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Dee Snider, singer for the legendary Twisted Sister and now his crushing new metal solo albums, is the guest on this episode of the BREWtally Speaking Podcast. Dee joins us to talk about his latest solo album, To Leave a Scar, and if the success and chances he took on For the Love of Metal encouraged him to take bigger chances on this album. We also discuss how if his penchant for speaking out against things, and usually being on the right side of the debate years later has bothered him, or made him continue to speak out for those who don't have as big a platform. I FINALLY get to the bottom of his appearance on Chappelle Show, and more. Intro Music: "Introduction To BREWtality" by Tom Smith "Pretty Lights" by Heartsick Show Sponsors: Rockabilia (www.rockabilia.com) USE OUR CODE BREWTALLY AND GET 10% OFF YOUR TOTAL ORDER!! The Bean Bastard (www.thebeanbastard) On Point Pomade (www.onpointpomade) USE OUR CODE BSP15 AND GET 15% OFF YOUR TOTAL ORDER!! Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/facedeesnider www.facebook.com/rockabiliacom www.facebook.com/onpointpomade www.facebook.com/thebeanbastard www.facebook.com/brewspeakpod Instagram: @deesnider, @rockabiliacom, @onpointpomade, @beanbastard, @brewspeakpod, @jbeatty616 Twitter: @deesnider, @rockabiliacom @onpointpomade, @brewspeakpod, @jbeatty616 Website: www.deesnider.com www.brewspeakpod.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/brewspeakpod Email: Brewtallyspeaking@gmail.com RATE/REVIEW/SUBSCRIBE!!!

Today's episode is a SIBO update from me… and it's an exciting one! I FINALLY have a negative test - or is it? Yes, nothing in my treatment journey has been straight forward so far and apparently, that's not going to change any time soon! In today's episode, I share: My experience on the second round of the elemental diet and why I LOVED it! My struggles with the low histamine bi-phasic diet and what finally got me on track. My experience on antibiotics for SIBO (rifaximin, metronidazole and neomycin) and the not so great response from my immune system. The symptoms that got better - and the symptoms that got worse, despite a negative test result. The dilemma as to whether my SIBO test results are negative or a hydrogen sulphide flat line. Why I think I may have small intestine fungal overgrowth and what my next steps are with testing and treating. My prevention of relapse strategies including supplements, hypnotherapy, vagus nerve healing and more! This is a LONG episode but there was so much to catch up on, and I just hope that by being really honest about my journey, you'll be able to gain some insight and perspective on your own healing path with SIBO and endometriosis. Sign up to the wait list for my course, Live and Thrive with Endo here. My cookbook This EndoLife, It Starts with Breakfast is out now! Get 28 anti-inflammatory, hormone friendly recipes for living and thriving with endometriosis. Order your copy here. If you feel like you need more support with managing endometriosis, you can join Your EndoLife Coaching Programme. A 1-to-1 three month health and life coaching programme to help you thrive with endometriosis. To find out more about the programme and to discuss whether it could be right for you, email me at hello@thisendolife.com or visit my website. This episode is sponsored by The Pod Farm. Learn all about how to start your own podcast with the complete course from The Pod Farm. Aimed at beginners, this course takes a simple and straightforward approach to planning, equipment buying, setting up, recording, editing and hosting your own podcast. With hours of audio and video materials, and downloadable guides and useful links, this multimedia approach aims to have something for every kind of learner. From now until April 15, newsletter subscribers get 20% off the course price. Visit www.thepodfarm.com to enroll or find out more This episode is sponsored by BeYou. Soothe period cramps the natural way with these 100% natural and discreet menthol and eucalyptus oil stick on patches and CBD range. Click here to find out more and to shop: https://beyouonline.co.uk Show Notes Bladder test Organic acids test GI Map

The Jeremy White Show and Mitch Lafon present Dee Snider! We discuss his new album LEAVE A SCAR out July 30th, working with Jamey Jasta as producer and what he brought to the album and I FINALLY get to the bottom of Spongebob using "I Wanna Rock" in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie! Pre-order the new album "Leave A Scar" now: https://smarturl.it/LeaveAScar-NPR PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! Donate to the channel to help create new content! https://www.paypal.me/jeremywhitepodcast The Jeremy White Podcast is FREE and ON DEMAND, stream now on iHeart Radio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and tell your Smart Speaker "Play The Jeremy White Podcast". Listen to The #JeremyWhitePodcast​​​​​: http://linktr.ee/jeremywhitepodcast Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeremywhitemtl Follow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/jeremywhitemtl Subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/JeremyWhiteShow Subscribe to The Jeremy White Podcast for exclusive content and interviews. The Jeremy White Podcast is powered by Pariah Pickups and LOUDTRAX.COM © 2021. Jeremy White Podcast. All Rights Reserved.

This week I FINALLY get to meet with a local therapist I've been fangirling over for quite a while- Jelan Agnew! She specializes in treating magical minds through being her most unapologetic, authentic self. She shares her most pivotal experiences, how she's using them to propel herself, her clients, and her trainees forward, and what she's planning to do next (hint: it involves more supervision, consultation, and travel!). You don't want to miss this!

