Why Are We Still Doing This?

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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Part one of a three part series on all things video games, including what it was like essentially growing up in a mall arcade in the late 80s and early 90s, the transition of top games to home consoles and the infamous console wars, and general mall culture and nostalgia.  Joining me on this series is Jesse Littlejohn, who has been one of my best friends since age 5 and, if you listened to episode one of this show, was an big part of the destructive “sleepover crew” and an important part of my formative years.  In part 1, we talk about the competitive nature of the arcade in the early 90s, the sights, the sounds and the smells, the competition AND camaraderie we discovered in that environment.

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In episode 5, I tell a story about how a grown man who never washed his hands almost cause me to self sabotage and not finish my Masters Degree, my favorite pet dying and why cat owners are psychotic compared to dog owners, why a championship drought is healthy for your hometown team, and WHY ARE WE STILL GETTING EMOTIONALLY INVESTED IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AS GROWN ADULTS?

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In this BONUS EPISODE of the Why Are We Still Doing This podcast, we explore why opponents of Pride Month ALWAYS say the same thing every June, or generally anytime an LGBTQ initiative doesn't fit their mold of "normal."

Buckle up. ..

In episode 4, we’re pondering why we’re still taking pictures of our food and if anyone would care in 1988, the healing powers of nostalgia and how it’s getting millennials through the day, longing for poor quality Polaroids as opposed to high megapixel images, the cocky flex that chicken owners flaunt, the Wild West that was purchasing event tickets before the internet, how bowling is the only sport you can order mozzarella sticks part way through the game, the emotional rollercoaster of taking your children to a re-release of your favorite movie, how sports fans can be so confident and so wrong when finding their seats at a game, how Star Wars fans ruined Star Wars and the influence of influencers on how we watch movies today, having a healthy hatred for another pro sports franchise, the stamina that the youngest generation lacks when waiting in line, desk jobs before the internet, trying to comprehend how Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs with the physique of a current day Yankee Stadium hot dog vendor, and WHY ARE WE STILL HOLDING ON TO OUR CHILDREN’S OLD TOYS?

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In episode 3, we’re exploring the seventh level of hell that is enduring airport security/rental car counters, trying to pinpoint what makes us anxious about flying, witnessing the most unorthodox method of dressing one's self, immature parents unable to put their differences aside and each trying to get that “W”, everything I don’t want to inherit from my parents, the flawed logic of waiting until kids are older to take them to Disney because they’re “too young to remember”, why a classic Pizza Hut hit differently back then, dragging kids all over town on Christmas day, and WHY ARE BOOMERS STILL WALKING AROUND LOCKER ROOMS WITHOUT A TOWEL ON?

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