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We’re popping the top on dips this month and diving into the best and the worst of the creamy concoctions. We’re talking bean dips. We’re talking creamy spinach dips. We’re talking Ranch. We’re talking cheeses. We’re talking all the things that get jammed into jars and cans, ready for you to crack open this year... or many years in the future.  Guest Mandy Kaplan is back, creeping out of the neon-...

Welcome to the first of our member bonus episodes for season 8 of All the Feelings! Thanks for hanging around, the whole lot of you. May this brief checkin bring you some holiday chuckles, two potential grotesqueries, and a textile mystery.  --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

It’s the big finale of our eighth season and we’re going out with a curiosity: Transcendence. We kick things off with a good-natured debate about our podcast's unique episode numbering, likely a coping mechanism for our collective lack of understanding of the topic. Eventually, we get somewhere, though where that is happens to be unique to each of us. It turns out that Transcendence is a word that...

Fear not, dear listener! This spooky episode of All the Feelings will have you shaking in your boots with harrowing tales of terror!  Pete gets real about his deep-seated fear of angering the public. One wrong move and an angry mob might show up at his door, which he traces to the totally rational experience of watching his news anchor dad navigate turbulent times. Oh, also he lived through Misery...

What does it mean to be an optimist? What is it like to look at the world and see not just hope, but possibility? Yeah, we don't know either. I guess we'll never know. KIDDING... kidding, of course. But here's the interesting thing: It turns out optimism is much more complicated than we ever imagined -- and it's precisely because it is so much more than just being blindly good-natured all the time...

Pete and Tommy are dancing with the green-eyed monster as they take a walk down memory lane with their experiences with Jealousy. Hey... Jealousy? What’s the deal?  Why all the harsh feelings? What’s the skinny on you making us feel so gross and paranoid? Well, turns out there’s a new “gate” on the horizon and jealousy’s evolutionary history has a report. Meanwhile, we’re finally solving the myste...

You don’t need an application... you’re in the club already, right? It’s CLUB STRESS! And this week, your club counselors, Tommy and Pete, will share in disturbing detail just how much your annual club dues are costing you. We delve into how stress is like that overbearing ship captain in a patented ATF guided meditation. Spoiler: The ship doesn’t make it. See, chronic stress can make your brain d...

Well hot diggity dog, it's Pete and Tommy back at it again with another riveting episode of "All The Feelings." This week your duo tackle the touchy topic of "Belonging."  Things start innocently enough with Tommy guiding Pete through a WTS classic guided meditation. With juice! But the real juice is in the stuff they have long taken for granted. The fellas dove deep into the dicey dynamics of bel...

This week's episode of ATF has us looking at the psychology of Doubt.  Along the way, the long long way, we hit on self-efficacy - our belief in our own abilities to accomplish goals. That’s thanks to that old sea dog, Albert Bandura, and he has lots more to share. In this week's harrowing tale, Tommy shares a story of youthful doubt and dangerous games. Tune in for more insights on self-belief an...

Welcome to another episode of the global sensation All The Feelings, where we dive into the wacky world of emotions, and today, we're talking about pride. Not the fabulous, rainbow-colored kind (though we love that too), but the emotion of pride. Pride isn't just a one-size-fits-all emotion. No, it's got layers, like an onion or a particularly tricky lasagna. You've got your authentic pride, the g...

Welcome to our exploration of the wild world of Regression. Picture this: a third-grader, furious at a kid named Joe, ends up slapping him instead of throwing a punch, leading to a spectacle worthy of schoolyard folklore. Or picture a child, under 10, attempting to stage an epic battle between Optimus Prime and Snake Eyes with a candle and a bedspread, resulting in a somewhat less epic fire. And l...

Joy is way more than just being happy - it's an ongoing state of deep delight in the stuff you care about most. Researchers say joy comes from living your values, connecting with others, and being your best self. We say those researchers aren’t thinking creatively enough about how to use joy as a weapon. Are we learning the wrong lessons this season? Oh well.  That party gets even better with clos...

