Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

About Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue fell in love on live television and wed over 40 years ago. Eavesdrop as they visit the homes of famous long-marrieds for intimate conversations about enduring love and all its challenges: family, career, conflict, addiction, illness, jealousy — everything that binds couples together or can break them apart.With lots of laughs around the coffee table, we hear private takes, internal struggles and hilarious anecdotes from the likes of Viola Davis & Julius Tennon; Sting & Trudie Styler; Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka; Ray & Anna Romano; John McEnroe & Patty Smyth; Ten Danson & Mary Steenburgen; Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos; Bob Woodward & Elsa Walsh; Rodney & Holly Robinson Peete; George Stephanopoulos & Ali Wentworth; Patricia Cornwell & Staci Gruber; Judges Judy & Jerry Sheindlin; Dr. Sanjay & Rebecca Gupta; President Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter; John & Justine Leguizamo; David & Mary Boies; Bryan Cranston & Robin Dearden; Jesse & Jacqueline Jackson; Rob & Michele Reiner; and Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Publisher

Pushkin Industries

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Feb 2021

Latest episode

3 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ted Danson on Comedy with a Conscience from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell

   W. Kamau Bell interviews Ted Danson about his career, activism, and the impact of his past actions, offering insights into comedy and social responsibility.

2. 

   19 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to Find "The One": The Science of Dating with Tim Molnar from The Happiness Lab

   Dating coach Tim Molnar discusses the science of modern dating with Dr. Laurie Santos, providing strategies to meet the right person and build genuine connections in this interview.

3. 

   10 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Decoding Partnership in Midlife with Dr. Richard Shapiro from Decoding Women's Health

   We’ve talked a lot on this show about health issues midlife women face. But what about the other people who often have a front-row seat to these changes, and can play a key supporting role? This week, a conversation about supporting a partner who’s going through menopause—with none other than Elizabeth’s own partner: Dr. Richard Shapiro (who also happens to be a pioneering breast cancer and melanoma researcher and surgeon). They talk about the ways they’ve navigated midlife changes in their relationship, common misconceptions about taking hormones, and impacts menopause can have on relationships, as well as give advice for how both partners and clinicians can better support women experiencing menopause. Links to resources mentioned in this episode: (00:01:38) Dr. Elizabeth Poynor on Rich Roll’s podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoding-womens-health-dr-elizabeth-poynor-on-midlife/id582272991?i=1000746675611) Menopausal Hormone Therapy and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Women with a Pathogenic Variant in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21392/presentation/112) The Menopause Society (https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx) 8 facts about divorce in the United States (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/16/8-facts-about-divorce-in-the-united-states/) Note: In this show, we use “women” as shorthand for people with XX chromosomes. We understand sex and gender are more complex, and acknowledge the experiences we describe reach beyond that word. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Inside a recent episode

Ted Danson on Comedy with a Conscience from Who's with Me? with W. Kamau Bell

Published 3 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I will. And thank you for this. It's really interesting because we were just talking about Jane Fonda. We were at her house the other day, Mary and I, my wife, Mary Steenbridge, and there was a group of people who have some, hold some space in the, you know, the world of communicating or whatever. Yeah. And they had somebody, and I wish I could remember his name and the organization, but basically he was an expert in how America gets its news. And it was full of diagrams and everything, so it was really clear. But mainstream news, press... The people who tend to be more liberal, so we can just say liberal conservatives. […]

Who has been a guest on Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ted Danson
• Tim Molnar
• Logan Ury
• William Hanson
• Elias Weiss Friedman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

812,267

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

1,077 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

49 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

42

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

98

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