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Open your hearts and loosen your butts! On Couples Therapy, real life couple and real life comedians Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman gab with their favorite actors and comics about their romantic pasts, presents and futures and answer YOUR relaysh...

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Open your hearts and loosen your butts! On Couples Therapy, real life couple and real life comedians Naomi Ekperigin and Andy Beckerman gab with their favorite actors and comics about their romantic pasts, presents and futures and answer YOUR relaysh Qs with all the wisdom two unlicensed entertainers can possibly contain! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jamali Maddix

3/10/2026
One of our favs from Taskmaster, British stand-up Jamali Maddix joins us this week! Now, like I said, Jamali first captured our hearts on Taskmaster series 11, but he's also been on tons of other panel shows, most notably as a regular panelist on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and hosted his own docuseries Hate Thy Neighbor, where he tours far-right hate groups around the world to try and figure them out. Yikes! On today's episode, we start out discussing shit-talking & male friendships, which leads us to getting Jamali to dish about Taskmaster, as well as learning to be a real person, being haunted by endless wanting, a near-death experience in Thailand 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:31:14

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Amy Landecker

3/3/2026
Amy Landecker has been in a TON of stuff we're fans of from the best Coen Brothers film A Serious Man to Transparent to The Handmaid's Tale plus episodes of everything from Mad Men to Curb Your Enthusiasm, and that's barely scratching the surface of her career. While doing press for her new film For Worse, which she WROTE DIRECTED and STARS in (and which is IN THEATERS NOW for NY and LA folks and expanding across the country THIS FRIDAY), Amy stopped by the ol' Zoom CT couch to talk about how the idea of gender identity has changed between her and her child's generations, life in sobriety, meeting her second husband, the list about cats and dogs, hanging out on a Pride float with Bradley's manager 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:17:46

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Jenn Lyon

2/24/2026
We have been a fan of Jenn Lyon's since we first encountered her in the sketch world of New York City in the aughts. Then we saw her on Justified; then we saw her on Claws (which, if you haven't seen it, you must - it's like John Waters writing Breaking Bad), Dead Boy Detectives, and most recently, we've been singing the praises of Stumble, so we just had to have Jenn on the show. And boy howdy, what a delight it was to hang out with her! We talk about being the preacher's daughter, going from her friends' social secretary to following Phish around on tour, searching for your identity, ED rehab, and of course, the Latin declension of "farmer"! 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:22:43

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Damian Bellino and Anne Rodeman

2/20/2026
On a special BONUS episode we're talking to our old friends and the hosts of the BRILLIANT podcast You Might Know Her From! Not only is the SEVENTH season of their show premiering next Thursday, but Damian and Anne have a big LIVE show in New York on Saturday the 28th with (former Couples Therapy guest) Annaleigh Ashford and more, so if you live in NYC, get your tickets here and GO! Now, we've known Damian and Anne for probably a decade and a half, but we use today's episode to find out some things that don't come up when you're just hanging around watching Selena (1997). They both tell us about their mental health journeys, how the last ten years have put a lot of things into perspective relationship-wise, Anne tells us how she ditched her "despised therapist", Damian tells us about his dating life in middle age and OF COURSE, we discuss "The Breezeway Theorem" (?)! 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:20:43

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Gus Heagerty

2/17/2026
We fell in love with Gus Heagerty's online videos and what an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT it was to have him on the show today. Hopefully you've seen them too or have seen Gus perform comedy around NYC or have even seen him in our new favorite show Stumble. But even if this is your first time meeting Gus, you're gonna walk away charmed! We talk about starting therapy as a tween, caring for flour babies, spatchcocking in the country with your chef boyfriend, when the gym teacher responds with uncharacteristic empathy 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:44:17

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Allison Tolman Returns

2/10/2026
Allison Tolman is back for a healing hour, baby! It's been a couple years since Allison has been on - and obviously you all know her as the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated and Critics Choice winning Fargo actress, from shows and films like Krampus, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Why Women Kill and of course as one of the leads of the hit NBC sitcom St. Denis Medical! - and we dive right into her romantic and therapeutic life! We talk about parenting your inner child, Hollywood accounting, uncontrollable crying while understudying 33 Variations, becoming your own best friend, a DCU product pitch for James Gunn 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 A Night of Cinema show here! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:32:52

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Jeff Hiller, Nicole Byer, Tien Tran, Amber Ruffin and Caleb Hearon

2/3/2026
It's episode 400, baby! And we're celebrating the only way we know how, by inviting a bunch of folks we love to answer one question each. That's right, we've got recent Emmy-winner Jeff Hiller, Why Won't You Date Me's Nicole Byer, Jockular's Tien Tran, Have I Got News for You's Amber Ruffin and So True's Caleb Hearon... all in one episode? You bet! We catch up with each of our pals, and then answer one listener advice question each. We cover everything from misshapen asses to workplace drama to traveling to the US for a wedding 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! Andy's latest essay can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:03:01:18

