All Episodes

No. 151: RIP Fruit Stripe gum, Taco Bell cereal, and Pizza Hut goes to war

150: Caitlin Clark cereal can't be found at any price ... Time for Kum&Go has come and gone ... The revolution will need Pepsi

149: A dad and teacher discuss Perry school shooting; nonsense topics begin at the 38:30 mark

148: #NewYears2024 resolutions ... Bullets in baby diaper ... Video from space is cat chases laser

147: Area man escapes fiery wreck … Attack of the killer goldfish … Poinsettias canceled?!

146: Remembering Mom 2.0

145: Don't adujst your vertical hold

144: How Iowa fans could ruin the joys of Caitlin Clark

143: Remembering Matthew Perry

142: The secret behind the spooks at Winterset's Zombie Hollow

141: Zen and the art of eating a root beer float ... Fat Bear Week threatened ... Missouri teacher shamed for OnlyFans account ... ESPN gloms on to Taylor Swift like clickbating whores

140: Ghosted before Halloween

139: Dan's Facebook Page highjacked! ... Why CyHawk is pointless ... The Bears still stink ... Taylor Swift kills the VMAs ... New Comics Wednesday ... plus random pop culture clips

138: Dan is very sorry, but this is the kind of podcast happens when Paul isnt available

137: Remembering Bob Barker and PDF inventor John Warnock; The joy of NBA's Jimmy Butler playing tennis; Bear gets loose on Iraqi Airlines; plus bonus content from the LOST EPISODE

136: Why a cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk would save America; Peyton Manning is a fake professor; Montgomery brawl folding chair memes; 'The Blind Side' was a lie?

135: College football is eating its own head ... Is that a man or a bear in Chinese zoo ... 80-year-old fends off robber with snacks ... ChatGPT picks Memphis BBQ's best

134: Twitter is now 'X' and we are 'Y' ... Northwestern's hazing problem ... Dan sees Lisa Bluder and 'Barbie,' not at same time ... Taylor Swift turns down KC Chief's digits, 24-minute song to follow

133: 'Time blindness' is a thing; Tour de France beer snobbery; Yankees minute: They suck; Arsenal minute: (Declan) Rice, Rice Baby; Oklahoma coach disses Deion

132: Is Big Oil making gas to pump slower to force people to listen to ads?; Actors and writers strike: What to watch while they fight for their jobs; Dan gets shots in his knees

131: ESPN Game Day to get the axe? We can only hope; More bear attacks; Battle of July 4 buffets; Cocaine at the White House; Madonna revived with Narcan; More Just Stop Oil antics

130: Disney slaughters more ESPN staff; Drugs rain down on French countryside; Indiana Jones and the Dial Soap of Destiny; Sajack out, Secrest in

129: Titan sub is a debris field and Gordon Lightfoot is dead: Who will write the song for the naval disaster of our time?

128: Remembering our friend Lisa Brinkmeyer ... Strange New Worlds is good Star Trek ... How Jordan botched selling the Hornets ... Nothing can kill the Grimace except McDonald's crap shake machines

127: Chicken Wars rage on new front ... Artificial intelligence and the campaign ... Big 12 scouting Memphis? ... And Dan gets sleepy again

126: Dan and Paul talk 'Chinese Born American,' lifesize Hot Wheels, the meaning of onomatopoeia, and not putting foie gras in your coffee

125: Pete Davidson vs. Cocaine Bear; Bovine samaritans help cops capture crook; What is "faff" and why you should embrace it; More Elvis employee buffett delights

124: Secrets of Elvis Presley's employee buffet; It's time to retire the White House championship team visit; Baseball: War on WAR; McDonald's new iceless iced tea

123: An ode to toast; Paul's vacation adventures; Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, and other TV dopes get fired; All hail Carol Burnett at 90; so much more

122: Paul gets a job working for ... Elvis Presley?!; Nic Cage is wacky in 'Redfield'; This week's reason why Elon Musk sucks; and Paul's bad Max Scherzer joke

121: 'Dungeons and Dragons' movie all dragons, no dungeon; Paul's job search; Chinese people dating their chatbots; 'Cocaine Bear' attacks Peacock

120: Painted potatoes for Easter; McDonald's layoff haiku; RFK Jr. makes Biden look better; Thieves steal $500K worth of iPhones

119: Watching Iowa women's basketball misery while trying to podcast and other topics

118: Talkin' Caitlyn Clark, killer sandwiches, and the giant seaweed monster headed to Florida (of course)

117: Things Paul is going to do while unemployed

116: AWOL Paul is off for lode management; Baseball bases should be even bigger; Will France's big cocaine find fuel a 'Cocaine Bear' sequel?

115: Paul shares his harrowing story of Tetris addiction and why he won't be watching the Apple+ movie; plus 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey'

114: Shower spiders are the scariest; How did Gen-X get through school without snacks; and Chik-fil-A sells fried cauliflower sandwiches

113: The yacht thief left a dead fish on the doorstep of 'The Goonies' house and other oddities

112: Artificial intelligence is replacing humans and we're too dumb to notice it; Guess the Hallmark Valentine's Day movie; with guest host T-Square

111: Laser-guided podcast

110: Dan's laundry is stolen and the internet is out at his work while Paul faces a flood at his office

109: NFL players are more important than you; Arsenal hates the color red; There's a movie called 'Plane'; and other musings

108: Old celebrities have died and people can't handle it; Big Ten crashes in burns in college football playoffs; and wouldn't be nice to be a guest on 'The Love Boat'

107: Analyst predicts Disney dump of ABC/ESPN; winter weather talk; Iowa men's basketball's are gamblers' delight; and the voice of 'Doctor Who'

106: Cocaine Bear the Movie will be the next Sharknado? Paul goes to a gastro pub and it triggers Dan. Plus: John Madden.

105: Which is worse: Bull in a China shop or cow in a doctor's office? Dan and Paul debate this and more in the latest Talking Paragraphs

104: Famed spitballer Gaylord Perry is dead while giant tortoise celebrates 190th birthday — 'What good amid these, oh me, oh life?'

103: Self-order kiosk debacle at McDonald’s; US men’s soccer team vs. Taylor Swift fans

102: Qatar vs. Budweiser, Taylor Swift vs. Ticketmaster, and Dan’s new wheels

101: The trouble with buying a new computer; plus RIP Kevin Conroy and Gallagher

100: Takies chips “bag licking good;” Kyrie and Kanye’s race to bottom; and farewell Ray Guy

99: Distancing ourselves from Kanye; Sexy Wordle Halloween costumes; FedEx sacks Roxo the self-delivery robot; and why you shouldn't walk from Spain to Qatar

98: Taylor Swift’s album awesome; Iowa Iowa facts haunt Paul family gathering; Kanye does dumb stuff

97: A long, cold open, Angela Lansbury is dead, Mountain Girl and Jerry "Chunky Monkey" Garcia, and jokes about baseball

96: McDonald's "adult" Happy Meals come with creepy toys; Tom Brady reportedly denies Gisele sex before games; All hail the Tennessee demolition derby queen

95: Urgent care reservations; ugliness of zero-gravity soccer; the doink; and ‘Detroit-style’ pizza

94: NyQuil chicken recipes; Pujols hits 700; What are people doing on Long John Silver's website; Dan pods solo to make up for his screw ups

93. Dan's still sick; Paul talks weird celebrity endorsements, Kanye vs. Gap beef, and the pair review football games of no importance

#92: Queen is dead and that's fine, but did it have to screw up the Premier League schedule?

#91: 2+2+3 = Worst #Hawkeyes offense ever; #Sooners stomp UTEP; #Yankees spirialing; #Braves rising; Dr. Pepper #fansville 'fansplaining' clunks

#90, Dan's first days with students; Uh-oh, teacher has COVID; Thoughts on series of terrible things: Nebraska football, a remake of 'Clue,' and 'She-Hulk'

#89 Dan's nervous as students arrive for fall; Paul cares about the LIV-PGA spat; Bear cub high on 'mad honey;' Finland's PM knows how to party

#88: Dan goes on Iowa Public Radio; Paul is high on Arsenal; Dan is low on the Yankees; and other topics of modest importance

#87: The story about the dog playing Connect Four makes Dan's sleepy, slurred voice almost tolerable in this career low outing

