This week on Are You Sh!#ing Me?, Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities,

Brett goes solo to unpack one of the weirdest, most unnecessary, and most delightfully chaotic moments in American holiday history: ,

The Great Cranberry Panic of 1959 — the year the government basically told everyone, “Happy Thanksgiving… maybe don’t eat anything red.”

Just two weeks before Thanksgiving, officials announced that some cranberries might be contaminated with a weed killer that could cause cancer in rats. The result?

Panic. Outrage. Angry telegrams. Politicians flexing by chugging cranberry juice on TV. And an entire country looking for emergency backup side dishes (spoiler: it wasn’t pretty).

President Eisenhower skipped the cranberry sauce. Grocery stores pulled cans off shelves. Life Magazine suggested pickled watermelon rind. AMERICA. LOST. ITS. MIND.

Buckle up, because I discovered something while procrastinating that sent me into a spiral.

Brett breaks down:

• Why the warning happened

• How bad the science actually was

• Why Nixon ate four servings on camera like a deranged berry martyr

• The letters the White House received (including Canadians demanding an apology)

• And how this panic shaped modern food safety laws

All that plus jokes, rants, and whatever Brett was supposed to be doing instead of researching 1950s cranberry drama.

Cheers!

Brett

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Prepare to join Brett & Chuck as they explore some ofthe most unusual headlines in history: Florida Man Stories.

From gator-based currency to meth-induced tree romance, this episode of Are You Sh!#ing Me? peels back the weird, the wild, and the absolutely unbelievable — all (mostly) true, all from the Sunshine State.

Why does Florida produce these kinds of stories? The guys break down the truth behind the viral meme, including the state’s Sunshine Laws, population density, and why journalists have so much bizarre material to work with. Along the way, they taste-test Cigar City Brewing’s notorious Florida ManDouble IPA, share “Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities,” and react to real headlines involving manatees, machetes, drive-thru alligators, naked noodle binges, vampire women, and weaponized Walmart scooters.

If you’ve ever wondered whether cocaine can “blow in through a window,” if it is possible to get a DUI on a motorized wheelchair, or why someone would try to bring a disassembled RPG through TSA… buckle up.

This is classic AYSM.

This episode includes:

· The true origin of “Florida Man”

· Real newspaper & TV headlines

· “Only in Florida” crimes

· Meth logic vs. human logic

· Fun facts (including why chainsaws were originally invented… yikes!)

· Why you should think twice before buying yourkid a stuffed toy from Walmart.

Whether you're from Florida, love Florida, or fear Florida… this one’s for you.

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In 1925, a slick con artist named Victor Lustig convinced Paris’s top scrap metal dealers that the Eiffel Tower was being torn down — and then sold it to them. Not once, but twice. From forged government seals to luxury hotel meetings, Lustig pulled off one of the greatest scams in history and vanished before the ink dried.

Discover how one man outsmarted an entire nation — and why the “sale” of the Eiffel Tower remains one of the boldest cons ever pulled.

🎙️ I’m Brett — and this is Are You Sh!#ing Me? Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities.

Cheers!

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Ever wonder what’s really lurking in those McDonald’s ball pits?

👻 From Roswell, New Mexico to Japan, people swear the Golden Arches have a haunted side — cold spots, whispering tunnels, and toys that move on their own.

I’m Brett, and in this episode of Are You Sh!#ing Me?, I'm unwrapping the weirdest fast food urban legend ever: Haunted McDonald’s playgrounds 🍟

Because nothing says childhood trauma like a haunted slide and a a severe case of pink eye!

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What actually makes something “American food”?

Is it the bread that doubles as a pillow? The sugar that sneaks into your peanut butter? Or maybe the juice that’s only 5% actual juice?

In this episode of AYSM, Chuck gets serious, but finally gets to air his long-standing grievances about what’s lurking in the American diet — from squishy, cake-like sandwich bread to sugar-loaded breakfast “foods” that could put a dentist’s kid through college.

Brett joins in with some questionable coffee choices (Founders Breakfast Stout for breakfast, anyone?) as the guys dive into how WWII rationing, industrialization, and marketing turned the U.S. food scene into a Franken-snack buffet. Expect hilarious rants, surprising facts, and the eternal question: Why does our bread last longer than some marriages?

🍞 Topics include:

• Why American bread feels like memory foam
• The sugar conspiracy (spoiler: it’s in everything)
• “Juice” that’s barely juice
• Obesity stats that’ll blow your belt buckle
• What Americans really drink every day

💡 Plus: “Something We Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities” and a debate about whether tea should ever clean you out.

Grab a beer, grab a snack (maybe read the label first), and join Brett and Chuck for a deep — and ridiculous — dive into WTF is in American Food?!

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Because let’s be honest — every great idea in history probably started with, “Hold my beer.”Imagine being a caveman who accidentally invents beer because you forgot to clean your bowl. That’s basically how civilization started — and yeah, it’s just as ridiculous as it sounds.

In this episode of Are You Sh!#ing Me?, Brett dives into the drunk history of beer — from fermented porridge and Sumerian goddesses, to pyramid workers paid in beer, monks brewing for profit, and the German hops revolution that saved us all from “witch soup.”

Discover how laziness, yeast farts, and hangovers shaped humanity — and why beer might just be the real reason we stopped hunting and started building cities.

👉 You’ll learn:

• How beer was probably an accident (thank you, prehistoric ADHD)

• The first beer laws, goddesses, and recipes

• How monks turned beer into salvation

• And how hops, hygiene, and humor kept civilization hydrated

Cheers!

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You’ve played Monopoly — but do you actually know who invented it? Spoiler: it wasn’t the guy on the box.

In this Are You Sh!#ing Me? - (Something I Learned While Avoiding Real Responsibilities) episode, Brett discusses Monopoly’s shocking backstory — a game born from anti-capitalist ideals that somehow became the ultimatecapitalist icon. From stolen ideas and board game betrayals to Depression-era greed and family feuds, this is one wild ride around the board.

Join us as we talk Monopoly’s hidden origins, how Parker Brothers buried the truth, and why the game’s real inventor was cheated out of her payday.

Grab a beer, roll the dice, and prepare to land on WTF Avenue.

If you grew up flipping the board in rage, or your sibling wouldn't let you be the top hat, this one’s for you.

Cheers!

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