#107: Emails From The Shallow End

The Shallow End

John Elliott and Lindsay Schnebly

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.9 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combines storytelling with witty banter, offering listeners a laugh and a gentle reminder of our shared imperfections. Whether it’s a failed science experiment or an office mishap, Schnebly and Toth are here to celebrate the humor in life’s Shallow End. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It began long ago, two young boys in an American town riding their bikes to school and Little League practice.
0:09.0	Over the years, the boys became fast friends, united in their love for stories where things would go horribly wrong.
0:18.0	Pour yourself a strong beverage and buckle up. You're in the shallow end with
0:23.5	Schnebley and Toff. Hey, this is a very special episode of the shallow end with Schnebly and
0:29.2	Toth because this is only the third time we've done this. We have talked about it frequently,
0:34.2	but this is a very special episode because we didn't write these stories.
0:40.0	You did.
0:41.2	These are all the emails that you guys have sent in that we've been saving the best,
0:45.8	funniest, the worst, the messiest to share with you, including some stories actually told by you, recorded by you, sent to us that you're going to get to hear in the actual listeners' voice.
1:00.3	Now, if you have an experience, if you've done a belly flop in the shallow end, you want to share it with us, or you know somebody that has and you want to tell on them.
1:13.4	It's Lifeguard at shallowend podcast.com.
1:18.3	So let's dive in, so to speak.
1:20.7	And I do need to mention, I should have said right off the top, G, that Jethro knows this.
1:26.0	I'm in a hotel room in beautiful downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, minus the accoutrement of the regular studio.
1:34.1	So if things sound a little echoey, or you hear someone screaming and running down the hall, or a knock on the door and someone says, housekeeping.
1:42.9	Or gunfire, perhaps. Or gunfire. Yeah. Yeah. You know the score. But just wanted to call that out. J-G, I think you're going first. All right. Okay. So, this one comes from, how do you, how would you pronounce this lens? K-R-E-I-S? I presumed it was pronounced Christ. I'm going to go with
2:02.8	Christ. Christ, if you're listening and I screwed it up, I apologize. It says, hello, gentlemen,
2:08.0	first off, and also impossibly cat. First off, I want to thank you all for the laughs that you
2:14.1	two have provided over the years. It has been years, hasn't it, Linz?
2:18.3	It has.
2:18.7	Good Lord.
2:19.6	Thanks for saying so, Christ.
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