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. So we have this time schedule to record the shallow end and it was going to be

two o'clock my time and I get a text from Lindsay and he's like, I'm going to, I'm running a little

bit late and I'm really sorry. it's poor time management on on my part

but I actually want to point out that I opened with this is all due to poor time management

on my part yeah so it was a mea culpa right off the bat right off the bat and I was wondering

yeah wow this must be some sort of a, I hope he's okay.

It's a family emergency or something.

And so.

Well, it was an emergency.

I checked, find a friend and Lindsay's at Costco.

Well, now, that's what I mean by it was an emergency because I was starting to get the shakes because I hadn't been since like a week before Christmas.

Because, you know, as I said to you earlier, Costco during the last two weeks and first week, last two weeks of December and first week of January is much like a battle scene from Braveheart.

Yeah.

It's really not for the squeamish.

Even the most seasoned Costco veterans among us agree.

Yeah, December 15th, that's your cut off.

So if you have to go.

Buy all the rotisserie chicken and pumpkin pies you can stomach and then just say goodbye.

If you have to go during that time period, do you get together with other seasoned Costco

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