Embarrassment. We’ve all been there. Basking in that warm inner glow that rosies our cheeks, moistens our pits, and sullies our relationships. But why, embarrassment? Why, over the long arc of evolutionary history, do you still darken our emotional doorsteps? Do you think you’re saving us from yon beasties by bringing the public shame? We think not.  Pete and Tommy truck in some meticulously well-...

Welcome to the rollercoaster ride that is the inaugural episode of WTS Presents: All the Feelings, where we're tackling the big, scary, exhilarating, and occasionally refrigerator-filled world of change. Today we're serving up a cocktail of emotion, with a dash of humor, a sprinkle of sarcasm, and a generous dose of poetry. First, we dive into the treacherous waters of domain names, where one wron...

Today, we’re taking on anti-intellectualism, and in the process we probably say some things that will frustrate people. Like, for example, the mayor of Utah . But in all fairness, he might have done it to himself. From there, Pete helps out a listener dealing with calls for chronic happiness. That’s right, it’s the most depressing stuff you’ve ever heard about the happies.  --- Learn more about su...

We start with a quick review of why it’s important to secure your accounts, not post nudes of yourself, and never answer to threats that sound like a robot version of Jack Bauer. From there, it’s time to move into the main course of Tommy’s continuing relationship with Oscars the Slap, a demented mummy , and Pete’s problem with the job outlook, thanks to a listener submission. --- Learn more about...

Tommy knows how important it is not to speak for women or those identifying as women. What better place to challenge that understanding than this dumb anxiety podcast? That’s why this week he’s going to take on high heel culture, and the double-standards shoes imply, all while likely offending everyone involved of any gender identification at all, wearing everything from slippers to Uggs.  Pete, o...

Let us start with a case of the debunkies: No, depressed people aren’t apparently more realistic than us normos. From there, friends, we look to the skies. Tom takes us back through X-Files history while looking at the current appropriations budget and finds people are finally taking this whole alien thing more seriously. Is that a great thing? Here’s a little ditty covering that angle for you aca...

Tommy remembers just how much he wants to forget, while Pete brings a reminder that we are all fungible resources. It’s actually a conversation that celebrates one of Tom’s biggest personal gaffs, as he remembers it, while once again walking around a wedding. Are we more afraid of everyone else remembering our foibles, or of being forgotten ourselves? But seriously, the deepfake podcast future is...

This week's listener submission invites you challenge your fear of the sticky stuff with Pittakionophobia proving that scratch N Sniff is no laughing matter. And Tom takes you inside the Void with the scariest thing he's ever lived through ever, ever, ever, amen.  --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join to learn more!

Our listener submission asks us to peel back the relationship we have with our therapists... and then question it in a way that makes us question all the relationships we have with everyone ever. So, we’re doing great. Also, a bit of a follow-up anxiety now that we’ve had a recent brush with anesthesia. --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/joi...

Have you found your one thing? Probably not, but let’s not feel too bad about it. This week’s listener submission asks us to find purpose in our lives. But the listener clearly hasn’t heard much of this podcast or they’d know we’re not the right audience for that question. Tommy tells us all about a walkabout wedding and a scavenger hunt that makes for an unprecedented seven-season callback to an...

What if you threw a party and no one showed, AND you didn’t have your phone? Pete's taking on Nomophobia this week, so get your charging cables ready. Tommy is taking on the scourge of all fears straight from a listener: What happens when no one comes to your party? Oh, by the way, go clean yourself . --- Learn more about supporting this podcast by becoming a member. Visit allthefeelings.fum/join...

We begin with a new feature here on WTS: The Reddit Quiz. Think you can do better that Tommy in identifying the anxiety based only on the comments left on a Reddit post about it? Good luck!  From there, we dig into the perils of technology and getting older. We’ve got a few resources for you, like this one from MOAA on how you might overcome technophobia . And if you’re not feeling bad enough abou...

There’s a problem with white bears and Tommy wants to help you through it this week. Don’t worry, surely, when he’s done, there won’t be anything in your head.  Tommy’s focused on his dreams this week , while Pete struggles with a re-do of this, the first lost episode of the season. Don’t worry, this one is so much better than the last, and while it does discuss the rightly horrific study of peopl...