In 2018, BLS data shows hand, wrist, and finger injuries comprise more than 43% of all upper extremity injuries that caused days away from work.  On this episode of the MEMIC Safety Experts Podcast, Al Brown, MEMIC's Director of Ergonomics takes a look hand injuries causes and some strategies for prevention including MEMIC's E-Ergo™️️ tool, use of gloves, and tool and workplace design.   Peter Koch: [00:00:04] Hello listeners, and welcome to the MEMIC Safety Experts podcast, I'm your host, Peter Koch. Besides our voices, our hands allow us to express creativity and emotion through gestures and complex movements. The hand and wrist, believe it or not, have more than 27 different bones and 30 muscles, in addition to tendons and ligaments that allow for a staggering number of movements in positions. We use our hands every day to point, grasp, move, support, throw, catch, you name it. Our hands are usually involved with what we're doing, even gesturing right now. As I'm talking, I'm using my hands. You can't see them, but I am using my hands. Without them or even without one of them will struggle to live up to our potential. Think about it for a minute. Consider your day. So far, whenever you're listening to this podcast, what have you done that didn't require one or both of your hands? How did you put on your glasses or put in your contacts or on your sunglasses? How did you tie your shoes or brush your teeth, drive your car, [00:01:00] grab that cup of coffee? Using our hands to do things is so commonplace that we typically take them for granted until we hurt one of them. So a story, I had to take my dad to the E.R. the other day after a fall and we were checking in. And as we were checking in, a chef who, you know, you could tell he was a chef because he had the apron and the chef's coat that had his name on it. Chef Andy, he walked in holding his left index finger covered in a bloody rag, and he was treated in the next space over from my dad and I. And once the bleeding was stopped and I was listening, he was whisked away to see the orthopedic surgeon because they couldn't treat him there. I expect he's going to have a good outcome, but I imagine, at least for the next few weeks, he'll struggle with everyday activities, not to mention his work duties. So cuts and lacerations, crushing injuries, struck by injuries are all pretty common. There's good data out there to show that PPE can help reduce the severity of the injury that was caused by the event. However, there are a raft of other injuries [00:02:00] that are even more difficult to prevent because they're not always caused by a specific event like a splinter or a laceration. Injuries caused by prolonged static or awkward postures can be just as crippling as a traumatic event, and the healing process can be way more prolonged and dependent upon the injured person's changing their behavior or the workplace changing configuration or tools. So on the podcast with me today is Al Brown PT and director of Ergonomics, for Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company, or MEMIC. Al has been on the podcast a number of times before and always brings a great perspective as to how the body interacts with the stressors in the workplace and what to do about them. Today Al is going to help me get a better grasp. Pardon the pun, of the causes of hand and wrist injuries and how to prevent them. Al welcome back to the podcast. Al Brown: [00:02:51] Thanks, Peter. Appreciate that. I have to hand it to you. That was a great intro. Peter Koch: [00:02:55] Oh, I'd Shake your hand Al for that for being on so many times and hopefully we'll stop being [00:03:00] quite so punny as we get moving Al Brown: [00:03:03] Jazz hands. I'm so excited about this. Peter Koch: [00:03:07] So this is awesome to have you back on. And I know we've talked about this subject a lot because hand injuries, regardless of what it is, are very common and one of the more common types of workplace injuries that we're going to see. So let's talk about some of the stats that are out there like we know it's a problem, but how big a problem are hand and wrist injuries out there in the workplace? Al Brown: [00:03:28] Looking back through some of the data and when you look back through some of the Bureau of Labor reporting and OSHA, they probably account for about a third of work related injuries. And that's when you sort of include, you know, the hand, the wrist and a little bit of the, you know, the forearm. But they account for about a third and their second, probably only to back injuries when you look at that data. So significant. Significant. [00:04:00] And then, you know, there's you know, when you look at costs, for example, loss of a thumb, you were talking about the gentleman that walked into the E.R. with the bloodied finger had he chopped off his thumb and could not put it back on. That's a thirty five thousand dollar for permanent disability kind of thing. That that's a chunk of change. When you think about it, you know, when you look at tendon repairs, they can cost up to 70,000 dollars. So it because of the intricacy of the hand, the fine motor activity, the abilities, there's a lot of things that can go wrong. You know, we often think about hand injuries to in the world of manual material handling, lifting, moving, carpentry, things like that, the chef. But we do see a lot of hand injuries just in the office environment, too. As matter of fact, a good portion when we look at banking and looking at law firms and accounting for in places like that,  [00:05:00]probably the leading injury. Second, I should back up and say slip trips and fall seems to be number one, but when we look at strains, sprains and injuries along those lines, their leading body part injury is the hand. Wrist and hand or upper extremity. So it is very common that we see these across all industries. Peter Koch: [00:05:21] Yeah, and I think people tend to think about the severity of the hand or wrist injury with those traumatic type injuries. And I imagine you have stories like this, too. I have a friend way back when I was actually building houses, he was a phenomenal carpenter, an amazing guitar player, fingerpicking guitar player, could play just about any style, could hear it, and within a few minutes figure out the melody without any music in front of them. And just amazing guy. And he was ripping some plywood on a table saw without a guard, and he got a little kickback and put his hand down [00:06:00] on top of the spinning blade and pretty much cut his hand from his index finger across the meat of his thumb down to his wrist. And it took enough of the muscle out of there where it took him almost five years to get the dexterity back, to be able to finger pick again. And just, you know, you think about those severity things. People think about machinery, like you said before, with the severity of the injury. But we've also seen some pretty significant injuries that have come from those awkward postures or repetitive type injuries that might happen in an office. They just happen over a longer period of time. It's not that instantaneous. I touch something and it caught me or it crushed me and I have a permanent injury. So those same things can happen regardless. And I think it's important to know not just what can injure you in around the machinery, but what can injure you within in the other parts of the workplace. Those maybe not quite [00:07:00] so dangerous sounding jobs that are out there. Al Brown: [00:07:03] My common thread, if you ever listen to the podcast that we've talked about, I always talk about gravity. I talk about neutral. And the reason, you know, we are a structure walking around in this world of gravity. So balance is real key. Our body likes that balance the wrist and hand. There's an orchestration between brain and hand. And it's funny, we're you know, we're right. People who are either right handed or left handed. There is a core of the population that is ambidextrous. But you're either right handed or left handed, right handed people, believe it or not, your right hand is controlled by the left side of your brain and your left hand is controlled by the right side of your brain. So about 80 percent of the population is right handed. So there's about 10 to 15 percent of the population that's left handed. You talk about guitar, you're going to buy a guitar. You know, just and you said my son was left handed. He said, I went into the store, music store and I said, hey, we'd like to get a left handed guitar. They totally [00:08:00] discouraged us from doing that because they said wherever he goes, if he walks in somewhere and that happens to be a guitar laying there and someone says, hey, you play the guitar, why don't you strike a tune for us? And he picks it up and it's a right handed guitar and he's learned on a left handed guitar, he will have a very hard time playing it unless you're Jimi Hendrix. Peter Koch: [00:08:19] I was just thinking about that, too, right, Al Brown: [00:08:22] Who flipped a right handed guitar upside down and learned to play it left handed. So there's, you know, looking at fine motor again, that's that relationship between brain and hand and the fact that it's such a complex structure and much of what we do is unconscious in nature. When you start to create those muscle patterns going between hand and you look at the complexity of it and it's repeated patterns over and over and over again, they say that the hand will go through twenty five million bends and stretches over a lifetime. That's one hand. Peter Koch: [00:08:58] Wow. Al Brown: [00:08:58] So, I mean, that's [00:09:00] just incredible. And if you are someone like a guitar player or a piano player or a carpenter, that hand is just put through those repeated motions over and over again. We do a lot of unconscious repeated behavior. Peter Koch: [00:09:14] We definitely do. And there's that. We were talking about this before the podcast as well. There's that relationship between power and dexterity that the hand has. That's pretty amazing. You talk about a carpenter, right? So I need to have the dexterity in my hand to be able to pick up a nail and hold it in place. But I also have to have the power in my other hand to be able to mash that nail into whatever wood that I'm going to be driving it into. And so that's tough, too. Now, you are doing a little bit of research on some of those fun facts around, like what the hand can actually do. And I think it's pretty fascinating. So, like, if you think about power, like how strong are people's hands compared to how dexterous people's hands are because it lives in the same body, you can do the same thing. Dexterous things and pretty strong [00:10:00] things. Al Brown: [00:10:01] Yeah. I looked up some of those things, but, hey, back to that hammer thing. Yeah. And the ability to hold on to that nail and come down and strike that thing with something very hard, hoping you don't hit the wrong nail. Peter Koch: [00:10:17] Very true. Very true. Al Brown: [00:10:19]  There's a relationship there. A rookie, the new employee is going to hit more fingernails than maybe the person that is more seasoned. So, you know, there is that. But when we look at the extremes, it was a fun little search I did on the internet and I said, OK, what's one of the most powerful things the hand could do? And I said, well, grip. And I said, what's the most? So I looked up, what's the biggest deadlift of the world record for the deadlift? And I guess it was set back in May of 2020 by a person named Hawthorn Björnsson, nicknamed Thor, [00:11:00] very apropos from Iceland, and he lifted over eleven hundred pounds of force in the deadlift. So that's, you know, granted he does have an assist with the grip, with some straps. But other than that it is, you know, each hand is handling, you know, five hundred and fifty pounds of force that he has to hang on to in order to stand upright, that the large muscle body, large muscles in his body is his buttock, his back extensors, his quads have to lift, but he has to hang on to the weight with his hands. I'm going to go to the other extreme. You go to the other extreme. And I said, what's the most difficult piano piece to play? And there was a number of top choices. But the one I picked was it was Beethoven's number twenty nine B flat major Opus 106, which if you look at that online, it has got to be one of the fastest hand movements and so intricate that it's very difficult [00:12:00] to even the most seasoned piano players to play. So you look at that extreme from those fine manipulating motor activities that have to move each individual finger to lifting 1,100 pounds, you know, that that just fascinates me in the extreme abilities of the hand. Peter Koch: [00:12:20] It is amazing what the hand can do. And that's just fascinating to be able to lift 1,100 pounds with the weak link being the coupling of your hands. Right. To be able to lift that whole thing. And then I'm pretty sure Thor's not a piano player. But, you know, if he is, he's probably not playing Beethoven. But you never know Al Brown: [00:12:37] Could be could be. Peter Koch: [00:12:41] Even to be dexterous enough to take a pencil and write your name, all of the fine motions that have to happen to be able to hold the pencil at the particular angle and then produce the motions and the movement with your hand, your wrist and your fingers to make the script occur on the page is all fascinating [00:13:00] and how your hand can do that and the connection between your brain. And we've all probably maybe some of our younger listeners might not have had this as much. But I bet you remember going back to school and getting a cramp in your hand, taking notes in class at some point in time, like you're just you're furiously writing notes to keep up with the professor who's up in front of you. And, you know, you're shaking your hand out because it hurts, because you're gripping it so hard that I'm not at neutral anymore. I'm causing some discomfort and from not so much overuse, but probably not the best posture or trying to produce those different fine motor functions in a way that's not allowing me not long enough circulation to move through. So really amazing what the hand can do. And fascinating, there's lots of different parts of the body that have that like we talked about the spine before, that have that's a lot of power and in functionality and movement [00:14:00] within that as well. But the hand really lots of cool things that can happen that it can do for sure. Al Brown: [00:14:05] Well, it's been a big paradigm shift. I mean, you go back to me and you start with chalk on a chalkboard, go to a pencil, you know, and you know. So chalk is a different kind of prehensile grip to actually right on the chalk. Prehensile grips or the different things like pinch grips, like, you know, your thumb, your pulp grip. And, you know, there's three point chuck grip. The chalk was like a three point chuck grip. Then you went to a pencil, which was more like a prehensile grip or fine motor activity to now where we hover over a keyboard. So if we hearken back to the days, it's a matter of fact, the handwriting has gotten progressively worse simply because most folks are hanging out on the keyboard now, typing away. So the ability to write and take notes is really sort of it's just a different format.  Peter Koch: [00:14:51] I Finally feel normal because my handwriting has been messy all my life and now I fit in with everything else. Al Brown: [00:14:56] You fit in with the rest of the crowd. Peter Koch: [00:14:57] Lowering the bar [00:15:00] every day. Right. There we go. Just kidding. Al Brown: [00:15:03] I'm still trying to figure out the keyboard. So, you know, Peter Koch: [00:15:06] It is an interesting shift. And that shift from writing on the chalkboard to taking notes with a pen or pencil to the manual typewriter, to the automatic typewriter and now to the computer keyboard has really changed how writing or written communication affects our physical the physical demands. Right. So the written word hasn't changed. You could we could have a whole other podcast on how that is altered. But you think about written communication. I have to send something or write something that someone can read going from the student or the professor to the student, the student to the paper. And now, you know, all the way to the computer keyboard has really changed the demands of what the body needs to do in order to get the word onto whatever medium you're doing. And there's different exposures there. Right. So that exposure [00:16:00] of writing is very different than the exposure for typing, and it creates different challenges for us. Al Brown: [00:16:06] Then throw in the mouse, you know, if we go back to that office environment and then, you know, a lot of things are sort of driven by the mouse and the mouse was a later invention from the keyboard. And then we all sort of kind of placed it out to the side. So then the fine activity of the hand, there's different shape mice out there nowadays because I can't tell you how many folks I deal with that have you know, they've got tingling in this hand. They've got discomfort like on the corner right below the bottom of your little finger, like way back by your wrist. There's a bone right there. And it's called your pisiform. And a lot of people that have limited space by their keyboard will be pivoting on that. And they create what's called a contact stressor. So you'll see it'll be red and angry and they'll go, it hurts right there. And it's yeah, I don't know why. And it's, you know, just hanging out [00:17:00] on that mouse and pivoting on that part of your wrist, just moving the mouse back and forth. So it's or you take people to ask about vertical mice, mice that are vertical. Well, if it's too vertical, your fingers want to drop down to earth. Welcome back to Gravity. So even though that's a small muscle group, you tend to hang on to that vertical mouse a little bit harder than you would maybe a semi vertical or a flat mouse. So all of a sudden you're noticing discomfort in the back side of the thumb or in the forearm, the different names from De Quervain's tendonitis. And it's because you're trying to hang on to this mouse just because of its positioning. So those subtleties in life have become more frequent simply because the way we compose words nowadays are kind of hovering over these things in front of us. Peter Koch: [00:17:52] So let's just break that out a little bit, because, you know, we've talked about some of the most frequent injuries being cuts, lacerations, abrasions, and we're going [00:18:00] to touch on those and prevention of those. But let's break apart the process of typing, because most people are going to do it. You know, even if you are, you don't have an office job, you don't have a job that demands you be in front of the computer all the time, the majority of us are going to be on something, whether it's an iPad or a phone or some electronic device that's going to have some sort of static posture that's you're going to be generating words with in some form or another. So why do we see so many repetitive stress or awkward posture type injuries or claims coming from keyboard and mouse use? He talked about the pisiform bone and the pivoting on that piece and mouse. But there's other stuff that happens to, you know, people do you know, how does that happen? What happens and what do we do to prevent it? Al Brown: [00:18:49] Sure. Yeah, no, that's just one little tiny piece. But yeah, we could do a whole lot. Peter Koch: [00:18:53] Yes, we could. Al Brown: [00:18:54] Let me give you the highlights. I mean, some simple basic problems. We run into standard desks [00:19:00] that were those writing desks that we used to have in the past, that we still have are twenty nine and a half inches high and most chairs that we sit on probably go up to about 20 inches. The seat pan. There's quite a difference between twenty nine and a half and twenties, about nine and a half, almost ten inch difference between seat pan height. So if the desk, which often is the case, is too high, we have to manipulate that keyboard and put it in certain positions which as if we can't reach parallel if our forearm and wrists, are recess to be in line with our forearm and hovering over our keyboard. If we can't get to that posture on our current situation because the desk is too high, the chair's too low, we tend to either push the keyboard back or we put the keyboard might be too low or too high. We change that angle between wrist and forearm. And as that changes, the further it gets away from neutral, where the hand is parallel with the forearm, the more [00:20:00] you close down a place that delivers the nerve and blood supply to the wrist and the hands. And the more you start to fatigue the shoulders, too, and the more you start weight bearing on those and creating these awkward postures so you can get tingling in the fingers. If you're seated too low, your arm might wing out to the side and you might rested on the arm of your chair. It might be resting on the return on your desk and all of a sudden you expose and compress the little nerve that goes right around your elbow called your funny bone or your ulnar nerve. And you're noticing that your fourth and fifth finger kind of go and tingly. So again, just the height of the desk and this little discussion we're having will impact what happens to your hands if the reach to the mouse is too far. And again, remember standard keyboards, Pete, you've got the qwerty, which are the letters which are typically like a typewriter, but then, I don't know, someone