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&WhatNot

by Andrew & Amanda

Hobbies TV & Film

Season 3

Episode 59 | Dolly The Sheep Caused Amanda Clone Slavery

In this Episode We talk about Dolly the sheep and the first time anything was ever cloned, why it was a sheep and not a llama, whether clones live shorter lives because of deformities, trying to clone a mammoth without the full DNA, why we don't clone people, a truck that pulled into the parking lot to dump its load right as we started recording, the overgrown lot that finally got cut down, gene editing and whether China is designing human beings, gene spliced mosquitoes and whether that counts as biowarfare, wanting raccoons that can't get rabies, editing out cancer, the religious objection that only God gets to create life, whether test tube babies count as created in sin, what you would actually do if you had a clone of yourself, Amanda's plan to train hers for a month and send it to work in her place, whether it would come out as a baby or as an adult, what a clone would know on day one, whether it would rebel once it figured out the arrangement, the two of them living on a compound and splitting the work six months on and six months off, whether Chris would be weirded out watching her clone date someone else, tattooing a number two on the clone's forehead so nobody mixes them up, getting in a fight with yourself, what it would do to your identity to learn you were the copy, and whether you'd track down the original and steal their life.

Episode 58 | Pitching Our Arctic Research Dating Show

In this Episode we talk about a humid August day and summer going by too fast, packing your days full to get ahead of the winter slump, Amanda going to her sister's bachelorette party in the Poconos and pretending the rental is a villa, how badly Love Island is mixed and having to master it yourself on the remote, the premise of Too Hot to Handle, the robot named Lana that runs the show, the prisoner's dilemma, whether producers plant decoys to make people break the rules, how much plastic surgery is on these shows, whether there are people building their bodies specifically to get cast, how you can afford to leave your job for a month to go on a dating show, the risk of getting voted off the first episode and having nothing to come back to, Temptation Island, Married at First Sight and Love is Blind, the suicides connected to the Love Island franchise, how going on a show like that becomes a permanent part of your life, Bonnie Blue's old real estate listings, wanting a disclaimer at the top of these shows saying these people are not normal, influencers and IRL streamers not being well adjusted people, how there are never any real consequences for them, losing your sense of reality when people stop seeing you as a person, and inventing our own dating show where contestants have to conduct Arctic research in Alaska with decoy scientists hidden among them.

Episode 57 | Feed the Tapeworm at the Corn Barn

In this Episode We talk about dropping the three two one from the top of the show in favor of a sync clap, a very windy day, the things your parents told you about the weather, God bowling when it thunders, angels crying crystals when it hails, never going to summer camp, brownouts on Long Island, the big blackout and the block party Amanda's family threw during it, hurricane parties in Florida, people who brought a generator inside during Milton, people dying in their cars when snow covers the tailpipe, a man in a retirement community who got plowed over, the car in Queens that iced over and became a tourist attraction, state roadside attractions like the bean and the arch, what would actually make you pull the car over, the world's fattest cow, horse and cow births showing up on TikTok, whether you'd stick your hands in a cow, free milk, goat milk, bathing in soda, beer baths in Germany, sewer diving for gold, mystery houses, a bird that talks like Oprah, the bird show at Splish Splash and adult only nights, how gross water park water is, tapeworms and how they draw them out with raw liver, whether you can feel anything in your intestines, a TikTok about a collapsed pelvic floor, inventing a roadside attraction where you pay a dollar to feed a tapeworm, a community spaghetti festival with a claw machine that picks up either a meatball or a person, and the corn barn in Iowa where you just roll around in corn kernels.

Episode 56 | Pesto Burping Beekeeper Theater Meet Cute

In this Episode We talk about the Canadian wildfire smoke that blotted out the sun and made us both feel sick, a pickleball partner canceling because of the air, a shout out to Phoebe about heavy breathing on the mic, a hypothetical about meeting your fiancé again for the first time that turns into a sunflower field, two beekeeper outfits, a lot of stings and a bee ring, the abandoned pavilion at Jones Beach and the people playing kindergarten music at it, beach bunnies, tick bites that never go away, a pickleball dating night and whether it might secretly be a shoot for Love on the Spectrum, getting a lot of views on a Snapchat video of flies at Robert Moses, taking eight dates to the movies at once, Supergirl, The Odyssey, jump scares, three hour movies and intermissions, eating so much theater candy you feel sick, snacks we can't stop eating, Flamin Hot fatigue, Utz pretzels, Wegmans Doritos with real garlic in them, a very badly timed burp in a parking lot, and what food gives you the worst burps.

