Andy Beckerman
@andybeckerman.bsky.social
I host the Beginnings & Couples Therapy podcasts. TV writer. Former philosophy professor. Casiopop king. Figuring out dystopia.
The Ruling Elite:
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Ruling Elite:
“And let me tell you another thing— where’s my— what happened to my fuckin’ drink—? What was I say… right, right, the Orioles haven’t been the same since ‘08… what do mean I’m cut off?!”
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“And let me tell you another thing— where’s my— what happened to my fuckin’ drink—? What was I say… right, right, the Orioles haven’t been the same since ‘08… what do mean I’m cut off?!”
Andy’s Party Tip #12: If you run into a casual acquaintance you haven’t seen in a while, and they ask you how you are doing, the appropriate response is “Not bad” and not “Kinda apprehensive about just exactly when American Kristallnact is going to pop off”.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Andy’s Party Tip #12: If you run into a casual acquaintance you haven’t seen in a while, and they ask you how you are doing, the appropriate response is “Not bad” and not “Kinda apprehensive about just exactly when American Kristallnact is going to pop off”.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
1980: To promote your movie you have a pleasant conversation with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show
2025: You debase yourself on 80 different video podcasts. “Smellboy” has 19 million followers so you smell strangers shoes with him on the street. You are an A-list star. Your film grosses $19,000.
2025: You debase yourself on 80 different video podcasts. “Smellboy” has 19 million followers so you smell strangers shoes with him on the street. You are an A-list star. Your film grosses $19,000.
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
1980: To promote your movie you have a pleasant conversation with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show
2025: You debase yourself on 80 different video podcasts. “Smellboy” has 19 million followers so you smell strangers shoes with him on the street. You are an A-list star. Your film grosses $19,000.
2025: You debase yourself on 80 different video podcasts. “Smellboy” has 19 million followers so you smell strangers shoes with him on the street. You are an A-list star. Your film grosses $19,000.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with Thalia Zedek of Come, Live Skull, Thalia Zedek Band... We talk the geography of belonging, the political tumult of the ‘60s, poetry & vulnerability, when to flee fascism + MORE!
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Nice talk with Thalia Zedek of Come, Live Skull, Thalia Zedek Band... We talk the geography of belonging, the political tumult of the ‘60s, poetry & vulnerability, when to flee fascism + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsZe...
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with Thalia Zedek of Come, Live Skull, Thalia Zedek Band... We talk the geography of belonging, the political tumult of the ‘60s, poetry & vulnerability, when to flee fascism + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsZe...
Nice talk with Thalia Zedek of Come, Live Skull, Thalia Zedek Band... We talk the geography of belonging, the political tumult of the ‘60s, poetry & vulnerability, when to flee fascism + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsZe...
I have a different take on American reality than the “Everyone is twelve now” guy, and it’s called: What would a psychotic oaf do?
“We’re going to intentionally starve 40 million people.” By golly, by gum, that’s exactly the kind of malevolent recklessness I’d expect from a psychotic oaf!
“We’re going to intentionally starve 40 million people.” By golly, by gum, that’s exactly the kind of malevolent recklessness I’d expect from a psychotic oaf!
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have a different take on American reality than the “Everyone is twelve now” guy, and it’s called: What would a psychotic oaf do?
“We’re going to intentionally starve 40 million people.” By golly, by gum, that’s exactly the kind of malevolent recklessness I’d expect from a psychotic oaf!
“We’re going to intentionally starve 40 million people.” By golly, by gum, that’s exactly the kind of malevolent recklessness I’d expect from a psychotic oaf!
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
I dunno, man. Sometimes the only way to get a stupid idea out of my head is to just draw it. Otherwise it cycles around and around in my brain forever.
October 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I dunno, man. Sometimes the only way to get a stupid idea out of my head is to just draw it. Otherwise it cycles around and around in my brain forever.
PR isn't a science. We've had 80 years of films showing Nazis as depraved, blood-drinking ghouls & soulless, shit-eating simpletons & *yet* 30% of Americans will still line up to get Klaus Barbie face tattoos & buy Big Johnson "With a Big Johnson in you, everything is going to be all Reich" t-shirts
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
PR isn't a science. We've had 80 years of films showing Nazis as depraved, blood-drinking ghouls & soulless, shit-eating simpletons & *yet* 30% of Americans will still line up to get Klaus Barbie face tattoos & buy Big Johnson "With a Big Johnson in you, everything is going to be all Reich" t-shirts
Don’t think I can wait over a month to start opening my Pre-Cooked Pasta Advent Calendar. What will be behind Dec. 3rd? A single, soft pre-cooked rotini? Farfalle? What secrets lie behind the 18th? Or 23rd? A rolled-up piece of linguine? 1/4 of a tortellini? The path to Christmas is lined with ziti!
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Don’t think I can wait over a month to start opening my Pre-Cooked Pasta Advent Calendar. What will be behind Dec. 3rd? A single, soft pre-cooked rotini? Farfalle? What secrets lie behind the 18th? Or 23rd? A rolled-up piece of linguine? 1/4 of a tortellini? The path to Christmas is lined with ziti!
RFK Jr. answers the question, "What if Dr. Mengele had experimented on himself?"
