Not sure why Marty was wrong to cut off his sister who stole so much from him. Either way not interested in this family’s disputes

At some point Wondery decided to put all their shows behind a paywall. It wouldn’t be a big deal if you could at least buy the seasons but the fact you have to have a subscription to listen to old favorites on a lark makes getting involved with their media pointless.

I first stumbled upon The Shrink Next Door through the Apple TV series and was immediately intrigued. While I absolutely despised Paul Rudd’s character, I couldn’t stop watching. After finishing the show, I started the podcast—and from the very first episode, I was hooked. I even subscribed to Wondery Plus just so I could hear the rest of the story. (Gonna cancel as soon as I’m done binge listening. LOL). Joe Nocera is an engaging host with a storytelling style that kept me invested from start to finish (which is no easy feat because I’m easily distracted!) Thank you, Joe, for bringing this story to light. And atta boy, Marty, for finally seeing the truth. I’m so glad you’ve regained your life and reconnected with your sister. I’ll always be rooting for your happiness. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

I’m not sure how anyone managed to take the most interesting story and turn it into this abysmal, boring, incomprehensibly bad show. I’d recommend people skip the podcast and just Google the story.

What a snooze fest

I really enjoyed this story! I’ve listened to it twice, once when it first came out and then just recently after watching the series on television. I wanted to listen to it again to see how much was aligned with the podcast. I enjoyed it just as much if not more the second time. It is just crazy to me that nobody has done anything to a doctor crossing those lines!

I. HATE. HER.

So unfortunate that you can only listen to the first episode, which is just a sales ploy to get your subscribed to wondery.

The wife talking about “The Hamptons” in that nasally voice. Ugh! Nails on a chalkboard.

Really enjoyed the Apple TV mini series. When I found it as a pod cast, I was excited! Unfortunately my hopes were dashed upon discovering I could not listen to episode 2; a subscription is required. If you have the money, go for it! It’s a very interesting account.

This is the type of podcast I love. 2023 and this is the first I subscribe to listen to. Thank you for your years of dedication to this. Now I have to watch the movie.

Episode one, short teaser intro about therapist who did some unspecified bad thing. Then five minutes describing some house in the hamptons, it belongs to the therapist I guess? I’m tired of hearing about the house so I skip forward to 13 minutes. More description of house??? The premise seems interesting, maybe I’ll try to find a written summary or something.

The premise is great, but it is way too long. It should have been edited down to 3 episodes. My daughter and I turned it off because we were bored.

Great to listen to sad but an amazing happy ending

it is such a great story that actually hit very close to home. I think the story telling was amazing because if let the story speak for itself since it is so powerful, and very hopeful and beautiful, especially for someone who has been through similar things with my father

Absolutely loved this podcast’s I was hooked from the beginning! Thank you, Joe.

Loved the podcast. I just can’t believe people were this gullible 😩

Really enjoyed TSND, you won’t regret listening!

I refuse to pay to listen to a show that was free before Wondery. Seems ridiculous to pay

I’m not going to pay Wondery so they can subsidize their other crap podcasts that they put out for free. I was really looking forward to hearing this but Wondery can pound sand.

This is such a sad, heart wrenching and at the same time beautiful and inspiring podcast, and I found it so incredible. Mr. Markowitz is such an inspirational person and proof that it’s NEVER too late to restart your life. I just am so glad he got away From his abuser, was and was able to share his story. The podcast itself is also just very pleasing to listen to, their accent and voices are really entertaining. Joe does a great job with his investigation, and the deep dive he does in to the backstory is absolutely mind blowing! Really just phenomenal. Definitely one of my favorites I’ve ever listened to and absolutely worth doing the wondery trial for cuz you will definitely binge it! 20 out of 20!!

I hope ALL of the patients including the three women who wish to remain silent will find their balls and expose Ike Hershkopf for the garbage con artist shrink he is. I don’t believe they’re “scared of retaliation” I believe they don’t want their friends knowing they went to a con. Marty….I wanna slap him for being brainwashed but I wanna hug him because he WAS BRAINWASHED. He truly lost 30 years of his life. It’s so hard to believe the state of NY would allow the likes of Hershkopf to skate away while trying to steal everything from a patient. I blame the licensing board as much as anyone.

