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Zachy Moon fills in for Houston this morning and the two dive into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, trying to guess which pop culture costumes will show up this year, from K-pop demon hunters to Pitbull to a Doctor Doom suit you can grab at Spirit Halloween for cheap. Stitch floats an idea for a no phone section at local restaurants and gets called out as the worst offender in the group. And with eight days left until Stitch's birthday, the guys start hyping up Stitch Fest Feed the Need, the fundraiser happening October tenth to help feed the community all winter long.

Stitch and Houston dig into why Geico's Hump Day commercial still works thirteen years later, and it sends them down a rabbit hole to find the actual oldest commercial still airing, a twelve second ad from 1975 featuring an old lady chucking a tire through a window. Then Taylor Swift's VMA drama gets the guys fired up, with Stitch convinced her marketing has taken over the music entirely. Somewhere in there they also diagnose Houston with irritable male syndrome, and he does not take it well.

A guy tries to win over country singer Ella Langley with a TikTok video and a shopping cart full of flowers after she shut him down hard, and it goes about how you'd expect. A hundred pound tortoise named Lard makes a break for freedom in a Colorado neighborhood before deputies scoop him up. And Florida's attorney general takes aim at ChatGPT, trying to stop it from talking like it's your buddy. Grab your coffee for this one.

Stitch and Houston tackle a wave of copycat bomb threats hitting hospitals across the country, including one at Monument the day before, and dig into why people keep calling them in. Then the two run through eight things that sound amazing but get exhausting fast, sparking a real argument over whether live concerts are wildly overrated thanks to the cost, the crowds, and the volume loud enough to make you sick. Plus Ella Langley breaks Mariah Carey's all time Billboard record, Gen Z tells millennials to retire the lol, and the guys look ahead to a fall lineup that includes a new part time voice joining the show.

Mark's back from Canada with a suitcase full of weird snacks and even weirder stories. He and Amelie crack open BTS Oreos live on air and argue about brown sugar pancake flavor before Mark drops the real find: banana ketchup, a Filipino condiment he picked up north of the border. The boy band debate gets heated fast, with NSync, Backstreet Boys, and O-Town all fighting for supremacy while Amelie makes a case for K-pop taking over. Then things take a dark turn when Stitch tells the story of a woman who fell into an eight foot sinkhole on her own birthday and somehow got sung Happy Birthday while climbing out.

Stitch and Houston dig into TikTok's divorce talk trend, where people are turning their breakups into content for total strangers to comment on. A new survey says thirty percent of daters are accepting dinner invites purely for the free meal, no romance required, and yes, that includes folks well past retirement age. And Houston's already planning his next trip north, chasing down an honest to goodness Viking settlement outside Winnipeg. Grab your coffee for this one.

The crew marks Patriot Day with an honest look at growing up on opposite sides of 9/11, and notices a few old airport rules quietly sneaking back. From there, talk shifts to a charity chili feed and concert built to support a weekly community meal program. And once things start feeling a little too wholesome, a local dentist's list of common teeth brushing mistakes turns into a full blown debate.

Ten hot dogs and only eight buns, phone chargers that lie about actually charging, and Capri Suns that spark real fear about what's floating in there... today's crew has some strong opinions about everyday stuff that shouldn't be this annoying. A baby who can name every NFL starting quarterback from a helmet alone steals the whole show. And there's already a dream brewing to turn downtown Rapid City into a full blown horror experience for next year's Creepy Crawl. Coffee's required for this one.