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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
18 episodes
RN: You Might Have to Google it.
In our discussion of Chapter 16 in Miranda July’s All Fours, we cover solo parenting, self loathing, authenticity, and holding on to our wildness. Also, what does "ass-prone" really mean?But it’s our discussion of personal chang...
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Fuck the Grumpy Out
The title of this episode was inspired by Portland writer Jenn Lalime. Her comment on Miranda July’s Substack piece spurred many juicy conversations, both in the comment section and in Amy and Tommy’s kitchen! Here’s the exact qu...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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I'm Actually Married to Davey...and She's in Perimenopause
In Chapter 14 of Miranda July's All Fours, our increasingly unhinged heroine realizes that she has most certainly cried "Wolf!" or, in her case, "Menopause!" Now officially experiencing perimenopause, we follow her faulty reasoning as ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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I Need Him to Jizz Thinking About My Ass!
Amy delivers that line with so much enthusiasm (and only flubbing one word) that it's as if she's hoping it will be considered as her audition for the next incarnation of the audio book. Or the Starz series?? One can dream...In Chapter ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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Darkness, Heartbreak, and the Dangers of Black Spray Paint
Oh, heartbreak. You are so maddeningly universal. The sick feeling. The roboticism. The detachment from reality. As our character re-enters her domestic life, heartbreak haunts her. She lives the image from the beginning of the chapter: a...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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Anatomy of a Turn-On
"I'm thinking something, what am I thinking?"In fact, there is no thinking at all. Just action, sensation, and a new understanding occurring at a subterranean level. Chapter 11 of Miranda July's All Fours is a veritable feast of subcons...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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I Want to Build a Hut Right Next to... Your Butt
Unbridled emotion, soul-connected dance, and strobe lights as sex toys—Amy and Tommy don’t miss any of it in their discussion of Chapter 10 in Miranda July’s All Fours. Amy calls it the “love chapter” and perhaps it is, sprinkled with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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"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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