mandated we got to have a number [00:21:00] pad. So they hung that out on to the right side of the keyboard. And then if you look at 80 percent of the population is right handed. Where do they all tend to put the mouse? To the right hand side of the keyboard? So now that arm has moved way out of neutral to go get it and people tend to hang on. That's when they start pivoting on the wrist or loading up the wrist in hand. And that's when we start to see the forearm elbow tendinitis, because folks are parked in a very long distance away from the body. So we're trying to bring everything back in closer. You were talking about the connection between brain and hand. One of the suggestions we often give for the keyboard with the number pad to the right, with the mouse to the right with a with a standard bilateral mouse, one that you can use in either side is what you put the mouse on the left hand side of the keyboard. What do you think the response is when we say that? Peter Koch: [00:21:52] I can't do that. Al Brown: [00:21:53] I can't do that. Peter Koch: [00:21:54] I can't do that. Al Brown: [00:21:56] And it's a simple motor pattern, just moving something around and clicking it. But it [00:22:00] brings it's a quick, easy solution to bring things more into neutral and reduce the forces on the wrist and hand and shoulder and neck. And it takes a couple, three days. It's just a motor pattern, but that's a plan. But again, that's that right left brain. This is my dominant hand. Don't try me. Tell me. And again, you go back to injury. Many folks listening to the podcast today that may have been that are right handed, that might have fallen and sprained their wrist, the right wrist or fractured it. And we're casted very quickly discover how dependent they are on that right hand, but realize after a couple of days that the left hand is a good second choice and it steps up to the steps up to the plate and does a pretty good job after a couple, three days. Peter Koch: [00:22:49] It is amazing how you can train your body to do a different act or an activity in a different way when you're forced to do it. But that's an interesting [00:23:00] part, too. And I think we'll talk about this as we go through that prevent the prevention piece. It's one of the challenging pieces of repetitive motion or awkward postures, because they're cumulative, because they take time to do that and it takes time for you to learn the other way to do it. You should be kind of doing this all along, switching from side to side so you don't have the repetition or the constant awkward posture of the constant pressure on that one side happening. But it just takes time. It's weird. I know one of my friends, they broke their right forearm and they were casted. So they really couldn't do a whole lot with that. And I remember them. The hardest thing for them to change was brushing their teeth. And they came to me one day. We got coffee together and a blistering hot cup of coffee and they took a sip of the coffee. And it burned. Right. But I took a sip of the coffee and it was hot, a little burning. But they were like incredible pain, like, [00:24:00] Dan, what's going on? It's like, well, I was brushing my teeth today with my left hand because I can't do it my right hand and I stab myself in the back of the throat with a toothbrush because they just didn't have the fine motor control of that. But, you know, a week later, they were like at no big deal. It works just fine. So it just takes a little while to figure it out, to learn it. Yeah. Yeah. That retraining of that. Al Brown: [00:24:21] Yeah. Discomfort breeds change. But I mean, that's the only thing that kind of, you know, and that's the problem is that's why people won't learn, you know, kind of flip flop back and forth unless there's some discomfort or problem or, you know, something that restricts you. You typically don't change simply because it's just more efficient to just keep moving forward and using that your right hand or your, you know, whichever handed you are. Yeah. And why change, you know, until you have to. Peter Koch: [00:24:46] Right. Right. Now, let's talk a little bit about anatomy and physiology of the hand and wrist, like we talked about that it is a really it's a very dexterous body part for us. We can do lots of things that can be powerful. It can be really it [00:25:00] can do a lot of fine motor stuff. But what allows it to do all those things? What's the anatomy that makes it all up? And then how does some of those postures affect the anatomy that cause some of those challenges in repetitive or awkward posture injuries? Al Brown: [00:25:17] Sure. Yeah. Well, you had mentioned earlier there's about and again, it varies. Some people have some extra little bones in the hand, but somewhere between 27 and 29, bones that make up the wrist and hand and it's about it, believe it or not, that's about a quarter of all the bones in the body are little spot. Yeah, right there, you know, about thirty muscles, about 129 ligaments, about 17,000 touch receptors in the palm, you know. So when you look at all those things that come together. Now, here's the thing. Most of the muscles that run the fingers, there's only tendons up in the finger, the belly of itself, the muscle itself. So if you think of a bicep, because everybody's kind of familiar with the bicep, the biceps [00:26:00] has this big meaty part in the middle of your upper arm. And then it what it does is it pars down to like a tendonous structures that connects below the elbow and then another two tendonous structures that go up into the shoulder. Very much like the hand, the meaty part of that muscle for the fingers is in the palm of your hand and it's just the long tendon structures that go up into your fingers and those things run your fingers. You can kind of wave your fingers around. You can make it sort of, you know, like bring your knuckles down and straighten your fingers out that your lumbar curls. But then the thing that moves your wrists, those muscles, the long tendons go up your forearm and those meaty part of it is your forearm itself and then attach to the elbow one of the problems we run into when you make a fist. OK, if you if you hold your hand up in front of you so that your thumb is kind of facing you and you make a fist, OK, you're going to look at the upper fingertips. They're all curling down. [00:27:00] But as they curl down, you'll notice the knuckles, you know, sort of at the base of your finger where the hand comes up and then the base of the finger. If you look at the back of that, hand back your hand, which way is the back of your hand moving? It's actually moving backwards away from that curl. Well, that's an orchestration between the flexors and the extensors of the wrist. The flexors are curling your hand down, but the extensors at the same time are pulling your wrist back because it makes it a more efficient grip. And that's why your hand tends to drop back in. Those muscles, the flexors attached to the inside of your elbow, kind of the part of your forearm that doesn't have much hair sort of that. And you get a little bump on the inside of your elbow. The extensors go up, that sort of the hairy side of your forearm and attach on the outside of your elbow called the if people have injured that before, it's called tennis elbow. And the reason for that is it tends [00:28:00] to be an injury that tennis players got. And when they would hit backhand, the ball would hit the racket and do a quick jerk and they'd get sort of a torque on that tendon. Making a fist, that balance between those muscles is so important. And, you know, we will do if you took the hand and you had someone just grip and we can do this with a grip dinamometer where you can measure the grip strength. And say you could generate 100 pounds of force with that. And you did it in neutral, which means that hand is balanced and right there in front of you. But then if we put the hand in an awkward position, kind of reach out, you might have to flex the wrist a bit. People will lose when we have them do that same amount of effort and force. They'll lose anywhere between 20 and 40 percent of their ability to generate grip strength. So think about that in the world of work in that if I have to work in an awkward position with my wrist in hand, I think of a company that I was working with that were putting trailer lights on. They [00:29:00] had to hold the light, what they were holding the light with the left hand and then there reaching up around and back to put the knot on. So that hand was on a very awkward position for an extended period of time, very inefficient, lost most of their ability to generate force. So it took more energy to do that all day long. Fatigue came quicker. What do you think the quality of the work was by the end of the day? Peter Koch: [00:29:25] Oh, I'm sure a lot more mistakes could happen there, too, right? Al Brown: [00:29:27] Oh, dropping the nut, you know, not, you know, not fully tightening the nut. Even you start to lose your ability to palpate and feel and touch and your sensory your muscle strength goes. So now here is a worker hurting themselves, the product going out of the door, out the door. You know, you're driving down the road is the consumer. But yourself a nice new trailer and you're looking at the trailer lights banging along the road because they fell off, you know, and again and you bring the trailer back and go this trailer's horrible, I'm going to give it a one star. And so, again, [00:30:00] looking at design, how are workers working? How are their hands neutral? Understand that neutral position, set that workforce up so that they're more in a balanced position, better quality work, happier worker, happier customer. Peter Koch: [00:30:13] Yeah, and you can't change you can't change anatomy. So you've got to change something else about the work. So either the tool that they're using or the ergonomics of it. We talked a little bit about how to set that, you know, an ergonomic workstation up to be more in neutral. And that's the key. You've talked about that before. You said it's been a theme throughout many of the podcasts. And it is because any time you interact with something you want to look at, if I can start the job in neutral, how far out of neutral do I go to complete the job and how often am I there and how long am I there so neutral posture is a fairly important thing to remember, regardless of what the task is, and especially for something that you're doing with your hands, arms or shoulders for sure. Al Brown: [00:30:55] Pete I mean, think of tooling, you know, we were talking about pencils and computers [00:31:00] and you threw in typewriters. I forgot about those. I sort of skipped that era. But think about the morphing or the or the number of iterations. Of the screwdriver. Peter Koch: [00:31:14] Right, right, Al Brown: [00:31:15] You know, think about what a screwdriver looks like nowadays, it's you know, it's a pistol grip, you know, if that's what we're using and it's power driven. And, you know, think about, I remember having to put together a friend of mine said, hey, I got this shed and it was one of those aluminum sheds. And they said, I got it for free. And they handed me a bag of screws. I mean, we're talking a giant bag of screws like we're talking a small kitchen trash bag full of screws and said, could you put that together? And I had, there was no such thing as a power screwdriver. And, you know, two days later, I couldn't even, like, wash my hair after it was all over. I just couldn't move my hands [00:32:00] because of the number of rotations to put that together. But had I had a power screwdriver, life would have been glorious Peter Koch: [00:32:08] Sure faster, quicker, less repetitions. But I think that that breeds even a better question because take the power screwdriver out of it. Take the screw gun out of it for a moment. You can buy a screwdriver in many different sizes and configurations, not just the, you know, a Philips versus a star versus a flat bit, but the handle can be configured very different. Some are bulbous, some are long. Some are short. Some are textured. Some are smooth. And really, if you're thinking about it, there's multiple reasons for some of the different configurations. But when we talk about ergonomics, if I can't have the power screwdriver with the pistol grip and I have to use a manual driver to do that, because sometimes you have to what's the best way? Like what's the best type of grip for that hand tool [00:33:00] that you aren't going to be able to pistol grip it with? Al Brown: [00:33:04] We were just looking at some ergo film the other day, some film a company had sent to us in what's called our E Ergo process. It's where a company can submit video footage of a job and have us analyze it. They were manufacturing small products and in that particular case, and it's on a workbench and they're sitting and if they had a pistol screw gun, the problem is they actually have to, we call it deviate the wrist, which would be instead of flexing and extending. So instead of flexing your hand forward and extending it backwards, they actually have to deviate, which would be sort of tipping your hand toward your little finger side. And there's two deviations. There's ulnar and radial deviation where you can tip your hand towards your thumb side. But in this particular case, they'd have to go towards our little finger side with a pistol grip to actually do the work. In that particular case, a shaft electric screwdriver where they could literally [00:34:00] grab and come straight down with a power grip was much better for them. And with this particular tool, some of them are air driven, even we have them on a tool balancer. So when they release this thing, instead of laying it back down on the workbench, it actually hovers back up over the workbench so they can just reach up, pull down and do the screws. So in that particular case, a pistol grip would not have been effective, would have created probably more problems in some cases when there's really fine motor like small screws, even just a standard Old-World screwdriver works a whole bunch better. So, you know, you really have to look at the specific job and the tasks to determine what's the best tool. You know, you don't go out just by a bunch of pistol grip tool, you know, screwdriver to go there all fixed. You may be creating some of the problems along the way. So, again, go back to how do I keep that person's hand in good, neutral, working posture balanced? [00:35:00] You know, I wanted balance when I see really awkward extremes of the wrist. I know there's potential problems ahead. Peter Koch: [00:35:07] Right, so that deviation on their side radial side or flexed forward or flexed backwards are things to consider with the position of the work that you're doing and then thinking about where neutral is and then determining what type of tool is going to keep you in that neutral position. Best give you the best grip. That's good advice. Peter Koch: [00:35:31] Let's take a quick break so I can tell you about our E Ergo resource that can be used to help solve ergonomic challenges at your workplace, sometimes contacting, contracting with and scheduling an ergonomist or occupational health nurse for an onsite evaluation doesn't really fit with our Just-In-Time workflow. In a competitive economy fixing the problem right now is essential. And improving worker comfort and efficiency are key components to ongoing success. So [00:36:00] free to our policyholders. MEMIC's E Ergo tool can help you overcome ergonomic challenges. With just five quick photos or a short 30 second video and a brief description of what's being shown, you can send us the critical demands and essential functions within the work tasks once received are ergonomics team can identify risks and exposures and provide reasonable suggestions for ergonomic improvement within just a few short days. Start that E Ergo process now by logging into the MEMIC safety director at www.MEMIC.com/Workplace Safety. Now let's get back to today's episode. Al Brown: [00:36:42] One thing I didn't mention is when you look at if you were looking at a tool like a hammer or very much like a tennis racket or something like that, people want to get the right size grip, too, because of the tool is too small. I see this in dental offices, too. Like if you look at the pics and the different fine motor things that they're doing on your teeth, [00:37:00] you may notice that some of your dentist, your hygienists have like fat handled tools now. Well, they discovered that those really small stainless steel, tiny tools, they were actually over gripping because it was too small. So they had to work harder. You can also go in the other direction if it's too fat over gripping. So if you're going to go out and buy a tennis racket or a racquetball racket or a nice hammer, it's always good to go down. There's like a couple of creases in your hand, but the one that kind of goes right across the middle of your hand, if you measure from that crease up to the tip of your middle finger, that's a good sort of rough way to measure what the circumference should be of that thing that you purchase. It's you know, it's a good way to kind of determine what's a good efficient grip for you. Peter Koch: [00:37:47] Would a tool that measured, similar to this, the distance between that crease in your hand or the tip of your you said middle finger, index finger, Al Brown: [00:37:57] Middle finger, middle finger Peter Koch: [00:37:58] For that. So [00:38:00] if the circumference measure is pretty close to that, well, that feel pretty comfortable in your hand, like, is it does it pass sort of the straight face test of it feels good or will it feel fairly awkward in your hand if you're not if you're not used to it? Al Brown: [00:38:14] It should for the most part, you know, call it rule of thumb. Peter Koch: [00:38:18] I applaud you Al for bringing that in. Al Brown: [00:38:22] That it will you know, and this is we're talking about a power grip, too. We're not talking about a dental tool that should be that creates. But we're talking more of a power type tool, a racket, something like that. Yes. Most likely that'll feel pretty comfortable because that's probably one of the more efficient grips that will keep the muscles that are holding it. Remember those muscles on the back side of your forearm, on the front side of the forearm, make that power grip, you know, coupled with the thumb. You know, the one thing we didn't talk about is that thumb opposes, which makes us very different from a simian hands. I mean, the hand of the ones that you see in the monkey, but the [00:39:00] human hand can oppose the thumb. There's nine muscles that run that thing. So that's what helps us determine that most efficient grip. Peter Koch: [00:39:08] Is that one of the reasons we see, like if you think about landscaping or yard work, you're seeing a trend over the last I don't know how many years now you've seen it where you've gone from a very small wooden handle on your rake and your shovel to maybe a thicker fiberglass handle or a cushion, the thicker cushioned handle on that rake or the shovel or whatever hand tool that you're going to be using to give you a larger grip. Because I do remember like doing work when I was growing up or for my parents or my grandparents where, you know, you had the really thin broom handled rake to rake the yard with. And now if you grab one of those, I can tell you my forearms, my elbows, my wrists start to fatigue a lot more quickly. And, you know, old tendinitis kind of comes back, it feels like. But some of the larger grips, they feel a little bit more comfortable. So [00:40:00] is that the reason why they're doing that for those tools as well? Al Brown: [00:40:04] Yeah, that's a perfect example, Pete. I mean, that's a that's a prime example of how there's been a transformation of tools. And part of that, too, is if you remember the old rakes and old shovels and things, a lot of them, they were wooden handles and sometimes they were then varnish. So they became very smooth. So it's even that texture to that. You now look at modern day tools. If you go down to the hardware store, there are a little bit more rubberized. There's a little bit higher friction surface maybe at the end in the middle, the rakes, because that ability to grip on you don't need as much force if there's a better texture between your hand. Same thing with gloves. You're seeing gloves. Now, remember the old leather gloves, the old sort of cowhide leather glove with the big gauntlet cuff on it. And, you know, people just hand them out and, you know, you just really couldn't grip very well with them. And in fact, ill-fitting [00:41:00] gloves can really reduce your ability to grip. You can lose 20 to 30 percent of your grip strength simply because the glove is ill-fitting. I remember working at a large industry here in Maine and all they handed out were those gloves in large. And they have hands of every size there. So the person that fit them well, you know, fit their hand well would probably do well again, fitting the work to the worker. But then you give someone that, you know, might be a small person or very large person, probably more small where the hand goes in there and he got all this extra material and then folks. Well, you can't how come you can't grip on to that? And it's not because they have any less skill or ability. It's just they're trying to overcome all this extra material. So, you know, it's amazing how tools and gloves and things like that have really changed. And it's important to look at the