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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...

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...