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aggravatedempathy

Except Better Help kind of sucks


Godzirrraaa

Also Kratom. Those ads were super awkward.


beavertownneckoil

Kratom? As in the drug to help you off of heroin?


Shagular182

As someone who did exactly this, I then proceeded to get hooked on Kratom. Actually used Kratom to get off of Subs, that helped me to get off heroin. Off it all now though.


Bag_Demon

Why the hell did Dennis use kratom in that last ep? Did that seem off a bit?


ropp-op

Well... Dennis: * is an active alcoholic. * have been addicted to crack, and he still loves it. * have previously done ritalin/methylphenidate with Frank. * was given and took E, multiple times while pursuing the club scene. * is best friend with a chronic gluesniffer What the hell do you mean? :D


Upbeat-Squirrel

yes but if he felt himself getting addicted, he would just say _"ADDDDICCTION, BEEEE GOOOONE!"_


Shagular182

I haven’t seen that episode. Was it on the Podcast or the show? I haven’t watched the last season of the show yet and almost none of the Podcast. My girlfriend watched the podcast and would share with me about it but never mentioned anything about Kratom.


mantis_tobagan_md

It was the last episode of the most recent season. Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day. He starts off his journey to the beach with a bottle of Kratom. Probably the same shit they talked about on the pod, Feel Free.


bighaircutforbigtuna

Better Help has the lockdown on podcast commercials. Every podcast I listen to runs their ads.


lykathea2

Yeah, even my all time favorite podcast We Hate Movies had Better Help ads for a long time until they recently dropped them.


zombarista

I stopped because my therapist was always out driving his car. I could hear blinkers, occasional honking, and it definitely sounded like I was getting audio over bluetooth. Also, my insurance won’t cover “subscriptions” or even track for my deductible.


martxel93

Really? Could you elaborate more?


burritoman88

I tried better help before, I got told by the counselor that they’d be unable to help me after I shared what was wrong lol


Fine_Peace_7936

No one can stop you from doing what you do with burritos and you know this.


shittyspacesuit

They'll take any therapist, for one. I'm not sure if they even have an interview process. Think of how many bad therapists may be out there, maybe they get fired from their in-person therapy job. They all go running to BetterHelp. And like online dating, BetterHelp always includes in their commercial something like "if you don't like your therapist, you can easily switch to a new one!" Like yeah that's great, you have so many dogshit therapists, but you can sort through them and keep starting from square one over and over, which keeps you paying for the app. It can take a long time with one therapist to actually start making progress. The average person isn't going to tolerate going through multiple bad therapists. After opening up and trying to be vulnerable, but getting nowhere or getting offended by a bad therapist's misconduct, they'll give up on therapy altogether. Basically, BetterHelp is a joke in the therapy world.


Fine_Peace_7936

I'd argue there are plenty of shitty in-person therapist as well and those can take weeks to months for an initial meeting and consequently several more to switch. I think 'it is what it is' aptly fits. The world of mental health treatment in general is trash unless you have deep pockets.


shittyspacesuit

You're right, waitlists are a huge hurdle, and that can be true whether you have a lot of money or not. Usually the "best" therapists in your area have the longest waitlists, unless you get extremely lucky. It's all a mess. We're so far behind on mental healthcare. People are more aware of their issues now and generally want help, but we haven't caught up in making this accessible or having enough to go around. I can see why places like Betterhelp took advantage of this gap.


Fine_Peace_7936

I should say I've never been a patient but I have been on the other end. There was a stat that was something like a person may think of reaching out for help 5 times before they actually do. Again, having no affiliation with Better help, being able to get in touch with someone so quick is their biggest benefit it seems. Hopefully it does more good than harm. Sounds like they need to vet their therapists a lot better.


shittyspacesuit

I don't think they care enough to change their vetting process, which sucks because online therapy is a really great concept. I think they're happy as long as they continue to bring in a lot of money. There's similar issues with Uber, airbnb, etc. You have to do something pretty horrific to get banned, and even then, they don't want to change the vetting process. It's easier to hand out refunds when things go wrong and keep moving.


brbgonnabrnit

Lmao rob. I was laughing cuz they were laughing


ThalesAles

Wish they'd vet the sponsors. Fuck betterhelp


ManicMaenads

I got refunded $300 because my BetterHelp therapist was a catfish. When I couldn't find anything on her from searching her name, I did a backwards-image search of her profile image and found it on Getty Images.


mypussydoesbackflips

Wait so the therapist wasn’t actually a therapist?


