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?!”
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!
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Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
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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
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!
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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!
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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...
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.
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!
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Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
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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!
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Good times with Gina Birch of The Raincoats! Blood transfusions, convent school, narcissists & empathy, oddballs & art school + MUCH MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBi...
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
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!
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Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
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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!
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Good talk with musician Joelton Mayfield! Can you go home again?, traveling evangelists, faith & fear, post-Christian anxiety & filling the void + MORE!
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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!
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with Julia Kugel of The Coathangers! Radical acceptance, performance as freedom, emigrating from Belarus, existential choices and Soviet authoritarianism + MORE!
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Nice talk with Julia Kugel of The Coathangers! Radical acceptance, performance as freedom, emigrating from Belarus, existential choices and Soviet authoritarianism + MORE!
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October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with Julia Kugel of The Coathangers! Radical acceptance, performance as freedom, emigrating from Belarus, existential choices and Soviet authoritarianism + MORE!
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Nice talk with Julia Kugel of The Coathangers! Radical acceptance, performance as freedom, emigrating from Belarus, existential choices and Soviet authoritarianism + MORE!
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The Boomers spent my entire childhood telling me how evil genocide & fascism were, just over & over, and now they're like, "Actually, it's cool!". It feels a lot like that Kids in the Hall sketch where the guy's like, "Never put salt in your eyes. Never put salt in-- Always put salt in your eyes!"
October 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Boomers spent my entire childhood telling me how evil genocide & fascism were, just over & over, and now they're like, "Actually, it's cool!". It feels a lot like that Kids in the Hall sketch where the guy's like, "Never put salt in your eyes. Never put salt in-- Always put salt in your eyes!"
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Fantastic talk with musician Hannah Frances! Seasons of creativity, learning to not intellectualize your emotions, parts work & the messiness of life, therapy changing the creative process + MORE!
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Fantastic talk with musician Hannah Frances! Seasons of creativity, learning to not intellectualize your emotions, parts work & the messiness of life, therapy changing the creative process + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsHF
October 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Fantastic talk with musician Hannah Frances! Seasons of creativity, learning to not intellectualize your emotions, parts work & the messiness of life, therapy changing the creative process + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsHF
Fantastic talk with musician Hannah Frances! Seasons of creativity, learning to not intellectualize your emotions, parts work & the messiness of life, therapy changing the creative process + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsHF
Naomi and I are about to head out to the Riyadh Comedy Festival! We’re not performing, but we couldn’t miss this line-up, probably doing the best sets of their lives! GPS says the drive is 137 hours and “you can’t drive through an ocean; please don’t do this” so we better get going!
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Naomi and I are about to head out to the Riyadh Comedy Festival! We’re not performing, but we couldn’t miss this line-up, probably doing the best sets of their lives! GPS says the drive is 137 hours and “you can’t drive through an ocean; please don’t do this” so we better get going!
I don't think it's a real possibility, but it is insane that we live in an America where there is now a non-zero probability that I could be disappeared for this.
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I don't think it's a real possibility, but it is insane that we live in an America where there is now a non-zero probability that I could be disappeared for this.
What acronym "ALF" originally stood for
September 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What acronym "ALF" originally stood for
I found the Venn Diagram for this.
September 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I found the Venn Diagram for this.
Why did I make this? Who is this for? What is the Venn Diagram of New French Extremity fans and MCU fans?
September 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Why did I make this? Who is this for? What is the Venn Diagram of New French Extremity fans and MCU fans?
Is it satire if it's actually plausible? Does satire exist anymore?
September 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Is it satire if it's actually plausible? Does satire exist anymore?
Lorne's going all in
September 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Lorne's going all in
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good times with Pete and Ary of @anamanaguchi.bsky.social! Orchestral parents; orphaned grandpas; The Frank W. Berkman Award; posers, content & selling out + MORE!
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Good times with Pete and Ary of @anamanaguchi.bsky.social! Orchestral parents; orphaned grandpas; The Frank W. Berkman Award; posers, content & selling out + MORE!
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September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Good times with Pete and Ary of @anamanaguchi.bsky.social! Orchestral parents; orphaned grandpas; The Frank W. Berkman Award; posers, content & selling out + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsAn...
Good times with Pete and Ary of @anamanaguchi.bsky.social! Orchestral parents; orphaned grandpas; The Frank W. Berkman Award; posers, content & selling out + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsAn...
Look, the fascists aren't destroying *everything*. Let me just turn on my favorite sitcom... oh...
September 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Look, the fascists aren't destroying *everything*. Let me just turn on my favorite sitcom... oh...
New Yorker cartoons are certainly evolving for the times
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New Yorker cartoons are certainly evolving for the times
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with comics artist @nickdragotta.bsky.social! From Cape May to Elmer, the exhaustion of creating, glass-blowing bikers, art as perception, instinct & practice + MORE!
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Great talk with comics artist @nickdragotta.bsky.social! From Cape May to Elmer, the exhaustion of creating, glass-blowing bikers, art as perception, instinct & practice + MORE!
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September 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with comics artist @nickdragotta.bsky.social! From Cape May to Elmer, the exhaustion of creating, glass-blowing bikers, art as perception, instinct & practice + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsNi...
Great talk with comics artist @nickdragotta.bsky.social! From Cape May to Elmer, the exhaustion of creating, glass-blowing bikers, art as perception, instinct & practice + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsNi...