On the latest episode of LeMent Tonight, host Bob LeMent sits down with Ted the Impressionist, an alt-comedy performer specializing in rapid-fire, absurdist impressions of animals, ghosts, and vegetables, such as a cat pretending to be a microwave and a squash with bad taste. Eschewing standard 2020s observational humor, Ted describes his act as clean, accessible, and designed to generate comic tension through sheer presentation rather than classic punchlines. Ted discusses the grind of breaking through the industry’s “chicken-and-egg” experience barrier, sharing how he continuously experiments with his act much like Thomas Edison or Shakespeare borrowing from his sources.

The conversation takes several bizarre, comedic turns as Ted introduces his puppet sidekicks, Wally—a neutrino turned nutritionist—and Barney Bacteria, who chimes in with gut-health advice and poop jokes. Bob and Ted also chat about Ted’s side project, Bushmiller Remixed, a Facebook page dedicated to modifying old, “lame” Nancy and Sluggo comic strips with lyrics from the Ramones or Barnes & Barnes’ cult-classic song “Fish Heads.” The interview wraps up with a surreal advice segment where Ted hilariously suggests Bob resolve a neighborhood cat love triangle by equipping everyone in matching, color-coded Crocs and beekeeper suits.

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Okay. Ted’s ready. Here we go. Welcome to Wednesday. And with me tonight is Ted the Impressionist. And his little cats on the whiteboard. And it can do. As always with me is Gary Limes and the Flea Tones. And welcome to Metal Limits tonight, everybody. I’m Bob LeMets. Now, my guest here tonight is Ted the Impressionist. Now, Ted, believe it or not, an impressionist, always delivers what his mama told him. Whenever you meet new people, Always make good impressions. I think she said it just like that. And so his mission on stage compels Ted to perform fabulous impressions of dogs, cats, got to see that one, birds, chimps, ghosts, vegetables, chickens, and more. So many. It’s like getting hit on the head with a shovel. They all leave a deep impression on your mind. Ted has performed throughout the Northeast and in New York City nightclubs. He produces his own shows, Coop Comedy.
bronco uh brad dang tootin good time show whoo that’s a mouthful. And Gonzo Gala. Hey, everybody. It’s Ted, the Impressionist. Welcome, Ted. Hello, Bob. How you doing? Nice to see you there shouldn’t I? Yeah, it’s great. I don’t smoke. It probably fits in your impressions right there. There you go. Yes, thank you but well it’s good to be here, Bob. So take it away. I’m sorry. Say that again. Take it away. Let’s get some impressioning going here. Oh, okay. Right. I’m sorry. That’s right. It’s my cue. Sorry about that, Bob. Okay. Well, thank you, Bob. And hello everyone for you. A lovely audience out there. Okay. So many people enjoy cat impressions. And so why not have some cat impressions? Okay, great. Here’s a cat.
pretending to be a backhoe. Always good for cleaning the litter box. Thank you, Bob. I wrote that. Okay. Now here’s a cat as a microwave. Meow. Dinner’s ready. Okay. Now, here are cats racing at the Indianapolis 500. Well, except for the Kyle Busch cat. Okay. Now, here is some dog impressions for you. A hillbilly dog convinced his dead father talks to him through his foot. you say paw now here’s a dog as quality control inspector at the sandpaper factory rough i wrote that okay well and uh let’s see here’s uh hmm oh here’s a dog actor in a tarantino western slowly dying in a hail of bullets Tino wrote that. Well, that’s been a wonderful two minutes. I’m certainly glad to be here, Bob. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much for inviting me here. Appreciate it. Oh, I don’t smoke. OK, so how about you? Thank you very much. And, you know, a little triggering. But other than that, it’s now where have I where have I seen you or met you before, Bob?
