Tonight's Podcast goes where the MSM won't, and it might shock you!

First, we tackle an age old dad joke: Is Chef Trending? The answer might just surprise you.

Then, results of an internal safety audit at a Montana restaurant that might change everything you know about security, safety, and Jo Jo Siwa. Tune in to find out: Do YOU need to be AFRAID!?

We check in with two local Montanans debating the issues in a political Smash or Pass. It'll have you wondering, who would YOU smash or pass?

Next, as climate change heats up all around us, we follow around one local bar owner as he struggles to keep his bar safe in a changing world. What we uncover about his management, and about the future of your local bar, will stun and bewilder you. You. Must. Tune. In.

We check in on a rural debate, where a Chef seems completely unprepared to deal with some simple questions. It'll have you wondering, who's in charge of YOUR life? Audio at 11.

The heat in the press room is nothing compared to the debate stage as Harris tussled with Trump; we follow two locals as they watch on. You won't believe who they are, and when you hear why they watched the debates, you might literally collapse and die because it's so damn shocking.

ARE YOU EATING HUMAN FLESH!?!?!?!?! You have got to sequester all your freinds, family, acquaintances, youth summer camp counselors who may have vaguely impacted your life and more, for this incredible look at food systems in a refugee camp. Tune it at 11.

Is a Flesh Eating Bacteria Consuming YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR ENTIRE TOWN!?!?! Hell yes it is! How to stop it and survive this certain impending death that you are definitely facing?
Tune in at 11, Jack Chick has all the answers to that, plus some great tips for what's promising to be a lovely weekend.

Don't look now- we're stringing together serious and seroiusly helpful episodes, I mean, Chef still goes off the rails several times, but we still actually get around to serious homeschooling again.

It starts with a crazy chain of events: Biden drops out, so Rose tuned in (to the DNC). She rates her top five speeches from this year's Democratic National Convention.

We learn about Captain Gilligan and suuuper low level corporate fraud in an 86ed segue segment about poorly handled packages. You gotta handle those packages carefully. . . That's what she said.

Doubling down on ReviewEd, we dive into our favorite olympics moments. Rose talks about women straight killin' it from Simone to cycling to the boxing ring. Chef talks Paris, Argentina v France, Snark v Seine.

In a Tinkle segue we dive into the disgusting cosplay world of MTG with a Chef-curated slideshow of her lowlights, from cosplay hunting and dangerous firearm handling to fake cooking and terrible kitchens.

And we finish out with a Social Studies segment that is a perfect example of why we need a new homeschool segment, becuase this one's not at all about socialization myths. We're diving back into helpful, pragmatic, concrete advice about senior year homeschool milestones.

And in the end, we both completely forget about the Tip Out. We had ones planned, but we got so excited to be done at a reasonable hour for once that we pat ourselves on the back, drop the mics, and just left. Nobody ever said we weren't forgetful. At least not that we can recall.

Wait a second. . . did we make an actually helpful episode!?! This, and for once we don't say it jokingly, really is a homeschool podcast.

We dive into a recap of Rose's time in Italy, and we talk about the importance of club and sport activities to homeschoolers, and how it could actually be a superpower and not a weakness.
After a trip into the magic of the number 7, we get straight up helpful again: we do a rundown of what to get into your senior year of homeschool for testing, including deets like GED vs HiSet, and PSAT's: take or don't take?

Things get wild with a ride on the couch with JD Vance in a mini Oui Oui.

Then we're mixing ReviewEd and ScratchEd with a recap of some good cancer / grief movies and books. We're talking Eat Pray Love, From Scratch, & Crying in the HMart.

Rose kills Chef in a trash talking segment that Chef probably still doesn't even understand.

And we finish with a lesson that was definitely not worth the wait. For weeks Chef has avoided learning about the Hawk Tuah girl. He finally learns about the little slice of '24 that is the Hawk Tuah girl. He reacts . . . . probably like you're thiniking he would .

Our Tipout has two of our faves, well three of our faves: Bruno (Mars), Lady (Gaga), and Messermeister (Knives).

A crazy, weird, wild ep. Kind of our last "rough draft" or pre-recorded one. We did this a few weeks ago, and we had to fight for it- it was super late at night, with Rose leaving for Italy the next day, and Chef coming off one of his worst days ever.
Between Chef's angry rants about split checks and our meandering tangents about Marfa and malls and everything in between, we had to edit this an insane amount. Chef's anguished screams took up about twenty minutes alone.
So: we sliced, we diced, and we came up with a wild ping pong game of an ep. Chef shares his leg shaving routine. Rose preps to leave for Italy. We beg you not to split checks.
Chef vents on one of his three worst days ever; Rose vents on some balls out certifiably nuts behavior in the bar.

From now on, we've got our publishing routine down. Eps should come out within days of recording. Ep 7 is in the can from last night. Rose is back. Great ep.
Thanks to India, Myanmar, Montana, and all the other places listening. Y'all rock.