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
RFK Jr. answers the question, "What if Dr. Mengele had experimented on himself?"
Heartwarming video in 2022: A kitten and a duck are best friends. They clean each other & share food.
Heartwarming video 2025: An ICE agent chasing a child falls into an open sewer. He is so scared he shits himself. While trying to crawl out, a blast of sewage knocks him into a pile of dead rats.
Heartwarming video 2025: An ICE agent chasing a child falls into an open sewer. He is so scared he shits himself. While trying to crawl out, a blast of sewage knocks him into a pile of dead rats.
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Heartwarming video in 2022: A kitten and a duck are best friends. They clean each other & share food.
Heartwarming video 2025: An ICE agent chasing a child falls into an open sewer. He is so scared he shits himself. While trying to crawl out, a blast of sewage knocks him into a pile of dead rats.
Heartwarming video 2025: An ICE agent chasing a child falls into an open sewer. He is so scared he shits himself. While trying to crawl out, a blast of sewage knocks him into a pile of dead rats.
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!
More missives from Daily Life at the End of Empire! Naomi details a recent family visit, Andy is accused of Jeep malfeasance + microdosing candy & MORE! Only on Patreon!
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More missives from Daily Life at the End of Empire! Naomi details a recent family visit, Andy is accused of Jeep malfeasance + microdosing candy & MORE! Only on Patreon!
🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Dissipate the MIASMA OF DESPAIR for an hour with a brand-new Patreon episode!
More missives from Daily Life at the End of Empire! Naomi details a recent family visit, Andy is accused of Jeep malfeasance + microdosing candy & MORE! Only on Patreon!
🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...
More missives from Daily Life at the End of Empire! Naomi details a recent family visit, Andy is accused of Jeep malfeasance + microdosing candy & MORE! Only on Patreon!
🔊 www.patreon.com/couplesthera...
Let's just say my Entourage reboot where Vinnie Chase is replaced by Vinnie Price has hit a snag, in the sense that no one wants pay for or watch it.
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Let's just say my Entourage reboot where Vinnie Chase is replaced by Vinnie Price has hit a snag, in the sense that no one wants pay for or watch it.
I can’t speak to the moral arc of the universe, but the psychotic arc of the universe seems pretty fucking short and it bends straight into absolute madness.
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I can’t speak to the moral arc of the universe, but the psychotic arc of the universe seems pretty fucking short and it bends straight into absolute madness.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBi...
Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBi...
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBi...
Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBi...
“Three more episodes to go.” This is a race. Plot lines fly by like lights along a highway seen from a speeding car. “Two more episode to go.” Streaming is a 90-year-old’s meal. Digesting visual mush. “One more episode to go.” No joy. Just the pure act of watching. As close to death as it gets.
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Three more episodes to go.” This is a race. Plot lines fly by like lights along a highway seen from a speeding car. “Two more episode to go.” Streaming is a 90-year-old’s meal. Digesting visual mush. “One more episode to go.” No joy. Just the pure act of watching. As close to death as it gets.
I'm excited to announce that I am endorsing Craig Jeffries for LA City Council district 6! While he has done some unspecified work for something called The Goebbels Initiative & I've never looked at him above his eyebrows, I am confident that he is the progressive voice we need working for our city!
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm excited to announce that I am endorsing Craig Jeffries for LA City Council district 6! While he has done some unspecified work for something called The Goebbels Initiative & I've never looked at him above his eyebrows, I am confident that he is the progressive voice we need working for our city!
We have fun over here, don’t we, folks?
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We have fun over here, don’t we, folks?
Klan-ass looking moth
October 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Klan-ass looking moth
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
Every character on Task: more Delco accents than a Narberth Wawa
Every actor on Task: an entire British panel show’s worth of UK accents
Every actor on Task: an entire British panel show’s worth of UK accents
September 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Every character on Task: more Delco accents than a Narberth Wawa
Every actor on Task: an entire British panel show’s worth of UK accents
Every actor on Task: an entire British panel show’s worth of UK accents
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
how will we locate the next incarnation of Rip Torn?
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
how will we locate the next incarnation of Rip Torn?
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsJo...
Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsJo...
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsJo...
Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsJo...
Reposted by Andy Beckerman
SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!
From silly to serious with our pal @norireed.bsky.social! We get real (and also real goofy): when to flee fascism, alt-estrogen, what's feeding our souls, plus we ask: are cats communists?
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNoriReed
From silly to serious with our pal @norireed.bsky.social! We get real (and also real goofy): when to flee fascism, alt-estrogen, what's feeding our souls, plus we ask: are cats communists?
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNoriReed
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy!
From silly to serious with our pal @norireed.bsky.social! We get real (and also real goofy): when to flee fascism, alt-estrogen, what's feeding our souls, plus we ask: are cats communists?
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNoriReed
From silly to serious with our pal @norireed.bsky.social! We get real (and also real goofy): when to flee fascism, alt-estrogen, what's feeding our souls, plus we ask: are cats communists?
🔊 tinyurl.com/CTNoriReed
There's no ceremony for my category, but I'm still really proud to have won a Nobel Prize!
October 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There's no ceremony for my category, but I'm still really proud to have won a Nobel Prize!