The Shallow End

The Shallow End

From the Webby Award-winning creators of The Box Of Oddities Podcast comes The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth. Friends since childhood, Lindsay Schnebly and Jethro Gilligan Toth have always shared a love for stories of people doing ridiculously dumb things. They found it wildly amusing as young boys. They still do today. This is your invitation to pour a strong drink and join them for true stories that are tragically hilarious.

Episodes

#170: Is This Your Snake, Sir?

August 20, 2025 • 35 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#169: Romance In The Road

August 13, 2025 • 39 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#168: Naked Guy With A Chainsaw

August 6, 2025 • 32 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#167: Combustible DIY

July 30, 2025 • 38 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#165: A Bullet In Your Hotdog

July 23, 2025 • 31 mins
In this summer replacement episode of The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth, a hotdog vendor falls victim to a robbery, but the culprit leaves a painfully unexpected tip. Then, there's a right way and a wrong way to cook a steak. Guess which one we're going to talk about? If you would like to advertise on The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth, contact sales@advertisecast.com ⁠http://www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your a...
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#164: Kissing The Jellyfish

July 16, 2025 • 40 mins
On episode #164, Linds leads us into The Shallow End with the grim tale of a mortician who found a creative way to cremate bodies more “efficiently.” It’s simple science, actually. Why cremate just one body at a time when you can fit 10 or 12 bodies in the same oven? What could possibly go wrong? Then JG takes us to the shores of Texas’ Gulf Coast, where a young man named Chad saw something so sweet wash up on the beach, he just ha...
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#163: No Cheese For You, Lad

July 9, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode #163 of The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth has more references to Scotland than you can shake a bagpipe at!  JG shares the story if how Scottish Highlanders weren’t content to stay at home when England was so close. So what did the Highlanders receive in return for their desire to rape, pillage and plunder?  Some karma so big, that it might be one of the biggest Shallow End moments in the history of Mankind! Then Lindsa...
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#162: Getaway Blow-up Raft

July 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Episode #162 of The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is hotter than a doorknob in hell!  Jethro begins with the tale of a man with a shady past who got pulled over by the police in Orange County, CA. When you have a history of brushes with the law, and you get pulled over by the police, what’s the best way to handle it?  That’s easy!  Just tell them you’re someone else!  Say, your brother. Yeah!  Just tell them you’re your brothe...
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#161: Foiled and Soiled

June 25, 2025 • 35 mins
It may be the beginning of summer, but the boys are back at work!  In today’s technology-filled world of crime fighting, Jethro has a story of two criminals brought down mid-crime spree by one of mankind’s oldest problems – good old-fashioned dog poop!  Then Lindsay tells us about a Texas woman who brought an unusual “treat” to her daughter’s fifth-grade school party. Everything was going well – until most of the kids ended up slig...
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#160: Spontaneous Pants Combustion

June 18, 2025 • 36 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#159: Waffle Regret

June 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Episode #159 is a barn-burner of bad ideas!  Jethro starts off with a Florida Man, a plan, and a few drinks too many.  Maybe not the best time to dream up the idea of “the perfect tattoo.” Oh well – at least it’s permanent! Then Lindsay tells us about a woman who was so upset at not being invited to a (third!)  cousin’s wedding, she exacted the strangest revenge you’ve ever heard. Oh well – at least it resulted in a restraining ord...
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#158: Sorry About Your Horse Shoe Pit

June 4, 2025 • 41 mins
On episode #158 of TSE, Lindsay leads off with a man in Norway who awoke to the sound of his neighbor trying to wake him in the early morning hours. Why? Because there was a boat where the sky used to be! How does a 150-yard-long cargo ship run aground just outside a quiet living room window? You’ll love the answer!  Then Jethro shares the tale of one of the coolest-headed bank robbers you’ve ever heard of.  Anyone can rob a bank a...
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#157: Clanging Across The Kitchen Floor

May 28, 2025 • 33 mins
During this Memorial Week, we take a moment to remember Episode 27! The title for the world's stupidest bank robber is a very competitive division. However, Lindsay may have found a leading contender. Then, Jethro tells us about a bugler who just can't get a break. Attention! If an emergency occurs while listening to this episode, an oxygen mask will drop down from the compartment above your head. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
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#156: Spontaneous Bedding Combustion

May 21, 2025 • 30 mins
What word starts with "F” and ends with "uck?” “Firetruck," of course!  Episode #156 hits the ground running with Lindsay’s story about a guy in England who loved him some firetrucks. But scratching that itch to see a big red pumper (!) isn’t always so easy. Then Jethro tells us about a guy who had a novel technique to score not only some quick cash, but two free pizzas!  What went wrong? Well, as Sean Connery so aptly put it in “T...
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#155: Chunks Of Stolen Cannon

May 14, 2025 • 35 mins
On episode #155 of The Shallow End, what would you buy if you had a one-million-dollar bill? At Walmart. Ignoring the fact that the US Treasury doesn’t even print bills that big. Well, JG has the story of a man who used his million-dollar bill to buy a vacuum cleaner. Things got complicated as he waited for the change. Then Linds shares the daring tale of a Kansas man who needed some quick cash to pay off his drug dealer. And if yo...
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#154: Not A Place For Bad Decisions

May 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Episode #154 is a barn-burner!  Jethro is up first with the tale of a man who decided to climb Mt. Fuji without proper gear at the wrong time of the year. And somewhere in all that ice and oxygen deprivation, he barely survived and lost his phone. But it’s what he did just a few days later that qualifies him as a Shallow End-swimmer!  Then Linds shares the story of a drug dealer who marketed himself to strangers and police alike in...
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#153: My Shoes Are Sticky, Eh?

April 30, 2025 • 40 mins
The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how even the most straightforward decisions can spiral into comedic chaos. The show combi...
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#152: From Tide Pods to Shipwrecks

April 23, 2025 • 38 mins
Join hosts Schnebly and Toth in this episode of Shallow End, where they take a deep dive into the turbulent waters of online idiocy and historical misfortune. We got an email suggesting we revisit the topic of ill-conceived stunts, and since we already covered it in a previous episode, why not do it again? It's like recycling, but with more facepalms. Get ready to laugh, cringe, and possibly question the future of humanity as Schne...
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#151: A Very Destructive Selfie

April 16, 2025 • 37 mins
In Episode #151, Jethro starts with a story of a woman looking for “The Perfect Selfie” at a swanky Los Angeles art exhibit featuring 12 very large and expensive pieces of…well…art. What could go wrong, we ask? Just a slight adjustment to line up the perfect selfie. Lean back just a few inches, and…well…something went very, very wrong.  Then, Lindsay tells us a story proving that politicians with inflated egos and stupid decisions ...
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#150: Letters From The Shallow End

April 9, 2025 • 37 mins
To celebrate the 150th episode of this thing we like to call a podcast, “The Shallow End” is proud to feature an entire episode of stories sent in by our family of listeners – The Shallow End Dwellers. Hilarity ensues when a man finds that his chainsaw can cut more than firewood, how a mound of driveway snow can lead to marriage, and why it’s best to make sure your earbuds are plugged into your phone. And we’re just gettin’ warmed ...
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