To Write a Book about Family, Mary H. K. Choi Had to First Look at Her Own
Mary H. K. Choi stops by the show for our annual meeting of the dead dads club and a conversation about her new book Pool House. We discuss the major changes in Mary’s life that informed the writing o...
24 Jun 56min
Death, Sex and Recovery: A Conversation with Anna Sale
Death, Sex and Money is where I go for a jolt of connection to something bigger than myself. Anna Sale hosts that show and is also the author of the book Let’s Talk About Hard Things. On this episode,...
17 Jun 51min
Ryan O'Connell on the Strange Sensation of Finally Being Seen
Ryan O’Connell had an uncommon path to fame. After starting as a blogger in New York, he wrote a TV script about his life as a young, gay man with Cerebral Palsy. When the show was picked up by Netfli...
10 Jun 53min
Langhorne Slim Wanted to Flee. Then He Became a Father.
Turns out Langhorne Slim and I have a lot in common. We both grew up in the Philly suburbs, we spent formative creative years in New York and we became dads in our forties. We’re also both in recovery...
3 Jun 58min
Dopey Dave on Ego, Success and Why "More" is the Hardest Drug to Quit
Dave Manheim (host of the Dopey Podcast) comes back on the show to drop some Dopey wisdom. We talk about ego, ambition, control issues, slowing down and how to be of service, self-servingly. Plus, wha...
27 Mai 45min
Mitchell Jackson on Crisis PR, Billionaire Clients and Cancel Culture
As the publicist for some of the most controversial people in media, including Candace Owens, Clavicular and Adam Friedland, Mitchell Jackson runs toward chaos. I wanted to have him on the show to tal...
20 Mai 59min
Blair Socci on Returning to Standup After the Loss of her Brother
How do you begin to laugh again after experiencing unimaginable grief? Comedian Blair Socci has been trying to answer this question since the sudden death of her brother, but the answer isn’t obvious....
13 Mai 49min
Michael Strassner Made a Movie About the Night That Almost Killed Him
Michael Strassner makes sure to watch the first scene of his film The Baltimorons at every screening, because he knows that if the events of that scene went differently, he wouldn't be around to watch...
6 Mai 47min
