Podcast appearances and mentions of Matthew Todd

Teen drama Heartstopper has gained a huge following on Netflix and the third series, which has just dropped, is no different. This time the love story between Nick and Charlie comes with the added complexity of Charlie's eating disorder. It's a challenge many LGBTQ+ people face. According to the charity Just Like Us, 20% of young LGBTQ+ teenagers experience an eating disorder compared to 7% of non-LGBTQ+ young people. Why are the numbers so different? Writer and broadcaster Matthew Todd, an expert on mental health issues affecting gay men explores the reasons behind this and James Downs, a gay man and researcher, talks about his own experience of an eating disorder in his teens. Plus author Liz Pichon talks about her best-selling Tom Gates series which has sold 16-million copies and is a hit with dyslexic children and reluctant readers. Liz talks frankly about her own experience of dyslexia and slips in a few easter eggs along the way revealing what Tom might get up to next…. Presented by Emma Tracey Produced by Alex Collins and Emma Tracey Sound recorded and mixed by Dave O'Neill Edited by Beth Rose The national eating disorder charity Beat has a helpline run by trained advisors for anybody who's concerned they may need help with the issues discussed in this episode. The number is 0808 801 0677.

https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/05/16/new-rshe-guidance-what-it-means-for-sex-education-lessons-in-schools/Danny's recommendations: ReadPledge of Pride document - https://www.lgbtyouthincare.com/leaving-care-with-prideStraight Jacket by Matthew Todd - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Straight-Jacket-Matthew-Todd/dp/0552778400 Stonewall charity - https://www.stonewall.org.ukInterACT Intersex advocacy - https://www.instagram.com/interact_adv/ListenGetting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness Podcast discussion on Intersex - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-can-we-put-the-i-in-lgbtqia-with-alicia-roth-weigel/id1068563276?i=1000541302609WatchHeartstopper (Netflix) - for the Queer teenage dream.It's a Sin (channel 4/Netflix/Disney) - for a thought provoking and realistic understanding of the HIV/Aids crisis. Very emotive series.Call me by your name (Netflix/Prime) - Romantic teenage gay coming of age film.RENT (ironically you need to rent this...Amazon/Youtube) - for Queer brilliance in musical form!Lets connect!To book in a free 15 minute chat with me, to talk about training, development, courses or membership email vicki@socialworksorted.com Sign up to my free newsletter Join The Collective Email: vicki@socialworksorted.comInstagram.com/@vickishevlin_Youtube.com/@socialworksortedFacebook.com/socialworksortedDisclaimer Thank you so much for listening. Please rate, review and share with one other person - it makes such a difference and I really appreciate your support.

Labour has won by a landslide in the 2024 General Election but what does this mean for tax policy, people's pensions and housing?Amy Austin, news editor at FT Adviser speaks to Claire Trott of Technical Connection, Ray Boulger of John Charcol and Matthew Todd of RSM to delve into what Labour's pension review could look like, whether inheritance tax could see reform and if any changes could be made to stamp duty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Damon Frank is joined by Matthew Todd, author and journalist. Matthew opens up about his personal journey from being a "problem drinker" to embracing a sober life, highlighting the intertwining issues of trauma, anxiety, and societal pressures that fuel addiction. This conversation delves deep into the cultural narratives and personal realizations that led Matthew to sobriety and inspired his impactful writing, including his latest article, "I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are the 10 things I've learned since I quit."

Damon Frank is joined by Matthew Todd, author and journalist. Matthew opens up about his personal journey from being a "problem drinker" to embracing a sober life, highlighting the intertwining issues of trauma, anxiety, and societal pressures that fuel addiction. This conversation delves deep into the cultural narratives and personal realizations that led Matthew to sobriety and inspired his impactful writing, including his latest article, "I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are the 10 things I've learned since I quit."

This week chancellor Jeremy Hunt presented his Budget, which included a 2 per cent cut in national insurance. He presented himself and his party as tax cutters but does this stack up?FT Adviser deputy editor Damian Fantato is joined by Matthew Todd, associate director at RSM, Eleanor Ingilby, head of high net worth at Atomos, and Claire Trott, director at Technical Connection, to find out.They discuss the continued freeze on tax thresholds, the impact on inheritance tax of the decision to scrap non-dom status, the pensions impact of Hunt's decision to scrap the furnished holiday letting regime and the birth of the British Isa.The FT Adviser Podcast is the podcast for financial advisers, brought to you by FT Adviser. Each week, we are joined by guests from the industry to discuss the week in news and pressing industry issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pride month happens in June in commemoration of the Stonewall Riots that took place in the summer of 1969 after police undertook a routine raid on an LGBTQ+ bar in New York City and instead of submitting to the usual mistreatment, its patrons resisted. The rioting continued for several nights with clashes between LGBTQ+ individuals, their allies and the police. It escalated with protestors throwing bottles, bricks, and other objects at the police, who responded with force.The story of Stonewall has become something of a mythology. Dan is joined by award-winning broadcaster and writer Matthew Todd who untangles the many threads of hearsay and weaves the facts back together into an incredible story of community resilience and determination to fight back against injustice and oppression. The Stonewall Riots marked a significant turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the US and worldwide but was just the beginning. As Matt explains, the history of Pride is about so much more than just what happened at the Stonewall Inn.Produced by Mariana Des Forges and James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free original podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley, Matt Lewis, Tristan Hughes and more.Get 50% off your first 3 months with code DANSNOW. Download the app or sign up here.If you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can email us at ds.hh@historyhit.com, we'd love to hear from you!You can take part in our listener survey here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matthew Todd is a Scottish musician and film maker, trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is a managing director of Scottish film company, Fellowship Film,  and currently is promoting their latest feature Jessie and the Elf Boy for which he is a co-writer and producer.  He has a deep love of community music and is trained in Intensive Interaction which can be used to communicate with adults and children with severely limited speech or movement and his regular work includes music provision for autistic children. He has worked in many schools and a variety of other settings including prisons, a Romanian orphanage, and also works part time for the creative arts charity, Out of the Box,  and directed the short film Full Armour which went on to be an official selection in the International Christian Film Festival. He also directed the award winning short film Fallen and is in post production for Nelson the Giant,  a short film collaboration with a singer / songwriter from Canada with a mission to tackle bullying by fostering empathy in children.Out of the BoxFull ArmourFellowship FilmFallenNelson the GiantFor more information about Foolproof's work, go to foolproofcreativearts.com or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

We as gay men grew up in a society that completely invalidates our existence, leaving us to figure a lot of this stuff out on our own... In this episode, we welcome author Matthew Todd, where we discuss his book "Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame". Yes, this is a self-help book - and if you're like me, you think you're perfect and there's nothing wrong with you and reading this would be an absolute waste of time. I'm here to tell you, you're wrong and also YES, you are the problem. We discuss so many of themes mentioned throughout the book, including: the root of why we're so afraid of coming out, gay self destruction and how we compare ourselves to others, bottom shaming, the brighter sides of grindr, why we should be good to our allies, and soooo much more. Reading this book has been life changing for me, and has helped me understand so many things about myself and the gay community that I didn't know I didn't understand. No matter what part of your gay journey you're on, I hope that each of you will pick up this book, and have as many “AHA!” moments as I did. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yaaasbro/support

Mark and Rex are joined by their award winning student associate producer, Matthew Todd, to recap the highlights of season 3. TRANSCRIPT 0:01 Everyone welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore 0:04 and your co-host Rex Gurney and resident minion, Matthew, Todd, 0:07 and Rex and Matthew, we are excited today. This is Season Three finales. And this is our final one before we go into summer reruns. And we're just going to look back at the show, and we're going to introduce you maybe more to the minion in the room. Mr. Matthew, just show you the reach 0:25 of Jessup Think. Actually, I connected with one of my former seminary friends is living outside of DC and they've been there forever. And I mentioned that you have podcasts and so he listened to all season three backwards, he said, 0:39 Oh, there we go. Well, we hope you enjoy the season three finale. 0:43 Yeah. Well, if you're listening then and I can, I can spread it to my new place, too. 0:48 So where's your new place? So here 0:50 what we have, we have to have a break for them to and then we'll start the episode. You know what I'm saying? Like that was the intro. So we can tailor if you're listening after the enjoy season three finale, you can you can go into the music and then 1:08 oh, yeah, okay. 1:10 I forgot we're pros here. 1:11 Yeah, we just 1:13 so Pro that we gave him extra content to work with 1:15 just more content. So now we'll start the podcast portion of the show. 1:29 Rex and Matt, so glad to have you. That might be the first time I've ever called you, man in my life. 1:35 I feel like one of those things that you wipe your feet on when you come into someone's house. 1:39 That's true. Do you prefer Matthew? I do. 1:42 However, I think you know, being Matt is sort of biblical, because you're supposed to be humble and let everybody walk. 1:51 In a sense, doormats, right, they wash your feet, and when one manner of speaking if you kind of wipe your shoes on it, you know, and that's that's what Jesus would do. 1:59 And you know, that is why Matthew Todd our associate, slash minion, hear the podcast was one of the most distinguished Jessup graduates when one of our highest award he was you can just see there's just Biblical stuff dripping all over him. Right, 2:16 right. Yeah, that's right. He's an award winning graduate of Jessup for this last year. And the reason he's on the show for the last year, he's been our kind of associate producer, helping helping the show helping us with social media. Amen. 2:31 Amen. And finally, being the spur that we needed to actually get T shirts and we made the two years after he made the T shirts happen, 2:39 you can probably hear it, but I'm wearing it right now. Let me just give you a little sound a little sneak preview. 2:43 We heard that T shirt in the wind. Well, yeah, so you graduated. And where? Where are you going? What's life after Jessup? 2:53 So I got my degree in biology, and I am going to start pharmacy school in the fall and the University of Florida at their Orlando campus. So very excited about that. I'll be leaving in less than two months. 3:07 There you go. See, look at look what can happen with a Jessup grand now here on the West Coast, get a biology degree 3:15 and then go directly to what second string Promised Land Texas is first string but but Florida is pretty close. 3:24 Now I had to go I had to rank the promised lands, you know? 3:27 Yeah. Great. University of Florida pharmacy school. 3:32 That sounds good. Yeah. 30 minutes from Disney World, basically. Hey, there you go. Yeah, dealing drugs, 3:37 you're gonna have to be an official drug dealer. 3:41 But for my street cred for the for the podcast. I have to mention, I also graduated with a Bible minor. Very much like every single other exact transfer of Jessup, who graduates but so 3:53 I mean, you did win the award a graduation, you won our highest male Graduate Award, I 3:59 believe, right. Yeah. That's called the founder award, the founder or which means I'm, I guess that means I'm like William Jessup, but I've never met him. So hopefully, that's like a good thing. 4:09 You do get your name on a plaque somewhere. I think 4:13 it has John Jackson's thumbprint on it. Okay. I think I can maybe save that and sell it or something. Yeah, get 4:18 a piece of tape. You know, St. Peter's asking for that. I've heard at the pearly gates. 4:22 So I know he's like, Well, 4:25 like here, I'm a Founders Award. Because you embody the spirit of Bill Jessen. 4:30 Oh, wow. Yeah. I never even knew him. Did you guys ever meet the founder? No, no, I didn't assume 4:36 more. Yeah, it was son, his grandson, actually. Yeah. Yeah. So when you were hired here, Mark was was Bryce still president? Yeah. 4:45 It was it was his last year 2010 Wow. 4:49 I remember when I was first hired. I was walking across the old campus with Bryce Jessup and he said he was really I don't know if I should be saying this on the podcast, but he cuz I was really glad I was at Jessup because he wanted me to try to set some people theologically straight on campus. 5:06 Oh, there we go. He's talking about but coming in as the Enforcer, I 5:11 guess. 5:12 Yeah. And we'll assume that you did that, you know, I don't know. I believe it set him right. Or maybe they're gone now. And they've never been heard from again. Exactly. That is kind of enforcement. That's how it works. And I Bryce gave them kind of a wink. And then Rex is like, Alright, I'm gonna figure out what that means. Well, we 5:29 actually have some brutal faculty meetings back in the day, as far as professors yelling at each other about whether we were an Arminian or a Calvinist school. Oh, I remember of theology professor almost jumping up on a table and just screaming and everybody, because there was a little bit of Calvinists talk that he was very uncomfortable with. Oh, that was years ago, though. Yeah, the good thing is we don't do that. And I've 5:52 repented of that. 5:55 An earlier version. The bad thing is that, you know, maybe we don't take theology seriously enough to jump on tables and screaming at each other anymore. I've lost something. 6:05 Yeah, we've lost a little bit of the passion. Yeah, a little bit of the passion 6:08 and even read those stories, because supposedly, that's a pretty common thing with theology like meetings, they can get really heated about their, what they're talking about, there was someone talking about how the serpent would have moved before it slid on its belly, and somebody got mad, and at the accusation that supposedly it could bounce like a pogo stick, and they were getting really, really angry, and irate. And it's like, recorded somebody, like, typed down all the things they said, quote, 6:34 I got transcripts. 6:35 I did not know that. I didn't know the full knowledge that I had never happened. Yeah, definitely. Good. We 6:41 have. So as a snake could pogo stick before? Before the temptation? Yeah, 6:48 because the curse was that he now had this. 6:50 Yeah, maybe that's maybe that's what made him so intriguing to Adam and Eve that he just didn't. Yeah, you're like, Wait, what is this snake doing? Amazing. See theology? Well, I'm one of the purposes of the podcast is to help make theology a little bit, you know, more accessible, more accessible part of the conversation. So you're learning stuff. And just, you know, we did have a pretty amazing season, you know, looking back on the guests we were able to, to get, and it was our first season having an associate producer, student producer. So thank you, Maddie Todd, for all of your work. But even starting out at the gates, cause our seasons go from September to the end of June. And then July and August are always reruns. So we'll pull some of our best shows from season three. And we'll play him as reruns this summer sort of greatest? Yeah, exactly. And we were able to, we kind of started off season three with Caitlin shez, who's author of the liturgy of politics. And I think on that one I was, you were out of town. So I was able to actually, it was excellent. I think it's gonna be one of our one of our reruns, because she just had an amazing way of talking about that. For one, everything in our lives is political. So when you try to say like, No, I'm not trying, I'm not political. Almost every decision we make has, has some type of political ramification or, you know, and so it's like, hey, instead of distancing ourselves saying, okay, life is political. What does that mean? What does that mean to be a faithful Christian in in politics? And not not just in she kind of strays away from like, partisan politics, but just in politics? What does it mean to be a Christian and to be faithful in that, so really helpful. Went from Caitlin chest to Priscilla Pope Leveson, who we had her husband, Jack Lovcen on in her book, models of Revelation, our models, how we say that models revelation, because that's the Avery Dulles that she based it on models of evangelism. And I thought that was it was really helpful book because I had not thought of the different ways of evangelism in that way. And the categorization was good, and it also made me I am pretty skeptical of kind of the cold calling evangelism. Oh, yes. 9:31 I remember in seminary, we actually, we actually had to go to the beach and annoy people. I remember doing that. I think, yeah, I did it. I did it. And I did it. I did it. Yeah. We used to walk around basically, you know, with a question if I mean, you know, you know, the question, this is a nice goal, right? Yes. Like if, if you were to be run over by a bus Do you know? Like, that's the best question we can come up with 10:00 You have the best starter, 10:01 and I did in like summer camp, we would ask what what do you think happens when you die? And I remember specifically, someone just was like, my ashes are gonna be spread across the world. And that's the end of it and they just like walked away. I was like, well, at least he saw of it. Yeah. 10:15 He's confident. 10:18 However, we can demystify evangelism, because that's just one. 10:22 I think that's important. Yeah, she had a chapter on that. And, and it was kind of like, yeah, the, you know, I think because of my fear of kind of the cold calling, it also plays itself out in me maybe not bringing up Yeah, yeah, God enough when I could, you know, obviously, you know, with our professions, Rex, it kind of comes up. I mean, I guess you can be like, I teach history. Rama was like, Hey, I teach and they're like, Oh, what do you teach theology? You know, and they're like, Oh, okay. 10:53 Well, you know, depending on whether I want to have a conversation or not, with a seat meet on a plane, I can actually when the dreaded question comes up, what do you do? I can say two different things and be truthful, saying both things. I can say I'm a college professor, and that has implications but I can also say, I'm an ordained Southern Baptist pastor. Oh, yeah, that's usually that if you want to start a conversation stopper right there almost every time 11:18 you're like, I'm gonna put my headphones back in. 11:20 Oh, you got like the select for you that that's like a conversation starter that they like, suddenly just get into it, you know? 11:26 Yeah. Yeah. But it was, for me. Yeah. The chapter was was helpful. Like, hey, there's there is a place right. And there are I mean, here's the reason why. Why not only a Christian do many Mormons do it. I mean, I agree. You're, you're out there. So I thought that was yeah, I'd never really thought of evangelism. And it was always kind of nervous about this over evangelism, I guess. Yeah. And the way she broke it down and the models I thought, were really helpful to bring them back in. Then we had Terry Wildman on the show with the First Nations version translation of the New Testament that was so cool, which I've been doing my kind of devotion, sorry, devotion, flex, they're out of it. And it's just 12:13 they've been doing the same amazing, in fact, this morning, and I hadn't thought about that, that connection, but it's providential. Apparently, I actually finished the last chapter of John. And so the copy that I have of the First Nations version that he's that he's responsible for, is just the Gospels and acts and Ephesians. And so I just finished it up today. It's been really helpful for me, in fact, I actually have the Lord's Prayer in the First Nations version on my wall in my office here. That's great love how I love how he have this translated. 12:52 Yeah, it is because it talks about the corn and in the Buffalo maybe. Yeah, brings in like it brings in Yeah, marry 13:03 the good row cultural. Yeah. 13:04 Good road. wanna 13:05 walk the good. 13:07 Fun fact about Terry Wildman? He has a he has a connection with Sacramento. He was actually just in Sacramento a couple of weeks ago, staying at one of the board members at our churches. Oh, wow. She's She's worked for university for 30 Some years and he was doing a retreat. And he said he's going to be back in the Sacramento region doing maybe we can get him on the show again. Yeah, we could have him live on the live on the show. That would be that'd be great. We went from Terry Wildman. I mean, this is we went Kailyn shez Priscilla Pope Levison tear Wildman with the First Nations version to Dr. Lauren haarsma from Calvin College, Calvin University, in his book, which was very theological winded sin begin. It's interesting that you brought up the snake. Yeah, and the pogo stick the snake and the pogo stick. But it was really helpful to, you know, because in this conversation of theology and, or faith and science, you know, especially in terms of a doctrine of creation, is it's hard to understand and theologically, right, like some of the things that we're seeing in the fossil record and in, you know, in actual scientific data, like, I think he was helpful to say, we can't be afraid of that. And it's not that that shapes our, you know, or molds, our theology, but our theology should understand that and it's kind of like they can dialogue together 14:48 right now, one thing I really appreciate about this book and I actually went out and bought it after the after the pot because I really wanted to not just skim it, but you know, take a deep dive into it is I Think you probably remember me saying because actually, Matthew was in my Christian perspective classes last semester. So I might have said, I'm a broken record, I say the same thing over and over again, but haven't got same stick, same stick every time. Try to modify it if it doesn't work. But anyway, my ears. I probably said something like, there's some class. But, you know, with the science and faith thing, there's very few kind of bullet proof positions that you can have if you want to take both the biblical witness and the scientific consensus seriously, right. Yeah. And so you know, with them with age of the earth and that kind of thing. You do have certain questions that have to be answered about the first chapter of Genesis. But the second and third, is something that theistic evolutionists have to deal with too, because how do you actually get the fall into this? And how does that make sense from an older standpoint? Right. Right. There's no easy solutions to those things. Yeah. 15:58 Yeah. And that's what he's really kind of tackling that. Yeah. In the book tackling Okay, where does the fall right in right? Did it have to? Like, did Adam and Eve have to be the very first actually humans or hominids? Or were they in alignment, he gave a couple of different options that I think fit with the biblical text and also fit with current scientific research, which I thought was really helpful. Because it's, it's, it's unfortunate, and especially in terms of theology, where we could take a position as a church that then forces people when they go to a biology class, especially at just a state school or anywhere else, right. That means 16:46 we're gonna see at the University of Florida, yeah. 16:47 And we received Florida this no Christ in anywhere in that time, 16:50 right? Not at all. That we put them in a position to where they have to be either reject what they're hearing in class or reject the Bible. And it's like, and I think Dr. Aardsma did a good job of being like, hey, there's we don't have to reject these two. Can Yeah, yes. And we can learn what's the what is the theological principle that's being taught in Scripture? And, and how does that then help us approach things we see in the scientific data? Also noting that not just our scientific data isn't concrete, right. And there's still mystery and question and theory involved? Yeah. 17:34 And the landscape changes so rapidly. I mean, like things that we believe now we probably didn't believe 100 years ago, right. And we're not gonna maybe believe 100 years from now. Right? Should the Lord always growing upon what we 17:45 have to say that for the Lord, millennials, 17:49 for in terms of science and mean, as well, I love that actually, in that Christian perspective, class, there were so many questions. You had discussion questions about the intersection of faith and science, because I was like, This is my thing. And most people are like, Oh, I don't really know anything about science. Like I know all. 18:06 I know, we just defer to our resident expert, Matthew Todd. 18:08 Yeah. So Matthew, in your biology class, 18:12 you think about this. And so I got up my pulpit was like, Well, guys, I'm just kidding. Yeah. 18:17 Well, in that yeah, so that one might, that one might make a comeback on the on the summer reruns. We got four episodes that we do summer reruns, and we have 18:26 so many wonderful podcasts to choose from. 18:28 I know we really do. Think we are. We are getting close to 100 episodes. Wow. It's season four. We'll get we'll reach 100 episodes. So any plans for when that happens? I know we're sound effects. Fireworks. Yeah. 18:45 Well let the Patreon people decide. And if you haven't heard of Patreon, just you'll hear about at some point. Okay, 18:54 ah, oh, yeah, you will hear about Patreon at some point. 18:57 I mean, yeah, maybe they'll do something wild. Who knows? Yeah, it will be well, I'm expecting some jumping on tables and shouting, just like we kind of previewed at the beginning of the episode. 19:07 Okay. Yeah, shouting each other with your Patreon. Yeah, it's happening. Moved from that we did kind of a pretty good stretch of of having outside guests on. We had Hillary McBride on after that, and a psychologist and talking about the wisdom of your body, listen to your body. And I think it's so important, so important to to understand the embodied nature of human beings and that our actual physical bodies while it's not the totality of who we are, it is a part of who we are. 19:49 And it's really necessary to reclaim that phrase. Yeah, popular music, because right is listening to their bodies in ways that perhaps are not helpful. 19:57 Right. And that's very true and hips dome All right, so yeah, 20:01 it's like we have this fun, we have an interesting designation between, like, you know, we consider to be like the flesh that you can listen to, but it's also the body that we were given, you know, God came, or Jesus came to earth and a body. Yeah. And so for a reason, right? We're not meant to just hate it and just wish that we were just little souls like, in our movie soul that just float around. 20:21 Right, yeah, we are embodied. And, and we have to listen to what our body is saying in terms of health. And in terms of mental health, all that. I mean, like body doesn't just mean Yeah, I think sometimes in the church we talked about body has just like flesh, flesh versus spirit, right? Yeah. Flesh is bad. And we kind of, even if we don't explicitly say that, I think people catch that in church, right? And so they they end up, I was just listening to the songs sung from back in the 90s. That was kind of like an under underground song. But one of the lines said, I grew up. I was told when I was young, not to trust in my body. Oh, 21:07 that's from Bruce Cockburn. Yeah. And I actually love that song. Sort of last night, an amazing song. It is, hey, yeah, I knew Rex and 21:20 interesting thing about Bruce Kapur and you know, so he had moved to San Francisco. And started for the first time in a long time, he's always self identified as a Christian, but kind of doesn't want to have anything to do with the institutional church. Yeah. But um, started going to church with his wife in San Francisco. And they had some issues with getting musicians for their praise band. And yeah, nobody knew who he was. You know? Because if you don't know, you don't know. And the guy's kind of older now. So yeah, he's like, Well, you know, I'll play guitar with you. Yeah. And they didn't realize that a guy that's playing guitar in their praise band is like this famous singer songwriter. Right. So, you know, 21:59 that's amazing. Yeah, that's just, that's really cool. Well, I knew I could tell from the song that it was. And even that mine, that he had had some type of relationship with a church trying, you know, grew up learning not to trust my body. And then the next line is I've carried that burden all my life. And I thought, wow, that's really interesting. And we have to be careful about that in the church. Now, like what you were saying, Rex, like, there are, like listening to your body doesn't mean and I think Hillary did a good job of this doesn't mean you listen to whatever it says, right? You know, I mean, especially when we're talking about kind of what we would I'm doing air quotes here. Like, fleshly, you know, desires. But that's not necessarily like, body related. I mean, I think we have to make that distinction of our actual physical body versus what Paul would be talking about as flesh. 22:51 Right? Exactly. Yeah. Cuz your body is made of flesh. And so it's confusing in our English language. 22:57 Right? Right. Yeah, it is. And it's, and it is confusing, because the Greek that Paul's using literally just means flesh. So and we have to kind of, you know, we go back and forth. Okay, do we, you know, the NIV I think calls it sinful nature. But then we're like, Hey, that's not what the Greek word so then it's like, well, flesh, but flesh doesn't really help us. Because it's not literally the pink stuff, you know, underneath your skin that Paul's talking about. So I thought that was that was really helpful. And I think particularly, her book was helpful. I feel like there is a big focus on the body in culture. And some good some bad, right? But I think it's, it's a focus of, hey, we have to, we have to learn how to live in our bodies in your bodies. And I think it's also helpful. As you get older, I'm getting older and you have to listen to your body right body can't do the same things you could do when you were 20. So what 23:54 is the gray your beard sustained? Yeah, 23:56 exactly. The beard. You know, the gray. What's that? Like, guys? I don't even now it's just more wisdom. 24:04 Just more of any, 24:05 I'm one step closer to playing Santa Claus. That is my life goal, My life goal. We move from there and did a little bit of the advent calendar. I think we're always you know, one of the things Rex and I love to do is bring in kind of church calendar and liturgical practices. I'm really, really drawn to that. We were also able to have one of our we actually over the course of this season, we had two of our psychology profs on and on, but we started with Melanie Trowbridge. And we just talked about kind of mental health in the church and how the church doesn't always approach mental health in a gentle way, in an empathetic way. And just really important, especially I mean, more and more news reports coming out me know of a Just the amount of kind of a mental health crisis among college students among younger but also among adults, I mean, adults are not immune in any way. And what's it like 25:13 over half of folks are going to have at some point in life, a verifiable mental, right health episode of some sort, right? Nice is ubiquitous. 25:24 And it seems like maybe on the church side, it goes back to the body thing, sometimes we, we deny the physical or neurological part of that. And if we focus only on the spiritual, I think, obviously, I'm a pastor as well, focusing on the spiritual is important. But we also have to focus on the physical and the neurological, I was just reading an article that said, you know, it was talking about the, the hidden cause you're not cause but like, a hidden problem with mental health, especially among high school students. And it was sleep. 26:02 Oh, totally. It was totally my wife's a nurse practitioner. And that's her mom's mantra right now. It's just like, you know, it's how many hours of sleep do you get? Especially when she's dealing with high school students? Because, you know, apparently, until you're 21, you still like go to pediatrics. But anyway, yeah. Um, it's like, you know, so how many hours you know, right, when you get right, it's just an issue. Yeah, it's an issue. 