Welcome to the second to last episode of season 2!!! Be sure to join in for our Season 2 Finale Livestream on Friday, June 25th , streaming on Facebook and Twitch at 7:00pm EST ! 219 opens with the boys discussing their respective roles in the zombie apocalypse before diving headlong into the Weekly Prompt. Reddit user NotThatJaredBlack writes: A woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapes...
Jun 18, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 19
218 opens with alien-relations, Rhys mimicking insects, and ladybug stories before launching into the Weekly Prompt. Reddit user colorfulmarzipan offers us: WANTED: MALE/FEMALE ROOMMATE TO ROOM WITH THREE OTHERS - $190 PER MONTH. We are three lovely HUMANS currently renting out Acre house, just off campus. We’re walking distance from college, have WIFI and air conditioning. 4 rooms. (Just to clarify, we are definitely human). The subsequent storycrafting, coupled with yet another AI Generated Fa...
Jun 11, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 18
The boys open 217 with anecdotes relating to the self-inflicted torture of foods, reflecting on Hot Ones™ hot sauce (The Last Dab), vegan mayonnaise, and gluten intolerant-intolerance. Continuing the condiment conversation, we move into Weekly Prompt, coming to us from the official Reddit account of Kraft Mayonnaise : Please explain how you eat a sandwich with no mayo. DRY. How could you possibly take a bite of bread, meat and cheese with nothing in between? Does it just crumble in your mouth li...
Jun 04, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Animal talks dominate episode 216, opening with the boys’ respective favorite animals, touching on bat varieties, giraffe facts, the life cycle of jellyfish, bee colonies, and porcupines— aka, nature’s Switzerland. Weekly Prompt comes to us from Reddit user Jhustice : You're not really smart. You just have a power that pauses time each time someone asks you a question and time is unpaused only when you have the correct answer. One day your child asks you, "What is the meaning of life?". After ki...
May 28, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 16
We open episode 15 by sharing our post-COVID rehabilitation fantasies, ranging from Yoga classes, putting our mouths on strange objects, water fountains, and drunken escapades. The Weekly Prompt comes to us from Reddit user KryptCeeper : You are a sleeper agent, your trigger word... "Bro". Whenever you hear the word, whatever command follows you must obey. This hasn't been an issue for most of your life, but yesterday... you met Todd. A surfer on vacation from California. We discuss the hilariou...
May 21, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Welcome back to STFF Next Chapter, formerly our Minisodes! We've now made our Patreon exclusive content FREE for all of our listeners! Today, we return to a fanfiction featured in our very first episode from Season 1! D5-1 Meddling Kids in Nowhere is the Scooby Doo x Courage the Cowardly Dog story by author wsdsrdbw4096 . Listen to another wonderfully crafted chapter as we finally reveal what Scooby Doo's voice sounds like to other dogs, and answer the long-awaited question: Who stands behind Ce...
May 15, 2021•26 min
The boys open episode 214 with discussions & lamentations about things they were denied in their childhood, touching on marshmallows, international trips, Live Strong bracelets, and summer retreats for the end of the world. Our Weekly Prompt comes to us from Reddit user dragonlover4612: A kaiju is shrunken down to the size of a kangaroo by the anti-kaiju defense force during its latest battle in Tokyo. As a result, the kaiju wanders through the city at night, and discovers an entire world of...
May 14, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 14
We have no words for the first minute of this episode except… YES SENSEI. The boys open episode 13 with the origin of bread, alternate universes, and what their alternate selves would be before diving into the Weekly Prompt : You have a power to gift people special abilities, but you cannot gift them to yourself. You are a assaulted by gang of bullies who threaten you to give them powers, but little do they know you can add a side effect as well. The subsequent list of side effects prove to be b...
