Podcasts about Goderich

It's a bit of an update for you this week! We had my buddy Patrick Armstrong back in November of 2023 to chat about The Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund but they have some great things happening over the next few months including: The Run Around the Square in Goderich, Dancing with the Stars of 911 and 100k in a Day! Honestly, this organization is the epitome of so much that we're trying to do with our podcast. It's all about community doing good things FOR the community in the name of an incredible man.

La preparazione artigianale del sapone è una tradizione di lunga data in Sierra Leone. Ad inizio anni Novanta viene abbandonata la vecchia ricetta che prevedeva l'utilizzo di ingredienti naturali in favore dell'utilizzo della soda caustica. Nasce in quel momento l'Africana Soap che allo stato liquido si presenta trasparente come l'acqua e in quello solido, sotto forma di polvere bianca, esattamente uguale a zucchero e sale. La possibilità di essere confuso è un rischio concreto che progressivamente diviene una vera e propria piaga sociale. Ad oggi, sono migliaia le persone che ingerendo l'Africana Soap, non possono più alimentarsi normalmente per il resto della vita. Soprattutto i piccoli pazienti in età neonatale e infantile, che vengono chiamati “bambini soda”. Per continuare a mangiare, nel migliore dei casi sono costretti a continue dilatazioni dell'esofago per via endoscopica, nel peggiore e più frequente, possono alimentarsi unicamente con un tubo da gastrostomia che si immette direttamente nello stomaco. L'unico luogo dell'intero paese dove è possibile intervenire è l'ospedale di Emergency di Goderich, centro nazionale di riferimento sia per le ustioni all'esofago causate dall'ingestione di soda caustica che per la traumatologia. Le storie dell'Africana Soap dalla realizzazione alla vendita, dalla cura all'assistenza, dallo stigma della disabilità fino ad una geniale resilienza, sono raccontate da donne e uomini sia fuori che dentro il nosocomio presente in Sierra Leone dal 2001.

The BIA Concert Series kicks off on Thursday, May 22nd this year and continues most Thursdays until it wraps up on September 18th. We're going to get to know the guy who put it all together for us on the pod today. Brendan Couture is here with his daughter Maggie (a pretty decent performer in her own right) . We're going to chat about music, dreams, life in a small town AND we'll hear some music too :)

This week, a 5 minute interview for my Saturday morning Shoreline Classics radio show, turned into a 1/2 hr podcast.I'd seen a whole bunch a stuff on social media about things the Goderich Kinette's were involved with and thought having someone over to the studio to chat about a few of those things would be a good idea.Enter, Patti Lamb, who I discovered grew up down the street from me in Goderich.We did finally get around to talking about Kinette stuff and there are some really great community things happening this Spring/Summer but we also wandered down memory lane a little, talking about where we went to school, favourite teachers a few past times and the things that led Patti to want to join a service club like the Kinettes. We talked Kinette history and Patti revealed the staggering amount of money they've raised across the country to help local communities.We also had some fun chatting about the Big Easter Egg Hunt that's coming up, the 50/50 Mega Draw, the Garage Sale and one of my all time favourite Goderich events, The Festival Arts & Crafts which is now brought to us by the Goderich Kinette Club.

My favourite thing about the podcast is when we have the chance to get to know people better and make new friends as a result of it. It happened again this week as we dug in a little with Steve & Mary from Steve & Mary's OTS in Goderich. It's a place I've eaten often and I love the casual, comfort food environment and the overall vibe which is just so welcoming. Where they grew up, childhood dreams, how they met and how they ended up owning a restaurant in the prettiest town in Canada. We'll find out all of that and how they manage to run a successful business while still offering themselves up to the community in so many amazing ways. All the highs and lows of restaurant life this time around on A Life That's Good.

It's without doubt one of our favourite weeks of the year. This August it will be the 33rd annual Goderich Celtic Festival!In the studio today, our friend and the festival's artistic director Cheryl Prashker who will let us know more about this year's artists and has also promised to let us in on a very special announcement!

We have on occasion asked you for suggestions on things you would like to celebrate and/or learn a little more about in our area and today is one of those situations.A few months ago we were told about a family who had emigrated to Canada several years ago but a few years ago came to Goderich to own and operate The 'legendary' Maple Leaf Motel.We are a country of great diversity and I think it's one of the things that makes Canada the best country on the planet to live, work and raise a family and our guests I believe, would agree.Milli and I feel again, like we made new friends during this episode and I will give you a heads up, it got a little emotional at times as we talked about their lives, friends & family, our respective faiths, opportunities to give back and how grateful we all are to be a part of this community and live where we do.Iqbal Shaukat and Tahseen Tahira join us to chat about the incredible journey that brought them to Goderich and The Maple Leaf Motel..

We have some amazing service clubs in Huron County and one of my favourites is Goderich Rotary. Initially, I thought this chat would be mostly about their annual Chili Cook-Off but I was quickly reminded of how many things this amazing group does, including: an annual golf tourney, an exchange student program, the famous hot dog wagon, the shred it event, Rotary Cove and the Beach Hut and of course the cook-off which I'm excited to be taking part in again this year.Past president Rosemary Davis is here today to talk about all that and later in the episode we will chat with Kim Burgsma about The Goderich Fishes & Loaves program that will benefit from this year's Rotary chili cook-off.

What does it mean to be homeless? How does it even exist here in one of the richest countries on the planet and what can we do to help people who find themselves in need of support.One step we can take is … well, literally that, a step or maybe a bunch of steps with The Coldest Night of the Year Walk that is coming up on February 22nd. #CNY2025The person at the helm of the Goderich event this year isMichelle Millar, Manager of Community Development United Way Perth-Huron and she joins us in this episode along withTrevor Bazinet, Mayor of the Town of Goderich andRandy Carroll, Councillor Town of Goderich to chat about this important issue and their personal reasons for being involved.

While Ontario is gearing up for Doug Ford's early election, many Ontarians are struggling to make ends meet.With one-in-three residents struggling to put food on their table, Kingston, Ontario just declared a food insecurity emergency — the third city in Ontario to recently declare this kind of emergency, following Toronto and Mississauga.In their announcements, all three cities asked the provincial government to increase the amount of money the province gives recipients of social assistance. These calls were echoed in separate motions in Hamilton, Waterloo, Goderich, Owen Sound and Orangeville over the last two years.On this episode of Sources, Tim Li, the Research Program Coordinator at PROOF, a group of academic researchers that investigate policy solutions to reduce food insecurity in Canada, talks to PressProgress Ontario Reporter Eric Wickham about Ontario's growing food insecurity problem.Support the show

I was scanning through some local news lately and I saw an old high school friend of mine was getting a little well deserved attention for retiring after a 45 year career, taking care of people as a nurse at AMGH in Goderich. Personally, I can't think of a tougher job and yet, the accolades simply reminded me of a lovely human being I used to know and her future husband Paul, just a couple of really great people.  I'm happy to say we have Goderich native Wilma Duckworth with us today to talk about family, friends,  community and her amazing career in nursing ... and we might reminisce a little about some wonderful times gone by.

Welcome back to “A Life That's Good” from our new home base in Goderich. We're learning a new way to podcast as the pod continues to grow and we experiment with a video version that will hopefully come your way in the not too distant future. Thanks to Fauxpop Media and the Staysh in Goderich for helping us out this week as we visited with a young man who grew up in Goderich and who, in recent years, has travelled the world, writing and performing thousands of songs! One of those creations recently won him a People's Choice Country Award!! His music has been heard by more than 1 billion people ... and no that's not a typo ... a Billion!Singer/Songwriter Adam Wendler is here!

In Conversation with Niamh Dunne at Goderich 2024. Niamh Dunne is an accomplished violin player and singer, who is known for her folk infused fiddle compositions and smoky warm vocal style.

It's just a great month for Aussie writers on the pod! We had the best chat with the lovely Lisa Tirreno ⁠@lisatirrenoauthor⁠ about her gorgeous debut PRINCE OF FORTUNE

The winner of the Robinson Emerging Artist Showcase at Goderich Celtic Roots Festival 2024 was Appoline -- a dynamic neo-trad folk trio from Australia.

Ever since my youth when I was a paperboy on Mary Street in Goderich, I've loved a good newspaper. They don't hold place in our world anymore with the advent of so much digital media and I get that the world is ever evolving, but to me, there's still nothing quite like holding real pages. Today we're going to talk about a great local paper that yes, you can read online, but it's also a rare, independent, community-owned newspaper, serving Huron County, that you can still hold a physical copy of. I love that. We'll talk about the history of this great local news source and why a local paper is important to a community, with some of the people who make "The Citizen" happen for us each week: Publisher Deb Sholdice, Editor Shawn Loughlin and Reporter Scott Stephenson.

Fiárock is a 4-piece Irish traditional band that tells a story steeped in sound. Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the quartet masterfully treads the line of staying true to the tradition while embracing the diversity of influences from each member

Not that all our podcasts haven't been fun in some way but I feel like we laughed a little more than usual on this one. Siegfried Meier is a producer/engineer/musician/songwriter and Juno Award winner from the Goderich area who has worked with a long list of incredible talent including our other guest on the show this week, a former flight attendant turned rock star, Harley Olivia. We'll talk about childhood dreams, family, our pets, the music business, the Juno, what's really important in life and we will wrestle with one of a relationship's greatest challenges: does pineapple belong on pizza? Oh, and we'll play some of Harley's music for you too. :)

In conversation with Rory Makem at Goderich Celtic Roots Festival

Today on the pod you're going to hear the heart of an artist. Our imaginative, passionate, and sensitive friend Bethany Davidson is here to chat about her art and to paint us some word pictures of what it all means to be a creative human.   We'll find out a little bit about who she is, how Polkaroo influenced her life ;) ... and we'll discover the heart behind the very successful “Froggy Festival” that's happening on the square in Goderich on Saturday (Sept 21st) We have lots to chat about so let's hop to it … #YoureWelcome

In Conversation with Karan Casey at Goderich Celtic Roots Festival 2024

Cheryl Prashker provides a review and update of the 2024 Celtic Roots College.

EP 133 Laroquez and Lando sit down to discuss the current state of affairs in their blacksmithing, business and lives. With a heavy focus on talent in the Great White North of course. This episode is brought to you by Maritime Knife Supply. Sponsor of The Great Lakes Custom Knife Show in Goderich, Ont Aug 17th. Highlighting some of Canada's best talent in the knife seen. Head over to www.greatlakescustomknifeshow.com for more information. And as always you can check out www.maritimeknifesupply.com or www.maritimeknifesupply.ca for all your knife making needs and supplies. Don't let the name fool you, there is a ton of stuff in stock for makers of all sorts! Use the code fsckiln at check out to save on even heat and paragon kilns!

A few weeks ago I was scrolling through Facebook and saw a post by a long time acquaintance of mine from Goderich, who shared the post with the words "Some hidden local talent that won't be hidden for long." I noticed his share was that of another old school friend of mine whose son had written and recently recorded a few songs. Naturally I wanted to hear it. Four minutes and a bunch of tears later, I realized I needed to come out of my summer hibernation with the podcast and see if I could have a chat with this young man. I'm happy to be able to share this conversation with you; "Duckee," Dr. Mark Duckworth, as we discuss life in a small town, telling stories, making music and living a life that's good.

Savannah takes a trip after work to check on one of the wolves from a few weeks back. Dungeons and Dracon Beams is an Animorph's Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition adventure with an entirely different team of Animorph's in an alternate homebrewed world.  What would happen if the events of the Yeerk invasion played out differently? The players will shape their own story, in their own city, fighting their own war. Will they make the change? Join Savannah, Kamren, Dylan, Zac, and Aximili as they gain the power to turn into any animal they can touch and go claw to tail blade with Visser Three and the Yeerk Empire. New chapters of D&DB will stream every other Sunday at twitch.tv/seezydrop with VODs and a podcast released the following week on Youtube. Join us and catch all the action and drama live! If you would like to support us and get extra content and a bunch of other perks, you can join our The Dungeons and Dracon Beams Patreon! The 5$ tier gets you exclusive episodes!   Cast Savannah - Alex - @AlexandBirds GM - Austin - @DNDBPOD   Music “Relaxing Music Vol.1” by Piotr Witowski from Pixabay “3 MSC - Throat” by Mladen Krizancic from Pixabay “A Creepy Music” by Music Unlimited from Pixabay “Detective” by Sergei Chetvertnykh from Pixabay “Dramatic Suspense” by Ashot Danielyan from Pixabay “Sneaking In The Warehouse, Brolefilmer” by James Milor from Pixabay “Stealth Battle” by Mark from Pixabay “Mystery Act” by Dvir Silver from Pixabay “Long Thriller Theme” by Sergei Chetvertnykh from Pixabay “Old Cosmic Entity” Music by Samuel F. Johanns from Pixabay "Black Vortex" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Free LoFi Beat - "Radiation"” by ido berg from Pixabay “Reflected Light” by Sergii Pavkin from Pixabay   Sound Effects “Crow call / Crow sounds / Animal sounds crow“ by Nutolina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg92vEt4sW0&t=8s “Dog Sniff.mp3” by binxa of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/binxa/sounds/595826/ “Spray sound” by Breviceps of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/457030/ “Truck starts and stops_edit.wav” by FreqMan of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/FreqMan/sounds/69211/ “truck pickup pull up slow, reverse gear, and stop on gravel.flac” by kyles of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/450226/ “Door sliding along a metal track” by wlabarron of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/wlabarron/sounds/509114/ “Water lapping on lake Pukaki,South Island,New Zealand.mp3” by laughatlantic of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/laughatlantic/sounds/528067/ “Submerge” by Daleonfire of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Daleonfire/sounds/411617/ “SFX_Submerge” by Perel of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Perel/sounds/173438/ “Underwater [Loop] AMB.wav” by DCSFX of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/DCSFX/sounds/366159/ “Underwater Impact” by deleted_user_7709760 of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_7709760/sounds/400793/ “Freewilly.mp3” by mjudo12 of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/mjudo12/sounds/74908/ “Killer Whale Blowhole” by Sound FX - Topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZecXoMt0qo “Coming up from underwater” by adviseme333 of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/adviseme333/sounds/679410/ “120703 Waves on rocks, light crashing, water, Goderich.wav” by TRP of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/TRP/sounds/616596/ “Elevator Bell Ring - Sound Effect for editing” by Sound Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psR-jBD3Urg “As Low as you can Go.wav” by BaDoink of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/BaDoink/sounds/540554/ “Basspad (Confined).aif” by ekohrennat of freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/ekohrennat/sounds/232293/  

-Getting the Players Union up and running with the upcoming camp in Goderich, ON, Canada -Skating with the O'Reilly's in the summer and learning how to work and earning your pp roles -Making your Lucknow Lancers debut for your hometown before heading to Romania to lace em up with Deeds -Winning everywhere he goes and becoming an import for the Adlers of Manheim and winning there too -Deciding when to head back to Romania for the old man special and run a muck and win again

Cheryl Prashker, Artistic Director Goderich Celtic Roots Festival Aug 5-9

~ For Brianna Latimer (Marshall) ~ One of the things I've come to love about this podcast, is when we have people on who I think I know a bit about, only to discover that my understanding of their lives barely scratches the surface. Herb & Sherry Marshall are two such people and they join us this week to chat about a couple of places that we believe are an integral part of the fabric of Canada's prettiest town. The Park House, iconic and full of great stories, is the oldest building in Goderich. We'll also talk about another pretty "old" building, moved and refurbished, with tales of its own, Beach Street Station. Both have a very special place in Milli's and my heart. We had our first actual "date" at Beach Street and dinner there just prior to my proposing a couple of years later on the beach, which of course is right there in the restaurant's front yard.

