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Hey everyone! Turns out Aren is a big flexer, because HE'S GOT THE GOODS! Also we talk about some more ps5 issues that have popped up out there in the wild, and the gauntlet scores are getting closer! Check it out!

What is ADHD exactly? Aren't all kids normally a little hyperactive? Can it be due to too much sugar in the diet? Should my teenager with ADHD be driving? Do stimulant medications actually work? If you have ever asked any of these questions, this episode is for you! We speak with Dr Russell Barkley - foremost expert on ADHD - on how ADHD is actually a difficulty with self-regulation which impacts all areas of life. In this information-packed episode, we explore how it can be managed so that you and your child can thrive.

“The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves. If you’re an artist who identifies with, who springs from, who is serviced by or drafted by a bourgeois capitalist class then that’s the kind of writing you do. Then your job is to maintain status quo, to celebrate exploitation or to guise it in some lovely, romantic way. That’s your job…” Toni Cade Bambara, interviewed by Kay Bonetti, 1982__________________________________Episode 2: Amara BradyWelcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast, a podcast for activists, advocates and allies working to make our communities equitable through artistry. Each episode we are joined in conversation by an artist or arts facilitator who has been paving the way, in hopes of learning from their expertise and experience. Through action and unity, we can create a better tomorrow today. Let’s go!__________________________________Hello and welcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast. I’m your host, Taylor Ybarra, and I’m so glad to have you a part of the conversation. In this episode of the Antiracist Artist Podcast we spoke with Amara Brady (she/her/hers), a theater maker from Chigaco whose mission is to uplift Women of Color, especially Black women, and the underserved communities. Graduating from the University of Oklahoma class of 2017, she has built an impressive portfolio of work being showcased at The Drama League, The Dramatists Guild, Joe's Pub, and The Wow Cafe Theatre.Amara wants to remind you to resist, check your privilege, and then give some space to Women of Color & Trans Folx. You can find Amara and her work at amarajanaebrady.com and on Instagram @bradynotthebunch During this episode, Amara and I talk about:The effects of anti-racism and how it permeates into every life aspect. From her own politics to her own desires and artistry.Understanding the separation of different artists’ works and how the pieces they create may or may not give a platform to social justice issues.How all the “-isms” are directly tied to each other like racism, classism, ableism, transphobia, etc.As an artist and person, Amara addresses social injustice and how art has always been the thing to mobilize and get people involved.Underrepresentation and the stereotyping of diverse people on stages.How success in combating racism is committing to a journey.Racism & COVID-19And so much more!Resources & Organizations Mentioned:'Skinny & White' Aren't Character Traits. In This Paper I'll Explain WhyA Second U FoundationUnibody FitnessJen Waldman StudiosAsian American Performers Action CoalitionRing of KeysEpisode Four of 'Skinny & White' Aren't Character Traits. In This Paper I'll Explain WhyBlack Womxn ExhaleThe Prosp(a)rity Project#BuyBackBlackDebt & Sonya Renee TaylorThe Nap MinistryAaron Phillip¡Palante! NYC | Jackie TorresThe Okra ProjectFor The GworlsEpisode TranscriptEach episode, we invite our guests to choose an organization to uplift, one that is creating a meaningful impact toward a more equitable, inclusive, accessible and antiracist future. In honor of Amara Brady in this episode, we have donated to Black Womxn Exhale. You can donate as well and learn more about their work at blackwomxnexhale.com and on Instagram @blackwomxnexhale.This podcast is made with, by, and for those of us in this fight together, and I invite you to be a part of this podcast community with us. You can stay connected with us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or by emailing antiracistartist@gmail.com. Let us know why antiracist artistry is important to you, what questions you would like to dig into, and who you’d like to hear from in future episodes. __________________________________The Antiracist Artist Podcast is hosted by Taylor Ybarra, produced by Subito Politico Productions, LLC, and edited by Andrew Alcaraz. To stay connected with the Antiracist Artist Podcast, please visit us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or via email at antiracistartist@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!Our podcast is made possible with the support of folx like you. You can get exclusive content and access to the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/antiracistartist. This episode’s donation was made possible in part by the generosity of Jenny Hoofnagle.Theme music features vocals by Esteban Suero, Forest VanDyke, Kennedy Kanagawa, Jamison, & MinJi Kim._________________________________________________Get Social!Connect with us! | Instagram @antiracistartist | Facebook.com/AAPcommunity | Twitter @AAPcommunity _______This episode features the following artists/arts facilitators:Esteban Suero | IG @estesuero / @theofficialerosForest VanDyke | IG - @forestvandykeKennedy Kanagawa | kennedykanagawa.com | IG @thisiskennedyJamison | www.courtneyjamison.com | IG @iamcourtneyjamison | TW @thecjamisonMinJi Kim | IG @minjilikesdogsandmusicMaricela Juarez | www.maricelajuarez.com | IG @remarkablymari

[00:30] Biden’s Record-breaking Campaign! (15 minutes) Why aren’t the media talking more about Joe Biden’s incredible, unprecedented, record-shattering, historic “win”? Biden received more “votes” than any presidential candidate in U.S. history. He “won” even as the incumbent received more votes than any president in history. He did all of this without ever really running a campaign or leaving his basement. Instead of reporting on Joe Biden miracle victory, the media fixate only on President Donald Trump’s “loss.” [16:00] Evidence in Plain Sight (18 minutes) We constantly hear from the radical left that there is no evidence of voter fraud. Just because the media choose to ignore it doesn’t mean the evidence doesn’t exist. Hearings in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan and multiple complaints filed in court have revealed loads of evidence—so much that it’s difficult to keep up. [32:00] What Is Going On in Georgia? (10 minutes) The Georgia election debacle continues. Over the weekend, a judge ordered that voting machines in Georgia must be “frozen” and left alone to be investigated. That same day, there was a server crash in Georgia’s biggest county and Dominion technicians were sent to replace it. Other reports appear to show moving vans visiting counting centers. Why aren’t more people looking at the fraud in plain sight? [42:30] Pipe-Gate (7 minutes) On election night, Fulton County reported that its main vote-counting center would be shut down due to a water-main break in the stadium where the count was happening. According to witness accounts, poll workers and watchers were told to leave the center. One witness recalled seeing a few people remain inside to work on the voting machines. According to Sidney Powell’s Georgia lawsuit, there was no “burst pipe” in the stadium that night, but rather an overflowing toilet. Aren’t the media at least concerned that they were lied to? [49:00] President Trump Keeps Fighting (6 minutes) Despite the overwhelming evidence of voter fraud, most of Mr. Trump’s allies are telling him to give up and focus on 2024. Do they really think it’s possible to win another election if the scams of 2020 are not corrected?

With us this week is my mom's best friend, Sidney Thomas! An artist for her entire life, Sidney now enjoys working at a small bakery in Mariemont, OH and actually likes interacting with people. Sidney also likes her life more than you because she has zero social media. Aren't you jealous? Send us your receipts at service from hell podcast at gee mail dot com and we will let you know if we are going to read your stories live on air.

Aren and Kevin have a lot of catching up to do! A big move, the Hitman developers are making a Bond Game!? Capcom had a giant leak with some...good things? Check out this week's episode to hear all about it!

Join us this week on Cultivating Place for our final episode in the Seed Change series. We are in conversation with Vivien Sansour, heart and head behind The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library aiming to revive and share forward Palestinian seed heritage and culture of care and gratitude. Vivien was born in Palestine and grew up in Bethlehem and then North Carolina. She writes: “The seed, the seed, the seed….for what is it but a continuation of ourselves? Aren’t we all seeds?" – Vivien Sansour Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

Dr. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Health. He joined NYU Langone Medical Center in 2008 as Professor and Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine and Medical Director of Rusk Rehabilitation after serving as Vice Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He serves on numerous medical advisory boards and is a peer reviewer for several scientific journals. He has authored numerous chapters and peer-reviewed publications, and has participated in both federally- and industry-sponsored research. His medical degree is from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and he completed his residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center/Cabrini, Rehabilitation Medicine. PART 1 In Part 1 of his presentation, Dr. Flanagan discussed the value that physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) add to health care.His objective in this session is to give an overview of health care reform and its impact on PM&R. Many changes have occurred since he began practicing medicine three decades ago. Health care reform is real. From 1960 to 2010, wages and GDP increased, but nowhere close to the enormous rise in health care expenditures, which are not sustainable. Also, we no longer can claim that we have the best health outcomes compared to other nations. Recognizing that health spending could no longer continue at such a rapid pace, the government came up with something called the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) to limit the outlandish expansion of health care costs. The attempt never achieved what was intended and Congress terminated the SGR in 2015. It was replaced by MACRA, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which redefined how physicians would be reimbursed and it is based on quality measures that they would have to meet. The objective is to achieve the triple aim of health care reform: improve health care quality, produce better outcomes, and improve the patient experience. A quadruple aim includes improving the satisfaction of providers. He indicated that management of post-acute care is of importance and that PM&R is uniquely situated to be involved in achieving the triple aim.  It can do so by focusing on patient-centered coordinated care that is comprehensive across the entire continuum. PART 2  Listeners to Part 1 of Dr. Flanagan’s presentation may recall that he discussed health reform efforts to control health care costs and how the provision of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) services has a unique role to play in achieving health reform’s triple aim. In Part 2, his comments had a focus on intensive care unit patients, a group associated with large health care costs and one not usually associated with the provision of rehabilitation services. What about safety? It’s feasible, but is it wise? Should we get folks up and walking who are so critically ill? Aren’t we putting them at risk of all sorts of bad things from happening? It is safe and the outcomes are fine and there is research to prove it. We are enhancing mobility, decreasing the number of days patients are on ventilators, and in some cases, not only are we not causing worse mortality, we are decreasing mortality. If you are doing all of this, the last question is what about costs? Despite increasing the use of PT, OT, and Speech staff, by getting patients out of the hospital faster, there is a cost savings. A pilot study was done at NYU to look at what happens to patients after they left the hospital to see if there were any additional savings. The results show that it was possible to reduce hospitalization, reduce the average direct cost per day, and there was a significant increase in the proportion of patients who were discharged to the community with no services at all. The latter outcome represented an overall cost savings for the health system. He also provided information about something that is relatively new and what they are working on at NYU, which is site neutral payments. A question and answer period followed his presentation.

Our guest is Kari Lizer, co-executive producer of Will & Grace, creator of The New Adventures of Old Christine and author of Aren't You Forgetting Someone? Essays from my Mid-Life Revenge.  Kari started her career as an actress and quickly moved to writing scripts.  She shares fun stories of Will & Grace and The New Adventures of the Old Christine and also talks about her new show titled Call Your Mother which stars Kyra Sedgwick.  Follow Hot Flashes & Cool Topics on any podcast platformswww.hotflashescooltopics.com

Today's daf is sponsored in honor of Elana Storch. "We are dedicating today’s daf to our mom (and savta), Elana Storch, in honor of her birthday. We are so proud of her dedication to her daf yomi - even as she cares for her two young granddaughters full time during COVID. We are grateful for the Jewish values that she taught us and continues to model for us. With love, Ruthie, Ira, Reuben, Julianna, Emanuel, Arianne, Elia, and Elsa."  The gemara brings more examples of the importance of speech and how the words one chooses are important as well as indicative of who the person is (i.e. what tribe one comes from). Why is bedikat chametz performed at night and not right before it is forbidden to eat chametz (midday on the 14th) or in the morning of the 14th? If one rents a house on the 14th, is the owner obligated in bedika or the renter? It depends who had access on the night of the 14th. If one moved in on the morning of the 14th, can an assumption be made that the owner checked for chametz the night before? Can we derive this from a source that says women, slaves and children are believed about checking for chametz or not? In the end the gemara says they are unrelated and women are trusted because it is only rabbinic in nature as by Torah law, one can just nullify. Why wouldn't they be trusted were it not for that? Aren't women trusted in other similar matters? When is it forbidden to eat chametz? Burn chametz? From where do we derive that by Torah law, one cannot eat from midday of the fourteenth? 

Today's daf is sponsored in honor of Elana Storch. "We are dedicating today’s daf to our mom (and savta), Elana Storch, in honor of her birthday. We are so proud of her dedication to her daf yomi - even as she cares for her two young granddaughters full time during COVID. We are grateful for the Jewish values that she taught us and continues to model for us. With love, Ruthie, Ira, Reuben, Julianna, Emanuel, Arianne, Elia, and Elsa."  The gemara brings more examples of the importance of speech and how the words one chooses are important as well as indicative of who the person is (i.e. what tribe one comes from). Why is bedikat chametz performed at night and not right before it is forbidden to eat chametz (midday on the 14th) or in the morning of the 14th? If one rents a house on the 14th, is the owner obligated in bedika or the renter? It depends who had access on the night of the 14th. If one moved in on the morning of the 14th, can an assumption be made that the owner checked for chametz the night before? Can we derive this from a source that says women, slaves and children are believed about checking for chametz or not? In the end the gemara says they are unrelated and women are trusted because it is only rabbinic in nature as by Torah law, one can just nullify. Why wouldn't they be trusted were it not for that? Aren't women trusted in other similar matters? When is it forbidden to eat chametz? Burn chametz? From where do we derive that by Torah law, one cannot eat from midday of the fourteenth? 

We are "friends" with ALL our exes...Aren't you? In today's episode, we're breaking down the reasons whether or not it's a good idea to stay friends with an ex. We also try to understand those who do stay friends with a former flame & if it's okay if your current partner is besties with all their exes. How would you feel? We know we aren't okay with ANY OF IT. Some may say we're insecure just because we refuse to let our partners hangout or text their exes. But what do you think?Keep up with the #FemmeTeaParty @Femme_Tea& Your Hosts;Kat @hereskatBibi @bibilovesradyGeri @gerardineperaltaReferences:https://www.google.com/amp/brightside.me/inspiration-relationships/psychologists-highlight-7-reasons-why-staying-friends-with-an-ex-is-a-bad-idea-794841/amp/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/201405/the-10-worst-reasons-stay-friends-your-ex?amp

There is more than one way to get passive income in real estate and frankly, if you’re a well-rounded real estate entrepreneur, chances are you’re going to be dabbling with all of them. Veteran Florida investor Ron LeGrand has tried it all, but he got the most kick out of what he calls “terms deals” – a strategy that he has been developing for more than 30 years now. Aren’t you just curious about what it is? Clue: It’s all about selling pretty houses with little money and massive profit. And Ron has never had cause to doubt its passive income generating power after all these years. Join in as he talks more about this and more battle-tested entrepreneurial tips on the show with Paul Lizell.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join Flipping Out community today:thevirtualinvestor.coFacebookLinkedIn

V dnešnom podcaste si povieme novinky o fosfáne na Venuši (hovorili sme o tom v Pseudocaste #470), o zlých správach o teleskope Arecibo a zaujímavosti o mitochondrálnej DNA. Pseudocast 479 na YouTube Zdroje Prospects for Life on Venus Fade—but Aren’t Dead YetLegendary Arecibo telescope will close forever — scientists are reelingBiparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in HumansMitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothersDoes It Matter That the DOD Released Those UFO Videos?The Tale of the TapeCOVID vaccine excitement builds as Moderna reports third positive result

In Hilchot Shabbat, the vessel that was heated on the fire is called "Keli Rishon"-the first vessel. If the hot contents were poured into a second vessel, that vessel is called a "Keli Sheni." Even if the contents of the Keli Sheni are still be very hot, the Halacha states a general principle that "Keli Sheni Enno Mevashel"-putting raw food in the second vessel does not constitute cooking on Shabbat. For example, if one poured hot water from the urn into a teacup, the teacup is a Keli Sheni, and therefore it is permitted to put a raw lemon inside the hot water. This is the conclusion of Hacham Ovadia and Hacham Benison.The question is why doesn’t the Keli Sheni cook? Aren’t its contents also very hot, like the Keli Rishon? Tosafot (Shabbat 40b) explain that although the contents may be hot, the walls of the vessel are cold and this allows it to cool rapidly, dampening its ability to cook. Based on this, the Maharshal (R. Shlomo Luria, 1510-1573), as understood by the Shach, writes a phenomenal Chidush: If there would be a Keli Sheni that was not in contact with the cool walls of the vessel, it would cook a raw food placed on it. That is, if one took a potato or a piece of meat from a Keli Rishon and placed it on a plate, which is the Keli Sheni, the meat is not being cooled by the walls; it is standing alone as a "Davar Gush"-a solid mass. Consequently, the piece of hot food is treated as a Keli Rishon, and it would be prohibited to apply raw spices or other raw foods to the hot food on the plate.The Rema (in Shulhan Aruch and in Torat Hatat) looks at this in a different way. He maintains that if the piece of hot food is placed in a Keli Sheni, then it also has the status of Keli Sheni and cannot cook another raw food. Accordingly, one may pour cold gravy over the hot food, since it is only a Keli Sheni.The Mishna Berura (Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin, 1839-1933, in Siman 318:45) and the Kaf HaHaim (Rav Yaakob Haim Sofer, Baghdad-Israel, 1870-1939) rule in accordance with the Maharshal that a "Davar HaGush" does cook in a Keli Sheni. On the other hand, Hacham Bension (Vol. 2) writes that the custom of the Sepharadim is to be lenient and not distinguish between a liquid and a solid mass in a Keli Sheni. This is also the opinion of Hacham Ovadia in Hazon Ovadia (Vol. 4). Hacham David, in his new Halacha Berura, also brings this position, although he adds, "Hamachmir Tavo Alav Beracha"- it is praiseworthy to be strict. SUMMARYOne may pour cold gravy or raw spices on a hot solid food in a Keli Sheni.

