Fainting Into Quicksand

A loose, ridiculous improv comedy podcast where two friends spiral through comedy chaos, strange memories, dumb tangents, and whatever nonsense derails the conversation next. The tangents are back, and this time they have tangents of their own. Episode 12 wanders through slide carousels, early tech nostalgia, random nonsense, and, naturally, quicksand.

Mark and Chris talk on-ramps, revisit Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and wander through another batch of random, ridiculous nonsense.  You know the drill.

In this episode, Mark and Chris fully embrace the chaos and bounce from childhood memories and oddly specific games to cultural hot takes and the strange things that stick with us over time. They take a deep dive into the mechanics of a completely ridiculous tabletop game somehow turns into a full-blown philosophical discussion about language, nostalgia, and why certain experiences feel way more m...

Language Parlor makes a triumphant return as Mark and Chris overthink words, pronunciation, and the ridiculous poetry of everyday speech. From Seinfeld references and the "information superhighway" to absurd Starbucks orders, first-world problems, and why a worm farm is absolutely not happening, Episode 9 leans hard into evolving bits and casual chaos. Less polish, more personality—just how it sho...

In this episode, Mark and Chris pinball through a wide-ranging mix of travel misadventures, childhood chaos, and the strange micro-moments that shape who we become. What starts as a debate about the "art of conversation" quickly spirals into stories of awkward haircuts, meeting people while traveling, and why surfing culture seemed cooler than anything the Midwest had to offer. From Costa Rica sur...

In this episode of Fainting Into Quicksand , Mark and Chris accidentally time-travel to the 1970s and 80s; a lawless era when "community porn" was hidden under trees, "free" phone numbers secretly connected you to New York, and the internet had to scream before it would let you in. They swap horror stories about phone cards, pagers that never paged, and the chaos of early dial-up life. The nostalg...

Mark and Chris compare Arizona nights in triple-digit heat with white-knuckle Chicago snow drives, then spiral into memories of unreliable '80s cars, Catholic-school uniforms, and the strange theater of car dealerships and timeshare "closers." They riff on the lost art of conversation, WFH awkwardness, tipping tablets, food-truck hassles, and doctor/insurance runarounds (plus pharma ads and phone...

In this episode, we go full nostalgia dive—from Monty Python and the "Fish-Slapping Dance" to CB radios, waterbeds, X-Ray Specs, and cigarette vending machines. We swap stories about British versus American TV, failed hovercraft rides, bad National Park reviews, and why the "one mumbo-jumbo rule" explains why some movie fantasies work (and why schlubby guys landing supermodels don't). A hilarious,...

Mark and Chris tumble through memories of cheap Casio drum machines, comedy songs, and the legendary Doctor Demento before spiraling into a debate about the Bee Gees' falsetto years. Along the way, they uncover the surprising dirtiness of "Jack & Diane" and "Cecilia", laugh about satanic messages hidden in backward rock albums, and swap stories of awkward family road trips and homemade water skis....

Mark and Chris kick things off with a chaotic plunge into the weird, the absurd, and the unexpectedly personal. In this premiere episode, they bounce from bizarre childhood stories to questionable adult decisions, stopping along the way for tangents about nervous breakdowns, horrendous zoom meetings, why your call is really not impotant to them and why quicksand was way too big a fear in the '90s....

Mark and Chris are back with a chaotic plunge into the weird, the absurd, and the unexpectedly personal. In this episode we take a hard-hitting look at some of humanity's greatest struggles: progress bars that don't move, printers that print blank pages and why your Roku waits for you to start a movie before performing an update; detouring into how nobody in 1970's Britain knew the Village People...

Mark and Chris are back with a chaotic plunge into the weird, the absurd, and the unexpectedly personal. This week we deep dive into British and American accents, the worst Christmas song ever recorded (a clue lies in Pahrump, NV) and why bartenders are always rushed off their feet. Plus there's a refreshing new way to look at James Bond and lots of terrible impressions of British rock stars. It's...