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I host the Beginnings & Couples Therapy (@NaomiandAndy) podcasts. TV writer. Former philosophy prof. Casiopop king. Chair @DSA_LosAngeles' IJC '22-'23

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Andy Beckerman
5 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. It's the 15th anniversary of the show! Great talk with @davidcrosss - Punk rock & political awareness, speaking your mind, Roswell, GA in the 1970s, the pull of NYC + MORE!. 🎧
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13 days
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Delightful talk with Kelly Sue DeConnick! Air Force dads, confidence, terrible jobs, majoring in theater, Alan Alda and MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
20 days
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great times with @michael_deforge! Can art affect politics?, being introverted, a scene vs. a community, body horror & horror at being embodied + MORE!. 🎧
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21 days
RT @ChrisLynnHedges: Ultimately, protests such as the #NoKings ones are useless, despite their intentions. To be effective, protests must d….
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27 days
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk! @davidbazan of Pedro the Lion & Headphones on therapy & autobiographical songwriting, forgiveness & resentment, '80s Evangelical Movement, empathy & authority + MORE!. 🎧
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1 month
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. An absolute delight with Merrill and Nate of @tuneyards! Escaping our brains, Professor Longhair, control & chaos, being embodied and MORE!. 🎧
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RT @cshfiles: Car Seat Headrest at Kilby Block Party © Jim Bennett, 2025
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Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Rad times with Connie, Jamie & Sean of @mhaolmusic! American dystopia, Cultural Catholicism and cultural Protestantism, gendered instruments, existentially-lax parents and MORE!. 🎧
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RT @The_Acumen: Democrats know exactly what their voters want. They have the data. The problem is what their voters want, goes directly aga….
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My latest essay about our shared existential hell: . -Life in Lynch, Nietzsche and Gramsci's America.-How parapolitics, PR & the absolute emptiness of the ruling class created mass delulu. Plus Temple of Doom + That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime?. 👁️�️
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Andy Beckerman
2 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk with @maiafffff of Coco & @DirtyProjectors! Needing to mourn the person you were before you become a parent, the wilds of CA, Jungian moms, following whims + MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
2 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk with political cartoonist Dwayne Booth AKA Mr. Fish! Testing god, paternal question marks, humor and authority, living an authentic life and MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
2 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Good times with @DavidLongstreth of @DirtyProjectors! Parental mythologies, vulnerability & risk-taking, the lemurs of Madagascar, authority figures + MORE!. 🎧
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RT @The_Acumen: I know it sounds conspiracy theorist to say this, but you really should assume the absolute worst about the people in power….
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2 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk with @kristinhersh! Making art vs. making art for the music industry, shyness & performance, snakes, car accidents & creativity + MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
3 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Good times with Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag! The world the Boomers left us, family mysteries (and maybe an Iran-Contra connection???), bullshit detectors, Long Island + MORE! . 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
3 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk with @JDsoundbite of The Folk Implosion and more! Sports & class politics, moral origins, the 1970s divorce epidemic, the 1990s music industry and MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
3 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Wide-ranging chat with cartoonist Anders Nilsen! Coming from New York lefty stock, homesteading in rural New Hampshire, making art & existential choices + MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
3 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great talk with @danielwarrenart! Making comics in a collapsing capitalist economy, homeschooling, empathy, 1990s evangelical vibes, BPRD: The Long Death + SO MUCH MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
3 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. Great chat with @jeffreylewisand! Socialist summer camp and an anti-capitalist upbringing, resonating with 1960s art, Lower East Side nostalgia, original issues of TMNT + MORE!. 🎧
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Andy Beckerman
4 months
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings. An absolute blast with novelist and TV writer Jack Pendarvis! David Lynch, pop culture alienation, Mobile, AL in the 1970s, fun with the Bible, crying in public and MORE!. 🎧
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