26:26 It's crazy how like, so whenever someone especially like Trowbridge, I've been in summer classes, she's amazing. And that one of the biggest things you can do to kind of help your general health is just sleep, diet and exercise, and how people will buckle those and sleep honestly, it seems like it's almost like, you don't get the choice as much, because you're just forced to work late, you're forced to wake up early to go do other things. And so that one, it seems hard. And diet sometimes can be like, you know, money restrictive, and things like that. But it's, it's funny, because relatively speaking, those are somewhat simple. So the thing is just, you know, closing your eyes and going, right, right and exercises, it can be something like going on a walk and but it can be so difficult sometimes. Yeah, to get all three of 27:08 those. Yeah, it's interesting. I think that's a good picture of life, often the best thing for you is the simple thing. And the simple thing is often the hardest thing to do exactly. I think it's, it's we would rather like no, I'm gonna go to the gym for four hours. And it's like, why don't you just take a 15 minute walk? Just start there. Start there. And you know, take your phone out of your bedroom, turn your computer off and be able to go sleep I mean, 27:38 park in the last space in the parking lot, right yourself have to actually walk a few extra steps. Yeah, here's the things Yeah. 27:45 And diet. Yeah, I don't know. Just saying like something like diet can be financially restrictive. But also when you look at it there are from pretty affordable fruits and vegetables. 27:57 Vegetables live in a food desert, though, and there's all sorts of issues with that. Yeah, nope, an error. Yes, 28:02 very true. 28:04 Very true. In the same way what you were talking about, there's like a difference between going all the way paleo or something like that only go into like extremes Yeah, and just cutting out some sugar like maybe you eat like seven candy bars a day eat like five or four or one or none? That's a good that's a really good good there's smaller things you can do you know, each seven candy bar confession time. The truth is out there not really bars, but Reese's are, are my weakness. 28:34 And when they're only little cups, thing, for those no problem, they're fine. We also had sociologists malicious song on the show from West marsh and Professor Westmark talking about the role of technology and the role of devices. And, and part of that was, you know, the devices that keep us from sleep that can actually keep us from health, you know, now, and I thought it was yeah, really helpful book I keep going back to it when I find myself staring at a screen too long or being caught in this kind of triple screen prison of TV, your phone and, and, and not and what I liked about her approach was it wasn't a hey, you need to throw all these things. Go it's kind of that extreme mood that I had she had it is a like, have habit play a proper role in your life. But also be aware of maybe how you're using it to distract yourself, how you're using it, where it actually is impeding you from maybe being healthy and things like that, you know, so I thought it's we're only going to have to talk about that more and more as as all of our lives are more automated. Now that's not to say that there weren't problems in the 1800s. Right? I mean, I think that's the kopien. Future. Yeah. Like that's the that's my always beef with kind of a technology thing is that yeah, if you just go Luddite doesn't solve all your problems. And, and technology can be used really helpful. I mean, I listened to a ton of audiobooks every year. 30:20 Yeah, it's podcast. There's a Jessup thing. I love listening to it. It's yeah, 30:24 see, you could listen to this podcast. couldn't do that. 30:27 While you take exercise and become healthier. Yeah, actually, yeah. Which will help you sleep better actually, 30:33 literally listen to while you're exercising, wasn't to read for you go to bed. We are the solution. We are the solution, 30:43 we'll have a line of pajamas in a while. 30:47 Oh, hey, all right, we've got a few more few more to go through, we're gonna have another one of our own professors on he's in our leadership and division part of my school, Derek Zond, with his book, looking at how to be Christian and not be a jerk, which is sad that we would have to have a book on that, but it is so true. And it was a helpful, like, Hey, you can be faithful to Scripture, you can be faithful Christian. And, and in fact, I would maybe even go as far to say, if you are a faithful Christian, you shouldn't be a jerk like that would exclude being a jerk. Right? Like, like if you were taking on the characteristics of Christ. And gentleness, humbleness, love, joy, peace, all of those. You wouldn't, but yet we struggle with that. 31:43 Yeah, I find it encouraging because sometimes, I don't know why. Maybe it's just something about some people have hung around who aren't Christians, you get this feeling sometimes that inherently by being Christian, maybe you're being a jerk. There's something about Christianity. And that's not the case. Nothing about like sharing, just saying that you're a Christian is like, in any way rude to people. There's nothing about our faith that is like jerky. It's just the way that you can kind of act and you can be vindictive in certain ways. It's a more behavior. So something like inherently about Christ, that then means that well, if I'm going to serve you this, I gotta be a little bit of a jerk to people. Like, that's not required. 32:16 I think some people will think that though. Okay, everything's in as a guy, 32:23 which is why it's good to have like that book as a reminder, I thought, 32:26 yeah. Yeah. So good. So helpful. After that we were able to have I'm gonna call them a good friend, since you've been on the show a couple times. But Kelly Capek theologian from Georgia, and his book was also on body, right? You're only human how your limits reflect God's design and why that's good news. And I've probably used more from that book in my classes right away than maybe some of all of the books from from this season, I thought it was just, again, really helpful for helping us understand what it means to be human. I've told the maybe partly because it's a little awkward. And so sometimes it's good in class to throw an awkward story in there to wake people up, right, because they're like, Wait, what is happening? But the whole, like, I think I leave out what Kelly Capek, how he starts it, but the whole stare at your belly button. And what does that teach you? Right? Like, like, what does that teach you about you? That means you you were connected to someone else at some point? Like you did not create yourself? You did not, you know, the thought, Wow, that's so. So, so good. And so simple is right there on your own body be like, Wow, I was connected. Meaning we're connected as humans, and he goes into kind of body and the role of the body and listening to the body as well, which, which I really appreciate. I really appreciate it. A lot of what Colin Kaepernick has written and good that we can call him a friend of the show. 34:06 Yeah, I was kind of like all sad that he ended up ditching the former name, which was the theology of navel gazing. For that, yeah, 34:14 he Well, I think, editors sometimes the title committee got rid of that. They were like, No, we're not doing a theology of navel gazing. Yeah, but that will be my upcoming book. Oh, great. Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah, might as well take that multiple you can get Yeah, exactly. Now that we now that we have it, then we had our scholar who did our, the annual theology spring lecture, Dr. Thomas Reynolds. Up from Canada, he actually wasn't able to then come on campus. But he was able to do that remotely and then obviously join us remotely looking at disability theology of disability and and the church and how the church and when at gained from that one from working in a church. I've thought so much about that, and how, how it's not just we are being accommodating to those with disabilities, but rather how we are including them as as a vital and just normal part of our community is not like, oh, we'll put up or we'll make no, you are a part of our community. And, and that's so important that involves architecture that involves setting things up, but also just involves like, hey, like we are a family together and and we want to embrace that. And I feel like that conversation is, is rising more and more of hey, the church and disability what does that look like? And and how can the church be better at at reaching out? Then we were we had Dr. Aaron Ambrose on to kind of highlight and we did this kind of a two parter. We had Matt on later, Matthew Gatchell to look at, we did we started with toxic masculinity. And, and in some ways, that wasn't necessarily the, what we went into maybe the podcasts that I bought, but that kind of was what emerged because it is looking at, hey, how is the church? And how is culture highlighted masculinity? And how has that? How's that influenced the church and how we talk about what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman? And what are some things we need to change and when were in the church has been rocking, you know, over this last year, we just had more and more stories and more and more continue to come out of where a an incorrect view of, of masculinity has gotten church leaders in trouble and we look at the Maurice Hill and all of that, and a lot of it is built on this. This incorrect idea of what it means to be a man and and so we were able to follow that one up. I thought Dr. Ambrose did an amazing job. 37:20 One more thing that Dr. Ambrose, we actually went to that conversation, as Mark just mentioned, wants to talk a little bit about something else. But as soon as she spent a couple of minutes with two men here suddenly the whole conversation ended up with toxic man basket. Yeah, 37:35 yeah. Do satisfy other who were probably. Well, I do What are you gonna say? You gotta say, we're probably. I'm just saying we're not. 37:48 You guys are men. We are man. 37:51 We have the beer session. Yeah, we have beards. I don't even feel like that's true. Sorry. Sorry, guys. Sorry, man. No, we had Dr. Brad Harper from Multnomah University, which I thought was one Yeah, one of our more powerful podcasts of the season, looking at his book space at the table. Conversation between an evangelical theologian and his gay son in sight, it was just so helpful way to frame this conversation. I mean, the conversation on human sexuality within the church can be so heated, and so divisive. That I thought it was helpful to say, hey, let's let's talk about the other elements of this story, not just well, how does God define human sexuality? And Brad holds a traditional view of human sexuality, and a traditional view of marriage. He also wrestled with, okay with those views, how do I love my son? How am I in my son's life? And I thought the book just sort of did a good job of balancing that, that there's more, there's more questions involved. And and you can answer the question of maybe what does the Bible say about human sexuality? But you also have to answer the question, what does the Bible say about loving others, as you love yourself, loving your neighbor reaching out? Right? Like, it's not one or the other? It has to be both. And I think Ben Harper did a great job of really helping us helping us there. Then we had a local local pastor Kevin Adams, talking about baptism. And, and again, like, in some ways, this book on baptism was similar to the book on evangelism when I went into it being like, okay, yeah, baptism, part, it's part within these get in the book, and I think as Kevin described it, I was like, Oh, wow, like, I just saw the greater importance not that it wasn't. I mean, it's an important sacrament in our church and it's, but just seeing kind of kind of just a greater focus and what role it can play in someone's spiritual Life I think is really a great book and a really important realization. And that one was able to that one came right on the heels of me having a couple of like interesting baptism stories in my own life that I had to do. And baptizing neighbor and she ended up passing away two weeks after baptizer baptized her with a red solo cup on her couch because she couldn't get underwater. She was stage four, cancer and was passing away. But she'd never been baptized and wanted to be baptized. And then on Easter Sunday, so this would have happened after the episode. On Easter Sunday, actually Easter Saturday. Guy from who was kind of connected to our church, he's struggled with addiction and been in and out. He called me up and wanted to meet at the church. So I was like, alright, you know, and Friday are good Friday service. We filled the baptismal because we were gonna do baptisms on Sunday, even though no one had signed up. But after our good Friday service, we were just like, You know what, take them off. That's yeah, let's fill this, I think, you know, our Lead Pastor Richard was like, I feel like God's name was filler. And so it filled it. And then I met him, and I met this guy and our sanctuary on Saturday. And he was just talking about wanting to change, you know, wanting and wanting to be baptized. And, but he was, he was a little bit skeptical and nervous about coming on Sunday in front of, you know, big Easter crowd. And I was like, hey, it's full right now. And so him and I just him and I in our sanctuary, in our ice cold. We didn't turn the heater on yet. So it was ice cold baptismal. Just did a baptism right there. Yeah, it was just Yeah, it was just really cool. Really cool experience. And I think, probably having read Kevin's book leading up to that made me think about that differently than I would have in the past, 42:04 when I was pastoring. I just grew up in a church where, you know, baptism was obviously important, but we wanted to stray so far away from any sort of sacramental theology surrounding that in our sort of free church tradition Baptist Church, that it was literally just something you tack on to the end of the service, and there was just, you know, not much going on there. Right. And I really felt when I was pastoring, that this is such an important thing without embracing necessarily full full on sacramental ism. It's still just really, really important. And so we would always have the whole service basically. It'll be based on what was happening in baptism, the whole thing? 42:49 Yeah, that's, that's so good. I mean, it's helpful and I think particularly helpful for evangelical communities. Who kind of post reformation and most that have been Yeah, so nervous of anything that strikes of sacramental ism, that it's a this is an important part of of the journey. And the symbolism is so important to symbolism. So important. We were then able to have in this book has still been coming back to my mind. Sociologist George Yancey from Baylor 43:23 and interesting thing about Georgia MC, it's not often that Jessup thinks actually gets a leg up on Christianity today, but we scooped them. Oh, we am on our podcast talking about his book about a couple of months before Christine today actually reviewed it 43:37 every go take that. JT and CT. Yeah, maybe maybe they listened to the episode. And we're like, we need to get that book could be almost. But it was, I feel like it's been a helpful addition to this conversation on race in the church. And, and I think Georgia does a good job of, and I'm a sucker for the Middle Way, right? Or the third way. This this idea of, hey, conversations to the extremes of race on both sides have not been helpful and have not produced reconciliation. So why how do we all come to the table? We all have a voice. And we can know what is good. And we can also say like, Hey, that maybe takes it too far, one way or the other. And I just, it was a helpful, I think a book that and that I think the church could really use because I think sometimes particularly in the evangelical church, a lot of times in the white Evangelical Church, anything that talks about race is being you know, labeled as something that it's not and it's been rejected. And it's like why we have to have a conversation and we have to be in this conversation. And I think Nancy's book is a is a good way to move beyond. That's kind of his title beyond racial division. And to in that moving beyond, right, it's not a moving beyond that, that denies racism or denies that this is happening. What is the book that that understands that it's happening, but it's like how do we move to conversation? How do we move to reconciliation part of moving to it is recognizing that it is happening, right? And, and kind of the repent and lament elements. We were able rounding this off. As we finish up our season finale, we had Cameron Wilson, our English professor on the show, talking about the importance of literature, check that one out, then we were able to have as Guinness right show as well, during the great quest, which that was, I was amazing. I've been reading knives for a lot, large part of my life. And so it was amazing to have a conversation with him. Particularly to hear his life he had such an amazing life story. That that I think was helpful, especially as he frames this book on the meaning of life. What does that look like? And I think we're all there in our lives. Sometimes we go back to it several times, especially when you get to midlife. Or a second stage of life. You're like what is the meaning? You know, I thought I knew it when I was 20. 46:24 I obviously have it down. I'm never gonna change my mind. Clearly. You pretty much know everything. I'm gonna know. Right? Yeah, I just finished. So yeah. 46:31 Yeah, right. Nothing else learn till you hit 40. Then it all changes. Now we had Cynthia shape rally it on the show for a final time as a William Jessup University professor, but possibly not the final, but not the final never, never the never final time we'll be able to, we'll be able to get a hold of her at Baylor. But we're really proud of her and happy for her. She goes to Baylor goes to the big leagues of biblical research. Yeah. And we can we'll be able to tell people we knew her one day. Yeah, we had her in the studio. And 47:07 her best work, of course, was done when she was at Jessup. And so yes, it's gonna be anti climactic. 47:13 Exactly. Just kidding. 47:16 And, and then we had Maddie Gotcha. I've kind of references to Amanda Gatchell on to kind of do a follow up of the toxic masculinity be like, Okay, what is biblical masculinity? You know, and especially, and I think what I have wrestled with and wrestle on the show is like, what are elements in Scripture that are gender specific? And what are not because I think there's so much that is not gender specific, just all of us as Christians need to. And actually, I think if we focus there, that helps us become better men and women. Rather than just trying to be a better man versus a woman. What about being being more Christ like, and as a man, that makes me a better man? 48:04 I think that was one of our longest podcasts too, because we just couldn't stop talking. I mean, right three of the say that all thought this is such an important topic and right in what to do, right and better with that. 48:14 Yeah, it's it's important. And now we're at our season three finale. Three seasons. Moving up. Closing in on 100 episodes. Looking forward to season four as well. Any plans so you're moving to Florida over the summer? Any? Any summer plans while people are? 48:36 Lots of weddings? I got two more. I think that's pretty common for once you graduate. Yeah. 48:41 Once you get everybody's like we're graduated wedding here. Yeah. Yeah. colleges 48:45 that are similar to ours. Yeah. 48:47 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Christian school. You finish it up. And then yeah, so I had to throw a Christian bachelor party too. And that's that was pretty nice story that you can tell because it was we had a devotional, you know, and I was like, there we go. Is Christian There 49:00 you go. That is maybe some coffee involved. Was there some coffee? It was no, I don't like is 49:05 that before after you guys hit the bars? Well, yeah. It was make us feel bad. 49:12 coffee bars. 49:15 The candy bars, right. Like I said, it's definitely day to day until we let loose 49:21 from that very, very nimbly there. 49:24 I brought it up. So I had to expect to be able to dodge Yeah, that's 49:27 true. My Buffy Rex. 49:30 Actually, interestingly enough, we my wife and I are probably going well, planning on spending a week in Orlando. Not to see me you know, not necessarily just to visit our esteemed minion but to go to a conference there and hopefully spent some time with a cousin that lives in Hilton Head and Oh, for years and I've never been there so beautiful to Charleston Savannah, and Some places like that, that as a history person, yeah, you know, wanted to see and never have seen. So we're planning on doing a little bit of 50:07 the South side that might see a little bit of the south of California. So doing some beach camping and a conference in San Diego, which there are worse places. 50:20 So yeah. So dogs the mouse like he is, 50:23 yeah. Is that Yeah, yeah, I will continue to dodge the mouse until the mouse cost less. Then probably getting back to Indiana season family. So yeah. And then also both you and Rex and I are teaching summer classes. So we'll be Well, we hope you enjoyed season three. I hope you enjoyed this kind of little recap, if you hadn't kind of seen those episodes, maybe go back and check them out. We will be pulling for those to do some a rerun. So we hope you enjoy kind of these reruns of highlighting some of these really important episodes and really important issues. And we're looking forward to season four and kind of continuing the conversation and continuing to make you think more deeply about theology and your life. 51:13 Congratulations on making it to the end of the podcast. Be sure to follow us on Instagram @jessupthink where we'll be posting updates and some behind the scenes content. We would love to hear your thoughts on the episode and engage with any questions you might have to leave us a comment or email us at think@jessup.edu. Our aim is to provide a framework for further reflection and deeper exploration of these important topics. And you want to support the show. Leave us a review on iTunes. We can reach more people. Until then, I'm Matthew Todd outro reader extraordinaire, and this has been Jessup Think. 51:45 If you're interested in learning more about Jessup, please visit us at jessup.edu. William Jessup is the premier fully accredited four year Christian University in the Sacramento area offering over 60 academic programs in undergraduate and graduate studies. Designed to see each student whipped and transformed into leader they're called to be as go don't forget to hit subscribe and share so you never miss an episode. 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Happy Pride! And welcome to a new season of YAAAS BRO! So much has happened since the last time I released an episode, so I figured, why the hell not start a new chapter with a new set of guests, a "sort-of" new look and new ways of serving up some gay ol' content. SO! In this episode, being that it's PRIDE, I want us to all understand why we celebrate it in the first place. We're diving into a little LGBT history lesson where I'll be highlighting a few of the major events that predate the Stonewall Riots. Yes, Stonewall served as a catalyst for the pride celebrations we have today, but it's important that we note a few other moments throughout LGBT history that shaped our community to what it is today. Also, hate it or love it, pride branding is a huge part of pride celebrations. Whether you celebrate it or criticize it heavily, rainbow-washing plays a huge part in promoting the LGBTQ+ community. Joining me in this is discussion is Dan Howarth (my boyfriend), where we list out a million reasons why any small effort that goes into rainbow capitalism is a step in the right direction, whether its for the right reasons or not. We actually published an article on this last pride season, and it was translated into a bunch of different languages and published in a few publications around the world. Take that you haters! Lastly, I'm launching a monthly book club where I recommend a book for y'all to read. This month, our book is Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd. What are you waiting for? PRESS THAT PLAY BUTTON NEOOOW! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yaaasbro/support

