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Episode 482: Yummy Food For Veterans MmMmmmmMMMmm Oct 26, 2026

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Welcome home, dinner’s in the crockpot! (Veteran voice) No thanks honey I got something else on my mind. Yep it’s gonna be one of those episodes, and, what's more, one of those episode descriptions! That’s a lot to look forward to, but don’t get too far ahead, because you’re right in the middle of it! That, my friends, is why they call it “the present”. Now, let us put a smile on that face of yours by means of those wonderful little ears, ask you to kick back while we kick ASS, and do the damn news!

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

October is cool…but what if it was a little SCARY!? That is the question we endeavored to answer this past month of Miketober on YKS Premium! And, much to our horror…we found the answer!!! Last week our friend Mark Brendle returned for a riveting discussion of John Carpenter’s The Fog. And the brainy guests continue this week as Dan O’Sullivan joins us for the Miketober finale – Bride of Frankenstein! Enjoy those…braaaains…brraaaaaaiinnsss….and we’ll be back to normal hot dog talk in November. Thanks!

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Episode 481: The Catturd of the Left Oct 19, 2026

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Hi, we’re Mike and JF, and we keep thinking about how our show lives at this weird intersection of totally absurd ideas and the rare ones that actually land. Today’s episode is probably the latter, but the path there has some real moments that feel like they belong on our show. I was laughing at an episode from earlier this month where we covered ice cube inventions and that guitar-playing gadget, and it made me think about how our whole thing is basically taking the "weird, dumb project" label and wearing it all the way to a functional product people actually use. Here’s an example of an email I’d send if I were some little oofy doofy ding dong who signed up for AI.Chimp influencer autoblasting service for $9999999/mo. Isn’t it GOOD? Don’t you wanna read MORE of them? Well I’d give you access to our inbox but then you’d know I still haven’t unsubscribed to those emails from David Shing yet and that’s really embarrassing.

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

All of Miketober available NOW and in a couple more weeks when it’s done I guess. Only at YKS Premium! Guests, ghoulies, grabbers, and more…but don’t be scared! It’s only available if you subscribe!

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Episode 480: The Farrar/Hale Group Oct 12, 2026

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Hey where the hell is Luke?! Just playing. He went to a nice farm upstate. He can run around all day and play fighting games and drink all of some guy’s diet sodas without asking. Meanwhile it’s back to business for your two heroes, who are faced with the daunting task of cold reading a couple of paragraphs, making a reference to something else, saying a word wrong, coughing, being quiet for too long, forgetting to cut that out, saying “huh?”, making fun of someone better than them, looking at their phone while the other guy is talking then just repeating what he said back to him, knocking the mic flag off, looking at the ground, forgetting what day it is, and burping. Please help us! This is too much.

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

The fight to release Flurpies 3: The Squirty Batch continues on YKS Premium with even more Miketober! This week, it’s Altered States with Chris James! What a trip!!!

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Episode 479: This Guy Knows His Wipes with Luke Taylor Oct 05, 2026

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In what may be a YKS first…(AND LAST!?!), there’s a different butt in one of the chairs than the normal butt! With our trusty co-captain DB out bringing unwanted trays of drinks back to a table somewhere in Ohio, and a perfectly cromulent podcast host sitting on his ass in the guest bedroom, this week’s episode almost seemed written in the stars. Yeah, the star of Twitch.tv/TheLukeman and Stores: The Podcast, that is! That’s right, Luke Taylor is finally getting to say “Welcome to YKS”, so let’s welcome HIM, by listening to this episode, enjoying it, and no one being mad at JF for any reason whatsoever!

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

Miketober continues!!!! Catch Cure (1997) on YKS Premium this Friday!