I love the podcast, Mr Nocera’s voice and the guests. I feel so bad for Marty. This kind of story is something we need more of! The tale of a family, patients and a business in peril is heartbreaking Great job

Seems kinda ridiculous to allow a Doctors reputation to be totally ruined because a clearly pathetic man is embarrassed for the decisions he made. Given how few people were actually interviewed for this show I’m assuming that nearly all of his patients were satisfied with the care they receive. Yet one man’s hurt feelings were able to destroy him. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had someone to blame our bad decisions on?

Once again, Wondery has taken an old podcast series of theirs that was once free and made it completely subscription as a money grab. What terrible business practice!

Will not pay to listen to a podcast

I never write podcast reviews. From how this began to the end- what a story! I binged on this entire story, while cleaning my non-Hampton house, with my mouth open. I really enjoyed it. 😂

I found the podcast after watching the show and I’m so glad I did! Thanks so much for bringing the crazy story to light.

I listened before the show came out and having listened prior to the show made watching the show even better!

Looks like an interesting show, but now there’s a paywall, which in my opinion defeats the whole concept of podcasts. Pass.

What happened to the episodes?

I saw the TV series based on this story and was so excited to find the podcast! This is such a captivating human interest story. However, it seems each episode so far has cut off too soon at the end, often in the middle of a sentence. Anyone else experiencing this???

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His patients are idiots, I can’t imagine feeling sorry for someone so naïve as to let their therapist take over their money and property. Good job with the finesse doctor Ike.

I listened to all of the episodes before the paywall luckily, so I’m not sure if I can see them all because they’ve been played prior. If you have an iPhone try the Apple podcast app. Great story if anyone could listen to it anymore

Make advertisers pay for these podcasts, not your every day normal people just trying to get a little entertainment.

More boring from this angle then Wondery usually produces. Joe try’s to be humble, but still brags and throws his stuffy wife in the mix. Great to see folks living the majority of life in the Hamptons trying to seem down to earth. The things that shock them are minimal to what real people experience. 1 episode and done for me. Tired of privileged vanilla people milking every last drop. Boomers are leaving the rest of us hanging out to dry.

Was a good series. Now u have to pay the dr.

They put up a pay wall before I could finish it $5 a month is too much for just 1 podcast.

I had thoroughly enjoyed the first three episodes and now suddenly I am being asked to pay a monthly fee to continue. There were ads in the first three episodes (which I am fine with to keep content free), but there is no way I’m paying to hear the end of this story. Too bad. I was enjoying it.

You have to subscribe to listen. No thank you. Plenty of free content out there.

This is an excellent series, much better than the AppleTV series. I understand why the newly instituted paywall, but I think it’s unfortunate that patients being similarly abused by therapists won’t have access to it and perhaps be alerted to what’s happening. I’ll bet there are lots of Ikes out there. It was such a public service when it was free. Too bad.

Wondery’s content was free last I knew. Got three episodes in loaded with ads and now have to pay to hear the rest? No thanks.

Why charge for this? There are already ads, this seems unnecessary. Probably a great podcast but I’ll never know, because it’s not free :( Why charge for this? There are already ads, this seems unnecessary. Probably a great podcast but I’ll never know, because it’s not free :( Why charge for this? There are already ads, this seems unnecessary. Probably a great podcast but I’ll never know, because it’s not free :(

Sanjeevkumar

I was thoroughly enjoying this podcast series until it literally just disappeared in the middle of episode 5 for me. The episodes just vanished from every platform. What happened?!

Why did all the episodes disappear?

Why are the episodes suddenly missing? The only episode available is the Introduction episode, even after paying for Wondery Plus.

This was an awesome story. It’s sad that happened I wish Ike wasn’t allowed to practice anymore.

Just finished The Shrink Next Door on Apple TV. It was no where near as good as the podcast. Thank you for telling the story!