Shift Happened
By Mark Houston
Categories: Comedy, Leisure, Society & Culture
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.
422 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Hats Off, Sturgis
Happy 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 Hills. Find out what a cavalry colonel at Fort Meade started in 1892 that you still do before every ball game. Meet a…
- Tokyo Roast, Wallet Toast
Houston 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 owner. Houston has some very specific ideas about what would make that price worth it. Then they meet Chantz, who pushed a…
- Pineapple Tolerance Speech
Stitch, 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 tolerance, which lands right as an Australian chef gets fired for refusing to make one. Then there’s an AI baby bunny…
- Red in the Head
Houston 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. He also admits to something involving DoorDash and the Jersey Mike’s across the street, and Houston is not letting it go…
- Fridge Cigarettes
Election 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 retro ad that turns Diet Coke into a “fridge cigarette,” complete with a perm and an ashtray. Then an online poll asks if…
- Rabbit Hash Politics
Houston 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 into why we vote on a Tuesday, meet a Canadian city councilor who ran on being unqualified, and visit Rabbit Hash…
- Heidi’s Helping Hand
Stitch 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 party as a giant severed hand built from a 3D scan of her real one. They also unpack why we might be changing our clocks…
- Bone Drill Nightmares
Houston 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 dreams. Stitch wants to know why we vote on Tuesdays, which leads to a tiny Kentucky town with 254 people and a French…
- Houdini Never Called
Stitch 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 nose turned out. Amy joins the guys for the Friday before Halloween, where Houston digs up a paint color from the 1800s…
- Fear Triggers Something Else
Houston 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 guys go down a rabbit hole on an old wives tale that uses onion skins to predict how rough the coming winter will be…
- The Two Wife Theory
Stitch 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 argument about whose needs are actually getting met. Cheerios finally gives cereal bags a proper reseal, triggering a debate…
- Lucky Cats and Unlucky Trees
Houston 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 spots. Stitch breaks down the Gen Z stare for anyone who has ever gotten that blank look at work, and black cat…
- Meet the Binturong
It’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 pumpkin in movie history and loses badly. Then Houston introduces the show to an animal that smells like movie theater…
- The Bloody Mary Experiment
Houston 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 before bed. Crocs trivia takes over the back half of the show, right down to the ten million dollar Jibbitz deal and…
- Can Stitch Outrun a Squirrel
Stitch 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 kingdom, from squirrels to elephants to a reindeer going fifty miles an hour, and the scorecard is not pretty. Mark drops the…
- Houston’s Airplane Seat Hot Take
Houston 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 why your Reese’s bag feels lighter this year and tells you exactly where to find the ghost hunt happening in downtown…
- Bigfoot’s Big Reveal
Houston 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 South Dakota landing somewhere nobody expected. Stitch admits what six Vikings tickets actually cost him this December…
- Static in the Basement
Houston 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 wedding venue facing a very public meltdown after refusing to refund a grieving family. Hosted on Acast. See…
- The Brawl Before Bread
Houston 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 about South Dakota’s law against “sliming,” Stitch reveals his plan to be buried in a Pringles can. The Black Hills Brawl…
- The Cake Container
Stitch 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 problem. They move into hair banking, a new experimental treatment that freezes your follicles now so science can clone…
- Can You Dig It
Zach 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 horror movies built for people who hate being scared, and close out chasing a ghost that supposedly haunts a radio…
- Grandpa’s Candy Bowl
Stitch 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 batch of doctor-submitted stories about the dumbest things patients have ever done, including a guy who pulled a knife…
- Every Sign Says Friend
Houston 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 runner who shocked the world at the 1964 Olympics, and the Lakota code talkers whose language helped win World War Two…
- Flat Buttocks, Confirmed
Houston 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 the algorithm has decided about him. A sleep study on dogs and their owners settles the debate over who keeps who up at…
- Rub Your Glabella
Houston 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. Houston points everybody toward tonight’s Draconid meteor shower, best viewed after the free Main Street Square anniversary…
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