It didn't take long for things to go completely sideways on this week's installment of my TV Talk Machine podcast. Along with Chronicle media writer Joe Garofoli once again playing the role of "Question Boy"--don't worry, we're on a search for a "Question Girl"--we decided that two weeks of heavy war talk and big words with Ken Burns meant that we needed to dumb things down. Boy did we succeed. I even managed, unintentionally, to create what is now my favorite new phrase. Along the way we read viewer/listener questions from across the country, played phone calls, rambled incoherently, announced upcoming interview guests (including Keith Olbermann), detected a real undertone of anger in the country (not our fault) and managed to possibly but not probably answer some questions correctly. As the paid film hacks like to say, "If you listen to just one podcast this year..."