In episode 16, we explore why we're overcomplicating our wedding day-and asking the question "who is our wedding really for?" We reminisce about motels...and infamous college town eateries... we slept, and dined in, during our youth that we wouldn't dare step foot into as an adult with children, how we all have that one friend who always passes out in a plate of food at the end of a late night, my loathe of pizza places with an encyclopedia for a menu and questioning why hot dogs are a part of it, food you ate at 2am in your 20s that you'd never eat in your 40s and sober, being a wedding DJ in 2025 and wondering if its all smoke and mirrors now with everything digital, why renting a tuxedo is a huge waste of money and why you're better off just going to JCPenney, and the unexpected...ungodly smell of the Baltimore Harbor in warm weather.

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In episode 15, we talk about what personnel needed to run a school in 2025 compared to the 1980s, and how most people have no clue what that looks like, getting back to the basics of home economics and life skills taught in school, instead of learning about volcanoes, Pangea, and other stuff you’ll never use, personal stories about some of our favorite teachers growing up, and highlighting what makes a good teacher today in 2025, the hilarity of watching today’s youth navigate a wired telephone, and so much more.

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In Episode 14, I’m joined by my friend and Middle School Adjustment Counselor, Scott Balawender for a two part series , “Why Are We Still Neglecting Public Schools.”

In part one we talk about our career paths, the importance of building relationships with kids in a school setting and why it’s important for classroom management, challenges facing kids that are far greater than some can imagine, instant gratification and lack of social interactions with today's children, the ideal staffing needed for running a classroom in 2025, recognizing kids that are flying under the radar, the need for teachers to call home when something GOOD happens, and school staff taking the emotion out of their response when a child is dysregulated.

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In episode 13, a very special Halloween edition of Why Are We Still Doing This?, I'm joined by two of my best friends Kevin and Colin Moran. We talk about the history of their childhood home and the robust amount of paranormal activity over the past 50 years, hilarious Ouija board shenanigans from our youth, a spine chilling recount of coming face to face with an apparition, rules and conditions for ghosts and how they should haunt, connecting with family members long after they’ve left this earth, and much more.

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In Episode 12 I’m joined by my friend Ron Werth, a fellow stand up comic, theater aficionado, and someone who was recently diagnosed with Autism as an adult. We talk about the science behind autism, growing old and thinking about why you did certain things as a kid and realizing that there was nothing wrong with you to begin with, the percentage of stand up comedians with autism, masking and what it means in the world of autism, preconceived notions and naive assumptions about people with autism, having a brain that’s constantly on a loop, giving your body what it really needs, and ultimately trying to fit in with the world while at the same time not caring to fit in at all.  We had a bit of technical difficulties, which you’ll notice in one small spot, because the internet where I live is very inconsistent.

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In Episode 11, we talk about the Fan Expo in Boston, Massachusetts from this past August and why you’ll never find happier people than those at a Comic Con, shooting the breeze with John Cena, being part of the “good weird” crowd, letting go of antiquated and made up social norms, the plethora of smells we encounter when waiting in line to meet our childhood heroes at these events, the difference between a “want”and a “need” and the audacity of people using a Go Fund Me for anything other than a life changing tragedy.

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In episode 10, we talk about the place where most of our core teenage memories lived, as well as the home of most arcades: the mall. We talk about how our local newspaper spoiled a video game Christmas surprise for one of us, general mall nostalgia, including the smells that take us back, some of the worst places to eat in a mall food court, the lust for physical media in a digital age, the quest to collect every Super Nintendo game, the shot of dopamine that nostalgia gives people, the escapism in playing retro gaming, and the unlikely resurrection of one of our favorite childhood restaurants that nobody asked for.

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In episode 9, we’re talking about why we continue to return to the same places every year for family vacation and why it’s totally ok, hotel amenities back in the day that really weren’t amenities, why vacations with small children are not always relaxing and why they’re not meant to be, and the magic in taking your kids to the places you went as a child.

We’re also talking about travel sports, including how it can upend your entire schedule but you make it work because you wouldn’t have it any other way, and how we as adults used to think we were busy before having children.

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In episode 8 of the Why Are We Still Doing This Podcast… Joining me again is my friend Jesse Littlejohn, and in this episode we’re talking about the home console wars that drew a line in the sand between adolescent boys in the early to mid 1990s, the edginess that was in the advertising during that time, home consoles catching up to arcade technology, the excitement of video game magazines arriving in the mail, children being exposed to even more graphic video games today, the bizarre process you had to go through when purchasing an item at a Service Merchandise store in the 90s, and being roasted by friends for buying the wrong video game system.

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In Episode 7, we’re exploring the pros and cons of buying a used car and if it matters if the previous owner treated it like their second home, the horrors of the hospitality industry and how most likely all of us have eaten food that fell onto the kitchen floor, the euphoric feeling of that first step in a motel room on a middle class vacation in the 80s, why you should always check the alarm clock in your hotel room before going to sleep, going on a high school trip and treating the hotel room like we were on tour with Motley Crue, the possibility of AI helping us to permanently delete memories and if we would actually want it, trying to get your point across in a bumper sticker, and finding the humor in pain. 

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