Part 1 of our Ohio trip! Before the twenty one pilots show at Ohio Stadium, we turned the drive from Dallas into a full Midwest road trip, and this episode covers everything leading up to show day.

St. Louis: questionable tacos, a GPS that sent us to "Gooey Louie Gooey Butt...", the best Italian food we've had since Eataly, a foggy trip up the Gateway Arch, crawling through City Museum, and our first (and last) White Castle.

Chicago: a hostel check-in from hell, the Willis Tower Skydeck ledge, Lou Malnati's deep dish, seeing The Bean at 10 PM, the worst night of sleep of the trip, butterbeer, Mr. Beef from The Bear, and getting lost on Divvy bikes in the rain.

Cedar Point: Indiana tolls, Top Thrill 2, Maverick, Steel Vengeance, Millennium Force, Siren's Curse and more. Then Columbus the night before the show.

Part 2 (show day!) is coming next. Subscribe so you don't miss it, and let us know in the comments if you were there too.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome Back: Life After the Ohio Trip

3:38 Hi, New People!

5:34 The Road Trip Plan: Dallas to Ohio

8:11 Oklahoma Is Boring (Sorry)

9:16 Bad Tacos in Springfield, Missouri

11:39 Gooey Louie & the "Gooey Butt" GPS

16:00 Zia's on The Hill

19:28 The Gateway Arch at Night & Our Trip Video

21:11 Inside the Gateway Arch

24:00 City Museum: An Adult Playground

27:34 Trying White Castle for the First Time

30:55 Pappy's Smokehouse & a Bucky's Detour

33:33 Racing to Chicago

34:42 Hostel Check-In Chaos

36:12 Leaving My Phone at the Front Desk

37:27 Willis Tower Skydeck

40:03 "It Has Cracked Before"

43:05 Lou Malnati's Deep Dish

46:57 Seeing The Bean at 10 PM

48:51 Worst Sleep of the Trip

51:06 Atlas Sleeps Like a Furnace

55:49 The Bean in Daylight

57:11 Chicago's Apple Store

58:59 Starbucks Reserve Roastery & the Spiral Escalator

1:01:24 Harry Potter Store & Butterbeer

1:05:35 Mr. Beef (From The Bear)

1:08:26 Divvy Bikes & Getting Lost in the Rain

1:11:41 Six Flags Passes & Changing the Plan

1:14:50 Indiana Tolls

1:16:35 First Night at Cedar Point

1:18:25 Gatekeeper

1:22:51 Top Thrill 2

1:28:39 The Scare Zone

1:30:06 Maverick

1:35:51 Steel Vengeance

1:40:15 Millennium Force

1:42:26 Siren's Curse

1:45:54 Cedar Point Day 2: Crowds & Closures

1:48:57 Dear Cedar Point: Fix Your Merch

1:51:36 The Millennium Force Incident

1:52:43 Raptor

1:53:30 Columbus: A Last-Minute Dinner Reservation

1:56:18 The "At the Risk of Feeling Dumb" Bridge & Big Fun

1:58:33 Ohio Stadium the Night Before

2:00:31 Coming Up in Part 2

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We're back! After a month off (and one episode that didn't make it), Atlas and Olivia catch up on everything that's happened since we last talked.We cover our first failed attempt at "sharking" Tame Impala tickets, filming another Beautiful Ashes retreat (and the time we left a drone behind), last-minute Empire of the Sun tickets and our honest review of the show. That includes the sound mix and the AI visuals. We also talk about a Taco Bell moment exactly two years in the making, shooting the album cover for Zenith with a generator in a public park, and why we decided to scrap the movie.Plus a Rangers game, a lake weekend in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Endgame Encore and Primetime reviews, some real talk about marriage, the Yochi frozen yogurt line, a groomsman ask, trying out a new church, and what's coming up next.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome Back & Why We Took a Break1:36 So Much Has Happened2:14 Wrapping Up Atlas's Job (Still Under NDA)7:05 Our First Failed Concert "Sharking" (Tame Impala)11:31 Harry Styles & Other Shows We're Eyeing13:48 Filming the Beautiful Ashes Retreat17:20 The Time We Forgot the Drone19:40 Last-Minute Empire of the Sun Tickets23:10 Empire of the Sun Concert Review24:36 Way Too Loud: The Sound Mix33:58 The AI Visuals Problem36:19 Taco Bell, Exactly Two Years Later39:00 Shooting the Zenith Album Cover44:33 Why We Scrapped the Movie45:44 Zenith Is Almost Here47:06 Rangers Game48:46 Lake Hamilton & Hot Springs, Arkansas52:10 Endgame Encore & Primetime Reviews55:06 Real Talk: Marriage Isn't Always Perfect56:30 Family Dinner & a Packed Saturday58:50 The Yochi Frozen Yogurt Saga61:29 Groomsman Again & Emily's Matcha Party63:53 Trying Out a New Church65:09 Ramen, Costco & a Lazy Sunday66:14 What's Coming Up67:12 Outro