Looking at Isaiah 52-13-55-13 we will see how -God's ways are not our ways.- We tend to use that phrase in a variety of different contexts, especially when we don't really understand what God is doing in our own circumstances, or why certain things are taking place. The truth of the matter is, God clearly explains -his ways- to us, and the phrase refers particularly to the forgiveness we receive as a result of the man of sorrows who was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities. This is how God's ways are not our ways - he pardons sinners and has compassion on the wicked. Aren't you glad his ways are not our ways--

Today's retelling comes from Genesis 2:21-3:24. Intro:  Ugh. How heartbreaking it must have been for God, though He knew that this moment would come from the very beginning. Every good gift comes down from the Father of heavenly lights (James 1:17), and He had bestowed the best He had upon Adam and Eve, the crowning glory of His creation. But what He wanted was a real relationship with them, in which they chose to obey Him—not because they had no alternative, but out of love and respect. They had to have a choice in order to do this. So God placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the “midst” of the garden—presumably, right in the middle. They would have passed by this tree more often than any other in the garden. The choice was always right there, in plain view. But when they were innocent, they did not even notice it. Why would they? Every need had already been met. They trusted God implicitly. Enter Satan, who would not be so called anywhere in the book of Genesis. Perhaps it was he who took the form of the serpent, or perhaps he would just inspire the serpent to deceive Eve. In his cunning, he overlooked every blessing, every ‘yes’ God had given Eve, and focused entirely on the one ‘no.’ It’s also interesting that he approached Eve instead of Adam. God had never told Eve anything about the tree directly—He had told Adam that it was forbidden, and Adam had relayed this to Eve. Her knowledge of what God had said about the tree was secondhand. Because of this, just like playing “telephone,” she got it just slightly wrong. She thought they had been forbidden even to touch the fruit of the tree. God never said this, which may have been significant. Perhaps when Eve touched the fruit and nothing happened, it convinced her that the rest was false also. Satan also convinced Eve to question God’s character. Temptation to sin always includes some element of this. If she had never wondered whether there was a blessing that God had withheld from her, she never would have eaten the fruit (2 Cor 11:3). Why was their nakedness what they noticed first after the fall? Andrew Wommack’s theory is that they were previously so dominated by their spiritual “sight” that they simply did not notice the physical. I don’t think this is entirely true, since everything else in the garden was physical—but it is true that they died spiritually as soon as they disobeyed God. It was not until after Jesus’ resurrection that spiritual rebirth became possible. The challenge now is to renew our minds so that we can see into the spirit, where we have every spiritual blessing available (Eph 1:3), rather than walking by sight (2 Cor 5:7). Immediately after the fall, Adam and Eve experienced fear for the first time (Gen 3:10). Fear does not come from God (2 Tim 1:7); it only comes when we do not understand and trust in God’s perfect love, which casts out fear (1 John 4:18). But if they had understood God’s perfect love, they never would have obeyed the serpent in the first place. Punishment did come, but it was not for punishment’s sake. The world was now corrupted, and it was God’s mercy that expelled them from the Garden so that they could not eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in that fallen state! God did not want that for them: to be always decaying but never dying, always separated from Him, always in their sin. He wanted us to have eternal life, but spiritually, not just physically. Once they became aware of their nakedness, they needed to cover it—which required death. They died spiritually the moment they fell, but physical death would come, for them, centuries later. To “cover” them until then, God had to kill an animal—a symbol of Christ’s ultimate atonement for all sin (Hebrews 9:22). (I chose a lion in this retelling because Christ is referred to as both the Lion of Judah and also the Lamb of God, but I figured a single lamb probably wouldn’t produce enough skin to cover both Adam and Eve unless God wove its wool into clothing, and the scripture doesn’t say He did that.) When God pronounced that the Seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head, this of course referred to Jesus. It’s interesting that part of Adam’s curse was that the ground would produce thorns, and Jesus wore a crown of thorns on the cross—a symbol of bearing the curse for us so that we could be redeemed from it (Gal 3:13). But Eve did not understand that the Savior would be many generations hence. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “Behold, I have gotten a man, the Lord” (Gen 4:1, though some translations say, “I have gotten a man from the Lord.” The original Hebrew does not include the word “from”). She presumably thought this was the Messiah, come to redeem them already. Perhaps she hoped that through him, she and Adam would be able to return to Eden. Sadly, rather than becoming their redemption, Cain became the first murderer instead. When Christ comes the second time, in the New Jerusalem, the Tree of Life will again be freely available to the redeemed (Rev 2:7), and its leaves will be for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2). Then, restored to our original perfection, eternal life—body, soul, and spirit—will be ours once more. Fictionalized Retelling:   I breathed in, and I was. The air filled every part of me with life. This was the first thing I knew. Then I opened my eyes. The Face I beheld was like light itself, though there was also light behind Him. I had no concept of anything until that moment, but that Face was the very definition of beauty. I gazed up at Him, rapturous. His eyes were like liquid love, bursting with color, their expression infinitely gentle. “Hello, my dear,” said my Creator. “Hello,” I murmured back in wonder, marveling at the sound of my own voice, at the feel of it vibrating in my throat. On instinct I reached for Him, but had not fully completed the action when I stopped, distracted by the wonder of my own limbs. I held them up before my face, wiggling my fingers and watching them obey me. My Creator chuckled, and the sound thrilled me with warmth. I shivered, every nerve humming with the sensation. “We are Elohim,” the Creator told me. “You may call me God.” “God,” I whispered, reaching again for His face. He did not repulse me, but let me caress Him, leaning in to my palm and covering it with His own. He grinned down at me, and I reflexively grinned back. “Come. There is someone I want you to meet,” God said. He set me on my feet, and I marveled at the feeling of the spongy, dewy ground beneath my feet. As soon as I noticed the sensations, the words for them came to me. I marveled at that too: that I knew so many things I had never learned. I looked up at God, and though before I had thought of Him as infinitely larger than I was, I found that he was only about a head taller. He held my hand in his. He shone like the orb overhead that bathed us all in its light. I turned my attention to it next, and then to all it illuminated. There was a canopy of green above us, the foliage of thick trees. I identified the sounds around us as flowing water and chirping birds. I turned to see the cheerful river behind us. Flowers of every color, shape, and size bloomed all around us, and living creatures hummed all around them: hummingbirds, butterflies, bees. Other creatures covered in fur or feathers roamed throughout the land too, each of them unique and lovely in its own way. “What is this place?” I asked in wonder. “Do you like it?” He asked, but the delight in his question made it clear He knew my answer already. “Oh, yes!” “I have called it Eden. I made it for you, Adam.” I turned back, excited to hear my own name. “Am I called Adam, then?” “You were taken from Adam, your husband. I have given him the task of naming all My other creatures, so I will give him that privilege with you as well. Until then, you too are Adam.” God gestured before us, under a palm tree. “This is your Adam. He is called a man.” A new sensation stirred in me as I beheld the creature God indicated. The man had flesh instead of fur or feathers, like I did. My eyes traced the curve of his face. His strong jaw beneath his dark beard. My mouth fell open in awe. Like all the animals, he too was beautiful, but in a completely new way. His kind of beauty allured me in a way that none of the other animals had done. As I took all of this in, he sat up, as if waking from a deep sleep. Then he saw me. His expression went slack, and I watched, gratified, as he drank me in as I had him. Slowly, he rose to his feet and took tentative steps toward me. Beside us, God beamed, delighting in our admiration of each other as much as we were. He said, “Adam, meet your helper. I have fashioned her from one of your ribs. I trust you prefer to have it back in this form.” Adam’s eyes filled with tears, as he turned to God, unable to speak, the gratitude obvious in his face. Then he looked back at me, and spoke. I could tell, even though I had never heard him speak before, that his voice was hoarse with emotion. “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.” When he got close enough, he reached for my face, in the same way that I had originally reached for God’s. I copied the motion, laying my hand on top of his when he touched my cheek. “I will call her Eve, because she will be the mother of all the living.” “Eve,” I repeated, trying the sound of my own name on my tongue. I liked it. I smiled at Adam and he smiled back at me. There was nothing more to say.  “I will leave you two to get acquainted,” God murmured, and took His leave. For a second the thought that He was gone alarmed me, but then Adam slid his hand from my cheek to my hand, entwining his fingers with mine. When I turned back to him, the expression on his face was so full of tenderness that I felt answering tears prick in my eyes. “You… are… exquisite,” Adam whispered to me. The words filled me up almost the way that first breath had done. I had not known I wanted to be exquisite until my husband said it—but suddenly, it was all I wanted. “Aren’t you going to show me around?” I teased, though I was very pleased that he could not seem to look away from me. “I will try, but I cannot promise I will be able to walk without tripping over my own feet,” he replied in the same tone. “I’ll be too busy looking at you.” I giggled, marveling at that instinct too and delighting at the feel of it. Somehow, I knew what laughter was. Adam led me through the garden by the hand, calling the animals to him by name and then showing them to me. I reached out to caress them all, from the elephant to the lion to the mouse, and they nuzzled me affectionately in return. I gestured to the lion to open his mouth for me, marveling at how sharp his teeth were. He let me poke them with the tip of my finger, patiently waiting for me to extract my hand before he went about his business. I watched as he used those sharp claws to dig up root vegetables hidden in the earth, so hard that I would not have considered them food. But the lion’s incisors tore into the vegetables with no trouble at all. My own stomach growled as I watched the lion eat. Adam explained, “You are hungry. Here.” He plucked a bunch of berries from a tree, handing them to me. Then from another, he plucked something very hard and brown. I frowned at it, unsure how it might turn out to be food like the berries, until Adam showed me how to remove the outer shell to reveal the soft meat inside. Nuts, he called them. When I tasted them both, my face lit up wth delight as the flavors exploded on my tongue: tart and sweet and savory, all at once. “What about that one?” I pointed at a tree that bore round fruit that looked like burnished gold. “You want one of those?” Adam grinned, trotting over to the tree and plucking two of the golden fruit. He returned and handed me one, taking a bite out of the other himself. “I think this one is my favorite too. God called it the Tree of Life.” “So many different kinds of food!” I exclaimed, looking around the garden to see if I could distinguish all the fruits around me from the flowers. “God gave us all of the green herbs and fruits with seeds for food,” Adam explained, “except for the one in the middle, the one that makes those sort of oddly shaped reddish brown fruits, see it?” He pointed at the tree next to the Tree of Life, and I nodded. “Why not that one?” I asked. “He said it is called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and He said that we shall not eat it, for the day that we eat of it, we shall surely die.” For the briefest second, I felt an ominous shadow pass over my heart at these words. Die? What did die mean? But then it was gone. I shrugged. We had plenty of other trees to choose from. I saw no reason to bother about the one forbidden tree. The day began to wane and the light changed from white to golden before we had finished our tour of Eden. I pointed up at the sky with a slight questioning frown, though I wasn’t concerned so much as confused. “It is called sunset,” Adam explained. “Day and night lasts a total of twenty-four hours. It’s not precisely twelve and twelve hours of day and night, but close. God says the ratio between the two will change with the seasons.” “What are seasons?” I asked, wide-eyed. Adam shook his head. “I don’t exactly know, I haven’t seen them yet. But God says it’s when weather changes, and the sun and celestial bodies change their positions throughout the year.” I thought about how I knew that twelve and twelve made twenty-four. This too delighted me. But I forgot all about addition when I watched as the colors changed across the sky, from golden light to pinks and golds and purples. I gasped, clapping with delight. “God!” I called out to Him, suspecting He was not far away. “Good show!” He emerged from the trees in the cool of the day, strolling unhurried, and beamed at us. “Thank you, my dear,” He said, sitting down on the marshy grass beside us. We sat too, and I leaned into his gleaming white robe, nestling my head on one of His shoulders. God stroked my long dark hair away from my face. I sighed with contentment. Adam sat down on God’s other side, interlocking elbows and also leaning into Him. The three of us watched as the sun descended below the horizon, and then suddenly the darkness was not just darkness. “What are those?” I exclaimed in wonder, pointing up at the tiny pinpricks of light in the dark sky. “And that?” I pointed at the large glowing orb spangled with shadows. “The moon and the stars,” God explained. “The moon is to govern the night just as the sun governs the day. Stars are just like the sun, but much, much further away in outer space.” “What is outer space?” I asked, wide-eyed. “It is where the earth is hung, and there are other planets also, though not exactly like earth. Earth is very special,” He told me with a tender smile, touching the tip of my nose affectionately. Satisfied, I nestled back against Him, yawning. “Why do I feel so tired?” “Because it is time for you to sleep,” God whispered, lowering me down to the spongy ground beside my husband, who automatically wrapped an arm around me. “It restores your energy so that you will be fresh again tomorrow morning…” I did not hear the last of God’s words before I drifted off. The first rays of the sun filtered through my eyelids the following morning. They fluttered open and I sat up, mouth agape in wonder yet again as the same colors from sunset danced across the sky at sunrise as well. I glanced at Adam, who somehow managed to continue his slumber despite the light. A little family of squirrels slept on the ground near us, and beside me, a bear stretched its sharp claws, yawned, and took a swipe at the fruit on a nearby tree. I skipped over to him and stroked his fur in good morning. But then I jumped back—not from the bear, but from something living in the branches of the tree beside us that I had not seen before. It looked like one of the branches itself, but it seemed to slither. My eyes scanned until I found first its tiny legs, and then its face. The eyes sharpened upon me, and it opened its mouth. “Good morning, Eve,” it hissed. I had not heard any of the other animals in the garden speak besides Adam, myself, and God. But everything was new to me, so I thought nothing of it. “Good morning, serpent,” I greeted it, remembering the name Adam had given the creature. I was just reaching for the same fruit the bear had breakfasted on, when the serpent said, “You don’t want to eat from this tree. The fruit is very bitter.” “Oh,” I hesitated. But then I shrugged, and turned to a vine nearby, bearing clusters of juicy-looking red grapes. But the serpent’s words stopped me again. “You know which fruit tastes more delicious than all the others?” I looked at him, curious, and he gestured with his head toward the center of the garden. “That one.” “The tree of life?” I asked, delighted. “Yes, Adam and I sampled it yesterday, and it was my favorite so far!” “No, not that one, the one beside it,” the serpent hissed. “The one with the reddish brown fruit.” I frowned. “The one from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?” The serpent nodded, and I said, “But… Adam said God forbade that one.” “Is that right?” the serpent hissed, slithering its head closer to me. “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” I frowned, trying to puzzle out the meaning of this phrase. The negatives in it confused me. When I finally worked out its meaning, I said uncertainly, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” I thought that was what Adam had told me. It had been something like that, anyway. “Ah,” hissed the serpent, his fork-like tongue flicking out toward me as he spoke. “You shall not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” I blinked at the serpent, then turned to look at the tree. I tried to process the serpent’s words. He was saying… God… lied to us? That He was withholding a blessing from us out of… jealousy? The thoughts felt clunky and unfamiliar. They made no sense. God was perfection. Our only experience of Him was that He was good and kind and wonderful. He loved us. I had paid almost no attention to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil before. Yet now that the serpent pointed it out to me, I noticed that the fruit, strange looking though it was, did look enticing. And the serpent said—even God had said—that the tree would make us wise, as God Himself was wise. And after all, if God had not wanted us to eat of it, why did he put that particular tree in the midst of the garden, I reasoned? I took a hesitant step toward the tree, and then another and another until I stood right in front of it. I reached out and touched one of the reddish brown fruits, cringing for half a second—but nothing happened. It was just like touching any of the other fruits in the garden. I laughed, exultant, and plucked the fruit from the branch, all hesitation now forgotten. “What are you doing, Eve?” I turned to see Adam standing beside me, a note of alarm in his voice. A new emotion of defiance rose up on the inside of me. I had just proven that what Adam told me God said about the tree had been false, hadn’t I? I had touched it and had not died! I plucked a second fruit from the tree and tossed it to Adam. Then, before he could stop me, I opened my mouth and took a bite. “Eve, no—!” Adam shouted, reaching out as if to dash the fruit from my hand—but it was too late. I chewed, savoring the delicious burst of sweetness across my tongue. For a brief second, I relished the thought that the serpent was right—the fruit was indeed the best I had yet tasted. But just as quickly, a bitter flavor overtook the sweetness. I made a face, dropping the remainder of the fruit to the ground and staring at it. I had a sudden urge to wash away the taste. “You shall die,” Adam croaked. His expression cut me to the heart. Suddenly I felt another new emotion come over me: horror. What had I done? “It was only one bite,” I whispered back. Suddenly the wind whipped around my body, and I looked down. A hot wave of shame passed over me as I realized—I was naked! I dropped to a crouch to cover myself, a sudden impulse from an instinct that I had not had before. How had I not noticed? How had Adam not noticed? He was naked too, yet he still stood unashamed, displaying himself before me and all of the creatures in view. We had been naked even before God Himself! Adam’s focus was not on his body, though; it was on the fruit I had given him. “If you must die, then I must die with you,” he murmured, raising sorrowful eyes to me. “I do not want to live without you.” Then he opened his mouth, and despite the look of disgust, also took a bite. He chewed and swallowed, then dropped the remains of the fruit on the ground as I had done. He stared at it with sudden revulsion. Then he looked down at his body, and I saw his cheeks color as he realized what I had realized a second before. He moved both hands to cover his nudity. “How did we not know?” he moaned. “Oh! How shameful!” “All the animals have fur or feathers, but we—” I agreed, wincing. “What are we to do? We must at least cover ourselves somehow before God returns…” Adam shrugged, biting his lip. He gestured with his chin to the leaves of the tree from which we had just eaten, unwilling to move his hands away from his genitals. “I’ll try to sew together some of the leaves,” he said, “but I’ll need to use my hands to do it, so you have to promise not to look.” “You have to promise not to look at me, either!” I declared. Adam gave me a sad smile. “But you are so beautiful.” I narrowed my eyes at him, not in the mood. He sighed. “All right, I promise. Turn around.” I obeyed, but since we had promised not to look at each other anyway, I decided I might as well make myself useful, and approached the tree where I had seen the serpent. Both serpent and bear were gone now, so I began to pluck leaves from that tree, wondering how Adam intended to weave them into clothing. I collected a pile of leaves, and then stripped some of them to just the stalk that ran down the center of the leaves, thinking that would somehow serve as thread. I started to knot some of them together, and then poked holes in the remaining leafy part of the other leaves, so as to thread the knotted leaf stem through them. It was slow work, and many of the leaves tore before I could connect enough of them to do any good. I finally managed to make myself a little apron to at least cover my genitals, but it was a poor covering indeed, and hid very little. I realized I'd have to connect many more leaves to cover my breasts, and the sun was already past peak in the sky. I decided instead to try to find something sticky, so that they could adhere directly to my body. I tried clay, but that lasted all of two seconds. Then instead I used a bit of sap from a tree. This worked better, but it meant everything else I touched adhered to my hands— “Eve!” Adam hissed, and I perked up my ears, at once understanding what he meant. We both heard the sound of footsteps, and knew they belonged to God. My poor leaf apron fluttered to the ground as I fled, hiding with Adam among the underbrush. The branches poked at us, but I hardly noticed, my heart pounding so hard with fear that we would be seen. Once in the bushes, I tried to wipe the remaining sap off of my hands on its leaves, but found that it would not go. “Stop it, He’ll hear you!” Adam hissed, stilling my fidgeting hands. Just then, we saw God enter the clearing from between the branches of our hiding place. I suddenly envied Him His gleaming white robe. When His face turned so that we could see it from our hiding place, I saw His puzzled, slightly concerned expression. “Adam! Where are you?” God called out. I looked at Adam, shaking my head sharply, but I saw that he intended to reply. He opened his mouth and called back, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and hid myself.” Now God turned and looked straight at the bush where we hid. Adam stood up only so high as to expose his chest, still kneeling to conceal the rest of him. God’s expression grew stern. “Who told you that you were naked?” He demanded. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Adam trembled, and then pointed at me, still fully crouched beside him. “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” My mouth fell open, indignant. But then I realized that I could not truly protest. His statement was quite true. God turned to me. “What is this you have done?” He demanded. It took me a moment to find my tongue. When I did, I blurted, “The serpent deceived me! And I ate.” God waved His hand, and the serpent appeared from nowhere on the ground between Him and us. The sky grew dark, and God said in a terrible voice to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go—” and as He pronounced this, the serpent’s legs dissolved into nothingness, until he was all tail, “and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Even as God spoke it, I saw its fulfillment in my mind’s eye. My Seed would be my son. He would conquer the serpent. He would redeem Adam and me from what we had done. He would be the Lord Himself… No sooner had God finished speaking, though, He turned to me. I was compelled to look at His face, and I saw at once mingled anger and heartbreak. It made me want to weep. “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” I bowed my head, accepting God’s punishment. Since I got us into this mess, it was only fair that I should labor and travail to bring forth the Savior who would get us out of it. And Adam was right—it was my choice to disobey God, not his—at least not originally. If I had listened to my husband, none of this would have happened. Then God turned to Adam, who trembled under God’s gaze. “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” Adam buried his face in his hands and wept. God’s expression sank into sorrow as well, all His anger now spent. “Lion,” he called out, and summoned the creature I had met the morning before. The great cat bounded toward the Lord, frolicking around Him playfully and swishing its tail this way and that. The Lord caressed its mane tenderly. Then, with one swift jerk, a horrible crack sounded. I screamed, and the lion slumped, lifeless. I could not stop screaming, even though Adam hushed me as best he could. Even God wept openly now. “The wages of sin is death,” He said to us, a terrible grief in His voice as He removed the lion’s skin and knit it together into tunics to clothe us. When He had finished, he approached the bush where we both shied away from Him, and deposited both tunics upon the top of the bush, turning away from us. Adam shimmied into his first, standing up fully for the first time once he was covered. Then I did the same, standing beside him. We heard Elohim say to Himself, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—” He turned back to face us, tears still flowing freely. “You must leave the garden now,” He said, “and go out into the wilderness to make your way as best you can. To live forever in your current state would be a fate far worse than death.” Fresh tears gushed on to my cheeks at this word. “But—you said my Seed would crush the head of the serpent!” I blubbered, hardly able to make myself understood. “He will redeem us, surely?” “Yes, daughter, He will,” God assured me, “but not for what to you will seem a very long time.” So Adam took my hand, and led me through our lush home for the last time. Beyond it lay nothing but desert. We would survive, of course—I must bring forth a man, so we must survive somehow. Death, it turned out, was not immediate. And yet, leaving the garden and leaving the Lord God behind us was a kind of death. For the lion, death had certainly been immediate, I thought with a pang of sorrow. And the poor lion had done nothing wrong. It died for our sin, to cover our nakedness. I turned around to look back at the garden one last time. A ring of creatures that looked like the Lord in luminescence stood before the tree with the golden fruit, bearing swords that shone like the sun. Then I turned away again, looking out into the wilderness that was to be our new home. “But we will still return one day,” I whispered to Adam as we walked out into the desert. “Right?” “One day,” he whispered back, and squeezed my hand.

