22 Hours, Zero Visibility, One Sleeping Co-Pilot

Big Al just returned to San Antonio after flying to Long Beach, then driving to LA with another comic. The episode opens with the crew hungry, hungover from various weekend activities (club opening party for Grabby, Therio doing mom stuff, Big Al's first open mic at Rebar), setting a chaotic tone.

The centerpiece is the LA road trip: 22 hours with zero visibility when they hit a tornado storm near Kerrville (about an hour from San Antonio). The storm hit them twice as it passed through from perpendicular directions. Everyone had emergency lights on, driving 40 mph or less. Their co-driver slept through the worst of it—woke up for a second, asked "You good?", then passed back out as they hit the eye of the storm and its backside. Once through, they discovered an accident ahead: a regular truck completely demolished, forcing a two-hour standstill.

A meta-conversation follows about how the universe seems to conspire against travel plans, with anecdotes about recurring road disasters.

The crew then gets into the question of the day: Is Quiet Place a Christmas movie? Tall T argues yes (it has Christmas trees, a Christmas party, Christmas setting). The hosts push back on his Christmas movie classifications: Die Hard (everyone says that), Five Lights (debatable). Humorous back-and-forth with Grabby calling for a second mic to sound better on the recording.

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Big Al returns from a brutal 22-hour LA road trip where he and a friend drove directly through a tornado storm (while the friend slept through most of it), then got stuck in a two-hour accident. The crew debates whether Quiet Place is a Christmas movie and talks about a new open mic at Rebar.