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Advice From Your AdvocatesAging Smart: Insider Tips on Healthcare, Long-Term Care & AdvocacyHow can you navigate the complexities of aging with confidence? In this episode of Advice From Your Advocates, Elder Law Attorney Bob Mannor sits down with Laura Lynn Morrissey, founder of Silver Savvy, to discuss proactive aging, healthcare navigation, long-term care insurance, and choosing the right home care agency.Laura shares her journey from Wall Street to aging advocacy, highlighting the importance of personalized support, nutrition, fitness, and the right resources to help seniors and their families make informed decisions. Whether you're planning for your own future or supporting a loved one, this conversation is packed with...2025-02-2034 min
Tradecraft PodcastEPISODE 216 - BOB FINGERMANBob FIngerman joins me to talk about his 40 year career as a cartoonist and writer. He’s also here to talk about That’s Some Business You’re In, Bob’s bound retrospective that’s live on Zoop! We really dig into motivations, and professional connections, his books like Minimum Wage, Pariah, and his novels! Listen for the laughs, stay for the purpose.* Website https://www.bobfingerman.com* That’s Some Business You’re In on Zoop! https://zoop.gg/c/bobfingermanMore Bob links below!TRADECRAFT i...2024-01-301h 53
The Healing ClubThe Zero Effect with Bob MorrisseyOnce again, not a movie podcast. I don't have a guest, so I extemporize alone and go on and on with political theories buttressed by books I've read: DEPRESSION: A PUBLIC FEELING, by Ann Cvetkovich; THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, by T.J. Stiles; INDIGNATION, by Philip Roth; THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein; and CUBA: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, by Ada Ferrer. I don't at all expect anyone to listen to this backwash cataract of stream of consciousness poetry and fatuous name dropping. I just made it. So what? This has...2023-09-1646 minThe Healing ClubDon't Look Back with Grady PruittGrady Pruitt returns for another great dialogue of discourse and discovery. We forget what we're doing and just flow. It's at least good. At the very least, it's good. Watch for Grady Pruitt's upcoming comedy special on YouTube and Spotify etc. Also check out past guest Tre Tutson's hilarious hour on Spotify: It is called "Bliss-fool." Yesterday I watched the old Bob Dylan documentary DON'T LOOK BACK. Big fan. Come see me perform comedy every Thursday at Avant Garden and every other Monday at The Secret Group for my regular showcases at those places. Follow Grady wherever he is...2023-09-021h 04The Healing ClubAlone in the Dark with Bob MorrisseyCreepy, scary, spooky, and thought provoking episode of internal investigation and interiority in this episode. It's just me talking throughout. I talk about books and read old diary entries. It's my internal monologue and subjective self. 2023-04-2448 minThe Healing ClubMona Lisa with Emily PeacockThe other day I watched the 1986 Neil Jordan film starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine. The best part is when there's a bunch of guys chasing short little Bob Hoskins through a city square. He turns around in the middle of the chase to head-butt one of the guys, knock him down, and kick him in the crotch a lot. Funny stuff. Go check it out. Great film. We don't discuss it on this podcast. Emily Peacock returns to talk about family reunion dinners, teaching art, being a comedian, and whatnot. We go all over the place. It...2023-03-171h 00
The Healing ClubOpportunity Knocks with Kate Vance, Tess Vergult and Eddy AvilesHappy birthday Eddy Aviles and Merry Christmas to all and everyone! This episode is special because I let Eddy Aviles run the show. He has Tess Vergult and Kate Vance on as guests. They talk about breakups and sex records, there's a confessional reading from me at around ten minutes in, plus a super angry and obnoxious moment near the fifty minute mark. I close the episode with a live reading from some notes I transcribed last year from the Jason Stanley book HOW FASCISM WORKS.
