Podcasts about Betty Draper

I denne episoden snakker Heidi med Marie Aubert og Linda Fisher-Høyrem om "Det usynlige barnet", Tove Janssons eneste novellesamling om mummitrollene. Tittelnovellen handler om et barn som har blitt så skremt at hun har blitt usynlig. I andre historier møter vi en hemul som lengter etter stillhet, en filifjonke som tror på katastrofer, og et lite dyr som ønsker seg et navn – for å nevne noe.Marie er journalist og forfatter, mens Linda er filosof og forfatter. I samtalen får vi høre om tyngende forventninger, sunt raseri, hattifnattenes (og Mummipappas?) tomhet og jag etter vind, og Snusmumrikken som møter seg selv i døren. Hemulene får sitt pass påskrevet som verdens verste å være på hyttetur med (samtidig som Heidi egentlig kjenner seg litt igjen i dem). Dessuten får vi vite hvem i Mummidalen som ifølge Marie ligner på Betty Draper fra "Mad Men", og helt til slutt gir Linda oss en hurtigleksjon i aristotelisk metafysikk! OPPDAG: Tove Jansson er produsert av Heidi Sævareid. Musikk ved Andreas Opstad Larsen.Følg gjerne @oppdagtovejansson på Instagram for oppdateringer og annet innhold!

Moms can be many things, but on screen if they're hot they also often happen to be kind of evil – or, if not outright evil, still pretty bad. From The Graduate's Mrs. Robinson and Mad Men's Betty Draper to The O.C.'s Julie Cooper and Regina's Mom in Mean Girls and beyond, this trope pops up all over film and television. Thankfully this is finally starting to change as more modern shows and films have started tackling this trope head on, but it still hasn't totally gone away. So let's take a deeper look at why media was so afraid of hot moms, the problematic sub-trope that often pops up, and the iconic characters like Married with Children's Peggy Bundy and Modern Family's Gloria Delgado-Pritchett that started flipping the script. Click here to watch the video version of this Take!

Frances and Marge chime in with their thoughts on Mad Men Season 3, Episode 9, Wee Small Hours. TW/CW this episode contains sexual haressment and discussion of two culturally significant murders/terrorist attacks. Betty and Henry begin a love affair in letters, Sal is accousted by Lee Jr, and Don is feeling the strain of the demanding Conrad Hilton. inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit  

Frances and Marge jump back into discussing Mad Men Season 3, Episode 8, Souvenir.  Betty takes on Rome!   TW/CW Pete coerces a young German Aupair- we discuss this around the 20-minute mark   inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit  

Frances and Marge dive into Mad Men Season 3, episode 8, "Souvenir" Betty is still trying to save the township/woo Henry Francis, and after her victory and kiss with Henry, jets off to Rome with Don.   Woman of Note Maria Montessori inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit  

Frances and Marge continue their discussion of this mid-Season 3 episode.  Is Henry Frances a Daddy? Should Peggy take Duck up on his offer, either of them?   inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit Please leave us a rating and positive review!

Season 3 Episode 7 Seven Twenty Three- Frances and Marge discuss Betty's flirtation with Henry Francis, Peggy's proposition, and Don's dilema in signing a contract. inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit Woman of Note Dorothy Draper

...But what does it mean to be ambitious? Join us as we dissect what career, "girlbossing" and priorities mean to us - in and outside of the office. Are you more of a Miranda Priesly or a Betty Draper? Is one better than the other? Let's Check-In! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biascheckin/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biascheckin/support

Frances and Marge continue their rundown of Mad Men Season 3, Episode 2, "Love Among the Ruins" Betty is upset by her father's declining health, but she doesn't seem to have any solutions. Peggy has a one night stand.   inasnitpodcast@gmail.com

Frances and Marge do a deep dive into Mad Men Season 3, Episode 2, "Love Among the Ruins" In this episode, we discuss the Melba Toast that is Paul Kinsey, Joan continues to amaze us all in every color of the rainbow, and Peggy pushes back on the Patio campaign idea. WON Dorothy Dandridge inasnitpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/inasnit

When we watch characters like Marge Simpson or Mad Men‘s Betty Draper, their “homemaker” status is typically the butt of a joke. However after plenty of post-lockdown reflections, the status quo has clearly shifted back to domestic preferences. And although she’s worked damn hard for her planet-spanning, twenty-plus-year success, Canada’s Jill Barber is ready to […]

