Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

The return of Steve! Shana Danger, David Wahl, and Scott Heff are joined by former store-staffer Steve Q to talk about his favorite products, monsters, satanic panic, cheeks in a box, Handitaur and Loafman. Below you can see the famous Loafman and an array of Steve's best costumes! Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Google Play! Loafman Glow Monster Head! Steve's vampire...

  If you were looking for a place to start with our podcast, this is the one. David Wahl, Shana Danger, and Scott Heff talk about how the business is organized and how we each started. You're on our retail site, you can see our store here, and our wholesale site is here.   Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Google Play! Scott Heff's video resume!...

This week on Less Talk, More Monkey David Wahl and Shana Danger are honored to be joined by Nancy Leson, KNKX food commentator and former columnist and restaurant critic for the Seattle Times, to talk about Sticknic. Sticknic is an Archie McPhee employee food competition to see who can cook the best food on a stick. Thank you, Nancy! Click here...

For the last four years, the Archie McPhee staff has participated in our annual Sticknic contest. The concept is a cooking competition where all the food needs to be transported from the pate to the mouth via a stick. All entries are judged on taste, presentation, and stick-ness.  Speaking of judges, we are so lucky to have Nancy Leson, famous...

We finish up the catalog we've been talking about and go over old store events like the sidewalk sale, Bug Day and April Fish Day. David, Shana, and Scott talk about which products are their favorites and which products still haven't sold over 20 years later! You can read along with the catalog by clicking here. Also in this episode! A thank...

In the latest episode of the Less Talk, More Monkey Podcast we continue to talk about catalog 46 from 1996/1997. You can find the pages we're talking about here! Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Google Play! Dogs playing blackjack is not funny. 

In this episode, Shana Danger, David Wahl, and Scott Heff discuss the first section of the 46th issue of the Archie McPhee Catalog from 1996/1997. We didn't get very far, but we did discuss toilet paper, cannibalism and the Hokey Pokey Sounds Machine.  See the pages we're discussing here! Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Google Play! We also briefly discuss the time...

  Fuzz is a beloved, longterm employee of Archie McPhee. When he first started working for the company, he was the model for the Fuzz Action Figure. In this episode, David Wahl, Shana Danger, and Scott Heff discuss the Fuzz Action Figure with the ACTUAL FUZZ! We answer questions like, why we made an action figure of a regular guy, how it sold...

At one point, Archie McPhee and bacon were synonymous. In this episode, we (David Wahl, Shana Danger, and Scott Heff) give the first part of our bacon timeline and mention about half, or less, of the bacon product that Archie McPhee is responsible for. You'll be able to hear Scott Heff's reaction to eating Bacon Mints for the first time and...

We were so happy to be able to march in the 2018 Seattle Pride Parade. This is our third year participating and it was bigger and better than ever. It is always a fun and energizing event. So many people tell us how much Archie McPhee means to them and we get to support the LGBTQ community. We decorated our...