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More often than not: really good!2021-11-291h 04The Healing ClubCitizen Kane with Bob MorrisseyThis is an entire episode of me talking, so it's completely crazy and unfettered free associative list-reading and confession blasting. No one deserves to hear this. No one will ever understand it the way I do: it's a lot of lists of songs and jokes and dates and numbers. There are quotes and scenarios stolen from books by Louise Gluck, E. Annie Proulx, Jack Weatherford, Joseph J. Ellis, Peter Carey, Thomas Frank, and maybe some others I'm forgetting. Pure comedy. Pure evil. 2021-11-2248 minThe Healing ClubMotel Hell with Jordan BradyTwo silly guys with no idea what to say next have a comedy bickering contest in which the person with the most "out there" persona gets to feel validated and special. That's what this is. Nothing more. Not groundbreaking or sensitive or emotional in any way. Pure comedy. Nothing but comedy and Jack Nicholson impressions. Pretty good. 2021-11-141h 13The Healing ClubSexy Beast with Adrian FrimpongIn this episode we went to wild places improvising ideas about such people as Baron Trump and Jaffer Khan. Probably the most silly and fake aggressive episode I've done in a while. Don't listen if you don't wanna hear a guy gettin' busted chops. I get my chops busted a few times. Adrian Frimpong is a joy to talk to. One for the ages. This is a good time capsule. Pretty sad? Not really. This is one of those "not sad" installments. 2021-11-0955 minThe Healing ClubNorth by Northwest with Stefani DStefani D returns for more talk of romance, sadism, depravity and more! We mostly eschew conversation that touches upon a certain subject/person who shall remain unnamed. We also don't talk about a lot of other things! I was reading the Yukio Mishima novel The Temple of Dawn and related some of its characters' spiritual and moral decline to my own life of quiet desperation and so on. Stefani at one point says I seem to be significantly more happy than I was last year? Maybe. Who knows. 2021-11-041h 03The Healing ClubMishima: A Life in Four Chapters with Josh StokesJosh Stokes from the celebrated and famous HARD FRIED HISTORY podcast joins the Healing Club (ack)(bad podcast name)(thumbs down) to talk about songs people play at the strip club and different things people think about the new Dave Chapelle standup comedy special. We discuss the novels of Yukio Mishima and the music of Moneybagg Yo. This is a very important podcast with a very good message.2021-10-211h 02The Healing ClubClean and Sober with Ian John and Antonio AguilarThis is an episode about comedy, police violence, and everything in between! I met Ian John for the first time on the day we recorded this together, and it worked out! I think we really connected! Antonio Aguilar is always a great guest! He's known Ian for almost a decade! They started comedy together in Madison, Wisconsin! Good stuff! Great talk!2021-10-141h 40The Healing ClubI Vitelloni with Radu BondarI mispronounce the name of the movie during the rambling intro and that's all this episode has to do with the 1953 Federico Fellini masterpiece. Radu Bondar stops by to help me brighten my sad day with some stuff about things happening at a Best Western motel--some memory I don't care to preserve. Anyway, this is a good time capsule and a fun conversation with one of the best comedians in Houston. 2021-10-091h 09The Healing ClubColors with Tre TutsonThis was a fascinating conversation about rape, trauma, race, comedy, improv, and creativity. Tre is so effortlessly funny and graceful with his timing and sharp observations that I didn't think it was too important to edit out anything at all. Comedy gold. One hundred per cent hilarious. Go see Tre perform wherever you can before he leaves for New York. 2021-09-191h 15The Healing ClubThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Julie Talbert and Justin MassengaleHopefully this one will go down in history as my masterpiece. I was so funny and so honest, so real and so true... meanwhile, both guests were there: Julie Talbert and Justin Massengale are two of the funniest people in Houston and I got to talk to them. This was a pleasure to record and a value to the planet. This podcast adds value to the human story. You're welcome. 2021-09-111h 08The Healing ClubStage Door with Jordan BradyJordan Brady returns. We talk about movies, music, friends, high school, children, politics, artificial intelligence and so on. The conversation tries to be lively and then fully takes on a life of its own. I read a bunch of my tweets at the beginning of the episode and sandwich a standup recording in somewhere near the middle. Jordan is as funny and clever as he was last time. Really good! 2021-09-061h 11The Healing ClubBroken Flowers with Antonio AguilarAntonio returns to the Healing Club to talk about Napoleon and pronouns, letting go and accepting death. It's one of our most fun filled episodes! Antonio books a lot of shows at The Secret Group and has a presence on stage that is undeniable. Good or bad, it is always undeniable. This was a mostly silly, light-hearted episode. LIke! And Subscribe! 