The most easily recognized teachers in our culture are on the big screen. So when we think about good teaching, it's almost impossible not to think of Robin William's character in Dead Poets Society standing on a desk and inspiring his students. This might be part of the problem. When teaching is associated with unrealistic Hollywood characters, it can create impractical or ridiculous assumptions about what teachers do. In this episode, we hear how the stereotypes of teachers may be contributing to teachers' decisions to leave education. Music: Theme Song By Julian Saporiti “NPC Theme” by HoliznaCC0 is in the Public Domain. “Sunny Afternoon” by HoliznaCC0 is in the Public Domain.  “Infrastructure” by Scott Holmes Music is licensed under a  CC BY-NC license. “Just a Blip” by Andy G. Cohen is licensed under a CC  BY license. “Room With a View” by Jahzzar is licensed under a CC BY-SA license. Movie Clips: Freedom Writers (Paramount Pictures) Dead Poets Society (Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) School of Rock (Paramount Pictures) Ferris Bueller (Paramount Pictures, United International Pictures) Transcript:  Episode 3: “What Would Robin Williams Do?” There is a picture-day-esqu photo on my parents' fridge of me sitting on my dad's lap. I am wearing a tie-dye shirt and my orange hair is in its natural state of an Eddie Munster widows peak. My dad is in a blue button down and has on a tie. My cheeks crowd my eyes, my smile is so big. My dad, who doesn't always smile for pictures, has a cheeky grin.    This picture was taken around the same time that my dad squatted down to eye-level with me and said: “When people ask you where you got your red hair, you tell them the milkman. Okay?”   He didn't make a big deal about telling me this. It was just a directive, and I said okay. I figured, yeah, that makes sense.    So as adults would come by, ruffle my hair and say things like, “Oh my, what pretty red hair. Where did you get hair like that?”   I'd look up at them, smile, and tell them, “The Milkman.”    They would guffaw, cough down a drink, blush, and I'd try to explain, “You know, because he delivers things.”    And they'd laugh out an “I'm sure he does!” and find my dad who would have a grin settled between his bouncing shoulders as he muffled a laugh, and my mom would say something like “G-uh, Darcy Joe”   Not to be heavy handed, but the stereotypes of what a milkman may or may not do when visiting people's homes is what makes the joke land. This joke was lost on me until high school. I didn't understand the baggage associated with being a milkman.   Language matters. Words like milkman have connotations - they carry weight or have stereotypes attached to them. That's why I can't flip someone off and say, “Why are you upset,this means joy to me.” There are too many representations of middle-fingers that situate the digit as a symbol of the obscene. Repetition and representation give meaning.    The middle finger or terms like milkman or teacher, carry a history of expectations and stereotypes. Last episode we heard about the historical inheritance of teachers, which is significant in how we view modern teachers. But history isn't the only thing that impacts how we view teachers. Today, we're going to look at the teacher stereotypes in pop-culture and how these stereotypes can be contributing to teacher attrition. This is Those Who Can't Teach Anymore, a 7-part podcast series exploring why teachers are leaving education and what can be done to stop the exodus. I'm Charles Fournier. Here is part 3: “What Would Robin Williams Do?” Molly Waterworth: I've gotten to the point where I see any TV show or movie where some sort of plot device hinges on the inspirational teacher. And I just roll my eyes.   This is Molly Waterworth. We heard from her last episode, and she just left education after teaching English for 8 years. She points out a stereotype of inspiring teachers in media: Molly Waterworth:I just can't.  I can't stomach it because it's so saccharin. It completely obscures the fact that these inspiring teachers that are either drawn from real life or the product of someone or someone's imagination, it completely obscures the fact that their inspirational teaching is very likely the outgrowth of massive mental health deficiencies. And like a complete imbalance of where they spend their time and where they're getting like their soul fed. Inspiring teacher stories make me feel awful.    That shouldn't be the case, right? Inspirational teacher movies should INSPIRE. And they can and they do - they inspired me - but what Molly points to is a nagging reality in many inspirational teacher stories.    Dead Poets Society Clip   As you can hear in this scene from Dead Poets Society, Mr Keeting, played by Robin Williams, pushes his student, Todd Anderson.. And in this unconventional way Mr. Keeting helps Todd start to gain some confidence and see his potential. Similar scenes occur in other famous teacher movies, like Mr Holland's Opus, or Freedom Writers.    These movies project a fantasy of heroism onto education, and people love it. Inspirational teacher movies are usually underdog stories: A  teacher rails against convention and inspires and does amazing things for others no matter the personal cost. We are attracted to this as a culture. We want heroes that are selfless. We want to see ourselves as capable of being like Robin Williams' character in Dead Poets Society.  And the way these movie teachers influence kids…man, that's the dream.  But, several if not most of the teachers in those stories that inspire don't have the healthiest work-life balance. They give everything to their students - time, energy, love, inspiration. And these movie teachers inspire in the public comments like, “We need more teachers like this” or “I wish teachers would be more like (whatever movie teacher).” But we need to ask, what is expecting teachers to fit a stereotype asking of real teachers?   Think of Freedom Writers, a movie based on the real-life Erin Gruwell, who is played by Hillary Swank. She is the epitome of the inspirational teacher stereotype. Halfway through the movie, her husband leaves her because she is spending so much time focused on her students,  Freedom Writers Clip  The film creates a feeling that the husband might be unrealistic. As an audience, we're rooting for Erin Gruwell because she does amazing things - her husband points this out. And don't get me wrong, Ms.Gruwell is phenomenal and her story is amazing, but there might be danger in presenting this story as a precedent for what good teaching looks like. Yes, she is a good teacher, but at what cost? In most other films about different careers, it's likely the main character would realize that work is taking too much and family is more important, but not in inspirational teacher movies. Expecting teachers to do what Gruwell does is expecting teachers to forfeit their own lives for students. It's expecting martyrdom. This is a stereotype.   And the reality is different. Molly Waterworth: We're not martyrs, and we're not perfect. And there are things that can be said about the profession as a whole and certainly about individual teachers that needs improvement, absolutely. But I think a lot of it maybe stems from just this sense that teachers aren't entirely human - that we are saints. And so therefore, we shouldn't worry about all of these factors that are making our jobs harder, because we have this big calling on our lives that turn us somehow into people that don't have needs. This language that surrounds teaching is significant. It feeds the stereotype of selflessness, which in turn has an impact on how teachers are treated. Right now teachers are feeling burned out because this stereotype is unrealistic - it's creating an expectation that makes teachers want to leave education.  I met up with Rachael Esh at Welcome Market Hall in Sheridan, Wyoming on the eve of her very last day as a teacher. Rachael Esh:  It's a bit of a stereotype with teachers. It's like, Oh, this has been your calling since you were this age, or since this teacher impacted you. This idea of a calling is that you don't teach for the money, you do it for the kids because it is what you were meant to do. It is your destiny or purpose. A quote unquote “calling” can create a sense of guilt in teachers when they realize, crap, I'm not getting paid enough for this, which is in contrast to the narrative surrounding  teaching like Molly points out: Molly Waterworth: People don't get into this for the money, why would they? But they're in it for the kids, and they're in it for that sense of purpose and mission. That's like, “Yeah, but I also would like to be paid.” So to have a calling is to feel like teaching is more than a job, more than a paycheck, it is a clear directive from some higher power for the direction your life should take in service of others. Rachael didn't feel like that stereotype matched her experience. Rachael Esh: And I don't feel like that's usually the case. It's more of a roundabout zigzag pattern. This surprised me. I grew up wanting to be a teacher because, as Rachael said, I had some amazing teachers leave an impact on me, but I never thought teaching was my calling. It was something that sounded cool, and it was made cooler by movies like Dead Poets Society. I wrote the movie's motto, “Carpe Diem” on all of my notebooks. And I liked reading and writing and teaching people, and teaching would give me a chance to coach. Not once did I get the sky part and shine a light on my career path. It wasn't a calling, and of the 30 teachers that I interviewed, hardly any of them felt like teaching was their calling either. For Rachael and Molly, they had different plans with where their lives were going to go. Rachael Esh: So my undergrad I actually got at Ohio University in environmental biology, and so I thought I was gonna maybe do field work or something like that. Molly Waterworth: I declared my major as geography, but I did it with the intent of being able to go into the forest service. But I found out pretty quickly that I really didn't care about any of my classes. And I found out that I was going to have to take calculus and I wasn't interested in doing that. So I kind of bounced around into various humanities areas. And both Rachael and Molly landed in education because they each had a summer experience in college that put them in front of kids. Rachael took an internship teaching environmental education and Molly went to China with a group from college and got to help kids with their conversational English. They both found their way to being educators because of positive experiences teaching kids. Rachael Esh: So I knew I either wanted to go on to park service or education after working with kids then. And so it kind of just worked out that getting my degree in education was just more accessible, and I kind of wanted to separate my fun time, which was like outdoors, from my work. So I decided to kind of go into education. And I mean, the kids are never boring. So you're like, well, heck this. This beats an office job any day of the week. And when Molly returned from China, she declared first as an elementary teacher.  Molly Waterworth: I think that when I envision myself being a teacher, I thought of myself reading with kids, and talking about literature and talking about books and big ideas and stuff like that. And so at that point, I had the very obvious revelation that I should be a secondary English teacher because that would afford me that opportunity most often. So that was kind of my meandering path into into There was no bright light for either of these teachers, no calling. Nothing so profound. Like most people, they stumbled onto their desire to do a job because they took advantage of an opportunity and realized, “Hey, this isn't bad.” And Teaching wasn't a last option for either of them. They weren't failing at other things in life, which is tied to another stereotype of teaching. If teachers aren't depicted as martyrs, they're often seen as selfish or deviant or lazy or dumb or boring, like in Ferris Bueler's Day Off. Ferris Bueller Clip And this image of teachers perpetuates the idea that teaching is a last ditch option for people that can't do anything else. This stereotype often leads to a willingness to discredit teachers as experts in their field. Not being seen as experts in their field is a major reason teachers gave for leaving teaching.  For Molly or Rachael, they became teachers by choice. They didn't need to fall back to something easier. It wasn't a School of Rock scenario, where Jack Black's character, Dewey Finn, hits rock bottom before becoming a long term sub proving that someone with no qualifications can be a better teacher than trained and dedicated teachers - a trope that we see over and over again.  In the film, Jack Black's character even draws attention to a common saying that is tied to education.  School of Rock Clip Dylan Bear is a PE teacher in Pinedale, WY. We sat at a picnic table in front of his house with a view of the Wind River Mountain Range, while we drank coffee, snacked on a loaf of banana bread he was gifted from a student, and talked about these sayings and images surrounding education.  Dylan Bear: I think another thing, we've gotten a lot of quotes, like funny quotes in the society, like, oh, teachers, they take these jobs for June, July and August. I think that's something that needs to stop.  What Dylan has noticed is the negative lens with which culture and Hollywood has viewed teachers. Like I mentioned earlier, we stereotype teachers as good or bad, the marty/savior type that saw teaching as a calling or the boring/lazy person who saw teaching as a backup plan.  But, Dylan, like Molly and Rachael, didn't see teaching as a calling. He didn't see teaching as a fall back career either. Dylan Bear: So I started off as an engineer, and those were just not my people. And I was looking more for a little more social environment, a little more high energy versus analytical, consistently, day in and day out. And so I went from engineering to math in secondary math education because I liked working with kids. And then after a few years of that three years deep, looking at all the papers all the time, I just couldn't do it, so I switched from math. I was actually sitting in Prexy's Pasture and Laramie. And the special ed teacher came and sat down next to me and she said, What are you thinking about? Instead, there was my longboard. I said, I don't know if I can do math the rest of my life. Would you rather be teaching math or out playing a field, you know, and I thought like instantly. Dylan would rather be out in a field. Teaching was a good path for Dylan - not a calling and not a last ditch option. He takes his job seriously, and he is someone that plans on teaching for some time. And when Dylan started feeling a little burned out, he moved towns and got a change of scenery, so that he could keep teaching. He isn't naive to the reality of burning out or how difficult the job is, nor is he jaded in thinking that anyone could do this job. The key word here is reality. The reality of a teacher is that teachers are human, not a stereotype. We make mistakes and we have successes and we make some profound impacts on kids and we make some mediocre impacts on kids.  Dylan Bear: Some teachers are really good, and some are really lazy. And some kids are really good, and some are really lazy. So it's like, we don't want to paint a broad brush over everybody. And I think sometimes we do an education because there's so many people in education. It's like one of the leading job forces out there. So you hear these stories that are negative about one or two teachers, and then you say all I'm doing the same with kids. I hate when people say, kids are always on their phone. It's like, no, no, some kids are on their phones. Some of them are waiting for you to talk and give them a good lesson. I think education gets those broad brushes which devalue people. And that's a dangerous world.  Dylan recognizes the need for grace and the danger of broad generalizations of any groups. He recognizes the fact that people are human, but sometimes we only get a snapshot of education, which creates these generalizations that feed into the stereotype of teachers as either good or bad. Dylan experienced this first hand when he had a student continuously refuse to take off his hat.  Dylan Bear: I was like, This is absurd. So I'm a climber, and so he was playing badminton, and I popped his hat off and ran up and jumped up the basketball hoop and climbed in the rafters and hung it from like, the highest point in the gym, like, 50 foot up. And yeah, not very smart, but it was like, I didn't think about it, but kids Snapchatted it. And all the kids came like, “Oh, we saw you but it was out that was so funny. That it's like you have to be aware of that.”  The snapchat of Dylan only includes his climb. It doesn't include the warnings he gave the student from that day and previous days. It doesn't include Dylan's positive relationship with the student and the students' family, or all of the normal/positive interactions Dylan has with his other students, or the mundane aspects of his job that he does everyday. The Snapchat lacks context, and this is how stereotypes begin and are fed. A single image becomes the representation of the whole - even if it is a fragment of the reality.   This is the kind of thing that becomes an overgeneralization - a stereotype of teachers. These stereotypes are on social media and in movies and they contribute to cultural narratives about education that are unrealistic. Some of these glimpses and snapshots might be part of what teachers expected education to be, which is misleading and could be contributing to the disillusionment leading to teachers quitting. Here's Molly again. Molly Waterworth:  I think that the image probably came from a couple of places, a selective memory of my high school and middle school classrooms. So thinking back to those good experiences that I had as a student, I was like, “Okay, I want to create that for other people.” But I also had it in my head, the the image of the cool, thoughtful, worldly literary teacher that you see in like Dead Poets Society or any number of  other movies like that - opening up doors and exploring identity and figuring out who we are all along the way.  Dead Poets Society Clip I love Dead Poets Society, and Freedom Writers, but I remember telling my wife, after our first week in real teaching jobs: “This sure as hell isn't Dead Poets Society.” I had been fooled with what teaching would actually be, and this is also an image of what the public seems to see of educators. They want the engaging classroom, the teacher that inspires, and don't we all. Or they expect the lazy, boring, slacker who got into teaching because their real goals didn't pan out. But education is more complex than a movie.  Molly Waterworth:  The crushing reality of grading was something that I hadn't quite prepared myself for. I think that I knew going into teaching, because obviously, you know, that you're going to have to grade and that's part of the job. So the grading part was overwhelming. You never see in movies, like staff meetings, or having to figure out the copier or the deeply existentially difficult process of figuring out the culture of the building in your first year. Just the kind of mundane but deeply tangible on a daily basis struggle of making sure that everything fits in your lesson plan. Like that's not glamorous. But it's, it's the part that makes or breaks you as a teacher of just balancing the day to day and making sure that you're hitting your standards and teaching the stuff that you don't care about, but you have to do anyway. Like, Robin Williams isn't gonna do that. I would love to have a b-roll version of Dead Poets Society where Robin WIlliams' character, John Keating, sits for 4 hours grading papers, intermittently standing up to stretch, get a coffee, shake his head and mumble things like, “I swear we went over that.” Molly Waterworth: You never see an inspiring teacher movie where they are tracking missing assignments. You never see them answering the onslaught of emails at the end of the semester, asking how to get my grade up. You never see that. You see the inspiring parts and that's it. Never the work that it takes to get there. So we see teachers that either act as martyrs like Keating who, don't forget, gets fired at the end of the film after a student kills himself, or we see teachers that make real teachers cringe. Molly Waterworth:  I remember watching Glee when that was out.  And it was not just unrealistic, but it was just so I thought it was insulting the way that the teachers were showing their like, as just unserious. Too involved in teenagers' lives. And, like, really, really concerned about both of those things. That I was just I couldn't do it. I couldn't put up with it.  And again, why does this matter? Why does it matter that depictions of teachers are unrealistic? It honestly wouldn't matter if these depictions didn't seep into how teachers are currently being treated. If the cultural view of education remained realistic. But this is how stereotypes work. We may recognize a stereotype as wrong or dangerous, but they can still seep into our behavior.  And they influence what parents expect from teachers, what students expect from teachers, and even what teachers expect from themselves. If teachers buy into the stereotypes, they may be striving for a sense of perfection and martyrdom that is unhealthy and unrealistic. So it's up to us, all of us, to push against these stereotypes. Like any other cultural stereotype, we need a massive cultural shift in how we think about teachers, which often starts with how we represent and talk about teachers.  Unless we become conscious of our biases or of these stereotypes, things won't change, and in the context of teaching, teachers will continue to quit.  The misconceptions surrounding teachers and education are very much influenced by what folks see on a consistent basis. This isn't to say that there haven't been realistic depictions of teachers. I love Tina Fey's character in Mean Girls. She was quirky and smart and imperfect. Her character felt more real to me, but this is an outlier in teacher representations.  Stephanie Reese: Culturally, I think the media shows teachers as “Man, they just work tirelessly.” You might recognize Stephanie's voice from last episode. I met up with her at Blacktooth Brewery in Cheyenne, she's the general manager there. Stephanie taught PE from kindergarten to college, and she left education after 8 years. She points out how some of the perceptions of education bleed into the expectations placed on teachers.  Stephanie Reese: They just love what they do so much. They love kids. They're willing to put in all these extra hours, because they just love what they do. And they're okay with that. And, and that doesn't actually give teachers a voice. And that, to me is bullshit because teachers are tired, they're exhausted, they're stressed to the max there. Some may love it. And fine. If you have that intrinsic motivation to love something without getting anything back. That's amazing. You are a superhero.  When being a teacher is associated with loving kids as Stephanie points out, does that mean that leaving education means a loss of love for the kids? Or that not wanting to put in the extra hours is because teachers don't love the kids? This rhetoric is dangerous and it isn't helpful when thinking about why teachers are leaving. When teachers decide to leave education, they often hear, “You can't, you're so good for the kids” or something to that effect. This is said in praise, but it actually ignores what teachers are dealing with and it pushes this cultural stereotype that teachers ought to be willing to give everything for the kids. The reality is, the list of what teachers do, the extra work teachers have, is tremendous and all of that work rarely makes it into films. Here's Dylan. Dylan Bear: It's funny when you asked me to do this, I looked up, like, what are the job requirements for teachers and there was like, on the, on the description, it was, like 30 bullet points. It was incredible, like, lift 50 pounds, walk 100 yards. When Does anyone do that? We think teachers are just this, like square. But it's not, it's this open ended job that you can work your tail off forever, you know, or you can do the minimum and you still get paid the same. So it's like, I think a lot of people want to know, like, here's your job, and here's what you're gonna get for it. And that's not the case in teaching.  And that list of job requirements is long and ambiguous and continuously added to. A big portion of what it means to be a teacher isn't simply “to teach” or “to inspire.” It's to manage a huge amount of expectations, which doesn't often get included into the stereotype of teachers, and if it does, it's only for a moment.  Stephanie had strong thoughts about what teachers are expected to do.  Stephanie Reese: This isn't going to be a positive one, Charles, I hope that you're not like, brace yourself, right? I'm not gonna sit here and say, oh, yeah, teachers are here to inspire teachers are here to you know, try to spark some sort of love or interest in something and help every single kid and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like all that sugar coated shit. Fine. That might be the case. But to me, and I know a lot of teachers who agree, it's babysitting. So our roles are just sit tight, do your best, try to get in something that's worth value. Or maybe try to teach his kids to be decent human beings.    The stereotype often clashes with the reality of teaching. Still many teachers try to live up to the inspiring teacher stereotype, which can be contributing to the sense of burnout lots of teachers are experiencing.  Many teachers, whether they intended to or not, have wrapped their identity around education, which is kind of a cultural expectation - they are one with the school. This can make being in public and trying to have a personal life kind of awkward especially in small towns.  Rachael Esh:Anywhere we would go. I'd be like, I can't go there. All my kids are gonna be there, you know? Or like, do you want to go bowling? No, I don't want to go bowling. So I have to talk to seven of my students online, like no, like, you know, so there's just places that I don't even want to go because I just get bombarded with children. Which is, I love them. But you know, you want to like, be away from work for a while and you're like, I've done this all day. I want adult time. It's adult time now. they'll walk by when I'm having a beer. I'm like, don't, don't you look at me.  The teacher advocating for healthy boundaries or focusing on mental health in a genuine way is not a common teacher stereotype in pop-culture. This has only started bubbling up more recently on social media with teachers and former teachers drawing attention to their struggles in the classroom. There have even been some new television shows that have started to address what teachers are struggling with. They are pushing against the stereotypes. This kind of representation can help restructure how we think about and discuss teachers.  Seeing teachers as stereotypes either creates standards so high it is absolutely unrealistic or we are creating a villain to be a scape-goat for all of our worldly problems. Both of these images are contributing to teachers leaving the profession, and both of these images are very common cultural tropes. To break free from stereotypes, we need to first recognize they are there and how they are working.  I teach about stereotypes when I teach rhetoric. One of my favorite lessons to teach is about binary opposition. We get to address stereotypes and how we, as humans, often categorize ideas and language into this or that, and how such categorization is often a logical fallacy.  Here's a quick look at how the lesson goes.  I start by asking students what a binary star system is, then draw it on the board. Binary stars are two stars that orbit each other. They rely on each other for survival. If one dies, the other dies. In this binary, one star is larger than the other, it carries more weight. Even so, if the other star dies, the larger star will also die.  How we categorize language and ideas is similar. Things are good or bad, and we often privilege one side of that opposition. And we wouldn't know good without bad. The poet Wallace Stevens wrote, “Death is the mother of Beauty,” which means, without death, we wouldn't know beauty.  At this point, a few of the students are nodding, others are usually staring, but as I move around the room, their eyes all follow me. This is when you know that you've got ‘em. Now, I move to the board again and ask the students to picture the perfect and stereotypical 1950s couple. I give a few seconds - they don't need long. Then I ask, “So, who are they?” Right away, students establish a white, able-bodied couple, made up of a man and woman. This is when I turn my back, marker ready, and say, “Okay, tell me about the woman.” They yell over each other rattling off the same image of a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman with a light color poodle skirt, wearing minimal makeup. She cooks, cleans, and takes care of children. Her only vices are gossip and the occasional cigarette. I then have the students describe the man. He's tall, has dark hair, wears a dark suit, and works in an office. His vices include drinking, smoking, fighting, and adultery.  In less than two minutes, my students always describe Don and Betty Draper perfectly. Then we continue with other opposing stereotypes under men and women. We agree that these are stereotypes as a class, but I point out that they came up with these opposing lists in about 5 minutes total. It takes that long because I can't write as fast as they yell out ideas. I tell them, even if they don't believe in these stereotypes, they are ingrained in their brains because of the culture in which we live, and if they're not careful, they might unconsciously let them dictate their behavior At this point, I pause the class and take a different colored marker and circled  qualities on both sides of the list. Then I tell the students, these are things that make up who I am. I have a lot of qualities under both men and women circled: I cry more than my wife, I am emotional, I like to cook, I'm terrible with vehicle maintenance, but I am also a woodworker, I was an industrial ironworker,  I've been in fights, I was a college wrestler. We talk about monoliths, and the reality that in a binary, most people live in the gray. We're not one or the other, and that doesn't make us less-than.  Even so, we tend to categorize ideas based on binary opposition.  Thinking back to the binary of men and women, I ask the students who is good and who is bad. Kids argue and defend, but we don't have a consensus. Then I ask who wears what on a stereotypical wedding day. Men wear black, black is associated with bad. Women wear white, which is associated with good, (which is problematic in its own right).  Inevitably one of the students says this isn't fair.  They're right - it isn't. That's the danger of binary logic, of assuming things are either good or bad. It creates an all or nothing scenario and double-standards.Binary logic is a fallacy.  Now, if we only think of teachers as either good or bad, we are forcing them into unrealistic stereotypes.  When teachers are associated with being martyrs, saints, nurturers, or people following a calling, and if all of this is seen and represented as good, then as soon as a teacher doesn't want to give their life to education or be like the teachers in the inspirational movies, then there is a cultural damnation that they must be bad or selfish or deviant or lazy or mean. It sounds ridiculous, but teachers are either leaving because the expectations for being a teacher are more than what they're willing to give, or they are seen as lazy and unintelligent. Either way, teachers are leaving as a result. As my students point out every single year, binary logic is simplistic and unfair and most things aren't simple enough to be one or the other. But, this is often how we interpret the world, it's good or bad, Democrat or Republican, wrestling or basketball. You get the idea.  So what can be done? As I said earlier, we need to first recognize that there is a stereotype and why that stereotype might be dangerous. Then, the next step would be to listen to real teachers and be able to differentiate stereotypes from reality.  The way teachers are talking about leaving education is not cinematic, it's real, and it's happening.  Unlike the stereotype, real teachers are listening to their friends and family.  Molly Waterworth: And I was talking about it with Ryan, and he was like,” Molly, you cannot keep teaching. You just can't because it ruins it ruins you emotionally.” And I'm like, Yeah, you're really right because I live for months with just dread, dread, and exhaustion. And you don't want to see anybody that you love feel that way. And it sometimes it takes that external viewpoint of like, No, this is wrecking you to to actually recognize that like, Oh, this isn't just something that I feel internally terrible about. It's obvious to other people. So this is a problem. They realize that education doesn't have to be a life sentence of martyrdom.  Rachael Esh:  I've given this job and these kids everything that I have, and I don't have anything left. And that's just the reality. And it's like, I had to pick myself over them. And it's, it's like, I love them dearly, and I care about them. But I can't put my mental health on the backburner for the rest of my life.  When people decide to become a teacher, I think everyone thinks like, oh, my gosh, you're a teacher, and you're going to be my kids teacher. And you're going to be a teacher forever. And like, that's your, that's your identity.  I've always felt like  this wasn't necessarily my forever career, like some people have. I was like, I'm gonna do this and I want to see how it goes. And the first few years, I was like, yes, like this is, this is my jam. I'm learning so much. I just started thinking I was like every year is just the same. I'm like  a permanent sixth grader, and I was like, I am not the kind of person that can stay in a job for 30 years if I don't have any room to grow in it. I just started seeing that cycle. And, when summer comes, it's like, such a huge relief. And then when you start going back to school, just the anxiety about thinking about that already. I was like, no, I would rather have a job all year that I am not going to be completely stressed out about.  What I heard teachers tell me is that they are dynamic humans, not cultural stereotypes. I feel that too. Teachers live in that liminal gray space in-between, just like everyone else. They are neither wholly good nor bad. So it would be great to see a cultural shift, teachers included,  in how we discuss teachers - it can start by framing them as complex humans rather than cultural tropes. This will include allowing teachers to voice concerns they have about the profession, so that things can be addressed and we can keep great teachers.  Now, a common cultural reaction to this last statement and to teachers airing their grievances in general, is to say that, “Well, they're just whiners.” So, if this was your reaction, it is a good time to review that lesson on binaries. If you thought the teacher sharing a concern was a whiner, then it seems like  you would prefer that teacher to remain silent. To, in essence, be a martyr. But just like binary logic, expecting teachers to be martyrs is not helpful and is based in stereotypes.  So it would be worth reflecting on our own stereotypes about teachers, and try to humanize them. They really are just humans. But if folks continue to struggle to separate real-life teachers from the stereotypical, dramatized, fictionalized, news-worthy, or social-media teachers, we'll continue to struggle with holding onto brilliant teachers who won't fit into the restrictive categorization.    Next time, we will talk about the purpose of public education. Many teachers are leaving because our country cannot reach a consensus on what public education is for and who it's for.  That will be next time on Those Who Can't Teach Anymore. Thank you for listening. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share episodes with everyone you can think of. This episode was produced by me, Charles Fournier. It was edited by Melodie Edwards. Other editing help came from Noa Greenspan, Sarah-Ann Leverette, and Tennesee Watson. Our theme song is by Julian Saporiti. All other music can be found on our website. A special thanks to Rachael Esh, Molly Waterworth, Dylan Bear, and Stephanie Reese for taking time to sit down and chat with. This podcast is funded in part by the Fund for Teachers Fellowship. With movie clips from Freedom Writers (Paramount Pictures), Dead Poets Society (Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures), School of Rock (Paramount Pictures), Ferri Bueller (Paramount Pictures, United International Pictures)  

