The Whole Cogan

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.

Casey recounts his recent three-week Asia trip, including his first Korean spa scrub, an earthquake in Taiwan and wild monkeys.

Dan gets served but it's not what he's expecting. Casey wants to bring back snuff (not really).

Dan and Casey talk about getting scammed from online scammers.

Dan and Casey discuss all of the possible ways to deter the neighbor's outdoor cat from sitting outside his window, tormenting his indoor cats.

Dan does Dan at a brewery, which nearly results in the police being called.

The conversation goes into an unexpected debate about the band U2.

Casey share's some manchild stories gathered from the World Wide Web.

Dan and Casey try to figure out what it would take for people to believe in aliens if they actually were to visit.

Dan and Casey talk tapas, charcuterie boards and cocaine shampoo.

Casey has another Halloween fail, Dan visits a hip pharmacy and both share their views on Gordon Ramsay's yelling.

Grandma erasers that tear the paper. Ziplock bags. Adidas-wearing drug dealers. Luke's hand.

Dan achieves a stalemate with an online Yelp reviewer.

This is a recap from episode 27 - Zombie Island. Dan and Casey talk zombies.

In this recap episode, Dan shares his fast food restaurant idea GrabBag as well as his encounter with a man in the super market that wanted to be wrapped in plastic. Casey is accused of eating a phantom banana in a Circle K and both of them unlock the formula to who the villain is in every Scooby Doo episode.

Casey is stranded at a 5star resort spa/golf course in London and must strategise ways to befriend the local squirrel population and/or hijack a golf cart.

Dan has mafia boss stories as well as a bachelor party. Casey's village's newest resident is a very vocal turkey named Fred.

Casey and Dan speculate wildly on yet another topic in which they know very little about.

Dan and Casey spitball the formation of the Cereal Horse League. Also, Dan talks about his experience going to the Grammy awards ceremony and how the swag bag did not live up to the hype.

Dan has a situation in his dart league, Casey has a package thief and both contemplate the ingeniousness of belt buckle chew dispensers.

Wet Willy's baby attack, Disneyland mascot jobs, and horse races with the jockey on the bottom.

What happens in international waters, stays in international waters. Plus tornadoes, bats and drug dealers.

Dan and Casey celebrate Galactic Cat Day by discussing nunchucks, German camouflage, Civil War larping, and cats.

Dan and Casey talk about comedians, art and animals.

Dan has lots of gift cards, Casey has discovered a geriatric corn bandit problem in his area and both have stories from Costco.

Bad drivers in company cars, aggressive robot advertising in Berlin and Pre-funeral Funerals

Dan and Casey talk about some deal-breaking first dates. Also some very factually incorrect banter about dinosaurs.

Dan's adventure in Palm Springs which involved ZZ Top and getting engaged. Casey's long walk and mad, panicked dash through angry bees.

Casey observes a woman on a flight to Sweden scrolling through photographs of fingers on her phone. Dan and Casey come up with new star constellation ideas and Dan survives a five-year-old's birthday party. 

Forest Gump was an ultra-ultra-marathoner. Casey scolds the village kids for pillaging his trash can. Dan's dog-cape invention. Casey's Berlin sex party story.

Ikea struggles, opossums, Xenomorphs, and special beards.

Online Halo posse of 8 year olds, Dan's fancy silverware and Casey's jumping back roundhouse ninja move.

Casey gets arrested by twelve Smokeys after exhibiting scary popes in Atlanta. Dan pitches his adult balloon animal business. 

Dan receives a very practical gift from Casey. Plus, umbrellas for hippies, superbowls, man bags and artsy fartsy.

Encounters with high places, tree houses, lots of zombie talk wrapped up with a bit of Pacman.

This is a rather long and dense episodes. There are drunken parties in San Francisco, little people in airports and close calls with the Hell's Angels. Also, Casey talks about his reason for moving to Germany twenty years ago and Dan grows a moustache so that he can go to a cowboy bar and blend in.

Radioshack, blue jeans beardy band and a hair weave bouquet in the passenger seat. In this episode, we get to learn about Dan to find out what brought him to the southwestern United States.

Casey was accused of eating an imaginary banana and Dan wants a very sensitive clown nose for the TSA to honk in his pocket. Plus Yodacane, for a sore force.

Kite Jesuses and Bubble Jesuses in San Diego parks and the saddest hackysacker in Arizona.

Casey is broadcasting from a hotel room in Barcelona and talks about suicidal eels. Dan is in the game room in Phoenix, Arizona and tells the not-to-be-missed pants story. Also, shit sticks, hankies and adult diaper changing stations.

Mexican wrestler costume at a non-costume party. Six year olds making lewd gestures in Ikea and Frank Beard's lack of beard.

Dan made prototypes of toys that his parents wouldn't buy him. Casey pissed off a tree full of monkeys while on a scooter in India. Also, David Hasselhoff and the Spice Girls.

Casey was mugged in Amsterdam twice in one day. Dan goes to a beer festival and tries out a self-defence move he's just learned on Youtube.

Self-referential costumes… cat backpacks… cat mummies… Casey rescue’s a cat from his meth neighbour… Dan wishes he’d saved all his toenails.

Due to some technical difficulties, our audio is not as good as we would have liked for this episode, so we kept it short and sweet. 

Hay forks, Frankenstein's numerous monsters, light speed to Mars and T-Rex.

Dan describes a game he learned while working as a lifeguard at a wave pool. A young Casey has a close encounter with an enraged truck driver.

Dan and Casey open up a can of worms labeled 'Sports!'. Within that can is jocks, rednecks, Michael Jackson's glove and Jeffrey Dahmer bringing heads to work. Also sports.

Dan finagles extra pillows and solves a booking mishap at a hotel in a Colorado mountain town. Casey displays his complete lack of baseball knowledge and both declare their pro-beagle stances.

Iron maidens, Trojan Horses and bacon bits. Casey says don't worry about it and Dan doesn't take anyone wearing flip flops seriously.

In this episode, Dan and Casey cover a ranger of 1980's cartoons, ponder the perfect natural disaster scenario for a prepper, and reflect of the fine qualities of bidets.

Casey wants a robot chef and Dan doesn't believe people eat celery. Lives are nearly changed by the presence of beards and the audacity of an air guitar.

Dan and Casey don't like the band KISS but with the help of Carl Sagan, they put it all into perspective.

Dan talks about getting a middle name. Casey is joined by his partner, Maggie, and both describe their early exit from the Norwegian island due to their host's out-of-control behavior.  

Dan has lawn issues. Casey is broadcasting from the Norwegian Sea on a tiny island. Both explore the need to create an adult Guiness Book of World Records, a coffee table book with Iron Maiden and  why the word 'cash' does not encompass magical properties.

Casey is still on an isolated island in Northern Norway and must collect heavy-ass wood on a boat trip up a fjord. Dan is in Phoenix in the game room and both discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of malls, duty free and gun sheaths. Also, Super Mario is Casey's plumber and Dan estimates how many ten-year-olds it would take to bring him down.

Dan and Casey contemplate the art of googling, using calculators to produce big numbers plus one and some of the pranks that their parents pulled on them when they were kids.

Freddy Fresh is revisited and it is still not fresh. Casey sometimes watches shows in the wrong order and Dan cuts his own hair. Also, both realise that their friendship has spanned nearly twenty five years.

Dan loves glow-in-the-dark best when it is not glowing and likes to buy english muffins in bulk. Casey had dinner parties in his Berlin studio but no dishwasher, and now hands out homemade American cookies to his village neighbours.