The Mike and Tony show is a long-form conversational podcast hosted by Tony Dollar and Mike Pearce. Each week Mike and Tony sit down with a special guest to discuss life, the universe, and everything. Guests include friends, musicians, artists, comedians and more. Subscribe to hear a new episode each week!
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Only 10 away from the big 3-0-0! This week our very own Mark the Couch Guy finally makes his triumphant return (gout-knee, and all) as Tony and Mike dive into a genuinely unhinged round of hypotheticals: which kitchen appliance are you, who dies first in a horror movie, and what terrible tattoo does each of us deserve? Along the way: Tony breaks down his new "not-leadership" role at school (he swears), the guys debate whether Thanos or Magneto had the better argument, build out an entire criminal gun-running enterprise (Tony's the accountant, he doesn't know), argue about Ozempic and bone dens
No guest, no filter. Tony's back to work, but that doesn't stop him and Mike from diving deep into Spider-Man: Brand New Day (great flick, wild ending) and roasting Ghost Rider on the ride home. They mourn the death of the American mall — RIP Orange Julius and Mrs. Fields — and reminisce about big ass console TVs with knobs that just... fell off. Mike hits ThriftCon Denver and comes back with vintage Starter jackets worth way more than he paid (sorry to the guy who sold him that Bulls pullover for $40). Plus: the incredible Arnel Pineda/Journey story, Lil Wayne's suspiciously jacked physique,
Tyler Stanfield is BACK after a 2-year hiatus, and he's not the same man — 26 days sober, doing 500 crunches a day against his own will, and somehow still finding time to almost get inducted into a Colorado Music Hall of Fame before getting disqualified for playing too much No Diggity at a country show. We cover wind vs. geese (wind sucks, geese are just rude), the greatest Chris Farley office story never properly told on a podcast before, a fish that flips off two grown men after faking its own death, and finally answer the age-old question: if Tony got fired from this show and replaced by Ty
This week, Mike and Tony sit down for a Friday night podcast with rapper, bassist, songwriter, frontman, educator, fashion maverick, and free thinker, Avery Jacob! Avery returns for his 4th (or 5th?) appearance, and we cover a lot of ground on this one. We get into AI music — Suno, stolen beats, an AI R&B liver commercial that may or may not be racist, and a viral "AI song" that turned out to be a human cover of an AI song (yes, really). We also covered comedy that dabbles in politics, hay allergies, strongman bellies, Martin Luther's surprisingly unhinged side, and Avery’s “what Jesus would l
This week Mike runs us through a wild true story: his brother stole his identity, racked up warrants in multiple counties, and got Baron Von Pearce arrested for crimes he didn't commit — plus the decade-long family fallout that followed. Then we dive into deep weird science territory: water that boils and freezes at the same time, electric eels that can shock alligators to death, 30-foot anacondas, and a woman who cured her Lyme disease by getting swarmed by bees. We also get into bee vibration therapy, radium glassware that glows under UV light, the Mongols catapulting plague corpses over cit
Friday night podcast! Tesla was out there loving a pigeon more than he ever loved a human being, Wyoming threatened to skip statehood entirely over women's right to vote, and a Pope literally declared war on cats (spoiler: it goes badly for everyone, except for the rats). Mike and Tony revisit the 1518 dancing plague nobody could stop, the Roswell "weather balloon" that definitely wasn't just a weather balloon, and the time the U.S. Army blasted Guns N' Roses at a dictator for ten straight days until he gave up. Also featured: a beached whale that turned into a public safety hazard, Andrew Jac
Tony's officially a two-week landscaping veteran (his retaining wall has notes), Mike survived a rugby crash course disguised as a 4th of July outing, and America's 250th birthday party pulled a crowd smaller than a Mike & Tony live show. From there, the guys spiral into full Mandela Effect mode (RIP Shoe Source), uncover the deeply unhinged true story of a Jameson whiskey heir with a cannibalism obsession, try to fact-check whether it's actually ever rained fish in Honduras (spoiler: nobody's got video), and swap stories about the most terrifying exes of their youth — taser-wielding black bel
Episode 283. It's a 1:30pm Saturday podcast and nobody's complaining. Tony and Mike recap the Dirty Heads at Red Rocks — including Sophia Lynn's live debut and the most trustworthy hat exchange in concert history — before diving deep into crazy history and science. A Polish bear who enlisted in WWII. A dead man who fooled Hitler. A woman in 1726 who allegedly gave birth to rabbits. A pope who wrote erotic novels and then tried to bury them. Oh, and a tablespoon of neutron star would destroy the Earth. We did the math. It's about 1.3 million elephants' worth of bad news. And Mystic Mountain Mor