Well, you probably see me here on lament tonight at the desk. Oh, well, i mean like at a comedy show, though, haven’t i seen? No, probably not i’m not i don’t live in new york apologies okay i live i live in the Midwest, and uh so yeah oh okay i haven’t performed with you or alongside you in a plausible show or a zoom mic anywhere? Oh, you might have seen me on the uh monthly comedy contest. Oh, okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. I usually show up for those. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah. I haven’t done one in a while. Maybe that’s when it was. Yeah. You know what? It’s not about me. It’s about you. Huh? It’s not about me. It’s about you. We need to talk about you, Ted. Oh, well, no, I don’t want to be selfish. Like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s all about me. Blah, blah, blah, blah. What does Ted like? What does he like to eat? Where does he like to go swimming? All good questions. Tai Chi? No, you know, Bob, it’s a give and take conversation. You know, people want to know about, you know, what kind of guy you are. So, you know, we’re going to give and take. But I’m just curious because I wanted to know.
Okay. So that’s, uh, you want to go back to me? Yeah, let’s go back to you now. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Your, your bio says, you know, you, uh, started doing these impressions uh i’m guessing we talked about your mother. So I’m guessing it was when you were younger. Now, do you, you said cats, birds, chimps, ghosts, vegetables? Do you only do, uh, do you ever do inanimate objects or does it always have to be animal based? No, there are vegetable impressions that I’ve written as well. Oh, okay. Give me a demonstration, like cauliflower? Oh, would you like to see that? Oh, okay. Oh, okay, a demonstration. Okay, here’s, let’s see, a squash with bad taste. Hey, everyone, how do you like my checkered pants?
Now, here’s a zucchini. Well, let’s see, a zucchini that has no moral values. Oh, I’m full of moral conundrums. I think all zucchini have no moral values, but that just may be. Well, that’s a good philosophical point. Right. Oh, here’s a green tomato. Hey, can someone tell me what I’m supposed to do? I haven’t been trained. Now here’s a fried green tomato. So, okay. So we’ve got vegetable, we’ve got animal vegetables. Do you do minerals? No, but that’s a very good one. Yeah, I should try that. You know, the whole animal, vegetable, mineral thing, because there’s a song on a Broadway show about that. Well, you know, granite and marble, you know, they don’t do anything. They just sit on the ground. You know, that’s kind of wacky to do a granite impression. It’s crazy. You know, it might be a good, you know,
balance for things, you know, from the cats. I’ll certainly give that a try, Bob. Yeah. Oh, I don’t smoke. So have you done these things your whole life, these impressions this way? Or, I mean, when did this, you know, you’re like, you wake up one morning and you’re like, I want to do impressions that most people don’t do. Well, you know, I, Been working steadily on my comedy career, and this is the kind of thing that’s really taken off. I’ve tried doing edgelord material. I wrote this bit about smoking weed, playing with your pee-pee, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Would you like to hear it? Sure. Okay. Hey, everyone. Have you ever fought in a war against the Russian fleet and they completely annihilate you? And you say to yourself, what the heck? Am I just smoking weed and playing with my pee-pee? I wrote that. There you go. But the impressions really took off. Yeah, that’s good. Oh, I don’t smoke. Okay.
to you, Bob. go back to me so so i’m like what where what was the antithesis of this was your list like i mean with the other stuff just wasn’t working? And you’re like, you know what? I think i would rather do, you know, kitten impersonations than doing historical uh masturbation material. Help. The historic stuff wasn’t really going over at kids parties. So I figured, you know, why not try some impressions, see how it works out. You know, it’s kind of clean comedy. Most people can relate to because most people have either a cat or a dog, sometimes both. Many people do eat vegetables. So it was easy enough to just move over to that genre of doing impressions that appeals to a wider audience.
