This week we try to answer the question of which witch is which and dive deep into how to get a witch to enter a plea in court. (Hint: it involves putting more and more rocks on them.) Also, Tim discusses the time he met Ariana Grande and thought she was a child. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpaltim Fo...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min
As if Halloween Month™ couldn't get any spookier, this year it includes a Friday the 13th, the unluckiest kind of Friday there is. This week, your fearless hosts tempt fate by walking through all the scariest superstitions and their origins. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Bluesky: t...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 8 min
It’s officially Halloween Month at TCGTE HQ and all around the world, so why not kick it off with some discussion around every spooky monster’s favorite topic: FEAR. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagr...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Juice is a sometimes delicious and always unhealthy drink that we usually either give to children or mix with alcohol to mask the taste of the poison we're drinking. One of us was so excited to talk about juice that he went out and had some celebratory drinks before recording this episode... try to guess who it was! This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/l...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Are young adult novels only for children? This week two of the country’s favorite young adults try to answer that question while going through the Time Magazine list of 100 Greatest Young Adult Novels. Also Tom has a massive week (new book out and big wins at the claw machines.) For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out n...
Sep 17, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Roblox is a gaming platform that's ridiculously popular with children, so naturally two guys in their 40s are the optimal people to fill you in on what it's all about. We also talk about a really edgy punk rock show we both attended, lest you think this whole episode is about silly kid stuff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check ou...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Tim considers buying Tom a nice watch, we say what everyone else is too afraid to say about Silly Putty, and we try to figure out how anyone ever stayed in a lake house before computers. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @to...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr
It's tomato season, so we're talking all about those juicy red vegetables (or fruits... whatever). We also solve a problem from a listener who got slapped by a ghost and has photos to prove it! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts a...
Aug 27, 2023•1 hr 13 min
This week it’s all about Forrest Mars Sr.’s greatest invention: M&M’s. We all know the red ones are deadly and the green ones will make you randy, but what about all the other colors. And what the heck ever happened to everyone’s favorite M&M color: tan? For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim o...
Aug 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min
The summertime is in full-force and that can only mean one thing: everybody is spending their days going boogie boarding. This week we're talking about riding waves on a piece of buoyant colorful foam. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom ...
Aug 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This week your two favorite scientists discuss the news of a possible room temperature superconductor called LK-99. What the hell does all of that mean? We don’t really know either, but take a crack at explaining it anyway. Also Tim discusses the disturbing possibility that Robert Durst, the Jinx himself, lives in his building despite having died over a year ago. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to E...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min
This week we celebrate the life and work of Michael "Mick" Jagger, a man who has been strutting around making pouty faces for 80 years. Although he dropped out of the London School of Economics to sing songs and do drugs, he became a billionaire anyway. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpalti...
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Hollywood has had enough and gone on strike! Where will we get our TV shows from now? Why aren’t billionaires happy with being billionaires? What about puppeteers? We’ll answer these questions, whether Tom needed to honk for some guy, and more. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpa...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This week we're celebrating the life and times of the big purple guy everybody can't get enough of, Grimace. He may not be the coolest guy in McDonaldland and it's weird that he starts every sentence he says with "Duhhhhh", but he's A-OK in our book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.b...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min
If you want a beer but want one with less beer in it, you might want to try Light Beer. This week we're talking about the beverage popular with people who don't drink beer to get blackout drunk as quickly as possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpa...
Jul 09, 2023•58 min
We regret to inform you that Fall Out Boy have released a “new” version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and we don’t like it. This week we discuss the original, the new version and Billy Joel’s day-to-day life. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Foll...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
School sux! This week we're talking about the best day of the whole freakin' year when you're a kid, the last day of school. Also, Tom has some intriguing updates and new theories about the UFO news we discussed last week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @y...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Whew boy, is there a lot of weird alien hijinks afoot lately, and this week we’re talking about it whether the government wants us to or not! We discuss the 4chan UFO whistleblower, the Air Force UFO whistleblower, and the curious case of the backyard UFO crash in Las Vegas. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next....
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Apple introduced their first foray into augmented reality, and they seem to assume we're all excited to get sucked into cyberspace for days at a time. This week Tim and Tom, who have famously conflicting opinions on this kind of stuff, debate the merits of living inside a computer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Fol...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min
We might be three episodes into this, but the summer is just heating up! This week we’re talking Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and Tom Cruise’s endless quest to un-alive himself on film, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Haunted Mansion, TMNT, Gran Tourismo, Strays, Blue Beetle and a debate on whether old people have less blood than other people. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Appl...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Our dear friend Christine returns to solve listener problems and discuss her plans to replace Anne Hathaway in the film The Intern 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Bluesky: tomreynolds.bsky.social and Instagram: @tomreynolds Host...
May 28, 2023•1 hr 7 min
The summer blockbusters just keep on coming this week as we discuss the newest and SEVENTH Transformers movie, Wes Anderson’s latest, a problematic Flash and some extremely old man named Indiana Jones. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom ...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Hooray for Hollywood! It's finally summer blockbuster season, and we're talking about all the hot new movies you'll be endlessly discussing around the water cooler. Note: This episode is dedicated to Timothée Chalamet, America's #1 Boy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Tears of the Kingdom is right around the corner so this week we’re talking all about everyone’s favorite little Peter Pan rip-off, Zelda. Well, that’s Link actually, he’s the protagonist of the Zelda games. It’s all kinda confusing. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Ins...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Look out England, there's a new king in town! And he's an old man who has done a lot of silly things in his life. This week we're taking a deep dive into the life and times of King Charles III to decide if we approve of his coronation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and ...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Are vitamins a scam? How many vitamins are too many vitamins? How thick is too thick when it comes to blood? This week we’re using our decades of medical experience to answer the big questions. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitt...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This week we consider the age old question "It's-a who?" And the answer is, of course, Mario. That's right, another episode about Super Mario Bros., this time focusing on their latter day exploits in 64 or more bits. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should check out next. Follow Tim on Bluesky: yourpaltim.bsky.social and Instagram: @yourpal...
Apr 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Super Mario made a movie, and although we haven’t seen it yet we HAVE played a bunch of the video games he made. We run through the 8 and 16-bit eras of Mario, The Wizard, the live-action Super Mario movie, the TV show and a whole bunch more. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpalt...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In these divisive times, the one thing we can all agree on is that once a year a giant anthropomorphic bunny comes into our homes and leaves us baskets full of candy. This week, as we await the arrival of the Easter Bunny, a guy whose deal we don't entirely get, we're talking all about that candy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. For full-length weekly bonus episodes check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate Us on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic we should che...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Spring has sprung which means we’ve got March Madness as well as a litany of other afflictions. Also Tim tries to get Tom to place a $1,000 bet and Tom discusses the circumstances that ended his first half dozen marriages. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @y...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