Golf is one of my favourite pastimes although I don't play nearly as often as I'd like too and maybe for that reason, I don't play nearly as well as I'd like to ;) It can be social or not, it's great low impact exercise and it's something you can do at almost any age. In this episode, a chat with Gary and Lynne Gravett who owned and operated Goderich Sunset Golf Course for many years. It's probably the course I've played most in my lifetime whether with friends or in any one of many charity golf tourneys.

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I've had a personal fascination with history most of my life and it was always a favourite subject in school so I'm pretty excited to chat with David Armstrong, President of the Huron County Historical Society. We will chat about the many ways that we, here in Midwestern Ontario, have been made by our history. We'll discuss the Society and what they do, our Indigenous and European roots, some upcoming historical anniversaries, some must see tourist destinations in our area along Tiger Dunlop, John Galt and were the plans for Guelph and Goderich really mixed up?

Welcome to program 315 of the Independent artist spotlight. On this program, we're going to play a few new items, some jazz as part of jazz appreciation month and other odds and ends too. Wow! What a week we've had in Los Angeles county and some of the music you'll hear today is stuff I baught after having to deal with the news. I make sure not to go in to much detail, but it has been really bad. I hope you enjoy the tunes as much as I am bringing it together. Set 1: Andrew Heath Catching Clouds 08:17 Andrew Heath Field Trip 05:18 Andrew Heath One Degree of Latitude 06:53 Preet Kaur & Guru Ram Das Project Wah Yantee 07:01 Preet Kaur & Guru Ram Das Project Rakhe Rakhanhar 06:49 Preet Kaur & Guru Ram Das Project Wahe Guru Jio 21:47 Preet Kaur & Guru Ram Das Project Long Time Sun 03:43 Set 2: Laura Dreyer Mysterious Encounter 06:00 Laura Dreyer O Sol de Um Dia Novo 06:28 Laura Dreyer Moreno dos Olhos Castanhos 07:54 Laura Dreyer Baiao da Primavera 05:09 Set 3: Loreena McKennitt Searching for Lambs (Live in Goderich, Ontario 2023) 03:26 Loreena McKennitt As I Roved Out (Live in Owen Sound, Ontario 2023) 04:47 Loreena McKennitt Greystones (Live in Owen Sound, Ontario 2023) 03:25 Loreena McKennitt Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór Wild Mountain Thyme (Medley Live in Goderich, Ontario 2023) 06:08 Sarah Schonert Follow Me 04:01 Sarah Schonert Forgotten 04:42 Sarah Schonert Restless 03:12 Sarah Schonert Tried Too Hard 03:23 Sarah Schonert No Words 04:39 Set 4: Paul Molinario I Hope It Works Out 05:32 Paul Molinario What Love Can Do 03:27 Paul Molinario Starting All Over 04:25 Paul Molinario Meltdown 02:42 Paul Molinario Freedom 04:42 Some strong language may be possible with Mama's Broke. Mama's Broke Count the Wicked 02:57 Mama's Broke Black Rock Beach 03:53 Mama's Broke True False True Lover 03:38 Mama's Broke Wrecking Need 04:06 Mama's Broke Weak Winter's Sun (reprise) 01:22 God Body Disconnect Last Night on this Earthly Plane 03:05 God Body Disconnect Threads of Mist and Fog 03:56 God Body Disconnect Nostalgia Park 1986 04:38 God Body Disconnect A Last Reflection of My Life 05:37 God Body Disconnect Where Will My Soul Awake 06:42 Set 5: Sambodhi Prem Enjoying Silence 01:05 Sambodhi Prem Reflecting The Moon 07:26 Sambodhi Prem Breathing the Silence 06:59 Due to time constraints, we will not play Sambodhi Prem Fragrant Grasses, Falling Blossoms 08:26 and moved it out instead of having the show go over. I may play it a different day. I announced that the show would go over but it will not in this case, and if so, only by a minute or so due to closing material. Thanks so much for listening!

