Shift Happened

This time we're getting into tan maxing, the viral trend where people are tracking UV indexes and chasing the smell of their own skin. Leslie defends her habit, the guys stage an intervention, and somehow it all ties back to the movie Idiocracy. We also meet a Georgia handyman who turned a pink Barbie Dream Camper into a working three-dollar-a-tank vehicle, complete with a grocery compartment. Then it's Disclosure Day, which means a heated debate about whether we could ever communicate with aliens. The answer involves math, dance, and a glitter poster that might start an intergalactic war.

Leslie drops the big news: she's leaving for Minneapolis, and the universe confirmed it with a Skol license plate in the Safeway parking lot. The station's web developer builds his own Jarvis and earns himself Tony Stark status in the building. Plus, Europeans visiting for the World Cup are losing their minds over Buc-ee's, ranch dressing, and air conditioning, and a woman on TikTok swallows her AirPod and waits five days to find out where it went.

Two large, wolf-colored animals were spotted drinking from a puddle under an overpass, and the studio can't agree on what they were. Houston has Leslie and Stitch stand up to test research showing humans naturally turn counterclockwise, with mixed results. And new reporting connects big tobacco to the snack aisle, where the same minds behind Camel Lights helped engineer your Lunchables.

Stitch is back from Chicago with stories about a dinner cruise on the river, a fake birthday shoutout from the boat DJ, and a parking situation that nearly broke him. Then the crew finds out the entire town of Hell, Michigan is for sale for six hundred twenty five thousand dollars, and the merch ideas start flying. Plus a TikTok time traveler claims humanity goes extinct next year, which sends everyone down a rabbit hole involving an eighteenth century painting of a woman who appears to be checking her phone.

The Mount Rushmore fireworks drew over 100,000 ticket requests for fewer than 5,000 spots, so Houston and Leslie break down where you can actually catch the drone show for the 250th. They dig into "email apnea," the very real habit of holding your breath every time your inbox dings. And Sherwin Williams is somehow trying to sell the loneliest paint color on the shelf, a green that's been compared to broccoli soup and worse. Stitch is back from Chi-town, and the only question that matters is whether he remembered the Malort.

Leslie loses a battle with her impulse control in the target pharmacy aisle and ends up cracking open a bag of spicy ramen yucca chips on the air. There's a deep dive into a list of things ruined once too many people found them, from food trucks to Etsy to storm chasing. Plus a UK makeup artist who had her late dog's ashes mixed into her eyeliner so he could keep seeing the world through her eyes, and a National Donut Day debate that crowns the humble glazed round as the one true king.

Stitch's AC unit picked the worst possible week to die, with 95 degrees on the way and a 15,000 dollar replacement quote in hand. Houston spends the afternoon trying to cheer him up with air conditioning history, from crooked magazine centerfolds to movie theaters bragging about refrigerated air. Then scientists bake sourdough with 5,000 year old yeast pulled off Ötzi the Iceman, and the crew has thoughts about who exactly volunteers to eat mummy bread. Stitch heads to Chicago tomorrow, so the shopping list includes Malort and a custom crop top.

It's election day, and that means a deep dive into the strangest ballots in history. There's the Austrian race decided by a single phallic doodle, the Missouri Senate seat won by a dead man, and a time when polling places handed out alcohol to boost turnout. Stitch finally rises from the dead to celebrate National Rotisserie Chicken Day, which leads to Colonel Sanders trashing his own gravy and a debate over whether KFC is worth a second chance. Plus the best fake excuses for leaving work early.