It began long ago, two young boys in an American town riding their bikes to school and Little League practice.

Over the years, the boys became fast friends, united in their love for stories where things would go horribly wrong.

Pour yourself a strong beverage and buckle up. You're in the shallow end with

Schnebley and Toff. We want to welcome you to episode number 114 of the shallow end. Yeah.

This beautiful summer day or night or whenever the hell you're listening. Maybe it's the dead

of winter where you are. Could be years from now. We don't know. Could be 2029 and the giant ants have arrived to take over the world.

And they became giant from atomic fallout?

I hope the giant ants when they come to judge us will remember that the shallow end back in 2024 was awarded

a prize as being one of the top 50 podcasts in society and culture by a website Goodpods.

Let's be honest, the giant ants, they don't give a crap.

No, they don't.

In fact, they hate podcasts.

That's one of the reasons they invaded Earth was because all of our podcasts were bouncing out

into space along with reruns and stuff like that. And the giant ants were like, screw this.

They're getting way too noisy. We need to shut this crap down. So all hail our giant ant overlords.

See what you learn on the shallow end? You learn about the future. You learn about what's going to

happen to the planet Earth involving giant ants. But no, that was nice of good pods. They gave us a

little badge. A little badge. And some of the comments that people wrote about the podcast really, really made me, not teary-eyed, but I was, I was humbled.

Well, you're an emotional guy, Linz. I am emotional, sure. But one listener wrote, this podcast is my regular dose of inanity, hilarity, stupidity, schadenfreude, and all of the other things that keep me going.

The hosts are wonderfully funny and clearly have experience hosting podcasts.

The stories themselves are truly fantastic, keep up the good work.

I just want to say that it warms my heart

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