An orientation to the obligations of Sexual Equity. In 4 parts, by oolonroosevelt. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Forward: About New Dorset. New Dorset is an island, and nation-state, in the northeast Pacific. Located 450 km southwest of the Baja California peninsula, it is the largest territory (other than Antarctica) to have no native population when first discovered by Europeans. It was first discovered in 1533 by Spanish explorers, but no Spanish presence was ever established, and it was disputed between Spain and Britain until Spain withdrew its claim in 1815. It was colonized by the British beginning in the early 1800s, and given its independence along with other British dominions in 1931. [[MORE]] New Dorset is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government, with a constitution in broad terms similar to that of the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, but governed under the unique principles of Sexual Equity. New Dorset has 8,671,074 inhabitants. and the capitol is Dorchester. The Duchies, or provinces are: Bathurst, whose capitol is also Dorchester, has 832,092. Wilmot-Horton, whose capitol is Portsmouth, has 2.046,189. Goderich, whose capitol is Poole, has 1,100,280. Deltaland, whose capitol is Stafford, has 1,195,146. Alicia, whose capitol is Taylorville, has 1,024,764. Helenia, whose capitol is Jenkins, has 1,040,141. Louisia, whose capitol is Kibblewhite, has 537,428. Beatricia, whose capitol is Packman, has 895,034. Orientation begins: Twelve women in the their twenties and thirties, dressed in pantsuits or blazers and skirts, file in to the conference room and sit around the table. At first, they talk of their journeys here to the capital; soon he discussion turns to constituency office staffing and committee assignments. Finally an older woman, about fifty, comes in, wearing a “State Service Office” badge on a lanyard. “Hello. Welcome to State Service Orientation. I'm Rebecca Upston, the Parliamentary Commissioner for State Service. Angela, who usually does new officeholder orientation, is off today, so you get me; I'm the head of the program. Thanks for coming on time. I know this seems uncomfortable and frightful for some of you, but don't worry, for almost everyone orientation, and service generally, turns out to be a good experience. Can you introduce yourselves? Just first names here. You can call me Rebecca.” They go around the room, and each says her name. Rebecca makes a point of repeating them back. “Georgia.” “Eva.” “Lucy.” “Holly.” “Bella.” “Brooke.” “Samantha.” “Jasmine.” “Sophie.” “Madison.” “Summer.” “Elizabeth.” Rebecca says, “Great. And most of you are new members of the Legislative Assembly from; which province was it, Deltaland, right? Except Sophie, who won the federal by election in MacVicar, and Lucy, who is the newest city council member in Poole. Her election was just two days ago. Thanks for coming down so quickly. “Congratulations to all of you on running for and winning office, on being chosen to represent and lead your people. What we are here for today may not seem like it has much to do with what you do in the legislature, but you'll see that it does. “I was an MP for twelve years and on my city council for four years before that, so even before this job, I did my share of state service. A lot of women come in with ideas about service that are pretty far off, so even though we provide you with written materials, we have everyone do an in-person orientation. You've all read the ‘Your Service Obligation' booklet, right?” A series of nods. “All right. Let's begin he orientation by letting me show you through your part of the selection process. Servitrixes , that's what we call women who have a service obligation, go online each month and sign up for service room assignments. By the way, in real life nobody ever calls them ‘service rooms,' they're always called ‘cribs,' except in the paperwork. Anyway, the Service Office will send you the date each month when you're eligible to select times and places. You get a different date depending on whether you're a minister, an MP, an MLA, or what. If it's available, you're allowed to choose any crib, anywhere. Usually, you'll want to pick one near where you work, but it's up to you.” She calls the web site up on the projector and goes through a sample assignment selection process. “You pick the number of appointments you need each month for your obligation. Each appointment time lasts an hour. Ten minutes at the beginning is for preparation and fifteen at the end is for clean-up, so if you have two crib assignments in a row, you'll have a twenty-five minute break in between.” “What if we forget to sign up?” asks Georgia. “Well, you can always sign up late, and be limited to whatever crib spaces are available. We'll try to accommodate you if we can. Ultimately, it's your responsibility to make sure you can fulfil your service obligation. If you don't, you can end up before the Joint Disciplinary Committee, and ultimately lose your seat. So don't do that. Sign up early, get convenient crib assignments, do your service, and then go back and run the country. That's how service is supposed to work. All the details are on the help pages online.” “OK, so that's how you'll sign up. I want to give you a a general idea about how patrons (men who receive service) sign up too. Patrons sign up on a weekly basis instead of a monthly basis, and select their preferences from the service room assignments you've chosen. They select their preferred times and servitrixes, and the system matches them up. There are a lot more men who want to receive service than servitrixes to provide it, so there's a complicated system for building the waiting list. Patrons get priority firstly on how long they've been waiting, then on whether they live in the constituency of the woman in question, and last on whether they've received any honors – lords, knights and members of the various orders of merit all have their own priority levels.” “I thought earls and lords could get service anytime they wanted,” asked Lucy. “No, just the duke of each province and the king. Nobles get some preference, but if a regular man with no honors has been waiting longer than an earl, he will get service even if the earl has to wait. Where the honors make a difference is in whether they get their first choice of servitrix. Samantha asks, "Why do we sign up monthly when men sign up weekly?” “It just works out better that way; it allows women to establish their schedules in advance, which is especially important for women like the foreign minister, who has to make sure she squeezes in her service obligation in between foreign trips. For men, it's easier to pick appointment times closer to when they'll actually go, and weekly signups allow the waiting lists to shuffle more often, which gives a sense of progress, even if the wait isn't really any different in the long run. As long as you sign up on time for your assignments, the difference won't affect you. "Oh, one other thing you should know: if a crib isn't being used, servitrixes can sign up to use it for whatever they want; either take a friend down there, or just use the lounge to take a nap or something. Perk bookings open up at the beginning of the week, after any late assignments. "Any other questions? OK, they should be ready for us in the cribs now.” Rebecca leads the women out of the conference room and into the hall. They pause in the Grand Hall on the way to the stairs. “Parliament House is a beautiful place to work. State service reminds us of our responsibility to the citizens, but the building reminds us how glorious our country is and what a privilege it is to lead it. We who work here are fortunate, especially the MPs. State service might seem like an heavy burden at times, but it's a small price to pay. I don't regret a day of it.” They descend a stairway and travel down another hall, and come to an alcove marked Service Rooms; East, where two athletic men in their twenties are standing. “Hello, Ms. Upston.” “Hello, gentlemen,” says Rebecca. “These are two of our instructors. We don't use names for our patrons, so for now we'll just call them Mr. M and Mr. V.” They exchange a round of greetings. Rebecca addresses a woman in a security uniform sitting behind a glass window in the back of the alcove. “Hi, Harper,” says Rebecca. “Harper here is our first line of security. We know you are in a vulnerable position with you don't know, so we take security very seriously at the Service Office, especially here at Parliament House. We show you this side during orientation so you can feel confident in your safety. You've all gone through body scanners to get into Parliament House. Security's even tighter down here. No man can get into the cribs until the guard gives them a key and buzzes them in. Harper, can you check in Mr. M and Mr. V?” Harper checks their IDs and then passes two plastic rings through the window, and the two men each take one. Mr. M puts the ring on a finger, then presses the ring to a badge reader next to a door; Harper presses a button and the door opens. A short hallway is visible, with another door at the other end. Rebecca says, “The door opens only when guard buzzes the doors at the same time the key is used. Every entrance and exit to the cribs is protected by a set of double doors, which can't open at the same time, so nobody can sneak through.” Mr. M leads the others through the hallway, and they find themselves in a room with a bench, a row of lockers, and a stack of what look like towels on a shelf above a hamper. There are doors marked To Exit and Washroom/Showers, and a hallway marked To Service Rooms. Rebecca says “There are twenty cribs in Parliament House: seven in the south wing, ten in the west wing, and this the smallest set, with just three. Usually all the Parliament House cribs are pretty busy. Backbench MPs usually do service in Parliament House, as do ministers of the major departments like the Foreign Ministry and Defense, since those offices don't have their own cribs. Ministers whose offices are in the North and South Executive Buildings generally use the cribs there. "This is the locker room for the east cribs. Men can't take anything into the cribs with them from the outside, anything at all. No clothes, no jewelry, nothing except their ring key. They have to take off everything and leave it here. Gentlemen, will you demonstrate?” The instructors remove their shoes, pants, and shirts and put them in lockers. Mr. V removes a gold chain from around his neck; Mr. M removes a piercing from his ear, a gold ring from his finger, and a wristwatch. All go in the lockers. Finally, they remove their underwear, and turn around, facing the officeholders totally nude except for the plastic ring keys on their fingers. Rebecca says, “Please, take a good look,” and the two instructors pause as the women examine them.. A few titters escape the women's mouths. Rebecca says, “We always get a few gigglers here at orientation. But you'll have to get used to seeing men like this. We'll talk more about that later. First, let's finish seeing security. Meanwhile, Mr. M takes one of the cloths that look like towels. "These wraps are all patrons are allowed to wear,” he says. “It's not much, but having something makes most of us more comfortable while we wait.” He puts it around his lower torso and presses it closed. “There's no pockets or anything, so you can see why the keys are made like rings; we don't have to worry about losing them. We need the ring to open our locker and get our clothes after service.” Mr. V also takes a wrap and puts it on. They continue on into the hallway marked To Waiting Room. In the hallway is another security checkpoint with a fullbody scanner, with entry and exit doors; a male security officer stands behind a glass wall. Rebecca says, “We're always extra careful. We know you're in the public eye and we don't want anything to happen to any of you. So we have another checkpoint here. Lucas here does a visual inspection, and then the scanner verifies that the man has left absolutely everything in the locker room.” The scanner door opens, Mr. M steps inside, and the door closes behind him. Lucas says, “Please remove your wrap, sir.” Mr. M does, and the guard makes a point of examining him thoroughly. “You may put it back now, sir,” says Lucas. Mr. M does so, and then Lucas operates the scanner, which is silent. “Thank you, sir,” says Lucas, and the rear scanner door opens. Mr. M goes through the door, and it closes behind him. Lucas goes through the same procedure with Mr. V. Rebecca says, “Only patrons are allowed in the waiting room, so we will be heading out now.” Bella says, “Is there something special in the waiting room that we can't see?” “Yes, actually. Official portraits. At one point, it was decided that the old practice of displaying portraits of past and present ministers and officers of Parliament was one of the honors women would renounce. Instead, it was decided that official portraits would be made in the act of giving service, and they would be displayed in the waiting rooms to help patrons get in the proper mood.” Lucy is alarmed. “But they said service was private, that nobody got to see us.” “Well, nobody gets to see except the patrons. This is why you're not allowed in there. The waiting room is highly restricted. Nobody is ever allowed in except men waiting for service. Even I've never seen any of the official portraits except my own.” Sophie says, “I'd like to know about that.” Rebecca laughs. “Maybe later. Anyway, don't worry, only ministers and a few others are required to have their portraits posted, and in any case only the men actually waiting for service can see them. We can have no expectation of privacy from our patrons. And the portraits do an important job, of helping patrons get themselves ready for what is about to happen. It's just another kind of service.” “Anyway, when the woman in the crib signals that she's ready to begin, there will be an announcement in the waiting room. The man then uses his key to access the hallway that leads to the crib, and then the crib itself. The main security office has a door to the hall, to come if you call, and the hall is also used by housekeeping staff who wipe up and change the linens after every appointment. "For now, our instructors will stay in the waiting room while we go around to the women's entrance.” Rebecca leads the women out through the locker room and a series of hallways with doors back to the service room entrance alcove. She counts the women, and says “Harper, we're all clear.” Rebeca leads the women back to the stairwell. “We actually have to go up and over to get to the women's entrances. We don't want any mistakes.” Lucy asks, “Are all cribs this secure?” “Well, mostly. No matter what, we always have separate men's and women's entrances, and there's always a guard on the men's side who makes sure patrons can't bring anything inside, monitors who enters the cribs, and who is there to help if called. But all security is stronger for our national leaders. The truth is that we've never had a problem where somebody who wasn't supposed to be in a crib tried to get in to hurt someone, not even here in the capital.” Rebecca leads them up the stairs, back through a set of hallways, and down another stairway. At the bottom, a woman in a security uniform sits at a counter, behind another glass window with a locked door. Rebecca says, “Matilda here will check your IDs and buzz you in.” Matilda checks each ID before allowing the group through another set of double doors into another hallway, this one with doors labeled E1 through E3. Rebecca says, “We're going to do most of the rest of orientation in E1, but that's an extra-large crib we use for orientations and other special occasions. Before we go there, I want to show you E2, which is a regular crib. The first room is your lounge, where you can freshen up. There's a small washroom with a toilet and shower, and an area where you can rest and change clothes. Then after that is the crib itself, which has a bed, a chair, and a stool. I'll explain that in a bit, but go on into E2 and see what it's like.” Rebecca opens the door with her badge. Each goes into E2 and looks around. The lounge has an area rug covering most of the floor, a daybed and a small clothes closet with a mirror on the door. The washroom is small but well stocked with toiletries. Next to the door to the crib is wall decoration reading “Happiness / Gratitude / Humility” and a small whiteboard marked “Today's code: 2701”. Inside the crib is a full-size bed, made up with just a fitted sheet. It's pressed up against the wall on one side, and on the other side there's a low chest of drawers. Across from it there's also a chair with a seat raised off the ground, and a very low stool in front of it. This room has a rug on the floor also. On the far wall is a door marked Men's Exit. Next to the door back to the lounge there are some pushbuttons and a keypad. After each has a look, Rebecca reaches into the E2 lounge, presses a button on the wall marked Finished, and exits the room, closing the E2 door behind her. Then she shows the officeholders into E1. The lounge here is similar, but much larger, with two couches and a large closet, and mirrors lining the walls; the washroom has a toilet and shower but also a whirlpool bath. It has the same decoration and whiteboard next to the crib door. Rebecca says, “This is the biggest crib we have, which is why we use it for orientation: there's no way this many women could fit in E2. At the same time, E2 is much more like the cribs you'll be using. This room is booked up quickly. "Now is when you will be first introduced to what State Service is really like. The first step is to change your clothes. You should remove everything: clothes, jewelry, hair bands, whatever you have on, and put on a service robe. Let me know if your robe is too long; it shouldn't go down to your knees.” She opens the closet and hands each woman a garment bag and a thigh-length, very sheer robe. Eva looks at the robe and asks, “What's the point of wearing this thing? There's not even any lace. They can see everything anyway, we might as well just be naked.” Rebecca says, “Yes, Eva, it doesn't hide anything, but that's not the point of wearing this. We provide service not only in what we do but in how we look, and not only in how we look to the men but how we look to ourselves. Nudity isn't necessarily sexy; it can be pretty ordinary. We're all nude when we take baths, or change our clothes. These robes are a reminder, partially to the men but mostly to ourselves, that we are here in their service. In here, we reveal ourselves in every way, even If we wear a robe, even if we do what usually conceals. So we're more nude than nude in these. And before you ask, yes I'll be wearing one too. Out there, I'm a Parliamentary Commissioner; when I come in here, I'm a woman providing service, like any of you. Counselors and managers in the Service Office are the only women other than elected officials who have a citizen service obligation. "So, please place your clothes in the garment bags; we'll put them in the closet.” Each of the women begins to remove her clothes and place them in the garment bag. As they do, Rebecca says, “Don't be shy about looking at each other. Servitrixes need to get used to being looked at.” Each woman puts on her very thin and sheer robe, and hangs the bag in the closet. “Sophie, your robe is a little long; can you exchange with Bella? You don't want it to get caught on your knees.” They exchange robes. Rebecca says, “We're going to do an exercise to help get in the proper mindset. This room is just large enough for you all to stand in a circle, facing each other. Please do that, and hold hands.” The twelve women stand in a circle, arms spread so they can hold hands, wearing nothing but the sheer robes, bodies completely visible; Rebecca wears the same but stands outside the circle. “OK, now I want you to close your eyes,” says Rebecca. “OK? Good. I want you to think about the path you took to get here. You were victorious in your election campaign. You won! And now you can begin the great work you set out to do when you decided to run. Be happy in your victory, and in the opportunity you have to do good. But remember the many other people who worked to get you here, who gave you their time, money, and resources, and who cheered you up when thinks looked bad and were there to celebrate with you at the end. Remember also the many people who raised you from a child and taught you what you needed to know. Be grateful to them. Also, remember that the reason you are here is because the voters chose you to be here. For all you did to get here, it was they, not you, who made the decision. And they have put their faith in you, entrusted you with power over their lives, with the responsibility to represent them to the greater commonwealth. Be humble when facing the great challenges before you and when thinking of the great trust placed in you. "Before opening your eyes, concentrate on feeling happy, grateful, and humble. "Now open your eyes. Look at the other women in the circle. Those are the other women who won their elections, who succeeded, just like you. They are happy: smile at them and see them smile back at you. And they are also grateful to those who supported them and humble before the great work in front of them. That is what women who are entrusted with leadership look like. And you are one of them. "These women are in this room, revealing themselves, baring all, more nude than nude. Look closely at them – at their heads, faces, necks, arms, breasts, nipples, bellies, hips, mounds, pussies, thighs, legs, feet. These women show all of themselves, and will hold nothing of themselves back, because that will keep faith with the people who supported and chose them. And you are one of them. "Each woman you're looking at will use her body to serve men by offering herself for their pleasure. And all are happy to do it. Smile again, and see them smile again in return. They are happy for the opportunity to prove their loyalty, grateful to the men they serve for that opportunity, and humble before the men who symbolize all those who have trusted them with leadership. And you are one of them.” Rebecca steps into the center of the circle. “For just a moment, I want you to look directly at me. You can see I'm not a young woman. Even though I take pretty good care of myself, still, my breasts sag and my belly droops. But I also am humble, and grateful, and happy to keep faith with those who entrusted me with my duties. And so I serve men. And I promise you, when I go in to give service, men aren't focused on any imperfections in my body. What men see is a woman who is prepared to give completely of herself to them, to serve them, for their pleasure. "Now I want you to let go of each other's hands, and turn to face one of the mirrors with your hands at your sides Take a good look at yourself. Some of you may be hard on yourselves, thinking you don't look as good as the others. Others of you may take pride in your appearance. But your appearance really is not important. What matters is your ability to open yourself, reveal yourself, humbly give of yourself to service. "Think about what you are when you're here. Outside this room you may be a professional, a scholar, a leader, a powerful person ready to govern the country. But in here, when you reveal yourself, uncover yourself, you're a woman, humbly serving a man by using your body to give him the pleasure he desires, in order to keep faith with your people. Remember that. Take a good look at the woman who will be serving that man. You won't ever know who the men are who come to you for pleasure, who will find fulfillment in your body: your mouth, your breasts, your ass, your pussy… It doesn't matter. He's a man, and you're a woman, and you're here to serve him, whoever he is. You are humble to have been chosen by those who sent you here, and you are grateful to have the opportunity to show that their trust is justified, and happy to be able to do that by serving that man, giving all of yourself to give him pleasure. Look at that humble, grateful, happy woman.” After a few more seconds of staring, Rebecca says “Thank you. In a minute we'll go into the crib. See the code by the door? You'll need to remember it. You type that code on the keypad inside the crib to open the door to come back here again. If you type anything else security comes.” “Ok, follow me into the crib.” To be continued in part 3, the crib, by oolonroosevelt for Literotica

