Jimmy Pardo on Being Funny, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Alcoholism, Contentment, and Being Funny Some More
When Jimmy Pardo joined us for a hilarious and revealing interview, he had just conducted a Never Not Funny anniversary show that exceeded nine hours in length. Not all that shocking if you’ve been li...
20 Apr 1h 14min
Joshua Roman on Long Covid, Cello, Charging Hard, and Brick Walls
Covid hit everybody, either personally or as members of society, and our mental health was damaged. It was trauma and it largely hasn’t been processed. When Joshua Roman became the principal cellist a...
13 Apr 1h 1min
Featuring Proxy with Yowei Shaw: Is it time to break up the band?
Today, I want to share an episode from a podcast I think you’ll enjoy called Proxy. It’s hosted by Yowei Shaw, who you might know from the NPR show Invisibilia. After getting laid off in 2023, she fou...
6 Apr 51min
Annabelle Gurwitch: Author, Actor, Unexpectedly Still Alive
Covid was already rough for the very funny and personable Annabelle Gurwitch, as it was for everyone, and that was before her car broke down on an LA freeway just as she was getting a call with a term...
30 Mar 1h 1min
Taking Small Steps That Form Great Strides with Eric Zimmer
At age 24, Eric Zimmer was in rough shape. He was addicted to heroin, weighed maybe a hundred pounds, and was facing the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence. So he gave rehab another try and he had ...
23 Mar 44min
Bonus Episode from In This Family: Ka Vang on War in Southeast Asia, ICE in Minnesota, and Mental Health Echoes
We are proud to present a very special episode of In This Family as a bonus for Depresh Mode with John Moe listeners. In This Family is produced by John Moe in conjunction with Nexus Family Healing an...
18 Mar 59min
Bubbles of Love: Your Burnout Treatment, with Emily Nagoski
When Emily’s twin, Amelia, ended up in the hospital twice, she knew that stress wasn’t something to be dismissed as “all in your head”. First of all, the head is connected to the body (by the neck), s...
16 Mar 56min
Group Therapy Royalty and First-Time Movie Star Elliot Zeisel From GROUP
The patients in the therapy sessions in the new film GROUP: The Schopenhauer Effect are actors, but it’s not a scripted film. The actors were given characters and circumstances and then they improvise...
9 Mar 43min