That is a radical statement! Being well is something we all want. We follow the latest diet trends. We take the recommended supplements. We become "fat phobic," telling ourselves we are not "good enough" if we are overweight. Debra Benfield, founder and owner of Body in Mind Nutrition, told me that there is an ageist diet/wellness culture that leads to a lack of body respect in the Pro-Aging movement. Deb wants to blaze a path into elderhood without the scales! Topics covered: Internal biases around eating, diet, weight and fitness, specifically focused on women over 50 We have learned that in order to be loved, be worthy or be of value, we must be thin, This belief leads to disordered eating, feeling badly about ourselves.  Intuitive eating - eat when you are hungry, stop when you are full. Stay out of your head, stop counting calories, stop tracking,  We can feel overwhelmed by so many different diets and even may have forgotten how to eat a healthy diet. Research shows that it is not obesity that causes heart disease, diabetes or other diseases, it is actually the behaviors or genetics or trauma. You can be fat and fit.  Being thin does not equal healthy. Episode Takeaways: 1. Wrap your head around the idea that all bodies are worthy 2. These suggestions can help you age with vitality and protect you from disordered eating Move your body so it feels like play Be socially connected Manage your stress Use intuitive eating Thanks so much for listening. Subscribe on Apple Podcast, Stitcher , Google Podcast. or Spotify Follow up on Facebook and Instagram How to reach us You can email me with questions or comments at wendy@heyboomer.biz Join the Hey, Boomer Walk to End Alzheimer's Team at act.alz.org/go/HeyBoomer  – Wendy Green is a Certified Life Coach, working with people going through the sometimes uncomfortable life transition from full-time work to “what's next.” Find out more about Wendy's 6-week “What's Next Transition” Coaching workshop – You can find Debra Benfield at debrabenfield.com  - On Instagram at @agingbodyliberation - or email her at deb@debrabenfield.com Books mentioned in the show The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence Show transcript Toxicity of the Wellness Culture.m4a Hello. Welcome to the Hey Boomer Show, which is live each Monday on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube and then available the next day on your favorite podcast app. My name is Wendy Green and I am your host for Hey Boomer. And Hey, Boomer is for those of us who believe we are never too old to set another goal or dream, a new dream. It is for lifelong learners who have found meaning and are finding meaning and purpose in their lives and are living their best lives into this new chapter. We at hey boomer are on a push to grow our hey boomer Walk to end Alzheimer's team and what I would like to do is welcome our newest walk member, Kathy McAfee. She joined our Greenville, South Carolina, team. We also have Melanie Whitlock, who is out in Clearlake, California. And you can join her team, her hey, boomer team or Bernadette Wagner. She's having a team out in Hagerstown, Maryland. 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You can go to Calendly/heyboomer/20min and we can set up a free 20 minute consultation. Find out where you're at, where you want to be. See if this makes sense to you or you don't have to talk to me if you don't want to. You can just check out the program at HeyBoomer.biz/Coaching and learn all about it. It really can be a program that can move you into your next chapter with great comfort and ease. So let's get to what we're talking about today. And I've been struggling with this topic a little bit, the toxicity of the wellness culture. I mean, I mostly try to eat healthy. I take supplements. I exercise some most of the time. No, probably not as much as I should. And I have to admit, I am a fair weather walker and hiker when it is cold and rainy. I am not the one that's out there, but I do get uncomfortable when the scale says I've gained a few pounds and all of these beliefs about weight and fitness and behaviors. These all are reinforced by my family and by the media. You know, we all hear comments like, oh, she's really put on some weight or, well, wouldn't she be pretty if she just lost some weight? Advertisements and TV shows portray happy, slender people and not so happy larger people. And if they're heavy older people, the images can be even more demeaning. So preparing for this show has shown me how much I've bought into these ideas that fat is bad and skinny is good. Did you know that we as a society spend over $35 billion on diet products annually? It is a lucrative industry. And diet culture is that collective set of social expectations telling us that there's one way to be. And one way to look. And one way to eat. So that we are a better person. And we're a more worthy person if our bodies are in that mold that we all hear about. So today we're going to dissect what it is meant by the wellness culture, how it can be toxic and how it affects us as we age. And I really want you to join in and ask questions, because a lot of this is learning for me, and I'm sure it's learning for you. So feel free to join us. And let me bring on our expert today. Her name is Deborah Benfield. Hi, Deb. Wendy. Hey, everybody. So Deborah invites you to join her on the intersection of pro aging and body liberation on her newest website. DebraBenfield.com. From her experience, she understands how aging creates vulnerability to the ageist, diet, wellness, culture, and how frustrating it is to find a profound lack of body respect in the pro aging movement. And I had to check with her on that quote because I was like, Wait, pro, aging? Aren't we, like all about accepting where we are? Well, you're going to hear about some of how it's not accepting. Deb is a registered dietitian nutritionist with over 35 years of experience in that field. She's also a registered yoga teacher. She is the founder and owner of Body and Mind Nutrition, a group practice of registered dietitians and nutritionists. And like I said, the founder of her newest site, which is more focused on the aging, she'll tell us more about that. Deborah Benfield She's passionate about preventing and treating disordered eating and eating disorders and supporting you in feeling more comfortable and confident in your relationship with food, eating and your body. So, Deb. Tell me how you got into this field in the first place and then kind of what your journey has been to move more into the aging space. Well, I first want to thank you. I really appreciate your openness to this conversation, because I know it's kind of tricky and surprising to think about how the pro aging movement may have some problems with how we look at bodies. And I think that may be more true for women's bodies. I also want to say that my pronouns are she, her, hers. And I want to talk just a minute about my vocabulary. I you'll hear me say obesity right now as a word that I will not be saying any further. I believe that the way we talk about bodies further stigmatizes pathologizing as bodies that are fat and fat, in my worldview is a descriptor just like you have red hair. Wendy I believe that it's just a descriptor of who you are. I have brown eyes, so it's a description of me. So fat in my worldview is not pejorative. It's a description. So you'll hear me say a fat and not the ugly words. And I'll talk a lot more about that later, too. So I got into this because I really like talking to people as whole human beings. So when I started my career, I pretty quickly started referring clients to therapists to talk about issues outside of what was going on in their eating and their relationship with their bodies. And I happened to develop a relationship with a therapist. That was amazing. Her name is Joan Wilkins, and she was my supervisor, and her specialty was eating disorders. So I, very early in my career, started developing this curiosity and interest in learning more. And it's just kind of become what I do. And I'm very passionate about the work. It's very rewarding to watch and work with a woman who starts to become more powerful in her life and doesn't kind of give her power away by wanting to shrink herself. So I hope that's all well. And so, you know, we talked about the early time we're getting into the eating disorders, but now you're moving into how it's affecting us as we age. So what brought your interest there? Well, I will be 64 in December. And when I turned 60, I also became a grandmother for the first time. Oh, congratulations. Thank you. So something happened in my head where I just wanted to do more research on what we know to be true about how to support aging with vitality and being who I am and understanding what I understand about diet and wellness culture. I was absolutely shocked by how the anti-aging messages hit me hard and fast that I had to get through what I consider to be a bunch of bullshit. I didn't ask you if I can say those kinds of words on your show. Of course, again, this is an adult show. But it just felt like I had to wade through a lot of things that I knew were not based in science and I knew were very adjust and what I consider to be phobic. So I quickly saw that I had to dig a little deeper and I really couldn't find what I was looking for. So I realized that I had to I wanted to create what I think people are needing, what I needed to start with. And it's been it's been fascinating to me to really look at how you can support aging with vitality without getting pulled into all of the you must lose weight. Yeah. So I want to talk about those biases and I want to talk about internal biases because those certainly do hold us back. I mean, and we have more control over those than we do some of the external biases we hear from the media. So in my world, I talk about living an engaged, meaningful life and getting over that internal bias of I'm too old, I don't have the energy anymore. I don't learn as quickly. And shifting that message. In your world, it's more about eating and diet and weight and fitness. And so what are some of the messages that you hear that are internal biases and how do we address those? Yeah, I think that it's I really love that we're kind of focused on a particular group of people right now because coming of age, when we all came of age, I went back and looked at the timeline of how women's bodies were portrayed in the media. The forties and fifties, women's curvy and voluptuous bodies were heralded as the ideal, the beauty ideal. And as a matter of fact, there are there is evidence of, like ads for weight gain products. Really? Yes. I'll show you. There are like you can't be too skinny in the forties and fifties. That's not appealing. Now, of course, all of this marketed to women. Right. And then guess what happened in the sixties? Twiggy, twiggy. Twiggy entered our lexicon and the diet industry took hold and just blew up. And women quickly believed they had to be like Twiggy and which, in my opinion, is unachievable and ridiculously thin and likely fragile. And if you pursue that kind of ideal, you have to diet. I mean, that's what happened is the women believed that in order to be beautiful, in order to be valued, in order to have worth, they must diet. So I don't know if you watched Mad Men. I watch some of that, yeah. I think the character Betty Draper is an amazing character to talk about when it comes to this, because that show took place when all of this happened and it's set in that time period. They did a great job of showing what happened, especially with women in that time. And she joined Weight Watchers and that was the classic choice. And they show her in several shows going back into the kitchen and sneaking her food and actually bingeing the foods that she was deprived of. So it's really interesting to look at how in the sixties. The dive industry took hold because women felt to be worthy, to be loved, to be valued, they must be thin. And I really feel like that's where it really shifted in a in a big way. And also what you're describing about the money that was to be made based on that. And there are a lot of people that believe that it's not surprising that that's also when the women's movement was taking place and that perhaps there was kind of this interesting way to get women to be disempowered. If they're really focused on dieting, they won't have as much of a voice. They will have as much power. So Naomi Wolf's book, The Beauty Myth, is a wonderful book to read if you want to dig into that concept. Interesting. She's not the only one that believes that, but that book is very powerful. And what's interesting, Deborah, is that if that started in the sixties, here we are. What. 60 years later and it's still going on. I mean, you know, I can look in my in my cabinet, you know, I have the whole body diet. I have, you know, diet for a small planet. I have South Beach diet. I have like all these books because I'm like, oh, gosh, you know, I've got to lose a little weight. And every trend changes. You know, it's like, Whoa, och, don't eat carbs. Well, now you should eat carbs. Don't eat fruit. Well, now you should eat fruit. You know, it's like count calories don't count calories. And it's so confusing and no wonder it creates disordered eating. I don't know about eating disorders, so maybe you can differentiate that for me because I don't understand that. Yeah, we're definitely going to talk about that. I don't know if you want to jump into that now, but I think we're we need to talk. I know it's way outside the scope of the show to get to details about eating disorders, but I think it is helpful to look at what is normal and what is disordered and what is an actual diagnosable eating disorder. Yeah. Do you want to do that now? Well, first of all, Angela says, what was the name of that book you mentioned? It is titled The Beauty Myth. The Beauty Myth. And the author is Naomi Woolf was written quite a while ago, but it's exceptional when it when you look into the principle that we're talking about. So yeah, we can go one of two ways. Why don't you describe the difference right now? And then we'll talk a little bit more about the dieting and intuitive eating. How about that? Okay. So perhaps I feel that eating occurs on a continuum and most of us kind of travel up and down that continuum, hopefully not too far toward disordered eating, but normal eating is. Easy. Normal eating is messy. It's eating when you're hungry. When your body says it's time to eat. And stopping. When you're full and. Even a variety of foods that satisfy you. So that you can actually notice when you're satisfied and full. It is not being in your head, counting and calculating and tracking at all. It is only listening to your body and therefore not struggling with feeling guilty or even ashamed of what you're doing. So there's no reaction in your emotional life and there's no space taken up in your head. You're very simply easily eating when you're hungry. Stop it when you're satisfied. And disordered. Disordered eating is likely getting much more in your head with it. And much more rule based, much more tracking, and therefore more reaction. More in your head following rules, and therefore feeling like you're being bad if you've eaten something that you've decided is bad. And eating disorders are. We have many we have anorexia nervosa. We have bulimia nervosa. We have binge eating disorder. We have arfid, which is a new diagnosis, relatively new ARFID stands for If I Get All This right, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. And it's really about having a negative experience like choking or vomiting, that's created an anxiety about eating or a sensory issue where there are many foods that you feel like you can't eat, that you can only eat a shorter list of foods. And there's also something called Orlistat, which is basically a group of disorders that don't fit into any other boxes. So it's like a catchall phrase, but there is a disorder to the point of some debilitation in your lifestyle, so we can break each of these down. There's a lot to talk about with you. I know this is where I get hung up, because when you describe normal eating, just eat what you want, when you want until you're full. I mean, I think I had mentioned this to you once, you know, like if I had a plate of chocolate chip cookies here, which is my go to dessert and I have a refrigerator with carrots, celery and lettuce, I'm going for the chocolate chip cookies every time. You know, it tastes good. It's easier than putting together a salad. How is that normal eating? Of course, I'm probably going to beat myself up about it and say, Why did you do that? You know that's not good for you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I do want to say you mentioned before that, you know, there was this diet and that diet and sometimes they contradict each other. I do want to say that. Probably every single client that I work with comes to me with that particular feeling of overwhelm by all the different kinds of diets that have they've heard about feeling kind of lost and like, Which way do I go? Because they're so contradictory. Also really noticing that they feel kind of like they have forgotten how to eat. Like, actually, like I forgot eat. I've lost my way because of all the diets that they've been on. And they may not have a full blown eating disorder, but they are feeling all of those things. They're trying to find their way back. So the way that we find your way back is by trying to get out of your heads and starting to realize that your body carries innate wisdom that your body actually knows. When you need to be nourished and what even what foods would nourish you and when you've got enough. Now there's a look on your face that is to look at people's faces. It's like, I can't believe that could possibly be true. But if you think about if you've been around a baby, you know that a baby cries a very distinct I'm hungry cry. It's very distinct. And babies pull away when they've had enough, when they're satisfied. We know that if children are allowed to eat with the structure of family meals, with some security around the fact that there will be food and those variety provided without a lot of food rules, without a lot of judgment, without pressure, that over time they will eat a variety of foods and their bodies will go where their bodies are genetically dictated to go. And sadly, nobody really allows that to happen. I think it's more and more true because parents are being taught that this is the way to sorry, actually raise competent eaters to prevent children from getting eating disorders. Because eating disorders are very much on the increase right now, and we're all born with that capacity. It's the culture, the cultural messages, the diets, the millions, billions of dollars that market, those diets that make us no longer trust ourselves. Yeah, I think you're right about parents today. I know when I was raising my kids again, I went through all these different diets, tofu and vegetarian, and then know we're having roast beef and whatever. And, you know, my daughter and this is where. You know, was it because I was putting the pressure on or not? But I mean, she didn't want to eat what I was cooking. And I was like, this is healthy food. You need. To be eating. This. And she does not do that to her kids. And I mean, and we got into some battles over food, you know, which is unfortunate. And Martha makes the point that even when we were young moms, I mean, we had our babies on a schedule, you know, every 3 hours you need to eat at. And so we were raised with that belief that there is a right way and a wrong way to eat. How do we undo that? Well, you know, boy, I don't even know which way to go with this. There's of talk about when I was a mom. Young mom. I was well, I was already a dietician, so I was reading certain things. And the reading that I was I mean, there were folks that were telling young moms to follow the baby. Baby led weaning there. There was that phenomenon that we should say up away. And I don't know if you want to get into all this, but Ellen Satter is the woman's name who wrote all of those books. Those books were available in the eighties and they're still available. There's also a new book called Intuitive Eating for Kids. So it's like parenting with intuitive eating. So this can be prevented or we can develop a little bit more resilience in our children when they hit all the diet messages, when they get to school or when they go to grandmother's house. Because I think that's what you're describing. I don't know. I've heard so many clients talk about that rub in the family around what people say to the children about how they're eating. If you if you think as the grandmother that there are certain rules or that you have concerns about the size of your grandchildren's bodies, you know, you can get all into like, well, should you really do you really need that or like, don't you? Should you eat your vegetables before you get your cookies? All the things you clean your plate or not clean your plate, all those things are not helpful. The children actually can be trusted to feed themselves well if we stay out away again. Very hard for people to believe. But the more you follow this intuitive eating way of feeding yourself and your family, the more you'll prevent disordered eating and eating disorders. So that's why I'm talking about it. And we haven't gotten into aging bodies yet. That's a whole nother. Yeah. And I think I think June raises a good question here. You know, eating because we're hungry or are we eating because we're angry or bored or lonely or tired or. Yeah, so discerning that you can't discern that if you're not slowing down and paying attention if you the principles of intuitive eating. We're way into this really fast. Yeah, let's. Go. The principles of intuitive eating. Start with ditching diet mentality. You have to get rid of the good bad list in your head first so that you can. Really listen to your body. If you're still in your head with what? I shouldn't have this or I should have that. It's very hard to get the discernment to give yourself space for this discernment. So to slow down and eat as mindfully as you can. I know we're all really distracted and moving really fast, so it's not that easy to slow down and notice your body. I mean, I'm a yoga teacher, and the reason I'm a yoga teacher is because I think you have to have embodiment practices where you kind of ground yourself like perhaps if you say grace or if you try to have gratitude for the food in front of you to also notice your body. And I do this because this is what I do. I put my hands on my heart and my belly to notice my own body's hunger first. And the principles of intuitive eating are to dismantle diet culture in your head, to notice your hunger sensation, to eat foods that are satisfying. And we can talk more about that so that you can stop when you're full and emotional eating as the question that's in front of us. That's very real. Emotional eating is normal human behavior. Nobody likes to hear that either. Is actually that's very normal. And can you develop some skills that help you manage your emotions in other ways as well so that you have choices like, I know I'm really angry, so I need to like. Go punch the pillows for a walk or call a friend or write in a journal, or just sit and let yourself feel. Let yourself ride the. Wave of anger because it does pass. All right. So that's a lot. That's a lot. Not easy. I mean, you started by saying, yeah, yeah, okay, good. There's a distinction because I'm going to say you started by saying normal eating is simple, but it's not easy to be mindful to slow yourself down, you know, to be out in a group or to feel frustrated and not want to just go grab a chocolate bar or something. So let's talk about aging, right? So, so easy for me to see how the anti aging movement is displaying perfect bodies and get rid of the wrinkles and all of that. And they're trying to sell something just like the diet industry. But talk to me about how the pro aging industry is not respecting the way we look. Well, what I am noticing on social media especially, is a lot of thin white bodies. So. My the person who taught me the most about all of these issues in our culture is Sonya Renee Taylor. She wrote a book called The Body is Not an Apology. The Body Is Not An Apology. And she talks about how we live in a culture that has a body hierarchy, the default body that's at the top that everybody knows without knowing is thin. Young, male, heterosexual, cisgendered, able bodied, white. Probably neuro normative, you know, all of those things, that kind of body people that live with that kind of body have power and easily belong in our culture. If you are. Anything other than that. And you may have one or more things that are not in that description. You're more in the margins, therefore more marginalized. We marginalize people based on their bodies. And the more marginalized you are, the more marginalized your identity is, the more your risk of wanting to be thin. Because the feeling is, well, I can at least be thin if I am a woman, I can at least be fat. Then if I'm old, I can at least be thin. If I am disabled, I can at least be that great black or brown. I'm can be thin because it brings you into feeling like you may belong. You may have more of a sense of power. In our culture. You're not quite as invisible either. Right. So there's increased pressure and increased pressure to be thin as you age. And if you have any other marginalized identity, it's even more so. In fact, I noticed in the most recent AARP magazine talk about they're all about pro aging right there. One of their articles was How to Stay Thin If You're a Chef. It's like I would not even have noticed that, Deb, if I hadn't been talking to you. But, yeah, it's like. There's a lot of pressure. There is a lot of pressure. A lot of there's a lot of pressure. But now I'm going to be devil's advocate. But we hear that if you are overweight, it's hard on your heart. You are at risk for diabetes. It's harder on your joints and it's not healthy. So how do you how do you deal with that image that we have, that belief that we've been told from the medical world and for years, I mean, even with COVID, oh, you're more at risk if you're overweight. You know, I have so many references for what I'm about to say. It's this is not my opinion. This is I try not to say anything. That's my opinion because I am an old fashioned scientist. I really like to read and learn and speak with an expert, you know, kind of. Status and through that lens. So what I'm going to say is I can send you lots of like links to articles and podcasts, etc.. So all of the resource that talks about. I'm going to say that medical term obesity causes hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, even COVID, and not that it caused COVID. We can talk about that in just a minute. But all of that research is correlational. And not causal. We have no causal research that shows that being a certain way causes a disease process. What we have is certain activity patterns, certain particular dietary patterns. Definitely genetics. Definitely stress. There are many things that we actually do have research on that causes those diseases. And people assume people have assumed because of correlation that's correlated, but it's actually the behavior. I have worked with many folks that are fat, that have high levels of fitness, that have perfect labs. I've worked with very thin folks that are not at all fit and have high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension. You cannot tell by looking at somebody that they're healthy. Being thin does not equal healthy. Losing weight does not equal healthy. As a matter of fact, what we also know is that yo-yoing weight cycling actually does cause hypertension and other aspects of heart disease. So we also know that 95% of people who go on diets regain the weight plus. So dieting is not a solution. So if I understand you right. What you're saying is that. Being fat does not cause. Hypertension does not cause diabetes. It's the lifestyle around that that's causing those illnesses. It's the particular kinds of behaviors. And it may be genetic. It may be stress and anxiety. We also know that trauma having trauma experiences, especially early in life, is related to certain body sizes and diseases. So it's much more complicated than we are, we assume. We make a lot of assumptions that make it very black and white and simplified. And there's a lot of problems with that because then people who are in fat bodies are stigmatized. They especially are stigmatized in the health care setting so that that kind of stress and we also have research that weight stigma is a stressor that can contribute to disease process. So it's such a mess. Because you're afraid to go to the doctor, because you're going to be embarrassed. And it's how you treat it when you do go to the doctor. There's shame. There's fetching, there's body shame that's experienced. That's very legit. So, yeah, it's very, very messy. It's not. I'm afraid in our culture we see it very simply that losing weight is good. Being thinner is good. Certain foods are superfoods and goods, and it's so much more complicated. Then there's also access. Access to food. I think that we actually believe that there is a moral value to food and a moral value to thinness, that people are better people if they're thinner and that certain foods are good. I mean, if you listen to what people say, I'm being sinful. Yeah, I mean, it gets really convoluted pretty quickly. I still need to learn a lot to shift my beliefs and to think that I'm not going to eat those chocolate chip cookies instead of the. Well, something we should talk about with intuitive eating is that there is a psychological phenomenon called habituation. But if you have something that you're deprived of, of course you want to eat it all. That's a normal reaction to deprivation if you have permission to eat the food consistently. Like if you start to bring chocolate chip cookies in and you eat them, you know you can eat them and you know you can have them whenever you're hungry again. You will start to lose interest in the chocolate chip cookies over time. You habituate to cookies and they have less and less and less power over you. Okay. Well, we're getting towards the end here. I mean, we could probably talk for another couple of hours. There's so much to talk about. I know. But give me a couple of takeaways that those of us who are just learning about this for the first time, what we can do to take this into this next chapter of our lives as we are aging. I think the first thing is to wrap your head around the fact that all bodies are worthy. I mean, we can't. White knuckle and control. Our bodies into a particular size and shape. As a matter of fact, the more you try to do that, the more likely you are to get disordered in your eating. And you could you could end up with an eating disorder. And we didn't really get into that very much today. But it's a real problem with midlife and older women because you do feel like you can't control your body. And the more you like knuckle, the more disordered you become. So trying to. Be a little bit more compassionate with yourself and understanding that all bodies are worthy. Number one. Number two, to try to in my research, what I found is the things that really contribute to aging with vitality and protective of getting disordered in your eating are moving your body so that it feels like play. So just like play, you have some joy in it. Trying to be socially connected, trying to actually manage your stress, which I know is easier said than done. And to eat with an intuitive eating mindset. All of that is protective and supports vital aging. So that's enough take aways. Yeah. Thanks. I'm going to learn more about this intuitive eating because I certainly. It can do the good, bad thing. So if you want to reach out to Deborah, you can email her at Deb at Deborah Benfield. Benfield. You can find her on Instagram at Aging Body Liberation. And check out her new website. In fact, Deb, you have some kind of coaching program that's getting ready to start. Quickly, tell us about that. I'm doing what I've been talking about today. I'm doing intuitive eating through the lens of pro aging. Yeah. It's a it's a. A group coaching cohort that begins the end of September. Okay. All right. I'm sure. We could all. Use some help on understanding that. So her website is Debra. DebraBenfield,Com Thanks. Thank you. Yeah. And let me remind people about our walk to end Alzheimer's. Please join our team at actor ALS dot org slash go to slash. Hey Boomer and check out also at the end of September, September 20th our hey boomer coaching the what's next after your full time career and that's it hey boomer dot biz slash coaching. So my guest for next week. Her name is Melanie Gordon and she's the founder of Do.Love.Walk Collective. And one of the programs Melanie offers through the collective are Ubuntu circles. And I wrote a blog about Ubuntu probably a year ago and it's just fascinates me. So in the Ubuntu circles they address empathy, social isolation, belongingness, compassion and reconciliation. And the groups gather for a weekend retreat or eight weekly sessions or extended experiences. So join me next week to learn more about Melanie Gordon and Ubuntu circles. And I'd like to leave you all with the belief that we can live with passion, live with relevance and live with courage. And remember, we are never too old to set another. Goal.Or dream. A new dream. My name is Wendy Green, and this has been. Hey, Boomer.

