Sam talks about almost killing the show, and Katie's warming up to her new life after moving from Colorado to small-town Idaho. Katie breaks down the culture shock of leaving Denver—bedazzled jeans, expensive cowboy gear that's built to last, and saddles with jewels on them.They dig into small-town weirdness: how tight everyone is, people resisting change while needing it, and why there's nothing to do except knock each other up.Katie explores how immigration officers at Ellis Island changed people's last names from cool Scandinavian stuff to basic names like Smith, and how women lose their identity when they switch to their husband's name.Sam hunts down "Bum Farto" a serial killer who turned himself in because his ego made him go into way too much detail about his crimes.Katie throws in her coworker with the last name Dickout and talks about the Swenson name actually meaning something back home.====Unlimited for $5... No more $18 VIP pricing.For $5, supporters get everything we have to offer - every podcast, live backdoor access to watch us record, video episodes, uncut episodes, all of our PLUS podcasts, early and ad-free, and more. Support 11:59 Media's vision to build our great creators.

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Season 13 kicks off with a new era for The Neverdaily. Co-host Chase has relocated to Texas, and stepping into the chair is Sam's sister, Katie — a veteran listener, a 12-year autodidact personal trainer, and a certified master mobility coach. Welcome, K-Dog (as the backdoor affectionately called her)!Katie rolls out a deep-dive on fascia — the connective spider-web tissue most people have never heard of. She lays out why your body works like a suspension bridge, not a machine; why stretching often targets the wrong structure; and how myofascial release clears 90% of what clients think requires a doctor.Katie prescribes the exact hydration formula most people are ignoring — half your body weight in ounces, with pink Himalayan salt added — and explains why pale yellow urine is the only gauge that matters. Clear pee means you've overshot; caffeine first thing means you started fasted and dehydrated.Katie unpacks PNF stretching (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) — the science behind why your hamstrings won't move past R1 until a practitioner tricks your brain into latency, then takes the slack. She breaks down Golgi tendon organs, muscle spindles, and why flexibility is the wrong goal — mobility is.Sam fires a story about their brother Jake vibe-coding a full AI-powered pharmaceutical app from scratch with zero coding background — while Sam was still talking about building one. Launches into a broader riff on autodidacticism, why college gatekeeps talent it didn't create, and how AI is dissolving that gate faster than universities can react.Sam walks the story of Carl Bushby — the British soldier who set out in 1998 to walk the entire circumference of the Earth without vehicles, crossed the frozen Bering Strait on foot, got detained by Russian border guards, was deported, and has now logged 30,000+ miles across deserts, jungles, and Arctic ice — still not done, still not flying.====Unlimited for $5... No more $18 VIP pricing.For $5, supporters get everything we have to offer - every podcast, live backdoor access to watch us record, video episodes, uncut episodes, all of our PLUS podcasts, early and ad-free, and more. Support 11:59 Media's vision to build our great creators. Visit ⁠11:59 Media on Patreon⁠ https://patreon.com/1159media to sign up now.Start your support, and access everything you've been missing.

Sam lays out a full round of famous quotes that got cut in half: "seeing is believing," "great minds think alike," "blood is thicker than water," "Jack of all trades," and more, revealing what the original phrases actually said and why the missing half changes everything.

Chase digs up the Jack Hughes coincidence: the last man cut from the 1980 U.S. gold-medal hockey team shares the same name as the guy who just scored the overtime gold-medal winner in 2026.

Sam sounds off on Olympic athletes' grandstanding against their own countries, calls out Eileen Gu by name, and ties it to CCP spy operations on U.S. campuses.

Chase infects the episode with the full history of "tuberculosis chic," the 70-year Victorian trend where women corseted themselves into respiratory distress, poisoned their skin with arsenic powder, and hired actual dying women as art models to achieve the fashionable look of imminent death.