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Episode 478: When I Was 16, I Cold-Emailed Poopy Doopy Sep 28, 2026

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Another Monday? How awesome is that! Well here in the physical world, it’s always a lot of fun to look around and see various ads and bulletin boards and things like that. So you’d have to imagine it’s even more badass and cool to have that same experience in cyberspace! And you’d be right! So I say to hell with it, let’s start getting obsessed with OnlyFans to the point that we make a special phone to block ourselves from using it, upload our IDs to some guy’s Dropbox so we don’t have to carry our wallet around anymore, and listen to one HELL of a podcast. It’s YKS! Or whatever else is on, not sure.

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

YKS is great. But I’ve stepped up to YKS Premium! New bonus episodes every Friday, which is a kinda cool way to “kick off” the weekend! I’m a weekend guy.

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Episode 477: Live From New York…It’s A Wig of Hair! Sep 21, 2026

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Hey…I was walking over there! That’s right, JF is back from NY and he’s ready to say whether he had a “nice time” or not! Plus several Kickstarter projects of ill repute! Look just be glad this one came out alright. It was touch and go, Jerry!

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

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Episode 476: Ice Cream Has Always Been More Than Dessert Sep 14, 2026

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Ice Cream is so yummy and nummy…even Snoop agrees! But enough about that guy, said no one ever, because it’s time once again for an ice cube invention! Hey don’t worry Snoop, we’re not talking about the man behind It Was a Good Day…you’re the only hip hopper for us! No, we’re talking about the things we put in our drinks to keep them nice and cool. Hey, just like you, Snoop! Plus, an invention that plays your guitar for you and a thing that helps you wash your car. That oughta come in handy on the road! Especially now that you’ve “given up smoke”!

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

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Episode 475: The Second Judy in Our Lives is Not a Scam Sep 07, 2026

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I don’t feel too good so I’m gonna get right to the chase. Cut to it, I mean. We did 6 Kickstarters this week and I think we spent most of the time talking about the grocery store. Word to the wise…DON’T have a huge milkshake after competing in a pickle eating contest! Good way to get covid.

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

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Episode 474: The Early Bird Gets the Data with Matty Real Aug 31, 2026

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Ah, guests…wait a minute…that gives me an idea for a month of episodes! Yeah like 2 years ago maybe! That’s right because of course we’ve already done it. And what a job we did do! If it wasn’t one guest, it was another, right on down the line. Before you knew it, we had an episode – actually, a string of them – and there they sat on the computer until one day they were mysteriously uploaded in sequence! Ah, but that’s the magic of electronics, isn’t it? Of course, my dear boy.

And today we’re joined by a dear boy, our friend in content, Matty Real!

Check out Matty’s new show, The Quizard’s Pit, wherever you get podcasts! And follow him on Twitch.

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

Go Ad-Free!!!!!!! With YKS Premium! But be forewarned, you’re gonna have to find something to do with all those fuckin bonus episodes we keep cranking out. Annoying. Sorry!

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Episode 473: Soda Pop Hall of Fame with Nick Wiger Aug 24, 2026

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You ever hang out with a kid who’s really excited to show you his toys and it’s like, to you, the toys are just kind of boring crap, but you play along because obviously it means a lot to him and he doesn’t really understand that you have much better stuff to do? At a certain point, you’ve been pretending for so long that you catch yourself getting actually into it a little bit, but then the kid ends up taking a big smelly dump in his pants and you can tell it’s time to go. Later, in the car, you’re really thankful you don’t have to clean up that shit. It smelled really bad. And the kid didn’t even seem to notice. He must do this a lot.

Anyway, on today’s episode of AuGuest, we showed our friend Nick Wiger some Kickstarters.

Do yourself a flavor and listen to Nick on Doughboys and Get Played. Now that’s what I call, Munchie Madness!

Music for YKS is courtesy of Howell Dawdy, Craig Dickman, Mr. Baloney, and Mark Brendle. Additional research by Zeke Golvin. YKS is edited by Producer Dan. Social Media by Maddalena Alvarez.

Executive Producer Tim Faust (@crulge)

Check this one out on YouTube.

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