Ordinary Unhappiness
by Patrick & Abby
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Estimated from 34 chart positions in 34 markets.
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- 🇺🇸US · Philosophy#49100K to 300K
- 🇩🇪DE · Philosophy#9930K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · Philosophy#1245K to 30K
- 🇨🇦CA · Philosophy#1295K to 30K
- 🇧🇷BR · Philosophy#2130K to 100K
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95K to 313K🎙 Daily cadence·157 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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316K to 1.0M🇺🇸29%🇩🇪10%🇧🇷10%+31 more - Active Followers
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95K to 313K
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152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson
Jul 25, 2026
1h 50m 42s
151: All is Vanity: Narcissism, Part 3
Jul 18, 2026
3m 13s
150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader
Jul 4, 2026
1h 33m 48s
149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2
Jun 27, 2026
9m 40s
148: You’re So Vain: Narcissism, Part 1
Jun 20, 2026
1h 28m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/25/26 |  152: The Pope, the Church, and the Politics of Progress feat. Jack Hanson | Abby and Patrick welcome writer, critic, and religion scholar Jack Hanson for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation about the politics and social significance of the contemporary Catholic Church. With Jack’s new piece in Harper’s, “Radical Reformation: The Catholic Church’s Progressive Revival,” as a guide, the three put the accession of the Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV into the context of the Church’s complicated relationship with modern geopolitics, economic pressures, an... | 1h 50m 42s | ||||||
| 7/18/26 | narcissismWestern history+3 | Dan | NarcissusChaucer’s Wife of Bath+3 | — | narcissismmyth of Narcissus+3 | — | 3m 13s | ||
| 7/4/26 | American policinghistory+3 | Stuart Schrader | Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves | — | policinghistory+3 | — | 1h 33m 48s | ||
| 6/27/26 | mythnarcissism+3 | Dan | Narcissus myth | — | Narcissusmyth+5 | — | 9m 40s | ||
| 6/20/26 | narcissismculture+4 | Dan | — | — | narcissismself-help+3 | — | 1h 28m 44s | ||
| 6/13/26 | griefcase study+4 | — | Studies on Hysteria | — | hysteriagrief+4 | — | 3m 13s | ||
| 5/30/26 | creativitysubjectivity+3 | — | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicottcreativity+4 | — | 7m 49s | ||
| 5/23/26 | psychoanalysisactivism+3 | Lara Sheehi | From the Clinic to The Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures | — | psychoanalysisactivism+4 | — | 1h 32m 27s | ||
| 5/16/26 | creativitysubjectivity+4 | Dan | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicotttransitional objects+5 | — | 4m 00s | ||
| 5/9/26 | creativitysubjectivity+4 | Dan | Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena | — | Winnicottcreativity+5 | — | 1h 39m 47s | ||
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| 5/2/26 | Freud's treatmenthysteria+3 | — | Elizabeth von R | — | Freudhysteria+5 | — | 8m 34s | ||
| 4/25/26 | psychoanalysisLaplanche+4 | Danielle Drori | Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchNew Foundations for Psychoanalysis | — | LaplancheFreud+5 | — | 1h 59m 25s | ||
| 4/18/26 | psychoanalysisphilosophy+4 | Chris Landry | YaleUniversity of Chicago+1 | — | Jonathan Learpsychoanalysis+5 | — | 8m 03s | ||
| 4/11/26 | psychoanalysiscommunity+4 | Loren Dent | Greene Clinic | — | psychoanalysiscommunity psychoanalysis+4 | — | 1h 19m 10s | ||
| 4/4/26 | Freud's techniquehysteria studies+3 | — | Elisabeth von R | — | Freudhysteria+5 | — | 4m 16s | ||
| 3/21/26 | politicspsychoanalysis+3 | Avgi Saketopoulou | — | IsraelPalestine | psychoanalysispolitics+6 | — | 1h 32m 46s | ||
| 3/14/26 | repressionresistance+4 | Séamus Malekafzali | United StatesIran | Middle East | repressionresistance+5 | — | 18m 00s | ||
| 3/7/26 | family historyideology+3 | Jordy Rosenberg | Night Night Fawn | — | Jordy RosenbergNight Night Fawn+3 | — | 1h 45m 04s | ||
| 2/28/26 | hysteriacourtship+3 | — | — | — | hysteriaElisabeth von R+4 | — | 4m 59s | ||
| 2/21/26 | suicideepidemics+3 | Helen Epstein | Bard CollegeWhy Live: How Suicide Becomes an Epidemic | — | suicideepidemics+5 | — | 1h 21m 04s | ||
| 2/14/26 | psychoanalysisLaplanche+3 | Danielle Drori | Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchNew Foundations for Psychoanalysis | — | LaplancheFreud+4 | — | 8m 08s | ||
| 2/7/26 |  132: Laplanche Part One: Sexuality and Subjectivity feat. Danielle Drori | Abby and Patrick welcome Danielle Drori of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for the first in a two-part miniseries introducing the work of psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924-2012). A brilliant clinician and theorist in his own right, Laplanche combined a critical reading of Freud with insights drawn from anthropology, the history of science, and Western philosophy to revolutionize how many analysts saw questions of sexuality, development, language, and more. Yet while incredibly inf... | 1h 44m 38s | ||||||
| 1/31/26 |  131: Wild Analysis: Heated Rivalry Teaser | Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby and Patrick discuss the runaway streaming sensation, Heated Rivalry. Adapted from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers novels by Canadian director Jacob Tierney, Heated Rivalry depicts a burgeoning romance between two young hockey players who are also bitter rivals. Taking up themes of athleticism, masculinity, language, desire, and more, Heated Rivalry also offers ... | 7m 21s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 |  BONUS EPISODE: Romantasy, Fantasy, and Trauma | Abby joins Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub on one of our favorite podcasts, In Bed With the Right! The topic is romantasy - as a genre of fiction, as a publishing phenomenon, and, above all, as a cultural symptom. What do readers - and women specifically - find in romantasy narratives? How does reading relate to play, and fantasy to trauma and healing? The three explore all these questions and more! Texts include: Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses series Rebecca Yarros, Empyrean series... | 1h 16m 00s | ||||||
| 1/24/26 |  130: Movies, Screens, and Fantasies feat. A.S. Hamrah | Abby and Patrick welcome film critic A.S. Hamrah. Hamrah is a prolific writer of reviews, essays, and dispatches, and the two brand-new collections of his most recent work, Algorithm of the Night and Last Week in End Times Cinema, furnish Abby, Patrick, and Scott with the perfect opportunity to talk cinema, nostalgia, the political economy of movies, and much more. From moviegoing as an embodied experience to the nature of theaters as built environment, the three explore the overdetermined si... | 1h 53m 29s | ||||||
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Chart history for Ordinary Unhappiness
Peaked at #21 in Brazil, currently #21 in Brazil.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| CO | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| Denmark | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| CZ | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| India | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| KE | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #36 | #36 | — |
| CL | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| South Africa | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| United States | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| ID | — | #53 | #53 | — |
| Japan | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| Finland | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| GR | — | #67 | #67 | — |
| South Korea | — | #71 | #71 | — |
| PE | — | #84 | #84 | — |
| Ireland | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| HK | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| Germany | — | #99 | #99 | — |
| AR | — | #109 | #109 | — |
Chart Positions
36 placements across 34 markets.
Chart Positions
36 placements across 34 markets.