Shoeless in South Dakota

The title says it all...   https://www.shoelessinsouthdakota.com/  

In this second edition of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Tabitha into the studio to have an honest conversation about her struggles with alcohol. With these  All Too Human  interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of normal working people in hopes that we can provide insight into this type of human suffering, help others...

 Dave commits a "tincy, wincy bit" of insurance fraud,  then Dave gets hate-crimed in his childhood bathroom... https://www.shoelessinsouthdakota.com/    

This one is different from our usual episodes, folks. Just give it a listen and find out for yourself... From Lawnmower Phil running (slowly) from cops to Ernest Hemingway pulling the Ol' Kurt Cobain (or did Cobain pull the Ol' Hemingway?) to Julian putting Dave's phone  in his ass,  this one takes a few weird turns. Enjoy... or whatever it is you all do and feel when you listen to this shit.    S...

B & D are back with a brand new episode! Topics include: Breht getting called a slur in a road rage incident, Dave briefly tangles w/ Russian Breht, marijuana addiction and what it means, nihilism and what philosophy can offer those who struggle with it, doing drugs and crimes as teens, getting robbed by Tree Top, erowid and pillidentifer,  huffing gas , Friedrich Nietzsche, how parenting is reall...

In this episode, the Barefoot Boys open with an incredibly somber conversation about Dave's recent relapse before launching into random segments like "inventing funny terrorist organizations" and reading  bone-chillingly cringe posts from the boy's past. After that, Breht and Dave dissect a skin-crawling interview Bill Maher did with Bella Thorne, revealing the creepy core of who Bill Maher really...

In this first edition of our new All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome "Katie", Breht's sister, into the studio to have an honest conversation about her struggles with alcohol and gambling.  With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of normal working people in hopes that we can provide insight into this type...

In this inaugural episode of Shoeless in South Dakota, The Barefoot Boys explain the lore behind the show's name, discuss death and what if anything comes after, and then they explore Hindu cosmology and the Block Theory of the universe wherein time manifests as a spatial dimension. Breht also makes fun of what Dave is wearing then Dave explains to Breht the "carefree" tier of gravestone maintaine...

The one and only Dave Icenogle returns yet again for another multi-hour conversation. He and Breht start off talking about their recent adventures together, then move into a conversation about death and how we deal with it, they then discuss the tragedies and suffering of life and how to come out of them a deeper, more kind hearted, and better human being. After all of that, they discuss the impor...

David Icenogle from our various addiction and mental health episodes returns once again, this time to have an open-ended (and humorous) discussion about pursuing your dreams v. having a stable job, the horrific impact of pornography on teenagers, where one should strive to find their sense of self worth, why doing challenging and uncomfortable things are necessary for growth, the possibility of fe...

David Icenogle (from  No Chaser ) returns to the show and joins Breht once again to have a frank, open-ended, wide-ranging discussion about their experiences and struggles with mental health. This is not meant as medical advice, nor scientific analysis; it is meant to simply be two human beings and close friends sitting down and discussing their direct experiences in the hope that it might resonat...

David Icenogle returns to the show for another super long patreon exclusive where he and Breht talk relationships, their volatile and amusing teenage years, and the complexities and contradictions of online dating before shifting toward an interesting discussion on January 6th and Israel/Palestine based on some of Dave's musings and questions; with plenty of laughs and absurdities along the way. A...

In this Patreon exclusive , David Icenogle ( No Chaser on YT ) from our Alcoholism and Addiction episode(s) returns to shoot the shit with Breht. Dave catches us up on his road to recovery and his attendant trials and tribulations, and then asks Breht political questions he has about abortion rights and some of his concerns regarding communism (as someone who is admittedly not very political). Thi...

David Icenogle returns to the show, this time to patreon exclusively, to discuss his recent relapse, which occurred after the recording of our public episode On Alcoholism in March as well as after more than a year of continuous sobriety.   In this long, darkly funny, and heartbreaking conversation, Dave discusses his relapse, the causes behind it, mental health and existential crises, the psychol...

David Icenogle joins Breht to discuss his long struggle with alcoholism as well as his long and rocky road to sobriety and recovery. Together, they touch on many different aspects of addiction, the specific struggle with alcoholism, the difficulties of getting and staying sober, the psychology of addiction, the nuances of AA, how relapses happen and how to avoid them, the brutal impact of addictio...