Hello there, happy Friday podcast listeners. This is Sam Fold and this is episode 89 of the

Victor Prep Vocal Podcast. I'm currently recording this at 1 a.m. because I was out all evening at a rock climbing gym

and I got back kind of late and had to cook late and everything got made later.

So it's a midnight, well past midnight podcast.

And let's start by reviewing our words from yesterday.

So we had Spectrum Rejoinder, Panoply and Verbois. So Spectrum is a

band of colours as seen in a rainbow. Spectrum also is used to classify something or suggest it can be classified in terms of its position on a scale where you have two extremes. Rejoinder, a rejoinder is a reply or a response, but especially a sharp or

witty response.

Panoply, a panoply is a complete or impressive collection of things.

Or it could also mean a splendid display. And our final word from yesterday was

verbose. Verboz. That means using more words than are needed, being voluble, being loquacious. So those are

our words from yesterday and it's Friday today and episode 89 and because it's Friday I'm

going to start with a poem and I figured that I've done a fairly serious poem

so far and I thought I'd just do something a bit sillier so I'm

going to do a poem by Roldahl and this poem is called Television. The most

important thing we've learned so far as children are concerned is never, never let them

near your television set, or better still, just don't install the idiotic thing at all. In almost every

house we've been we've watched them gaping at the screen. They lull and slop and

lounge about and stare until their eyes pop out.

Last week in someone's place we saw a dozen eyeballs on the floor.

They sit and stare and stare and sit until they're hypnotized by it, until they're absolutely drunk with all that shocking ghastly junk.

Oh yes, we know it keeps them still. They don't climb out the window sill. They never fight or kick or punch. They leave you free to cook the lunch and wash the dishes in the sink. But did you ever stop to think, to wonder just exactly what this does to

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