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328. Psychiatrist Reacts to Tragic Matthew Perry Death

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The news from last Saturday has made us all sad, even more to us FRIENDS fans. Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing in the American TV Sitcom - passed away in her house in Los Angeles. Celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Raj Persaud talked with me on livestream to explain Matthew Perry’s death and the worry trends around famous people dying younger than the rest of us on average. #matthewperry #friends #psychology Dr Raj’s podcast: https://drrajpersaud.com/the-podcasts His recent book: https://amzn.eu/d/4AwSs0R Raj Persaud - The psychology of seduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E46oWB4V0s Andrew Gold links: http://YouTube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok https://andrewgold.locals.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3

old you are, I'm sure it inspires a great deal of nostalgia in you.

0:51.1

It is the archetypal program. I can't think of any other TV series

0:55.4

with quite such a mainstream pull and quite such an effect on the cultural

1:00.4

zeitgeist friends. Other than friends I can only think of The Simpsons

1:04.5

that's about it and I think friends even more so has penetrated our culture and with

1:08.8

it the sarcasm of Matthew Perry. Matthew Perry always made me think with his character and he was so brilliant with it.

1:16.2

When people say and I'm sorry Americans people say it all the time that Americans don't have sarcasm,

1:22.4

they don't get sarcasm. I always used to think,

1:25.2

could that be any more wrong? Because, you know, Chandler was the guy, well, of the sarcasm.

1:31.7

And I suppose there are nuances to comedy that it's suggested

1:35.1

that some parts of America don't get I think that's to do with TV series and

1:41.8

comedies having to serve a much wider audience and then

1:45.2

having to be less nuanced as a result but the idea that Americans don't get

1:49.6

sarcasm is just utter nonsense and that's how brilliant Matthew Perry was. He managed to completely kill that stereotype

1:56.1

We don't know the cause of death at the time that I speak by the time this goes out. Maybe you will have done

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