right tool, the right glove, the right, you know, the texture [00:42:00] when you're when you're looking at ergonomics. Peter Koch: [00:42:02] So it enhances the grip. It provides better dexterity to give you the ability to use the hand and the arm in the way it was designed in the most powerful way so that you can do the work. Otherwise it gets in the way. I know I've been I've had that same thing where the only glove I have is one that doesn't fit well and all of a sudden it's I just can't do that. So what do you do? You take your glove off and then you go do the work and it might be better for you from a dexterity standpoint. It might be better for you from an economic standpoint, but it exposes you to all the other hazards which really haven't got into yet. And I think it's a good time to jump in to that particular exposure because we you know, we started this conversation with the chef coming into the E.R. with the bloody rag and cut his finger and having to go see the orthopedic surgeon. But there's a lot more ways that you can hurt your hands and probably for lack of a better term, more popular ways to hurt your hands [00:43:00] than a repetitive motion injury. So talk a little bit about that. What are the other ways beyond a poor ergonomics or a poor workstation set up where you can find hand and finger injuries? Al Brown: [00:43:12] Sure, sure. I mean, if you look at some of the common causes, it's, you know, fatigue, distraction and attentiveness. I'm guessing the chef someone yelled to him, "hey, hey", he turned and was still chopping as he was still doing that unconscious behavior. And just that inattentiveness changed things. And, you know, there goes the finger. So he has a new restaurant called Nine Fingers. It's a great place that no. So probably serves finger sandwiches. But there you go. One of the one of the things I always try to encourage, particularly in the manufacturing or the construction industry, is very simple thing. Jewelry and one in particular rings are really they contribute big time [00:44:00] to hand injuries that simply I encourage employees or employers to just say take your ring off and just put it on a chain on your neck, if you want to make sure that it's still with you and all that kind of good thing, or they have these breakaway rings now that now exists, which I'm actually seeing more and more in the industry because a simple ring Pete, to give you an example, coming down a ladder, if you're walking, you coming down a ladder and your hand over your feet and you're in good contact if you're lowering your body in that left hand with that ring, gets hooked on the ladder rung and you lower yourself, you don't react quick enough to go back up to protect your finger. And oftentimes we've seen fingers that are literally amputated or degloved where the skin is kind of pulled up and off. So just taking that ring off, having a glove on would have probably helped a bit. But still, the other [00:45:00] exposure that has to is in the automotive industry and ring on it. And you are working with something that's electric, like the battery, and you happen to ground out with that hand. That ring will conduct the electricity and cook the base your finger pretty quickly. So again. So those are two just jewelry. You know, as I say, if you want to keep your finger, don't put a ring on it. Peter Koch: [00:45:26] Oh, Beyonce. Al Brown: [00:45:28] Oh, sorry Beyonce. But that is true, you know, so we really tried. I worked with the lumber company and really, you know, I actually put together a sort of a fact sheet on that the degloving and that kind of thing to convince workers that you really, it was funny because I had one worker got stood up there and there was his ring finger gone and he goes, oh, yeah, that happened to me. I said, so there you go. Peter Koch: [00:45:53] Don't lose that story. Right. Gosh. Al Brown: [00:45:56] So and then, you know, other things like an industry. And it's funny because I'm [00:46:00] an ergonomist. So I walk in the industry and I look at more kind of physiology things that can happen to tendinitis is the muscle strains. But in manufacturing, you know, there's a lot of I learned the term at MEMIC pinch points where there are open wheels and belts where a finger can fit in and that, you know, you can create a amputation, you can create a crush injury, you know, so guarding and things like that or something, just like your friend took the guard off the saw and decided, you know, something went. And again, it's usually a tool that sort of changes its behavior, maybe either misuse or inappropriate use of the tool or, you know, he didn't have the guard on. Quickly it occurs. You know, you're thinking that wasn't good. Peter Koch: [00:46:50] No. And it just it really just takes an instant. I was reflecting, as you were talking about the ladder in the ring. And I imagine just about anyone [00:47:00] who's climbed a ladder. Often has had that experience where they're coming down and their ring catches for just a moment and it might not be enough to injure, but it's enough to remind you that, oh, that was close. And I got away with it. But, gosh, maybe the next time I'm not going to get away with it, maybe the next time I'm going to get caught and I'm going to actually start to load my entire body weight on that. And I'm going to what's going to happen. And there's plenty of evidence in the world to show that that's not a good thing. And again, like amputations, machinery, amputations, where someone either an improperly guarded tool or the employee purposely defeats the guard or the guard is not functional. And they get their body part, their finger, typically the tip of one of their fingers is going to get too close to those rotating parts. And there it's gone. And even, you know, we don't we take for granted a lot the weight of things that we work around.  [00:48:00]Again, it's funny, there's always a story for something. But again, I worked with a guy. They were loading jersey barriers onto a back of a truck after they had finished a construction project. And as he was loading the second to last one, he was guiding it with his hand. Right. So had it on the inside of that. And it didn't touch really hard against the Jersey barrier. That was that it was sitting down against what had touched enough. So it crushed the tip of his middle finger inside his glove. But, you know, pretty much lost the tip of his finger from his nail bed up to the top because it was crushed with the weight of it. And it just took an instant. And he talked to him later on. He said, oh, I knew how heavy it was, but I only think about the quote unquote, impact of what would happen if it just tapped against another immovable object. So just we take things for granted. A lot of things for granted. Al Brown: [00:48:53] Yeah. Speaking of granite, in the world of stone masonry and building stone [00:49:00] walls and landscaping, that same incident occurs when someone is moving a large rock and placing it on another. And it's actually referred to as the granite kiss. And that's where two rocks and your finger become. And so that's something you can't take for granted when you're placing rocks. Peter Koch: [00:49:23] You sure can. And I would imagine you start to look at that type of industry and this goes to landscaping or even carpentry or any time you're going to be working with your hands in an environment where there's a lot of abrasive materials, just a glove. And again, the right fitting glove is going to go a long way to prevent many of those minor injuries. And in a minor injury like a cut or laceration, even someone's using a box knife to cut sheetrock or they're cutting up cardboard to put in the recycling piece. A fairly [00:50:00] minor injury is going to take that person out of the work for a little while to go get treated. And they might not even go to the doctor, but they got to go get a bandage and clean it out properly, because if they don't, chances are it's going to get infected and then it's going to be worse later on, where a simple 5, 10, 15 dollar pair of gloves, depending on how dexterous you really need your hands, would have fixed that or prevented the injury. The event would have still happened, like the slip with the knife or the granite kiss would have still happened. But the glove would have reduced the severity of that event. That's something we don't always think about. But it's a recommendation that happens almost all the time when we go down onto a job site where they're doing something manual with their hands and they're not using gloves, why not use gloves? Al Brown: [00:50:47] Yeah, just think like passing lumber. You know, I worked at a lumber mill or just slide boards off what they call the green chain and sliding, you know, and if barehanded, how [00:51:00] many times have you slid a board through your hands and just taken a sliver somewhere? And just that tiny piece of wood is painful and we're not even talking about something that might be, you know PT, which has got the chemicals in it, which now you would you know, you've introduced a sliver with chemicals into your hand. So just a glove allows you to let that slip through and avoid or at least mitigate that risk a lot just by having that extra protection. Peter Koch: [00:51:29] Sure. Al Brown: [00:51:30] So, you know, I never sort of do anything without my gloves on. You know, as I've gotten older and I'm less physical, my hands are less resistant. I don't have the buildup. So even more important. And that's when you look at some of the data from OSHA, NIOSH, it's a lot of times it's the new employees, the sort of the new workforce less experienced that, you know, these things occur. So even more to protect and guard them. Folks [00:52:00] in the middle tend to be a little bit more seasons have been around, they kind of get the value of that, and then the next exposed group is more the older worker, 55 and older experienced understand. But their recovery time takes a lot longer. So you really do want to make sure they're protected doing what they're doing. Peter Koch: [00:52:19] Recovery's a lot longer, and I think reaction time is a lot slower as well. So you just think about what a glove would do, even that simple passing lumber from point A to point B or even if you're a finished carpenter and you're moving sheet goods from point A to point B and it slips a little bit in your hand, your reaction time isn't good enough to keep it from moving enough to maybe drive a splinter in your finger so the glove would help. It would help prevent that potential for injury there. And there's so many different types of gloves to. Al Brown: [00:52:54] Yeah, and Pete think of this, we're talking manual material handling, you know, grip protection. [00:53:00] But think about your world of ski resorts. Sure. You know, and thermal protection, you know, and that you got to have, you know, if you're protecting the hands. Because I tried to find the naval study that I wanted to look mid-shipment. They actually looked at mid-shipment and they said they wanted to see how temperature affected the hand dexterity. So they said, I want you to tie a knot. It was very simple knot I don't know what the knot is, but they said just tie as many of these you can in a minute. And they had their hands at 70 degrees. You know, it was just room temperature, 70 degrees. And that was the ambient temperature. And they could tie I think it was 42 knots in a minute. I mean, it was a symbol, bup bup bup bup bup bup. So they could go pretty quickly. Then they lowered the ambient temperature down to like fifty degrees and just really reduced. You know their hands were cold. And you know what happens when your hands get cold. They went down to six knots a minute. They couldn't they didn't have the dexterity to [00:54:00] complete that task. So when you look at oil delivery folks, when you look at the ski industry, when you look at anybody who's out in a cold environment, that might have to do fine motor activity know that, look at power workers up in bucket trucks up trying to do nuts and bolts during this, you know, winter storm, you know, and then they've got on double gloves for insulation. You know, their ability to generate force and be dexterous drops off considerably. So you have to keep that in mind when you're looking at the worker and what it is they're doing and how is that going to impact them? Peter Koch: [00:54:40] I can tell you from personal experience, both myself having to tie knots in cold weather as a ski patroller and then as the patrol director going back in and, you know, looking at those really bone chillingly cold days where as a patroller, you're out doing something and then you're having to repair a fence or do something that requires [00:55:00] you to be dexterous with your fingers and your hands. And you look at the result and many times the knot won't be the same knot. It'll be something that's much easier to tie rather than trying to tie a more complex knot that would be the correct, not for that particular situation. Easier to untie later on when we have to, but it was the only knot that they could tie because their fingers just weren't functioning well enough. And that doesn't even need to be a hypothermic issue where you've got some brain function challenge. It's truly the dexterity of your fingers and the gelling of everything, just not making it work the way you want it to. And that goes it doesn't need to be an outside person. Many times in the wintertime, you might have a mechanic working in a shop, right. That the door's open and closed, open and close, open and close. And it might be warm in the office or the parts room, but you get out onto the floor where the guy is doing work and it's pretty chilly out there. And it might be in the, you know, low 60s, which could be comfortable for you. [00:56:00] But when you're there all day on a concrete floor, your hands could get pretty chilly and work production is going to go down and the potential for mistakes and injuries go up from there for sure. Al Brown: [00:56:10] Well, that's you know, what happens in a situation like that is core temperature drops off your body, core temperature drops off. And what it will do is it'll pull the blood in from your extremities to kind of it's a survival mode and your core will try to stay warm. So what happens is your ability to do fine motor activity drops off exponentially. So I dealt with this once in the manufacturing environment where they had a cold mist blowing on, you know, to help them with the work. I'm not sure what the reason for the cold mist, but it really impacted. And they were putting together plugs, electric plugs. They just couldn't understand. And I said, you know, with the cold mist, it's very difficult. You'll change the temperature, the core temperature of the hand and their ability to manipulate goes down tremendously. [00:57:00] And that the example there's a sort of local example of how can we improve that and then the general example of you of opening the door to the whole bay and you're chilling the person, reduces their ability to produce fine motor activity. So you've got to keep those things in mind when you're when you're thinking about was my production down? Peter Koch: [00:57:23] Yeah. There's so many different things that could go into that. That's a whole body challenge. Right. When we started thinking about core temperature drop and one of the first effects you're going to see are going to be your fingers getting chillier because blood is trying to come back into the core something. But, you know, knowing that there's different ways to prevent it, you could prevent it locally with gloves. But that's not going to change the overall core temperature of the person you might need to look at different opportunities to do it. Yeah, so lots of different ways to lots of different reasons that people might put their hands in the wrong spot. It could be because the dexterity [00:58:00] isn't there. It could be because they're moving a lot of physical things around, whether it be stone, rock or other product. And whenever you're doing it with your hands, you're putting your hands at risk. And they are. They are I mean, they are the things that really get us to interact with our world. You think about what you can't do if you don't have use of your hands like we started at the beginning of the podcast. It's phenomenal how many times you interact with the world, with your hands and even if you lose another sense. So you talk about someone who might have vision issues or hearing issues like that tactile sense that you have with your hand to be able to identify something in front of you or around you by touching it is just makes your world that much bigger. And without that, because of an injury, whether it be repetitive injury or because of a traumatic injury, you lose a whole part of your world. We talk about it like when we do when [00:59:00] I do hearing conservation training, we talk about your hearing and how it really broadens your world and that inability once you start to lose your hearing, to have great conversations with people or talk to them in a loud environment or when it gets really bad hear, the beauty of the world around you. And when you start to get hand injuries, those same things you're going to miss out on, it might not be something you hear, but to be able to shake someone's hand or to be able to pet your dog or something that you really enjoy, you're not going to be able to do that if you don't take care of your hands. And it's just a big part of it. We just take them for granted. Truly take them for granted. Al Brown: [00:59:39] You know, a thought Pete just think about us as aging to, you know, we're an aging population, so, you know, we didn't touch on the thing about arthritis and those kinds of changes that occur on the hand or comorbidities. But as we age, what do we tend to do? But, you know, what's the leading cause of injury in the work environment that's slips, trips and falls? And what's the thing that we stick out [01:00:00] to kind of, you know, cushion that fall is usually the hand. And even in the ski world, you know, you're talking about skiing before. And when you fall down, you tend to put that hand out. And what's the thing that usually takes the hit is that, you know, there was a fracture or usually it's a broken wrist. And the function, all that, that had been taken for granted before, as you just mentioned, really comes you know, you realize, oh, my goodness, I really lost the function of my hand. And as a physical therapist, it takes months of rehab to regain just the majority of that range of motion and strength. But you'll never come back 100 percent. So, you know, it's one of those things to think about again as an employer or just around your everyday life. Think about, you know, yeah, I want to get the right tool and all this, but look at slip trip and fall hazards all around. You know, that that could lead to a broken wrist. Peter Koch: [01:00:59] Sure. You [01:01:00] could do everything that you can to get, like you said, the right tool. I've set everything up ergonomically, but the box that I didn't pick up behind my workstation that I just tripped over and now I've done the same thing to my hand that I that I might have done if I didn't get the right tools. So it's a big picture of peace preventing injuries. No matter what it is. It's truly a big picture view that you've got to take, because even if you take care of one particular hazard, if you haven't identified and manage the others, you can still put yourself at significant risk there. So what else, did we miss anything about hand injuries, whether it be a traumatic injury from a hand to wrist, or an injury from awkward postures or prolonged postures? Is there something else that we want to touch on here before we kind of get towards the end of our podcast? Al Brown: [01:01:45] Right. Yeah, I guess just the final thing, because I think we've handled this really well. I think we've covered most topics and, you know, think of contact stresses in the hand. You know, we [01:02:00] never talked about, you know, there's different things. De Quervain's tenosynovitis pain on the back side of the thumb, you know, that's created by we'll see with scissors, manual scissors, where you're constantly opening the scissors back up to create the cut, that lifting the thumb is not really made well to pull open, you know, abductor's pull the thumb back to open the scissors up and they make scissors now that have a spring-loaded that will self open. So you have to do is grip and close to your power grip. So that's where your most efficient ganglion cysts, where you get some pressure on a tendon or a trigger finger. To a certain extent, you know, you have sleeves those remember those long tendons. I talked about the go to the tip of your finger. They actually pass under sleeves, so they stay. So these tendons don't bow out away from your finger. It looks like your skin's blown away. These little sheets hold the tendon close to the finger. Well, if you inflame one of those tendons and now it's bigger and it's on one side of these this little loop, [01:03:00] and then when you close your finger, you kind of force it through, it'll click and then you notice that your finger is stuck down and you have to kind of grab it and pull it back up to move that thick intended. It's a lot of times you're getting a contact stressor or one of the tools in your hand by putting a lot of pressure on that tendon, which creates the enlarged, you know, the large tendons. So now it's bulbous and can't go through that sheet. So again, you look at padding