The heavy burden of shame we carry around as gay men means that we feel that we deserve our loneliness. This is a tragedy. My friend, you are worthy of love and belonging. The way to move beyond the thoughts and feelings of loneliness you have is to know this and then, courageously, connect authentically to your self, to those most important to you and to your communities. Yes, it's daunting. We're not meant to do it alone. Join me and my guest, Matthew Todd – author of ‘Straight Jacket: Overcoming society's legacy of gay shame' – in this episode of ‘Connection over Coffee with The Loneliness Guy'. About Matthew Matthew Todd was the editor of Attitude magazine between 2008 and 2016: his final issue featured Prince William on the cover. Matthew is a journalist, author, comedian, playwright and media commentator. In 2017, his book ‘Straight Jacket: Overcoming society's legacy of gay shame' has been called ‘an essential read for every gay person on the planet' by Sir Elton John. It was also voted LGBT Book of the Year by readers of Boyz magazine and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. In 2017, Matthew was awarded the Freedom of the City of London for services to the LGBT community. He lives in London. Instagram: @mrmatthewtodd Twitter: @mrmatthewtodd Share in the vision for The Loneliness Guy: www.thelonelinessguy.com/invest Get me right by your side as your connection mentor: www.thelonelinessguy.com/mentoring Buy me a coffee to say thanks for the episode: https://bit.ly/3nDMrZm Links Website: www.thelonelinessguy.com Join the mailing list: www.thelonelinessguy.com/subscribe Join the premium connection group on FB (it's free!): www.facebook.com/groups/824068758013990 Read ‘Hitting rock bottom': https://bit.ly/3LAUMWe Join us on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3l35iMh Need some help through your loneliness?: www.thelonelinessguy.com/help Contact me: connect@thelonelinessguy.com Sounds recorded with permission at Prefab Eatery, Wellington: www.pre-fab.co.nz

