Defending strange love, one tangent at a time.
Shut Up I Love It is a brisk interview-comedy show built around passionate defenses of things that seem odd, overlooked, hated, or hard to explain. Sasha and Joe keep the room loose, funny, and a little unruly while guests make the case for their chosen love.
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Shut Up I Love It is a fast, irreverent interview-comedy show about defending enthusiasm before the room can laugh it off. The setup is clean. A guest arrives with something they love, usually something other people dismiss, misunderstand, forget, or find hard to take seriously. Then Sasha and Joe start poking at it. The poking is the point. Their questions, jokes, interruptions, and personal detours turn the guest’s fixation into a lively case for affection. Recent subjects range from Animal Whispering and long-distance running to small talk, Primal, Angie Tribeca, and being a working mom. That spread captures the show’s charm. It can move from pop culture minutiae to social anxiety, from a reserved movie-theater seat dispute to the emotional clarity of animated characters, without treating any of it as too silly to matter. The tone is quick and teasing. It is also more sincere than it first sounds. A guest who loves small talk becomes a way to talk about curiosity, introversion, performance, and the draining work of being social. A conversation about Primal turns into a discussion of tension, creature design, pure emotion, and why a dinosaur can feel like a beloved dog. The show likes arguments over definitions. It likes stories even more. Instead of polished cultural criticism, it offers a table full of funny people trying to explain why their affection makes sense. The result is noisy, personal, and oddly generous. It rewards listeners who like comedy that thinks through the bit while still letting the bit run wild. The recurring pleasure is conversion: a strange topic enters the room as a joke, then leaves with a little more dignity than it had before.
Made for: Best for comedy listeners who like quick banter, oddball enthusiasms, and conversations that bounce between jokes and unexpectedly sincere points. It especially suits people who enjoy hearing guests make a spirited case for niche culture, social quirks, and misunderstood favorites.
What sets it apart: The show is less about interviewing celebrities than pressure-testing affection itself. Its edge comes from the collision between chaotic banter and guests who genuinely want to explain why their supposedly questionable love deserves respect.
Many years ago, Sasha Feiler and Joe Cabello met in line for an improv show. They were young, dumb, and full of it. What followed were comedy shows so explicit, “genitalia” was practically a term of endearment.Fast forward 5 dogs, 6 cats, and way too many weird inside jokes later, Sasha and Joe are no longer young or dumb—but they’re still brimming with you-know-what. Here, they’ve teamed up to bring you a podcast where they interview a guest who passionately defends something universally hated, misunderstood, forgotten, overlooked, Mandela-effected, canceled—you name it. The key? They LOVE it. From toupees... to B-movies... to aliens, psychedelics, and the occasional surprise character, Sas…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joe Cabello and Sasha Feiler turn guests' unlikely enthusiasms into funny, searching conversations about screen craft, attachment, and taste.
Shut Up I Love It turns personal enthusiasm into a friendly argument, with Joe Cabello and Sasha Feiler inviting guests to defend the subjects that hold their attention.
Sasha and Joe turn unpopular enthusiasms into affectionate cross-examinations, with the defense cheerfully overruling the court.
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A funny, candid conversation about why curiosity does not always make small talk easy.
Kat joins Joe and Sasha for a conversation that starts with small talk and settles into something more specific: the gap between being interested in people and actually wanting to keep talking.
A fan defends Angie Tribeca while admitting season one may be the only season she can safely love.
Hayley Gruenspan frames Angie Tribeca as the kind of favorite that does not stay simple. Season one remains the comfort-watch destination, but season two's darker mood and love triangle complicate her attachment to a show she still clearly loves.
A funny, unsettled conversation about when friendship makes honesty a responsibility.
Friendship is taken seriously in this loose, funny conversation between Joe Cabello and Sasha Filer, where honesty becomes the measure of whether people are really looking out for each other.
A funny, slightly messy conversation about Stutz, anxiety, and why action can matter more than arguing with fear.
Stutz gives Joe and Lorraine a springboard for a funny, emotionally attentive conversation about therapy, anxiety, and the appeal of treatment advice that feels usable.
Gaming-adjacent chaos with domestic shrapnel.
Cereal reviews with crumbs and side quests.
Joe and Sasha introduce their first annual top five movies of 2025 episode, explaining why they chose five instead of ten due to busy parenting schedules.
Joe and Sasha debate whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie with guest David Rogers.
Canadian actor and improviser Ese Atawo joins Shut Up I Love It to defend the value of friends being brutally honest with each other.
Sasha Feiler defends the Netflix documentary 'Stutz,' directed by Jonah Hill about his therapist Phil Stutz, on the podcast 'Shut Up I Love It.' Co-host Lorraine de Graaf joins Joe Cabello to discuss the film's mixed reception, focusing on Stutz's therapeutic tools like pain management and the shadow concept.
Joe and Sasha introduce their podcast and guest Rachael B to discuss the 1996 film 'Bound'.
Joe and Sasha introduce a returning guest to discuss the misunderstood and forgotten aspects of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.
Hosts Joe and Sasha and returning guest Hayley Gruenspan discuss Rebecca Black, whose 2011 song 'Friday' was recorded at 13 through Ark Music Factory for $4,000.
Joe and Sasha introduce their guest NiloO Khodadadeh, a singer-songwriter and comic, to discuss animal whispering on their podcast 'Shut Up I Love It'.
Joe and Sasha interview sports writer Ramona Shelburne about her career and experiences as a working mom.
A man recounts a confrontation at a movie theater where an older man refused to move from his reserved seat, leading to a tense argument.
On Shut Up I Love It, Joe and Sasha interview Jared Culp about long-distance running, which he defines as 10 kilometers or more.
Sasha and Joe preview their 35th episode, apologizing to Patreon listeners and asking for feedback on potential improv segments.
Shut Up I Love It episode 351 features host Joe Santullo and co-host Sasha in conversation with writer and former Netflix creative director Kat Kvas, who defends small talk as a crucial social technology that has been undervalued and is disappearing in the digital age.
Shut Up I Love It episode 350 features host Sasha and co-host Joe in conversation with former game designer and writer Bryan Chamchoum about Primal Season 3, the adult animated series by Genndy Tartakovsky streaming on Max.
Hayley Gruenspan says Angie Tribeca works because it “spoofs what's going on in entertainment, not reality.”
Anne Loreto Cruz joins Joe and Sasha on Shut Up I Love It to reassess The Legend of Korra, the four-season sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Shawtane Bowen tells hosts Joe Cabello and Sasha Feiler that Ari Aster's Eddington, set in a New Mexico town in 2020, deserved far more awards attention than it received.
Joe, Sasha and returning guest Rachael B.
Joe and Sasha introduce a new season of their podcast with a voice reveal and a special guest.