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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 1d

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Great talk with @franifio.bsky.social! We talk husbands, ex-husbands, voyeurism in Cuba, parenthood in a decaying world + everything you ever wanted to know about Grimace and Morning DJ Howard Zinn!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTFranifio

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 6d

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

We're back on format as Naomi pitches a show set in the UK that - Channel 4, are you listening?? - could be our ticket out of the US! All this + our unwinding sanity! Only on Patreon!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 8d

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Chef & professional Dessert Person Claire Saffitz drops by to talk perfectionism, control issues, how becoming a parent has brought up old therapeutic stuff she thought she solved + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTCSaffitz

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Andy Beckerman @andybeckerman.bsky.social · 9d

Naomi and I are about to head out to the Riyadh Comedy Festival! We’re not performing, but we couldn’t miss this line-up, probably doing the best sets of their lives! GPS says the drive is 137 hours and “you can’t drive through an ocean; please don’t do this” so we better get going!

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 11d

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

Welcome to I Said No Grifts! Here's what happens: Andy & Naomi narrowly avoid being swindled when @bridgerw.bsky.social tries to hoax them out of their life savings. Only on Patreon!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 15d

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

The great @sampancake.bsky.social returns for a deep dive into his lovelife! Plus: a coke spoon of under-eye cream, becoming an adult in the 1980s, Drew Barrymore pool parties + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTSamPancake

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 22d

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Susan Chardy from the incredible film On Becoming a Guinea Fowl tells us about her positive experience of English boarding school (?!), her model days in NYC, meeting her tennis pro husband + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTChardy

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · 29d

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

@mintmilana.bsky.social returns (???) to psychoanalyze us (!!!), and talk food issues, Family Systems, evil inner voices, having healthy self-esteem, being friends with her exes and MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTMilana

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Sep 2

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Host of Pretty Gay, Cathereine McCafferty drops by for an hour of fun! High school romance, Zoom break-ups, weeping therapists and SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTCatherineM

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

We're back in the bedroom with Squee covering a bunch o' stuff including some new cray Next Door posts, Naomi grapples with Wikifeet, Scientology sanitation + YOUR advice/life questions!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 26

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Power couple Karan Soni & @roshansethi.bsky.social of A Nice Indian Boy stop by to have fun and talk love crumbs vs. love loafs, run-ins with the law, the myth of the white doctor and MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTKaranRoshan

The weekly Couples Therapy promo pic with drawings of Andy and Naomi by Sophia Zarders and PR pic of our guests Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi. It's episode 377, titled Love Loaf.

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

On this PULSE-POUNDING INSTALLMENT, our house is now a feline elder care facility! Plus YOUR Qs including "Why does Andy keep referencing Marc Maron? + families & finances + MORE!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 19

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

We had so much fun with Hannah Pilkes! People pleasing, Dutch culture & marriage, updating MASH, the "Dave & Busters of Soul Food", converting to Judaism & spoken word rabbis + SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTHannahP

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 12

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

What a time with Jillian Bell! Working and dating at Abercrombie & Fitch, horse tranqs, focusing on career over romance, OCD + does Gen Z know who Christine Baranski is?

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJillianBell

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 5

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Power couple @joshgondelman.bsky.social & @maris.bsky.social talk the early days of their relaysh: Josh's love of squalor, Maris' lack of pots & pans + snoring pugs & WASPs ❤️ of wedge salad + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJoshMaris

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

We use your suggestions as a launchpad to tell stories of Australian injuries & ska suffocations, the true dangers of vampire bites, the bong rip house PLUS the return of Naomi Hates!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 29

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

The brilliant Naomi Ackie joins us for fun & feelings! Fiery families, her first longterm relaysh, anxiety, the benefits of EMDR & as always we ask, has UK food gotten worse since Brexit??

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNaomiAckie

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 22

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Our pal Nico joins us this week for a deep dive into his pre-Zeke dating life, Filipino family traditions, how therapy entered his life + we pitch our restaurant ideas to each other & MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNicoS

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 21

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

Once again, we pull back the SICK CURTAIN OF SHOWBIZ to talk about all the stuff that goes on ibehind the scenes of lists and awards, plus Hollywood and white supremacy and SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 15

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

A true blast with Holmes! First loves, not drinking, wanting to learn carpentry for the collapse, making expensive impulsive decisions and SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTHolmes

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 8

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

Sonia Denis is the BEST! We talk the best places to cry in NYC, therapy & parents, anxiety while filming #ironheart, dating a narcissist while being invaded by raccoons and SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTSoniaD

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 4

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!

We talk about some health stuff Andy's been dealing with as well as the dangers of cheese plates, the embarrassment of your dog's pill alarm going off during a stand-up show + MORE!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jul 1

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

We LOVE Deli Boys, so we HAD to have @saagarshaikh.bsky.social on the show! How Saagar met his wife, their pre-wedding long-distance relaysh, growing up in Texas, therapy & parental issues + MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTSaagar

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jun 24

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!

We had SO MANY listener comments that we had to do a "just us" @naomiekperigin.bsky.social & @andybeckerman.bsky.social ep.! All YOUR responses + office faux pas, Onyx's 1993 hit "Slam" and MORE!

🔊 tinyurl.com/CTRushHour

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Couples Therapy Pod @couplestherapypod.bsky.social · Jun 19

It's the COUPLES THERAPY JUNETEENTH SPECTACULAR (in the sense that we recorded this today)

It's an ep to heal your hurtin' souls, folks, as we discuss Andy's health journey, the great show Big Boys, we create a new game "Nepobaby Cowboy Perv" + SO MUCH MORE!

🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

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