In this episode, I FINALLY got to chat with my friend Sassy Frass (also known as the adult gay performer Levi Karter)! We discussed Levi's new documentary, Leave It To Levi, gay sex, drag, New York, and so much more! FOLLOW HEY GURL: http://instagram.com/heygurlpod Email: heygurlpod@gmail.com FOLLOW SASSY: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sassyfrassmeaner - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/levikarternyc FOLLOW JORDAN: - Instagram: http://instagram.com/jordanjayro - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jordanjayro - Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanjayro

Hi, remember me? Been on hiatus for a while but now we're ready to go again. And man was I rusty doing this! But anyway, I FINALLY have episode 44 in the can and to paraphrase one of my personal heroes Bob Ross it's 'slick and wet and ready to go'. Before I list all the songs this month (and there's a LOT of new music!) a big thanks to everyone for listening and waiting for a new episode.  Here we go:   THE NEW RUFFIANS - 'The Parkdale Jig'   THE WELCH BOYS - 'Methadone Mile' BROPHYS LAW - 'The Bachelor' MICKEY RICKSHAW - 'Rope'   SHANGHAI TREASON - 'Wildfire' (ft. Dan Booth) THE LANGERS BALL - 'Real Old Mountain Dew' THE RUMJACKS - 'Hestia'   THE WORKING CLASS SYMPHONY - 'The Holy Ground' DIAMONDS AND GUNS - 'Cheers To Us' MR. IRISH BASTARD - 'You Spin Me Round'   THE BLACK CLOVER - 'Pure Whiskey' THE MAHONES - 'Shakespeare Road' THE TOSSERS - 'The Crutch'   BLACK WATER COUNTY - 'There Will Be A Day' DROPKICK MURPHYS - 'L-EE-B-O-Y' THE GO SET - 'Treasures'   SHAMBOLICS - 'Goin' off!!'   CONTACT ME: on twitter Facebook email   Check out my mates the London Celtic Punks and their blog   Hi to all my new friends on Facebook... 