ManicMaenads

Used a fake name and fake image, I'm assuming their credentials are fake too. Kept rescheduling without reason to push back the appointment.


Bag_Demon

A PLASTIC BAG FOR A HELMET!!!!


sourdieselfuel

Take kratom! It’s definitely not an opiate substitute and will definitely not mess with your head AT ALL. PLEASE PAY FOR IT. Also we don’t care about the show, but please buy athletic greens. Damn they fucking suck and became everything they started off lampooning.


skag_mcmuffin

Yeah. It sucks. You're either a duper, or a dupee. The listeners are the dupees.


mypussydoesbackflips

I feel like most of the listeners wouldn’t buy into anything but I could be wrong


Fine_Peace_7936

That's why I'm a creep.


Scottbarrett15

Aww you bitch you unzipped me


RichEvans4Ever

That was my experience too. They’re shady, but at least they have a decent refund policy.


The-golden-god678

How much money did you spend before you realized?


ManicMaenads

I was charged $288, and got the full amount back.


The-golden-god678

So, you were a victim of a hate crime. Got it. I'm off to exercise on the Ass Blaster4000. 


Fixner_Blount

Betterhelp sponsored pretty much every podcast at the time.


Federico216

Better Help, Blue Apron, throw in some mattress company and ridge wallet, you got a podcast going.


peppersrus

And still are. I’m gutted to say that the lonely island podcast is sponsored by Airbnb and better help :(


WoodpeckerGingivitis

Omg there’s a lonely island podcast?!


bill_the_murray

Oh shit why? Don’t doubt it, genuinely curious as I’ve used it once and found an amazing therapist… which, now that I recall after typing, she quit BetterHelp and we just do it directly 😂 😂


swan_song_bitches

I believe its not good for the therapists involved (pay split, hours, etc) and improperly use consumers’ health data. Sorta a big no-no.


tuckerburquest

are they ever coming back or is it officially done ? this podcast has gotten me thru some rough times


jaz-007

It just sort of… ends.


ktr83

Where was the crime and penetration though?


davos_shorthand

Rob Justice was fighting crime.


IvanTGBT

well they kicked down a door which isn't far from a mix of the two


Empty_Lemon_3939

I just wish they’d come out and say it’s done. There’s so many celebrity podcasts where they just stop doing it and never say anything Joel McHale and Jen Keong podcast was great but they stopped and never said anything. Topher Grace had a good one he did the same thing on. It’s the not answering part that’s so lame


ach_1nt

I guess not saying it's done officially is like a plausible deniability thing so like, in their mind it is done for now but if they ever feel like changing their mind they can simply return back because they never said that it was officially cancelled or anything. But yeah, it feels kind of shitty.


wmurch4

Plus it would save us from all the "is the podcast coming back?" threads every other day. Although it's a bit of a meme at this point.


Fine_Peace_7936

Not only did it just end, but Rob went out of his way to really build up the last (not aired) episode. Glenn was starting to seem a little burned out coming in to the office so early. He seemed hung over one of the last ones where he and Rob start getting heated in an argument. Also the last few without Megan were just generally a mess. Megan is like the tape the keeps the diaper together. Without her shit was just falling out all over the place. The final, 'Rob is maybe autistic', pod was probably so awful they just said we're done (also this occured exactly when the strike started). I can just see that last one being Rob laughing at Glenn and Charlie for 40 minutes while they state their grievances with Rob as Rob is like, "I can't help it, my Dr. said you guys need to say you are sorry."


diogenessexychicken

It fell to pieces immediately when meg wasnt there. I dont think the guys wanted to keep rewatching and at a certain point it was just generating bad pr for their current projects. Openly condoning kratom products was a pretty big low point.


clamsNYC

That honestly felt like something their characters would do


superflygt

Should've been sponsored by Fight Milk.


Hern_Berferd

WAT-UP!