The man with carefully sculpted six-pack is everywhere: in Hollywood action films, on magazine front covers, in your social media feed, on dating apps. And so are the online ads telling you how to get the look. But what does it really take to get a washboard stomach? This week, Ruth Alexander hears from three men about the reality of getting ‘ripped' and how much of it is down to what you eat. They reveal how deeply the experience can affect your relationship with food, your loved ones and yourself (Picture: Male torso ripped in half. Credit: Getty/BBC) If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk Producer: Sarah Stolarz Contributors: Graham Isador, writer Florian Gaffet, massage therapist Matthew Todd, author ‘Straight Jacket: Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame'

Episode two of this series of the LagomMind mental health podcast spoke to Matthew Todd. Matthew is former editor of Attitude magazine and Straight Jacket, a book Elton John described as “an essential read for every gay man”.Hope you enjoy the show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matthew is an award winning writer, performer and campaigner for climate change. He is the author of "Straight Jacket”, which deals with the legacy of gay shame and was editor of Attitude magazine from 2008-16. In this episode we talk deeply about climate change, the need for peaceful protest, how Madonna can change a life and what it feels like to put the first member of the Royal Family on the cover of a gay magazine. Not to be missed.

Psychologist and award winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our bodies in her new book The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living. TRANSCRIPT 0:01 Everyone welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and your co host Rex. Rex on the show today, we have Hilary McBride. She's a psychologist and an award winning researcher. And she's going to explore the broken and unhealthy ideas we've inherited about our bodies in her new book, The wisdom of your body, finding healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living. And even though in our podcast, I guess we are disembodied voices, I think we're going to learn that embodiment is a very, very important part of our spirituality, so important in so important to our life in the world, and our life with God, I really hope you enjoy the show, I 0:49 want to start by saying thank you so much for joining us on the show, and really excited to talk about your book. And a main thread that that kind of connects your book is this idea of embodiment. And so I'd love to just start there, and have you kind of tell our listeners what, what is embodiment? And how does that kind of connect the themes of your book. Yeah, that's a great place to start, because the word embodiment is thrown out so much these days. And yet having it clearly defined as something that I find doesn't happen as often as it's used. So I think a great as it again, as an academic, I love starting with defining the terms. 1:29 We most of us hear the word embodiment when we think about someone living up their values. So somehow the things that matter up here are kind of up in their head or in flashed and the way that they move through space and time how they are with people how they occupy space. But the the way that I'm using embodiment, and the principle that moves through, like you said, that weaves together, the book is just a little different than that. It's, it's about the felt experience of being a body. So not just being a mind that is carried around by a body, which is how most of us think about ourselves in a western context, particularly those of us who have advanced education and whatnot, there is this kind of over identification, over identification with the mind or our cerebra reality. So embodiment is our way of, of acknowledging that we are also a body, in fact, maybe we're even more a body, but that way of being in space is not something that we think of as ourself. So embodiment, is both the felt and lived experience of being a body engaging with the world, right? We our bodies, in social contexts, but also the the redistribution of identity to be able to say my body is, is not something just that I have a thing. But there is something in my body that actually is me that makes up who I am. And we can start to get into the weeds a little bit with that if, if you'd like naturally there, is there some pushback that people give, when we say like, well, I am my body, because we've spent most of our lives in a western context, trying to subdue the body, to conquer the body to have mind over matter. So people don't like that so much. 3:16 Right, right. Yeah, this is this is where we're all about getting in the weeds. 3:22 Because that's when that is important. I mean, I think is an interesting place to understand the the idea of getting away from a kind of mind body dualism, to an understanding of I am my body. And I work with students. And sometimes when I say that to students, I can see them kind of squirming like, wait, I'm not. What does it mean to identify with my body or to to say the phrase, I am my body. And there's this, this push back. And I think, maybe a pushback of, of connecting identity with embodiment. We could say we identify, maybe when the church do we identify with our soul, you know, we get preached, this is who you are. And so it's hard for us to connect those two. But it but it seems so vitally important, because we are our bodies more than have a body and I like how you make that distinction in the book. Yeah, one of the first things I actually thought when I was just skimming, the first couple of chapters of the book was, 4:34 you know, the fact that at least the theological tradition that I come from the church denominational tradition that I come from, has never really sort of chucked off the specter of Gnosticism and there's this, this mind body thing and so you know, mind or spirit or flesh or it's all super platonic, is somehow more real and and there's just something about our bodies that is, is less than 5:00 And so we get uncomfortable when we start talking about things like embodiment or or actually that being, you know, a constituent part of our identity, foreign part of our identity. Yeah. I think we've been told explicitly, you're not your body and you shouldn't be your body because your body is bad. I mean, how many different ways can we have it said, I have an infinite number. Apparently, because I have so many different seasons of my life, I've been told your body is sinful, your flesh is bad, you need to conquer the flesh in order to achieve said directly like this or not, like achieve some sort of superior spirituality, or you're not tied down by the limits of the constraints of being a body. So there's that side of it, where we're actually explicitly told specifically in faith contexts, this is this is a barrier to your holiness. This is a barrier to your evolution as a spiritual being. And then there's the other branch of it, which is for people whose bodies have been 6:03 the place of profound suffering for people whose bodies have 6:10 been marginalized, oppressed, objectified, made to be unsafe, saying I am not my body has been a survival strategy, it has been the most powerful way to say I can escape into the furthest reaches of my mind where nobody can have. 6:29 Exactly yeah, so we see both sides of it right to say I am my body makes us squirm, because it in some ways, it goes against so much of what our faith tradition has taught us, but also, it might actually feel threatening to some people because it causes them to then again, identify with the place where their pain has been. So I see the complexity of saying this, and I want to nod to all of the bodies that have been feeling the lived realities of the traumas of what we do to bodies, and have tried to escape that as a way to survive. 7:07 Yeah, it's important, it seems like many theologians, particularly black theologians, have been recognizing that in several decades leading up of understanding the role of the body and faith in the role of the body in our experience. And And interestingly, in maybe Oh, kind of white Eurocentric theology, there's this there's this underlying thing of, hey, our maybe our bodies are supreme, and so we we have to then disregard disregard the flesh, disregard the body, but it's, it's completely approached in a different way, culturally. And, and we learn that in the church. And I think that's yeah, it makes us struggle with recognizing our body and identifying with our body, right? 8:03 And maybe help us walk through that, to in what ways are maybe how are we our body? How can we how can we understand identity and body better? Well, I like to go back to when we think about nature and nurture, and how, of course, we now know that it is always both, that we show up in this world as a body that is the first place that we experience the world through, we think about I've got a three month old daughter, and I'm watching her, put everything in her mouth starting to do that, right so that the body being the locus of the self experience, it is the place in the playground of existence. And we know that from the beginning, everything that we encounter through the world we encounter through our body. And it is over time that we slowly start to lose that or for some people, if there's a really significant trauma, maybe leaving the body happens sooner. But we know we're all born knowing from from the if that's really it. This is our birthright, our mother tongue to speak language of our body. That is how we interact with the world. And we get feedback from social contexts about what that's like the color of our body, the way we move our body, the size of our body, the level of ability of our body. And that shapes the narratives that we have about ourself. We call this Interpersonal Neurobiology in the field that I'm in but the idea that our interactions with other people shape our felt experience of ourselves inside. And so the construct of individualism starts to really, really dissolve when we look at what's going on in our brain body systems in social contexts. But we have this narrative that we carry around inside of ourselves that is really the the conglomerate of all of the stories that have been projected back to us about how we show up in space. And as much as I might at this point, be able to identify myself by my name or by 10:00 My written work or by the sound of my voice, there is no question that people who know me will see me walking in the door, my friends, my family, my colleagues, whatnot, will see my face will see the way that I walk as they walk in the door and know that it's me. So we in our kind of modern world can have these forays into this embodiment in a way that seems to be well supported on social media. And like I was saying in the written word, but the truth is, you are known by how your body moves through space. And assumptions are made about you based on how you move again, your size, your shape, your level of ability, the color of your skin, and your gender identity and how you share and express your affection with other bodies. assumptions are made about you, and and those shape, what it feels like to be you in the world. So we have kind of the projection on our body that shapes identity, and how much we identify or not with those projections. And then we also have the felt and lived experience from the inside out of being being in flashed. So I know it sounds simple, but all of our senses are the way that we interact with the world and our senses are bodily, they're not intellectual, they're felt from the ground up the bottom up, and they move up to shape our cognition. So and this will be kind of the last point I say, On this note, we in psychology have a long tradition of over identifying with cognition as the seat of the self. But we know based on how the structure of the brain is created, that actually, emotion and interoceptive cues, these things that come again, from the ground up, are what shapes so much of our cognition. So although we think of ourselves as thinkers, the thinking is really the dumping ground of the felt and lived experience on a sensory and affective level. 11:57 And there's this sort of symbiotic relationship, I've always felt between, you know, the mind and the body anyway, when whenever I'm feeling anxious, and this has happened almost all my life, in fact, I was going to try to get some free therapy here on the podcast, but yeah, it literally has happened all my life, and I get anxious, even if even if I can't identify the source of the anxiety. It could be just global, it could be whatever, right? I'll, I'll feel it in part of my body. And in, I almost can't help that. And it's, 12:31 and it's interesting. So when I go through a day where I'm not anxious, or I'm distracted in another way, so I'm not, you know, thinking about whatever the source of my anxiety is, and suddenly the pain, the aches, the whatever, that's localized in a part of my body, I call it picking on myself, I've done that sort of forever, just sort of goes away. And then I'm kind of shocked. It's like, well, that's not hurting, right? 12:54 Because there's actually not anything, I don't know physically wrong there. But there's this connection. Yeah. And I, it's, it's wild, isn't it like this is the one that will blow my mind, probably till the day that I die. We experience proprioceptive memory. So based on the position of our spine, and our the movements of our limbs and how we are relative to the ground into gravity, we can store and remember memories without ever moving up into our cognitive awareness. So we can encounter things posture, really, that remind us of traumatic, scary enjoy, or enjoyable events. And then we can have the emotional response that correlates to those experiences without us ever actually knowing what's going on up here. So our bodies can be sensitized to not just posture, but environments, sensory cues, like smell smell, goes, instead of it being processed through a few different loops before it goes to the motion center of the brain and actually goes directly there. There's a direct connection between olfactory bulb and the amygdala response response. So what that means is, without us ever thinking about it, we can be noticing and remembering things and our body can be reacting to protect us to keep us safe. And we have no idea what the cue is. So this is the this is something that happens often for people when they come into therapy. 14:18 I'm having a reaction I don't know why, without us ever realizing their body on some levels connecting to what's going on around us is picking things up and is telling the truth about probably something that was dangerous for us in the past. But because we over identify as cognitive beings, if we don't have a narrative that we like to understand about it, we feel disoriented by our body's reactions and blame our body instead of going oh, my body is so wise and so smart. She he they are picking up something in the past that was dangerous for me and trying to protect me. 14:53 Do you think it works the other way too? Like like like, you know, like peak experiences are important things that are 15:00 You know, beneficial, I mean, I know sometimes I'll just, you know, get a whiff of something and I'm just slammed back 30 years, could it? I can't help it. It just happens. And you're just right there again, maybe thinking about something that I haven't thought about consciously or deliberately for ever. But it's just, it's almost, it's almost immediate, and is through my sense, yes, his bodily senses. It's just this immediate thing. You're so right. And that I'm so glad you mentioned that. Because I think it's really easy when we start talking about embodiment, and being in the body in the way that the body reacts. To talk about the things that are hard, the trauma, the anxiety, the panic, the pain, the illness, I mean, all of the things that go on, that make it hard to be in our bodies. But I think what you're saying is really important here, which is that our bodies are not just places that store trauma, our bodies are also places, or vibrancy and passion and sensuality, and connection and empathy and deep joy and vibrancy. And I mean, think about a laugh, like what is a laugh except your body having so much joy inside of it, that it has to expel waves of sound outwards, reverberate around to signal to your community, something awesome is going on over here. Like, it's incredible that our bodies can do this. And I mean, as you're saying that I met, I'm at my parents house right now, as I was telling you, when we started the interview, and the smell of walking into my parents house and the smell of the baking around Thanksgiving, and like all of the memories that come back with that, or you can hear a song and all of a sudden feel like you're on that first date that you were on again 20 years ago or whatever it is like our we're storing joy and pleasure just as much as we're storing pain and trauma. Yeah, yeah, definitely. For me, it is downy fabrics. Okay, when I smell there, at my grandparents house in Indiana, the door, you would go in walked right by the washing machine, the washer and dryer. So when you walk into the house, it always smelled like fabric softener. So that smell just literally takes me right back to my grandma's house, which was a place of warmth, love and safety. There's definitely a commercial for Downey sponsored this this season. Yeah, you're gonna get loads of Danny in the mail. No, I think what, what can be really cool about that, too, is when we start to think about embodiment, in in a very intentional way. When we are paying attention to the cues that our body is giving us that are associated with comfort and warmth and pleasure and ease. We can intentionally access those, by stimulating ourselves are stimulating our senses in ways that bring us back. They're so Rexy we're saying, right, okay, we've got these sensations in the body that feel overwhelming. And if we're distracted, maybe we don't notice the sensations. But we can intentionally go smell something or go listen to a song or go do something that's associated with ease as a way of telling your body Hey, actually, you're safe right now. Right? It's okay, so in my keepsake boxes, I actually have some old old bottles of cologne that I actually wore, like 40 years ago, and every once in a while, if I want to take myself back, and you got to be careful with this stuff. Right? I can just unscrew that thing. And just it's like, oh my gosh, you know, and, you know, obviously, if it's a good memory, it's a deliberate thing to try. Yes. You know, access that memory and and then of course, you know, though, the song stuff actually will tell the students sometimes it's like, you know, I understand that it's this music you would think it's just ridiculous. And actually right now, it probably is right. But you know, I will roll up my windows and put on you know, these things from from 3040 years ago, because it's a time of my life that and this of course is a you know, a sensory thing to this. Oh, yeah. And, and the hearing like the smelling just, it provides immediate access to some to some good memories and you feel yourself groove in the windows are down. Yeah. Well, my music the windows are down too much, right. 