An orientation to the obligations of Sexual Equity. In 4 parts, by oolonroosevelt. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Forward: About New Dorset. New Dorset is an island, and nation-state, in the northeast Pacific. Located 450 km southwest of the Baja California peninsula, it is the largest territory (other than Antarctica) to have no native population when first discovered by Europeans. It was first discovered in 1533 by Spanish explorers, but no Spanish presence was ever established, and it was disputed between Spain and Britain until Spain withdrew its claim in 1815. It was colonized by the British beginning in the early 1800s, and given its independence along with other British dominions in 1931. [[MORE]] New Dorset is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government, with a constitution in broad terms similar to that of the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, but governed under the unique principles of Sexual Equity. New Dorset has 8,671,074 inhabitants. and the capitol is Dorchester. The Duchies, or provinces are: Bathurst, whose capitol is also Dorchester, has 832,092. Wilmot-Horton, whose capitol is Portsmouth, has 2.046,189. Goderich, whose capitol is Poole, has 1,100,280. Deltaland, whose capitol is Stafford, has 1,195,146. Alicia, whose capitol is Taylorville, has 1,024,764. Helenia, whose capitol is Jenkins, has 1,040,141. Louisia, whose capitol is Kibblewhite, has 537,428. Beatricia, whose capitol is Packman, has 895,034. Orientation begins: Twelve women in the their twenties and thirties, dressed in pantsuits or blazers and skirts, file in to the conference room and sit around the table. At first, they talk of their journeys here to the capital; soon he discussion turns to constituency office staffing and committee assignments. Finally an older woman, about fifty, comes in, wearing a “State Service Office” badge on a lanyard. “Hello. Welcome to State Service Orientation. I'm Rebecca Upston, the Parliamentary Commissioner for State Service. Angela, who usually does new officeholder orientation, is off today, so you get me; I'm the head of the program. Thanks for coming on time. I know this seems uncomfortable and frightful for some of you, but don't worry, for almost everyone orientation, and service generally, turns out to be a good experience. Can you introduce yourselves? Just first names here. You can call me Rebecca.” They go around the room, and each says her name. Rebecca makes a point of repeating them back. “Georgia.” “Eva.” “Lucy.” “Holly.” “Bella.” “Brooke.” “Samantha.” “Jasmine.” “Sophie.” “Madison.” “Summer.” “Elizabeth.” Rebecca says, “Great. And most of you are new members of the Legislative Assembly from; which province was it, Deltaland, right? Except Sophie, who won the federal by election in MacVicar, and Lucy, who is the newest city council member in Poole. Her election was just two days ago. Thanks for coming down so quickly. “Congratulations to all of you on running for and winning office, on being chosen to represent and lead your people. What we are here for today may not seem like it has much to do with what you do in the legislature, but you'll see that it does. “I was an MP for twelve years and on my city council for four years before that, so even before this job, I did my share of state service. A lot of women come in with ideas about service that are pretty far off, so even though we provide you with written materials, we have everyone do an in-person orientation. You've all read the ‘Your Service Obligation' booklet, right?” A series of nods. “All right. Let's begin he orientation by letting me show you through your part of the selection process. Servitrixes , that's what we call women who have a service obligation, go online each month and sign up for service room assignments. By the way, in real life nobody ever calls them ‘service rooms,' they're always called ‘cribs,' except in the paperwork. Anyway, the Service Office will send you the date each month when you're eligible to select times and places. You get a different date depending on whether you're a minister, an MP, an MLA, or what. If it's available, you're allowed to choose any crib, anywhere. Usually, you'll want to pick one near where you work, but it's up to you.” She calls the web site up on the projector and goes through a sample assignment selection process. “You pick the number of appointments you need each month for your obligation. Each appointment time lasts an hour. Ten minutes at the beginning is for preparation and fifteen at the end is for clean-up, so if you have two crib assignments in a row, you'll have a twenty-five minute break in between.” “What if we forget to sign up?” asks Georgia. “Well, you can always sign up late, and be limited to whatever crib spaces are available. We'll try to accommodate you if we can. Ultimately, it's your responsibility to make sure you can fulfil your service obligation. If you don't, you can end up before the Joint Disciplinary Committee, and ultimately lose your seat. So don't do that. Sign up early, get convenient crib assignments, do your service, and then go back and run the country. That's how service is supposed to work. All the details are on the help pages online.” “OK, so that's how you'll sign up. I want to give you a a general idea about how patrons (men who receive service) sign up too. Patrons sign up on a weekly basis instead of a monthly basis, and select their preferences from the service room assignments you've chosen. They select their preferred times and servitrixes, and the system matches them up. There are a lot more men who want to receive service than servitrixes to provide it, so there's a complicated system for building the waiting list. Patrons get priority firstly on how long they've been waiting, then on whether they live in the constituency of the woman in question, and last on whether they've received any honors – lords, knights and members of the various orders of merit all have their own priority levels.” “I thought earls and lords could get service anytime they wanted,” asked Lucy. “No, just the duke of each province and the king. Nobles get some preference, but if a regular man with no honors has been waiting longer than an earl, he will get service even if the earl has to wait. Where the honors make a difference is in whether they get their first choice of servitrix. Samantha asks, "Why do we sign up monthly when men sign up weekly?” “It just works out better that way; it allows women to establish their schedules in advance, which is especially important for women like the foreign minister, who has to make sure she squeezes in her service obligation in between foreign trips. For men, it's easier to pick appointment times closer to when they'll actually go, and weekly signups allow the waiting lists to shuffle more often, which gives a sense of progress, even if the wait isn't really any different in the long run. As long as you sign up on time for your assignments, the difference won't affect you. "Oh, one other thing you should know: if a crib isn't being used, servitrixes can sign up to use it for whatever they want; either take a friend down there, or just use the lounge to take a nap or something. Perk bookings open up at the beginning of the week, after any late assignments. "Any other questions? OK, they should be ready for us in the cribs now.” Rebecca leads the women out of the conference room and into the hall. They pause in the Grand Hall on the way to the stairs. “Parliament House is a beautiful place to work. State service reminds us of our responsibility to the citizens, but the building reminds us how glorious our country is and what a privilege it is to lead it. We who work here are fortunate, especially the MPs. State service might seem like an heavy burden at times, but it's a small price to pay. I don't regret a day of it.” They descend a stairway and travel down another hall, and come to an alcove marked Service Rooms; East, where two athletic men in their twenties are standing. “Hello, Ms. Upston.” “Hello, gentlemen,” says Rebecca. “These are two of our instructors. We don't use names for our patrons, so for now we'll just call them Mr. M and Mr. V.” They exchange a round of greetings. Rebecca addresses a woman in a security uniform sitting behind a glass window in the back of the alcove. “Hi, Harper,” says Rebecca. “Harper here is our first line of security. We know you are in a vulnerable position with you don't know, so we take security very seriously at the Service Office, especially here at Parliament House. We show you this side during orientation so you can feel confident in your safety. You've all gone through body scanners to get into Parliament House. Security's even tighter down here. No man can get into the cribs until the guard gives them a key and buzzes them in. Harper, can you check in Mr. M and Mr. V?” Harper checks their IDs and then passes two plastic rings through the window, and the two men each take one. Mr. M puts the ring on a finger, then presses the ring to a badge reader next to a door; Harper presses a button and the door opens. A short hallway is visible, with another door at the other end. Rebecca says, “The door opens only when guard buzzes the doors at the same time the key is used. Every entrance and exit to the cribs is protected by a set of double doors, which can't open at the same time, so nobody can sneak through.” Mr. M leads the others through the hallway, and they find themselves in a room with a bench, a row of lockers, and a stack of what look like towels on a shelf above a hamper. There are doors marked To Exit and Washroom/Showers, and a hallway marked To Service Rooms. Rebecca says “There are twenty cribs in Parliament House: seven in the south wing, ten in the west wing, and this the smallest set, with just three. Usually all the Parliament House cribs are pretty busy. Backbench MPs usually do service in Parliament House, as do ministers of the major departments like the Foreign Ministry and Defense, since those offices don't have their own cribs. Ministers whose offices are in the North and South Executive Buildings generally use the cribs there. "This is the locker room for the east cribs. Men can't take anything into the cribs with them from the outside, anything at all. No clothes, no jewelry, nothing except their ring key. They have to take off everything and leave it here. Gentlemen, will you demonstrate?” The instructors remove their shoes, pants, and shirts and put them in lockers. Mr. V removes a gold chain from around his neck; Mr. M removes a piercing from his ear, a gold ring from his finger, and a wristwatch. All go in the lockers. Finally, they remove their underwear, and turn around, facing the officeholders totally nude except for the plastic ring keys on their fingers. Rebecca says, “Please, take a good look,” and the two instructors pause as the women examine them.. A few titters escape the women's mouths. Rebecca says, “We always get a few gigglers here at orientation. But you'll have to get used to seeing men like this. We'll talk more about that later. First, let's finish seeing security. Meanwhile, Mr. M takes one of the cloths that look like towels. "These wraps are all patrons are allowed to wear,” he says. “It's not much, but having something makes most of us more comfortable while we wait.” He puts it around his lower torso and presses it closed. “There's no pockets or anything, so you can see why the keys are made like rings; we don't have to worry about losing them. We need the ring to open our locker and get our clothes after service.” Mr. V also takes a wrap and puts it on. They continue on into the hallway marked To Waiting Room. In the hallway is another security checkpoint with a fullbody scanner, with entry and exit doors; a male security officer stands behind a glass wall. Rebecca says, “We're always extra careful. We know you're in the public eye and we don't want anything to happen to any of you. So we have another checkpoint here. Lucas here does a visual inspection, and then the scanner verifies that the man has left absolutely everything in the locker room.” The scanner door opens, Mr. M steps inside, and the door closes behind him. Lucas says, “Please remove your wrap, sir.” Mr. M does, and the guard makes a point of examining him thoroughly. “You may put it back now, sir,” says Lucas. Mr. M does so, and then Lucas operates the scanner, which is silent. “Thank you, sir,” says Lucas, and the rear scanner door opens. Mr. M goes through the door, and it closes behind him. Lucas goes through the same procedure with Mr. V. Rebecca says, “Only patrons are allowed in the waiting room, so we will be heading out now.” Bella says, “Is there something special in the waiting room that we can't see?” “Yes, actually. Official portraits. At one point, it was decided that the old practice of displaying portraits of past and present ministers and officers of Parliament was one of the honors women would renounce. Instead, it was decided that official portraits would be made in the act of giving service, and they would be displayed in the waiting rooms to help patrons get in the proper mood.” Lucy is alarmed. “But they said service was private, that nobody got to see us.” “Well, nobody gets to see except the patrons. This is why you're not allowed in there. The waiting room is highly restricted. Nobody is ever allowed in except men waiting for service. Even I've never seen any of the official portraits except my own.” Sophie says, “I'd like to know about that.” Rebecca laughs. “Maybe later. Anyway, don't worry, only ministers and a few others are required to have their portraits posted, and in any case only the men actually waiting for service can see them. We can have no expectation of privacy from our patrons. And the portraits do an important job, of helping patrons get themselves ready for what is about to happen. It's just another kind of service.” “Anyway, when the woman in the crib signals that she's ready to begin, there will be an announcement in the waiting room. The man then uses his key to access the hallway that leads to the crib, and then the crib itself. The main security office has a door to the hall, to come if you call, and the hall is also used by housekeeping staff who wipe up and change the linens after every appointment. "For now, our instructors will stay in the waiting room while we go around to the women's entrance.” Rebecca leads the women out through the locker room and a series of hallways with doors back to the service room entrance alcove. She counts the women, and says “Harper, we're all clear.” Rebeca leads the women back to the stairwell. “We actually have to go up and over to get to the women's entrances. We don't want any mistakes.” Lucy asks, “Are all cribs this secure?” “Well, mostly. No matter what, we always have separate men's and women's entrances, and there's always a guard on the men's side who makes sure patrons can't bring anything inside, monitors who enters the cribs, and who is there to help if called. But all security is stronger for our national leaders. The truth is that we've never had a problem where somebody who wasn't supposed to be in a crib tried to get in to hurt someone, not even here in the capital.” Rebecca leads them up the stairs, back through a set of hallways, and down another stairway. At the bottom, a woman in a security uniform sits at a counter, behind another glass window with a locked door. Rebecca says, “Matilda here will check your IDs and buzz you in.” Matilda checks each ID before allowing the group through another set of double doors into another hallway, this one with doors labeled E1 through E3. Rebecca says, “We're going to do most of the rest of orientation in E1, but that's an extra-large crib we use for orientations and other special occasions. Before we go there, I want to show you E2, which is a regular crib. The first room is your lounge, where you can freshen up. There's a small washroom with a toilet and shower, and an area where you can rest and change clothes. Then after that is the crib itself, which has a bed, a chair, and a stool. I'll explain that in a bit, but go on into E2 and see what it's like.” Rebecca opens the door with her badge. Each goes into E2 and looks around. The lounge has an area rug covering most of the floor, a daybed and a small clothes closet with a mirror on the door. The washroom is small but well stocked with toiletries. Next to the door to the crib is wall decoration reading “Happiness / Gratitude / Humility” and a small whiteboard marked “Today's code: 2701”. Inside the crib is a full-size bed, made up with just a fitted sheet. It's pressed up against the wall on one side, and on the other side there's a low chest of drawers. Across from it there's also a chair with a seat raised off the ground, and a very low stool in front of it. This room has a rug on the floor also. On the far wall is a door marked Men's Exit. Next to the door back to the lounge there are some pushbuttons and a keypad. After each has a look, Rebecca reaches into the E2 lounge, presses a button on the wall marked Finished, and exits the room, closing the E2 door behind her. Then she shows the officeholders into E1. The lounge here is similar, but much larger, with two couches and a large closet, and mirrors lining the walls; the washroom has a toilet and shower but also a whirlpool bath. It has the same decoration and whiteboard next to the crib door. Rebecca says, “This is the biggest crib we have, which is why we use it for orientation: there's no way this many women could fit in E2. At the same time, E2 is much more like the cribs you'll be using. This room is booked up quickly. "Now is when you will be first introduced to what State Service is really like. The first step is to change your clothes. You should remove everything: clothes, jewelry, hair bands, whatever you have on, and put on a service robe. Let me know if your robe is too long; it shouldn't go down to your knees.” She opens the closet and hands each woman a garment bag and a thigh-length, very sheer robe. Eva looks at the robe and asks, “What's the point of wearing this thing? There's not even any lace. They can see everything anyway, we might as well just be naked.” Rebecca says, “Yes, Eva, it doesn't hide anything, but that's not the point of wearing this. We provide service not only in what we do but in how we look, and not only in how we look to the men but how we look to ourselves. Nudity isn't necessarily sexy; it can be pretty ordinary. We're all nude when we take baths, or change our clothes. These robes are a reminder, partially to the men but mostly to ourselves, that we are here in their service. In here, we reveal ourselves in every way, even If we wear a robe, even if we do what usually conceals. So we're more nude than nude in these. And before you ask, yes I'll be wearing one too. Out there, I'm a Parliamentary Commissioner; when I come in here, I'm a woman providing service, like any of you. Counselors and managers in the Service Office are the only women other than elected officials who have a citizen service obligation. "So, please place your clothes in the garment bags; we'll put them in the closet.” Each of the women begins to remove her clothes and place them in the garment bag. As they do, Rebecca says, “Don't be shy about looking at each other. Servitrixes need to get used to being looked at.” Each woman puts on her very thin and sheer robe, and hangs the bag in the closet. “Sophie, your robe is a little long; can you exchange with Bella? You don't want it to get caught on your knees.” They exchange robes. Rebecca says, “We're going to do an exercise to help get in the proper mindset. This room is just large enough for you all to stand in a circle, facing each other. Please do that, and hold hands.” The twelve women stand in a circle, arms spread so they can hold hands, wearing nothing but the sheer robes, bodies completely visible; Rebecca wears the same but stands outside the circle. “OK, now I want you to close your eyes,” says Rebecca. “OK? Good. I want you to think about the path you took to get here. You were victorious in your election campaign. You won! And now you can begin the great work you set out to do when you decided to run. Be happy in your victory, and in the opportunity you have to do good. But remember the many other people who worked to get you here, who gave you their time, money, and resources, and who cheered you up when thinks looked bad and were there to celebrate with you at the end. Remember also the many people who raised you from a child and taught you what you needed to know. Be grateful to them. Also, remember that the reason you are here is because the voters chose you to be here. For all you did to get here, it was they, not you, who made the decision. And they have put their faith in you, entrusted you with power over their lives, with the responsibility to represent them to the greater commonwealth. Be humble when facing the great challenges before you and when thinking of the great trust placed in you. "Before opening your eyes, concentrate on feeling happy, grateful, and humble. "Now open your eyes. Look at the other women in the circle. Those are the other women who won their elections, who succeeded, just like you. They are happy: smile at them and see them smile back at you. And they are also grateful to those who supported them and humble before the great work in front of them. That is what women who are entrusted with leadership look like. And you are one of them. "These women are in this room, revealing themselves, baring all, more nude than nude. Look closely at them – at their heads, faces, necks, arms, breasts, nipples, bellies, hips, mounds, pussies, thighs, legs, feet. These women show all of themselves, and will hold nothing of themselves back, because that will keep faith with the people who supported and chose them. And you are one of them. "Each woman you're looking at will use her body to serve men by offering herself for their pleasure. And all are happy to do it. Smile again, and see them smile again in return. They are happy for the opportunity to prove their loyalty, grateful to the men they serve for that opportunity, and humble before the men who symbolize all those who have trusted them with leadership. And you are one of them.” Rebecca steps into the center of the circle. “For just a moment, I want you to look directly at me. You can see I'm not a young woman. Even though I take pretty good care of myself, still, my breasts sag and my belly droops. But I also am humble, and grateful, and happy to keep faith with those who entrusted me with my duties. And so I serve men. And I promise you, when I go in to give service, men aren't focused on any imperfections in my body. What men see is a woman who is prepared to give completely of herself to them, to serve them, for their pleasure. "Now I want you to let go of each other's hands, and turn to face one of the mirrors with your hands at your sides Take a good look at yourself. Some of you may be hard on yourselves, thinking you don't look as good as the others. Others of you may take pride in your appearance. But your appearance really is not important. What matters is your ability to open yourself, reveal yourself, humbly give of yourself to service. "Think about what you are when you're here. Outside this room you may be a professional, a scholar, a leader, a powerful person ready to govern the country. But in here, when you reveal yourself, uncover yourself, you're a woman, humbly serving a man by using your body to give him the pleasure he desires, in order to keep faith with your people. Remember that. Take a good look at the woman who will be serving that man. You won't ever know who the men are who come to you for pleasure, who will find fulfillment in your body: your mouth, your breasts, your ass, your pussy… It doesn't matter. He's a man, and you're a woman, and you're here to serve him, whoever he is. You are humble to have been chosen by those who sent you here, and you are grateful to have the opportunity to show that their trust is justified, and happy to be able to do that by serving that man, giving all of yourself to give him pleasure. Look at that humble, grateful, happy woman.” After a few more seconds of staring, Rebecca says “Thank you. In a minute we'll go into the crib. See the code by the door? You'll need to remember it. You type that code on the keypad inside the crib to open the door to come back here again. If you type anything else security comes.” “Ok, follow me into the crib.” To be continued in part 3, the crib, by oolonroosevelt for Literotica

