Why Are We Still Doing This?

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...

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 ma...

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, inst...

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 f...

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...

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...

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...

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, in...

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 arrivin...

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 clo...

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...

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? Like what you hear? Buy...

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 sp...

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 unti...

IN EPISODE 2, we're getting deep...talking about WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL GETTING MARRIED?, longing after someone from the past and realizing you were longing for something else all along, how people send out big announcements today, the importance of taking your kids on trips and not wasting time making memories, the longevity of high school sweethearts, the versatility of owning a minivan in high sc...

In our debut episode, we’re talking about what people think stand up comedy is in 2025 and your job as an audience member, why we don’t daydream anymore and how we handled that before the internet, why the 90s were the best for making prank calls, our parents resistance to Venmo and their love of writing checks, being a teenager and purposefully setting couches on fire, how sense of humor binds fr...