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Houston's back from Colorado with a full report on the new and improved Casa Bonita, plus some thoughts on Stitch's fresh haircut. The crew breaks down Trey Parker's bittersweet realization about his own restaurant, debates whether the dad bod era is officially over, and roasts every meaningless word you've ever seen on a menu. Handhelds, curated, hand-cut. Who's writing this stuff? Hosted on Acas...

Leslie and Stitch hold down the second shift one last day before Houston's back. TSA is daring travelers to bring as many rotisserie chickens on a plane as they can carry, which somehow leads to a deep dive on the agency's official list of approved cargo, including live lobsters, bowling pins, and whole watermelons. Then a poll asks what people would do if they could freeze time, and the answers g...

Leslie and Stitch hold the second shift down while Houston finishes his vacation. Vogue has declared 2026 the year of the crack, and a model at Cannes is selling unbuttoned shirts that may actually be shawls. Hormel is rolling out the spam dog this summer, and there's a farm in Massachusetts scooping asparagus ice cream by the cone. Plus a Louisiana baker took a $700 order to light a cheating boyf...

Leslie and Stitch run the Celebrity Power Hour while Houston eats his way through Casa Bonita in Denver. Taylor Swift is calling wedding guests on the phone so the date doesn't leak, and the date she gave them is "this summer." Britney Spears was spotted barking at her dinner at a place called the Blue Dog Tavern, and her rep has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Plus California wants 140 mile p...

Leslie and Stitch hold down the fort while Houston's out, and a viral TikTok of a woman crying over men in flip flops kicks off a full debate about toe hair, Birkenstocks, and whether jeans with sandals is a vibe or a crime. Halo Top has invented a four-dollar spoon that silences your phone while you eat, which raises one important question. Plus a new poll ranks the coolest things in America, and...

Houston and Stitch celebrate breaking the Children's Miracle Network record with $106,000 raised, then nerd out hard over Burger King's $21 Mandalorian and Grogu collector's meal before getting completely lost in Star Wars timeline talk. The guys also dig into whether throwing up a peace sign in photos can actually get your fingerprints stolen, debate if companies owe you a kickback for wearing th...

A wild theory about why T-Rex arms were so tiny, the viral exotic cat called Big Floppa that's fooling people into thinking they need one, and two kinds of anxiety where only one helps you live longer. Plus, a rogue stove burner and a salmonella story that'll make you side-eye your chocolate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Houston is flying solo today, which means the hantavirus story gets the deep dive treatment, a Montana mom finds out her farmhouse sits on a garter snake den with up to eight slithering through her kitchen daily, and the Florida diamond thief swallows his evidence only for police to find two bonus earrings nobody can explain. Also, science says we're genetically closer to cats than dogs, and...

The crew gets heated about whether tots belong on a plate of fries, debates if a rabid beaver attack in New Jersey is reason enough to never leave the house, and breaks down the viral tweet claiming grown men playing video games is unattractive. Plus, a high-pitched mouse sound that splits the room by age, and one dog named Moses who became a hero in an Arizona driveway.  Hosted on Acast. See...

The crew digs into Kellogg's bringing back toys in cereal boxes for Toy Story 5, and Houston is already plotting to buy ten boxes of Corn Pops. Things get heated over Kraft mac and cheese when one woman online discovers the actual instructions, sparking a debate about how much butter is too much butter. Plus, a viral fight breaks out over who gets shotgun: the girlfriend or the mom? Hosted on Acas...

Tequila Tuesday hit early on The Second Shift. Houston walks Leslie through the actual history of Cinco de Mayo, including how a ragtag Mexican army at the Battle of Puebla may have quietly saved the Union during the Civil War. Then things get grim with a hantavirus outbreak stranding a cruise ship near Cape Verde, before the show pivots to a viral Reddit thread of women revealing the moment they...

It's May the Fourth, and the crew went full Star Wars nerd mode. Did you know the cantina song has an official genre name, and it's just the word "jazz" with a letter swapped out? Stitch still hasn't seen all three original movies, and the guys could not let that go. Cameron Diaz had her third kid at 53, and that somehow turned into a whole conversation about whether having children that late is i...