Hello friends! Aren and Kevin are back and boy howdy did they miss each other! The boys catch up on all the games they've been playing and talk about their plans for the next generation of consoles. Who's getting a PS5? Who's getting an Xbox Series...something? Let's find out! Thank you for listening!

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I've always loved cooking and now that we can't eat out because of the pandemic, I am definitely cooking at home at lot! Aren't you? I would guess that most of us are in the same boat and can't go out to restaurants much. So we might as well make the most of it, right? Buy Join Us at the Table   As you probably know by now, I was born and raised in France. I moved to the US for college and ended up staying for 16 years. If I wanted genuine French food I had to cook it at home because the only French restaurants around me were silly fancy and not my style at all. In Salt Lake City they have this French restaurant called La Caille that has male waiters wearing silly shorts and women wearing sexy milk maid outfits. As if! These people wouldn't know a normal French restaurant if one hit them in the face. Maybe it's changed by now, I haven't been in at least 20 years. So I practiced cooking French meals using American ingredients. That's why I can tell you how it's done! I'm a regular French person and a good home cook. But French food still has this reputation of being fancy and difficult to make. Some of that is reputation is warranted. Trained chefs who compete for attention and Michelin stars go to great length in their professional kitchens. The super star of French food in America, Julia Child, trained at one of the most prestigious cooking schools in Paris. These people go to great length to make amazing food because it's their job. For the rest of us mere French mortals, we don't cook like that. We still love our classic French dishes, but we make the streamlined version at home. That's what I wanted to share with you in my new cookbook. I even put it on the cover: Easy French recipes anyone can make at home. I didn't shy away from the classics, they are achievable as well! My intention is to show you that you can do it, it's not rocket science. Have you met a French person? It's not like most of us go to cooking school! We learn at home and through practice. In the book I recommend you read the recipe you want to try in advance and make sure you have the ingredients you'll need. But that would be the same if you were cooking Chinese food or any other food. I think cooking failures come from the lack of attention. Maybe we've seen our mothers cook and they make it look easy, surely we can just wing it, right? Not really. So read the recipe all the way through once, decide when you want to make it, and jump right in! What's in Join Us at the Table? When you first open Join Us at the Table you see the gorgeous book cover. I must say thank you to my friend Brenda who was on episode 124 for pointing me towards that provider and cover. When I first saw it, it really spoke to me. And even though I went looking at other covers, I kept coming back to that one because it spoke to me. Brenda is an author herself and she has been pushing me to write a book for YEARS. Thank you, my friend. I must also thank the folks in the Secret Facebook Group who saw all the covers I was considering, voted on their favorite and told me why. I took all of that into consideration and made changes based on their comments. I decided to call the book Join Us at the Table as a tie-in to the name of this podcast and also because that’s exactly what I’d like all of you to do! Join us around a French table at least in spirit. The subtitle is Easy French recipes anyone can make at home. I chose that because that’s really the book I wanted to write. Classic French and yet easy enough for the average person to make at home. I have listeners all over the world too! Who knows where you are! But I know from listener stats that 95% of you are in the US, then Australia, Canada, France, then India, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Singapore and South Africa. But there are some listeners in most countries in the world. Imperial and Metric Measurements That’s why I included both imperial and metric measurements. Very few cookbooks do that by the way and I understand why, it’s a pain. I had to measure everything different ways and keep track carefully. I also had to round things up and down and make choices that made sense. There’s one recipe where I said use 1 cup of noodles and two testers told me that was either too much or too little. The truth is it depends on the shape of noodles you use. So, for that one I changed it to a weight measurement because that’ll work every time. The other reason to have metric measurements is that I hope you’ll bring this cookbook to France with you when you visit. And if you rent an apartment here you won’t find cups and teaspoons measurements. Your kitchen may have a scale and a graduated container with milliliters and centiliters, but it won’t have cups. And speaking of having different measuring standards in different countries, you know what else is different? Book publishing standards! I’ve released the book on Kindle as an eBook today. In the next few days I’ll make more versions available through Apple Books and Kobo and for the print version. But if you listen to this as soon as it’s released you won’t find all of them available just yet. Give it a few days. But if you buy the book on Kindle you can open it on your phone and your tablet and your computer. And of course, on your Kindle reader too. The advantage to opening this cookbook on a tablet, phone or computer is that you will be able to see the photos in color whereas most Kindle readers don’t display color. You can get the free Kindle App for your computer for instance and open the book there in full color. Adapting Classic French Foods to Various Dietary Requirements Back to what’s in the book. After the cover, you get to the table of contents. I chose to keep the French names for these recipes. Not because I’m stuck up snob, but because French is my first language and also because I know many of the book buyers will also be Francophiles and podcast listeners. They know these recipes by their French names! The other thing I did that I’ve never seen before is that I list variations on given recipes. There are a ton of vegan cookbooks and gluten-free cookbooks. But I know from experience that there can be people following different diets in the same household. Many of the recipes I share in this book can be made gluten-free or vegan or vegetarian just by making a few changes. I point those out as variations on a theme. So, underneath the normal TOC you’ll find a table with all the variations. So if you’re looking for a classic French dish that can be made gluten-free or vegan you can go straight to it. Then there’s the introduction where I tell you more about me, about my mother, about my influences when it comes to food. I also talk about French children and food. I talk about Terroir and why that matters. And I end with more practical consideration like a tip on how to protect your hands when you’re chopping vegetables. Some thank yous to close, and then we get into the recipes. Easy French Recipes You Can Make at Home Join Us at the Table is not a long cookbook. I didn’t want to deluge you with recipes you’ll never try. I wanted to give you just a few (28 made it to the final cut) that you can try within a few weeks. And I’ll assign a recipe per week that we’ll discuss on social media and then I’ll report on the podcast. That will start next week. I want cooking from this book to be an experience more than a thing you buy and forget. Salad Recipes So, the book starts with 3 salad recipes. Salade de Chèvre Chaud which I’m sure you’ve had at restaurants because it’s a classic. Would you like to have it at home? I tell you how in Join Us at the Table! Next is the classic French vinaigrette. Have you noticed how small the salad dressing isle is at French supermarkets? That’s because we make our own salad dressings at home and I share my favorite there. Then we move on to Salade Niçoise. Ooh, that one is marvelous and it’s one of those people like to argue about what goes in it and what doesn’t. I definitely have an opinion about that! Then we move on to Fish. I start with Moules à la Normande, you know the lovely mussels with a creamy sauce from Normandy? Those! And it’s easy to make! And then we go all the way across France to Nice in Provence with the Pissaladière which is a sort of pizza with lots of onions and anchovie. But it’s good also without the anchovies for vegetarians. Easy to make and not something you’ve had a million times I bet! Appetizers Then we move on to appetizers and I include a discussion about escargots de Bourgogne. And, one of my favorites Pain à la Tomate. I bet you’ve never had this classic Mediterranean dish and yet it is so good! Really easy, looks great to bring to a party, or when you want a special appetizer at home. French Regional Specialties And then the bulk of the cookbook: French regional specialties. Like I said, I do not shy away from classic French dishes because they are delicious and they’re not that hard to make at home. Cassoulet I start with Cassoulet. I was born and raised in Toulouse, I had to start there, didn’t I? The version I give you preserves the flavors of this wonderful dish but is a lot lighter in calories than the restaurant version. Blanquette Blanquette. This one is funny to me because the way chefs on TV make it, you’d think it was voodoo. It’s not! It is one of the most adaptable French classics ever! Flammekueche or Tarte Flambée How about we go to Alsace now with Flammekueche or Tarte Flambée? That’s one that can be made meaty or vegetarian and yum yum! Poulet Basquaise Now let’s go to the Basque Country together! Poulet Basquaise which you can make the classic way with chicken or if you make it without chicken it becomes Piperade. Probably the healthiest recipe in the book. Weight Watchers would approve! Hâchis Parmentier Hâchis Parmentier. This is the French version of Shepherd’s pie and it’s so delicious! This is one where I delve into a the history quite a lot because it’s really interesting. Boeuf Bourguignon Boeuf Bourguignon: this one is so famous that there are restaurants in France that serve nothing but! It’s so good some families serve it on Christmas Day. And, let me let you in on a little secret: It’s not hard to make at home! Galettes Back to Brittany and Normandy with Galettes Bretonnes. This one might require a bit of practice, but once you get a feel for it you can transform your home into a creperie and make Galette night the same way you’d do taco night. Really good and really versatile. Pot-au-Feu Pot-au-Feu: ah, this one is a personal favorite of mine. I love everything about this dish. The way the beef is cooked, the vegetables, the soup you make with the amazing broth. And, you know what? You get the same flavors if you make it vegetarian. I kid you not! Try it at home, you’ll see! Tarte aux Blettes Another one that I make all the time at home: Swiss Chard Pie. Swiss chard is easy to grow, it’s pretty easy to find a the store too, and it makes for a wonderful quiche-like dish that you can serve with a side salad or take to a party or make and eat over 2 or 3 days if you live alone. My daughter asks for this one all the time. Soupe au Pistou Then back to Provence with Soupe au Pistou. It’s the Provençal chili and is equally good with or without meat. Honestly, I don’t think the pork adds that much to it. You’ll love this one on a winter’s night! Croque Monsieur and Croque Madame Croque-Monsieur and Croque-Madame : so easy to make and so delicious! Turn you kitchen into a Paris bistro and make oven fries to go along with it if you’re feeding hungry teenagers. Side Dishes It’s time for some side dishes now! Gratin Dauphinois How would you like some Gratin Dauphinois? Do you know where the Dauphinois is? It’s above Provence and all the way East up against Italy. This is the French version of Potatoes au Gratin that you’ll find in America. But the French version has no cheese in it. And you know what? It’s amazing. You should make enough for 2 days because nobody ever turned their noses up at those leftovers! Soupe à l’oignon OK, this is one where there’s a big difference between the onion soup I ate at home growing up in France and what they serve at restaurants. I go into details in the cookbook and give you both versions. But I like the simple home version better. You should try it! Ratatouille And back to Provence we go with Ratatouille! That’s another one that lots of recipe authors over-complicate. It’s so easy to make! You don’t have to slave away in the kitchen for hours to eat well. Just follow my instructions! Tian de Légumes Tian de legumes. This is ratatouille for fancy people. It looks wonderful! It’s a little bit more work, but great for when you have company and you want to show off. Béchamel Then a cooking basic. How to make Béchamel. I give you 3 options: with flour, with cornstarch (which makes it gluten-free) and with broth (which makes it vegan). See, it’s all about being adaptable! Gratin de choux fleur This is one I make all the time. You’ll get your vegetables in and I even tell you how to not stink up your house with the cauliflower. Salade Juive This is in honor of my mother who made this a lot and so do I. It’s chock full of vegetables, my version is vegan, but there are lots of variations on this that I explain in the cookbook. Desserts And then desserts! Classic French desserts we make at home. Clafoutis I start with Clafoutis with its wonderful fruits. Crêpes Maison This is something your kids will ask for this over and over again. And it's so delicious and easy once you get the hang of it. Crème Brûlée I am sure you’ve had at restaurants and is so easy to make! It’s best to make it the day before you serve it, but other than that it’s so fast! Tarte Tatin That’s for those of you who want to impress your family for Thanksgiving. Beautiful and delicious! Gâteau au Yaourt And, last but not least, the cake French people make with their kids and grand kid, Gateau au yaourt. Are you ready for easy French recipes you can make at home? Get the book and get cooking! More episodes about French food and wine       Email | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter   Did you get my VoiceMap Paris tours yet? They are designed for people who want to see the best of Paris neighborhoods and put what they are looking at into historical context. There are so many great stories in Paris. Don't walk right past them without having a clue what happened there! You can buy them directly from the VoiceMap app or click here to order activation codes at the podcast listener discount price.   Subscribe to the Podcast Apple Google Spotify RSS Support the Show Tip Your Guide Extras Patreon Audio Tours Merchandise If you enjoyed this episode, you should also listen to related episode(s): 50 Must-Know French Phrases for Hungry Visitors, Episode 161 Traditional French Recipes for Thanksgiving, Episode 172 Pastries of Northern France, Episode 35 The Auvergne Cheese Route, Episode 303 Castelnaudary, Cassoulet and Canal du Midi, Episode 300 Summer Lunches in France, Episode 295 Annie's Cassoulet Category: French Food & Wine

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Aren't we all pretty darn weary about now?? So let's have some fun!Human Disease and the Animals is an episode that is concerned with ...well the animals - first a pig, a chicken, and then a bat and a pangolin - will tell you what they are concerned about.Pangolini is voiced by Lynn Jassem, child star on The Perry Como Show- what a tap dancer! - who has performed in many many shows including her solo shows "From Como to Homo" and the upcoming "Who is Richard Greene?" All other characters voiced by Dr. Heather (who believes creativity can stimulate deep healing.)Take a break for 12 minutes and listen to what the animals have to say.Also Dr. H's latest book, Surviving a Viral Pandemic Through the Lens of a Naturopathic Medical Doctor, is now available worldwide through most bookstores as well as on Amazon.And for those so-inclined Dr Heather's Patreon account is up..she will be adding bonuses soon for her patrons...see patreon.com/heatherlousiaherington. Next episode of Dr Heather Uncensored will explore Dr H's new book - it will make you think as well as stay healthy in these chaotic and weary times!

Open calls, questions, and discussion with Matt Slick LIVE in the studio. Questions include---1- Matt talks about a discussion he had recently online with a Unitarian.--2- Will all the children be raptured---3- A caller wanted to continue a discussion on how to find a Christian peer group for his kids.--4- Where did the Freemasons come from---5- Does polytheism mean just believing in other gods or believing and worshiping them- Aren't the Son and the Father two separate beings-

