Presenting: P.E. Moskowitz on Whether Your Mind is Broken or the World Is (with Depresh Mode)
Proxy with Yowei Shaw
Yowei Shaw
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
New to Proxy? Start with Bisexual Wife Guy — it’s where many listeners fall in love with the show.
The new season of Proxy returns April 14th. In the meantime, we're sharing something we loved. On this episode of Depresh Mode, comedian John Moe and the journalist P.E. Moskowitz dig into the question: when your mind feels broken, is it you — or the world?
Find Depresh Mode with John Moe wherever you get your podcasts.
Read P.E. Moskowitz' book Breaking Awake and their newsletter Mental Hellth.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, proxy listeners, who discovered Diane Keaton and put her in Annie Hall? Who found |
| 0:06.0 | Dustin Hoffman and made sure he played Ratso Rizzo and Midnight Cowboy? Who saw Jason Schwartzman and was like, |
| 0:12.7 | Wes Anderson, you need to have this person in Rushmore? Casting directors, of course. When the |
| 0:19.6 | 98th Oscar ceremony airs on March 15th, the first Academy Award for Achievement and Casting directors, of course. When the 98th Oscar ceremony airs on March 15th, the first Academy |
| 0:23.1 | Award for Achievement and Casting will be given in nearly 100 years of Academy history. Five films |
| 0:29.0 | laden with stars and fascinating new discoveries are nominated. One battle after another, Marty |
| 0:34.5 | Supreme, Hamnet, The Secret Agent, and Sinners. |
| 0:42.2 | In their latest series, The Kitchen Sisters take us behind the scenes and into the lives and work of the first ever batch of nominees and into the mysterious world of casting. |
| 0:48.5 | Fun fact, along with being a Kitchen Sister, Divya was a casting director for over a decade. |
| 0:54.6 | The Kitchen Sisters present Everyone's a casting director with four-time Academy Award winner |
| 1:00.1 | Francis McDormand at KitchenSisters.org or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello, everyone, it's YoA. If you're new to the show, welcome. |
| 1:13.1 | On proxy, people bring me very specific emotional conundrums, the kinds of problems that make them feel alone. And I go looking |
| 1:19.0 | for a stranger who's lived something close enough to help them get a little less stuck. |
| 1:23.5 | If you want to try a classic proxy case, a great place to start is our episode Bisexual Wife Guy. |
| 1:30.6 | And if you haven't already, follow the show. We got a new season of cases coming mid-April. |
| 1:37.8 | In the meantime, I have been sharing episodes from shows that I think proxy listeners will appreciate. |
| 1:45.9 | Shows that make space for honest, real, raw conversations about the emotional parts of being human. Today's episode comes |
| 1:53.6 | from Depress Mode, hosted by the comedian John Moe. Besides having a great name for a podcast, proxy engineer Kyle laughed for, I think, |
| 2:04.9 | a full 15 seconds when I told him about the show. Depression Mode is a show where John talks |
| 2:10.5 | with artists, writers, comedians, and all kinds of thoughtful people about mental health, |
| 2:16.4 | the messy, complicated reality of it. |
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