The Complete Guide to Everything

It's tomato season, so we're talking all about those juicy red vegetables (or fruits... whatever). We also solve a problem from a listener who got slapped by a ghost and has photos to prove it! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-...

This week it’s all about Forrest Mars Sr.’s greatest invention: M&M’s. We all know the red ones are deadly and the green ones will make you randy, but what about all the other colors. And what the heck ever happened to everyone’s favorite M&M color: tan? For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Ever...

The summertime is in full-force and that can only mean one thing: everybody is spending their days going boogie boarding. This week we're talking about riding waves on a piece of buoyant colorful foam. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

This week your two favorite scientists discuss the news of a possible room temperature superconductor called LK-99. What the hell does all of that mean? We don’t really know either, but take a crack at explaining it anyway. Also Tim discusses the disturbing possibility that Robert Durst, the Jinx himself, lives in his building despite having died over a year ago. For weekly episodes of Books: The...

This week we celebrate the life and work of Michael "Mick" Jagger, a man who has been strutting around making pouty faces for 80 years. Although he dropped out of the London School of Economics to sing songs and do drugs, he became a billionaire anyway. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on...

Hollywood has had enough and gone on strike! Where will we get our TV shows from now?  Why aren’t billionaires happy with being billionaires? What about puppeteers? We’ll answer these questions, whether Tom needed to honk for some guy, and more. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on...

This week we're celebrating the life and times of the big purple guy everybody can't get enough of, Grimace. He may not be the coolest guy in McDonaldland and it's weird that he starts every sentence he says with "Duhhhhh", but he's A-OK in our book.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Ap...

If you want a beer but want one with less beer in it, you might want to try Light Beer. This week we're talking about the beverage popular with people who don't drink beer to get blackout drunk as quickly as possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See...

We regret to inform you that Fall Out Boy have released a “new” version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and we don’t like it. This week we discuss the original, the new version and Billy Joel’s day-to-day life. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what...

School sux! This week we're talking about the best day of the whole freakin' year when you're a kid, the last day of school. Also, Tom has some intriguing updates and new theories about the UFO news we discussed last week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hosted on Acast....

Whew boy, is there a lot of weird alien hijinks afoot lately, and this week we’re talking about it whether the government wants us to or not! We discuss the 4chan UFO whistleblower, the Air Force UFO whistleblower, and the curious case of the backyard UFO crash in Las Vegas. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete...

Apple introduced their first foray into augmented reality, and they seem to assume we're all excited to get sucked into cyberspace for days at a time. This week Tim and Tom, who have famously conflicting opinions on this kind of stuff, debate the merits of living inside a computer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreo...

We might be three episodes into this, but the summer is just heating up! This week we’re talking Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and Tom Cruise’s endless quest to un-alive himself on film, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Haunted Mansion, TMNT, Gran Tourismo, Strays, Blue Beetle and a debate on whether old people have less blood than other people. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much mo...

Our dear friend Christine returns to solve listener problems and discuss her plans to replace Anne Hathaway in the film The Intern 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The summer blockbusters just keep on coming this week as we discuss the newest and SEVENTH Transformers movie, Wes Anderson’s latest, a problematic Flash and some extremely old man named Indiana Jones. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic t...

Hooray for Hollywood! It's finally summer blockbuster season, and we're talking about all the hot new movies you'll be endlessly discussing around the water cooler. Note: This episode is dedicated to Timothée Chalamet, America's #1 Boy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Ho...

Tears of the Kingdom is right around the corner so this week we’re talking all about everyone’s favorite little Peter Pan rip-off, Zelda. Well, that’s Link actually, he’s the protagonist of the Zelda games. It’s all kinda confusing. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcas...

Look out England, there's a new king in town! And he's an old man who has done a lot of silly things in his life. This week we're taking a deep dive into the life and times of King Charles III to decide if we approve of his coronation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hos...

Are vitamins a scam? How many vitamins are too many vitamins? How thick is too thick when it comes to blood? This week we’re using our decades of medical experience to answer the big questions. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they shou...

This week we consider the age old question "It's-a who?" And the answer is, of course, Mario. That's right, another episode about Super Mario Bros., this time focusing on their latter day exploits in 64 or more bits. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See a...

Super Mario made a movie, and although we haven’t seen it yet we HAVE played a bunch of the video games he made. We run through the 8 and 16-bit eras of Mario, The Wizard, the live-action Super Mario movie, the TV show and a whole bunch more. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Ap...

In these divisive times, the one thing we can all agree on is that once a year a giant anthropomorphic bunny comes into our homes and leaves us baskets full of candy. This week, as we await the arrival of the Easter Bunny, a guy whose deal we don't entirely get, we're talking all about that candy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out...

Spring has sprung which means we’ve got March Madness as well as a litany of other afflictions. Also Tim tries to get Tom to place a $1,000 bet and Tom discusses the circumstances that ended his first half dozen marriages. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let...

It was our understanding that banks are just fancy houses where your money lives, but recent events have made us realize that the truth is actually much more complicated. This week we try to sort it all out, Tom warns everybody about a new "phone scam" and we discuss why it seems so tantalizingly easy to rob a bank. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus...

What if I told you there’s a world filled with giant animals, beautiful forests and extraterrestrial technologies right under our feet? This week we DIG into the theory that the earth is hollow and filled with wonder instead of just more rocks. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on...