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New York based actor, comedian, and improviser Ian Herrin is a terrible therapist and no one should go see him. As a former patient, I feel it's my personal responsibility to expose Ian as the unprofessional, unqualified Sigmund Fraud that he has always been. You can hear a new leaked therapy session featuring Ian's diverse cast of talented patients every single Monday with frequent Thursday bonus eps! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sigmund-fraud/support
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The world has never been more connected. Yet never more divided. We yell at each other from inside our echo chambers. But change doesn’t happen inside an echo chamber. It’s time to get out, to stretch our legs, to step on some land mines. It's time to have an uncomfortable conversation with Josh Szeps. A DM Podcast
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I’m Michael Rosenbaum, I’ve spent the better part of the last two decades in and out of film and television - mostly known for playing the bald dude on the show Smallville. I’m the guy that you probably don’t know by name, but when you see my face you might say “oh, that guy from that thing.” I’ve befriended some of the most talented people in the business, but it wasn’t until I started inviting them into my home that I realized, I didn’t really know these people. What started as me having s ...
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Regional manager of a Bed, Bath, and Beyond Henry Edwards has had it up to here with his ungrateful employees. But rather than examining whether or not he might be the problem, don't you know that selfish Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin is immediately ready to blame Henry's employees and let the boss off the hook. And wouldn't you know the …
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A long, long time ago, The Gays couldn’t marry. What was it like in that mediaeval nightmare? The world’s most popular sex advice columnist, Dan Savage, joined Josh in New York on the set of his television talk show in 2013. Enjoy this fascinating time portal, unavailable anywhere else on earth, except on the premium podcast feed at https://uncomfo…
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Are there biological differences between male and female brains? How much of what you do is dictated by evolution? As a part of our Permission To Think collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, evolutionary psychologist Professor Steve Stewart-Williams describes how you came to be an ape who under…
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Ryan Kelley (Teen Wolf) joins us this week and talks about his unique experience of growing up as a child actor with 14 siblings and hitting it big on one of MTV’s most successful series Teen Wolf. Seeing Ryan was a blast from the past - we open with him remembering guesting on Smallville and how it was his gateway into taking acting seriously. We …
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Australians are about to vote on whether to change the constitution to create a special advisory body for Indigenous Australians. Is it an overdue forum for justice? Or a risky, undemocratic game of identity politics? It’s the listener question Josh gets the most. Here, he tries to inject some sanity into an increasingly toxic debate. To subscribe …
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Bingey St. Darlin' has a very unique dating life that up until this point has been successfully kept a secret. And if there's one person that's always unqualified to give relationship advice of any kind, it's that Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin. Be very careful of whom you take home from a dance club late at night! You never know who her m…
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Yascha Mounk is one of the world’s most interesting thinkers about diversity, liberalism and democracy. His new book, The Identity Trap, is an ambitious account of the origins, consequences, and limitations of “wokeness”. How did a relatively marginal set of ideas – postmodernism, postcolonialism, critical race theory – come to rule the world? To s…
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Anthony LaPaglia (Empire Records, Without a Trace) joins us this week to share story after story from his incredible tenure in this industry and how he’s been able to sustain such a respected career. Anthony drops a bomb when he talks about his recent ‘induced coma,’ the visions he had coming out of it, and the positive changes it brought to his li…
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Private Investigator Richard Drummond has yet another case he just can't seem to crack, and a gruesome, complicated one at that. But why on Earth would such a grizzled ex-cop ever think such a Sigmund Fraud of a therapist like Ian Herrin would ever be able to help?? Does Ian reach for some conclusions? Sure. Emphasis on reach. And just because you'…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Has Louis CK reeeeeeally been “cancelled” if he still has a face? I mean, he wasn’t beheaded, ergo, “cancel culture” doesn’t exist. Amna Khalid is an equal-opportunity defender of free speech—a professor who slams wokesters… at the same time as legally opposing Florida’s war on woke universities. Anna’s blog and podcast, “Banished”, are about the h…
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Jamie Kennedy joins us this week to reflect on his tenured career making cult classics like Scream and Malibu’s Most Wanted, while pointing out how much the industry has changed and where he sees it devolving. Jamie was so open this week - he really got to us when he shared stories from his parents’ passing, the regrets he had throughout the proces…
