Content warning: Incest and childhood sexual abuse

Have you ever wanted to call CPS on your SIMs family? Does trauma run in your family like your father’s eyes? Did you gift your virginity unceremoniously on an air mattress? Then, with heartfelt condolences and congratulations, you found the perfect episode! Kylie Vincent left us deeply undone yet unashamed with her appearance on the pod. So turn down the tender and tap in to this conversation to get the answer to the burning question: are there some experiences too dark to laugh at?

Kylie Vincent is a Gen Z pope. She has created a cult following of gay sick people from her first solo show “Bird” that received 5 star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe.

Her stand-up has been featured on Comedy Central as a part of their Stand-Up Featuring series with over 100,000 views, if anyone watches YouTube. Glamorously, Kylie was presented by the city of West Hollywood this year as their 2026 Artist Grant recipient. Her new hour, Lesion Lady has had a sold out run of shows first performed 18 days out of hospital, 47 days out of the hospital, and 120 days out of the hospital, and Hollywood Fringe.

It’s time for a Bateman Cousin Lore drop! After a girlhood spent people pleasing, the effervescently intelligent Margo Bateman is here to throw down. Listen up as she excavates the beauty algorithm’s relentless investment in making us feel less than (though we’re still buying), the tragedy of feeling represented in The Remains of the Day, fond memories of a little thing called Shanksgiving, and how blanking out on her dad’s final words of wisdom is a clear sign of ADHD. So stop taking financial advise from nepo babies, and get all your DIY improvements from Margo instead.

Margo Bateman writes, directs and performs comedy; Paints and makes cartoons. She’s a long time student of Astrology and professional bartender. Eagles fan. Go Birds!🦅🏈 Find her everywhere online @Averagelover69

Gemini season may be dunzo, but we got a breath of fresh air (sign) coming through your speakers because Claire Luisa is in the house. In between bites of butter, this Trader Joe’s bag lady breaks down the emotional toll of working at Disney World on 9/11, being a gay for guns, and the trench warfare of acting. Come for Claire’s goofiness, and you’ll fall in love with her expansive understanding of how denial is one hell of a drug. What was it that Steve Lacy said? Oh yeah, Gemini Rights.

Claire is a queer Filipino-American writer, standup, retired rapper, weird aunt, adhd goblin, Gemini, and lady in waiting to an elderly Chihuahua. You can follow her @claireluisabiz

Gimme, gimme, gimme, an episode with Emily Draznik. In this jam packed dish session the star of our hearts chats with Theresa about all the niche drama of Los Angeles, holiday season birthday trauma, and going head to head with Katy Perry in a trivia contest about…Katy Perry. We were lucky enough to pull this beloved scene girl off the dance floor and into the studio just for y’all. Engage and enjoy!

Emily Draznik is your super fan’s favorite super fan. When not at a concert, you can find her at the local gay dive bar (preferably one with carpet and a touch tunes to blast ABBA). This midwest princess turned proud Los Angeles POS is a startup and fashion industry survivor. She famously helped Jimmy Kimmel rack up 16 million views and has been unwillingly featured on cab TV. Follow her on instagram @emdrazqueen if you like cat content.

Come one, come all to this entrancing episode featuring the impeccable DJ Mausner. Together, DJ and Theresa swim laps in the sea of movie studio cannibals, intersectionality of trans aliens, and how it feels to get a binder on the same day as your dads death certificate. Interested in tactics to thrive, not just survive? This one’s for you.

D.J. Mausner is a standup, sketch, and improv comedian known for writing the WGA Award nominated film Prom Dates on Hulu. They perform regularly on UCB Harold team ‘dance club remix’ and have performed at Just For Laughs, where they won the Homegrown Comics competition. You may have seen them on HBO, Prime, and Dropout TV. You can follow them @djmausner

Esteemed writer and former meme creator Amanda-Faye Jimenez is on the pod to unpack all things queer aging. The stories start coming and they don’t stop coming. What’s it like to raw dog reality without medication? Or think that a sad Carl’s Jr tattoo is a good idea? Curious about context? Then tune in now!

Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is mostly known for being a lesbian about town for truly decades and as a friend of all dogs. She is writing a memoir about failure, lip gloss, the 90s, and being an aging party girl on Dopamine Books, due out in 2027. You can follow her @failureprincess

With breath so bated, we lovingly present our episode with pod royalty himself, Steven Ray Morris! With his tender reflections, he guides Theresa through the end of the grindcore mindset, making plans as an adult, covid move ins, breakups, and the terror of our healthcare system. This one is for all those who are gentle hearted.

Steven Ray Morris is a Los Angeles-based podcast producer (formerly Ologies with Alie Ward and My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark). Host of See Jurassic Right (a podcast for curious adults), he has three beautiful cats named Ripley, Wendy, and Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.