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Desiree Burch

1/27/2026
As you may know, discovering Taskmaster last year after Mantzoukas was on saved our sanity as America plunged straight into the sewer, and on today's episode, we're talking to one of our favorite contestants, Desiree Burch! Desiree is, of course, so much more than a Taskmaster series 12 contestant - she's a stand-up (who, if you live in the UK, you can see on tour in February!), the host of Netflix's Too Hot to Handle and BBC 2's Live at the Apollo; she appears on tons of panel shows and so much more! And on today's episode, we get all into how she moved to the UK for a relaysh (but not the relaysh the internet seems to think she moved for... what?!), achieving your dreams in a foreign country, how that relationship fizzled, walking your cat on a leash, the power of the mid-life crisis and TONS 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! Andy's latest essay that he mentions in the intro can be found here! Also, we're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:35:46

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Jean Grae

1/20/2026
We've known Jean Grae from the New York comedy scene forever - and she was even on the live version of Couples Therapy back in the pre-pandemic times - and now that her new fantastic book In My Remaining years is out, we just had to have her back on the show! Now maybe you too know Jean from her book, from doing comedy stuff, especially with John Hodgman, from her days as a rapper, when she was genuinely one of the best to ever pick up a mic, or from tons of other stuff! But even if this is your first time meeting Jean, you're gonna fall in love! We talk about her later-in-life neurodivergent epiphany, dating and dealing with narcissists, how perimenopause is different from Perry Mason, the correct way to have a revenge fantasy 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:43:54

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Jameela Jamil Returns

1/13/2026
Jameela Jamil is back for a killer crossover! We were recently guests on her show Wrongs Turns, where we told embarrassing stories from our past, and now Jameela joins us to further delve into her romantic and therapeutic life! Last time she was on, LA was burning, and we spent the majority of the conversation looking out the window just in case things got inferno-y. But the fires are over and everything in the world is good now. Ahem. Anyway, we get into it with Jameela about the wide gulf between her public persona and how she feels inside about herself. We talk meeting her bf James Blake, the songs he writes about her and again, how his version of her clashes with her own self-image. We talk about not wanting to be perceived and how a nice paycheck and a little dissociation can overcome those feelings, and of course, we talk dental hygiene! 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:17:40

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Naomi and Andy in "Cameo at the Val Party"

1/6/2026
It's 2026! Yikes! The start of the new year! And as is tradition in the Couples Therapy household, we begin with an episode of JUST US! Recorded on Sunday evening, we're delivering Night Vibes to your ears as we dig into some listener comments and updates from previous question-askers, as well as discuss how our New Year's Eve went in Los Angeles while it was raining cats and dogs and every other darn animal in Noah's Ark. PLUS, we're answering YOUR advice questions, from the serious to the sprightly! Questions about where to sit at a stand-up show, what to do with a friend that has some serious problems, and MORE! If you'd like to ask your own advice questions (ESPECIALLY FOR THE UPCOMING 400TH EPISODE!), call 323-524-7839 and leave a VM, drop us an e-mail or voice note at couplestherapypod@gmai.com or just DM us on IG! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:27:06

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Brandon Ash-Mohammed

12/30/2025
Once again, while other podcasts are SCARED to put out an episode during the holidays, we're rarin' to hold your hand through these cold (both climatological and emotional) times! And today we're talking to one of our new favs, Brandon Ash-Mohammed. We watched LOL: Canada, a reality/gameshow where comedians try to make each other laugh, and encountered Brandon for the first time. That, folks, is where we fell in love with him, and talking to him on today's episode confirms that he's a real sweetheart! Now, you might also know Brandon from his stand-up, as an actor on Heated Rivalry or as the head writer of Canada's Drag Race, and on today's episode, Brandon spills the behind-the-scenes tea about competing on LOL, tells us how he met his bf, ending a cross-border situationship, screwing with a terrible psychologist when he was 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 watch the recording of Naomi's ONLINE show with Megan Gailey where they recapped a movie from a certain cable network we won't mention - it's up for another five days! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:27:36

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Steph Tolev Returns

12/23/2025
While other podcasts slack around the holidays, we here at CTHQ are hard at work, recording and editing, to help you get through this fun/disconcerting time! And today we are talking once again to our pal Steph Tolev! Steph's the best, and you should watch her Netflix special Filth Queen right away! (Or go see her on tour in the new year!). The last time Steph was on the show was 2022, so we have a lot to catch up on. Steph talks to us about leaving her therapist, meeting her boyfriend, dealing with issues from her last (terrible) relationship, typical arguments Steph gets in with her boyfriend, plus we find out that Hustler isn't the virtuous publication we always thought it was, 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's ONLINE show with Megan Gailey where they will recap a movie from a certain cable network December 28th at 8pm ET! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:13:40

