About this podcast
Here is where you can find the Second Shift if you miss us on the radio! Mark Houston and Stitch are on every weekday afternoon from 3 to 7 pm on The Kat 98.7 and 93.9 the Mix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 422 episodes
- Hats Off, Sturgis · 22 minHappy Veterans Day from The Second Shift. Houston spent the afternoon digging into the history behind the holiday, and a surprising amount of it happened right here in the Black…
- Tokyo Roast, Wallet Toast · 19 minHouston and Stitch open Monday with a $105 cup of coffee out of San Francisco, complete with Brazilian beans, Tokyo roasting, and a blind taste test that went sideways for the…
- Pineapple Tolerance Speech · 21 minStitch, Russ and Zacy Moon have started a band called the Pizza Slayer Band, and Houston has thoughts. Zack drops a defense of pineapple on pizza that turns into a full speech on…
- Red in the Head · 18 minHouston and Stitch are back in their old second shift studio with brand new mics. Stitch decides it’s a good time to hold a memorial for two co-workers who are very much alive…
- Fridge Cigarettes · 18 minElection hangover hits the Second Shift. Houston swaps in blue songs, Stitch celebrates the school bond, and the 401(k) gets checked more than once. Stitch pitches Coca-Cola a…
- Rabbit Hash Politics · 22 minHouston was up at 3:30 a.m. to watch a real surgery, and he walked out of the operating room with one sound he’ll never forget. Then it’s Election Day, so Houston and Stitch dig…
- Heidi’s Helping Hand · 19 minStitch welcomes Amelie to the studio, fresh off a Halloween week in LA, and the two dig into the weekend’s wildest celebrity costumes, led by Heidi Klum showing up to her own…
- Bone Drill Nightmares · 22 minHouston spent his morning inside an operating room for Doc Talk, feet away from a bunion surgery, and he’s got a full report on the one sound that’s going to follow him into his…
- Houdini Never Called · 17 minStitch opens the show with the story of the day a fifth grader in Jacksonville walked face first into a school flagpole, and Houston has some follow-up questions about how that…
- Fear Triggers Something Else · 24 minHouston comes home from his root canal with a full report on endodontics and immediately makes a twenty dollar bet with Stitch over the next four games of Vikings football. The…
- The Two Wife Theory · 26 minStitch and Zacky Moon spend the shift untangling a pastor out of Cleveland who introduced his second wife to the whole congregation during Sunday service, sparking a long…
- Lucky Cats and Unlucky Trees · 22 minHouston spends half the show dreading two root canals while somehow landing on the ultimate ranking of regrettable purchases, with unworn clothes and camping gear taking the top…
- Meet the Binturong · 22 minIt’s Bat Week in the Black Hills, and Houston has a rabies fact that’ll have you checking your arms for bite marks. Stitch puts ten dollars on the line over the most famous…
- The Bloody Mary Experiment · 21 minHouston tries to prove he does not believe in the supernatural by standing alone in a dark basement, then talks Stitch into trying dream incubation to fix whatever is bugging him…
- Can Stitch Outrun a Squirrel · 26 minStitch gives Mark his full attention today, phone stashed across the room, and somehow it still goes sideways. They put Stitch through a full speed test against the animal…
- Houston’s Airplane Seat Hot Take · 16 minHouston flies solo on this one and dives straight into Halloween chaos, from shrinking candy bars to a five hundred dollar grand prize waiting at the Creepy Crawl. He breaks down…
- Bigfoot’s Big Reveal · 24 minHouston and Stitch open with an alligator attack that has internet reptile defenders choosing sides, then dig into a ChatGPT study ranking every state by personality traits, with…
- Static in the Basement · 15 minHouston flies solo today and opens up about a haunted hospital recording that still has him spooked, a Ritz cracker conspiracy pulling in TikTok detectives everywhere, and a…
- The Brawl Before Bread · 25 minHouston comes back from a week on the couch only to get blamed for the whole office catching his cold, which Stitch is not about to let go. Somewhere between that and a story…
- The Cake Container · 24 minStitch and Zacky Moon run the show today, kicking things off with a real local business called Turd Tossers, the professional poop pickup crew that solves everyone’s backyard…
- Can You Dig It · 21 minZach and Mitchell sign up for a real contest that gets you cremated and stored inside a Pringles can for eternity, flavor debates included. From there they run through a list of…
- Grandpa’s Candy Bowl · 23 minStitch and Zaccy Moon rank the internet’s list of boomer Halloween candy and immediately start arguing over whether Laffy Taffy and Starburst even belong on it. They dig into a…
- Every Sign Says Friend · 20 minHouston marks Native American Day with the real story behind the state’s name, which traces back to a word that means friend or ally. He digs into Billy Mills, the Pine Ridge…
- Flat Buttocks, Confirmed · 16 minHouston goes digging through Amazon’s new About You feature and finds strangers’ profiles calling out things like flat buttocks and zero friends, then can’t resist checking what…