May 07, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Welcome to our very first recorded Off the Page, now FREE for all listeners! Off-the-Page is a segment where we celebrate our other passions, interests, and original creative works! For our first episode, our very own co-host, Hunter, brings in a fanfiction lovingly titled Stranger Than (fan)Fiction: the Fanfiction , or STFFff for our listeners who are fond of unnecessary acronyms. The synopsis: In a world in which Hunter has the ability to thrust his friends into alternate dimensions of their c...
May 01, 2021•39 min
The boys break down the latest Space Jam 2 trailer, diving into critical discussions about LeBron James’s alleged Stanislavsky acting method, Michael Jordan cameo possibilities, and multiverse theory. After a brief chat on Ellen Degeneres, they dive into the Weekly Prompt coming to us from Reddit user Vengeful-Pickle: Your co-worker looks you up and down, “You look like shit Jerry, long night?”. You begin to sob, “I didn’t get any sleep last night, again. I got summoned 3 times. These goth kids ...
Apr 30, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Welcome to STFF Next Chapter, formerly our Minisodes! Our Patreon content is now FREE for all of our listeners! Bear with us if we still refer to this as a Minisode. That'll phase out in time. ;) For our first edition of these abridged STFF Episodes, we return to one of our many favorite stories, House Griffin by author Wweather, previously featured on Season 1, Episode 19 (119). Listen to this Family Guy x Game of Thrones tale unfold as Peter Griffin continues to struggle with the idea of leavi...
Apr 24, 2021•19 min
Big changes! First off— we have video! Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to listen in to our episodes while looking at our beautiful faces! Also, to make things a little more digestible for your fanfiction GI tracts, we’ve streamlined our episodes to one fanfiction— let us know how you like the new format by messaging us on Facebook , Instagram , or leave us a review on Apple Podcast ! The boys discuss peoples’ first impressions of themselves before moving into the Weekly Prompt: Peopl...
Apr 24, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Rhys is bald now, so naturally we open Episode 10 by spending 10 minutes talking about it. The Weekly Prompt comes to us from Reddit user Wajcha125: The finale of international chess tournament takes place. Two grandmasters sit in front of each other in ultimate showdown. The thing is nobody knows that both of them got here by cheating. First is a mind reader and second one has an ability to see the future. The resulting debate and story-crafting keeps the boys on their toes as they try to ratio...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Episode 9 opens with yet another bit running out of control as the boys entertain a world completely dominated by peanut butter being the most important life commodity. Reddit user KingManTheSaiyan brings us The Weekly Prompt: The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting. Discussions ensue over the origin of Dave’s power over all forms of currency, as well as the greatest galactic redemption arc for all accountants every...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The boys enter episode 8 and send a shout out the biggest STFF fan, bona fide Renaissance-man Idris Elba. They then proceed into hashing out their newest idea— pro-gamer babies playing video games in a segment called Let’s Play- Babies. The Weekly Prompt comes to us from Reddit user De_faulty: There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to Go...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Noah Berry is BACK, and he’s even more powerful than we expected. Please. Send help. After a rousing session of who Noah would f*ck, marry, kill, and open a business with between the boys, the quintet dive into an improv game to uncover the true reason of why Hunter’s pinkie was in a splint this day. What transpires is an epic ballad of Hunter, the wiffleball bat-wielding warrior who fought bravely against Barney the dinosaur (though in actuality, he dislocated it playing basketball during a gam...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The boys open episode 6 discussing improv comedy— specifically reminiscing over the brilliance of the duo that is Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles from Whose Line is it Anyway . Embracing their example, the boys try and fail at ridiculous segues. The implications of a hilarious meme ( When you see Superman using the car you’re still making payments on as a weapon ) leads into the conversation of superhero insurance policies. Discussing readily available references from Amazon’s The Boys and the cor...