19:14 So that's what's going on when I pull up next to you leaving. 19:18 Like feeling it? Yeah. 19:21 In regards this is kind of making connection for me in regards to body image, you you made the point that oftentimes we approach negative body image with I need to change my thoughts about my body. But you, you go beyond that saying it's more it's more than just changing our thoughts and love to hear more about that. Well, if if we follow the line of thinking that I'm already presenting here, which is that thoughts are just kind of the end result of some, some interoceptive some sensory some affective experiences, then maybe what we need to do is create 20:00 ate more enjoyable, pleasurable experiences of being a body to drown out some of the thoughts. And they actually got some overwhelming evidence that my body is not just a thing that has a look. But is my being. And my being is good. And here's all the proof that I have for it. So there's two things that are happening there, structurally, one is that we are creating a whole new category of evidence for our goodness, and our goodness being not just about image, but about this felt and experiential sense of self. And two, we're kind of redirecting our attention away from those thoughts. And the interesting thing about thoughts is, the more we rehearse them, the better our brain gets it, finding evidence for them. And so instead of actually staying in thinking and staying in that kind of thinking, we're giving ourselves just something else as a way of like pinching, pinching off the life support for some of those cognitive maps that we have. And it is, it's a different way of thinking about our bodies to say that our bodies are more than just an image because actually, when I start talking about bodies, and I say you are your body, people who have struggled with their looks, really do not want to hear that. Because culturally, the way that we identify with our bodies the most is through appearance, we actually think, right, our bodies are how they appear, instead of our bodies being the field of sensation, this kind of Fiesta of their tapestry of exquisite experiential data on the inside. So, yesterday. 21:37 So I think it, it is a little disruptive for our disembodied, highly objectified and self objectifying paradigm to say we are our body, but that have actually nothing to do with image. And it just, 21:52 it is extraordinarily liberating to someone who's lived with and recovered from an eating disorder. very liberating to change the perception of 22:05 image from the outside to being a body on the inside. It means when I'm eating, for example, here's a direct application. I'm not thinking about what my eat food is doing to the outside of me. I'm thinking about how enjoyable it is. I'm thinking about the pleasure of eating and feeling the experience of noticing fullness and hunger inside. So there is indirectly in there to agency, 22:32 self compassion, attunement to self all of the things that get impaired when we are so focused on our image being the most important thing about her body. We'll be right back. 22:45 Rex, did you know that there are somewhere between 303,000 different versions of Cinderella I can honestly say I did not know that. And our theater department this fall is going to be doing Rodgers and Hammerstein classic version of Cinderella starting on Thursday, November 12, running through November 24. And tickets can be found at just.edu/shows. And the price ranges from 10 to $22. And doors are gonna open an hour before so you can get in reserve your seats and enjoy the living Christmas Village is the best show in Placer County. Welcome back to the show. What's your book you highlight and I love the title I'm I'm a sucker for good. Okay, and the wisdom of your body? I just love the the phrasing of that, that the body has wisdom to teach us 23:39 and, and love to explore what what is the wisdom that our body has to teach us? Oh, yeah. Well, I'm not gonna hide my agenda here or my kind of my assumptions are play neutral. I believe our bodies are good. And I believe our bodies are for us. And our bodies are holy and sacred. And are a, an invitation to be deeply connected to all life around us. So when we if I step back a little bit here, when we in our disembodied culture, a core of our culture that is so 24:19 you'd have wound into this narrative of the bifurcate itself, the mind body dualism, it is our bodies become the source of the problem if something is not working for us. So we scapegoat our bodies we say I can't do the thing I wanted to do. Therefore my body couldn't perform or my body got in the way or my body is attacking me or why does my body hate me or whatever the languages that we use to imply that the body is is not only separate from the staff, but it's against us. And the irony is that when we go in, and I think about this from like, a pseudo spiritual perspective, but I would say 25:00 largely a neuroscientific perspective, when we go into what's going on in the messages that our body is sending, that we often blame our bodies for. That is a result of our body, having tried to keep us safe in dangerous situations, trying to tell the truth about who we are in a context that is trying to silence us. Trying to ask to be fed, ask for movement, ask for rest, in social systems that don't want us to feed ourselves don't want us to stop buying don't want us to enjoy being at ease don't want us to connect in a slow thoughtful way with the earth and with people around us. So we're blaming our bodies, and yet our bodies are actually telling the truth, and they're calling us home, if only we knew how to interpret that and knew how to listen to it. And when we can flip our narrative and say, My body's not against me, my body is asking for a disruption in a system that doesn't work, then we can start to see the way that our body is actually directing us towards individual and collective healing. For example, emotion is part of empathy. If I cannot feel my feelings, I cannot feel with your feelings. And I do not care about your suffering, and then sustainable, interconnectedness way, if I'm not connected to my body, then I'm not going to notice that going at a pace that's unsustainable is hurting me. And I'm not going to 26:25 I'm not going to be able to disrupt kind of the wheel of capitalism, so to speak, or the wheel of hyper productivity that is threatening our well being. So our bodies are not only good, but they are actually or maybe this is an expression of the goodness directing us into more wholeness, If only we knew how to understand and listen to that. 26:48 So are there some I know, this is like the practical question, which, you know, you might already be tired of hearing, but I'm sure that I'm not the first person that's asking, Are there you know, a couple of I guess, practices that can help me, just place myself in a position that I'm more open to the wisdom that my body is? Hmm. So a simple switch is when we notice sensations that are otherwise irritating, threatening, or confusing. Instead of saying, that's a problem, or I need to ignore that, or I'm going to brush past that. Simply asking our bodies, what are you trying to tell me? What is it that you want me to know? Or maybe we have a feeling? Or that could be an emotion feeling or another kind of sensation, a tightening? Okay, tight shoulders? What are you trying to say? So adjusting our direction from avoidance or even shame, or frustration to curiosity, in a way that opens us up to hearing more. So I think that that's a really simple cognitive one. But I think another another more practical sensory one would be slowing down just to check in with what our body is feeling. So I can get very, 28:03 very focused on whatever's going on in front of me, including if I am stimulated intellectually, it can go into these, like we call it a hyper focus like rabbit holes of focus that are take hours for me to come out of and it has been a discipline, I would say, spiritual discipline for me to learn how to slow down. Oh, and pause, go, Whoa, I haven't checked my posture. I'm like a, you know, a gremlin over the laptop here. Like, 28:32 like, I'm thirsty. And I didn't know I was thirsty. Like, what is with the hunched over? Like, is really no funny postures we take when we're going in hard on something on the laptop. Yeah. So the the ability to stop and slow down and go, Whoa, my shoulders? Are they so tight? Like, oh, I am thirsty. Just checking in on a few things, is a way to interrupt how long we can go with being disconnected. So the point this is kind of like with mindfulness meditation, the point is not that you are perfectly attuned all the time, that that doesn't really exist. But the point is that you come back to yourself sooner, and you don't wait. So you come home. 29:14 I'm glad you mentioned the mindfulness meditation because I was I was thinking as I was, perusing your book, that there actually are some resources from our spiritual tradition, that that are more linked in between with the body and our spirituality than we even think, like, for example, why would one want when one wants to, you know, in turn to contemplation or meditation or whatever, why is it important to like, you know, 29:41 I don't know restaurant wise posture important. I mean, why why does that even matter? Right? But of course it does. And this is wisdom from you know, as 1000s of years old, even in the Christian tradition that you, you do that. So there's this link, even if one wanted to, like, somehow have an out of body experience. 30:00 Got it, it's probably impossible. But there's you can't even do that until you have a bodily experience. It's just ingrained in the process. Absolutely. Yeah. And we can, we can shift our mental states by shifting our physical states by adjusting our posture by adjusting how we are 30:21 existing in space together. It's amazing how that is such an under you underutilized resource for our spirituality in, at least in the faith tradition that I grew up in, where there was so much kind of sedentary, isolating, restore body restriction that was seen as being like a really good performing good church attendance, like sit quietly in the pew keep your feet on the ground. Although 30:48 there is something actually about changing what's happening with our body changing posture, changing movement, assuming different positions, with our body that actually I think is can signal so much about what's happening in a spiritually or be a way to access things spiritually, more ease, or more experience, perhaps, right. One thing I often do before my classes is all, you know, just read a prayer from I teach history. And so I always have a little didactic reason for doing this. But the general read a prayer from Christian history, I'll read it from different prayer books from different parts of the world. And sometimes I will read something from this African prayer book that's edited by Desmond Tutu. And right away, when you're just reading those prayers, they are almost like embodied prayers is almost a complete, it's just that the body is important, and how the how the connection between your body and your spirituality is just there in a way that in my culture, my tradition just was almost never right. It's it's startling, it's just startling the difference? Well, we maybe when we start to get into it, we can see the paradoxes or the the discrepancies and what we were told and what we were shown because most of us, I would say, if we grew up in, in the Christian tradition, particularly if some 32:08 sphere of evangelicalism or right that maybe the white evangelical movement, or kind of white Christianity, which is its own subset subset of 32:19 the faith tradition, that there was this narrative that the body was bad, the body was sinful, at least with what I grew up with. But then also really, 32:32 really heavy emphasis on hospitality and caring for other people in in a bodily way, take them food, 32:41 nourish them ready think about being told about Parker Palmer said having someone sit with Parker Palmer, while he was depressed, and someone just rubbing his feet for hours, right? Touching, touching the body caring for the poor, caring for the sick, caring for the elderly. And so we're told your body is sinful. But we're showing the body is actually such a loving way to express the love of Christ into the world. So there's often these tensions or discrepancies that we see if we look hard enough, where I think on some level, we know the body is important, even if we get tied up in 33:13 what to do about the parts of the body that are complicated and painful, and maybe hurt us and hurt other people too. 33:22 And many of the students we have here, chemists come from evangelical backgrounds, and, and so a lot of times they come in with, with that view that the body is bad, and I need to subdue the body. And in introducing kind of the ancient spiritual tradition, or spiritual practices, I think many of them are shocked at how embodied those practices are that they deal with your body to deal with posture we deal with. And then students have often associated their spiritual life as a fight against their body. 34:02 Instead of seeing the body as an indispensable ally, actually, yeah, and the place. I mean, maybe even the place where God exists, if we were to say that, like, 34:16 perhaps I don't know how that resonates with you, or how that would feel for some of your students, but instead of our body being the obstacle X actually being the doorway. 34:25 The entry point Yeah. 34:28 Well, we often you know, we haven't talked about Jesus, we're living in our heart, but we we don't really identify with God living with us like being with us, and and us experiencing God in an embodied way. 34:44 It's, it's more of just an image we have. 34:49 Yeah, I think you're right about that. I remember the first time I made that shift from feeling like I knew, I would say that the Spirit was working through me if I was using my body to care for somebody else. 35:00 But I realized the schism inside myself where I didn't also believe the same thing, if I was carrying bodily for myself if I was brushing my teeth, if I was beating myself, like, why is it that the spirit is only working when we are moving outwards, and not in this circle to also care for our own bodily selves. So that has been a huge shift for me in terms of my understanding of spirituality, that, that feeds really well into self care. And then I would say, like a kind of sustainability for all of the other kinds of loving acts that we distribute outwards. We need both 35:36 and letting other bodies care for you. I'm thinking about that with you know, Parker, Palmer sphere, you know, this, it's, it's an embodied 35:45 way to care for someone actually. Yeah, you know, that, well, I don't have to convince the two of you here. 35:52 Right, preaching to the choir. 35:57 But it's, it's an important message for, for, for our culture, and, and for our students, because I feel like they hear they hear negative voices from culture and from the church, about their body. Yeah. And so for them to, to understand the vital role that their body plays in their identity and who they are. And, 36:26 and in their spirituality, I think is really important. Because there's there's two extremes of listening to the maybe cultures lie that we are our appearance. And, and you have Kim Kardashian, West's hosts Saturday Night Live, and basically say, you know, I'm a reference sheet for the plastic surgeon. I mean, that was one of her jokes and her monologue, and it was just like, wow, this has a lot about what our culture thinks about body. And then maybe you go to church and hear someone talk negatively about that, and you can get a feeling of I need to subdue my body. 37:06 And the body loses in both of those scenarios. Yeah, I think that's something that really gets into the way that women are socialized, in particular around bodies, which is, your body is a liability. It's a problem. In the church, we hear, you know, messages around that with purity culture, women are responsible for men sexual transgressions. So right, your body is a problem in all of these ways. It could be the thing that makes you makes you I'm using air quotes here, makes you experience sexualized violence, right, it's because of your body, that that's the reality that you encounter. Or the other side of it, which is and your bodies. And also the only good thing about you, it is your social currency, it is the way you accrue social value. And you have two options, right, your body is dangerous, or this thing that you can refine to hopefully be valuable in a society that devalues you for so many other reasons and skills. So there are lots of these tensions that we can get into when we start looking at gender role socialization, and the sexual sexual objectification of women's bodies and how, how we are given these limited options, and none of them really allow for the full person to exist as a body, who is not just an appearance, who was not just an object. So we're trying to slice some of these things really thinly here and differently than maybe the the broad strokes around bodies that were given culturally. 38:39 Well, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I mean, I think our conversation has highlighted the the need for your book and the need to, to understand how we relate as a body. And, and, and how that that influenced by culture and also influence in the church and, and how we can become I loved your phrasing of using these practices to come back to ourselves. And I think I think the book is really going to help people understand their body and understand themselves better. Thank you so much for joining us. Pleasure. 39:19 Thank you so much for having me. Congratulations on making it to the end of the podcast. Be sure to follow us on Instagram at Jessup think where we'll be posting updates and some behind the scenes content. We would love to hear your thoughts on the episode and engage with any questions you might have to leave us a comment or email us at think@jessup.edu. Our aim is to provide a framework for further reflection and deeper exploration of these important topics. If you want to support the show, leave us a review on iTunes we can reach more people. Until then, I'm Matthew Todd outro reader extraordinare and this has been Jessup thing. If you're interested in learning more about Jessup, please visit us at jessup.edu. William Jessup is the premier fully accredited 40:00 a four year Christian University in the Sacramento area offering over 60 academic programs in undergraduate and graduate studies designed to see each student whipped and transformed into the leader. They're called to be as go don't forget to hit subscribe and shares never miss an episode. Thanks for joining us for Jessup think.