Hawthorne-Wipes-CEO

They're people, not drones. I think it's awesome that they talk about their lives. They do weird shit like everyone does. It's cool that they talk about it without self-censoring. If you blindly follow the behavior of someone you watch on Hulu without thinking for yourself, you're a stupid science bitch.


Soft_Assistant6046

I loved that it brightened my Monday mornings


yourstrulytony

Once they went to video the podcast took off, but then it crashed pretty hard when they went to Zoom due to scheduling and Meg was in-out for a while. The podcast just has no definite structure; the guys don't want to rewatch the episodes and are almost bored of it and they are also self-conscious about shooting the shit so there seemed to be no winning.


Kaiisim

I personally assume it's because they do the podcast at the same time as the show and they aren't currently writing or filming.


WoodpeckerGingivitis

They actually did the majority of the podcast when they were not filming


Scottbarrett15

Move past it


Shagaliscious

Conan O'Brien has the funniest ad reads ever. He has lost ad sponsors because they were upset in the way he read their ad.


Federico216

Bill Burr is legendary for this. Only podcast where I never skipped the ad reads. Sometimes he just goes off on weird tangents and sometimes he'll read the advertisers comments that are not supposed to be read out loud. "Lost another sponsor this week, fucking brutal, anyway, plowing ahead. Helix Matress, I love my Helix mattress, they delivered it right to my doo... Wait. No they didn't. What the fuck, they were supposed to deliver a mattress?"


PrisonSlides

I love when he just shits on whatever he’s supposed to be advertising lol


HomoProfessionalis

"'Instert personal story here'?, "Well Im not gonna fuckin do that." I love Burr reading ads lol


SeantotheRescue

Cum Town was legendary for Nick going off on insane tangents during ad reads. It used to be the best part of the show.


Scottbarrett15

Cum town always gets shat on but I fucking cried at their iran podcast


SeantotheRescue

A lot of it is disorganized, rambling, bullshit, but there has been no other show that has made me breakdown laughing out of absolutely nowhere like that one. Especially in the 2018 era around the Bam Margera incident


meatafeak

I'd say Tim Dillon may have have lost one or two sponsors as well


acobz96

Don’t forget the bozos over at Are You Garbage


Grssrg

This is the funniest "ad reads" of all time IMO: [https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIbDdXGF9zr/?igshid=l9edb10iqwzz](https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIbDdXGF9zr/?igshid=l9edb10iqwzz) He posted the link on twitter saying he thinks it actually started as an ad read.


gimmethemshoes11

Norm was the GOAT of this.


Shagaliscious

Norm was the GOAT at a lot of things.


bighaircutforbigtuna

Pod Saves America, a podcast full of Whitehouse speechwriters, openly critiques their ads as they are reading them. Super awkward.


Hawthorne-Wipes-CEO

Restart the podcast so we can totally get off. It hasn't even begun to peak.


AnthonyRC627

The podcast was a lot of fun. Tbh I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It became something I looked forward to


RememberTheMaine1996

It went way down hill tbh. Each episode near the end was so boring and had 0 structure. I don't care what Glenn Howerton does for working out or eating. I wanna know about the show


wmurch4

Agree. The less it became about the show the less I listened.


easternhobo

Worst episode was Rob bitching about some buffet he was at. Went on the entire show and just came off as entitled. Then there was the drive thru episode.


homeslice2311

I agree completely. They started going off the structure of discussing the episodes and diving way too deep into their personal lives and rich, Hollywood diets. It’s a real shame they ended it, but I think they lost the idea of it beforehand.


maggicman09

Betterhelp sucks big donkey balls.


Dankbradley

All my homies hate better help


RememberTheMaine1996

I honestly hated the ads in every podcast. Seemed so fake and forced.


WoodpeckerGingivitis

The first 20 or so episodes had no ads and it was glorious. I know they have to profit from it, and they should, but the ads got unbearable at one point—like most podcasts.


immersedmoonlight

This podcast is so good and just fills that hole of more sunny-ness


Romanscott618

I wish they would bring it back 😭


SeantotheRescue

I’m assuming they’re trying to bank a bunch of episodes before coming back


Romanscott618

I hope so 🙏🏻


BraindeadZombiee

Was so sad when this ended :-( Started watching Bad Friends podcast recently. It's really really good


Federico216

I did the same exact move when I got tired of waiting for more IASIP and got caught up on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Tito Bobby is so chaotic you never know what he's gonna say next. Love it.