Cedrick Smith So the disruptive part for me is the white supremacy, the white supremacy, and the microaggression is the microaggression of outright racism, to be quite honest with you, that I've had to deal with and I think that's what people don't realize is what we're bringing to the workplace before we even hit the door, before we even have to deal with some of the I want to say normal disruptive events that we all have.   INTRO   This is the first in a two-part series about the challenge of working in a world where whiteness is supreme.  And if you don’t know what that means, if that previous sentence put your teeth on edge, then this episode is probably one that you especially need to hear.   My guests are Dr. Cedrick Smith and Tosca Davis, two Black activists, professionals, and, most recently, filmmakers.  Their film, To Be Us, is making the film festival circuit, receiving accolades for telling the stories of Black professionals whose primary disruptive life event is living and working in a world that does not value divergence from the norm of whiteness.  The question that they ask all of their interviewees is, “What is your working while black story.”   I am giving it two episodes not because it is easy listening, but because it is essential listening.  I’ve seen the film; it is both powerful and necessary and I am eager to be a part of exploring the themes in our next two episodes.    We began our interview during election week in November of 2020.  The whole nation was tense, but I was especially struck by the physical uncertainty for Cedric and Tosca in Texas.    - Tosca Davis Friends walked into the apartment building and this white guy said, what are you doing here inward? And, you know, I was like, OK, it's already starting. So regardless of who wins as a black body, there's going to be terrorism stuff. We're going to feel it. So it doesn't have to be physical. I'm always going to be very protective of my body and I'm already conscious of where I am as a black person. I've already been socialized to be conscious of my body at all times, regardless of where I am.   This is Tosca Davis, an activist, mystic, a storyteller, and the co-CEO of To Be Us Productions.  We will hear more from her soon.   - Tosca Davis But as far as feeling safe, I wouldn't say you would find too many black people who are going to feel safe in either.   - Cedrick Smith In fact, back then to that, we already won and family members are still like that, we have text groups that are like, hey, look, if you are by yourself, be very aware where you are. Be very aware of your surroundings. You know, go with somebody, gas your car up in the daytime. These are literal things that we're texting to one another during this time. So, yeah, like Tosca, we don't never feel safe.   This is Dr. Cedrick Smith, he is an activist, an athlete, a writer, a comic book collector, and a physician.  Very much a Renaissance man and a co-CEO of To Be Us Productions.   - Cedrick Smith I just don't think that I was at my country club the other day hitting balls and we have a practice area and there was a guy's house and he's always trying to police. And I put that in quotes, police the practice area.   - Cedrick Smith So every time I come out there, he's always like, hey, you replace the divets? Are you doing it? I'm playing golf since I was seven years old. I'm fifty. And so I'm like, yeah, I'm doing all of that. But he's he's like surveilling and policing. So he he comes out of his house when he's walking toward me. And I was like, OK, who wants to do walking toward me? So I just kind of moved away from it, first of all, because the would not want to be close to him, but he was going to get one of the golf carts.   - Cedrick Smith And I said, I hope not coming out here, police me like you always try to do with people that have the driving race. And I'm not really trying to please you. So that's what you always kind of do when I'm out here just trying to get golf balls. And so we kind of got into it and it ended up this kind of a back and forth ended up with him at some point saying like, well, how to get my gun and shoot you.   - Cedrick Smith It got that elevated, you know, and I mean, so you like, OK, this is you know, I'm just trying to tell you, I don't I don't need you to police me. Let me hit my golf balls and enjoy it. That's why I'm out of here and about. And you leave me alone.   - Liesel Mertes Well, and I imagine that that there's no way that that feels like just an empty threat that is easily passed off, like, you know,   - Cedrick Smith He knew what he was doing. He noticed that. I mean, you know, I don't think he was going to go get a gun and shoot me. I didn't. But again, you know, just the fact that you went there, you know. Right.   - Liesel Mertes Well, and if you're a member of a community where actually that sort of violence is not even an aberration like that, deep in the psyche to be like, yeah, people make threats and that happens to black. Yes.   - Liesel Mertes Well, that's it is it is a nationally happy moment, but I hear in both of your voices a level of concern for physical safety and well-being. That is not part of my experience. And, you know, it feels draining just to live my experience. I cannot imagine having all of those other levels of care on top of that, which is one of the things that we'll be discussing some in today's episode.   As you just heard, Cedric loves to golf.  He plays many sports:  football, basketball, tennis, ping-pong.  He was the QB for the Dallas Carter Cowboys the year before the won the title.  But it is golf that is his passion.    - Cedrick Smith And the thing I love about golf is there's a there's a singularity to it. There's a. Not having to rely on, you know, other teammates, which I enjoy that part of team sports, but in golf it's really about you versus the course, you versus your feelings, your anxieties.   - Cedrick Smith You're feeling the pressure and having to hit a particular shot at a certain time. I tell people all the time there's I happen to have played golf at a very high level. I played college, golf. I was an all-American two times. And I tell people all the time that there, for me, there was no feeling greater than winning a golf tournament.   - Cedrick Smith I don't care if it was with 10 guys or with a tournament where I won out of, you know, 50 to 100 people winning a golf course. There's a there's a habit I get that I can't really explain.   - Cedrick Smith When you look back at all the work that you did to improve, to get better, all the failures you had, where you were in contention and you got third place because you missed a shot here or you mismanaged the last three holes or you couldn't manage your emotions well or you didn't win. The shot was called for. You weren't able to pull it off.   - Cedrick Smith And it's disappointing. And then getting up from that and learning from it and going back out and executing it and winning, there's no feeling like that.   - Cedrick Smith Even the feeling of being in contention, you kind of know where other people are at that level.   - Cedrick Smith And for me, there's just there's just no feeling like it. I cannot explain it. I can explain to people. I just. The joy that it is giving me, the pain is giving me the learning lessons it's given me is just an incredible sport, incredible sport. And I'm glad my dad was able to teach me the teach me the game.   Cedrick hasn’t had much time for golf recently.  He works in preventative health and has been hit hard by COVID.     - Cedrick Smith Early on, we were seeing patients were really, really sick and not knowing exactly what was wrong with them. And so. With that, as a medical director, you're trying to come up with protocols and real time for your staff, you're trying to balance family members who are not quite as aware you as you are with what's going on, telling friends, warning them of what what is to come.   - Cedrick Smith It's been a lot more strenuous in that regard.   Cedrick has also been busy with his activism work and his film-making, which we will hear more about later on in the episode. But I also want to introduce you to Tosca Davis, Cedrick’s co-CEO at To Be Us Productions.    - Liesel Mertes Tosca. What are some things that fill your time right now that give you joy?   - Tosca Davis Oh, thank you for asking that question. I really appreciate that what brings me Joy right now, several things. So first of all, I'm going to be honest, I love watching TV. I love watching movies. I you know, that's my escapism. My belief system is that most people have a drug and my drug of choice is storytelling. And so I like it in the form of, you know, visuals and 3-D. And so that's why I love streaming services and I can watch anything that I want to watch.   - Tosca Davis Sci fi fantasy, romance, rom com and fantasy are my two favorite genres. I was born in the 70s and I grew up on big gesture rom coms.   - Tosca Davis I've even tweeted Tom Hanks and let him know that he ruined my romantic life because I that my life would be that way because I grew up on great rom coms with great soundtracks. And so that is bringing me joy right now. It would bring me joy regardless if there were if there were a pandemic or not.   I just loved TV and film.   - Tosca Davis The other thing that brings me joy is, well, I already talked about that. I love storytelling. So within that I love mythology. So under the umbrella of mythology and storytelling and symbolism, I study astrology. I study tarot. I'm now taking classes to be an herbalist. So, you know, some people may call me strange and I rather love that. I love that moniker. I love to be called strange, but I kind of like to do things that are that are unique.   Tosca is imbued with deep curiosity and an omnivorous intellect.    - Tosca Davis I think I don't really have I don't think I had a problem being strange. I knew that I was strange early on as a child.   - Tosca Davis Even my family has called me strange, but I've never I've never was made to feel bad about that, really. And not that I didn't have. You know, it's not that I have didn't have a you know, I had an upbringing that was a little traumatic, but still, I was never that was never told that I was abnormal or strange.   - Tosca Davis But I knew I was because I knew I had different belief systems and different interests than other children.   - Tosca Davis So, for instance, I when I was when I was smaller as a I guess maybe around eight, nine years old, I want to be an architect. And so I wanted to I spent hours drawing floor plans and reading better homes and gardens and checking out drafting books and mechanical drawing books. No other child was doing it, but nobody told me that I couldn't do it. So I. I don't feel like I was made to feel bad.   - Cedrick Smith And, you know, one of the things Tosca talks about with her being, quote, weird and strange and an open toast is very she the openness that she has is she has this talent of freeing people of of you know, she always talks about. People being given the permission to be who they are or having a belief system that may change, or you may have thought this one time, but hey, if that doesn't fit with your inventory now, when you do your yearly inventory, you can change it.   - Cedrick Smith And that was one of the things with her that I must say with me was very freeing. I mean, there are there are a lot of similarities that we have to go into something that was healing, which is medicine. She did social work. So there are some commonalities there.   - Cedrick Smith But also, I must say, I was inspired by her in regard to how free she was in navigating this world that was very harsh and harmful and very rigid at times.   - Cedrick Smith But her saying that you can do this, you can be this.   - Cedrick Smith If you feel like doing this, you can do it.   - Cedrick Smith You know, so there's a there's a permission quality that she has that is very endearing and and much, much, much appreciated. She has definitely inspired me in so many different ways.   - Cedrick Smith And I couldn't have thought of anyone more to to that I would have enjoyed more than working on this project of creating a film production company that's so out of the blue for both of us,   - Tosca Davis I know that. Thank you, Cedrick. I feel so honored. I appreciate all those words.   Tosca began her studies pursuing architecture.   - Tosca Davis And then I took one psychology class and that changed everything. So everything became about human behavior. And that's when I made it a social work and psychology and became a social worker.   - Tosca Davis And then I'm not a social worker anymore because of what I've learned. As someone who's very intuitive and can be very empathic and sensitive, people like me tend to go into the helping field or the social work field where it will definitely it will wear us out because we feel everything. So because I felt everything, I decided to leave social work, but I still want to help people.   - Tosca Davis So I went into nonprofit and so I worked for the United Way. I work for Children's Aid Society. I work for Planned Parenthood, I work for some major nonprofits and I work for the Sickle Cell Association. And that's where I met Cedrick.   Cedrick was on the board and Tosca was an employee at the Sickle Cell Association.  This was 15 years ago, in 2005.    - Liesel Mertes What were your first impressions of one another?   - Cedrick Smith I guess for me, I was a board member and I just remember Tosca had really big hair. And no, I mean, at that time, I think she had kind of like a reminder there was a movie kind of came from that movie by M. Night Shyamalan with Samuel Jackson as Mr. Glass.   Yeah, I care about my mother and broken or something like that. Yeah, unbreakable. Unbreakable.   - Cedrick Smith And I just remember one day, seeing as I was a board member living across the sea. And the thing that struck me was this kind of like in the movie, Mr. Glass had this kind of like hair that was like their signature and our hair was big in that way. And then from there, I remember, I think at the time I was working on a book. And I didn't have a computer at home here.   Cedrick was co-writing a book with a friend, coming into the office to work.   - Cedrick Smith And so one day, Tosca and I got into a conversation and she said, "Well, Cedrick, what where did you work on the book?"   - Cedrick Smith And I said, I'm working on it at work, on the computer, at work. So why don't you work on another computer work? Because I don't have a computer at home.   - Cedrick Smith And she started laughing and she's like, What do you mean? And what, you don't have a computer at home? And so I was like, no, I don't. I just work on it and, you know, it at the job. And so after hours.   - Cedrick Smith And so she said, no, you should have a computer.   - Cedrick Smith And I said, OK, all right. Well, look, look, you give me the money, I'll go back if you and set it up for you. And that's kind of where. You know, our friendship took off. Got to set it up in my house, and from there we just developed a very good friendship.   Five or six years ago, Cedrick began getting more involved in activism spaces, especially after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Jordan Baker.  - Cedrick Smith And so with that, I found myself going to various groups, sitting down, listening, being quiet. It doesn't matter that you, a doctor in those kinds of settings, sitting back in the back, being helpful and learning what it's like to advocate, learning what it's like to be organizing people and protesting and what is to come and what is to be expected. Learning from organizers locally of how to have specific asks and executing that and trying to get incremental change in this big system that you're trying to fight and get rectified and change.   - Cedrick Smith But we would find ourselves going to a lot of these black spaces dealing with black issues that was in regard to uplift or liberation or what have you, dealing with police brutality, economic disenfranchisement, whatever the the the oppressive ism was at the time, we were dealing with these things at these meetings and what we came away with many times and not every time, but many times was that the culprit in the room was not addressed.   - Cedrick Smith And so for us, there was this sense of, yes, you're doing the work, but we felt like you can't do the healing.   - Cedrick Smith You can't get to the crux of the issue or to the solution until you have. Gotten to what is the cause and the cause in these situations was. White supremacy, and no one was saying that no one was talking about the actual system that is the culprit.   - Cedrick Smith So with that fast forwarding, one day we're in a car which is driving.   - Cedrick Smith And I just was I think I was going to pick up a trophy from a golf tournament that I just won like the week prior. And course, I wasn't able to play in this particular time because I was injured.   - Cedrick Smith But we were talking I was like, you know, Tosca I'm just I'm just frustrated when I go because I just come back from another incident where it didn't go in on the culprit of the situation.   - Cedrick Smith And I said, I'm just tired of coming away feeling as though we're not dealing with the culprit.   - Cedrick Smith And as we talk back and forth, I said, look, why don't we just start a production company and we'll make films that we want to make to get the message out, that we want to get dealing with the issues that we want to deal with and we're going to go from there.   - Cedrick Smith And that's kind of how it literally started. And so fast forward, we try to come up with a name. As you can imagine, Tosca has many names of trying to name a company and she had astrological names. I was more binary in my head, my approach to coming up with a name. And then I just lean back one day. And I said, you know what? I just want people to understand what it's like to be us.   - Cedrick Smith And I say, just like that. And Tosca looks at me said, and that's it. That's that's the title of the company. And I was like, What do you like to be us? To be US productions?   - Cedrick Smith And we were like, we talked about him a little bit. And it was like, that's it. And then I'm there. Now you're trying to figure out what you want to do with regard to making a film and. We decided to do a walking while black story with stories that are coming from from different storytellers, because we knew that one work is universal to talk, we'll probably get a little later.   - Cedrick Smith She had a personal experience. You had a disruptive experience in our own life in regard to working on Black Story.   - Cedrick Smith And three, we knew that we would be able to find content. The only challenge was what would would we be able to get the people to tell their stories on film?   - Tosca Davis You will be amazed or maybe not. How many people have never been asked to do something? I've never been asked to participate or engage in a project outside of their family or their business or work. But I do believe that when you ask people something, they think about it and they say, well, OK, then no one's ever asked me that before, but Cedrick did a lot of good research and one on one face to face with people.   - Tosca Davis And I would like for him go into how he did that.   - Cedrick Smith I would go to restaurants where I knew that black people frequented. I would go to other black spaces, lounges and hangouts and, you know, odd spaces where black people were with this little literally black book that I had with a pen and sit down and kind of intrude a little bit as much as I could and ask them, hey, you know, I'm doing this research project.   - Cedrick Smith Would you mind if I could talk to you for about five or ten minutes? Many people were receptive, and they would tell their stories. And I would say, you know what, driving while black means, right? And I was like, yeah, oh, yeah, you know, that is that's where you deal with the police brutality and stop by the cops and so forth. One black person doesn't know that. And then I would say, well, what about working while black?   - Cedrick Smith And to a person, you know, if I was talking to a group of four people, three people would immediately say, yes, I do have a story. I know exactly what you're talking about. I do have an experience at work where this happened or that happened.   - Cedrick Smith But invariably, what would also happen, that fourth person who said they didn't have a story, they would say, you know what, after hearing their stories, I do have one. I knew then we were on to something.   - Cedrick Smith I probably have 40 stories literally in this black book that I have where, you know, some of the people are actually in the film. Most of them aren't.   - Cedrick Smith But, you know, from the film and the story us that we got, we were quite pleased and shocked and surprised and amazed by how well they told their stories and just we were humbled and humbled by their stories.   - Cedrick Smith So that's, that's kind of how we got. The people to come in was just basic guerrilla interviewing tactics and going to churches and so forth and just asking people, hey, we're doing this, could you come and tell this on film?   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, and you know, someone who has seen the film, they do tell their stories with. With vulnerability and openness and, and they're you know, they are divergent to an extent, you know, it's they're different manifestations, as you said, of the same theme of feeling silenced and marginalized.   - Liesel Mertes And you are you are both obviously care and tell the story as well. But especially for this, I guess I'd like to ask you both the question that you ask in your film Tosca. What is your working while black story?   - Tosca Davis Well, as as someone said in the film, I have several working well black stories, but the one that stands out the most would be the most recent one, which was a catalyst for the film   I need to interject here as a podcaster.  It is very important to Tosca, to Cedrick, to the very ethos of To Be Us Productions to hold individuals and organizations to account.  Part of this truth-telling is directly naming names.    I believe this is incredibly important…but it also puts me in a potentially legal space as a podcaster.  So, here I am, caught between my resonance and my potential liability.  As a sort of half-measure, I am editing out the names that Tosca said, but I am linking a Facebook post by To Be Us that specifically names both the organization and the individual that are players in Tosca’s working while black story.    Tosca was working for a very well-known, national non-profit that specializes in women’s health (more specificity is available in the link in the show notes).  It was 2014, her last year working there,   Tosca Davis And I was called into the office of my manager, who happens to be the vice president of Human Resources, and she asks me and she shows me screenshots from my Facebook page, my personal Facebook page.   - Tosca Davis And she said, Tosca, just want to make you aware of this. And I want to ask if you you know, if you were OK with taking these down. Somebody reported that they feel if they feel offended by these posts and the post was they the post was about white supremacy and racism, oppression, whiteness.   Tosca was surprised, shocked, especially since the national wing of the organization had just sent her to a training on bias, racism, and white supremacy.  Tosca wondered, was it a volunteer that had reported her?  No, it was a co-worker.  You can find her name and role in the link in the show notes.  This co-worker had taken a screen shot of the post and turned it into the VP of Human Resources.  The co-worker felt offended that Tosca would feel a particular way towards white people.    - Tosca Davis And I immediately told my manager that I was not going to take it down and they were going to deal with it.   The VP of HR wanted to set up a meeting to discuss the incident, which Tosca thought was absurd.    Tosca Davis When it was time to have the conversation. She was treated as though she was the victim and I was the aggressor, as she just really felt offended and she felt like I was being racist and she knows I was being racist.   - Tosca Davis And if we need to be brought up, that they need to have some type of training. And if she is, she knew people who could train us in all kinds of whiteness, all kind of white madness. This is what I call it. And so I quit that day or the next day, I can't remember. But I definitely was not going to stay in an organization that claims to help women, just not black women, especially if you look at the the C Suite, you know, it is all white people except for one black person, one that's not even the stakeholders.   - Tosca Davis That's not the community that they're serving. And none of them were child bearing age. So, again, you're talking about white women who should give up their positions to people who actually like the community. So all of that live to.   - Liesel Mertes Do you use that?   - Liesel Mertes Let me just jump in unison and evocative term white madness. I tell me a little bit more about that because I feel like it it bears unpacking. I feel like there's probably more there.   - Tosca Davis OK, a white madness to me is the is kind of the audacity of white people to feel offended and the performance of it all, because that's what that's what I was getting. I was giving a giving a performance, especially from someone who claimed to be a white feminist. It was is the performance of being outraged and having the audacity to even challenge the whiteness or challenge someone who assumes that they are better than I am, are so that I am not not as knowledgeable as they are.   – Tosca Davis So that they are the norm and I am the person on the outside, so that's how I describe madness, is that it's a performance that I've seen white people do and honestly, more specifically, white women. And I can go into more detail about what I think is white women, because they are trying to move, you know, in a parallel position of white men, white men. Typically, they already have that position. So they don't really do a lot of performing.   - Tosca Davis A lot of their violence comes in in a very silent undercover way. The white women, they tend to be very performative when it comes to their violence towards women, especially toward black folks, especially in the workplace. That makes sense.   - Liesel Mertes Yeah, thank you for taking the time   - Tosca Davis so that so that was my working while black story and I'm especially offended and I wanted to to say for two reasons, again, because this is a nonprofit and non-profits typically get away with this type of violence and trauma toward their black employees.   - Tosca Davis It's I've heard it is been discussed so many times in circles about, about this type of treatment. And personally, I can tell you that I did dabble in for profit and corporate before I worked in oil and gas. I never had any incidents of sexism or racism in that. And this is the Fortune 500 company.   Now, I'm not saying that it didn't happen, is just I didn't experience it. I think the Non-profit is very relaxed. And because they help people, quote unquote, like I said, they get that they can get away with doing these types of things.   - Tosca Davis So that's my working while black story. I still remember it again is one of the reasons why we made the film, because I just didn't want anyone to get away with that anymore.   The stakes felt especially high for Tosca.  From her perspective, this co-worker was out to get her fired.    - Tosca Davis And if you're going to get me fired, that means I'm not going to be to pay my mortgage. I'm not going to be able to eat.   - Tosca Davis I'm not going to pay my car. Note that is a that is a violence and a trauma that black people feel. You are putting my livelihood at risk because you are fragile. So that's why I keep using the words violent and traumatic and terrorism. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic at all. That is exactly how black people feel. We feel terrorized. We feel traumatized. We feel abused when white people feel like they have been offended by something.   - Tosca Davis So that, again, that's the most interesting part is that I literally have left a conference on all of these topics and and dare to post anything on my Facebook page about it. And so that's the white man is right.   - Liesel Mertes And yeah, we I think especially white America, wouldn't we love to think that it could all just be taken care of in a three day conference and then we would never have to talk about it again? Because what you said of the feeling of. It's it's a powerful and can be a powerfully oppressive thing, white discomfort, and I feel like, you know, I I as I continue to grow and avail myself to different stories, I just realized that the unwinding from me will be a lifelong task that I can, you know, either keep pushing to the side or be able to embrace, even as it makes me uncomfortable, because frankly, I mean, it's my discomfort is not on the same level as, you know, someone's livelihood or the safety of their bodies.   - Liesel Mertes And I think that there is especially for for for me as a white viewer of your film, you know, there were places where I was like, I have done something like that. I have been on the other side of perpetrating you know, there is one one guest talked about a dismissiveness towards Black History Month, you know, as far as people were talking. And I thought, oh, like I know as a kid, you know, for whatever mix I was a part of, I talked about like Kwanzaa and why did we have to talk, you know, and like it was Christmas.   - Liesel Mertes And I thought, like, I could see myself in those stories. And and there there is something to seeing the pain that is inflicted. Like it's it can't we cannot continue to imagine that they're just passing comments and feel like I'm just I'm just talking.   - Liesel Mertes And so, yeah, that I think there is there's a powerful thing that white viewers need to see with the spirit of inquiry of where am I in these stories, because there are enough that we will find ourselves there. And it's important.   MUSICAL TRANSITION   I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors.  Our first sponsor is FullStack PEO, a benefits firm that comes alongside entrepreneurs and small businesses, helping them navigate the complex and time-consuming world of benefits choices.  Let FullStack PEO take care of your benefits choices so that you can give attention to running your business.  And, as a side note, I know the crew at FullStack personally and they just a lovely group of people.   We are also sponsored by my company, Handle with Care Consulting.  2020 has been like a train wreck that got hit by a hurricane…and it has been really hard to keep people engaged as they are going through sickness and homeschooling and general uncertainty.  Empathy is THE leadership skill of 2020.  You need it and you can learn it.  Handle with Care Consulting can help.  With keynotes, certificate programs, coaching options, and other creative solutions to meet your needs, let us help you make work a place that people want to come to when life is hard.   MUSICAL TRANSITION    - Liesel Mertes Cedrick, what is your working while black story?   - Cedrick Smith Oh, man. I mean, where do even begin? I mean I mean, yeah, I'm a practicing physician. You know, I've gotten anything from one in particular I talked to said, you know, how many stories are out there? I mean, I could go ad nauseam with that one in particular.   - Cedrick Smith So one day when I'm on medical assistant is crying in the break room and I went over and asked, or it's not something that we're going to sit and just kind of play like it doesn't exist. I'm going to sit down as the medical director and say, hey, look at you, OK, what's going on?   - Cedrick Smith She said, Dr. Smith, I'm tired of this. I'm like, well, what's what's happening is I'm tired of when patients come in and they ask, is it Dr.   - Cedrick Smith White or black? I'm like, OK. And I'm like, well, what what do you like? Well, he's black and then the patient will go, Well, is there a white doctor I can see? Was there another doctor I can see? And so I'm like, OK.   - Cedrick Smith I said, look, I mean, yeah, you're going to get that is excuse me is not the first time that I've experienced racism in the setting of being a doctor who happens to be black, you know, being a black doctor, but seeing the pain on her face, knowing how hard we worked to have the types of ratings that our clinic gets, like, you know, you probably Google Review us were like four point seven out of five.   - Cedrick Smith And we really take very much pride in that. And they know that it comes from all of us working very diligently and hard and making sure that the patient is treated well.   - Cedrick Smith And she, she also mentioned how she notices how when the patients come out from the visit with me, how happy they are, how they end up saying, like, wow, you know, he was really into my diagnosis. He really showed a lot of empathy and care, you know, and even gave me his card and said, like, you can call me 24 hours a day, you have a problem. These are types of things. It's just natural what we do and how we execute our patient care.   And so she see, so this doesn't happen to be a woman.   - Cedrick Smith She happened to see this kind of dichotomy between how they are when they first come in, when they're prejudging to having the actual visit to leaving and seeing this kind of duality of the racism on the front end and then having this wonderful experience with the doctor that they didn't want to see in the first place.   - Cedrick Smith And the only reason that they didn't want to see him was because, well, not knowing that the doctor was he or she knowing that this doctor was black. And so that that and I remember that date. I remember going into the restroom after I talked to her and I remember I cried. I just remember I was like because I didn't realize the kind of the micro trauma that even my staff was going through as they were trying to, quote, protect me or, you know, having to deal with this.   - Cedrick Smith And it just happened to the point for this particular person where, you know, it broke them. They were tired of seeing because they know what they mean to me.   - Cedrick Smith They know how hard we all work and how hard I work to to practice my craft. And so that's one. I mean, I remember being in a room one time, you know, I have my white coat on. Is this, you know, medical director, all the big name, everything. I'm talking to this guy and he I mean, literally for like five minutes, ask him questions about his.   - Cedrick Smith No problem. You know, what medications are you taking? Blah, blah, blah, going through the whole rigmarole. And he looks and says, wait, when is the doctor coming in? And I'm like, Mom, he wasn't blind yet.   - Cedrick Smith Twenty twenty vision. I'm like, I'm the doctor. And he just had this look on his face like, oh, and so I mean, I had one time where this one, this really hurt this, this was all of them hurt.   - Cedrick Smith But this is really painful because it was a child I was seeing a kid came in. The kid must have been three, four maybe, and was with the mother and nothing to get out like a sore throat.   - Cedrick Smith I was reading a chart kid, a little sore throat. So I walk in any time I know children are going to be in the room. I kind of want to come out a little more animation. You know, I'm kind of like big kid at heart. I love seeing children when they come in. I rarely see them in our urgent care setting. They typically take them now to urgent care pediatric locations, not ours. But occasionally I gets on well, anyway, this walk into the room and the little child goes, Mom, there goes a nigga like that.   - Cedrick Smith And and I and it the shock of my face.   - Cedrick Smith As I looked at the mom, I remember I kind of turned to when I said where, you know, trying to be funny, trying to diffuse it, trying to deal with it at the same time. And then the mom just looks at me like I don't know where she got that from.   - Cedrick Smith And so I went through the visit professionally. I saw the patient obviously treated her for her strep throat or otitis or earache.   - Cedrick Smith I'm sorry not to use medical terms or earache and treated, but I just remember going home that day and I just I just cried like a baby. In her I mean, now that was piercing that a three year old or four year old child that was, you know, you know, saying that I've worked all this way hard to get to where I am.   Cedrick Smith And at the end of the day, this is what I was reduced to from a three year old so that I   - Tosca Davis Don't forget about the symbols.   - Cedrick Smith I want to make sure you talk about, you know, when people, you know, undress and you see certain symbols on your body. Oh, yeah.   - Cedrick Smith No, I mean, I've had to see people who come in and have swastikas, you know, on it, just because you know what? I have to do a physical exam. I believe in doing a very thorough physical exam.   - Cedrick Smith We do it a little differently now because of COVID, because the touching and I may see 30 patients a day. We're little more different. If if it really doesn't want me doing a hard exam on this patient. I don't do it now just because we've got to use your stethoscope so many times and clean it off and you can miss something in, you know, transfer corona to somebody else.   Cedrick Smith I'm not going to do that.   - Cedrick Smith But in the normal setting, you know, I'm very thorough about doing examinations and people I've seen that. I remember one guy came in and he had a swastika around his chest. And I remember when he opened his shirt or opened his his gown for me to look at it. And it was like this moment of like he knew I saw it.   - Cedrick Smith You know, he knew you know, he knew that I knew exactly what it was, and it was just that moment of pause where I still had to stay professional.   - Cedrick Smith But, you know, a little bit of me was like, you know, you know, this this joking.    - Cedrick Smith You know, he I mean, I don't want to curse on the show, but, you know, every every bit of me had to be like, I can just put a rating on it or not not work.   - Cedrick Smith He didn't want me to, you know, look at him and take him out behind the building.   - Liesel Mertes Well, and and you one of one of the interviewees was I think at that point he was a doctor, but he was reflecting on his residency and talking about just even the denial of the, the title, like the purposeful way that that was withheld from him. You know, like there they call me by my first name or they'll call me mister. And these these things that, you know, like they're, they're signaling they're signaling something that is profound. And this is this is something I'm asking out of not out of my experience, but out of my intuition.   - Liesel Mertes I feel like the workplace is like it's generally a complex place to display sadness or grief.   - Liesel Mertes Anger oftentimes by white men is acceptable in, you know, even like you're saying, with a cursing, like it's acceptable in certain circumstances. But to be emotionally flooded in a way of anger, sadness, I'm I'm struck that it's it's hard in general. I feel like there are particular unspoken rules as to how black men and women are, quote unquote, allowed to feel angry or sad, like there are some pretty swift penalties or judgments that are placed on them.   - Liesel Mertes I’d love you to speak on that. If that has been your experience and if it has been to expand upon it or feel free to tell me I'm crazy if that hasn't been.   - Tosca Davis Well, yeah, I mean, I think that atrocities like. I was just going to say that, I mean, I know you asked and I know your podcast is specifically about the workplace, but, you know, we've been we've been taught that since birth. I have been very aware that I can't have certain behaviors.   - Tosca Davis I can't express certain feelings. I can't do things that, you know, the dominant white culture is allowed to do out in the open and free. I am in a place where I'm learning all of that. You're learning things because I'm learning things. Black people. You know, I my my plan is to to have full liberation. And so I am unlearning the oppression I'm learning. So I am when I'm loud, I'm loud. You know, as a child, you were told not to be loud or don't act like that in front of the white.   - Tosca Davis Folks don't do that in front of white folk. You know how white people look at you if you do that.   - Liesel Mertes And so, you know, can you tell me a little bit more about that? Just to flesh that out? Like what what were you hearing as a kid? Like, you know, that will get you in trouble?   - Tosca Davis Well, I won't. I'll say from my personal experience, I wouldn't get in trouble. And I and I want to be specific that that was my personal experience. I do know that there were certain families that you did have to act a certain way and you did get in trouble. But it was it was it was always I was always taught to kind of make yourself small.   - Tosca Davis That's what black people do. We make ourselves small so we won't be seen. So we won't be in the way. And then if you're a black woman, is the the, the teaching is supposed to be invisible. Don't be seen. Don't be heard. Make sure your hair is not wow. Which again, I go against everything which said I already told you when he first met me, my hair was big. I work in corporate America as someone with my natural hair.   - Tosca Davis I was one of the very few black women who who actually had the hair grow out of my scalp as the hair that I presented. And that is one of the things that when I was younger, we were taught to relax our hair to make sure that it was not big or not high. So everything all of that we're unlearning as adults. But but getting back to your point that definitely, you know, will bleed into the workplace. I remember reading about this lawyer who was he was he was a lawyer.   - Tosca Davis He was he was a big black bald guy. And just his body alone was intimidating. So he had to make sure that he was not loud, that he did speak. And this is an attorney where you need to be loud. You need to get into people's faces. You need to be aggressive. You need to tell people the law. And he had to make sure that he did not intimidate the white people, make sure that he was a scary to the white people.   - Tosca Davis So my entire life is making sure that I am that seen, that I'm not heard. And so, as as I've gotten older, I have released that. And you're going to get me I'm not going to code switch. And code switching is using a vernacular are using grammar that is more palatable to white people. I typically don't use that either. I talk the way I talk with black people because I'm not good at all. Of this is exhausting.   - Tosca Davis So you may be able to imagine if I have to change my speech, I have to make sure that I'm small and to make sure my hair is straight. I have to make sure all of these things are presentable and palatable to white people. How exhausting that is. So I stopped doing it. I have no longer doing any of that. You're going to get black Tosca and you've got to deal with it.   - Liesel Mertes That sounds exhausting on so many levels.   - Cedrick Smith Yes. And no, yeah, just to piggy back on it, I mean, it's the same way growing up is kind of like you don't really you don't really know how to process it when you're 10 or seven or five.   - Cedrick Smith You just know that it feels different that when we go over someone's house and have to be white folks, that mom was like overly or dad was like overly like, you know, when you get there, you can't do this, but you better sit still.   - Cedrick Smith But it just so it was always this kind of couching being couched in this whiteness.   - Cedrick Smith And in retrospect, you look at it as you're twenty five or thirty or whatever, you start and you start saying, like, man, that was so weird.   - Cedrick Smith You know, I want to be who I was. I could even dream like I want to dream, you know, it was almost like there's only to a certain point. I mean, you talk a lot in your podcast and regard to disruptive events and we all go through them as humans. That loss of a spouse, illness, sickness, whatever the case may be, whatever that disruptive, even the loss of a child or a child with a disability, whatever the case may be.   - Cedrick Smith But when you get the disruptive event in my life and I can speak for me is white supremacy, because when I look back at every stage of my life from being for you, from being in the fourth grade and and our teacher saying, hey, look, let's partner up.   - Cedrick Smith And you're thinking you're going to partner with one of your friends and you just kind of see the guy and and, you know, everybody's kind of grabbing hands.   - Cedrick Smith And then one kid leaves with white kids, says, you, I'm not part up with you. And you're like, wow, you know, we call it together. We do math problems together. And he looks at you and says, I'm not doing it because you're black. And you're sitting there in the fourth grade going what you like. How do you process that then in the seventh grade, you want to you're the best golfer in the junior golf in the area and you live a block away from the country club that you can join, that you can walk to every day and hone your game.   - Cedrick Smith You look in the fence, you see people playing golf and you're happy.   - Cedrick Smith You want to go do that. But you have friends who are members there. And you guys, hey, look, I like to come play the course and they just say, now you can't come play like we play basketball together.   - Cedrick Smith We play football together. We hang out together, going to ride our bikes together. Why can I come over here?   - Cedrick Smith And he looks and he said, what was my father's membership? And, you know, we can't have you there and you're in the seventh grade. You're 12, 13 years old. So again, it's this reboarding again.   - Cedrick Smith And when I'm 18 and when I'm 20, going for this interview, for this job and when I'm this, I get told so it doesn't end. So the disruptive part for me.   - Cedrick Smith Is the white supremacy, the white supremacy, and the microaggression is the microaggression of outright racism, to be quite honest with you, that I've had to deal with and I think that's what people don't realize is what we're bringing to the workplace before we even hit the door, before we even have to deal with some of the I want to say normal disruptive events that we all have.   - Cedrick Smith I have to deal with how my blackness is is is viewed. I have to make myself smile.   - Cedrick Smith I'm 6’4. I have to be a pretty good-looking guy, you know. But I do remember times where I had to make myself smile or my passion for a project or my passion for defending my workers and trying to get them raises or whatever the case may be, is seen not as being impassioned, but being angry.   - Cedrick Smith And being written up for that, do you like wait a minute, I mean, I've written up because, you know, you all did this to this coworker of mine and I'm just kind of fighting for them to get what they just deserve, being a part of an elite center, being a part of a team that does excellent work.   - Cedrick Smith So it's those types of instances I did a I did a presentation, I went to a conference, I saw the conference, I said, you know what? I'm sitting on the ice. And like, I can I can do a presentation here. If they're doing presentations like this, I know I can do one.   - Cedrick Smith So the following year, I want to do a presentation that happened to be on bias and happened to be on how to connect better with patients kind of using some of the tools that I use to help the other doctors understand, hey, this is how you can make your bottom line better by, you know, being more sticky with your patients, if you will, making them want to come back and being your marketing tool for you as they go out and tell how you need to go see Dr.   - Cedrick Smith Smith or go see Dr. Johnson, because they do this, this, this and this.   - Cedrick Smith Well, they put me on at five o'clock, which is the last presentation. And I said, OK, that's fine. I'm still going to do a great presentation. I end up doing a great presentation. No one left typically. Do you know about these conferences? People, if you've got a presentation at five o'clock, people are trying to run out the door, do the presentation when all of the the ratings come out. My presentation was rated number one at the highest ratings of all the presentations.   - Cedrick Smith So, after that, they had like a no excuse me. They after that they had a like a a gathering of all the doctors who presented and kind of like a social hour, happy hour type deal with drinks and so forth, little light bites. And when it the first thing when I walk in, one of the people were at the thing that was kind of over. It was kind of like, oh, here's the shining star, here's the Mister Presenter.   - Cedrick Smith But it was done in a very reductive manner. It was done with the sarcasm. Not like you really did a great job. That was awesome what you did. It was this kind of backhanded.   - Cedrick Smith You can't give me all the love that I know you would have given had Muskingum and white and I was blond hair and blue eyes and looked good. As I look. I know I wouldn't like all the star. No. And I was also told, hey, when you get back to your region, I want you to do that presentation in your region.   - Cedrick Smith Do you think I ever did that presentation? Do you think the guy that was over me let me do the presentation? He never did.   - Cedrick Smith He never did.   - Cedrick Smith And those are the types of things. That's the exhaustion. That's where you just sit back and go, hey, man, you know, what do I have to do?   - Cedrick Smith You know, how do I get rid of this this this being less than. And so it's a good thing, and that's what you see in the film   MUSICAL TRANSITION   This is the part of the show where I offer three key takeaways from the conversation.  And I’m still going to do that, but I want to remind you that this is just the first of a two-part series on working while black.  In our net episode, Cedric and Tosca will go deeper into the stories of the film, pulling back the layers on the many levels of exclusion that Black Americans face daily in the workplace. You can find out more about their film, the production company, and the details of Tosca’s story in the show notes.    Here are three key takeaways from my conversation with Cedric and Tosca… There is power to just listening to someone’s story.That is what empathy is all about, giving another person’s story weight and space.  The stories that Cedrick and Tosca are telling are not what I daily experience in the workplace of America.  Which means that it is even more important that I listen carefully, without judgment and “what-abouts?” and second guessing.  If you are White, be aware of what was going on in you as a listener.  What sort of responses or defensive postures were coming out in you?  Full disclosure, they were happening in me too.  This is because we don’t like to hear that the world is not how we want it to be.  The next question, for me and for other White listeners, is to ask where these messages might originate from? The marginalization of Black Americans is not a one-off that just happens every now and then.As I listen to Cedrick and Tosca and the many, many participants in the To Be Us documentary, I hear how much of their life experience has been marked by the long shadow of normative whiteness.  The pain is deep and real.  And, as I mentioned in the interview, if you are White, you have contributed to the problem.  I have been dismissive of Kwanzaa.  I remember dancing with a really handsome Black boy at a party and asking him, “So, you must be good at football.  Aren’t all of you good at football?”  These microaggressions create a cumulative weight. If you are Black and listening to this episode, I hope that there is a heightened sense of community.  One of Cedrick and Tosca’s aims is to let Black people know that they are not alone and that they are not crazy.  Their film captures this ethos powerfully and I look forward to sharing more of it with you next week in Part 2 of this series on Working While Black. OUTRO   For more info on Tosca’s Working While Black Story:  https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=1052380424956777&story_fbid=1460604034134412   Learn more about To Be Us Productions:  https://www.tobeusproductions.com/  

