What Is Happening and Where Are We? with Catherine Newman

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Feelings & Co.

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this episode of IGTBO, Nora is joined by her favorite living novelist, Catherine Newman, to put a little more OK in your day. They talk about celebrating sobriety and not drinking, Artemis II, how to unwind with the Bear Valley Eagle Cam, and the importance of family (and highly intense family card games). If your anxious heart needs a break from the whirlwind of Bad outside (and need to feel validated in how lame grocery shopping is), take this episode as your daily dose of OK. Catherine’s books: Sandwich ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop⁠ Wreck ⁠Amazon⁠ | ⁠Bookshop⁠ ⁠The Adidas Pants⁠ ⁠Catherine’s Snack Recs!⁠ You can share your okay things with us at ☎️502-388-OKAY (6529) or 📧 ⁠IGTBO@feelingsand.co⁠ To support our show, you can subscribe to our YouTube content ⁠here⁠. Our music is by Secret Audio, and their new album is on ⁠Spotify⁠ or ⁠Apple⁠! Our Sponsors: ❤️ Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to ⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Go to ⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠ for free shipping and 365-day returns. ⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠⁠ ❤️ ⁠⁠Shop Everyday Cotton, and all of my favorite bras and underwear, at SKIMS.com. After you place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.⁠⁠ ❤️ Experience your juiciest and deepest sensual experience with a bottle of Foria. FORIA is offering a special deal for our listeners. Get 20% off your first order by visiting ⁠⁠foriawellness.com/tfa⁠⁠ OR use code TFA at checkout. That’s F-O-R-I-A WELLNESS DOT COM FORWARD SLASH TFA for 20% off your first order. I recommend trying Awaken or their Pleasure Set with all three of their best sellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8	uk slash podcast to be okay. This podcast, as you know, is a group project.
0:53.6	Every other week now, we bring you a bunch of
0:58.3	okay stuff from a world that is definitely not okay. And we all know about the highlights of the
1:04.7	things that are not okay, but we are here to put a little bit more okay in your day.
1:09.9	And today, I have such a treat for you. Today, my co-host
1:14.0	is Catherine Newman. Catherine Newman is, honestly, I have to say she is probably my favorite
1:19.4	living novelist. Knock on what, I just talked to her. Hopefully she's still, still kick in.
1:25.9	Catherine Newman, if you have not read Sandwich, if you have not read
1:30.3	wrecked, I need you to pause this podcast, go to your local bookstore and buy both of those
1:36.7	books. They touch on something that is so deeply human and beautiful. And they're also somehow just like laugh out loud funny. She's just such
1:47.5	a brilliant writer, thrilled to be having this conversation with her today. And we are going to
1:53.0	a lot of places and also nowhere at all. I believe that we're going to end up titling this episode,
1:59.6	you know, what's happening?
2:06.7	Where are we? Because we go to a lot of mysterious places, including the moon, including board games that are acceptable and banned, are eating habits, snacks that we enjoy, and a bunch
2:16.2	of other stuff. There's a lot of okay in this episode.
2:19.5	And I just also want to remind all of you that you can and should be sending us your okay
2:26.2	things too. Our email address is IGTBO at feelings an.com. We'll have that linked in our
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