Popcorn, Plutonium, and George Foreman Grills
Shift Happened25 Mar 2025

Popcorn, Plutonium, and George Foreman Grills

Welcome to Shift Happened, where your afternoons get a whole lot weirder with Dean, Leslie, Stitch, and Houston. This week, we're deep-diving into the wild world of infomercials—remember the George Foreman Grill? Yeah, turns out it made George Foreman richer than you’ll ever be, even though it basically just had two settings: "burn" and "off." Also, why are air fryers just the 2020s version of that greasy classic?


Speaking of weird classics, we stumble into the world of Tom the Mime—the internet-famous SeaWorld mime who’s somehow become the highlight of a park that’s been in the hot seat for decades. Seriously, how did that happen? Plus, we're ranking the most absurd "as-seen-on-TV" gadgets that ended up in your grandma's kitchen and making the case for why popcorn without butter is basically just crunchy sadness.


Also on the docket: is the latest TikTok diet trend to eat like a baby just a sad excuse to make spoon-feeding yourself socially acceptable? And why did someone in Australia think it was a good idea to buy plutonium off the internet? Dude just wanted a complete element collection—totally normal.


And don’t miss the latest on the Mountain West Fiesta Fest—it’s coming up fast, and we’re trying to figure out if dressing as Chewbacca while drinking tequila is a vibe or a regrettable life choice. Spoiler: it’s both.

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Not Cosmically Aligned

Not Cosmically Aligned

Houston, Leslie, and Stitch kick off the weekend by diving into the surprisingly deep history of the Kentucky Derby, including the part nobody talks about, which is the Black jockeys who dominated the...

2 Mai 19min

Goblin Mode

Goblin Mode

ChatGPT has a goblin problem, and Houston made it explain itself. The AI's actual response might be the most unhinged thing we've ever aired. Then we went full science mode with quantum entanglement a...

1 Mai 25min

Wax On, Wax Off

Wax On, Wax Off

Wednesday's show kicked off with Leslie smuggling in wax candy from TikTok Shop, and somehow the whole crew spent an entire hour eating them, spitting them out, and debating whether wax tastes like bu...

30 Apr 23min

Draw Me Like One of Your Bar Friends

Draw Me Like One of Your Bar Friends

Tuesday's show went places. Houston got emotional about Voyager 1, a space probe that's been drifting alone through interstellar space for fifty years and is slowly running out of power. Meanwhile, ba...

29 Apr 21min

Eleven Pounds of Enlightenment

Eleven Pounds of Enlightenment

Leslie, Stitch, and Houston kick off the week with the kind of Monday energy you'd expect from people who talk for a living. They dig into whether Americans are losing the ability to have a real conve...

28 Apr 24min

The Little Apple of Death

The Little Apple of Death

It's Arbor Day and the crew went full nature documentary on this one. Trees aren't boring, it turns out. They text each other through underground fungal networks, one palm tree from Madagascar spends ...

25 Apr 19min

Ugly on Purpose

Ugly on Purpose

Thursday's show kicks off with a Marley update, Stitch's Chihuahua mix who got hit by a car earlier in the week and is somehow pulling through like a champ. From there, the crew gets into the story of...

24 Apr 19min

The Dandelion Debate

The Dandelion Debate

Wednesday's Second Shift kicked off Earth Day with a trash pickup along Rapid City's waterways, a swollen infected thumb courtesy of Stitch's dog Marley, and a somehow convincing argument that dandeli...

23 Apr 21min

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