Tell Me About Your Mother

Episode 22: Alcoholic Garden Gnome


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Evan and Eli are one-on-one for this episode. Within minutes they realize that Melissa represents a shadow mother figure in the podcast dynamic and that her absence allows for more dick jokes. Discussing the phallic qualities of their mic stands provides a bridge to a slightly more serious conversation: 

  • “Sounding gay”
  • Southern sayings 
  • Family therapy 
  • Intervening in a family system 
  • Garden gnome drunk
  • Love pats instead of spankings 
  • Fast routes to treating core elements of clients
  • Saying unconventional things to clients to diffuse and restructure conversations
  • Old men becoming softer
  • I’d be a bad father if I was warm and loving 
  • Our questions are often a projection of ourselves 
  • Revictimization of trauma experiences in institutions that are needing data to funding and reimbursements
  • Evan tells a kid to punch a hole in the wall


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Tell Me About Your MotherBy Evan Miller and Melissa Martin

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