Welcome to the Oil and Gas HSE podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Endress+Hauser. Would you like to know about and be a part of a conglomerate of O & G companies committed to continuously improve the industry's environmental performance?  Then listen as Russell interviews, Matthew Todd, Director, The Environmental Partnership.  You might also be surprised who the organization behind it is.  Contact Matt Todd via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matthew-todd-652033134  Website: https://theenvironmentalpartnership.org  Win an Endress+Hauser/OGGN jacket and koozieRegister for our monthly Endress+Hauser HSE Podcast giveaway here: https://cx.endress.com/hse-podcast More Oil and Gas Global Network PodcastsOGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street TeamLinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on SocialLinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN EventsGet notified each month Russell StewartLinkedIn

Welcome to the Oil and Gas HSE podcast — brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network by Endress+Hauser. Would you like to know about and be a part of a conglomerate of O & G companies committed to continuously improve the industry's environmental performance?  Then listen as Russell interviews, Matthew Todd, Director, The Environmental Partnership.  You might also be surprised who the organization behind it is.  Contact Matt Todd via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matthew-todd-652033134  Website: https://theenvironmentalpartnership.org  Win an Endress+Hauser/OGGN jacket and koozieRegister for our monthly Endress+Hauser HSE Podcast giveaway here: https://cx.endress.com/hse-podcast More Oil and Gas Global Network PodcastsOGGN.com – https://oggn.com/podcasts OGGN Street TeamLinkedIn Group – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12458373/ OGGN on SocialLinkedIn Group | LinkedIn Company Page | Facebook | modalpoint | OGGN OGGN EventsGet notified each month Russell StewartLinkedIn

This week, Matt is joined by presenter Alex Woolhouse and writer Matthew Todd to discuss whether we can separate the art from the artist, when the artist has made problematic comments towards the LGBTQ+ community... Plus, the panel are also joined by screenwriter Jake Graf to discuss the rise in anti-trans discourse and what can be done to combat it, and activist and former asylum seeker Aderonke Apata to talk about whether when we look down on countries with low levels of LGBTQ+ acceptance, we can be guilty of cultural arrogance...Please note, some of the topics discussed in this episode might be sensitive and/or triggering. For help and support with any LGBTQ+ issues you might be facing, you can contact Switchboard on 0300 330 0630. Alternatively, the Samaritans are available twenty-four hours a day on 116 123. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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All the way from London, author Matthew Todd joins Dennis via Skype to talk about his beautiful new coffee table book Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement. Matthew talks about how the book came about, some of the unsung heroes he writes about in the book, the similarities between the US and the UK in terms of the movement and how moments in pop culture like gay characters on soap operas and shows like Will and Grace helped move the mainstream culture forward. Matthew also talks about being profoundly moved by Princess Diana's AIDS activism as a teen, recalls how one journalist at the time called her "the patron saint of sodomy" and shares the power of the photo of Diana that appears in the book. Matthew also tells the story of how he was able to score Prince William for the cover of Attitude when he was editor there...and how and why William used the f-word on the record. Matthew and Dennis share what Pride month means to them and how that's changed over the years. Other topics include: the beginnings of P-Flag, the insane state of the world, writing about hot-button gay issues like chemsex and open relationships, Matthew's favorite memory of Elton John, how awesome Madonna was circa Blond Ambition, the British and American Queer as Folk, the sweetness of Love Simon, why the Spice Girls matter, the private George Michael mini-concert he got to attend, his favorite Pride dance song, and that time he drunkenly thanked Sir Ian McKellen for his activism while standing in the bathroom line at the gay bar Heaven. www.matthewtodd.net

Matthew Todd, UK writer-journalist talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about his exquisite new coffee table book “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” published by Weldon Owen. The book documents the milestones in our fight for global LGBTQ equality from before Stonewall to the victories of activists over the last five decades that have led to the gradual acceptance of LGBTQ people in politics, sports and the media. It also chronicles the winning landmark court cases including marriage equality and significant legislation that have furthered our basic civil rights. This pictorial and wide-reaching text takes you on a journey covering key figures, heroes, notable moments, events and breakthroughs in a wealth of rare images and documents as well as providing moving essays from vital witnesses throughout our modern day movement. Though we still have a long way to go to achieve full equality, “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” is a unique and comprehensive account of the ongoing challenges facing our LGBTQ community and a celebration of civil rights that have been won for many of us as a result of the sacrifices and passion of this mass movement. The book includes personal testimonies from many relevant activists and allies including Judy Shepard mother of Matthew Shepard, legendary photographer Nan Goldin, Reverend Troy Perry founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, novelist playwright essayist Darryl Pinckney, Jake Shears of The Scissor Sisters, activist and former Pride Award-winner Jonathan Blake, New Zealand politician Georgina Beyer the world’s first openly transgender Mayor and transgender member of Parliament, Deborah Brin one of the world’s first openly gay Rabbis and many more. We talked to Todd about his passion and inspiration for creating “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” and his spin on our LGBTQ issues. Matthew Todd is a multi award winning writer and previous editor of “Attitude” a British gay lifestyle magazine from 2008 to 2016. His first book "Straight Jacket - Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame" was shortlisted for the Polari Prize in 2017 and was voted winner of the Boyz LGBT Book of the Year Award. His play “Blowing Whistles” has been performed in the UK, Australia and the United States. Todd’s fabulous new work “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” (Weldon Owen) is currently available online and in stores.For More Info: matthewtodd.net LISTEN: 500+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES 

Award winning author of Straight Jacket and former editor-in-chief of Attitude Magazine, Matthew Todd joins Dr. Jones to discuss mental health struggles associated with revealing sexual orientation. This episode also features a review of the Tenga Pride Edition Egg.

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"Le racisme est partout. Y compris chez mes collègues médecins, les internes, ou les patients", raconte le chirurgien noir et gay Wolky dans l'épisode 26 du podcast Extimité.Il y évoque notamment : (02:00) Son enfance en Afrique, élevé principalement par son père : "Ce n'était pas que mon père, c'était mon meilleur ami" (12:00) Sa volonté d'être un garçon modèle : bac à 15 ans et études de médecine en partie pour faire plaisir à son père(18:30) L'acceptation de sa sexualité(26:00) Sa période d'hyperconsommation sexuelle (38:00) La prise de conscience du racisme systémique en entrant dans le monde du travail français(41:30) Le racisme à l'hôpital depuis son point de vue de chirurgien(52:30) Sa dépression : "À force d'en faire 4 fois plus, d'accepter l'inacceptable pour être bien au travail, mon estime de moi-même a été complètement détruite. Après mon arrêt maladie, je devais reconstruire cette estime dans l'environnement qui venait de la détruire."(59:00) Comment il prend désormais soin de sa santé mentale par la méditation et par un suivi psychologique : "Quand on est noir et gay, on accumule tellement de traumas, sans forcément s'en rendre compte […]. Voir un psy, c'est lui présenter un objet qu'on voit depuis un point de vue. Et son rôle, c'est de vous tourner l'objet pour que vous en voyez les autres facettes."(1:01:30) Comment Marie Dasylva (@napilicaio sur Twitter avec ses #JeudiSurvieAuTaf et sa règle des 300 secondes) coach de carrière qui s'est spécialisée dans l'aide de personnes racisées au travail, l'a accompagné : "Sur ses conseils, maintenant, je formalise à l'écrit tous mes échanges avec mes collègues, supérieurs, et les RH au cas où."(1:07:00) Comment trouver un psy pas cher(1:14:00) Le polyamour, ses "choupis" ("quand vous êtes plus que sexfriends mais pas un couple non plus"), et combien son compagnon actuel l'a soutenu durant sa dépression : "C'est ça l'amour : aider l'autre, l'aider à grandir, et se montrer entier. On porte déjà trop de masques dans nos vies." Ce podcast est une création originale de Douce Dibondo et Anthony Vincent.Pistes sonores diffusées :. "Independent Women Pt 1" - Destiny's Child (Survivor - 2001). "We all want love" - Rihanna (Talk That Talk - 2011). "Django Jane" - Janelle Monae (Dirty Computer - 2018). "Cold War" - Janelle Monae ( The Archandroid - 2010)Les recommandations culturelles de Wolky :. "Codes Noirs de l'esclavage aux abolitions", essai d'André Castaldo, préfacé par Christiane Taubira. "Straight Jacket, overcoming society's legacy of gay shame", livre enquête de Matthew Todd . "Un Appartement sur Uranus", essai de Paul B. Préciado, préfacé par Virginie Despentes. "Noah's Arc", série de Patrik-Ian Polk. "Cloud Atlas", film de Lana Wachowski. "Petit Bambou", application mobile pour méditer. "Méditer puis Agir", essai de Youki Vattier Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Live from the London Podcast Festival, Dan and James return to the stage joined by Matthew Todd, author of Straight Jacket and Pride, and welcome their first ever drag queen ShayShay.YAY we're going on tour! We'd love to see you in March 2020 - We'll see you in Brighton, London, Birmingham, Manchester & Glasgow. Tap here for more info huns!We're so proud to announce our new three part BBC Radio 1 documentary From Gay to NonGay - search Gay Non-Gay on BBC Sounds. Lots of you got in touch telling us about LGBTQ+ life in Northern Ireland so we headed out there with the BBC to learn what it's like to be gay in NI with the pressure of the church and so called 'gay conversion therapy.'Help us out by donating as little as $1 a month. Join our patreon at www.gaynongay.com/donateMug someone off in our official shop, visit www.gaynongay.com/shop See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adam talks with American musician John Grant about travel stress, island survival, languages, favourite documentaries, John's last record 'Love Is Magic' (2018), horror films and favourite soundtracks, and growing up gay in a religious American family.This week's outro includes a visit from 'Country Man' presenter Monty Buggershop-Hooty who brings you some 'Sounds Of The Summer'.Visit the Adam Buxton app and open the Bonus Audio section for more music chat with John and accompanying Spotify playlist.The conversation was recorded in London in October 2018Thanks to Anneka Myson for additional editing and Seamus Murphy-Mitchel for production support.RELATED LINKSJOHN GRANT - HE'S GOT HIS MOTHER'S HIPS (MUSIC VIDEO)'GREY GARDENS' DOCUMENTARY (1975) TRAILER'SALESMAN' DOCUMENTARY (1969)'WORLD AT WAR' (EPISODE 1) (1973)'SHOCK OF THE NEW' (EPISODE 1) (1980)MINUTEMEN - 'WE JAM ECONO' DOCUMENTARY (2005)DAVID SHIRE - 'THE CONVERSATION' SCORENPR STORY ABOUT DAVID SHIRE'S ORIGINAL APOCALYPSE NOW SCORE (5 MINS)STRAIGHT JACKET by MATTHEW TODD (2017)'EDUCATED' by TARA WESTOVER (2018) (GUARDIAN REVIEW) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Oooooh! Another busy and exciting episode. This week features my conversation with writer and former Attitude magazine editor Matthew Todd about his love for Madonna's Blond Ambition tour and the films Postcards From The Edge and Torch Song Trilogy. Plus, I waffle on about art and social media. Can you handle the excitement?! I bet not!!  Links: Matthew Todd Blond Ambition Postcards From The Edge Torch Song Trilogy Fleabag Booksmart  

