Season 4.5 Episode 3: Saltman

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Tom goes woke, Nate reads a weirdly politically charged and incoherent Buzzfeed article. Plus, the boys learn some Tai Chi from Mr. David Saltman.

## Episode Summary

The show has gone woke!! Nate shares the first gossip article of season 4.5! Brew back in effect? Tom is has changed his personality to woke asshole! They discover an intriguing personality called David Saltman in the WildaboutHoudini.com comment section, and stumble into quite the rabbit hole.

This episode of H&D was not great. So the Hosts escape into the wonderful world of Buzzfeed articles. When Drew has enough of the pop culture gossip, they turn to the episode. Nate learns how to find the episode recap, good job Nate.

Shortly after this they find out that there's a lively comment section on WildaboutHoudini.com, which is where they find Mister David Saltman. This charming character was commenting on WildaboutHoudini.com and as it turns out has quite the resumé. He's a prize winning author, writer and filmmaker, and even appeared in a crime TV show.

Most of the episode is dedicated to exploring the life and work of David Saltman, which leads them to encounter his website, as well as his Tai-Chi instruction videos and a book he wrote about Houdini, called *Houdini Unbound* in 2017.

He also has a series of Tai-Chi videos, where he explains how to do some moves. Drew uploaded a clip of them watching it to the twitter.

They get into some twitter-talk, or should we say X-talk? That sounds good. Please send Drew any Bluesky invite codes you come across.

At some point, Nate performs a **trust exercise** with the hosts, where each of them can say one thing and the other two must trust them implicitly on it, aka believe them.

Nate: "I didn't flip and fuck the ant."

Tom: "I truly and honestly believe that Nate hurts his dogs on purpose to get out of things. He breaks Arrows legs once a week, so he doesn't have to drive into L.A. for an hour."

Drew: "I believe that Nate is 5 foot 6."

All the hosts believe the above statements (for that exercise).

Surprisingly enough, they don't even talk about the episode of Houdini & Doyle. If you really wanna do that to yourself, check out the patreon link below in the watch-along section.

### Book Challenge

If anyone can get the hosts an original copy of one of David Saltman's out of print books, Nate will Venmo that person 10.000 Dollars. And Tom will DM you Nate's phone number.

### The watch-along

**Click here** to see the hosts watch this stinker of an episode.

### Show Recap

From: WildaboutHoudini.com

> "This time Houdini (Michael Weston), Doyle (Stephen Mangan) and Constable Stratton (Rebecca Liddiard) investigate the sudden death of a man during a faith healer's ministry. Was he struck down by the hand of God for being a non-believer or was he murdered? Houdini, who is portrayed as the ultimate unbeliever in this episode, is himself struck down with a mysterious illness in the course of events. He even fails to escape from the Water Torture Cell (more on that later). Doyle also has a deeply personal experience that might be related to his own faith, as his wife, played by Stephen Mangan's real-life wife, Louise Delamere, suddenly revives from her coma."
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Click here for the full review.

### Host Ratings

Houdini & Doyle - Episode 3
 Nate
 Drew

## Get to know your host(s)

Tom rushed to the premiere of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour cinematic experience, because he's such a swifty.

Drew and Tom went to college where they were infected with the woke mind virus.

Tom and Nate both claim they don't have access to the ClayneCast Twitter account anymore.

Drew loves 21 Pilots, but sometimes it gets a little too hard rock for him.

Nate loves the listeners enough to not make us sit here for an hour.

## Notable quotes

### Drew

* "That was very, very strange."
* "Gimme some of that Gas!"
* "Can we talk about this stupid show?"
* "David Saltman is the GOAT."
* "Huh? Shoulder shrug emoji."
* "We have to talk about O'Doyle and...uhh...whatever the show's called. Doyle and Houdini."

### Nate

* "Ohh, let's shit on Nate because he doesn't have a college education, okay! I'm sorry if I was out makin' money moves while everybody else was going to college."
* "Noo, pull it up! Send me the link, c'mon! Send me wildabouthoudini!"
* "What's a wooly minded woo-woo pest?"
* "That's a mug, that's straight up a mug! He's muggin'!"
* "Yeah, I find my two dogs uh, right now annoying - you two!" (Business Doggies!)

### Tom

* "I don't give a fuck."
* "Oooooh my locks, I gotta talk about my locks."
* "You can hurt my friends, you can hurt my family, but don't you ever do anything to me."
* "Vaxxed?"
* "Bear Step, Bird Step?"
* "I want more David Saltman content."

## AMPDates

AMP is being talked about on sets all across Hollyweird again.

Several cast members have come under fire for either supporting or opposing certain factions in the 2023 israel-hamas war. Even Ozzy Osbourne is back in the news, but not for voicing support for war crimes. Sharon has said she will kill Ozzy if he ever gets Alzheimers, as he would do to her. This may limit his appearances.

OJ continues to cause a buzz about AMP.

## Father-son-updates

Drew's son hasn't eaten one vegetable in over a year. Tom's son hasn't eaten any protein in over a year. Nate's son has at least eaten one one-chip-challenge. The hosts/dads know this because the sons upload pictures of their meals daily.

## Trivia

The bigger they are the harder they fall.

## Clayne For-Casting

The hosts will book weekly Tai-Chi courses with David Saltman.

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