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It’s Devil’s Night and Stitch wants Houston in costume, pitching him everything from a Vikings jersey to a mullet wig, while Houston insists he’d rather get his steps in than sweat through a costume at tonight’s Creepy Crawl. Stitch realizes a little too late that her green Power Ranger jumpsuit has zero bathroom strategy built in. And the two dig into which celebrities are cutting their kids off...

A San Francisco startup is paying twenty dollars an hour for people to walk robot dogs around the city, no experience required. A mom on TikTok says her kid’s Halloween candy haul included exactly one gummy bear, individually wrapped, and she’s calling it a recession indicator. And an Illinois man gets caught mailing salt to members of Congress after putting his own return address on the envelope....

Stitch and Houston are two days out from the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, already ranking which downtown bars have the best bites before Friday hits. The new iPhone Duo is four days old and owners are already watching their screens crack right down the crease. And a sixty four year old Virginia man lands felony charges after taping his wife to a chair so he could watch football in peace. It’s hump...

Stitch and Houston dig into South Dakota’s wild teenage driving rule, where new drivers have to log fifty hours behind the wheel in actual bad weather before they can get licensed, all while the state hands out permits to fourteen year olds. An Iowa man running for lieutenant governor is getting sued by his own parents for two hundred seventy five grand in unpaid farmland rent. And the guys break...

Halloween’s closing in and the crew is getting ready, with tips on how to shop Spirit Halloween without getting stuck with the leftovers before Friday’s fourth annual Creepy Crawl. Dove is dropping a nineteen dollar fragrance that’s supposed to smell like their bar soap, and Stitch and Houston can’t quite get past the logic of paying that much for scented air when the soap’s a couple bucks. Then t...

Mark and Stitch kick off spooky season with a week to go before Halloween and the fourth annual Creepy Crawl creeping closer. Stitch shares the most genuinely scared he’s been in years, a terrifying overnight scramble when his son’s diabetes monitor cut out hundreds of miles from home. The guys also roast a list of trendy home upgrades homeowners instantly regret, from subway tile to microwave dra...

Stitch flies solo this morning while Houston handles other business, and the show still delivers plenty to talk about. Jay-Z might be headlining his own Super Bowl halftime show in February, and Stitch has some thoughts about why that decision feels like a letdown from the guy who runs the whole operation. Arby’s teams up with Halloween in the strangest way possible, dropping a meat print tracksui...

Houston’s convinced his Edward Scissorhands hot take is basically a federal crime, Stitch is side eyeing an HOA that wants to ban full size candy bars, and somewhere in between there’s a whole breakdown of why everyone’s streaming fatigue is at an all time high. Oh, and don’t worry, the mystery of 96.9 KBYE “the ghost” is getting closer to solved this Friday at the Creepy Crawl. Hosted on Acast. S...

Mark Houston digs into a wild TikTok experiment that has people questioning whether Ritz crackers taste different these days, complete with a soggy bread control group. He also breaks down why Americans are hosting way fewer dinner parties than they used to, and the stats on shrinking friend groups back it up. Plus, details on the Creepy Crawl hitting downtown Rapid City, with pub hopping, prizes,...

Houston’s back after fighting off a head cold he refuses to admit got the best of him, and he’s already found his new weakness: a banana flavored latte that nearly brought him to tears. Stitch and Houston dig into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl and the mysterious “ghost” noises bleeding through the studio speakers, plus a countdown of America’s most haunted cities that somehow has Deadwood ranked...

Stitch flies solo and celebrates a huge milestone, ten years at Homeslice. Along the way she breaks down the real numbers behind Spider-Man Brand New Day’s box office run, and digs into the pole dancing trend couples are trying out locally at Live It Up Studio in Uptown Rapid. Plus details on the fourth annual Creepy Crawl coming up October thirtieth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Gen Z wants to rename the tramp stamp to a “cake topper,” and the internet has strong feelings about it. The crew also breaks down hobbies that look totally relaxing but turn into pure stress the second you try them, bonsai trees included. And there’s a real mystery brewing around a Rapid City radio station that may or may not have burned down decades ago, tied into this year’s Creepy Crawl. Grab...

