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
Faith Salie Was Miss Aphrodite, Then Things Got Complicated
The CBS News Sunday Morning commentator, Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me panelist, and veteran actor had all the approval and validation one could want early in her life. She was a pageant winner, Harvard ...
27 Jun 20221h 9min
Is Tim Heidecker Depressed or Does He Just Sing About It Very Accurately?
It’s not actually all that hard to tell when Tim Heidecker is kidding and when he’s not, but it does take a little bit of practice. When he’s performing on shows like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great ...
20 Jun 202251min
Stories That David Sedaris is Finally Free to Tell
Honestly, I really expected to call this episode “Covid Sedaris” because David Sedaris had just tested positive for COVID when we taped the interview. But when we spoke, he wasn’t feeling it much at a...
13 Jun 20221h 1min
Ginny Hogan Has More Mental Health Issues Than a Plate of Refried Beans Does
Comedian and writer Ginny Hogan got interested in standup comedy when she was in her twenties and working at a tech startup in San Francisco. Soon she was hooked on comedy. And alcohol. She got hooked...
6 Jun 202254min
