Tuesday, June 16, 2026

OG Danielle is back in the studio with Brock, and the show kicks off with a debate over what officially counts as a puppy versus a dog, which somehow turns into Pound Puppies, dog noises, and Danielle’s house full of actual puppies.

The trending thread of the day asks: What phrase do you hate? Listeners and the crew go after phrases like “chef’s kiss,” “I did a thing,” “this wasn’t on my bingo card,” “so blessed” as a humblebrag, “unpopular opinion,” “my journey,” “that’s my truth,” “I don’t know who needs to hear this,” “normalize,” “it’s giving,” and basically anything that sounds like it came from an influencer caption.

The show also gets into plenty of “What the Heck” moments, including more than 1,000 people dressing as Marilyn Monroe for a world record, a birthday cake shaped like an eight that accidentally looked very inappropriate, a Florida man speeding with 34 empty White Claws in the passenger seat, Hawaii having the most expensive medium cheese pizza, and a fisherman catching a small great white shark off Nantucket.

Brock and Danielle take a surprisingly real detour into forgiveness, difficult relationships, texting versus talking in person, and how things can get lost when serious conversations happen over messages instead of face-to-face. They also roll through random facts about NBA Jam making a billion dollars, wolves not actually howling at the moon, lightning striking Earth around 100 times per second, James Naismith having a losing record as Kansas basketball coach, and the Onyx River in Antarctica.

The episode also highlights Bentonville Film Fest week, with Danielle sharing events, family programming, free movies at the Momentary, the Crayola Creative Studios competition, Cookie Queens, Geena Davis, and the opening film connected to Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Brock and Danielle also talk about downtown Bentonville changes, including the new club-style version of The Meteor, The Barber, and whether Bentonville can really sustain late-night nightlife.

Good news includes two Iowa teens rescuing an elderly woman who had been trapped outside for more than 16 hours, Danielle getting ready to print her 12th magazine issue, her family’s double doodle puppies needing homes, and finally having a working car again. The show also covers Gen Xers still depending on parents, the great wealth transfer, nursing home vending machines loving Dr. Pepper, Spielberg movie rankings, World Cup talk, Star Wars minutes, kids and table manners, “exhaust-overwhelmulated,” coffee snobbery, expensive whiskey mistakes, Bentoville food talk, celebrity news, summer camps, kids losing electronics until the house is clean, Toy Story 5 making parents hate technology, and college home videos that apparently involved way more nudity than expected.

It is a funny, fast-moving, very Brock-and-Danielle episode full of phrases we all secretly hate, local Bentonville talk, family chaos, puppies, coffee, and just enough emotional honesty to keep things interesting.