The Family Archives

Kathy and Cristina are on a show about overbearing mothers.  Instead of talking about that, we talk about how great it is when mothers are super involved.  Hmm.  We're also very hungry, a fact made much worse by the topic of Food Truck Nation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

West Palm Beach has begun using sharks to chase off the homeless.  Baby sharks.  In music form.  Also tacos.  Next up: disgusting soda?  There's certainly no shortage of that. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and people are still talking about it.  It was kind of a big deal.  In 50 years we might be talking about missions to Mars or beyond.  Given that a high end smartphone is over a hundred million times more powerful than the room-sized Apollo computers, you'd think going to space would be a bit easier than it used to be. First on the Moon: The Apollo 11...

Before Elon Musk, there was Gianni Versace.  Before him, there was Commodore Cappy.  Alas, Cappy has largely faded into obscurity, much like society's desire to do anything but see the absolute lowest form of entertainment regardless of the risk to their own lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad cho...

Move over Bigfoot, there's a new half bear half gorilla thing in town.  Technically it's more like 100+ years old, but whatever.  And speaking of what may or may not be monsters and may or may not have killed people, The Dead Files aims to determine whether places are haunted or not.  Sounds like a pretty good match to us. The Big Muddy Monster: Legends, Sightings and Other Strange EncountersBook-...

Have you heard about this new insect-themed band?  They even made a movie about them. Apparently Alex liked them before it was cool. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Congrats to the USA women's World Cup team on their back to back titles. Although we at the best of currently have a 211pete going on so we are all winners in the end! Clips featuring: Chris Jericho, Andy Kindler, Bo Kaprall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Animal husbandry is hard.  Andy acknowledges that.  It's why his act is specifically formulated for people who just got done inseminating farm animals.  But not that kind of inseminating. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's simultaneously nothing better than children and nothing worse than children.  It depends on the day.  It's like the Minnesota accent.  Some people love it, the rest not so much. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Europe, they don't always use air conditioning.  In Iowa, they don't always put their burgers together all the way.  The former will kill you, while the latter creates a delicious sandwich.  That's why Iowa has always been known as the technologically superior location. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about you...

Today's news, in increasing order of grossness: Kanye West made some very ugly shoes, Lake Minnetonka has become a diseased cess pit, and Jeffrey Epstein is most likely a serial child rapist.  That one represents a fairly large increase compared to the Lake Minnetonka story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about y...

Continuing our parade of fun, our next topic is a home invasion turned torture session turned triple murder.  And what better thing to segue into our favorite Wednesday topic, the slow decline of Minneapolis? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom and Kathryn are back, so of course the topic on everyone's mind is Tom's fashion sense.  Unable to dwell on that for very long, we then moved onto what seems like an epidemic of child sex trafficking, because coming home from a vacation makes you seek out unhappiness apparently. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more...

You're listening to us, our phones are listening to us, your phones are listening to you, and the AI that hears it all is only going to get better at figuring out what you want to buy, so look forward to that.  And speaking of things you can buy, we've got a couple books you might be interested in.  We don't know you're interested because we don't spy on you.  We're very virtuous. See omnystudio.c...

While the rest of us are busy being displaced by earthquakes and having seizures, Disney is making billions of dollars rehashing old stuff.  It almost seems unfair, but then Mickey Mouse tells you everything is okay.  Or maybe that's the radio-induced psychosis that Tom always talks about.  Hard to say. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

If you were a teenage boy in the 70s and/or 80s, you were approximately 90% likely to have a crush on Farrah Fawcett.  If you think those odds are high, get a load of this: running with the bulls is a 100% bad idea.  But you know what's a good idea?  Chris Jericho's Rock N' Wrestling Rager.  Assuming you like ragers, anyway. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/l...

Summer is only 3 months long, which makes it exactly as long as the movie Midsommar.  I bet they did that on purpose.  And speaking of long, The Walking Dead is still going, and apparently some people still watch it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We finally have more episodes than there are candidates running for President! What a milestone it is. Clips Featuring: Laura Wasser, Anita Anand, Bob Emfield See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When writing Divorce Sucks with Laura Wasser, make sure to capitalize that "S", because the phrase "divorce sucks with Laura Wasser" makes her sound like a terrible divorce attorney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starting today, we are no longer allowed to begin every show with the pledge of allegiance.  Not that we've ever done it before, but we liked having the option. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If there's one thing humanity has always shared throughout history, it's the capacity for evil.  One such evil happened in 1919 in Amritsar.  Then another 100 years later, Anita wrote The Patient Assassin.  That's what they call the butterfly effect.  Maybe. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for IndependenceBook- amzn.to/2LmSyOZ See omnystudio.com/listener f...

I have good news and bad news.  Bad news: someone abandoned a baby.  Good news: a dog plays Jenga.  I never claimed that the good and the bad were of equal magnitude. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're not usually too fond of humanity on this show.  Adam believes otherwise, and wrote a book on it.  Maybe we just need to read it.  Or maybe we need to balance our hormones.  There's a book for that too.  If anything our PCOS might clear up.  Yes, we all have it.  All of us. The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better WorldBook Link- amzn.to/2YaSLIp Hangry: 5 Simple...

If you're one of the proud few who actually pays taxes, you're paying for someone else to have something.  In many cases this is fine.  The question is where to draw that line.  Personally we draw it just after luxury movie theaters.  Why a silver screen when it could be gold? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about...

You know who loves the American justice system?  Basically nobody.  Especially not people like Massoud who've gone through it.  It's just another facet of the current climate of us versus them and winning at all costs.  Surely this is the decade they'll finally reform everything like they've been saying. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...