A potential advertising star is born when Jim Hobart, from McCann, gives Betty Draper a lucrative job offer. Meanwhile, Peggy is dealing with unwanted attention being given to her weight gain and Pete tells Paul to drop dead.   In this week's Dad Break, Jallah and Michael discuss Weezer's most recent SZNZ EP - “Summer.” Jallah is energized, Michael is too. They also chat about Weezer's then-upcoming Broadway residency and one of them has tickets! The other has COVID. Correction: Michael says Rivers Cuomo is dressed up as Jesus Christ in the band's performance of “Records” on Jimmy Kimmel, but on second glance, it might be more accurate that Rivers is some sort of... Roman Soldier? Who knows?   Episode edited by Mike Jallah   © Destiny Park Media   Keep the conversation going by using the #DadMenPodcast hashtag on social media. If you want to ask us a question or send a suggestion, you can e-mail us at dadmenpodcast@gmail.com   To watch video clips of Destiny Park Media podcasts and stay up to date with the latest news, follow us on our social media profiles:   TikTok: @destinyparkmedia Instagram: @destinyparkmedia Twitter: @d3stinyp4rk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDMLBUYziH4KDfCJICAk1GA   Podcast music created by Stu Rosenberg   Questions? Drop us a line at destinyparkmedia@gmail.com

