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In this show we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how The Forman movie treats Ken Kesey's book, how the filmmaker uses his kitchen sink realism lens in support of authenticity and why this movie earned its many accolades. We also try to diagnose McMurphy, wonder if Nurse Ratched was correctly seen as the villain of the movie, and much much more!Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy BurrowsFeaturing: Hillary WhiteHead over to our website to find out more! (uncutgemspodcast.com)Follow us on Twitter (@UncutGemsPod) and IG (@UncutGemsPod)Buy us a coffee over at Ko-Fi.com (ko-fi.com/uncutgemspod)Subscribe to our Patreon (patreon.com/uncutgemspod)
Neste episódio eu falo sobre não merecermos nada e ainda assim termos tudo que precisamos para a felicidade, sobre dignidade humana, sobre um vídeo interessantíssimo de uma vítima de tráfico sexual que adicionou evidência ao tema do episódio 93 falando de como homens e mulheres se abusam nesse mercado, sobre parasitagem emocional, e sobre minha maior teoria elitista psicológica baseada em Um Estranho no Ninho, um dos meus maiores insights dos últimos tempos. Falo (acredito que pela primeira vez) sobre o fato extremamente irritante de sempre acharem que uso drogas.Visite: https://kramericast.xyzDoe: https://kramericast.xyz/donate.htmlCrie conta no Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@Monk's:eEntre no espaço do Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#raro-e-diferente:matrix.orgCanal do Telegram: https://t.me/raroediferenteRedes sociais: https://kramericast.xyz/links.html
It's another busy edition of the podcast as hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill return to go over the latest in sports media news, ratings and more. It's the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"The guys discuss:More fallout from ESPN delaying the announcement of the Coflege Football Playoff's final bracket reveal and how Brett McMurphy of the Action Network (and former ESPN employee) broke the story that SMU had been included and Alabama was left out. The guys discuss and they also play a previous interview segment with McMurphy from our pod coverage, where he discusses how he utilizes sources and sifts through the attempts to lie or exaggerate to him.They also talk about ESPN getting criticism for not having any of their baseball people available on Monday morning after the Mets record free agent deal was signed with OF Juan Soto. And, Mike also discusses how he once broke a Philly MLB story that went national and how he doesn't want to ever do it, again.The guys go over the NFL ratings and also, how Thursday night football continues to excel for Amazon. They also discuss the amazing symmetry of the Cowboys blowing antoher game with a special teams blunder against the Bengals on a Monday night 2024, 31 years after the infamous "Leon Lett" Thanksgiving gaffe cost them a win against the Miami Dolphins.Mike also has more on the Eagles lockerroom having discontent and how injured player Brandon Graham got into hot water by talking about it on the radio/internet show, yet, the media is somehow being blamed.It's all part of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast" and make sure to follow/subscribe on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!
It's another busy edition of the podcast as hosts T.J. Rives and Mike Gill return to go over the latest in sports media news, ratings and more. It's the newest "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast!"The guys discuss:More fallout from ESPN delaying the announcement of the Coflege Football Playoff's final bracket reveal and how Brett McMurphy of the Action Network (and former ESPN employee) broke the story that SMU had been included and Alabama was left out. The guys discuss and they also play a previous interview segment with McMurphy from our pod coverage, where he discusses how he utilizes sources and sifts through the attempts to lie or exaggerate to him.They also talk about ESPN getting criticism for not having any of their baseball people available on Monday morning after the Mets record free agent deal was signed with OF Juan Soto. And, Mike also discusses how he once broke a Philly MLB story that went national and how he doesn't want to ever do it, again.The guys go over the NFL ratings and also, how Thursday night football continues to excel for Amazon. They also discuss the amazing symmetry of the Cowboys blowing antoher game with a special teams blunder against the Bengals on a Monday night 2024, 31 years after the infamous "Leon Lett" Thanksgiving gaffe cost them a win against the Miami Dolphins.Mike also has more on the Eagles lockerroom having discontent and how injured player Brandon Graham got into hot water by talking about it on the radio/internet show, yet, the media is somehow being blamed.It's all part of the "Last Word on Sports Media Podcast" and make sure to follow/subscribe on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc.!
We start off a new week with the latest in some brief sports media news and takes, as host T.J. Rives returns on the Monday edition of the "daily" of our podcasts.T.J. goes over the wild and exciting finishes of the college football championship games that included Georgia winning dramatically in OT (again) this time over Texas on ABC to get the SEC auto bid. That game will likely be the highest rated of the Saturday. This, despite the wild finishes for Oregon-Penn St in the Big Ten title game on CBS (for the first time) and Clemson-SMU, agains on ABC in primetime.Also, on Sunday morning, Action Network College Football insider Brett McMurphy (formerly of CBS Sports and of course, ESPN) revealed before the ESPN College Football Playoff reveal show that SMU had made the 12 team field, but Alabama had not. T.J. has more about McMurphy's tremendous abiltiy to break big college football news and how it's his job to do so.On Sunday, another huge slate of games in the NFL took place, incuding the Rams beating Buffalo in a high scoring, exciting game in the late Fox game from Los Angeles. But, the bigger broadcast news was that Tom Brady was fighting a bad voice for the game. T.J. has more about it.And, what reporter/outlet had the scoop first in Major League Baseball that prized outfielder free agent Juan Soto had agreed with the New York Mets Sunday night?We go over it all on the "LWOS Media Daily" and make sure to follow/subscribe to our feed on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc. !
We start off a new week with the latest in some brief sports media news and takes, as host T.J. Rives returns on the Monday edition of the "daily" of our podcasts.T.J. goes over the wild and exciting finishes of the college football championship games that included Georgia winning dramatically in OT (again) this time over Texas on ABC to get the SEC auto bid. That game will likely be the highest rated of the Saturday. This, despite the wild finishes for Oregon-Penn St in the Big Ten title game on CBS (for the first time) and Clemson-SMU, agains on ABC in primetime.Also, on Sunday morning, Action Network College Football insider Brett McMurphy (formerly of CBS Sports and of course, ESPN) revealed before the ESPN College Football Playoff reveal show that SMU had made the 12 team field, but Alabama had not. T.J. has more about McMurphy's tremendous abiltiy to break big college football news and how it's his job to do so.On Sunday, another huge slate of games in the NFL took place, incuding the Rams beating Buffalo in a high scoring, exciting game in the late Fox game from Los Angeles. But, the bigger broadcast news was that Tom Brady was fighting a bad voice for the game. T.J. has more about it.And, what reporter/outlet had the scoop first in Major League Baseball that prized outfielder free agent Juan Soto had agreed with the New York Mets Sunday night?We go over it all on the "LWOS Media Daily" and make sure to follow/subscribe to our feed on Apple/Spreaker/Spotify, etc. !
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“Ya been cream pied” The panel of peril are out shooting some hoops, only stopping to berate their teammates for their lack of reflexes and general playing skill. Giving up they retire to the indoor communal area to watch this week's film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975). McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is a ne'er-do-well with a cunning scheme to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence in a mental health institution. Once safely ensconced in his new abode, McMurphy becomes chummy with his fellow patients: Billy (Brad Dourif), Cheswick (Sydney Lassick), Chief (Will Sampson) and aaaaalll the rest. But his plan for the easy life and swift release soon hits a roadblock in the form of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXrcDonY-B8 ********PLOT SPOILER ALERT******** Ratched is a bit of an ol' passive aggressive, control freak sort, you see. The majority of her patients are voluntary, yet she rules over them with an iron fist – controlling every aspect of their daily routines, and by extension their lives. Can McMurphy escape the confines of his prison by a different name, or does the good nurse have his number? Just what did the panel think of this week's movie, pray tell? How can they improve upon the evil scheme? And who will be christened this week's most diabolical? https://twitter.com/diabolicalpod https://www.instagram.com/diabolicalpod/ https://www.facebook.com/diabolicalpod Email diabolicalpod@gmail.com
Supporter Stephen had picked The Conversation last time around and we're going back to the 70's again with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest this week. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), directed by Milos Forman, was a landmark production that brought Ken Kesey's celebrated novel to the screen. The film's production was marked by numerous challenges, including securing the rights to Kesey's novel, which had been previously adapted into a successful stage play. Forman collaborated closely with screenwriters Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman to adapt the complex narrative into a compelling screenplay. Additionally, casting the lead role of Randle McMurphy was a significant task, with Jack Nicholson ultimately chosen for his charismatic and dynamic portrayal of the rebellious anti-hero. The film also featured a talented ensemble cast, including Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched and Danny DeVito, who contributed to the film's authenticity and emotional depth. Filming took place primarily at the Oregon State Hospital, lending an authentic and immersive backdrop to the story's psychiatric setting. Forman's meticulous attention to detail and his ability to balance the film's darkly comedic elements with its underlying social commentary contributed to its critical and commercial success. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" became a cultural phenomenon, earning widespread acclaim, including five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Nicholson. Its enduring legacy as a cinematic masterpiece continues to resonate with audiences, cementing its place in film history as one of the greatest achievements in American cinema. If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, so become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: Randle McMurphy is a rebellious and charismatic inmate who feigns mental illness to avoid hard labor in prison. McMurphy is transferred to a psychiatric hospital where he clashes with the tyrannical Nurse Ratched and befriends his fellow patients, including the meek Billy Bibbit and the silent Chief Bromden. McMurphy's defiance and unorthodox behavior inspire the patients to rebel against Nurse Ratched's oppressive rule, leading to a dramatic confrontation that exposes the power dynamics and injustices within the institution. thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/vhsstrikesback --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thevhsstrikesback/support
JJ & Alex are joined by Action Networks Brett McMurphy to figure out how the bowl situation will straightened out with the Pac-12 going away. So, the question is what will happen to those bowl tie ins? Also, McMurphy teases his first bowl projections that has Utah in a good place.
