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
56 episodes
(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...
(45) "Sunny And Shade, Relationship Phases, A Brutal Strikeout, An Alligator Named Oscar, And More"
A single sentence can reframe a whole marriage: “She does the sunny parts, I do the shade.” We start with small talk about rain, yard work, and the kind of weekend chores that leave you sore, then we stumble into that line and realize it explai...
(44) "A Coal Stoker Mishap Turns Into A Love Letter To Atlanta Braves Baseball With Special Guest Tim Hockensmith"
He threw overalls into a coal stoker to save himself some work, and a few hours later the house went cold. From that kind of childhood logic, we jump into something just as emotional and unpredictable: baseball, the Atlanta Braves, and the way ...
(43) "What If The Best Life Lessons Start With Butter And A Side Of Baked Potato"
A car can be brand-new, carefully driven, and still end up feeling cursed. We open with a moment of silence for Mary Kay’s legendary Volvo “Vovo ” after a rear-end crash, then get real about the only part that truly matters: nobody got hurt. Fr...
(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...