Let Me Ask My Dad

Tangents include: Renaissance Faires, Highland games, fair food, the turkey leg industry, empanadas, Greek food, local fairs, beer tents, mead, ciders, drinking games,  ATMs, nothing costs $10, cash only, bank robbers, escaping casinos and department stores. 

Tangents include: Classic games/arcade games, sword store at the mall, Magnavox Odyssey, Pinball Hall of Fame, Duck Hunt, Xbox, GTA, Wii, Mario, Twitch, Animal Crossing, Rockband/Guitar Hero, Karaoke, Diablo, Ingress, Pokemon Go, sound cards, and LAN Parties.

Tangents include: pools and BBQ, people who live in apartments are assholes, pool bottoms are made of sandpaper, dogs falling in (Mel 100% references a Jenna Marbles video here), put on a shirt, heat stroke and heat exhaustion, sun safety, 80 degrees is too cold, bodies of water are more fun with drinks, Monday though Sunday, mostly dead bat, Jimmy the Cheeseburger Bug, cold beans, canned meat products, mispronouncing words to spell them, English vs. American words, step family and in laws are too complex, and then we start talking about Ikea again. 

This is one of those episodes that is only interesting to us. 

Tangents include: the bread line, people watching, John keeps mentioning the Soviet Union for some reason,  Mel's napkin hacks, John's food storage hacks, pizza cutters are not for real pizza, ulu knives, stupid lighting, Dr. Pixar, The Brave Little Toaster, make dinosaur sheets for adults you cowards, Mel doesn't understand how solar power works, it took us nearly 30 mins to complain about building Ikea furniture, breaking a whisky bottle in a rental car, and Ikea hacks.  

Tangents include: puffy paint, ugly clothes, Abraham Lincoln with a boombox,  holiday commercialism, Santa pizza and beer, amazon wishlists, a sock guy, interrupting puppy, the box of stuff, non-perishable goods, cologne for nephews and lotion for nieces,  gift baskets, once again we end the episode by just planning a family vacation.       

Tangents include: The Doobie Brothers, landfills, small bar shows, slam dancing, autographs, areas suck, I'll be at the bar, neo-n*zis, casino shows, teen pop punk, crowd surfing, some noise, state fair concerts, sugary music, FAIR SCONES, then we ended the episode by just planning family vacations.

Tangents include: creative pet naming, gerbils are awful, fish are boring, your cat is cheating on you, people names, birds are scary, Furbies, rescue animals, snakes, and Alice Cooper. 

DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded prior to the recent SpaceX splash down. 

Tangents include: tiny helicopters, AI, Martians, all other planets suck, Col. Chris Hadfield, Ring doorbell, the ocean is big AF, the Titanic, Science (brought to you by Redbull), SPACE GUNS, skydiving, scuba diving, ziplining, and distilled water.

Tangents include: Boy Scouts weird naming conventions, wilderness suvival skills, reality TV, Alone, fire dancers, tent vs camper, Homer AK,  weird KOA experiences, absurdly deep swimming pool,  combination Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and arcade, South to Alaska, awkward Sonic employee, paid camping, Alaskan hot dog hustle, Greatful Dead, and goat farm AirBnB.

Tangents include: malls, school dreams, anxiety dreams, airports, fictional dream friends, waffle house, Denny's with a bar, lucid dreaming, malls again, teeth falling out, can I do this in real life?, doors that don't close, fun house labyrinths, stealing hotel breakfasts, elevators, and then we start talking about malls for the 3rd time this episode.