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A billion dollars can solve a lot of problems, but at what price? This week, my sister Erin is back with her great laugh and effervescent personality as we explore the cost of billions and debate whether we’d rather meet

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Hosted by John McParland · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 78 episodes
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Like sitting in on a conversation with your best friends. A podcast with lots of laughs, funny stories, quick-witted comedy and lighthearted banter
John McParland hosts Dysfunctional Dialogue, a comedy show with 78 episodes published.

A billion dollars can solve a lot of problems, but at what price? This week, my sister Erin is back with her great laugh and effervescent personality as we explore the cost of billions and debate whether we’d rather meet

Are you up for a game of true or false? I put my wonderful wife, Debbie, on the hot seat with some tricky questions designed to trip her up. She graciously accepted… and what followed was a mix of absurd-filled laughs an

It begins with "where’s your favorite spot to enjoy a good drink" and wildly turns into a game of “did you really just say that?" Steve Macaluso is back, pouring out laughs, lost memories, and risqué double entendres tha

Did you ever have a dream end right before the best thing was about to happen? What was it that got cut off at the exact wrong moment? Well, this week we dive into the twisted realm between dream, perceived reality and t

What if ai has already become aware? And what if ai is slowly gaslighting society to make us all believe we've been in a simulation all along? This nightmare fuel was the perfect gas on the fire as Brian Smith and I laug

Ladies and gentlemen… It's time. After years of childhood clashes - most ending with the classic “sit and hold” maneuver, these two siblings step back into the ring. This week, my older sister and I go toe-to-toe in a ba

This week my college buddy and I revisit the golden era of bad decisions and even worse tequila. From one friend getting “politely” asked to leave school… twice… and still not going home, to another proudly preserving a

One ridiculous mishap after another has my wife and I laughing hard before we even begin. The fun continued as we chewed over whether we would speak to our past self or future descendants and chinwagged on how great it w

Back again, having a laugh-riot with Brian Smith as he takes us on a disturbingly funny medical odyssey. Bookending that unsettling ride are some amusing flashbacks to our college days at Niagara University, parties at M

My wife joins me this week and things get fun real quick as we merrily laugh our way through a sound check and field some wildly strange questions. It’s a great time, from some interesting takes on some mind-bending ques

Back with the college crew, having a great time, reliving the pitfalls and comedic disasters. We then shift to bigger questions like whether you’d rather meet your past self or your future self and, more importantly, wha

Imagine swapping bodies or memories with random people every year or jumping through time to different stages of your life at any given moment? Come join my daughter and I as we do just that and make it even more absurd

Laughing real hard again with my longtime friend, Brian Smith, who is back again for a visit as we take to the mics in our satellite studio. Join us for the beginning part of an extended, absurd, chat as Brian gesticulat

You meet yourself… it’s awkward. You rewrite the past... it backfires. You learn how it all ends... and you laugh anyway. This week, my daughter and I tackle a series of odd questions and have a lot of fun doing it! Come

The college buddies bring it again with more big laughs as we tell more wild stories and dig deeper into some other favorites. From an epic college introduction to self-made environmental hazards to the many joys of popc

Back with the ol' neighborhood crew, revisiting the chaos that somehow shaped us into functional adults. We talk about the mischief, the influence we had on each other, and how a group with a pretty wide age gap not only

This week I am joined again by my daughter (or her clone?) as we dive right into some really odd scenarios. We start with wondering what our world would look like if technology either stops working… or works a little too

Mayhem and madness were the theme as I took a wild ride with my college buddies and re-surfaced some classic tales. With nickel drafts starting at 8am on St. Patrick’s day, what could go wrong? Well, quite a bit actually

Laughing again with the ol’ neighborhood crew as we revisit the highly questionable influence the older guys had on the younger, the mischievous sleepover nights where very little sleeping happened and the inherent dange

Which would you give up? Your sense of sight or sound, if given that hard choice? Well, we had a revelation and your opinion may change after sitting in with my son, John, and I. Come join us as we ride a conversational
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Dysfunctional Dialogue is hosted by John McParland. The show is categorised under comedy (interviews) and has published 78 episodes.
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