Hosted by Ryan McCormick · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 360 episodes
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Ryan McCormick hosts A Fireside Chat, a society show with 360 episodes published.
Hello! Your podcast hero is back with another fresh episode for your ear holes! This week, I'm catching you up on all the ways in which i'm failing at life. This includes my failure at road rage, my failure to use the in
Hello! I hope you're doing well. It's been a little while since we spoke and I"m happy to spend an hour and some change with you. This week is mainly just a check in and a catch up. I"ve been dealing with some stress wit
This is the First Ever episode without Oats Mcgoats. This is a sad milestone, but there is no time to be depressed. We have healing and podcasting to do...not necessarily in that order. This week, I detail my final hours
Hello again, It's like two shows in one this week. Up first, we dive into the mailbag for lots of movie talk, your advice for my colonoscopy conundrum and I find a new appreciation for Sting...sort of. Then the second ha
The title of this one says it all. Some updates on everything, some movie recommendations, and some topics from the anonymous box...sort of. And a handful of voicemails that slipped through the cracks. Thanks for your pa
New year, same old AFC This week's show is bookended by two stories about how my year ended and began in not so great fashion. In between, I discuss a whole bunch of movies and TV shows that I've watched, some topics fro
Its the last episode of the year (probaly) and we are doing some WYR, talking about Halloween decorations staying up too long and a listener wants to know if their therapist crossed a line. I certainly have some thoughts
This week I'm discussing some shows I've been watching, tackle some listener topics from the anonymous box and reminisce about my elementary school bully. Opening song - Need A Ride by Kathleen Edwards Closing Cover Song
Hello again! Back in the saddle this week with a lot to catch up on. This week, I discuss the many ways my body is letting me down in my old age, the many ways technology has let me down recently and a story about the br
We are back with a new super sized episode filled with your all favorite AFC staples! Road Rage! FMK and WYR! Stories with no ending! Music, TV, and Movie talk! An untalented hack of a host! Plus an update on the unoffic
This week, I see a movie that I can't stop thinking about, I visit the zoo and contemplate the meaning of happiness. Then we dive into the mailbag where your submissions trigger a long repressed memory of the time that I
After a brief hiatus, I'm back working through my issues out loud. A bunch of topics are covered in this one including a bunch of recommendations, some pet peeves and some great voicemails from old friends. Along the way
This week, after an update on Oats, I discuss death, the perils of peeing and a take on a recent submission from an old friend of the show. Plus some WYR, and more demented and twisted topics from AFC Nation. Thanks for
I apologize for being very distracted on this episode. This week, I talk through my feelings and an impossible decision I have to make while discussing pickles, squirrels, and other topics from the anonymous box. We wrap
Happy Birthday America! This week, I discuss fixing my brains "check engine" light, take some questions and WYR's from the anonymous box, and play some voicemails from listeners including a new entry for the "Album Chall
This week I discuss some media I've been consuming recently as well as dive into some topics and questions from the anonymous box. We wrap up with a story from Reddit brought to my attention by a listener about a wife wh
This week, I catch you up on the past few weeks of my life and give some recommendations of things I've been watching lately. Along the way I discuss, being old and having back problems, witness grieving in real time and
This week, we dive back into the mailbag for more debauchery and absurdity. This one goes all over the map from talk about movies and fast food restaurants to discussing some awkward emails I've recently received and the
This week, I'm turning over the reigns to AFC nation to discuss whatever is on your mind for our May mailbag episode. As you could probably imagine, the results are just as vulgar and depraved as you would expect. We hav
I went to three shows this week, and I'm excited to tell you all about them. After we dive into the Anonymous Box for some quick hits, I break down my week of concerts and awkwardness. This week, my mother and I meet a f
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A Fireside Chat is hosted by Ryan McCormick. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 360 episodes.
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