#157: Clanging Across The Kitchen Floor

The Shallow End

John Elliott and Lindsay Schnebly

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.9 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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During this Memorial Week, we take a moment to remember Episode 27! The title for the world's stupidest bank robber is a very competitive division. However, Lindsay may have found a leading contender. Then, Jethro tells us about a bugler who just can't get a break. Attention! If an emergency occurs while listening to this episode, an oxygen mask will drop down from the compartment above your head. 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.
0:09.2	Over the years, the boys became fast friends, united in their love for stories where things would go horribly wrong.
0:18.4	Pour yourself a strong beverage and buckle up. You're in the shallow end
0:23.1	with Schnebly and Toff. It's the shallow end with those two guys. What's their names?
0:29.9	Schnebley and Toff. Schnebly and Toff. Which sounds like an old Catskill comedian team.
0:34.7	It sure does. It does, doesn't it? Yeah, from the Borscht Belt. Back in the days.
0:40.0	Circa 1940. Yeah. I learned something very important since our last episode. I learned that if you don't make a mistake on your story, you get an email or two. But if you make a mistake on your story, you get an email or two, but if you make a mistake on your story, you get plowed
0:59.3	with very well-intentioned listeners saying, I just wanted to point out that you made a huge
1:08.2	mistake in telling that story, and it's not really true.
1:12.1	Apparently, the bricklayer's tale?
1:14.9	The Australian bricklayer's tale is I got, I got, I got, I got rooked.
1:20.8	Ah, you're a bamboozled.
1:23.9	Bamboozled, sold a bill of goods.
1:25.4	See, it was just chin music, music apparently and it didn't really happen
1:28.1	again very 1940s that was nice yeah yeah but i uh i just thought i should bring that up right now
1:37.4	so that if there are another say two 300 people who are waiting to send an email saying bricklayer's
1:42.6	story was wrong you you fucking idiot.
1:46.1	That I can say, save your email,
1:48.1	and I appreciate you paying close attention.
1:50.8	Right. Yeah.
1:51.7	Well, it happens.
1:54.2	You know, it does happen.
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