Dysfunctional Dialogue

Dysfunctional Dialogue

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Dysfunctional Dialogue episodes

  • What I Live For

    On this episode, a longtime friend and I laugh our way through billion-dollar coin flips that involve missing limbs, missing senses, accelerated aging, and permanent facial changes. Is the money worth it? Well, the laughs certainly were. Enjoy!

    15 min
  • Puppeteer

    This week, my daughter joins me for a hilariously spirited test of the limits of logic, morality, and vanity. We laugh our way through billion-dollar coin flips with truly unacceptable consequences, emotional reactions at the worst possible moments, and discover just how quickly money stops feeling worth it.


    20 min
  • Best Day Ever

    This week, my brother and our childhood friend are back and we get even more ridiculous. Join us as we laugh our way through the creative games and competitions that defined our youth and helped shape our lives. They were fun, imaginative, and occasionally hovering on the edge of the law, though mostly harmless.

    13 min
  • Talking Dogs

    This week, my former college roommate joins me, again, to unpack the glory and guilt of youthful stupidity. We talk about testing a friend’s head strength, derailing a football captain’s big moment, and nearly being escorted out of a Super 8 after creating what could have been described as a crime scene. Laughs were had. Regret followed. Wisdom came much later … or maybe will eventually.

    15 min
  • Bleary Eyed

    This week, my high school friend and I relive our wild days and nights, including Ski Club exploits and our mutual appreciation of The Who in concert. From front-row fortune to highly questionable seating strategies, we talk about being terribly bleary-eyed after days of partying. The music kept ringing, and learned the fun way what happens when you party for days and still show up for class.

    14 min
  • Snow Daze

    This week, my brother and our neighborhood friend join me to relive the wild, snowy chaos of our childhood. Hop on with us as we revisit a time when snow days meant freedom, danger, and deeply questionable decisions. No helmets. No plans. Just cold hands, crazy adventures and big laughs. Enjoy!

    17 min
  • Bendy?

    He’s still in Witness Protection. Same anonymous guest. Same questionable judgment. We revisit college chaos, bond over growing up broke, and uncover the exact moment a man enthusiastically agrees to lose anything. Some convictions are eternal. Some are anatomical.

    Join us in Witness Protection, Part 2. titled "Bendy?"

    15 min
  • Really?

    This week, I’m joined by a high school friend I hadn’t seen in decades as we exhume our Catholic school years. Unruly students and discipline that crossed into legend along with cheating plans so overengineered they accidentally turned into studying. Education through madness … and irony. Enjoy!

    19 min
  • The Entrepreneurs

    The conversation got even funnier - having an outright blast with my brother Jim and our old neighborhood friend Pete. Join us as we revisit the creative money making schemes and other wild and unbelievable moments from our very Dysfunctional Neighborhood.

    15 min
  • Eternal

    This week, my college roommate, Brian Smith, re-joins me as we revisit the glorious chaos of our younger years—stories so ridiculous a friend once declared our continued childish behavior to be… Eternal. And honestly? He wasn’t wrong.

    18 min

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Like sitting in on a conversation with your best friends. A podcast with lots of laughs, funny stories, quick-witted comedy and lighthearted banter