Broadcasting live from the legendary Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk studios, the Don’t Listen Chumcast goes completely off the rails in the best possible way. In this episode, Big Red & The Shebs crack open the wild history of the Boardwalk itself — from its old-school carnival roots and neon-drenched California mythology to its iconic role in pop culture and movie history. From The Lost Boys and vampire chaos to the endless stream of beach movies, music videos, and late-night urban legends tied to Santa Cruz, the crew dives into why this place became one of America’s most recognizable backdrops for cinematic rebellion and coastal weirdness. If you’ve ever smelled salt air, fried food, and bad decisions at the same time… this segment is for you.

Then the Chumcast takes a hard left turn straight into one of the strangest disasters in American history — the Great Locust Plague of 1874. Imagine skies turning black, crops disappearing in minutes, and entire towns watching helplessly as billions of Rocky Mountain locusts descended like something out of an apocalypse movie. The crew dives into the terrifying scale of the storm, the panic it unleashed across the Midwest, and how one of the largest insect swarms ever recorded practically erased livelihoods overnight. Nature was the original horror movie — and this segment proves it.

From there, the Don’t Listen Chumcast gets under your skin — literally — with a deep dive into the savage, rebellious, and sometimes criminal history of tattoos. From ancient warriors and outlaw bikers to sailors, punks, prisoners, and modern influencers turning ink into billion-dollar culture, the crew explores how tattoos evolved from taboo branding into mainstream identity. Expect stories about underground tattoo parlors, moral panic, rock stars covered head-to-toe in ink, and the kind of questionable tattoo decisions people absolutely regret after tequila and heartbreak collide.

But things take an even darker turn when the guys descend into the completely unhinged world of Caligula — the Roman emperor whose name became synonymous with excess, corruption, madness, violence, and debauchery. Was he history’s first true celebrity trainwreck? A misunderstood tyrant? Or just proof humanity has always been obsessed with chaos? From bizarre rumors and political bloodbaths to stories too insane to sound real, the Chumcast tears through one of history’s most infamous figures with zero brakes and absolutely no dignity left intact.

And just when you think the episode can’t get louder, the crew closes things out with an epic debate over the greatest guitar solos of the 1980s — the decade where solos became larger than life and guitar gods ruled MTV. From face-melting arena rock anthems to emotional masterpieces that still stop people dead in their tracks, the guys argue over who delivered the most legendary six-string moments ever recorded. Expect screaming guitars, hot takes, controversy, and pure 80s excess as they celebrate the solos that defined an era of big hair, louder amps, and absolute musical insanity.