#159: Waffle Regret

The Shallow End

John Elliott and Lindsay Schnebly

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.9 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Episode #159 is a barn-burner of bad ideas! Jethro starts off with a Florida Man, a plan, and a few drinks too many. Maybe not the best time to dream up the idea of “the perfect tattoo.” Oh well – at least it’s permanent! Then Lindsay tells us about a woman who was so upset at not being invited to a (third!) cousin’s wedding, she exacted the strangest revenge you’ve ever heard. Oh well – at least it resulted in a restraining order. Family is fun! And so is this week’s episode! If you would like to advertise on The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth, contact advertising@airwavemedia.com 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 talk. Later on this hour, your chance of $10,000 cash if you're the 10th. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought
0:30.1	it was 1985. You had a radio flashback. It's like Vietnam flashback, but a lot less serious.
0:37.0	And they involve carts and programming directors who are jerks.
0:42.0	People who don't know what carts are.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:44.3	Yeah, they don't.
0:44.9	That goes back to pre-automation, pre-digital automation software days.
0:50.9	Goes back 40, 50 years, doesn't it?
0:53.6	Shut up.
0:54.5	Seriously.
0:56.7	Carts is short for cartridges and all the commercials and the songs were on these little
1:01.3	cartridges that looked like those old-fashioned eight-track tapes.
1:04.5	Eight tracks, yeah.
1:05.5	And you'd have to friggin' load them up individually.
1:08.2	And I always got yelled at because I never put the commercials back
1:12.0	where they were supposed to be. Yeah. Yeah. Bad show. Bad show. Some of us who worked in radio
1:18.5	still have the, I guess every profession has its nightmares. And if you've worked in radio,
1:25.1	you probably have the recurring nightmare that you're doing a shift, a show, and you can't find any music.
1:31.1	You can't find any commercials.
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