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Hi everyone--

We'll be recording our final Even More Qs of 2023 soon, and this is the place to put those questions. Here are a few prompts to get your Q Brain Queueing:

--What's a question you think we've never been asked before?

--Do you want Katy and Cody's advice on a life or relationship problem? (Email submissions@somemorenews.com if you want to remain anonymous)

--Would you like Cody to write a short song inspired by... your pet? an adventure you had in 2023? something you learned this year? an earnest hope for 2024?

--And, why not, toss us some holiday questions if you want.

Note: This episode may be released to our main podcast feed in early 2024, but you'll get a longer version and we'll get it to you before the holidays.

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IProvide ThePaint

Do you guys ever come up with an idea for an episode or a creative endeavor that seems like an excellent idea, and then like halfway through working on it, you find that it no longer "sparks joy?" What do you do in that situation? Do you push through and hope it'll come out great on the other side? Do you scrap it and mourn the loss of your creative baby? Do you feed it to Warmbo who, I assume, feeds on the shards of broken dreams? Where is the final resting place of creativity deferred?

chris dinardo

Is engagement an actual solution?

Paul

Is Cody into guitar pedals? Any current favorites or anything that he's itching to get? Thanks very much (much!)

Dr. DNA, PhD

Some things I'd be into Cody writing some stuff about!: 2023 stuff Eric is a very good boy (yes he is, yes he is!) (Eric is my dog's name) It sure rules to have a romantic partner! Grief is a fucking bear, huh? Learning how to metal scream is fun and easy! Hopes for 2024 Let's keep this whole "partner" thing going! Does anyone want to make metal music with me about sad stuff? And then maybe later also things like fungi, plants, bacteria, and animals? I love my dad, but I can't wait for his house to be built so he moves out!

DVNT_Pinkie

Have you ever considered fully fleshing out the WEU (Warmbo Extended Universe) as a SMN side quest episode

Jphilli

Q and Advice: how do you relax? A friend pointed out that sleeping isn't the same as relaxing and I've been really tense. I try to do hobbies but it all feels like it requires more buy in in terms of time and emotion. Also could we get a love song about a couple who's been together for a while? Not that new love stuff!

Jess Hrudey

Why do so many would-be dictators and fascists have stupid hair? My home country The Netherlands just gave the most seats in its recent election to Geert Wilders’ racist party (officially it’s called the party for freedom, but it’s actually the party of “we hate Muslims particularly Moroccan people). Check the guy out; that’s some seriously stupid hair. Why oh why the stupid hair?

Andrew Stammworthy

Potential song inspiration, our new golden retriever named Lando who just turned 1. His 2 brain cells have to work extra hard during service dog training and he is a dirty sock thief. Thanks for all the great work and have a great holiday.

Squidnipples

Here's my Q: So, Cody, who did you romance in your BG3 playthrough? We NEED to know!

LoveYourFood

My recent experience in 2023 for Cody tunez: I made an appointment to get my flu and COVID shots at the same time in a couple of weeks. Three after I make the appointment, I caught the flu. Hoping I'm well enough by the time of the appointment to actually get my shots. While I'm sick in bed, I discover that we have picked up bedbugs somewhere (there's a huge surge of them in my city right now, probably got them from transit). So we do a thorough search and inform the building what we found. A few days later, I'm not all the way better, but well enough to get my shots, so I go to the appointment (on a Friday). While I'm out getting my shot, my husband gets a notification that they're sending an exterminator on Monday to do the first treatment. So I spend all weekend, still in recovery from the flu, and with two sore arms from my flu and COVID shots tearing our apartment apart to prepare for the exterminator on Monday.

Marshall

when are the hot shapes going on tour?

Thalandor46

How much cream could a Warmbo corn if a Warmbo could corn cream? This can be either a Q or a song prompt, your choice!

Lustful_Octopus

do you think your Popcorn Movie Dystopia video from 2020 has aged well, or aged poorly? Why?

Sean Piper

I know Katy has mentioned no one really ever asks her about her butthole, so my question is - what are your pets getting for Christmas this year?

Nexus Trimean

"If Santa slimmed down, could I get my Christmas presents faster, or is there a better option, some kind of Santa Sling shot, or Santa based Cannon?"

Chas Coffman

What were the films or plays that inspired you to get into the business? Are there dream roles you've wanted to play on stage or screen, or are there parts you've written yourself that you want to see brought to life you think people haven't seen yet?

Bob Demmon

Today Governor Whitmer signed historic legislation mandating 100% renewable energy by 2040. Is it "a historic clean energy bill package", or "an historic clean energy bill package"?

Marissa Lopez

Q: Would either Cody or Katy run for political office? If so, what? Another Q: Who was your favorite character in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Was it Q? Is this why you keep asking for Q? Last Q: Are you bringing back a version of Worst Year Ever for the 2024 election?