Mike catches a weight clip on chest day and lives to tell the tale (ego: not so much). Tony survives his first colonoscopy and somehow this leads to a conversation about the army that drunkenly wiped itself out in 1788. We break down Gaethje's brutal liver shot on Topuria, debate whether the government belongs anywhere near the UFC, and learn why hatters used to go insane (mercury, not millinery skills). Then it's straight into '90s fashion nostalgia, the Grateful Dead's legendary Wall of Sound, and a deep dive on Indy cars vs. NASCAR that neither of us should be allowed to explain on air. Plu
Tony went fly fishing in Grand Junction and caught absolutely nothing. Mike went fly fishing at Deckers and caught a rainbow trout in the lip on his first real attempt. These are the facts. From there, things spiral: the Dirtyheads dropped a new album (Seven Seas), David Foral is hosting a pop-up at Federales, Elon Musk officially became the world's first trillionaire (SpaceX went public — congrats to all of us, we guess), a woman swallowed her AirPod and spent four days with a plastic baggie and a disposable fork, and a man in Detroit had a splinter in his eye for fifteen years and his vision
Episode 280, baby — only 20 away from 300 and we're NOT slowing down. This week Mike and Tony go deep on gout (yes, gout), the genetics behind who gets it, and whether Couch Guy was always destined for the couch. Then it's a full breakdown of which sports actually produce the most elite athletes, a Nolan Ryan appreciation segment nobody asked for but everyone needed, and somehow we end up on Mike Tyson eating a fistful of mushrooms on Logan Paul's podcast like it's nothing. It's science. It's sports. It's chaos. Cheers. -m&t #MikeAndTonyShow #Episode280 #Gout #Genetics #SportsScience #NolonRya
Tony's officially on summer break and his brain is already untethered. This week Mike and Tony cover the important stuff: fresh ink (Goku, no titties), dying languages held together by two people who refuse to speak to each other, a caterpillar wearing its victims like a Halloween costume, a mysterious metal orb that may or may not respond to Sanskrit, and the slow death of the National Enquirer — because reality got weirder than they could. Also: knees, toothbrushes, and the terrifying math of how fast summer disappears. Episode 279. Fully in the bag. Cheers! m&t #MikeAndTonyShow #Episode279
It's a rainy Friday in Colorado and Mike and Tony are in full "we needed the moisture" mode. This week the boys go deep on the invisible bee logistics network holding American agriculture together (yes, really), react to a robot getting its battery confiscated mid-flight, debate whether anyone actually needs a humanoid robot, and somehow end up on piranhas, flying fish, and the most cursed Olympic marathon in history. Plus: Trump's $1.78 billion slush fund, the death of the Colbert era, Trump phones that are basically gold Obama phones, Waymo taxis haunting an Atlanta cul-de-sac, and the neuro
Cameron Schuyler is back and he brought receipts — poster drops, foil prints, a live canvas in progress, and a Red Rocks debut that's been years in the making. We talk live painting with The Elovaters, surviving 114-degree stages with Stick Figure (hand locked, one leg out, brush flung), monk seal territorial disputes in Hawaii, the dying art of festival live painting, reggae festival names that all sound the same, and why the price is always the price, bro. Oh, and we may have accidentally started a music festival. Reggae in the Forest. You heard it here first. Cheers! m&t #MikeAndTonyShow #E
It's a Saturday morning and Mike just got back from a presidential suite in Crested Butte while Denver panicked over a snow day that never showed up. This week Tony and Mike dive into wild science — a neon pink rainforest bug that transforms colors, coffee rewiring your gut bacteria (decaf included, so no excuses), and the five distinct eras your brain goes through — spoiler: you peaked at 32. We also get into why Neanderthals really went extinct, the newly de-extinct dire wolves that are somehow already 115 pounds, the government's UFO document dump, and whether AI has an ego problem. Plus: n
Episode 275 kicks off with Tony raw dogging the podcast (coffeelessly), a packed summer gig schedule, and a new song on the way. Then Mike and Tony take us on a tour of history's most unhinged verified moments — Napoleon getting mobbed by domesticated rabbits, London's 1858 Great Stink shutting down Parliament, a Kentucky meat shower courtesy of vomiting vultures, 13 Dublin legends dying from drinking burning gutter whiskey, and a French freak show performer who swallowed live kittens and still couldn't get full. Plus: the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, Tycho Brahe's golden nose and his drunk m
Your two favorite Denver dads stumble through a Friday night with no agenda and zero shame. Teachers are leaving the profession in droves, middle school smells might be the culprit, and Tony once had an accident in front of his entire third grade class because of one vindictive teacher. No really, he’s ok, we promise. Also on the docket this week: the golden orb mystery is finally solved (disappointing), wombats poop cubes, and apparently 2.3 million gallons of molasses once wiped out part of Boston at 35 miles per hour. Would you rather have no knees or eat scalding hot food forever? What abo
