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aRVIN Rashley Arvin Rashley is modelled on conservative talk show hosts whose idea of a discussion is to badmouth, overspeak, and pedantically shout down his opponent. On the surface he is historionic, and the kind of demented social talker who feels he is intellectually superior to everyone in the room. In fact, he has elaborately concocted a false resume that touts high-proďŹ le connections over actual intellectual prowess and name drops to site persona over content always miscontruing the real subjects arguments. But getting it wrong doesn’t stop him from arrogantly plowing ahead. He is a bull in clean room. His show is called
RAY MON Ray Mon is the modern version of hippy. Part philosopher, part idiot savant, he connects issues to ideas and twists and turns them into ideas that, on the surface are actual conundrums that can confound. Based in part on Maynard G. Krebs of Dobie GIllis fame, and Dennis Hopper’s characters both The Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now and Billy from Easy Rider. He is argumentative, non-listening and equally as set in his ways as his conservative counterpart, ARVIN RASHLEY. But as a savant he sees the connections between events both historical and mythical and any chance he gets an ear, he espouses them giving light to their potential conspiratorial underpinnings. His favorite would is “man”.
herr stroecher Herr Stroecher of Mainz, GDR is a former CFO of a major German car manufacturer. In his slighly maniacal way he acts like a spurned lover and reveals the honest truth about the auto manufacturing process. He is part vehemance and part suicidally depressed and reveals what he knows on ARVIN RASHLEY’s show under the blurred censor banner over his eyes. It is a spiteful, revenge against the consumer that he secretly and gleefully reveals.
Gil Guarneri An expose on Rashley’s show of the mob has Gil Guarneri revealing his ties to military recruitment, toll- takers and toy designers with a gay agenda.
da crunch Phily “DA CRUNCH� Pangeas is a jilted former Education Union leader with a grudge. No longer allowed to advise nuns on disciplinary techniques and general church policy he is forced to organize pimps in a labor dispute with sex workers in Las Vegas.
Ed Carva Ed Carva is the extreme liberal counterpart to ARVIN. He is loud, always more clever than the host citing actual facts and intellectual theory in debate form to his great glee. But there is a quiet strength to him as well which may come off as slightly smug when he sometimes displays a kind of simple quiet to display his thoughts. These moments are seen as his thoughts in thought balloons and tella mischevious side to his thinking. Interrupting himself, his words come out a bit jumbled, not ustered but as aphorisms that have weight to them. He is based in part on James Carville and part on the jedi Master,Yoda.
f. Fred Ballast Mr. Ballast is a shill for the insurance, drug, and banking business. As a Washington-based lobbyist, he thinks like a canditate, has always seen himself as a preening, empty headed manipulator who can through the simple power of brand awareness become popular. He and Rashley are obvious friends, and the host is constantly giving him lobs that folllow with ”you should run, “F” or ”run Ballast RUN!!!”