Ellen and Yvette present Mentally Yours in front of an audience at Waterstones in High Street Kensington in conversation with Dr Pragya Agarwal, Carl Anka, Natasha Devon and Matthew Todd. Thanks to everyone who came along, plus our sponsors on the night Maison du Choup, Hotel Chocolat, Happiful, Samaritans, Smartwater and Teapigs Calm Tea.  Stay in touch with what we’re up to on Twitter: @MentallyYrs.

This is the latest in a series of self-improvement/motivational-themed podcasts (also transcribed for those who prefer to read) involving people in the racing world sharing insight into successful habits. Up next: Race fan Matthew Todd, who made a miracle recovery from a traumatic brain injury suffered one year ago this week. This interview was condensed … Continue reading "The Driven Life: Matthew Todd on his second chance at living"

Sammy Nickalls is the Creator of the hashtag #TalkingAboutIt. She chats to Ellen and Yvette about life on the internet, staying sane on Twitter and her happy place away from social media.  Oh, also… we have our first ever live event this week. It's about mental health and work, with speakers Natasha Devon, Dr Pragya Agarwa, Carl Anka and Matthew Todd. Book your place by emailing kensington@waterstones.com (all proceeds go to The Samaritans).  Stay in touch with the girls on Twitter: @Mentallyyrs.

Former editor of Attitude magazine reveals the unique way he came out to his mum and the impact it had on their relationship. He also discusses his book Straight Jacket, which looks at mental health within the LGBT+ community.

Zakariya Adeel talks about The Quest- a programme designed for gay men to gain confidence and self acceptance. Their mission statement states that the programme is designed 'to help gay men better understand and transform the relationships they have with themselves, others and the world they inhabit'. Find more information on their website https://www.thequestawaitsyou.com. We mention two good books on a similar theme- 'Straight Jacket' by Matthew Todd and 'The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World' by Alan Downs.

This week Femi was joined by a wide array of guests to discuss climate change and environmentalism. Joining him in the studio for the entire hour was writer Matthew Todd, who discussed how we are running out of time to tackle some of the huge issues effecting our planet. Also in the studio was actor and environmentalist James Fletcher, who spoke about his experiences as a vegan, whilst Labour MP Geraint Davies was on the phone to talk about what politicians are doing in practical terms. Finally, former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett joined the conversation.

This week Calum was joined in the studio by author Matthew Todd. He spoke candidly about the inspirations behind his book Straight Jacket, the way society ignores chem sex problems, growing up feeling like there were no other LGBT people to relate to and the pains of addition. They also reacted to some of your sex confessions!

This week Calum was joined in the studio by author Matthew Todd. He spoke candidly about the inspirations behind his book Straight Jacket, the way society ignores chem sex problems, growing up feeling like there were no other LGBT people to relate to and the pains of addition. They also reacted to some of your sex confessions!

"Government is now acknowledging there is a problem"  Matthew Todd is a multi award winning writer and author of the book "Straight Jacket, Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame”. He chats to Ellen and Yvette about homophobic bullying, trauma and the role of the media.  Stay in touch with Mentally Yours on Twitter and our private Facebook group.

This young gay guy suffers from internalized homophobia. He is perfectly OK with his sexuality, but keeps asking why the LGBT community has to be 'so queer.' In today's episode, radio graduate Sean Allsop finds out if it's possible to overcome your shame of being gay – and learns why he has, until now, projected his own homophobia onto others.With thanks to Matthew Todd, his book Straight Jacket is available in paperback in April, and hardback now. To therapist Stephen Hanscomb, And also Switchboard. If you ever want to call them, you can call 10am-10pm every day on 0300 330 0630Find Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanallsop_ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Can Will and Chris get through all your messages before Will's food order arrives? And who has won the coveted Homo Sapiens T shirt? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week it's all about mental wellbeing. Will and Chris talk to the former editor of Attitude magazine, Matthew Todd, about shame and his book, Straight Jacket: How To Be Gay And Happy. Plus - Will's mortifying trouser incident! What did Chris once do into a plastic bag? And which much loved TV host did Will almost kill? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I’m joined by writer Matthew Todd to discuss the crisis of shame facing the LGBT community, the disproportionate link to mental health problems and how taking a lead on trauma recovery could change the world.

"We're just a whole group of people swirling around together, trying to get on with our lives, not knowing that we've been traumatised." - Matthew Todd Our final episode of season four, #queer, takes us to London, where we speak to the author of perhaps the most extraordinary book of 2016: Matthew Todd. Matthew Todd is a sometimes stand-up comedian, and a playwright, whose play Blowing Whistles, described as one of the most popular gay plays of recent times, has had sellout seasons in the UK and Australia. A long-time editor of the UK gay magazine Attitude, and a person who has actively participated in, and even helped shape, contemporary LGBT culture, Matthew has recently published a stunning book under the title Straight Jacket: How to be Gay and Happy, in which he takes a critical look behind the shiny façade of this culture. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and part polemic, the book asks if gay people are as happy as it seems, and as happy as they could be, and as happy as the LGBT culture depicts. If not – why not? In an unflinching, honest conversation about crystal meth, bullying, and fascination with divas, we cover everything that straight people rarely know, and the LGBT people rarely talk about. "Being gay is more complicated than we have thought. ... We've presented it as if it's just like: 'some people have blue eyes, some people have brown eyes'. ... I think to be LGBT is really different, actually, and that goes against the grain of what we've been thinking over the last 10-15 years, that it's exactly the same... Even if you go into a gay bar, it's very different from going into a straight bar: the way people behave, the way people look, sometimes, the way people dress. There's nothing wrong with that. If we can't think about that, investigate that, and ultimately accept that, how can we feel OK in ourselves?" - Matthew Todd Jana picked this book up randomly in a bookshop in Brussels last year, intrigued by the title. Hours later, bent over the tome, told to leave because the bookshop was closing, she bought the book and thus began a year of recommending it to all her friends. Straight Jacket is a polemic about the health and well-being of gay people. It draws connections that are unexpected, intellectually courageous, and controversial: between bullying and attachment theory, childhood trauma and addictive tendencies, casual sex and self-soothing, the rhetoric of 'pride' and internalised shame. Owen Jones called it brilliant - and disturbing. It is a brave book, an uncomfortable book, and a book with a huge motherfucking heart, that deserves to be read by every queer person, young, old, or other. It is always a pleasure, however, to be able to converse about LGBT issues in a calmer climate. We recorded the conversation in London, in Attitude offices, surrounded with the rule of law, with smiling LGBT faces, with an infrastructure of dignity and protection of human rights, just as Australia was embarking on a ferocious, uncivilised debate about whether to have a plebiscite on gay marriage, as if there was anything alright with the notion that the majority should decide about the rights of minorities. The groundedness of our surroundings, we hope, are felt in our conversation. And thank you, Matthew, for important and timely insights. Discussed in this episode: The Wizard of Oz, 'the gay play', the role of fantasy in coping with trauma, Chem Sex the infamous documentary, Byron Bache, George Michael's spending sprees, challenging sex positivity, rape and consent, Brokeback Mountain, bullying and Prince William, the role of gay media in a changing world, the gay equivalent of Bridget Jones' Baby?, the role of community in overcoming depression, and how perhaps we need to talk more about the LGBT realities. "To me, it's not enough to dress up as a woman, pretend to be a woman, and be mouthy, and gobby, and rude, and put people down a lot.... That's not interesting to me.

Apparitions and spirits have been seen resembling strange lights and disconnected floating fabrics, to sightings of people and animals. Some of these are rare and can become even more bizarre. In this episode we here a story from Derek and his encounter with the Lady in the Polka Dot Dress. The True Terror Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Todd Creamer and produced/edited by Matthew Todd. Join us every other week as we feature first person accounts of nonfiction horror. We All Have Stories Official Website: trueterrorpodcast.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/thetrueterrorpc Facebook: www.facebook.com/trueterrorpodcast If you would like to support us check out our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/trueterrorpodcast

In this episode we feature a story told by Ashley, a lead investigator for Souther Illinois Ghost Hunting Society (S.I.G.H.S). Listen along as she shares with us an experience that made her realize that some memories can leave a mark… The True Terror Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Todd Creamer and produced/edited by Matthew Todd. Join us every other week as we feature first person accounts of nonfiction horror. We All Have Stories Official Website: trueterrorpodcast.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/thetrueterrorpc Facebook: www.facebook.com/trueterrorpodcast

It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but research into deadly diseases often doesn’t get funding because pharmaceutical companies can’t make money out of it. This includes cures for malaria, Ebola, and the Zika virus. That’s the blunt statement from the University of Sydney’s associate professor Matthew Todd, who believes open-source research is key to solving this issue as it cuts cash out of the equation.

We speak to the author of new book 'Straight Jacket' Matthew Todd, as he discusses how to be gay and happy, his 8-year tenure as editor of Attitude magazine and why media ownership is having an effect on activism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are all set for another great program. There is an interesting story out of Oklahoma. It seems complex, so I will let our OK based panel member Lenny Biggers explain it. There is little doubt that aspects of the case are unique to OK, however a large portion seems to be applicable in any state that permits commercial surety. I was chatting with a recovery agent earlier this week, he brought up some questions that I had to admit I had not thought about, the first of which is the importance of being physically fit. Sure it seems obvious, but do you need to 'Iron Man' to be an effective Recovery Agent?

Our weekly look at the world of Bail Bonds and Bounty Hunting. It has not recieved much press coverage, but California seems set on clamping down on Bondsman breaking the rules. Most of the action this week was in the northern part of the state, but LE has said that the sweep will continue south to San Diego. The charges are varied, but a common one is using inmates to solicit new buisness. Earlier this week a bit of a fight broke out online. The specifics are not relevent, but the questions it raises most certainly are. Airline pilots are very closely monitored, no booze, no drugs, even many presription drugs can get a pilot grounded. A plane is a  lethal weapon if used incorrectly. Guns are also lethal weapons. A Bondsman is a official of the court, not only must he obey the laws like everyone else, he or she are held to a higher standard than the man in the street. I am interested in hearing from the panel what they think is acceptable behaviour.