Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! Cheese agents, fitness scams, disgraced former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani's love of AI indie rock... life is nuts right now & we're trying to have some fun within the maelstrom of lunacy! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Stand-up Vanessa Gonzalez drops by for a fun-filled discussion of growing up in Texas, going into therapy at the same time as your parents, American-sniffing dogs, small-town psychics + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTVanessaG

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! @attitudespod.bsky.social's Erin Gibson tries to convince us to move to Santa Fe, walks us through the rise & fall of her first marriage + in general, is a light in the dark tunnel that is 2025! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTErinGibson

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Stand-up and writer Hoodo Hersi stops by the ol' Zoom couch this week to talk about starting therapy in the wake of working at Canada's Most Racist School™ + Hoodo's dating rules and MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTHoodoHersi

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! On Coupghouls Scareapy, we do a Halloween deep dive into a formative filmic experience for Andy’s psyche: 1983's sci-fi creature feature The Creature Wasn't Nice! Only on Patreon! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! St. Denis S.2 premieres next week, so to celebrate we're talking to Kahyun Kim! And hoo boy, do we get into it! Kahyun's ENTIRE romantic history, moving to the US to study acting + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTKahyun

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! More missives from Daily Life at the End of Empire! Naomi details a recent family visit, Andy is accused of Jeep malfeasance + microdosing candy & MORE! Only on Patreon! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! A guest's wi-fi problems mean it's just us this week! And yes, are we mentally unraveling? Sure! But that doesn't mean we can't have fun as our brains turn to soup! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTTwoNaps

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! From silly to serious with our pal @norireed.bsky.social! We get real (and also real goofy): when to flee fascism, alt-estrogen, what's feeding our souls, plus we ask: are cats communists? 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNoriReed

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

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...

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

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!

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! @tommylenk.bsky.social is back! We got it all: Nicole Kidman's wigs, how Tom's been coping since his therapist retired, method acting co-star insanity + Naomi asks Tom, "What are you running from???" 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTTomLenk

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Take a trip through @chelseaperetti.bsky.social's mind with us! Balancing weirdness and vulnerability both on stage and in real life, wanting to have a child, our brains are escape rooms and MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTChelsea

We got more Patreon goodness to give you some respite from the demons! Did we remember it was the 150th Paetch ep *before* we did a special AUA? We did not! That's where we are mentally! We answer show-specific Qs, life-specific Qs + of course, one Q about Norway! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Somehow an episode that starts with @adampally.bsky.social musing on 15 bees stinging you in the butthole ends with a meditation on the existential possibilty of happiness! Plus SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTAPally

“When I wear a mask, I'm asserting that my physical health is worth protecting, as is the health of those around me. I'm asserting that I deserve clean air and safety when I step out into the world, and so does everyone else.”— Naomi @naomiekperigin.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DKUx08lOcP...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our old pal @boomboomhiller.bsky.social returns to talk Texas bullies, the things you give up for your partner and how to deal with that, and we ask: is it okay to microdose revenge? 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJeffHiller

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our pal Rekha Shankar, host of @smartypantsshow.bsky.social, tells us about dating Staten Island rude boys & Genius Bar film nerds, feeling like you're romantically behind, Mall Wars + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTRekhaS

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our pal Sydnee Washington returns to update us on her lovelife + we talk cats, long-distance relationships, her bottle girl days, sobriety and more! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTSydReturns

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Old chum Asif Ali stops by this week (our fav comedy of the year is Deli Boys, people!) to talk about how he fills his void, Arizona, therapy re-ups + we ask the question: When is this wife? 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTAsifAli

We got more Patreon goodness to give you some respite from the demons! It's PILOT CAGEMATCH - we pit two pilots, 2004's Lisa Kudrow post-Friends vehicle The Comeback & the 1998 NBC hit multicam Will & Grace, against each other to see which one comes out on top! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplestherapypod

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our Reacher group chat brought to life! @gabrusky.bsky.social talks about how 1980s action films set up his libido + high school dating, an Alan Ritchson kink and MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTGabrusRetu...

We got more Patreon goodness to give you some respite from the demons! How private equity destroyed our vet hospital! We debate reading the news first thing in the morning! Naomi enjoys praise from friends' mothers! Plus an insane Long Island election and MORE! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplestherapypod

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! What a delight! Nik Dodani on THE ORIGINS OF HIS NEUROSES, meeting his boyfriend in the early Pandemmy™, long distance relationships, pre-emptive couples counseling and MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNikDodani

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Old pal & director extraordinaire @joshruben.bsky.social is on the show today! We talk therapy, what really matters in life + ask if Heart Eyes is his Fabelmans (i.e. the key to unlocking his psyche)! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJRuben

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! An absolute blast with Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli! Dating while on The Middle, meeting their partners, mental health, and of course, the most important question: what kind of tree are they? 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTEdenBrock