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The Blackout Diaries#103- America Gets Drunk & Spring BreaksCJ Sullivan and Sean Bair-Flannery talk spring break! We share some personal stories: Sean details how traveling with your kids on spring break can somehow land you in more troubling embarrassment than drunks and CJ shares a story about driving straight through the night to meet friends with no plans. We share some stats on how much money spring break generates for destination towns but, despite this, some towns despise spring breakers, including Miami Beach's "Breaking Up With Spring Break Campaign"2025-03-1053 min
Places I Can’t Return ToWin Cit FinancialI was fired from a job on 9-11. AFTER the terrorists attack, which is an important distinction. You have to be a really weak employee -- a top to bottom jackass -- for a manager to remember to fire you after the world seems to have ended.
I tell the story of how it was all based on a bad hangover and the science behind why we have such a hard time going home early from a bar when we are having a good time.
2023-04-0421 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToLake County Memorial HospitalChapter 25- the last three times we had to drive to the hospital because one of my brothers or sisters nearly killed themselves by accident. See, in the 1980s, nothing was child-locked- aspirin was available at stores like so many loose screws. Kids could walk into active kitchens and, long story short, when you were one of six kids- you were ALWAYS at the hospital.
2023-03-2924 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToLong John SilversStories on how dads can not handle the stress of driving long distances with kids. The kids never get in sync with their bathroom breaks, they fight and, in this case, they also get your thrown out of restaurants.
2023-03-0620 min
The Lobo Den PodcastEpisode 180 Sean Bair Flannery “Blackout Diaries”Sean Bair Flannery is a Chicago based comedian originally from Cleveland, voted “Chicago's Best Drunk”, has been on Comedy Central and producer of “Blackout Diaries” He almost killed him self lying about batteries in a job interview, polish roofers are insane and I’ve blacked out a few times. Go Tribe! It will always be the Cleveland Indians to me!! Support The Lobo Den Podcast by joining the Patreon with bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/theloboden The views expressed on the podcast are of The Lobo Den Podcast and do not reflect the views and positions of anyone ever...2023-03-051h 04Places I Can’t Return ToCleveland Public AuditoriumSean talks about attending the first, or one of the first, craft beer festivals in Cleveland during the 1990s. The open bar requires that patrons pass regular sobriety tests, which Sean and his friends eagerly agree to. There's also a spirited discussion on what makes a bar a dive bar.
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Hunk with Mike BridenstinePunchy & PithySean Bair Flannery, Adam Burke, and CJ Sullivan are on the panel. Video and extras are at www.patreon.com/brido. 2023-02-1057 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToHi-TopsAfter surviving enough close calls in my teens and early twenties, I came to believe, for a short while, I was indestructible, which created an awkward situation when I was diagnosed with cancer and delayed treatment to attend a Cubs game.
2023-02-0817 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToThe Keith BuildingWhen hackers deleted the most viewed youtube video of all time, it reminded me of the time I engaged in my own bit of cyber crime, in the 1990s after a radio top 40s DJ said The Clash was a bad band.
2023-01-3109 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToYankee StadiumTraveling to New York City with a broken back, torso cast and shattered heel, I have the best time of live in the Bronx. We have a strategy for saving money on booze at the stadium that both works and destroys us. We also notice that New Yorkers are incredibly nice to us, while threatening to kill each other.
2023-01-1619 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToSlammable Dick Caves Dot ComChapter 18, where I talk about how I drunkenly purchased a website that nearly ruined my job search. I also discuss St. Patrick's Day in Chicago and how they dye the river green.
2023-01-1026 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToThe Birds NestWhen customers used to scream at me or team members, I sent them to a fake retail store. The directions actually landed them at a terrible strip club in a bad area of town.
2022-12-2603 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToRipley’s Believe It Or Not MuseumA chapter about the career-long quest my friends and I had for obtaining fake IDs in high school, along with our frequent plans for skipping school, most of which were well-executed and therefore boring, but some that failed spectacularly. Our best plan ended in skipping school to cross the US border.
