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Every twenty years the stars align. On April 22nd 2001, the film Shrek swamped the silver screen. Twenty years later, in 2021, a podcast reemerges from a brief hibernation.

The gang is back in the Month of Love (though we do not discuss Valentine's at all in this episode), and since the FBI is looking to the shoes of the capitol pipe bomber suspect to ID them, we chat about shoes in the context of crime: Who's Wearing What Shoe for What Crime? Can you, if you wish to be a criminal, also wear the perfect shoes? Needless to say we also touch on the Super Bowl LV Halftime experience, and meander off the beaten path to consider transportation of the future! Let's go! Tim can finally detail his apparent feet fixation ad nauseam on air.

For another edition of our Lesser Artists Borrow series, we adopt a Munch Madness-style tournament from the oft-consumed chain restaurant podcast Doughboys. This is The Supper Bowl. Join Sam, Tim and Nathaniel as they chow on and analyze meals from two veteran competing restaurants who both claim to have invented a South Minneapolis delicacy, the Ju(i)cy Lucy. With tantalizing takeout orders (thanks, Covid!) from Matt's Bar and 5-8 Club, whose cheese-stuffed burger recipe will be crowned as the most delicious? Can a taste test help the Twin Cities Trio come to an agreement on the identity of the Lucy's originators? Spoiler Alert: WE DO PICK A WINNER!

For those Minnesotans in a position to replicate our taste test (or maybe you just know from your experiences along Cedar Avenue), we encourage you to let us know if you agree, or if you hate us! We also encourage the winning restaurant to use this as an endorsement and maybe sponsor us if you want ok thx

Bonus: Tim tries to guess which NFL teams are going head-to-head this Sunday.

Did you know that January is almost over? Well, it is - so we better squeeze out the last bit of Halloween while the getting is good! Gill-man is onscreen and tugging at our ankles this week, as Sam, Tim and Nathaniel watch an original Universal Monster movie, Creature from the Black Lagoon. For our longtime listeners, the wait has paid off and we are discussing an actual monster this week, rather than simply a famous pervert. Laugh along with the Trio as they dissect a seminal entry into the history of underwater filmography, as Hollywood's rolling cameras begin their descent beneath the rolling waves in surprising clarity. While technology and technique are seen to be clearly improving, the treatment of women onscreen appears to be treading water in a standstill - and we also get some early glimpses into industry attempts to make science entertaining to the masses. DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!

Join Sam, Tim and Nathaniel as they debut a new episode type, Lesser Artists Borrow, where they borrow an element from a much better podcast that they enjoy. As longtime fans of the improv-centric podcast and television show Comedy Bang Bang, we attempt to recreate the magic of character interviews ourselves.

This week, we open up the doors to the studio and allow anyone to stop by - provided we keep the table to three participants at a time! First, we welcome food royalty from the Windy City, here to tell us about his rise to the top of the Snausage - I mean sausage - industry. Then, a polarizing figure from the world of comics (spoiler alert, it's not Stan Lee) stops by to talk about his career and what he has been working on lately. We apologize in advance.

Did you know it is January? Well, we are feeling another movie. 

After doing Monster Movie Month in October and only watching one horror film, we felt we were robbed by the Rat-King himself! Join Sam, Tim and Nathaniel as they watch the Tobe Hooper classic, Poltergeist (German for 'noisy ghost'), to celebrate the Halloween in January - an unofficial observance ever-growing in popularity. First they discuss updates on happenings at the new studio, before plunging into the spookiness. Nathaniel caps it all off by giving the skinny about a potential curse on this franchise (yes, there is more than one sequel to this film!).