Couples Therapy

It's been five years since Dulcé was last on, and we've got a LOT of catching up to do! Now, you know Dulcé from her time on The Daily Show, from the wonderful animated show The Great North, her book Hello, Friends! or from her podcast Chasing K-Dramas, and most assuredly, you've seen her stand-up (on tour now or if you live in LA, come to her Just Pull Up!), but today, we're hearing the EPIC story of her journey to get pregnant! After telling us about what it's like to date "dumb dudes", Dulcé tells us that all she's ever wanted was to be a wife and a mother, and the mother window was closing fast, so she decided to get pregnant. What followed was an in insane journey through our racist, misogynistic, dysfunctional health system, and buddy, that ain't even half of it! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

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Edy Modica was so fun on the first season of Jury Duty, so when we saw she was promoting her debut stand-up special I'm Just Like You (And It Sucks) (Now on YouTube!), we said we gotta talk to her! Edy joins us to talk about how some things in her childhood shaped her love of chaos, how her therapist was *too* positive, wanting every moment to be A Moment, her boyfriend's good boundaries, how meds helped with some obsessive tendencies, what a charcuterie board reveals about Edy's emotional state and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

See Naomi and Aparna work-out new material at the Elysian Theater! BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

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Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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The woman who practically raised Naomi with her comedy, Aisha Tyler, is on the show today, and it was WONDERFUL! Now you know Aisha from a million things: Criminal Minds: Evolution, Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Talk Soup, Archer and so much more! And on today's episode we dig into her psyche and try to figure out where her positive attitude towards life comes from. Growing up in San Francisco, maybe? We'll find out! We also talk about her childhood as a nerdy outcast, how her positivity functions in a romantic relationship, learning "man shit" from her dad, the dangers of having someone clean your house, and of course, as always, we talk about rubbing a walnut on a wood floor scratch! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

Get tickets to Naomi and Megan's online show A Night of Cinema! And see Naomi and Aparna work-out new material at the Elysian Theater! BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

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Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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It's the second part of the What Went Wrong crossover extravaganza! Last week, we were guests on the fantastic podcast What Went Wrong discussing Hollywood couples that had some odd energy, and this week the hosts Chris Winterbauer and Lizzie Bassett join us as we put their friendship and emotions under the ol' Couples Therapy microscope! We discuss the decision to start a podcast with your best friend's wife (who is also your friend), the decision to have children, the emotional toll of the fires last year, the emotional toll of making a movie, secret darknesses, Chris' Jack Donaghy-like mind vise, Lizzie seeing Cabaret too many times as a child and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

Get tickets to Naomi and Megan's online show A Night of Cinema! BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

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Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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The algorithm gifted hemlocke springs to us, and thus we praise the algorithm! While we give a youthful appearance, in truth, we here at Couples Therapy HQ are nearly two centuries old and shut ins, so we rely on the algorithm to introduce us to new things, and we are thankful that it sluiced Hems' music into our feed because she is FANTASTIC! Maybe you've seen her live (she's on tour this fall supporting MUNA) or maybe you've heard her EP Going...Going...Gone! or debut album The Apple Tree Under the Sea? Well, no matter how much you know about Hems, you're gonna fall in love with her on today's ep! We talk reading smut, Hems teaches us about everything from Wattpad to feeling wheels, we discuss being too busy to date, getting therapized through TikTok, and of course, we ask, is America just a country-sized rage room? PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

Get tickets to Naomi and Megan's online show A Night of Cinema! BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

Support the show on Patreon (two extra exclusive episodes a month!) or gift someone a Patreon subscription! Or get yourself a t-shirt or a discounted Quarantine Crew shirt! And why not leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts? Or Spotify? It takes less than a minute! Follow the show on Instagram! Check out some CT clips on YouTube!

Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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For the first time, husbands Joel Kim and John-Michael Booster are podcast guesting together, and baby, we get INTO IT! Now, you know Joel from his many appearances on this show, from TV shows like Loot and the first season of the Scrubs legacyquel, from the film he wrote and starred in Fire Island, his Netflix special Psychosexual and so much more! Well, now you get to meet his husband, video game designer John-Michael! John Michael works for Riot Games, the makers of League of Legends, so we have a real 2IPC here (Oh, you don't know the acronym I just made up, "Two Industry Power Couple"???). Anyway, on today's episode JK and JM talk about how they met coming out of lockdown in the early part of the pandemic, having a big wedding, making friends and enemies at Burning Man, integrating friend groups, radical honesty and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

Get tickets to Naomi and Megan's online show A Night of Cinema! BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

Support the show on Patreon (two extra exclusive episodes a month!) or gift someone a Patreon subscription! Or get yourself a t-shirt or a discounted Quarantine Crew shirt! And why not leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts? Or Spotify? It takes less than a minute! Follow the show on Instagram! Check out some CT clips on YouTube!

Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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Brendan Scannell is back, baby! It's been years since Brendan's been on the show (You know Brendan from Bonding and Heathers and tons of other great stuff!), and while he was out promoting his new live stand-up show The Abyss (see it in LA on Sept. 9th and 10th or in New York on Oct. 1st!), he dropped by the ol' virtual couch for an extensive look at what he's been up to the last few years. And it's been A LOT! Brendan went to rehab, he got sober, he's seeing a transformational therapist, he's been in a relationship for seven years... yow! And on today's episode, Brendan might even use his hard-earned wisdom to change Andy's life. We'll see! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

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Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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Sasheer hasn't been in the show in years, so we're catching up with her in a non-party setting and GETTING INTO IT! Now, obviously you know Sasheer Zamata from SNL, from Agatha All Along, Home Economics, some very funny scenes set in the real world in the new Masters of the Universe movie and of course from Best Friends, the wonderful podcast she does with friend of the show/friend IRL Nicole Byer! And on today's episode, Sasheer fills us in on the last few years: we talk moon ceremonies and how they help her orient her life, we talk about going to couples therapy with her partner and why they eventually had to fire their therapist, we talk becoming okay with confrontation, especially when confronting a home repairman who messes up your house, and of course, we talk lab grown meat nightmares, the warden in your brain and SO MUCH MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

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Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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We've casually known Josh Johnson from the ol' New York comedy scene for a long time, but do we *really* know him? Find out on today's PULSE-POUNDING edition of the pod! Now, you surely know Josh as an Emmy-nominated writer and as one of the rotating hosts of one of the last original shows on Comedy Central, The Daily Show! Or maybe you knew him back when, when he was a writer on The Tonight Show or maybe you know him from his stand-up, which you can watch on his YouTube channel or live in a city near you! Regardless, on today's show, we're trying to crack Josh's unflappable demeanor. We discuss intellectualizing emotional things, being in a romantic argument with someone who's too logical, Josh's nearly-decade-long relationship, James K. Polk's TikTok presence, and of course, what's actually in Baked Lays... all this and MORE! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

Support the show on Patreon (two extra exclusive episodes a month!) or gift someone a Patreon subscription! Or get yourself a t-shirt or a discounted Quarantine Crew shirt! And why not leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts? Or Spotify? It takes less than a minute! Follow the show on Instagram! Check out some CT clips on YouTube!

Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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Our old pal Eliot Glazer returns after half a decade to catch us (really, you, the listener!) up on the last five years. Now, you know Eliot as a writer and actor on Broad City, and a writer on shows like New Girl, Teachers, iCarly, Younger and more, and now Eliot is a PUBLISHED AUTHOR! Eliot's new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay is out now! Eliot's book - and a lot of what we talk about today - is about how he feels alienated for not fitting in with the (supposed) mainstream gay lifestyle. We talk about how a lot of his issues revolve around how he sees himself in comparison to this gay apotheosis, and how it makes him feel when he actively tries to fit in. We also get into the mental illness of social media, our dislike of being perceived, and of course, we discuss the most famous graduate of the LA clown scene. Yes, finally, we're talking about the LA clown scene! PLUS, obvi, we answer YOUR advice questions! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions, call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM or just DM us on IG or Twitter!

BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! And:

Support the show on Patreon (two extra exclusive episodes a month!) or gift someone a Patreon subscription! Or get yourself a t-shirt or a discounted Quarantine Crew shirt! And why not leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts? Or Spotify? It takes less than a minute! Follow the show on Instagram! Check out some CT clips on YouTube!

Plus some other stuff! Watch Naomi's Netflix half hour or Mythic Quest! Check out Andy's old casiopop band's lost album or his other podcast Beginnings!

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