Richard Hatem thinks therapy is real

This week, the return of Richard Hatem, the screenwriter behind The Mothman Prophecies and host of Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf.

In response to THE QUESTION (what’s something they said wasn’t real, etc), he gives us a couple of answers nobody expects from a guy who runs paranormal podcast: therapy. Oh, also, the wacky idea that you can make your dreams come true. From there we explore the typical human ping-pong between self-loathing and grandiosity, why so many great artists get better after they get sober, and Richard’s pretty slick grand unifying theory of paranormal activity.

The returning-guest club

Richard has never had a supernatural experience

Therapy is real (according to him)

Jordan is a “maximalist realist”

“You don’t need to take the conservative route in the career of your life”

The Magellan of his family

You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall / Useful Fictions

Vascillating between self-loathing and grandiosity

Does sobriety kills your creative edge? (NO.)

Tom Waits and the Sex Pistols