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Aren and Kevin are joined this week by Anitra! She's here to educate the boys on horror games. What do we find to be the best ones? What does the internet say are the best ones? Find out now!

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She looks at me, expecting. I answer, staring off into space, “I’m not hungry. I need you. I’m continually thirsty. There is no way to quench this shit that lives inside of me. I know who I am. I have retraced my steps and came face to face with that, which made me. It’s not a pretty thing. I’m a handsome boy, but that’s hiding a great deal of what slithers under the surface. My woman was made from clay by the devil herself, in agonizing boredom, defeated by a self induced decaying state of waiting for the next defecation. I hid in the man you knew. It was more beautiful this way. I knew from the beginning, you walk away from ugly things. I walked all night. All the boys look down. Look at me! One girl tries to turn me to stone with a single wish. I look away. She will never know my gaze again. Did you send your little man to do you dirty work for you? He reached. He tried to look. He shriveled into himself in the bitter cold and changed his mind. He wasn’t expecting to see a whip strapped to my hip and C sized stretches of fat swinging from my chest. Ha! What pitiful company the Queen has decided to be surrounded by these days. Its damn shame baby, just trust me. Shut your innocent eyes! Stop looking at monsters if you’re so keen on holding tight to fear. I’m not afraid of anything. Aren’t you jealous? Don’t you want me to teach you? I’d give you all my secrets if you let me. Deal of a lifetime. And still you sit, night after fucking night, begging a screen to satisfy your desire. It’s me. It’s only you that needs to admit it. Excuse me; this is the first bottle of wine I’ve played with since sometime in 2018. I’m just saying every damn thing that my skin is feeling. It’s best if you hit the mute button now. If I were you, I wouldn’t dare continue. I have no idea what I’m capable of. I may just convince you to come home. That would be disgusting! Invading your loving home. A wife and two dogs, a big screen TV, a cozy job working for the world you detest so much. But you’re comfortable, right? That’s all I care about. His arms, her arms, I don’t give a shit, just so long as you’re cuddling with something. Love is a bitch! Be careful with that thing. When you need some skin to fill the space between lovers, you know where to find me. Alluring, I know. But don’t trust the things I say. I’m a destructive woman behind a baby boy’s face and baggy clothes. I deceive. I get what I want. I play lots of games. I mix Moldavite with diamond and step in and out of dreams the way you that you think you step in and out of work. Who are you working for these days? Dare I speak? I’ve been avoiding your voice. Dare you seek out my face? Wouldn’t my eyes melt your golden skin on the spot in this state, the way that you’ve let your body decay?” Behind a bar leans the woman I love. She talks endless nonsense to another. Then another, these fucks are never ending really. She assumes I am speaking of her. But she is only my muse, she is only the begging; it hasn’t even started yet. This woman is not who she thinks she is. She has taken a different form. She grabs my hand and drags me to the dance floor downstairs in most of my dreams. But in this one, I’m just another fuck on the other side of her wall.  “Hey. Boy! What do you want? I don’t have time to chat you up all night and get to know your puppy’s name. Do you want a fucking drink or not.” Sold. She has my love. I am stupid. I can’t speak. Look at me!  “I don’t have anything to say but, please! For the sake of every star left in the sky above the city that you adore, give me your voice; give me everything. I am the only one. The rest where chosen to guide you to me. Be bold! Stop expecting love to gravel at your feet. Stop demanding that every body break their individual sight to speak the way that you do. You’ve got a defeated army following you. You can do better than that. You are from the land that quenches dying thirst with white sand. I am the black stallion that finds your naked flesh basking under the weight of an endlessly evil sun. She’s out for revenge! And you’re body alone remembers. When you finally have the strength to pull the hair of my mane to the curve in the center of my spine, I will ride you to the army you were meant to lead. These kids are not graveling at your feet to defeat boredom. These boys and girls have weapons of spiritual intuition and lucid dreams, and they are waiting to fall in behind your gaze, because you are Queen. They need no other reason to love your commands. You needn’t control anything. You were born to rule the only world that has ever existed. The one that belongs to you, and you alone control its fate.” 

DM Rob is England and DM Matt's school is fighting a COVID outbreak, so here is our first ever replay of one of our favorite episodes, "82 - Anyone Can DM." There is a lot we can all learn from the basics and some good Dungeon Master thinking here. We hope to bring you more of these types of episodes in the near future. See you next week!  Episode 82 - Anyone Can DM DMs Matt and Rob discuss the basics of what a Dungeon Master is and what a Dungeon Master does. Today, we review the DM advice presented in the 5e D&D Essentials Kit. But first, a game of "Weal or Woe," in which, Rob has to guess whether the RPG product is real or fake!  Matt and Rob discuss the roles presented in the Essentials Kit: referee, storyteller, and role-player. They break down the core mechanics and goals of any Dungeon Master. Conclusion: Anyone can DM!   Letters: Dalton asks: "Do I need a wizard in my party?" Adam writes: "Aren't there times when it is good to hide your DM dice rolls?"  Alexander writes: "Where are my half-feats?"   Links: Matt's Homebrew Half-Feat Rules   Music: Pac Div - Roll the Dice; BTS (featuring Hasley) - Boy with Luv; Weezer - In the Garage .

Grab your rose-colored glasses and get ready to have fun! I’m talking about brainstorming and how it helps develop a growth mindset!    Allow yourself to brainstorm the vision of where you’d like to see your health, business, and life. Just remember to come back down to reality (that’s the hardest part for me to remember!) and make a plan to create that reality by taking action.   How many times have you heard or thought?   “Don’t you work enough?” “Aren’t you busy enough?” “You have an awesome life - why do you need more?”   These statements come from a lack mindset. If you relate, I have an exercise for you! If you’re ready to achieve your dreams, it’s time to listen to this episode.   Don’t forget! The Made for More Workshop is happening November 10th at 12pm CST inside our Facebook Group! 2021 will only be different if you make a change, so join our free workshop and let’s get you clarity on how to reach your goals.   Check out The Aligned Life on my website, Instagram or Facebook.

Dr. Steven Flanagan is Howard A. Rusk Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Chairperson of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Health. He joined NYU Langone Medical Center in 2008 as Professor and Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine and Medical Director of Rusk Rehabilitation after serving as Vice Chairman of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He serves on numerous medical advisory boards and is a peer reviewer for several scientific journals. He has authored numerous chapters and peer-reviewed publications, and has participated in both federally- and industry-sponsored research. His medical degree is from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and he completed his residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center/Cabrini, Rehabilitation Medicine. PART 1 In Part 1 of his presentation, Dr. Flanagan discussed the value that physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) add to health care.His objective in this session is to give an overview of health care reform and its impact on PM&R. Many changes have occurred since he began practicing medicine three decades ago. Health care reform is real. From 1960 to 2010, wages and GDP increased, but nowhere close to the enormous rise in health care expenditures, which are not sustainable. Also, we no longer can claim that we have the best health outcomes compared to other nations. Recognizing that health spending could no longer continue at such a rapid pace, the government came up with something called the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) to limit the outlandish expansion of health care costs. The attempt never achieved what was intended and Congress terminated the SGR in 2015. It was replaced by MACRA, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which redefined how physicians would be reimbursed and it is based on quality measures that they would have to meet. The objective is to achieve the triple aim of health care reform: improve health care quality, produce better outcomes, and improve the patient experience. A quadruple aim includes improving the satisfaction of providers. He indicated that management of post-acute care is of importance and that PM&R is uniquely situated to be involved in achieving the triple aim.  It can do so by focusing on patient-centered coordinated care that is comprehensive across the entire continuum. PART 2  Listeners to Part 1 of Dr. Flanagan’s presentation may recall that he discussed health reform efforts to control health care costs and how the provision of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) services has a unique role to play in achieving health reform’s triple aim. In Part 2, his comments had a focus on intensive care unit patients, a group associated with large health care costs and one not usually associated with the provision of rehabilitation services. What about safety? It’s feasible, but is it wise? Should we get folks up and walking who are so critically ill? Aren’t we putting them at risk of all sorts of bad things from happening? It is safe and the outcomes are fine and there is research to prove it. We are enhancing mobility, decreasing the number of days patients are on ventilators, and in some cases, not only are we not causing worse mortality, we are decreasing mortality. If you are doing all of this, the last question is what about costs? Despite increasing the use of PT, OT, and Speech staff, by getting patients out of the hospital faster, there is a cost savings. A pilot study was done at NYU to look at what happens to patients after they left the hospital to see if there were any additional savings. The results show that it was possible to reduce hospitalization, reduce the average direct cost per day, and there was a significant increase in the proportion of patients who were discharged to the community with no services at all. The latter outcome represented an overall cost savings for the health system. He also provided information about something that is relatively new and what they are working on at NYU, which is site neutral payments. A question and answer period followed his presentation.

Aren't emotions fascinating? Emotions often drive us to take action yet we're often unaware of the emotions that we're feeling. Dr Orlena chats about how we can "create" our own emotions and increase the richness of our emotional tapestry in order to feel fit and fabulous. In the podcast: Sign up for Dr Orlena's Fit and Fabulous Family Summit Dec 4th-6th: https://www.drorlena.com/fit-and-fabulous-family-summit/ Book a feedback chat with Dr Orlena: https://bookme.name/drorlena/fit-and-fabulous-family-discovery-call

TITLE How Do We Navigate The Holidays During a Global Pandemic  GUEST  Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW EPISODE OVERVIEW  Jill is a grief expert, and she talks about options for the holidays.  What if we can’t be together? What if we’ve lost loved ones due to COVID? How do we handle politics at the table? What about those struggling because they have lost jobs? How do we include them without them feeling burdened? What should we remember? What are some bright spots? How can we create new traditions? How can we honor those we’ve lost. Aren’t we going to upset folks if we talk about the people who have died?  GUEST BIO Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, is an author, CEO, and therapist specializing in end of life and chronic illness, grief and loss, and dementia, and provides Critical Incident Stress Debriefing when a death occurs in a workplace. As CEO of Central Counseling Services in Riverside and Murrieta,  California, she and her business partner created a space for healing that is safe for those who have experienced loss & trauma, and makes it possible for clients to grow and heal. She is a certified by the Grief Recovery Institute,  and has created a training and certification for providing grief groups based on her “Finish, Reorganize and Reenter” process, with a full solution focused and secular curriculum for groups and retreats. Jill spent more than a decade with hospice as a medical social worker, and director of social workers, chaplains and grief staff for a large hospice covering more than 3,000 square miles. Jill was part of making her community dementia-friendly as a Purple City, and facilitates a dementia support group that is now online and open to all. As a clinician, Jill works with clients and families facing dementia, end of life, chronic illness, grief and loss of all kinds, and geriatric and aging issues. She also coaches those who have had a very recent loss in how to manage the immediate aftermath of a death, and therapists in helping grieving and dementia clients. She loves speaking about those areas on the national level. Her sense of humor fosters better learning. Her goal is to make therapists better at recognizing grief and dementia and knowing how to help clients effectively and with all the areas of life they impact. Jill came to her chosen areas of expertise through her extensive hospice experience and became a subject expert on grief after being widowed twice and marrying the funeral director who took care of both her late wives. Her second wife died as a result of Lewy Body Dementia. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the American Association for Therapeutic Humor (AATH).  Jill  has a website with resources for therapists and anyone interested in learning more about grief and dementia, www.jilljohnson-young.com, and one for grievers, www.yourpaththroughgrief.com.  She also co-hosts a weekly grief chat with Debra Joy Hart, “Humor, Grace and Grief” on Facebook Live. Her book “The Rebellious Widow: A practical guide to love and life after loss” will be out in March,  2021 in bookstores, online and in ebook format.  She now spends quiet evenings with Stacie in the mortuary several nights a week. They share their life with three adult daughters, two grandsons, and a small herd of Oodles, who normally go to work and presentations with her. In the current pandemic they help out at home.  PODCAST HOST Patricia Young hosts the podcast Unapologetically Sensitive, and works with Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) helping them to understand their HSP traits, and turning their perceived shortcomings into superpowers. Patricia is passionate about providing education to help HSPs and non-HSPs understand and truly appreciate the amazing gifts they have to offer. Patricia works globally online with HSPs providing coaching. Patricia also facilitates online groups for HSPs that focus on building community and developing skills (identifying your superpowers, boundaries, perfectionism, dealing with conflict, mindfulness, embracing emotions, creating a lifestyle that supports the HSP, communication, and more). LINKS Jill’ Links Website-- www.jilljohnsonyoung.com  Website--www.centralcounselingservices.net  Facebook--https://www.facebook.com/grieftalker/ Facebook--https://www.facebook.com/Riversidedementiasupport/ Instagram--https://www.instagram.com/jilljohnsonyounglcsw/ LinkedIn--https://www.linkedin.com/in/jilljohnsonyoung/.  My pet is sick: It’s time to say goodbye by Jill Johnson-Young Someone is sick: How do I say Goodbye? By Jill Johnson-Young Someone I love just died: What happens now? By Jill Johnson-Young Your own path through grief; A workbook for your journey to recovery by Jill Johnson-Young Amazon link for Jill’s books-- https://www.amazon.com/Jill-A.-Johnson-Young-LCSW/e/B07NPT5NYQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Episode 47: 20+ ways to manage change and loss through the holidays with Jill Johnson-Young https://unapologeticallysensitive.com/episode-47/ Episode 78 When Your Fur Person Dies with Jill Johnson-Young-- https://unapologeticallysensitive.com/episode-78/ Patricia’s Links HSP Online Course--https://unapologeticallysensitive.com/hsp-online-groups/ Podcast Survey-- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-fAYIyFgVb0VHlDorfm8ZdXClCcYDlv0cSP2RXZSZY16SIQ/viewform Receive the top 10 most downloaded episodes of the podcast-- https://www.subscribepage.com/e6z6e6  To write a review in itunes:  click on this link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unapologetically-sensitive/id1440433481?mt=2  select “listen on Apple Podcasts” chose “open in itunes” choose “ratings and reviews” click to rate the number of starts click “write a review” Website--www.unapologeticallysensitive.com Facebook-- https://www.facebook.com/Unapologetically-Sensitive-2296688923985657/ Closed/Private Facebook group Unapologetically Sensitive-- https://www.facebook.com/groups/2099705880047619/ Closed/Private Facebook group for therapists and healers-- https://www.facebook.com/groups/208565440423641/ Instagram-- https://www.instagram.com/unapologeticallysensitive/ Youtube-- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOE6fodj7RBdO3Iw0NrAllg/videos?view_as=subscriber Tik Tok-- https://www.tiktok.com/@hsppodcast e-mail-- unapologeticallysensitive@gmail.com Show hashtag--#unapologeticallysensitive  Shelly Aaron Productions—https://www.shellyaaron.com/ Music-- Gravel Dance by Andy Robinson www.andyrobinson.com

