Month: February 2019

Love! Romance! Intimate relationships! Marriage! Divorce! Remarriage! Clowns! This episode has it all. The wonderfully warm Dr. Benjamin Karney of the UCLA Marriage lab has been studying romance and intimate relationships for 20 years and sits down to chat about being single and the mechanisms behind finding a partner, what behaviors foster intimacy, why some couples stay together vs. splitting up, some bananas proposals, wedding budgets, how parenting affects marriage, historical problems with matrimony and his own experiences with marriage and divorce. These behaviors are also so applicable to friendships, work partnerships and as it turns out...professional clowns.

Dr. Ben Karney at the UCLA Marriage Lab

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In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are joined once again by special guest host Sam Harter in welcoming to the show Denver, Colorado's favorite son, comedian Stephen Agyei! What begins as a casual conversation about Stephen's past life as a social worker turns quickly to a full on discussion of the drudgery and backwater of show business that is DAYTIME TELEVISION; from the judges (Judy, Wapner, Mathis, Mills Lane, et. al.), to the trash TV hosts, to the ups and downs of Nick Jr. We also get into some great recent comedy stories from the road. Stephen is one of our favorite comedians and we just know you're gonna dig this episode! Follow Stephen on Twitter @StephenAgyei.  Follow the show @TheGoodsPod  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly  Sam is @SlamHarter  Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy  Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod This episode is brought to you by 'Mastering the Art of Wench Cooking', the new book from the Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers, available now on Amazon. Write us a review on iTunes and the funniest review will win a signed copy of the book and a Goods from the Woods t-shirt. Buy the book here: https://goo.gl/UkwfWQ

In which travelers to one of the most dangerous places on earth leave so many casualties behind in the "Death Zone" that they literally become part of the map. Certificate #7505.