Episode Details

Matt Buechele walks-and-talks his way through the White House Correspondents' Dinner chaos, the case for adding ballrooms to every school in America, and why we've gotten numb to political violence to the point that half the country just calls it staged.

This is That Sounds Like a Lot, the show where comedian Matt Buechele breaks down the news of the week (even when it’s way too much) and talks to interesting people about what’s actually worth paying attention to.

This week, Matt sits down with comedian and author Zach Zimmerman to talk about dating apps (Zach is a bi king now), attachment styles, and growing up around conservative religion.

Topics

- Body image and online presence

- Dating, bisexuality, and polyamory

- Attachment styles and over-pathologizing

- Religious upbringings and family dynamics

- Standup, career motivation, and creative risk

- Phones, attention, and “the brick”

- Consumer rewards, coffee, and everyday economics

- Substances: weed, gummies, and shrooms

- Listener advice - “too much” or manageable situations

- Zach’s new book: Ship Mother and parent-child reconciliation

- Art-making in dark times and “hope as a discipline”

- Comedic predictions

CHAPTERS

00:00:00 White House Correspondence Dinner and Gunman Manifestos

00:03:00 Zach Zimmerman on the Video Podcast Body Reveal

00:04:59 Entering the Bi King Era and Dating App Boundaries

00:07:55 Roasting Matt Buechele’s Avoidant Attachment Style

00:13:02 The Pastor to Comedian Pipeline and Religious Upbringing

00:18:32 Using the Brick Phone to Kill the Scroll

00:21:35 The Aging Crisis and Creative Resistance

00:26:05 Dunkin Rewards Point Inflation and Loyalty Program Betrayal

00:34:24 That Sounds Like A Lot Construction Worker Woods Poop

00:41:27 Ship Mother and the Chaos of a Bermuda Cruise

00:53:29 Hope is a Discipline and Creating Art During a War

01:01:46 The Protestant Theology of the Rapture and Vanishing People

That Sounds Like A Lot is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions and Port Royale in partnership with Vox Media and AND Media. Music by Matt Buechele.

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