Producer Dan
Producer Dan has ADHD, a smart, hot wife, and a great kid that drives him nuts.
Appears in 47 Episodes
I Wanted to Lose Weight, That Would Make Me Better - With Libby Supan
Libby Supan grew up considering the letters f, a, and t to be the building blocks of one very bad word. A lot of us felt that way though, didn’t we? During my childhoo...
Lots of Childhood Trauma - With Dana
Lots of childhood trauma is what Dana came on to talk about. Not just childhood trauma, but lots of childhood trauma. He said he suffered his first traumas in the womb...
Spiritual Awakening in a Five Guys - With Desi
Desi grew up in the house with the juke box. Didn't we all have a friend like that? Sometimes they had a juke box, other times it was a pinball machine. The only thing...
Don't Let Anyone Tell You How to Grieve - With Patrice
Patrice is lucky. You might not expect me to to describe any of our guests as “lucky”, especially one who came on to talk about the devastation of losing the two most ...
I Was Born an Addict, I'll Die an Addict - With Eileen
Eileen Tull grew up a theater (theatre?) kid with feelings of superiority, at least in part due to her religous morals. Sobriety was part of her personality until she ...
Growing Up Black and Queer in Texas - With Mike Brown
This week’s Decent Fucking Human is a man I admire. That might not sound like much considering anyone who earns the title of Decent Fucking Human has my admiration, bu...
Living Out the Long Haul of Grief - With Aly
Aly Bird is a Decent Fucking Human and author of a book called Grief Ally. Want to guess why it's called Grief Ally? It's because people don't know how to best support...
My Fucked Up Experience as a Pastor - With Josh
This week’s Decent Fucking Human is Josh Patterson, host of the (Re)thinking Faith Podcast. Josh sent us an email with the subject “My fucked-up experience as a pastor...
I Have Wondered So Many Times If This Was a Cult - With Katy
Katy is a Decent Fucking Human if there ever was one, and after listening to this episode, you're going to admire her for being so. It would have been easy for her lif...
I Laid in Bed 23 Hours a Day for a Year
At the start of 2014, Amy Thurman was your everyday Decent Fucking Human. She was a wife and mom with a career, and she lived life with a brainstem you would not have ...
Finding a Therapist is a Pain in the Ass
Scott was still recovering from Covid, so this week's episode is the second installment of our "Interview a Therapist Who Almost Definitely Loves Producer Dan" format....
My Big Sister Loren
Today's Decent Fucking Human comes from Producer Dan's Decent Fucking Family. We recorded this episode with Dan's big sister Loren in 2021 before we'd figured out what...
Trauma Holds Us Back with Darlene
Darlene was never expected to go to University. Hell, she didn't even finish high school. It's hard to judge her for that considering she had an alcoholic parent and u...
Twice in Three Months
Zaira was 18 years old when she was sexually assaulted by a man she knew. Three months later she was sexually assaulted by a man she didn't. The Complex Like Wine host...
My Traumatic Brain Injury with Daniel
Daniel was a physically fit teenager taking a day trip with his buddy to Door County, Wisconsin. Things were things. He didn't have any particular direction, but he ce...
Friendship and Murder
Imagine finding your friend murdered. First, you're going to be treated as a suspect. After the police determine your weren't involved, you now have to help them. You ...
Revisit with Scott: I Feel Whole
Oh, hi. Terrible Scott here - you may know me from such trauma and mental health podcasts as Positively Terrible, and, well, I guess just that one. But it's a damn goo...
I just wanted to get hit by a car and take me out of all of it
This week’s Decent Fucking Human is Elizabeth. In March 2022 she entered recovery after surviving a life-threatening situation following one too many drunken nights. T...
Scooter and the Ghost of Drinking Future
Scooter’s enthusiasm for beer quickly went from being his passion, to his medication, after his father passed away from cancer in 2021. It was the easy choice to avoid...
I don’t call myself a survivor. I hate that word.
This week's fucked up story starts when Mike went to college only to return home a week later when changing shampoo didn't make the lumps on his head go away. It turne...
