I Need You Guys

It’s the end of our first season, so we got back in touch with some favorite callers for updates on whether or not our advice helped them (surprisingly, yes!). You’ll hear a voicemail from our friend The Game Show Sweathog, and a check-in from The Lady Whose Upstairs Neighbor Performs A Quarterly Sex Ritual. In the middle of this episode, a very special treat: we are joined LIVE by last week’s caller, Courtney, and last week’s guest Noah Garfinkel, because we just had too many questions for a voicemail to cover them all. We’ll also talk about therapists, crypto, entities vs N-Titties, and driving sugar packets up someone’s thigh. Tummies up!

In this episode, we talk to the charming, and presumably single, Carmen Christopher (The Bear, English Teacher, Friendship), and it’s all about the princess treatment, who’s the driver in their relationships, and taking Dumb & Dumber for granted, before we ask the important questions: does Carmen believe in ghosts, has Carmen ever been ghosted, and also what is ghosting. Plus: Michael Jackson, maybe…he does not die? And a thorny question from a listener about weddings, exes, and flowers.

In this episode, we talk about being the favorite child (or not) with regards to Jenny’s salad dressing dance, and Gabe wonders how to gently tell a casual acquaintance that they’ve never seen anything he’s ever done, before we welcome the delightful actor/writer/comedian Aparna Nancherla (Bojack Horseman, Corporate, The Great North). They’ll talk about Aparna and Jenny’s shared stand-up history, what Leonardo Di Caprio learned from skydiving, what qualifies as an Oreo, and the new love in Max’ mom’s life (please keep this under your hat). Plus: a listener wonders “how do I tell my mom her gifts are bad?”

In this episode, the stakes couldn’t be higher as Max has placed a sandwich tantalizingly close just prior to recording, and Jenny has another dangerous bisque bubbling away! Then, we’re joined by the delightful Claudia O’Doherty (Maddie’s Secret, Love, Our Flag Means Death), who tells us what she’s been cooking recently, shuts down any talk of white chocolate, and lists her favorite movies about magic food. Max comes out HARD against short stories (not our fans, the format), and is there REALLY somebody named Eileen Downward? Plus: a question from a listener about several things, including a hot gynecologist.

This week, we'd like to celebrate the premiere of Survival Of The Thickest Season 3 on Netflix by re-airing our hilarious chat with the show's creator and star, the fantastic Michelle Buteau! Michelle warns us not to get our tongues pierced at the San Gennaro Festival! She also shares how it feels to see her hosting style imitated so often, and helps us answer a listener’s question about housesitting pets while naked. Plus: Max asks Jenny and Gabe for TV and movie recommendations, from a legendary NYC documentary to a soothing art contest.

In this episode, it’s gonna be a two-martini night as we’re joined by the cool, hilarious, and tall John Reynolds (Search Party, Stranger Things, Yellowjackets) to discuss why playgrounds are stressful, deja vu, self-doubt, Sleeping With The Enemy, and John’s new movie Never Change! Plus, a listener has a question about the best way to get back in touch one year later!

Today we’re joined by the fabulous Chani Nicholas, astrologer, activist, and all around good egg, and she has Jenny, Max, & Gabe’s birth charts in hand! She’ll answer questions about how their charts align, how they differ, being prepared for expansion, and getting cornered on airplanes. Also, ghost hunting! Plus a question about using AI on family photos (that’s a big “no” from the panel).

The hilarious Pete Holmes (Crashing, You Made It Weird) joins us today to discuss unkind thoughts about a man’s foot, encountering Paul Rudd after stroller combat, and to offer a caller some advice about getting the lyrics wrong. Plus, what’s an appropriate gift for a boo mitzvah, and Jenny has a simple opening question about high school: “Were you guys tryin’ to grind?”

The secret ingredient in this week’s hosts-only episode is love! Jenny finds out that shackets are like jeggings for boys, Gabe explains why you should measure twice to cut once, and Max gets us excited for two Pennsylvania-set movies coming soon (though we’re disappointed by the lack of scrapple). Plus: we help a pair of callers work through their confusing night with a Sharon Tate lookalike and her friends. We’re pretty sure we know what “I have to change my tampon” is code for.

Nicholas Braun (Succession, The Sheep Detectives) went to the same high school as one of us, and you’ll have to listen to find out who! We talk about high school reunions, regrets, and surprise hookups, and Nick puts his detective skills to use to help a caller whose upstairs neighbor has a strange post-sex ritual. Plus: Jenny learns that “making a donation” has a different meaning in outer space.

Paula Pell (The Burbs, Girls5Eva) is drinking iced coffee out of a Tab glass with a waistline! She tells us what it’s like to return to acting after a legendary writing career, then helps a caller with sweat issues, and we debate whether her dog looks more like Gizmo from Gremlins or a steering wheel. Plus: we’re still not sure how Jenny’s dad injured himself in a very sensitive place.

Michelle Collins (The Michelle Collins Show, On The Box) sadly doesn’t revive her one-woman performance of Les Misérables for us! But she does share the shocking thing people would yell at her in Amsterdam, reminisces on her college days with Jenny and Gabe, and helps us with a caller who thinks his friends are talking about him behind his back. Plus: Max used to be Wiccan?

No guest, it’s just the three of us this week! (Sorry, Keira Knightley, maybe next time.) Jenny guesses what the movie Saw is about, before Max relives the very real horror of a birthday dinner that went terribly wrong. Then we help our first ever preteen caller prepare for middle school. Plus: did Jenny invent the crab taco?