Whoa, where does the time go?

Murph and Froo come back from hiatus to talk about the vague and nebulous topic of "Art depicting childhood characters as adults." What if Max Goof grew up to be a lumbersexual? What then? Have you even considered that he might?

Also on the docket of ideas is Murph's Job-Hunting Hell, Andrew Llyod Webber's School of Rock (With Friends), and The Annual Sanrio Popularity Poll.

Would you believe Episode 20 was originally much squirrellier?

2024 was just too jam packed with mess for us to contain to a clean runtime, so cuts had to be made for the sake of appearing mostly professional and respectful of our listeners' time.

For those that want to hear all the half-and-half induced trauma dumping and memes from the main topic you've come to the right place.

Before the horrors of 2025 take total precedent, Murph and Froo want to confront the horrors (and small joys) of 2024. Murph breaks down his favorite memes and posts of the year, while Froo elaborates on the various "messes" that fueled the discourse slop pile.

In the Decompress we have an update on Murph watching Professional Wrestling, and Froo let's us know Buffalo Bill is coming.

You better watch out, You better watch out!

For this Bad Idea, Froo and Murph stare directly at the Lumistella Star and it's corporate spawn, The Elf on the Shelf. Began in 2005 as one family sharing their holiday tradition of Santa's government-issued snitches, Elfing has seen a boom in the social media age that has led to an expansion of the brand and way, way too much lore to support it.

Also in the kringle sack is historical precedent of German folktales, discussing gentrification with hot sauces, and what it means to be a Bingleholic

Froo and Murph celebrate their 2 year podiversary by taking a look into the books of Booktok. Ostensibly, Booktok is just a tag on TikTok for talking about literature, but has increasingly grown associated with a particular genre of books and book discourse. Froo does her level best to de-mystify the tag, talk about some of the heavy-hitters, and opens the discussion to why we can't seem to let women have their kinks.

Also in the episode we discuss horror icons (for better or worse) Junji Ito and Russ McKamey alongside a brief snippet of Froo and Murph playing Five Nights at Freddy's.

As clinically as it can be put: In 2012 there was an intense fandom surrounding The Once-ler from the animated Lorax movie from Illumination Entertainment. The Once-ler was played by Andy from The Office.

Froo and Murph try to make heads and tails of this bizzarre fandom that went as quickly as it came, a perfect storm of Tumblr Sexyman, Hotboy Villain, and...and...self-shipping? If you didn't know before, the details contained within may prove shocking.

And if none of that isn't your cup of tea this episode will also contain impressions of the D23 announcements (RIP Muppet Theater), attempts to explain Baki The Grapper, and Vtubing Kpop Boyz.

What if you could live forever? What if you were in the vast emptiness of space with only two other people to talk to? What if football, but with tornados?

Froo and Murph examine such questions through 17776 a work of high-concept sci-fi multimedia fiction published innocuously to a totally normal sports blogging website in the year 2017. It's a comedy, it's an existential horror, it's a refutation of Protestant work-ethic.

Hut hut hike listeners, this one goes places.

In this Bad Idea we're gonna take you to the past to talk about The Sims 2 machinima's that were sub-quality. Now that Roosterteeth has officially shut the doors (and their content is made increasingly scarce by Warner Bros.) we decided this was the ideal time for Froo to wax nostalgic about one of the first media conglomerates born of the internet. Murph doesn't wax nostalgic at all, he only watched Red vs Blue.

Froo and Murph float down the chocolate river to Glasgow, Scottland to unpack the generated Willy Wonka pop-up event allegedly* written wholly by AI by a grifter to extract the glaswegian people of their hard earned pounds.

Come for the full reading of the script, stay for the trial of Jojo Siwa.

*It was, absolutely, without question.

Froo and Murph take the Wayback Machine to a time that was four years ago, but feels like six months ago, to talk about the 2020 underground webcomic Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins.

What began as a daily comic with one joke slowly turned into a statement on sexuality, copyright law, and how Amazon workers deserve bathroom breaks. There's also some slow-burn psychological horror, because COVID lockdown did strange things to all of us.

It's an episode you'll have to tell the fellas at work about.