Sweet Virgin Brian

On this episode of Sweet Virgin Cinema, I talk over everyone's favorite battle angel movie, Alita: Battle Angel!

Hey, everybody, I'm back... with a La La Land commentary! I'm still not in a head space to do a show about love but I do want to talk about my other passion: CINEMA! So let's watch La La Land together!

I'm taking a break from the show! But don't worry: it's me, not you. I explain why in this episode but the too long, didn't listen is that I feel like the subject matter of the show is irrelevant to me in these strange times. I'll be back on June 7th either with a regular episode or just a little check in. Stay safe out there, folks! Take care of each other and your mental health! I love you!

Comedian, musician, and producer Chrissy Bruzek returns to the show to talk about EXES. Should you try and forget about exes entirely? Can you be friends with an ex? And how do you stop their memory from haunting you? Find out on this episode of the Sweet Virgin Brian because we for sure have the definite correct answers to all those questions!

Dating and relationships can be tough if you suffer from anxiety. It can make asking someone out or just telling your partner what you want feel like the end of the world. Cohost of the Unsolicited and Unqualified podcast and one of my closest friends, Nigel Hatch, joins me to talk about how anxiety affects our dating lives and how to cope with it!

Have you wanted to practice non-monogamy but not sure how to go about it? Maybe you're worried about jealousy or stepping outside you or your partners' boundaries? Well thank goodness producer, performer and host of the Unplugged Creative podcast Arielle Zadok joins me to talk all about practicing non-monogamy ethically!

People go to great lengths to make dating easier but would you go as far as hiring a "virtual dating assistant" (aka a paid stranger) to make your dating profile and message people under your name? Yeah that's a real job comedian/writer/director Michael Luxemburg (Wisecrack, Party World Rasslin') did and he joins me on the show to tell me all about it!

Idealization is when you make something seem perfect in your head. What does that have to do with love you might ask? Come on. Don't tell me you've never thought that your crush was flawless, your ex was the only one for you, or that a relationship would make your life PERFECT. Writer/director/editor Alex Watson (Two Dudes in LA, Don't Listen) and I talk about the problems with idealization and how to stop doing it!

No guest this week because the coronavirus pandemic made me last minute cancel on not one, but two guests! :( I was too depressed to learn how to remote record and book a new guest so this is a solo episode where I talk about dating while social distancing, self-love (hehehe) routines while in lockdown, and I answer listener questions asked during the livestream of this record!!!

We've all had relationships where we wish things would have worked out differently. How do we get over them? Or can you make things work in the end? Actor/comedian Stacia Stitt and I figure out how to grieve the ones that got away on this week's Sweet Virgin Brian!!!