2021-08-271h 05The Healing ClubFriday with Arielle Isaac NormanArielle Isaac Norman stops over to talk disease, love, comedy, death and everything in between on this amazing episode of The Healing Club. We each performed standup at the first ever Laredo Pride Festival last June. Arielle has lots of other credits. Look them up. I introduce our episode with music reviews and delve into details about my family vis a vis how it compares to the people at my current job. I am a strip club deejay. Arielle is one of the funniest, kindest people I know. It's a great time.2021-08-201h 12The Healing ClubVertigo with David McQuaryI cut the conversation in half and put the second half before the first half. I think it works. David McQuary is a comedian, writer, actor, animator, and music nerd. He has written for the Onion and placed in the finals for Funniest Person in Austin. We've known each other for years and we like a lot of the same stuff. 2021-08-051h 11The Healing ClubAt Close Range with Timely Rain and Mandy TrichellOn this episode I spoke to a friend of mine and her mom, together. I also misspoke and announced I'd be moving. Turns out I'm not moving. We delve into serious topics: abortion, rape, trauma, violence. I try to listen and learn. It's a fun time. 2021-07-311h 22The Healing ClubHalloween 3: Season of the Witch with Beth AlderAt one point we talk about the movie Halloween 3. Beth Alder is on the Comedy Bathhouse show on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Houston at The Secret Group. This will be one of the last opportunities for Houston audiences to see her perform live before she moves to Pennsylvania to become a lawyer. If you like this podcast, you might like that show on Tuesday. 2021-07-181h 00The Healing ClubCarrie with Victor Ramos and Tess VergultHouston comedy favorites Victor Ramos and Tess Vergult return to talk about competitiveness, attempting to be funny, and how to maintain a constructive self-image in the face of challenges or failures. It's a free form shit-storm of good vibes and musical cues. 2021-07-041h 11The Healing ClubOne False Move with Chuck JacksonProfessor Chuck Jackson talks to me about Flannery O'Connor's novels and stories. We try to understand what the people in these stories have to say about today's popular delusions, anxieties, and sensibilities. We also share stories about our gay relationships and gay truth journeys as gay men. Happy Pride Month@Gay! 2021-06-201h 02The Healing ClubMid-90's with Warren WrightWarren Wright and I discuss the movie A FACE IN THE CROWD, starring Andy Griffith. We spit some comedy shop-talk, we describe our jobs in the service industry, and we open up about our respective terrifying daily anxieties. It's a fun time and a great experience! 2021-06-131h 03The Healing ClubJerry Maguire with Dr. Alias McDoubleOn this podcast, I have a thrilling conversation with my alienist and spiritual healer. This qualified person helps me uncover a terrible memory from when I was nineteen. Trigger warning: profound sexual trauma. This is still mostly funny, but pretty awful? Yeah. Horrifying and real. Also sad. Comedy! Entertainment! Improv!2021-06-051h 00The Healing ClubSeems Like Old Times with Will Loden and Grady PruittMy apologies to the people on the eleven or twelve podcast recordings I've yet to put out, but I felt it was important to leap-frog this one through the line because it features the three of us talking together on the eve of The Secret Group's grand re-opening weekend. We are, all three, on at least one of the BEST COMICS IN HOUSTON showcase events this coming weekend (May 28-29). Get out there and laugh! In public! 2021-05-281h 04The Healing ClubNobody with Megan GoodeThis is a really talky, learn-y episode in which returning guest and town favorite Megan Goode and I discuss the books HATRED, by Berit Brogaard and CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE, by Sarah Schulman. We also talk about the movie NOBODY (in theaters now) and the musical artist Madonna. I settle some issues that have come up on other episodes: issues about a certain person who remains unnamed. 2021-05-2559 minThe Healing ClubMultiple Maniacs with Victor TranMakeup episode! The other episode with Eddy Aviles and Victor Tran was "too hot to handle," so this one has the same intro and reading as that one (the one I took down a couple of weeks ago). Hopefully I'll have Eddy on again soon, but at least I was able to get Victor back to have a fun/safe conversation about comedy. Really good! 2021-05-171h 05The Healing ClubNight of the Creeps with Kyle ClintonWe did a lot of laughing at ourselves on this one. Some serious issues broached, but not really. A mostly humorous, not so special, good time podcast that won't change anything or anyone. I read a little story in the middle about being in the Army in 2002. Kyle Clinton is a sweet guy with a good sense of humor. 2021-05-101h 11The Healing ClubAnchorman with Brian GendronThis is an entertaining podcast with stories of open mic failure, success, violence and mayhem. Brian Gendron talks about his religious beliefs and his passion for organizing events like THE RIOT, the popular standup showcase which takes place every Thursday and every other weekend at Rudyard's British Pub in Houston. Good time. Great talk. Go to those shows. 2021-05-041h 03
Inner & Outer Reality In Reality & OutsideInner & Outer Reality In Reality & Outside with Bob MorrisseyInvestigate and experience existence with Bob Morrissey
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The Last PodcastThe Last Podcast with Bob MorrisseyWhen was the last time you learned about Bob Morrissey?
