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That’s right, the third season is here.  There’s a new intro/outro, a new member, and a new format.  Awesomeness ensues.

In this episode, Turkebeneministan gets a new presiminister, Bret gets a new job (what’s new, eh?), and the new guy gives us an update on killer cookies.

The new intro, for all the videos we are not making.

First of all, we’re sorry.  We’re sorry we have lives.  We’re sorry that we cannot put them off for a while and make you videos all the time.  Secondly, you’re welcome for the new show.  We filmed it two weekends ago and finished it up today.  Yeah.  Enjoy!

Also, It’s snowed every weekend for a month.  It has also melted every following day.  It’s stupid.  I like snow, but in large quantities and play-on-able.  Skiing and tubing for the win!  Tennessee for the fail!

Bret reveals his true self. Let no more be said.

Since Alistair is looking for a better job--If he were to look for a new job, I mean--Bret has some advice for him.

Yes, I know, two videos uploaded in three days! It’s exciting!

Oh, and we’ve gone back to ad lib-ing everything. Scripting ended up being too hard (it made us take two weeks to get our first one out).

Allow the celebrations and jubilation to commence! We have our first episode of the new season! It took us a while, but we don’t have all the time in the world, you understand. Anyway, we scripted this one. It was a little bit easier for us to do it that way. The ad lib thing is really hard to do every week.

Bret shows us his not-so pearly whites. It’s dentist time, babay.

Okay.  So we have a new room setup.  We will likely still film the majority of the show in the room.  However, there will be some major with all-super-caps changes.  Firstly, it will be mostly scripted.  We cannot guarantee that our propensity to ad lib will not affect the show, but we can guarantee that there will be fewer “dead spots” in the program.  Also, we may add other sections with other people, and we will most likely need to come up with a name for Stephen Barry.  I still like Stephen Nehpets (a palindrome, because I love palindromes).  And we’ll work on an alter ego for him.  Also, I will try to write a new intro.  If we can’t all agree on a new intro song, we’ll take what I’ve come up with and let you, the people, vote.  And then we’ll look at the results, throw them out, and pick one we like.

With our schedules even more busy than ever, we may end up making the show once every two weeks.  We’ll try our best to push one out a week, but no promises.  We now have two cameras with which to work (thus angles and more video editing) and script writing to do.

Two weeks.  Our season premiere will happen within two weeks.  I hope.  It should be one you can sink your teeth into.  …into which you can sink your teeth.  Prepositions.  Fragments.  Hints.

Well, we have two AWS videos yet to edit and upload because we had no time at the end of the school year.  Then Robby went to camp (not exactly vid-edit territory) and I have a pathetic computer (which is about to change, as you can read in my last post).  So, I hope to get them up before school starts, at least.  Now to other business.

Stephen (SBTETO2.0, or SBTETO1.0 as Robby would say, because he hasn’t caught up with the version numbers yet) will very likely be back at good ‘ole SAU again in the fall!  He will also attempt to get room 2592 (where we previously shared a room) accross the hall, or 2594, which is a corner room across the hall (like ours, without the extra space).  Soooooooo, he’ll probably be in our AWS videos.  Also, we will start inviting guests (not just Bret Thompson, Bret Thompson, Bret Thompson and the like).  If you would like to be a guest, please tell us!  We would love to have you on our show!

Also, I’m thinking it would be cool to change up our format a bit.  Adding new people will certainly change things a bit.  Maybe we could pre-write skits (written sketches?  really?  after all this ad-lib nonsense?) and have everybody change roles every time (or everybody but Alistair).  Maybe we could have discussion panel meetings about different topics, where Alistair is the moderator/host.  Well, enough of my ideas, let’s hear yours.  What do you want us to do?  (Brooke, don’t you dare….)

Can’t wait for season 2!  And season 1 will come out on DVD (with a nominal disc/shipping fee perhaps) when I get the time to do that as well.  Well, more about that later, when it’s relevant.

Take my advice--don’t take Bret’s advice.

Alistair makes the worst decision possible by inviting Bret onto his show once again.
Bret proceeds to show Alistair the power of magic. Magic that comes out of your ears, blood-covered and screaming. Just pick a card.