We're back, and this week we've got everything — a 295-million-year-old prehistoric butt, a zebra named Zeus who absolutely refuses to be anyone's livestock, and the official holiday we call “Blah Blah Day”. We also dig into a prediction market genius who made $300K betting on Biden pardons, and the glorious chaos of marshmallows raining from helicopters in Michigan. Then we get into the deep history of Nintendo — from handmade playing cards in 1889 Kyoto, to a brief and chaotic detour into running a taxi company and love hotels, to the kid who created Donkey Kong and accidentally invented Mar
Meetings were invented to waste your time, and we are FINALLY talking about it. Mike and Tony kick off Episode 272 by reminiscing about their corporate-era fashion crimes — yes, we're talking pastel ties, aggressively baggy shirts, and dress codes so cursed they make The Office look like a runway show. Spoiler: once you go dress-code-free, there is no going back. None. Then we dive headfirst into the chaos that is current events, including: an AI artist named Eddie Dalton quietly climbing to #3 on iTunes (so… are we just cool with this?), 12 tons of stolen chocolate that is still at large and
Tony's sinuses are staging a revolt, but that's not stopping him from giving a full report on saunas, cold plunges, and the Rockies home opener — where the team was a disaster but the vibes were immaculate. We bond over our mutual hatred of wind, our increasingly unhinged hair situations, and the eternal question: who wears a random team jersey to a game? We also revisited the wild full story of Einstein's brain being stolen (yes, there's more), celebrate April Fools chaos, including a fake Alaskan volcano that genuinely terrified a city, and Baron Von Pearce drops his official guide to winnin
What do competitive eating, a headless chicken, and a Soviet-era plan to nuke the moon have in common? They were all completely real, we talked about all of them, and honestly none of us are okay. This week we went fork-first into the deranged world of professional competitive eating — the training regimens, the diet cycles, the stomach expansion strategies, and the absolutely unhinged amount of money Joey Chestnut was making to inhale 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. We broke down the most diabolical eating challenges on Earth (a 10-pound burger, a 5-pound inferno chip, and an ice cream challenge w
We’re back and we took the scenic route this week. It starts with Mike going full Baron Von Pearce at a video game meetup at Red Lake Brewery (yes, his in-game name is Baron Von Pearce, and yes, that’s what gamers call each other when they meet up in person), and somehow ends with humanity staring into the infinite void of the universe wondering why a glass bottle will still be here in a million years while we absolutely will not. In between? A love letter to Red Rocks — the greatest concert venue on Earth, and it's not even close — plus personal concert confessions including Tony's first show
It was Friday the 13th, and things got weird. We went full spooky mode this week — diving into the eerie Elisa Lam case again, the most haunted place in the world (spoiler: it was an island), and the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident. We also hit the San Luis Valley UAPs, haunted spots right here in Colorado, and the guy who voluntarily jumped into a lion enclosure in Brazil. You know, light stuff. Oh, and Mike tried to guess where 20 of the world's craziest foods came from — it went surprisingly well. We also debated Naked and Afraid vs. Alone, ranked the largest insects on earth, and somehow
A frigid Friday night podcast! 90s food was built different — and so were we, apparently, because somehow what started as a list of Bagel Bites and Squeeze-Its evolved into a full-blown confessional about sneaking out of the house as teenagers. We cover the greatest hits of 90s snack culture, argue about which ones actually held up, and try to figure out why Dipping Dots never became the future they promised us. Then things get personal. Real personal. Turns out both of us have some stories that probably should've stayed buried — but here we are. Poor decisions were made. Windows were climbed
In this episode, we take a ride through one of our favorite rabbit holes — how the world changed insanely fast across just a handful of generations… and how that speed has completely reshaped the way we live, communicate, listen to music, drive cars, raise kids, and even think about time itself. We start with a viral nostalgia post that sparked a massive reaction online and quickly realize that what feels “normal” depends entirely on when you were born. From the Silent Generation to Gen Alpha, we unpack how each group grew up in a totally different technological reality — rotary phones, party
