Episodes: March, 2016

Luke is in Portland, where street performers are encroaching on his space and teenagers are doing crazy drugs in drop-top VWs. He and Andrew offer an update on the New Jersey house that’s being haunted by a real-life “watcher”, and Luke’s 12-year-old nemesis tries to bury the hatchet.

Luke is thinking about carrying a picture of food around in his pocket, just like one of his golf heroes. Andrew advises against it. Plus, a woman takes on The Establishment in all the wrong ways, then apologizes for it. And we learn a thing or two about New Coke.

Luke and Andrew are mad at the internet today. They discuss yesterday’s 24-hour hoax involving a Jon Luvitz and a younger woman. Plus, forget everything you thought you knew about selfie-rat and the three-eyed fish. They also help a listener with her childcare dilemma.

Luke responds to some tough-lovin’ fan mail he received over the weekend. He and Andrew also discuss Kraft’s sneaky way of changing it’s mac & cheese recipe without raising the ire of the nation. And do we give cheers or jeers to Facebook for its emergency “safety checks”?

Luke joins the show from a hotel room in Chicago, where he shares with us the contents of his shame-filled garbage can. He and Andrew also discuss bathroom hand dryers, job interviews gone wrong, and a guy who got arrested for failing to return a VHS copy of “Freddy Got Fingered.” Plus, Music For Your Weekend!

Luke and Andrew clearly have animals on the brain today (despite the fact that Andrew heartlessly forgot the name of his childhood pet.) They discuss L.A.’s famous mountain lion, P-22, who is accused of murdering a koala bear. They discuss a pig that stood trial and a man accused of loving a pig too much. They discuss a parrot in a witness protection program. And they discuss Andrew’s friendship with a stuffed bear.

Luke and Andrew discuss first kisses, grocery store habits, and how to treat David Sedaris if you run into him in your imagination. Plus, the New York Times may have been duped by a PR scheme, and a listener wants to know how to handle her free coffee situation.

Luke has been researching the feud between Florida shock-jocks Bubba the Love Sponge and Mike “Cowhead” Calta. He and Andrew discuss that history. Plus, an elegantly-designed box has Andrew hoppin’ mad, and two brothers go viral when they show up at a maternity ward bearing gifts for someone they do not know.

Luke shares his 17-point plan for happiness as it relates to bedding. An appliance in Andrew’s new apartment is changing his life forever. Plus, the Internet ruins the name of an amazing floating laboratory, Twitter celebrates the anniversary of the first tweet, and the government is trying to get its hands on the money of a train-stealing folk hero. Also, an introduction to Maureen McGovern.

Luke and Andrew say a tearful farewell to StuBot and St. Paul (the city, not the saint, ya goofs). They piece together the previous night’s St. Patrick’s Day antics, which took place at the best Polish bar in America. Plus, Hulk Hogan vs Gawker and a crazy story about a boater who saved his own life (in part) by turning his t-shirt into a pair of pants.

Luke, Andrew and The StuBot play the best rap song ever to rise from the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also, Ted Cruz eats a heck of a lot of soup, and he’s really into The Princess Bride. How does that make us feel, as a nation?

Day 3 of the great TBTL Midwest Adventure brings John Moe and the StuBot to the studio. Turns out, Andrew is ticking-off somebody at American Public Media, but we don’t know whom. Plus, Donald Trump’s butler finally speaks out, and Stu’s investigative journalism is finally being recognized nationally.

It’s Day 2 of TBTL’s great St. Paul road trip, but Luke’s failing vocal chords force the team to take some drastic measures. Topics include a fight over a Minneapolis street name, why airships don’t get the credit (nor the comeback) they deserve, and a Chicago man arrested for scrambling people’s cellphone signals.

Luke and Andrew meet-up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and record their show in the stately studios of American Public Media. They discuss Luke’s health, which seems to be failing him at the worst possible moment, and their new-found love of skyways. Plus, Richard Simmons insists that he is not a prisoner in his own home, and we hear a listener’s spooky ghost story.

Andrew picks the World’s Worst Place to try and record his part of the show, and gets things off to a bad start with his new neighbors. Plus, TBTL says adios to Johnny Football, and The Most Interesting Man on Earth. Plus, OPP: Barking Dog Edition.

Andrew helps Luke cook-up some public radio beef with rival public radio hosts. They also announce the location of next week’s St. Paul TBTL meetup. And they discuss a new internet phenomenon that literally almost made Luke vomit last night.

Luke and Andrew drive around Seattle in a Scion XD and discuss jokes, apologies, and Andrew’s shoebox full of CDs.

Luke joins Andrew in a temporary studio in the Bay City of Seattle for the first face-to-face TBTL since last year. They debate the merits of a fake new dog device, and they listen to a TBTL commercial produced by listener Jason that may be the best thing since Tonight Pants.