PILTDOWN MAN AND THE CARDIFF GIANT
Two longtime friends, one a former comedian and the other a world traveler, riff on life, the arts, music, sports, travel and Horehound candy, and follow rabbit holes on just about anything. Much of it tongue in cheek while entertaining themselves and hopefully you. Future plans are interviews and at least one listener.
Episodes
43 episodes
(42) "Hell Was Great Yesterday Because It Was Campaign Season-The Colbert Questionnaire For Regular Guys"
A free return trip to Mexico sounds like pure good news, until you remember the last time involved stone stairs and a head injury. We start there, with weather, mood, and the weird way life hands you a do-over, then pivot into a Colbert Questio...
(41) "College Athletes Are Pros Now And Nobody Will Admit It, Plus Chicago Travel Stories"
The moment college athletes can get paid like pros, the entire “student-athlete” story starts to wobble, and the NCAA looks more confused by the week. We go from a goofy opener about those oddly robotic rewards card greetings to a real check-in...
(40) "Because I Am Santa Claus!!! Two Friends Trade Stories That Change Perspective."
A daily annoyance can turn into a personal meltdown, or it can turn into a weird little moment of grace. We start with something small but relatable: kids next door keep kicking balls into the yard, and it is getting under our skin. Then we wal...
(39) "From Chicken Wings With Tweety, To Backyard Birdwatching"
Chicken wings turn out to be a gateway topic. We start with the kind of everyday life that feels small until you say it out loud: a family birthday, pizza, a 14-month-old cracking herself up with a couple of simple words, and the quiet sweetnes...
(38) "Four Potatoes And Flowers, Japan’s Sleeping Pods And The Stories We Carry"
Four baked potatoes, a surprise bouquet, and a made-up grocery “special” sound like pure comedy, but that’s how we stumble into a bigger conversation about expectations, relationships, and the stories we tell to smooth out life’s little social ...
(37) "Poop Or Myrrh? Dumbass Whales, Trampling Dolly, Google Whacking And Other Rare Life Moments."
A stubborn respiratory bug somehow leads to one of the strangest arguments you can have in a marriage: “I smell poop.” “No, it’s myrrh.” From that opening beat, we lean into what we do best and trade true stories that are so specific they sound...
(36) "Ad Overload...Why An Limu Emu And A Latuda In A Jardiance Ruined My Playoff Game."
A Celtics-76ers playoff game should be about defense, shot selection, and whether the role players show up. But while we’re watching threes rain down, something else steals the spotlight: the ad flood. We start listing what shows up on the cour...
(35) "Special Mother's Day Tribute To Motherhood And Mischief, Featuring Ed's Late Mother, Juanita."
Mother’s Day can be sweet, complicated, or downright hard, sometimes all in the same breath. We’re two old friends talking it out the only way we know how: by telling the stories that still feel alive. Joe shares why some memories are still too...
(34) "The Night A Nude Stranger Attacked My Door... And Other True Dating Misfires"
Some bad dates are just awkward. Others turn into lifelong stories you tell when you need a reminder that you survived.We’re Joe Flush and Eddie Penn, and we’re digging into the dating disasters that shaped us, from painfully quiet prom...
(33) “The Derby Betting Mindset With Renowned Comedian, Handicapper And Horse Owner Mark Klein As Our Special Guest. Horse Racing Is Not About Money, It Is About The Story."
A Kentucky Derby saddle hits the auction block, the bids stay quiet, and for a moment it looks like a once-in-a-lifetime piece of racing history might land in the right hands. Then the price explodes at the last second and the dream disappears....
(32) "Trying To Buy Calvin Borel's Saddle , Walking To The Moon, Wooing Marilyn McCoo, And Other Things That Will Never Happen While Ed Dances with An Angel."
A beat-up road tiller, some yard work, and a little golf sound harmless, but our chat takes a wild turn fast. We start trading small-life updates, then we land on a real piece of Kentucky Derby history: the online auction of jockey Calvin Borel...
(31) "Joe’s Eleven Ramps To Recovery...A Comedian's Practical Rules For Rebuilding A Life After Hard Times."
A spacecraft loops around the moon and comes home safely, and we’re grateful, but we also ask the uncomfortable question: why doesn’t it feel as electric as it once did? That little moment turns into something bigger, because the same thing hap...