Nobody has been in theatres in the U.S. for a month now and I FINALLY got a chance to see it. This is my review of the film. Nobody Cast and Crew: Director: Ilya Naishuller Producers: Bob Odenkirk, David Leitch, Kelly McCormick, Braden Aftergood, Marc Provissiero Screenplay: Derek Kolstad Cast: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd Synopsis: When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away.    The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills. In a barrage of fists, gunfire and squealing tires, Hutch must save his family from a dangerous adversary —and ensure that he will never be underestimated as a nobody again. - Universal Pictures (Youtube)

I FINALLY got one of my truest bluest buddies and his super fly brothers on the show to chop it up about, well their foot game no less and without a doubt, their indelible fashion line Lavi-NYC. These brothers are so genuine and authentic; the love, respect and admiration they share for one another is inspiring and the patience, poise and passion they possess is unmatched. They share their path from point A to point now around their brand and I cannot wait to see how the world continues to receive them. Just remember who put you on and know that EYE was there from the beginning #insidejokes. Enjoy the show!

This week I've got some first impressions about a big scary book I FINALLY finished reading. Elsewhen I talk about increasing understanding through appreciating terminology, recommend a book for learning skills with, and tell the "Yogurt Story," on a reccordion!

This week when we're talking about our personal productivity, we'll discuss the balance of spring planting and writing, of getting little things with big impact done, and maybe some hints about the project Ursula is working on when she should be working on other things. After that, I FINALLY get to share my conversation with Sigrid Ellis about how she stays productive! Links for this Episode Charity Spotlight: Bridge for Youth MN Sigrid Ellis on Twitter Swiss Cheese Model Deep Bedding Hugelkultur David Allen's Getting Things Done Pomodoro Technique Unfuck Your Habitat Dave Ramseys Cult The Chicago Air Traffic Attack/Outage Disaster Resilience the Waffle House Way by Heidi Waterhouse Writer Beware Moleskine Notebooks Agatha Christy's Miss Marple Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga The Complete Hidden Almanac

I FINALLY got a dog trainer to climb aboard the bus!! Celebrity dog trainer, Mark Seibel, steps aboard to talk about everything you need to know about training your dog. An extremely informative episode, as we detail everything from tone of voice, to body posture, to the words (grunts?) you use. Spoiler alert: your dog’s demeanor might have more to do with YOU than with the dog! Listen and learn as Mark models the perfect approach to integrating a pooch into your home.

My friend and former intern Kelsey joins me on this podcast to reminisce about our time in Portland, which spanned from early 2003 to late 2004.  We talk about all of the chaos at work, all the instances we put Kelsey into embarrassing situations, and how we both love and miss the Pacific Northwest.  Also, I FINALLY found the audio of the segment that got me fired from Z100 in Portland....the time I dressed up as a Wal-Mart employee and "quit my job"!  If you make it to the end of this podcast, you'll hear the entire thing!  This podcast brought to you by HOMIE, the easiest way to buy or sell your home!  

Jeremy and I have a MYRIAD of laughs while learning our word of the week ! We talk about our MYRIAD of fun, parties, and boujee water over the years. Jeremy tells us about the ultimate pool party, of course, in Vegas .... which lead to a MYRIAD of laughs, drinks, and stories . I FINALLY guess how to pronounce the surprise word .... but have no idea the meaning ... it’s ok we learn it together!

Hey everyone! In this week's episode, I FINALLY sit down with my childhood best friends Alexa Keough + Stephanie Jarvis to play a game of "Who's most likely to?" I hope you got to learn a little more about me + the people I call my BFFS. Alexa's Instagram: @amk1235Steph's Instagram: @stephjarvissI Like to Talk's Instagram: @iliketotalkpodcastI Like to Talk's Twitter: @iliketotalkpodMy Instagram: @rebeccaduffyyIf you have any guest or topic submissions, email iliketotalkpodcast@email.com!

This week I FINALLY caught up with all of the gentlemen from the Brewsing Banter Podcast. We talk about beer, deep topics and as usual, we talk shit.

Move forward with Spencer Rascoff’s enriching business lessons! This particular episode with Spencer Rascoff has been a long time coming! We originally planned to record with Spencer since March of last year, but as you all know...COVID happened! Well, guess what?  For today’s episode of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience, Spencer and I FINALLY were able to coordinate our schedules to share powerful golden nuggets for you to pick and choose from his insightful experience. Spencer reveals the 3 biggest lessons he learned from top leaders of the tech industry which we can all adapt for our own business!  We also go deep on Spencer’s journey after leaving Zillow and starting dot.la, a tech-focused news site, and how he had to pivot his business model after COVID-19 hit. Spencer and I go over this and more on today’s episode, so if you’ve been wanting to look deep on how a serial entrepreneur works with others to start, grow and develop a company, then today’s episode is for you! Listen now!

I FINALLY got a chance to finish both seasons of DC's "Titans." Check out my thoughts, and remember to rate/subscribe/share/comment and most importantly ... ENJOY!

My guest this week is Timothy Siragusa, who was very popular with about 30 lesbians in Omaha. He was part of an experimental theater scene in a small city that was at first a little, let's say, challenging for mainstream audiences to appreciate … until one night he had a brainstorm that transformed their struggling avante garde troupe into a huge local hit.We'll have that conversation in a minute. First a quick thanks to everyone who supports the Sewers of Paris on Patreon.And just a reminder that I've got a cute weekly newsletter for all the stuff I'm working on. You can sign up at mattbaume.com for sneak peeks into upcoming projects, little bits of weird fun cultural artifacts I've uncovered, my comic book reviews, and of course links to cute animal videos.And I hope you'll join me for regular videogame livestreams over at Twitch.tv/mattbaume every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon at 2pm pacific. I FINALLY have emotes on my channel, it only took me two months. And of course I also host livestreams on YouTube every other Saturday — we dig through old news archives looking for queer gems. That's at youtube.com/mattbaume.

Man!! I really MISS Y’ALL!! I was supposed to do a Mini series and a segment called “Don’t play in my face” AGES AGO!! I FINALLY got back in my Bag!! This FIRST episode was just one of MANY that will hold y’all over until TEA AND TESTIMONIES Season 2 Returns!! I MISS TALKING MY SHIT!!! I love y’all!!

A WORLD PANDEMIC. Literally. As if “normal” life wasn’t already challenging enough… We all went through it, like… the entire planet. And this shit is STILL goin’ on.In this episode, I share my personal journey through good ole 2020. Right before the ‘rona hit, I was pretty much lovin’ my life (except for still being single AF of course).Tune in as I share a ton of personal shit I went through at the start of quarantine, how I moved through some major challenges, and learned so much about myself and life in the midst of the madness. From never watching the news, to becoming briefly consumed with fear due to the media, I went through periods of serious anxiety to periods of not giving any absolute f*$ks (kinda..)..In this episode I share....How challenging it was for me to quarantine in a quiet house all alone, and how a deep depression emerged.How I found it so hard to “find the motivation” to workout outside and how I loathed myself for my inability to get up and “just do it!”. My struggles with food and binge-eating while stuck at home alone all day. How I cried pretty regularly, because I was so lonely (literally living everyday inside by myself with my dog).How I chose to dig deep, and work through the challenges I faced by investing in coaching, journaling daily, meditating, and doing all I could to create some kind of peace as I worked through this “new life”.How I slowly picked myself up and did my best to show up for my community, creating Zoom calls, book clubs, searching for a light at the end of the tunnel, etc.How I FINALLY got to workout in a gym again after months of losing my mind on my couch.How I overcame social anxiety as I began being around people again after being quarantined (such a weird feeling). How my mind got so loud & I beat myself up for gaining 15 pounds during a freggin’ world pandemic.How and why I chose to give up alcohol and what I learnedAfter almost 5 YEARS of being single AF, and after the most lonely months I’d ever experienced… how I FINALLY met MY MAN, the nerd of my dreams! (ILY Tocho Bear)How I slowly started to have breakthrough after breakthrough in every challenge that was presented to me in 2020, and how these experiences weren’t small, but totally freggin life-changing.How I had to learn to watch my ego as I had very different opinions on mask-wearing, the media, politics, racial injustice, etc. How I practiced listening more and finding compassion for the unique humans & complex world around me.And more...Do not miss this episode.You’ll find that no matter your circumstance, it is all ALWAYS working out FOR you. As long as you chose to see life’s challenges & “failures” as **learning experiences & revelations** your life can be a damn beautiful, epic ride.Click play fam. Ready…. Go!www.corissalulu.com

I Finally got an interview with a long time friend!!!

I FINALLY figured out why SOOO many people don't like setting goals or why they fail when trying to do it. If you are currently struggling to set goals then this episode is for you! 2021 is here and we can't afford not to know or start thinking about where we want to be in life 3 months from now.In this episode I share the biggest reason I believe people are scared to actually set real goals & also give actionable advice to help you finally breakthrough. You'll be able to gain a lot more clarity on where you're trying to be in life as 2021 starts.I want to connect with my listeners a lot more. DM me on Instagram by tapping the link below & tell me what you learned or any thoughts after listening to this episode.TELL ME YOUR REACTION!