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Opening season 2 episode 5 comes yet another theory-crafting— today, it’s building the PERFECT outfit. Complete with Elmo-colored dress Heely’s, Black 3.0 socks, sexy dark-washed jeans, a chinese-collar dress shirt with a minimalist Elmo design, breakaway vest, neon windbreaker, and a wide-brimmed hat with a marijuana plant instead of a feather, the boys have created a magnificent being who can dominate business meetings AND the club. The weekly Writing Prompt comes to us from Reddit user solids...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Dictator. Dick-Tater. Richard Potato. That’s it…that’s the entire train of thought that led to this episode title. God help us. Wes opens Episode 4 with a dive into grandparents’ appreciation— the boys regale each other with various tales of grandparent experiences from the past in the form of sandwiches, Karachi (Pakistan), golf cart hit-and-runs, and the History Channel. The Weekly Writing Prompt was taken from Reddit user zxcxdr : Every Saturday of your life you've spent in the park, playing ...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Wes opens episode 3 with a compelling question: If you were given an opportunity to allow yourself to live longer at the expense of sacrificing your organic bodily parts, would you do it? The boys then expand on their respective arguments. Random Fandom is GONE…but not forgotten. The boys introduce a new segment, the Weekly Writing Prompt, where they find a writing prompt on Reddit and spiral into where they think it’ll go. This week's prompt comes from Reddit user BLT_With_Ranch: It's 3 AM. An ...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Opening with the role call of Captain Brown Pants and his boisterous crew aboard their fictional ship, The Prairie Dog, the boys lead with their basest sense of humor as yet another poo bit spirals out of control. Season 2, Episode 2, begins with an exploration of guilty pleasures. Wes discusses meme culture— what is the social currency of the little photos that seem to saturate our feeds, and how have they evolved? That deep discussion is quickly stifled, however, by Rhys’s guilty pleasure of c...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2 of Stranger than (fan)Fiction! Pioneering into 2021 comes a new moniker: LEVEL-UP. The boys hope to continue to learn, grow, and farm podcast XP as they create more content just for you (and figure out how this whole business thing works). They then pivot as they discuss aliens, the hit Chinese ballet production Shen Yun, the intricacies of building their respective Truman Show productions, and Guy Fieri. Hunter kicks off Season 2 by embracing his current pirate obsession by ...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Bumbling gratitude seems to be a recurring theme as the boys express their appreciation for you, listener. Episode 22, the Season 1 finale, begins with reflecting on the development of the podcast and the exciting new projects ahead. With the launch of...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Well, it’s the end of the road. The boys discover that their talents are being wasted on this podcast, and are better served doing covers of Creed songs. Goodbye.KIDDING. Episode 21 kicks off with a deeper look at all of the exciting new projects ahead...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Opening with Rhys’s audition to become the new Iron Chef secret ingredient screamer— a bit worthy of the title of this episode, the boys launch into truly magnificent levels of absurdity. After a brief confrontation with the nonuse of the letter “f”,...
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 12 min
What ever happened to Windows 9? Why did they skip the iPhone 9? Why do they keep trying to get rid of Pluto, the 9th planet? The boys open episode 1[9] with tin-foil hats as they uncover a deep international conspiracy regarding the cursed number 9...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Episode 18, The Worst Episode Ever, earns its namesake as the boys find themselves particularly frazzled from time changes, headaches, and a variety of other excuses as they try (and fail) to find their footing. The story of Goldilocks has deeper...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Wanna know what Santa’s listening to on his long journey from home to home on Christmas Eve? STFF’s Christmas Santacular, of course! This special holiday episode kicks off with plenty of nostalgic reflection as the boys try to help out a flaccid (in...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The boys start this week off by crafting a crossover of Jumanji x Super Mario Brothers before jumping into the first fanfiction, another crossover by the name of Venom vs. The Powerpuff Girls. After discussing the implications of mashing together Marvel...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 6 min
What would do if you had an unlimited budget to make a restaurant of your dreams? The boys discuss their absurdly expensive and fantastical idea of a super restaurant and it’s just as impossible as you would guess. Following the theme of extreme...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 12 min
