Episode 24: This special New Years Eve broadcast, recorded live in Times Square from the stolen throne of Ryan Seacrest, can be listened to and enjoyed just as easily on the first day of the Chinese New Year, so, you know, you can throw your letters of complaint directly into the nearest trash hole. Whoa, whoa, apologies...comin' in hot. Too hot! It's time we pour oil on troubled waters and ease our way into this fresh decade like a newborn loon. Yes, only one thing can bring vitality and excite...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Episode 23: While the podcast world has been burning, the idiom boys have been fiddling...but all that changes today with the twenty-third installment of Don't Be An Idiom. In today's episode, Albert & Ryan settle scores and set the record straight as they lead listeners through the annals of ancient history on the backs of anthropomorphic antichrists. With malaprops aplenty, you'll learn just enough to curry favor with your Friday evening board game crew without becoming the know-it-all we ...
Jul 12, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Episode 22: Well, well, well. Look who it is. The boys are back in town! Ryan travels back across the pond to the United States of America to record a quick, little New Year's Eve episode...but, uh oh, it's no regular new year. Nope. It's the Year of the Pig, and the boys are rollin' into the new year full of swine and feelin' fine. That's right, we've got 6's and 7's! We've got wisps and Wild Turkey! We've got guest callers and pigpen crawlers! So, strap on them headphones and slop yourself bac...
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Episode 21: After ten months of gathering rust and dust, Albert and Ryan return with the first episode of season two, and it's a doozy. That hot Spanish sun couldn't keep these two click beetles from clackin' into the podwaves—no siree. Not a hundred cervezas or a bottle of Anis del Mono or four-thousand nautical miles could stop these smart alecs from delving deep into the idiom void and emerging with a couple of origin stories that'll make you want to race to the first beat poetry lounge in si...
Jul 13, 2018•50 min
Episode 20: This is the one, people! Albert and Ryan pull out all the stops for the season finale of Don't Be An Idiom. Here you will find the return of the Hat of Doom, special guest callers, howling dogs, things coming full circle, Crennyisms, more raw eggs, and an idiom anthem to break your heart! So pull yourself out of the "dog days of summer" and take a listen to the finest "swan song" you're bound to hear on iTunes all year. And if you get a hankering for your favorite Don't Be An Idiom s...
Aug 04, 2017•58 min
Episode 19: The boys spent seven hours writing a musical. So, deal with it! You think you can steal our thunder when we've got deadlines to meet? You're wrong! You've always been wrong! Nah, you're right. You've always been right. That's why we love you. So, buckle your meatballs and get ready for the Buckleboys Meatball Extravaganza 2017! We know nobody reads this shit, but we're the buckleboys!
Jul 28, 2017•44 min
Episode 18: Fresh off a trip to the great land of Japan, Albert and Ryan emerge from a fierce week of jetlag reinvigorated with idiom passion. We're not talkin' any old type of idiom passion either. This is the real stuff! "#1 Pure Boy" kind of stuff (and that's nothing to shake a stick at). So pour a glass of sake, turn up the heat, give your barking dogs a rest, and learn how to get in like Flynn on this week's episode of...Don't Be An Idiom.
Jul 21, 2017•48 min
Episode 17: In this week's special megasode, Albert and Ryan find themselves on the ultimate idiom-ship as they explore the history of four nautical idioms. So, batten down the lasagna hatches, 'cause there's an idiom tsunami heading our way! Yep, the seas are angry, and so are all the other letters. Lasargna (I'm not married to it).
Jul 09, 2017•31 min
Episode 16: Are you constantly thinking about the song "Cotton-Eyed Joe"? Is it responsible for your recent divorce and your staggering debt? Do you feel like you can't show up to the office in a timely fashion anymore because of a near crippling obsession with the band Rednex? Well, today's episode might fix your problems. Albert and Ryan have pre-recorded a special edition of Don't Be An Idiom dedicated to the antebellum south's favorite mystery man. It's The Cotton-Eyed Joe Megasode and the "...
Jun 30, 2017•21 min
Episode 15: Twas a thunderous and stormy eve, the night the boys came together for a battle of words and a long, dark peer into each other's living daylights. Only one person, however, was good enough to join the hands of these two young men to win the war together: the war against idiom ignorance! Naturally, that man was Good Will (you may have seen him selling your trash). Anyway, come away with the fellas who will have you dyin' to eat crow by the end of the day.
Jun 23, 2017•49 min
Episode 14: The deep south opens its courtroom doors wide open for the boys to prove they ain't no monkey's uncles. No, they ain't! They are the finest idiom sleuths who ever did walk these dusty roads. And who is that in the distance? Could it be Jonathan Hamm runnin' to catch up? Perhaps to catch a brief glimpse of the fellas? Maybe...just maybe. You'll have to listen to find out. All the clues are there—just a-waitin' to be unraveled!