Okay. Do you ever think about doing, you know, like fast food or anything like that? I’m a Big Mac and I’m, you know. Not yet, but I’ll consider that. Possibly, I’ll consider that. You know, I’m still working on this, you know, this whole thing, Bob. You know, it’s just at the very crest of my career. Here’s the crest. career and now it’s cresting. Oh, you’re cresting. So yeah, I’m still working on it yeah i haven’t reached the apex yet. You know, this is good for all you geometry majors out there. Crest, apex, you know, optimal curve trajectory all that yeah later on i’ll be discussing quantum equations. Oh, very good. You think this would play in the quantum realm? Well, that’s where wally the happy talking neutrino comes in oh
But I find that I have to explain what a neutrino is because it’s just not in the common parlance. Is it like a neutrino is like smaller than a red box? Yeah, exactly. The tiniest particle in the universe. At the moment. Okay, Mr. Buckyball, you got me there. Good point. At the moment, I think, because everything changes. And so they thought the smallest thing was dust. And then now we’re all the way down. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think Ben Franklin was like, dust is the smallest thing. Right. So Wally, the neutrino, has recently double crossed me. He has explained now to the audience on the stage that he’s now Wally, the happy talking nutritionist. And so I have to go along with it because otherwise he won’t perform live. So what are you going to do? You got your partner, you know, grows, evolves, and, you know, you have to grow and evolve with them. When you’re at the bottom of the food chain, what are you going to do? Well, I wouldn’t know about the bottom of the food chain, but, you know, that’s how it is. That’s right, Bob. Excuse me. You know, being a neutrino wasn’t very fun because…
Would you choke on a frog? No, I’m good. Anyway, nobody knew what a neutrino was, but as a nutritionist, I can advise people on how to eat microplastics and what kind of pus balls are the easiest to… Sorry, he’s still a little, you know, on the edge. Well, that’s good. So… So how long have you been doing this then? How long have you been doing all these impressions and not smoking? Oh, I don’t smoke. It’s been about eight years now. Oh, really? Okay. Really? Yeah. I’ve collected some interesting rejection notes along the way as I try to get myself into bookers. Would you want to read a couple of them? Yeah, tell us about them. Oh, yeah. One was, I need jokes. That was the response to my sample.
video clip yeah and and uh my favorite so far has been uh the booker responded back and said, you want me to book you so you can do cat impressions? And I said, yeah, yes. It seems fairly obvious. Was this guy not getting it or uh i don’t know. I don’t want to say anything bad about anybody, but uh certainly there’s the it’s that cresting part that, you know, haven’t reached the apex yet. So what do you think? So what’s your plan? So we got like a five year plan, 10 year plan. What’s the what are you thinking? Where’s this all going? Well, are we talking serious now? We’re talking as serious as you want to be. OK, well. It isn’t so much a plan as trying to just break through that that chicken and egg thing, you know, just like someone who’s trying to break into a new business, you know, you have to.
You have to have experience to be in the business, but you can’t get experience until you’re in the business. That’s the same way with working upstream in the comedy world. I’ve seen others explain it the same way. The comedy world is a giant flat pyramid. There’s, well, maybe like a little curved pyramid like this at the end. There’s plenty of people all at the bottom of the pyramid. Right. But to get to the cut to the top, you’re cutting through a lot of different layers to actually get to that level where then you become, you make it a professional career and you’re becoming recognized yeah so that’s i’ve heard i’ve heard comedy called the amway of entertainment. Yes. Yeah, it’s probably the same kind of grind, yeah. So I’ve been thinking through about how to manage the kind of act where it’s broad enough that it makes sense to people, but not so obtuse that it’s difficult for folks to understand. So it’s critical that for Ted… Neutrino? Huh? The neutrino? What’s that?
Maybe a little obtuse since I’m thinking. Oh, well, yeah. So that’s part of it is that is that then if you’re making the audience think they’re not laughing. So, you know, I think of all the little things that I’ve watched videos of different advices or observations on comedy. And you see them on TikTok, for example, or Instagram. And I think of them as not so not really as illuminations, but affirmations. So you think about the fact that you have to be bigger in life to your audience and engage them. The audience is something that George Carlin said is like the passenger getting into a taxi. They’re willing to go for the ride if they’re confident you know where you’re going. And so then a little bit like that. If you know where you’re going, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I saw either a quote or, yeah, I think it was on Reddit, of all things, there’s a stand-up group. And there was a mention about the fact that if you’re confident in what you’re doing on stage, people will follow along with you even if the material isn’t necessarily the greatest. And you can see that, you know, even the great comedians, that if you read their acts on paper, it wouldn’t be as funny. Rodney Dangerfield is a perfect example of that. You know, they’re pretty kind of at times a kind of lame or hokey puns or word twists. But the fact that he’s doing a rapid fire and I’ve watched it and counted it, that every laugh hits between three to five seconds.