Episode 61: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST For this week's podcast we watched the 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Directed by Milos Foreman, this adaptation of Ken Kesey's highly regarded novel stars Jack Nicholson as Randle (yes, that's how it's spelled) McMurphy. In one of his most iconic roles, Nicholson's antiestablishment beatnik is sent to a mental health facility to assess his competency to serve his prison sentence. He clashes with the facility's rigid warden, Nurse Ratched, played here by Louise Rainer. Brad Douriff, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Lloyd play the other inmates with whom McMurphy bonds. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won Best Picture in a stacked year, and ranks here as number 9 on our countdown.* Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court. Come back next week for the number eight, Billy Wilder's 1960 masterpiece The Apartment. *What is this list? We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different lists that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 4 chapter 4, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Nurse is livid! The Night Aide in a cupboard, a Woman smuggled in, pills all over the floor, and the Nurse's files all over the floor. McMurphy looks like he is sick, and even when The Nurse leaves to call the main building, McMurphy claims that he is too sick and hungover to escape, so he just closes his eyes and feigns sleep. Harding however isn't going to accept this, and tries even harder to convince McMurphy to leave, but this is in vain. The Aides eventually take a roll call, and suddenly everyone remembers where Billy Bibbit is hiding. The nurse is angrier than ever and she and the aides go door to door on the ward looking for him. After going to nearly every room, only the seclusion room is left, with all of the patients following. The door is swung open, and Billy and the Girl are thrown into light. When the nurse reacts, it seems as though his stutter has fully disappeared; he gives very quick responses and talks like he has never stuttered in his life. Candy is looking for her clothes, but the nurse pays her very little attention; her eyes are fixed on Billy. He eventually stands up straight, and the Nurse launches into her attack. She tells Billy she is disappointed in him, but that his mother will be even more upset than she is. This breaks Billy, his stutter returning instantly with tears streaming down his face. After Billy's break down, she takes him to the Doctor's office where he can calm down, away from the people who tricked him.Police and all sorts of people turn up to write down what happened the previous night, and when the Doctor finally turns up, The Nurse talks him through the events of the evening, finally telling him about Billy. The Doctor goes right to there, and is greeted with horror, screaming out for the Nurse. Everyone on the Ward knows what has happened…When the Nurse come back, she lays into McMurphy, telling him exactly what Billy did, and how it is McMurphy's fault. “First Charles Cheswick, and now William Bibbit, I hope that you are finally satisfied.” She leaves him in the day room and heads to the Nurses station and McMurphy follows. Harding, the Chief, Sefelt, Martini, everyone knows that they cannot stop him, because they were the ones that had been forcing him to do it this whole time… He lunges for the Nurse through her glass window and makes his final attack, removing the Nurse, for a time, from the ward. When she comes back, she decides to stop McMurphy for good…Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.inSupport the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 4 chapter 3, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Chief, for the first time ever is able to shake off the fog after his shock therapy in less than a day. McMurphy was given another 3 shocks because he still refuses to apologise to Nurse Ratched. He says to Chief that the shocks are doing nothing more than charging up his battery, but Chief Bromden sees through his tough-guy guise. Chief Bromden is lead away from disturbed ward back to his usual one, and everyone turns to greet him at the door, like he was a celebrity. There have been rumours that McMurphy has been shrugging off all of the EST's he has been given, and the patients are glued to every word that Chief Bromden is saying. The following day, Nurse Ratched brings up how McMurphy is reacting to EST, and suggests that more serious methods must be used. She also realises that while McMurphy is off the ward, he can become a heroic legend, that will never die. Some of the guys realise that as soon as he is back on the ward, Nurse Ratched will shock McMurphy every time he comes out of his stupor, so they plan for him to escape the ward; the plan is a no go however, because it is the day that Candy is supposed to sneak back on the ward to have a date with Billy Bibbit.There is another meeting in the day, and the Nurse suggests to the Doctor that McMurphy should be subject to a more serious treatment. McMurphy joins in on this and says that maybe they should increase the voltage so that he can become electric. The Big Nurse corrects McMurphy however, saying that she means to give him a lobotomy… After the meeting McMurphy goes with Billy Bibbit to plan out the evenings “Activities.” The Chief then goes on to explain Billy's situation. He is actually not a young kid, and is in his early 30's. He has been subjected to a overly protective and deluded mother, who believes it impossible for Billy to be as old as he claims. He would probably be fine if he could get away from his mother and just live as a normal adult… It's tragic.As the evening progresses, the men start to get the feeling that Candy isn't coming, but after turning all of the lights on to try and let Candy know where the men are, they hear a faint tapping on the day room window; it's Candy, and she has brought along Sandy, the girl who bailed on the fishing trip, along too. The Party Begins…Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentiSupport the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 4 chapter 2, narrated by Isaac BirchallMcMurphy and Chief Bromden have been sent up to the disturbed ward, the are crazed men all over the place, and there are mutterings and gnashing of teeth whispering all around. In the Day room on disturbed, McMurphy tries to establish himself as Top Dog, but it's different up there, and the straight jackets don't really help. McMurphy starts telling the men about the fight with the Aides, but as time goes on their wounds start to hurt more and more. They are eventually taken into the nurse's ward, and it feel strange for the two to be treated with respect and care. The nurse asks who attacked them, and after they answer, she tells them that she feels that War Nurses shouldn't be able to reign supreme over their wards; they want to run them like war hospitals. Then then goes on to say that both McMurphy and Chief Bromden won't be staying too long, Nurse Ratched will determine the length of their stay. There is a huge alarm that sounds in the morning to wake the patients, and McMurphy and Bromden are called to the nurse's station. When they get there, they are given 3 sedative pills. Both the men refuse their tablets. After a couple of minutes or so, the Big Nurse and the 2 Aides that were beaten up arrive, and Nurse Ratched tells McMurphy that she has decided that he should be Subject to Electro-Shock Therapy, unless he could apologise for what he did. McMurphy starts making jokes about what the nurse is asking him to do. Both McMurphy and Bromden are led over to the EST room, and there is a sound behind the door like a swarm of bees taking off. They are led into the room and McMurphy can see that Chief Bromden is afraid, so he offers to get shocked first, laying on the cross shaped table, and wearing a crown of silver thorns. SHOCK… Then it is the chief's turn…Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 4 chapter 1, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe nurse has planned her revenge of McMurphy, and she very slowly starts to spread the seed of doubt and mistrust amongst the patients. She wants them to start wondering “What is in it for him? Why does he do all of this stuff for me?” She starts by sticking the bank statements of all of the inmates onto the wall, and this gets all of the men wondering more and more why he does sorts of things. She then tries to bring up in the meeting everybody's opinions on McMurphy, but because he was present, her attack didn't get off to a start. So, she decides that the best way forward is to make sure that he isn't there for the next meeting. She starts probing at the men, asking them about him, and eventually the men come around to having doubting thoughts about their “hero;” the only person to try and defend McMurphy is Billy Bibbit. The Nuse goes on to list off all of the things that McMurphy has “given” to the group, pointing out that Mac hasn't put up any collateral for his bets, as opposed to everyone else. Later in the day, the patients go on to say that while they don't agree with what the big nurse was saying, it is hard to argue that McMurphy hasn't made a profit off of them. Harding then pipes up and asks what the problem is. Even if what the nurse said is correct, what is the problem with it. Billy however isn't in agreement with Harding until later in the day, when McMurphy tries to convince him to spend some money on him and Candy.Chief and McMurphy are taking the tables into the Tub Room for the meeting, and he manages to convince Chief to try and lift the huge panel, and though it seems almost impossible, the chief is able to lift it. Then after the meeting, McMurphy manages to make a bet with the men that the chief could lift the panel, so all of them gather around the panel and watch the chief lift it, losing all of their cash. The Chief feels like he has been used and runs away from McMurphy and the other guy.The patients that went on the fishing trip have been ordered to take disinfection showers, and they are forced to take degrading showers while the Aides spray them down with power hoses and soap. When the Aides get to George, they take it too far, spraying him all over as hard as they can. At this, McMurphy snaps, and launches into an attack on the Aides…Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.coSupport the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Part by Ken Kesey 3 chapter 3, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Men get to the dock, and they are all getting excited, there is a problem however. The girl Sandy, who didn't show up, was the one who had the waver, so the captain is refusing to let the men get onto the ship they rented. The other ship hands on the boat take a look at the group of patients, and eventually notice Candy and start jeering at her. McMurphy offers to call the proper authorities from the boat house to sort the situation out, and both he and the captain head in to make the call, leaving the patients, the doctor, and Candy out by themselves. The Boat Hands' heckling gets more aggressive towards Candy, but the men have lost their swagger now that McMurphy has gone away. All of the men feel a huge wave of guilt wash over them, and Candy walks as far away from the group as possible. McMurphy comes out of the boat house very quickly and tells the men to get into the boat while the captain finalises the details on the phone. He calls to George to stat the engine, while McMurphy starts to untie the ropes. As soon as the boat is ready to set off, the door of the bait shop slams open and the captain steams out towards the boat. McMurphy is stealing the boat…The men set out to sea, and McMurphy and Candy head inside the boat to “check for leaks.” After the men get past the jetty, a wave of calm passes over Chief Bromden, and after a mile or so, the men start to set out their fishing lines. George pushes the boat out to sea “where the real fish are,” and after an hour Sefelt's fishing pole starts to pull. The men weren't all planning on fishing, but after seeing Sefelt's line snap, all of the men want to have a go. The men have the most fun that they have had in years, and everyone but the Doctor has caught a fish, but he has been fighting with one for what seems like hours. It's a giant Flounder, and it's going to require all of the men to help bring it in.The men eventually start to head back to shore, and once in, they have a brief fight with the sea captain, but eventually the tension fades, and they all sit around drinking and telling stories until it is time to head back to the hospital… Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 3 chapter 2, narrated by Isaac BirchallWhen Bromden awakes, he runs out of bed to have a look at the signup sheet to see if McMurphy had really added his name to the list. In the dorm, McMurphy is trying to rouse everyone, telling them to take note of the chief, out of bed and getting everything ready. When they go to the mess hall, they still need another person for the trip and after a few minutes the last person comes forward. George, who the aides call “Rub-a-dub” comes to McMurphy and tries to give him some tips of deep-sea fishing, mentioning that he has spent a lot of time on ships and McMurphy suggests that he joins them, and because he has so much knowledge, even suggests that he be their captain. As the morning goes on, the “Aunts” show up, or only 1 does… a girl called Candy, and she tells McMurphy that the other girl “Sandy” isn't going to come because she has gotten married. This means that the trip is off; there is no way that 10 guys can fit into 1 car. McMurphy needs to find a solution, and as the Doctor comes into the day room, McMurphy has found his mark. Somehow, McMurphy manages to not only convince the Doctor that he should come on the trip but gets him excited about it. The men and Candy all head out into the car park, pile into their cars, and set off on their adventure, the first time many of the patients have been outside of the ward since they entered it. The men get started off and pull into a gas station to fill up before the journey. The Doctor handles all of the transaction, but slowly, McMurphy gets the idea that the attendants are trying to scam the cowardly Doctor, and he looks to intervene. McMurphy pulls down the roof of the convertible, and yells his head off at the attendant, warning him that all of the people in the car are lunatics who are ready to attack at the drop of a hat. This bolsters the confidence of the men, and as they set off they are confidently jesting and gibing at each other, and McMurphy starts to feel like the boys are starting to heal a little. Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopifSupport the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 3 chapter 1, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Nurse is planning her revenge after McMurphy broke the window, she knows that she has all the time in the world. McMurphy, following his victory, has come back into full swing. He managed to convince the doctor to allow the men to form a basketball team, and he makes sure to be as vocal as possible in all of the meetings. Since the breaking of the window, the aides added a sheet of cardboard to cover the hole but the nurse just sits there behind the cardboard like it wasn't there at all. McMurphy and the Nurse though are waiting to see who will crack first, they are speaking in the politest way to each other, and McMurphy has finally had enough time on the ward to request an accompanied absence on the ward. The new window has been installed, and the moment that the nurse tells McMurphy that his request has been denied, he breaks the new one, claiming that he never saw them put it in. The men organise a basketball game, and two of the Aides play for the other team and in a scramble for the ball, McMurphy cracks one of them as hard as he can in the nose with his elbow. After seeing McMurphy get more and more confident in his defiance of the Nurse, the other men start to get confident also, and they try and test their limit with the nurse as well. Eventually the basketball breaks, and McMurphy decides that it is time to go fishing instead, and for some reason, McMurphy's request to take the other patients on a fishing trip is approved. The Big Nurse tries to convince the other patients that the seas are going to be very rough but some of the patients sign up, nonetheless. The day before the trip, McMurphy still needs 2 more men to sign up. The Chief wants to sign up, but not only does he not have enough money to chip in for the boat, if he were to sign up, then everyone would know that he could hear, and has been hearing everything. The chief starts to think back to when he first realised that people treated him like he was deaf.Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 7, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe boys are walking back from Ward 1, and Chief Bromden wants to talk to McMurphy, he wants to tell him that he shouldn't worry about all the things on his mind but just before he opens his mouth, McMurphy runs up ahead to ask one of the Aides to stop by the Canteen. The chief starts to get a ringing in his ears, like everything is sharp and clear, but like something is going to happen. In the meeting that afternoon, the Big Nurse is testing Sefelt, and he is raging about the medications that he has to take. McMurphy is strangely sitting upright and attentive, watching everything that is going on in the room. This causes the chief's ringing to get louder, and he starts to grip down on his chair as hard as possible. At the end of the meeting, the nurse looks over at McMurphy, and putting on a sad face, she tells the men that she is going to take away their access to the Tub Room as punishment for the house duties being avoided so that they can watch baseball…Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers tostop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 6, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe men are leaded over to building 1 where they are going to all be x-rayed. Across from the men is the large metal riveted door where EST is performed. There is screaming coming from the inside, and Chief Bromden is gripping onto the bench harder than ever. McMurphy pipes up and asks Harding what is happening in that room, Harding tells him that they are being given a trip to the moon that is paid for with Brain Cells instead of Money. Harding tells McMurphy the history of EST and tells him that it isn't just used to scare and hurt patients, it is a real form of therapy that has been used to cure plenty of patients over the years. McMurphy isn't sure about this and likens it to the death penalty, and Harding half agrees with him, saying that EST changes you; no one is ever the same after EST, and no one ever wants another one. McMurphy then states that he doesn't really understand what is going on in the ward. He then asks Harding about Lobotomies, and Harding informs him that though the nurse legally cannot decide what happens to patients, she is the one who has the final say on all punishments. McMurphy then goes to say that he thinks that just getting rid of the nurse probably wouldn't change too much but he can't fully explain it. Chief wants to go and tell McMurphy that he is onto it, that he has understood what Chief put together long ago, but he cannot speak, not when everyone thinks him to be deaf and dumb. After some more back and forth between the guys, McMurphy finally tells the guys that he is fed up with them pushing him to bug the nurse, and Harding's only excuse is that he forgot that McMurphy was committed. McMurphy since decided that he is just going to play it safe to guarantee that he gets released in a timely manner. Harding agrees with McMurphy, but also tells him that McMurphy is risking far more than the other patients, he tells him that McMurphy is one of the very few patients that is committed; the rest are voluntary patients. This makes McMurphy lose his head!Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 5, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Men are taken to the library, and Chief Bromden is distracted by the mechanical engineering books on the shelves, reminding him of his years in college. After a few minutes however the door opens, and one of the Aides escorts in Harding's wife. Harding invites McMurphy over to meet her, introducing her as his “nemesis”. McMurphy swaggers over and Harding starts to tell his wife about how McMurphy had a victory over the nurse, but as he gets excited his hands start to dance in front of him. His wife makes a harsh comment about his laugh and Harding seems to shy away into himself. She then asks him for a smoke, and Harding refuses, claiming that the rationing of the boxes by the nurse has made chivalry impossible. Harding then starts to correct his wife on her grammar, and she gets very frustrated at this claiming, and starts talking about Harding's friends that keep dropping in to see if he is free. Harding retorts, asking if they are “really” there for him or if they are there for her. She gets up and leaves rather abruptly. Harding then asks McMurphy what he thought of her, and McMurphy blows up at Harding, claiming that everyone is trying to get his goat.Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 3, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe guys are getting more confident since McMurphy's victory over the nurse. They are bringing up every gripe that they have ever felt in the ward. They start to question the stupidity of all of the rules and start to take them literally; if you cannot be alone by yourself, then supposedly you have to take 7 other guys with you to the bathroom as well. The men then bring up the confiscation of their smokes, and the Doctor and Big Nurse have a small spat over it. McMurphy is feeling at the top until they take a trip to the pool. McMurphy is relaxing on the side of the pool and talking with one of the patients who is acting as “Lifeguard” and is arguing about how McMurphy believes that the hospital is far better than the work camp. The lifeguard replies “well at least when you are convicted of a crime you have a release date.” McMurphy didn't know about this, he thought that if he was sentenced to 4 months in a work camp, then he would also spend 4 months in the hospital, but this isn't the case; it is the nurse who decides when he is released…Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 2, Narrated by Isaac BirchallFollowing the staff meeting McMurphy goes full steam ahead continuing to annoy and anger the Aides and Staff, but the Big Nurse puts on a façade of calm and diplomacy. In all of his duties, he gives the bare minimum trying harder and harder to get the Big Nurse to crack again. The boys keep sitting in front of the TV in the day room and listen to McMurphy telling stories, showing that he can continue to be strong no matter what the nurse tries to pull on him. McMurphy's influence is starting to affect the other patients too, he is making them all feel a bit better, showing the men that you can't judge a book by its cover.The Fog Machine seems to be broken, and Chief Bromden is seeing clearly for the first time in years. He can actually look out of the windows on the ward at night. Looking out he saw a wild dog run around sniffing in squirrel holes and enjoying his life to the fullest. He then hears a group of geese flying towards him, and he notices the dog looking for the geese too. He dreams of being free like the dog, and just as the geese fly off one of the night aides and the nurses come and take him back to bed. Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 2 chapter 1, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Chief is looking through the Nurse's station window with all of the other Acutes. For the first time, she is getting a feeling of what it is like to be constantly watched. She has been made to lose control, and she knows that even the aides and nurses are watching her. The Chief always cleans the meeting room when they have a staff meeting, but since raising his hand for McMurphy, won't they all know that he can hear, and has been able to hear all of this time. One of the Aides comes over to Chief Bromden and the Chief seems to think that the aide “Knows” that he can hear. The Chief tries to play deaf again, and the Aide seems to believe him. Bromden makes his way to the meeting room and starts to clean while everyone is making themselves coffee. The Big Nurse seems to have recomposed herself since McMurphy's win, but she is very suspicious of the Chief. The meeting starts with the Nurse not saying a word, but with the Doctor leading the discussion. He asks what the assistant nurses and doctors think about the new patient McMurphy and what should be done with him. They all go into their own theories about his psyche and what they think about his effect on the other patients.The Nurse finally steps in and tells the men that they are all wrong. The only person that McMurphy cares about is himself and since he has been committed, they can keep him locked up until they break him, and the moment he finds out that he is going to be in the ward until the Big Nurse decides he is ready to leave, he will calm down.Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
Jason Powers (@jposports) gives you the latest insight of college football from around the Sunshine State.Brett McMurphy, CFB Insider from the Action Network joins to talk the effect of Coach Prime, surprise teams around the country, Billy Napier, Florida State and previewing the big games from around the country. Ehsan Kassim, Noles reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, previews Clemson - Florida State showdown in Death Valley on Saturday and recaps FSU's escape from Chestnut Hill & BC.Jason recaps the state action from last week:Terrible decision at BCFlorida's big win & late game altercationUSF's near upset vs Alabama & marked improvementFAU loses QBFIU with another WUCF/Miami roll
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 14, narrated by Isaac BirchallChief Bromden recounts some of his military life, and how the hospital came into possession of a Fog Machine. These powerful machines were used heavily throughout the 2nd World War and helped the soldiers sneak onto enemy lines without having to worry about being taken out. You could see no more than 3ft in front of you; “Below the belt you would just disappear.” So that you could see you had to strain your eyes so that when you finally did see anything, it was in the clearest focus. Focusing to see took a lot of effort though, and it was so easy to get lost within it that Chief Bromden, once he got onto the Ward would just wander around, hoping to find something. Every time, no matter how much he thought he wandered the other way, he would manage to find the EST Machine Room where he received all of his treatments. After a while Bromden realised that it was easier to just sit in the fog and keep quiet. Since McMurphy's arrival, the fog has been rolling in thicker and thicker, hoping to catch him off guard. The Compressors start up just as the meeting is about to start. The Nurse wants to have a staff meeting to discuss McMurphy and his continuation as a patient on their ward. The Fog rolls in more and more and it eventually becomes so thick that it lifts the chief out of his chair, and he lays floating there above everyone else in the room while Billy Bibbit is being interrogated by the Nurse. Bromden goes on floating while all the sound around him becomes muffled by the fog. A chair comes floating into his view but no matter how hard Chief Bromden tries, he cannot float over to it; he is becoming very scared. Col. Matterson comes floating into the Chief's view, and as he starts to ramble in his preacher like way, Chief Bromden finally starts to understand what his ramblings mean. The other patients come by and slowly the Chief starts to understand all of their problems and woes. He Understands the patients like never before.McMurphy then finally comes out of the Fog, and it seems to the Chief like he is bringing people with him. He brings up TV time again to watch baseball, and gets finally manages, with help from the Chief to win a majority vote. Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 13, narrated by Isaac BirchallBromden is looking at a picture of a man flyfishing in the mountains, wishing he were there too. He imagines that he is sweeping his broom into the painting and sits on a rock to take in the whole world around him. He reflects on what it was like at the previous hospital that he was in. He says that things have improved since the old days; they have pictures on the walls, and televisions.The fog starts to roll in, and Bromden starts to realise that the reason that McMurphy can't understand the other patients is because he doesn't understand how safe it is to just sit back and hide in the fog.Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark andprotect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 12, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Men are in the new Tub Room Day Room playing a game of monopoly but with real money; 1 cent per game dollar. The game is going slow because Martini is seeing pieces and dice that don't actually exist. The game continues with the men not really getting any further on.At another point, Bromden is describing the fog, It seems to him that McMurphy pretends not to see the fog, and that he is able to keep his cool by pretending to be overly polite to all of the staff. Just once he loses his cool. At one of the group meetings, the men refuse to back McMurphy up. He had been taking bets on the World Series of Baseball all week and suggests to the group that they change the TV time so that they can watch the game. This stuns McMurphy because everyone has bet on the game; If they all have money on the results, then why wont they vote with him! After the meeting, back in the Tub Room, Billy approaches McMurphy, and tells him that the men are afraid to vote against anything that the Nurse wants because they are going to be here a lot longer than he is; they don't want to be punished later on. The day before the World Series is to start, McMurphy tries one last time to convince the men to vote with him…Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
Is Nurse Ratched one of the greatest villains of all time or employee of the month? This week our hosts band together to discuss Ken Kesey's classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. They diagnose if Nurse Ratchet really intended to help the men on the ward or if McMurphy's infectious, yet questionable spirit was the true force to help these insecure inmates find their voice. For Extra Credit, Evanna Lynch who plays Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series reminds these Millennial downers to see the book as hopeful and why laughing keeps us all from going "plumb crazy".
