How To Destroy Everything Podcast
1) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - The Interview with Lisa and Sheila (Bonus Episode)
In this special bonus episode, we hear Toughen Up from the shared perspective of Stephen’s sisters, Lisa and Sheila. Hear how they navigated a childhood of fear, loss and abandonment, and more importa...Show More
2) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 10: Assisted So-Called Living, Something's Gotta Get Ya and The Punchline
In the season finale, unable to carry on alone, Eugene finally surrenders and moves into an Assisted Living facility. He’s not there long before he is hospitalized and enters into a steep decline. Bef...Show More
3) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 9: Crushing Blossoms and The Burden
It’s 15 years later and Eugene’s wife Helen dies very suddenly, leaving him very much adrift. At the urging of a priest, Stephen’s father learns to ask for help at the gravesite, then pushes on alone....Show More
4) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 8: Albertsons, Aspirin and Telling the Truth
With Stephen off to college, his mother strikes out on her own, renting a room in a house and scoring her dream job. Not long after, however, Maureen is diagnosed with terminal cancer and eventually m...Show More
5) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 7: Driving School, Dad's Big Surprise and Blowing the Hatch
In this seventh chapter, we find a mid-life Maureen facing her fears and calling upon her brother, Jimmy, to finally teach her how to drive. Then, Eugene shocks the family with a surprise marriage ann...Show More
6) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 6: Mom Hustle and The Girl Upstairs
In this chapter of our story, we find Maureen is officially back on her feet, though struggling to make ends meet for her and the kids. After a variety of jobs, she ends up working in a factory and ta...Show More
How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 6: Mom Hustle and The Girl Upstairs
1:00:42 | May 27th, 2025
7) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 5: Homeless and The Edges of Town
We now find Lisa, Sheila and Stephen taking refuge with their Uncle John in Washington State, where young Stephen learns some hard life lessons on a construction site. They return to Mission Viejo, ju...Show More
How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 5: Homeless and The Edges of Town
1:03:19 | May 20th, 2025
8) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 4: The Road to 333
After losing their suburban home, Maureen moves with Stephen and Sheila into a Travelodge, only to dispatch her children on an epic road trip with their fugitive sister Lisa. Heading north, the three ...Show More
How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 4: The Road to 333
48:22 | May 13th, 2025
9) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 3: Wes, Skatebarn, The Big Split and Frank
Wherein young Stephen seeks refuge from his own family at a house “down the street.” His father then reveals a side of himself that no one could have imagined, just before the marriage finally falls a...Show More
10) How To Destroy Everything Presents: Toughen Up - Episode 2: Buses, Nuns, Christmas, Knives and a No-Name Sister
Episode Two finds Maureen taking on The Reverend Mother of her children’s Catholic School. The family then experiences the darkest Christmas of their lives, propelling them south, to face an uncertain...Show More