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Oh, my gosh. Welcome back to Behind the Bastards. I'm Robert Evans, and I am again alone without my producer, Sophie Lichterman, today. She is recovering from a health thingamajig, and we all wish her the best. She will be back soon. But you know who's not back soon because they're here today? Allison Raskin. Allison, welcome to the show.
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
Yeah. Thank you for being on. You and I are going to have a long conversation about a very weird dude today. But before we get into that, we should talk a little bit about you. You are a writer, director, comedian. You are the co-author of the book, I Hate Everyone But You, which was a New York Times bestseller. Yeah. Is there anything else you want to kind of plug up at the top here?
Oh, yes. That feels like an outdated bio a little bit. Yeah. I do a lot of different stuff. These days, I primarily promote myself as a writer still and then a relationship coach and mental health advocate. So I've had two nonfiction books come out about sort of the intersection of mental health and relationships. And then I have a rom-com novel coming out in April called Save the Date.
which is loosely based off of a multiverse version of my own broken engagement. So a fictionalized version of what could have happened afterwards.
Well, that is very appropriate that you work in mental health because the guy we're talking about today is one of the worst things that ever happened to the mental health field. Yes. I suspect it as such.
He is really bad at that. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.
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