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Run! Hide! And block your mouth and nose - Your Friend Frosty is sick as a dog. A very sick dog, and as such we welcome you to our first ever remotely recorded podcast. Mike Whiskey is way over there, Your Friend Frosty is way over here, and all that separates them is a laptop screen and a couple of recording applications. This should be interesting. But in the meantime, there's also reminiscing about the Halloweeny day this nerdy pair met, woes of a modern pharmacist, and some absolutely wackybats ideas on how to beat the cold and flu season - armed with onions and rendered chicken fat. No, really.

Infinite Lasagna. No, wait, don't leave, we have a point to make. Seriously. Your Friend Frosty and your bartender Mike Whiskey, having listened to far too much weirdness and wackiness online, have decided to weigh in at last on the world's most delicious controversy: the Infinite Lasagna Paradox. Yes, this is a thing, we swear. Grab your tablets and take a seat, this one's going to be hunger-enducing and also a trifle mathematical. Also, there's a guy in a barrel and we announce the official launch of our Patreon Page!!!

It's hard being as perfect as Your Friend Frosty. Yet, he's not without his quirks. I mean, just ask Whiskey. But this time, we're dealing with a specific one: submechanophobia. Yes, that's a real thing. As Frosty details how it all began for him and how merry submarines, electric hippos, and fake squids all send him screaming for the highest of hills, we also look into the amazing work of Jason Decaires Taylor and his underwater work of an entirely different kind. It's a wet episode, people, bring your wetsuits. 

So, that happened. The Super Bowl has come and gone, again, and your favorite nerds have decided that it must never happen again. That's right, they're co-opting the entire event and replacing it with something better, weirder, nerdier, and in all likelihood completely impossible. Hey, this is Your Friend Frosty's latest fever dream after all (and poor Mike Whiskey being dragged along for the ride). Go "sports"! Coming next year, the Bourbon Bowl! Heaven help us all. 

The year is 1994. Somewhere in Massachusetts, a pair of nerds are getting very angry at pixelated lions and multicolored monkeys. Objects are thrown. Tempers are flaring. And years later, we're still not over it. Yes, that's right - it's none other than the nightmare that was that infamous lion-based video game, one so beautifully bright and colorful but deceptively hard and evil. Call the therapists, we're ready to talk about it at last.
But first! Summer playlists are already in order, because Your Friend Frosty and your bartender Mike Whiskey are so done with winter...

The common cold has claimed Your Friend Frosty. Whiskey has fled for the hills. But not to worry, there's plenty to catch up on. Start with episode one and work your way forward. But in case you don't want to start that far back, Your Friend Frosty is here to remind you of the summery bliss that was our summer episode back in season one: Summer's A Splash. Grab a mai tai, some water wings, and pretend as hard as you can that we're not all freezing to death in the dead of winter. Enjoy!

Close your eyes and hold your nose. That's right, we're asking you to think back in time to your (shudder) very first apartment. The roaches! The smell! The mold! The mice! And whatever else you may have happened to suffer through, we're saluting and commiserating over the latest Whiskey Asks where we delve into the world's (according to our listeners) worst first apartments. Whiskey revisits ol' Virginnie, Your Friend Frosty heads for Dennisport, and later we take a trip to the top of a very unfortunate building in Tokyo. What can we say - they're our first apartments for a reason, people. 

Bourbon. On. Ice. Is. Back. And, as if that wasn't epic enough to grab your attention, it's a brand new year and your plucky podcasting duo bring you news of new things to come. What, exactly? Well, you'll have to listen. Here we are in 2024, and armed with your strange new year's resolutions, which Your Friend Frosty and your bartender Mike Whiskey will read off, as well as look ahead to next year's NYE bash (won't happen), and to spill the beans on a lot of changes coming your way with this podcast - and some new projects. 
We've missed you. C'mon, let's listen in together. Happy 2024!

As we close out the year, a mystery is investigated at last: we discuss all things nerdy like gentlemen, but are we gentlemen? Well, one of your podcast hosts is, and that would be your bartender Mike Whiskey. That's right, at long last, the sordid, bloody, tragic, and dramatic family history of the Whiskey clan will be told at last. We're talking war heroes, sea captains, and maybe a witch or two (wow, explains things) - and you're along for the ride. Let's finish out 2023 in style, people, and look ahead to SEASON THREE. That's right, you can't get rid of us that easily...

Ew. Gross. Whoa. Wait. What? Just a few things you may be saying to yourself when you hear this episode (consider this your official warning). Robare returns and your bartender Mike Whiskey gets very uncomfortable, while Your Friend Frosty actually passes away from too much laughter. Yes, that's right, it's a deep dive into the rather risqué world of leather title contest questions. Those are the things contestants in the gay leather or kink community get asked when onstage hoping to impress the judges and bond with the audiences, from "what ice cream flavor would you be" and "describe your perfect date" - but waaaaaaay dirtier and just plain wrong. The vanilla and sweet mind of Whiskey is pitted against a dozen or so questions asked by Your Friend Frosty, and also against the dark mind of Robare. What could go wrong? 