An orientation to the obligations of Sexual Equity. In 4 parts, by oolonroosevelt. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Forward: About New Dorset. New Dorset is an island, and nation-state, in the northeast Pacific. Located 450 km southwest of the Baja California peninsula, it is the largest territory (other than Antarctica) to have no native population when first discovered by Europeans. It was first discovered in 1533 by Spanish explorers, but no Spanish presence was ever established, and it was disputed between Spain and Britain until Spain withdrew its claim in 1815. It was colonized by the British beginning in the early 1800s, and given its independence along with other British dominions in 1931. [[MORE]] New Dorset is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government, with a constitution in broad terms similar to that of the United Kingdom and many former British colonies, but governed under the unique principles of Sexual Equity. New Dorset has 8,671,074 inhabitants. and the capitol is Dorchester. The Duchies, or provinces are: Bathurst, whose capitol is also Dorchester, has 832,092. Wilmot-Horton, whose capitol is Portsmouth, has 2.046,189. Goderich, whose capitol is Poole, has 1,100,280. Deltaland, whose capitol is Stafford, has 1,195,146. Alicia, whose capitol is Taylorville, has 1,024,764. Helenia, whose capitol is Jenkins, has 1,040,141. Louisia, whose capitol is Kibblewhite, has 537,428. Beatricia, whose capitol is Packman, has 895,034. Orientation begins: Twelve women in the their twenties and thirties, dressed in pantsuits or blazers and skirts, file in to the conference room and sit around the table. At first, they talk of their journeys here to the capital; soon he discussion turns to constituency office staffing and committee assignments. Finally an older woman, about fifty, comes in, wearing a “State Service Office” badge on a lanyard. “Hello. Welcome to State Service Orientation. I'm Rebecca Upston, the Parliamentary Commissioner for State Service. Angela, who usually does new officeholder orientation, is off today, so you get me; I'm the head of the program. Thanks for coming on time. I know this seems uncomfortable and frightful for some of you, but don't worry, for almost everyone orientation, and service generally, turns out to be a good experience. Can you introduce yourselves? Just first names here. You can call me Rebecca.” They go around the room, and each says her name. Rebecca makes a point of repeating them back. “Georgia.” “Eva.” “Lucy.” “Holly.” “Bella.” “Brooke.” “Samantha.” “Jasmine.” “Sophie.” “Madison.” “Summer.” “Elizabeth.” Rebecca says, “Great. And most of you are new members of the Legislative Assembly from; which province was it, Deltaland, right? Except Sophie, who won the federal by election in MacVicar, and Lucy, who is the newest city council member in Poole. Her election was just two days ago. Thanks for coming down so quickly. “Congratulations to all of you on running for and winning office, on being chosen to represent and lead your people. What we are here for today may not seem like it has much to do with what you do in the legislature, but you'll see that it does. “I was an MP for twelve years and on my city council for four years before that, so even before this job, I did my share of state service. A lot of women come in with ideas about service that are pretty far off, so even though we provide you with written materials, we have everyone do an in-person orientation. You've all read the ‘Your Service Obligation' booklet, right?” A series of nods. “All right. Let's begin he orientation by letting me show you through your part of the selection process. Servitrixes , that's what we call women who have a service obligation, go online each month and sign up for service room assignments. By the way, in real life nobody ever calls them ‘service rooms,' they're always called ‘cribs,' except in the paperwork. Anyway, the Service Office will send you the date each month when you're eligible to select times and places. You get a different date depending on whether you're a minister, an MP, an MLA, or what. If it's available, you're allowed to choose any crib, anywhere. Usually, you'll want to pick one near where you work, but it's up to you.” She calls the web site up on the projector and goes through a sample assignment selection process. “You pick the number of appointments you need each month for your obligation. Each appointment time lasts an hour. Ten minutes at the beginning is for preparation and fifteen at the end is for clean-up, so if you have two crib assignments in a row, you'll have a twenty-five minute break in between.” “What if we forget to sign up?” asks Georgia. “Well, you can always sign up late, and be limited to whatever crib spaces are available. We'll try to accommodate you if we can. Ultimately, it's your responsibility to make sure you can fulfil your service obligation. If you don't, you can end up before the Joint Disciplinary Committee, and ultimately lose your seat. So don't do that. Sign up early, get convenient crib assignments, do your service, and then go back and run the country. That's how service is supposed to work. All the details are on the help pages online.” “OK, so that's how you'll sign up. I want to give you a a general idea about how patrons (men who receive service) sign up too. Patrons sign up on a weekly basis instead of a monthly basis, and select their preferences from the service room assignments you've chosen. They select their preferred times and servitrixes, and the system matches them up. There are a lot more men who want to receive service than servitrixes to provide it, so there's a complicated system for building the waiting list. Patrons get priority firstly on how long they've been waiting, then on whether they live in the constituency of the woman in question, and last on whether they've received any honors – lords, knights and members of the various orders of merit all have their own priority levels.” “I thought earls and lords could get service anytime they wanted,” asked Lucy. “No, just the duke of each province and the king. Nobles get some preference, but if a regular man with no honors has been waiting longer than an earl, he will get service even if the earl has to wait. Where the honors make a difference is in whether they get their first choice of servitrix. Samantha asks, "Why do we sign up monthly when men sign up weekly?” “It just works out better that way; it allows women to establish their schedules in advance, which is especially important for women like the foreign minister, who has to make sure she squeezes in her service obligation in between foreign trips. For men, it's easier to pick appointment times closer to when they'll actually go, and weekly signups allow the waiting lists to shuffle more often, which gives a sense of progress, even if the wait isn't really any different in the long run. As long as you sign up on time for your assignments, the difference won't affect you. "Oh, one other thing you should know: if a crib isn't being used, servitrixes can sign up to use it for whatever they want; either take a friend down there, or just use the lounge to take a nap or something. Perk bookings open up at the beginning of the week, after any late assignments. "Any other questions? OK, they should be ready for us in the cribs now.” Rebecca leads the women out of the conference room and into the hall. They pause in the Grand Hall on the way to the stairs. “Parliament House is a beautiful place to work. State service reminds us of our responsibility to the citizens, but the building reminds us how glorious our country is and what a privilege it is to lead it. We who work here are fortunate, especially the MPs. State service might seem like an heavy burden at times, but it's a small price to pay. I don't regret a day of it.” They descend a stairway and travel down another hall, and come to an alcove marked Service Rooms; East, where two athletic men in their twenties are standing. “Hello, Ms. Upston.” “Hello, gentlemen,” says Rebecca. “These are two of our instructors. We don't use names for our patrons, so for now we'll just call them Mr. M and Mr. V.” They exchange a round of greetings. Rebecca addresses a woman in a security uniform sitting behind a glass window in the back of the alcove. “Hi, Harper,” says Rebecca. “Harper here is our first line of security. We know you are in a vulnerable position with you don't know, so we take security very seriously at the Service Office, especially here at Parliament House. We show you this side during orientation so you can feel confident in your safety. You've all gone through body scanners to get into Parliament House. Security's even tighter down here. No man can get into the cribs until the guard gives them a key and buzzes them in. Harper, can you check in Mr. M and Mr. V?” Harper checks their IDs and then passes two plastic rings through the window, and the two men each take one. Mr. M puts the ring on a finger, then presses the ring to a badge reader next to a door; Harper presses a button and the door opens. A short hallway is visible, with another door at the other end. Rebecca says, “The door opens only when guard buzzes the doors at the same time the key is used. Every entrance and exit to the cribs is protected by a set of double doors, which can't open at the same time, so nobody can sneak through.” Mr. M leads the others through the hallway, and they find themselves in a room with a bench, a row of lockers, and a stack of what look like towels on a shelf above a hamper. There are doors marked To Exit and Washroom/Showers, and a hallway marked To Service Rooms. Rebecca says “There are twenty cribs in Parliament House: seven in the south wing, ten in the west wing, and this the smallest set, with just three. Usually all the Parliament House cribs are pretty busy. Backbench MPs usually do service in Parliament House, as do ministers of the major departments like the Foreign Ministry and Defense, since those offices don't have their own cribs. Ministers whose offices are in the North and South Executive Buildings generally use the cribs there. "This is the locker room for the east cribs. Men can't take anything into the cribs with them from the outside, anything at all. No clothes, no jewelry, nothing except their ring key. They have to take off everything and leave it here. Gentlemen, will you demonstrate?” The instructors remove their shoes, pants, and shirts and put them in lockers. Mr. V removes a gold chain from around his neck; Mr. M removes a piercing from his ear, a gold ring from his finger, and a wristwatch. All go in the lockers. Finally, they remove their underwear, and turn around, facing the officeholders totally nude except for the plastic ring keys on their fingers. Rebecca says, “Please, take a good look,” and the two instructors pause as the women examine them.. A few titters escape the women's mouths. Rebecca says, “We always get a few gigglers here at orientation. But you'll have to get used to seeing men like this. We'll talk more about that later. First, let's finish seeing security. Meanwhile, Mr. M takes one of the cloths that look like towels. "These wraps are all patrons are allowed to wear,” he says. “It's not much, but having something makes most of us more comfortable while we wait.” He puts it around his lower torso and presses it closed. “There's no pockets or anything, so you can see why the keys are made like rings; we don't have to worry about losing them. We need the ring to open our locker and get our clothes after service.” Mr. V also takes a wrap and puts it on. They continue on into the hallway marked To Waiting Room. In the hallway is another security checkpoint with a fullbody scanner, with entry and exit doors; a male security officer stands behind a glass wall. Rebecca says, “We're always extra careful. We know you're in the public eye and we don't want anything to happen to any of you. So we have another checkpoint here. Lucas here does a visual inspection, and then the scanner verifies that the man has left absolutely everything in the locker room.” The scanner door opens, Mr. M steps inside, and the door closes behind him. Lucas says, “Please remove your wrap, sir.” Mr. M does, and the guard makes a point of examining him thoroughly. “You may put it back now, sir,” says Lucas. Mr. M does so, and then Lucas operates the scanner, which is silent. “Thank you, sir,” says Lucas, and the rear scanner door opens. Mr. M goes through the door, and it closes behind him. Lucas goes through the same procedure with Mr. V. Rebecca says, “Only patrons are allowed in the waiting room, so we will be heading out now.” Bella says, “Is there something special in the waiting room that we can't see?” “Yes, actually. Official portraits. At one point, it was decided that the old practice of displaying portraits of past and present ministers and officers of Parliament was one of the honors women would renounce. Instead, it was decided that official portraits would be made in the act of giving service, and they would be displayed in the waiting rooms to help patrons get in the proper mood.” Lucy is alarmed. “But they said service was private, that nobody got to see us.” “Well, nobody gets to see except the patrons. This is why you're not allowed in there. The waiting room is highly restricted. Nobody is ever allowed in except men waiting for service. Even I've never seen any of the official portraits except my own.” Sophie says, “I'd like to know about that.” Rebecca laughs. “Maybe later. Anyway, don't worry, only ministers and a few others are required to have their portraits posted, and in any case only the men actually waiting for service can see them. We can have no expectation of privacy from our patrons. And the portraits do an important job, of helping patrons get themselves ready for what is about to happen. It's just another kind of service.” “Anyway, when the woman in the crib signals that she's ready to begin, there will be an announcement in the waiting room. The man then uses his key to access the hallway that leads to the crib, and then the crib itself. The main security office has a door to the hall, to come if you call, and the hall is also used by housekeeping staff who wipe up and change the linens after every appointment. "For now, our instructors will stay in the waiting room while we go around to the women's entrance.” Rebecca leads the women out through the locker room and a series of hallways with doors back to the service room entrance alcove. She counts the women, and says “Harper, we're all clear.” Rebeca leads the women back to the stairwell. “We actually have to go up and over to get to the women's entrances. We don't want any mistakes.” Lucy asks, “Are all cribs this secure?” “Well, mostly. No matter what, we always have separate men's and women's entrances, and there's always a guard on the men's side who makes sure patrons can't bring anything inside, monitors who enters the cribs, and who is there to help if called. But all security is stronger for our national leaders. The truth is that we've never had a problem where somebody who wasn't supposed to be in a crib tried to get in to hurt someone, not even here in the capital.” Rebecca leads them up the stairs, back through a set of hallways, and down another stairway. At the bottom, a woman in a security uniform sits at a counter, behind another glass window with a locked door. Rebecca says, “Matilda here will check your IDs and buzz you in.” Matilda checks each ID before allowing the group through another set of double doors into another hallway, this one with doors labeled E1 through E3. Rebecca says, “We're going to do most of the rest of orientation in E1, but that's an extra-large crib we use for orientations and other special occasions. Before we go there, I want to show you E2, which is a regular crib. The first room is your lounge, where you can freshen up. There's a small washroom with a toilet and shower, and an area where you can rest and change clothes. Then after that is the crib itself, which has a bed, a chair, and a stool. I'll explain that in a bit, but go on into E2 and see what it's like.” Rebecca opens the door with her badge. Each goes into E2 and looks around. The lounge has an area rug covering most of the floor, a daybed and a small clothes closet with a mirror on the door. The washroom is small but well stocked with toiletries. Next to the door to the crib is wall decoration reading “Happiness / Gratitude / Humility” and a small whiteboard marked “Today's code: 2701”. Inside the crib is a full-size bed, made up with just a fitted sheet. It's pressed up against the wall on one side, and on the other side there's a low chest of drawers. Across from it there's also a chair with a seat raised off the ground, and a very low stool in front of it. This room has a rug on the floor also. On the far wall is a door marked Men's Exit. Next to the door back to the lounge there are some pushbuttons and a keypad. After each has a look, Rebecca reaches into the E2 lounge, presses a button on the wall marked Finished, and exits the room, closing the E2 door behind her. Then she shows the officeholders into E1. The lounge here is similar, but much larger, with two couches and a large closet, and mirrors lining the walls; the washroom has a toilet and shower but also a whirlpool bath. It has the same decoration and whiteboard next to the crib door. Rebecca says, “This is the biggest crib we have, which is why we use it for orientation: there's no way this many women could fit in E2. At the same time, E2 is much more like the cribs you'll be using. This room is booked up quickly. "Now is when you will be first introduced to what State Service is really like. The first step is to change your clothes. You should remove everything: clothes, jewelry, hair bands, whatever you have on, and put on a service robe. Let me know if your robe is too long; it shouldn't go down to your knees.” She opens the closet and hands each woman a garment bag and a thigh-length, very sheer robe. Eva looks at the robe and asks, “What's the point of wearing this thing? There's not even any lace. They can see everything anyway, we might as well just be naked.” Rebecca says, “Yes, Eva, it doesn't hide anything, but that's not the point of wearing this. We provide service not only in what we do but in how we look, and not only in how we look to the men but how we look to ourselves. Nudity isn't necessarily sexy; it can be pretty ordinary. We're all nude when we take baths, or change our clothes. These robes are a reminder, partially to the men but mostly to ourselves, that we are here in their service. In here, we reveal ourselves in every way, even If we wear a robe, even if we do what usually conceals. So we're more nude than nude in these. And before you ask, yes I'll be wearing one too. Out there, I'm a Parliamentary Commissioner; when I come in here, I'm a woman providing service, like any of you. Counselors and managers in the Service Office are the only women other than elected officials who have a citizen service obligation. "So, please place your clothes in the garment bags; we'll put them in the closet.” Each of the women begins to remove her clothes and place them in the garment bag. As they do, Rebecca says, “Don't be shy about looking at each other. Servitrixes need to get used to being looked at.” Each woman puts on her very thin and sheer robe, and hangs the bag in the closet. “Sophie, your robe is a little long; can you exchange with Bella? You don't want it to get caught on your knees.” They exchange robes. Rebecca says, “We're going to do an exercise to help get in the proper mindset. This room is just large enough for you all to stand in a circle, facing each other. Please do that, and hold hands.” The twelve women stand in a circle, arms spread so they can hold hands, wearing nothing but the sheer robes, bodies completely visible; Rebecca wears the same but stands outside the circle. “OK, now I want you to close your eyes,” says Rebecca. “OK? Good. I want you to think about the path you took to get here. You were victorious in your election campaign. You won! And now you can begin the great work you set out to do when you decided to run. Be happy in your victory, and in the opportunity you have to do good. But remember the many other people who worked to get you here, who gave you their time, money, and resources, and who cheered you up when thinks looked bad and were there to celebrate with you at the end. Remember also the many people who raised you from a child and taught you what you needed to know. Be grateful to them. Also, remember that the reason you are here is because the voters chose you to be here. For all you did to get here, it was they, not you, who made the decision. And they have put their faith in you, entrusted you with power over their lives, with the responsibility to represent them to the greater commonwealth. Be humble when facing the great challenges before you and when thinking of the great trust placed in you. "Before opening your eyes, concentrate on feeling happy, grateful, and humble. "Now open your eyes. Look at the other women in the circle. Those are the other women who won their elections, who succeeded, just like you. They are happy: smile at them and see them smile back at you. And they are also grateful to those who supported them and humble before the great work in front of them. That is what women who are entrusted with leadership look like. And you are one of them. "These women are in this room, revealing themselves, baring all, more nude than nude. Look closely at them – at their heads, faces, necks, arms, breasts, nipples, bellies, hips, mounds, pussies, thighs, legs, feet. These women show all of themselves, and will hold nothing of themselves back, because that will keep faith with the people who supported and chose them. And you are one of them. "Each woman you're looking at will use her body to serve men by offering herself for their pleasure. And all are happy to do it. Smile again, and see them smile again in return. They are happy for the opportunity to prove their loyalty, grateful to the men they serve for that opportunity, and humble before the men who symbolize all those who have trusted them with leadership. And you are one of them.” Rebecca steps into the center of the circle. “For just a moment, I want you to look directly at me. You can see I'm not a young woman. Even though I take pretty good care of myself, still, my breasts sag and my belly droops. But I also am humble, and grateful, and happy to keep faith with those who entrusted me with my duties. And so I serve men. And I promise you, when I go in to give service, men aren't focused on any imperfections in my body. What men see is a woman who is prepared to give completely of herself to them, to serve them, for their pleasure. "Now I want you to let go of each other's hands, and turn to face one of the mirrors with your hands at your sides Take a good look at yourself. Some of you may be hard on yourselves, thinking you don't look as good as the others. Others of you may take pride in your appearance. But your appearance really is not important. What matters is your ability to open yourself, reveal yourself, humbly give of yourself to service. "Think about what you are when you're here. Outside this room you may be a professional, a scholar, a leader, a powerful person ready to govern the country. But in here, when you reveal yourself, uncover yourself, you're a woman, humbly serving a man by using your body to give him the pleasure he desires, in order to keep faith with your people. Remember that. Take a good look at the woman who will be serving that man. You won't ever know who the men are who come to you for pleasure, who will find fulfillment in your body: your mouth, your breasts, your ass, your pussy… It doesn't matter. He's a man, and you're a woman, and you're here to serve him, whoever he is. You are humble to have been chosen by those who sent you here, and you are grateful to have the opportunity to show that their trust is justified, and happy to be able to do that by serving that man, giving all of yourself to give him pleasure. Look at that humble, grateful, happy woman.” After a few more seconds of staring, Rebecca says “Thank you. In a minute we'll go into the crib. See the code by the door? You'll need to remember it. You type that code on the keypad inside the crib to open the door to come back here again. If you type anything else security comes.” “Ok, follow me into the crib.” To be continued in part 3, the crib, by oolonroosevelt for Literotica

