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Stitch is back from Disney World with swollen ankles and zero relaxation to show for it, and apparently that means the show needs saving. Then there's the giraffe that pulled a great escape in Texas and went full "catch me if you can" for days while a whole helicopter team chased her down. Plus a list of foods chefs say you should never put on a grill, including burgers, which Stitch is absolutely...

Mark Houston's in a suspiciously good mood, which means WalletHub is about to catch some hands. They left Rapid City off their list of the 100 best Fourth of July spots, and he's taking it personally. There's also the real origin story of Renaissance fairs, a deep dive into pool funk that might change how you do summer, and a wind farm out in the desert that's out-muscling the Hoover Dam. Plus tha...

Houston catches up from a Weird Al concert long enough to introduce you to Cookie Monster's new Bruno Mars parody, and yes, there is a lot of nom nom nom involved. From there it's bears wandering in from Wyoming like bored college guys, a Florida man suing Waffle House over a strawberry shortcake photo, and Elon Musk's very brief run as a trillionaire. Throw in some Frankenstein rabbits and a bana...

Mark Houston flies solo this afternoon while Stitch recovers from his Disney World trip. The US men's national team has picked a new World Cup victory anthem, and the choice involves John Denver, country roads, and a stadium full of thousands belting it out. Kentucky police found a bag of drugs that came pre-labeled, with a second mystery phrase printed underneath that nobody can explain. Plus, wh...

Houston's flying solo this week, with Stitch off living it up at Disney World. He gets into the FIFA fifteen, the foreigners packing on extra pounds thanks to America's endless supply of ranch dressing and dirty sodas. He breaks down which airports will ruin your day and which ones won't, plus why Denver's weirdness earns it a pass. And then there's the guy in California who went head first into a...

Mark's flying solo this week with Leslie city-bound and Stitch off at Disney, so it's back to old-school radio. He digs into why someone out there is paying a hundred bucks for a wool diaper that supposedly cleans itself for a month, then breaks down the science on whether your cat actually cares when you've had a rough day. Turns out your cat would rather show you its butt and go lay in the sun....

It's a solo flight for Mark Houston this Juneteenth, and he spends the afternoon pulling one thread he's never pulled before. Turns out almost every song on the radio, from Taylor Swift to your favorite country tune, traces back to one day in Galveston, Texas. The banjo on your front porch playlist took a much longer trip than you'd think. Then we get into Father's Day, a holiday that started with...

Leslie's cat Oswald is about to endure a triple whammy of misery, and the gang debates whether you can morally body-shame a trillionaire. Somewhere in there: a self-driving toilet that grinds up the evidence, McDonald's bringing back the fried apple pie, and hot dogs boiled in Gatorade until they turn a disturbing shade of blue.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leslie brings in a tallboy of banana water, and things go downhill from the first sip as the crew tries to figure out how you even squeeze water out of a banana. Then an orange cat crashes a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, attacking poor dead Romeo mid-death-scene before settling in to watch the rest. And it turns out people will pay serious money for a chair, as long as the right celebrity...

The Knicks finally win it all, and the guys realize hip hop didn't even exist the last time it happened. Then Japan's World Cup fans pull out blue garbage bags and start cleaning a stadium that isn't theirs, which somehow spirals into who's to blame when kids grow up to be slobs. And a high school lacrosse team gets caught with cigars at graduation, so the parents fight back with a receipt swearin...

This time we're getting into tan maxing, the viral trend where people are tracking UV indexes and chasing the smell of their own skin. Leslie defends her habit, the guys stage an intervention, and somehow it all ties back to the movie Idiocracy. We also meet a Georgia handyman who turned a pink Barbie Dream Camper into a working three-dollar-a-tank vehicle, complete with a grocery compartment. The...

Leslie drops the big news: she's leaving for Minneapolis, and the universe confirmed it with a Skol license plate in the Safeway parking lot. The station's web developer builds his own Jarvis and earns himself Tony Stark status in the building. Plus, Europeans visiting for the World Cup are losing their minds over Buc-ee's, ranch dressing, and air conditioning, and a woman on TikTok swallows her A...

Two large, wolf-colored animals were spotted drinking from a puddle under an overpass, and the studio can't agree on what they were. Houston has Leslie and Stitch stand up to test research showing humans naturally turn counterclockwise, with mixed results. And new reporting connects big tobacco to the snack aisle, where the same minds behind Camel Lights helped engineer your Lunchables. Hosted on...