The “Dad Men” boys (Dad Boys?) finally reach one of the first glimmers of what Mad Men is going to become. This week's episode heavily spotlights Pete Campbell and gives us reasons how he became the little prick he is. Meanwhile, Betty Draper babysits a kid named Glen and things get uncomfortable fast. NOTE: We can't guarantee you will understand why Pete is Michael's favorite character even after this episode.  This week's DAD BREAK is about the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (at the time) “Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Michael and Jallah have differing views on this! What the?! Shoutout to Haley Mancini, who is a fellow podcaster and plays “Wendy” in this episode.    Godzilla vs. Podcast Zero: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/godzilla-vs-podcast-zero/id1459250702   © Destiny Park Media   Keep the conversation going by using the #DadMenPodcast hashtag on social media. If you want to ask us a question or send a suggestion, you can e-mail us at dadmenpodcast@gmail.com   To watch video clips of Destiny Park Media podcasts and stay up to date with the latest news, follow us on our social media profiles:   TikTok: @destinyparkmedia Instagram: @destinyparkmedia Twitter: @d3stinyp4rk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDMLBUYziH4KDfCJICAk1GA   Podcast music created by Stu Rosenberg.   Questions? Drop us a line at destinyparkmedia@gmail.com

On “Mad Men” this week, we learn a bit more about Mrs. Betty Draper. Don tries to figure out what women want. Peggy learns how truly awful men can be. Does “The Ladies Room” tread the same ground as the previous Pilot episode, or is it a new experience altogether?   Stay tuned for this week's Dad Break, where Jallah breaks down his top 5 by one of his favorite musical artists. We'll give you one hint: hee-hee!   Episode edited by Mike Jallah   © Destiny Park Media   Keep the conversation going by using the #DadMenPodcast hashtag on social media. If you want to ask us a question or send a suggestion, you can e-mail us at dadmenpodcast@gmail.com To watch video clips of Destiny Park Media podcasts and stay up to date with the latest news, follow us on our social media profiles:   TikTok: @destinyparkmedia Instagram: @destinyparkmedia Twitter: @d3stinyp4rk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDMLBUYziH4KDfCJICAk1GA   Questions? Drop us a line at destinyparkmedia@gmail.com

We discuss the pilot episode of Mad Men, from Don Draper and the art of "bullshit", to Peggy's eventful first day of work, to all the ways that Pete Campbell is the worst man alive.Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at itsinmyqueue.substack.com.Find us on Twitter: @inmyqueuepod • @adinaterrific • @karaaa_powellAnd Instagram: @inmyqueuepodor send comments, questions,  and show suggestions to us at itsinmyqueuepod@gmail.com!