Doom to doom to doom to doom. And so the audience, that comic tension keeps building and building and building and then just, it’s like a wave. You’re just riding that back and forth comic tension where it’s zipping everything out, boom, boom, boom. So I try to think along those lines on how to do the impressions in a fairly rapid way where then people are recognizing that it’s just the whole presentation that’s the humor, not necessarily the… each individual impression itself. So I can imagine with the cat impressions that you’re doing time compression because between each impression from the cat, there’s like, I don’t know, four or five hours of napping. And so you’re not showing all that. Well, the idea is that the idea is not that you’re laughing at the impression is why is this grown man doing cat
and dog and vegetable impressions. And so when I see, when I see someone going with you, I was with it. I didn’t think, right. Well, if, if you find it funny alone, that’s even better. So when I watch people, when they’re going like this, there’s that level of suspense where they’re wondering what’s going on. And then they go like this is that they’re letting it go. They’re realizing is they’re laughing at the whole act, the whole presentation. Um, And then that’s the idea that you’re building that tension and they’re deciding when they want to release it rather than the classic set up, punch line, set up, punch line, set up, punch line. I do enjoy absurdist comedy. This is very absurdist in my, you know, very absurd. Yeah, well, and, you know, and that’s the challenge because especially now in the 2020s, what would you say, Bob?
90 to 95% of all stand-up is observational style. You know, people always say they’re observational. What’s the deal with airline food? What’s the deal with airline food? I’m doing my Seinfeld. I’m sure you’ve seen him in New York. What’s that? Seinfeld. He’s in New York somewhere, I’m sure. Jerry Seinfeld. He’s observational. What’s the deal with airline peanuts? Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. Sure. And that’s a well-recognized form. So the idea then in observational comedy is that if the material is good and the performer is confident, you can do any kind of observational material. And then, you know, a lot of comics do stuff that’s very relatable. They do jokes about family and dogs and cats and kids and dating. And so all those things, the audience immediately recognizes the framework of what they’re joking about. So any kind of stand-up comedy that’s
not observational. You’re challenging the audience to engage something they’re not familiar with. You know, you think back to the uh the 70s and 80s, there were a number of different, you might say, alt comics, although they were just different in their own particular style, like judy tenuta and emo phillips right and sam kinnison and uh dennis leary the kind of thing where You know, at first the audience is Gilbert Gottfried. The audience is kind of hedging because they’re not there. There’s clearly they’re seeing that there’s somebody doing something funny, but it’s not fitting that usual framework of observational comedy. And so you have to be really good and confident at it in order to then, in effect, sell it to win them over. And you have to show some vulnerability, I think. Oh, yeah, I think you’re right. Oh, in fact, you know, the classic one, Bob, is Andrew Dice Clay. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I remember seeing a very early video. It could have been the New York Comedy Club back when cable was in its infancy. And so comedy shows were simply someone pointed a camera at a stage and the comics went up and did their thing. So back then he was doing a mock-up, a parody of a New Jersey biker who’s just telling jokes because he doesn’t know how to be a real stand-up. So the Andrew Dice character in the real early 80s, like in 81, I think, he’s got the leather jacket on with the chains and he’s got the cigarette and he’s telling stupid jokes like, hey, why did the moron throw the clock out of the window? Because he wanted to see time fly. And so after a while, he started doing these misogynist jokes that actually people were laughing at.