When we set out on this journey more than a year ago, we thought we would be focussing on a lot of places and things that we find amazing about Midwestern Ontario and we hope we're doing that to some extent. What it seems to have evolved into though, is a podcast that's more about people. We say often that everybody has a story and we've come to love the stories. In this episode, we chat with a guy who stepped into a very difficult role last year after the town of Goderich lost it's second mayor in as many years. Trevor Bazinet joins us to chat about that journey, his life in Goderich, family, friends and his meeting and friendship with hockey great Guy Lafleur. Also, do yourself a favour and don't miss "The Fast Five" at the end of the show where Ally Anderson confesses her morbid fear of ... yarn.

Robyn Shumer: Communication Aficionado, Storyteller, Advocate—Leading Us to ActionRobyn Shumer is a dynamic force in the world of change management and communication. She brings a unique blend of expertise to her endeavors, finds the bright spots amidst disorder and can make an audience laugh and cry but most importantly, lead them to action. A certified yoga teacher and ICF trained coach, Robyn is not only adept at driving organizational change but also in empowering individuals. She is passionate about amplifying people and helping organizations communicate effectively across diverse audiences. Robyn's creativity knows no bounds. A storyteller at heart, she excels in facilitating dialogue, workshops, and brainstorming sessions. Her ability to teach people how to tell their stories stems from the belief that nobody should be ashamed to share the stories that shape them. She teaches the craft enabling others to share their personal and business stories successfully and in an engaging way. “Preparing for and delivering a TED talk has been more impactful in my overall well-being, than all of the hours of therapy I've had,” she says. Robyn is the author of the book "Bones," a compelling narrative, “hero's journey,” that explores her life with an eating disorder, and successful executive and inspirational leader. Represented by Leslie Meredith at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, the book is in search of finding a home with the right publisher. A true advocate for authentic communication, Robyn Shumer is on a mission to inspire others to embrace and share the stories that make them who they are.https://www.robynshumer.com/

