Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGrieving the Life You Didn’t Get to Live, with Megan Devine
Episode 283
Megan Devine, author, psychotherapist, and one of the top grief experts today, wants you to know that grief is normal. It’s not a mental illness. Tha…
13 hours ago
E (from Eels) Talks Art, Persistence in the Face of Tragedy, and Cookie Monster
Episode 282
“Me no cry because cookie is finished,” Cookie Monster once said. “Me smile because cookie happened.” Eels has been a band for 35 years and just drop…
1 week ago
Showbiz! For Murray Hill, it’s an Industry, Memoir, and Mantra
Episode 281
Audiences know Murray Hill as the hilarious pencil-mustachioed guy who looks like a Catskills comedian. Much of that identity was deliberately formed…
2 weeks ago
Andy Frasco Is Figuring Out Who He IS When He’s NOT a Good Time Rock & Roll Frontman
Episode 280
Andy Frasco has been hard at work since the age of 13. As an adolescent that meant booking shows, helping out at record labels, running a flag footba…
3 weeks ago
Gabrielle Moss On Midlife Plot Twists and Just Not Talking To Your Mom Anymore
Episode 279
Midlife doesn’t need to be a point of crisis, says author Gabrielle Moss. You don’t need to make dangerous choices, blow things up, take a spiritual …
4 weeks ago
Mental Illness Before and After Pregnancy with Dr. Kara Zivin, Who Has Been There
Episode 278
There has been a great deal of press coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case lately. What the world needs more of is first-hand experiences of severe men…
1 month ago
Singer Nicole Atkins Doesn’t Recommend Insomnia, Alcoholism, Falling Down Sinkholes
Episode 277
The acclaimed singer and songwriter Nicole Atkins is pretty adept at reading clues that something is wrong. After she’d fall asleep on a Saturday and…
1 month, 1 week ago
AI Chatbots Destroyed His Reality. Dr. Jeremy Heffner Explains Why He Believed Them.
Episode 276
Dr. Jeremy Heffner was a highly educated, high achieving surgeon. Not the kind of person one would expect to slide down an AI chatbot-generated rabbi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Best of Depresh Mode: Cameron Esposito on Comedy, Rehab, and Bipolar Disorder
Episode 275
Cameron Esposito has many titles: hugely successful standup comedian, actor in television and film, writer, podcast host. After a recent rehab stay l…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cat Grief is Real. So is Human Grief. We’re Underestimating and Misunderstanding Both.
Episode 274
Bay Area journalist s.e. smith thinks the high school goths were right: we should be talking about death all the time. It’s underdiscussed for someth…
2 months ago