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Sound & SilenceSound & Silence with Bob MorrisseyListen to the sounds of Bob Morrissey
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sound-and-silence/support2021-04-2622 minThe Healing ClubDrowning Mona with Jordan BradyThis is a fear and trembling episode with harsh logic and terrible implications. My conversation with Jordan Brady of Holy Worm (and some other Houston bands such as Deep Cuts and Lisa's Sons) goes awry and runs afoul. Spare yourself the terrible time you will have if you waste your life enduring the sound of this awful podcast. Don't subscribe.2021-04-171h 10The Healing ClubCrimewave! with Drew HollwayCommunity Shower podcast creator and host Drew Hollway joins The Healing Club again in a great podcast that tells the truth about life, love, embarrassment, America, the troops, and everything in between. Lots of bad jokes and negative energy. Terrible stories of death, depression, and attempted suicide at the end. Gloom pervades the episode like farts. Not an easy listen. Not for everyone. 2021-04-091h 06The Healing ClubOver the Edge with Drew HaughtIt's good to be together with my old friend Drew Haught. This podcast was a joy to record and a pleasure to experience. It's mostly talk about old jobs, old friends from the Houston comedy and music scenes, and stories of old fights I had with my ex-boyfriend Greg. Nothing serious. Fun vibes. 2021-04-021h 02The Healing ClubThe Blues Brothers with Justin MassengaleWe make one passing reference to a movie I watched at least a hundred times in my childhood, one passing reference in the midst of talk about familial birthrights and dark issues from around the earth as someone blows a leafblower for an hour next to my window. It's a great episode with a reading from jokes from the roast of Scotty Peterson in 2015 at Boondocks in Houston. Good stuff. 2021-03-3156 min
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Get more info at https://www.IntegrityXD.com/2021-03-1908 minThe Healing ClubNewsies with Jaffer Khan and Ben Siy-HianThis was a confrontational episode with a lot of conflict and bad jokes at my expense. I don't think you should listen to this episode because it is a bad episode with a bad message. There are things you won't want to know and many things you will never believe. Don't go to the comedy show at Rudyard's in Houston March 20th at 9 p.m.2021-03-1859 minThe Healing ClubUHF with Tess VergaultTess Vergault joins the Healing Club podcast to talk about Houston comedy, Tyra Banks, art and more! This is a fun podcast with a good vibe. We got to talking about Weird Al Yankovich, volunteer work, my friendship with Brian Zeolla, and all sorts of other things. We did a good job. This is good.2021-03-041h 02The Healing ClubStand By Me with Cornelius WhiteThis episode is relaxed and gentle, easy and endearing. Cornelius and I talk about our experiences in comedy, the military, and the workforce. Self-improvement is difficult and it's not always a pretty process. Sometimes the process doesn't work, but the work itself does something? Drink it till you make it. Self-help. We have a good time. 2021-02-281h 13The Healing ClubLa Haine with Patrick EadyThis episode has nothing to do with the mid-90's French movie about urban violence and racism. It is a conversation with the hilarious and pugnacious Patrick Eady! The popular comedian! We have a good time patching old wounds and talking shit about others! It never stops! It's actually a very thoughtful and pleasant talk between two people who respect each other. There's no twist. Two friends talking. 