Episode 64: The Secret Tickle

Original air date: September 5, 2018

Episode overview

The hosts explicitly open, spell, and close Mourning Announcements, soliciting future Spooktacular and Party of Five participation and promoting an attributed podcast appearance; no contest result occurs. Two separately played listener voicemails both resolve as votes for Danny. The hosts state an interim comic score of Danny two to Bingo negative one, explicitly say the poll is not over, and award no final winner or prize. The hosts retrospectively classify a cell-phone-cord proposal under the beloved Dumb Eric Dittmer Ideas title, add a second deliberately bad idea, and change topics without implementation, vote, or winner. The hosts assign marry, date, and dump categories across multiple listener-supplied trios and alternate comic names. The categorical game ends before the break without an overall winner, score, prize, or ordered ranking.

Segments

• **Mourning Announcements** — 0:04:42 · citation pending — The hosts explicitly open, spell, and close Mourning Announcements, soliciting future Spooktacular and Party of Five participation and promoting an attributed podcast appearance; no contest result occurs.
• **Who Is Nicer, Bingo or Danny?** — 0:25:22 · citation pending — Two separately played listener voicemails both resolve as votes for Danny. The hosts state an interim comic score of Danny two to Bingo negative one, explicitly say the poll is not over, and award no final winner or prize.
• **Dumb Eric Dittmer Ideas** — 0:30:18 · citation pending — The hosts retrospectively classify a cell-phone-cord proposal under the beloved Dumb Eric Dittmer Ideas title, add a second deliberately bad idea, and change topics without implementation, vote, or winner.
• **Marry Date Dump** — 0:46:32 · citation pending — The hosts assign marry, date, and dump categories across multiple listener-supplied trios and alternate comic names. The categorical game ends before the break without an overall winner, score, prize, or ordered ranking.

Verified episode facts

• **Episode 64 zero findings and citation policy**: No Name That Name round, canonical Rank'em occurrence, recognizable ordered-ranking predecessor, Pokemon ranking, drawing, rating or vote, live chat, or Ice Cube signal occurs. Marry Date Dump assigns categories rather than an ordered ranking, and the unfinished niceness poll has no prize. This podcast-only source has zero show live calls and zero host outgoing calls or attempts; retain exact source-271 millisecond evidence internally and do not fabricate YouTube or Twitch timestamp links.
• **Episode 64 formal segment inventory**: Episode 64 contains exactly four strict formal occurrences: Mourning Announcements; Who Is Nicer, Bingo or Danny?; Dumb Eric Dittmer Ideas; and Marry Date Dump. First Period Is News and the Rich Life restaurant-video deep dive are nonformal topics, while The Secret Tickle is episode-title language.
• **Episode 64 show voicemail classification**: Episode 64 plays exactly two incoming listener voicemail files: one anonymous one-word vote and one James Brubaker vote, both inside Who Is Nicer, Bingo or Danny? Host interjections do not split files. There are zero show live calls and zero host outgoing calls or attempts.
• **Who is nicer interim poll outcome**: Both listener files resolve as votes for Danny, and the hosts state a current comic score of Danny two to Bingo negative one. They explicitly say the poll is not over, so no final winner or prize is recorded.
• **Embedded third-party restaurant-call recording classification**: Reviewed public-video media contains one continuous prerecorded third-party outgoing restaurant-call recording. The source-media subject initiates the call, connected audio begins later, an internal transfer does not create another call, and the same reviewed recording continues through its abandonment. It is not a show listener file, live HalfwayOkay call, host call, or host outgoing attempt; restaurant personnel, location, schedules, phone values, and private notifications are omitted.