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Clark Winston seems to be a regular lovely guy that just needs a little help talking to his wife about his fear of riding a horse before his upcoming vacation. But when that Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin gets involved, metaphor after metaphor seems to confuse Clark down a dangerous and potentially lethal path. No one wants to see you slee…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Is Zionism a noble goal, or a form of colonial apartheid? Is a two-state solution possible? Desirable? Antony Loewenstein is a fierce critic of Israel and of the whole Zionist project. His new book is The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. He and Josh debate the rights and wrongs of a Jewish home…
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Awesome episode this week! James & Oliver Phelps (Harry Potter, Fantastic Friends) joins us to share their experience in one of the biggest film and media franchises of all time - Harry Potter. The boys share funny stories from their journey as the Weasley twins from auditioning in different clothes, to preventing tanning while on vacation, to talk…
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Filmmaker Miranda Cross and her crew have a secret long since forgotten at the Holiday Inn Express, but clearly it still weighs heavily on her mind. But with a no good Sigmund Fraud of a therapist like Ian Herrin on her case, Miranda seems like she's going to lean into some bad behaviors at Ian's behest. There are certain sins that are worth breach…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Is Barbie the triumphant feminist critique of modern society it claims to be? The dust has settled on the mega-hit, so Josh finds some time to weigh-in. To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Bonnie Wright (Harry Potter) joins us this week to share what it was like growing up in the middle of one of the largest film franchises of all time in Harry Potter - going from age 9 to 19 as Ginny Weasley. Bonnie talks about growing up on set with her fellow cast mates and the love she had for the late great Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane. We a…
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Eccentric rich man Pickles Johannesberg is up to so many nefarious undertakings it's truly tricky to keep track of all the mischief afoot. And Ian Herrin is such a terrible Sigmund Fraud of a therapist he seems to act more as Pickles' accomplice than a guardian of mental health should. Children deserve to know who their father is and some Jimmy's d…
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It’s being compared to the discovery of fire or of electricity. Either way, artificial intelligence will revolutionise human civilisation. How? Toby Walsh runs the AI Lab at UNSW and is a world-leading expert in AI. His most recent book is “Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI.” Join him and Josh all the way down the rabbit hole. To subscrib…
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Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) gets candid with his experience on Vampire Diaries from the stress filled, frantic auditions to the burn out of the CW hit show spanning nine years. Paul talks about the importance of therapy and opens up on the lowest point in his life, despite being at the height of his career. He a…
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Davey Bo Davey is a junior software engineer whose a little down on himself after having been passed over for a promotion by his very demanding boss yet again. And wouldn't you know, by seeing that Sigmund Fraud Ian Herrin as a therapist, he's only going to make it worse on himself? Maybe accessing your inner boss toddler isn't always a good thing!…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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“If you’re explaining, you’re losing,” said Ronald Reagan, who never had to explain himself to a baying Twitter mob. Respected journalist David Volodzko, an expert on political extremism, got the newspaper job of his dreams… and lost it all within days. If you’ve ever wondered whether cancel culture exists, don’t miss his stunning tale. To subscrib…
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Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird, Richard Jewell) joins us this week to share how he mentally prepares for his transformative character roles in projects like Richard Jewell and Blackbird, while also being present, hilarious, and able to do a mean Gilbert Gottfried impression. Paul opens on the dualities he’s faced throughout his life and how he’s be…
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Frankie is a slightly susceptible guy just checking in from his tour in New Orleans to talk about his indigestion, but something more sinister seems to be going on. Something so dark that the Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin will likely never be able to control. You need professional help, Frankie! It was more than just a meatball sub! And I…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Jerry Seinfeld personally chose Mark Normand to be his opening act. He’s a favourite of Joe Rogan and has appeared on CONAN, the Tonight Show & Late Show. Josh caught up with him, live and in-the-flesh, during Mark’s Australian tour. Mark’s new special Soup To Nuts is available on Netflix now. Check out the trailer HERE. Follow Mark on Twitter HERE…