Barry Gibb - The Victim (unreleased) (1969)  Jimmy Ruffin & Marcy Levy - Where Do I Go? (1980) His big hit was "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" which was originally intended for The Spinners. He is the older brother of David Ruffin. Marcy Levy was a veteran of the studio by this time. In this show, I talk about her time with Shakespeare's Sister. To little effect.  Marcy Levy & Robin Gibb - Help Me! (1980) From Wikipedia: After working on Jimmy Ruffin's Sunrise (including the track "Where Do I Go", a duet by Ruffin and Marcy Levy) Robin Gibb and Bee Gees keyboardist Blue Weaver work together again by supplying tracks for the soundtrack of the film Times Square. And the result was the song "Help Me!" sung by Levy and Gibb. The song was heard in the film's closing credits. I like the XTC song "Take This Town". I recommend this movie to both of you.  Lulu - Everybody Clap (1971) Trivia question to stump the room. Name a song that includes members of Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Bee Gees, and Stone The Crows.  It's this one.  Lulu — lead vocals Maurice Gibb — guitar, background vocals Leslie Harvey — guitar (Alex Harvey's brother. Look him up for the troubled tale of an ungrounded mic.)  Jack Bruce — bass John Bonham — drums How about that? Lulu was Maurice Gibbs' wife. She had a pretty good solo career in the '60s. Her biggest hit was "To Sir With Love". Yeah! That was the gal that let Maurice touch her all over.  Angela, Ken, and I - Jive Talkin'  Angela, Ken, and I - Run To Me  Angela's Utah Stories The Osmonds - I, I, I (1979) Produced by Maurice Gibb. Maurice Gibb - Modulating Maurice (1969) Gibb was a session musician in Australia for other artists including Bip Addison, Anne Shelton, April Bryon, Barrington Davis, and singer Jon. Around 1969, Gibb worked with his next-door neighbor, Beatle Ringo Starr, and the result was the track "Modulating Maurice" but it was not released. But here it is, for you.  The Bee Gees - Lovers (1976)  Angela, Ken, and I - Stayin' Alive  Angela, Ken, and I - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart  Angela, Ken, and I - Centerpiece  Angela, Ken, and I - How Deep Is Your Love Go to https://www.angelabinghamvoice.com/ Her album is here. She probably doesn't recall doing this show, but I FINALLY got around to downloading it. WHAT FUN we had!  Robin Gibb - Trash (1979)  The Bee Gees - Claustrophobia (1965)  The Bee Gees - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (1976) Listen for the little piccolo phrase after "And so I quit the police department..." If that doesn't make your insides curl up in terror, I don't know what will. This little pop experiment inadvertently gave birth to the "Sgt. Pepper" movie.  The Fut - Have You Heard The Word? (1969) It's pronounced "foot". "Have You Heard the Word" was recorded on 6 August 1969. That day, Maurice Gibb had broken his arm falling down a flight of stairs. He showed up wearing a cast and shot full of painkillers, and he proceeded to take advantage of the open bar in the studio. Kipner and Groves were not happy with this listless song to begin with, and as the session deteriorated, they left. Maurice put on tape his best John Lennon vocal impression and somehow played bass as well in his distinctive style. Lawrie recalls that he might have been there too, but admits his memory of the late 1960s is none too good. This song was credited to The Fut. Years later, Gibb said that he had no idea how that happened. The record appeared in early 1970, with rumors that this song was one of The Beatles, perhaps a bootleg recording. The recording was so plausible as a Lennon song that Yoko Ono [Ed: Ever the pragmatist] and Lenono Music, cleaning house in 1985, registered a copyright on it as a song written by John Lennon, even though Lennon had earlier denied participation in this song.  Angela, Ken, and I - Massachusetts Frank Lydon - Fonzie Meets Kotter's Sweathogs (At The School Dance) (1976) Angela, Ken, and I - More Than a Woman  Angela, Ken, and I - Night Fever  Angela, Ken, and I - Tragedy  Angela, Ken, and I - Nights on Broadway 

Managing due dates is literally my least favorite thing about being a teacher! For years I struggled to keep them straight and then hold my students accountable for late work. It always felt like I wasn't doing it well.  I feel like I FINALLY have due dates under wraps and I have a few tips for you!  Interested in the free All Star Planning Introductory Masterclass? Click here!

Welcome Back Bingers! This episode I (FINALLY) go over the post binge of Cobra Kai Season 2. It's the first solo episode in a little while, and I thought it went pretty well!  Check out QuizSwish.com to play some fun quiz games, and they also have some articles that suggest movies like wedding crashers or other great films you may have seen! Music:   Too Late For Tears - Geronimo & The Apaches /  Back In Black - AC/DC /  The Show Must Go On - Queen /   Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung

This is the 1 year anniversary episode where I FINALLY get caught up with Listener Stories! TalkingMopars.com                                                                       Social Media: @TalkingMopars

I FINALLY got questions!!! From an anonymous listener and I was really excited because now I get to do an episode on each answer, so first question was: What is something that I struggle with daily?.. And so I go into depth with that and so my question to you guys is what is something you guys struggle with daily?... ❤ Don't forget to post this in your stories and tag me so I can personally thank you! Here is a link if you want to dive deeper into some content. Linktr.ee/smartineziv

I Finally did it! I finally did stand up comedy. It was such an amazing and cool experience! I was so scared and nervous but all in all it was such a great time. Listen to whole podcast and see my complete set that I did.Socials: https://linktr.ee/youmightbesurprised

I FINALLY got the inside scoop from a REAL genuine polyamorous couple! We learned how these two met, how they started introducing other people into their relationship and how they evolved to traveling the world and collaborating with other models to create only fans content. Other topics in our episode include - Advice to other influencers- threesomes- orgies- swingers clubs- bad experiences & more!@desygato@yogagoddess__@africanzaddy

Whenever I'd spoken about my love of Sci-fi books and films, this film usually comes up.....and I FINALLY got round to watching it. Is it as good as they say? Is it eve Sci-fi?Listen in to find out!!.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kwawwpodcast)

Tonight Justin & I FINALLY sit down to discuss his days as Tsimfuckis; how he got started, why he left Youtube, why he came back after an over 10 year hiatus, & much much more. 

On the show today… Paris Hilton is doing press rounds for her new YouTube Original documentary This Is Paris and whilst speaking with radio host Kyle Sandilands on The Kyle & Jackie O Show, he almost brought Paris to tears. Also, Kourtney Kardashian faces backlash over the age gap in her friendship with influencer Addison Rae. Plus, in today's deep dive it's the reunion that has been years in the making!  For the first time ever, Lauren Conrad opened up about leaving The Hills and we talk about the turning tide of reality TV stars reclaiming their narrative. The Spill is Mamamia's daily entertainment podcast that catches you up on everything in entertainment and pop culture. It's snackable and perfect for your commute home. LINKS Staying Home With Whit | Lauren Conrad and I (FINALLY!) Reunite: https://apple.co/3mLYalS CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Kee Reece Producer: Melanie Sauer WANT MORE? Join us in our Facebook group to discuss everything pop culture... https://www.facebook.com/groups/2524018781153963/ Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... https://mamamia.com.au/entertainment/ Follow us on Instagram @mamamiaentertainment https://www.instagram.com/mamamiaentertainment/  Subscribe to The Spill Newsletter...  https://mamamia.com.au/newsletter Join our Facebook page... https://www.facebook.com/mamamiaentertainment/ GET IN TOUCH Call us on the pod phone 02 8999 9386.  Email us at thespill@mamamia.com.au Want to hear more Mamamia podcasts? You'll find them here... https://mamamia.com.au/podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode I FINALLY get to talk to my very best friend Gel. We talk about how much she hates swiping left and right aimlessly for hours on women who soon become ghosts. Gel will let us know if she is the Ghostee or Ghoster. Does she ghost women constantly or is she the one who is being ghosted? Follow me on Twitter @LezChill for episode updates and you can finally put a face to the name :)

Happy Sunday! I FINALLY have my life back after QUOYTE the week of horror cats and endless driving around. This episode is SO GOOD!!!! So much hilarious stuff happens to make fun of, and also a few things that are incredibly problematic and definitely wouldn’t fly today. Or maybe it would…MTV doesn’t really seem to … Continue reading Teen Mom 2 Season 4: Episode 6 “Fall to Pieces” →

Do you remember the day you fell in love with the one? On this Episode We are going to share the first part of our love story…how we met, how Edgar Needed to Grow Up and How we finally became a couple. It was complicated, thanks to Edgar Of Course, LOL! We hope our mistakes and lessons as a young couple can encourage many of you that are still single or just starting to date.  What’s crazy about our Love story is that Janet and I were connected and meant to be even before we were born…Our families were already a part of each other’s lives without us or them even knowing.  We will be hearing some of your (Podcast Listeners’) unique love stories as well!  Last thing…I Finally discovered The Real Reason Why Janet has such a huge Crush on Mathew McConaughey…It’s SO good!  Thank you for hanging out with us, Blessings! Til Next Wednesday.     Let’s connect Via: LosSotelos.com #LosSotelos  @edgariSotelo @discoveringagape  Email: LosSotelosPodcast@gmail.com  --  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

There's no denying the passport and my luggage are pretty much useless this year. Join me as I FINALLY unpack my suitcase! Don't forget to follow my podcast and slide into my DM on Instagram @holafida if you want to be featured in my future episodes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holafida/message

This week I FINALLY replay the original FINAL FANTASY 7 to get some much-needed redemption. We also get to talk about the latest MARVEL AVENGERS WAR ROOM video and why I officially bought in. Then in what is one of the most surprising news of COMIC-CON we talk about the return of G4 and what I want to see and don’t see from the iconic gaming network. All this and more as week A.C.M.G. Presents TALK TIME LIVE EXTRA: SELECT/START

I FINALLY get around to announcing my award winners after a 5 month delay. Quick S/o to Cory, Raymond, Mike, and Tyler for helping me choose my winners. (Their info is on the podcast). Episode minutes: First 10 minutes intro, Best Music, Best Genre Movie, Best Fictional Movie, Best Movie Based on a True Story, Best Young (18 or under) lead, Best Young Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Female, Best Supporting Male, Best Male Lead, Best Storytelling, and finally Best Female Lead. Each award takes 3-6 minutes to announce. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mbibs/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mbibs/support

The Grosser Green Grocer is BACK ON THE MENU, friends!   In today's episode, Jess takes us back to the Kroger, kickin' and screamin', and she won't even get us those limited edition Keeblers with the triple diple fudge in them.   Also, I FINALLY bring reviews for tea.   Hey, y'all are the best. If you wouldn't mind tellin' a friend about the show, we'd appreciate it all the way deep deep down. Or, reach out!   Hang out with us: twitch.tv/criticeveryone   Yell at us: foreveracritic@gmail.com   Tweet at us: @CriticEveryone   Facebook us: Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/Everyones-a-Critic-2327696304154655/   Listen to the other great shows on our network: https://xraypod.com/   As Tommy Wiseau once signed my copy of The Room: "be goods."

