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Mark and Kevin were obviously hungry and immediately began the show with a discussion of taco trucks, and food trucks in general. Kevin recalls the time when GOP strategist promised food trucks on every corner. Sadly, that never happened.

Somehow the conversation morphs into a conspiracy theory about "Big Hamburger" convincing us to not like salads, then moves on to the Frosty, fast food, and video stores. They also reminisce also a few old Letterman clips, talk about God, Heaven and Hell, Harold and Maude, and medical bills.

SNL - Taco Town
Simpsons Zombie Apocolypse
Crispin Glover on Letterman
Drew Barrymore on Letterman

This is the billionaire take-down episode. Elon Musk is always in the news, as is his intention. It's hard not to talk about him and his purchase of Twitter. New things come out everyday, and Mark and Kevin talk about those things once again. There's also Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, who thinks philanthropy is hard.

Elon Musk is like a mobster, and Mark and Kevin discuss possible mobster names for themselves before discussing the current Musk/Twitter absurdities:

• Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter
• Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
• Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back
• You Can’t Code Your Way Out of the Culture Problem
• Twitter Is Being Sued By Its Own Employees For Mass Layoffs
• General Motors, Pfizer, United Airlines: Here Are All the Big Advertisers That Have Left Twitter Since Elon Took Over
• Tesla's New Tequila Glasses Are Designed to Ruin Your Tequila Drinking Experience
•  "Gentlemen, [he] may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot. But don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot."

A discussion of Ye's antisemitic Twitter rant, leads to an idea for a Death Metal music converter app, that converts anything into Death Metal, which leads to an idea to make Whitefish Ski Resort into Deathfish Ski Resort in an effort to discourage skiers from coming and crowding our slopes.

Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, Alameda Research, and Caroline Ellison are all in the news non-stop, for fraud, and their Real World style, Bahama lifestyle.

Elizabeth Holmes gets more than 11 years for her fraud with Theranos. Mark Zuckerberg is losing a ton on his ridiculous Metaverse, and Jeff Bezos thinks philanthropy is hard. Mark and Kevin would just like him to pay more taxes, pay his employees more, and treat them better.

Mark and Kevin can't stop talking about Elon Musk. Now he's bought Twitter and now works 120 hours per week. Things don't seem to be going great at Twitter.

Kyrie Irving gets in trouble and seems to double down. Billionaires can make their own reality, at least in the eyes of their supporters. Full self driving cars aren't happening anytime soon.

The discussion moves back to Twitter, with Musk's failed change to the verification check mark. Advertisers are fleeing, and Elon has no good way to make everyone happy. Lots of Twitter employees lose their jobs, including ones necessary to keep Twitter functioning.

Mark would like to see a crazy right-wingers in a house together reality show.

The billionaires lost billions, but are still billionaires.

A Norwegian princess relinquishes her royal duties to run an alternative medicine business with her self-proclaimed shaman fiance.

Neither Mark nor Kevin like cruises.

Norwegian princess quits royal duties to work with ‘shaman’ fiance
Elon Musk says he used a popular weight-loss drug to get 'fit, ripped, and healthy'
R.I.P. to Twitter’s Short-Lived Double Verification
It took a 19-year-old with $8 10 minutes to blow up Elon Musk’s new blue check scheme
Vulture Capitalist
Beatport

Mark and Kevin discuss former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, dumb movies, Alex Jones and his billion dollar penalty, the origin of sin (according to the bible), Catholic night school (or is it Catholic Knight School?), and silly religious movies.

There's also some Nickelback, Sharknado, SNL, and more.

With Hurricane Ian in the news, the episode starts with natural disasters.

As is typical, the rest of the show is a stream of consciousness discussion of bad movie pitches, fancy restaurants, Red Lobster and seafood, lab grown meat, Maya Rudolph, Cracker Barrel, The Great Outdoors, 80s camp movies, Airplane II, Henry Winkler, Van Morrison and all the music Mark hates, Scott Baio and opportunism in the crazy right, spit balls, students tormenting teachers, the cool dads we think we are, Jerry of the Day, and Elon Musk's embarrassing text messages.