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Helen Slater (Supergirl, The Legend of Billie Jean) joins us this week to talk about her experience being thrust into the iconic role of Supergirl at 18 years old and the many different pressures and difficulties that came along with it. Helen was so open this week - she gets candid about her desire to act and the deep fulfillment that she receives…
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Matsuyama is a samurai who deliberately curbs his sexual desires in order to access his full and often violent powers. But if he thinks that Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin is gonna do anything productive to help him think about sex less, he is quite literally sorely mistaken! Not to mention I'm not even sure if Ian has a baseline understan…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Are you more forgiving of people you agree with than those you don’t? Have humans evolved to favour our own kind, to avoid ostracism, and to gain social status? Cory Clark is a behavioral scientist who studies tribalism and group identity. Her findings are shocking… but they offer us a path out of this mess. To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast f…
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Rachel Bilson (The O.C., Jumper) joins us to clarify some important questions we had, like: is farting in a relationship kosher and does coffee constitute dating… In all seriousness, she was great this week. Rachel talked about the idea of listening to how your body responds to certain triggers around past traumas, the importance of taking accounta…
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Tykel Phelps has a very particular job that's become increasingly stressful, but it's a very babyish decision at best to think seeing the Sigmund Fraud of a therapist known as Ian Herrin would help with anything! No no, instead Ian this week seems keen to play his body as a musical instrument, miss out on some basic observations about his new clien…
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In a TV interview that put Josh on the map, Russell Brand shows up at Josh’s New York studio for the wildest ride of Josh’s life. Nipples are tweaked. Laptops are ruined. Wild minds are in flight. It’s one for the history books. Enjoy. To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.…
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Destiny, aka The Omni Liberal, aka Steven Bonnell is the debater who most terrifies right-wing trolls on Twitter. He was among the first people in the world to stream video games online full-time and now live-streams political debates in which he crushes his conservative opponents. What makes him tick? To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, h…
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Néstor Carbonell (Bates Motel, Lost) joins us this week and shares his experience coming from a family of Cuban exiles, following expectations of going to Harvard, and then using leverage to make a name for himself on one of the biggest shows of all time… Lost. Néstor was great this week. We talked about his humble beginnings, and never ‘taking for…
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A young nubile time traveling German boy like Fritz Von Trap deserves better therapy than that Sigmund Fraud of a therapist Ian Herrin is capable of giving. What could've been a delicate conversation about blooming male sexuality instead quickly becomes about porn and butt plugs. Fritz, think of Ian as the Wig Man in the Wig Shack and STAY AWAY!!! …
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Josh's husband Sean’s memoir Not Like Other Dads was released in early June and has been a raging success. For this premium episode, they sit down and talk about the book, his motivations for writing it, and his experience, of their experience, of becoming parents. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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Andrew & Gaia Grant study the world’s biggest companies and coach them to be nimbler, more creative, and more diverse. How did we get so uncreative… and what separates the best from the rest? To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener fo…
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🚨 This episode was recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike. For more information visit: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ Carrie-Anne Moss (Matrix, Memento) joins us this week to share the work she’s done to be able to sustain such a career in this industry by prioritizing internal validation over external praise and not feeding into the false hype of H…
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MTA officer Mike Costanotzo suffered an "incident" that he's not all too fond of bringing up right away despite his captain's recommendation he go to therapy three or four times. But it's an endless feedback loop of trouble when a problematic officer like Mike meets up with a problematic therapist like that Sigmund Fraud Ian Herrin. Ian, therapy is…
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The Hop-Ons Podcast is an Arrested Development/Twin Peaks/Community review show. Support the podcast by becoming a patron through Patreon. Buy merchandise at our Threadless page. The Hop-Ons Podcast is produced by Nice Marmot Productions with assistance from The Cluttered Desk Podcast. If you have thoughts on this episode, we'd love to hear them! E…
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Myq is a New York comic who’s been on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He also introduced Josh to ayahuasca. What happened next? To subscribe to Josh’s premium podcast feed, hit the Substack page at https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe …
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