Jun 16, 2017•47 min
Episode 13: Are you depressed? Are you getting locked out of convenient stores for being known as a "fly-by-night"? Well, wipe that "hangdog" look off your face, 'cause the boys have stumbled onto some bad luck. Take the gravy train to episode thirteen—an hour filled with Slovakia fascination, hallucinogenic ointments, pig executions, and psychobilly steam whistles. Addendum: Did the rats stop inviting you to rat-prom? Listen to this episode and you'll be the bellrat of the ratball. Guaranteed!
Jun 09, 2017•50 min
Episode 12: Can you hear them out there? Out there in the distance? Two ravens swirling above a viking ship, surrounded by crashing waves in the midst of a treacherous storm? Listen for them! For they seek the truth. They seek understanding. They seek a strange and unusual path to enlightenment. Come along and enter that mythical realm of idioms and go berserk with the boys that knock on wood and dream of spaghetti.
Jun 02, 2017•52 min
Episode 11: Well, the boys have gone mad...mad for the landlocked Eastern European country of Belarus! Maybe it's the forests, maybe it's those morally strict cops, or maybe it's something else entirely, but there's just something about that Belarus. So stick around and learn a thing or two as Albert & Ryan flip some birds and assess the shambles of their new lives as world-famous podcasters. (Warning: Gremlins ahead.)
May 26, 2017•47 min
Episode 10: Albert & Ryan celebrate their tenth episode with a potpourri of nonsense, voodoo chicken bones, canned laughter, dresses, an anniversary gift from their #1 fan, and the famed & feared..ten shots of doom! Come tilt at windmills with the conquistadors of idiom origins, and if you're new to the program, go back and listen to every episode in one fell swoop. Win an egg!
May 19, 2017•1 hr
Episode 9: The boys leave no stone unturned in this monster-mania of an episode! Nothin' but ancient Greeks and comedian geeks in this one. You'll definitely be able to spare a minute-taur in this maze of information that'll lead you to this year's most anticipated Hollywood private dick flick.
May 12, 2017•48 min
Episode 8: Well, it's the Monday after Walpurgisnacht and the boys dare the unthinkable. Watch the magic unfold before your very ears as the weird word wiz kids perform a weekday miracle and dig deep into some exceptionally mysterious origin stories. Stick around after the show for a laugh riot torture fest with your olde pal, Pope Bada Bing Ratman!
May 05, 2017•1 hr
Episode 7: You'll need a secret handshake to get into this one, folks! However, Albert & Ryan will graciously teach you the moves. This week's episode is packed to the gills with all the good stuff: conspiracy theories, murder, mystical creatures, whisky, the great unknown, Celtic melodies, hard spaghetti! It's all here. So jump in and get "on the level" with the boys who are ready, willing, and able to take you down "the low road" through idiom history.
Apr 28, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Episode 6: Albert arrives to the studio with a satchel filled with gifts and ingredients for a hot new cocktail, and Ryan speaks of his close encounter with the skeleton of the handsomest man in America. Luckily for the airwaves, the boys get on track and woo each other with a couple o' new idiom origins: "blue Monday" and "whipping boy". You won't be feeling blue by the end of this one, but you might be in the mood for a whippin'!
Apr 21, 2017•47 min
Episode 5: After a late night of cheap drinks and black metal, the boys decide to take it easy with two fresh idiom origin stories and a couple of Nelson Touch cocktails. Albert and Ryan come wildly close to researching the same idiom and even make a new friend who's got a real spring in his step in this brand new episode that will have you...running amok!
Apr 14, 2017•45 min
Episode 4: Here's the punchline: You. Here's the set-up: Who's the joke? Had enough yet? No?! Jump on in and hear some mumbo jumbo with the boys who make the noise, Albert, Ryan, and The South Philly Handsome Boys Choir (led by the Monsignor of Mayhem, Vince "The Prince" Federici).
Apr 07, 2017•53 min
Episode 3: Albert and Ryan step into a real black dog of a Sunday to discuss some pressing matters: Jon Hamm's inevitable involvement with the podcast, renting a billboard by the Delaware Ocean, and riding through Coventry, England naked on a horse. Nothing's gonna stop these boys from diggin' into some fresh, new idioms though! Come take a peep.
Mar 31, 2017•50 min
Episode 2: It's St. Patty's Day weekend. Albert is brimming with Saturday excitement, and Ryan has a bad cold—looks like the perfect day to explore some idiom histories! Have a listen and delve deep into the myriad origin stories of two idiom classics: "take down a peg" and "turn a blind eye".
Mar 26, 2017•52 min
Episode 1: In this first episode, Albert and Ryan explore the origin story of the podcast itself and break their idiom cherries with the fascinating histories of "Sweet Fanny Adams" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea". Batten down the hatches and prepare to sail into the mouth of Charybdis!
Mar 19, 2017•43 min