more with him instead of at him. And so he built that up into the larger character that we all know, the one that’s telling all the nursery rhyme things. Yeah, exactly. Right, right. And so it transformed from a parody act of a character into this larger than life thing that, you know, for better or for worse, people went to shows to engage and identify characters with this foul-mouthed guy telling dirty nursery rhymes. So, you know, after the go-go 80s, things filtered. Those kind of acts then aged and filtered out because people get older. And so then the large majority of comedy nowadays, stand-up comedy, that is, is observational. I’ve noticed that even when I’ve gone online and looked up a list of what’s called an alt-comics that…
a majority of them are just doing observational humor in an alt way. It may be kind of a wacky way, but it’s still observational humor. Yeah. Can you think of anyone that does stand up that is well-recognized, reasonably recognized, that doesn’t do observational? That doesn’t do observational. Yeah, exactly. Currently, as in now. Yeah. That’s a good question here. Let me think about this. Yeah. Right. I wish I had a timer. There’s one guy that I can’t think of his name. Is his name Dimitri? Where he does this act where he’s got like a felt board or a marker board and he’s demonstrating something and so you’re laughing at this demonstration he’s doing? I don’t think I’ve seen him. Yeah, that’s the only kind of alt comedy that I’ve seen more recently. That’s interesting.
So winding this all back to your original question, Bob, when you said about a plan, I think of myself sometimes like Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb. I keep experimenting 1,000 times, 2,000 times to figure out how to get this light bulb to last forever. So it’s one thing to go up on stage, like the old cliche of a blind squirrel can find a nut every once in a while. You can do anything on stage and get a laugh once in a while. It’s how do you build that consistently where every time you go on stage, you know it’s going to work. That’s the tough part. It’s really interesting that you use Thomas Edison as your example because he just stole a lot of things. And that’s what all comics do.
That’s a real interesting statement, Bob. Stole things? Yes, he stole a light bulb even. I would say that like anybody, like any creative person, you’re cribbing out certain things that other people have done and figuring out a way to incorporate it or improve it. Oh, okay. You don’t like the word. I got you. Yeah. Yeah. So like, for example, like, you know, he was in, he was in a neck and neck race with Tesla who was aligned with Westinghouse. He stole from Tesla because Tesla worked for him. And the reason for a while was because he kept stealing everything. Okay. All right. Let’s, let’s use another example here. Cause, cause people, I don’t know if people would, I think people don’t give a rat’s ass what happened to Tesla and Edison on this show. But a more relevant example would be is Shakespeare is famously known for borrowing and using different sources to create unique material.
Now, you could look at a line of text and say, oh, that’s a text from blah, blah, blah. Or, you know, a lot of times he took from Plutarch’s histories. But it’s not as if you say he stole from Plutarch. He just borrowed the core idea or core character, and he used it to flesh out a story of Antony and Cleopatra. Yeah. Gotcha. All right. We won’t say he stole, but hey. This is fascinating. Well, this is kind of a pithy conversation, isn’t it, Bob? No, this is fascinating. But I need to turn it over to Gary for just a moment so we can transition to our game, okay? Oh, okay. Who’s Gary? So Gary Lime in the Flea Tones is going to play us a little bit of a song here, hopefully. We will see if that comes to pass. Oh, there we go. Hey, Gary, how’s it going?
Thank you. And good night. Not yet. Not yet, Gary. Not yet. Bob, you are a great asshole. We’ve got to talk more about Shakespeare and Rodney Dangerfield. Well, the thing is, there’s no such thing as a pure creative thought that came from nowhere. Things people borrow and pick up from various sources, it’s your own unique take on those. This whole show is a stolen show. Exactly. Yeah. So, that’s how we got into this conversation. But anyway, that, you know, I know, because you were saying about Thomas Edison, that’s how we got there. So, experimenting to me is this. I keep experimenting and improving on it. As it took Thomas Edison nearly 10,000 times to figure out how to make a light bulb that lasted is, for me, is then keep experimenting over this time that I’ve been doing this to figure out what,
is going to work consistently to get the audience to go over that what is it going on hump into acceptance and then laughter. Right. No, that’s Ted. I’m giving you a hard time, Ted, but no. No, no, no. It’s fine. It’s fine. It’s a real in-depth conversation. And what I’m hoping is that people will tune in and go, wow, this was great. Did you listen to this podcast? You should tune in because these guys are really good. That’s what I’m trying to do. Or they might say, wow, there was a cat. I was talking to cat impressions. That’s amazing. Now, we’re going to do a little something to do. We’re going to do a little game called Ask Not. Okay. I’m going to pose questions to you, and so then you’re going to give me the worst possible advice that you can think of for my questions. All right. Got it. Here we go. Ask Not. All right. Here we go.