Maya Rudolph - Hot Ones
Cracker Barrel Fake meet uproar - CNN
Alpha Gal - Radiolab
The Old '96er - Great Outdoors
Airplane II - Out of coffee
Woman crashes into ski rack
1100 meter slide down ski slope
Elon Musk's embarrassing texts

Kevin's furnace broke and getting it fixed was a minor miracle. Getting it replaced would have been a major miracle. Also, he's old now, and messed up his back. Mark brings up Covid deaths and comorbidities, followed by gunshot wounds, and abrupt endings to things, such as life. Things get dark for a bit.

They also discuss Carrie Fisher and Star Wars. Somehow the conversation turns to urinals, and specifically, old time, big urinals, and then urinals in homes. The discussion leads straight into Zillow Gone Wild, then Instagram account that highlights crazy houses found on Zillow.

Kevin doesn't like open floor plans. He also wants to convert his office into an apartment, but construction costs too much, and it would need a bathroom and a toilet. Mark suggests a Japanese singing toilet.

Visions of the future missed the mark. We don't have flying cars, we do have the internet, yet we still have to unplug routers to reset them. Uber suffered a major hack, and years ago the CIA director had his AOL email hacked.

Yvon Chouinard gave Patagonia away for the environment. The Energizer Bunny is a horror movie in the making.

Zillow Gone Wild
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Largest Untouched Homes Is for Sale for the First Time
How Japan's music-playing, water-spraying TOTO toilets took over the world
Uber Hack: It’s the Simple Things That Kill Your Security
CIA boss John Brennan's personal email 'hacked'
Why Patagonia’s purpose-driven business model is unlikely to spread

The episode somehow starts off with the Fast & Furious series, moves on to really baggy pants, former skateboarder Heath Kirchart, amazingly evil Orca whales, Elon Musk (of course), the Queen and the Royal Family, Ronald Reagan, and September 11th.

Mark and Kevin start with a rant about the Fast & Furious and really baggy pants, but move on the the exploits of former skateboarder Heath Kirchart. Mark talks about a video of how Orca whales get a seal that is, seemingly, safe on large, floating, piece of ice.

There's also the required discussion of Elon Musk, who may have to purchase Twitter for way more than it's worth, and is being sued for racketeering due to his involvement with Dogecoin.

They have to discuss the Queen's recent death, and Kevin wants to talk about the Royal Family too, which he feels is absurd. Also Ronald Reagan ruined public universities because he didn't want too many educated young people.

The episode ends with a discussion of 9/11, and the never-ending War on Terror.

Heath Kirchart: From Skating to Death-Defying Travel Missions | Epicly Later'd
Elon Musk $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit expands
The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”

Mark and Kevin discuss absolutism in just about everything, from gun rights, to sunburns at the Jersey Shore (Whitefish Beach), extreme sports, and the predictable outcome (death). There's also some reminiscing about how the past was better in extreme sports, and how the genre has "jumped the shark". There's also the required discussion of Elon Musk, which was prompted by his and his father's latest baby announcements.

The Blizzard of AAHHHs
The Improbable true story of the World Record cliff jump
Making a skate video
Elon Musk's 76-year-old dad says he's had another child with his 35-year-old stepdaughter: 'The only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce'
Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives, report says

Rich people are moving to Montana and ruining things. Montana is flooding, while the rest of the country has historic heat.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison has bought a Hawaiian Island, and ruins it for all the locals. The rich try to turn every nice place into a gated community for themselves.

Don't settle for mediocre cuisine. We can now get good Indian food from a gas station. Kevin reminisces about a gas station in Michigan with chicken shawarma, called Mr. Kabob.

Laurent Boebert rumors include being an escort, having two abortions, and abandoning her former sister-in-law, son, and dog, in an out of control ATV. Her sister-in-law needed to be airlifted to a hospital. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Covid-19 was created in a "peach tree dish", and if you get the vaccine will allow Bill Gates to shock you if try to eat meat, and will allow him to track your bowel movements.

Larry Ellison’s Lanai Isn’t for You—or the People Who Live There

Lauren Boebert target of wild claims spreading despite lack of evidence

Marjorie Taylor Greene goes off the rails

Mark and Kevin react to the characters in the news today. The attention seekers known as Elon Musk, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Tucker Carlson receive the bulk of their ire. 

Elon wants (maybe) to buy Twitter, Marjorie Taylor Greene is sued, and Tucker Carlson believes men are wimpy and should tan their balls.