5/2/26 - Saturday Edition

Here are some of our favorite moments from the past week!This episode of Tanner and Friends feels like a “greatest hits” reel of your recent shows: shelter pet chaos, gas-price pain, tiny life hacks, and a full-on Bullnation personality X‑ray through three songs.Tanner kicks things off with National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day and Tacoma Humane’s waived adoption fees, which sparks a run of the funniest pet names listeners have ever given, including a 26‑and‑a‑half‑pound cat named Fatty McFatfat who became a legend at the vet’s office. From there, he dives into Washington’s record‑high gas prices, sharing his own Bonney Lake–to–Bellevue commute sticker shock and opening the phones for gas‑stretching hacks—from “drive like you’ve got an egg under the pedal” dads and GasBuddy scavenger hunts to listeners who refuse to touch the freeway and people using Upside cash‑back to feed their tanks.You’ll hear Luke Combs admit that his “never leave home without it” item is an Xbox controller, which leads Tanner into a conversation about the weird, oddly specific things Bullnation can’t leave the house without: mini lint rollers for golden retriever fur, pocket knives that handle everything, tiny bottles of ranch, ever‑present knitting projects, and Tanner’s own ride‑or‑die Tide pen so he can spot‑clean his life one spill at a time. Playlist Psychology returns with a deceptively simple three‑song lineup—Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It,” Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” and Stephen Wilson Jr.’s “Gary”—as Claire, Dancing Danielle, and Tanner try to guess gender, age, car, kids, and job for a mystery listener who turns out to be Matt from Auburn, a 46‑year‑old marketing director in a Mustang Mach‑E who passionately defends Shania’s album “Come On Over” as one of the best ever.Later in the show, Tanner, Claire, and Danielle tackle a big PNW “what if?”: if light rail and buses actually got you everywhere—from Mukilteo and Bonney Lake to Duvall and Maple Valley—would you give up your car? They go back and forth on freedom, hikes at Rattlesnake, camping, London‑style reliability, Uber sticker shock, and the reality that Washington’s beauty and spread‑out towns still make a car feel non‑negotiable for a lot of listeners. Tanner closes by revisiting the “bridge that freaks you out” topic, confessing his lifelong anxiety over the tiny two‑lane River Road bridge in Puyallup and trading texts about Deception Pass, White and Chinook Pass, hearse duty on I‑5, and all the PNW stretches of road that make people grip the wheel a little tighter.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.