Season 3 Episode 22: The Omniverse

A new and disturbing incursion into the Clayne Cast Universe forces the boys to hatch a plan to cleanse the universe of bad actors. The seeds for Season 4 are being planted. Long live the Omniverse.

## Episode Summary

A beautiful day for a crack in the Omniverse! Manifesting getting out of hand. DIB! Hit record Drew!

Nate wants everyone to lay down your guns and put up your fists, fight like a strong man. He basically wants the ending to the movie *Friday*. This episode introduces us to the Omniverse, and the manifold of heroes and villains that occupy it, mainly situated in the town of Omnivale.

Due to the ClayneCast Universe going to hell recently, CCE is planning on escaping to a new, safer place; the Omniverse. ClayneCast is going to draft 3 characters to import into the universe, and also who they may be not sure. Renfield? Grundy? Grogu? Negan? Zach Braff's character from scrubs. Drew is Dr. Cox.

All of the recent manifesting by ClayneCast has finally begun to pierce the veil of reality and may be getting out of hand. Our hosts discover an individual that was being a freak to several of the Lethal Weapon Cast, including the Gute and Trish Murtaugh. They pledge to dial it back but it may already be too late to stop.

### Father-Son-Updates

Drew's son sometimes sees Mark Wahlberg when he gets up. He has many many snacks late at night, including coffee which interferes with his sleep schedule. Initially Tom's boy had to have his hands tied up in his gelatenous ooze form to prevent him from being a "bad kid", and keep him from touching his girl cousins. One of his cousins had a cameo in the new D&D movie!

The Dads are thinking about adopting even more sons! And maybe even a woman??

### Lethal Weapon 4 first half recap

The fourth installment in the Lethal Weapon series was pretty well received by the hosts, at least better than the 3rd one. More Action less talk, but very typical of the late 90s action/buddy cop movies. Nate still calls these episodes of Lethal weapon. Tom proves what a freaky memory he has by recalling the name of the bad guy from the previous movie, Jack Travis.

#### Watchalong

click here and see when the cams stop working for a bit and then tell Drew all about it!!!

#### Synopsis

copy and pasted from IMDB

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

In this installment of the Lethal Weapon series, Lorna Cole is pregnant with Martin Riggs' baby; they are not married but both are thinking about it and have misgivings and fears. Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant and has secretly married Lee Butters, a young cop who works at the same precinct as Murtaugh and Riggs, though she cannot tell her father because he doesn't want her to date cops. Butters has been doing all kinds of things for Murtaugh around the police station, which Murtaugh incorrectly suspects is due to some kind of homosexual attraction to him, when in reality, Butters is actually trying to stay on his father-in-law's good side.

The rest of the movie revolves around Riggs, Murtaugh, and Butters' investigation of a Chinese immigrant smuggling ring, which begins after a vessel is captured with a cargo hold of slave labor. That night, Murtaugh, along with Riggs and Leo Getz (Pecsi) (who had now become a private detective) finds a small dingy alongside with an entire Chinese family who he 'rescues' and provides shelter for at his house, claiming to be 'freeing slaves'.
Information about Uncle Benny (Kim Chan) then leads them to Chinatown, where they are introduced to their new arch-nemesis, a high-ranking Triad negotiator named Wa Sing Ku (played by Jet Li). Wa Sing Ku is organizing the release from prison of four overlords or Triads, called the Four Fathers, from a corrupt Chinese general in exchange for counterfeit money. The captive artist working on the master-plate to create the 'funny money' is the elder uncle to Hong, the father of the Chinese family Murtaugh has rescued.
Riggs and Murtaugh decide to hire Leo to follow Uncle Benny around. When they get too close, the Triad gang decides to strike back. When Hong contacted his uncle, Riggs and Murtaugh come home to find Wah Sing Ku there with the other gang members holding Lorna and Murtaugh's family hostage and that Hong and his family were already taken away. After a brief skirmish (where Wah Sing Ku dismantles Riggs' gun with a flick of his wrist), the entire family is tied up and the house is set on fire with everyone inside, including both pregnant women. Little Ping, the smallest of the Chinese children, who had evaded capture earlier manages to escape and frees them just enough to break out through the living room window.
Riggs takes a radio from Lorna's car and the pair set off with Rianne's car in hot pursuit of two of the Triads. Reaching them on the freeway, Riggs passes the wheel to Murtaugh, climbs out of the car and leaps over to a mobile home. He pulls one of the thugs through the car window into it, demanding to know where the Hongs are. After engaging in a fight they crash onto the road; Riggs, sitting on a table holds onto the trailer by the plastic covering they fell through, and the Triad is run over by a bus. His partner accelerates and attempts to kill Riggs, who is forced to throw one of the table legs at the assailant. Murtaugh rams into the Triad car and, hearing sirens, the thug makes an escape. Riggs climbs back beside Murtaugh, and they chase the thug, trying to find answers. However, they accidentally fly off a ramp into a building, driving through one of the floors and driving out back onto the road. Then the last Triad they know of is killed by a truck.