One of the most fun conversations Rusk and I ever have is when we go deep into our favorite fictional television relationships. Y'all we go in with our tweezers and dissect! In this fun and off-the-cuff episode, we get to go in deep on some of our favorite TV couples. We talk about what makes them a good couple if they have a good life, their money, their family dynamic dealing with kids, work, and hobbies. The conversation is in good fun and giving notes based on our experiences as a long-term couple.  We start with Married with Children  Al and Peggy Bundy and their dysfunctional functional marriage. The complicated love between Don and Betty Draper, a '50s throwback of MadMen and his Stepford wife. The on-and-off romance between Carrie and Big on Sex and The City, then we get nasty and judgy on Issa and Lawrence of Insecure.  Join us as we take a look back at the fictional couples whose love stories we became invested in over the years. Which couple is your favorite? Bonus: We talk about our latest experience with Canadian Covid travel restrictions at the end of the episode.  Like the podcast? Follow @vibesbyalicia for updates and great content! Please I'd love it if you'd share this link with 5 of your Friends today! Created by Alicia A. Elatassi, Thinking Boutique by Alicia TBByAlicia.com 

Darby Stanchfield stars as ‘Nina Locke' in the Netflix hit show  Locke and Key. Stanchfield is well-known for her role as ‘Abby Whelan,” the spunky and outspoken investigator on all seven seasons of the Shonda Rhimes hit ABC show “Scandal” alongside ‘Olivia Pope' (Kerry Washington). She also r stars in  the Disney+'s film “Stargirl” which was adapted from the best-selling novel. Prior to “Scandal,” Darby was featured in season two of AMC's Emmy ® Award winning drama “Mad Men.” In the hit series, Darby played the role of Helen Bishop, a liberal single mother who relishes in stirring up controversy with Betty Draper, the wife of an iconic advertising guru. Other television credits include starring opposite Nathan Fillion in ABC's crime thriller “Castle,” a recurring role as Shannon Gibbs on CBS's military drama “NCIS,” and a spot on CBS's action packed series Jericho where she played “April Green.” In addition, Darby has appeared in roles across a host of successful television series including “Burn Notice,” “CSI: Miami,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “CSI: New York,” “The Mentalist,” “Private Practice,” “Bones,” “Nip/Tuck,” “Without a Trace,” and Monk . Her feature film credits include Adrienne Shelley's critically acclaimed “Waitress,” opposite Nathan Fillion and Keri Russell, and an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's “The Picture of Dorian Gray” co-starring opposite Josh Duhamel. Darby can be heard in a recording of Neil Simon's “Biloxi Blues” with Josh Radnor and Justine Bateman, part of an ongoing series of radio plays that LA Theatre Works produces for NPR. Originally from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Darby is a graduate of The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where she received a Master Of Fine Arts degree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week on Mad Men: Pete loses out to Ken on that promotion after all, Peggy tries going out for lunch, the Stirlings celebrate a wedding, and Betty Draper makes a choice, all in the shadow of the Kennedy Assassination. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @stillgreatpod We wanna hear from you! Email us at stillgreatbob@gmail.com Visit the show: stillgreatpod.com Please remember to rate and review the show! Podcast Edited by Melissa Still Great Bob Theme Music by DJ Empirical

This week on Mad Men: Pete loses out to Ken on that promotion after all, Peggy tries going out for lunch, the Stirlings celebrate a wedding, and Betty Draper makes a choice, all in the shadow of the Kennedy Assassination. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @stillgreatpod We wanna hear from you! Email us at stillgreatbob@gmail.com Visit the show: stillgreatpod.com Please remember to rate and review the show! Podcast Edited by Melissa Still Great Bob Theme Music by DJ Empirical

In this episode Brandi talks to Sean about the differences between the medical and the midwifery models for birth. The episodes opens with a scene from Mad Men episode "The Fog" where Betty Draper is experiencing a "twilight birth" that Brandi explains during this episode. Contact Brandi by visiting her website: https://www.compassionatebirthservices.com. Here are links to the resources mentioned in this episode: Evidence Based Birth: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/covid19/ Birth Monopoly: https://birthmonopoly.com/covid-19/ AWHONN Position Statement: https://www.jognn.org/article/S0884-2175(17)30482-3/pdf ACOG COVID-19 Guidelines: https://www.acog.org/clinical-information/physician-faqs/covid-19-faqs-for-ob-gyns-obstetrics. Contact Brandi by visiting her website: https://www.compassionatebirthservices.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compassionatebirth/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compassionatebirth/support

The Morphy Boys are joined by Travis (@WlkngCntradctn) to talk about the Cassie butterfly book. The Morphy Boys REFUSE to own more than one bottle of blue Curaco. Cassie goes MacGruber early on and quits the Animorphs. She’s losing her humanity. I guess we all are really. Maybe having an existential crisis in an episode description is not the best place, but I dunno. Cassie has a bit of alien in her teeth. The gang teams up on Cassie. But it’s okay! Cassie makes a new friend! A weird little girl with a yeerk in her brain! Cassie is Betty Draper! Or Rachel is! Either way, she snapped! Tyler makes insensitive comments. Travis shares some personal trauma because that’s what this podcast is, really. It’s easy to make a splint for a little girl. Tyler details what it’s like to get a rectal exam. This episode contains a lot of ethical discussions and moral choices. Are you willing to risk everything for your beliefs? Could you give up Chilipop?

Sie ist ein Internetphänomen, aber eigentlich so viel mehr als das: The Karen. So tauft das Internet weiße Frauen, die ohne triftigen Grund die Polizei rufen, wenn BIPoC etwas machen, was ihr nicht passt. Wie z.B. grillen, Wasser verkaufen oder schlafen. Die rassistische Gewalt ausgehend von weißen Frauen wird gerne unterschätzt. Doch auch weiße Frauen haben in den USA mehrheitlich Trump gewählt und sind führend in rechten Parteien, wie der AfD oder die polnische PiS-Partei. Eine Karen ist aber nicht zwingend bekennend rechts, nutzt aber ihre Vorteile in einem rassistischen und klassistischen System aus. Auch in Filmen und Serien gibt zahlreiche Beispiele für Karens, wie Elena Richardson in „little fires everywhere“, Betty Draper in „Mad Men“ oder Carolyn Bening in „American Beauty“. Auf der Leinwand wird sie meist als weiße, wohlhabende Frau mittleren Alters dargestellt, die unzufrieden ist, weil sie in ihrer Ehe, ihrer Karriere oder in ihrer Rolle als Mutter nicht respektiert wird und unter patriarchalen Strukturen leidet. Doch anstatt zu rebellieren, tritt sie nach unten - und lässt ihre Wut an denjenigen aus, die weniger privilegiert sind als sie. Eine Karen entscheidet sich eine Komplizin im weißen Patriarchat zu sein, anstatt solidarisch mit denjenigen, die ebenfalls unterdrückt sind. Wir reden heute über die Rolle der weißen Frau patriarchalen Strukturen - wie sie profitiert und wie sie unterdrückt wird. Shownotes: The Karen Trope, Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkYlJxWVrk&t=451sMichelle Wolf:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9m1jPu7afwSchwarze Schmach - Arte Doku: "Die Kinder der Schande"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xqhh1ynsNw&t=839sBirth of a Nation, Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvG0K5AdKiM&t=177sIvanka Trumps schlechte Entschuldigung über Complicity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw0xln927lc See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the place where I get to let my geek flag fly and talk about all things geek. Basically a fuzzy guide to life, the universe, and everything but mostly geek stuff. This is where I look into the world of geekdom and some geek news, comics, The Simpsons, Star Wars, and whatever randomness finds its way onto the recording. This level of the podcast includes: LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special on 17 November Stephen King Universe flowchart Kenobi limited series for Disney+ to begin filming in September Batfleck Returns for Flash movie Kenobi – A Star Wars Fan Film Lord of the Rings with Lightsabers Jim Lee confirms DC is in the business of making comics Logo for Matt Reeves’ The Batman News article about Florida genetically engineering mosquitos Season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery will air this fall on CBS Powerpuff Girls live-action series headed to The CW Netflix doing a Resident Evil series with Supernatural showrunner LEGO to make even more Harry Potter sets Harry Potter theme park in Japan in 2023 Parker Posey & Alan Cummings live action Team Rocket in Pokemon Video of January Jones playing with action figures of Betty Draper vs Emma Frost Olivia Wilde tapped to direct a female-centered Marvel movie for Sony Mega mashup of movies in a nightclub Hans Zimmer expanded Netflix theme Fan video tribute to Calvin & Hobbes The Long Halloween is to be a two-part animated movie The New Mutants at the Rose Bowl – Aug 27 to Sept 13 for 35 bucks a car Face swap video for Solo: A Star Wars Story DC Fandome: Zack Snyder’s Justice League trailer Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League video game trailer Gotham Knights video game trailer The Suicide Squad Trailer Matt Reeves’ The Batman trailer Wonder Woman 1984 trailer Shazam 2 reveals title Shazam: Fury of the Gods plus Sinbad James Wan says Aquaman 2 will be more relevant and serious with new worlds Static Shock movie in development – plus DC doing stuff with Milestone imprint The Flash Season 7 trailer New suit unveiled for Ezra Miller’s Flash movie Concept art images for Black Adam movie Congrats on completing Level 206 of the podcast! Stay safe, wash your hands, wear a mask, and good luck out there. Feel free to contact me on Twitter and/or Instagram (@wookieeriot). You can also reach the show by e-mail, laughitupfuzzballpodcast@gmail.com., or by joining the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1879505335626093). I'd love to hear from you. Also subscribe to the feed on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Breaker, IHeartRadio, RadioPublic, Spotify, or any of the apps which pull from those sources. Go do your thing so I can keep doing mine. If you feel so inclined, drop a positive rating or comment on those apps. Ratings help others find the madness. Tell your friends, geekery is always better with peers. Thank YOU for being a part of this hilarity! There’s a plethora of ways to comment about the show and I look forward to seeing your thoughts, comments, and ideas. May the force be with us all, thanks for stopping by, you stay classy, be excellent to each other and party on dudes… TTFN… Wookiee out! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laugh-it-up-fuzzball/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laugh-it-up-fuzzball/support