#86: This week's sign we're doomed: You can simulate life as a goat on a video game or have robot cats serve you dim sum

#85: Memphis Vice stop Italian snail terror attack

Murderous elephant returns to wreck funeral; TikToker's book about deadly animals; Chef ruins a Happy Meal; Listener mail; and terrorist golf

Giant snails attack Florida town; Brain-killing amoebas shut down 'Iowa beach;' all this and a 'Thor: Love and Thunder' review

Talking new 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie; 'Star Trek' content on Paramount; USC and UCLA in the B1G; Stranger Things finale; Kraft Macaroni & Cheese name change

Summer cold: Paul plays hurt; Dan's drowsy after his big birthday party; The Brady Bunch intro; Who shoots worst: Stormtroopers or Cobra soldiers?

Podcast: Russia's McDonald's knock-off; Tennessee Williams' secret origin; Hidden 'Lebowski' references in 'The Old Man;' all that and SPAM recipes

47.2 is the unhappiest age

Detoxing from Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trials; Online shopping for retro gear; In praise of Oklahoma softball; Revenge of the Mullet

New format: Paul opens the show from Memphis; Dan goes to 'Bob's Burgers;' Paul buys a smoothie; 'Maverick' makes a lot of money

Vincent Van Gogh plays Graceland and other bizarre adventures from the life of Paul

Crypto tanks; Don't mess with the swim-up bar; and Dan is mumbling again in a medication haze

Tragic and bloody true crime! Weird animal stories! Shocking superhero secrets! Everything the almighty algorithm says you wanted and more!

Bears use house as Airbnb without owners knowing; Elon Musk buys Twitter and its still horrible; Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly blood-drinking habits; and 'fictosexuality'

3,500 pounds of cheese stolen in Netherlands; Iowa Democrats can't count; Fox News hosts are horrible people; and tackling in junior college baseball

Giant lizard story too horrible to contemplate — so of course we did; Plus: What word did the Pope use?; And this week's reason not to fly ever again

Lucky Charms poisoning allegations; new MLB rules; things middle-aged men can't eat

Forget Major League Baseball: MLW Wiffle Ball is the summer game to see; Also 'Moon Knight' is good

What can Brown do for you? Haul your brown, apparently, and other less scatalogical topics

Why are McDonald's shake machines always broken?

#Batman pizza in America; No Coke, Starbucks, or McDonald's for Russia; Can you be a 'grizzly bear conflict negotiator' and tales of the missing episode

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Dan takes a nap

More #Wordle talk; Animals with their heads stuck in human things; Russian security guard faces the law after he defaces painting

7 days of cold and dark: Memphis man's harrowing tale of surviving a rare Southern ice storm

Brawl at Golden Corral when steak runs out; Remembering Darla the movie dog; Oscar Mayer face masks; and the New York Times buys Wordle, as players another reason to be smug

Nobody cares about your #Wordle score; Peter Dinklage goes after 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves;' and other topics of great import

Goat escapes religious sacrifice by drunken priest — man doesn't; Wharton kid thinks $800K is 'average' American salary; New pirate stock exchange

America falls behind the world in potato chip variety; Mexico raids Kellogg's warehouse, confiscates Corn Flakes and Special K; and more

Why you should eat a Taco Bell taco every day for a month; Little Caesars' price hike; and dying at the right time

Oh, the humanity: French Fry shortage in Japan! College football chatter, and New Year's Resolutions from 2021 we actually accomplished

Live play-by-play of Christmas presents being opened; mushroom coffins; 'Licorice Pizza,' 'Spider-Man,' and 'Matrix 4'

Paul's lost on a Christmas Tree Farm; Tyler is drunk on Winter Spiced Cranberry Sprite; and Dan is napping after finals.

