The Managing Expectations Podcast

Wenger and Brian are joined by special guest, Paul Southern (a Brit!) for a discussion about American dynamism, European provincial homogeneity, and the one kind of guy, the whole world over, who drives a Dodge Ram. Sponsors: MrsWenger.com ManagingExpectationsPodcast.com Allinadream.us

Wenger is solo and reviews Taylor Downing’s history of a crucial year in the Cold War.    MrsWenger.com Allinadream.us ManagingExpectationsPodcast.com

As awkward as Wenger’s ultrasound was, it pales beside Brian cracking his colleague’s back.   MrsWenger.com Managingexpectationspodcast.com Allinadream.us

Wenger returns from Florida (a state with which Brian has some familiarity) and is able to tell the tale. Also: The delay explained! What’s with the eyepatch! Tales from the theater! And more!   Check out microwave bowl coozies at mrswenger.com Check out Managing Expectations Merch (with Big Big Face) at managing http://Managingexpectationspodcast.com Check out Silver Age comics and graphic novels...

Wenger & Brian remember noted humorist P.J. O’Rourke who died recently. They share some of his writings and review his career. And they still have time to talk about Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando in Andrew Bergman’s The Freshman! Check out merch at managingexpectationspodcast.com  

Joe Rogan, Twitter Mobs, Cancel Culture, conscience, and the right from which all others are derived. 

The return of Justified, John Grisham movies, all about NOLA, and Wenger sells a painting!     managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com  allinadream.us  

The Best Game(s) Ever — Wenger & Brian talk about the NFL playoffs, wild finishes, Bills/Chiefs, great quarterbacks, what to do when there’s a tie, and the Colts/Giants 1958 Championship game. AND OVERTIME! Expanded and updated to cover the two league Championships. http://allinadream.us http://managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com  

Wenger is joined by Tirzah to talk about the movie Dune, Foundation on Apple TV+, they argue about Book of Boba Fett generally and Star Wars specifically, and the Hawkeye miniseries which harkens the return of the Florence Pugh Appreciation Society.    

Wenger & Brian discuss three movies—No Time To Die, the absolutely, positively, completely final Daniel Craig James Bond; Penelope Cruz in The Queen of Spain; Six Minutes to Midnight with Eddie Izzard and little, pudgy Judi Dench. (SPOILERS for No(w) Time To Die.)

Wenger is joined by his little sister, Missy deG! They talk about food and fitness, Missy's ambition to be an Official Ambassador for Pro Compression Socks, how they both grew up in the same dysfunctional household but the dysfunction manifested itself differently for each of them. They talk about cringe-inducing episodes of their swinging' parents, and family friend Dale Slaughter. This one is in...

Wenger is joined by Rob Squires, bass player for Big Head Todd and the Monsters to talk about Bruce Springsteen and the 1979 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Later Wenger joins friends of the podcast and Managing Expectations Podcast Musical Brainstrust, Chris Galli, Chris Levine, and Devin McBride to further the conversation. Then Wenger and Squires put the chairs up on the tables. This is a c...

Wenger and Brian discuss learning a trade, education, counting coup, and hang gliding, AND announce the next book club selection! (When something works, you stick with it!)  Check out Denver’s All In A Dream Comics & Books allinadream.us Join us at managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com Listen to the only podcast better than ours: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cRHcnJRS0WNY8MbxN7dac?si=iZ6pcUXz...

Wenger and Brian talk about singer-songwriter Warren Zevon and uncover a nugget from Wenger’s pubescent past! (It’s embarrassing!)    Check out allinadream.us and managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com   Playlist https://embed.music.apple.com/us/playlist/to-understand-wenger-you-have-to-get-warren-zevon/pl.u-066r6FW0pxJd  

Wenger and Brian begin the long, cold, dark gauntlet of the last month of the year by talking Fat Jeffy in a puffy coat, Daylight Saving Time, red corduroy, buses, Paddy Chayefsky, the House of Gucci’s reaction to the House of Gucci movie, the Beatles, and music is math and math is hard. Check us out on managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com Support All In A Dream Comics & Books allinadream.us

Wenger and Brian talk facial hair and jowl flexes, the difference between billionaires and teenagers, and the Shang-Chi movie and it’s antecedents.   Like, subscribe, and share.  Check us out at managingexpectationspodcast.locals.com  Support All In A Dream Comics and Books allinadream.us

Much like nature, sobriety is stupid - and preferable to the alternative. Do I get a chip or a medal or something or do I just get to say, well, that was 15 years.

Jared’s trip to Spain was good but Wenger’s was great! And Brian has had tapas.

New episode! Grasshoppers at the Tin Whistle! When Brian is harder to find than Waldo, Jared joins Wenger to talk Dana Carvey, Johnny Carson and more!

Black Widow? You mean Scarlett Johansson was in that too? Wenger and Brian inveigh. 

Wenger and Brian talk “The Mountain Between Us” with Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, Jessica Lange, Slaughterhouse 5, Fajitas in London, and construction sites and manly showers.

Wenger and Brian talk management theory, business practices, and why it’s always the other guy’s fault that you can’t buy extra toilet paper. Also the tyranny of the Apple Watch and Wenger doesn’t believe that energy drinks will kill him.

Wenger and Brian talk Lincoln books, including Richard Slotkin’s “Abe.” Brian discovers a stable of today’s big actors in the 1980s “Miami Vice.” And Wenger burned an hour and forty-five minutes on Antoine Fuqua’s “Infinite” and strongly urges you not to.

Brian relates the family vacation to, well, not exactly Branson, MO. Wenger mumbles and gripes about today’s NFL and remembers Bill Clinton who is still very much alive and Norm MacDonald who sadly is not. But the boys remain united in their regard for character actor Margo Martindale.

William Styron’s book Darkness Visible is the best book on depression; Robert Timberg’s The Nightingale’s Song shows us Robert “Bud” McFarland’s own struggle with it after the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s. Now take your best shot.