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jD is talking to Pavement super-fan Pete from Malaga this week on the pod. You'll learn all about his Pavement origin story and hear their breakdown of song number 41 on the countdownTranscript:Track 1:[0:00] Previously on the pavement top 50.Track 2:[0:02] Okay track number 42 easily fooled comes from the rattled by da rush ep and um it's the third track on that ep and it later appeared on the sorted sentinel edition of wowie zowiereissue along with its ep bandmate false scorpion and it was track number 22 on that uh second disc of the sorted sentinels uh collection three issue so alan yeah what do you think ofeasily fooled love it love it love it love it it's on like i said to you off off air it's probably one of my favorite tracks alongside here yeah it just it's just such an amazing track Love themeandering nature of it.Just really acerbic lyrics.And yeah, it's an awesome, awesome track to jam along to.Track 3:[1:01] Hey, this is Westy from the rock and roll band Pavement, and you're listening to The Countdown.Hey.Track 6:[1:09] It's JD here, back for another episode of our top 50 countdown for seminal indie rock band Pavement.Week over week, we're going to count down the 50 essential Pavement tracks that you selected with your very own top 20 ballots.I tabulated the results using an advanced abacus and some spilled toothpicks on the floor.And all that's left for us to reveal is this week's track.How will your favorite song fare in the rating? You'll need to tune in or whatever the podcast equivalent of tuning in is every week to find out. So there's that.Track 5:[1:43] This week.Track 6:[1:44] We're joined by Pavement superfan, Pete. Pete how are you doing motherfucker getting over the fact that you said abacus and toothpicks you're like you're you're like you're like a Idon't know you're a cross between like an old Chinese medicine man and fucking rain man didn't he didn't he count toothpicks he did.[2:13] I'm good man i'm good i'm thanks for thanks for having me no it's my pleasure to have you on the show the legendary pete marchica of marchica easy easy easy so talk to me a littlebit about your pavement origin story pavement origin story um so i think it's fair it's it's it's important to point out that early on so I came to pavement right as they broke up like I was likediscovered this amazing band and the record that had just come out, was Steve Malcolm's self-titled debut and so this is the in after days and a A buddy of mine, Moe, who you know I'vespoke of a number of times, who incidentally knows Spiral well, he was burning discs like nobody's business.He was a master pirate and was burning a bunch of pavement stuff.Track 5:[3:22] I'm like.Track 6:[3:23] This band is fucking awesome. And I really couldn't at the time differentiate between the Malcolm of Souls stuff and pavement itself.And.Track 5:[3:34] I mean.Track 6:[3:35] I think probably the first Pavement song maybe I ever heard was...[3:41] Elevate me later or stereo one of those two both good songs to start with yeah and then got to the point to where i had a couple of these like compilation burns of napster tunes frompavement and uh and they just i just listened to the shit out of them i would sometimes i would leave them in my car and i noticed my mom started liking like pavement stuff because therewere like some PSO I sprinkled in there too oh yeah yeah yeah there was one song actually that was a spiral tune I want to say it was date with Ikea right and when you downloaded itfrom Napster there was a there was like a a opener tag like sometimes you get the file and the file would just be be whatever that person that was on the file sharing gave you andsometimes it wouldn't be the song but you know this happened to be the song but it would start with this really cool jingle, and this beautiful woman with a beautiful voice and she wouldjust say encoded by easy mp3.[4:55] It was uh i guess it was a mp3 encoding software that was early on and uh so i i never like i I think the first time I ever heard date with Ikea without encoded by MP easy MP3 in thebeginning was like.[5:13] I don't know when I bought my first payment record.Cause I, I ended up buying them all obviously in the years to come.And it was probably 2006, 2005.So I was listening to payment for like a good four to five years.Thinking that date with Ikea started with coded by easy.[5:38] Yeah it was like it was some random shit but oh the nowadays that brings me back man, It was a wild west, man. And you know what's crazy? And I may have told this on the...It's only relevant because of the town that I grew up in.I grew up in Downey and this high school I went to was a high school of James Hetfield from Metallica.And so they were, if you remember, at the forefront at the time of just being like, Like, fuck Napster, they're destroying the music industry, and Sal Park made the episode, this, that, andthe other.So I remember having, like, and my dad used to be a musician before he, like, quit playing music and started a trucking company, this and that.Track 5:[6:27] Dude.Track 6:[6:28] We used to have, like, discussions at the table, like, the dinner table.These would be, like, long, drawn-out discussions where I'd have to make my case as to why what I was doing was okay.Really? Yeah, my dad was just like, that is just sheer theft.You are stealing from people.And man, I mean, he wasn't wrong.Right. He wasn't fucking wrong. And I can't say that I really think that the way the landscape has changed for musicians making music nowadays via streaming platforms is better becauseit sucks.Just ask any musician. Hi. Yeah. Yeah. Pete Barchiga here.Um it fucking but yeah dude i remember that um and and pavement was probably.[7:20] Yeah they were probably the band that i had the first band that i had really discovered via like napster like i had heard the floyd i had heard guns and roses i had heard all the ledzeppelin shit on cd prior to that i had friends who had all those albums and i had a lot of those albums but like I didn't have any pavement I had no idea who they were you know so like I,I guess you could say that like, cause I mean, nowadays, I mean, I bought, I've bought all the records I've seen fucking pavement three or four times. I've seen Malcolm as countless times.Track 5:[8:00] Um.Track 6:[8:00] I've bought their records, bought their merch, paid for their concerts.Like, so there's sort of a case to be made that like Napster helped me fall in love with that band.Track 5:[8:11] You know.Track 6:[8:11] It just was a really slow burn.Track 5:[8:14] You know.Track 6:[8:15] For the band. It wasn't like, Hey, I bought your record.Or do you get this much money from it it's like hey i'm gonna fucking steal all your music and then 20 years later it'll that investment will you know appreciate if you will when you thinkabout how many different formats there have been for these for these properties right like that we you know that we that we bought different versions of them on cassette and then on cdand then back Back to LPs, in the middle, MP3s, you know, like.Track 5:[8:50] Yes.Track 6:[8:50] You could steal on Napster, but, you know, you could also buy on iTunes.And, like, my digital library is just a mess now, you know?It's just a mess of stuff that I've imported in, Apple Music, and then stuff that I've bought.And it's like, my play counts don't work correctly.And it's really, you know, just a mess.Yeah i remember back in the day before apple really got a hold on like you know encoding.[9:21] Having software that basically prevented pirating you know i would borrow friend cds and rip them to my hard drive put them on my ipod if i didn't have those cds and i waslistening to them that way um and then you know the iphone came out that sort of changed everything but it's interesting you say that about the different formats because i rememberbefore moving to europe the first time a friend of mine who is a huge apple guy like i think he's a former employee like you as well told me he said don't sell your media keep your mediado not wow like told me and i was like good out of here like yeah i didn't listen to him obviously no i didn't either and it's like god like i would have it all i would have all my cds still ihave some cds ironically most of my pavement stuff i never sold like that was the only real band and a few other gems but it's funny bring up the the different formats like vinyl cd tapeand then now what we're looking at is the fucking the reissues with the b-sides and the blah blah blahs and yes yeah and like.Track 1:[10:42] It's cool if you're like a Pokemon.Track 6:[10:48] Got to catch them all kind of guy. And I know, like, I guess what I'm trying to say is the right way because I don't want to sound like a prick.But I think I'm going to sound like a prick either way. So I'll just say it.Track 5:[11:04] Like.Track 6:[11:05] I was reading something about Taylor Swift recently, who's got more money than God.Track 1:[11:09] And you know she's coming out with like how they kind of like not scam their fans but like you know they'll come out with the same record but like the green edition and it's thisone's gold now get the gold one it's the same fucking record but this one's gold and it's like, and you know most of the Taylor Swift fans are you know, not I'm not knocking Taylor Swiftor her fans but I'm just saying like, if zepp if zeppelin came out with fucking you know houses of the holy and then and i got just a regular standard black vinyl and they came out with likea translucent one i tell robert plant to go fuck himself like you got my money already dude same fucking songs i don't need to fucking get a different edition but you know i guess it's coolif you if you if it's the only only one you have but when you're buying the same record over and over it's kind of like but then on the other hand when it comes to payment dude like dudevery few bands make money you don't really make money on vinyl even nowadays no matter how much you produce you know, they're making money on touring yeah.Track 6:[12:25] I mean, and you can see that, right? They're touring their faces off right now.Track 5:[12:29] You know?Track 6:[12:30] Yeah, I mean... They're putting in their time. Yeah, yeah.What's the... I don't know who it was. I think I've heard Spiral talk about it before.Track 5:[12:38] But vinyls.Track 6:[12:40] The point of vinyl records, and I said this too, are not to make money off of them.They're really an indicator of who's going to go to your shows, who's going to spend that $50 or $75 or whatever it is to go to your show.Because if somebody's committed to buy a vinyl of your band, chances are they love you enough to go plunk down $50 for a ticket. Yeah, that makes sense.[13:09] $50 for beers. and that's money that that goes more directly in the band's pocket than you know vinyl record but what do i know i'm i'm you know even though that's true i'm stillwaiting like to build my pavement vinyl collection because i'm hopeful that they'll release like the sordid sentinels edition the elli's desert origin edition like the big boxes for vinyl like i'mreally hopeful because right now i've got them on cd and the book you know the booklet that it comes with is fine but when you see the terror twilight booklet the farewell horizontalbooklet it's like it's big and it's you know it's juicy i don't know it's really the design work that goes into it really stands out so much more and uh i'm so hopeful they do that but what itmeans is i don't have a tremendous amount of pavement on vinyl i've got uh i've got watery domestic and i've got the major leagues ep and i've got terror twilight.[14:18] Farewell horizons and i've got uh a funny version of slanted the the version of slanted that is just like red and black.Don't you have the, don't you have like demolition plot or something or no?Yeah, I have, I have those. I have them hanging on my wall in like a display. Okay.Those are nothing, man. Yeah. It's pretty cool. People don't have those.Those are worth some money. Yeah.Well, the one I paid quite a bit for.It's weird that it's on my wall now. Now that I have a turntable.I didn't have a turntable before.Track 5:[14:59] You know.Track 6:[15:00] Like, dude, if I'm going to listen to pavement shit on vinyl, because I have a fair amount of other stuff on vinyl, i'll do it where i'll listen to them sequentially with like a friend orlike just be like i'm gonna put on some pavement today it's very rare that i will like be like i'm gonna put on fucking, slanted on vinyl right you know i have a shitty copy of slanted i thinki bought it online through like fucking urban outfitters or some shit when when they thought that you know when when pavement was the cool thing again, once again in like the, youknow, cause I never had that record, but.Track 1:[15:44] But yeah.Track 6:[15:45] I, I don't know. I mean, cause I got all the shit. If I ever want to listen to it, you can listen to it on, on, you know, Spotify or Apple or whatever.Yeah. And now they're lossless, right? Like, so, you know, they sound much better and I don't know.What do you think? It's an interesting conversation. Yeah, definitely.Track 1:[16:07] What do you think we head over to the other side.Track 6:[16:10] Though?Track 2:[16:10] We'll listen to track 41, and then we'll come back and talk about it.Track 6:[16:14] Let's do it. Let's do it. All right, let's do it. We'll be right back after this.Track 5:[16:19] Hey, this is Bob Mustanovich from Pavement. Thanks for listening.And now on with a countdown.Track 2:[16:27] 41.So there it is. Major Leagues is number 41 on the countdown.It is the fifth track on Terror Twilight, and it's the eighth track if you're using the Goderich sequencing.It's on the second side of the Terror Twilight reissue, third track. So it's the eighth song.Track 6:[20:15] This is the second song from Terror Twilight on the countdown.You Are a Light was number 45.Track 2:[20:21] And here we are at number 41. with major leagues pete what do you think so i love this song um i was talking earlier about you know the the early days of me discoveringpavement and those burned mp3 cds and i always loved this song um i mean this song was the soundtrack to breakups and and heartaches and and Lonely Times.Track 6:[20:50] Getting out of shitty dive bars with my buddy Mo.And, you know, this song, because I think I said too earlier, I alluded to the fact that there were, that I didn't know, I couldn't differentiate yet, which was Pavement and which was, youknow, Malcolm is the Solo stuff.Stuff this this has some very much some early malcolmus and the jicks vibes totally i call this the beta test yeah it's very church i get some church on white vibes yeah it's good yeah thebeta test that's well done well said yeah it's it sounds very similar to that quality but one thing i i noticed listening to it um i don't know recently was like.[21:41] Um the the harmonies the in the back towards the end of the song are just like i i don't know that i ever noticed that i don't kind of i didn't notice it either until today let's sit on thebig cans and there's also this weird weird sound occasionally in the song like uh some sort of electronic static that comes up like two or three times in in the song very subtle very weird i Ihave written down that this is like one of the most dense pavement songs I can think of.Like there's very little space. And I don't mean that as a critique, just an observation, but songs by pavement are typically very sparse.And this is, you know, there's obviously Godrich is, you know, building this sort of soundscape and then SM with the, with the lovely vocal tone, like just really lovely.Track 5:[22:39] You know.Track 6:[22:40] Know this would be a song i would grab for anybody that says sm can't sing you know i'd be like you're crazy first of all but here listen to this and tell me this man can't sing well imean i still get that people will say that because those are the people who are just like you know they just don't really get music i think they think everything should sound like a perfectpop song and that's just not music but right um yeah i i i heard the i haven't heard the hiss but this song is chock full it's it's weighty it's got some fucking meat to it and yeah i don't knowif he's doing a you know a phil specter wall of sound sort of shit trying to have no empty space or, or what but i think it may have something to do with that is it like a little drum track orsomething at the very end that kind of trails off the song it sounds like a repeating drum right.[23:40] Yeah um or some sort of like some sort of sequencer but um yeah i was gonna mention one other thing about when you're talking about the weight of the song but yeah i mean it'sit's It's, oh, the first line, lip balm on watery clay is just, I mean, dude, it's, if you could have just said that and then just, the song was an instrumental called Lip Balm on Watery Clay, Iwould have been like, fuck, dude.I mean it's relationships hey hey hey fuck dude like just it smacks of just, 90s breakup fucking early 2000s just oh god i this is one of the very few songs that when i hear it i immediatelyget transported like back to.Track 1:[24:38] Images and situations and smells and states of being yeah wow this is a big one for you oh i and a lot of people like say that like oh it's it's not one it's not one of my favorites like ican't say that shit and i i applaud you for doing the doing the countdown in my eyes is it's always different you know yeah yeah yeah this is you know yeah it's fun i got it cool yeah this iswater cooler talk right exactly and it's great to to get together and, to chat i just i i find it funny the people that want to go to the mat, over shit you know well that leads to my next questionthen one of the questions i've been asking every episode is do you think this song is fairly rated at 42 should it be higher should it be lower is it just right like for you i would say it's a littlehigh up i would say it should be a little it should be a little closer to closer it's a top 40 song is what you're saying yeah Yeah.Track 6:[25:51] Yeah. I mean, it is really... I think over the last four years, five years since the whole...[26:03] Uh pavement mania yeah landed in america once again you know um with the primavera 2019 announcement all that your podcast i think people are more um heady so you'regonna get people that like fucking the the deep cuts the the half of canyons the fucking best friends armed you know the the shit like that that are really good songs if you're a hardcorepayment fan but like top 50 songs with their massive catalog my mom wants to know about pavement i'm not gonna put on fucking you know uh flux rat or fucking uh i'm just thinking ofshit off like wowie zowie right now right right you know it's no i'll put on major leagues is gonna be one of the first like and equally i was burning a lot of fucking albums back in the dayyou know that's what you did when you when you liked a girl made a record absolutely burned her cd and this song absolutely made it i mean this is major leagues this is i remember thebartender at my at my local local marla i was so in love with her and uh i i burned a copy of sm's solo record for her.[27:33] And you know slipped it to her one night at the bar it's like you just have to listen to this i'm not going to tell you anything else you just have to listen to this you know i wanted herto hear church on white so bad but i didn't want to tell her play church on white you know yeah i just I just wanted it to happen organically if I could. But.Track 5:[27:52] You know.Track 6:[27:52] Yeah. Those were the days, man.I mean, I think nowadays, too, with so much music at your fingertips, it's really hard to get into a record.Because even when you get into a record, it's like you get into it and you let it go and there's something new.Track 1:[28:16] Knew you don't have to work for it anymore man right even even those even those early, napster days man you know you didn't i was on a 56k for a long time man i have nofucking t1, i knew people that had a t1 and i was like if i got a fucking pave song uh that i was downloading or some pavement tunes i mean i had to wait for those months and i had to sitand say and a lot A lot of times.Track 6:[28:45] Sometimes you get close to a download, it's going for like 30 minutes, and then right at the end, the fucking user drops off or, you know, it was horrible.It's horrible. Yeah, torrents change the game. Yeah, yeah.But nowadays you just, you don't, you don't have to work for anything.It's just, you have the world. It's kind of, I don't know.I tell that to my kids all the time. I tell that to my kids all the time.And that's why, one of the reasons I started collecting vinyl now and got a good turntable is because.Track 5:[29:21] Like.Track 6:[29:22] I want them to see that it's, like, something that is tangible.Like, somebody created this. Somebody made this. and it's not just this thing that lives in your phone and you know i think that's important for them you know no that's that's a really fairpoint and i i get that too and i dig it and i want to build up my media in that respects because and i think we you and i have either had this conversation privately or we've mentioned it onother platforms but there's this really really famous interview that was done in.Track 5:[29:57] Man.Track 6:[29:58] I want to say 2010. I don't remember when it was, but it was David Bowie.And it was before he died in 2016 or whatever it was.And he said, in the future, everything will be subscription-based.And this was before... I think the only streaming service, Apple wasn't out yet, Spotify wasn't out yet.The only streaming service was Pandora.Right. I remember Pandora. And it was like, I think they had just maybe launched a premium, like, if you wanted it without commercials.Track 5:[30:35] You know.Track 6:[30:36] None of this unlimited, and you still couldn't, at the time, listen to anything you wanted on Pandora. You couldn't just call up a song.It was like you could go to radio stations and, you know, this and that.But nowadays, everything's a fucking subscription.You want, oh, you want fresh food delivered to your house and pre-done meals for five days a week?Subscription. Do you want...Fucking, you name it, man. I mean, I think Uber Eats and shit like that has subscriptions. They do. People.Track 5:[31:06] Everything.Track 6:[31:08] Well, I don't know if you had a chance. Did you have a chance to listen to the Spiral interview? The latest one?Track 5:[31:13] I did.Track 6:[31:14] And ask me why. And he talks about Pavement potentially doing a subscription-based live record sort of thing.Right. Yes, I do remember him mentioning that. Because they've got a whole bunch of live...Live uh dats that they got access to and then they've been taping a bunch of the more recent shows so they might release live records on the like there might be a pavement sub somehowyeah i don't know well i'll tell you what i think they're they're in a they're they're getting under the wire enough to where they can fucking um you know i i i want the best for the boys manAnd they deserve all that's coming to them.And if they decide to do a subscription model and whatever fucking more power to them, I will say that not now, but I think probably in another five to six years.Track 5:[32:12] I think...It's it's gonna we're we're gonna reach critical mass it's gonna change because i think uh just streaming everything not just music but movies and netflix and all like you know what irealized i watched we canceled this is a more personal shit but we canceled like our netflix disney plus fucking hbo we had all those fucking streaming platforms now we have of amazonand i think that's it because you know we have like an amazon prime account and i watched probably just as much fucking streaming as i did before i'm just not pissing away fucking, youknow 80 extra bucks a month it's fun that's a good way to do it just stick with one, and then suck it dry and then you know but it's not that's the other thing too it never goes dry becauseevery like 30 days they put new fucking shit on there and it's like true good point you can get away unless you're like you're obsessed with the marvel universe or you've got to watchwhatever i mean i know there are some staples on like things like you know people go to netflix for stranger things some people go to spotify for joe rogan shit like that i get that those areyou know flagship products of those companies but i think for the most part like Like.Track 1:[33:37] Am I going to have a HelloFresh subscription so I can get fresh potatoes and fuck out of here with that shit?Track 6:[33:46] No offense if they're coming on as a sponsor soon. Take it back. Edit this out.Anything else about Major Leagues?Anything else you want to say about it?Track 1:[34:01] I think it's a really dynamic song.Track 6:[34:03] I think it's a song that is just... It's so unique, man.And the piano that is playing, I'm stupid when it comes to instruments, but it's some sort of effect.It sounds like a really unique old piano. Yeah, it really does.It's very bassy. It's very, you know.Track 5:[34:27] Well.Track 6:[34:28] It's got some cool chorus reverb to it.It's really cool. And I love it.Track 1:[34:38] Yeah I don't know what you want no that's fine yeah it's a soundtrack if I want to put a cap on it it is a soundtrack to a window, into a certain time in my life that I just the songtransports me there immediately it's amazing what a trick the band are magicians in that respect, they know the tricks what's that?Track 6:[35:02] They're ex-magicians but they still know the tricks ex-magicians Does that go over my head? Trigger cut, on that note pete uh do you have anything you want to plug any anywherethat anybody can go and find your work uh yeah yeah if they i mean we're we're marchica on apple spotify we have new record coming out um in april or may of this year it's taken longenough it's coming coming out on my label records it's spelled like um not and not it's not the same meaning but it's m-a-i-l-e-i-b-e-l oh my label records so it's coming out in um yeahmay april may cool so we'll look for that yeah awesome well it's been great having you on of course uh great talking to you about a myriad of things.We'll do this again soon.Track 3:[36:08] Thanks.Track 6:[36:08] Man. Good to see you. That's all I got for you this week. So stay cool and wash your goddamn hands.Track 3:[36:15] Thanks for listening to Meeting Malcolmus, a pavement podcast where we count down the top 50 pavement tracks as selected by you.If you've got questions or concerns, please shoot me an email.JD at meetingmalcolmus.com.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/meeting-malkmus-a-pavement-podcast/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Rachel's husband Jeremy is torturing himself, Dave's friend installs a bidet, Forman goes to the happiest place on Earth, and as always, we read your emails & comments! **ATTENTION 310T & 310S LICENCED DIESEL MECHANICS!** HCR Permanent Search has immediate openings in St. Thomas, Stratford, Goderich, Ancaster, Burlington and Orangeville - full time / permanent straight day shift with full medical, dental and RRSP program with company contribution! Apply now! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio (& most others) or ask your smart speaker to, "play the Due To Underwhelming Demand podcast!" @daverachelforman on instagram @daverachelforman on Facebook @daverachelforman on YouTube @duetounderwhelmingdemand on TikTok buymeacoffee.com/underwhelming daverachelforman@gmail.com

