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Happy Hour with Dennis and Erik
by Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz
A candid and open weekly discussion between Dennis and Erik over drinks
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Ep. 283 – My God, I'm Famous!
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Pando (tree) (Wikipedia) The Understory (Wikipedia) Boom Chicago (Wikipedia) Dutch improv venue Boom Chicago launches careers of American comedy legends (YouTube) Gas Station Drugs – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube) Is This Thing On? (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 282 – Who Washes The Washers?
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Coimbra (Wikipedia) Zero Box Lodge Queima das Fitas (party in Coimbra) (Wikipedia) A Taberninha – DO NOT GO HERE!!! (Trip Advisor) Half Man (Wikipedia) Saltburn (Wikipedia) Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (YouTube) Basket of deplorables (Wikipedia) The Köln Concert – out of tune piano concert (Wikipedia) Who Watches the Watchers (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 281 – Through the Screw Hole
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Zero Lodges Rooster (Wikipedia) Widow's Bay (Apple TV) Half Man (Wikipedia) Easley pastor defends Trump statue against golden calf criticism (USA Today) Jon Stewart on Colbert (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 280 – New Broom Sweeps Clean
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Ep. 279 – Loosen The Grit
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Ep. 278 – It Just Looks That Way from Across the Street
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Bugle Podcast Karl Marx (Wikipedia) DTF St. Louis (Wikipedia) Rooster (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 277 – Kick it in the Ice Hole
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links DTF St. Louis (Wikipedia) Rooster (Wikipedia) Platoon (Wikipedia) Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Jesse Jackson (YouTube) Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ (NY Times) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 276 – Measure Once, Cut Twice
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links American Pastoral (Wikipedia) The Plot Against America (miniseries) (Wikipedia) John Turturro (Wikpedia) Ep. 3 - My job is to get a man on the moon Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 275 – Seven Year Itch
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Ep 1 – A Room Full of Spider Monkeys Will Smith Eating Spaghetti test (Wikipedia) "One-Half the Money I Spend for Advertising Is Wasted, But I Have Never Been Able To Decide Which Half" (Quote Investigator) The Truman Show (Wikipedia) DTF St. Louis (Wikipedia) Richard Jenkins (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 274 – The Amazon Position
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Ep. 273 – Limited Nuclear Conflict
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Jimmy Kimmel (Wikipedia) Dustin Hoffman (Wikipedia) David Gregory (Wikipedia) Jason Bateman (Wikipedia) Linda Cardellini (Wikipedia) Rachel McAdams (Wikipedia) Vince Vaughn (Wikipedia) Jerry Seinfeld (Wikipedia) Owen Wilson (Wikipedia) Gene Hackman (Wikipedia) Wes Anderson (Wikipedia) Bill Murray (Wikipedia) Arrested Development (Wikipedia) South Park (Wikipedia) Jessica Walter (Wikipedia) Lex Luthor (Wikipedia) Pierce Brosnan (Wikipedia) The Thomas Crown Affair (Wikipedia) Rene Russo (Wikipedia) Steve McQueen (Wikipedia) Faye Dunaway (Wikipedia) George Clooney (Wikipedia) Damien Lewis (Wikipedia) Tin Cup (Wikipedia) The Great Escape (Wikipedia) Mel Brooks (Wikipedia) David Harbour (Wikipedia) Kevin Bacon (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 272 – Paranoid Hippie Passwords
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Monocular Double Vision (NIH) Tinsley Ellis BandHelper app OpenClaw One Battle After Another (Wikipedia) The Revenant 2: (2025) - First Trailer (YouTube) – FAKE Jimmy Fallon Interview (YouTube) Guachinche Los Gómez (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 271 – Layover Marksmanship
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Ep. 270 – Enjoy Every Sandwich
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links American Pastoral (Wikipedia) About Time (2013 film) (Wikipedia) Scenes from a Marriage (American miniseries) (Wikipedia) The Astronaut's Wife (Wikipedia) Predestination (WIkipedia) Chekhov's gun (Wikipedia) Albert Brooks (Wikipedia) Plywood (Wikipedia) Slash - Crossroads (Official Live Video) (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 269 – The Hey Jude of Books
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Lucky Jim, the "funniest book" (Wikipedia) Zooey Deschanel (Wikipedia) RIP Rob Reiner (Wikipedia) "sap" was used in the 12th century (Merriam Webster) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 268 – Friendchips
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Everything we know about Royal Lodge, Prince Andrew’s 30-room mansion in Windsor (CNN) Prince Andrew | HOUSE TOUR | Royal Lodge, located in Windsor worth $35 Million (YouTube) Wilson (2017 film) (Wikipedia) Laura Dern (Wikipedia) Pluribus (TV series) (Wikipedia) E pluribus unum (Wikipedia) What's really happening with Netflix and Warner Bros and Paramount (Twitter) Matthew McConaughey on Birds & Bees Chat, Getting So High He Missed His Bday Party & Writing Poems (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 267 – Sagittarians, Rejoice!
