Sex – whats your yarn worth? w/ andy farnsworth

SN1:EP7 “Marc Gerber 1-800-BAD-TOUCH”

Posted on January 15, 2016May 12, 2016 by akfworth

It's impossible to tell the story of how I know comedian and psychologist Marc Gerber without getting into a host of sordid and vulnerable-making trauma from my past. He offered some perspective back in June that changed my life and comedy. Gerber is an atypical hybrid of a professionally funny and employably empathetic person. He and I met when I performed on a show at the ...

SN1:EP6 “Ali Pearl Meets Chango”

Posted on January 11, 2016May 12, 2016 by akfworth

Ali Pearl, author of the recent New York Times Modern Love article 'On Tinder, Off Sex,' and I discuss: the intimacy of listening to Enya together; our emotional exhibitionism; and a grudge I had against her for not putting me in her article. I also take her to meet Chango—those badass EDM subway performers in Union Square wearing Mexican wrestling masks you may have been luc...

SN1:EP4 “Barbara Gray Stops Fighting Food”

Posted on November 25, 2015June 18, 2016 by akfworth

How ducks have sex; ways to call in sick to work; and "food brain"--just a few of the topics covered during this fantastic conversation with LA comedian Barbara Gray. We walked through Prospect Park in Brooklyn on a crisp afternoon and watched fall ripen around us. Listen to this episode of What's Your Yarn Worth? with Andy Farnsworth and then go listen to her on the popula...

SN1:EP1 “James Greco Living Out Loud”

Posted on October 13, 2015June 18, 2016 by akfworth

An honest, unvarnished conversation with James Greco: painter, inner monologue coach, and person I respect and love a whole lot. There's literally zero production on this first episode. Just a straight, conversational document. Pretty much every instinct I had at the time told me not to put this out there, but my friend Tasha listened to it and told me not to trust my instinc...