2022-12-1940 min
Stand By Your BandHuey Lewis with Sean Bair-Flannery!Sean Bair-Flannery (Black Out Diaries) joins the boys to talk about Huey Lewis! Check out Sean's new book, Places I Can't Return To! Get on the Patreon for ad-free eps and bonuses! Patreon.com/standbyyourband Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2022-12-141h 15Places I Can’t Return ToJanet’s Boss’s HouseI fall off a roof trying to sneak into a Huey Lewis show. And that might not have been the worst accident of the evening.
2022-11-1545 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToAll StateI interviewed at the wrong the company- and it was one of my better interviews. I also share the three weirdest decisions I ever made during job interviews. And I've done of a ton of them.
2022-11-0617 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToGuy’s Party CenterI attended the wrong wedding. Twice. When comedy bookers ask me for a bio, that's all I send them- that I attended the wrong wedding, twice. That sums it all up. This is the story about both times.
2022-10-2516 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToWeb Clout SolutionsI always lied on job interviews thinking, what's the worse that can happen? They catch you in a lie and you don't get the job?- You wouldn't have gotten it anyway. It turns out, the worst thing that can happen is you DO get the job.
This is what happens when you get a job you are not qualified for.
2022-10-2217 min
CHIRP RadioSean Bair-Flannery: First Time, First ComebackCHIRP Radio’s Live Lit and Music series, ‘The First Time’, is unlike any storytelling show in Chicago. It pairs our readers' personal stories about a first-time experience with a song performance. This unique structure allows the story to resonate with audience members as they experience the accompanying song covered by our house band, live at Martyrs in Chicago's North Center neighborhood.
Show hosted by Jenn Sodini; produced by Julie Mueller & Bobby Evers. Podcast recorded by Tony Baker, Andy Vasoyan, and Alex Stone; produced by Jenn Rourke.2022-10-2016 minPlaces I Can’t Return To77 NorthI nearly kill myself and two passengers, driving off a bridge while trying to reach a baseball game.
2022-10-1026 min
The Dork ForestChicago’s Dive Bars with Sean Bair-FlannerySean Bair-Flannery (@and dotcom that name) (podcast, “the blackout diaries” and new book, “places I can’t return to”) is a Chicago comic and we talk what makes a dive bar and the ones he likes the best in Chicago. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links is my email and venmo is jackiekashian. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . New album -STAY-KASHIAN is out NOW. Merch: TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Touring Info. All the things. jackiekashian.com Premium eps of TDF are taped...2022-09-201h 06
The Dork ForestChicago’s Dive Bars with Sean Bair-FlannerySean Bair-Flannery (@and dotcom that name) (podcast, “the blackout diaries” and new book, “places I can’t return to”) is a Chicago comic and we talk what makes a dive bar and the ones he likes the best in Chicago. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links is my email and venmo is jackiekashian. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . New album -STAY-KASHIAN is out NOW. Merch: TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Touring Info. All the things. jackiekashian.com Premium eps of TDF are taped...2022-09-201h 06Places I Can’t Return ToHave A Nice Day CafeI get drunk in the freezing cold in Cleveland with southerners who are stuck there by accident. I share a few additional stories that all illustrate how drunk swimming is like declaring war- you must have an exit strategy first.
2022-09-2026 min
None Taken: Independent News Commentary, and ComedyE 192 Sean Bair Flannery & Headlines RoundupLegendary Chicago stand-up Sean Bair Flannery joins us. We've been reading his new book of drinking stories "Places I Can't Return To" and had him on so you can laugh it up too. As usual we did our weekly headline roundup show from "The internet's ONLY debate and current events show, with Dustin and Allan".2022-09-161h 12Places I Can’t Return ToSocial Security OfficeI tell the story about how I added my wife's last name to my own, which was not easy to do in Illinois (at the time). But, luckily, Illinois bureaucrats are creative.
