It’s Not You, It’s The World: Covid, Mental Health, and What Comes Next
There is plenty of information coming out of the CDC about COVID that has nothing to do with actual viruses in droplets. America’s mental health condition is not really good right now, with rates of a...
27 Dec 202139min
Our Wildly Speculative and Totally Unqualified Psychological Analysis of Major Christmas Characters
Sure, we know Santa Claus flies around the world delivering presents, but doesn’t that seem awfully compulsive? And what’s with the meticulous list of judgments he keeps? And why is he fixated on ever...
20 Dec 20211h 1min
Bridger Winegar Had a Nervous Breakdown on a Mormon Mission, Which is Never Good
It’s not really the most direct route to comedy success: grow up in conservative Mormon Utah, be closeted about your sexuality even to yourself, try to live up to what is expected of you, ditch it all...
13 Dec 20211h 1min
Aimee Mann Couldn’t Hear Very Well or Write Songs. That’s Inconvenient Because She’s Aimee Mann.
Aimee Mann has a brilliant new album out called Queens of the Summer Hotel with songs about mental illness and identity, all inspired by the book Girl, Interrupted. The album is new but the songs are ...
6 Dec 202143min
Broti Gupta Would Prefer Not To Be Serious For Even One Hour, Thank You
It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Broti Gupta. This comedy thing. It wasn’t supposed to be happening at all. She grew up the daughter of a doctor and there was an expectation she’d follow the sam...
29 Nov 20211h 6min
Josh Gondelman, the Good Boy of Comedy, is Somehow Just Fine. Gary Gulman is Baffled.
(takes a moment to secure tongue firmly in cheek)It would be rude to make fun of Josh Gondelman just because he’s a little strange. Or not strange. Instead, we’re going to learn from Josh about his ca...
22 Nov 202144min
Ivan Maisel Wants To Tell You About His Son Max
Ivan Maisel’s words have been available to the general public for decades. It’s just that those words have tended to be about what’s happening with the Crimson Tide’s offense or who got the head coach...
15 Nov 202151min
Let’s Get Our Minds Ready For the Gig Economy
You’ve seen John Ross Bowie on a screen before. I’m sure of it. Maybe it was the Big Bang Theory or Curb Your Enthusiasm or some of the other eight zillion credits he has. John’s been dealing with dep...
8 Nov 202149min
