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    #61: Rat King of Glue Traps

    September 21st, 2017 · 91 minutes

    Main topic this week is Household Pests. The gloves are off as extreme measures are employed to deal with John’s mouse invaders.

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    This week kicks off with dives into religious time, talking like a wizard, kid manners, and the times your hosts did and mostly did not get recognized. Google me!

    John gets hung up on Merlin’s avatar choices, and both hosts get Happy-Go-Jackie on the junkiness of Apple’s Mac apps. John’s kid made a comic, and Merlin has some diminished expectations for his Cat Lady and her van.

    Then, there’s an improbable amount of Seinfeld discussion.

    So much for that vegetarian snake and all the sickening fraud and malfeasance of the Big Extermination industry. It’s not pretty, and it won’t be popular, but nobody loves seeing a mouse in the house.

    Brace yourself for extensive mouse lore and the eldritch contents of John’s tentpole.

    (Recorded on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.)

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