On The Cross With Lucas Murphy

Lucas and Nathan are BACK, BABY! There's a solid half hour of very granular discussion about the production of booze, followed by the consumption of booze. We talk about the angry hot dog biker, Nathan's water park lifestyle, Boston Milkshakes, our complete and withering disdain for prestige television, invent scrabbilliards, and try to get to the bottom of a Sherlock Holmes Tampon Mystery.

On The Cross is coming to you LIVE from Poorcastle Festival with our special guest Sean Cannon, here to help us solve the New York Times Crossword Puzzle in a tent full of confused music festival goers. We launch into the poopoo and peepee material pretty quickly and it devolves from there into a heated debate about what the best pizza buffet is. Fans from the crowd get on stage to explain the history of dirty jokes, and Lucas makes some broad generalizations about what constitutes a soup. Plus a dueling speed round between a mini puzzle and Sean’s credentials! 

The Boys are back with another puzzling pod. Nathan’s working out the kinks on his bankruptcy scheme, Lucas hates youtube celebrities, there’s some discussion on where Geico fits into the classic structures of narrative conflict, and Nathan describes his ideal date with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Are the rumors true? Is On The Cross headed for a breakup? Nathan's been blocking Lucas's Words with Friends requests, Lucas has nothing but contempt for Nathan's love of 90's bands. Things seem pretty unstable. Still the boys have reunited, not unlike the Beatles, for a rooftop performance this week. Join them as they take on a "mini-marathon" of three short puzzles. One easy one, one humiliatingly tough one, and one that's gay as hell. There's a lot of talk about video games, and a little talk about politics vis-a-vis terrible beer preferences. Also: if you live in the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio area, we're doing a live show July 6th at Poorcastle Fest! Go to www.poorcastle.com for the complete lineup and tickets, it's gonna be one heck of a show.

Comedian Misty Stine comes by the studio to help solve a "food and drink" themed crossword puzzle from the New York Times app. We discuss the worst stage in town, hipsters, alternate calendars as a tool of the bourgeoisie, stamp addiction, and that Game of Thrones.  If you like the show please go to Apple Podcasts and leave us a review! Let us know you're out there!

Nathan's gone garden crazy. Lucas is just trying to keep up. There's mild spoilers about the fate of Hagar the Horrible in the new Avengers movie. Nobody is keeping the go kart cheaters in check. All this plus we read the minutes from the last meeting of the itty bitty titty committee. 

Lucious Williams is back for a New York Times Crossword mini-marathon! The boys bang out two mini puzzles, talk gardening, name problems, racism, Mini Kiss, preacher breathing, and which zoo animals we could beat in a fight.

We got a big, fat tiddy hit of a show! Hunter Roberts joins the boys for a comic themed edition of the New York Times Crossword. We talk about the Chinese jerkoff robot, Lake Poopyboobs, Garfield, faraway magic, and the dangers of vintage energy booze.

Lucas and Nathan go it alone this week with a full-blown Monday puzzle, and much like Icarus from the Led Zeppelin t shirt, their hubris was their undoing. It wasn't a particularly difficult puzzle, and they certainly got distracted talking about other things, but it took them a solid two hours to figure it out.

Return guest Eric Sorgel joins the boys for a New York Times crossword puzzle and somehow it becomes about Mister Noodle, opossum adjacent muggings, and driving your Ford to the fjord. Nathan offers a taste of the Nerd’s Rope, Eric has a doomsday posse put together, and Lucas owns what could be a lifetime supply of toilet paper.

Stephen Holthouser popped in at the studio and helped the boys solve a New York Times crossword puzzle. Nathan got crushed by a Maytag, Stephen explores the concept of the PC mafia, and Lucas finally gets to the bottom of one of the longest standing mysteries on the show.

David Britton joins the boys at the all new Devil Heaven studio for a wordplay puzzle from the New York Times. Along the way we talk about butthole eyes, deep fried memes, the dainty, midlife crisis penis piercings, shushing sports, and unintentionally killing it at an open mic. Thank you to our listeners who have been spreading the word, we love you and we are in love with you so please keep telling your friends to listen!

It's a live podcast crossover red carpet event! Nathan and Lucas teamed up with Sean and Patrick from Bout Time to cover the 8th annual Kent Carney Awards. If you don't listen to Bout Time already, head over there and give a listen to the other half of this insane podcast mashup. They released the pre-show interviews, we have the post-show roundup. Interviewees (in order of appearance): John Smothers  Junkus from Big Howell and Possum Craig Williams  Loren Cline Chris Vititoe  Will Hardesty Melissa Doran Brian Kensington from Powerbottom the Podcast Matt Gaither Mandee McKelvey Andy Fleming Howell Dawdy Jake Reber’s Mom Greg Welsh Kent Carney Rob Montage Chris Vititoe again

It's award season, and during our recent recording session with Jake Reber we ended up talking in depth about Louisville's own Kent Carney Awards for Comedic Excellence with the creator, founder, and godfather of the prestigious-née-facetious award. Listen in on an unprecedented conversation about the most coveted fake award in comedy!

The man behind Louisville's largest annual comedy event, The Kent Carney Awards, Jake Reber is back in the studio. We talk about music, racism, and the She-Hulk.

If this is your first time listening to On The Cross, you should know in all the earlier episodes Nathan wasn’t a big fat guy. From now on, it seems he will be. Also, he’s probably gonna get into jewelry. We talk sneakers, VR pornography, whisper secrets about a dead guy, jape battles, and STELMO. All the while solving the New York Times Crossword puzzle.   Play along with the NYT Crossword app: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2018/12/31

The holidays are almost here and you know what that means: we're gonna talk about the safety of consuming street fudge. Friend and comedian Sara Butryn joins the boys for a New York Times crossword puzzle, Lucas makes eye contact with a salacious chimp, and Nathan finds out there's different holes for pee and poo. 

Lucas and Nathan sit down without any distractions and tear ass through the Monday puzzle. So it's like 8 minutes of talk about vitamins right at the top, then they get convinced they can predict the future for a minute, then some talk about whipping it out on a date, a discussion of candy... Long story short it still took them an hour. PLUS! B-b-b-bonus: there's a couple mini puzzles thrown in at the end. Download the New York Times Crossword app and play along!

Comedian Lucious Williams visits the show for another New York Times crossword puzzle! We kick things off with a neighborhood-specific discussion of local diners that's sure to appeal to listeners everywhere, Lucas has more infections than ears, Lucious fights a kangaroo, and Nathan gets a joke stolen by Dane Cook. All this plus a review of the pornography version of Jurassic World!

Friend of the show C. Charles is back with for another round of New York Times crossword puzzle madness. We review some pickles, talk about eating gross foods as a goof, discuss caveman related music, rock and roll baby names, dentistry, and pity date tattoos.