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Michael Cyril Creighton Returns

12/16/2025
Michael's one of our favorite humans, and it's been TOO long, so we had to have him back! Now you know Michael from plenty of things including Spotlight, Only Murders in the Building, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Dexter: New Blood and dozens of other shows, plays and films! And last time Michael was on, we talked all about his marriage, so this time we delve into his pre-married dating life, the issues that led him into therapy, his favorite blockers (which is not the film Blockers, even though it's a pretty fun movie), and of course, we ask: what ever happened to the twin of his high school boyfriend??? 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's ONLINE show with Megan Gailey where they will recap a movie from a certain cable network December 28th at 8pm ET! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:31:56

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Anania

12/9/2025
Social media algorithms, created by tech freaks and psychos, have - on the whole - radicalized and ruined large swaths of society YET if you curate carefully, it *can* (heavy on the can) gift unto you some wonderful folks, and today we're talking with one of the algorithm's gifts, Anania! Yes, this year Instagram dropped Anania's online show Gaydar into our feed, and if it isn't one of the funnest shows out there! We talk to Anania about their phases of dating, therapy and family issues, Coen Bros character actors, vaudeville pranks, life and love in the Big Apple 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:23:36

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Tim Bagley

12/2/2025
Somebody Somewhere is one of our favorite shows of the last decade - we've talked to Jeff, Bridget, director Lennon Parham and now today, we're talking to the kind and soft-spoken Tim Bagley! Now, in addition to Somebody Somewhere, you've seen Tim everywhere over the last few decades: The Great North, Grace and Frankie, Will & Grace, Monk + as a character actor on basically every sitcom that aired since 1993, and on today's episode, Tim takes us on a tour of his romantic and therapeutic history! Tim discusses his struggles with accepting himself and the various methods he used to try "cure" being gay. We talk sex surrogates and therapists who get it, dating in LA in the 1970s, losing his partner but finding a family, Tim's sensible no-drama policy 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:29:20

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Zeke Smith

11/25/2025
Our pal Zeke Smith stops by the ol' Couples Therapy patented Couch o' Insights™ on today's episode for a gosh darn fun time! Now maybe you remember Zeke from when he was on with his hubby Nico Santos a few years ago, or maybe you know Zeke from Survivor or as a member of GLAAD's board of directors. Well, no matter what, we chop it up with Zeke today in an ep that starts with razzing and then goes through Zeke's dating history from high school through meeting Nico, plus some surprising polling from GLAAD, Survivor dishing out the moolah for New York's swankiest therapist, sex friend circles 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:45:03

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Vanessa Gonzalez

11/18/2025
Vanessa is a wonderful stand-up that we like a ton (maybe you've seen her on Jimmy Kimmel or Comedy Central or Netflix... and did you know she was named as one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch?), and on this week's episode we talk all about her and her parents' parallel therapy journeys, how she escaped her small Texas town, meeting her boyfriend on OK Cupid, slut seasons, lessons you learn from your parent's marriage, what CBP really stands for 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:26:47

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Erin Gibson

11/11/2025
We're big Attitudes! fans over here at Couples Therapy HQ - it's especially been helping us through some difficult times - so we lured Attitudes! co-host and TV writer (Chicken Sisters, Tiny Toons Looniversity) Erin Gibson onto the show with the promise of talking about Slow Horses, but that quickly falls to the wayside as Erin takes us through the rise and fall of her first marriage, how they met, how they ended, and all the nooks and crannies of the relaysh, and as much as we love Slow Horses, we were too into Erin's life to just talk about one of the last few prestige shows streaming! Erin also talks to us about the Santa Fe aesthetic, why people should just give marriage a shot 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:42:42

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Hoodo Hersi

11/4/2025
The algorithm is almost always piping dumb shit into our feeds, but EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE we get some fun clips that lead us to discover someone new to us. So we must thank the algorithm for introducing us to the wonderful Hoodo Hersi! Hoodo is a New York-based stand-up and writer (she writes on Ramy's Amazon cartoon #1 Happy Family USA) and host of the YouTube show That's So Haram!. And on today's show, we go deep into her therapeutic journey, which started when she worked for Canada's Most Racist School. We talk about how she dealt with that - including an absolutely insane teaching assistant - as well as with family issues, and Hoodo gives us her tips for online dating with the goal of finding a partner. 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! We're in culture critic and Vulture writer Sean Malin's new book The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts That Changed How We Listen! ALSO BUY A SUPER CUTE "Open Your Hearts, Loosen Your Butts" mug! 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 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! Theme song by the great Sammus! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Duration:01:24:45