2021-02-2559 minThe Healing ClubDouble Indemnity with Hilla Felice and Rachel McMillenThis was a chatty, scatterbrained and somehow serious conversation about ambition, faith, motherhood, drug addiction, mental illness and family memories. Also there's a lot of explicit sexual content that I'm confident was funny? Even if it's not funny, the point of the conversation was self-acceptance: accepting yourself even when others don't accept your idea of yourself. And that's good!2021-02-211h 04The Healing ClubDemons 2 with Stephanie DeeThis one is heavily edited and hard to follow in the last segment, but hopefully it'll be the last time I ever delve into that deep sadness and panic which characterized THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE. Maybe it wasn't the WORST DAY OF MY LIFE. Maybe it's just some stupid experience I can laugh at now, even if I never forgive the guy in the center of it all. Sometimes an important conversation is really just a bunch of nothing and you don't know.2021-02-181h 04The Healing ClubUmberto D. with Judea Driscoll and Will LodenEpisode number 50! Fiftieth episode! What a milestone! Two of the best comics in Houston via Memphis describe their experiences of getting evicted, feeling trapped in abusive relationships, dropping out of high school and more! It was a great time! I talked over everyone! I apologize! 2021-02-1558 minThe Healing ClubOut of the Past with Brian HurzieBrian and Bob talk about their earliest jokes and their first experiences on stage. That conversation leads into near death experiences and then their respective first times getting caught stealing. There is no tension and there are absolutely no uncomfortable moments. This is a funny one. 2021-02-1258 minThe Healing ClubThe Crying Game with Megan GoodeBob and Megan try to have a focused and illuminating discussion of the book HOW FASCISM WORKS: THE POLITICS OF US AND THEM, by Jason Stanley. Bob starts thinking about his usual romantic brain garbage, but Megan brings the focus back to non-violent communication. Together they destroy all the structures of unreality and misunderstanding which ruin every human relationship in this dystopian nightmare world. 2021-02-1158 minThe Healing ClubDead Again with Greg DealGreg Deal returns to talk one on one for the first time about living with me for ten years and why it didn't work out. We both suffer a crisis of confidence and a despair over what went wrong in comedy and our lives together, but it's very low-key emotional and mostly a hoot. This episode is a fun, funny, feel-good hoot. 2021-02-1154 minThe Healing ClubBamboozled with Cait Lepp and Antonio AguilarEasy, breezy, fun and sneezy. This episode is packed with laughs and hugely important, very entertaining, the best podcast. Incredible. Like nothing you've ever seen. Unbelievable. So great. Honestly? I've never seen anything like it. See for yourself, only listen. Listen to it. 2021-02-091h 00
NAPS ChatEpisode 113 February 5 2021 -- "Greeting Postal Relief Legislation and Issues that Impact the Greeting Card Industry" with Rafe Morrissey, VP for Public Affairs for the Greeting Card AssociationDuring this week's episode of NAPS Chat, Greeting Card Association Vice President for Public Affairs Rafe Morrissey and Bob discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting the greeting card industry, as it collaborates with other postal stakeholders in pursing postal legislation and dealing with the pandemic. Rafe also talks about the unique value that greeting cards bring to the American public. In addition, Bob provides the latest congressional news that matter to the postal community.2021-02-0523 minThe Healing ClubGate of Hell with Steffffany DEEE.Anonymous psychologist Stephanie (Fack Name)(Not Real) Dee Dee (Ramone) once again gets in the middle of some old, painful, personal, inconsequential relationship garbage between Bob and some jerk who's gone forever and living his own dumb life out in far away land Austin. It doesn't matter. If you're not interested, don't listen. 2021-02-041h 03The Healing ClubSenso with Sean PenalbarThis podcast is delightfully ESOTERIC and INTELLECTUAL in some ways. Sean and Bob (me) have known each other for years, but now they know each other a little better. This is a philosophical, sweet natured, fearless quest for self-discovery and inner peace led by two FREAKIN' WEIRD GUYS. Maybe you'll like this if you're into that sort of thing. 2021-02-031h 00The Healing ClubDogfight with Stephanie DeeThis episode returns to themes and issues raised and appraised the last time Stephanie was on the podcast. The hurt feelings hurt less, and the comedy laughs resound louder. It's an earnest, unflinching look at a failed romance. Trigger warning: I am gay. My name is Bob Morrissey, and I approve of this message: I am gay.
