Craig Carton Puts the Intern on the HOT SEAT... and It Goes OFF THE RAILS! artwork

Craig Carton Puts the Intern on the HOT SEAT... and It Goes OFF THE RAILS!

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

July 15, 2026

Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle turn the studio into a game show as a WFAN intern gets grilled on sports history, classic rock, TV, movies, and pop culture. From Navy SEALs and SCUBA to The Beatles, Eagles, Rolling Stones, Sylvester Stallone, and more, the quiz quickly spirals into hilarious chaos.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle, Peter
**Craig Carton** (0:00)
We're here, the mashup of this into, oh, I'm gonna block on it right now. Oh, shoot.
Why did I even start saying it? I just had a you moment.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:13)
No.

**Craig Carton** (0:14)
Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:15)
I only have it with names.

**Craig Carton** (0:16)
It smells like teen spirit into, gosh, I was gonna say a Beatles song, but I don't think it's a Beatles song.
Um, I guess you never heard it.
Can you guys look up for me? There's a great mashup of smells like teen spirit into, um, I keep wanting to say Uncle John's Pan, but it's not. Oh, shoot. I can't think of it. You'll love it, though. I'm sure the guys will find it. I'm sure the guys will find it. They're really doing their job well today. They seem to be very laser focused. Some people are on their phones all day. Others, laser focused on the show itself, so...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:56)
Who's on their phones all day?

**Craig Carton** (0:57)
Can you find it for me what the mashup is?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:59)
I'm confused. It's like... What am I supposed to look up? Nirvana?

**Craig Carton** (1:03)
Look up mashup. Nirvana mashup.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:05)
There's like a Billie Jean mashup, but I don't know if that's it.

**Craig Carton** (1:08)
No, that's one of them.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:09)
The song is blur.

**Craig Carton** (1:10)
No, not blur. That ain't it. Oh, shoot.
The Billie Jean one I've heard, but there's a song I just can't wrap my head around the name of the song, but maybe you could find it for me at some point. And yeah, here's Pete and May Impact. I'm the fan. Peter, how are you, buddy?

**Peter** (1:26)
Hey, guys. How you doing?

**Craig Carton** (1:27)
Great. Thank you so much.

**Peter** (1:29)
All right. First of all, about the meat, you know, you guys talking about the meat, if it's labeled cell cultured, it's in every grocery store in America now.

**Craig Carton** (1:39)
Is that? Well, I'm not buying it. I'll tell you that. I'm not smoking it either.

**Peter** (1:43)
But you have to read the label. In KFC, they got rid of it because of fried. They didn't want fried.

**Craig Carton** (1:50)
Yeah, we learned that. We got that one.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:51)
Someone called with that. Yeah, makes sense.

**Peter** (1:53)
And the statin thing, the statin study, they had two groups, one each of 100
The statin group had one heart attack out of 99 The placebo group had two out of 100, whatever. So anyway, what they said, it reduces heart attack risk by 50% just on that one study.

**Craig Carton** (2:14)
Oh, one to two out of 100 total people. Yeah, just stop taking. Look, I'm not a doctor, but if I were you guys, I would stop taking statins. But again, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor. Consult with your own physician on that one.

**Peter** (2:29)
Yes.

**Craig Carton** (2:29)
Yeah.

**Peter** (2:29)
And lastly, Craig, you are such a talent. Thank you. If I worked with you in my first year, I would never take vacation.

**Craig Carton** (2:37)
That's what I'm talking about.

**Peter** (2:38)
You know what?

**Craig Carton** (2:39)
I might be looking. So keep your phone open and keep that resume ready to go.
Wait till you get to August. You're barely going to hear Big Mac on the radio in August. Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:51)
That's just not true.

**Craig Carton** (2:52)
That's right.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:52)
We already talked today. Someone told me taking a day off out of nowhere.

**Peter** (2:56)
Who? You.

**Craig Carton** (2:57)
I'm taking a day off?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:58)
That's what I heard.

**Craig Carton** (2:59)
Well, I'm taking a day off for a surgical preparation.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:03)
In August? Yeah. Oh, I'm taking that day off.

**Craig Carton** (3:06)
Oh, August 28th?

**Peter** (3:07)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (3:08)
That day? Well, we were supposed to be doing a show in Long Island that we're not doing anymore.

**Peter** (3:11)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (3:12)
So that's now the start of a long week of vacation.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:15)
There you go.

**Peter** (3:16)
A long week.

**Craig Carton** (3:17)
I'm thinking about taking August 28th through Labor Day now. That's what I'm kind of...

**Chris McMonigle** (3:21)
You should.

**Craig Carton** (3:22)
You're taking half August off.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:23)
I'm not taking half August off.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:24)
I'm going to take the other half off.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:26)
I'm taking eight days in August off. There's 30 of them.

**Craig Carton** (3:29)
No, there's not.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:30)

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