It's finally (almost) here. After four years of (un)patiently waiting and hoping, the YouTube sensation known as Hazbin Hotel launches in just over a month - and Your Friend Frosty is positively giddy. Your bartender, Mike Whiskey, less so, but that doesn't mean he isn't going to sit through Frosty's very long-winded explanation of everything we know so far, fanboying over the voice cast and inane details, and generally being chaotic. Grab your room key and prepare for madness - it's (almost) check-in time!

Has it been 90 years already? Wow, time does fly. As in, the time between now and the day when Prohibition officially ended in 1933, and Your Friend Frosty and your bartender Mike Whiskey are celebrating accordingly - with beverages on the rocks. In Frosty's case, literally. You'll see, just listen in. Fun facts (and some dark ones) about thirteen years of madness that visited the US, an exploration of television's take on the booze ban, and absolutely no turkeys. No, really, this is a turkey-free episode. Raise a glass already. 

Alleged crime. Marauding mythical creatures. Multiverse doppelgängers. These are the important topics, people, and your friends Your Friend Frosty and Mike Whiskey are about to tackle them all. You know, because they have nothing better to do. Taking on a stack of purely hypothetical questions sent in by you, the fans, Frosty and Whiskey have a great deal of things to answer for - but remember, these are all things that have definitely not happened. Yet, anyway...

The time is right. The mood is right. And Your Friend Frosty has done his research this time and has brought his own list of indie games to discuss. That's right, people, we're capping off our discussion on our favorite indie video games with a peek into the mind of Your Friend Frosty (wipe your feet and bring a hanky) - and surprise, surprise, they're mostly horror. Also, a reminder to answer the recent Whiskey Asks and a reminder that in 2020, we were all super sus. You know what we mean, right?

Indie games. They really do make the world go round. Well, that and gravitational forces and some guy named Isaac Newton (we think). But in the wide world of gaming, your plucky podcasting duo definitely have some favorites - and some just happen to be independently produced. This week, your bartender Mike Whiskey counts down his notable indie favorites, involving battling stick figures, a man in a cauldron with a hammer, and that miserable marauding goose. Also, money, money, money. Lots of it.

Ghosts. One ghost, two ghost, red ghost, blue ghost, and ghosts of also very many colors, locations, ages, and scenarios. A special thanks to all of you, our listeners, who sent in stories for us to read on the air (or the pod). Stories of the spooky kind. The ghostly kind. And the weird kind. Yes, this is our cap-off to the month of October. And we're going out of the Halloween season in style. 
Special thanks to our listeners and this episode's contributors Scott Erickson, Circus Kirkus, Robby, David Batsche, Tynan Fox, Bob Morrison, Other Bob, The Eldernerd, Ulysses, Roberto Cuero, Stacey Diane, Master Brutus, and Ivan L. Matias, 

We're throwing it back a year (well, almost) to last October when Your Friend Frosty tormented his poor cohost Mike Whiskey, bartender to all, with the tragic recounted details of none other than the "epic" "holiday" "classic": Grinch Night! Also, a sneak peak of what's to come - an extra spooky cap off of the Halloween month with a special episode. Relax, it's the rewind. It's what we're here for. 

30 years ago, something mad and crazy happened. Fortunately, it was recorded on film and aired before movie audiences everywhere, so we can confirm that yes, it really exists. Your Friend Frosty and your bartender Mike Whiskey are gathering over delicious cauliflower pizzas and popcorn to watch the massive slice of 1990s action cheese known as Demolition Man on its 30th anniversary. From shockingly yellow hair to the Taco Bell conundrum, and also to the weird concept known as "three seashells", there's plenty to watch, review, and unpack. Come along for the ride - it's going to be extra 90s with 90s on top. 

Coming to you from a hotel room in Provincetown, in the midst of a mad and crazy leather event known as Mates Leather Weekend, two nerds (and one  of them NOT Mike Whiskey) have taken over the microphones and are bringing you an inside look at..... well, we're not really sure. But they're funny and entertaining. Robare has returned from Rhode Island to talk about his time at IML as a competitor 20 years ago, and Your Friend Frosty is there to sit back, listen, and interject. As he does.

Hallo. Was ist los? Sorry, apparently that's German for "Hello, what's up?" Well, according to your bartender Mike Whiskey anyway, the resident maven of foreign language, particularly German. Listen in as Whiskey takes Your Friend Frosty's head and causes it to spin with a wide variety of strange, ridiculous, and just plain weird words and phrases that Germany has spent decades perfecting and your podcast duo only minutes to completely trash. We apologize on behalf of podcasters everywhere...