2022-09-1214 minHunk with Mike BridenstineThe Greatest Drunk in the World with Sean Bair-FlanneryFlannery is a legend in the Chicago stand-up scene. His new memoir of drinking stories, "Places I Can't Return To" is absolutely hilarious. You can get it exclusively at https://seanbairflannery.com. Video and extras are at www.patreon.com/brido.2022-09-091h 32
Troubled WatersSly vs FlavinCJ Sullivan and Sean Bair-Flannery join host Dave Holmes for some Lord of the Rings trivia, Herculean labors, and She Hulk fun facts.Sean Bair-Flannery would like to plug his book Places I Can't Return To and recommends Lady Like in Chicago.CJ Sullivan would like to plug The Blackout Diaries and recommends Dale McPeek's My Mother's Son and The Fable in Los AngelesAnd Finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmesFind us on Twitter! We are @TroubledPodWritten by Riley Silverman and John-Luke Roberts, recorded remotely over Zoom an...2022-09-0148 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToComp USAI was fired from a job for having too big of a vocabulary. Or at least that's how I tell the story. I also talk about how computer employees and IT support staff try to trade stupid customers off to coworkers, rather than dealing with them directly.
2022-08-3117 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToGas Lamp Inn & SaloonDay drinking leads to Sean and a buddy nearly exploding themselves, which leads Sean to wonder if walking drunk is more dangerous than driving drunk.
2022-08-1620 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToPat Joyce’s TavernMy family's annual St. Patrick's Day tradition: skipping school to go watch the parade in downtown Cleveland. Then losing at least two of my brothers.
2022-08-0812 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToKinney ShoesHow I learned I was color blind- working as a shoes salesman in a mall, at age 14. I share some of the annoyances that come with being colorblind, along with a few other employment issues I've had over the years by seeing colors incorrectly.
2022-07-3014 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToMcDonalds PlayPlaceChapter Three From Places I Can't Return To. My nephew gets us thrown out of a McDonalds in a giant bathroom miscalculation on his part. Only to be out-done by his brother as we ride the train to the zoo.
2022-07-1713 minThe Blackout DiariesEp 0 - Erica Clark Teaser and Show TrailerThe Blackout Diaries is a comedy show where standup comedians, plus 'regular' people (cops, firefighters, teachers, etc) tell true drinking stories. The live show has run weekly in Chicago for over ten years and has been a critics' pick by all major Chicago periodicals. This week features a teaser from Erica Clark, also known as Mr. T's daughter. The podcast is hosted by Sean Bair-Flannery and CJ Sullivan, two standup comedians and friends who have been featured on Comedy Central, Sirius Radio, NPR and more. They have over 30 years of standup experience between them and about 800 missed flights.2022-07-1206 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToCleveland Municipal StadiumMemories from what was one of the most debauched places we ever set foot inside: Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Sean details the history of the stadium and some of its crazier moments, then talks about his own bender that started when Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns out of the city.
2022-07-1139 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToBatteries GaloreSean electrocutes himself during a job interview. Chapter two from "Places I Can't Return To" by Sean Bair-Flannery.
2022-07-0212 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToYak-ziesThe first chapter in the book- Yak-zies. Sean and his roommates avoid a 'derecho' by going into a flooded, late-night basement bar where everyone expects to die. Sean wishes he could have a drink with one of his Chicago heroes- George "Cap" Streeter.
2022-06-2722 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToForward And ForewarnedForward to the book by CJ Sullivan (narrated by him as well). Also a very brief Apologia section by Sean.
2022-06-2709 minPlaces I Can’t Return ToEpisode 0A place holder for the future podcast.
PLACES I CAN'T RETURN TO debuts next week- come back!
2022-06-2501 min
Full Audiobook: Where Words Come Alive and Dreams Take FlightPlaces I Can't Return To Audiobook by Sean Bair-FlanneryListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 682763
Title: Places I Can't Return To
Author: Sean Bair-Flannery
Narrator: Sean Bair-Flannery
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:08:48
Language: English
Release date: 01-13-21
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: General Comedy
Summary:
Places I Can't Return To is a collection of true stories by comedian Sean Bair-Flannery. Each chapter is a place he cannot return to, usually because the people who live or work there warned him to never return. Or sometimes because those places are now in the bottom of a lake.
The book intertwines Sean's own outrageous stories with funny...2021-01-139h 08