The Whole Cogan

Dan buys cheese that is made with real cheese. Casey meets a German connection guy with no connections. Dan gears up for MMA.

This episode was recorded in December of 2025 but never aired. So for those of you who are already feeling nostalgic for Christmas, this is for you.Casey talks about the Christmas party that his German taekwondo school put on. Things got a bit awkward.

Dan has an epic encounter with Javelinas.

Dan't paper route. Casey's airplane hookup.

Dan doesn't know Casey's birthday | Neither Casey nor Dan can guess people's ages | Dan does cowboy karaoke on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

Casey's village has a unique Christmas tradition. Dan learns that driving a car for longer doesn't necessarily make you safer.

Dan partners up with an amped-up training partner in Krav Maga.

Casey is in Hamburg for an artist residency. Dan ponders adopting a grandpa so that he can become a great grandpa.

Casey gets his yellow belt. Dan tries on cups and gets strangled by a Viking. Also cats.

Casey and Maggie go to Oktoberfest in Munich.

Monster truck rally in the back parking lot of Casey's local grocery store.

It's a long one. Dan and Casey cover a lot of material including taekwondo, cartoons, Oktoberfest and buying bras at Victoria's Secret.

Dan comes back from Vancouver a changed human.

Dan and Casey chat about their individual martial arts journeys and end again with celebrity farts in jars.

Casey's village has a party for the volunteer fire department. Dan dominates a raffle in Vegas and wins a platter for his chips.

It's a grab bag of stories that Casey dug up from the internet, including mishandled body parts, cocaine pigs and farts in jars.

Casey's volunteers to do a public taekwondo performance, despite not knowing yet what he is doing. Dan likes to watch the fight scenes and doesn't care about the romantic tension that has been building up between the witch and the warlock.

Dan pitches the civilisational benefits of marriage puppets and Casey talks Otters, their rockets, and the cute and slightly creepy pouches that they put them in.

Casey resumes Taekwondo after a fourty-one year break. Dan has a new therapist who's extra long nails might be deal breakers.

Casey fixes the internet. Dan has an accidental puppet experiment.

Dan made a ham radio with his 1980's teacher. Casey experiences a haunted hotel room or zombie prisoner during his stay in Darmstadt.

How many cakes is too many cakes for a grown-ass birthday boy? How many steps to Kevin Bacon's balls? 

Casey and Dan are on location at the Phoenix Swap Meet, perusing odd weapons, questionable clothing choices and interesting characters amongst a sea of gas generators.

During Casey's visit to Phoenix, he and Dan attended a Taekwondo class at the school that Casey attended when he was eight years old. They were able to interview the Master of the school, Master Peishan Kang, a 73 year old 7th degree black belt who charmed the doboks off of them.

For the first time since beginning this podcast, Casey and Dan were able to record a show while sitting in the same room. Casey travelled to Phoenix after being in New York and the two had an adventurous 24 hours. Casey also talks about why, while living in Phoenix, he had a short-lived nickname of Balls Max.

Casey is in New York for an exhibition after being interrogated at US customs. Dan works on his handle for Reddit. Casey's failure to return a fist bump leads to a new takedown move involving Tic Tacs. 

Why do we only have two operating systems for our phones and computers? - What message would you tell your younger self? - Casey hates puns (or at least when people feel the need to point out that a pun has just been spoken).

Casey spots beavers in the wild, Dan fixes his appliances and some skeletons are released from the closet.

Casey gets a DNA test but still does not know what percentage Neanderthal he is. Dan earns a blue stripe for fixing his ice machine.

Dan has a mental meltdown at a fancy restaurant seated next to a booth of point-one-percenter rich kids.

Does Casey really have a lifetime membership to a taekwondo place that he hasn't used since he was a child? Have orcas really been wearing dead salmon as hats?  

Dan does a janky escape room that's half broken. Casey tries his best to enjoy his nearly square-shaped 'Mexican' burrito in Dresden.

Casey's painting studio is next door to a German Kegelbahn (9-pin bowling) alley. His neighbours, who are mostly rather old, try to break into his studio to gawk and leave presents in the bathroom.

Dan has an incident at the post office and Casey remembers a time when he was a manager at a coffee shop.

Childhood games and summer camp raids.

Dan's experience buying a car battery tests the boundaries of spacetime. 

Casey is on another corporate event where a former Navy Seal tells bullshit stories.

Casey runs a 10k and a UPS driver pees in his driveway - Dan has a road rage incident.

Nudity in Germany + flying cars

Casey is back from a cringe-worthy corporate workshop and Dan just wants a f**cking light for his pool.

Dan is addicted to cheese; Casey has some random facts to share; last place at the Olympics 

German village parties | German Schlager music | why are concerts in the mid afternoon not good | Taylor Swift

Grab bag at the flea market | Justice Man | bullets in vending machines | claw machine game | sleight of hand

Casey becomes Bert from Sesame Street for life in exchange for world peace and both Dan and Casey discuss WWE wrestler, Jake the Snake.

Dan and Casey talk WWE Wrestling and Macho Man. Plus clowns at a pancake house.

Strange ways to die, chicken wing bones at the supermarket and skeletons in the cupboard.

Dan invents a game for cats and Casey is not a fan of superheroes.

Dan has jackhammer/darts elbow (aka tennis). Casey reads an insane commission request from a would-be maniac collector. 

Dan tells about his new favorite Korean romcom and Casey describes one of his most embarrassing moments from the grunge era.

Dan and Casey plot how they will visit wild monkeys.