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In this Episode we talk about who our ideal sponsor would be, doing a fake ad read for the Chili's triple dipper, doing another one for NASA complete with a word from Buzz Aldrin, whether we'd actually go to space, leaving a legacy versus exploding in a rocket, the teacher who died on the shuttle, Sally Ride being asked if a hundred tampons was enough for a six day flight, Amanda thinking she was pregnant recently, being scared of what pregnancy does to your body, scheduled C-sections versus natural birth, how big an epidural needle is, what surrogacy costs in New York and how you get matched, IVF and frozen embryos, what an umbilical cord actually does and both of us thinking it was basically an esophagus, midwives and home births, the woman on TikTok who won't see a doctor while pregnant, the woman who faked a pregnancy with a doll, people who keep reborn dolls after a loss and when grief turns into delusion, the egg baby project in middle school and having shared custody of an egg, why every kid wants to be a teacher, whether children should get apprenticeships, being forced to pick a career at eighteen before your frontal lobe is done, whether going back to school is worth the years, plumbers and underwater welders and air traffic controllers, a brick contractor with a beautiful house, and trying to name one single person who genuinely loves their job.

In this Episode We talk about Amanda convincing herself she's having a stroke, whether flushed is something you look or something you feel, what our most memorable years were, another dump truck ruining the recording, using ChatGPT to build a pop culture quiz on the spot, the 2016 round with Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar, Beyoncé's Lemonade, Pokémon Go, Zootopia, Stranger Things, Batman v Superman, the Cubs breaking a hundred and eight year drought, Rogue One, Closer by the Chainsmokers, Harambe, the mannequin challenge, Sia, and Brangelina splitting up, Amanda not knowing who Brangelina was, the news round with Brexit, the 2016 election, the Pulse nightclub shooting, Prince and Muhammad Ali dying, the Rio Olympics, Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize and Hurricane Matthew, scared world syndrome, the 2013 round for Andrew with Blurred Lines, The Wolf of Wall Street, Wrecking Ball, Man of Steel, Beyoncé's surprise album, This Is the End, Royals, The Conjuring, Get Lucky and the Breaking Bad finale, a coworker who thought the lyric was up all night to pet puppies, first phones, sidekicks and Razrs, the iPod touch, coloring in a shattered iPhone 4 with markers, how old phones survived anything, the app where you tilt your phone to drink a beer and have to pay for the milk, and how bad Siri got.

In this Episode We talk about Dolly the sheep and the first time anything was ever cloned, why it was a sheep and not a llama, whether clones live shorter lives because of deformities, trying to clone a mammoth without the full DNA, why we don't clone people, a truck that pulled into the parking lot to dump its load right as we started recording, the overgrown lot that finally got cut down, gene editing and whether China is designing human beings, gene spliced mosquitoes and whether that counts as biowarfare, wanting raccoons that can't get rabies, editing out cancer, the religious objection that only God gets to create life, whether test tube babies count as created in sin, what you would actually do if you had a clone of yourself, Amanda's plan to train hers for a month and send it to work in her place, whether it would come out as a baby or as an adult, what a clone would know on day one, whether it would rebel once it figured out the arrangement, the two of them living on a compound and splitting the work six months on and six months off, whether Chris would be weirded out watching her clone date someone else, tattooing a number two on the clone's forehead so nobody mixes them up, getting in a fight with yourself, what it would do to your identity to learn you were the copy, and whether you'd track down the original and steal their life.

In this Episode we talk about a humid August day and summer going by too fast, packing your days full to get ahead of the winter slump, Amanda going to her sister's bachelorette party in the Poconos and pretending the rental is a villa, how badly Love Island is mixed and having to master it yourself on the remote, the premise of Too Hot to Handle, the robot named Lana that runs the show, the prisoner's dilemma, whether producers plant decoys to make people break the rules, how much plastic surgery is on these shows, whether there are people building their bodies specifically to get cast, how you can afford to leave your job for a month to go on a dating show, the risk of getting voted off the first episode and having nothing to come back to, Temptation Island, Married at First Sight and Love is Blind, the suicides connected to the Love Island franchise, how going on a show like that becomes a permanent part of your life, Bonnie Blue's old real estate listings, wanting a disclaimer at the top of these shows saying these people are not normal, influencers and IRL streamers not being well adjusted people, how there are never any real consequences for them, losing your sense of reality when people stop seeing you as a person, and inventing our own dating show where contestants have to conduct Arctic research in Alaska with decoy scientists hidden among them.

In this Episode We talk about dropping the three two one from the top of the show in favor of a sync clap, a very windy day, the things your parents told you about the weather, God bowling when it thunders, angels crying crystals when it hails, never going to summer camp, brownouts on Long Island, the big blackout and the block party Amanda's family threw during it, hurricane parties in Florida, people who brought a generator inside during Milton, people dying in their cars when snow covers the tailpipe, a man in a retirement community who got plowed over, the car in Queens that iced over and became a tourist attraction, state roadside attractions like the bean and the arch, what would actually make you pull the car over, the world's fattest cow, horse and cow births showing up on TikTok, whether you'd stick your hands in a cow, free milk, goat milk, bathing in soda, beer baths in Germany, sewer diving for gold, mystery houses, a bird that talks like Oprah, the bird show at Splish Splash and adult only nights, how gross water park water is, tapeworms and how they draw them out with raw liver, whether you can feel anything in your intestines, a TikTok about a collapsed pelvic floor, inventing a roadside attraction where you pay a dollar to feed a tapeworm, a community spaghetti festival with a claw machine that picks up either a meatball or a person, and the corn barn in Iowa where you just roll around in corn kernels.

