This week, Lori and Brett compare travel disasters, from forgotten luggage and missed connections to TSA rules that seem to change every time you fly. Add a suspicious bag of Good & Plenty, a stranger’s bare foot, and a spirited debate about reclining your seat, and it’s a wonder either of them still goes anywhere.

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After escaping her first Maine winter as an official snowbird, Lori set off on a six-week road trip across America. Twenty-six states later, she’s back with tales of breathtaking national parks, roadside oddities, alien-themed businesses, blue meth candy, and a car that insisted on coffee breaks.

Lori reveals which national landmark unexpectedly made her cry, why the Grand Canyon reminded her of Fenway Park, and how a private museum tour with a woman named Carol completely changed their itinerary. Brett contributes his expert knowledge of National Treasure, unpaid parking fees, and the geography he learned from Carmen Sandiego. It’s part travelogue, part geography lesson, and part cautionary tale about telling Brett you visited a place called Barizona.

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Lori and Brett welcome back Anna the Greek for another round of pet peeves! The trio tackles life’s biggest injustices: paying for someone else’s lobster, drivers without blinkers, stickers that refuse to peel, chatter during movies, and people who won’t stop announcing their Wordle scores.

This week's Expect to Laugh is group therapy for the perpetually peeved.

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This week, Brett and Lori welcome Brett’s longtime friend Jeff Farrell, owner of Springvale Village Car Wash where he’s learned way too much about what people do when they think no one’s watching.

We cover car wash disasters, incredibly stupid injuries, how to shave your own back, the world’s most recognizable hold music, vacation anxiety, nude beaches, dads in tighty-whities, and why you should NEVER let Jeff find a competitor’s air freshener in your car.

It’s super inappropriate, and you should definitely expect to laugh!

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Lori gets paid to eat her way through Oxford Casino and discovers there actually is a limit to how much food one person can consume before needing to lie down. Brett spends four hours floating down the Saco River and somehow manages to cook only the tops of his feet.

But the real bombshell? Lori freezes her garbage! Not leftovers. Not meal prep. Garbage. Brett has questions. We all have questions.

Plus, Maine kids are about to experience the unimaginable horror of going to school without their phones, sending Lori and Brett down memory lane to a simpler time of pagers, pay phones, collect calls and just standing around waiting for your mother to eventually remember you exist.

We really covered some ground this week!

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This week, Lori and Brett welcome longtime News Center Maine favorite LEE GOLDBERG for a conversation that goes everywhere. Lee shares stories from his 33-year TV career, raising eight kids, his American Idol obsession, real estate side hustle, and his prostate cancer diagnosis that eventually led him to help start Prostate Cancer Maine. 

TV, radio, eight kids, cancer, real estate, Storm Center, American Idol, awkward Thanksgiving invitations, and a surprising amount of discussion about Lee’s reproductive system. Goldie came to play!

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What starts with Lori accidentally telling an Amato’s employee “I love you” quickly spirals into love languages, food, friendship, junk cereal, colonoscopies, lawnmower emergencies, and the dangers of naming farm animals.

Lori and Brett debate whether food deserves to be the sixth love language, confess their guilty-pleasure cereals, and somehow get from Costco hot dogs to Lori’s gold star for exceptional colonoscopy prep. Meanwhile, Brett’s 13-year-old calls mid-recording for lawnmower help, and a conversation about movies ends with childhood stories about eating the named animals Brett grew up with on the family farm.

Just another perfectly normal episode of Expect to Laugh!

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Lori describes her best friend Lou as part giraffe, part golden retriever, and a remarkably good eater. Somehow, Lou still agrees to join us to talk about friendship, and why grocery shopping counts as quality time. Meanwhile, Brett claims he hardly sees his best buddy Clark, then reveals they exchange Wordle scores on the daily and stay in touch by leaving each other bizarre voicemails.

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Food is the topic, but the conversation goes everywhere. Brett and Lori reminisce about childhood comfort foods, debate the perfect burger, rank movie snacks, and somehow end up discussing bologna cups, Kool-Aid, Chex Mix, and an irrational hatred of eggs. It's a deliciously random episode packed with nostalgia, questionable culinary choices, and the kind of conversations that happen when good friends grab a microphone. Warning: don't listen on an empty stomach.

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This week, we welcome our friend Anna the Greek for what starts as a conversation about pet peeves and quickly turns into three adults swearing about soup spoons, grocery store displays, iPhones, cargo shorts, tipping screens, and why our cars think they know us better than we know ourselves.

Somewhere along the way we realize two things: we're getting older... and we're becoming the people who complain about everything. Join us as we embrace our inner curmudgeons and laugh our way through life's pettiest frustrations.

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