- Rub Your Glabella · 19 minHouston puts Stitch through a pop quiz on words nobody actually knows, from the chalaza in an egg to the glabella between your eyebrows, and Stitch hates every second of it…
- Barrel in Orbit · 24 minStitch is nursing a head cold while Houston runs off with Rob to buy whiskey, which spirals into news that engineers in Scotland and Japan are about to launch a barrel of the…
- Serbian Tiger, Siberian Confusion · 20 minHouston and Stitch kick off the show with a sneezy standoff, trading blame over who gave who a cold, which somehow spirals into a deep dive on a mysterious plague death in…
- LimeWire Is Back, Tell a Friend · 24 minMark heads into the old Lee-Deadwood Hospital morgue for a spooky Doc Talk shoot and the camera starts moving on its own like something down there wants in the shot. LimeWire…
- The Shark In The Driveway · 19 minStitch wants a whole birthday month and Houston is having none of it, though he does cave enough to help plan Stitch Fest, a chili feed this Saturday raising money for the Friday…
- Yelling Won't Fix It · 23 minAnger isn't fixed by yelling, and Houston's got the science to prove venting makes it worse, not better. Then Rapid City tap water gets a shiny national nod while Stitch still…
- Quiet On The Creek · 24 minStitch and Houston get schooled on Gen Alpha slang, from scuba to quiet on the creek. A viral post about the bathroom being the ultimate escape hatch from your spouse sparks a…
- The Toilet Took Me Down · 22 minHouston installs a fancy new toilet, and the very next morning, a ladder and a crawl space team up to take him down completely. A guy near Houston, Texas crashes his car straight…
- What Hollywood Hides · 23 minStitch and Houston dig into a leaked list of things Hollywood insiders supposedly know to be true, and it gets messy fast, from steroid use to secrets nobody wants printed…
- Adam Vinatieri's Guinness World Record Kick · 17 minStitch is out today, so Houston flies solo and dives into the bomb threat hoax that shut down Monument Health this morning, tracing it back through a wild history of copycat…
- Jeff From Texas · 24 minHouston is back from Canada and he brought stories for days. Stitch grills him on his sudden Tim Hortons obsession, a croissant breakfast sandwich apparently worth crossing a…
- Watching It Burn · 22 minHouston and Stitch watch a car erupt into flames right outside the studio window, then get into whether a real sixteen hundred dollar pumpkin spice casket is worth the hype. A…
- Front Page Ego · 22 minStitch stumbles onto a newspaper writeup about Houston that turns into a full roast session about ego and headlines. Then a candy corn perfume shows up in the studio and we spend…
- Penguins Aren't Fish · 24 minWe run the actual numbers on what it would cost to replace one of us with a robot, and the math is closer than anyone wants to admit. A Reddit thread has us testing each other on…
- More Than a Bass Player · 25 minToday's guest walks in as a bass player and leaves as certified local royalty, and we don't figure out why until the very end. Stitch spends a good chunk of the show trying to…
- Recording The Recorders · 19 minHouston's back behind the mic and he wastes no time picking a fight with Stitch over exactly how much backwash makes a shared water bottle unforgivable. Three hikers let an AI…
- The Robot Vacuum Divorce · 20 minGrab your headphones because this one gets weird fast. The crew catches you up on a Taiwan husband who caught his wife cheating through their robot vacuum's camera, and the…
- Stitch Goes For Gold · 19 minStitch spends the show chasing a Guinness World Record with nothing but a sticky note and a pen, trying to cram as many three and four letter words onto one line as humanly…
- Liquid Solutions · 23 minToday we get into why Jason Kelce wants everyone's pee to help cool AI data centers, and how beer ended up part of the plan. A tourist tried sneaking two hundred lizards through…
- Rescue Me, Maybe · 19 minTuesday's Second Shift kicks off fair week by demanding someone explain why the Central States Fair isn't actually a state fair. From there we fall straight down a nutmeg rabbit…
- The Black Widow Broadcast · 20 minMonday's crew rolls in running on rally fumes, and Lauren finally spills the story she's been hiding for a week. A black widow spider bit her under the media desk at Sturgis, and…
- Bare Table for Two · 21 minStitch nearly starts a riot over a stale pop tart before pizza swoops in to save the day, a Florida steakhouse wants you to show up wearing nothing but a smile, and a teenager…
- The Arby's Date · 18 minZac Brown handed out free cruise tickets to an entire stadium and we've got the math behind the biggest giveaway in concert history. A UK startup thinks it's cracked pain free…
- Smoke Show Sunsets · 22 minThis one's got a shaky stage, a questionable ear routine, and a lawsuit that might owe you tacos.We break down the Goo Goo Dolls show at the Monument, including a moment on stage…
- The Colonel's Secret · 24 minColonel Sanders' old leather planner just sold at auction for thirty grand, and it might be hiding the most famous secret recipe on the planet. DoorDash is rolling out its own…
- The Armadillo Warning · 20 minWe dig into the disease making a comeback in Florida, and it's not one you'd expect. Turns out there's an everyday critter you should never touch, and koalas aren't as cuddly as…