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It's a fun hang with a lot of genuine moments of true joy. 2021-01-2856 minThe Healing ClubMoonstruck with Tommy DrakeThis episode is strictly for the comedy. No emotional baggage! it's Tommy Drake describing his incredible career as a comedian! He's literally travelled the world, made a fortune, and entertained millions! For lovers of Houston comedy and people interested in knowing what it's like to be successful, this is the best episode so far! 2021-01-2758 minThe Healing ClubDo the Right Thing with Victor TranGreat intro. Fun times. Wonderful podcast. Victor Tran and I talked about our comedy upbringings, our deepest longings, our greatest fears, and our savoriest moments of hilarity and such and such in this DEEPLY INTERESTING CONVERSATION. It was a blast and this is fun. HOUSTON COMEDY! REPRESENT! GOOD ON THAT! FUN TIMES!2021-01-2655 minThe Healing ClubTrainspotting with Joe FollodoriJoe and Bob have a really good time unpacking Bob's trauma and understanding Bob's pitiful romantic obsession with a tepid encounter from his distant past. It's really funny! Joe Follodori is an actor, musician, comedian and sensitive type. He calls out Bob and others for their problematic and insensitive behavior in the Houston comedy scene. It's great! 2021-01-2558 minThe Healing ClubBrokeback Mountain with Will LodenThis was an easy episode to record, a thrill to experience, and a fun time we (Bob Morrissey and Will Loden) enjoyed. I try to get Will Loden to turn gay but he doesn't want to, so we just talk about serious things in an offhand way. It's super casual. Totally chill. Take it or leave it. Enjoy the humor. 2021-01-2455 minThe Healing ClubIn a Lonely Place with Russell SimekThis is a mostly funny, somewhat haunting conversation about wresting, dreams, comedy, status, oblivion, hope. Bob and Russell are old friends with an easy way of listening to and being comfortable around each other. It's a delightful time. 2021-01-231h 01The Healing ClubFast Times at Ridgemont High with Justin MassengaleOn the day after the end of the Trump years Justin and Bob (me) improvise and disguise real life observations and stories. This is a relaxing experience and a deadpan pan in the face experience at times. I don't know what else to say. I think it's funny. I had fun. 2021-01-221h 00The Healing ClubSunrise with Tod BaileyTod Bailey is a visionary painter who makes vivid, fluid, expressionist images full of light and emotion. We talk about his installation at Bill Arning Exhibitions and the origins of creativity, injustice, unhappiness, and more! We also describe our backgrounds and our favorite movies. This was recorded on the day Joe Biden finally became president. 2021-01-2157 minThe Healing ClubRed Eye with Albert DeLeonCute, funny, cheerful and surreal conversations with Albert DeLeon. He's an expectant father, a character actor, an accomplished comedian and an internet sensation. I read some stuff from a 2017 joke diary between the two segments. We'd met up to podcast and then film a scene together for Angel Trevino's movie. This was a day to remember. 2021-01-1958 minThe Healing ClubThe Panic in Needle Park with Laura LarkThis one follows up the worst episode ever with a much more mellow reflection on art, creativity, family business and life a long time ago in greater suburban Chicago's Park Ridge and St. Charles areas. Laura Lark is a teacher and an artist, a comedian and a friend. Her work is in museums! We have work on different walls of Bill Arning Exhibitions' "Animal Nitrate" show from now until Feb. 24. 2021-01-181h 04The Healing ClubIn the Company of Men with Stephanie DeeThis one's a doozy. The one I've been waiting for. Pretty sure I'll remember doing this for the rest of my life. Stephanie's a great friend. I'm really happy with the results, but unhappy with everything that's happened. It's as if I'm happy with the fact that I do standup--that the standup community is full of great people because art is possible and audiences are great--yet bad things happen all the time. The best people do the worst things. It's a tough world and we're all in it. I think this...2021-01-1658 minThe Healing ClubFull Metal Jacket with Grady PruittDidn't feel like editing this conversation or finding something to read from my old diaries, so I just blathered on at the beginning for a while over an unauthorized background track ("All By Myself," by Eric Carmen) before rolling the Anchor ad and splattering out the Grady Pruitt interview all at once. If I can remember correctly, I think our conversation took some surreal turns into politics, comedy, family, feelings, and dreams about my little stint as an Army soldier. Grady's a sweet guy and a hilarious person. This was a fun time. 2021-01-141h 07The Healing ClubWar of the Roses with Tony Keelen, Zach Eaton, and