So, Ted, I know you’re an impressionist by trade. But. Yes. I have a bit of a love triangle with a couple of next door cats. And I don’t know exactly what to do. I’m the male. I’ve got two females, one on either side of me. Okay. I’m in love with both of them. I don’t know what to do. I can’t choose one. But obviously, in this world that we live in, Yeah. Hard to be. I’m not a Mormon cat. Okay. I don’t believe in polygamy. Okay. What’s your advice? I would say you should first head over to Walmart and get yourself a variety of colored Crocs. Purple, green, yellow. And actually three pair. One for yourself. And the, well, then the cats have four paws, so that’s two, four, six, eight, ten pair of Crocs for you and the cats. Because that way you can bond with each other and neither cat will be jealous of the other. So, for example, you could have the green Crocs and kitty number one can wear the yellow and blue and the other can wear the purple and pink. And therefore, and when you go out in public, people won’t,
give you the evil eye is why is Bob, the human, messing around with two cats? Because you’re clearly wearing Crocs. So you have some kind of thing going on together that most people in our diverse society would respect. Unless, of course, you’re anti-DEI. In that case, you’ll be immediately shipped off to the Congo for deportation to a third world country that you neither speak the language nor know anything about. What about the Crocs that mix the colors? You know what I mean? Like the swirly Crocs or the psychedelic style Crocs? Oh, well, in that case, if that’s your style, then you should also get your hair colored to match the Crocs. And for you, it’ll be easy. You can dye your hair pink with your pink Crocs, for example, and
you’ll look fashionable. The cats, of course, hate being immersed in any kind of liquid. So you’ll have to wear a beekeeper suit to dunk the cat into the psychedelic colors to color their fur. Not only is that convenient for you for coloring the cat, but then you can open up your own honey stand at home. Oh, wow. Because you want the beekeeper suit, you may as well buy the bees to go with it. Otherwise, it’s kind of stupid, isn’t it? People go, look at this jerk. He’s got a beekeeper suit with no bees. What’s that all about? That’s true. Although, you know, there was a movie with Jason Statham called The Beekeeper. And he made out quite well in that movie, I think.
Well, that’s Hollywood. You know, it’s a lot of it’s made up. It’s kind of, you know, in real life, you know, beekeepers live a very austere life. In fact, beekeepers make wonderful lighthouse keepers because they’re poor. They don’t have regular personal hygiene and they’re just focused on one thing, you know, the bees or keeping the light on. Now, I think I got lost in the whole Crocs situation, but am I choosing one of the two cats or am I just still going with both and everybody’s wearing Crocs? Oh, I see. Well, once you and the cats have the Crocs on and you’re walking the public streets and you’ve dyed their hair, then… it’s kind of a zen thing. You can sense what vibe is working with either cat. Because everyone has their own colors. You know that, right? You might be a pink or you might be a summer pink or more of a winter blue. What color do you think I am? I think you’re kind of an El Nino hurricane. Gotcha. It’s difficult to know the season because
You know, you are like a hurricane. I appreciate how you did put any inflection to make it sound Spanish when you said El Nino. Oh, yes. Yeah, well, you know. I appreciate that. Yeah, because, you know, otherwise, you know, if you try to pretend that you know how to speak Spanish and you roll your R’s, well, your R’s might roll too far off your tongue and people know that you’re faking it. So… by being totally ignorant of how to speak a language, then people will just say he’s ignorant, but he doesn’t know any better. I just was curious. He’s an ignorant. He’s an ignorant ignoramus. El Nino. El Nino. Yeah, exactly. They try to make it sound like they’re, you know, Jimmy Smith or something. I don’t know. But anyway. Yeah. So, okay. So I’m still…
I don’t think we’ve clarified. This isn’t working for you, Bob? I haven’t explained that. Am I going with one of the cats? Am I going with both the cats? Are we setting up a commune? What’s happening here? Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Well, then, in that case, it may be useful for you to consider, then, a polycat relationship. It’s very similar to a polyurethane situation, except instead of popping plastic packing bubbles, you’re popping little bubbles off each cat because cats, can have little pus bubbles. So it’s kind of the same. Or you could be a polywog relationship with the cats, whereas as a cat catches a tadpole, you have a relationship with both the cat and the developing frog. That’s what’s called the polywog relationship. I got it. So I replace one of the cats with a frog, and I’m all good.