Sam unboxes the unhinged corporate empire of General Mills: cereal company buys Olive Garden, builds spy balloons, funds deep-sea submersibles, recovers a lost U.S. hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean, accidentally discovers the Titanic while on a classified nuclear sub search, all before breakfast.====
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Chase recounts the story of Vincent Coleman, the Halifax railway dispatcher who sent one final telegraph—"Goodbye"—before the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history leveled half a city in 1917, triggering a massive cross-border relief response that Nova Scotia still honors with a Christmas tree to Boston every year.Chase rolls up his sleeve for the story of James Harrison, the needle-phobic Australian who donated blood 1,173 times over six decades after doctors discovered his plasma contained a rare antibody that saved over 2.4 million babies from Rhesus disease.Sam uncovers the case of Christopher Todd Eric, a 23-year-old classified as "unclaimed" after a clerical error—whose mother later spotted his body in a traveling anatomical exhibit on television.Sam airs out his neighbors' federal indictment for a $57 million IRS fraud scheme involving fake tax returns, fictitious financial instruments, a $90K Escalade, and a $144K dually truck.Sam digs into hidden videos buried in the Epstein files, courtesy of Matty McTek, and the suspicious timing of 10 cancer cure announcements dropping alongside the release.Chase breaks down the euphemism treadmill—how "idiot" became "imbecile" became "moron" became "retarded" became "intellectually disabled" and why the cycle never stops.Sam reads off a Florida school's AI weapons detection system flagging a student's clarinet as a firearm and a con man in Volusia County whose "come back with a warrant" doormat didn't work out. VR helicopter pilots, RC rock hoppers with VR camera heads, off-road recovery YouTube rabbit holes, the real cost of billionaire tax strategies, California's $12.5 billion homeless shelter math, gun buyback arbitrage, and the global politics of freshwater wells.====
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In this episode, Sam and Chase discuss one of the strangest things ever broadcast on television: a Soviet psychologist who claimed he could heal millions of people through hypnosis… over national TV. Viewers across the USSR sat in front of their televisions trying to cure illnesses while hospitals simultaneously reported spikes in panic attacks and medical emergencies. Was it mass placebo, mass hysteria, or something even stranger?They also explore obscure words that describe oddly specific human emotions—like the realization that every stranger is living a life as complex as your own, the eerie silence of normally crowded places, the feeling of being out of place in the world, and the awareness of how small your perspective is in the grand scheme of the universe.Along the way: fake job postings, AI interviews that might secretly be training models, viral news stories that turn out to be satire, NBA flopping and WNBA “mebounds,” disappearing traditions like Christmas light drives, weird modern weddings, kids refusing medicine they chose themselves, and the unsettling quiet of tourist towns during COVID.Unlimited for $5For $5, supporters get everything we have to offer - every podcast, live backdoor access to watch us record, video episodes, uncut episodes, all of our PLUS podcasts, early and ad-free, and more. Support 11:59 Media's vision to build our great creators. Visit ⁠11:59 Media on Patreon⁠ https://patreon.com/1159media to sign up now.Start your support, and access everything you've been missing.

In this episode, Sam and Chase celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Globetrotters, explore the world of weird news, and discuss the impact of newspapers on personal history. They delve into the consequences of bomb threats on flights, the rise of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, and the intersection of ASMR and OnlyFans. The conversation also touches on music preferences in relationships and the complexities of empowerment in the digital age. Chase opines on the peculiar history of the 335 Years War. And Sam floats some theories about a dramatic rescue story from Bondi Beach, and reflections on modern societal issues. They explore how historical narratives shape our understanding of current events and the absurdities of life, including allergies and the complexities of human relationships.

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If a podcast episode could cover everything, it'd be this episode: Bigfoot sightings, BFRO's outdated website, AI-generated Bigfoot videos, cryptid enthusiasts' backgrounds, Idaho's missing expeditions, Oregon's annual Bigfoot hunt, raccoon liquor store break-ins, penny discontinuation, podcast reviews, negative review revenge stories, restaurant owner harassment, bookstore clutter complaint, hotel room horror, libel lawsuit, Taiwan's salty food lawsuit, consumer protection tips, historical author jobs, Guinness in facial hair, Tudor calorie intake, heaviest carrot record, sailor rum ration, pâté origins, truffle prices, synthetic alcohol, competitive eating records, oldest champagne discovery, oceanic oxygen zones, spam etymology.

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On this episode, Sam and Chase get into the weeds, stand on ice, and get covered in rabbit parts and human skin. How one woman’s claims led to a national spectacle and a lynch mob-style conspiracy that exposed the absurdity of medical science in the 1700s. Involving rabbit parts, eel spines, and... lady parts. The political and social implications of enforcing laws when local governments actively resisted federal authority — as seen in historic desegregation and modern immigration debates. The dark history of human skin used for books, wallets, and even shoes, including the ghastly stories of murderers, outlaws, and revenge on the gallows. The ways misinformation, fake videos, and mass media shape societal perceptions — whether about crime, government, or cultural taboos.WATCH RECORDINGS LIVE (ACCESS OUR BACKDOOR), AND GET AD-FREE EPISODES WHEN YOU SUPPORT US ON PATREON: ⁠⁠https://patreon.com/1159media