This week is camp hookups, cockroach secrets, death by selfie and post-mordem sperm retrieval. An episode of gems, you can’t deny it!!! Also join us LIVE on our FB page, 8 pm EST on Mondays.

• You have night pants too, right?
• OMG someone hooked up at camp and had to call their parents! Help me out guys - if we had to call mom and dad when we did something against the rules, no one would be allowed to go!
• Melissa thinks people need to worry more about hygiene.
• Jess accidentally told half a story to 3 people and finished it with a joke to 3 complete strangers
• Would you tell someone if they had a roach on their shirt? 3 horrifying roach stories
• College admissions scandal - should they take the degrees away? We vote hell no.
• 259 death by selfies - people who tried to take a selfie but accidentally died. This is sad but also HILARIOUS.
• Why are we all self-imposed paparazzi??

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We recorded live in Facebook and had quite an audience! REALLY fun to engage with you all in real time. We talk about tit tats, music parents hate, Michael Jackson’s innocence and sleeping with celebrity crushes. Enjoy!!

• John writes a joke a day but can’t write stand up comedy? We call BS
• Devastating breakups and heartache - teenage angst
• What music did your parents hate that you HAD to listen to?
• Dirtiest song lyric
• Pete Davidson’s answer to music vs. men
• Child abuse vs young marriage - is this a matter of time in history?
• Tit Tats - do you have one?
• Would you sleep with your celebrity crush, or take 100K?

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Lots of chatter today about personal rules and regs. What is your spouse for? How would you like your tacos? What does it take for you to cry? We explore all this and more on this week’s episode!

• Why is Melissa’s first response always NO? She needs a little yes.
• Did your parents exercise? Jess’s parents did not really but they made her do so.
• The Helen Hunt afterschool special and how frightening it was
• John is actually shy...who knew
• Botox and dermatologist humiliations
• Jess and John are loving The Orville - and Jess wants a whole show of just Bortis
• Melissa loves True Detective
• Stupid rehab stories
• Manblaming

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• How bad do you treat your spouse?
• What are the husband’s jobs? (What are husbands for exactly)
• Listener spew: Last week we told a poo story, and you sent photos. Thank you!
• John reads the nice letter from listener Amy
• Every episode takes a while to hit their stride. Have we hit ours yet? We’re not sure.
• When was the last time YOU cried? Turns out for John, it was too long ago.
• Ugly crying in the shower - cathartic AND no cleanup!
• Who’s the best Baldwin? Melissa says there’s only one Baldwin and the rest are cheap imitations. Jess likes all but Daniel.
• Which taco scenario are you? (What’s your love language?)
• What stuff do you collect? What about as a kid? John liked to collect programs and concert ticket stubs.

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• Which one of your connections gets an instant unfollow? We discuss the world’s biggest social media offenders.
• Our philosophy on budgeting aka three people who suck at budgeting explain how shitty they are at it
• The new Weezer - how is this NOT wedding band music exactly?
• John’s waiting room emergency
• John and Jess cut Melissa’s vet bills back

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• Melissa has yet another DISGUSTING story about one of her dogs
• John and Jess get mad at Melissa for bargaining with the scale
• The argument about who is the greatest drummer of all time. But Jess is right.
• We don’t think Super Bowl Day should be a national holiday. John does, but Jess and Mel are outraged
• Dying jobs - Journalists, data entry operators and...medical doctors?

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This week, we dissect our hate mail and (sort of) graciously address their concerns. Also: anti-vaxxers, cancer from bacon, and the weird rules of Kickstarter. Enjoy!!

• Bacon gives you cancer - and Jess and John decide it’s a good way to die
• We’ve decided that Melissa can only eat the Ds
• We get hater mail, and we defend ourselves. Not that we should.
• We hate anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers
• Non-smelly ways to make eggs? How about every other way besides how Stu is doing it
• The I want a baby challenge - how do Scott and Stu do?

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• We get all up in the shock and unbelievability of the Fyre Festival
• John heard our theme song in a commercial!
• Rob Lowe is hosting a new game show and Melissa and Jess are happy to just stare at his face for hours and hours
• Do YOU unpack at hotels? Jess does, John not so much. John unpacks never, in fact.
• Jess’s people I hate includes influencers this time around.
• Melissa is making headway on new year's resolutions. What resolutions?

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• We discuss listener reactions
• What to wear in the snow
• Jess is properly OCD about some random stuff
• TSA and Melissa’s worries
• Thankless jobs we’ve done (or not done)
• Melissa teaches us how to make a mantra
• If there were no men, how would women change? Makeup? Shaving?

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• Stuart gets all the accolades because he is a friggin doctor and Melissa made him pick up 37 pounds of dogshit
• Why do people enjoy being “tragedy adjacent”
• We discuss the strategy of Forced Family Time
• What do we think about Januhairy?
• Melissa thinks Gwyneth Paltrow is perfect and John and Jess….can’t see it

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