Episode 78: The Silliest Gun in the West

Original air date: December 12, 2018

Episode overview

The hosts read a report about a California teacher cutting a student's hair, review the accompanying video, and explicitly close the bounded news feature; the report is discussed as attributed media, not independently verified. One participant reports no breakfast and the other reports a bacon, egg, and cheese croissant sandwich plus a banana; the sandwich-and-banana participant is accepted as winner but declines the conditional Gushers reward, so no prize is awarded. The hosts give contemporaneous owner-reported updates about Yuffie and Uncle Lou; no winner or prize occurs. The participants complete one bowel-movement answer and one embarrassing-secret answer; no winner or prize occurs. The hosts and Julie discuss three prompt cards about a private place or object, a difficult non-person or pet to live without, and dictionary-word self-descriptions; no score, winner, or prize occurs.

Segments

• **The News** — 0:31:59 · citation pending — The hosts read a report about a California teacher cutting a student's hair, review the accompanying video, and explicitly close the bounded news feature; the report is discussed as attributed media, not independently verified.
• **Battle of the Breakfasts** — 0:49:24 · citation pending — One participant reports no breakfast and the other reports a bacon, egg, and cheese croissant sandwich plus a banana; the sandwich-and-banana participant is accepted as winner but declines the conditional Gushers reward, so no prize is awarded.
• **Check Your Pet** — 0:51:50 · citation pending — The hosts give contemporaneous owner-reported updates about Yuffie and Uncle Lou; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Poop or Truth** — 0:56:05 · citation pending — The participants complete one bowel-movement answer and one embarrassing-secret answer; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Something to Talk About** — 1:13:22 · citation pending — The hosts and Julie discuss three prompt cards about a private place or object, a difficult non-person or pet to live without, and dictionary-word self-descriptions; no score, winner, or prize occurs.

Verified episode facts

• **The news outcome**: The hosts read and discuss an attributed report about a California teacher cutting a student's hair and review its accompanying video. The underlying event details are not independently verified by the podcast archive.
• **Danny hiatus plan**: Danny describes an intended roughly month-long break and says he plans to return, while the episode repeatedly qualifies the return with jokes and an asterisk. Preserve this as a contemporaneous plan, not proof of later show history.
• **Battle of the breakfasts outcome**: The sandwich-and-banana participant is accepted as the winner. Because the podcast transcript is not speaker-diarized, the archive does not assign that winner to a named person. A pack of Gushers is only proposed conditionally, then declined, and no prize is awarded.
• **Check your pet outcome**: The hosts give dated owner-reported updates about Yuffie and Uncle Lou. These statements are not independent veterinary evidence or present-day health status, and no winner or prize occurs.
• **Poop or truth outcome**: The participants complete one bowel-movement response and one embarrassing-secret response. Preserve the latter only as a dated public host self-report, not as verified workplace evidence; no winner or prize occurs.
• **Something to talk about outcome**: The hosts and in-room guest Julie complete three prompt-card discussions. The National Treasure material is conversational media recap, not independently verified plot evidence, and no score, winner, or prize occurs.
• **Weird-video block classification**: The later weird-video block is untitled and does not use Video Roulette's title, dice, trap, or random-selection mechanics. Its witch and superhero-hypnosis videos are external media discussed by the hosts, not verified events, formal segments, or Rank'em predecessors.