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 11, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe boys head to the breakfast hall and McMurphy is laughing a mile a minute after his small victory over Nuse Ratched. He creates a fake story about he and Billy Bibbit running wild around a city together chasing after girls. None of the boys give him the response he is looking for though. McMurphy instead goes to tell the boys about how good things are inside the hospital when compared to his life on the work farm; in the hospital they get orange juice, and bacon and eggs, and at the work farm all they got was a burnt potato cake thing. After finishing his food, McMurphy gets up to head to the day room but is turned away, being told that they can only leave at 7:30. While waiting and watching the clock, he starts to fidget and decides to make a bet with the guys that he can hit the clock across the room with a pat of butter. He hits the wall instead, and instead of giving in he makes a new bet on how long it will take for the butter to hit the floor.In the day room the music is still blaring, and McMurphy finally goes over to the nurse's station to ask to have it turned off, but the Nurse, with her stone set face just tells him that if she were to turn the music down for him, it would be inconsiderate for the other patients who are harder of hearing. She thinks that she has had him beat with this response, but he then suggests that the tub room gets opened up as a 2nd day room for the men to play cards in. She refuses again, and McMurphy tries to keep his cool, but “The War” has begun between the two…Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 10, narrate by Isaac BirchallBromden is awake after his nightmare, and he finds that McMurphy is not only awake but singing! No one has ever sung on the Ward before, and everyone is wondering why the Aides haven't shut him up. Why is he treated differently, if the other patients were to act like McMurphy, they would be shut up in 2 seconds, but McMurphy is different. Maybe the reason that the Aides don't shut McMurphy down is because they know McMurphy is out of control.McMurphy is wearing nothing but a towel, and he walks over to one of the Aides and asks him for some toothpaste, but the Aide responds that the cabinet is closed until 6:30 and McMurphy jokes with him about it being a strange thing to keep under lock and key. McMurphy goes on his way back to the washroom and starts up his singing again until the Big Nurse comes onto the Ward. She comes towards the washroom where she can “correct” his behaviour, but just as she is about to entre McMurphy cuts her off. She tells him that he cannot just walk around the ward in a towel, so McMurphy complies…Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 8, narrated by Isaac BirchallChief Bromden narrates more how he perceives the power of the Nurse on the Ward. He believes that she has the power to slow down or speed up time just by turning a dial on her control panel. She can make sure that no one has too much time with a visiting family member, or she can slow them down so that the men just have to sit alone with their thoughts for days and weeks on end to guarantee that the men suffer longer and worse than before. There is a tape that plays on loop in the day room. The music is just quiet enough to zone it out if you have been on the ward long enough, but loud enough to make any new patient start to lose their mind. McMurphy is playing cards with some of the other Acutes, and he is getting a bit antsy with the music playing over their heads. Harding tells McMurphy that pretty much everyone has zoned the music out, and Cheswick chimes in to say that the only time the music isn't playing is when they are sleeping. Harding prods McMurphy joking that something as small as some music is going to him lose his bet against the patients. Chief then goes to describe how McMurphy plays cards. He is a true conman; he is able to lead the men into the game with his talking, drawling, and laughing, and is able to keep the men entertained enough to win all of their packets of smokes, and then at the last moment let them win back their smokes to guarantee that they keep playing.As the night goes on, the lights get dimmed, and everyone has to make their way to the nurse's station to get their medication. After a brief altercation, the nurse's station closes early and it becomes the first night in years that Chief Bromden has been to bed unmedicated.Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389 Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389 *COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr *SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreads TWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
Welcome back to Analyze Scripts, where a psychiatrist and a therapist analyze what Hollywood gets right and wrong about mental health. Today, we are joined by triple board certified psychiatist Dr. Sulman Mirza AKA @thekicksshrink. We are blown away by the lasting impact of this movie from 1975 on the field of psychiatry and psychology. We discuss the sociopathy of Randle McMurphy and the iconic villain, Nurse Ratchet. We wrap it up with our frustration in the field, both in the past and present...like with lobotomies, ETC depictions, ODD diagnoses and more. We hope you enjoy! Instagram Tik Tok Website Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Hi, I'm Dr. Katrina Fieri, a psychiatrist. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And I'm Portia Pendleton, a licensed clinical social worker. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And this is Analyze Scripts, a podcast where two shrinks analyze the depiction of mental health in movies and TV shows. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Our hope is that you learn some legit info about mental health while feeling like you're chatting with your girlfriends. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: There is so much misinformation out there and it drives us nuts. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And if someday we pay off our student loans or land a sponsorship, like. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: With a lay flat airline or a major beauty brand, even better. So sit back, relax, grab some popcorn and your DSM Five and enjoy. Welcome back to Analyze scripts. We are so excited you're joining us today for an episode about the classic, I guess I think in a Bad Way film, one Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. We're thrilled to be joined by Dr. Sulman Merza, who is a triple board certified psychiatrist with expertise in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. I would call that a triple threat. He completed his psychiatry residency at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. His Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Maryland and Shepherd Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He's had the privilege to work in a variety of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units with medical capabilities to the classrooms of Baltimore City Public schools. He's learned from some of the leaders and pioneers in the field of psychiatry, and his experiences have allowed him to develop a deep understanding of neuropsychiatric conditions in both children and adults. And he has a keen knack for the Internet, and you can find him at the Kick Shrink on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. And I have to say, Sulan, I love your videos. I feel like they're very visually appealing. But also the content is so great. You really have a way of putting out a lot of really accurate, detailed information in a really entertaining, easy to digest way, and I think that is really hard to do. So I just want to give you some props for that. I don't know if we still say props, but I feel like I'm really impressed. We can still say that. No, I'm really honestly impressed. I feel like you have themes where you do medication. Saturday, I'm not going to remember all the names off the top of my head, but then there's like, historical lessons. There's a lot of good info about ADHD I've told you offline. I love your stuff about WWE. I think it's really great. So I hope everyone goes to check them out. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. Thank you both for having me on here. Really excited I came across you guys, I was like, oh, my God, I love the movies and entertainment and pop culture. And I was like, this is and I love kind of bringing psychiatry psychology into all of that because so much of that is present. So I was like, let's see if we can collaborate on something. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. No, we're thrilled. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And we chose this movie and book. So the book came out in 1962 with the movie 1975. I had never seen this movie, but I had heard of it, which I think is part of our discussion with how powerful this was that kind of shaping people's views of psychiatry inpatient care and treatments. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right, right. I think it's so true. We were talking about with Dr. Jesse Gold in our most recent episode about season two of Yellow Jackets, which has another awful scene about ECT. Again, just how this film has permeated through our culture. Even if you haven't seen it, like, you're saying you haven't seen it, but you know of it, and it's like it's had this really long lasting, unfortunate impact, which is ironic because apparently it won a Bazillion. Academy Awards, made a lot of money, it was very well received, it won all these awards, and yet it was awful in terms of its portrayal of mental health care. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. The history of film, it's one of the few movies that has gotten has won the big five awards, right. Best picture, best director, best actor, best actress and then best adapted screenplay. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: In history. I think there's only this and I think maybe one or two other movies that have won all of those big five. And then I think when AFI American Film Institute does their top hundred films, or top hundred, whatever, this is always one of those top movies. I think Nurse Ratchet will talk about her in a bit. She's gone down as one of the top ten villains in film history of all time, right up there with Hannibal Lecter and another psychiatrist and Darth Vader. So it's like Darth Vader and Hannibal Ectos. You can see how powerful this is in our culture and our history. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah, that's so true. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And the name so right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Like, people say things are ratchet, like, oh, that's so ratchet. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And I was like, Is that from this? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: That's a great question. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I don't know, like, Nurse Ratchet or like, even again, like, not seeing the film. It's pretty old right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: At this point. What's, 30 coming up in 50 years? Portia Pendleton LCSW: It's still impacting today in some very strange ways that I think people have no idea about. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. Isn't that fascinating that it's had such a long lasting effect? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. So again, when I watched it the other day, I was like, man, first of all, I was like, this movie is like almost 50 years old, right. Seeing the cast members, I was like, oh, my God, this person is gone. This person is dead. This person is dead. And for a lot of these actors in there, some of them were like christopher Lloyd, I think, made his view in this movie. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yes. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Billy the character, Brad Durh, who played Billy Bibbitt, that was like his movie debut. You see a young Danny DeVito in there. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I didn't even catch that until the end credits, I was like, oh my God, that was Danny DeVito. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: That was Danny DeVito. Yeah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Was this Jack Nicholson's first movie or. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: I'm imagining was I think he was pretty established by that time, but I think this was the one maybe he won his first award for and the one that really was like, oh, this guy is a superstar now. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. Portia Pendleton LCSW: So first impressions? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: You said you were not pleased. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I mean, I don't think very much. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: You know, what's interesting is we just recorded and we'll have released an episode about Girl Interrupted, and then we're watching this one and I was like, oh, this is so fascinating because it's like similar time periods and they're both on inpatient hospital units. And I thought it just is interesting, the timing. Know, with Girl Interrupted, we really focus on borderline personality disorder and Winona Ryder's character, know, some antisocial personality disorder discussion with Angelina Jolie's character. And again, here we're finding the male view of antisocial personality disorder with Jack Nicholson's character, Randall McMurphy. So it was just interesting to sort of see again how they depicted an inpatient psychiatric unit, which I thought the environment was pretty accurate for those times. And still today it hasn't changed much. But I was struck immediately by, again, the nurses wearing their white clothes, which again, accurate for the time, not so much these days. All the orderlies I felt like were going to burst into a barbershop quartet song or serve me some ice cream with their little bow ties and stuff. But I feel like overall, when I rewatch this movie, it just makes me so sad to just see sort of how they portray the coercive nature of mental health treatment, especially ECT, the medication, so everything feels so punitive. That I think makes me really sad watching it as a psychiatrist and I don't think is accurate based on my experiences inpatient units. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, especially for today. Again, this was before my time. This is before I was born that this movie came out. No way to really tell what it was like, but it's this bizarre feeling of like, man, this is the image that has been there and permeated the culture of what this was. And I think when we were probably before enter our residency, and we're like, you get a little bit scared of going on the psychiatric floor for the first time as a med student, you're like, oh my God, what's it going to be like? Again, for those of us who have not been on an inpatient psychiatric floor, you're like, what is it going to be like? How are people going to be? Is it going to be like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? And then you get in there and you're like, oh, wait, it's not like that. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right? Yeah. I thought even the patients on the unit, the way they were depicted, I just thought was very stigmatizing and inhumane. And inaccurate. It felt like I had a hard time figuring out what each of the people like, what their diagnoses were, and they just sort of came across as being I don't know, how would you describe them? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Some of them were caricatures, right? I think we had the one patient who had been lobotomized who was just kind of there as the quote unquote vegetable. And then you have the know, the one guy, older guy who's just kind of dancing the entire time. You have Mr. Harding, I think is the closeted homosexual. And then you have some know, Billy Bibbitt is like the Stutterer. So again, you have these kind of caricatures that show up in you know, it's like, is it good? Is it bad? And not always. I think something from the book that's always just kind of lost in people is I think, if I remember correctly, I read the book, like, in high school, and I quickly did like a Wikipedia before this, just to kind of refresh a little bit. Yeah. And I was like, the book is told from the point of view of Chief, right, who in the book is a paranoid schizophrenic. Right. You have all this other he's got these conspiracy theories and this kind of bizarre delusions of how the world is being run, which none of that comes. