899 - Halloween with Sam

A Mediocre Time with Tom & Dan: Episode Notes Episode: "899 - Halloween with Sam" Hosts: Tom Vann, Dan Dennis | Guest: Samantha (Sam) Haar Sponsors / Ad Reads My Eternal Vitality (Dr. Powers): Pre-roll read covering hormone imbalance symptoms (fatigue, low energy, low libido), plus peptides and GLP-1 microdosing. Dan talked about Andrea's results with it and his own gut health improvement. Consultations are free; blood tests cost extra and many can be done at home. MyEternalVitality.com. Injured On The Go, Just Call Mo: Studio naming credit in the show open. Modern Plumbing (ModernPI.com): Dan admitted flushing Tootsie Rolls for an old Instagram bit and breaking the kitchen toilet. Covers drain and sewer, water heaters, water quality, and pipe relining for cast iron. Service area is Seminole, Orange, Lake, Volusia and Osceola. Mention Tom & Dan for 10% off, which also helps the show track results. Jeff's Bagel Run: Four new breakfast sandwiches under the "Other" tab in the app: bacon egg and cheese, egg and cheese, egg white and cheese, and turkey sausage egg and cheese. Dan had the turkey sausage on Asiago, and Maisie had bacon egg and cheese on an everything bagel. They also mentioned Otis Brand coffee and the cream cheeses retired "to make room." JeffsBagelRun.com. Segment Rundown Cold open: Halloween costumes. Sam and Dan dressed up. Dan is David the Gnome with an inflatable Swift the Fox, and he thanked Ross McCoy for the fox idea. Tom grudgingly wore his purple "business Joker" jacket over a polo before a post-show meeting with Wild Fork, while drinking from a Grimace cup. Tom was loaded up on cold medicine. Events stress, prepper food. Sam and Dan teased Tom for never planning ahead and treating everything like the 2027 cruise. Tom asked about the viral "stock up on three days of food" trend. Business up top: cruise. The 2027 Tom & Dan Cruise is at about 250 people and still booking. About six people have birthdays on board, and they'll get the spotlight during the live podcast. "The Beast" is reportedly retired from partying and has a master's degree. That led to a callback about Tom's government lie detector test. New website and app. The new tomanddan.com is live and streamlined. They debated whether businesses still need websites, and Dan admitted he judges breweries that only have a Facebook page. Matthew has pushed three app updates this week to fix login problems. Email show@tomanddan.com with app issues. Trail of Terror, crude tangent. Dan plugged the last night of St. Cloud's Trail of Terror, which is in its 16th year at Peghorn Nature Park. Tom's mangling of the park name turned into an off-color tangent about a secondhand rumor involving someone Tom knows. Charity dodgeball disaster. Sam told the story of a Moe DeWitt-sponsored children's cancer charity dodgeball tournament. Bus recruited a last-minute team: Sam, her husband Trav, "Karate" Tommy G, and BDM Josh Gibbon. Sam named the team the Legal Eagles. Bus bought heavy wool eagle capes, but the theme turned out to be superheroes, which led to a debate about why there are no eagle superheroes. He also brought beers to a children's charity event. Sam described teens running the rules on a broken mic and over-competitive grown men. Bus hit a boy with Down syndrome in the face and kept saying he was aiming for the boy's mother. The team lasted about six hours and went deep in the bracket. Tommy broke his ribs on a pony wall, and Josh tore his Achilles, needed surgery, and was carried out by a St. Cloud sheriff while Bus smiled next to him. The team walked away near the end after a grown man from the "Dodge Fathers" threw a tantrum over a sudden-death round. They compared it to the right level of effort for Level 99 and Sofas and Suds. Professor Hoodoo call-in magic. The first call-in magic segment the show has done. Professor Hoodoo called from Daytona Beach, where the area was being locked down for a presidential visit, and Sam used the box of tricks he left in studio. He did a Marie Laveau dice numerology trick. Sam's total of 136 reduced to "1," meaning new beginnings. He guessed her secret number as 86 or 87, and it was 88, which the hosts counted as close enough. Next was a penny trick with liars and truth tellers. He got everyone's hand right, but Dan wasn't consistent with his lie and blew his part. Hoodoo promised tarot next time. Chat called it one of the best segments ever. Halloween special: Sunland Hospital. The ACT Halloween special visits the former site of Sunland Hospital in Pine Hills with Amy LaCour. They clarified i