It's a part 2! We're joined by friend of the show Jess Parker as she makes her triumphant return, and this time we're talking weddings, performative femininity, and how everybody knows a Clyde... f*ckin Clyde. 

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"And how is your relationship with your father?" A question everyone in therapy has heard before. Today we're talking dads! The ways we love them, resent them, the reasons they are why they are, and how "Daddy issues" are aimed as an insult toward women when, by definition, they're the fault of men.

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Today we're joined by Chicago Actor, Director, Creator of Chad The Bird, and movie buff Josh Zagoren as we talk about a particular horror movie and how the horror genre can be a respite or a nightmare depending on how our anxiety functions.

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Most people currently under the age of 40 are going to live with debt until they die or until society collapses under the weight of unsustainable capitalism. If that sentence gave you as much anxiety as it gave us, welcome! Come commiserate this week as we talk credit cards, financial insecurity, and "How the in the hell do mortgages work?"

On today's episode - People are really different! We're joined by friend of the show and Chicago actor Justin Verstraete, who has a story about losing yourself to relationship anxiety, incompatible love languages, and different attachment styles. We had a really interesting conversation about how there are multiple perspectives in every situation, and that sometimes things falling apart is no one's fault. You won't want to miss this one!

Dun dun DUUUUNNNNNNN. Yeah. We all remember this shit. Time to delve into the absolute torrent of hell that was middle school and its effect on our developing minds. Spoiler alert: it was real dumb.

Today we chat with friend of the show and Cousin of Julia, Nicki Loizzi, who has a long history with meds, misdiagnosis, and most recently a good experience with a new treatment!

Content Warning. Today we take a look at the body ideals we all grew up with, and how that affected what we saw in the mirror during our formative years.

Today we're joined by actor, teacher, and host of the podcast "Are Your Parents Proud of You?" Matthew Schufreider! Together we talk through the perils of health scares, children, and the weird choices we make as actors and then regret intensely for years.

Happy Omicron! We join you from various stages of sickness both mental and physical! This week we get esoteric af as we discuss the pandemic, death, and those wonderful moments we all have when we're about to fall asleep and then think, "but what if I have cancer???"