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

Schnebly and Toff. There was a thread on one of the box of oddities, social media sites,

and it was talking about how shallow end is just running a bunch of repeats.

And they weren't complaining about it, but they were wondering why.

And I went back and Kat went back.

And we've done three repeats since earlier this year.

And it's all been for funerals family emergencies family emergencies

and that sort of thing but what confused me was that one person swore up and down that our

last episode was a repeat because they remembered us telling that radio story at the beginning.

And a cat just told them now they're old and they can't remember what they talked about.

Because it was a new episode.

It was a new episode.

Yeah.

By the way, I just remembered what it was that I was going to kick this off with.

I'm sorry, we're out of time. Which was a huge apology because I listened to the previous episode

number 124 on my workout a few days ago and was stunned, stunned, I say, at the poor audio quality of the hotel room in which I was recording.

It was like...

I didn't think it was that bad.

It was like an echo chamber.

I was listening with my earbuds and I thought, oh my God, this sounds horrible.

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