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Across in Totally Lost. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, he's totally depicted as like, oh, he's just this quote unquote Indian, right, native American that can't talk. And it's one of the worst kind of things I think we've seen as psychiatrists or in the field is you get consults on people who are non English speaking and people are like, what's wrong with this person? They're not understanding what I'm saying. You know what? Again, it's just like, oh, you just didn't use the interpreter line. You didn't take the time to bother to find out how they communicate. But that was kind of the image in my mind. I was like, wow, this poor guy. Chief got thrown into the mental health or into the psychiatric unit because nobody could communicate with him. And that's what he's here for and he's just kind of gone along with it. There's no way to tell at all that he's schizophrenic in the movie at all. Right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Whereas I think in the book I also read it a long time ago, so I don't quite remember, but I believe there was a lot more dialogue about his paranoid thoughts, even if he wasn't saying them. You were getting that background, whereas even in the movie, you just see him sweeping a lot. Like, he doesn't seem especially paranoid. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: No, not at all. Again, in the movie, he's depicted as like this, again, totally normal person who just ended up there for some reason because he's, quote, deaf and dumb. And again, nobody can communicate with him. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And it's like, I don't think that's how you end up on a psychiatric unit. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Right. That's sometimes how you hopefully, again, you may get that random psych consult just because, again, some surgery resident will be like, I can't talk with the person. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: They must be bipolar. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, they must be a bipolar. Or they must be like something. Or they're just like, no, they just don't speak English. Which I think we all have our stories. Portia Pendleton LCSW: We saw that in Side Effects right at the beginning. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: So there's a gentleman who's brought into the Er who had attacked, they said, like a cab driver because he thought. Portia Pendleton LCSW: He had seen his father. And in that culture, there's a lot of ghosts and seeing relatives and elders. The psychiatrist in that movie, this is a good depiction, started speaking, I think, French or Creole and was able and then was able to understand what actually happened then was like, you don't need to keep him cuffed, so on and so forth. So that was a good depiction. Know what we didn't see here, maybe, right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. What were your first impressions, Sulman, about Jack Nicholson's character? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: It's interesting because he's the main character. He's the hero of the film, per se. Right. The main protagonist of the film is this guy who's going to come onto the unit and rabble rouse and free all the patients who are there. And he has this idea that, again, these people are held there against their will, when actually he's the one who's being involuntarily committed. He's the one who's being held there. They have that moment in therapy where everyone was like, oh, I'm actually here because I want to be here. And it's kind of eye opening experience for him. And I think people kind of like in the beginning, or people will kind of forget that he's really a terrible person. Right? He's there because he's done these terrible crimes. He's a pedophile, for lack of a better term. He's committed statutory rape. And he's kind of reveled in the fact that he's being very graphic in describing the situation that occurred with this 15 year old girl. And you're just like, oh, wow, this guy is really a dirt bag. He's really not a good person. And he's committed all these crimes and he's lying to get out of prison so that he can be in, again, this vacation, quote unquote, that he thinks he's going to be on the mental health ward and he's going to dupe everybody. And you're like, wow, this guy is really antisocial. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: But then he's portrayed again, this charismatic person who's going to free all these people. So he's, again, not taking into consideration the impact of his actions and how Billy ends up not spoiler, but ends up completing suicide at the end of the movie. So by kind of accidents of what happened during the course of the film and that last night that they were there, right? Yeah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I mean, I thought this was a good depiction of antisocial personality disorder in terms of the fact that people with these traits can be very charismatic, right? Like, that's how Ted Bundy lured all his victims, right. And I thought also that initial scene between McMurphy and the psychiatrist, who again, was an older white man, I thought his office was pretty spot on for what a psychiatrist's office probably looks, know? But you even see, like, trying to weasel his way in by commenting on the photos yes. About the fish he won and all this stuff. And you just see his true lack of remorse or empathy right away when the psychiatrist says, well, you've been in jail for five assaults, and there's this rape charge. And just the provocative, uncomfortable way he talks about that whole thing, I think gives you all the info you need to say, like, I think you got antisocial personality disorder and you're malingering. I don't know what more they could have done for him. And yet they keep him there, and it's like they want to help. But do they? It's unclear. And I wonder at the time of. Portia Pendleton LCSW: The movie, too, now, I mean, how his description of the child that he was with was so gross that that stayed with me for the rest of the film. But I'm wondering, too, even at the times, I think, why he won. And part of the reason why the movie did so well is because you kind of go back and forth with hating him and liking him. He wants to free people from their oppressed system, nurse Ratchet. And I think it's kind of interesting. He's like this horrible person, but then you're like, I would imagine some people, even maybe more so in the 70s, are like, rooting for him to free the patient. And it's interesting. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, absolutely. He is portrayed like he is the protagonist of the film, right. He is the hero. He's like the guy that, again, you're rooting for him and at the end, again, not to go into spoiler territory, but when he gets lobotomized, you're like, oh, I feel bad for him, right, a little bit. But at the same time, again, you are rooting for him and you're going along for him during the whole movie. And yeah, it is problematic. Absolutely. And it's really interesting when you look at it from when the book was written and the author, Ken Kesey is his name, right. He goes, know, again, a lot of what he was doing was a lot about how the themes are like, you're supposed to be against society, against this oppressive society, and about being the individual and being a real man, quote, unquote. So, again, all the masculinity aspects that come up in this and how society has castrated the man of today, right. That's some of the themes that are in the book, in the movie. So that's there and Ken Kesey goes on to in his life become this proponent of psychelic drugs and how we have to use again these substances to find this other sense of reality individuality when it's like you're kind of talking about a psychiatric facility and medications and then you're like, but no, we're going to use LSD and we're going to use still all the hallucinogenics and psychedelics to reach this altered sense of being too. So it's double standard, double that comes out. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Which interestingly, I think is still attention in the field today, right? Like I still think we encounter this a lot, people maybe who've had negative experiences with mental health care or haven't felt fully helped or fully heard or understood. And there is more and more research into psychedelics and the tools, how they can be helpful, but it's still a big gray zone and I think that tension is still felt even 50 years later. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, absolutely. Again, I'm very much keeping my ear to the field of this in my own clinical practice, like I do at my practice we do Spravata, which is the intranasal ketamine, and I've seen fantastic results from it. So it's really kind of been like, oh, there's something to this, right? There's some legitimacy to what this is. And I think as a field and as a society, we're absolutely robbed of decades of research, what could have been done when we criminalized all these substances. So I think there's some truth to it. But at the same time, just as many success stories we hear there's so many horror stories of things and just because everything is because everything is regulated so much, we're not able to, again, do proper research and get, again, really effective dosing the quality control that comes when you're buying illicit substances or black market substances, right? That's where the problems come. Because then you get people who are like, well, I'll just go do shrooms on the weekend and I'll be all good. Why do I need to microdose prozac? Right? I'll do this and so and then things, right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Exactly. So one thing I found myself wondering while watching this movie is that relationship dynamic between Mick Murphy and Nurse Ratchet is really central to the film. And at first I found Nurse Ratchet to be so comforting, like the way she spoke and the way she just looked at you and she seemed so gentle and so well put together. But as the film goes on, you see this more sadistic side to her. And first of all, I don't think the nurse runs the therapy sessions on a unit. Usually that's done by a trained therapist. So that was a really interesting, huge error in the film. But then also she had so much control and is really depicted as being a pretty sadistic person and using all these types of severe punishments like ECT and the lobotomies, even the medications in a manipulative, cruel way. And I found myself wondering, is that who she really is or did he pull this out of her with his own behaviors? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: I think this was who she was, because I think we see it even in that first group therapy session where she's weaponizing these people, the patients kind of their insecurities. I think she's like one of those people who, again, has a little bit more therapeutic training than a typical nurse on the unit may have. But she's really weaponizing it against some of the kind of defense mechanisms, some of the what's it called? I can't even think of the word right now. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: But she's weaponizing their vulnerabilities. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, she's weaponizing their vulnerabilities against them. And again, it is this aspect, again, when we come to the and this was there from the first scene, from the first group therapy scene, you see it like she picks on I think it was Mr. Harding, and that's with his wife being your wife, why do you think your wife is cheating on you? And then they have the whole discussion, and then it's like, well, actually, I think this is the reason why, and this is what's happening, and cuts really deep to the core. And I think you see McMurphy picks up on that. He's kind of there as a passive bystander observer in the first group therapy session. He's like, let me kind of see what the situation is and let me see who the characters are and what everybody is. And then I think he picks up, they're like, oh, this person is evil, too, in her own way. And he's like, now we're going to kind of compete a little bit to see who's really running really going to run the unit. She's got the one who's got, again, the backing, the strength behind her as well. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. It's almost like he's found his match. He could sense, like, they both share this sadistic side, and it just comes out in these different ways. And again, I think very gender normative type of ways, perhaps. But I think you're right from the beginning, nurse Ratchet can pick up those vulnerabilities in the patients and does use it to her advantage. And then that made me wonder, like, are these people really here voluntarily, or does she have this hold on? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, because I think there's that aspect, too, where, again, they all say, we could we can leave at any time, but they've been conditioned to feel like they're not ready to go. Right. Especially, again, Billy is one of the kind of the main characters, in a way, in that she's like, oh, me and your mom are old friends. What would she think, again? Which, again, leads to his fate, in a way. Well, directly to his fate. But again, it's the things that she does, again, grabbing onto these vulnerabilities and really kind of keeping all the patients where they're at. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Not allowing them to progress. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right, exactly. Portia Pendleton LCSW: You see that in the group dynamic. It makes sense why, but she seemed to be kind of like, rationing everything up instead of kind of rationing everything up. That was not intentional, but afraid there. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Instead of removing right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: A group member. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I've run a good amount of groups. It's like, okay, if someone seems like they're getting dysregulated, sometimes it's like, okay, maybe go meet with this person and come back. Or let's try to de escalate the group. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Like that scene with the cigarettes. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Yeah. And she's, like, continuing to dig at each one of them and kind of. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Pit them against each other. Yeah. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And that was not what group therapy is at all. And I think, again, just another depiction of it being really out of control and unsafe and scary and chaotic versus trying. The point of group work right. Is to feel safe or feel like. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Other people get it. Yeah. Learn not just from the group therapy leader, but also from each other in a healthy, safe way, and exactly. It was like that whole scene with the cigarettes where everything unravels. It's almost like she kind of knew what she was doing. And then, because they behave so crazy, now we can send these three troublemakers to get ECT. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: How do you feel about that depiction of ECT? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: If nothing else, the lasting legacy of the movie is the depiction of what ECT is in the mental health field. Which at that time again, I don't know what it was like, but that movie was in the mid seventy s and it was placed in the 60s or the time was in the 60s. So sure that that was even outdated kind of experience of what act was. ECT, that we do now, or at least I haven't done act in ten ish years, I think back since my residency training. 