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Shift Happened
by Mark Houston
Here is where you can find the Second Shift if you miss us on the radio! Mark Houston and Stitch are on every weekday afternoon from 3 to 7 pm on The Kat 98.7 and 93.9 the Mix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Bigfoot’s Big Reveal
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…
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Static in the Basement
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. Hosted on Acast. See...
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The Brawl Before Bread
Houston comes back from a week on the couch only to get blamed for the whole office catching his cold, which Stitch is not about to let go. Somewhere between that and a story about South Dakota’s law against “sliming,” Stitch reveals his plan to be buried in a Pringles can. The Black Hills Brawl...
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The Cake Container
Stitch and Zacky Moon run the show today, kicking things off with a real local business called Turd Tossers, the professional poop pickup crew that solves everyone’s backyard problem. They move into hair banking, a new experimental treatment that freezes your follicles now so science can clone…
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Can You Dig It
Zach and Mitchell sign up for a real contest that gets you cremated and stored inside a Pringles can for eternity, flavor debates included. From there they run through a list of horror movies built for people who hate being scared, and close out chasing a ghost that supposedly haunts a radio...
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Grandpa’s Candy Bowl
Stitch and Zaccy Moon rank the internet’s list of boomer Halloween candy and immediately start arguing over whether Laffy Taffy and Starburst even belong on it. They dig into a batch of doctor-submitted stories about the dumbest things patients have ever done, including a guy who pulled a knife…
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Every Sign Says Friend
Houston marks Native American Day with the real story behind the state’s name, which traces back to a word that means friend or ally. He digs into Billy Mills, the Pine Ridge runner who shocked the world at the 1964 Olympics, and the Lakota code talkers whose language helped win World War Two…
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Flat Buttocks, Confirmed
Houston goes digging through Amazon’s new About You feature and finds strangers’ profiles calling out things like flat buttocks and zero friends, then can’t resist checking what the algorithm has decided about him. A sleep study on dogs and their owners settles the debate over who keeps who up at...
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Rub Your Glabella
Houston puts Stitch through a pop quiz on words nobody actually knows, from the chalaza in an egg to the glabella between your eyebrows, and Stitch hates every second of it. Houston points everybody toward tonight’s Draconid meteor shower, best viewed after the free Main Street Square anniversary...
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Barrel in Orbit
Stitch is nursing a head cold while Houston runs off with Rob to buy whiskey, which spirals into news that engineers in Scotland and Japan are about to launch a barrel of the stuff into space. Houston kicks off a crusade against daylight saving time, with fireworks and paychecks on the line....
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Serbian Tiger, Siberian Confusion
Houston and Stitch kick off the show with a sneezy standoff, trading blame over who gave who a cold, which somehow spirals into a deep dive on a mysterious plague death in Siberia and a years-long inside joke about Serbian versus Siberian tigers. From there they tackle National Taco Day with some...
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LimeWire Is Back, Tell a Friend
Mark heads into the old Lee-Deadwood Hospital morgue for a spooky Doc Talk shoot and the camera starts moving on its own like something down there wants in the shot. LimeWire pops back up online and the guys relive the golden age of pirated MP3s and viruses nobody saw coming. Stitch drops a jaw...
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The Shark In The Driveway
Stitch wants a whole birthday month and Houston is having none of it, though he does cave enough to help plan Stitch Fest, a chili feed this Saturday raising money for the Friday band show meals that keep people fed all winter. A New Jersey man catches a shark cruising down his flooded street...
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Yelling Won't Fix It
Anger isn't fixed by yelling, and Houston's got the science to prove venting makes it worse, not better. Then Rapid City tap water gets a shiny national nod while Stitch still can't bring himself to drink it from the faucet. And somebody stole a lacrosse team's trailer, which kicks off a solid…
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Quiet On The Creek
Stitch and Houston get schooled on Gen Alpha slang, from scuba to quiet on the creek. A viral post about the bathroom being the ultimate escape hatch from your spouse sparks a real debate about whether men are weaponizing it. And Houston finally lets loose everything he's been holding in about...
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The Toilet Took Me Down
Houston installs a fancy new toilet, and the very next morning, a ladder and a crawl space team up to take him down completely. A guy near Houston, Texas crashes his car straight into a Kroger because he had to pee and the store was closed. And there's a wild investigation into DraftKings using…
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What Hollywood Hides
Stitch and Houston dig into a leaked list of things Hollywood insiders supposedly know to be true, and it gets messy fast, from steroid use to secrets nobody wants printed. Rockstar Games wants four hundred bucks for a Grand Theft Auto six collector's box that doesn't even include the game. And...