Stephanie DeeEpisode 25! Tony Keelen has a podcast called Be My Therapist. It's the same sort of thing as this podcast without the movie title gimmick, and it's really good. Tony and Bob talk for a while, then Bob reads some stuff from an old joke diary, and then Zach Eaton returns to ask Bob about the time he accidentally killed a rabbit when he was ten years old. It's funny? Sort of! There's another reading from another joke slash diary slash wrists ha ha ha. It's very serious. Stephanie Dee is Bob's...2021-01-131h 16The Healing ClubThe Exterminating Angel with Eddy AvillesThe movie thing is a gimmick. I just wand to trick strangers who search for movies like Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel. I want them to hear me read stories about my life with Greg and those years in the war. Maybe there's some connection. Eddy Avilles is ACTUALLY very funny. This episode is ACTUALLY very funny. The whole thing. I write about how much I love my mom and why. 2021-01-1150 minThe Healing ClubLost In America with Eric Green, Drew Hollway, Jesse James GettingsComedy, catching up, figuring out the sound, and starting the episode wrong with a re-contextualized segment from the interview with Jamal Rahal and Connor Stitt. That part's only four minutes long. Then Bob does one of his ponderous and reference-laden readings for a few minutes before there's a long, funny, deeply serious interview with Eric Green. They talk about the bitter end of the Trump Era and how we all got here. The episode ends with a shorter, more deliberately comedic segment featuring Drew Hollway and Jesse James Gettings. 2021-01-091h 09The Healing ClubWaiting For Guffman with Molly BrownBob and Molly talk about the television show Frasier. Bob hates it. Molly loves it. They go on and on as riots disrupt the congressional counting of electoral college votes. Bob and Molly talk about that and the fact that both of them have worked in restaurants. Bob reads some diary scribbles from 2018. Molly returns to record more podcast talk about growing up bad and being called "so and so." They both liked the movie The Night of the Hunter, with Robert Mitchum. They can't remember the name of the movie Undertow, which is a lot like The Night of the H...2021-01-081h 22The Healing ClubWhat's Love Got To Do With It with Eddy Aviles, Douglas Haseman and Blayne ArnoldEddy and Bob hang out listening to country and western, rhythm and blues, party and dance music during their chat about love and passion, forgiveness and healing. Then it's a reading called PARTLY GOOD, CHANCE OF BAD. Afterward, Douglas Haseman and Blayne Arnold join Bob to joke about this stuff and that thing. The sound quality on their portion of the show isn't great, but the content is pretty funny? Could be. To be determined. To be continued. 2021-01-061h 04The Healing ClubSwimfan with Drew Hollway, Jesse James Gettings and Angel TrevinoWild talk about war, violence, suffering, comedy, errors, death, misconceptions, ignorance, and more! Great people with creative minds! So distinguished! Funny! Good talk! 2021-01-051h 16The Healing ClubParis, Texas with Antonio AguilarThis is a much more normal one. If that last one was way too "out there" for you, then check out this one. We fixed the sound issues and had a conspiratorial conversation about politics. MF Doom died? Or did he? Happy New Year! 2021-01-0154 minThe Healing ClubIf... With Jamal Rahal and Conor StittThis was a confusing episode with a lot of time spent figuring out what everyone was talking about and how it was funny. The things we experienced weren't exactly the things we all felt at the time. There is an incredible balance of chaos and order, communication and the opposite of that. Mostly it is funny because this was well recorded and stupid etc. for shit with great guests and important moments about politics in these times. Some of which (Which Which)(Sandwiches) is actually important and I (Bob Morrissey) am proud. Proud of the fact that I am shari...2020-12-311h 07The Healing ClubBlack Christmas with Eddie AvilesMerry Christmas! Christmas is over, and Bob reads a few things before Eddie "Spready Eddie" "Just Eddie" Aviles joins the podcast to discuss COMEDY HUB HOUSTON and his rotten idea of what jokes should be. TRIGGER WARNING: Eddie drops a few "f-bombs." Also there's another reading with a quote from Margaret Atwood and a couple of other reply guys (Douglas Haseman and Blayne Arnold) talking near the end. 2020-12-3052 minThe Healing ClubPride and Prejudice with Zach Eaton and Ryan McGheeZac and Bob have a clear conversation with well defined moments of humor and pathos, honesty and fun. Then Bob does a weird reading or something. Too many feelings. There are too many feelings. Ryan McGhee joins Bob to talk about suicide and depression and comedy in Houston. The comedy scene in Houston is really good.
