The Shallow End
af Schnebly and Toth
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232: The Frog, the Fraud, and the Faulty Odometer
232: The Frog, the Fraud, and the Faulty Odometer
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From the Webby Award-winning creators of The Box Of Oddities Podcast comes The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth.
Friends since childhood, Lindsay Schnebly and Jethro Gilligan Toth have always shared a love for stories of people doing ridiculously dumb things. They found it wildly amusing as young boys. They still do today. This is your invitation to pour a strong drink and join them for true stories that are tragically hilarious.
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- 232: The Frog, the Fraud, and the Faulty Odometer · 36 min.Artificial intelligence is supposed to make life easier. Nobody mentioned turning police officers into frogs. In Heber City, Utah, a police department's new AI report-writing…
- 231: Porch Pirate Walks The Plank · 33 min.The Shallow End Episode 231: Porch Pirate Karma and the Woman Who Declared War on Delivery Robots A porch pirate picks the wrong driveway, and a 78-year-old woman goes to war…
- 230: The Fake Substitute Teacher · 35 min.A teenage robber walks into a convenience store on Christmas Eve, waves a gun around, and demands money. Unfortunately for him, the man behind the counter has a few surprises of…
- 229: The 21-Story Getaway · 31 min.A bank robber disappears inside a 21-story apartment building while police close in. A short time later, he turns up badly injured in the basement—with the stolen cash still on…
- 228: Mint-Flavored Stitches & Other Bad Decisions · 38 min.This week, The Shallow End opens the mailbag—and apparently our listeners have been making questionable decisions all over the world. First, a listener in Germany discovers that…
- 227: Four Score and Seven Bad Decisions Ago · 35 min.Some bad ideas take careful planning. Others apparently require a counterfeit money operation, Abraham Lincoln’s corpse, and absolutely no consideration for how much a lead-lined…
- 226: The Crate Escape and the Blind Drive North · 35 min.A homesick teenager makes the worst travel decision in aviation history: in 1965, Brian Robson had friends nail him into a wooden crate and ship him from Australia toward Wales…
- 225: Bovine Justice · 38 min.A stolen SUV chase in Florida takes an unexpected turn when a herd of dairy cows decides to assist law enforcement—herding a fleeing suspect straight toward the fence and into…
- 224: Twenty-Three Miles from Common Sense · 33 min.A man drifts 23 miles into the Mediterranean on an inflatable mattress, armed with little more than a piece of wood and a wildly misplaced sense of confidence. Then, an aspiring…
- 223: Grand Theft Forklift · 33 min.A man goes looking for another drink and somehow ends up at the center of one of the most bizarre jewelry heists imaginable—complete with stolen construction equipment, a handful…
- 222: Six Days in a Twenty-Three-Year-Old Jeep · 26 min.A stolen front-end loader leads Massachusetts police on the slowest “high-speed” chase in history—topping out at a blistering 15 miles per hour. Then, a Florida man escapes from…
- 221: Scratch-Off Rip-Off · 26 min.A good alibi can keep you out of prison—unless it leads police directly to 84 packets of heroin. This week on The Shallow End, Jethro tells the story of a West Virginia bank…
- 220: She Couldn't Wait 20 Minutes for a Beer · 34 min.Some criminals spend months planning the perfect crime... then ruin everything with one unbelievably dumb mistake. This week on The Shallow End, Jethro and Schnebly dive into…
- 219: He Tried to Rob the Wrong Grandma · 32 min.What happens when criminals and thrill-seekers make spectacularly bad decisions? In this classic episode of The Shallow End, an 82-year-old grandmother in Rochester, New York…
- 218: Naked Driver & Armadillo Revenge · 33 min.This week on The Shallow End, one innocent armadillo proves that sometimes nature really does fight back. After a Texas homeowner decides the best way to deal with a wandering…
- 217: Organized Culinary Warfare · 32 min.A simple photo of dinner turned into a financial nightmare after one woman accidentally shared a restaurant QR code online—and internet trolls responded. It's one of the…
- 216: Cocaine & Trash Cans · 31 min.Some people make mistakes. Others commit to them. This week on The Shallow End, JG and Jethro dive into two unbelievable true stories where one bad decision somehow keeps…
- 215: Pickleball Rage and Other Bad Decisions · 30 min.From people who think Spain is in South America to someone convinced milk isn't dairy, this episode of The Shallow End dives headfirst into some of the funniest—and most…
- 214: A Mugger, a Blind Wrestler, and Other Poor Decisions · 33 min.Here's an SEO-focused Shallow End episode description that leans into the absurdity, true-crime foolishness, and "poor decision making" theme that runs through both stories…
- 213: Court Date, Yoga Pants, and a Terrible Plan · 32 min.In this episode of The Shallow End, Schnebly and Toth explore two stories that raise an uncomfortable question: Is modern civilization running on competence... or just paperwork…
