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Houston and Stitch kick off the show with a sneezy standoff, trading blame over who gave who a cold, which somehow spirals into a deep dive on a mysterious plague death in Siberia and a years-long inside joke about Serbian versus Siberian tigers. From there they tackle National Taco Day with some wild stats on the 1.7 million Americans who have never eaten a taco, and Houston breaks down his mom's secret North Dakota taco recipe in full deep-fried detail. The afternoon wraps with Stitch's second annual birthday chili feed benefiting the Friday meals program, proving these two can turn a head cold, a taco, and a chili bowl into forty five minutes you didn't know you needed.

Mark heads into the old Lee-Deadwood Hospital morgue for a spooky Doc Talk shoot and the camera starts moving on its own like something down there wants in the shot. LimeWire pops back up online and the guys relive the golden age of pirated MP3s and viruses nobody saw coming. Stitch drops a jaw dropping mug holding world record ahead of tomorrow's Bierborse, and the debate over whether it's even real gets heated. Press play for this one.

Stitch wants a whole birthday month and Houston is having none of it, though he does cave enough to help plan Stitch Fest, a chili feed this Saturday raising money for the Friday band show meals that keep people fed all winter. A New Jersey man catches a shark cruising down his flooded street during a nor'easter, and Houston becomes very convinced sharks are coming for him specifically. Then Fat Bear Week crowns a new thousand pound champion named Backpack, and Stitch pitches his own version for the studio that nobody signs up for.

Anger isn't fixed by yelling, and Houston's got the science to prove venting makes it worse, not better. Then Rapid City tap water gets a shiny national nod while Stitch still can't bring himself to drink it from the faucet. And somebody stole a lacrosse team's trailer, which kicks off a solid five minutes of amateur crime theorizing. Grab your ham and cheese Hot Pocket and settle in.

Stitch and Houston get schooled on Gen Alpha slang, from scuba to quiet on the creek. A viral post about the bathroom being the ultimate escape hatch from your spouse sparks a real debate about whether men are weaponizing it. And Houston finally lets loose everything he's been holding in about Kyler Murray and the Vikings quarterback situation.

Houston installs a fancy new toilet, and the very next morning, a ladder and a crawl space team up to take him down completely. A guy near Houston, Texas crashes his car straight into a Kroger because he had to pee and the store was closed. And there's a wild investigation into DraftKings using AI to spot people who are losing money and hitting them with more offers to keep them playing.

Stitch and Houston dig into a leaked list of things Hollywood insiders supposedly know to be true, and it gets messy fast, from steroid use to secrets nobody wants printed. Rockstar Games wants four hundred bucks for a Grand Theft Auto six collector's box that doesn't even include the game. And Houston shares his weekend plans, which somehow involve installing a toilet and feeling genuinely thrilled about it.

Stitch is out today, so Houston flies solo and dives into the bomb threat hoax that shut down Monument Health this morning, tracing it back through a wild history of copycat callers and one guy who tried it with actual dynamite at a Lake Tahoe casino. He also celebrates Rapid City's own Adam Vinatieri setting a Guinness World Record with a field goal kicked eleven thousand feet up in the Swiss Alps, then throws out his most controversial take of the week: live music might be exhausting even when it is your favorite thing in the world, AC DC show in Winnipeg included.

Houston is back from Canada and he brought stories for days. Stitch grills him on his sudden Tim Hortons obsession, a croissant breakfast sandwich apparently worth crossing a border for, and the wild tale of scoring two hundred and fifty dollar AC DC tickets in Winnipeg while a stranger swore he sounded like he was from Texas. The guys also map out where you absolutely do not want to be when the zombie apocalypse finally hits, and place their bets on this year's Fat Bear Week champion. Grab your donut and coffee, this one's a ride.