Happy Monday! I celebrated this Monday alllll week (with a fun vaca to the oceanside) so this week is a little short! But, I FINALLY watched Hamilton on Disney+, so let's talk about my initial thoughts. I can't wait to be fully back next week with some fun new content, see you then!

This week I FINALLY get to check out the movie I should have seen in theaters when it release as I give my "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER" review of KNIVES OUT with an all-star cast such as Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, LaKeith Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, and many more. I also talk about the great experience I had this weekend hosting and moderating Dream-Con's virtual Q&A event with the cast of NARUTO/SHIPPUDEN and much much more.On this episode of A.C.M.G. presents TALK TIME LIVE!!!  

Hey Guys! Welcome back to another episode and this is one we definitley all need! I FINALLY got to chat with Tenille Clarke a Trini soul sister I would like to say, who is just a powerhouse in her own right. We deep dive on her life and experiences as a publicist, how she "curated her own career and how its so important to give support to others where you can in your creative industries. There so many gems in this episode, I know you will enjoy. Don't forget to leave a comment on your favourite podcast platform, like, share and subscribe! Let me know what else you want to hear Next :D - Alexia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/DiaryofA20Somethin/support

Hey Outriders, we're back again with another episode.  News is still slow (which we understand given the state of worldly events), but we did get in a few games this week and dust off our models.  We briefly recap about our games, I FINALLY started putting paint on models again, and we do something unusual by discussing tactics.  Mostly it's Dan and I going over our preferred load-outs and play-style for Iden/Dio and Cassian/K-2SO as we expect to see them hitting everyone's tables in the coming weeks. Stay safe Outriders, and we'll see you in 2 weeks for the next episode.

Please meet my awesome friend Barb. She infuses deep spirituality with practical emotional tools that are sooo helpful for right now. Barb is on my list of people to call and connect with when I need some insights, spiritual support, emotional advice OR just a chat, a latte, and some prayer. Every time we have a chat about wholeness and the connection between our bodies, spirit and soul, and how that effects our everyday lives I always WISH I had of recorded it - so, I could remember it the way she explained it and so I could share it with others because it's always so insightful and wise. Well, in this season of crisis and change I FINALLY did. This chat between us talks about 3 WISE things you can practise right now that will HELP you daily and 1 amazing theology and practise for leaders to embrace right now as they minister to others. Hope it's helpful friends!

I FINALLY feel (a little) back to normal and wanted to give an update on how it's been here at the house for the past 30 days, how Covid testing went, some design tips since we are all spending every moment in our homes and insight on how I'm (trying) to keep a very active 4 year old busy and happy during the day.

Yikes, ever had a life lesson hit you like a bag full of bricks on a slow Sunday morning? That's what happened this past weekend as I FINALLY got something that life has been trying to tell me for- well, forever.  We know murder is wrong. We know chocolate is good. But actually, chocolate is not good for everyone and not everyone even likes it. So in that regard, very few things are universally "wrong" and "right". Taking the moral approach out of it and down to a sense of wondering if there is a right or wrong way to build our lives, we can quickly see that we have been following a set of rules that do not apply and are actually holding us back from creating the lives we want! 

Growing up,  I knew things were about to get serious when my dad would say, "We need to have a little chat....." While home visiting for the holidays, I FINALLY got the opportunity to turn the tables and sit HIM down for "a little chat" of my own for the benefit of ALL of us! Our second guest, Kim Daugherty, Kim Daugherty is known for delivering superior education and career development support to real estate professionals throughout the nation.  After serving as the Director of Training and Education for a large broker in St. Louis for 29 years, he has co-founded My Real Estate Brain, an online and in class real estate education resource. He is an accomplished national speaker, certified/licensed instructor and has been a licensed real estate broker since 1978.  He also happens to have a daughter who hosts a podcast... so that's pretty cool... For more information on The KDs Collaborative: www.thekdscollab.com (http://www.thekdscollab.com/)   Instagram (@thekdscollab)  #choreographyourlife 

This episode was inspired by Kate and Oliver Hudson's podcast Sibling Revelry. I FINALLY got my sister Sarah to come onto the podcast and share her inspiring story of how she went from a chubby kid with low self-worth to now helping women live their best lives.    Sarah has over 11 years of experience being a NICU nurse, she is a Reiki practitioner and a health coach. She tailors her program to each of her clients' needs. Her mission and purpose on this planet is to help inform and guide people to eat and do better by making small and sustainable changes. With continued self-work and self-acceptance, she has learned these tools to help others in their own journey of self-worth and awareness.    In This Episode We Talk About: How Sarah got swindled into becoming a nurse. Her transformation from being a chubby kid. Why she decided to be a health coach and then a Reiki practitioner. Her spiritual journey and how she is healing. How she develops her self worth. Our big awakening during Gabby Bernstein's Spirit Junkie. When she finally felt good enough.  Her health and wellness practices and rituals.  Show Notes:  Sarah Chung's Website Sarah Chung's Instagram Connect with Awaken and Align: If you enjoyed the podcast, please share it.  Subscribe, rate and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it! Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign and let me know your favorite guests, lessons or any show requests.

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about life after divorce, YA read-alouds, queer science fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Workman Publishing, publisher of Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love, by Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel, and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. FEEDBACK The Shades of Magic trilogy by V.E. Schwab (rec’d by Courtney) A Madness of Angels: The Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin (pen name of Catherine Webb) (rec’d by Danielle) QUESTIONS 1.  Hello my bookish friends from afar who nurture my love for bookish awesomeness. I have an urgent request for something in the literary realm that can let my mind escape the f-ed up craziness I’m currently undergoing with my soon-to-be ex who dropped a big ol’ bomb on me and told me he’s leaving me. I’m in all sorts of personal crisis at the moment and I’d love something to read at night after I tuck my two little girls into bed and have the psychic space to escape the insanity of my situation and dive into another world for a while. I know you typically only do one type of rec per request but I’m asking for two. Here goes: 1) a kick-ass female protagonist who lives from the land, or in a world where a multitude of place-based knowledge and skills serves her well; yet, without enduring rape and all the other crap that tends to be tossed upon this kind of character in literature. I’ve loved living off the land books since I was a kid: e.g., the Little House series, Scott O’Dell’s The Island of the Blue Dolphins, and the entire Jean M. Auel’s Earth’s Children series. I’d love a new-to-me book or, even better, series that can have me rooting for some incredible women. Pie in the sky wish: that there would be a novel or series featuring something like this set on Themyscira featuring Diana and her amazon community. 2) another fabulous female protagonist who gets knocked off her feet by a jerk of a husband who ambushes her with a sudden and unexpected demand for a divorce and all kinds of f-uppery, who then rises up like a phoenix from the devastating flames (I had to say it) in fantastic style and overcomes the many obstacles in her way, eventually sliding into first as she wins the race to financial freedom, independence, and peace within. Bonus if she eventually meets a goddess of a lover who nurtures her tender heart and soul (this protagonist is bi and is kind of over men and their – generalizing here – serious power issues). Always the most bookish love to you both. Thanks in advance if you can help out. And thank you for your super rad, killer, lovely, awesome and amazing podcast made even more wonderful because I love getting to know you both via your feedback and choices of words and the stories you share. It all rocks and what you are creating and sharing is really, really great. -Nicole 2. Hi! I’m a teacher at a rural school and I’m trying to diversify my curriculum. I teach special education and I co-teach in the general education as well at the high school level. I’ve been working on this goal for the last year or so, but I can always use some recommendations to help me along. I usually read books aloud in my specifically SPED classes, and they have enjoyed books like “Boy21” by Matthew Quick, “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin, “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins, “Love & First Sight” by Josh Sundquist, and a smattering of short stories from “My True Love Gave to Me” and “Grim” anthologies that I have pulled from in the last couple of years (thanks to Book Riot). Right now, I’m reading them “Whale Talk” by Chris Crutcher, a personal favorite, and my kids are really enjoying that one as well. As you can tell, the reading level varies. Because I read the information aloud to my students, I can get away with some of the higher-leveled books or stories because we spend so much time in discussion. I’d love to see what you have in store for us! -Taylor 3. Hi! I need some help finding good introductions on books about feminism, institutional racism, slavery and honestly, any other social topics to help break through to some of my MAGA family members. I was a little overwhelmed when I walked into the bookstore, so hopefully you guys can help parse down titles to start with. Some shorter titles would probably be best, and non-fiction titles would be great too! Thanks so much for everything, my reading list is much more diverse partly because of this podcast! I appreciate it so much. -Ashle 4. No deadline, but I would love a recommendation soon. I was recently hit with the news that my partner of ten years wants a divorce. I usually go to novels for solace, but my two favorites are Dpt. of Speculation and I Married You for Happiness, and I don’t think they will help right now. I’ve found plenty of self help books, but I’m looking for good stories of people starting over after a divorce or loss, and moving forward with life. Especially if those stories involve people who can’t afford to drop everything and “eat, pray, love” around the world. Thank you, Amanda and Jenn-you’ve recommended so many perfect books in the past, I hope you can help. -KJ 5. Hi ladies, I’m a podcast/audiobook addict. So, naturally, when I’m at work, I’m either listening to Book Riot podcasts, or a book. After hearing Every Heart A Doorway recommended a million times (maybe a slight exaggeration, but probably not much of one…) I FINALLY listened to it and fell in love with Seanan McGuire. I have listened to all of the Every Heart a Doorway series, as well as Sparrow Hill Road and loved them all. Do you have any recommendations for similar authors? I love that her books feel like a fairy tale, while still using familiar language (unlike high fantasy where the language is often unfamiliar). I also appreciated how inclusive the Every Heart a Doorway series is. Thank you so much for all the workday entertainment! -Traci 6. I recently saw the new Star Wars and was unimpressed (to put it mildly) with its idea of queer representation. Could you recommend a fun space opera adventure with actual substantial queer rep as well as POC? I’m already rereading Becky Chambers’ series so I need something new. I’d be open to a romance novel, but nothing too steamy. -Emily 7. This is probably a long shot. I used to be an avid reader, then I had my son who is now 15 months old. I am able to listen to books on audio at work, which has been awesome for getting me back into reading. I’ve been trying to find a book with a specific set of criteria. I really want to find a book with a character that I can really relate to, but in the fantasy genre. I’m 25, so not necessarily YA, but YA is fine, I would love the book to have a protagonist that is a young Mom, with a young child. Where I’m having trouble is finding books that are fantasy, that have this request. I’m really hoping you can help me. I love the Podcast! Thanks -Morgan BOOKS DISCUSSED Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton (March 10, 2020) Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Warcross by Marie Lu Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (tw: STI stigma, confusion around sexuality) For the Love of Men by Liz Plank Thou Shalt Not be a Jerk by Eugene Cho (March 1, 2020) Citizen by Claudia Rankine God Land by Elizabeth Lenz Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri (tw: family violence) Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger (tw: animal death) The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (tw: violence, tentacle stuff) Circe by Madeline Miller (tw sexual assault) The Reluctant Queen (Queens of Renthia #2) by Sarah Beth Durst Parenting In SFF Post