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Adam Vinatieri's Guinness World Record Kick
Stitch is out today, so Houston flies solo and dives into the bomb threat hoax that shut down Monument Health this morning, tracing it back through a wild history of copycat callers and one guy who tried it with actual dynamite at a Lake Tahoe casino. He also celebrates Rapid City's own Adam...
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Jeff From Texas
Houston is back from Canada and he brought stories for days. Stitch grills him on his sudden Tim Hortons obsession, a croissant breakfast sandwich apparently worth crossing a border for, and the wild tale of scoring two hundred and fifty dollar AC DC tickets in Winnipeg while a stranger swore he...
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Watching It Burn
Houston and Stitch watch a car erupt into flames right outside the studio window, then get into whether a real sixteen hundred dollar pumpkin spice casket is worth the hype. A new ranking also drops on which states spend the most on OnlyFans, and the neighbors are shockingly thirsty. Hosted on...
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Front Page Ego
Stitch stumbles onto a newspaper writeup about Houston that turns into a full roast session about ego and headlines. Then a candy corn perfume shows up in the studio and we spend way too long arguing about what "notes of spun sugar" are supposed to smell like. Plus, there's a mystery brewing…
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Penguins Aren't Fish
We run the actual numbers on what it would cost to replace one of us with a robot, and the math is closer than anyone wants to admit. A Reddit thread has us testing each other on common knowledge like what a baby horse is called and whether penguins count as fish, with results nobody comes out of...
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More Than a Bass Player
Today's guest walks in as a bass player and leaves as certified local royalty, and we don't figure out why until the very end. Stitch spends a good chunk of the show trying to convince everyone alligators are basically swamp puppies right after a Florida gator story that says otherwise. And we…
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Recording The Recorders
Houston's back behind the mic and he wastes no time picking a fight with Stitch over exactly how much backwash makes a shared water bottle unforgivable. Three hikers let an AI app plan their route up Mount Shasta and ended up spending a night on that mountain they never planned for. Plus, police...
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The Robot Vacuum Divorce
Grab your headphones because this one gets weird fast. The crew catches you up on a Taiwan husband who caught his wife cheating through their robot vacuum's camera, and the lawsuit drama that followed left everybody paying up, including a five month stint behind bars. Then the guys dig into...
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Stitch Goes For Gold
Stitch spends the show chasing a Guinness World Record with nothing but a sticky note and a pen, trying to cram as many three and four letter words onto one line as humanly possible. We also dig into some National Radio Day stats, including an old survey that ranked radio personalities among the...
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Liquid Solutions
Today we get into why Jason Kelce wants everyone's pee to help cool AI data centers, and how beer ended up part of the plan. A tourist tried sneaking two hundred lizards through airport security by hiding them in his socks, and we break down his entire business plan. We also swap phobias and land...
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Rescue Me, Maybe
Tuesday's Second Shift kicks off fair week by demanding someone explain why the Central States Fair isn't actually a state fair. From there we fall straight down a nutmeg rabbit hole, trying to figure out if there's any real pumpkin in a pumpkin spice latte. And somewhere in the middle of all…
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The Black Widow Broadcast
Monday's crew rolls in running on rally fumes, and Lauren finally spills the story she's been hiding for a week. A black widow spider bit her under the media desk at Sturgis, and what followed was three trips to the ER and a doctor who tried to convince her it was only a tick. The team also…
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Bare Table for Two
Stitch nearly starts a riot over a stale pop tart before pizza swoops in to save the day, a Florida steakhouse wants you to show up wearing nothing but a smile, and a teenager who broke a three hundred year old record has the crew questioning their own life choices. Grab your headphones, this…
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The Arby's Date
Zac Brown handed out free cruise tickets to an entire stadium and we've got the math behind the biggest giveaway in concert history. A UK startup thinks it's cracked pain free tattoos, and we've got some doubts. Plus, Loren breaks down the budget dating trend that's taking over. All that and more...
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Smoke Show Sunsets
This one's got a shaky stage, a questionable ear routine, and a lawsuit that might owe you tacos. We break down the Goo Goo Dolls show at the Monument, including a moment on stage that had us convinced someone was about to get fired. We also settle the debate on whether digging around in your…
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The Colonel's Secret
Colonel Sanders' old leather planner just sold at auction for thirty grand, and it might be hiding the most famous secret recipe on the planet. DoorDash is rolling out its own delivery drones, and somebody on our show has already called dibs on flying one. And airports are about to let people...
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The Armadillo Warning
We dig into the disease making a comeback in Florida, and it's not one you'd expect. Turns out there's an everyday critter you should never touch, and koalas aren't as cuddly as they look either. Loren also gets an update on that speeding ticket saga, and there's a new update on why your license...