AJ Woodburn

I know a pair of dogs worthy of song. My dog is a doberbull, mostly Doberman, shes Visla brown and 7 years old. We adopted her as a toe-biting puppy from Helen Woodward. Her name is Harley (middle name: Quinn, because she's crazy and only ever wants to play.) like, even when she wants to eat she wants to play while I'm getting her food ready. She has a boyfriend. His name is Obi Juan (his dad is Mexican American) and he's a black lab with a big body and a tiny head. They genuinely love eachother and spend lots of time together. One time he and his parents were on a vacation driving thru Arizona and they were in a bad car accident, they were hurt and he got scared and ran away. There was a 2 week long search before he was found. his parents were still hurt, so my wife and I went to look for him, didn't find him, went home, then flew to AZ again when he was found and drove back to socal that night with him in the back seat. As soon as he saw us he recognized us and started crying. We brought him back to Harley and they still love eachother. He only likes car rides when she's with him now.

Data Diva

If Warmbo say down with an interviewer like Terry Gross, what would he say about his philosophy of life and his feelings about Mr Cody? What was his life like before he found Mr Cody? What was his childhood like? What are his goals and dreams?

Steve Snyder

This isn’t a great question Jonathan so probably don’t use it, but have you guys re-watched The Family Stone lately? I saw it when it came out back years ago and I liked it and felt for a lot of the characters, but after re-watching it this year I’ve come to the opinion that there are no decent people in that movie. They all are homophobic and racist in their weird rich white ways, the sisters from one family swap relationships for the brothers of another family, nobody behaves well. What do you guys think? Have you seen it lately? Am I being too judgemental?

Jesso Ossej

What's on Cody & Katy's Spotify Wrapped summaries?

Moira

Q: As a single parent to a 3 year old, I don’t have much energy for dating. Is my Baldur’s Gate 3 romance an acceptable replacement for real-life connection? For a song, my kid (Ezra) has been narrating the thoughts of the dog, cat, and various household appliances. He even gives them different voices. It cracks me up and I’d love for it to be immortalized in song (if you feel so inclined and inspired).

A Jar Full of Bees

How would you guys rank punctuation in terms of sexiness?

Nicholas Thwing

Where does the SMN team stand on nuclear power? As someone who's grown up and still lives near several superfund sites, I don't trust capitalism to run the plants safely or store the waste properly, but I could very well be biased. I've heard many arguments in support of nuclear power but none of them adequately address my concerns about an economic system that prioritizes profit over safety. Could make a good episode? Holiday question: I hate egg nog. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Luna Oldenburg

What is the quintessential holiday flavor? For me it’s vanilla, like in sugar cookies. For my wife, it’s chocolate, like hot cocoa. Any mint fans?

Dylan

What is your position on bringing back Heinz EZ Squirt colored ketchup (green, purple, etc.)?

Thereal_VanWalsh

What kinds, if any, festive presents do you get your pets? Also, how are the pets?

Thereal_VanWalsh

If you want a rude one~ whats the funniest thing to happen to you whilst having seggs? *please do not include my name * the patrions get to know, lol ty

Rory Coble

I have two dogs; a small, blind double Merrill and a gray pitty. There names are Neptune and Nebula. So maybe a song about space dogs.

fsda asfas

What do you do to relax after a tough/long day? I.E. Long shower, bunch of youtube, games etc. It'd be easier to refer to me as Lin. I don't know how to change my patreon name.

Fabian Rosdalen

Did you ever believe in something that you now know to be BS? (For me - it was astrology... even got a tattoo from that time... -.-')

Alex Gorley

Cody has said in a couple episodes that Dr. Seuss is actually pronounced like "Soyce". Is that just a joke? If it's true, then "Suessical: The Musical" is just nonsense. How will I be able to take it seriously anymore?

Steven Smith

What would you do if you and Katy woke up in a freaky Friday situation, and had a full body switcheroo

Connor Ard

Not a Q nor a song prompt but when Soren said “when it happens you’ll know…” and then yesterday, now we know.

Marissa Lopez

The more I see articles and such about how Democrats have a winning strategy for the next election by putting state abortion protections on the ballot, the more I think they purposefully let Roe be reversed because they knew Biden would fail otherwise because of broken promises and everything else. What do you think?

Thereal_VanWalsh

Of all the cannon lore smn has had over the years, from the ads and evolving side characters, what are some of your favorite inside jokes from the show?

Dyxtan

Could you sing a song about Wikipedia?

Armando MC

You all spend a lot of time covering challenging and sometimes upsetting issues we're facing a society but I'd like to get your take on an aspirational topic: What does your ideal day look like?

Robert Spremulli

Serious Q. With all the fuckery in our politics and political leaders, where a treasonist rapist has a decent chance of being elected president because the other realistic option is slightly older and drinks a milkshake with a straw, how do you keep hope for a better future alive?

David Resler

My partner and I have this thought experiment we call "The List" where we try to identify and reason out individuals from history that, if totally eliminated (not like time-travel murder style, just if they had never existed) would cause the biggest impact to current society. For instance, you could eliminate Kissinger and wipe out all his crimes, but if you went a step back and eliminated Nixon, Kissinger probably doesn't have the same rise to power, and you got rid of everything Nixon did. Who are some names you think could have huge impacts if they'd never existed?