Welcome to Episode 59bee of Nooks and Crannies! Progressive Politics is Normal up Here, or Why Canadians are so Confused :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Welcome to our very first round-table discussion! We got Skippy from The Skip and Josh Sports Podcast and Cory from the Mind of a Skeptical Leftist (been good buddies with both for 4 years!) oh and Evan, some dude I met at a wine store…or Matty’s Hat! On part Bee we talk ballot initiatives, what the results entail for progressive change in the USA and other matters of import. Truth be told, I have been editing so much that I cannot at all remember what is in this episode aside from a whole bunch of funny sound drops to relieve the tension. Enjoy folks, feel free to share widely..that would be neat-o! https://nooksandcrannies.podbean.com/e/emergency-election-preview-how-to-suppress-democracy-with-ghosts Happy Birthday Matty, check your feeds today folks…we are releasing two more to celebrate! Hazah! Aren’t we Lucky? Yes I feel like I am mom…miss you so much today but I know you are listening as always. Much love folks, keep up the good fights...peace and solidarity forever. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Skip and Josh Sports Podcast:  https://skipandjosh.com Mind of a Skeptical Leftist: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftist/id1520146162 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: N&C Links All The Episodes https://nooksandcrannies.podbean.com All Our Links in One Place https://linktr.ee/nooksandcrannies   Drop us a line: Nooksandcranniespod@gmail.comTweet a little Tweet at Us: https://twitter.com/NooksCrannie Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/nooksandcranniespodcast Ponder Evan’s Blurry Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/nooks_and_crannies_pod/ Find Nooks and Crannies on Spotify Follow, Rate and Review on Podchaser (please!) Graphics by Donna Hume https://donnahumedesigns.com/contact ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Theme Music Attribution: Cullah - "Neurosis of the Liver" on "Cullah The Wild" https://www.cullah.com/discography/cullah-the-wild/neurosis-of-the-liver Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Cullah - "Falling" on "Cullahtivation" https://www.cullah.com  Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Cullah - "Chuckling Duckling" on "" (https://www.cullah.com) Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Welcome to Episode 59eh of Nooks and Crannies! The View from America’s Hat or How to Explain Trump to Canadian Teens? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Welcome to our very first round-table discussion! We got Skippy from The Skip and Josh Sports Podcast and Cory from the Mind of a Skeptical Leftist (been good buddies with both for 4 years!) oh and Evan, some dude I met at a wine store…or Matty’s Hat! On this edition (next one published today as it is Matty’s Burf Day) the fellas discuss the aftermath of a Biden win and how the progressive left should respond. We speak to the socio-cultural implications of Trumpism and attempt a half-arsed definition as well. Skippy is struggling to explaion why so many people would vote for such a monster, Cory is dissalusioned by the polarization and Evan…well, he sorta thinks Biden is another neo-con who will do nothing to inspire the hopes and dreams of a nation. https://nooksandcrannies.podbean.com/e/emergency-election-preview-how-to-suppress-democracy-with-ghosts Happy Birthday Matty, check your feeds today folks…we are releasing two more to celebrate! Hazah! Aren’t we Lucky? Yes I feel like I am mom…miss you so much today but I know you are listening as always. Much love folks, keep up the good fights, peace and solidarity forever. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Skip and Josh Sports Podcast:  https://skipandjosh.com Mind of a Skeptical Leftist: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-mind-of-a-skeptical-leftist/id1520146162   :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: N&C Links All The Episodes https://nooksandcrannies.podbean.com All Our Links in One Place https://linktr.ee/nooksandcrannies  Drop us a line: Nooksandcranniespod@gmail.comTweet a little Tweet at Us: https://twitter.com/NooksCrannie Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/nooksandcranniespodcast Ponder Evan’s Blurry Pictures: https://www.instagram.com/nooks_and_crannies_pod/ Find Nooks and Crannies on Spotify Follow, Rate and Review on Podchaser (please!) Graphics by Donna Hume https://donnahumedesigns.com/contact  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Theme Music Attribution: Cullah - "Neurosis of the Liver" on "Cullah The Wild" https://www.cullah.com/discography/cullah-the-wild/neurosis-of-the-liver Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Cullah - "Falling" on "Cullahtivation" https://www.cullah.com  Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Cullah - "Chuckling Duckling" on "" (https://www.cullah.com) Under license (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Are you planning to take a trip, a visit, or a vacation? Aren’t all of those the same? No, not really! Each has some specific implications for the impact on traveling with your baby. Car, train, plane: What will work best for a breastfeeding baby, a mother who is pumping, or both? How much extra drive-time do you need to build into your car trip to reach your destination on time? You’ve got to pack, but how can you plan for diapers, feeding gear, snacks, clean-up, and pump equipment? What about a backup plan, especially if you’re in a rural neighborhood where overnight delivery of a replacement part isn’t possible? With all of the conflicting information about storing and saving, what do you need to know about transporting your milk? Then, of course, there are the little extra hassles like if you don’t have access to electrical power, potable water, or if your family criticizes you for breastfeeding your baby. Join Marie as she answers these and many more questions!

Well, just my luck. Depressed and defeated, I took my microphones to Washington Square Park to see how my fellow New Yorkers were coping with the election results. It was a beautiful fall day and New York was A buzz with farmers markets, art, live jazz, poets and artists all converging to lend each other moral support.  People were organizing for an "count all votes," rally that was incredibly peaceful. But in mere moments turned into a blood bath. No where is safe. I am so fucking sad.  Even if Biden wins. HOW COULD IT HAVE BEEN THIS CLOSE. OOf. It hurts, it hurts so bad. The worst part is I somehow tricked myself that this time of quarantine was going to do something to the collective fabric to inspire compassion for your fellow countryman. I am so fucking bored of racism and intolerance. Aren't you? AREN'T WE ALL. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.  We'll, here we are. There's literally no where to go but up. Started from the bottom and now we're...where. All I can do is keep trying to spread love and laughter in my wake and continue to support light and love and good in this word and have faith that enough of us are out there fighting the good fight.  This is life or death. This is biblical. This is fucking crazy. Don't lose hope. We just have to take a breather and start all over again. This doesn't end with a Biden win. The senate is still republican, the world is still full of bipartisan vitriol and meanwhile the world is literally burning.  Sending everyone as much love as I have in my bleeding, crumpled heart.  Check out: Oriel Ceballos - @or1el/Linktr.ee/Or1tel Check out the artwork: www.fightdontstarve.com and www.onefairwage.com An article from NYT about the protest violence: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/nyregion/nyc-presidential-election-protests.html Music: Noah Lampert  Check out his podcast at syncpodcast.com My instagram: @drznightingale  My website: www.zoenightingale.com Check out my sponsor www.promescent.com use my name "Zoe15" to get 15 percent off your whole purchase on all kinds of products that can extend your timeline in the bedroom. Lubes, potions, clitoral stimulation gels, condoms they have everything you need!! 

In today's episode, we share 3 qualities of safe people — the kind of people that help you, care for you, and are trustworthy. We also discuss how to interact with unsafe people — should we just avoid them at all costs? Aren't we all to some extent unsafe?

Hello friends! Aren's voice was broken this week so I found the best Plan B I could! StaticArbiter (twitch.tv/staticarbiter) joins Kevin this week to talk about a...very strange dance competition by Gamestop, Sony shutting down a company who wanted to make customPS4 Faceplates, and some of our early Game of The Year Predictions! Come hangout with us and don't forget to leave us a review and tell us how our guest did!

Aren’t we all super happy that at this slumber party EVERY DAY is Halloween?! We took a field trip back over to Genre Junkies Podcast to discuss Adam Cesare’s Clown in a Cornfield. Enjoy!

Stepping into an altered state of consciousness via psychedelics can be a life changing experience. The ego is blocked, opening the door to new opportunities of enlightenment and healing. In this 2 part series Celestial and Espie share their own experiences with psychedelics and the learnings they received. Aren't you curious about Celestial's acid trip in church? Tune in to join us on this adventure of the mind, body & spirit. 

Oh life! Aren’t you fun!! But holy crap if you aren’t also full of so much unknown! So how do we do it? How do we keep showing up? How do we not spontaneously combust? How do we not have panic attacks every hour or lay in bed all day when we have no idea what the future holds? And when we have no idea what’s coming for us? Good question! Here’s what I’ve got so far: 5 quick tools for showing up in uncertainty! I know it will serve you! It’s been helping me! And yes, we don’t know what’s going to happen...but we know how we want to show up! In this episode I quickly break down some ideas for HOW to do it! Let’s go! Show UP for 2021 with my Year of Awesome calendar on sale now! https://partywithalison.com/products/2021-year-of-awesome-calendar-1 Eric's closing song is "Phone Book" from the dopest stock music library ever... Pleasant Pictures Music Club Use code: AWESOMEWITHERIC for 20% off! https://pleasantpictures.club

Folks, we’ve given it some thought and have decided that we are no longer going to cover America’s Next Top Model. Instead, we are going to drive ourselves considerably less mad watching the 1984 procedural situation comedy Night Court! Isn’t that better? Aren’t you in a better mood already? Anyways, this week we watched a really weird episode from the show’s fifth season, “The Girl Who Needs A Miracle,” in which a bunch of models get makeovers. Will Judge Stone like the Mia Farrow haircut one of the models is given? Will Rufus the cat successfully distract all three people involved in the creation of this podcast? Will Spouse get robbed by another Tyra Mail? Listen on, dear listener!S05E03: The Girl Who Needs A MiracleShow Instagram: @restingonprettypodcastEmail the show: restingonprettypodcast@gmail.com

Aren't we all feelin' a little Grimey this spookiest of days, Halloween?! Your Genuine Wrestleboys are back on this most haunted of days to talk all things from the last week pro wrestling! Including: WWE's Hell In A Cell PPV, NXT Halloween Havoc, AEW Dynamite, and the amazing matches we got this week like Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for the SmackDown Women's Championship inside Hell In A Cell, Io Shirai vs. Candice LeRae in a Tables, Ladders, and SCARES Match for the NXT Women's Championship, and WALTER vs. Ilya Dragunov in a BRUTAL but INCREDIBLE match for the NXT UK Championship! Go to our Linktree for all our sponsors and how to follow us! linktr.ee/genuinewrestleboys Support Genuine Wrestleboys by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/genuine-wrestleboys Find out more at https://genuine-wrestleboys.pinecast.co

Join us around the (metaphorical) campfire as we tell our own versions of some of our favorite scary stories, with Special Guest, our Mom! Tales include The Pink Sweater, The High Beams, The Clown Statue, Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light?, and The Black Velvet Band. Happy Halloween!

Welcome to the show!Are you ready to unleash your voice?  That's what it's going to take to amplify your authority and expertise and tap into the power of your natural voice.  That's what I'm talking about today!So many people, even the ones that are aware that they need to do some work on their voice have NOT unleashed their voice.If you want to stop the scroll you are going to have to do something with your voice to make me want to stay.To command a presence, you are going to have to step into the power of your voice.If you are an entrepreneur, small business owner, or professional who can't seem to get people to stop and listen, if you struggle to try to get your words from your head out of your mouth, or even if you wonder why the other guy who doesn't have half the experience you do seems to have a bigger following and more success...this episode is for you.To keep me from tuning out, you will have to use your voice to captivate me.Are you ready to have inner peace knowing that you've got just the right words and they flow out of your mouth with ease?  Are you ready to have people hang on your every word?Are you ready to amplify your authority and expertise and finally step into the natural power of your greatest asset, your voice?A lot is at stake heading into 2021, what will be the year of connection, and guess where we connect with you?  Yep, your voice.In this episode, I'm talking about why it's so critical to unleash your voice and start to reveal the best version of you.It's critical that you rewrite the internal drivers that are calling the shots on your voice and keeping you limited.  It's critical that you shift what is in the muscle memory and get some new voice habits working for you.Aren't you ready to unleash your voice?I hope you will join me for my FREE 3 live master class training that is starting on November 10th.If you want to join, just go to www.captivatetheroom.com/3free

Aren and Kevin are back to talk about all the Video Game News that they care about. Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon is getting a remake, Assassin's Creed is getting a show, and Gamestop might finally stop opening new games and making you pay full price for them! Check out this week's episode now!

"At least..." "This too shall pass! "oh you're getting your baby! "Aren't you scared?" --- all shit not to say, especially to someone navigating pregnancy after loss. But what about the term Rainbow Baby? This colloquial term refers to a healthy baby born after loss. Sounds nice right? Today, Sharon and Liz answer a listener question about the term "Rainbow Baby" and more specifically how to support parents as they navigate pregnancy and parenting after loss. For some, there is hope and power behind the term rainbow baby. Rainbow baby is a term that people have latched onto because it's comforting, rainbows are beautiful and a sign of joy. But not every parent identifies with the term "Rainbow Baby" and frankly not everyone gets a rainbow baby. Liz and Sharon dive into their feelings around the label of rainbow baby, parenting after loss, and tangible and sensitive ways to support those navigating pregnancy after loss. October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. This type of pain and grief is something that impacts 1 in 4 pregnant people. So it is highly likely that someone close to you has experienced loss, even if they haven't shared it publicly. Mentioned in this episode: Ep. 29 Stillbirth is Still Birth Resources for Supporting Loved Ones After Loss Still birthday Pregnancy After Loss Support Speechless to Supportive: How to Support Loved Ones After Loss Have a question for us? Send us a voice memo or shoot us an email. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unrefinedshe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unrefinedshe/support

Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." But is this true? Aren't we challenged with unique situations in our generation that previous generations were not faced with? In a time charged with political and social unrest, truth and comfort can still be found in the Torah and in the teachings of Yeshua. Join Rabbi Damian as he explains how to listen to their common voice of truth.