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Houston comes home from his root canal with a full report on endodontics and immediately makes a twenty dollar bet with Stitch over the next four games of Vikings football. The guys go down a rabbit hole on an old wives tale that uses onion skins to predict how rough the coming winter will be. Then right around six o’clock, a certified sex therapist’s theory on horror movies and your libido gets the floor, with Stitch admitting the whole premise stresses him out.

Houston spends half the show dreading two root canals while somehow landing on the ultimate ranking of regrettable purchases, with unworn clothes and camping gear taking the top spots. Stitch breaks down the Gen Z stare for anyone who has ever gotten that blank look at work, and black cat superstitions send the two of them down a rabbit hole about witch trials and lucky cats in Japan. Houston also previews his latest Doc Talk assignment, standing next to a surgeon with a microphone for a bunion surgery.

It’s Bat Week in the Black Hills, and Houston has a rabies fact that’ll have you checking your arms for bite marks. Stitch puts ten dollars on the line over the most famous pumpkin in movie history and loses badly. Then Houston introduces the show to an animal that smells like movie theater popcorn and uses its pee as a jungle group chat.

Houston tries to prove he does not believe in the supernatural by standing alone in a dark basement, then talks Stitch into trying dream incubation to fix whatever is bugging him before bed. Crocs trivia takes over the back half of the show, right down to the ten million dollar Jibbitz deal and the Atlanta Falcons logo nobody at the team apparently thought through. The home opener for the Rush closes things out with some hockey history and a reminder that overtime games used to last for days.

Stitch gives Mark his full attention today, phone stashed across the room, and somehow it still goes sideways. They put Stitch through a full speed test against the animal kingdom, from squirrels to elephants to a reindeer going fifty miles an hour, and the scorecard is not pretty. Mark drops the story of a guy who has been walking around the planet for twenty eight years and hasn’t hugged his kid in just as long, and the guys try to figure out what a person even does after that. Then wicker men, vampire movie rankings, and a debate about whether doctors can be trusted send the show completely off the rails.

Houston flies solo on this one and dives straight into Halloween chaos, from shrinking candy bars to a five hundred dollar grand prize waiting at the Creepy Crawl. He breaks down why your Reese’s bag feels lighter this year and tells you exactly where to find the ghost hunt happening in downtown Rapid City. Then things get wild with a lawsuit involving the actor who voiced Sid from Toy Story, now accused of scamming an elderly couple out of nearly a million dollars in gold coins. Houston wraps it up with a hot take on airplane seat etiquette that might have you picking sides before the segment ends.

Houston and Stitch open with an alligator attack that has internet reptile defenders choosing sides, then dig into a ChatGPT study ranking every state by personality traits, with South Dakota landing somewhere nobody expected. Stitch admits what six Vikings tickets actually cost him this December, and a decades old Bigfoot mystery gets cracked wide open right before the two nearly come to blows over ghosts.

Houston flies solo today and opens up about a haunted hospital recording that still has him spooked, a Ritz cracker conspiracy pulling in TikTok detectives everywhere, and a wedding venue facing a very public meltdown after refusing to refund a grieving family.