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Last Row Music ShowNew Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan sells everything, and The GrammysThis week we discuss Taylor Swift's new album and the first clip of her re-recorded songs, Bob Dylan selling his entire songwriting catalog, The Grammys, music related recommendations of things to watch, and Dolly Parton does it again.2020-12-1521 minThe Healing ClubTerms of Endearment with Greg Deal and Chris OddoBob reads from the 2019 book of Bob. Greg Deal is the man Bob lived with as a gay common law Texas husband for ten years. They have a history. Is it ongoing? Hmm... Chris Oddo talks about his artistic influences and current practices. It is his birthday. They all go out drinking together afterward. 2020-12-1154 minThe Healing ClubWelcome to the Dollhouse with David LeJeune, Drew Hollway, and Angel TrevinoBob reads some meandering joke notes from the sketchbook he used to carry around in 2015, and then David LeJeune stops by to read a poem. Drew Hollway returns to talk about things like his family's political differences and the childhood origins of his hilarious comedy-humor. Angel Trevino pops in to describe a film he's working on. It's a little all over the place. 2020-12-061h 05The Healing ClubThe Last Detail with Drew Hollway and Zach EatonDrew describes his terrifying and humiliating first sexual experience, Bob reads a diary from a time when he was depressed, and Zach Eaton does a great impression of Jack Nicholson holding a dildo. It's sad and funny and entertaining and unique. Lots of fun involved. 2020-12-0257 minThe Healing ClubViva Zapata! with Grace KirkBob reads some pastiche diary entries that make no sense and don't sound good. Grace Kirk stops by and they get really personal about religion, politics, love and death. It's a hoot! Once again, this has something to do with movies and life on the margins of success. Nothing matters. Go home. 2020-11-2355 minThe Healing ClubCome and See with Andrew YoungbloodDiary entry and joke journal from 2017 plus a very candid interview with one. of the founders of the Secret Group, Andrew Youngblood. Bob and Andrew reminisce and bond in a wonderful way. There is humor and humanity in their stories about comedy shows and open mics in Houston through the years. Owning a business and being a father is tough for Andrew during this awful pandemic. No one knows who will win the election.2020-11-1856 minThe Healing ClubWritten on the WindIt starts with a very deliberately strange diary entry from 2015 and moves to an onslaught of political fretting and overshare. Artist Emily Peacock at one point says "I'm in my problems, so they seem very significant." Bob Morrissey (me) admits that he, too, spent time in psychiatric hospital care (both in high school and after his time served in the military during the beginning of the 2003 occupation of Iraq). Comedy bleeds everywhere. 2020-11-181h 02The Healing ClubNight of the HunterJoe Esquivel starts the episode on a note of boredom and affected sarcasm, but Bob saves everything by yelling at him. Things change when Molly Brown is the guest. They sing together and she tries to be hateful. Nick Palermo replaces her as the guest on the show. We talk together about the upcoming presidential election. I confront Nick about his standup comedy show FILTH at Rudyard's twice a month on Fridays. It is very bad.2020-11-181h 04The Healing ClubElection Day Todd Pod PodcastAngel Trevino and Bob Morrissey talk about the short films Angel makes. Also Bob has a Grindr date but he gets stood up. Suddenly Justin Massengale is the guest and it's election day. There is a mood of giddiness and fear. This is the funniest this podcast will get, but at the same time there is no healing and nothing is solved or managed. All problems are the same, but it's mostly a good time. 2020-11-171h 15The Healing ClubShadows of Forgotten AncestorsBob Morrissey talks to his friends Joe, Antonio, and Cait. Joe Esquivel and Antonio Aguilar are two thirds of the Los Lonely Bois podcast and Houston regulars at The Secret Group comedy club. Cait Lepp talks about being a teacher during this awful pandemic. 2020-11-161h 15
Landlording for LifeBob Lachance - Building A Virtual Assistant System For LandlordsBob LaChance, Founder and CEO of REVA Global, is a former pro hockey player turned real estate investor. Bob founded and designed his Virtual Assistant company to suit real estate investor needs and discusses building a VA system for the aspiring landlord.2020-11-1631 min
I Wanna Party With BobMorrissey Part Two - The Mozpire Strikes BackMorrissey fascinates me. His music, starting with The Smiths and ending with his latest solo record - “I Am Not A Dog On A Chain” and the person himself. What is it about Morrissey that so many people love and/or love to hate? He’s lovely, controversial, talented, opinionated. The music, though, holy cow. Morrissey’s music has been a huge part of my life ever since the mid-1980’s and the purchase of “Meat Is Murder”. I can’t say how much this man’s music has meant to me over the years. However, in a strange twist of fate, “Bi...2020-05-1845 min
I Wanna Party With BobEpisode 45 - The Morrissey Trilogy Part OneWhat do you know about Morrissey? Singer of sad songs? Supporter of far-right causes? Handsome devil, or just a devil, period? Well, let’s start getting to the bottom of WHO this Morrissey person really is. This very first episode is part of a trilogy of episodes dealing with the wild, sad, wacky and confusing world of The Moz. Misery Mozzery, to his close friends. Does The Moz still have any freinds? We shall see. Three amazing Smiths cover songs grace this episode, as well - “Jeane” by The Slow Death, “Bigmouth…” by Squarecrow and “A Rush And A Push…” by Broa2020-03-3055 min