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Comedy Cellar (Wikipedia) The Shard (Wikipedia) Renaissance Center (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 266 – 100 Wigs
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Hotel Stanford The Dynamo Room Shake Shack – Dumbo (Trip Advisor) Shtreimel (Wikipedia) <-- Ashkenazi Jewish hat Luke's Lobster John's of Bleeker Street John's of Bleeker Street (Wikipedia) Little Charli, pizza place across from John's Beacon Theatre (New York City) (Wikipedia) Louis C.K. (Wikipedia) Louis C.K. on Fly On The Wall podcast (iHeart) Inside SNL's Iconic Studio 8H (w/ Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman & Ego Nwodim) | Set Tour (YouTube) Did Sarah Palin Say: 'I Can See Russia from My House'? (Snopes) Conan O'Brien Must Go (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 265 – Oligarchy Malarkey
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Jacob Collier (YouTube) <--- the original viral video Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale (YouTube) Jacob Collier & Chris Martin - Fix You (Live from the O2 Arena) (YouTube) Jacob Collier - Little Blue (YouTube) Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens (YouTube) <--- the documentary Jack White Passes Along Meg White’s Regards as White Stripes Are Inducted Into Rock Hall, Shares Touching Parable About Duo’s Origins (Variety) October Sky (Wikipedia) Dennisville, New Jersey (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 264 – A Little Party Never Killed Nobody
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Mayor of Kingstown (Wikipedia) Jimmy Kimmel Gets Jasmine Crockett to Take Trump Dementia Test (TV Insider) Trump held 'Great Gatsby'-themed Halloween party as SNAP benefits were due to be cut off (USA Today) Airag – Fermented Mongolian Horse Milk (YouTube) Ep. 22 - Purple Chipmunk Proboscis Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 263 – Stormie the Salmon
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Monty Python - Dead Parrot (YouTube) MythBusters' Adam Savage - Dodos, Maltese Falcons, and the Art of Obsession (YouTube) Fight or Flight (2025 film) (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 262 – Ordinate Position
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Commuter (Wikipedia) The Gift (Wikipedia) Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry react to US crowds (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 261 – Perpetual Perpetrators
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Ресторан Два Елена (Restaurant) House of Lies (IMDB) Kristen Bell (Wikipedia) Task (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 260 – The Fruits of Boredom
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion (YouTube) Coventry, by Joseph Bathanti (Good Reads) Nonnas (Wikipedia) This Is Why You’re More Likely to Cry on an Airplane, According to a Psychologist (Time) Deep Cover (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 259 – Perfect Little Muddy Raccoon Prints
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Ep. 258 – Maybe God Dresses in Leather
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Fecal Transplant (Cleveland Clinic) Fecal Transplant (WebMD) King George (Hamilton) Morena Baccarin Gretchen Mol Boardwalk Empire Edward Burns Julianna Margulies Minnie Driver Patrick Wilson Benjamin Bratt Brian d’Arcy James Miller’s Marriage (IMDb link) Stuck in the Middle With You Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf (band) Jane’s Addiction Been Caught Stealing Mercedes-Benz SL-Class (R107) Who’ll Stop the Rain Led Zeppelin The Beatles: Get Back Becoming Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page Robert Plant John Bonham Joan Baez The Yardbirds Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 257 – Born to be Flat
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Billy Joel: And So It Goes (Wikipedia) Joni Mitchell and the Joni Jam - Both Sides Now (2024 GRAMMYs performance) (YouTube) Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude (w/ Duane Allman (YouTube) Adam Sander's $41M Comedy Hit Is Surging On Netflix's Global Charts Ahead Of Major Sequel Release (ScreenRant) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 256 – A Frayed Miniscus
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Sharp Objects (miniseries) (Wikipedia) The Martian (film) (Wikipedia) The Martian (novel) (Wikipedia) Project Hail Mary (novel) (Wikipedia) Top Gun (Wikipedia) Top Gun: Maverick (Wikipedia) Flight (2012 film) (Wikipedia) Easy Rider (Wikipedia) Apocalypse Now (Wikipedia) The Daily Show (Wikipedia) Late Night with Seth Meyers (Wikipedia) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 255 – Lesson About Messin'
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Truth About Recirculated Air on Airplanes (Reader's Digest) Mildred Pierce (TV series) (Wikipedia) Mare of Easttown (Wikipedia) Sharp Objects (Wikipedia) Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (Wikipedia) The Outsider (miniseries) (Wikipedia) Squid Game (Wikipedia) SOUTH KOREA IS OVER (YouTube) Highlights | Final Round | Genesis Scottish Open | 2025 (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 254 – I are ankle
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Steve Kroft – “60 Minutes” and Paramount’s $16M Trump Settlement | The Daily Show (YouTube) Paramount Global (Wikipedia) Shari Redstone (Wikipedia) Al Pacino Was Almost Fired From “The Godfather” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend (YouTube) Al Pacino Thought His Film Career Was Over In The ‘80s | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend (YouTube) The Sun Also Rises (Wikipedia) Bull run where guy gets dragged at 1:05 (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 253 – What Would A Beaver Do?
