Episode 138: Johnny O
Paul's friend shares about being committed to a psych hospital at 17 over a breakup, discovering drugs (crack) and how to hustle money to feed his habit. Hitting bottom in the desert and the dog that...
25 Okt 20131h 48min
Episode 137: Aisha Tyler Live at LAPodfest
The actress/writer/standup/podcaster/tv host joins Paul at LAPodfest in front of a live audience and discusses her outcast status as a child, where her drive comes from, growing to understand her fath...
18 Okt 20131h 58min
Episode 136: Listener Juan Medina
The 26 year-old shares about emigrating to the U.S. from Mexico at 8, his fear of his father, "passing" for white, his body dysmorphia and the trouble feeling his feelings rather than shutting down. S...
11 Okt 20131h 41min
Episode 135: Christina Jasberg
She was raised by a father with Schizo-Affective Disorder who would often break from reality. By her twenties she was battling the same disorder along with bulimia, anorexia and cutting. Hospitalize...
4 Okt 20131h 34min
Episode 134: Transgender Listener "Pidgeon"
He is still physically female but has always identified as a male. He talks about what it means to be genderfluid or genderqueer as well as pansexual and the diffiult road in discovering who he is an...
27 Sep 20131h 55min
Episode 133: Adrienne Selbert
Raised by attentive, loving parents she neverlheless grew up with a pervasive feeling of emptiness that she sought to soothe through relationships with men. In her words she, "Burnt her life to the ...
20 Sep 20131h 57min
Episode 132: Listener Tom Seiniger
The 22 year-old opens up about the guilt and anxiety of growing up feeling like it was his duty to keep his mother out of her depression, even though she was emotionally incestuous with him, how he fi...
13 Sep 20132h 3min
Episode 131: Co-Narcissism (a mini episode)
Paul reads an article written by Alan Rappoport PhD about Co-Narcissism, which he describes as a result of being raised by one or sometimes two narcissistic parents. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
9 Sep 201328min