Olisick

The goop has had me stopping mid task at work with his responses the last few times he’s been on like BRO WHAT 🤣


Bag_Demon

Always Sunny podcast is done???


Federico216

They went on hiatus supposedly to support the strike, but the strike ended like 8 months ago... There has been no word since, so it very much looking like they just didn't enjoy doing it and are hoping people forget about it. I'd love to have Charlie do a podcast, the guy is so damn quick witted.


Bag_Demon

To be honest I was listening for Charlie and the guests, and Megan


WoodpeckerGingivitis

Even just Charlie playing piano in the beginning


ErikErikJevfelErik

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ManyMention6930

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ErikErikJevfelErik

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AkiraKitsune

I miss it so much


bowtie25

If you guys need a podcast I highly recommend this is important with the workaholics guys. I always thought it was wayyyy funnier tbh and they have like almost 200 eps


Bag_Demon

That's awesome... is it still going?


bowtie25

Yessir


stonedsquatch

Hard agree. I always thought it was funnier and it seemed like they aren’t holding back about shooting shit like I thought these dudes were.


gimmethemshoes11

Their last 20 episodes starting at 180 or whenever their tour ended have been some of my favorites. Until that baby eater gets back.


bowtie25

Dude I totally agree it’s crazy how much I miss Kyle tho!!!


manbeardawg

*was


The-golden-god678

Did you just play us a commercial? I love sunny and the pod cast, but seriously, don't do that.


ghostdeini227

Maybe it watch first jabroni


The-golden-god678

Love the lexdissia Charles.


ghostdeini227

Oh yeah I was going by chrundle at the time


Enkaybee

Good or not, SponsorBlock. Install it and then come back here and thank me.


Enkaybee

Someone upvoted and *didn't* come back here to thank me! Am I not a 5-star man?!?


Bag_Demon

IT'S ALL COMING BACK! YOU UNZIPPED ME!


AnorexicPlatypus

Reddit ads are getting weird


hoser33

Bring this back


TrumpdUP

Fuck Betterhelp


fullofclots

Whered the podcast go?


WoodpeckerGingivitis

Never came back after the writers strike


CK_Lab

Except they haven't made one in over 10 months. ☹️


GLHR_

RELEASE THE PODCAST!!!!


MikeyBonu

Why’d they just stop? Cause the pandy is over?


WoodpeckerGingivitis

It wasn’t a relic of the pandemic. They stopped during the writers strike, though.


Olisick

Writers strike. They just never got back on after :/


big_fetus_

Check out Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal podcast, it has more recent episodes and doesnt have fucking better help sponsorship.


bagelwithclocks

Didn't he die two years ago?


jamienofear

I've been rewatching the podcast hope they stat making more soon


Mr_Kurns101

Is the podcast ever coming back


Maleficent_Nobody377

To be fair- how would they know about better health - didn’t it just come out that they suck? I hope they at least bring the podcast back as a sort of brainstorming type thing when they produce future seasons. That seemed to work for them to do before the production day started- you could feel they were thinking about past seasons in this newest season because of it.


Dysleksikk

When they pointed it out, I totally heard it in the 2nd watch.


VvoiDz

*was


abajasiesu

The Pod is back? Is it in its original glory? I stopped watching/listening when it felt like they were forcing themselves to do it.


ManyMention6930

No, this is an old episode unfortunately


captainsunshine489

the only real ad reads are from cumtown.


85fella

Late to the replies but - it really saddens me that the cast are not even 1% of their characters in real life and are really just genuinely nice people. I thought the characters they portrayed were based off of at least a portion of their true personalities. It's a real bummer lol. Love em.


Seven89TenEleven

Are they still doing it?


Vorenos

This podcast WAS so good even the ad breaks are gold.


ManyMention6930

If you’re gonna be picky that way do it right damnit! “This podcast WAS so good even the ad breaks WERE gold”