Jasmine Smith

Could you guys do more with Warmbo? I personally find him hilarious. Dedicated shorts? Also I would love a Warmbo plushie in my life <3

Bolko Schweinitz

Q: Jonathan has become such an important part of the whole SMN Podcast experience (i.e. during his parental leave he was dearly missed). Why is he not getting properly introduced as part of the show in the beggining, but only ever Caty, Cody and a respective guest?

Stephanie Kay

I’m probably way too late with this, but just in case, I’m curious what you both think about relationships between an older woman and younger man (say an 8 or 10+ year age gap). I’m guessing both your official positions is that of course they’re fine, so I’m more interested in how you would feel about them personally. Have you been in one before, and if not, do you imagine you’d be fine with it or do you think you might find yourself uncomfortable in one way or another?

CR M

Q: Huge Fan of the channel. I've noticed that your ad breaks on YT (I just joined the patreon) are noticeably better than many other channels I've personally seen. The writing, skits, delivery, the hosts' personalities really shine through, and even some great laugh out loud moments (Cody chugging the AG1 always kills me). My question is- do your advertisers notice this above-and-beyond effort to making the ads entertaining? Are you getting some extra money, (WHICH IS FAKE AND WE MADE UP), at least? All best, keep making great content please!

Emily Perkins

Can we please see all of Katy’s art piece behind her in the Patreon fake ads? It’s so beautiful! I think it’s a weaving and I’m a weaver so I want to see and hear more about it please 🙏 ilysm

Emily Perkins

I would like to hear Cody write a song about how much he loves his dog Maggie. That was my dog’s name too and we lost her this summer unexpectedly. My partner and I are both big fans of the channel and would love to hear more about your pup!

Kyle Dupree

Has wormbo ever been to Texas, my 20 yo sister is pregnant, and keeps talking “Mr Cody this Mr Cody that Mr Cody famous and he plays guitar better than Jimmy Page”this is obvious propaganda wormbo has been spreading please keep him in Florida where he belongs, I don’t know if you know the reproduction cycle of wormbos from what I can find about a 7 day gestation period so yikes

Aednik K

Hallo So I honestly don't know if you have covered this before as I'm a relatively new viewer. I suppose I'm asking IF it's been covered before, too? I'm Canadian so this fairly strict "two party or death" thing going on in the US is a bit different than what we have. Though admittedly our system is slipping that way due to democracy just kinda taking a dump overall these days. I'm not the most articulate I'll try to get to a single point with my query. I've been wondering if this obsession with "Democrat vs "Republican", "left vs right" or increasingly up here in Canada "Liberal vs Conservative", this hyperfocus on political identity being one or the other (and also becoming an increasing part of one's personal identity), do you think it is an evolution of say, perhaps, confederate vs union, this religious group vs that religious group, etc? Basically a means to propagandize and weaponize "you're not in my community/camp and therefore you're my enemy, we couldn't possibly find common group (even though we do have SO much in common)". Basically the obsession/hyperfocus on left vs right is a way to "other" people you don't agree with and create division. I ask this as I notice it's a common theme in politics/democracy, comment threads, news stories (yes, even SMN does it a lot), increasingly so. I get it's a convenient way to classify people and behaviour, but I feel it's leaning into a sort of silent civil war of kinds, where "left vs right" folks call each other names, attack each other's personalities etc and refuse to work together because of it. EVEN THOUGH IT'S NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT TO WORK TOGETHER!! sigh. We don't have much time left all of yous...

Skuimel

So I joined Patreon last night for the first time just for you guys: my all-time favorite channel. I watch your new episodes religiously and I would consider Some More News an even better version of Last Week Tonight. My question is: would you consider making a video about the Democratic primary nominees the same way you did for the Republican nominees? The mainstream news has been extremely effective at pretending they don’t exist and discouraging anyone from talking about them for fear of “weakening” King Biden. It is very reminiscent to me of what they tried to do to suppress Bernie’s momentum (which you made a video about), but much more effective this time. I’m even hearing that some states are trying to skip the primary entirely. I’m eager to get excited about a candidate again; lord knows Biden isn’t exciting anyone, given that so many people would prefer a “generic democrat” over him. But I am dying to hear you vet out the other candidates because I think you are “Fair and Balanced” enough to cut through the bullshit and figure out who’s got the best policies and determine if any really give two shits about trying to fix this broken country. I’m especially interested in Marianne Williamson, because I get the same vibe from her as I did from Bernie (before he gave up) since she’s expressed similar progressive ideas going back to the 90s. I’m just dying to see if any of the primary candidates can stand up to your expert scrutiny, and I hope that the more informed people are about the options, the more excited people will be to actually vote instead of giving up… Anyway, I appreciate you guys so much and also PS I have the same birthday as Cody 🤷‍♀️ thanks for listening!