Robert Palmer** — 0:04:42 · citation pending — Nested within the first New Year's Declarations occurrence, a serious plan to buy dress clothes and dream of a pale castle woman is revealed as Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love video. Later retrospective naming establishes the recurrent Trick-em-Up family; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Trick-em-Up: Library** — 0:10:15 · citation pending — Bingo performs a suspicious Dayton-library story, repeatedly denies it is a joke, elaborates library and bronze-sculpture details, and lands on the ashamed-of-your-shelves punchline. A later naming exchange identifies it as a rebuttal Trick-em-Up; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Live Stream Experiment** — 0:21:09 · citation pending — The hosts explicitly launch an experimental livestream, greet internet viewers, read and paraphrase chat, solicit feedback about future streams, and wrap before the midroll break. The platform and raw chat are unobservable; the nested All That game supplies one directly announced winner.
• **All That or I Don't Know About That** — 0:22:49 · citation pending — Nested inside the livestream, viewers submit subjects or nouns and the hosts answer All That or I Don't Know About That. Caddy is directly announced as winner for the Michael Jackson screensaver story; scoring, linkage to an earlier joke prize, award, and fulfillment remain unobservable.
• **New Year's Declarations of Intent** — 1:03:58 · citation pending — The hosts explicitly resume New Year's declarations and state resolutions involving Chinese New Year, family, weight, promotion, a pontoon boat, Iceland, and finishing a show without irrelevant names or songs. Tangents remain within the resumed prompt; no winner or prize occurs.

Verified episode facts

• **Episode 28 source identity and podcast-only policy**: The authoritative RSS and database identify Episode 28: Michael Jackson Screensaver as episode row 289 and sole podcast source 307, GUID tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/375282722, duration 4853000 milliseconds. Canonical cues end at 4826520, leaving 26480 milliseconds untranscribed. No Episode 28 YouTube or Twitch source exists; the spoken livestream platform is unnamed and no public VOD timestamp may be fabricated.
• **Episode 28 structural and nonformal inventory**: The opening and host introduction 0-37780, midroll contact break 2421800-2476760 with probable insert 2428340-2470040, birthday review solicitation 4271720-4344500, and Campbell's Chunky Soup closing parody 4717240-4826520 are structural rather than formal content segments. Bingo's Dream, the Twitter and Rhett & Link discussion, Friend of Bigfoot review, Made by Jetpack riff, and cat-sitting denial are nonrecurring activities or contacts, not additional segment families.
• **Episode 28 named-feature absence**: Episode 28 contains no Name That Name occurrence, entrant, winner, selection, or prize and no Rank'em Up Rodeo occurrence, predecessor, ranking, drawing, rating result, winner, or prize. All That verdicts and chat poll responses are not Rank'em mechanics.
• **Episode 28 chat ice youtube and visual limitations**: Spoken chat activity is present and partly reconstructable, but raw platform chat, platform identity, Ice or Ice Cube signals, episode YouTube or Twitch identity, and visuals are null and historically unobservable. The Rhett & Link YouTube clip's exact URL or video ID is unavailable. Host-read or paraphrased chat is not equivalent to direct platform observation.
• **Episode 28 exact count and unknown inventory**: Episode 28 has exactly six formal occurrences across four families, exactly two confirmed or probable insertions with zero replays, zero phone rows or contributor recordings, one incoming review read, one directly announced winner Caddy, zero confirmed awarded prizes, zero Name That Name rounds, and zero Rank'em recaps. Raw chat, livestream platform, Ice, visuals, ambiguous music modality, physical files, contest scoring and fulfillment, poll tallies, dream authenticity, and the final 26480 milliseconds remain unresolved or unobservable.
• **Episode 28 canonical content occurrence inventory**: Episode 28 contains exactly six formal content occurrences across four families: New Year's Declarations of Intent 282840-608580; nested Trick-em-Up: Robert Palmer 282840-608580; Trick-em-Up: Library 615140-901320; Live Stream Experiment 1269580-2420500; nested All That or I Don't Know About That 1369300-2416220; and resumed New Year's Declarations 3838640-4103660. Nesting does not collapse the six occurrence rows.
• **Episode 28 livestream and spoken-chat inventory**: A livestream occurs in the spoken program, but its platform and raw chat are unobservable. The podcast reconstructs nine participant names as spoken, fourteen All That game prompt/outcome blocks, and three additional interaction blocks; exact account spellings, complete participant/message roster, deleted or unread messages, raw timestamps, emoji identity, and reactions are unavailable. Persist this as claim-level spoken reconstruction, not verified raw chat rows.
• **Episode 28 all that winner and prize uncertainty**: Caddy is directly announced as the sole Episode 28 winner for the Michael Jackson screensaver story during All That or I Don't Know About That. An earlier ad hoc joke prize is being able to lie under the covers during the next recording, but the winner announcement never explicitly links that prize to Caddy. Scoring, award, and fulfillment are unobservable; preserve one winner with no confirmed awarded prize.
• **Episode 28 written-contact and route inventory**: Episode 28 reads exactly one five-star iTunes review, Friend of Bigfoot's November 29 review titled Should I listen to this?, at 4439460-4488560. The hosts also thank an unspecified sender or senders for cards, with count and content unknown. Bingo's @BadDate LaCroix tweet is his own public social post, not an incoming submission. The contact bumper promotes [redacted email] and voicemail [redacted phone].
• **Episode 28 livestream poll outcomes**: The livestream asks viewers to type 1 for interest in future streams and 2 for no interest; only Matt Miller is later reported to type 1 and no final tally occurs. A conversational screensaver-feedback request paraphrases Megan as opposed, Matt as typing 1, and Josh as posting a hand emoji later interpreted as clapping; response mapping and final tally remain unresolved. These are audience polls, not listener contests.
• **Episode 28 exact phone and insertion inventory**: Episode 28 has zero phone rows, live, outgoing, attempted, unanswered, mock, narrated-prior, or played-voicemail events and zero prerecorded contributor items. It has exactly two confirmed or probable logical insertions: one produced contact bumper at 2428340-2470040 and one probable Rhett & Link LaCroix tweet clip at 3467360-3488080, both with zero replays. Mexican Radio and The Freshmen remain ambiguous music events and are not counted as confirmed files.
• **Episode 28 Bingo's dream classification**: Bingo's Dream at 2516720-3015100 is a feed-named one-off story retrospectively called a segment, but it is not promoted to a recurrent formal family. Its castle, trap-door, and pale-woman account is repeatedly challenged as invented; authenticity remains explicitly contested and unresolved.
• **Episode 28 excluded and ambiguous media taxonomy**: Made by Jetpack is a conversational sponsor joke; the cat-sitting story explicitly denies being a Trick-em-Up; Bingo's Dream and the Twitter discussion are one-off activities; Mexican Radio and The Freshmen cannot be resolved as external playback versus live performance; and live pan-flute or sung bits are not physical media files. None creates another formal occurrence, phone row, or confirmed insertion.