Instinct maternel, bonnes mères et mauvaises mères, travailler ou aimer ses enfants… Aujourd’hui, le fait d’être mère semble encore s’analyser à l’aune de modèles extrêmement restreints. Pourtant, en dépassant la maternité comme un passage obligé de l’expérience “féminine”, de plus en plus de représentations émergent ces dernières années dans la pop culture avec des personnages de mères plus complexes et réalistes.Clémentine et Kaoutar passent aujourd’hui en revue les représentations de ces mères perdues, féroces, désirantes ou désorganisées, qui doutent. En bref, des supposées mauvaises mères qui ne sont en fait que des mères comme les autres. Références entendues dans l’épisode : Le Deuxième Sexe, Simone de Beauvoir, Gallimard, 1949. “Nous qui versons la vie goutte à goutte. » Féminismes et économie reproductive : une sociohistoire du pouvoir colonial à La Réunion”, Myriam Paris, thèse de doctorat en science politique sous la direction de Frédérique Matonti, Université Paris 1, 2018. “Gulhumar Haitiwaji dénonce la persécution des Ouïghours”, Konbini, 14 décembre 2018. “La Chine accusée de stériliser de force des femmes ouïghoures”, France Info, 30 juin 2020.Betty Draper est un personnage de la série Mad Men interprété par January Jones. Yummy Mummies est une téléréalité australienne qui suit des femmes riches et enceintes. Big Little Lies est une série créée par David E. Kelley et réalisée par Jean-Marc Vallée pour HBO en 2017, adaptée du roman de Lianne Moriarty. “Do Mommy Wars exist ?”, Parents Magazine, Août 2013. Roseanne est une série télévisée créée par Matt Williams diffusée dans les années 1990 sur ABC et suivant la vie de la famille Conner, dont les deux parents sont ouvriers.Good Girls (Vol à mères armées au Québec) est une série créée par Jenna Bans pour NBC en 2018. Lois est le nom de la mère des garçons de la série Malcolm in the Middle, créée en 2000 par Linwood Boomer pour FOX. Sex Education est une série créée par Laurie Nunn en 2019 pour Netflix. Le personnage de Jackson a pour mères un couple de lesbiennes, Sophia et Roz Marchetti. The L Word est une série créée par Ilene Chaiken en 2004 pour Showtime. Les personnages de Bette et de Tina parviennent à avoir une fille, Angelica. Transparent est une série créée par Jil Soloway pour Amazon Video en 2014. Years and Years est un feuilleton télévisé créé par Russel T Davies pour BBC One en 2019. Le personnage de la mère handicapée est joué par Ruth Madeley. Mrs. Fletcher est une mini-série américaine créée par Tom Perrotta pour HBO en 2019. Kathryn Hanh incarne le personnage principal. The Good Fight, spin off de The Good Wife est une série créée par Robert King pour CBS en 2017. Le personnage de Lucca, interprété par Cush Jumbo est une femme noire qui se fait prendre pour la nounou de son propre enfant. Losing Isaiah est un film réalisé par Stephen Gyllenhaal en 1995 où Halle Berry incarne le rôle d’une jeune mère noire dépendante à la drogue qui perd la garde de son enfant. Better Things est une série créée par Pamela Adlon et Louis C.K. en 2016 pour FX où Pamela Adlon joue le rôle d’une mère célibataire de trois enfants. Borgen est une série danoise créée par Adam Price en 2010 où l’actrice Sidse Babett Knudsen joue le rôle de la Première Ministre du Danemark. Workin’ Moms est une série canadienne créée par Catherine Reitman pour CBC en 2019. “Workin’ Moms, la série décomplexée et décomplexante dont on ne parle pas assez”, Marie-Claire, 12 août 2019. The Letdown (“Supermamans” en français) est une série australienne créée par Sarah Sheller et Allison Bell en 2016. “‘It made us nervous’: Alison Bell on taking The Letdown to a ‘darker and harder’ place”, The Guardian, 29 mai 2019. Bad Moms est un film réalisé par Jon Lucas et Scott Moore en 2016. Catastrophe est une série créée par Sharon Horgan et Rob Delaney pour Channel 4 en 2015. Motherland est une série britannique créée par Sharon Horgan et Graham Lineham pour la BBC 2 en 2016. Mommy est un film réalisé par Xavier Dolan en 2014. La femme gelée, Annie Ernaux, Gallimard, 1981. Dans le jardin de l’ogre, Leila Slimani, Gallimard, 2014.Beloved, Toni Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987. La puissance des mères, pour un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire, Fatima Ouassak, Éditions La Découverte, 2020. Le festival Very Bad Mother se tiendra du 14 au 16 mai 2021 à Concarneau et possède une cagnotte. Le collectif Femmes en lutte 93. Le collectif de défense des jeunes du Mantois qui organise le groupe des Mamans de Mantes-la-Jolie. Le collectif des mères solidaires contre le fascisme est fondé par Geneiève Bernanos, la mère d’Antonin Bernanos, militant antifasciste arrêté en 2019. Awa Gueye a fondé le collectif Justice et vérité pour Babacar à la suite de la mort de son frère à Rennes en 2015 tué par un policier de la Bac. Le compte instagram @Bordel.de.meres créé par Fiona Schmidt. Lâchez-nous l'utérus, Fiona Schmidt, Hachette, 2020. Le compte Instagram @theverygoodmother. Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes, cet épisode est conçu et présenté par Clémentine Gallot et Kaoutar Harchi, mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Montage et coordination Ashley Tola.

The Betty Broderick story has been told many times before. The latest installment takes a page or three from Mad Men and gives Betty Draper a gun. The storytelling may be different than all the other times on TV, but the ending is the same. This is Your Story or Your Life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yourstory-or-yourlife/support

On this episode of The Adaptables, Abbe and Emma chat about episode 7 of the Hulu and BBC adaptation of NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. They're joined by Siobhan Jones, Editorial Director at Book of the Month. Abbe, Emma, and Siobhan discuss boundaries, what not to say to your ex, the inevitability of compromise in a relationship, and more. Discussion breakdown: Intro and Siobhan's relationship with NORMAL PEOPLE and the community it created (0:01–2:59) What is Book of the Month? And sign us up now please! (3:00–4:39) Episode recap (4:40–6:35) Alternating perspectives—experiencing the break-up as Marianne and Connell and the maddening miscommunication (6:36–10:26) Connell's post-break up spiral (10:27–14:14) Finding Your Tribe – interpersonal relationships in school vs college (14:15–16:04) How to be friends with your ex? The run-in at the store and Marianne's father's memorial service (16:05–18:01) Kinks and catch-up over coffee (18:02–19:31) What does an intimacy coordinator do? (19:32–21:02) Marianne and Connell's willingness and unwillingness to compromise in a relationship (21:03–22:32) Connell's mugging. Are we in Italy yet? (22:33–25:34) Hello, Helen (25:35–26:12) Feathery pens and furtive glances during the test (26:56–28:14) Siobhan's favorite adaptation and what she's reading (28:15–31:07) Marianne Fringe Report: ✂ Marianne channeling her inner Betty Draper in that smocked cherry-red dress is all the inspo we need for playing hostess again (whenever that may be). The Adaptables is a podcast from Read it Forward and Penguin Random House that dives into your favorite book-to-screen adaptations. This season, we're watching the Hulu and BBC adaptation of NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney. Join hosts Abbe Wright and Emma Shafer as we interview authors, insiders and each other, about what makes an adaptable great, why watching and reading are important self-care rituals, and the many other books and shows we are binging and loving right now. Because at The Adaptables, we love to watch what we read. (Warning: there will be spoilers.) Send us an email or voice recording to AdaptablesPod@Gmail.com. What did you think of the episode? Are you watching the show? Is NORMAL PEOPLE a successful adaptation of the book? Follow @ReadItForward on Twitter and Instagram, follow Siobhan on Instagram at @siobhannnj and Book of the Month on Twitter and Instagram at @bookofthemonth. Tweet your thoughts this episode and other adaptations you love. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! NEXT UP: We'll recap Episode 8 with Lisa Lucas.

Welcome Back to Mad Men & Tonic! In episode 2, Ladies Room, Elias and Kristina down way too many Vodka Gimlets (drink lesson at 1:19) and basically eviscerate Paul Kinsey for the remaining hour (recap starting at 7:00) ! They also touch on Don’s fear of peeing his pants in space, reminisce about the candy pink stoves and gigantic cars of the 50s and 60s, and engage in a rigorous debate over the White Witch herself, Betty Draper. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mad-men-tonic/message

Apologies about our audio issues this week – Alex’s audio is lower quality for the first 30 minutes but then it goes back to normal.We made it to the season 5 finale, I Love A Charade! The gals are off to a wedding in the Hamptons, but they’re being kind of judgmental this week and we’re annoyed about it. If only they could be as unproblematic as Betty Draper. We also get the return of Berger which is painful, but at least it’s offset by how much we love Harry, who finally gets to meet the other girls. Plus, a season finale with no Big???? We really couldn’t have asked for anything better.

Kristen, Layne, and Wendy discuss why they love to hate Mean Girls (but LOVE mean women) and share some of their favorite examples, from Regina George to Betty Draper to Taylor Swift.

I am so happy to welcome Tara Bremer to the table. She is the founder of House Peace which helps people find order in their homes. Her family and business is based out of Birmingham, AL. This was one of the most fun episodes to record. Tara is just a delight. She has a BA in psych and an MA in counseling which I think allows her to bring a unique perspective to her organizing business. First things first, we talk about the enneagram and then we dive into simplifying life. We kick off our conversation in a creative, funny way as we try to experience life as Betty Draper. Which then naturally led to some interesting commentary about parenting in light of being our authentic selves. Then, she shares lots of tips about simplifying different parts of our lives.

What happened to the dinner party? And what's the value of storytelling? [16:38] This week, Aaron and Joey talk about Betty Draper, "instagram tables," the only reason we clean, "narrative economics," seed libraries, and data translation. They don't talk about Ina, though she really deserves a mention for her venerable dinner hosting prowess. references Vox on the status of the dinner party WaPo: "The world's top economists just made the case for why we still need english majors"

LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With! Join your host Brett Goldstein as he and his guest go deep into the subject of mortality via cinema, and this week he is joined by the acting phenomenon who you will surely have seen and loved in any one of her tremendous appearances - yes, it’s JANUARY JONES!A truly huge one this week, people - well worth waiting for too, as January takes to the show with ease and grace and gets right on in from the ground floor! Of course, you will surely know January from arguably one of the top three television shows of all time Mad Men, in which she played Betty Draper, but she has putting in power moves and all kinds of work since (and obviously before) that show - a lot of which you will hear about on this episode! So settle in and enjoy this delightful show where she and Brett cover the whole death thing of course, as well as how they met in a not so great bowling game, her old show ‘Huff’, her dogs getting familiar with Brett (as you’ll hear by way of mic rumble here and there!), the left and right side of the brain and spirituality / mortality, her early days in a small Dakota town and being mom-shamed in a cinema. Perfect from start to end. You will love it. Enjoy January Jones!AUDIO NOTE! From 18:25 to 22:35 there is a slight drop in quality. This is where we had to resort to the backup recording while a little problem was fixed in-flight. Just in case you notice a little bit that sounds different!EPISODE LINKS:• JANUARY on INSTAGRAM!• JANUARY on IMDB!• MAD MEN!• FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH LIVE @ BFI SOUTH BANK, THURSDAY 15th AUGUST!• BRETT GOLDSTEIN on TWITTER!• BRETT on INSTAGRAM!• BRETT on PATREON!• 'SUPERBOB' - Brett's 2015 feature film!• 'CORNERBOYS' with BRETT & SCROOBIUS PIP!• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're celebrating Valentine's Day the old fashioned way - with our squared off members and three classic shorts on syphilis!  Thrill as Don and Betty (DRAPER?!) deal with the fallout from their premarital transgressions - guilt, confusion, frustration, disease, and high school hallway awkwardness all set to the disconcerting sounds of what Amazon describes as "pensive jazz music." Then meet Tony, the long-lost third Super Mario Brother, who plays accordion while his stillborn child is born. (That might sound like a reference to Nero, but it's not.) Finally, a pilot pulled from duty due to catching "a germ" serves as a not-so-subtle introduction to the idea that Scandinavians think Americans are a bunch of superstitious idiots. (But hey that was 70 years ago! Bet they don't think that anymore, right? Right??? ... Well, shoot.)  We're suffering through and reporting back on Classic STD Films, available to stream on for free for Amazon Prime members. If you enjoy our podcast, please rate, review, subscribe, or tell a friend! Theme music: "Mexicana Massacre" by Tomb Dragomir off his Instrumental Psycho Synth Album