Well, then, because people, you know, in our diverse society, people recognize many poly relationships. Polyurethane, polyfrog. Polyester? Even here in Troy, New York, we have the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. So people have relationship with various engineering expertises. And, you know, no one bats an eye, you know. Am I kind of making Am I helping you out? Is this useful to you? I think so. I think so. Other than the dying of the hair, I think I’m on board with all the rest of it. And, you know, I already have some Crocs, and so, you know. Okay. Unfortunately, I’ve got to buy two pair for each, and it’s a whole. Yeah. It’s going to be expensive. It will be. What about gibbets? Any gibbets with this? Gibbets?
Those are the little things you put in the crocks, you know, the holes. Oh, I thought you meant giblets. And I was going to say, yes, you know, it’s nice if you go out, you buy a fresh chicken. You really don’t want to eat the innards. So that’s where the giblets on your crocks not only makes it very an outstanding and unique fashion feature, but it attracts other cats. So if you get tired of your relationship with the two original cats, you’ll have more cats following you. Yeah, chasing after you and the giblets in your crotch. Bad smells seem to attract cats. You’re right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. That’s interesting. And you could also carry a Gibson guitar for no other reason than you have some alliteration going. Your giblets as giblets with your Gibson. With your Gibson. Oh, speaking of Gibsons, Gary wants to play a little song, I think. Oh, go ahead, Gary.
Thanks so much for listening guys today, we had a great time playing for you. Wow. Far out, Kerry. Yeah, he’s really looking at it. He’s looking at Gibson. Hey, there’s Nutrino, or Nutritionist. It looks a little bit like a pool ball. All right. Thanks, Jerry. All right. So, Ted, let’s wrap this up tonight. All right. So you’ve given us a lot to think about. Way more than I expected. I just expected impressions. Well, you know, Bob, you ask for one thing and I provide many things to you so that it helps you succeed as a podcast producer. Oh, OK. I was thinking that possibly. somewhere in your life, you do more things than just impressions. Is that true? Who wants to know? Well, the audience wants to know. Okay. Well, another fun thing I do is I do Nancy and Sluggo comic strip remixes. Okay. On Facebook, it’s called, if you go on Facebook, it’s called Bushmiller Remixed.
And so you’re making that up because you look straight up in the air, you know, which I believe. Well, I have to think I have to pause to make sure I’m I’m articulating what people understand, because people may not be familiar with the Nancy and Sluggo cartoon per se. But anyway, on the on the Bushmiller, the first transgender comic book characters, I think. Yeah. So anyway, Nancy, the Nancy cartoon is really boring. It’s tedious. The jokes are lame as hell. So what’s fun is to remix them to make them. Yeah. So that’s, that’s my side gig. I enjoy doing that. I always put post mine every Wednesday and Saturday morning. Wednesday and Saturday. So comics online. So we think that the comics, you know, went away with the Sunday paper, but not in this case.
got a pretty sizable drawing. You know what’s fun about those is when you’re doing uh ones with song lyrics. So I like to do um nancy remixes while utilizing some nugget from the Ramones. Or my favorites is when i do some that um are using the lyrics from barnes and Barnes, Fish Heads. You know that one, Bob? Oh, yeah, sure. You know fish Heads? Yeah. Uh, roly roly poly fish heads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Those are fun. The late great bill paxton was in that video as a matter of fact. Oh yeah. Yeah. Do you know that? How about that? I did not know that. You know, bill paxton at all. No, he’s an actor. Well, I know about him. I know who he is. Yeah. He was in that. Yeah. I was one of his friends. He was friends with what the people, the artist who created the song.