(30) "The Vietnam Draft Years. What Do You Owe A War You Never Fought?"
The Vietnam draft turned everyday life into a waiting room, and we still remember the feeling. One minute we are laughing about imaginary “Spotify peace prizes” and our weird little podcast rankings, and the next we are back at Selective Servic...
(29) "Growing Up Before Safety, Stop Saying VIN Number And SEC Conference Or Ed Will Stroke Out, And With Whom Would You Like To Share One Last Meal."
The Stone Age lasted so long it almost swallows the calendar, and that idea kicks off a wide ranging conversation about how slowly humans changed until everything sped up. We start by noticing how our little show travels further than we ever ex...
(28) "Leave It All On The Court While Jimmy Buffett Shows Why Time Feels Faster Now"
A harmless sports phrase can hide a whole worldview. We start by pulling apart the lines you hear in every postgame interview, then ask what those clichés do to fans, players, and anyone who believes the moment on the court is the only moment t...
(27) "The Quest For Sue. A Wild Tour Of Space Travel, And Dinosaur Deep Time With Cohost MK Hall"
Voyager is so far out that even talking about it makes your brain stretch. We sit with that feeling, then let it pull us into a wide-ranging, funny, and oddly grounding conversation about space exploration, the Artemis program, and why “going b...
(26) "From Three TV News Networks To Infinite Feeds-Now Spackle Your Basement And Eat Oreos."
The world felt different when the whole country got its headlines from a handful of familiar voices. We start with a little everyday comedy, then jump into a nostalgic but clear-eyed look at broadcast TV news when ABC, CBS, and NBC shaped how p...
(25) "Pass The Potatoes And Let Them. Why Being Disliked Is None Of Your Business."
A packed hospital parking lot shouldn’t turn into a philosophy talk, but that’s exactly where we go. We start with a real day of juggling mobility issues, doctor visits, and the maddening hunt for a spot while rows of accessible spaces sit empt...
(24) "From Goldilocks In The Vo-Vo, To Cornhole Champion Murderer, to Birthday Twins, to What You Do When Life Says Enough.""
A couch that’s too low, a bed that’s too high, an air conditioner that’s never “just right” and suddenly you’re living inside a Goldilocks story while trying to keep real life moving. We kick things off with Joe Flush and Edward Penn swapping t...
(23) "Horton Heard A Who, Jump Jip Jump, And Other Bad Ideas. Special Guest MK Hall Joins Joe And Ed, On Reading From Golden Books To Orwell."
Your reading history is basically a biography you didn’t mean to write. We start with a silly detour through “23” and end up somewhere surprisingly personal: the earliest books we can still name, the family routines around reading, and the exac...
(22). "Thoughtless Nuttall And The Catfish Nobody Kept with Special Guest and Amateur Genealogist Jim Wade."
A numb mouth, a big bill from the dentist, and a birthday that lands on the same age a father died somehow turn into something unexpectedly meaningful: a deep dive into family history that’s funny, tender, and a little haunted in the best way. ...
(21) "From Little League and Stand Up To Late Nights: Special Guest Tim Hockensmith On Fears, Mentors, Mistakes, And Finding Your Voice."
What if your worst night on stage became your best story about courage? We bring Tim Hockensmith into the studio and trace the messy, funny, and strangely tender line between fear and growth—from a Little League dugout to a Lexington comedy clu...
(20) "Where's Waldo?-Two Friends Trace A Crooked Path From Oily Bolts To Tax Forms"
Ever felt like your whole career was a series of side quests that somehow turned into a life? We trace that crooked line with stories that swing from a deep construction hole to a sprawling warehouse full of oily bolts and impossible quotas, th...
(19) "I Brought A Phillips 66 Screwdriver To A Phillips Problem-Early Jobs Before We Knew Why."
Ever have a job that smelled like hogs, paid in blisters, and still left you oddly proud? We go back to the work that raised us: gas station sprints to the pumps, oil can pyramids, crawling under a house to dig for an HVAC install, and long day...
(18) "Altitude Sickness, Pickpockets, And Boobies: Travel Tales With Heart."
Breathless in Quito, dazzled in the Galapagos, and lighter one wallet in Barcelona—we trace a messy, meaningful arc through the kind of travel that leaves a mark and a moral. We swap stories from Machu Picchu’s terraces to Ireland’s chalk-duste...