Episode 48: That Wit Factor

Chris has an airport adventure, Wally has a stroke (no, not really), the Trump shooting, Mario Lopez wipes men, and TFW when your Instacart shopper is a dude.

Jess sums up the weather with a new word, No Soliciting in Spanish, fake names when placing pickup orders, dentists and the upsell, Chris touched some lady's fupa, why Wally's not allowed to be polite, AI fakes, and medical diagnoses from the internet and Jess's mom.

Childproofing confounds Wally (almost as much as technology), pranks by mail, and the things 12-year-old boys put Aqua Velva on. All this and even more quality entertainment for the low, low price of zero dollars. You'll love it or your money back.

Wally tries to convince us he's not on the call... while he's on the call (seriously, if you want to skip that mess, jump to 8:30), home prices, Wally tries (unsuccessfully) to shame Jess over a mistake, the dead guy at Chris's house, a mutual friend of Wally and Chris has passed, aging and illness, cremated pets, Wally's anniversary, celebrity divorces, Jess's divorce, the Ashley Madison documentary and scandal, and the ease of breaking down a confident person.

Wally gets too much email, Jess gets a new mic, Chris celebrates a government holiday (and so does his phone), when Wally wore a daishiki, mollycoddling, hamburg vs. hamburger (the biggest argument we have this week), entitled people, are we f*&ks, radio programming successes and failures, the radio owners killing radio, and Chris's bad joke.

Quicksand, Wally wants to profit off the homeless, eyebrows, being at the age where friends are dying, the creepiness of Fantasy Island, heart rate monitors on Olympics spectators, Circus of the Stars, Welcome Back Kotter and the White Shadow, Suits and other courtroom shows, Miss Maryland, doggy diapers, Jess's dog gets skunked, emergency vets, delivery mistakes, Jess's neighbor doesn't know her name, are strip clubs and adult bookstores going out of style?, getting porn online, Tennessee's outrageous liquor tax, dads and ordering fast food, cats, Wally and Chris blather on about some political stuff, the things Chris has done on a guard rail between two car doors, and blood tests in the car.

Chris is MIA (on a boat) but radio friend Tony joins us for an all-radio episode. We talk about Tony's career path alongside his show partner Kris, how our early radio experiences affected our careers, bad bosses, working with partners with or without chemistry, the death of terrestrial radio, keeping up with news and technology, learning how to use social media successfully, Wally figuring out technology, the commercial voiceover industry, famous people doing voiceover and audiobook narration, hearing your own errors and everyone else's, show prep, jacking with the competition, and calls and letters from prison.

Jess got attacked by Mothra and also ants (which obviously leads to a discussion about Chris's ass), new microphones, the worst movies ever made, Gilligan's Island, Richard Hatch, radio salaries, record labels, people who write "hbd" or "happy birthday." on your timeline, Jess's history with Red Flag Men goes back to the beginning, Chris flashes back to a regret, apologies as adults, funerals for the family of exes, radio competition, Howard Stern's evolution, a potential sponsor we'd love to have (with boundaries), and radio endorsements. Hey, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, would ya? It's free and it would help us out!

The cicada invasion in Nashville, people who travel to see rare natural wonders, P Diddy, hoarders, Chris has phone troubles (shocking, no?), a loud angry man at the post office, and then the show melts down and ends early over the word "honey" and a "double standard."

Jess gets an annoying call, government overreach in weather warnings, Wally's long-awaited opinions on 2020, brain-eating worms and the other winning presidential options, creepy comments from men you don't know (and the ones you do), men vs bears, gender roles in factory work, tampon jokes, Mothers Day, and assumptions about motherhood and gayness.