You're going to need one eventually. Your home needs to host a drunken teenager party while you're away, your dog needs to pee while your at work, and the state frowns on leaving small children home alone.

But, Ever wonder why baby sitters think they're worth a fortune nowadays? Maybe your house sitter turned your place into a party hub the weekend you were at the lake, or why dog sitting looks fun and terrifying at the same time? Well you're in luck because the Lighten Up Comedy crew has some answers. This episode is relatable on so many levels Enjoy!

House parties can be a real hassle. There's a lot of planning, buying, carrying, and cleaning. Combine those things with forced awkward conversations and they can be real bad.  But sometimes there's that crazy one people talk about for years, filled with fun and bad decisions.

In this episode the Lighten Up crew discuss their favorite and not so favorite ones over the years. Enjoy!

Some people party like theres no tomorrow, others go to bed and could care less. Celebrating the new year can be uneventful for some and for others it's the craziest drunken debauchery fest of the year that goes down in history.  A night so crazy someone should write a folk song about it. Anyway, this episode is all about that crazy night.  

Happy New Year from the Lighten Up crew! Here's to a great 2020!

From walking into the room and forgetting what they came in there for to asking if Rusty (who's 15) is still in the Navy, aging parents are an inevitable part of this thing called life.  

They're set in there ways, they have different ideas and experiences that don't always coincide with the current times, which can be as shocking as it is hilarious. Especially in public or at that already awkward family gathering.

In this episode the Lighten Up crew discuss the challenges of dealing with parents getting older and share some hilarious stories from their own experiences.

Enjoy!

In this episode the Lighten Up crew discuss how to conduct yourself in a restaurant, from what to tip to how to send your food back.

 It's all about tact and common sense and having a couple former servers on the crew means they can give you the insider perspective.

It could be doctor's orders or you're trying to make yourself less offensive to the eyes of others, anyway you slice it diets can be tough. They're expensive, time consuming, and not much fun at all. In episode 16 the Lighten Up crew break down one of America's favorite pastimes, going on a diet. There's something for everyone in this episode!

This episode of Lighten Up certainly doesn't play dead as Billy, Shane, and Steve discuss the positive and negatives of trying to train a dog in their usual hilarious way.

Some have enough patience to try it themselves, others pay thousands of dollars to get the dog other people want to have around, but what happens when that dog just does things their way? 

Some people say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can have a lot of laughs trying.

Maybe you're alumni of a prestigious university with top honors, maybe you barely got out of a night class in a strip mall, maybe you've only thought about higher education, but you have upward mobility at the carwash and don't believe you need it, either way the Lighten Up crew have the inside scoop on what it's like. The panel consists of a Harvard Law graduate, another who's been to almost every community college, and another who's skeptical on wether it serves any purpose. So combine all of that experience, you're going to be in for a hilarious treat. Get your notebooks out, there's a quiz on Friday!

Buckle up and take a drive with the Lighten Up trio. Billy, Steve and Shane throw around some stories and advice on the joys of automobile purchases. Find out which one of the guys doesn't know a wiper from a blinker, listened to their car get ripped on by local drive time radio and grew up in no country for old cars. The guys rundown a Christopher Titus bit.

Mark Twain once wrote "I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."  Savage words?, sure, but funerals can be savage events. 

Face it, people typically don't handle death well, but with every aspect of life, even the tough times, there's comedy gold to pan for and the Lighten Up crew has done it once again; with their hilarious experiences dealing with the dead.  So sign the guest register and grab the Kleenex, you'll need it.