Now, I did not know until people are commenting on the strip is that, is it Bill Mummy? Billy Mummy, yes. Billy Mummy is one of the Barnes of Barnes and Barnes from Lost in Space. I did not know that. It may be the only thing that he’s known outside of Lost in Space. Well, he does other music as well. Oh, yeah? He’s really quite a musician. Oh, you know more about him than I do then. Yeah. I mean, besides going to all these, uh, fair, you know, the, the nostalgia things where people, he gives people autographs and everything. No, he’s quite the musician and fish heads was probably, I mean, that’s probably one of the more, uh, well-known things because the phenomenon back in the day, cause it was, uh, uh, you know, right at the cusp of, uh, music videos and so forth. And they had a video out there and whatnot and everybody loved it. And, uh,
He aligns with Dr. Demento and then Weird Al and all that kind of stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, back in the very early days, the infancy of MTV, that was on a regular rotation. But then that was the day when MTV just had a number of crudely made music videos from obscure bands. And it’s literally, Bob, that someone was shooting them – What do you call it? Air guitaring their music video on like a little eight millimeter camera. Right. Yeah, exactly. They’ll give a certain, you know, cachet then. So tell me the name of the comic strip again with Nancy. Oh, on Facebook, it’s called. Well, on Facebook, it’s called the Bush Miller Remixed. And it’s anyone that does remix cartoons of the Nancy and Slogo cartoon. Wow.
yeah i didn’t even know that existed so this is uh well you know, you know a lot about, you know, Barnes and Barnes. I have to match you you know you know nugget for nugget for facts or you think about have you ever thought about branching out into andy capp or uh you know no no just that you know as a kid again especially by the seventies and early eighties, the Nancy cartoon was pretty lame. You’d feel dumber after you read it. So this is a way. The cats and jammer kids. You ever want to do one of those remixes? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no other. No, no. Nancy cartoon in particular was so lame that it’s actually fun to change it around and improve upon it in myriad ways.
Yeah, I think I should check that out. I do. Sure. OK, yes. Check it out, viewers. Yeah. Let me know what you think. This is a conversation that I never imagined would ever happen. Well, you know, again, Bob, my idea, you know, my my my my burden is to make your show really interesting. We’ll bring the neutrino back up. OK, sure. Plus, he has his other friend. too you know what’s his other friend quark oh uh well okay so uh here we go uh here you go hi thank you, Bob. I appreciate it because this surprise guest neutrino everybody he’s kind of boring. I’m not a neutrino. I’m a nutritionist oh right i’m sorry yeah nutritionist yeah bob are you are you eating are you eating regular fiber every day? Hey, don’t forget about me. I’m
Barney bacteria. Hey, Bob, I want to say hello to all the good bacteria in your gut. This is really stupid, you know? Hey, who invited you? I did. It’s my show. Now, Barney, do you travel from person to person? Because I would think if you’re a gut bacteria that you would leave the system and then have to get into another system. Yeah, well, you know, it was easier when Spirit Airlines was around because it was cheaper. They had a lot of poop flights, you know, so it was easy to travel back in that day. Well, that’s really good. Now we’re going really gross here. I’m keeping the show real classy, and you’re talking about poop jokes. Oh, sorry about that. Sorry, Bob. I want to make sure we do this on a classy level. Yes, thank you very much.
Sorry about that. So, uh, which one of you is Nancy and which one’s sluggo in this scenario? Uh, Yeah. No, no, no. I’m the Mary. No, I’m the Mary. Sorry, Bob. We still have to work it out. I think you’re both Phyllis. Ted, thank you so much for being here tonight. Okay. Best of thanks to your special guest, Trino, and to Gut Bacteria. And everybody, eat your fiber. Catch Ted on Plazable. And other places.