Shoeless in South Dakota

Jan 30 2025 56 ep. 100 mins 144
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All Too Human: Joey's Struggle with Trauma, Grief, and Alcohol

Jan 30 2025 92 mins  
In this fifth edition of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Joey into the Shoeless Shed to have an honest conversation about his struggles with personal tragedy, repressed grief, and subsequent alcoholism. With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of regular working class people in ho

Philosophy 101: Nietzsche and the Death of God

Jan 17 2025 152 mins  
Breht listens to, reflects on, and critically engages with a public lecture by the late philosopher Michael Sugrue entitled "Nietzsche and the Death of God". He discusses the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the politics of modern day Nietzscheans, the death of god and consumer capitalism as a form a nihilism, the ongoing nature of human civilizational and spiritual evolution, th

End of Life Cat: Laughing in the Dark

Jan 16 2025 26 mins  
David talks about the hardest he's tried to find laughter in the darkness.

Shoeless in a Psych Ward (or How I Lost my Pants, but Found Hope)

Jan 11 2025 132 mins  
Dave is out of rehab, so the boys get together to talk about his wild experiences over the holiday in which he haunted the streets of Omaha and Lincoln bouncing between rehabs, psych wards, Walgreens medicine aisles, and respite centers. Thankfully, at the end of the chaos, he felt a deep internal shift that many in recovery refer to as "being sick and tired of being sick and tired

UNLOCKED: Shoeless at a Free Speech Rally

Jan 01 2025 82 mins  
(This is an unlocked patreon episode from November - for more episodes like this and to support the show, you can join here: patreon.com/ShoelessinSouthDakota) The boys read poems, fight for Free Speech, ponder BLASTING GEAR, and Sacrifice EVERYTHING for your freedoms. Then they talk about Abe Lincoln's hardcore depression, Breht's book idea (he won't write it), why you should read

Either I'm Trying or I'm Dying

Dec 12 2024 10 mins  
A message from Dave full of Holiday cheer!

Shoeless in an Uncanny Valley

Nov 25 2024 133 mins  
Breht dies and has a near-death experience, Dave struggles with derealization (and busting), then the boys talk politics and reflect on the election. After that, they discuss types of people they'd like to purge the planet of and different types of human intelligence, then Breht's son joins the show to reveal the TRUE Breht, and it ain't pretty... After that, the boys stare death i

A Shoeless Halloween Special- "A Certain Type of Connection" Short Story

Oct 31 2024 41 mins  
For Halloween David drops a SpOoKy short story about marriage and infidelity.

Shoeless in a Cornfield

Oct 07 2024 194 mins  
The Boys are Back in Town (they never left)! Dave gets a new job trafficking people (or helping people who have been trafficked? I'm not sure), Breht talks about his multiple, severe traumatic head injuries (it's not good, folks), and Julian sits in the corner of the Shoeless Shed and shakes his perfectly healthy head disapprovingly for three hours straight... Also, the boys answer

At Least the Pain is Cheap...

Sep 11 2024 8 mins  
A book of poetry dedicated to the human experience of the working class poor in the American Midwest... Buy and/or review At Least the Pain is Cheap HERE Get a free copy at: [email protected]