Houston, Leslie, and Stitch kick off the weekend by diving into the surprisingly deep history of the Kentucky Derby, including the part nobody talks about, which is the Black jockeys who dominated the race until they were forced out. From there it's vanity plates, specifically the two states where you can legally drive around with "ASSMAN" on your car. Plus, a new study of 20 million people says z...

ChatGPT has a goblin problem, and Houston made it explain itself. The AI's actual response might be the most unhinged thing we've ever aired. Then we went full science mode with quantum entanglement and the theoretical possibility of sending a message back to your past self, which of course led to Powerball numbers and Back to the Future. And somewhere in the mix, two guys kept five balloons in th...

Wednesday's show kicked off with Leslie smuggling in wax candy from TikTok Shop, and somehow the whole crew spent an entire hour eating them, spitting them out, and debating whether wax tastes like butter. From there, things got unexpectedly educational when the crew dove into the four competing origin theories behind the phrase "86" and how it made its way from soda fountains to mob movies. And b...

Tuesday's show went places. Houston got emotional about Voyager 1, a space probe that's been drifting alone through interstellar space for fifty years and is slowly running out of power. Meanwhile, bars are apparently ditching trivia nights for nude figure drawing, and the crew debated whether they'd pose as the model. Oh, and somebody reheated salmon in the office. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Leslie, Stitch, and Houston kick off the week with the kind of Monday energy you'd expect from people who talk for a living. They dig into whether Americans are losing the ability to have a real conversation, as word counts per day have dropped nearly thirty percent since 2005, and things might only get worse. A brave orangutan makes history by crossing a highway bridge to avoid her very weird fam...

It's Arbor Day and the crew went full nature documentary on this one. Trees aren't boring, it turns out. They text each other through underground fungal networks, one palm tree from Madagascar spends thirty years growing just to explode in flowers and die, and there's a tree in the tropics literally named "the little apple of death" that will burn your skin, blind you, and kill you from the inside...

Thursday's show kicks off with a Marley update, Stitch's Chihuahua mix who got hit by a car earlier in the week and is somehow pulling through like a champ. From there, the crew gets into the story of a UK farmer who's planning to breed uglier cows because influencers keep showing up to hug his Highland cattle for content. And somehow the conversation ends up at a man in Russia who was clinically...

Wednesday's Second Shift kicked off Earth Day with a trash pickup along Rapid City's waterways, a swollen infected thumb courtesy of Stitch's dog Marley, and a somehow convincing argument that dandelions are actually flowers. Later, the crew gets into the UK's bold move to permanently ban tobacco sales for anyone born after 2009, and whether banning something ever actually works. Also, someone ord...

Stitch kicks off the show with the most terrifying morning of his life. His dog got hit by a car, survived somehow, and then bit him on the thumb during the chaos. So that was his Tuesday. From there, he and Leslie tackle the internet's latest claim that watching junk food videos will actually make you eat less of it, and somehow end the show debating whether a pet-friendly cruise sounds dreamy or...

It's 4/20 and the crew can't let it slide without a full breakdown of how marijuana went from ancient Chinese medicine to a government propaganda target to a global holiday invented by five bored high schoolers in California. Leslie's running on empty and can't stop thinking about food, which somehow leads into new research on the perfect French fry. And a guy with 63 Marvel tattoos just broke a w...

Houston, Leslie, and Stitch kick off the weekend by unpacking "phubbing," the weirdly gross-sounding term for ignoring people in favor of your phone, and somehow that leads to nail clipping confessions and hearing voices in the shower. Then pilots get called out for meowing at air traffic control, Iceland gets its first mosquitoes ever, and one in five Americans think they might be psychic. I Host...

Tax season chaos, chopstick physics, and a 91-year-old gaming legend. Thursday on The Second Shift, Houston, Leslie, and Stitch tackled Leslie's last-minute tax scare that almost cost her $1,500 in thrifting money, the federal court ruling that Ticketmaster is officially a monopoly, and a guy in China who spent eight years with metal chopsticks lodged in his throat. And somehow, they still had tim...

Tax Day hit different on The Second Shift. Houston, Leslie, and Stitch kicked things off hot with their own returns, refunds, and one very dramatic extension request. From ABBA's sequin jumpsuits being a legit tax write-off to a junkyard owner deducting his cats, the IRS facts got weird fast. Oh, and somewhere in the middle, a request for an AI-generated cartoon foot went completely sideways. Tune...