The Complete Guide to Everything

Juice is a sometimes delicious and always unhealthy drink that we usually either give to children or mix with alcohol to mask the taste of the poison we're drinking. One of us was so excited to talk about juice that he went out and had some celebratory drinks before recording this episode... try to guess who it was! This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are young adult novels only for children? This week two of the country’s favorite young adults try to answer that question while going through the Time Magazine list of 100 Greatest Young Adult Novels. Also Tom has a massive week (new book out and big wins at the claw machines.) For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Roblox is a gaming platform that's ridiculously popular with children, so naturally two guys in their 40s are the optimal people to fill you in on what it's all about. We also talk about a really edgy punk rock show we both attended, lest you think this whole episode is about silly kid stuff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tim considers buying Tom a nice watch, we say what everyone else is too afraid to say about Silly Putty, and we try to figure out how anyone ever stayed in a lake house before computers. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's tomato season, so we're talking all about those juicy red vegetables (or fruits... whatever). We also solve a problem from a listener who got slapped by a ghost and has photos to prove it! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week it’s all about Forrest Mars Sr.’s greatest invention: M&M’s. We all know the red ones are deadly and the green ones will make you randy, but what about all the other colors. And what the heck ever happened to everyone’s favorite M&M color: tan? For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The summertime is in full-force and that can only mean one thing: everybody is spending their days going boogie boarding. This week we're talking about riding waves on a piece of buoyant colorful foam. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week your two favorite scientists discuss the news of a possible room temperature superconductor called LK-99. What the hell does all of that mean? We don’t really know either, but take a crack at explaining it anyway. Also Tim discusses the disturbing possibility that Robert Durst, the Jinx himself, lives in his building despite having died over a year ago. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we celebrate the life and work of Michael "Mick" Jagger, a man who has been strutting around making pouty faces for 80 years. Although he dropped out of the London School of Economics to sing songs and do drugs, he became a billionaire anyway. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hollywood has had enough and gone on strike! Where will we get our TV shows from now? Why aren’t billionaires happy with being billionaires? What about puppeteers? We’ll answer these questions, whether Tom needed to honk for some guy, and more. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we're celebrating the life and times of the big purple guy everybody can't get enough of, Grimace. He may not be the coolest guy in McDonaldland and it's weird that he starts every sentence he says with "Duhhhhh", but he's A-OK in our book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you want a beer but want one with less beer in it, you might want to try Light Beer. This week we're talking about the beverage popular with people who don't drink beer to get blackout drunk as quickly as possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We regret to inform you that Fall Out Boy have released a “new” version of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and we don’t like it. This week we discuss the original, the new version and Billy Joel’s day-to-day life. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

School sux! This week we're talking about the best day of the whole freakin' year when you're a kid, the last day of school. Also, Tom has some intriguing updates and new theories about the UFO news we discussed last week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whew boy, is there a lot of weird alien hijinks afoot lately, and this week we’re talking about it whether the government wants us to or not! We discuss the 4chan UFO whistleblower, the Air Force UFO whistleblower, and the curious case of the backyard UFO crash in Las Vegas. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apple introduced their first foray into augmented reality, and they seem to assume we're all excited to get sucked into cyberspace for days at a time. This week Tim and Tom, who have famously conflicting opinions on this kind of stuff, debate the merits of living inside a computer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We might be three episodes into this, but the summer is just heating up! This week we’re talking Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning and Tom Cruise’s endless quest to un-alive himself on film, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Haunted Mansion, TMNT, Gran Tourismo, Strays, Blue Beetle and a debate on whether old people have less blood than other people. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/COMPLETEGUIDE and get on your way to being your best self. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our dear friend Christine returns to solve listener problems and discuss her plans to replace Anne Hathaway in the film The Intern 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The summer blockbusters just keep on coming this week as we discuss the newest and SEVENTH Transformers movie, Wes Anderson’s latest, a problematic Flash and some extremely old man named Indiana Jones. For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCGTE Patreon! Like the show? Rate The Complete Guide to Everything 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what topic they should check out next. Follow Tim on Twitter: @yourpaltim and Instagram: @yourpaltim Follow Tom on Twitter: @tomreynolds and Instagram: @tomreynolds Advertise on The Complete Guide to Everything via Gumball.fm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hooray for Hollywood! It's finally summer blockbuster season, and we're talking about all the hot new movies you'll be endlessly discussing around the water cooler. Note: This episode is dedicated to Timothée Chalamet, America's #1 Boy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.