SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! One of the stars of our fav new Australian show Fisk, Aaron Chen joins us on this BONUS ep to talk about intergenerational anxiety and Maoist China (???), dessert therapy, getting married + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTAaronChen

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! One of our fav panelists from Taskmaster, Jamali Maddix stops by to talk learning to be a real person, being haunted by endless wanting, a near-death experience in Thailand + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJamali

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! The great Amy Landecker stops by this week to talk being an open parent, sobriety, meeting her second husband and of course, hanging out on a Pride float with his manager; PLUS SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTLandecker

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! Showbiz pettiness in the age of Imperial Collapse, attending the NAACP Image Awards nominee luncheon, door-to-door second-rate cults, the enshittification of mozzerella sticks + MORE! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! We love Stumble & Jenn has been one of our favs for a while! Today we're talking being the preacher's daughter, dating at Applebee's, searching for your identity, Phish, Latin class + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJennLyon

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! We survived a MENACING PARAKEET ATTACK! PLUS: Pavlovian pen clicks! RFK's aura photograph! Bird conspiracy theories! And are we going insane in the modern world? Listener, YOU DECIDE! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! BONUS EP w/ our old friends Damian Bellino & Anne Rodeman, hosts of the FANTASTIC podcast You Might Know Her From! "Despised" therapists, wanting a Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera kind of love + MORE 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTDamianAnne

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! We love Gus Heagerty and on today's episode, we talk about starting therapy as a tween, caring for flour babies, spatchcocking in the country with your boyfriend & SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTHeagerty

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Allison Tolman returns! Caring for your inner child, Hollywood accounting, becoming your own best friend, the understudy to Lexapro pipeline, a DCU product pitch for James Gunn (?) + MORE!!! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTAllisonTol...

At the NAACP Image Award Luncheon celebrating Naomi’s nomination!

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Celebrating 400 eps with our third CAVALCAD3 OF STARS! One advice question each with some of our fav folks: @boomboomhiller.bsky.social, Nicole Byer, @amberruffin.bsky.social, Tien Tran & Caleb Hearon! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTep400

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! We're talking Thomas Pynchon rumors on DeuxMoi, Hollywood awards in the age of ICE, Andy takes a hike with a pal, Naomi's dream comes true + we debut a brand new segment Highest2Lowest! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Get uplifted with Desiree Burch! Moving to the UK for love, the power of the mid-life crisis, trying to walk your cat on a leash, and as we discuss on every episode, Looksmaxxing murderers! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTDesiree

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! A real grabbag of fun as Naomi recounts the "fun" folks she meets in the neighb, we talk post-prom parties, Marty Supreme & one of John Waters top films of 2025, Palm Springs + MORE! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! It's @jeanofthegraes.bsky.social today, baby! Jean talks to us about a later-in-life neurodivergent epiphany, dealing with narcissists, perimenopause vs. Perry Mason, revenge fantasies & MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJeanGrae

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! The return of Jameela Jamil! We get in the nooks & crannies of Jameela's mind & talk about the gulf between her public persona & how she feels inside, how she met her bf, dental hygiene + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTJameelaRet...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! It's our annual "Just Us" episode! A rainy NYE! Some exciting updates from previous advice seekers! We answer YOUR questions both serious and sprightly! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTCameoVal

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! Fuck off, 2025! And ring in the new year with us as we watch House Hunters International Season 198, episode 10 "His Shirts, Her Pole, Germany"! Yes, that's the title. Verbatim. Yikes! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! We ❤️ Brandon Ash-Mohammed! Brandon joins us to talk about ending an international situationship, meeting his bf, outfoxing a nefarious child psychologist + SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTBrandonAM

I always felt @naomiekperigin.bsky.social had an all-time bit with this one that, depressingly, is more and more relevant every day.

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! An absolute blast having our pal Steph Tolev back on the show to ring in the holidays! Meeting her boyfriend, how they resolve arguments, hoarding lacrosse sticks + SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTStephTRetu...

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! We "celebrate" 2025 by looking back with Crunchyroll's recap + BRAND NEW segment The Shade Report, Couples Therapy Goes to the Cinema with our look at The Running Man + MORE! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our pal @michaelcyril.bsky.social returns to talk about his pre-marriage dating life, panic attacks, beta blockers + of course, we ask, whatever happened to the twin of your high school bf? 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTMCCReturns

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! The wonderful host of Gaydar @anania00.bsky.social joins us today to talk through their dating phases, therapy & family issues, and of course, character actor Charles Durning (???) ! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTAnania

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Tim Bagley from Somebody Somewhere & hundreds of other shows stops by to talk about the journey to accepting himself, LA dating in the '70s, his sensible no-drama policy + SO MUCH MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTTimBagley

Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode! We're giving advice live to those in need of the help of two unlicensed comedians! Two dear listeners Zoom with us to discuss evil jobs, parents & the FBI + D&D character pitches! 🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...

SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! Our pal Zeke stops by to tell us how he learned to razz, Survivor dishing out the moolah for New York's swankiest therapist, sex friend circles, dating from HS to Nico + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTZekeSmith

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