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Kevin Hart Gets the Bubble Guts! - What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast (YouTube) Nick's Pizza Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 252 – Bœuf au Weck
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Smashburger (style of burger, also a restaurant chain) Brioche (bread type) Beef on Weck Iron Dome Conan O’Brien Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend Conan O’Brien Must Go The Day of the Jackal (novel) The Day of the Jackal (1973 film) The Jackal (1997 film) Will Ferrell Acceptance Speech | 2011 Mark Twain Prize (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 251 – You Gotta Use Your Gait
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia) Reebok Pump (Wikipedia) Masonic Temple (Detroit) (specifically “Cathedral Theater”) (Wikipedia) Chef Reactions (TikTok) Tilapia (Wikipedia) Tom Jones (Wikipedia) Janis Joplin (Wikipedia) Tom Jones & Janis Joplin - Raise Your Hand (YouTube) Jimi Hendrix (Wikipedia) Amy Winehouse (Wikipedia) Kurt Cobain (Wikipedia) The 27 Club (Wikipedia) Steve Carell (Wikipedia) Jason Schwartzman (Wikipedia) Wes Anderson (Wikipedia) Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson | Vanity Fair (YouTube) Owen Wilson (Wikipedia) Luke Wilson (Wikipedia) Bryan Cranston (Wikipedia) Scarlett Johansson (Wikipedia) Bill Murray (Wikipedia) Benicio del Toro (Wikipedia) The Usual Suspects (Wikipedia) Kevin Spacey (Wikipedia) Kaiser Söze (Wikipedia) Good Will Hunting (Wikipedia) The Sixth Sense (Wikipedia) Barry (TV series) (Wikipedia) Pulp Fiction (Wikipedia) Harvey Keitel (Wikipedia) John Travolta (Wikipedia) Samuel L. Jackson (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 250 – There's No Bone Involved Here
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links God Creating Man by Ricky Gervais (YouTube) The Young Pope (Wikipedia) The New Pope (Wikipedia) Mobland (Wikipedia) Stick (Wikipedia) Tom Hardy (Wikipedia) Pierce Brosnan (Wikipedia) Helen Mirren (Wikipedia) Stick (Wikipedia) Owen Wilson (Wikipedia) Karen Bass (Wikipedia) Devlin - (All Along The) Watchtower ft. Ed Sheeran (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 249 – Ankle Beavers
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Ep. 248 – Dodging Lions and Wastin' Time
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Last of Us (TV Series) (Wikipedia) The Last of Us (video game) (Wikipedia) The Last of Us – Part 1 – 11 hour Video Game Walkthrough (YouTube) Alfredo alla Scrofa Fettuccine Alfredo: original recipe from the Alfredo alla Scrofa Restaurant in Rome (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 247 – Odd Shaped Sill
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Felicity Ward (WIkipedia) Leicester Square Theatre Lelani Kilgore Big Little Lies (TV series) (Wikipedia) Deadwood (TV series) (Wikipedia) Very Bad Wizards Every 'cocksucker' said in Deadwood (YouTube) Ep. 24 – Shoeing a Bald Nun Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 246 – Red Room, Red Room
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Ep. 245 – The Church Is What It's Going To Do Next
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links St Patrick’s Festival 2025 Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (Wikipedia) Conclave (film) (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 244 – Sign Field
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Norm MacDonald and Bob Dole (YouTube) Dune 2 (Wikipedia) A Complete Unknown (Wikipedia) Why Can’t ChatGPT Draw a Full Glass of Wine? (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 243 – The Quintessential Carney
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Ariana Grande Performs Somewhere Over The Rainbow Live @ The Oscars Awards 2025 (YouTube) Conan O'Brien's Oscars 2025 Opening Monologue (YouTube) The Newsroom (Wikipedia) Designated Survivor (Wikipedia) Senator Slotkin Delivers Democratic Response to Trump Address (YouTube) St. Vincent (film) (YouTube) Mulholland Drive (Wikipedia) The Leftovers (TV series) (Wikipedia) Severance (TV series) (Wikipedia) The Office (Australian TV series) (Wikipedia) Tipping: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 242 – Up and Under
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links SNL Pilot (YouTube) Ep. 191 – Preying on Compassion and Fear – In which the hosts discussed Sinéad O'Connor Sinead O'Connor - War (SNL 1992) (YouTube) The Gorge Apple TV+ Audience Q&A – SNL50 (YouTube) Burlesque (IMDB) Netflix is a Joke Fest Inside SNL's Iconic Studio 8H (w/ Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman & Ego Nwodim) | Set Tour | AD (YouTube) Rugger's Up and Under to close after more than 30 years in Kalamazoo (WWMT) It is with heavy hearts that we announce the closure of Rugger's Up and Under. After much consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our doors on March 15, 2025. We will be operating as usual until our closing date, and we encourage you to stop by for any last visits, or simply to say goodbye. During Elon's press conference in the oval office his son had some choice words for Donald Trump (YouTube) Dramatic video shows plane crashing and flipping over in Toronto (YouTube) Art Garfunkel is 5'9" (Celeb Heights) Paul Simon Talks About Hearing Loss in His Left Ear: 'I Can't Hear My Voice' If Instruments Are Too Loud (People) Chris Farley Interviews Paul McCartney (YouTube) Paul McCartney adds 2nd NYC concert after playing sold-out surprise show (CBS News) Digital Short: Anxiety – SNL50 (YouTube) Lawrence Welk – SNL50 ("Robert Goulet thing") (YouTube) Black Jeopardy – SNL50 – Eddie as Tracy (YouTube) Scared Straight – SNL50 (YouTube) Tiger Woods has his ‘most embarrassing moment’ by not knowing the yardage in a TGL match (AP News) 'That was embarrassing': Tiger breaks down hilarious gaffe at TGL (ESPN) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 241 – Sharp Ting of Particles
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Bidet - Saturday Night Live (YouTube) Glencairn Whisky Glass Ardbeg Uigeadail Uigeadail (pronounced ‘Oog-a-dal’) is Gaelic for “a dark, mysterious place.” Joker: Folie À Deux | Official Trailer (YouTube) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 240 – The Whiskers of a Dilemma
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Hud (1963) (IMDB) Texasville (1990) (IMDB) The Last Picture Show (1971) (IMDB) Gone Girl (2014) (IMDB) Fatal Attraction (1987) (IMDB) Throw Momma from the Train (1987) (IMDB) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 239 – Outward Exhibition of Joy
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links Soho House (WIkipedia) Soho House Abby Wambaugh, standup comic Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 238 – I Put the Hype in Hypothetical
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links 2 people choke to death on mochi rice cakes, continuing deadly New Year's trend in Japan (CBS News) Ep. 1 - A Room Full of Spider Monkeys Man who spent $14K to transform himself into collie steps out for first-ever walk in public (NY Post) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 237 – Short But Sturdy
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links The Agency (Wikipedia) Alien: Covenant (Wikipedia) The Counselor (Wikipedia) Blood Meridian (Wikipedia) Die Hard with a Vengeance (Wikipedia) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Wikpedia) Stockard Channing (Wikipedia) Tom Stafford’s Jingle Bells and Wally Schirra’s Harmonica (National Air and Space Museum) Ep. 216 – Kissed the Cheek of Cod – in which Dennis made cod cheeks Why did Bill Belichick go to North Carolina? New UNC coach explains jump to college (USA Today) Ep. 1 - A Room Full of Spider Monkeys Covers of Run Run Rudolph (Second Hand Songs) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 236 – That's a Moray
Buy a round! Become a Patron! Links How Its Made: Couscous (YouTube) Shopping cart theory (Wikipedia) Buy a round! Become a Patron!
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Ep. 235 – Oedipal, to say the least
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Ep. 234 – A Democracy, If You Can Keep It
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A candid and open weekly discussion between Dennis and Erik over drinks
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Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz
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