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Loren's Boy Trouble
Loren's ex resurfaces with a phone call and zero self awareness, and the poo emoji in her contacts tells you everything you need to know before the story even starts. A concert mosh pit disaster overseas leaves an entire crowd scrambling and one bassist comparing it to a horror movie. And...
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Call It In The Air
Tuesday's show gets a little unpredictable. We debate whether we'd take a guaranteed fifty grand or risk it all for a shot at a million, then actually flip a coin live to settle it. We break down the wildfire science behind all these dry lightning strikes around here, and there's a social media...
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Fold It Down
Fold-over jeans are apparently a real fashion trend now, and the crew has some strong feelings about them. We also found out how many people admit to flirting with an AI chat bot, then spent way too long arguing over whether that counts as cheating. And somewhere in Florida, a woman with over a...
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No Pants, New Record
This weekend's forecast has everyone talking about heat, hydration, and questionable rodeo outfits. The real chaos starts with a Guinness World Record involving a man, the snow, and zero clothing, plus a debate over whether that counts as science. We rank every fast food drive thru in town from...
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It Broke Free
Houston, Stitch, and Loren dive into a wild Thursday afternoon covering the Days of '76 excitement downtown, including a chat with a bull rider who's cooler than the heat wave we're all sweating through. A Montana teenager becomes an unlikely hero on the Yellowstone River using nothing but a…
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Apparently Speeding
Loren rolls in late with a story that starts with flashing lights and ends with a very generous cop. Stitch and Houston dig into some brand new coffee research that might just save your life, assuming you skip the five gallons of sugar. Then the crew somehow ends up talking about disco heels made...
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Coke's Cigarette Problem
Coke's new can design has us doing a double take today, thanks to some Marlboro comparisons we can't unsee. We also get into a genuinely rough concert story that has all of us rethinking what happens up close at a show. Plus Robert Irwin weighs in on AI and wildlife photography, and it gets us...
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Meet Jimothy
We've got a raccoon taking over the internet, a guy who spent way too long inside a porta potty, and a science study that's about to ruin the way you drink water at dinner. Houston and Loren dig into all of it this afternoon on Shift Happened, plus some local news, a little debate about speed...
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SQZ-A55
Houston and Stitch welcome a new voice to the show and immediately get into a fifty million dollar argument. A rancher discovers the most complete T-Rex fossil ever found, right on their own land, and the crew can't agree on what they'd do with it. Then the conversation takes a turn when they dig...
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Barbecue Buddy
Houston and Stitch settle the mac and cheese debate once and for all, and Stitch's take on hot dogs might change how you feel about him. Then there's a Russian rental service that lets you pay a total stranger to come grill with you, and Stitch is a little too into the idea. We also break down…
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Tokyo Takes a Trip
Stitch and Houston tackle a twelve dollar cup of water that's supposedly sacred, a Los Angeles grocery store that had some very questionable priorities during an emergency, and a black Lab named Tokyo who had one unforgettable afternoon on a Scottish hillside. Plus, Pitbull secured a Guinness…
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The Blonde One
We've got a mystery woman in the chair this week, and she's not getting a name until she earns it. Stitch and Houston put a potential new cohost through the wringer, and her resume alone could fill an entire show. Sharks, hair dye, and a guy who sounded like Antonio Banderas all make an…
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Diplomatic Waste
Today we get into a full blown hot dog debate, stacking up Seattle's cream cheese loaded dog against Chicago, New York, and the homemade version we've been making for years. We also cover a bizarre presidential travel detail that involves a lot more bathroom security than you'd guess. Plus, the...
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Bag of Air
It's National Video Game Day, so buckle up. One of us goes to war over the internet's list of the greatest games of all time, and Madden getting snubbed does not sit well at all. Then we dig into the strangest stuff people are paying real money for after Taylor and Travis's big weekend, and…
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Um, The Baby's Here
A dog named Brisket takes a tumble down a well while running from fireworks, and the rescue comes with the most fitting reward possible. A biohacker who drops two million dollars a year chasing eternal youth runs into a diagnosis all that money can't fix. And Pringles decides hot dog buns needed…
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Billionaires Are Buying Blizzards
Stitch and Houston are back, still dragging after a Fourth of July that got a little out of hand. On the docket this time: billionaires dropping serious money on indoor snow rooms, a man in Scotland who found a very unusual weapon in the middle of a street fight, and a skydiver whose grand…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Here is where you can find the Second Shift if you miss us on the radio! Mark Houston and Stitch are on every weekday afternoon from 3 to 7 pm on The Kat 98.7 and 93.9 the Mix.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Mark Houston
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Here is where you can find the Second Shift if you miss us on the radio! Mark Houston and Stitch are on every weekday afternoon from 3 to 7 pm on The Kat 98.7 and 93.9 the Mix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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