K and Warren are back from their hiatus to talk about Hylics - a video game series that has completely rewritten K's brain - There's even a musical!

Calm your mandibles and prepare to usurp the king of the Moon and end the Spell of Absurdity with your newfound best friends in an argillaceous world - discovering that the real power was friendship, gestures, and, of course, paper cups!

Opening song - A parody of "Everybody's Got the Right" from Assassins by Stephen Sondheim. Original MIDI sequencing done by Matt Hudson of Hamienet. Hylicization of said MIDI, remixing, vocals, parody lyrics, and drums by K.

Warren's Playthrough of Hylics: https://youtu.be/lMjGw4-4YSE?si=AfZhd5nSjCNyDRuW

Promo: Sage and Savant

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Lyrics to the opening song:

Dracula:

Confidant good-en!

Gland pull, end lament.

Aggregating friends.

You wanna kill a Moon tyrant?

Come on and kill the Moon tyrant.

Wayne go. Gestures incognito

If felled just consume a warm burrito

World remains in a spell of absurdity

Life gone mad, genesis molded from clay

Ambulate mountain with haste

Snap gesture melt into paste

Afterlife restore and meld papillae

Dedusmuln cup attainable

Answers obtainable

Your will increased for good?

Archaeologist prenticehood

Join Wayne and kill Lord Gibbulus.

chorus

Respite world recover from absurdity

Regicide bonding or that's

what they say

Aim for moon Space shuriken

Holopleather abalative

Order brought to chaotic world of clay

Blue orphan

Endling of your kind

Skulls Ambulate underground

Fate enmeshed and intertwined

Join Wayne

Lord Gibby must be discrowned

Azure one,

Leech flesh cleave to yours

Gauntlets grabbed and refound

Azure one,

Don't neglect to smash bugs for might.

Dread knight leave your vault

Channel lightning bolt

Ancient one exalt

Pongorma:

Let us join and obliterate lord Gibby

World went mad but not all is as it seems

Gain clean status

Grind the meat

Hylem restores

Brief defeat

Together upend the absurdity

Pongorma and Dracula:

These hylics

Dracula:

Creatures of flesh and will

Pongorma:

Catlinited

Dracula:

World chelated

Pongorma and Dracula:

All hylics

Pongorma:

Respite from death fulfilled

Dracula:

In the hylem

Pongorma:

Restore your cat-ions

Pongorma and Dracula:

Slay Gibby

Pongorma:

Revive and do not quit

Dracula:

That's it!

Pongorma:

And reveal your true grit

Wayne, Somsnosa, and Dracula:

Everybody's got a plan to kill Gibby

Dedusmuln and Pongorma:

And maybe blow the moon to smithereens

Wayne, Somsnosa, and Dracula:

To smithereens

All:

Clawman, foothead, Monoops

Slay them then collect what drops

Everybody needs more lucidity

Usurp, end this spell of Absurdity!

In this episode, K introduces Warren to their new favorite director, screenwriter, and playwright, Melvin Van Peebles by way of the musical "Don't Play us Cheap". We briefly talk about Melvin Van Peebles' amazing life, we discuss metaphorical cannibalism (it makes sense in context), and Warren learns about The Screwtape Letters. Remember folks, "If you see a devil, SMASH HIM!"

Promo: One Mic Black History

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In this episode, K and Warren watch and discuss Shuffle Along - a Black musical classic from 1921 by Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, Flournoy Miller (whose name K can't pronounce), and Aubrey Lyles. K discovers their new favorite author, Caseen Gaines, we discuss the double standards in what is considered a "classic", and Warren discovers that love uh ... finds a way.

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This week, K and Warren discuss a production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder that helped get them through a rough time. Warren mispronounces character names (as he does) and K goes on some tangents. We're back, baby!

Promo: Animorphing Time

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This week, we round out this February's Black Theatre History series with a look at musical revues, Donald McKayle, and his 1981 revue, Sophisticated Ladies! We discuss jazz, modern dance, and Warren uses this episode to say "scat" more times than he has ever said it! It's a toe tapping good time in this episode of Tone Deaf!

Promo: The Bird Brain Podcast

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This week we cover one of K's all time favorite musicals to watch and be in, Once on This Island. We discuss two versions that K was in before watching the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's production. Will Warren have the same fondness that K has for this musical? 

We also discuss colorism, the importance of having an all-Black cast, Rosa Guy, and just how dark the original Little Mermaid was!

Promo: Book of Lies the Podcast

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This is a long one but we had a lot to say on it!

K introduces Warren to his second opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Along the way, we talk about an amazing Black opera singer, Anne Wiggins Brown, we discuss representation in theatre, and Warren writes a sequel.

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Correction: K mentions the "Rap Saturday's Voyeur" with the incorrect year. The year should have been 2005 and not 2003.

This week, K and Warren talk about the inaugural production of the local musical, SLAC Cabaret. We discuss corn flakes, people who look related, the Salt Lake Airport, and Multi-level marketing! Thank you again to Latoya Cameron for the tickets! 

Promo: Cee U Next Tuesday Podcast

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Sorry that we've been gone for so long, folks. We are back with Warren's least favorite musical!

This week, K and Warren tackle Carousel as a tribute to someone who was an amazing dad - very much unlike the protagonist of this show! We discuss red flags, mill workers, and K's awakening as a furry! We promise it makes sense! This episode got surprisingly raunchy and has some of the most cursed content to ever grace Tone Deaf! Find out just how much Carousel doesn't hold up in this week's episode!

Promo: Animorphing Time

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