Here's a scenario: we drop something off at an establishment (say, a dry cleaner) and are asked when we would like to pick up our linen shirt. We say a date. The dry cleaner, without acknowledging what we've said, announces it will be ready ano

5 Minutes on Your Issue: Notification Build Ups on Phones

Feb 2nd, 2017 5m 54s

Some people (say, Dr. Josh Lichtman) have tens of thousands of red notifications on their phones. Others (say, host Anna David) can't have one without needing to immediately eliminate it. What does it mean for Anna (and the listener who wrote i

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Take Pride in Being Late

Jan 26th, 2017 5m 25s

It's one thing to run chronically late. It's quite another when someone runs late and then seems to relish in that fact. Some of us might choose to not hang out with that person and others may find this a unique quirk. Then there's a subset of

Writer Chris Brancato: People Who Think All Their Ideas Should Be Made Into Shows

Jan 22nd, 2017 31m 15s

When you do something in a creative field, you encounter a great number of people who believe they, too, should be working in that field. Sometimes these people assume that you have perhaps been waiting for a great idea to come along—something

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Talk to You When You’re Wearing Headphones

Jan 19th, 2017 5m 14s

We all know the person—either our mother or best friend or boyfriend or stranger at the gym who just takes up a conversation with us despite the fact that we've got something strapped to our ears which guarantees we won't hear them. So why woul

Claire Titelman: People Who Ask for Favors Indirectly

Jan 15th, 2017 34m 6s

Actor, writer and comedian Claire Titelman is an Andy Kaufman Award-nominated comedian based in L.A., recently named one of LA Weekly's "Eight L.A. Artists and Art-World Figures to Watch in 2016." She was a roundtable regular on Chelsea Lately

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Ask, “Can I Squeeze By?”

Jan 12th, 2017 6m 26s

When we're in a crowded spot and someone needs to move past us, they could either barrel on through or find another path. Or they could instead ask kindly if they could "squeeze" by. Why would someone doing something so polite irk a person? Psy

Writer Kristen McGuiness: Sponges

Jan 8th, 2017 32m 31s

Writer Kristen McGuiness is the author of the LA Times bestselling book 5150: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life (which was optioned by CBS Cable with Alison Brie attached to star and Original Films attached to produce and which covered a

5 Minutes on Your Issue: Friends Who Walk Together on Sidewalks

Jan 5th, 2017 6m 38s

You know it when you see it: that pack of gal pals chatting away as they take up the whole sidewalk, oblivious to the inconvenience they may be causing anyone else trying to walk in the same space. (Obviously, men can do this too but in this ca

Dr. Josh Lichtman: The Question Mark Text

Jan 1st, 2017 26m 12s

Psychiatrist Dr. Josh Lichtman is a familiar voice to regular listeners, as he consistently lends his expertise to the Friday "5 Minutes on Your Issues" episodes. In case he's new to you, know this: Dr. Lichtman is a Clinical Instructor at the

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Say, "Tell Me How You REALLY Feel"

Dec 29th, 2016 4m 28s

Have all of us experienced the sting of sharing an opinion and being met with a sarcastic response? For anyone who hasn't, here's one of the more egregious examples: we're passionately expounding on something we care about and the person we're

Danielle Stewart: People Who Talk to Other People While on the Phone

Dec 25th, 2016 29m 29s

Writer and former stand-up comedian Danielle Stewart did the comedy circuit for many years—in that time, touring the country, hosting the AVN awards and appearing in the reality show Sex Box. She's written for Us Weekly and Life & Style Magazin

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Don't Say "God Bless You" When You Sneeze

Dec 22nd, 2016 6m 45s

We've all been there: we sneeze with people around. Maybe we say, "Excuse me," maybe we don't. Either way, we expect a certain response out of them—specifically, we expect them to say, "God bless you." Well, sometimes they don't. And one Issues

Alison Rosen: People Who Respond "I Don't Know" When You Email Them Questions

Dec 18th, 2016 37m 55s

Podcaster, TV talking head and writer Alison Rosen has a career that spans the coasts: she launched into the cultural stratosphere when she was on staff at Time Out New York and began appearing on the Fox News cult hit Red Eye (spoiler alert: t

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Mispronounce Your Name

Dec 15th, 2016 5m 43s

Many of us have had to contend with the fact that our names can be pronounced in a multitude of ways. Some of us just let people say our names however they damn well please while others of us correct them while still others just silently stew.

Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons: Overly Confident Men

Dec 11th, 2016 39m 6s

Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons has done stand-up everywhere you've looked, from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to Late Show with David Letterman to Late Night with Conan O'Brien to Chelsea Lately. Then there's his wildly successful podcast, Fitzdog

5 Minutes on Your Issue: Women Who Wear Animal Hats

Dec 8th, 2016 5m 17s

You know the kind of women we're talking about—those ones who are bopping around town in one of those hats with cat ears on them. Or maybe they're wearing a wild and crazy other kind of hat, or shawl, or dress, or shoes. The point is that they'

Comedian Doug Benson: Loud Talkers on Airplanes

Dec 4th, 2016 40m 59s

Comedian Doug Benson needs no introduction but he’s getting one anyway: the host of the mega popular podcast Doug Loves Movies, he’s also (in no particular order) hosted (live, on TV and in podcast form) the also exceedingly popular Benson Inte

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Post Short Recipe Videos

Dec 1st, 2016 6m 17s

Listener Shawn is an authentic guy and he doesn't post anything on Facebook that he doesn't believe in, whether it's about a book, a movie or food. And so he marvels at the folks who post those short recipe videos when they clearly didn't make

Actress Mary Birdsong: Women Who Don't Sit on Toilet Seats

Nov 27th, 2016 40m 26s

Actress Mary Birdsong may be an award-winning theater actress (from her stint performing in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me) and have been in the Broadway production of Hairspray but she is perhaps best known for playing Deputy Cherisha Kimball o

5 Minutes on Your Issue: Cashiers Who Don't Make Change Correctly

Nov 24th, 2016 6m 19s

Whatever you grew up doing you're going to be paying attention to and listener Michael is no different. As someone who once manned a cash register, he's highly aware of how folks who currently man these registers do their job. Turns out that, a

Writer Claudia Lonow: The Expression "You're Not Living Up to Your Potential"

Nov 20th, 2016 50m 57s

Writer Claudia Lonow is a woman of many talents: she starred on Knots Landing as a teenager, did stand-up for many years (her step-dad Budd Friedman created the Improv in LA) and has created over five shows, including Rude Awakening, Less Than

5 Minutes on Your Issue: Strangers Who Ask Us To Take Their Picture

Nov 17th, 2016 5m 45s

We now live in a world that many feel must be documented at every step (confession: my behavior indicates at times that I may be one of them). But it's not all selfies, people; some folks out there approach strangers who happen to be standing n

Writer and Comedian Fielding Edlow: People Who Say They're From New York When They're Not

Nov 12th, 2016 48m 44s

Writer, actor and stand-up comedian Fielding Edlow is one of those triple threats you read about: her solo show Coke-Free J.A.P. killed at the NYC Fringe Festival and was developed as a half-hour pilot for Showtime. Her plays have been finalist

5 Minutes on Your Issue: People Who Say "Um"

Nov 10th, 2016 6m 21s

Oh, those little language quirks people have. Are we all not bugged by at least some of the things people say? [Among mine: "alls we have to do is [fill in the blank]," "all intensive purposes."] Well, listener Patty has an issue with people wh