Remembering Bob Dole, the last great moderate; Sex in the City tries to kill Peloton; and Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas Movie

Sunny the horse airlifted to safety in California; Paul thinks an Instagram filter is like ViewMaster; and the 12 Days of Omicron

HBO roots through trash with Brittany Murphy death doc; We didn't watch Hawkeye, but not because social media told us not to; Is Omnicron a COVID variant or Transformers villain

Special 50th Episode anniversary party: Celebrity notes of praise, G.I. Joe guys they never made, and demystifying crypto

In big business, breaking up is easy to do; Comic books we read and liked; Matthew Perry stalks Paul at L.A. Fitness

Dan gets COVID, Paul sees a movie, #ChrisPratt vs. #wokism, and #HotHolidayToys

If any of us had any guts, we'd delete Facebook or Meta or whatever, also why you should get an MBA but not aromatherapy at WalMart

Peanuts holiday specials return to broadcast, PTI at 25, Johnny Carson -- still dead, and explaining Marvel movies to a father of two

Elk with a tire stuck on his neck for 2 years; Tennessee Vols fans are garbage people; and Harnessing cow farts for energy

Dan endures the pains of middle age, Paul saves 15% or more switching insurance, and Jon Gruden's old emails

Podcast: The mystery of 'The Price is Right' yodeller, Daniel Craig in a pink crushed velvet tuxedo, and two useless facts about Tennessee

Podcast: KFC smuggling in New Zealand, More Violence on the Airlines, CNN's ridiculous fall headline, and Lewis Black's Anger Button

Podcast: Remembering #NormMacdonald, #Jeopardy can't find a host, and TikTok of the week

Podcast: Death at McDonald's Drive Thru, Attack of the Robot vacuums, and a Joke from a Johnny Carson rerun

Podcast: Back to school, College Football returns, 'Shang-Chi' review, and the sound of a tennis ball can being opened

Podcast: Milk crate stacking challenge perils, what animals could you beat in a fight, and TikTok of the week

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: We ask a real Iowa veteran about Afghanistan

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Field of Dreams game, emoji anxieties, and a joke from a Carson rerun

Paragraph Stacker Podcast: In praise of taping down drunk airline passengers

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Paul's illness, fun Olympic stories, ScarJo sues Disney

NEW Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Paul runs vicious burn on Starbucks

Talking Paragraphs: Violent baseball, Olympics chatter, and RIP Biz Markie

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: "Almost softball-sized hail" and other lies

Talking Paragraphs on Vacation: Dan and Paul Together Again for the First Time

Talking Paragraphs: Britney Spears' legal troubles, #ChickenWar shots fired, #MLB pitcher shakedowns, and Salma Hayek's big problem

Podcast: Talking #EuroCup2020, Paul's vacation, and 'Cruella' versus 'Supergirl'

If you make it to the end, there's a brief kazoo concert

Dan and Paul discuss #MemorialDay, HBO, and the NBA Playoffs

SEASON 2 PREMIER: A lot of nonsense and inside jokes recorded for your amusement

Season Finale: Memphis bridge woes, ESPN woes, and Angelina Jolie is in a movie

Vaxed and sick, Chicago BS and rich kid blues

What happens when robots take over drug dealing and other questions for our time?

Outdated takes discussed without urgency

#ChickenWars claims two more casualties

This podcast so interesting one of the hosts fell asleep

Talking Paragraphs: SPRING SPECIAL — Cremation, Easter Candy and baseball

Talking Paragraphs: Peeps Pepsi and one sip over the line

Bracketology Disdain, Hat of the Week, Pen Recommendation: Bic stick blue

Once up a Coke Coffee

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Taylor Swift vs. Netflix

Talking Paragraphs: The occasional podcast returns

Tips for recovering your password to your multi-million dollar Bitcoin account

Talking Paragraphs: Dan’s first week in TV; Memphis Paul goes on a rum bender around the world

If you play this podcast backwards, it says ‘Memphis Paul’ is dead

Episode 9: Got the COVID-cancelled holiday blues, sports takes and adventures in dental surgery

PODCAST: Thanksgiving side dish problems in Maine, Tony LaRussa needs a driver, #Iota playlist

Things we’re looking forward to after the election that have nothing to do with the results

It's the Great Halloween Candy Podcast and other topics

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Karens take over TikTok and roleplaying the final days of Tab Cola

Talking Paragraphs: The solution to pandemic uneasiness and other topics

Grizzly crime visits Memphis Paul at night

Talking Paragraphs: Rod from Rodman comics talks 10th anniversary

Talking Paragraphs Podcast: Things have changed

Talking Paragraphs (Trailer)