Congress finds something everybody can agree on this week, and it’s keeping AM radio in your car. The crew digs into why automakers want it gone and why lawmakers from both sides are fighting to save it. Over in Deadwood, the Wild West Songwriters competition is lining up a stacked bill of Black Hills talent for a free show. And the fourth annual Creepy Crawl rolls out a real mystery, asking liste...

Frosted tips are officially back in style, and Stitch has the receipts tracing the trend from Lance Bass to a bleach and buzz cut craze taking over TikTok. A new sleep study flips the script on dog owners, proving it’s actually the humans tossing and turning first and waking up their dogs instead of the other way around. And the mystery of a possibly haunted downtown radio station called KBYE kick...

The crew digs into Miley Cyrus making chart history for all the wrong reasons, dropping a brutal 156 spots on the Billboard 200 in her album’s second week. Then they argue over the most annoying things Americans do at restaurants overseas, from demanding instant service to splitting entrees without a drop of guilt. And Dunkin’s absurd Avengers Doomsday menu sends the guys into a full theme song me...

A wedding video goes viral after the groom blanks and calls his bride by her sister's name at the altar, and the internet has thoughts. New data says most Americans still don't think social media influencing counts as a real career, which kicks off a whole debate about trade jobs versus chasing clout. Plus a list ranks the most neighborly cities in America, and Houston's getting ready...

Stitch's birthday countdown is on, Stitch Fest is this Saturday night downtown, and the crew breaks down a new study on the best time to eat breakfast if you want to actually live longer. There's also a Red Lobster incident out of Georgia involving a fake medical emergency and an unpaid bill, plus Tony Romo getting let go from CBS over a DUI. A loose, funny one with some real heart underne...

It's birthday week for Houston, Ella Langley is playing five hours away tomorrow night, and the crew is still buzzing about Stitch Fest coming up October tenth. Tom Whillock stops by to talk about the Friday meals that have fed people at the bandshell every single week since 2019, rain, snow, or anything else South Dakota throws at it. Then things get weird with a list of the best smelling cit...

Zachy Moon fills in for Houston this morning and the two dive into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, trying to guess which pop culture costumes will show up this year, from K-pop demon hunters to Pitbull to a Doctor Doom suit you can grab at Spirit Halloween for cheap. Stitch floats an idea for a no phone section at local restaurants and gets called out as the worst offender in the group. And with e...

The crew kicks off October trying to crack the mystery of who the secret celebrity guest was at Taylor Swift's wedding, with Graham Norton dropping hints and everybody guessing wrong. A Virginia motorcyclist gets pulled over going seventy two in a twenty five, all because he was racing to make it to McDonald's before breakfast hours ended. And the guys stumble onto bro-lates, the new trend...

Stitch and Houston dig into why Geico's Hump Day commercial still works thirteen years later, and it sends them down a rabbit hole to find the actual oldest commercial still airing, a twelve second ad from 1975 featuring an old lady chucking a tire through a window. Then Taylor Swift's VMA drama gets the guys fired up, with Stitch convinced her marketing has taken over the music entirely....

A guy tries to win over country singer Ella Langley with a TikTok video and a shopping cart full of flowers after she shut him down hard, and it goes about how you'd expect. A hundred pound tortoise named Lard makes a break for freedom in a Colorado neighborhood before deputies scoop him up. And Florida's attorney general takes aim at ChatGPT, trying to stop it from talking like it's y...

Stitch and Houston tackle a wave of copycat bomb threats hitting hospitals across the country, including one at Monument the day before, and dig into why people keep calling them in. Then the two run through eight things that sound amazing but get exhausting fast, sparking a real argument over whether live concerts are wildly overrated thanks to the cost, the crowds, and the volume loud enough to...

Mark's back from Canada with a suitcase full of weird snacks and even weirder stories. He and Amelie crack open BTS Oreos live on air and argue about brown sugar pancake flavor before Mark drops the real find: banana ketchup, a Filipino condiment he picked up north of the border. The boy band debate gets heated fast, with NSync, Backstreet Boys, and O-Town all fighting for supremacy while Amel...

Stitch and Houston dig into TikTok's divorce talk trend, where people are turning their breakups into content for total strangers to comment on. A new survey says thirty percent of daters are accepting dinner invites purely for the free meal, no romance required, and yes, that includes folks well past retirement age. And Houston's already planning his next trip north, chasing down an honest to goo...