Our Forgotten Episode! Recorded after a long day dealing with cancer, we literally forgot we got this one in the can. Some days are like that- just trying to stay afloat, & it's exactly those days that laughter is the most imporant.
So, around midnight at the bar, we laughed, mostly about what not to do in life.

Youthphoria teaches us how not to color, and how not to brand. We then review the lessons from Cat on a Flagpole.

ReviewEd has us get back into Who Cooked the Last Supper, and it's literally the Penis and Vagina chapters; Chef goes off the rails, as could have been expected, thereby proving the book right.
Only one way to follow the P & V chapters: a baby. We learn about the Four Seasons Baby.

We peek behind the curtain of running a bar as Chef convenes an 86Ed to talk about creepy cameras and bar security.
Then we talk about a couple that was not concerned about how creepy they were, and they really really should have been.

In our Tip Out we make Lemon8 out of lemons.

Ep 5 here was a pleasant surprise. Ep 6 is a wild one, highly edited to remove Chef's madness.
RECIPE NOTE:
This ep was all glitchy. For a while it was only 3 minutes long. As of Aug 27th, it should be fixed.

Thanks for all your support. Merci! Xie xie.

For our biggest ever show, we start at the Met Gala, breaking down the best looks from this year's show. Sticking with pop culture- with Chef dropping some historical background and English lit cred- we take on the big rap battle of the summer: Kendrick v Drake.
In between we do a Name It segment, and another Smash or Pass.

The third segment has us taking on the heart of a very important quesiton: What is the most important thing I can do to encourage good college results from my kid(s)? It's way way way easier than you might think and the data overwhelmingly points in one direction: read to them. It's easy to be tempted by new apps, new tech etc, but that one constant remains: read, read, read.

A segue segment so special it gets its own music drop, Chef's fave: Koan Koan Git, where we talk about a koan, marvel at it, and sometimes we even learn from it. This week, talking about one of Chef's favorite Koans: Cat on a Flagpole.

Finally, we break our own rules and add a fourth segment, making this ep ridiculously long. It's our first ScratchEd segment, wehre we talk about our journey with cancer. First up: we're talking about ecstasy therapy, increasingly used in end of life situations.

Finish with a quick Tip Out, and we're out. We'll see you who knows when for Ep 5. It's an editors nightmare. Chef is completely deranged.
Ep 6 is the first ep we'll record and release right away. We're shooting for Back to School season in mid to late August.

One of the worst myths about teaching in general, and homeschool specifically: "I can't teach it because I don't know it." This is literally the opposite of good teaching. This is called Sage on the Stage. It's actually better to learn together, or Guide on the Side.
This week, we tackle it head on with a recurring segment SOS, or Sage on the Stage. Chef talks (and talks and talks) about the Children's Crusade, a real thing that really happened. It's no wonder we kind of brushed that one under the rug.

We break our five year rule to talk about recent incidents in the restaurant. Pro tip: if you go into an Asian restaurant in the Year of Our Lord 2024, and ask about cats and dogs, you're suuuuuuper racist.
Rose busts out her crazily good Micheal Safi impression as Chef won't shut up about ChatGPT.

Finally, Rose is stunned by Chef's take on the Tik Tok Rizz Party. Chef shreds the Rorshach Test that is looking at that video, an analysis that is stunningly accurate, and only really possible thanks to surviving decades of private school interactions. Yep, even though he's a Homeschool teacher, Chef has spent a lot of time in a lot of different private schools.

Chef immediately derails our Tipout Segment overanalyzing carnival rides and dicks. Rose gets us back on track, and Chef drops a red hot song tip, one you absolutely must incorporate into your playlists. Seriously.

Ep 4 releasing later today.
Ep 5 is taking extra editing, because even by Chef standards, he's dropping so many eff bombs, and is so hopped up about work, we may have to edit at least %50 of it. We'll release the uncut version for like Ep 250 or something. It's like Lewis Black, George Carlin, and Hunter S Thompson all had bad days and screamed at each other. It's pretty funny. . . . . . We'll see.

Much Love. Et merci a tous nos amis francais. Bien que je parle francais, ces downloads en France sont surprennants. Je vous aime tous!

Recorded in the spring, Chef comes in all psyched up from his first ever TV casting interview (maybe got the part, probably not). Speaking of TV, everyone is moving to MT after Covid and Yellowstone (TV version), but maybe hold off on your move plans until you hear about flood-powered propane missiles, angry pine trees, bear poo pyramids, and squatter fights.

A duelling segue segment has us both asking Would You Rather?

ReviewEd sees the first BackgroundEd ep: reviewing stuff to put on in the background. It's a short segment, because Chef no longer watches it- he CancelEd them, which leads us into our first CancelEd segment.
We meet the hyper feminized Harry Potter: Milo. Rose is. . . . . . . . confused. So's Chef.

Finish out with a tech tip and a podcast tip.
Ep 3 releasing any minute.
Eps 4,5 already recorded, releasing soon.
Thanks for your support. Did not expect any French listeners. Love it. Merci mes amis!