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
71 episodes
(70) "Snakes In Helmets, Immortality, And Fling Golf"
What if you turned 75 and your body just stopped aging, forever? We start with birthdays in the mid-70s and the weird math of time, health, and pride, then wander into the comfort and awkwardness of seeing old friends again. Memory gets slipper...
(69) "What If The Silliest Option Is The Honest One"
A trash can on a man’s head shouldn’t feel like a serious political moment, and yet here we are. We start by talking about the grind of sticking with a podcast when most shows disappear almost immediately, then we look at our own small proof th...
(68) "Special Guest Comedian Mark Klein Talks Comedy Craft Meets Horse Racing."
Horse racing arguments and comedy craft shouldn’t belong in the same conversation, but that’s exactly why this one works. We start by kicking around Breeders’ Cup Classic thoughts, including who looks like a legitimate favorite, where long-shot...
(67) "From Hungry Hungry Hippos To Global Supply Chains With Special Guest Jim Hilton"
A guy in Boise clears Hungry Hungry Hippos in 9.03 seconds and somehow that turns into a real question: when does a “record” stop being fun and start being a life strategy? We kick things off with Guinness World Records, America’s Got Talent-st...
(66) "From QVC Slipups To A Stolen Prosthetic Leg Lamp And 'The Legend-Success-Yes-But-Trap"
One stray word on live TV turns into a headline, and that tiny moment sets the tone for a bigger question: why do we treat harmless mistakes like major events now? We start with the QVC slip that went viral, laugh at the sheer absurdity of it, ...
(65) "FlingGolf, Food, Fierceness, and Forgetting A Friend"
Joe can’t play golf the way he used to after a heart attack and a broken foot, so he does what most of us say we’ll do but rarely follow through on: he goes hunting for a new way to stay active. The result is FlingGolf, a senior-friendly, low-i...
(64) "Rub Some Dirt On It And Please Do Not Eat Vicks By The Tablespoon"
Sixty-four hits different when you’re living it. We start with a quick laugh around “When I’m 64,” then pivot into the kind of conversations you only have once the years stack up: what surprises you about getting older, what still feels the sam...
(63) "Special Guest Elise Mandell, Ed's Tutor And Longtime Friend, Talks Spelling Bees And Spanish Lessons From Kentucky"
A “world championship” where you’re not allowed to practice sounds like a joke until you hear how it works. We open with a very Kentucky story: the dainty contest, where you smack a tiny stick into the air and try to drive it down the street, a...
(62) "The Things We Will Not Do Unless We Have A Driver Doula."
A 16 year old with a new set of keys is exciting, sweet, and honestly a little terrifying. We start with a family story about a great niece’s sweet 16 and a new car, then get real about the risk that sits in every teenager’s pocket: distracted ...
(61) "Stop Counting Rattles And Swinging Tennis Rackets, Special Guest Dr. Holly Holman Addresses Animal Myths That Refuse to Die"
You’ve heard the “facts” a hundred times: bears sleep so hard in winter you could walk right into the den, bats are blind, daddy longlegs are deadly but can’t bite, bulls charge because they see red, and goldfish forget everything in three seco...
(60) "From Apple Watches And Influencers To Death Doulas"
A “death doula” is a real thing now, and that one phrase opens the floodgates. We’re sitting in rainy Kentucky, catching up like we always do, and suddenly we’re asking the kind of question that sticks with you: when life gets hard, do we need ...
(59) "Special Guest Judy Wade talks with Joe about Derby Memories And Racing Legends, While Ed Eats A Sandwich,"
The conversation starts in our usual place: jokes, side roads, and a surprisingly heated question about why we have so many different ways to say “drunk driving” (OWI, DUI, DWI, OVI). But once we welcome our guest Judy Wade, it turns into a ful...
(58) "Pie Math And Real Life Regrets. Can You Still Do that Thing On Your Bucket List?”
The conversation starts as a joke about pie, but it quickly turns into something more honest: how we make choices when time feels shorter and our bodies do not cooperate like they used to. We talk about the “free pie versus good pie” mindset, a...
