HeyJaredWhat's Your Damage?
What’s Your Damage? is a comedy and opinion podcast hosted by two anonymous comedians—AJ (former Mormon) and AJ (former Catholic). We share true traumatic life stories and break down the movies, TV, music, and pop culture that helped us cope.
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Episode 41: Couple's Therapy/Rivers and Roads/ Days are Gone (opens the original)
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Episode 41 of What’s Your Damage? brings a first for the show: AJ and AJ welcome their editor, KT, as their very first guest. Together, the three of them unpack abandonment — being left, leaving others, and the ways we sometimes abandon ourselves. KT kicks things off by tracing the roots of her codependency back to high school, when a complicated relationship with a close friend and make-out buddy ended in a painful rupture. After a mental health crisis involving her friend, KT found herself sud
Episode 40: Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume 2/Cinderella (opens the original)
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AJ and AJ are middle-aged now, which means it’s time to look back at who used to be in charge: their parents. “J“ remembers blasting Billy Joel with her dad and how quickly a fun moment could shift when his need for control took over. One Sunday, a harmless evening of cards, singing, and good clean Mormon fun turned into “J” and her brother quietly managing their dad’s mood — something she now recognizes as fawning and children being asked to emotionally caretake for an adult. “A” reflects on co
Episode 39: The Homecoming/Loose (opens the original)
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Episode 39: AJ and AJ begin this episode with a trigger warning as they explore experiences of violation, entitlement, and the anger that comes from realizing someone else believed they had a right to you. “J” starts with her time performing in The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, where she played the only woman in the cast—a character who, quite literally, gets passed around the men in the family. After the production ended, “J” discovered that one of her castmates had secretly developed feelings f
Episode 38: Lungs/Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (opens the original)
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Episode 38 is all about dreams evolving —what happens when the life you once wanted stops fitting, and how letting go of an old definition of success can make room for something more meaningful. “J” takes us back to 2011, when she moved away from her hometown, her husband, and her entire community for a new hospital job in a new city. She worked overnights and took the train back to visit her husband, assuming the move would be temporary: get some experience, build her career, and eventually ret
Episode 37: Mommie Dearest/Bridgerton (opens the original)
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AJ and AJ kick off this episode with a content warning: child abuse is discussed. This week’s damage is hypocrisy , specifically, the strange rules parents create for their kids while somehow finding themselves exempt from those same rules. “A” starts with Mommie Dearest and the infamous “no wire hangers” scene, which hit a little too close to home. Watching the movie helped her recognize just how abusive some of her own childhood experiences were—especially since her dad used to jokingly call h
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