True Anon Truth Feed - [PREVIEW] Episode 289: The Game Is Afoot
Aired: 2023-05-08
Duration: 04:55


=== A Real Live Gong (04:55) ===

[00:00:00]  Are you gonna do it?
[00:00:00]  Anyway, I have to do it.
[00:00:02]  You ready?
[00:00:04]  Born ready.
[00:00:04]  One, two, three.
[00:00:10]  Welcome.
[00:00:12]  To True and All.
[00:00:13]  Come on, man.
[00:00:38]  Listen, I'm getting us back in.
[00:00:50]  What is that sound you're hearing, ladies and gentlemen?
[00:00:52]  That is a Liz.
[00:00:56]  This is the gong.
[00:00:57]  That's correct.
[00:00:59]  That is a real live gong we have here in this.
[00:01:03]  A real live gong.
[00:01:04]  It's not an animal.
[00:01:05]  All metal is Liz.
[00:01:07]  Oh, my God.
[00:01:07]  First of all, it has a smiley face, which makes me feel weird looking at you.
[00:01:12]  Looks like you're hitting a person smiling.
[00:01:14]  You know what would make you think about this, Liz?
[00:01:18]  When you hit it, it should turn to a sad face.
[00:01:19]  You have no idea how wrong you are.
[00:01:21]  Think about this.
[00:01:22]  See, I'm not wrong.
[00:01:23]  You just are crazy wrong because think about this.
[00:01:25]  It's a gong, right?
[00:01:26]  It's a gong.
[00:01:27]  Allegedly.
[00:01:28]  No, I mean, no, I've proven it's a gong by the sounds it's making.
[00:01:33]  If a gong had a face, what would make that face smile?
[00:01:37]  Precisely this, Liz.
[00:01:42]  I know, I just, it's like a little violent.
[00:01:44]  You see, you're like whacking it, and it's still smiling, and it kind of makes me sad.
[00:01:47]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:01:48]  To be clear, the way that I'm hitting it is because the way this is positioned in the studio.
[00:01:53]  We do also have the gong mic'd up, which is a good idea.
[00:01:57]  But I'm unfortunately hitting it from behind because I'm facing it.
[00:01:59]  Well, you can put the mallet down now because...
[00:02:01]  I mean, I'll hold probably the mallet for the rest of the episode.
[00:02:01]  I mean, I'll hold probably the mallet for the rest of the episode.
[00:02:03]  Great.
[00:02:03]  Great.
[00:02:04]  But we'd like to thank our – we've never had a sponsor on the show.
[00:02:08]  In fact, we don't have one now, to be completely clear.
[00:02:11]  The listeners are the sponsors.
[00:02:12]  You know what?
[00:02:13]  Yeah, listeners, you're our sponsor.
[00:02:14]  For listeners like you, thank you.
[00:02:16]  We would like to thank our first brand, which is gongs-unlimited.cong.com.gong.
[00:02:25]  Gongs hyphen-united.
[00:02:26]  Did you just say it right?
[00:02:27]  Gongs-unlimited.com.
[00:02:30]  There you go.
[00:02:31]  For, well, we bought the gong, but for giving us a deal on this beautiful.
[00:02:34]  So we don't have any sponsors because we literally can't do an ad read.
[00:02:38]  Yeah.
[00:02:38]  Well, I, well, oh, sorry.
[00:02:40]  Cool.
[00:02:40]  So my learning disability is the reason that we can't expand our income streams.
[00:02:47]  Yeah.
[00:02:48]  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.
[00:02:55]  Liz is staring at it with, I think Envy.
[00:03:01]  Maybe.
[00:03:02]  Yeah, you got to work on your face reading capabilities, too, if you think that's what that is.
[00:03:06]  Envy, perhaps, because of how warmly received the gong has been in the Truanon Industry studio.
[00:03:13]  Oh, no, that's okay.
[00:03:14]  I'm Liz.
[00:03:15]  Hello, everyone.
[00:03:16]  My name is Brace Belden.
[00:03:22]  The Dragon Rises.
[00:03:23]  And of course, we are joined by producer Young Chomsky.
[00:03:30]  We're going to have to talk about that.
[00:03:32]  And the podcast is, what's it called, Brace?
[00:03:34]  It's called Truanon.
[00:03:35]  Hello, everyone.
[00:03:36]  Hello.
[00:03:37]  We are, we're back.
[00:03:38]  We're back.
[00:03:39]  We actually, so the reason we did not have an episode earlier this week where we unlocked a Nicholas Rossi-related episode.
[00:03:47]  But a lot of people don't know that the podcast actually, you know, we used writers, right?
[00:03:53]  I mean, famously, we have a crew of about.
[00:03:55]  Not ourselves, though.
[00:03:56]  No, no, no, no.
[00:03:57]  But we have to.
[00:03:58]  We're the talent.
[00:03:59]  Yeah, we're the talent.
[00:03:59]  We have about 15, 20 failing stand-up comedians.
[00:04:03]  Yeah.
[00:04:04]  All union.
[00:04:05]  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.
[00:04:18]  And we sort of form a trifecta.
[00:04:20]  Is that the show still on?
[00:04:21]  What's up?
[00:04:21]  Is American Dad still on?
[00:04:23]  I don't know.
[00:04:24]  I've never seen a second of it.
[00:04:27]  Yeah, me neither.
[00:04:27]  I've only seen the ads for it coming up next after TNT broadcasts of NBA Games.
[00:04:34]  Well, many of our beautiful young union writers also work on that show.
[00:04:39]  And we were like, oh shit, we can't, we're going to have to do this ourselves from now on.
[00:04:43]  That's why we got the gong.
[00:04:44]  No, that's where we got the gong.
[00:04:47]  But the thing is, actually, we kind of just brought in scabs.
[00:04:50]  Oh, yeah.
[00:04:51]  Well, that too.
[00:04:52]  Well, that's the gong.
[00:04:53]  We're back at the non-union gong.