Elizabeth Ito on Anxiety, Art, and Things You Can’t Control
You really should watch City of Ghosts. It’s on Netflix, six episodes long, and it’s a delightful and important exploration of Los Angeles, cultures, and how we manage history. City of Ghosts also hap...
22 Aug 202250min
Gaby Dunn on Bipolar Disorder, Gender, Sexuality, and Personal Finance
Gaby Dunn is well-known to podcast audiences for her shows Just Between Us, co-hosted by Allison Raskin, and Bad With Money with Gaby Dunn. They’re well-known to readers for books like I Hate Everyone...
15 Aug 202256min
Tom Scharpling on Suicidal Ideation, Depression, In-Patient Care, ECT, and Memory Loss
Within the comedy world, Tom Scharpling is known as a bit of a Swiss Army Knife. He’s the host of the long running Best Show, online now and on WFMU before that. He’s a veteran TV writer on shows like...
8 Aug 202253min
Jamie Lee Curtis: Self-Professed Dope Fiend of Show-off Business
Getting Jamie Lee Curtis to open about her many years spent addicted to Vicodin is, frankly, not very difficult. She wants to talk about it. And that’s for a couple of reasons. One, she wants to make ...
1 Aug 202253min
Open Mike Eagle, the Former Obfuscating Mike Eagle
Issues of depression and anxiety have been present in Open Mike Eagle's raps for a long time. His most played track on Spotify is "Ziggy Starfish (Anxiety Raps)" and it's from 2015. Mike has always be...
25 Jul 202248min
Shane Koyczan Says Sometimes “Bullying” Is Just Assault
Even if you’re not completely aware of Shane Koyczan’s poem “To This Day”, at least 25 million other people are. That’s how many views the YouTube video of the poem has as of the time we made this epi...
18 Jul 20221h 4min
Jamie Loftus Wasn’t a Budding Journalist, She Had Friggin’ OCD
Right now, in Jamie Loftus’s childhood home in Brockton, Mass., there are dozens, maybe hundreds of notebooks in storage boxes. They’re from second grade up through middle school and each of the noteb...
11 Jul 202252min
Justin McElroy: My Anxiety, My Anxiety, and Me
This episode of Depresh Mode with John Moe came about as part of a challenge to our listeners: if we reached our member goal during the last Max Fun Drive, we’d make and release an episode with Justin...
4 Jul 20221h 1min
