EP 224: A Petty Skate of Affairs

Episode Summary

We’re going old school this week—straight to every millennial’s favorite childhood battleground: the roller rink . Trevin kicks things off with a bizarre dream featuring Amanda, her husband, and a massive alligator.

No murders, just bad decisions.

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What This Episode Covers

• We’re going old school this week—straight to every millennial’s favorite childhood battleground:
• Trevin kicks things off with a bizarre dream featuring Amanda, her husband, and a massive alligator.
• But when Dream Trevin tries to play hero, Real Trevin wakes up in a very familiar (and very painful) situation.
• Meanwhile, Amanda heads to a kid’s birthday party at a roller rink.
• She shows up ready for nostalgia… but her mid-30s body is
• Gravity absolutely has notes.

Why Listen?

If you like true crime but think most true crime got a little too murdery, this episode brings petty crimes, dumb criminals, and dramatic storytelling without the heavy stuff.

Original Episode Description

We’re going old school this week—straight to every millennial’s favorite childhood battleground:

the roller rink

.

Trevin kicks things off with a bizarre dream featuring Amanda, her husband, and a massive alligator. But when Dream Trevin tries to play hero, Real Trevin wakes up in a very familiar (and very painful) situation.

Meanwhile, Amanda heads to a kid’s birthday party at a roller rink. She shows up ready for nostalgia… but her mid-30s body is

not

ready to roll. Gravity absolutely has notes.

Then it’s time for

Would You Rather

.

Amanda asks if you’d prefer a terrible-looking mugshot or a glamorous one where you’re mid-sneeze. Trevin brings a year-end twist: would you rather every device you own insult you… or relive all of 2025 again?

Amanda’s story this week features a South Carolina teen who brings chaos to the rink—armed with confidence, questionable humor, and a water bottle full of cooking oil.

Due to life being life, Trevin swaps his usual story for four headlines in what he calls his

“Petty Black Mirror”

segment.

This week’s petty tech tales include:

•

Facebook’s underground sperm-selling groups

and the petty drama inside Sperm Donors UK & Get Your Baby Dust Here.

• An

Ontario man tricked by ChatGPT

into believing he’d discovered a world-saving breakthrough—sending him into psychosis.

• The

Kumma Bear

, an AI-enabled teddy bear developing disturbing phrases and unsafe behaviors.

• And an update to X’s AI,

Grok

, that forces it to only compliment Elon Musk… leading trolls to prompt some very strange praise—including Elon's alleged skill of drinking pee.

It’s all

fun-on-wheels meets dystopian tech weirdness

this week.

So lace up, log off, and join us for

A Petty Skate of Affairs

.

Take a break from the heavy and get petty.