Best Jon Couch Podcasts (2025)

Chapters (00:27:13) Borderlands 4 (00:37:35) The War with PC Gamer (00:48:16) Silksong (00:58:05) NFL Street Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…

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Jon Mills, "End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) 41:46

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Dr. Jon Mills, has had an impressive career as practicing professional, researcher, educator and writer in the psychology and psychoanalytic field. His work bounds the world of philosophy and psychology, focusing upon both individual human behavior and the manifestation of the collective behavior in the social context. He is the author and/or edito…

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The Unconscious Calculus of Justice: Racial Bias in Legal Outcomes 37:08

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This episode of “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Racism in America” takes a deep dive into the disturbing legal outcomes of state-sanctioned violence. The host and co-host, Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams, analyze the Department of Justice's sentencing recommendation for Brett Hankison, one of the officers involved in the raid th…

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Vanessa Sinclair et al., "The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024) 48:50

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The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2024) is an exploration of psychoanalysis' often complicated and fraught history with thinking about queerness, as well as its multifaceted heritage. Throughout the chapters, the contributors write about psychoanalysis’ relationship with queerness, the ways in…

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Mercy and Glory 1:07:46

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "Mercy and Glory," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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199. Joe Musashi Could Totally Sand Surf 1:28:28

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This week: Jon and Tyler keep the review streak going with Sword of the Sea and Astro Prospector. Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…

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198. Game Reviews Cubed 1:39:34

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This week: Jon has to catch 'em all while Tyler wants to become a blacksmith master. Plus, another review hat-trick! Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…

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The Mystery 1:03:46

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "The Mystery," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022) 1:06:38

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Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and …

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Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022) 50:25

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Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders from a psychoanalytic perspective. Each of the chapters offers a different perspective on these difficult-to-treat conditions and taken together, illustrate the breadth and depth that psychoa…

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Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith 51:15

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Host Pierce Salguero sits down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book Acute Religious Experiences (2023), which argues that frameworks from Mad Studies can get us out from under the academy’s current habit of either pathologizing or sanitizing religious experiences. Along t…

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Don't Be Proud 1:00:34

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "Don't Be Proud," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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197. Is World of Warcraft a Dead Game? (Guest Jeff Campese) 2:28:19

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This week: Jeff joins the Couch for the eleventh time to herald the end of a specific franchise. Plus, our favorite Gamescom announcements. Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…

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I Want That! 1:03:59

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "I Want That!" and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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196. Ninjas Be Gaiden' 1:32:54

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This week: Jon and Tyler discuss the impacts of Battlefield 6’s anti-cheat approach. Plus, reviews of NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound, Tiny Bookshop, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4! CHAPTERS (00:00:15) Battlefield 6 (00:11:30) Anti-Cheat Software (00:45:15) Reality TV (00:51:21) The Future of Diablo (00:55:39) Tiny Bookshop Review (00:59:49) Is This Seat…

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Fake Followers 59:52

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio broadcast, "Fake Followers," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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195. Make Sure Your Log is Dry 1:35:43

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This week: Jon and Tyler discuss everything that was in the Nintendo Direct. CHAPTERS * (00:48:55) Nintendo Direct Recap * (01:15:30) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Impressions SUBSCRIBE Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes…

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What My 5k Training Taught Me About Passion, Pressure & Purpose | Couch To Champion Finale 40:05

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Welcome to the Finale of my Couch To Champion Journey! This is it, the final check-in before race day. From the first steps off the couch to the battles with injury, burnout, and self-doubt, this journey has been anything but easy. In this episode, I look back on the highs, the lows, and the lessons that reshaped my view of success. I share how slo…

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A Remnant: Who Really Wants Jesus Above All? 1:03:03

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "A Remnant: Who Really Wants Jesus?," and let's se what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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Eli Zaretsky, “Political Freud: A History” (Columbia UP, 2015) 56:53

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Back in the early 70s, Eli Zaretsky wrote for a socialist newspaper and was engaged to review a recently released book, Psychoanalysis and Feminism by Juliet Mitchell. First, he decided, he’d better read some Freud. This started a life-long engagement with psychoanalysis and leftist politics, and his new book Political Freud: A History (Columbia Un…

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I Surrender Some 1:07:23

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "I Surrender Some," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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194. Spilling the Gray Tea 1:29:30

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This week: Tyler cracked the code to the Universe, and Jon played video games. SUBSCRIBE Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.gamesBy Tyler DeFazio and Jonathan Perez

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Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) 1:00:42

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Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in psychotherapy? What role does it play in therapeutic action? Who brings it up, the therapist or the patient? Daniel José Gaztambide addresses these que…

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The Dire Need For Biblical Preaching 1:11:11

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "The Dire Need For Biblical Preaching," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023) 1:04:33

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In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following: “The psychological toll of being a Black woman…can never be underestimated. There is a low value placed on Black women’s psyches in this society, which is both racist and sexist. We are dispossessed psychologically a…

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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018) 58:08

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Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter. In her new book The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality (Routledge, 2018), Marion Bower puts Jo…

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193. Save the Squirrel! 1:37:42

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This week: Jon and Tyler discuss the new Superman movie. SUBSCRIBE Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.gamesBy Tyler DeFazio and Jonathan Perez

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The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash 31:52

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Dr. Karyne Messina and Dr. Felicia Powell-Williams, the host and co-host of “Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Racism in America” sponsored by The American Psychoanalytic Association explored how employing mechanisms of defense perpetuates racial injustice’s movement forward and the resistance it faces as a tug of war, i.e., progress followed by backl…

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Who Can Be Saved and How? 1:13:30

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "Who Can Be Saved and How," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee eds., "Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories" (Karnac Books, 2025) 47:07

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Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories (Karnac Books, 2025) contains eighteen moving tales of disparate Jewish lives from Eliat Aram, Leslie B. Brissett, Louisa Diana Brunner, Halina Brunning, Leila Djemal, Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor, Franca Fubini, Stan Gold, Larry Hirschhorn, Susan Kahn, Alicia E. Kaufmann, Olya Khaleelee, James Kran…

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192. Nostalgia in Your Pocket 55:43

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This week: Jon goes deep into retro gaming while Tyler learns about The Alters. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.gamesBy Tyler DeFazio and Jonathan Perez

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My Truth 1:08:43

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "My Truth," and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019) 57:08

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In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened. Taking her cue from Winnicott, Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics (Columbia University Press, 2019), explores the implications of breakdown fears for the practi…

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191. The Review Hat Trick 1:33:37

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This week: Tyler switches topics faster than a toddler on TikTok while Jon banks three game reviews. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…

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What, Faith? 1:04:47

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Listen-in to today's This Day In The Word radio teaching broadcast, "What, Faith?" and let's see what God's Word has to say.By Jon Couch

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190. Monster Kart World 1:18:06

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This week: Jon jumps on the Monster Train while Tyler puts his new Switch 2 through its paces. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | Pocket Casts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.couchcompany.games…