Shift Happened

Mark Houston is flying solo today, which means the hantavirus story gets the deep dive treatment, a Montana mom finds out her farmhouse sits on a garter snake den with up to eight slithering through her kitchen daily, and the Florida diamond thief swallows his evidence only for police to find two bonus earrings nobody can explain. Also, science says we're genetically closer to cats than dogs, and Leslie's going to have opinions about that tomorrow.

The crew gets heated about whether tots belong on a plate of fries, debates if a rabid beaver attack in New Jersey is reason enough to never leave the house, and breaks down the viral tweet claiming grown men playing video games is unattractive. Plus, a high-pitched mouse sound that splits the room by age, and one dog named Moses who became a hero in an Arizona driveway. 

The crew digs into Kellogg's bringing back toys in cereal boxes for Toy Story 5, and Houston is already plotting to buy ten boxes of Corn Pops. Things get heated over Kraft mac and cheese when one woman online discovers the actual instructions, sparking a debate about how much butter is too much butter. Plus, a viral fight breaks out over who gets shotgun: the girlfriend or the mom?

It's May the Fourth, and the crew went full Star Wars nerd mode. Did you know the cantina song has an official genre name, and it's just the word "jazz" with a letter swapped out? Stitch still hasn't seen all three original movies, and the guys could not let that go.Cameron Diaz had her third kid at 53, and that somehow turned into a whole conversation about whether having children that late is impressive or a little unfair to the kids.

Houston, Leslie, and Stitch kick off the weekend by diving into the surprisingly deep history of the Kentucky Derby, including the part nobody talks about, which is the Black jockeys who dominated the race until they were forced out. From there it's vanity plates, specifically the two states where you can legally drive around with "ASSMAN" on your car. Plus, a new study of 20 million people says zodiac signs mean absolutely nothing, which Leslie took like a true Capricorn.

ChatGPT has a goblin problem, and Houston made it explain itself. The AI's actual response might be the most unhinged thing we've ever aired. Then we went full science mode with quantum entanglement and the theoretical possibility of sending a message back to your past self, which of course led to Powerball numbers and Back to the Future. And somewhere in the mix, two guys kept five balloons in the air for sixteen minutes and apparently that's a Guinness World Record now.

Wednesday's show kicked off with Leslie smuggling in wax candy from TikTok Shop, and somehow the whole crew spent an entire hour eating them, spitting them out, and debating whether wax tastes like butter. From there, things got unexpectedly educational when the crew dove into the four competing origin theories behind the phrase "86" and how it made its way from soda fountains to mob movies. And because no Wednesday is complete without a deeply important debate, the gang went head-to-head over which direction you're supposed to face in the shower and what that might say about your brain.

Tuesday's show went places. Houston got emotional about Voyager 1, a space probe that's been drifting alone through interstellar space for fifty years and is slowly running out of power. Meanwhile, bars are apparently ditching trivia nights for nude figure drawing, and the crew debated whether they'd pose as the model. Oh, and somebody reheated salmon in the office.