Atlas has been living a double life (that he legally can’t tell you much about), and we’ve had a surprisingly eventful couple of weeks. This week, we revisit our childhoods with Harry Potter and Cars back in theaters, Atlas discovers the wonders of QuikTrip, tries his first taquito AND pumpkin spice latte, and causes a minor family scandal when he realizes he likes my mom’s pumpkin bread more than his own mom’s recipe.

We also try HelloFresh (please sponsor us), I cut Atlas’ hair for the first time, and Atlas finally shares what he can about working as a production assistant on a reality TV show. We talk about how our completely opposite schedules have affected our relationship lately, give an update on Zenith, and share what we have coming up over the next few weeks. Plus, we go on a very meta tangent about how this podcast gets made and wrap things up by showing off our ever-growing Twenty One Pilots vinyl collection.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:07 - Atlas Is Under NDA

5:33 - Hogwarts to Radiator Springs

16:45 - Atlas Gets QuikTripped

21:00 - A Man of Many Firsts: Taquitos and PSLs

30:45 - A Betrayal in Pumpkin Bread

35:20 - HelloFresh, Please Sponsor Us

38:00 - Marriage Is Trusting Your Wife With Clippers

48:48 - What Atlas Is Legally Allowed to Say About His Secret Job

1:03:35 - Our Schedules Are Beefing 1:08:28 - Zenith Check-In

1:13:32 - The Scott Forecast

1:21:37 - How the Sausage Gets Made

1:24:23 - Yes, We Have That Pressing

1:28:41 - Outro

This week was a little bit of everything: superhero movies, mini golf, waterparks, hotel disasters, storage unit purgatory, and some unexpectedly deep conversations along the way.

We kick things off with our thoughts on Spider-Man: Brand New Day and whether Marvel might finally be finding its footing again, then recap a double date with old friends and the Twenty One Pilots watch party that very quickly became a party of two. Back at home, we finally tackled the last of our storage unit and spent several late nights figuring out why we own so much stuff and where the hell we’re supposed to put it all.

Things get a little heavier as we talk about loving people who continually let you down, the boundaries we’ve learned to put in place to protect our marriage and our hearts, and the difficult reality that sometimes growing means growing away from people you still deeply care about. We also have a pretty big life update for Atlas: he got offered a job! Now he is just figuring out whether he’s actually supposed to take it.

Then we’re off to Schlitterbahn, where exhaustion tested our marriage before we even made it to the waterpark, the entire state of Texas apparently decided to show up on the same day, and we discovered we may officially be lazy-river people. Our Austin plans proceeded to completely fall apart when the AC went out at our hotel, turning our nice dinner into late-night tacos, queso on Sixth Street, and Transformers in bed, which, honestly, may have been better anyway.

Finally, we somehow make it from Voodoo Doughnuts and P. Terry’s in Austin to a 1:00 showing of La La Land in Frisco before ending the weekend exactly how everyone dreams of: meeting strangers from Facebook Marketplace and making a financial plan.

A little chaotic, a little sentimental, and somehow very productive.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - Brand New Day and Post-Endgame Trust Issues

13:29 - Mini Golf, Major Commitment

17:07 - Watch Party Minus the Party

19:12 - Keep, Sell, Donate, Cry

26:14 - Loving Someone From a Distance

44:35 - Reason, Season, or Lifetime

56:21 - From Passenger Princess to Professional Driver

59:23 - Our Marriage Survived Schlitterbahn

1:22:47 - Our Nice Dinner Became Transformers and Tacos

1:42:35 - A Surprisingly Productive Sunday

1:51:13 - Outro

We thought we were moving into a new apartment. Turns out, we were signing up for a multi-part saga.

This week, we’re telling the full story of our move. From escaping our old apartment, to realizing our new apartment was somehow even worse, to driving an absolutely enormous Ford F-250, to moving AGAIN into an upgraded unit we didn’t even know existed. Throw in The Odyssey in 70mm, Six Flags, a very long email to management, broken appliances, a one-year proposal anniversary, and an unreasonable number of Twenty One Pilots coincidences, and you’ve got one hell of a month.

