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#289. Have you noticed AI getting a little too cute? Perhaps in automated phone calls? Is technology ruining your banking? We have thoughts and would love to hear yours via the LinkTree below! Also, Kory might have happened upon a new trend in the world of man-pampering. Would you pay a subscription to a male grooming establishment? After the break it’s all about what we’re watching, hockey fights, and how we choose streaming material. Specifically we mention Bridget Jones, We Live in Time, Your Cordially Invited, Sebastian Maniscalco, Reacher, Paradise, Saturday Night, Life of the Party, In the Heights, and Anyone but You. We hope you enjoy! Until next time, be kind to each other.

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#288. We lived! Over two million Scoville units later, the three of us are back to talk about our Hot One’s experience. Kory received the box of sauces for his birthday, we ate some crappy wings, we sweated on camera, and now we’re describing the feels and the aftermath. Thank you to Brad and Jeremy! Maybe don’t treat your flight attendants to Da’Bomb, but maybe do gift them a nice box of chocolates. Is it ethical to bribe service providers for better service? In the back half, Kendall has a strange encounter with middle-aged fantasy animal trainers, while Kory and his wife had a different strange encounter with a restaurant worker. Maybe a nice assortment of caramels and toffees would have landed him a bowl without the run-around. We loved catching up with each other, and we hope you love it, too. Until next time, be kind to each other.

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#287. ALERT! We will be doing our knock-off Hot Ones episode SOON! Be on the lookout in the socials for ways to submit questions without us knowing them beforehand. Follow the LinkTree below! On to this week: We reprise our hotel restaurants conversation by describing how last-leg establishments smell before diving into the National Champion Ohio State season finale! Kory shares a heartwarming story of having the chance to sing for his mother, and she still loves him. On the back half, Dillon has a chance to watch some professional volleyball. If you didn’t know that was a thing, check it out! Finally we catch up on streaming. This week we’re watching Skeleton Crew, Red Faire, God Save Texas, Harry Potter Wizards and Baking, ChiefsAhloic: A Wolf in Chiefs Clothing, Chosen, Wild Robot, Avatar: The Way of Water, Severance (season 2), Quiz Lady, and A Man on the Inside. We hope you enjoy! Until next time, be kind to each other.

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#286. Dillon and Kendall are running the show this week which means two things are certain: food and football. We compare styles of hotel restaurants as Kendall shares a confusing experience. We also discuss the difference between attending a wedding in your 20’s versus your 40’s, and yes, we talk reception food. We end with a critique of the twelve team college football playoff now that we’ve seen one.  What are your thoughts? Let us know via the LinkTree below. Until next time, be kind to each other.

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#285. Is that thumping in your head a cardiovascular condition or is just our voices pumping through your earbuds? Some of you might be listening to this while shoveling snow, and you probably just decided to take a break. Also, wolf t-shirts and mullets took a break in the mainstream world, but it appears as though they’re back. And like Gallagher, we move that conversation on to the grown-out hair mixed with male pattern baldness. After the break we discuss how literally we take the music scenes in musicals before we discuss dying in hills. We need to hear of the hills that you’d die on, but we also need to know whether our mentioned examples are actually unpopular. We end with a nice Christmas recap before we send off to next week! Until then, be kind to each other. 

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#284. Kendall is away, Dillon is stuck in the snow, and Kory is overthinking his (Florida) Disney stories while in sunny California. While his family trip was mostly good, it wasn’t without hiccups, but we enjoyed hearing of the immersive experience targeting in on a Star Wars theme. After the break, Dillon shares some health information concerning crystals which rolls into drinkable gels. Kory breaks a chair, but I think it got glazed over. This week in drive-thru news, Dillon finds out whether or not (Raising) Caine’s is taking prisoners. Another common topic/pet-peeve, other drivers, the guys talk about people speeding up but only as you’re about to pass them on the highway, and we need your input and explanations via the LinkTree below! This week in streaming, we’re watching Your Friend Nate Bargatze, and the second seasons of Shrinking and Squid Game. We hope you enjoy! And happy new year! Until next time, be kind to each other. 

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#283. It’s 1993, Super Mario isn’t loading correctly, you take the cartridge out, and then what do you do? Every respectable elder millennial is doing the same thing and we talk about that. We also complain about Starbucks drink ordering and we find out Jesus lives in a central Ohio Taco Bell. Kory shares what happens when your gas gauge is your odometer and Kendall updates his basement with a fridge that almost didn’t make it. After the break we become Christmas movie critics as we guess Rotten Tomatoes ratings and we discuss a bit about what we’re watching. This week it’s Red One, Gladiator 2, Wolfs, Skeleton Crew, and Nutcrackers. There’s certainly two extra weeks of things to respond and react to in our socials! Check the LinkTree below! Until next time, be kind to each other. 

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#282. We’re reviewing pop flavors and talking basements again! Only the pop is a seasonal comeback from Starry and the basement is Kendall’s. One basement story leads us to discuss how we react to mildly startling events. Speaking of mildly startling, do you eat tortilla chips naked? You probably do, but I mean it’s the chip that is naked. After the break we find out there’s some deep problems with asking people for restaurant advice and we have more solutions than can be contained in one episode. We also talk about gift exchange choices and robotic lawn mowers. This week we’re watching the college football playoff coverage, Moana 2, and Somebody Somewhere. Lot’s to chime in on via the LinkTree below! and gifts to buy! Until next time, be kind to each other. 

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#281. Are your pants too small now that Thanksgiving is over? We heat up the leftovers and tell you about our holiday. Then we find out that most of us experience issues with people understanding, remembering, or misspelling our name. Maybe Matt doesn’t deal with this, but Rebekah sure does. We ask you, how do you have to deal with your name in intercommunicative circumstances? Another name that’s easy to remember is Day, as in Ryan. We don’t have to share how his weekend went, but we do anyway. If you didn’t see this year’s Michigan vs Ohio State game, it may have big implications. On the back half we mostly discuss streaming with some talk about how the Stand-Up film winds are shifting toward Hulu with Jim Gaffigan’s The Skinny. We’re also watching Wicked, The Best Christmas, Godzilla Minus One, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. We hope you enjoy it! Until next time, be kind to each other.

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#280. “The turkey goes ‘gobble gobble’ and then he gets his head chopped off. Whack!” That, believe it or not, is a weird Thanksgiving song. Weird and Thanksgiving gatherings can also overlap on the dinner table. Dillon goes through a list of odd dishes as we play “smash or pass,” and we would love to hear some of YOUR highs and lows from that list via the LinkTree below! On the back half, we enter Christmas decorating mode and discuss tree traditions, the possibility of those traditions shifting, and do a headcount of Christmas trees in our homes. Then it’s on to streaming. This week we’re watching Orange is the New Black, Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley, An Idiot Abroad, and Game 7. Enjoy! Until next time, be kind to each other.

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