Stitch is back from Chicago with stories about a dinner cruise on the river, a fake birthday shoutout from the boat DJ, and a parking situation that nearly broke him. Then the crew finds out the entire town of Hell, Michigan is for sale for six hundred twenty five thousand dollars, and the merch ideas start flying. Plus a TikTok time traveler claims humanity goes extinct next year, which sends eve...

The Mount Rushmore fireworks drew over 100,000 ticket requests for fewer than 5,000 spots, so Houston and Leslie break down where you can actually catch the drone show for the 250th. They dig into "email apnea," the very real habit of holding your breath every time your inbox dings. And Sherwin Williams is somehow trying to sell the loneliest paint color on the shelf, a green that's been compared...

Leslie loses a battle with her impulse control in the target pharmacy aisle and ends up cracking open a bag of spicy ramen yucca chips on the air. There's a deep dive into a list of things ruined once too many people found them, from food trucks to Etsy to storm chasing. Plus a UK makeup artist who had her late dog's ashes mixed into her eyeliner so he could keep seeing the world through her eyes,...

Stitch flew to Chicago, but not before Houston and Leslie roasted the flimsy basketball shorts, black socks, and slides he wore to the airport. Then it's National Cheese Day, complete with the tragic tale of fresh cheese curds hitting the pavement at Summer Nights and science confirming cheese is basically addictive. Plus, someone wants to build a cruise ship that holds 80,000 people, and Leslie h...

Stitch's AC unit picked the worst possible week to die, with 95 degrees on the way and a 15,000 dollar replacement quote in hand. Houston spends the afternoon trying to cheer him up with air conditioning history, from crooked magazine centerfolds to movie theaters bragging about refrigerated air. Then scientists bake sourdough with 5,000 year old yeast pulled off Ötzi the Iceman, and the crew has...

It's election day, and that means a deep dive into the strangest ballots in history. There's the Austrian race decided by a single phallic doodle, the Missouri Senate seat won by a dead man, and a time when polling places handed out alcohol to boost turnout. Stitch finally rises from the dead to celebrate National Rotisserie Chicken Day, which leads to Colonel Sanders trashing his own gravy and a...

Houston rolls into Monday already worn out, fielding questions about Hot Hunks photos and dodging the crew's repeated attempts to find out why he's so crabby. The guys dig into a survey on the one question people would ask their pets, with Oswald getting an unexpectedly tender three-part interview. Then there's the influencer who smuggled ten chicken nuggets onto a 93-mile-per-hour roller coaster...

Summer Nights kicked off in its brand-new downtown location, and the crew breaks down everything from the improved sound to the unexpected bonus of condo residents turning their balconies into front-row seats. They also debate whether "it's all downhill from here" is a positive phrase or a warning sign that life is about to get weird. Plus, a surprising study reveals the age when people start choo...

The crew dives into National Burger Day with strong opinions on who slings the best patty in Rapid City, then spirals into a passionate hatred of dynamic pricing at the grocery store. Plus, Houston brings up Paul McCartney's plan to duet "The Long and Winding Road" with the late Prince, which sparks a debate about consent, estates, and AI in music. Stick around for a Harambe ten-year anniversary m...

Stitch is tired again, and the crew can't figure out why. They map out where to spot Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury lining up in the sky tonight, debate whether old books should swap out their VCRs and Fear Factor mentions for TikTok references, and stumble onto an underwater plot of land for sale in San Francisco Bay that they're now seriously considering buying as a group. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Summer's officially here, and Houston and Stitch are diving into a packed weekend of food trucks, Hot Hunks, and the return of Summer Nights. They also get into whether you really need to tip at a self-serve froyo place, and Stitch shares the story of his ex-wife getting a brutally awkward brush-off from Ken Jennings in downtown Rapid City. Plus, a scientist explains why your blood viscosity might...

Memorial Day weekend is here, and the crew breaks down the flag rules nobody actually knows, plus the powerful Charleston origin story behind the holiday. Houston confesses to owning a pair of "garage jeans" he refuses to wash, and the guys debate whether they'd fall backwards into a prickly pear cactus for ten million dollars. There's also a blindfold challenge worth millions and some strong opin...