123 focus on this episode because producer Ali Giordani steps up to the mic. Together, Theresa and Ali commiserate on what it means to grieve best friends, the need for ugliness, and the joy of curating lives worth living.

Ali Giordani is a film programmer and writer based in Los Angeles. Their passions include loud music, slow cinema, and gossiping. She co-produces Trauma Bond with Theresa Bateman, a podcast exploring things we aren't supposed to laugh about. Her writing can be found in Full Stop, New Life Quarterly, and on the zine shelf at your local bookstore. If you're down to clown, find them curating chaos on substack @flickswithbenefits, instagram @agony_varda, and letterboxed @lighted_match.

Content Warning: Dicussions of sexual assault.

How whacky and wise can one guy be? On this episode, Pete Zias drops in to tell Theresa some of the wildest anecdotes in pod history. From driving around with a baby monitor to calling in bomb threats to school dances, Pete leaves no stone unturned in his divine quest for revenge.

Pete Zias is an alum of and regular performer at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles. He performed his solo show, The Teddy Teddy Show, at the NYC International and Hollywood Fringe Festivals. He hosts his IG Live and stage show “Total Trash Live!” where he reads from his extensive tabloid collection, which The Hollywood Reporter listed as one of their guilty pleasures! Pete has appeared on OUT TV’s “Dr. Jackie” and The Sherry Vine Variety Show. His film credits include “Grandmother’s Gold”, “The Never List”, “Cock N’ Bull 3”, “Pig Hag” and “Ganymede!” He studied Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College. You can follow him @petezias

Brodie Reed is an LA based comedian, writer, actor, filmmaker and sword enthusiast. He wrote and starred in the short films $16,000 and Take Me to Your Merch. Follow him @brodie.reed.okay

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Pallavi Gunalan is a stand-up comedian, improviser, writer, and actor. She’s written for Lovett or Leave It with Crooked Media, has been featured on Dropout.tv and Pretty Gay, and has performed all over the US and India, including in festivals such as SF Sketchfest and New York Comedy Fest. She’s been on house improv teams at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City, and The Pack Theater, and has opened for Bassem Youssef, Sammy Obeid, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Maria Bamford, and Adam Conover. She co-produces live monthly stand-up shows Facial Recognition Comedy (The Comedy Store) and Second Screens Comedy (The Elysian) in LA. Pallavi loves comedy, animals, and mutual aid. You can follow her everywhere @PallaviGunalan

Lena Morgana is a writer, performer, and psychotherapist raised and based in Los Angeles. She is transgender, intersex, and neurodivergent. Her comedy has been featured on Amazon Prime and at live shows and festivals across North America. She provides liberation-focused psychotherapy free of cost to transgender, gender-expansive, and intersex folks across the state of California through the Transgender Health & Wellness Center.

For more information about free therapy available to TGI+ folks in California, visit the Transgender Health & Wellness Center at www.trans.health

You can support Lena’s gender-affirming surgery fundraiser at www.gofundme.com/Lena4Liberation

Arrowyn Ambrose is a Los Angeles–based writer, facilitator, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of the erotic, the mythic, and the embodied. Drawing from depth psychology, mythology, alchemy, and lived experience, her work explores intimacy, desire, heartbreak, and neurobiology—where humor lives alongside the sacred. She is completing her MA in Depth Psychology & Creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where her thesis and performance project, This Sex Which Is Not One, merged spoken word, movement, mimesis, and ritual exploring femme pleasure beyond patriarchy. She believes the erotic is creative intelligence: messy, holy, and alive. Arrowyn writes the Substack Abundance Whore, a mythic memoir-in-progress about CPTSD, longing, motherhood, and the strange alchemy of staying awake inside desire. You can follow her on ig @arrowynambrose

Alison hosts the weekly LA comedy show Loose at Nico’s Baby Battista, the monthly comedy show Blessed at Zebulon and the recurring comedy show “What Does it All Mean?” at the Philosophical Research Society. You can find her on instagram at @justaboutglad

Ashley Ray is a comedian and writer based in LA. You may have seen her stand up on Cracked or HBOmax, or her writing on Adult Swim’s Alabama Jackson. You can follow her @theashleyray

Camirin Farmer is a nonbinary, queer, black performer & astrologer based in Los Angeles, CA. Core to all of their comedy is the desire to explore, and articulate their experience as a marginalized person specifically through the lens of living with faith in a Higher Picture. Camirin believes that comedy can be a pure container for strong truths. You can follow them @camirinfarmer

Caitlin Ackerman is a West Coast Girlina, born and raised, a lifelong artist, actor and writer, now branching into creative directing, styling and interior design. You can find her on socials @las_bestgoth

Cara Connors is a comedian, actor, and writer originally from Chicago. Her debut stand-up comedy special, Straight for Pay, is streaming now on Amazon Prime. The hour was recently named one of “6 Terrific Specials From 6 Very Different Comics” by the New York Times and one of Paste Magazine’s best comedy albums of the year.