As a boy, I was hockey obsessed and growing up in Goderich meant I had access every year to the grand-daddy of all hockey tournaments. Young Canada Week began in 1950 as a one-day, 12-team competition for peewee age players and over the years it grew into an exciting and important part of the fabric of Goderich and area. It would go on to draw players like: Paul Henderson, Darryl Sittler, Brad Park, Ron Ellis, Goderich's own Larry Jeffrey and Gary Doak and yes, Wayne Gretzky ... and many more. On this episode, Lion's Club member, former teacher & coach Richard Madge will join us along with one of my oldest friends, Rob Bundy to chat about the tourney's humble beginnings, it's rise to become one of the most famous tournaments in the world, the push to stay relevant in an ever changing world and some of our own special memories and brushes with hockey fame.

Rachel *thinks* she's joining a ladies golf league, Forman and the swim team parents confront a group of hockey parents, Dave reads all the headlines in the news we can't make up (and couldn't use on the radio), and as always, we read your emails & comments! **ATTENTION 310T & 310S LICENCED DIESEL MECHANICS!** HCR Permanent Search has immediate openings in St. Thomas, Stratford, Goderich, Ancaster, Burlington and Orangeville - full time / permanent straight day shift with full medical, dental and RRSP program with company contribution! Apply now! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio (& most others) or ask your smart speaker to, "play the Due To Underwhelming Demand podcast!" @daverachelforman on instagram @daverachelforman on Facebook @daverachelforman on YouTube @duetounderwhelmingdemand on TikTok buymeacoffee.com/underwhelming daverachelforman@gmail.com

Our first-ever special guest, Dave's supposed new “job,” Rachel's new ailments, and as always, we read your emails & comments! **ATTENTION 310T & 310S LICENCED DIESEL MECHANICS!** HCR Permanent Search has immediate openings in St. Thomas, Stratford, Goderich, Ancaster, Burlington and Orangeville - full time / permanent straight day shift with full medical, dental and RRSP program with company contribution! Apply now! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio (& most others) or ask your smart speaker to, "play the Due To Underwhelming Demand podcast!" @daverachelforman on instagram @daverachelforman on Facebook @daverachelforman on YouTube @duetounderwhelmingdemand on TikTok buymeacoffee.com/underwhelming daverachelforman@gmail.com

How much planning is required before a Disney trip, Forman's wife Ashley has new BFFs, Rachel's home is more chaotic than ever, and as always, we read your emails & comments! **ATTENTION 310T & 310S LICENCED DIESEL MECHANICS!** HCR Permanent Search has immediate openings in St. Thomas, Stratford, Goderich, Ancaster and Burlington - full time / permanent straight day shift with full medical, dental and RRSP program with company contribution! Apply now! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio (& most others) or ask your smart speaker to, "play the Due To Underwhelming Demand podcast!" @daverachelforman on instagram @daverachelforman on Facebook @daverachelforman on YouTube buymeacoffee.com/underwhelming daverachelforman@gmail.com

Take out your notepads! Abigail sits down with literary agent Kate McKean for a very special conversation about book publishing contracts. This is a topic that intimidated Abigail early in her career—as it does many writers who are interested in traditional publishing. It's also extremely important for writers to understand what makes a good deal, and who better to learn from than an expert agent with over 17 years experience. Kate has worked as a literary agent at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency since 2006, where she's built a diverse client list from New York Times best selling internet sensations like I Can Has Cheezburger to beloved humorist and short story writer Daniel M. Lavery to New York Times best selling YA horror writer Madeleine Roux. Kate is also an adjunct professor at New York University in the School of Professional Studies and a writer herself (rep. by Michael Bourret of Dystel, Goderich, and Bourret). Her ability to talk about complicated topics like publishing contracts in layman's terms is a testament to her teaching abilities and strong communication skills. Some of the key topics in this discussion include: Contract misconceptions and what to really expect What makes a good deal and what are red flags in contracts Money, rights, and what happens if something goes wrong Payout structures (how writers get paid) General thought process about negotiations Why you should always ask for more Plus, more! Does Kate sound like the ideal literary agent for you? Send her your query! Kate's Full MSWL: Review it here Learn more about HML: Visit their website Read Kate's article on Catapult: "Book Contracts: Let's Talk Rights" Sign up for Kate's informative email list! >> Enroll here Follow Abigail and Kate: Website: www.abigailkperry.com | https://www.katemckean.com/ IG: @abigailkperry | @kate_mckean X: @abigailkperry | @kate_mckean

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-Becoming a South Korean legend, Olympian and winning everything -Finding your love of hockey again and home in Anyang, South Korea -Growing up, competing and getting better with Cal and Ryan O'Reilly -The epic wedding street brawl in Russia and playing on the toughest team in hockey -Mucking it up with yours truly in Goderich, ON, Canada and it doesn't take long to see who can goalie

We had the best time interviewing Jenna Miller. We laughed, we cried, and all things in between. A bit about Jenna: Jenna Miller (she/her) writes Young Adult books about fat, queer, nerdy girls who deserve to be seen and have their voices heard. When she's not obsessing over words, she can be found making charcuterie boards, befriending people online, cross stitching, or adventuring in the Minneapolis area. Jenna's debut novel, OUT OF CHARACTER, will be published February 7, 2023 by Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins). She is represented by Mike Whatnall at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. http://jennamillerwrites.com Make sure to preorder Jenna Miller's (@jmillwrites ) amazing book, OUT OF CHARACTER, now!!! Book Blurb (from Goodreads) If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she'd happily tell you she's fat, queer, and obsessed with the Tide Wars books. What she won't tell you—or anyone in her life—is that she's part of an online Tide Wars roleplay community. Sure, it's nerdy as hell, but when she's behind the screen writing scenes as Captain Aresha, she doesn't have to think about her mother who walked out or how unexpectedly stressful it is dating resident cool girl Taylor Cooper. But secretly retreating to her online life is starting to catch up with Cass. For one, no one in her real life knows her secret roleplay addiction is the reason her grades have taken a big hit. Also? Cass has started catching feelings for Rowan Davies, her internet bestie…and Taylor might be catching on. As Cass's lies continue to build, so does her anxiety. Roleplaying used to be the one place she could escape to, but this double life and offline-online love triangle have only made things worse. Cass must decide what to do—be honest and risk losing her safe space or keep it a secret and put everything else on the line. Preorder OUT OF CHARACTER here !! #debutauthor #debutauthors #2023debutauthor #authorssupportingauthors #writerssociety #writerssupportingwriters #writerscommunity #writerfriendschallenge #authorgram #authorgram #yabooks #queer #fatpositive #lgbtq #sapphic #lesbian #queerbooks #YAlit #LGBTQreads

Spirituality, and religion are two ways colonialism still lives in the US. In this entertaining, informative conversation with Thea Monyee, we discuss decolonizing psychotherapy, the role of African spirituality in grounding a spiritual awakening and more. Bio - Thea Monyee Monyeé's unapologetic work stems from her unwavering commitment to healing and her belief that true healing can only occur in a liberated and non-oppressive society. Monyeé is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has contributed to online publications such as For Harriet, UpSpoken, and Black Girl in Om online publications; co-host of Dem Black Mamas podcast- Kinship Partner of Black Mamas Matter Alliance and art contributor to Project Row Houses 50th Round on Race, Health, & Motherhood; solo host of Shaping The Shift Podcast; and Director of Decolonization for the multimedia platform Black Girl Mixtape and co-creator of The Free Joy Experience; co-creator of EverWell, and intervention and education program to promote wellness for artists and their teams; as well as curator of The Blacker The Brain Decolonizing Mental Health Cohort, Campaign, and Conversation. Monyeé has partnered with corporations such as SnapChat, Spectrum, presented at the first annual CantuXCurlboxMasterclass, and is currently featured as a GoDaddy Maker to discuss mental health in marginalized communities and accessing joy & pleasure. She is the founder of MarleyAyo, a creative wellness consultation company focused on creating and nurturing a multi-dimensional eco-system that prioritizes the reintegration of spirit and liberation through education, media, consulting, and land stewardship. Monyeé enjoys creating work that dives into the intersections of healing through decolonization of joy, pleasure, and mental health. She serves as a contributor to SayWordLA and a board member of Manhood Camp for At-Risk males. Her most recent work Blood & Bajareque is available now through theamonyee.com/shop. Monyeé's Murmurs of a MadWoman: An Unconventional Memoir is available through Amazon. She is a signed fiction writer with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret with upcoming projects as well. She is currently studying to add certified sex therapist to her list of credits. About the Host Sanaa Green is a Divine Feminine spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence through Nature, Sound (Center Her Power Podcast) and Belly Dance. In 2007, Sanaa began teaching Healing Belly Dance that has evolved in Belly Dance for Earth and Soul, Dance of the Priestess course. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment of the Divine Feminine principal in Black Women. She is a Lemurian Priestess with Tantric orientation, Belly Dance Teacher, Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes' Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame non-profit, transformational Womynst program. Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University. Subscribe to the website for regular Divine Feminine connection! www.centerherpower.com --- 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/sanaa-green0/message

Iain Dale talks to Professor Gordon Pentland about the life and career of Viscount Goderich who served as Prime Minister for nearly five months from August 1827 to January 1828.

May 31, 1995. Goderich, Ontario. After leaving her school, 16-year old Mistie Murray fails to return home and is subsequently reported missing. Even though there are several eyewitness sightings placing Mistie at numerous locations in the weeks following her disappearance, police focus their attention on her adoptive father, Steve Murray. Over three months later, Steve is arrested for Mistie's murder after he is accused using his boat to dump her body in Lake Huron. However, since there is virtually no evidence against Steve, he winds up being acquitted when he goes on trial. Did Steve suffer the dubious distinction of being prosecuted for a nonexistent murder? If Mistie was not a victim of foul play and ran away of her own accord, what ultimately happened to her? On this week's episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the most bizarre and controversial missing persons cases in Canadian history. If you have any information about this case, please contact ChildFind at 1-800-387-7962. Additional Reading: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1221dfon.html https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lfp-archives-the-enduring-mistie-murray-mystery https://everything2.com/title/Mistie+Murray https://www.newspapers.com/image/514104024/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/505921065/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/504440201/ https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/dad-once-accused-in-teen-daughter-mistie-murrays-vanishing-dies-at-68 http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0006/np000606.htm “Damaged Angels” by Bonnie Buxton https://www.opp.ca/index.php?id=115&entryid=56bc805a8f94ac2b21c4fe0e “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel &  Spa in London on September 25-26, 2021. To get a 10 % discount on the  purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo  code, “COLD21”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.