Episode 55 | Howdy Doody To Horse Girls

In this Episode We talk about a quick weather update, hearing "Howdy Doody" from a toll booth attendant on a road trip through Oklahoma, toll booths that still have a person in them, old infrastructure that doesn't get used anymore, Sunken Meadow, stealing street signs as a kid, potholes and broken streetlights that nobody fixes until enough people complain, whether the United States should go back to being isolationist, Japan, converting yen to dollars, a friend who spent years studying to get into the Japanese workforce, how expensive and difficult it is to become a citizen of some countries versus how easy Italian citizenship is if you have the paperwork, the Jones Beach Air Show, the Irish firefighter from the Bronx who let us park next to his tent and needed an interpreter, why foreigners come here looking for something different, how big the United States actually is compared to the UK, Oheka Castle and the Gold Coast mansions, summer camp on old mansion land, horse girls and the people who compete on hobby horses, seeing a horse's dick for the first time, horse breeding as a business, hoof cleaning videos, whether horses are tools or pets, the Amish, animals reacting to music, monkeys as pets, Pablo Escobar's hippos and how they took over, the frogs released in Australia that became the bigger problem, what your ideal place to live would look like, Switzerland, and what your Swedish name would be.

Episode 54 | The Bees and Botflies are Eating the Shrimp on Reindeer Island

In this Episode We talk about hiring a saxophonist for a wedding, whether Bill Clinton could show up and play it, whether world leaders attend each other's weddings, the 4th of July heat wave and the storm that blew through Amanda's party, state fairs getting canceled because of the heat, a carnival ride called The Zipper and being too scared to stay on a roller coaster, skydiving and whether the plane can land with you still in it, weight limits for jumping, Dr. Now and My 600-lb Life, an awards event where bees were eating the shrimp, bugs that eat meat, botflies, the movie The Bay and real parasites in crabs, the risk of eating raw salmon that isn't sushi grade, tick bites and Lyme disease, the fungus behind The Last of Us, an island where reindeer were left unchecked until the population collapsed to four, and our favorite islands.

Episode 53 | Fart All Your Future Farts [LOST EPISODE]

In this LOST Episode We talk about Kyle finding out he's 23% German, whether the Nazis were superstitious, the ice cream man who only shows up on cold days, weird superstitions we each believe in, Kyle's habit of re-playing a song or show so it doesn't end on a bad word, setting the volume only to even numbers, Andrew's belief that a streetlight going out as you pass under it is bad luck, holding your breath past a cemetery, lifting your feet over railroad tracks and where that actually comes from, black cats, air fresheners hanging from the mirror being illegal, the difference between a sheriff and a local cop, the worst things a passenger can do in your car, the movie Obsession, jump scares and whether it's embarrassing to jump, people who clap at the end of movies, the guy who talked to the screen through Michael, the Minecraft movie chicken jockey thing, drive-in theaters during lockdown, whether you'd take $200,000 a year to only ever drink water again, and how you'd prepare to fart all of your future farts at once.

Episode 52 | Zipper Ride Cries & Millennium Fries

In this Episode we talk about her mystery ear clog sending her down a WebMD spiral, my own ear infection history and a fake nine-month countdown to imaginary childbirth, that time I convinced myself I had male breast cancer from a bully's nipple flicks, the neighborhood hearse restoration guy, my traumatic winter camp story about a counselor who punished any talking with forced nursery rhyme singalongs, finding actual bones on an abandoned playground as a kid, a full ranking of the worst theme park rides (the zipper will end you), and a definitive top five fair foods featuring millennium fries and deep fried Oreos.

Episode 51 | Drinking Our Ancestors Toilet Water

In this Episode we talk about our terrible taste in music, building summer playlists (and wedding playlist secrets Amanda won't share), the choreographed Snapchat dances from our old daily-video days, Amanda's $14,000 Amazon habit, her surprise 400-viewer TikTok stream, forgotten mushroom gummies and paranoia-inducing weed math, an old Spanish CD we found on our walk, summer goals (Amanda's attempting a cartwheel for the first time since childhood), the entire rise and fall of the BBL, Clavicular's disastrous nose job, and a deep dive into the horrifying but true fact that our drinking water carries trace amounts of everyone's medication — including, allegedly, Abraham Lincoln's piss.

Episode 50 | Founding Fathers Green Screen Feet Rotation

In this Episode it's just me and Amanda (Kyle texted in but didn't make the cut) and we talk about Amanda's $600 Mew Mews, whether this podcast will ever pay real money, the new "wish gone wrong" horror flick and the discourse trying to make it something darker than it is, Sydney Sweeney's questionable range and her OnlyFans detour, nearly getting flattened saving a gaggle of baby geese, the streamer who green-screened her own feet to farm views, a mystery piss can that may or may not have ruined Amanda's sock, and a hypothetical that spirals into picking our dream historical roommates, ending with MLK doing bedtime speeches and the Kellogg's guy guarding the cereal.

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