910 years. Yeah. That it's. So different, right? ECT so different. All the research is the most effective, safest kind of treatment that we have out there. Are there people who are going to have issues with memory and headaches? Sure. But those are, again, very small. And when we compare that to the medications that we have, which we know our medications are dirty in a way. Right. There's a lot of side effects that come a lot of times when we're doing med check visits as, like, a psychiatrist or an outpatient or going forward, it's like, Are you having side effects? Are you having side effects? What side effects are you having? Right. That's the majority of kind of, like, our sessions. It's like, well, how do we manage these side effects? And then, by the way, are you feeling less depressed or less anxious or something like that, too? But let's deal with the side effects. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: First, especially for things like antipsychotics. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. Which are just like, again, very dirty medications. In a way. When we find a medication that has minimal, mild to minimal side effects, we're like, okay, we can deal with this. Right. We can work with this. Now, we've found the thing that worked for us, an act, for the most part, again, super clean. Right. People do really well. The memory loss, again, can it occur? Sure. It doesn't happen often. Not so much. Right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And usually isn't it for the memory loss that you experience? Isn't it for the time, like right around getting the treatment? It's not your whole life you forget or you can never lay down in a memory. Isn't it like just around the time you're getting the treatment? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: That's the most common is, again, just the amnesia that occurs around the treatment. Of course. Are there people who have more severe memory loss or have other kind of injuries that occur? Sure. But again, those are the exceptions, more so than the rule. And again, not to minimize what they've gone through, but again, we always look at things as a risk benefit and a big picture kind of thing, right. But ECT works, right? It's got a greater success rate. It's again, super safe in pregnancy. It is the treatment of choice in pregnancy a lot of times, and then it can help for so many people, for things like catatonia, it is, again, the treatment of choice that works really well. So it's something that, again, when we try to recommend it to people, I'll have patients and I'm like, hey, I think we're at a point where we need to look at something like TT and they're like, one flu with Google's Nest. What are you talking about? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Every time, almost every single time, it. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Becomes this Pavlovian response, almost, where people are like, one flu over Googleness? What are you talking about? Nothing's wrong with I'm not crazy, I don't need to do that. And you're like, no. And you have to kind of undo what this movie has done because you're like, it's totally different. It's a controlled environment. It's totally voluntary. You have an anesthesiologist, you have a psychiatrist. You're going to be going under really briefly. The seizure is controlled. You have a muscle relaxant or you have what's it called, the medications that are there so that the seizure is just localized just to your ankle. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Sure. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: And somebody's there with you. And it's a very comforting thing. Right. You're not going to experience anything and you'll feel better. Right? And they're like, no, I could never do that. They're going to make me bite on this thing, and I'm going to shake and I'm going to break my bones, and I'm going to forget everything, and I'm going to be like a vegetable when I come out. And it's like, no, please just erase that from your memory. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I know. I wish we could erase that from our conscious memory. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And even just like him going in there and there's like ten people in there, right? Like all the orderlies are in there ready to kind of restrain him, hold him down. Yeah. So even just like seeing that walking in the room again now, it's very. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Different, and he didn't know what was happening. I think that's what really jumped out at me the most this time is there was no informed consent. There was no explanation. It was like sending your yeah. In such a scare, like, they're just like, oh, we're going to put this conducted on your head, and we're here. Bite down on this. You could see how scared he was. And again, it's like, who wouldn't be, right? Who of us wouldn't be scared? If you walk into a room with all these people holding you down, of course you're going to freak out, but that is not how it's done at all. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: No, at all. It was really striking, too, because, again, he's portrayed as this really bad tough guy, right? And then you see it in Jack Nicholson. Again, his performance is fantastic in the movie where he grounds the corner to see the door, to walk into the door, where this like, he catches himself, and you're like you see the terror come over him, and you're like, he has no idea what's happening. We know from the field and just from having watched the movie before, like, oh, this is what's going to happen. But he has no idea. There's no mention of this at all. So it's a total surprise. And again, all these people are there, and he's like, what is going to happen? So this extreme moment of vulnerability for this person who's been portrayed as this big, bravado, tough guy the whole movie, right? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And I think the only clue he has is watching Cheswick get the treatment before him, right? You see them dragging him against his will to get it, and then he comes out like a vegetable on the stretcher. And then it's like, okay, you're up. And it's just so unfortunate. Again, I also haven't performed ECT myself since residency, but from what I remember, it can be an outpatient procedure, right? It's not something where you have to be institutionalized to get you come in, it's almost like having a day surgery get not even as invasive in a lot of ways. And again, I feel like that doesn't make sense to the average person to think like, you're stalking my brain. How is that not invasive? It is. I'm not saying it's not, but you come in, you talk about it, they sort of explain to you exactly what's going on in a very respectful way. There's a couple of people in the room. You have the psychiatrist, you have the anesthesiologist, you have a nurse. That might be it. Maybe there's a tech or someone like that. It doesn't take very long. They usually do unilateral. You pick one side first, and then as long as that works, you don't have to do bilateral, which means putting the things on both sides of your head that can lead to more side effects. So we try to avoid it. You're right that you have anesthesia and a paralytic so that your body basically stays still. You look for the twitch in the ankle. That's it. We're not thrashing you around, we're not holding you down. You're not biting your tongue. It's very quick, very mild. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And then I think it takes maybe. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: An hour or so, like in recovery, maybe a little longer, probably less, but I think you're observed for a period of time, but it's not that long. Then you go home and you do a couple of treatments. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Maybe at first you do two to. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Three a week for a period of time to get you into remission from whether it's depression, psychosis. You're 100% right that this is such a good treatment for conditions in pregnancy because there's no risk of medication effects on the fetus. Right. And then as you start to feel better, you space out the treatments. And then some people might get maintenance ECT to keep up the effects. And that's it. And, I mean, I had an attending psychiatrist, which is like your teacher in residency always say it would really frustrate him when we were on the inpatient unit, that we would have to petition the courts to get something like ECT. When he's like, all of these antipsychotics we're giving people have so many side effects, like diabetes, tartar, dyskinesia, anesthesia, all of these things that are so hard to control, and yet it's so much easier to give people these medications and not ECT. And I really wonder how much of that comes from this movie how much of that comes from the long lasting negative effects of this film on our society at large? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, I would very much say that they're directly tied because, again, invariably, almost always gets brought up. And this is around the time of Deinstitution, the book and the movie, around that time where we ended the asylum system, for the most part. Right. And we have this massive decrease in the amount of people who are in mental health institutions or mental facilities, and where do they end up? They ended up in prison. Right, right. It's not like around the streets or anything like that. And a lot of those again, a lot of people who will end up, like, unhoused will end up in prison because it's a safe place. You get your three hots and a cotton and these things occur. And they get better care a lot of times. Or they get care yeah, right. At all. While they're in these facilities or in prisons as opposed to the facilities. Because everyone was like, oh, let's deinstitutionalize. And we'll put people into community resources. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Then no one paid for the community resources. We forgot that part. Yeah. We forgot that part. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah. So everyone was like, again, it was putting the carriage before the horse kind of deal, where it's like the resources weren't there. It would have been perfect if they were. And we put funding there and research, and we really put all the resources that were there. It could have been a great system, right. But it just couldn't it hasn't sustained it. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. It hasn't panned out. And I think the film does bring up in a lot of ways, maybe not all of them in positive depictions, but about how do we treat vulnerable people in a humane way and what are examples of that going wrong, which I think this film has a lot of examples of it going wrong. And I think, unfortunately, that drive to deinstitutionalize, I like to think, came from a good place, and yet we forgot to invest in the community infrastructure to really make it effective. Right. I don't think anyone wants people to live their life on an inpatient unit, but for some subset of patients who are really having trouble functioning without that support, where do they end up? You're exactly right. That is where they end up. They end up unhoused. They end up in prison. That is our institution these days. And it's just so heartbreaking. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And we see that in group. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Just put a different name on that again, at least. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I don't know about Maryland or Virginia, but maybe like ten years ago now, there was a lot of group homes closed residential facilities in Connecticut, and a lot of those at the time I was working in residentials and they had kind of made their way still to institutions. But whether it was juvenile incarceration or substance use treatment facilities and again, I get the idea is, yeah, who wants to grow up in a group home? No one. That's not ideal at all. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: But also, what do we do with. Portia Pendleton LCSW: These teens and kids who have nowhere to go, right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And who need that support to a lot of times maintain your safety, not just from kind of like a psychiatric self harming perspective, but also from not being taken advantage of by other nefarious people out there, all the Mcmurphys of the world, who will all the Mcmurphys of the know. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: I know. Portia Pendleton LCSW: So what we don't see kind of continue is lobotomies, right? So thank God they stopped around the 1950s. And I guess there was one the last one that was recorded in the United States was in 1967, and it actually ended up in the death of the patient who it was performed on. So that has not we've stopped that practice while ECT has become really safe, really effective, really studied, really specifically done. And I just thought that's kind of interesting that they're both shown in the movie a short period of time and kind of right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Like, at the very end, they don't ever say, like, oh, he got a lobotomy, or that's what happened. You just sort of make the assumption. And I do think as much as we are criticizing this film, it's also important. I'm sure you all agree that we not like us, we did this personally, but as a field, have to acknowledge there have been some bad things that. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Have happened, so we don't do this anymore. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, it's one of the things I know you'd referenced it before, but every Wednesday I do what's called like a WTF Wednesday right. Where it is kind of like looking back on history, some of the dark sides of the field, and not just the mental health field, but primarily the mental health field, to be like, this is what we did. This is the stuff that we did. Like, what the ****? Right? Sorry. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: That's okay. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: I was like, what were the things that we were doing that was normal at the time? And a lot of it came from just the lack of understanding and just not knowing what we know. We go back and when I was talking about know, we did bloodletting and purging treatment, that was the father who's the I think he's on the seal as the APA, as the father of psychiatry. And he did this therapy where he would put people in chairs and spin the psychosis, the crazy out of them, quote unquote. Right. And I guess those are the things that we were doing. And then again, the shock therapy without anesthesia, that was, again, kind of like how it was depicted in one flu, the Cooper's Nest, without knowing that, hey, we can do this, but do it a lot safer. So very much a lot of ugly, ugly stuff that occurred in the history of psychiatry. And know, again, not even talking about, I think, Samuel Cartwright and some of the people who did a lot of the terrible stuff, like in the history of gynecology, so much stuff there's. Like, you can have a whole discussion on the terrible history of gynecology in. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: American Threat as well, 100%. And I think it is important as present day providers to keep all that history in mind and also keep that healthy degree of skepticism like in the stuff we do these days to think just to stay ethical and humane. And I think also looking back on all those practices, there unfortunately is a lot of racial discrepancies, socioeconomic discrepancies about which patients were getting these treatments or these experimental treatments or things against their will or even against their knowledge. And that's terrible, but we have to keep it in mind to hopefully turn the tides and keep working toward better, more equitable, more open types of treatment. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, again, when we really look at the racial history of it and again, we saw it kind of in the movie, but not so much all of the black individuals were the orderlies. There were no black patients that were there. I know Chief is again the Native American, but he's a patient as well. But everybody else was white, all the people in power. Yeah, the one white doctor there was, I think, like the Indian doctor and maybe there was some other doctor that was there when they had like, their rounds for that one, during that one scene of rounds and discussing stuff. But again, it's a lot of the white people, but we know that historically, or even not historically, but currently too, black individuals get diagnosed with schizophrenia four times higher than non or than white individuals. So that's something that and we know that these rates are not true. It's not like people are four times more likely to be no, it's just a lot of this goes into the biases that occur. We know that, again, non white kids get diagnosed with ADHD less than white kids. We know that, again, non white kids are having more odd, odd more conduct diagnoses than white kids. There's that aspect of, like, oh, this is just how they are. So, again, we don't look at trauma disorders as much in non white individuals. We're like, oh, this is just characteristically or character logically. This is who they are. And again, these are the biases that come out, and we see them. And a lot of, like, when I'm seeing patients, I end up undiagnosing so many of these diagnoses that are misplaced that I'm like, clearly this kid has trauma, right? Clearly this teenage girl has PTSD. She's not bipolar. Clearly, this kid has ADHD. They have a learning disorder that's never been recognized, right? Because somebody didn't take the time to really sit down with them and discuss them or see what's going on there 100%. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. Portia Pendleton LCSW: And even we've seen you commented on one of Dr. Callie's videos on you know, I'm just thinking back, I guess, eight years ago, working at a teen male adolescent substance use unit, every single one of them had Odd, like, coming in. It was almost like a prerequisite to be on the unit. Like, you had a substance use disorder, sometimes a couple, and then you had Odd, and it's, like, literally just kind of reflecting back on it. I don't know, 99% of them I'll leave 1% just for room had trauma, like, significant trauma, whether it was chronic or just, like, singular traumas. And that really even eight years ago wasn't really addressed. So I think even now, I think we're doing a better job of just sharing information and kind of deconstruct some of it. And of course, there's always tons of room to grow and keep going. But I think even we've done a lot of work in the past couple of years. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: And I hope that as we keep trying to better understand our patients and the human condition at large, I think we're also starting to talk about that trauma. That different subsets of the population experience is directly tied to the experience of being, like, a black person in America today, for example, that, yeah, there's a lot of trauma that comes with that that you might not call PTSD, but it's there. And it's directly tied to politics, economic, like, all of it. And I think it can feel really overwhelming. And like, you get swallowed up to see that in clinical practice day in and day out. But it's so important to acknowledge rather than saying like, well, you're just oppositional or you're just psychotic or it's so much more complicated than yeah. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: And to kind of give a story with know, I work in Loudoun County in Virginia, which is like the richest county in America. And our neighbor is Fairfax County, which is the second richest county in a certain the patients that we see are certain demographics, I guess you can say, right? Predominantly white. Vinya is predominantly white. There's a shift with it as it's become much more like technologically, a leader and we have a lot of it stuff. So then there's a changing demographic that's kind of there. But I'm always struck by this one patient counter. I'll try to hide details and things, but it was a little African American kiddo, and he had punched one of his peer at school, and he got in trouble for that. Right. And I was trying to see how do I tell this story a little differently? The question I asked is, when they come to me, I'm like, well, why'd you punch the kid? Right. What happened that led to this? Right? And he's like, well, he called me the N word, right? And then I'm like, well, I'm not mad at you. Right, right. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: So what is the right way to. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Handle that, to respond to this bully called him the N word and he punched him back, and then he's the kid who gets in trouble for it. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. Did that kid come into the psych unit too? The other kid? Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: No, of course not. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Of course not. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Right? Yeah. So it's like this is how we kind of weaponize racial identity and how our cultural background against people. It's like Kiddo had a perfectly totally normal response. Again, are we condoning violence? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: No. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: But at the same time, do I understand why he punched the kid? Absolutely. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. Right? Portia Pendleton LCSW: And now, though, he's reactive, he's dangerous, he's violent, he's aggressive. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: He's one of those kids. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: He's one of those aggressive black kids. Right. Again, the narrative that's created that he's a troublemaker and a fighter and blah, blah, blah. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right. That's a really positive note to leave, to end on. But it's so true. I mean, I think it's heartbreaking, but I think if we just sort of keep our head in the sand and we don't acknowledge these whatever you want to call it, microaggressions, macroaggressions, racism, misogyny, trauma, poverty. If we don't acknowledge it, nothing will get better. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: It's funny. I laugh when you said microaggressions because I just posted like a video recently I talked with Isra Nasser. She's a Pakistani immigrant, and she's become a very much a leader in mental health and the field of in it in the community. And she's a therapist, counselor and stuff. And I posted a clip about microaggressions that she had faced when she came over, immigrated from Saudi Arabia to over here or Canada and then over here. It's a common thing I joke about, like, oh, you speak English? Really? Again? Like, yeah, you're having the reaction that you understand that that's not a cool thing to say. And I posted on YouTube, and then I'm getting all these comments from people being like, again, white people who are being like, people are just being nice to you when they say that. How dare you have this victim mentality. And it's like, you understand you're proving the point by saying I know. Saying that these people are being nice to you by saying that you speak English really well and you are different and you are this and that, and if you have this victim mentality your whole life, this is how you're never going to get advanced in life. Portia Pendleton LCSW: It's still her fault. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, it's still her fault. I was like, you understand, you're just gaslighting, and you're continuing the microaggressions that are going on by telling people to just be okay with it. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: I know. What am I proving the point? Portia Pendleton LCSW: And it's like, nothing, maybe nothing. You don't need to comment on that. And I think people love commenting on everything, and I think we could do a better job of just keeping some. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Thoughts in our head or just being a little more introspective and even just being able to say, like, oh, wow, I didn't know about microaggressions, or that was a microaggression, or how that landed for this person, given their experience. Maybe I should think about that and maybe reflect and maybe it's okay, I feel remorseful or embarrassed about it, and I could try to do a little better. Maybe I should listen to them. Maybe they are really like the authority on their own lived experience. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Exactly. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Radical idea. Yeah, radical idea. Portia Pendleton LCSW: If you don't have the insight that's true. Open to thinking about things a different way, then, right? That's true. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: That's true. Anyway, well, this was great. Portia Pendleton LCSW: I mean, is there anything else we want to talk about with the movie or just, like the commentary on it? I think the big themes that I think we covered are, like, it's a lot different now in a lot of different ways. Are there still hospitals and units and therapists and psychiatrists who do a better job than others? Of course. Are there some people who maybe shouldn't be in the field? Of course. But I think it's just reminding yourself, even as a patient, like, you should have informed consent, it's okay to ask questions. You're allowed to say, what is this? I'm interested in something else, or can you talk me through this? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: What are my options? Portia Pendleton LCSW: If you're recommending prozac, it's okay to ask, well, what about Lexapro? Like, you're allowed to ask questions to, your know, ideally right. The gold standard of care would be that they're listening actively. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, I think kind of like, the takeaway I appreciate the movie the way I don't have this. I think you were saying, like, you have this this gut visceral reaction to the movie. I think it's necessary viewing for all I think it's necessary viewing, right, for a lot of people. If you're in the field, again, from the fact that you have to look at it from a lens of history and a lens of, like, this is what not to do, and this is how we don't do things anymore. This is how things may have been. Again, some of this stuff is absolutely dramatized for the sake of great storytelling, and it is a great movie if you look at it from the point of view of just a movie, somebody who's watching the movie, it's earned its accolades and its place in history. But from the mental health field, it's an important movie still, and it has a lasting impact 50 years later. And we have to know that our patients are aware of this. Our clients are aware of this. They know its history. They know what it is. They have a lot of misconceptions about the field because of this, right? So we have to know that going. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Into it as a whole, 100%. And I'm curious we can cut this out if you don't want to talk about this, but you did mention watching this with your children, and I'm just curious what they thought. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, so I watched it with my eight year old son and my seven year old daughter because I was like, oh, they wanted to do movie night. It's summertime. And I was like, cool. I was like, oh, I have to watch this movie again because I have to talk about it. And they're like, oh, by the way, this was, like, what Baba does for his job, right? He's a psychiatrist. He's one of the people who and these are the people I work lot of it was interesting because they had a lot of questions about what's wrong with this person? What's wrong with the birth, and why are they dancing? What's like, to be like, well, teach them. I was like, well, some people are different. Some people have things that are going on in them that they may act or look or think a little bit differently. And I'm open in saying it. We have someone in our friend community who is like, quote unquote, level three autism. They have intellectual disability communication issues. He's a little bit older, and they play with him and everything like that. And I was like, oh, you know, this guy something's a little bit different with him. Not something's wrong with him, but something a little bit different. And I was like, oh, these are the people that Baba kind of works with a little bit and helps them out, hopefully helps them out. And they're like, oh, okay. And then again, there was a lot of questions. They're like, oh, Baba, they're using a lot of bad words. There's so many bad words in this one, being like, oh, why are they naked together? What's going on? I was like, Guys, close your eyes. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Once the girls come in, you're like. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Oh, well, this is not what Baba does at work. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: I was like, I forgot about this. Again, they're not going to obviously understand everything that was going on in there, and then they enjoyed it. Some stuff they're like, okay, but they're not going to be watching it again and telling their friends that they watched. Right. It's not Transformers or something like that. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Didn'T necessarily grab their attention in the same way. Yeah, but I think that's also just. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Like, a great anecdote of changing language and how important and powerful language is of well, there's a lot of different people. That doesn't mean that they're bad or weird or strange or scary. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Well, thank you so much for joining us today. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Absolutely. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: We hope you just had a blast revisiting this movie with your children, talking about it with us. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Well, thank you. I appreciate yeah. Again, that's the main thing is we have to and a lot of this kind of came from a conversation I had with Dr. Gold as well. Who Jesse? We all love Jesse. She's great. But when we go out, we publish things. If we work our whole life and we get something published in right. Or the New England Journal of Medicine, again, not everybody very rarely that these things occur. This is like the pinnacle of scientific, academic, medical kind of publishing. The layperson just read it. How many people are reading? Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Right, right, exactly. And if they try to read it no, I can't even understand half the time. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Yeah, I don't read this stuff half the time because I'm like, I have to really think about this and, like, statistics. I have to think. I have to use my brain reading this. But we know that, again, people are going to get their information from YouTube or they're going to get it from Twitter, they're going to get it from TikToks or they're going to get it from whatever. It's going to be Vogue magazine and Time magazine. So it's like, it's important for people who have legitimate voices and backgrounds to be in those worlds as well. So that versus the people who we know are misusing those to kind of push out BF. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yes. Right. Well, keep fighting the good fight. Keep buying your sneakers. I love to see them. Portia Pendleton LCSW: Well, and just to remind everyone who's listening, you can find Solman at the Kicks shrink Instagram. So it's Kick Shrink, as in, like, shoes, and then shrink on Instagram and TikTok and YouTube and find his content there. We certainly like it. So I think you will, too. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Yeah. And thank you once again for joining us, and you can find us again at Analyze Scripts on Instagram. Analyze Scripts podcast on TikTok and threads and we will see you next Monday with another episode. Yeah, thanks. All right, bye. Dr. Sulman Mirza MD: Thanks for having me. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: This podcast and its contents are a copyright of analyzed scripts. All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited. Unless you want to share it with. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: Your friends and rate review and subscribe, that's fine. Dr. Katrina Furey MD: All stories and characters discussed are fictional in nature. No identification with actual persons, living or deceased places, buildings or products is intended or should be inferred. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The podcast and its contents do not constitute professional mental health or medical advice. Listeners might consider consulting a mental health provider if they need assistance with any mental health problems or concerns. 