The Managing Expectations Podcast

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.