It was stressful, ridiculous, exhausting, and occasionally hilarious, but somewhere in all of it, we were reminded that home isn’t necessarily a place. Sometimes it’s just having the right person beside you while everything else is falling apart.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

3:20 - Surely It Couldn’t Get Worse… Right?

16:19 - Plot Twist: It’s Worse

31:07 - Fear the Ford F-250 XL

38:02 - A Little Cinematic Intermission

58:18 - To Whom It May Concern, Wtf

1:01:05 - New Apartment: The Sequel

1:14:25 - Another Day, Another Maintenance Request

1:22:47 - Oh Right, We Have Guests Tomorrow

1:29:40 - Everything Leads Back to Twenty One Pilots

1:35:49 - This Is Why I Chose You

1:45:27 - Outro

For our first episode with a guest, we’re joined by our friend Elijah, someone who started as Olivia’s friend and somehow became one of the most important people in both of our lives.We talk about how Olivia and Elijah met, how he eventually became friends with Atlas, and how that friendship has grown over the years. From there, we get very into music.As two producers, Atlas and Elijah bring a whole different perspective to the conversation as we dive into their own projects, Annex B and FORE, why they’re more drawn to the sound and feeling of a song than its lyrics, the things that immediately make us want to hit skip, whether old-school mixing techniques still hold up, and how we actually discover music today.And, of course, we end by talking about what Elijah hopes to do with his project, FORE, and where he wants to take his music next.Come for the friendship lore. Stay for the unsolicited music opinions. Chapters:0:00 - Intro1:28 - The Elijah Lore13:00 - Annex B & FORE20:57 - Vibes Before Verses 34:28 - Musical Red Flags 52:15 - Vintage Sound, Modern Ears 1:04:00 - The Music Discovery Pipeline 1:12:58 - So… What’s Next for FORE? 1:18:44 - Outro

This week we're recapping our family vacation to Florida with Liv’s side of the family. We talk about the infamous "adult car" vs. "kid car" debate, our surprisingly amazing Airbnb in Watersound, beach days spent avoiding sunburns, and late-night NERTS tournaments in the carriage house.

We also share our spontaneous food adventures (including Texas Roadhouse and a surprisingly incredible Mexican restaurant), a bike ride back to Rosemary Beach, our final beach day, and the long drive home. Plus, Liv gushes about one of the best books she’s ever read, Theo of Golden, and we discuss our early passholder preview ride on Six Flags' newest coaster, Tormenta.

To wrap things up, we get into our thoughts on the new Supergirl movie, superhero fatigue, and Atlas opens up about finally finding clarity on his creative future and the path he wants to pursue.

It's an episode full of sunshine, family memories, roller coasters, books, and big life conversations.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - The Tesla and the “Technically” Adults

9:12 - Checking Into Paradise

14:09 - SPF Saves Lives

16:32 - Midnight NERTS Society

19:05 - Vacation Calories Don't Count

21:00 - Our Bike trip to Rosemary

25:43 - Ending on a High Tide

29:35 - Vacation Reads & Emotional Damage

31:33 - Our New Favorite Coaster

41:16 - Another Day, Another (Unnecessary) Superhero Movie

51:51 - The End of the Creative Crossroads

1:07:10 - Outro

This week we're catching up on a little bit of everything. We recap our relaxing trip to Rosemary Beach with Atlas' family, share our less-than-glowing thoughts on Disclosure Day, and explain why we've actually been enjoying Euphoria Season 3 despite all the criticism.

We also dive into Liv's latest obsession: building a personal library filled with books she'll love for years to come. Then, we talk about our trip to Arkansas to film interviews with Atlas' grandparents, Meme and Mickey, for a documentary celebrating their lives and preserving their stories for future generations.

To wrap things up, we share some love for our dear friends Brooks and McKenna after spending time with them in Little Rock and reflect on how grateful we are for friendships that always feel like home.

From beach days and book collecting to family history and lifelong friendships, this episode is all about appreciating the people, places, and stories that make life meaningful.

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:46 - Salt Air & Family Affairs in Rosemary Beach

20:53 - Disclosure: We Have Complaints

28:57 - In Defense of Euphoria Season Three…

31:00 - Shelf Control

32:32 - Lights, Camera, MeMe and Mickey

46:53 - Proof That Distance Means Nothing

53:15 - Outro