Austin Powers

We showed you that footage yesterday of another Dodge Challenger.

There are no constraints in this parking lot, and yet he's coming at us like Austin Powers.

Uh, remember this scene from Austin Powers, [laughs] where he just tries to park the vehicle that he's in? And you can just look at this.

Um, it's kind of incredible.

You guys are so right.

It's weird, but I feel like you do owe him your votes or whatever.

Um, he's made it possible for you.

For me, I think it's another Austin Powers moment.

I'd like you to wear

an Austin Powers wig from Look Sharp.

I mean, that is a solution.

What do you think about that one, Megan?

And the nice part is, is once your country is subverted by an evil AI, there is no price you won't pay to fix it.

That's how you get like a great Austin Powers movie, by the way.

Are you saying, Sam, that things that aim to be free and democratic then become premium and exclusive? Isn't

that generally how things work?

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he'd be thinking of that one every day ladies and gentlemen he's been working on this scripting redrafting crossing it out trying again eventually he went with route one yeah but you got a point because there isn't really much going on in the world of doctor who at the moment is there no we haven't already covered

yes we've had a flurry with um ground Well, it is a bit thin on the ground.

We've had a flurry with Future Doctor circuit breaker stuff.

And if you listened last week, you'll have heard our review of the Kaleidoscope book.

But that's the way of it, at least.

So there's more.

circuit breaker in two weeks i think uh and there's also another 13th doctor so we will have who's stuff to talk about yes yes like you said it's rather thin on the ground um well we made a bit of our own content didn't we because uh we were both at the horsham film festival um Which is a film festival in Horsham run by a local company.

Yep.

Fishing, too.

That's another very Vermont and New Hampshire sport, which is very much like, I don't know, fishing and bird watching.

It's kind of like Pokemon hunting.

We're like, oh,

They

don't

let you shoot the birds, though.

If they did, it'd be like the perfect combination of sports.

Danger Powers' personal effects.

Actually, my name is Austin Powers.

Danger's my middle name.

I'm gonna need you to sign these release forms.

Oh, thanks.

[laughs]

Austin Powers [sighs] [door slams] International Man of Mystery.

Always wanting to have fun, Austin.

another question that we've got to check in with the audience.

Austin Powers.

What's the

vote? So far, the vote tally on whether to open up Austin or not is neck and neck.

staring out past Fogg and Strobe and Bezos' strong, bald head, and into the large room, where at least half a dozen men had basically shattered a bistro table trying to get a better look at Marilyn Monroe.

Sinatra's wife knew, as did Roy Orbison and Austin Powers, who stood nearby, that it was only minutes before he was supposed to go on stage, and that forcing any sort of conversation on him in this mood of focus would be extremely stupid.

The fact was, Sinatra had already been waiting for more than an hour for his moment at the mic, and at this point would have been more than fine with just heading back to his cabin.

He was tired of the constant low-grade pitch and gravity under his feet.

If you see Jerry Garcia walking through, you're not drunk.

You might be, but he's here.

Greg, suited up as Austin Powers in blue velour and a ruffled collar, was using the bridge of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode as an opportunity for a little crowd work.

Inaugurating our first evening of karaoke, Powers was all finger guns and shagadelic horniness, now jerking spastically through an ecstatic mashed potato on stage.