(57) "A Young Girl Falls Two Miles And Lives, While Forty Two Helium Balloons Tried To Kill Another Guy."
A plane gets struck by lightning, a row of seats rips free, and a 17-year-old falls roughly two miles into the Amazon rainforest and survives. That’s where we start, because once you hear the details of Juliane Koepcke’s story, it’s hard to thi...
(56) "Special Guest Bret Sohl Tells Us How To Become A Dainty Sport Athlete At 45 Or Older."
A mystery bruise turns into a surprisingly perfect doorway into how time changes your body, your hobbies, and what you choose to do for fun. Then we bring on our guest, Brett Sohl, a longtime Louisville entertainment lifer who spent years behin...
(55) "Birthday Wistfulness"
Blood on the grass, a missing cone, and a dog so locked in he won’t listen. We start with a true pet story that’s funny until it isn’t: Felix gets stitched up at the vet, then tangles with a groundhog in the yard, and suddenly we’re doing the m...
(54) "Meet Café The Dog Who Hates Everyone. You Can Never Go Home Again. Should You?"
Going back sounds simple until you actually do it and the place feels smaller, stranger, and somehow not yours anymore. We start with a story that’s pure chaos: Joe takes Felix to the veterinarian to get stitches removed, only to run into a dog...
(53 "Neighborhood Board Drama And Why Soccer Needs A Vuvuzela Rule"
Getting drafted into neighborhood leadership when you’re just trying to live your life is a special kind of comedy. We talk about being “wrangled” onto a neighborhood association board, the strange politics of minimal dues, and how planning a s...
(52) "Fulcrum Friday At The Imaginary Store"
A teeter-totter accident statistic hits the “news,” and we cannot let it go. If injuries are supposedly down, is it because kids got safer or because the teeter-totter basically disappeared? From there we tumble straight into the best kind of c...
(51) "Hot Dogs, Firecrackers, Independence Day Trivia , And Why Getting a B- On a History Project Might Get Overturned By The President"
The Fourth of July comes with a script: fireworks, hot dogs, and a few history buzzwords we all think we know. We wanted to slow that down and talk like real people do, starting with the small stuff that actually shapes the holiday: family visi...
(50) "Dueling Kazoos And The Doo Dah Debate + Making Sense Of Spelling Rules That Break"
Episode 50 starts with a simple question that immediately gets complicated: does “50” really mean 50 if a glitch once chopped an episode in half? From there, we do what we do best, turning a milestone into a freewheeling conversation about soun...
(49) "What If The Best Trips Happen At Home? Cohost Cousin Jim Wade, Plus A Peanut Butter Baked Potato Plot Twist"
You can cross into another country without a passport, touch a sign, and still come home with a story you’ll tell for years. That’s the tone we’re in here, trading the kind of “unexpected moment” memories that don’t look huge on paper but land ...
(48) "Special Father's Day Episode: How Joe's Dad and Dr. Holly"s grandfather, Grant Hall, Outsurvived Bad Odds And Always Taught Himself To Find A Way To Move Forward"
Father’s Day isn’t simple for a lot of us, so we wanted to do something that feels honest. We start with some light banter, then we bring back Dr. Holly Holman to help us tell the story of Grant Hall, a dad and grandpa who somehow managed to be...
(47) "Small Town Meets Bay Area. Jody (Joe) And His Wife 'Trinka (MK) Dissect How Two Very Different Childhoods Shaped A Partnership."
Two people can love each other deeply and still sound like they grew up on different planets. That’s what makes this conversation so fun and so honest: I’m Joe Flush, and while Ed is on assignment, my life partner Mary Kay steps in and we compa...
(46) "Chasing Goosebumps - Travel Moments That Stop You Cold"
A backyard bird feeder camera should be harmless, right? Then it shows you a version of yourself you weren’t prepared to meet, and suddenly you’re thinking about age, perspective, and the strange distance between how we feel and how we look. Th...