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* "I did not streak. I've never struck."
* "You need me to say I'm taking the piss, more than I need you to."
* "The Gute, actually."
* "What about Dannan?"
* "Maybe I can become Bucky Barnes....Bucky Barnes Grogu!"
* "Renfield from Renfield!"

### Nate Ruess

* "My stomach is starting to turn!" (bouncing in his highchair)
* "You break the fuckin truce you break the fuckin truce you break the fuckin truce! You break the truce! You're the one who breaks the fuckin truce, every time!!"
* "I've been thinking about guns a lot lately."
* "We're always beeing open and honest, why would we not be fuckin' open and honest?! Let's go Drew! What!?"
* "Oh I'm sorry, do you want a cookie? Or are you just gonna eat that soggy biscuit?"
* "He's nightbotting Tara Strong."
* "We're gettin' out of the fuckin' ClayneCast Universe, where it's flooded with Nants and some creepy perv...and we're goin to the Omni..."

### Big Bro Tom

* "Drew's the kind of guy to get naked and keep his socks on."
* "DIB. Dial. It. Back."
* "He's having all this coffee....what's he doing?"
* "Preach. PREEEEEAAAACH!"
* "I'm in the Middle. I'm the middleman. The Peacekeeper!"
* "Post Earmuffs. I'm gonna talk about K-I-L-L-I-N-G my Son...cut that out. Make sure he doesn't hear that."

## The Leftist Angle

Nate comes up with a solution to gun violence: everyone puts their guns down and fights like an actual strong guy. He basically wants the end of the movie *Friday*, in which the main characters father tells him to use his fists to beat up the bad guy rather than shoot and kill him.

You should defend each other from baseless attacks. If it is a based attack however, you can not do anything, really.

## CCEUpdates/AMPDates

New Patreon Tier: **Therapy session with NayNay!**

Coming soon, you will be able to sign up to get the Thera-link and join in on Nate's therapy sessions.

### CCPMCSB

All CCE facilities, including CCPMCSB, will feature multiple security blacklights throughout the premises, especially outside of the bathrooms. This is to prevent the employees getting a bunch of mysterious substances all on their shirts and pants.

### Nant-Man

Marvel is creating a spinoff of the ant man Universe called ***Nant Man*** starring Matt Damon. Clearly this is inspired by the Nants and the recent havoc they've been causing in Tinseltown. The question now is how much $$$ is Nate going to cash out on due to him being basically the originator of the Nants.

### AMP

OJ is claiming that during the night of his wife and her lovers murder, he saw a mini cooper full of Nants driving around, and feels very strongly that they commited the heinous crimes and tried to frame him for it.

Mr. TV (Winner of the 2022 Freak of the year award) has officially joined the Security team on the AMP lot. He's taking a liking to Tara Strong and begun to refer to himself as her personal bodyguard. This is causing some issues as he has begun to show up to her interviews and answering all the questions before her.

Unfortunately Mr. TV also does not get along with Mr. Mentor, who has been recently tasked with guarding the lot. He has also made it known that he finds the Nants cute. This may be a fine solution to deal with them as he stated the same about countless now deceased bunny rabbits. #Killfrenzy

### *$h\*! ozzy says*

New TV show that the hosts will get the next time one of them goes viral. Similar situation to the Shit my dad says show.

## Trivia

There's changelings in Star Trek. Thank you JJ Abrams.

Some notable Residents of Omnivale: Duncan MacLeod (Highlander), Johnny Lawrence (Cobra Kai), Eric Draven (the Crow) (also the mayor of Omnivale), Lucifer Morningstar, Meredith Gray, Kevin McKee (Tremors). Cast of Scrubs.

During the recording of this episode, Tom was watching AR15's tiktoks again rather than paying attention to the podcast. He mentions this on episode 106 of the WFYM podcast.

## Get to know your host(s)

Drew wears clothes on under his Jacket. Pants, underwear, socks. Shoes. Dr. Cox's wife Jordan, played by Christa Miller, was a formative childhood crush of Drews.

Nate has never had a 'stomach flu' in over 25 years. He does NOT talk to his therapist about Drew and Tom or any of the nasty and hurtful rumors they spread, like that the ant queen fucked him and he flipped her and fucked her back.

Queen asked for Nate to play Freddie Mercury in the Queen movie that recently came out, but he turned it down. He would have joined them on tour in a heartbeat however.

Tom thinks Dracula is dope. He's been a Dracula in the past and would be perfectly suited to play the Sims with someone.

## Freaky Figures

More people die of slipping in the shower than from guns.

Nate was at an 8 today, but Tom helped soothe his nerves and brought him down to a 4 by the end of the episode.

## Clayne ForeCasting

Nate will play Brad Pitt's role in the Se7en sequel. Not sure if that would be *Se7en 2* or *8*. He's not quite ready to be Brad Pitt yet though.

Drew is going to write a song called "Dracula king of the vampires".

**Upcoming:** Movies the hosts actually want to watch.

Plus: The One Chip Challenge!