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A San Francisco startup is paying twenty dollars an hour for people to walk robot dogs around the city, no experience required. A mom on TikTok says her kid’s Halloween candy haul included exactly one gummy bear, individually wrapped, and she’s calling it a recession indicator. And an Illinois man gets caught mailing salt to members of Congress after putting his own return address on the envelope. Stitch runs through all of it solo this morning while Houston recovers from his root canal.

Stitch and Houston are two days out from the fourth annual Creepy Crawl, already ranking which downtown bars have the best bites before Friday hits. The new iPhone Duo is four days old and owners are already watching their screens crack right down the crease. And a sixty four year old Virginia man lands felony charges after taping his wife to a chair so he could watch football in peace. It’s hump day on Hot Mornings, and these two can’t stay on one topic for more than a minute.

Stitch and Houston dig into South Dakota’s wild teenage driving rule, where new drivers have to log fifty hours behind the wheel in actual bad weather before they can get licensed, all while the state hands out permits to fourteen year olds. An Iowa man running for lieutenant governor is getting sued by his own parents for two hundred seventy five grand in unpaid farmland rent. And the guys break down this year’s digital Creepy Crawl, where bar hoppers scan QR codes and listen for clues around downtown for a shot at prizes.

Halloween’s closing in and the crew is getting ready, with tips on how to shop Spirit Halloween without getting stuck with the leftovers before Friday’s fourth annual Creepy Crawl. Dove is dropping a nineteen dollar fragrance that’s supposed to smell like their bar soap, and Stitch and Houston can’t quite get past the logic of paying that much for scented air when the soap’s a couple bucks. Then the guys slow down for some good news, including a Pennsylvania homecoming king who handed his crown straight to his friend with down syndrome in one of those moments that sticks with...

Mark and Stitch kick off spooky season with a week to go before Halloween and the fourth annual Creepy Crawl creeping closer. Stitch shares the most genuinely scared he’s been in years, a terrifying overnight scramble when his son’s diabetes monitor cut out hundreds of miles from home. The guys also roast a list of trendy home upgrades homeowners instantly regret, from subway tile to microwave drawers. Plus, Milwaukee Brewers fans are furious over a decade old ticket promise that’s falling apart right as the team hits the World Series for the first time ever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Stitch flies solo this morning while Houston handles other business, and the show still delivers plenty to talk about. Jay-Z might be headlining his own Super Bowl halftime show in February, and Stitch has some thoughts about why that decision feels like a letdown from the guy who runs the whole operation. Arby’s teams up with Halloween in the strangest way possible, dropping a meat print tracksuit built for your twelve foot skeleton, not for actual humans. Then Elon Musk’s flying car reveal sparks a full debate on whether any of us will ever actually ride in one, with some...

Houston’s convinced his Edward Scissorhands hot take is basically a federal crime, Stitch is side eyeing an HOA that wants to ban full size candy bars, and somewhere in between there’s a whole breakdown of why everyone’s streaming fatigue is at an all time high. Oh, and don’t worry, the mystery of 96.9 KBYE “the ghost” is getting closer to solved this Friday at the Creepy Crawl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Houston digs into a wild TikTok experiment that has people questioning whether Ritz crackers taste different these days, complete with a soggy bread control group. He also breaks down why Americans are hosting way fewer dinner parties than they used to, and the stats on shrinking friend groups back it up. Plus, details on the Creepy Crawl hitting downtown Rapid City, with pub hopping, prizes, and a mystery from the seventies still unfolding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Houston’s back after fighting off a head cold he refuses to admit got the best of him, and he’s already found his new weakness: a banana flavored latte that nearly brought him to tears. Stitch and Houston dig into the fourth annual Creepy Crawl and the mysterious “ghost” noises bleeding through the studio speakers, plus a countdown of America’s most haunted cities that somehow has Deadwood ranked way too low. They wrap with a new study ranking the most expensive states for a night out, and South Dakota comes out looking pretty good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Stitch flies solo and celebrates a huge milestone, ten years at Homeslice. Along the way she breaks down the real numbers behind Spider-Man Brand New Day’s box office run, and digs into the pole dancing trend couples are trying out locally at Live It Up Studio in Uptown Rapid. Plus details on the fourth annual Creepy Crawl coming up October thirtieth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.