A weekly look at new happenings on the horizon of TV, FILM and YouTube. This week: Jeff Bridges Appears as His ‘Big Lebowski', The Handmaid's Tale Adds Chris Meloni and Elizabeth Reaser, HOMECOMING without Julia Roberts, The First - The Terror and Suits all return but who cares? Mad Men alums return on Netflix with Spinning Out and Let It Snow. AJ and The Queen sounds like the most confusing gay cop show yet? Mrs. Fletcher continues are love for Kathryn Hahn. Does Saving Kenan mean SNL will finally be free of Kenan Thompson's same voice for nearly ever character. What in the hell is playing on AMC and FX right now? Speaking of Fosse/Verdon can't start soon enough. Unsolved Mysteries returns but this time to Netflix and we get excited for Velvet Buzzsaw. In The Circle of Trust (Members Section) The future of TV, how Apple will make their mark and how has CBS seemed to get free TV so wrong but premium TV so right? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/commentbelowpodcast/support

If you can't tell, we're a big fan of looking at the confluence of pop culture and modern romance. We love thinking of the impact of what we see in pop culture and how it informs how we love, who we date, and what bad behaviors we're willing to let slide. To that end, we wanted to take a look at 4 fictional couples and treat them the way we would if they were real. Honest advice about fictional couples that, hopefully, can help you with your own love life if you recognize any parallels. What would you say to a couple like Don and Betty Draper? What could you learn from a couple like Morticia and Gomez Addams? What can Ross and Rachel teach us about defining and continuing to define a relationship? How true to life is a relationship like Miranda and Steve's? Listen to this episode and find out. You can support the podcast on Anchor at anchor.fm/demetrius/support and Patreon at patreon.com/amightylove. Thank you for listening and Good Luck Out There. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/demetrius/support

Cigars all around! We’re delivering...a new episode of the podcast. This week we’re discussing TV pregnancies – how they were handled by shows over the years, and what depictions of pregnancies tell us about society as a whole. Since we’re three guys, we’re hardly experts at pregnancies, so we brought in someone with a bit more firsthand experience – Sara Reeve, wife of our own Richard Manfredi and mother of their two children. It’s an episode filled with tenderness, laughter and an egg coming out of Robin Williams’ navel and hatching to reveal Jonathan Winters. So, literally, it has it all. SHOW NOTES  2:25 – Mork from “Mork and Mindy” (Joint Choice) 9:36 – Lucy from “I Love Lucy” (Richard and Michael’s Choice) 17:01 – George/Sam Francisco from “Alien Nation” (Sara’s Choice) 24:02 – Murphy Brown from “Murphy Brown” (Joint Choice) 32:30 – Betty Draper from “Mad Men” (Sara’s Choice) 38:25 – Marge Simpson from “The Simpsons” (Richard and Michael’s Choice)

Betty Draper ryksugar. Herforingjar leggja drög að slátrun á uppreisnarmönnum í Suðaustur Asíu. Þriggja tonna kadilakkar skríða eftir úthverfagötum. Unglingsstúlka í pilsi liggur uppi í rúmi og grætur. Kjarnaoddur er skrúfaður á „MGR-1 Honest John“ eldflaug. Það er allt í gangi. Heimurinn er að farast. Nei. Heimurinn er frábær. En þá er hann auðvitað að […]

In this weeks episode, we ask MAD MEN creator Matthew Weiner about entering the world of publishing as he debuts his first novel, HEATHER, THE TOTALITY, in which the difficulties created for a Manhattan family by the renovation of the apartment upstairs include a homicidal stalker. And science writer Juli Berwald joins us to talk about SPINELESS, her fascinating new book about jellyfish (and what its like to grow a spine while studying animals who don't have one). And our editors talk about this week's bestsellers, with our fiction editor Laurie Muchnick focusing on the Best Fiction Books of 2017!

Today we analyze one of the strangest aspects of Mad Men: why Betty Draper and Glen Bishop connect so well.

We examine the different meanings of red and blonde hair by comparing Helen Bishop, Betty Draper, and the prostitute. Short episode. Medium difficulty.

This week, the mommas talk about the kids’ first day of school and they also beg for sponsorship from anyone they can think of! Steph watches A LOT of reality TV! Kristy loves John Cena and Vanessa had issues with vomit and her dogs!    Drink with us - This week we had two bottles of Apothic Red, Kristy’s go to wine! Remember to follow us on: Instagram Facebook Twitter Snapchat And please send us a recommendation for your favorite wine to mommasandmerlot@gmail.com  Cheers!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Women are now more likely than men to have bachelor's degrees. And childless women in their 20s currently out-earn men. So why are our Instagram feeds filled with images of date nights, engagement rings, cat eyes, cupcakes, and waist-trainers? Are we becoming Betty Draper 2.0, or are we using the illusion of perfection to escape the reality that relationships are hard? New York Times Journalist Hannah Seligson and Stone Fox Bride founder Molly Guy weigh in.What are your Strong Opinions? Let me know! Instagram: @popculturepirateTwitter: @popcultpirateHashtag: #SOLHpod #StrongOpinionsLooselyHeld See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Isabelle wants to burn a DVD, which led us into a discussion of why anyone in this day and age would use a DVD for anything. Jon has been super sick and I haven't really gotten out of the house since Wednesday. I feel like Betty Draper. I'll probably take care of that with a bit of Valium..... I kid, I kid. While I have been watching Mad Men again Isabelle has been watching 'Highway Thru Hell'. She likes these shows. I'm not much on them, but to each their own. We got to talking about mostly Isabelle's Dad this time around, and how he was a designer into things one would have seen on Mad Men. Finally, I wonder if it is true that houses have fewer hallways now because of the efficiency of heating and insulation.

Episode 004 - In Today's episode we are looking at the second kind of supporting evidence for fhe resurrection. It's the evidence that gets in the way of other explanations.  We also will be finishing up the intrview with New Tribes missionaries, Ace and Betty Draper.  At the end of the episode we begin thinking about our own mission efforts and talk about 'going back to the mission field'. 

  Episode 003 - In Today's episode we will be thinking about helping others to take the teachings of Christ seriously. One way we can do this is to bring up the topic of the resurrection.     Then, we learn about the important character quality of compassion as we listen to a missionary interview with Ace and Betty Draper, from New Tribes Mission.    After the interview, we will look at the first kind of resurrection evidence. It is the evidence that gets it's facts from historical documents.    This is part one of 3 Kinds Of Evidence for the Resurrection.  I want to help you to be able to have a conversation with others about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  

Spoiler Alert. Recorded the morning of the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, Kseniya and Eleanor take a look at television's most riveting anti-heros--Breaking Bad's Walter White, Mad Men's Don Draper, and Sopranos' Tony Soprano--through the wives who must deal with them. Skyler White, Betty Draper, and Carmela Soprano, often the recipients of Internet ire, are in need of exploration and your hosts, with the help of Pop Culture Happy Hour's Mike Katzif, are here to do so. (For spoilage purposes, Orange Is The New Black, Orphan Black, Nurse Jackie and Enlightened are also briefly discussed.)Music: "Nasty Gal" by Betty DavisRelated reading:Anna Gunn's Op-Ed in the New York Times, I Have a Character Issue - August 23, 2013That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night’s “Breaking Bad” by Emily Nussbaum - September 16, 2013Anna Gunn And 'Breaking Bad's' Skyler White: Just The Tip Of A Very Big Iceberg by Maureen Ryan - August 25, 2013

The hosts get historical and talk about sex and gender politics in Mad Men (seasons 1-5) and Downton Abbey (not including the 2012 Christmas Special). Be prepared from some Thomas-Sal action, historical pandering, and a heartfelt defense of Betty Draper. Minor spoiler for The Fall (2013).

The hosts get historical and talk about sex and gender politics in Mad Men (seasons 1-5) and Downton Abbey (not including the 2012 Christmas Special). Be prepared from some Thomas-Sal action, historical pandering, and a heartfelt defense of Betty Draper. Minor spoiler for The Fall (2013).

Jon and I ended up not talking at all about the Cleveland Indians offensive explosion tonight, but we had a good conversation just the same. Mad Men, Stan and why they keep Betty Draper around at all Roger Sterling's likeability and charisma Lost and getting spouses caught up on shows Deadwood and its awful ending Long runs for shows and short shows The end of the Sopranos and the end of Lost Louis CK's most recent special on HBO Is it time for a break for Louis CK The NFL draft and the baseball guy's perspective Gauging the reaction to the draft Balancing the draft vs. free agency The opportunity to get a corner and a safety Micro-managing physical attributes Mingo and his lack of sack statistics at LSU his last year The meaninglessness of those college stats Justin Blackmon and his question marks biting the Jacksonville Jaguars From Elway to Marino 30 for 30 Jim Kelly's press conference when he was drafted to Buffalo Randy Moss and how he quit on the Raiders NFL GMs and their enormous egos Setting goals and trying to figure out what success looks like Personal over/unders vs. what Vegas might do Pat Shurmur and whether or not he was actually good at anything as a head coach The summer movie podcast The sinking cultural relevance of movies as more movies get made House of Cards and TV vs. movies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon has a canker sore under his tongue and it really, really hurts. Nan decided to make fun of him. This hurt Jon’s feelings. This week’s hot topics include : A gay man is arrested for refusing to leave his … Continue reading →

The TV Geek Out crew discusses episode 3 of Mad Men's 5th season, "Tea Leaves." Betty Draper makes her first appearance of the season in this episode, and when she isn’t busy pounding down Bugles or...

After an unintentional hiatus due to real life, we're pleased to bring you the glorious return of the Remember When podcast! Although we promised you a Doctor Who & Torchwood episode, we're pushing that off slightly.  At the top of the show, we explain why we're postponing our venture into the realm of British sci-fi, and why the delay means better things for our listeners. We spend the rest of Episode 39 talking about our views on other TV shows, both spectacular and spectacularly bad.  First up, we cover the third season of True Blood.  With the series finale airing last month, we look back at the season overall and discuss the elements we loved, the pieces that failed miserably, and what we think needs to be fixed before Alan Ball and the cast and crew start working on the fourth season. Then we take a long awaited dive into the deep end of Mad Men.  Jay's finally caught up with the show, and as AMC puts the fourth season to bed, we take a comprehensive look into the first few years of the show, talk about Jay's experiences with getting invested in this AMC marvel, and Parris' viewpoints on the complexities of the Draper family, and why they're so fascinating to watch.  We talk about some of the unsung heroes of the show, our favorite moments, and why this can be a tough sell for new viewers. We spend the last 30 minutes of the show working our way through the Fall season.  It's been a lamentable slate of releases over the past few months, with early cancellations and very few stand out shows.  We talk about why this Fall TV season seems like one of the worst in recent history, some of the early standouts for us, and more.  We also discuss the remainder of episodes for Remember When in 2010, and the Big Movies we're tackling at the start of 2011. The audio quality may be slightly off at points.  We apologize for that, and will work to have that fixed for our upcoming Doctor Who episodes. Be sure and check us out on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rwpodcast, as well as on Facebook at htttp://facebook.com/rwpodcast.   Our show exists and flourishes thanks to the support of our fans.  We greatly appreciate you listening to us!  If you enjoy our show, please leave us positive feedback on iTunes so that we can reach new people.  And if you want to give us your comments, please feel free to email us at rw@filmtangent.com or call our voicemail line at 206-495-1732 and leave us a message.  Please note that long distance charges may apply.     SHOW NOTES Start to 8:45 - Show intro, explanation of Doctor Who & Torchwood delay8:45 to 16:07 - True Blood Season 3 (filled with spoilers)16:07 to 23:08 - Recent stinkers on TV, looking back on Heroes and The Shield, as well as some Rubicon chat (almost no spoilers)23:08 to 48:57 - Mad Men (filled with spoilers through all seasons)48:57 to 1:22:35 - The Fall TV season (minimal spoilers, though we call them out ahead of time)1:22:35 to End - Upcoming schedule for Remember When, Toy Story talk, and our wrap up 

This week, Chris Brook returns from the dumpster he fell into in Brooklyn to provide all the latest news, we talk about MTV and how far off the rails it's gone while pointing our collective fingers at other networks guilty of the same problems, and another exciting edition of Shootin' The Shiz With Shiggz and Griz. In the second half, the return of our old favorite, "What Are You Watching?", Shiggins loves the X-Files almost as much as he loves his mom, Thomas Jane wants his ugly kids back and we gots Mad Men fever, but not before deciding that Betty Draper is a HUUUUUUUGE bitch.