Brace Belden and Young Chomsky debut True and All, a new segment featuring their mic’d-up metal gong "Liz," whose smiley face unsettles them despite its inanimate nature. After joking about sponsorships (including the fake gongs-unlimited.cong.com.gong), they reveal production delays forced them to abandon unionized writers—previously tied to Big Mouth and American Dad—and revert to non-union labor, calling past outsourcing "scabs." The chaotic intro sets a tone of absurdist self-awareness, blending meta-humor with labor critiques. [Automatically generated summary]
What is that sound you're hearing, ladies and gentlemen?
That is a Liz.
This is the gong.
That's correct.
That is a real live gong we have here in this.
A real live gong.
It's not an animal.
All metal is Liz.
Oh, my God.
First of all, it has a smiley face, which makes me feel weird looking at you.
Looks like you're hitting a person smiling.
You know what would make you think about this, Liz?
When you hit it, it should turn to a sad face.
You have no idea how wrong you are.
Think about this.
See, I'm not wrong.
You just are crazy wrong because think about this.
It's a gong, right?
It's a gong.
Allegedly.
No, I mean, no, I've proven it's a gong by the sounds it's making.
If a gong had a face, what would make that face smile?
Precisely this, Liz.
I know, I just, it's like a little violent.
You see, you're like whacking it, and it's still smiling, and it kind of makes me sad.
That's all I'm saying.
To be clear, the way that I'm hitting it is because the way this is positioned in the studio.
We do also have the gong mic'd up, which is a good idea.
But I'm unfortunately hitting it from behind because I'm facing it.
Well, you can put the mallet down now because...
I mean, I'll hold probably the mallet for the rest of the episode.
I mean, I'll hold probably the mallet for the rest of the episode.
Great.
Great.
But we'd like to thank our – we've never had a sponsor on the show.
In fact, we don't have one now, to be completely clear.
The listeners are the sponsors.
You know what?
Yeah, listeners, you're our sponsor.
For listeners like you, thank you.
We would like to thank our first brand, which is gongs-unlimited.cong.com.gong.
Gongs hyphen-united.
Did you just say it right?
Gongs-unlimited.com.
There you go.
For, well, we bought the gong, but for giving us a deal on this beautiful.
So we don't have any sponsors because we literally can't do an ad read.
Yeah.
Well, I, well, oh, sorry.
Cool.
So my learning disability is the reason that we can't expand our income streams.
Yeah.
But this was, I'm going to tell you, this thing is going to get used maybe 20, 30 times an episode from here on out.
Liz is staring at it with, I think Envy.
Maybe.
Yeah, you got to work on your face reading capabilities, too, if you think that's what that is.
Envy, perhaps, because of how warmly received the gong has been in the Truanon Industry studio.
Oh, no, that's okay.
I'm Liz.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Brace Belden.
The Dragon Rises.
And of course, we are joined by producer Young Chomsky.
We're going to have to talk about that.
And the podcast is, what's it called, Brace?
It's called Truanon.
Hello, everyone.
Hello.
We are, we're back.
We're back.
We actually, so the reason we did not have an episode earlier this week where we unlocked a Nicholas Rossi-related episode.
But a lot of people don't know that the podcast actually, you know, we used writers, right?
I mean, famously, we have a crew of about.
Not ourselves, though.
No, no, no, no.
But we have to.
We're the talent.
Yeah, we're the talent.
We have about 15, 20 failing stand-up comedians.
Yeah.
All union.
All union, of course, you know, who kind of live in one big house together and, you know, sort of shovel between our show, a show called Big Mouth, and another show called American Dad.
And we sort of form a trifecta.
Is that the show still on?
What's up?
Is American Dad still on?
I don't know.
I've never seen a second of it.
Yeah, me neither.
I've only seen the ads for it coming up next after TNT broadcasts of NBA Games.
Well, many of our beautiful young union writers also work on that show.
And we were like, oh shit, we can't, we're going to have to do this ourselves from now on.
That's why we got the gong.
No, that's where we got the gong.
But the thing is, actually, we kind of just brought in scabs.