In this Episode We talk about the Canadian wildfire smoke that blotted out the sun and made us both feel sick, a pickleball partner canceling because of the air, a shout out to Phoebe about heavy breathing on the mic, a hypothetical about meeting your fiancé again for the first time that turns into a sunflower field, two beekeeper outfits, a lot of stings and a bee ring, the abandoned pavilion at Jones Beach and the people playing kindergarten music at it, beach bunnies, tick bites that never go away, a pickleball dating night and whether it might secretly be a shoot for Love on the Spectrum, getting a lot of views on a Snapchat video of flies at Robert Moses, taking eight dates to the movies at once, Supergirl, The Odyssey, jump scares, three hour movies and intermissions, eating so much theater candy you feel sick, snacks we can't stop eating, Flamin Hot fatigue, Utz pretzels, Wegmans Doritos with real garlic in them, a very badly timed burp in a parking lot, and what food gives you the worst burps.

In this Episode We talk about a quick weather update, hearing "Howdy Doody" from a toll booth attendant on a road trip through Oklahoma, toll booths that still have a person in them, old infrastructure that doesn't get used anymore, Sunken Meadow, stealing street signs as a kid, potholes and broken streetlights that nobody fixes until enough people complain, whether the United States should go back to being isolationist, Japan, converting yen to dollars, a friend who spent years studying to get into the Japanese workforce, how expensive and difficult it is to become a citizen of some countries versus how easy Italian citizenship is if you have the paperwork, the Jones Beach Air Show, the Irish firefighter from the Bronx who let us park next to his tent and needed an interpreter, why foreigners come here looking for something different, how big the United States actually is compared to the UK, Oheka Castle and the Gold Coast mansions, summer camp on old mansion land, horse girls and the people who compete on hobby horses, seeing a horse's dick for the first time, horse breeding as a business, hoof cleaning videos, whether horses are tools or pets, the Amish, animals reacting to music, monkeys as pets, Pablo Escobar's hippos and how they took over, the frogs released in Australia that became the bigger problem, what your ideal place to live would look like, Switzerland, and what your Swedish name would be.

In this Episode We talk about hiring a saxophonist for a wedding, whether Bill Clinton could show up and play it, whether world leaders attend each other's weddings, the 4th of July heat wave and the storm that blew through Amanda's party, state fairs getting canceled because of the heat, a carnival ride called The Zipper and being too scared to stay on a roller coaster, skydiving and whether the plane can land with you still in it, weight limits for jumping, Dr. Now and My 600-lb Life, an awards event where bees were eating the shrimp, bugs that eat meat, botflies, the movie The Bay and real parasites in crabs, the risk of eating raw salmon that isn't sushi grade, tick bites and Lyme disease, the fungus behind The Last of Us, an island where reindeer were left unchecked until the population collapsed to four, and our favorite islands.

In this LOST Episode We talk about Kyle finding out he's 23% German, whether the Nazis were superstitious, the ice cream man who only shows up on cold days, weird superstitions we each believe in, Kyle's habit of re-playing a song or show so it doesn't end on a bad word, setting the volume only to even numbers, Andrew's belief that a streetlight going out as you pass under it is bad luck, holding your breath past a cemetery, lifting your feet over railroad tracks and where that actually comes from, black cats, air fresheners hanging from the mirror being illegal, the difference between a sheriff and a local cop, the worst things a passenger can do in your car, the movie Obsession, jump scares and whether it's embarrassing to jump, people who clap at the end of movies, the guy who talked to the screen through Michael, the Minecraft movie chicken jockey thing, drive-in theaters during lockdown, whether you'd take $200,000 a year to only ever drink water again, and how you'd prepare to fart all of your future farts at once.

Me and Bri are back on bikes around an undisclosed part of Long Island, six months after we got frozen in a block of ice on Christmas. We talk about why Spielberg's new alien movie doesn't hit and what I call the illusion of wonder, why indie kids in their twenties write better people than legends do, the near-perfect misery of Obsession's ending, Bri getting her actual FAA remote pilot license and becoming a certified drone person, the fact that she has names for all of her apple boxes, the Sabbath problem with ordering from B&H, an old historical cemetery, a Polaroid we found on the ground, a Gen Alpha slang lesson where I explain unc and skibidi to someone younger than me, and the kid whose big brother had a taxidermied wolf in his bedroom. We also invent a new piece of slang: we're clouding.

Movies discussed:

• Disclosure Day (2026)
• Obsession (2026)
• Linda (year unconfirmed)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
• The Avengers (2012)
• Thunderbolts / The New Avengers (2025)
• Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
• Night Swim (2024)
• Challengers (2024)
• Signs (2002)
• Trap (2024)
• Old (2021)
• Jaws (1975)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Backrooms (2026)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• The Scarlet Empress (1934)
• The Whale (2022)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)