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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 7, narrated by Isaac BirchallHarding and McMurphy continue to go at it. McMurphy tries to convince the men that they aren't Rabbits, but are men, who can be powerful, and can fight against Nurse Ratched's attacks. Billy Bibbit starts up, stating that the Nurse's tactic of staying silent makes all of the men too nervous to fight back. McMurphy states that they could always just give joke answers or tell her to get lost. The other patients continue to argue with McMurphy, and eventually Harding tells him about the greater tools in the Big Nurse's belt, the Electro-Shock Therapy machine, and the worse of all, the Lobotomy. If worse comes to worst, you will be turned into a zombie that can't do anything but be afraid of its own shadow. McMurphy then asks why the men don't take a vote; if the doctor was going on about letting the patients run their own ward, why don't they act upon it. McMurphy then goes on to say that the first thing he noticed about the place was that no one was laughing… Once you lose your laugh, you lose your soul…After more bickering and debating McMurphy finally concludes. He is going to challenge the Big Nurse at her own game, and he makes a bet with the patients that he is going to make the Big Nurse break before his first week on the ward is up.Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi:https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 6, narrated by Isaac BirchallBromden explains what the Therapeutic theory is, its goal is to bring any problem out into the open instead of letting it fester allowing the patients to learn how to become better members of society when they eventually integrate back into real society. Bromden then goes on to explain one point when the nurse first got the men to confess to their “Sins,” she sat in silence for 20 minutes, and after the silence broke, the men confessed to everything they had ever done, real or not, just trying to outdo each other. The Nurse's system worked better than she could have ever hoped for. Old Pete then piped up, saying he was tired, which broke the spell over the men. Bromden then goes on to explain what happened when the aides tried to remove Pete from the meeting, he fought off the aides and was only quieted down after he had exerted all of the energy he had left and after he said all that he had to say. At 2PM the meeting ends, and from the point that they finished talking about McMurphy, all of the men were laying into Harding. They go and bring the tables back into the room, but all of the patients feel bad about what they did to Harding. After the tables are back in the room, McMurphy goes to talk to Harding about what just happened in the meeting. He asks if that is how the meeting usually go, and Harding responds at first by telling McMurphy that though the method can seem strange to the untrained eye, what just happened in the meeting was for Harding's benefit. However, after being further challenged by McMurphy, Harding breaks down and admits that the Therapeutic Theory is nothing but harmful and degrading and that the Big Nurse is nothing but a Power-Hungry Bully. Subscribe to theshow https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 5, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe fog is rolling in around the chief again and he is trying to fight it so that he can keep an eye on the new guy. Around 1, the fog fades away and the tables are moved for the meeting. The Doctor walks in and takes his seat, everyone else sits too, the Big Nurse entering last to command the room.As soon as she sits down, one of the patients starts Wailing about how tired he is, but she doesn't pay him and attention while she gathers her papers together. The Nurse then sets her watch and takes out her folder to start the meeting, no one is watching her except for McMurphy, looking to understand what the Big Nurse is getting at; she is just as wary as he is. The meeting starts with the Nurse talking about Harding's issues with his wife, his jealousy issues, and his issues with his wife's belief that any action by a man that isn't “macho” is “dandy.” McMurphy interrupts the meeting to make a rude comment, and almost takes the Big Nurse off guard, but she keeps her cool and decides to have a look at McMurphy's folder instead of Harding's. She reads through his history and talks to the Doctor about just how McMurphy ended up in the hospital.Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with: Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads STORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 4, narrated by Isaac BirchallThe Big nurse is sitting behind her glass window and is filling a bunch of needles with chemicals. She is asked by one of the small nurses what she thinks about the New Inmate McMurphy. The Big Nurse replies that McMurphy is a manipulator, and that she doubts if McMurphy is intact insane, and says that he could just be looking for free Bed and Board. She reminisces about how previous troublemakers were dealt with, and the small nurse interrupts her by asking why someone would want to disrupt the peace. The Chief then goes on to describe the Nurse's demeanour, she wants everything in perfect condition, and has tried her best to make everything inside the hospital perfect. But as she cannot be on the ward 24/7, she has also tried to change the outside world (what the chief calls « The Combine ») to be perfect too; a world of precision and perfection, where everyone who won't obey her is in a hospital. The chief then goes onto explain how the Nurse created her staff. She forces everyone « decent » off of the ward until she could find a doctor who would let her be in charge of the ward. The Aides were brought in only to Hate, she found 3 men that run on hate, and hate only; they hate the nurse, the patients, everyone who isn't an Aide, and they probably hate each other too. After a long while, the nurse and her aides became able to communicate only on hate, and the Aides act out her wishes without the Big Nurse having to open her mouth.The Chief then goes on to describe the patients. The long-term patients, and referred to as Chronics, and the newer admissions, usually inside by self-admission, are called Acutes.The Chief then describes the general schedule of each day. Breakfast, showers, shaving, medication, puzzles and cards and magazines.He then recounts the story of a Chronic who didn't react well to taking pills that he didn't know. He explains what happens to people who don't comply and it's very very grim.Then the « Public Relations » guy comes in and walks some nurses/residents and explains to them how much things have improved over the past few decades...Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online today VPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389 Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC* By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL* INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98 KO-Fi: https:Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
Brett McMurphy, college football insider for Action Network, joins this week's episode of The C.L. Brown Show. McMurphy explains why he had Louisville at No. 16 on his preseason Associated Press top 25 ballot and discusses what the future could be for the Cardinals if top programs depart the ACC. Could U of L be a better fit in the Big 12? Tom McMillen, the president and CEO of Lead1 Association, the organization that represents athletic directors from every Football Bowl Subdivision school, also joins this week's show, which is devoted to conference realignment and the future of college football.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 3. narrated by Isaac BirchallThe new man takes a look around at the inmates of the hospital. They are playing card games and smoking, and they whisper to each other. No one ever laughs though. The room is separated into 2 sections, Acutes, those treatable, and the Chronics, those considered too far gone to be one day released. They narrator goes to explain how some of the patients came in as Acutes and were then made Chronics by the treatments like Electro-Shock Therapy and lobotomies. The Aides make fun of the Chronics as they know that nothing can be done about it; the Chronics are too far gone to fight back. Chief Bromden goes to say that he has been on the ward longer than anyone but the head nurse and adds that he came in just after the 2nd World War. The New guy walks around the Ward, taking it all in. He makes the men feel uncomfortable and calls out asking who “The Bull Goose Loony” is. McMurphy asks to speak to the craziest person on the ward as he wants to straighten out who the leader is. Billy Bibbit announces that Harding is the leader as he is the leader of “Patient's Council.” McMurphy then has a “Stand-off” with Harding, and McMurphy establishes himself as the Top Man on the ward. After this, McMurphy starts telling the men about his history of incarceration, and how he is a habitual gambler. McMurphy then goes around and shakes hands with every patient on the Ward. When he gets to Bromden, he starts to make jokes about the chief's size, but everyone on the ward tells McMurphy that he is deaf and that he cannot speak either. The Big Nurse then calls over to McMurphy and says, though she is thankful that he is introducing himself on the ward, now is not the time, and that he needs to take his orders and have a shower. Subscribe to the show https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-essential-reads/subscribeGet SurfShark and protect yourself online todayVPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC*By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreadsSTORE: Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
Utah joins the Big12 as the Pac12 implodes, our thoughts and feelings. Disappointed in the demise of the Pac12 but excited for the future in the Big12. The season ahead of excellent and exciting games. Joel Klatt top 25. McMurphy top 25 (idiotic), Top 10 QB's by 24/7 Sports. Comments on Comments which touches upon current issues.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey Part 1 chapter 2, narrated by Isaac BirchallChief Bromden eventually comes out of his fogged state, and he finds himself in the day room. He hasn't eaten and is certain that the Aides ate his food instead. The Ward door opens while the men doing jigsaws and watching to see who comes onto the Hospital. The door rattles strangely, and Chief if certain that this is not an ordinary visit. It's an admission; no ordinary admission. The chief can tell by the way he walks and talks that he is different, maybe even sane. He defies the orders of the Aides, and he rings his iron heeled boots on the floor. He is broad, and red headed, with a large scar across his nose. He lets out a large laugh, and though Chief cannot figure out why he is laughing, Chief remarks that this is the first laugh he has heard in years. He Introduces himself as McMurphy and announces that he is here to bring the patients « fun. » He Then goes around and introduces himself to everyone before the Aides can get to him with a thermometer coated in Vaseline. He announces too that he can been institutionalised as a Psychopath.Get SurfShark and protect yourself online todayVPN: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=926&aff_id=20389Antivirus: https://get.surfshark.net/aff_c?offer_id=934&aff_id=20389Get data brokers to stop selling your information with:Incogni: https://get.incogni.io/aff_c?offer_id=1219&aff_id=20389*COMIC*By @Valenangelr https://www.instagram.com/valenangelr*SOCIAL*INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98KO-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreadsSTORE: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/Support the showThank you so much for listening, if you want to support the me go to any of these links :)*Social*SHOPIFY: https://the-essential-reads.myshopify.com/INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theessentialreadsTWITTER: http://twitter.com/isaacbirchall98Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theessentialreads
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with former Huskies quarterback Hugh Millen, former Dawgs tight end and current Analyst Cam Cleeland, and Reporter Brett McMurphy about the news that Washington and Oregon are joining the Big Ten.
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Hugh Millen chat with our local yokel of the week, former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Adkins, then listen and react to Brett McMurphy talking about the future of the Pac-12 back in May before Colorado departed.
Action Network College Football Insider Brett McMurphy says the Big Ten and SEC could potentially get into bidding wars for ACC schools if there's more money per school in each conference.
Of course, I'm not an actor. I'm a priest. But Nicholson had a profound influence on my life. I mean, I was a good little fundamentalist Christian, so his fast-living reputation was not really for me growing up. But he had this way about him that just bowled me over. He seemed always to be utterly himself in whatever he did - even while convincingly playing fantastic characters. He was the Joker, or McMurphy, or J.J. Gittes, or Col. Jessup, or Melvin Udall, but at the same time he was Jack! And I loved that. When I was in college, my buddy Wes and I visited Hollywood and made our film lover's pilgrimage to Grauman's Chinese Theater. This is the spot where many famous actors have put their hand and foot prints into the cement. I got down on my knees in front of Jack's signature and placed my hands in his handprints. They fit perfectly. Wes' hands fit in James Stewart's. We floated away. It's a strange thing to call someone your inspiration when you haven't actually followed in their footsteps. A few years back I was at a concert and I ran into a comedian named Emo Phillips. He is not terribly famous, but when I was younger I had seen a stand-up special of his that was so absurd and outlandish that it had turned my idea of comedy upside down. I walked up to him that night and introduced myself. He was very gracious. I told him that he had been a big inspiration to me growing up. "Is that so?" he asked, "what do you do?" I said I was a priest, and without missing a beat he said, "Well obviously."
-The Action Network's Brett McMurphy has Nebraska in the Las Vegas Bowl, playing against Utah. For history's sake, this past year's Vegas Bowl featured Florida (6-6) against Oregon State (9-3). The Beavers won the game, 30-3 -Talk about the perfect trip for Nebraska fans. Easy direct flights from Omaha/Lincoln and from all across the country, and one hell of a fun time. Sign us all up right now...right? -The guys go over the rest of McMurphy's bowl game projections for the upcoming season Show sponsored by GANA TRUCKING/MIDWEST BANKAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Join Alex as he discusses One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), a tour de force from Milos Forman, Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher! The film follows Randall McMurphy, an inmate at a work camp in Oregon who successfully (?) tricks them into thinking he's insane and so he gets transferred to the Oregon State Hospital, a psychiatric facility. This episode explores the state of treatment in the early 1960s in America and elsewhere in the Western world, as well as the Dark Triad set of personality traits — the hallmark of psychopathy — in the character of McMurphy himself. Did the system fail McMurphy or did McMurphy fail in the system? Check out the following account Alex references in the beginning of the episode (CW: discussion of suicide): https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/looking-back-journal-mental-hospital-user-1960s Please leave your feedback on this post, the main site (cinemapsychpod.swanpsych.com), on Facebook (@CinPsyPod), or Twitter (@CinPsyPod). We'd love to hear from you! Head to this Paypal link to contribute directly to this podcast and keep the lights on! Also, you might check out our MERCH STORE for some great merchandise, like tees and sweaters, with the pod logo! Legal stuff: 1. All film clips are used under Section 107 of Title 17 U.S.C. (fair use; no copyright infringement is intended). 2. Intro and outro music by Sro ("Self-Driving"). Used under license CC BY-SA 4.0. 3. "Et Voila" used under license.
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