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Work From Bed Friday
A committed couple of 30+ years in conversation about marriage, sex, and connection through the lens of contemporary books and media that have ignited their marriage, sex, and connection. Every Friday. From bed.
Episodes
11 episodes
"Desire Should Be Clumsy": a Mantra, a Motto, a Call to Arms
When our character learns that Davey’s first sexual encounters were orchestrated by his mother with his mother’s very experienced friend, she is, understandably, flabbergasted. But the thought that emerges later has morphed into something of a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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Affairs: Emotional, Mechanical, and Otherwise
"He reached across the table and touched the back of his hand to the back of mine..." and so begins the erotically charged emotional affair between our main character and Davey. As readers, Amy and Tommy are pulled into the weightless madness t...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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Lust at the Borders
In Chapter 7 of Miranda July’s All Fours, our character wrestles with two realities: her sudden and unhinged desire for Davey's body AND her grim awareness of her aging self. Amy & Tommy use this chapter as a framework to disc...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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Combing through the Weeds: Archetypes, Transactions, and Secrets
In Chapter 6 of Miranda July’s All Fours, our character enters a world of mirrors in which the women of Monrovia and beyond reflect the different seasons of her life. Amy & Tommy can’t stop analyzing the relatively minor character ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Serendipity, Lies, and Erotic Possibility
Is the universe just a big wonky pinball machine? As our character keeps the ball in motion without making much forward progress toward her destination, Amy & Tommy discuss a magical land called Monrovia, interactions with strangers, and th...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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Just Do It
Our character prepares to leave on her cross country road trip, checking off a list of mundane tasks, including marching into her husband's room wearing nothing but high heels. Which begs the question: why is intimacy with our partner sometimes...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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The Fantasy's the Thing
In Chapter 3 of Miranda July’s All Fours, our character sips clandestine strawberry milkshakes with her bestie before sneaking back into her house like a thief. This episode is about secrets and disclosure, fantasy and reality, mind-ro...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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Parkers, Drivers, and a Can of Worms
Chapter 2 of Miranda July’s All Fours is rather short. Which might have meant a short episode trying to figure out who is a parker and who is a driver or if it's all bullshit if it weren’t for that darn can of worms: what DOES happen to relatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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Please Trouble Me: Naked Selfies
Amy and Tommy kick off their Season 1 discussion of Miranda July’s All Fours with an in-depth look at Chapter 1, which they’ve both read (and listened to) multiple times by now!Do we all have an imaginary telephotographer peer...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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The Backstory and The Breakthrough
In their debut episode, Amy Hoffmann and Tommy Borden give a quick history of their 30-year relationship and the recent breakthrough that changed everything. They start with their meet-cute at a polka-dot party in San Francisco’s Marina distric...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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