We fooled you a bit last time when we presented a little one-act play that took place inside an Uber taxi cab. Presented a nice, normal, straightforward situation, but then yanked the rug out from under, we did. This time, it’s different. Join us on a nice, normal Lyft ride, where some Chicagoans are just trying to do their normal jobs in this crazy world. Listen to Episode 149

There are times when a podcast comes along, and the world must stop and listen. The value such a show can add to the world is more than worth the usually free price of admission. This is not quite one of those times. But it is still free, and it is wonderful, even if it is just the two hosts of this podcast, guided by Stef Flamm, eating an arrangement of delicious cheeses and blindly guessing where they are from. Listen for leisure, and be happy you did it. Listen to Episode 148

Eric Feurer is back for another power hour. This time, things are a bit different, but one thing that is not different is it still devolves into a flaming mess by the end. The format is that every minute, we have a different topic to discuss, along with a shot of beer to drink. Hear so many things get reviewed or debated! Jimmy did seltzer this time cause he’s lame. No more information is necessary for you to enjoy listening. Listen to Episode 147

Look at the title and ask yourself ONE question: what is this episode about? You probably nailed it in that thrilling game of 1 question. In this episode, Will and Jimmy play the much more challenging game 20 questions. Fun is had, to be sure… but the conclusion is can’t-miss. Listen to Episode 146

This week we bring you an episode of Andy Rooney’s son’s radio show, “Several More Minutes with the Rooney Brothers.” SMMwtRB is a product of the CBS Online Radio Network. On every episode, Andrew, Adam, and Arthur Rooney carry their father’s mantle by complaining about the little things in today’s society. These young men in the prime of their life, strapping cornfed men in their late twenties and early thirties, talk about the thorns in the city of modernity, and yearn for a simpler time when a penny could buy you a horse, and a horse could get you anywhere in the county. Thank you to Zack Martin for connecting us to the Rooney Brothers. Listen to Episode 145

Ok, so Will and Jimmy wrote a spec script for the Simpsons. It’s a real, earnest work that they hope to get in the right hands, so if you’re listening to this and you work in a certain city within greater Los Angeles, California, that could mean you. This is a big, open, putting-ourselves-out-there kind of episode, so take this seriously, please (even though it’s a comedy!). Admittedly, there were some cross-ups re: Simpsons canon that Jimmy and Will discovered they had while recording, but they still fully endorse this spec script as a prospective writing sample for their CVs (not talking the drug store, talking curriculum vitaes). Here now are all 60+ pages of their script, “Gorgeous George.” Listen to Episode 144

From Wikipedia: “A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.” A rainstorm so powerful that all mankind is wiped out. Deep in our collective consciousness, this fear has captured our imagination for thousands of years. Just recently, in NYC, a very sudden, intensely powerful rainstorm happened. It made everybody and everything very wet. Will and Jimmy stayed inside and called other places to make sure it wasn’t raining there. Listen to Episode 143

Will and Jimmy did a bit last week in which they named all the fifty states, and some of their friends mocked them for it. They said it was extremely dumb - even for the standards of this show! So they’re doing it again this week. Just the same thing. Just naming all of the fifty states again. Is this a funny and good idea? Yeah, yeah it is. If you liked hearing the names of all the fifty states last week, you’re gonna love it this week. If last week you felt like you got to journey around the country, seeing the sights, this week you’re gonna feel like you’re in the goddamn Goodyear blimp zipping from ABQ to ATL and back again. If last week’s episode made your ears perk up, this week’s episode is gonna make you shit your fucking pants. Enjoy! Listen to Episode 142

Name all fifty states. Will and Jimmy here, challenging you to do it. Can you do it? No, really, can you? Try, right now. Try to do it. Oh, you don’t want to? It’s a waste of time? You’re waiting for an important appointment with your doctor, with potential bad news, and you’re too distracted to name all fifty states. Oh, what’s that? It’s not a medical appointment with your doctor? It’s a date!? You’re going on a date with your doctor!? Wow, congratulations, your doctor is really beautiful and handsome, good for you! Well then, we get why you’re distracted, we’d be nervous too if we were about to try to impress our doctor. Wow. We can’t believe that. Is there no doctor-patient-hippocratic oath against fraternizing or anything? We’re not gonna tell on you or anything, just wondering…oh oh but sorry, forgot the point. Point is, we’ll name the fifty states instead, since you’re busy! Listen now, we’ll do it! Listen to Episode 141

In his review of The Deer Hunter, Roger Ebert stated that Russian roulette “is the organizing symbol of the film: Anything you can believe about the game, about its deliberately random violence, about how it touches the sanity of men forced to play it, will apply to [podcasting] as a whole.” Ebert touched on a point that Will and Jimmy are finally prepared to flesh out: that you’re only truly alive when dancing on the edge of a razor, staring down the barrel of a gun that may seize your life from you whenever it pleaseth, and that the stakes can only go so high before something, or someone, must come crashing down, and that this is the podcast that will test the will of Man Himself. During a game of Russian roulette, the co-hosts also review live theatre they’ve recently seen, including The Seagull, Reprise, and The Golden Apple. Listen to Episode 140