On The Cross with Lucas Murphy

Lucas and Nathan are BACK, BABY! There's a solid half hour of very granular discussion about the production of booze, followed by the consumption of booze. We talk about the angry hot dog biker, Nathan's water park lifestyle, Boston Milkshakes, our complete and withering disdain for prestige television, invent scrabbilliards, and try to get to the bottom of a Sherlock Holmes Tampon Mystery.

On The Cross is coming to you LIVE from Poorcastle Festival with our special guest Sean Cannon, here to help us solve the New York Times Crossword Puzzle in a tent full of confused music festival goers. We launch into the poopoo and peepee material pretty quickly and it devolves from there into a heated debate about what the best pizza buffet is. Fans from the crowd get on stage to explain the history of dirty jokes, and Lucas makes some broad generalizations about what constitutes a soup. Plus a dueling speed round between a mini puzzle and Sean’s credentials! 

The Boys are back with another puzzling pod. Nathan’s working out the kinks on his bankruptcy scheme, Lucas hates youtube celebrities, there’s some discussion on where Geico fits into the classic structures of narrative conflict, and Nathan describes his ideal date with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Are the rumors true? Is On The Cross headed for a breakup? Nathan's been blocking Lucas's Words with Friends requests, Lucas has nothing but contempt for Nathan's love of 90's bands. Things seem pretty unstable.

Still the boys have reunited, not unlike the Beatles, for a rooftop performance this week. Join them as they take on a "mini-marathon" of three short puzzles. One easy one, one humiliatingly tough one, and one that's gay as hell. There's a lot of talk about video games, and a little talk about politics vis-a-vis terrible beer preferences.

Also: if you live in the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio area, we're doing a live show July 6th at Poorcastle Fest! Go to www.poorcastle.com for the complete lineup and tickets, it's gonna be one heck of a show.

Comedian Misty Stine comes by the studio to help solve a "food and drink" themed crossword puzzle from the New York Times app. We discuss the worst stage in town, hipsters, alternate calendars as a tool of the bourgeoisie, stamp addiction, and that Game of Thrones. 

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Nathan's gone garden crazy. Lucas is just trying to keep up. There's mild spoilers about the fate of Hagar the Horrible in the new Avengers movie. Nobody is keeping the go kart cheaters in check. All this plus we read the minutes from the last meeting of the itty bitty titty committee. 

Lucious Williams is back for a New York Times Crossword mini-marathon! The boys bang out two mini puzzles, talk gardening, name problems, racism, Mini Kiss, preacher breathing, and which zoo animals we could beat in a fight.

We got a big, fat tiddy hit of a show! Hunter Roberts joins the boys for a comic themed edition of the New York Times Crossword. We talk about the Chinese jerkoff robot, Lake Poopyboobs, Garfield, faraway magic, and the dangers of vintage energy booze.

Lucas and Nathan go it alone this week with a full-blown Monday puzzle, and much like Icarus from the Led Zeppelin t shirt, their hubris was their undoing. It wasn't a particularly difficult puzzle, and they certainly got distracted talking about other things, but it took them a solid two hours to figure it out.

Return guest Eric Sorgel joins the boys for a New York Times crossword puzzle and somehow it becomes about Mister Noodle, opossum adjacent muggings, and driving your Ford to the fjord. Nathan offers a taste of the Nerd’s Rope, Eric has a doomsday posse put together, and Lucas owns what could be a lifetime supply of toilet paper.